0408 Abundant people and goods
During the day, the Jinyang Palace is full of magnificence, if you can calm down and take a closer look, the beautiful palace rooms and ingenious decorations will make people dizzy and forgetful.
Of course, Li Tai didn't have such leisure now, and the gains that had accumulated inside and outside the hall alone had already made him happy. Although he knew that the situation on the Eastern Wei side was much better than that of the Western Wei, when this gap was really in front of him, he still gave himself a big shock to Jinyang.
Gold, silver, jewelry, and other vulgar things have truly achieved the volume of the car. The silk and satin are also full of shelves, and there are several large rows in the warehouse alone, and more than a dozen Gao Ao Cao are afraid that they will not be empty. As for the exotic curiosities of immeasurable value, they are equally dazzling and innumerable.
Of course, the most valuable at the moment are those munitions reserves. Just the fine armor of different regulatory styles has been found in thousands of bodies, which is still the surplus left after the previous allocation for the use of the army.
If Gao Huan's army had come here before they had gone to Yubi, the amount of ordnance and materials stored would have been even more unimaginable. Of course, if Li Tai came over at that time, he would be purely tired.
Jinyang Palace has many palace slaves here, so it also stores a lot of grain and pickles, but there is no need to worry about being trapped here in the short term. When inspecting the palace room, I even found a warehouse where a large amount of coal was stored, and there were many kinds of material savings, which could be described as very thoughtful.
In addition to the harvest of these materials, another thing that made Li Tai happy was the people who were captured. These men and women are definitely not ordinary laborers, but each has a good craft, making a lance and bow, forging swords, cutting leather goods, military uniforms, armor, polishing and maintenance, and so on.
For example, the Su Iron Knife that Miaoyin Lady gave herself before and made the old man taste it, not to mention the confiscated in the arsenal, several of the craftsmen captured alone were proficient in the art of Su Iron Filling Steel, and they also had rich experience in forging.
No matter what era, talent is the most precious. If these craftsmen who represent the pinnacle of their current skills can be packed and brought back to Guanzhong, the harvest will be many times more valuable than the seized materials, and with these craftsmen, you can continue to create wealth!
Of course, if you want to really settle down, you have to resist the counterattack of the remaining troops of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and successfully get out of trouble.
However, Li Tai is not worried about this, his heart is already full of the consciousness of "people die for money, birds die for food", even if he throws his head and spills blood to fight here, he will never give up these personnel and materials that have been captured!
At dawn, when the night faded a little, there were all kinds of noises around Jinyang Palace, which was nothing more than the people and horses left in the city who were surrounding this place and preparing to counterattack.
After some Mercedes-Benz tossing, the soldiers of Li Tai's department are also tired now, and after collecting the personnel and materials in this palace city, they will seize the time to cook and eat, and take turns to watch and rest in batches.
As soon as the sky was brightened, the sound of attack sounded outside the palace cavity of all parties in Jinyang Palace almost at the same time. The Jinyang soldiers who were drawn from all sides climbed the ladder and rushed into the palace city quickly.
Li Tai followed Liang Shiyan's advice and did not completely scatter his men and horses among the palaces to try to defend the entire Jinyang Palace, but focused on defending the three palaces in the northwest corner of the palace. However, there are also many obstacles set up between the alleys of Miyamuro to make it more difficult for the attackers to advance.
There were a lot of wood and stone debris piled up in front of the gate at the end of a palace road, and after a team of Eastern Wei men and horses rushed into this place, they were ordered by the commander to quickly clear these obstacles.
When the soldiers moved in front of the sundries, they found that the wood and stones were wet and slippery, and when they looked down at the surface, they found several clay pots containing ointment, and they suddenly felt bad in their hearts, and hurriedly shouted loudly to warn: "This place is full of ointment, beware of thieves using fire......
As soon as the words fell, several rockets in the gate shot straight out, and immediately after hitting this mass of debris, sparks flew everywhere, and the debris that had been soaked in grease suddenly burned, and the heat wave emitted by the raging fire swept straight to both sides, making it almost impossible for this narrow Yongxiang to gain a foothold.
"Stand back, stand back!"
Because they saw the opportunity early, the Eastern Wei soldiers who rushed here were able to withdraw in time without causing any casualties, but seeing that the pile of debris was fiercely fired, this Yongxiang was already impassable in a short period of time.
Gao Yue and Wei Digan, who were in charge of supervising the battle between the north and the south, saw the billowing smoke rising in the palace, their faces changed, and they hurriedly ordered: "Quick attack, quick attack!" Extinguish the fire and don't let it spread and burn the palace! ”
It was already a sin for them to be carelessly attacked by the enemy in Jinyang Palace, and if the enemy was allowed to burn this palace to the ground, it would naturally be even more sinful.
Therefore, the soldiers who entered Miyagi at the first time were not to look for the enemy to fight and expel them, but to first find the water-proof things such as sand and soil in the Miyagi, and first establish a fireproof isolation zone around the fire.
After such a busy toss, the ignition points scattered among the palace rooms were basically controlled, and the time was already three poles in the sun, so they began to assemble in some open areas in the palace city, and then killed the several palaces where the thieves were still guarding.
The construction of Jinyang Palace is brilliant and magnificent, people can revere it at a glance, but at the moment it has become an obstacle for the soldiers of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the tortuous palace road Yongxiang will completely limit the route of attack, there are flying stones and cold arrows falling from time to time overhead, every folding alley intersection is a pass, the enemy army only needs a few men and horses to occupy this, and can block the attacking men and horses.
Although these Jinyang soldiers are very strong, and there is a sense of shame and bravery, they are more fierce than usual and are not afraid of death, but it is still very difficult to move forward.
In the outer passage of a palace courtyard guarded by the enemy, under the defensive counterattack of the strong bow and the sharp armor, the corpses had been piled up several feet high, and the stone steps in the Yongxiang were covered with a thick layer of blood plasma, and it was slippery and difficult to stand on the feet of people as if they were walking in the mud.
Although the casualties of the defenders were small compared to the attackers, the physical burden was extremely great, and some soldiers could not even stand on their own after withdrawing from the front line.
This kind of street fighting, which is completely fancy, is the extreme squeeze of people's physical strength and will. Li Tai's men and horses were indeed in a desperate situation and died without a fight, and the performance of the Jinyang soldiers on the attacking side was also worthy of their prestige, although they had already suffered heavy casualties, as long as the general gave the order, they would continue to rush up without hesitation.
This kind of high-intensity battle lasted from the morning to the evening, the attacking Jinyang soldiers lost at least a thousand lives, and countless wounded, and Li Tai's side also lost hundreds of people, most of whom were sacrificed when resisting the opponent's outlaw offensive, and even Zhu Meng, a veteran general, was slashed twice by the enemy because he was too selfless to fight.
In the end, the area where the two sides were fighting was too bloody and cruel, even if it was attacked by other troops, the piles of layers of flesh and blood corpses were frightening and frustrating, and the Eastern Wei people had to temporarily retreat, and they were also stationed in the palace city, so as not to prevent the enemy from destroying other palaces at night.
Because the march was too smooth, Li Tai couldn't help but secretly despise the Eastern Wei army in his heart, and after the end of the day's battle, he couldn't help but feel that the reason why his party had achieved this step was mainly because of unexpected strategy and luck, not that the Eastern Wei people were really vulnerable, and these old soldiers were really expected.
The battle during the day was too fierce, and more than 2,000 people in his department took turns to fight and rest, and there were more than ten cycles, and the more often they reached the end, the faster the frequency of the cycle, if it were not for the replenishment of sufficient ordnance supplies in the Jinyang Palace, coupled with the fact that the other party seemed to be aggressive, but in fact they were afraid to use too destructive offensive methods, they might not be able to hold out on to this day.
In the evening, most of the soldiers were exhausted, taking advantage of the temporary retreat of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, Li Tai directly abandoned a palace to reduce the pressure of defense, and transported some of the disabled and seriously declining troops and the personnel captured here to the outside of the city, and replenished the men and horses stationed in the Xishan Pass into the city.
The distance between Jinyang Palace and the mountain wall of the West Mountain Peak Ridge is not more than a few zhang wide, and it is difficult to climb the peak ridge in order to avoid idle people from peeping into the palace forbidden, and the two sides of the road have long been ordered by Li Tai to pile up the construction waste in the palace city in addition to the defensive offensive of up to Zhang Yu, although the enemy army has come to attack, but under the two pincers of the palace city and the mountain road are repulsed.
At this time, they were sending personnel and materials outside the palace under the nose of the Eastern Wei army, which was undoubtedly a great provocation, and immediately men and horses approached here.
However, Li Tai also felt the good use of the fire attack, and had already gathered the ointment, paint, pine oil and other materials collected in the palace city, and when he saw the enemy approaching, he threw it straight to both sides, forced the enemy back with fire, and stepped up the transportation.
He was not worried that the enemy would do the opposite, anyway, this Jinyang Palace was not his, and the enemies here obviously did not dare to set fire to it.
At this time, outside the palace city, after meeting Gao Yue, Di Gan was a little relatively speechless, and they all felt that they had been brought to this point by the enemy, and they were really a proper big grudge. But it is useless to be annoyed and complain about what you are doing at the moment, and you can only seriously discuss how to eliminate this thief army along the way.
When they learned that the enemy was transporting personnel and materials to the West Mountain, both Di Gan and Gao Yue frowned, although it was said that the peaks and ridges of the West Mountain were undulating and the roads were rough, which was not suitable for the entry and exit of large figures.
However, if the enemy enters the range of the West Mountain, they will also have to expand the scope of encirclement and pursuit, and they will inevitably invest more troops. Gao Yue had already ordered the powerful tribes to be gathered here last night, and a total of more than 5,000 people and horses were gathered, after all, many generals led their soldiers to chase King Gao south, and there were not many who stayed in Jinyang.
Although these more than 5,000 powerful soldiers are also a big addition, it is still not enough to effectively block Xishan.
At present, it is obviously too late to send orders to other regions to come to help, so it can only be requisitioned on the spot, and the strong men and criminals in the slavery can ensure that this road of thieves is intercepted and annihilated!
But Di Gan was still a little hesitant about this, frowned and said: "The former has not made any contributions since recruiting the Beishan Hu people, and now if he recruits many miscellaneous soldiers who are difficult to obey the order, I am afraid that the situation will be even worse!" ”
"I stayed with the Taishi, and if such a bad situation occurs, it is inevitable that I will be guilty of it, and I dare not hope to be exempt from responsibility. But if you allow the thieves to disturb and then calmly withdraw, then you and I will not be able to atone for our sins! ”
Gao Yue naturally also understood that this was a suspicion of rushing to the doctor, but when things developed to this point, there were not many choices they could make, and they could only save some face by annihilating the attacking enemy, so he sighed again: "The thieves can accurately attack Jinyang Palace, so we know that there must be an internal response who is familiar with the situation." Although the West Mountain is stacked with rugged areas, it is not possible to think that the thieves can be trapped and difficult to get out of just by relying on the mountain situation. ”
After hearing this, Di Gan couldn't help but sigh, the reason why the thieves attacked Jinyang Palace was mainly because of his negligence in defense arrangements, and now it is difficult to capture it back.
So at the moment, it is really impossible to look ahead and backward, and racing against time is the right plan, so he said: "The military here is entrusted to the governor, and I will recruit all parties for my own use." ”
At the same time, seeing that the first batch of personnel resources was successfully imported into Xishan, Li Tai was also secretly glad in his heart, seeing that it was definitely one of the most painful things to see if he could not take it away.
Luo Chao, the great hero, strode forward again, clasped his fists at Li Tai and said: "The men and horses of Li Kaifu's department are really brave, and under such an offensive of the Eastern Thief, it is difficult to shake the strength of the army. It's just that this is a thief's nest after all, and we can't help but be lonely, if we can attract a group of help, the chance of getting out of trouble safely must be greater! ”
"What did General Luo teach me? I'm going to hear it! ”
When Li Tai heard Luo Chao say this, he immediately said with a smile of enthusiasm and expectation.
"Preface: A certain person once supervised the Kansai prisoners of war to work here, and learned from the mouth of the palace slaves that those servants were now mostly dispersed to the south of the Jin Temple. I know that there are many loyal people who want to return to the west, but they are trapped by no one to lead them and can't do it, if they can take this opportunity to gather people, not only can they strengthen the current power, but also help them return to the country! ”
When Luo Chao said this, he said to Li Tai with a confident face: "Although a certain person is not talented, he is a little popular among other categories. If Kaifu is willing to let him go, I will bring these righteous people back to help in the war! ”
After Li Tai pondered for a while, he said to Luo Chaochang: "I am really lucky and happy to be able to work with General Luo here, the general is so enthusiastic, why worry about not being able to do it!" ”
As he spoke, he assigned dozens of elite soldiers to escort Luo Chao, and sorted out some valuable goods to carry with him to gather people's hearts.
Regardless of whether what Luo Chao said was true or not, even if he wanted to take advantage of this to get away, and lead Li Tai and his party to Jinyang Palace alone, Li Tai would always have to accept his love and be willing to let him go.