Chapter 570: Shenglong City Broken
The Jiaozhi people were stunned by a series of ballista shells in the Great Song Dynasty, especially Li Changjie was even more shocked, when he attacked Yongzhou City before, he had learned the power of firearms in the Great Song Dynasty, but most of the firearms in Yongzhou City were small firearms such as grenades, which also gave Li Changjie an illusion about firearms, thinking that the greatest power of firearms was similar to grenades, but when he felt the power of the cannonballs, he was outrageously wrong, no wonder the Great Song Dynasty could rely on firearms to extinguish Western Xia, this firearm is comparable to the thunder, It's not humanly something that can be stopped at all.
Even Li Changjie, who is the commander, thinks so, not to mention those ordinary Jiaozhi soldiers, and even many Jiaozhi people who believe in Buddhism still think that this is the Buddha is angry, and they all kneel on the ground and keep kowtowing, and finally with a loud bang of the city gate, these people are even more paralyzed to the ground, and they don't have any intention of resisting at all.
"The tide is over! No wonder Western Xia was destroyed in such a short period of time! Seeing this, Li Changjie at the head of the city couldn't help but look up and sigh, in the face of this kind of weapon that was beyond the scope of his understanding, he didn't have any way, not to mention that the Song army under the city would not give him time to think about countermeasures slowly.
Seeing that the Song army under the city has entered the city, but his army has lost resistance, Li Changjie also knows that if he doesn't leave at this time, I'm afraid he won't want to leave again, so he immediately led the guards to the palace, and then entered the palace to ask Li Rizun to go out of the city with him.
Li Rizun didn't expect that the Thang Long Mansion would fall so soon, so he didn't have any preparations, and when he fled, he only cared about taking his family and some belongings with him, but even so, Song Jun didn't plan to let them go. When they went out along the gate of Dongcheng, they had just walked less than five miles before they encountered an ambush of the Song army, and all of them were cavalry, which made Li Rizun frightened, threw down some bulky items and family members and fled. Li Changjie, the remnants of the defeated generals, did not dare to fight with the Song army at all, but only protected Li Rizun and fled.
However, this Song army does not seem to intend to destroy Li Rizun, and when he saw that the other party threw down a lot of bulky carts and women and children, he immediately looted these things and people, in fact, this army was ordered by Guo Kui to ambush here in advance, in order to prevent Li Rizun from taking away the treasures in the city when he escaped, as for Li Rizun and Li Changjie, they are still useful, at least for the time being, they can't die, after all, if they die. Jiaozhi will be over, and the surrounding Dali and Zhancheng will take advantage of it.
"Hahahaha~, I finally saw the true power of firearms!" Guo Kui outside the city saw that the Jiaozhi people in the city were frightened by a firearm and lost their ability to resist, which made him laugh proudly, and at the same time finally understood why the Western Xia perished so easily, but it was a pity that he was extremely involved in the war to destroy the Western Xia, otherwise he could have made some credit.
"Sir, let's hurry up and get into the city. Especially in the royal palace, you must not let people take the lead! Yang Huaiyu said a little anxiously here. Those Western Xia troops had already rushed into the Shenglong Mansion, and these people were all good at robbing, so he was worried that the richest palace would be preempted by these, and then these red-eyed Western Xia barbarians would not know what they would do?
"Yes, General Yang, you take the forbidden army into the city and control the palace and other important places in the city. No one shall take a penny of these places without the orders of the Governor! Guo Kui also ordered at the moment, the Shenglong Mansion was originally run for the huge wealth in the city, and those Western Xia troops could not be trusted, so naturally they couldn't be allowed to take the lead.
Yang Huaiyu immediately received the order. The army of Qi also entered the city, in fact, with the escape of Li Changjie and Li Rizun, the entire Thang Long Mansion had already been in chaos, and the remaining army had no intention of resisting, and even many Jiaozhi soldiers had begun to take off their armor and put on ordinary clothes to dress up as ordinary people, so as not to be killed by the Song army.
It is precisely because of this that when Yang Huaiyu entered the Shenglong Mansion, he almost did not encounter any resistance, and even the Western Xia troops he met along the way had begun to rush into the homes of the people in the Shenglong Mansion to loot, this situation had already been acquiesced by Guo Kui, so Yang Huaiyu also turned a blind eye, just rushed to the vicinity of the palace as quickly as possible, and then commanded the army to control the palace and some important places, rushed to the blood to flow out, this made those crazy Western Xia troops calm down, and instead vented their anger on the Jiaozhi people.
After Hu San entered the city, his idiot boss clamored to enter the palace to rob money and women, Hu San did not oppose this, but secretly contacted a few brothers who had a good relationship, and on the road through a confrontation with the Jiaozhi people broke away from the large army, anyway, now the city is in chaos, it is normal to hand over a few in a team, even if it is found afterwards, you can also use the excuse to be scattered by the enemy, and no one will be held accountable at all.
After breaking away from the large army, Hu San and the others were not worried about their safety, because the Jiaozhi army in the city had already robbed the mind of resistance, and the whole city was robbed by their Western Xia troops everywhere, and they were generally in groups of three or five, if they encountered someone who dared to resist, other Western Xia troops around them would immediately flock to them, which had become a common practice in their army.
Hu San is very experienced in robbery, he chose a small face, but very deep house, generally this kind of house is inhabited by those rich families who do not like publicity, and there is a lot of money hidden in the house, which is the fat sheep in the eyes of Hu San and others.
Hu San kicked open the door and broke in, and soon saw a black and thin middle-aged man with a few women in the bedroom, and some old people and children, they didn't pay attention to this, and directly turned over the cabinet to find it, as they expected, this family is indeed rich and oily, and soon Hu San They found a lot of property, including a large box of large Song copper coins, but unfortunately this thing is too heavy, it is very inconvenient to hold, it is better to take more gold, silver and gems and other things, so as to facilitate their actions.
But maybe it was Hu San and their robbery that finally angered the owner of the house, the man who was originally shrunk in the bedroom finally rushed out, picked up a stick and wanted to fight with Hu San, but unfortunately Hu San These guys are all characters who kill people without blinking, if the other party does not resist, they are too lazy to do it, but since the other party resists, then they don't mind killing people, and they don't need other people to do it at all, only Hu San cut the other party to the ground in front of him, and the women in the house immediately cried, It's a pity that their cries aroused the beastly desire of Hu San and the others, although the Jiaozhi women are black and thin, but for Hu San and the others who have stayed in the barracks for a long time, they can't care about these things.
When Guo Kui entered the Shenglong Mansion, he saw such a scene, the city was full of Western Xia soldiers robbing money and women, but he didn't care about it at all, and even as early as when they broke through other towns in Jiaozhi, they could see such a scene every time, speaking of which, since this war was provoked by Jiaozhi first, it was necessary to be prepared for retaliation, not to mention that Jiaozhi has not harmed the southern Xinjiang of the Great Song Dynasty over the years, such as the previous Yongzhou City, if it weren't for their timely rescue, I am afraid that tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city will die at the hands of the Jiaozhi people.
Guo Kui passed through the chaotic Shenglong Mansion, and finally came to the vicinity of the palace, compared to other places, the palace because of Yang Huaiyu's personal garrison, which made it much quieter here, when he saw him coming, Yang Huaiyu immediately greeted him, and then Guo Kui checked the defense of the palace, and then Yang Huaiyu led people into the palace.
Although Li Rizun fled with his family, there were still a lot of chamberlains and palace maids in the palace, and these people originally wanted to take advantage of the chaos to escape with some of the property in the palace, but unfortunately they were blocked by Yang Huaiyu and others, and even killed some of the inmates and guards who were in trouble, and finally made the people in the palace dare not move anymore, and they were all trembling and waiting for the arrival of the Song army.
For these palace maids and chamberlains, Guo Kui immediately ordered them to be driven into a large hall, and then searched one by one to see if they had hidden their belongings, while he and Yang Huaiyu went straight to the inner treasury of the palace, which contained almost all the treasures of the Li Rizun family for hundreds of years, and he did not have time to take them with him when he fled.
When Guo Kui and Yang Huaiyu opened the door of the inner library and walked in, the two were also stunned by the scene in the inner library, only to see one huge gold brick after another piled together, forming a tall gold mountain, in addition to boxes of gems of different colors, pearls, etc., and even a lot of gorgeous Buddha statues, pure gold Buddha statues are inlaid with luxurious gems, it can be said that each one is priceless.
Seeing so many gold and silver treasures, Guo Kui and Yang Huaiyu had a dazzling feeling, but they were also extremely rational people, and they knew that the things in front of them must not be hidden without authorization, otherwise they would likely attract death, so they quickly regained their senses and ordered the scribes in the army to come and count the property, and everything had to be registered and made a book, so that they could be sent to the imperial court for inspection in the future.
The wealth in the Thang Long Mansion is indeed as Zhao Yan estimated, including not only the wealth of Jiaozhi itself, but also the wealth of Jiaozhi looted from Champong, Zhenla and other countries, speaking of which Jiaozhi is in a strong period, and the foreign war is also repeatedly victorious, which also makes them rob a lot of the wealth of other countries, and it is also their repeated defeat of other countries, so that Jiaozhi breeds the ambition to challenge the Great Song Dynasty, but unfortunately in the end it ended up that all countries fell.
However, the Shenglong Mansion was beaten down, and the money was also robbed of his subordinates, how to deal with the matter of Jiaozhi next, but it is a big problem, because Jiaozhi has been disabled, if the Great Song Dynasty retreats, I am afraid that the surrounding Dali and Zhancheng will definitely take advantage of the situation, but if the troops are not withdrawn, the Great Song Dynasty cannot support an army stationed here for a long time, so this gives the Great Song Dynasty a dilemma. (To be continued......)