【190】The Golden Soldiers Siege the City
After Yanjing was relieved, it ushered in a period of rapid development, which was established in the case of the abolition of commercial tax and agricultural tax halving, because the commercial tax was gone, so everyone invested capital in the commercial field in a short period of time, almost overnight, the number of shops on the street was almost doubled, it seems that everyone does not care about identity, and the things that can make money will not care so much.
It is precisely because of the increase in shops that most of the shops have taken measures to suppress prices in order to win customers, and they can buy cheap things, but the people still benefit, so everyone is becoming more and more satisfied with the new ruler of Yanjing City.
Zhou Yi is not determined to govern this place, this is not his territory, if it takes that old nose to get it here, as a result, Zhao Ji will get himself back with an edict, and he will not get any benefits, so thanks to it, these are easy to do.
But the strange thing that made him strange is also here, so long ago that Tong Guan has not come? It stands to reason that he should come back after he goes back to be courteous, even if he himself doesn't come, he should come to offer condolences or something, and then inform the next plan of action. It's good now, let's have benefits, I don't know where the benefits from Zhao Ji are now, according to reason, if there is really a reward for such a long time, it will have been there a long time ago. If you want to retreat, there is no order to retreat, so you can only stay in this Yanjing City, which makes Zhou Yi very depressed.
Of course, his lack of action does not mean that others have not moved, for example, the remnants of the Liao State were defeated, and they still guarded several cities without giving an inch, to be honest, Zhou Yi admired their courage. It's definitely the rhythm of fighting to the last man in the last city.
And Jin Guo accelerated the pace of the offensive. To say that this is a good face is true. is really a lord who must be revenged, Zhou Yi feels that he was bullied when he was a child, and he had a psychological shadow, and then the shadow area was quite large, which led to the beginning of revenge on society when he grew up. Let's take a look at his early experiences.
In the early days, the Jurchen tribe was divided into dozens of unrelated tribes, and the Wanyan clan did not have a prominent position among the Jurchen tribes. By the time Ugunai was the minister of Wanyan, the Wanyan clan had developed into a powerful tribe and conquered and united more than a dozen tribes to form a tribal alliance. Ugunai became the head of the tribal alliance and was awarded the title of Jiedu envoy by Liao. Taking advantage of the support of the Liao Dynasty, Ugunai stepped up his activities to unify the Jurchen tribes. After the death of Ugunai. His son, Impeachment, succeeded him as the head of the alliance. Impeachment and his younger brother Yingge defeated the Troubled Waters of the Warriors, consolidating the tribal alliance, which had expanded to include thirty tribes. Moreover, the internal class divisions were becoming more and more pronounced, and the rudiments of a slave state were beginning to take shape.
Since Emperor Tianzuo ascended the throne, the Khitan nobles have become more and more oppressive and extortive from the Jurchen tribes. In addition to paying tribute to the Liao Dynasty in accordance with the regular ration, the officials and profiteers on the northeastern border of the Liao Dynasty, with the connivance of the imperial court, often went to the field to use "low value" to forcibly buy, which was called "beating the Jurchen". This has long sown hatred in the hearts of the Jurchen people.
In October of the third year of Tianqing, the second son of the impeachment of Libo, Aguta, succeeded him as the head of the alliance. It is said that they are all extremely vigorous. In order to consolidate the alliance of the Wanyan Ministry, Aguta won many battles and accepted the official title of Tiyin of the Liao Dynasty, and was an important figure in the Wanyan Ministry. By the time Aguta succeeded him, the alliance of the Jurchen tribes had been consolidated. There was enough strength to rise up against Liao's oppression.
In June of the fourth year of Tianqing, Emperor Liao Tianzuo sent envoys to confer the title of envoy of Aguda Festival. Aguda sent Xi Gu Nai and others to the Liao Dynasty to ask for A Shu, the minister of Xingxian Shui Shilie, who had fled to the Liao Dynasty, in order to probe the reality inside the Liao Dynasty. Xi Gu repaid the reign of Emperor Liao Tianzuo for his arrogance and laxity. Ah Gu built castles, repaired equipment, and prepared to attack the Liao Dynasty in the south. Emperor Liao Tianzuo ordered the unified army Xiao Tzu Buye to lead 800 Khitan and Bohai soldiers to garrison Ningjiang Prefecture for defense. Aguta mobilized troops from various tribes and decided to attack Liao.
So, from this day on, Wanyan Agu fought like Ke Zhendong who ate Xuanmai and couldn't stop at all, and now it has taken eight years to fight and almost destroy the Liao State - oh yes, it has already destroyed the country, nominally the Liao State has been wiped out by the Great Song Dynasty, and the Empress Dowager Xiao has surrendered.
Zhou Yi perfectly replaced the Liao State and became the new object of Wanyan Agu to vent his hatred, so on the one hand, he stepped up the final encirclement and suppression of the Liao State, and on the other hand, he sent troops to Yanjing City.
Yelu Dayi was happy to learn that Wanyan Aguda led the army to attack Yanjing City, Zhou Yi's awesomeness he had already understood, and in the same way, Wanyan Aguda was not something he could provoke, so that if two people who were his enemies fought together, they would inevitably lose both, which was the best result.
Zhou Yi was stationed in Yanjing, so he didn't know that Jin Bing had already gone south and started coming towards him, and when he got the news, Jin Bing was already less than three hundred miles outside the city. Most of the Jin soldiers were steppe cavalry teams, and the distance of three hundred miles could be reached in a blink of an eye for them.
It's too late to dig a pit now, which means that Zhou Yi's way of dealing with the Liao army is useless against the Jin soldiers now. But this did not mean that Zhou Yi would sit idly by, he ordered people to sprinkle all the apprentices outside the city with iron thistles, which is a small iron ball with spikes.
Tribulus terrestris is a sharp weapon specially used against cavalry, the war horse stepped on those spikes, and the spikes were inserted into the soles of the feet, not only making the war horse unable to charge, but also causing the horse to go crazy and uncontrollable, and the final injury may also be the knight on horseback.
On the city tower, the flag is fluttering, today's phoenix is very big, there are already fallen leaves in the distance, the winter in the north always comes very early, and it is very long, Zhou Yi feels that if he is still in Shudi, there should be warm sunshine. He stood on the highest point, staring into the distance.
The Jin soldiers didn't know when they would appear, the soldiers were already ready for battle, but Zhou Yi's face was still very calm, the countless victories accumulated on his body were his greatest confidence, what about the Jin soldiers who could destroy the Liao State? It's not iron, it's going to die after all.
It's just an hour later, Zhou Yi can see the smoke and dust at the foot of the opposite mountain, which is the sensational effect caused by the advance of thousands of troops, Zhou Yi knew that the main master is coming, so he immediately ordered to go down, and all the personnel were in place and ready for battle.
After another hour, Jin Bing finally appeared in front of everyone, seeing that the number of people was not large, it was not as many as the people brought by Yelu Dayi when he came to attack Yanjing, Zhou Yi's first words after seeing this scene were: "Bring so many people over, look down on me?" ”
If the Jin soldiers below heard this, they should vomit blood.
The wind was quite strong above, and Zhou Yi couldn't hold on for a long time, and after muttering a sentence that the height was unbearable, he walked down, and when he got to the city wall, Lin Chong and Yue Fei were on his left and right.
"Lord Zhou, how to fight this battle? There are no traps below us, and the ability to consume them is not strong, so it seems to be a tough battle. Lin Chong said worriedly. Most of the Song army were infantry, and the cavalry had an absolute natural advantage over the infantry, after all, the cavalry had one more horse.
Zhou Yi's face was full of lightness, he patted the city wall, and said, "Isn't there still this thing?" I don't want you to take people down and fight them head-on, what are you nervous about? ”
Yue Fei said: "Actually, the cavalry is of little significance to the siege, in fact, what I am worried about is their siege vehicles. He pointed to the huge siege wagons that had just emerged from the woods, and if the heavy battering ram had struck the gates, they would have broken the gates without three blows.
As soon as his words fell, the horn of the charge had already sounded below, and the war drums were beating, Zhou Yi felt that the rhythm of the war drums of the Jin soldiers was not as good as that of the Liao army, and sure enough, the Jurchens were barbarians, even if they established the Manchu Tatar regime in the seventeenth century, they were still barbarians, and they had not made progress for hundreds of years.
The tactics of the golden soldiers are very clear, those cavalry uniformly show a huge iron shield, this kind of shield infantry is not used, too heavy, while the cavalry is just right, not only can be completely immune to the damage of bows and arrows, even small stones can block some.
The mission of these soldiers is to cover the siege vehicles and soldiers behind, as long as they rush to the bottom of the city, they can leave, and minimize the casualties of the infantry behind, so that the siege can be twice as effective with half the effort.
The style of play is classic, and the advantages of the cavalry are fully played, and the shield that the infantry cannot hold to let the cavalry come, but it seems so easy. No wonder the Liao army can't withstand the siege of the Jin soldiers, there is a reason, the grassland people are the grassland people, and they don't play cards according to the routine at all.
But today they met the nemesis, people who don't play cards according to the routine can always easily win in the face of step-by-step opponents, just like Tian Ji deliberately lost one game to win two games to get the championship when he was racing, but two people who don't play cards according to the routine encounter, but a different story will happen.
Zhou Yi prepared a trebuchet, which is an ordinary trebuchet, the kind that throws stones. However, he finally took out a new weapon that he had not had time to use when facing the Liao army, the Shengli No. 1 shells, which had been waiting in the warehouse for a long time, and he was already hungry and thirsty.
Yue Fei and Lin Chong didn't understand this thing very well, because they hadn't seen it, but Zhou Yi didn't plan to explain it to them, anyway, as long as the effect was enough later, they would always know what these things were for.
Using shells is simple, pull the trebuchet winch tight, then put the shell on it, ignite, fire. (To be continued......)