In the era of cold weapons, a section of strong and towering city walls is definitely a headache for all besieging parties. For Wang Lun's Liangshan Army, the Daimyofu, a strategic town in the north of the Great Song Dynasty, was no exception.

The only time the Liangshan army attacked the state capital was the experience gained not long ago in the coastal city of Dengzhou. At that time, Wang Lun adopted the method of seizing the door, and at present, it seems that this method is extremely desirable and effective. First, there is no need to waste the lives of a large number of soldiers on the battle for the city wall, and second, the efficiency of breaking the city is extremely high. Losing the city walls, the defenders are also very likely to organize a counterattack. But the loss of the city gate will undoubtedly bring a devastating blow to the morale of the defenders.

Of course, this is based on the stability of the domestic political situation and the extremely low awareness of the defenders. If the two countries are in contention, and the atmosphere of war is extremely strong, if they want to use this kind of armed forces sent to blend into the city, and use the means of combining the inside and the outside to seize the city, not to mention the success rate, there is also a suspicion of arranging dissidents and sending people to death.

At that time, after receiving the order to infiltrate the city, Wu Song took the initiative to suggest that his subordinates be divided into more than 200 groups of hawkers engaged in various trades, pushing Jiangzhou carts or larger Taiping carts, hiding weapons and armor, and later met Yan Qing, a clever local, and finally mixed into the city extremely smoothly.

After that, under the guidance of Yan Qing, Wu Song sent his subordinates to come forward and rent more than a dozen houses with large courtyards not far away from each other on the back street next to the west gate of the Daimyo's Mansion, and gradually withdrew the troops on the street, just waiting for the first night of the large army to come to the city and go down to the village, and act according to the plan agreed in advance.

After resting for a while that day, Wang Lun led the army to rush to the east gate of the Daimyo's Mansion before dark, and showed the muscles of the Liangshan Army outside the city gate as if demonstrating, before collecting the troops and returning to the camp.

This has two advantages, one is to create an atmosphere of panic in the city, which can allow Wu Song and Yan Qing to detect the signal of action. Second, you can attract as much vitality as possible to the Daimyo's Mansion at the East Gate. It is good to reduce the obstacle for Wu Song to win the door in the third watch.

As soon as it got dark, Wang Lun walked around the giant city for half a circle under the cover of night, and rushed to the west gate before the appointed time, waiting for news from Wu Song in the city.

When he arrived outside the west gate, there was only more than an hour left before the appointed time, and Wang Lun ordered everyone except the guarded men to go down to rest and store up their horsepower. Fortunately, the climate is not cold now, and it is just right for the big guys to wear leather armor and sleep in their clothes.

"It's really worthy of my Song Dynasty Beijing, such a large scale, half a circle around the city, I'm afraid that it will be more than 20 miles?" Wang Lun couldn't sleep at this time, and chatted with Xu Guanzhong, the new military advisor, in the night.

"It should be about the same, let's get a little farther away from the city! However, our famous mansion is the most popular mansion today, but this is not a lie! Soon after the official family ascended the throne. In the first year of Chongning (1102), the number of households and mouths in Sijing was surveyed, and although the number of households in our Daimyo Mansion was less than that of Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo, it was more than 100,000 more than him in terms of the number of mouths! ”

When Chinese people talk about their hometown. has a natural sense of intimacy and pride, even if it is as free and easy as Xu Guanzhong, it is no exception.

In the census of the first year of Chongning, there were a total of 155,253 households in the Daimyo Mansion. The number of mouths was 568,976 (the census of the Song Dynasty did not include the custom of women, and the actual population of the Daimyo Mansion at this time should be more than one million).

Xu Guanzhong is a big celebrity born and raised. Indeed, he has the capital of pride.

As a traverser, although Wang Lun couldn't remember the details of this famous mansion, he also knew a little about its important position. The Daimyo Mansion is 400 miles north of Kaifeng Mansion, about 800 miles away from the border of the Liao State, west of the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, southeast and north is the vast North China Plain, the Yellow River, the Zhanghe River, the Yuhe River three major river systems constitute the Daimyo Mansion is very developed waterway transportation, and has become an important traffic line for grain transportation. The Daimyo Mansion is the distribution center for materials from the south to Hebei, and is known as the throat of Heshuo.

With such a favorable geographical environment, the economy of the daimyo prefecture was also extremely developed, and at this time, the commercial tax and liquor tax were closely followed by the Kaifeng prefecture in Tokyo, ranking second among the four capitals.

Such an important city has been regarded as a battleground for all generations. Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the Liao State has been the number one threat to this emerging regime, and whenever there is a war, Hebei has become the main battlefield of the Song-Liao dispute, and the Daimyofu has naturally become the command center of the Imperial Liao, and in the time of Renzong, it was upgraded to Beijing.

This city, which has a very prominent political, military and economic status, appeared in front of Wang Lun with a half-covered face like this, as a person who knows the general trend of history, he has to sigh for this ancient city.

Because in a few years, the iron hooves of the Jin people will be trampled here, bringing unwarranted disasters to the people living in this great Song Dynasty. After the Jin people sang, it was replaced by the emerging power of the steppe Mongolia on the field, and the destruction of the advanced farming culture by the backward fishing and hunting and nomadic peoples was staged one scene after another, until more than 200 years later, this ancient city was completely submerged by the water of the Zhang, Wei River, and since then it has been silent in the river sand and silt, and never saw the light of day again.

Wang Lun didn't know what it was like for Song Jiangbing to be under the famous city in the original trajectory of the Dao, but now he had a ...... A feeling of being completely out of the curtain and on stage. After all, such an extremely important city in front of him has not been lost since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, maybe after tonight, he will be completely in the field of vision of the imperial court.

Unlike Song Jiang's initiative to relieve the political last words of the Heavenly King and take the opportunity to expand his influence, if there were other options, Wang Lun would be more willing to develop in a muffled voice at this time, but unfortunately not! If you don't break the name, you won't be able to get out of Lu Junyi, and if you don't break the name, you won't be able to solve the current financial crisis of the cottage.

"It's a shame that I left a way back!" Wang Lun said with emotion. Although the revenge for attacking the daimyo was Guan Shengxing's soldiers, but now this era has changed a lot because of his arrival, for example, Hou Fa squeezed out Chen Wenzhao's position, and Cheng Wanli knew about the attack on Qingfu. Who knows if it will trigger a butterfly effect and cause the imperial court to raise a large army to recruit and suppress?

With the 40,000 horses in the cottage now, Wang Lun has the confidence to fight for a tomorrow with the heroes of Liangshan, but he is not arrogant enough to believe that he can replace the Great Song Dynasty at this moment, and swallow the million forbidden troops of the Great Song Dynasty, including two or three hundred thousand Western troops.

Laying down this Daimyo Mansion only means that his own path is obviously just the beginning.

Xu Guanzhong smiled slightly, understood the meaning of Wang Lun's words, and asked with a smile: "If my brother doesn't have Jeju Island as a back road, will he raise troops to fight the Daimyo's Mansion?" ”

Wang Lunwaner smiled, looked at Xu Guanzhong and said: "If I tell you that since I hit Liangshan, I have been lucky enough not to give people fire and fall, I feel that I will attack the Daimyo's Mansion in the future, do you believe it or not?" ”

Xu Guanzhong shook his head and smiled, straight Wang Lun was funny, but he didn't know that the person in front of him was talking about blood and tears, and after spending countless efforts, he corrected the trajectory of fate.

Xu Guanzhong obviously didn't put too much energy into Wang Lun's "joke", but at this time he was thinking about Jeju Island, the back road of Liangshan. It can be said that this island carries the spiritual sustenance of the people of Liangshan, although it is far overseas, but it is also a place where the imperial court whip is beyond the reach. Listening to Xiao Jiasui, from Liangshan to this island, if it goes well, you can come and go back and forth in half a month, so it is not too far. If you take the land route, how many miles can you catch in half a month? If you do it on foot, you can't even get to Cangzhou.

So to the island, but not very far. I heard that Liangshanbo is immigrating to this island on a large scale, and it is expected that there will be 350,000 people at that time.

No wonder what he observed, but all the cottage leaders he saw were very convinced by Wang Lun, because Wang Lun really thought about them, not only for the reckless brothers to find a way to continue the current way of life, but also for the leaders of the court officers to find a new way to make contributions, so whether it was Yang Lin, a reckless man who impressed him, or Yang Zhi, who was born as an officer, he could integrate into the big family of Liangshan, and could see a way out, hope, and dreams.

In the future, with this group of elite soldiers, it is really not difficult to lay a foundation. At that time, the relict of the Shang Dynasty, Jizi, led 5,000 remnants of the Shang Dynasty to move east to Goryeo and established a country, which lasted for nearly 900 years. The world is unpredictable, with a leader like Wang Lun in white, who dares to say that there will be no day when the Liangshan Army will win the Central Plains in the future.

The torch has been ordered to be extinguished for a long time, and Wang Lun couldn't see Xu Guanzhong's face in the dark, and seeing that he was silent, Wang Lun also fell into reverie. At this time, the things in his heart were much heavier than those of the world. Hu Yanqing may know a little about this matter (history says that he is proficient in Mandarin, including Jurchen dialect), but it is impossible for him to realize that the female straight people who rose between the black water and white mountains can be so powerful that they can destroy the two largest powers in the world in one go, one was driven by him to establish Western Liao on the edge of the Gobi Desert in the west, and the other was forced by him to only a corner of peace, known as the Southern Song Dynasty in history.

Like a straight woman, from nothing to the founding of the country and the emperor, from rags to brocade clothes and food, this is the sweetness brought to them by the war, as long as they feel that they have not robbed enough, and you can't protect your wealth, even if you don't mess with him, he will come to you.

Wang Lun knows that there is not much time left for him, and what he wants most now is just to work steadily and steadily, develop his own strength, maybe when the disaster of destroying the country comes, he will not be in a hurry, and maybe he can fulfill his obligations and responsibilities as a descendant of Yan and Huang.

"Brother, military advisor, the fire is lit!" At this time, Lin Chong suddenly walked quickly, interrupting the thoughts of the two of them and reporting the news in the city.

"All the brethren have risen?" Wang Lun asked, just now when it was almost the third watch, he ordered everyone to get up and prepare, and now that he had a signal from the city, he could not delay for a moment.

Lin Chong nodded and said, "Wait for my brother's military order!" ”

"Yang Zhi and Tang Bin are in front, my brother and I are in the middle, and Zhang Qing is behind! Without further ado, let's go! Wang Lun ordered.

"Brother, whether you want to or not, after tonight, I'm afraid you will become famous all over the world!" When Xu Guanzhong turned over and got on the horse, he suddenly turned around and smiled. (To be continued......)