Chapter 232: The City of Kings (Part II)

Zhao Kuangyin said with a gloomy face: "Irrigate the water of the Jin Temple." ”

It is to block the water of the Jin Temple first, fill the moat, and then release the hoarded flood water and pour it into the city. He only said four words, and someone below will carry it out. Song Jiu asked cautiously, "Do you want to dig again?" ”

"Dig, why don't you dig, but don't really dig."

"Wechen understands."

This time, it was not to dig tunnels to blow up the city walls, but to lure the enemy into dividing his troops. This bombing, although the city is well prepared, will be somewhat frightened. After the most quantitative change, it becomes a qualitative change, and after exceeding the psychological limit of the military and civilians in the city, they will surrender.

It is very convenient to irrigate the water of the Jin Ancestral Hall, block the moat during the day, and quietly fill the water of the Jin Ancestral Hall at night. When it was found that something was wrong in the city, it began to fill the water gate, and just when it was almost filled, the water of the Jin Temple opened, and the flood rolled down, drowning countless soldiers and people.

Song Jiu muttered, "Ci is not in charge of the soldiers." ”

The war is so brutal.

But the good news finally came, the Fenshui was blocked, the water level gradually rose, the water surface was not high from the city, and the people drove the boats, approached the city wall, and went up with a hook of their hands. The southeast of Xingcheng, that is, Zhao Kuangyin personally supervised the battle in the southeast of the city.

Song Jiu also came to the southeast.

This causeway is designed by him and Chen Chengzhao and the students, it is very scientific, first of all, it can not be short, a short can not reach the head of the city, nor can it be high, the water can overflow some of the low city walls is the best, but don't forget, the Song people can add, the Northern Han Dynasty can also add the city wall, but the water is washed down to the Lu, the Northern Han Dynasty can block a city head with mud, but how big is the project in the south? It will not be the work of one month, it will be the work of several months and half a year. And the higher the water line, the stronger the causeway must be.

The height must be moderate.

Seeing Song Jiu calculating. Zhao Kuangyin was full of emotion and said. Who said that the study of physical characteristics is a trail?

Can anyone else use this?

Now look from the southeast. Taiyuan City is like an isolated island floating on the sea. Song Jiu muttered, "Isn't this going down?" ”

Zhao Kuangyin ordered the siege of the city.

His brave general, Wang Yanyi, the head of the Mabu army, personally drummed it up, boarded the boat and led his subordinates to attack Taiyuan City. The offensive and defensive battles in Taiyuan were too aggrieved, and the Song army fought real fire one by one, especially these brave generals. He also learned from the party and made meritorious contributions, and even got on the boat without wearing armor. As a result, arrows rained down on the head of the North Han Fortress. An arrow hit him in the head and killed him instantly. Again, Shi Hanqing also boarded the boat, and the head of Taiyuan City was still raining arrows. It seems that the hand hooked on the head of Taiyuan City. But at the end of the day, thousands of boats raced, but no one succeeded in reaching the top of the city, but two generals were broken.

Watching the soldiers carry down Shi Hanqing's body, Song Jiu had mixed feelings in his heart, this kid was finally dead. But he died a well-deserved death. Let's say happy, it is also a heroic sacrifice, and you can't substitute past grievances. Say it's not happy, this guy is dead. Song Jiu has one less big harm in the future. Otherwise, he muttered in front of Zhao Kuangyin every day, and now he finally knows that Zhao Kuangyin is not a murderer, and has killed many ministers. There are no ministers or generals, especially corrupt officials. But some ministers died unjustly. Or very unjustly.

Song Jiu was solemn.

Zhao Kuangyin glanced at him, and Song Jiu said: "People die greatly, and General Shi sacrifices his life for the country." Die well deserved. ”

"No one is wrong, and he has it. You have it too, if you find the wrong one. How I use people, choose the big and abandon the small. ”

"Yes."

"Han Qing has been with me for many years, and he is loyal, and he didn't expect to die here. In the past, Sejong Tu Chuzhou I never understood, but today I finally understand. But he personally saw the tragedy in Chuzhou, although he had the heart to slaughter Taiyuan, he never issued an edict.

Suddenly, there was a cheer from far and near.

Zhao Kuangyin was stunned, sent someone down to inquire, and after a while, several small yellow doors looked at each other and came back to report the truth. Zhang Qiong died very unjustly, he enforced the law fairly and strictly, because Shi Hanqing was killed alive, and the forbidden soldiers dared to be angry and did not dare to speak. Later, Zhao Kuangyin let Shi Hanqing take charge of Du Yuhou, and he was gracious, and the forbidden soldiers were very unhappy under him. There is also a Yang Lin on it, but Yang Lin pretends to be dumb all day long and can say anything fair. Hearing that Shi Hanqing was dead, everyone was happy.

Xiao Huangmen didn't dare to mention Zhang Qiong's death, and only said later.

Song Jiu lowered his head, this was equivalent to 100,000 forbidden soldiers slapping Zhao Kuangyin together, he didn't dare to laugh if he wanted to laugh in his heart.

Zhao Kuangyin was extremely angry, and asked Shi Hanqing's old son Shi Wande to give a speech to the soldiers, in order to vent the anger in the hearts of the forbidden soldiers. At this time, the morale of the forbidden soldiers is needed. The next day, the west gate was re-attacked, but it was still not taken.

There is one more chance.

Taiyuan was in a hurry, and Guo Wuwei was preparing to flee to the Song Dynasty. However, he was too ambitious and didn't plan to run away like this, he wanted to take two brave generals with him, one was Yang Ye and the other was Guo Shoubin. As soon as these two will go, Taiyuan will be broken. So he asked Liu Jiyuan that it would not work like this, and the old minister planned to take Liu Guo and the second general to attack the Song army at night. Liu Jiyuan also believed it, and selected 1,000 Jingjia, with Yang Guo as the deputy general, and Liu Jiyuan went to Yanxiamen to see him off in person.

Just crossed the North Bridge, Guo Wuwei looked behind him, no one, asked Yang Ye where he was, Yang Ye said that the horse was injured and had no way to go out, so he collected his troops and returned to the city. That's the reason for fart. asked Guo Shoubin again, Guo Shoubin's reason was even more bullshit, saying that the sky was dark, and he turned around in Taiyuan City and lost his way. Taiyuan City is big, but in the end, Taiyuan City, he stays every day, can he still lose his way in the city? In fact, these two generals noticed that something was wrong, but the emperor's edict asked them to go out of the city, and they had to go out, and they each found a bullshit reason to refuse.

At this time, Guo Wuwei was standing on the north bridge, and a few hundred steps forward were Cao Bin's subordinates, but he didn't dare to take a step. Can't go, can he take dozens of his men to attack the camp? As long as you take a step forward, if you don't attack the camp, it is obviously a defection. I believe that in less than ten steps, arrows rained down on the city, turning him into a hedgehog.

Guo Wuwei had no choice but to return to the city.

At that moment, he still had a good dream, but he didn't need much, as long as he himself escaped, or had the ability to win over one or two cronies and important ministers, Zhao Kuangyin rewarded, and a few people sat outside the city to shout at the city, so little by little the morale of the Northern Han Dynasty was wiped out, maybe a miracle would be staged.

But he always wanted to make meritorious contributions to the Song Dynasty, so he persuaded Liu Jiyuan to surrender again. Liu Jiyuan is not stupid, and when he thinks about his inexplicable attack on the camp the night before, a trace of coldness flashes in his eyes. Guo Wuwei didn't realize it, but Liu Jiyuan's little yellow doorman Degui saw Liu Jiyuan's eyes. It is extremely difficult for Guo to do the opposite. Liu Jiyuan issued an edict to kill Guo Wuwei. A dignified prime minister, Tuo Guzhongchen, was killed. The city of Taiyuan was quiet.

Liu Jiyuan hung Guo Wuwei's body at the head of the city.

Zhao Kuangyin glanced at it coldly and didn't say anything. It's this person who caused it. If there is no such person. I won't change my strategy, and I won't ride a tiger.

The second May is coming.

The flood outside the city of Taiyuan is monstrous, entering from the Yanxia Gate urn city, passing through the double outer city, and flowing into the city, just like the Yellow River bursting its embankment, the white waves flow to the city. The people of the city were shocked. The Northern Han had no choice but to send people to build embankments and barriers, which was not far away, and the Song army stood on the boat and fired a volley. Don't let the Northern Han set up obstacles successfully. So the break is getting bigger and bigger, and Taiyuan City is very dangerous at this time. Once the breach becomes tens of meters wide, the entire city wall will fall, the turbidity waves in Taiyuan City will be emptied, and the Song Zhou will enter together, and Taiyuan will no longer be protected.

While everyone was watching and preparing to attack the city at any time, suddenly bundles of grass floated in the city, and the soldiers hid behind the grass to work, and the grass in front not only blocked the water. It also became the best shelter, and the gap was plugged in a while.

Lu Yuqing muttered, "It's really evil." ”

But the Northern Han did a stupid thing under the success of the defense, the east of Taiyuan City is Fenshui, and the south is now an above-ground lake. To the west is Yongsan, and to the north is also a mountain, but the north side of the mountain is narrow and inconvenient. Therefore, the siege equipment and so on were placed together in Xiying Zhaozan. I thought Zhao Zan was a soft persimmon. It's more delicious, and the elite in the city is exhausted. Tried to break through the western camp of the Song army and burn these siege equipment. This time there was no good fruit to eat. Staying in the city, the Song army had no choice, as soon as it left the city, it was sent to death, the Song army in the west camp poured into the camp and fought, the Northern Han army was defeated, one-third of the soldiers were killed on the spot, and nearly 10,000 soldiers were killed in one battle.

However, the city of Taiyuan is still standing, no matter what. Zhao Kuangyin sent sailors to burn down the south city gate by boat, but he still couldn't capture Taiyuan City. The most terrible thing is that the Khitans came, and the old minister Wei Renpu also died of abdominal disease.

Tummy break is diarrhea with some mild malarial properties.

Not much harm.

The weather is extremely abnormal, first a spring rain trapped in Luzhou, the rain stopped and became very hot, to the city of Taiyuan, it was rainy in summer, and the army was rooted in the wet grass. Therefore many soldiers fell ill with a broken abdomen. Not as bad as malaria in the South, and not as terrible as the contagion rate. But diarrhea is also fatal, otherwise it cannot be called a broken stomach, that is, the stomach is broken. Song Jiuzhen didn't know anything about medicine, especially Chinese medicine. Let's say that it doesn't work, the medical conditions in the previous life were so developed, and some of the curative effects of Chinese medicine are still magical. Just like Pan Li'er is pregnant, the doctor takes the pulse, if you hesitate, it is not easy to say, if you say that there is, it must be pregnant. It's better than a CD. I don't know how to build it. But let's say it works, many of them are also very backward.

How to see a doctor Song Jiu didn't know what to do, but he knew a little, and immediately met Zhao Kuangyin, it was hot, what did the soldiers do, and the raw water was cool, which was the main reason for getting sick. Therefore, it was decreed that no soldier should drink raw water, and that every morning the tea should be boiled, put in a large vat, and drink it when thirsty. and quarantined the soldiers who were sick. In particular, he has been a judge of the three divisions, and he knows very well where and what is produced. Immediately send someone to bring the relevant herbs from the rear.

The abdomen breaking disease in the army was suppressed.

Many people don't understand, thinking that this is another physicology, and even say that it is malaria, because of Song Jiu's work, there is no attack. Where it is. There is also alcohol and boric acid water, which also brought in a lot, and the siege of the city for many days in a row produced a large number of casualties. After Song Jiu saw it, he gradually became numb. However, bring a lot of alcohol and boric acid water, immediately clean the wound and bandage. And wash it several times a day. Because of Song Jiu's merits, he saved the lives of at least a thousand Song soldiers in the Battle of Taiyuan.

Breaking the abdomen is not very harmful, but Lao Wei is old, and he is a Wenchen, who is infected with it, where can he get better, he was recruited, sent back to the capital for treatment, and died halfway.

The sun approached the West Mountain, and everyone stood on the top of Longshan Mountain together, looking at the northwest direction with a telescope, where was the army of Wuzhen, the king of the Khitan North. Song Jiu asked, "Your Majesty, are the Khitans afraid?" ”

"If they really have faith, why don't they send troops to approach Taiyuan City?" Zhao Kuangyin said proudly. When the Wuzhen army came, they didn't dare to get close, so they could only set fire to it in the distance, and then beat the drum, which means that our Liao army has come to support you, although you are fighting hard with the Song Dynasty. But what is the difference between this and Xiang Yu's battle, those who are watching from the wall? However, Song Jiuyi thought that it was true that the Song Dynasty was not so weak at this time. For example, in the third year of Qiande, the Khitan invaded Yizhou and plundered the local population, Zhao Kuangyin was furious and sent the defenders of Yizhou to invade Liao, and also plundered the population, the number was about the same. Then swapped, the Khitan had no choice but to agree. In the second year, Zhao Kuangyin simply sent an army deep into Youzhou and flaunted his might. And what Song Jiu didn't know was that another incident happened in Hebei at this time, and the Khitan didn't dare to divide the troops, so the army merged all the way and entered Hedong together. Hebei's military defense is weak, and the Hebei side is under the jurisdiction of Han Chongyun, but it is divided into several theaters, and the northernmost part is under the jurisdiction of Li Hanchao. His good friend and subordinate Ma Renyu did not say hello, saw the emptiness of Hebei, led the army into Pinglu and other places, and later began in the northwest of Beijing, and was taken captive to Zhangjiakou, captive hundreds of people, tens of thousands of horses, cattle and sheep. It was originally a great achievement, but Ma Renyu went out of the army in violation of regulations, Li Hanchao was unhappy in his heart, and he was somewhat jealous of his military exploits, and kept suing the emperor, and a pair of good friends finally turned against each other.

Song Jiu thought in his heart that at this time, it was the strongest army in the Northern Song Dynasty, with many soldiers and horses, many brave generals, and Zhao Kuangyin personally commanded, and it was not under Youzhou City, but in Taiyuan, and the Khitans also could not occupy the geographical advantage, so he said: "Your Majesty, it is better to have a large army and ignore Taiyuan City, go straight to the northwest, defeat Wuzhen, and the reinforcements will be defeated, and Taiyuan will surrender without a fight." (To be continued......)