Chapter 671: Slow Work Makes Careful Work

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It was just dark on this day, and the lights in the Huangfu were bright. In the main hall, there was a table of good wine and food, and Huang Qi and his eldest son Huang Ying accompanied a military general in his thirties who looked like a tiger and a bear's waist, and entered the hall and sat down together.

"The wine and food are simple, Brother Ma is still in a hurry."

This Ma brother is Ma You, and immediately replied: "Mr. Huang, you are too polite, at the moment, the Sizhou army is in the outer city, although the rice and noodles in the city are not worried, the meat is getting less and less." You have wine and meat here, and so many good dishes, if you say that it is simple, then my old horse can't be so simple every day. After speaking, Ma You unceremoniously picked up the wine jug, drank a few sips, and picked up chopsticks and put a few pieces of meat into his mouth and chewed it. While eating, he said: "Enjoyable, enjoyable!" ”

"It's been difficult to fight the tooth sacrifice in the past two days, but I have slandered my old horse, Mr. Huang, don't blame me for being vulgar!"

Seeing Ma You like this, Huang Qi's heart moved, and he pressed the words that he had thought of before. said: "Brother Ma, hasn't you eaten wine and meat in a few days?" ”

"Don't hide it, sir, I haven't known the taste of meat for five days." This is simply the most painful torment for Ma You, who has no meat and no joy. Ma You took another piece of braised pork and put it in his mouth, and the fat but not greasy braised pork was just right, which made him sigh with satisfaction.

"Impossible, who doesn't know that you Ma You is the favorite general of King Song, in charge of the East Gate Patrol, and what delicious food can't reach your hands. It's not that I'm tired of eating the delicacies of the mountains and the sea, so I deliberately came to entertain my brother. Huang Qi pretended to be unbelieving on his face.

Ma You grunted and drank a few sips of wine, "I really don't lie to you." It's not that the gentleman doesn't know that the king of Song has issued a strict order, and no king is allowed to open the city gate. And I'm only in charge of the patrol post at the east gate, and the patrol post at the north gate is the ......" Ma You gestured a gesture, which everyone understood.

"I've been hungry for the past few days, and I can't help but want to kill the horse!"

A trace of solemnity appeared on Huang Qi's face: "I don't want the city to be in short supply so much." Then his face was full of sorrow, "And so on for a long time." But how did you get it? ”

"Well, what the are you doing. Gotta get through it one day at a time. Now this battle is not looking at Yongxing City, but looking at Zhu Shuai near the river. The Jin army is the courage of the Sizhou army, as long as Zhu Shuai can break through the Jin army, the siege of Yongxing City will be solved without a fight. ”

"But the Jin army has 200,000, three times the strength of Zhu Shuai's troops, Zhu Shuai wants to defeat the Jin thieves, how easy is it!"

Ma You's face also showed a touch of bitterness, yes. Triple the military power. "Then it depends on Zhu Shuai's ability. I hope to create another miracle...... but the reason why a miracle is a miracle is that the possibility of occurrence is very small, and the number of occurrences is very small. If it appears too many times and can appear in a dangerous moment, is it still a miracle?

Huang Qi didn't say any more explicit words. He felt that there was still a glimmer of hope in his heart. But this meal was drunk until late at night, Ma You was happy, and in the next few days, Huang Qi pulled Ma You to drink almost every day, unless Ma You really couldn't get out.

Just when the relationship between Huang Qi and Ma You became closer and closer, the Song army on the southern front once again came with bad news. The imperial court increased its troops by 300,000 troops in Dong'an, attacking day and night. The Golden Bull Pass is critical.

At the same time, Jiazhou, which has not seen any movement on the Western Front, seems to have unified its thinking and made up its mind, and marched out to attack Yonglong with 50,000 horses. The main forces of the Song army are now concentrated in Dong'an, Yongxing and Linhe. The Song soldiers in Yonglong were mostly militiamen, and they were in the weakest stage in terms of combat strength and morale, and many Song soldiers did not have a decent set of iron armor. The weapon is outdated, and it is the first contact. As soon as the Yonglong Song army was defeated, the counties surrendered to the Jiazhou army on a large scale almost without resistance, and 50,000 Jiazhou cavalry entered Kaizhou, and the most common thing to do was to collect the prisoners.

For ordinary Song army soldiers and soldiers, they joined the army to protect the territory and the people, but this wish has hardly been realized except for the beginning of a period of time, whether it is the Jin army or the prince's army of the imperial court, the Song army is disgraced. After that, the veterans of the local county soldiers were even more withdrawn, and many of the newly added militia couldn't even walk in a queue.

How can such an army fight? Now that the Jiazhou army is coming, in this case, from top to bottom, how can they think of resistance, even if a small number of people want to resist, they are drowned in the tide of the Song army that wants to surrender for the majority.

The Jiazhou army that entered the territory of Kaizhou was not so much fighting as marching, and could maintain a speed of about sixty or seventy miles every day, and if it were not for being captured and dragged down by local towns, they could have advanced at a faster pace.

Outside Yunmen County, groups of Song soldiers rushed out of the city, threw the weapons in their hands on the ground, and then rushed to the rear of the Jiazhou army. There are two passages for them to walk, the one on the left is to go home as a common man, and the one on the right is to continue to be a soldier.

The Jiazhou Army, which had almost occupied Yonglong County, didn't want to leave most of the soldiers and horses to guard, and it was the best choice to organize the local Ding Zhuang as a guard.

Yunmen County is the easternmost part of Yonglong County and the west gate of Yongxing County.

Although it has always been in danger, after this news reached Yongxing City, the high-level of the Song army was still greatly shaken.

Because in this way, a more direct expression is that the enemy army under Yongxing City will increase to 150,000.

The enemy, five times as many troops as the city, was already able to storm and fight.

That night, Huang Fuzhong.

"Come brother, I'll toast you and drink."

It was dark on this day, and Huang Qi invited Ma You to his home to drink as usual, and after these days of communication, the friendship between the two has deepened again, and they have already been called brothers.

Ma You, who used to drink from the glass to the wine, did not pick up the wine glass, but his face showed a sense of dissipation, and he sighed gloomily and said: "Brother Huang, thanks to your banquet these days, if there is anything for my old horse to do, there is only time tonight." If you miss tonight, my brother may not have a chance to repay him. ”

Ma You is not a stupid person, he knows that a character like Huang Qi will not invite himself to drink every day for no reason, he must have something to ask for. However, out of hope for the future, let him make a small calculation of one day at a time, Huang Qi did not mention it or open his mouth, and he was happy to pretend to be confused.

But today is different. After tonight, he will be incorporated into the East Gate in its entirety, and the position of the East Gate Patrol will be replaced by a personal army of the King of Song. Ma You naturally didn't think that what Huang Sui wanted in his heart was to persuade him to rebel, but thought that Huang Sui wanted to do something at the east gate. This time, I didn't want to keep things in my heart anymore, so I simply brought it up myself.

"What did my brother say, I invited you to drink just to fall in love with you, and I never meant to take advantage of you. In this way, I will do it first as a respect, and I wish my brother to make new contributions to Dongping Gate. "Who is Huang Qi? How could he not have known about the change in Ma You's position.

"Really?"

"Not really."

Although Ma You still had doubts in his heart, but looking at Huang Qi's face with a categorical look, he didn't want to fight for anything, picked up the wine glass, and drank the wine in the cup. Huang Sui's son was on duty tonight and did not accompany him. Huang Qi and Ma You came and went, and soon a small jar of wine bottomed out, compared with the past, this wine was a little dull, and it only lasted about half an hour, and Ma You got up and went away.

When sending Ma You away and returning to the living room, Huang Fei saw that Jiang Yunfan was already waiting there, and before Huang Fei could speak first, Jiang Yunfan asked first, "How is the heat?" ”

"I owe a little." Huang Qi couldn't get the dissatisfied words out of Ma You's mouth tonight, which is a pity. But then he asked puzzledly: "Brother Yunfan, I think the time is almost ripe, why don't you let me explore the wind first?" ”

Persuasion is a subtle effort, and it needs to be carved a little bit. Huang Qi felt that he could be tempted.

Jiang Yunfan shook his head: "No, the time is not ripe yet, wait until he goes to the east gate." According to the news sent from outside the city, the Ming army will take advantage of the Jiazhou army to launch a feint, and the location is at Dongpingmen.

"But if he is unlucky and Ming'er dies in the city, all the work I have been doing will be in vain."

"It's not that unlucky. If he is really dead and disabled, then it can only be counted as his life, and we can't change someone else. But if you give it to him now, if it is not beautiful, you and I will not be able to save our lives. Jiang Yunfan said calmly.

Huang Qian thought about it carefully, and had to admit that Jiang Yunfan thought more thoroughly than him, not Jiang Yunfan's unilateral fear of death.

Because even if Ma You surrenders now, the news outside the city has not been reached, and it will not be beneficial to the imperial court for the time being. On the contrary, if Ma You goes to Dongping Gate, he will be beaten violently by the army outside the city, and the difficulty of persuading him to surrender will be greatly reduced.

Early the next morning.

Outside the city, the Sizhou army was dispatched. The east city wall of Yongxing City is six miles wide, the urn city is located in the middle part, it is still attached, the overall is a semicircular bow, the width is 200 steps, and the diameter length is nearly 100 zhang.

The heavy shield cart creaked towards the eastern city wall, and behind it 5,000 heavy shield soldiers, sword players, pikemen, and broadsword soldiers followed, and the sound of neat footsteps was deafening. Almost unstoppable, with the cooperation of 500 heavy shield soldiers and 500 sword players, the fifty shield carts turned into a steel mountain at a distance of fifty paces outside the east city wall, allowing the Song army's arrows on the head of the city to rain down, bed crossbows, and rhubarb crossbows like flying, standing steadily in the endless rain of arrows.

The 'big mountain' blocked the Dongping Gate and blocked the possible attack of the Song army. As a result, the large equipment of the Sizhou army was dispatched.

There were still fifty large thunderbolts, all of them, slowly moving from the rear of the Sizhou army to a distance of two hundred paces from the eastern city wall, and in front of each large thunderbolt was a sturdy and calm shield chariot.

At a distance of two hundred paces, the foot bow and crossbow are no longer half a threat. Although the rhubarb crossbow has a long range, it is still a 'single-soldier' weapon after all, and its effectiveness in destroying siege equipment is far behind that of a bed crossbow.

Therefore, this shield car that can withstand thousands of forces without wavering is the best tool to protect the thunderbolt. Before, Zhu Biao ordered the heavy shield soldiers and the coffin to be supported in front of the thunderbolt car, which was completely light and heavy artillery, which did not match!

At that time, the 'siege' of the Sizhou army began......

(To be continued)