Chapter 766 - Taking People's Money
The loud horn sounded, and the Liangshan army officially began.
"Leader Sun, isn't this march faster!"
Chen Xuan looked at Sun Lei and said, Liangshanbo's army is a little too slow, this day will walk at most fifty miles, and when the army arrives at Taiyuan Mansion, it will be tomorrow afternoon.
"You have also seen it, I only have 3,000 cavalry here, and the rest are infantry troops, and it is already very tiring to walk fifty miles a day, if it is really a hundred miles a day, and the strength is exhausted, how can I fight in Taiyuan Mansion?"
Sun Lei looked at Chen Xuan and said, these words made Chen Xuan speechless for a while, the marching speed of fifty miles a day was indeed not slow, but he obviously felt that the Liangshan army had spare strength.
"You better go back to Taiyuan Mansion to report the news first, Tian Leopard don't lose the city, let me run for nothing."
Sun Lei glanced at Chen Xuan and said.
Chen Xuan was suddenly startled when he heard this, hugged his fists and saluted, and rode quickly to Taiyuan Mansion, he had to send back the news of reinforcements first.
Under the city of Taiyuan Mansion, Yang Keshi was commanding the army to attack the city, and the bows and crossbows continued to attack the defenders on the city wall, so that the defenders could not raise their heads.
Chengshangtian Leopard's face was hideous, these bows and crossbows were all brought by him when he went out of the city last time, and they were left behind after the defeat of Fenyang, but they turned out to be sharp weapons in the hands of the enemy.
"Yang Keshi, you waste, kill it if you have a kind!"
Tian Leopard hid behind the city wall and roared, Yang Keshi only had 5,000 men and horses, and the siege equipment only had some bows and crossbows, which could not break the city at all, but made the casualties of the defenders extremely heavy.
Yang Keshi looked at Taiyuan Mansion with a sneer, he heard Tian Leopard's shout, but he wouldn't be stupid enough to let his soldiers pile up the city wall with their lives.
"It's a pity that I didn't bring the bed crossbow and trebuchet this time! Otherwise, these thieves would have been killed! ”
Yang Keshi opened his mouth and said, this time they thought they were just suppressing bandits, and they didn't bring many soldiers and horses, nor did they bring many heavy equipment.
In fact, you can't bring it out if you want to, after all, the Western Army is the main force to resist the Western Xia, this year the Western Army captured the land of Hengshan, the Western Xia lost the best source of soldiers, the Western Xia lost the barrier and faced the danger of losing the country, the Western Xia Chongzong expressed his submission to the Song Dynasty, at this time it was necessary to suppress the Western Xia by force, and it was impossible to take away too many soldiers, horses and equipment.
"Why didn't Sun Lei come yet, he asked me for five cars of jewelry!"
Tian Bao looked at Suo Xian beside him and shouted.
"King, the jewels were only sent yesterday, Sun Lei's army is a hundred miles away, and it will take at least two days to arrive!"
Suo Xian said helplessly, at this time, they regretted very much that they did not let Sun Lei enter the city, and the equipment of Sun Lei's army was much better than that of Yang Keshi in front of him.
"Second king, reinforcements will arrive tomorrow!"
Chen Xuan panted and ran up the city wall and said to Tian Bao.
"Second king, it's no problem to hold on until tomorrow."
Zhang Xiong said.
"If you don't defend it today, let the soldiers hide, don't show your head if the enemy doesn't go to the city, let Sun Lei fight tomorrow!"
Tian Bao directly ordered, he gave Sun Lei five carts of treasures, then the enemies in this city are all Sun Lei's.
"Second king, Sun Lei said that five carts of treasure are only enough to sell for ten days, starting from today!"
Chen Xuan listened and stammered.
"What!"
Tian Leopard roared angrily.
"Sun Lei just wants to blackmail us on purpose!"
Xiang Zhong roared angrily, one of the five carts of treasure was from him.
"But we have no choice now, the King of Jin can't distinguish soldiers and horses, and now only Sun Lei can be relied on."
Miao Cheng said.
The rest of the people were silent, and the original defenders of Taiyuan Mansion were the palace marshal Zhang Xiong, who controlled Xiang Zhong and Xu Yue.
Later, Tian Bao was defeated in Fenyang, and when he came to Taiyuan, he brought his generals Suo Xian, Dang Shilong, Ling Guang, Duan Ren, Miao Cheng, and Chen Xuan.
"Okay, ten days, no, eight days, I'll see how he repels the Western Army!"
Tian Leopard was so angry that his teeth were itching, but his heart was ruthless.
"The order goes down, Sun Lei is not allowed to open the city gate when he comes, I want Sun Lei to fight to the death with the Western Army outside the city! My money isn't that easy to take! ”
Tian Bao looked at everyone and said.
"The two kings are right! Take people's money to eliminate disasters for others! Sun Lei should fight if he takes the money! ”
Zhang Xiong opened his mouth and said, five carts of money, Tian Bao came out of two cars, he came out of one car, Xiang Zhong and Xu Yue each had a car.
The siege continued until evening, when Jan Keshi retreated to the camp with a large army.
"Big brother, what are we waiting for? Why didn't the old general bring the army over? It was not easy for an army of 30,000 to take Taiyuan in one fell swoop. ”
Yang Kebi looked at Yang Keshi and asked puzzledly, after a few days of fighting, the combat power of the defenders of Taiyuan Mansion was already clear.
"The seed marshal said that it will be there later."
Yang Keshi shook his head, he didn't understand what the master was thinking, although Fenyang was taken, but which one was an empty city, they didn't get any supplies, Fenyang and Qinyuan were separated by reckless mountains, it was not easy to fight Qinyuan from there, it was better to take Taiyuan, not only to supply the army, but also to attack Qinyuan from the Taiyuan Mansion.
The next day, Yang Keshi still attacked the city with bows and crossbows, but this time the defenders in the city did not show their heads, and they waited for the siege if they couldn't defend it.
"Report, there are unknown military horses in the north, 10,000 people!"
A scout reports to Yang Keshi on horseback.
"Ten thousand!"
Yang Keshi's face sank, Taiyuan Mansion was already the northernmost city of Tianhu, how could there be people and horses in the north.
"How's it going?"
Yang Keshi looked at the scout and asked.
"This ...... The armor style is like a forbidden army! ”
The scout hesitated and spoke.
"Forbidden Army? The defenders to the north? ”
Yang Keshi frowned and thought, further north is the Daizhou border army, they have been guarding the Xijing Road of the Liao State.
"Impossible, how could the Daizhou border army be transferred to Taiyuan Mansion? There is no decree in the imperial court! ”
Yang Kebi opened his mouth and said, the transfer of the border army is subject to a holy decree, just like their western army, without the holy decree, Tong Guan has no right to move.
"Stand back!"
Yang Keshi immediately ordered, the unknown soldiers and horses are approaching, he had better be on guard, now the world is in chaos, the four Kou are attacking the city, the soldiers and horses are mobilized, and it is difficult to distinguish between the enemy and me.
"The enemy is back!"
The defenders of the city found that the enemy had retreated, and they cheered directly, they all knew that reinforcements were coming, and now that the enemy has retreated, reinforcements must have arrived.
Listening to the cheers in the city, Yang Keshi's face changed slightly, as if the person who came was from the thief's side.
The army of Liangshanbo slowly approached Taiyuan Mansion, and the army had no intention of entering Taiyuan Mansion, so they bypassed it directly and arrived at the foot of the mountain west of Taiyuan Mansion.
"Where are you soldiers, but there is an order!"
Yang Keshi rode to the front of the formation and shouted, he recognized the armor of the army opposite, it was definitely the forbidden army, and it was only the most elite in the forbidden army.
"Haha, this general is General Yang Keshi of the Western Army, right?"
Sun Lei looked at Yang Keshi with a smile and shouted.
"Who are you?"
Yang Keshi frowned and looked at Sun Lei, who was dressed in general armor, although he was stationed on the border of Kanxi all the year round, he also knew about things in the army, and such a young general appeared in the forbidden army.