Chapter 596: Liaodong Raiders
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There are two gates in the north of Liaoyang City, one is called Huaiyuan Gate, and the other is called Anyuan Gate. Li Yizhong led five hundred men and horses down the Daliang River, preparing to attack Anyuan Gate in the northeast corner of the night.
The Anyuan Gate is also brightly lit, and it is impossible to touch the city gate without being discovered, but it doesn't matter, the strength of the Jin army is contained on the east, south, and west walls, and the troops on the north side are relatively empty;
Li Yizhong and the others prepared twenty tribulus terrestris, one charge of five catties, which added up to one hundred catties of explosives, that is, the power of black powder was poor, and it should be enough to blow up Anyuanmen.
As long as you can blow the gate open, with 500 flintlock guns, it will definitely not be a problem to grab a city gate.
Li Yizhong and the others approached Anyuan Gate, and were about to send someone to rush up to blow up the city gate with fire thistles, when an accident happened.
A fierce battle suddenly came from Huaiyuan Gate in the northwest direction.
Looking from afar, I saw that there were shadows on the Huaiyuan Gate, and there seemed to be two groups of people fighting on the city wall. Li Yizhong couldn't help but be surprised, could it be that the staff pavilion was so interested that he actually laid down an internal response in the city? Why hadn't you heard of it beforehand?
No matter what, Li Yizhong made a quick decision and drove away with five hundred men and horses down the river towards Huaiyuanmen.
There were indeed two groups of people fighting on the Huaiyuan Gate, but it was not very real in the night, and the sound of killing was getting weaker, Li Yizhong didn't wait any longer, and immediately asked people to explode the city gate.
Twenty or thirty Song soldiers rushed to the city gate cave with the thistle terrestris, and the two groups of men and horses in the city were busy fighting each other, and no one could take care of them at all;
After the Song army piled up the thistles, they were about to light the fuse when they heard a strange noise from the city gate. Immediately after that, the two huge city gates were in a burst of "Yi! In the sound, it slowly opened.
This frightened the twenty or thirty Song soldiers. One of the soldiers, Wu Qi, reacted quickly, and he lit a grenade with a snort. Hurried through the crack in the open door;
Soon there was a rumbling explosion inside, mixed with a scream, but nothing could be seen in the black hole inside.
The other Song Jun scolded in shock: "Wu Qi, don't you want to live?" Damn, if you detonate these twenty thistles, you won't have a single hair left......"
"Don't shout, don't shout, isn't it not detonated, hurry up, push open the city gate."
"General Lee. General Lee, the gates are open, the gates are open. ”
"Quickly put away the thistle, I don't know how to die later......."
The twenty or thirty Song soldiers under the city gate were in a mess, some were busy pushing the door, some were busy putting away the thistles, and some were busy calling Li Yizhong to them;
Li Yizhong didn't need them to call, and when he heard the sound of the city gate opening, he had already rushed up with five hundred men and horses.
With the gates being pushed open completely. There were bursts of noisy shouting inside, but most of them were "bird language" that Li Yizhong and they couldn't understand. More than a dozen grenades were thrown in at once, causing smoke to billowing and shrapnel flying from the city gate hole.
Now the devil will care who opened the gates of the city with you. It is only right that I take advantage of it first, anyway, Li Yizhong, who rushed in, thinks so. Such a key position is still in your own hands!
"Inform your Excellency. Huaiyuan Gate has been broken by us! Fast! Li Yizhong rushed in while loudly ordering the soldiers around him.
The sound of fighting inside the city gate had stopped, Li Yizhong and they rushed in, and they found that there were kneeling people all over the ground, all holding their heads and crouching, and the city was very strange;
Judging from the clothing, most of these people are young and strong in the city, and there are also a small number of Jin soldiers, in front of the surging Song army, the two groups of people and horses actually knelt together "harmoniously", and the swords and guns were thrown far away.........
At this time, a man in his thirties saw Li Yizhong, hurriedly raised his hands and shouted eagerly in stiff Chinese: "General, this general, please don't misunderstand, we are good people, we are here to snatch the city gate to meet the general, and please ......... general."
Li Yizhong first ordered his subordinates to seize the city gate tower and drove these people to a corner to be detained, and then asked the man, "Who are you?" ”
"General Hui, my name is Lian Chengque, I am Han, I am Han!"
Li Yizhong didn't care whether he was Han or not, and said casually: "Liancheng is lacking, let's go and wait first, take care of your people, and let them not run around, otherwise they will be killed by our army as a golden army, it will be a vain death, and after the city is pacified, your reward will be indispensable." ”
"The villain knows, thank you general, thank you general."
After Yang Yi heard that Li Yizhong had captured Huaiyuan Gate, he immediately mobilized a large army to pounce, and Wanyan Sahan, who was defending the city, also wanted to desperately seize Huaiyuan Gate, but unfortunately after the Jin army heard that the north gate was lost, the army's morale was immediately in turmoil.
Tens of thousands of Song troops poured in from Huaiyuanmen, chasing the scattered Jin army all over the city.
In the battle of city defense, once the city is broken, it means defeat, and only a very small number of defenders with an extremely tenacious will to fight can continue to fight street battles;
However, it is clear that the Jin Army, which has just been founded and has a complex composition, is definitely not the kind of army with a particularly tenacious will to fight.
In one night, the Song army completely controlled Liaoyang City and cleared the defeated army in the city.
was able to successfully take Liaoyang City, and Yang Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Liaoyang is the richest area in Liao, with a population of 300,000 in the city and dense villages in surrounding prefectures and counties; The handmade iron smelting and wrought iron technology in Liaoyang City has also reached a very high level, and the production of iron and iron farm tools and weapons are known for their fineness and well-known in the Central Plains.
Liaoyang Mansion is also an important base of the textile industry of Liao, at the beginning of Liao, Dongdan State paid tribute to the central government of Liao Dynasty with 50,000 horses of fine cloth and 100,000 pieces of fine cloth every year. Later, Dandong was annexed by the Khitan, and after one or two hundred years of development, the current output has increased tenfold.
There are also outstanding achievements in ceramic production, which can produce a large number of white porcelain, celadon and three-color porcelain products, including "Khitan saddle, Xia Guojian...... All of them are the first in the world".
The advancement of handicraft technology has led to a more prosperous business. Liaoyang Mansion has long been the commercial center of the northeast, there is a continuous trade market in the city day and night, business is booming, goods from Goryeo, Mobei, Heilongjiang and other places, stacked like a mountain;
In the south, there are various commodities such as Luo, tea, Chinese herbal medicine, locally produced cattle, horses, sheep, ginseng, mink, deer antler velvet and so on. Trade in the city.
Others, such as construction technology, shipbuilding technology, etc., Liaoyang Mansion has also reached a very high level.
It can be said that as long as this area is occupied. Grain, grass and other materials no longer need to be transported from the Great Song Dynasty, and self-sufficiency can also be guaranteed. All it was necessary to transport some ammunition would greatly reduce the cost of the war on the Great Song Dynasty.
At noon the next day, Yang Yi immediately sent Liu Wu to lead 7,000 men and horses to the south to sweep the Liaodong Peninsula, which has a large number of prefectures and counties, including Yanyuan, Chenzhou, Jian'an, Ningzhou, Fuluo, Laisu, Zhenhaifu, Muzhou, Baozhou, Dingzhou, Xuanzhou, etc.;
It can be said that the city is dense, which is extremely rare in the north of the Great Wall, but these city defenders are very few, Liaoyang lost, these states and counties on the Liaodong Peninsula lost contact with Shangjing. Liu Wu's 8,000 men and horses, under the banner of Yelu Minghu, are enough to recover these cities.
In addition, Li Yizhong was sent to lead 10,000 Song troops and 10,000 Liao troops to the north along the Liao River, sweeping Shenzhou, Lejiao, Guide, Yanjin, Yinzhou, Xianzhou, Anzhou, Tongzhou, Rongzhou, Hanzhou and other cities, most of which were distributed on both sides of the Liao River and were also extremely dense.
Now that the Liaoyang Prefecture in Tokyo has fallen, it must have caused great panic to the defenders of these prefectures and counties, and it is the best time to take advantage of the situation.
At the same time, Yang Yi sent Wan Shifang as the chief envoy and Li Chuwen as the deputy envoy to Goryeo. Goryeo was asked to send troops to fight together.
This is still in the name of Yelu Ming, and Goryeo has always been a subject state of the Liao State, and the suzerainty is in trouble. The reason for requesting the assistance of the subject State should be sufficient.
Of course, it's best if Goryeo doesn't come. Yang Yi didn't intend to rely on him to destroy the Jin Kingdom, he did it just for another purpose.
The first king of Goryeo was called Wang Jian. When the Goryeo Dynasty was established, it was at the time of the great turmoil in the Central Plains of the Five Dynasties. The Central Plains Dynasty, as the suzerain, had no time to take care of the Eastern Goryeo.
So Goryeo transgressed the etiquette system. Emulate the royal system of the Celestial Empire. The capital is known as the "Imperial Capital"; The royal palace of the capital was called the "Imperial City"; The king's orders were called edicts; The king's successor was called "Dauphin"; The king's mother was called the "Queen Mother". Unlike China, the kings of Goryeo were called "Great King", "Your Majesty" and "Haedong Heavenly Son".
The current king of Goryeo is called Wang Xi, and he still calls himself the Son of Heaven, very good, very powerful, and he really didn't fight for three days, and he went to the house to reveal the tiles!
Yang Yi couldn't help but laugh when he thought of this.
Hearing Yang Yi's treacherous laughter, the eldest princess of Yue couldn't help but ask, "What are you laughing at?" ”
"I'm laughing at Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, uh no, it's General Yelu, don't you go and lead your five thousand men and horses, aren't you afraid that they will be leaderless and become a rabble?"
10,000 Liao troops were taken by Li Yizhong to the north, usually listening to Yang Yi's command, Yelutri was barely able to accept it, but let her listen to Li Yizhong's command, she was reluctant;
And she also knew that it was impossible for Yang Yi to hand over the command of the army to her, so she simply handed over the five thousand men and horses to the deputy general to lead, and stayed in Liaoyang by herself, out of sight and out of mind.
"You don't talk nonsense, you laugh like this, it's not a good thing, tell me, are you going to calculate Goryeo again?"
"What do you mean by asking again, when did I calculate Goryeo?" Yang Yi is very innocent.
Jerutri glanced at him and said, "Where you go, where is the scourge, if you don't have the idea of fighting Goryeo, then it is really strange?" ”
Yang Yi smiled, it seems that he is really notorious, and he has become a disaster in the eyes of others.
"This time Terry, you're wrong, I really don't have the idea of fighting Goryeo, let's really say it, it's just a little uncomfortable for the king of Goryeo to usurp the emperor, and your Liao State has done a very bad job in this regard, when the Liao State was the suzerainty of Goryeo, it has always tolerated him arrogating the title of emperor, and your Liao State is not doing anything."
"He just pays tribute every year, and he himself is called emperor behind closed doors, can you manage so much?"
"The problem is that I just don't want him to close the door, I might as well tell you that from now on, wherever my Great Song Dynasty is within its reach, no one else will be allowed to claim the title of emperor again, and all vassal countries must use the name of my Great Song Dynasty, and whoever doesn't accept it, I will beat him until he obeys."
When Yang Yi said this, he was domineering, and Yelutri didn't know what to say.
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PS: Thank you for the support of the fish who ate cat 1, Niu Tedi, the god of autumn, playing with stones, and of course feeling people, thank you, Haoyuan said goodbye.
(To be continued.) )