Chapter 81: Crossing the River to the North
At that time, the walls were built of rammed earth, the surface was uneven, and there was a certain slope, so it was possible to climb it with bare hands. Under the cover of archers, the Qin army quickly climbed the city walls. Since the city gate was occupied by women carrying water jugs, the heavily armed Qin army opened the city gate effortlessly, and the Qin army outside the city swarmed in, and the city fell!
However, the captain was still stationed in the inner city. When the captain saw the Qin army going to the city, he began to retreat to the inner city, and the sturdy soldiers were recruited into the inner city to defend the palace, leaving only the old and weak women and children outside the city.
The inner city is the core of the negative army, and all the treasury and materials are in the inner city. The inner castle is a former palace castle and also has strong defensive capabilities. The Qin army sent people to monitor the inner city, while others wantonly killed and plundered in the city, and the screams irritated the nerves of the defenders all the time. Finally, the people guarding the inner city couldn't suppress their anger, and spontaneously opened the city gate, rushed out, and fought desperately with the Qin army. This is exactly what the Qin army wants. If the city is defended, more than 1,000 elite soldiers may be a considerable force, but rushing out of the city to fight street battles will naturally be separated and surrounded by the Qin army, which has long been prepared. The rest of the Qin army took the opportunity to climb up to the city, and the inner city was also lost.
Seeing that the guards in the inner city had lost control, the captain immediately ordered someone to burn down the warehouse, and he led his retainers to resist desperately in the official palace, and finally killed himself with all his might.
Almost all the strong men in the city were killed, and most of the old and weak women and children were also killed, and the city was full of blood and corpses. The Qin army extinguished the fire in the warehouse, but there was not much left to use. The Qin army ordered the remaining people in the city to pile up the corpses in a heap, set them on fire, and at the same time burn all the buildings in the inner city of the city, as well as all the towers, and then withdraw from the city. The women and children who were still alive were also taken out of the city and distributed to the Nanyang soldiers who had ascended first, as well as the wounded soldiers, who were allowed to stay in the towns outside the city; The captured Korean soldiers were assigned to their vassals.
It took some time to deal with the aftermath of the negative. But that time was not in vain. Zhai Ling and the officials of Yangcheng came to the Rong clan sixty miles away and persuaded the Lun clan to open the city. If Yangcheng and Negative Millet are the gates of the Yingshui Basin in South Korea, then Lunshi is the window of the Yishui Basin in South Korea. Lun's family is located in the upper reaches of the wild water, which was originally an ancient country, and later moved to the east next to the Yu country and was assimilated by the Yu country. Legend has it that Lunyi, the base of the Taihei country, is the birthplace of this ancient country. The Lun people who stayed in the wild water also became indifferent to their own consciousness in their interactions with the surrounding residents, and became ordinary household residents. The Lun clan belonged to Zheng in the Spring and Autumn Period, and after Korea destroyed Zheng, it also belonged to Han. The Lun clan has a small population, and it is not in any strategic place, and there is only one time in history when the Qin State and the Chu State joined forces to attack Zheng, and they once attacked this place. As a city with no sense of existence, the Lun clan naturally does not have any sense of belonging to Korea. Seeing that Yangcheng and Negative Millet were lost, it was almost impossible for his Lun clan to hold it, so he agreed to open the city.
Placing the wounded on the spot and distributing women and prisoners of war was an old practice of the Chu people, and the Qin people did not have this tradition. The wounded of the Guanzhong army were all with the army, and only those who were completely incapacitated and seriously wounded were placed in the passing towns, almost leaving them to fend for themselves. The Qin people generally did not leave prisoners, and the enemy army was beheaded on the battlefield and took the head as merit. Wei Yi originally expressed his incomprehension of these behaviors of the Nanyang Army and the Nanjun Army, but Ye Peng and Nanjun Wei both advised that only in this way could the fighting spirit of the Chu people be stimulated. If the Qin people's set is forcibly promoted, the Chu people will feel no sense of accomplishment. Wei Yi had also heard people say before he became the guard of Nanyang that Chu has the customs of Chu land, and it takes a lot of time to change customs, so it is more efficient to follow the customs of the villagers. So Wei Yi just let it go.
When the Nanyang Army and the Nanjun Army were settling the wounded and distributing slaves, Wei Yi led the Guanzhong Army to rest only one night outside the negative army, and entered the suburbs of Lunshi the next day. Lun Shishou personally led people to carry grain to greet him by the roadside, and invited Wei Yi to live in the city. Wei Yi refused. After resting outside the city of Lun for the night, he led his army across Lun and set up camp at a mountain pass downstream. At the same time, the two armies behind were urged to follow. After dawn, Wei Yi did not wait for the two armies behind to follow, and immediately led the army to rush into Yique, occupied both sides of Yishui overnight, and opened the road to Luoyang. Then came the Nanjun Army, who collected ships in the upper reaches of Yishui, loaded the grain, grass and supplies plundered from Yangcheng onto the boats, and went down the Yishui River to occupy the key points north of Yique. The people of Yangcheng and the chariot were all brought back by the officials of Yangcheng, and Zhai Ling also went back with them. A day later, the Nanyang army also rushed to Yique.
After the army was assembled, the Guanzhong army and the Nanyang army went directly north and crossed the Yellow River from Mengjin. The Nanjun army drove down Yiluo and crossed the river at the mouth of the Luo River (Luoxi).
On the other side of the river is Li Cheng. Interestingly, Li Cheng belongs to the Zhao State. In the entire southern part of Hanoi, from Yi to Yewang, Bai Qi conquered, and the surrounding Wen, Xingqiu and other places also became Qin land, and Li Cheng can still exist in isolation in a Qin land, which is a miracle.
But Nanjun Wei Feng did not know this, he simply believed that the entire Nanyang of Henan Province had become Qin land, and the other side of Luowei was naturally no exception, and directly commanded the ships to land from the ferry near Licheng.
There is a city near the ferry, although I don't know what city it is, but it is always the city of Qin. Wei Feng sent an envoy to the city, asking for a car to assist in the transportation, while directing the soldiers to go ashore.
But he immediately realized that something was wrong. Warnings rang out from the city, and the gates were quickly closed. Wei Feng was shocked: Could it be that Nanyang has been occupied by the enemy? Then you are a sheep in the mouth of a tiger! He hurriedly lined up the soldiers who had come ashore and prepared for battle. At the same time, there is also a fluke: maybe it was just a misunderstanding!
However, it is not a misunderstanding. The military envoy ran back in shock and reported that it was Zhao Jun in that city! Yu Feng's eyes immediately went dark, and he almost fainted. The relationship between Qin and Zhao can be regarded as the first class difference, and they are almost out of their heads; Isn't it self-defeating to fall into the net lightly?
He looked around Tsuguchi, and there was nothing he could do to strengthen the defenses. The scale of Jinkou is not large, and there are not many ships docked at one time, and at most one or two hundred people can go ashore at one time; If the Zhao army attacked at this time, he would definitely be wiped out! Do you want to stop going ashore immediately and turn around? However, he looked at the nearly 1,000 people who had already gone ashore, and changed his mind: if he re-boarded the ship, he would undoubtedly be inflicted on himself, forcing the Zhao army to attack on the one hand, and on the other hand, it would also cause the morale of his army to be demoralized, and the morale of the army would be weakened, and he might be defeated without a fight. If he can get enough people ashore before the arrival of Zhao's army, the situation may turn around.
There is no farmland around Jinkou, only a few scattered houses, and some people live on boats. The Nanjun army had soldiers and food, and there were many ships, and due to the relationship of time, the first batch of 100 ships only crossed over 2,000 people. Round-trip ferry, 10,000 people are expected to come over today.
Until the sun set and the 10,000 people were completely crossed, the attack of the Zhao army that Wei Feng was worried about did not happen, and even the Zhao army did not go out of the city to line up. While waiting for the troops to cross the river, Wei Feng also sent sentry sentries on all sides, and he was very satisfied with the results of the sentry points: Nanyang in Hanoi was not occupied by the enemy, and Xingqiu in the east and Wencheng in the west were still under the control of the Qin. It's just that I was unlucky, and when I crossed the river, I happened to land on the land of Zhao!
With 10,000 soldiers, Wei Feng felt a little at ease. He sent an envoy to cross the river, and asked the remaining troops to cross the river from the Wencheng ferry thirty miles upstream. He left Licheng with these 10,000 people overnight and headed for Wencheng in the west.
Wencheng is where the ancient Wen country is located, and it is a core city in Nanyang, and the ferry conditions are much better than those of Licheng. The fly in the ointment is that it is upstream of Luowei and has to go upriver for about 30 miles. Traveling 30 miles upriver in the Yellow River requires a huge amount of time and physical strength, which is why Wei Feng chose to go ashore nearby today. But knowing that Li Cheng is Zhao Di, no matter how convenient it is, it must be avoided, not to mention that tomorrow is transporting materials, and without the support of the car, it is impossible to transfer it at all. Only Wencheng can find a car for transportation.
Wei Feng's envoy arrived at Wencheng in the middle of the night, Wen Ling had already gone to bed, the city gate was closed, and the envoy waited until the city gate was opened the next day before he was able to enter the city and inform Wen Lingnan of the arrival of the army.
After the consumption of thousands of grains and grasses and materials from Yangcheng, there are now only more than 200 times left, and most of them are weapons, and the grain and grass have basically been eaten. Wen Ling did not have a clear understanding of the direction of the operation of this dispatch, and did not know how the Nanjun soldiers crossed the Yellow River and came to Hanoi. He confirmed that the information was correct, and received a report from Mengjin, and Wei Yi personally led his army across the river, so he agreed to Wei Feng's request and sent two hundred wagons to the ferry.
At the same time as the Nanjun Army crossed the river, the Guanzhong Army and the Nanyang Army led by Wei Yi also crossed the river in Mengjin. The conditions of Mengjin are the best, and the mouth of Jinkou can accommodate many ships and have a large throughput. When the Qin army arrived, it requisitioned all the ships to transport the troops. In four days, 50,000 or 60,000 people were transported across the river; Although the Nanjun army was small, the ferry was not smooth, and it could only go back and forth twice a day for 30 miles upstream, transporting 6,000 people, and it took 30,000 people five days to transport it.
Before the troops were assembled, Wei Yi and others gathered in Wencheng to discuss the next stage of combat operations. Hearing that Wei Feng's troops had landed in Zhao Di, Wei Yi was very excited and said: "I intend to attack Zhao Dang for hundreds of miles, how close is it!" ”
Wen Ling gave a detailed account of the distribution of the various forces in Nam Duong, as well as the distribution of the various forces in the neighboring Hanoi area. Although the Qin army occupied a large area of Nanyang in Hanoi, the Sanjin still had small territories interspersed with them. The meeting reached a consensus, starting from this small piece of Sanjin land, and completely building Nanyang into the territory of Qin. The three generals assigned their respective targets for the attack, with the Nanyang Army to the west, the Guanzhong Army to the north, and the Nanjun Army to the east. The districts of Hanoi supply grain and grass nearby.