Du Chong really plans to be the king of Qin, otherwise he wouldn't have to go to great lengths to recruit troops, wouldn't it be easier to directly embezzle the money and grain?

He really wanted to defend Ying Tianfu, otherwise he wouldn't have to wait for Li Bao to kill under the city, wouldn't it be safer to run away when he heard the wind?

However, the news that the Jin soldiers besieged Chen Liu made him afraid to send troops. Li Bao began to assemble the leveling cannon, which also made his stubborn will collapse, and he did not dare to stay in the city for a moment.

But until this time, Du Chong's reputation was still very good, and even the people under his rule thought he was a good official.

Later, the reason why he was able to succeed Zong Zeshou Kaifeng was that he was jointly recommended by Lu Yihao, Li Gang, and Zhang Jun, and the other person who received this treatment was Yue Fei.

This guy deceived everyone with just one mouth!

Or rather, he lied to himself. He thought he could do the things he said until he was in operation.

Yue Fei and Du Chong are fellow villagers, and when they first came to work under Du Chong, they listened to this old man's fools, and Yue Fei also thought that Du Chong was trustworthy.

But he was soon shocked by his operation, and at that time, Yue Fei was ordered to lead his troops to suppress his fellow villagers. The objects he needs to exterminate are all his favorite generals' brothers, and they can be beaten and expelled casually.

Du Chong even dared to give Yue Fei this kind of military order, and it was naturally a matter of time before the two fell out.

But he said that the eight thousand township soldiers of Ying Tianfu were still waiting for the Taishou to come back at the head of the city at the moment. Du Chong is usually too good at performing, and everyone didn't expect him to run, until the news came from the north gate, and the other township soldiers on the city wall still didn't believe it.

Not only did he not believe that Du Chong would escape, but he also did not believe that the righteous army was a good person.

Because Du Chong brainwashed them, saying that the soldiers under Zhu Ming's command would kill men when they saw them, rape them when they saw women, and rob them of all food and money.

The leveling cannon erected up, and it was already smashing stones.

More and more villagers shouted: "It's too defending, I can't hold it, run quickly!" ”

They made Du the backbone of the city, and now that the backbone is gone, the birds and beasts are scattered in an instant, and no one wants to defend the city at all.

Li Bao quickly occupied the city and sent troops to maintain law and order.

The people in the city saw that the righteous army did not plunder, and the city gradually settled down, and at this time they knew that Du Chong was talking nonsense.

The villagers dispersed, but the grain and grass were there, but Li Bao was cheaper.

Li Bao was surprised, because all the way, the state and county treasury were empty, and he had to ask the rich for grain. It was the first time he had encountered such a city that hoarded a large amount of grain.

So Li Bao couldn't help but inquire, and casually stopped a few people on the side of the road to question.

A common man replied: "Du Taishou is a good official, the tax is not heavy, and he often prevents Xicheng from going to the countryside to include fields." The people of Ying Tianfu obeyed him, but they didn't expect to be timid, so they were scared away when they started beating him. ”

Of course, Li Bao didn't know history, and when he heard this, he even thought that Du Chong was a good official.

It is estimated that Du Chong himself did not expect that he could do such a thing as indiscriminately killing the elderly, weak women and children, and surrendering to the Jin State as the right minister of the Southern Song Dynasty.

If it has always been a peaceful year, this kind of bombastic official may really be able to leave a good name.

Loading military rations and continuing to advance, Li Bao stopped at Xiangyi (Sui County), because further on was Chen Liu, who was besieged by the Jin soldiers.

He carefully inquired about the people fleeing south and learned that Chen Liu had been besieged for six days, while Zhu Ming's army was in the direction of Xianping.

Li Bao sent several horsemen to Xianping to report the news, and he personally led the army to Chen Liu. He didn't think about defeating the Jin people with more than 10,000 soldiers, but he could quickly enter Chenliu and wait for Zhu Ming to join forces.

In the Lianghuai region, water transportation is developed, and Sizhou is a transportation hub, with countless boats, salt ships, grain ships, and merchant ships.

Li Bao forcibly requisitioned thousands of large and small ships along the way, not only loaded soldiers and baggage on the ships, but also carried thousands of civilians on the boats. As long as he advances along the river, no matter how powerful the Jin people's cavalry is, can he fly to the ship?

Before Zhu Ming's reinforcements arrived, Li Bao's fleet had already arrived in Chenliu.

The fleet of thousands of ships startled Wanyan Zongwang, and he didn't even understand whether it was Zhu Ming's troops or the army of King Qin of the Song State who had arrived.

"The Song Kingdom is rich and has a large population," Shi Liai suggested, "even if a hundred Song people die and the Jin people die in battle, such an exchange will not be worth it." It is necessary to withdraw to the north of the Yellow River to plunder the goods and population of Hebei, and it is too dangerous to stay south of the Yellow River at any time. ”

Wanyan Zongwang said: "I have to find out what kind of soldier is now." ”

"It doesn't matter whose soldier it is, is there a difference?" Shi Liai said.

Wanyan Zong said: "Naturally, there is a difference, if it is the officers and soldiers of the Song Kingdom, there will be 100,000 people who are not afraid." If it is the soldier of the Zhu thief, only 10,000 must be evacuated immediately! ”

"Why don't you try it?" Shi Liaidao.

Thousands of ships were stretched too long, and Wanyan Zongwang sent a large number of light horsemen and foot soldiers to stand on the shore and shoot arrows at the boats, and the catapults used to attack the city were also slowly dragged in.

Until this time, the Jin people had not mastered the technology of returning to the artillery, mainly because the monarchs and ministers of the Song State deliberately concealed Guo Yaoshi.

In this way, the shore and the boat shot bows and arrows, and neither side got any bargains, and Wanyan Zongwang never understood the identity of the enemy.

"Boom, boom!"

A few cannons rang out, and Wanyan Zongwang understood.

"That's the soldier of the Zhu thief, and it's also the elite of the Zhu thief!" Wanyan Zongwang exclaimed.

This is an artillery built by Kuizhou, and it took a whole year to cast eight pig iron cannons and forge six wrought iron runs.

Pig iron cannons are large and bulky, and are best transported by boat.

Wrought iron cannons are much lighter, can be miniaturized, and can be used as field guns.

Wanyan Zongwang urgently ordered: "The cavalry that was scattered will be recalled immediately." The whole army retreated to the Yellow River and returned to Hebei to plunder, this Kaifeng can no longer fight! ”

Chen stayed on the city.

Countless people cheered: "Reinforcements are coming, reinforcements are coming!" ”

The soldiers and civilians in the city have been holding out for seven days.

The Jin people attacked the city wall twice, but they were beaten down. Even the elderly, weak, women and children have mobilized to fill the city walls.

Chen Youyi didn't know how to defend the city at all, he only knew how to stuff people on the city wall, and the more people there were, the better, and even the passage for transporting troops was extremely narrow. The city wall was lost twice in a row, and the reserve was blocked by their own people, and it was impossible to carry out effective rescue at all.

Fortunately, there are many people, all of them are desperate, otherwise Chen Liu would have been gone.

"Open the water gate and bring in reinforcements!" Chen Youyi gave the order, and he was so tired that he sat on the ground.

He couldn't figure out where the reinforcements came from, as long as they weren't Jinren anyway.

Don't talk about the Zhu thief, it's even the Zhong thief!

"Retreat, retreat! Chen Jian wine, Jin Ren retired! A former official shouted.

Chen Youyi squeezed out a smile: "Thank you for your hard work." ”

The official said gratefully: "We don't work hard, thanks to the Chen Wine Supervisor taking the lead." ”

Chen Youyi stopped talking, lying on the city and looking at the sky, he felt that the sky was so blue and beautiful at this time. His body was also so sleepy, he hadn't slept for a few days, and he started snoring after lying down for a while.

Wanyan Zongwang led the troops to evacuate, completely desperating with the idea of attacking and opening the seal.

Can't even beat Chen Liu, can you win a good attack on Kaifeng?

Facts have proved that the Jin people really did not have the strength to conquer the fortified city.

Wanyan Zonghan was blocked in Taiyuan, and said that during the Jingkang period, the Jin soldiers attacked and opened the seal for the second time. They once attacked the city wall, but they were blocked by the soldiers and civilians of Tokyo, and not only could not attack it, but also could not come down from the city wall.

The loss of Tokyo, in addition to the riotous operation of the monarch and ministers, was more due to the collapse of the urban system.

The city has been besieged for too long, hundreds of thousands of people in the city have no food, and even middle and low-level bureaucrats are hungry!

……

In the village between Chenliu and Xianping, all the villagers who could escape fled.

Guo Anguo, Zhao Heshou and others demolished the houses to build obstacles, and relied on the village barricades for a day and two nights.

There was not much food in the village, they were all hungry, and no one was willing to surrender. Of the 7,000 soldiers, all of whom were wounded, there were less than 3,000 who could continue to fight.

It stands to reason that this casualty rate should have collapsed a long time ago.

But they were all veterans of a hundred battles, and they knew that if they ran for their lives, they would definitely die, because there were cavalry outside, and it was better to stay in the village and fight than to escape.

Over the years, there have been too many similar encounters, and they have been in desperate situations several times, and they have to fight desperately to escape death.

"Fourth prince, there are too many debris to rush up, so let the escort army dismount and fight." An escort general suggested.

There are only 2,000 escort troops left in the East Road Jin Bing, and Wanyan Zongbi is really reluctant to use it, because the rebels inside are too capable of fighting.

Just between hesitations, the scout came from the southwest: "Fourth prince, the army of Zhu thieves is already ten miles away, and there are probably thirty or forty thousand people coming!" The cavalry of the Zhu Thief went ahead and had already engaged our reconnaissance cavalry, and each of them was killed or wounded. ”

Wanyan Zongbi first went to the battlefield four years ago, and it ended without any evil battles. When he went to the battlefield three years ago, he only experienced a skirmish, and he only led 100 people to defeat 300 Liao soldiers.

Then this time, if Wanyan Zongjun didn't die, he wouldn't have had a chance to lead so many soldiers.

At this time, Wanyan Zongbi is very immature, and he is not the golden vulture of the mighty Kyushu!

Hearing that Zhu Ming led a large army to come, and thinking of Wanyan Zongjun's death, as well as the 1,000 escort troops that were completely annihilated, Wanyan Zongbi had some difficulty in making a choice.

After thinking for a long time, Wanyan Zongbi ordered: "The escort army dismounts and fights on foot to destroy these rebels as soon as possible!" ”

At the same time, he sent light cavalry to report to the main force on Chen Liu's side.

Seeing the escort army participating in the melee battle, Zhao Heshou almost felt desperate, his eyes were red and he shouted: "Hengzhi is a death, and I have earned enough money over the years, so I will work hard with my spirits!" ”

Although Guo Anguo does not have any ability to command troops, he still has basic martial arts, and he is not intimidated by the atmosphere at this moment, holding a spear and preparing to fight to the death.

"Dada......"

Several horses rushed at the same time, and a cavalryman shouted: "Fourth prince, the second prince has ordered the withdrawal of the army, and another elite of Zhu thieves has arrived in Chenliu!" ”

"There are also the elites of the Zhu Thief over there?" Wanyan Zongbi was surprised.

These Jin cavalry retreated one after another, and Zhao Heshou couldn't believe it: "Why did the Jin people retreat?" ”

Guo Anguo had palpitations: "Don't leave the village, I'm afraid it's the Jin people's trick to lure the enemy, if we go to the wilderness, we will definitely be wiped out!" ”

(End of chapter)