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According to historical records, in the first year of Chongning, the Zhao and Song dynasties conducted a census.

It is written that the Daimyo's Mansion has a total of 155,253 households; The number of mouths was 568,976.

It is worth mentioning that the census of the Song Dynasty did not count women.

In other words, the actual population of the daimyo should be more than one million.

What is this concept?

Also in the first year of Chongning, this census was done, and the capital of the Zhao and Song dynasties, Tokyo Kaifeng Mansion, was only 100,000 more than the Beijing Daimyo Mansion, but in terms of the number of mouths, the Beijing Daimyo Mansion was more than 100,000 more than the Tokyo Kaifeng Mansion.

This shows how big the Daimyo's Mansion is.

Not only big.

The Daimyo Mansion is 400 miles north of Kaifeng Mansion, about 800 miles away from the border of the Liao State, west of the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, southeast and north is the vast North China Plain, the Yellow River, the Zhanghe River, the Yuhe River three major river systems constitute the Daimyo Mansion is very developed waterway transportation, and has become an important traffic line for grain transportation. The Daimyo Mansion is the distribution center for materials from the south to Hebei, and is known as the throat of Heshuo.

With such a superior geographical environment, the economy of the Daimyo Mansion was also extremely developed, and at this time, the commercial tax and liquor tax of the Daimyo Mansion followed Kaifeng Mansion and ranked second among the four capitals.

Such an important city has been regarded as a battleground for all generations.

Since the founding of the Zhao and Song dynasties, the Liao State has always been its number one threat, and whenever there is a war, Hebei has become the main battlefield of the Song-Liao dispute, and the Daimyo's Mansion has naturally become the command center of the Imperial Liao.

Therefore, during the reign of Song Renzong, the Daimyo Mansion was elevated to Beijing.

Such a daimyo's mansion is a treasure trove second only to Kaifeng Mansion.

Do you know how much wealth the Jin people squeezed out of Bianliang City in Tokyo in history?

10,000,000 ingots of gold, 20,000,000 ingots of silver, 10,000,000 silk ingots, and fifteen hundred maidens!!

Later, in addition to the amount of gold and silver that had been paid and the accounts that had been paid with more than 10,000 women (including a large number of royal daughters and daughters of the clan of the Zhao and Song dynasties) and other things, the Zhao and Song dynasties also owed the Jin people 342,780 ingots of gold and 871,300 ingots of silver, and promised to pay for the war every year in the future.

According to a rough estimate, the Jin people squeezed at least 120 million yuan of wealth in Bianliang City, Tokyo.

Of course, it is definitely impossible for the Daimyo Mansion City to be compared with Bianliang City, and Jiang Hongfei definitely can't knock on the bones and suck the marrow like the Jin people.

But if Jiang Hongfei tries the dignitaries and nobles in the city of the Daimyo's Mansion and the wealthy gentry, and gets half of it, no, he gets thirty percent, and then takes a step back, two percent, and makes him twenty or thirty million, isn't it too much?

The key is that there are some things that cannot be bought with spiritual money, such as armor, spiritual horses, grain, livestock, cloth, all kinds of strategic resources, and so on......

Since Jiang Hongfei made a move and caused such a big trouble, he definitely wanted to squeeze out all the wealth of the Daimyo's Mansion City, instead of killing Liang Zhongshu, Li Cheng, Wen Da, and Wang Taishou as Song Jiang did when he laid down the Daimyo's Mansion City, and then opened the Daimyo's Mansion treasury, and there should be gold and silver treasures, Duan Pi Aya Jin, all loaded into the car, and then grabbed some food, so he hurriedly returned to Liangshan, and did not get all the wealth of this Zhao Song Dynasty One of the Four Capitals.

However, it is not so easy to achieve such a goal.

The Daimyofu Castle consisted of two parts, the outer city and the inner city, and the fortifications were mainly distributed in the outer city, and they were built very strongly, and the best defensive prohibitions were also laid out.

There are a total of 14 gates on all sides of the outer city, including seven water gates and seven normal gates.

Each water gate is equipped with an iron gate across the river, which must be closed every night to prevent the enemy from sneaking into the city along the river.

The normal city gate is the main entrance and exit of transportation, and it is also the focus of defense and attack.

A round or square urn city was set up at each city gate to strengthen the protection of the city gate entrance.

There was a war tent on top of the urn city for the defenders to defend and rest.

The outer city walls are tall and sturdy, and there is a horse face every sixty or seventy paces, and the horse face protrudes beyond the city wall, which can be fired at cross-fire, protecting the wall and its defenses from enemy damage.

There are warehouses about every 200 meters, which contain a variety of weapons and munitions.

In order to strengthen the city's defenses, a moat was dug around the outer city, and elm and willow trees were planted on both sides of the river, which also formed an obstacle for the besieging enemy.

In the face of such an impregnable city, it is extremely difficult for any force to attack it.

In addition, in order to strengthen the defense of the Daimyo's Mansion Castle, Liang Zhongshu and other Daimyo's leaders, after learning that the Liangshan army was going to attack the Daimyo's Mansion Castle, organized a large number of people and various craftsmen to carry out comprehensive preparations for war, repairing the building turrets, hanging felt curtains, installing artillery mounts, setting up crossbow beds, transporting bricks and stones, applying torches, hanging wood, preparing fire oil, and all the equipment needed for defense.

Led by Liang Zhongshu, the high-ranking officials and nobles in the Daimyo's Mansion City and the wealthy families collected millions of money, set up a wartime organization, with Liang Zhongshu as the supreme leader, and appointed more than 100 staff officers, writing machines, official affairs, and preparation envoys for the preparation of Gou, and more than 100 personnel from the organs such as commanding and commanding the preparation of the envoys, as a temporary supreme command organization for the defense of the Daimyo's Mansion City.

Liang Zhongshu also asked people to post a list of articles recruiting martial artists on the main streets of the Daimyofu City.

The targets of these lists are very wide, and all those who are martial arts and ranks, or have talented and military strategies, or have military merits and have fought in battle, or have served as envoys and ministers on the border, or have served as the children of archers and horses, as well as people of various nationalities who have martial arts and brave battles, are all within the scope of recruitment.

Liang Zhongshu hoped that these brave people would report to the Left-behind Division immediately after seeing the list.

In addition, Liang Zhongshu also quickly gathered more than 40,000 people from the Ma Army and the Infantry Army, divided them into five armies, each with 8,000 people, and established an organizational system of command, commander, general, and team general, and conducted military training every day to improve military quality and combat effectiveness.

And the Liangshan army only has more than 20,000 horses in total, half of which is only an auxiliary army, and more importantly, theoretically speaking, not counting the 2,000 elite infantry troops who infiltrated the city, there are only more than 3,000 infantry troops that can be used to attack the city.

If the Daimyo's Mansion City is attacked in a normal way, the Liangshan Army will definitely be useless, because the two sides are not of the same magnitude at all.

In "Water Margin", it was also by relying on the time to burn Cuiyun Tower, and the heroes of Liangshan finally laid down the Daimyo's Mansion.

And it's not just that this famous city is not easy to fight.

Although the Zhao Song Dynasty and the Liao State have not fought for nearly a hundred years, and the white-headed people on both sides have never seen sword soldiers, Hebei is the first front line of the Zhao Song Dynasty to defend the Liao State after all, and there are still a large number of Song troops in its territory.

In order to conquer the Daimyo Mansion and obtain all the property of the Daimyo Mansion, Jiang Hongfei had already sent people to investigate the deployment of troops in Hebei.

In a nutshell:

The Zhao and Song imperial courts placed about 200 permanent forbidden armies under command on the Song-Liao border.

- One commander is five hundred men.

There are several other important military towns in Hebei: Zhending Mansion has about 40 permanent forbidden armies, Hejian Fu has about 60 permanent forbidden armies, Cangzhou has about 60 permanent forbidden armies, Yizhou has about 20 permanent forbidden armies, Enzhou has about 17 permanent forbidden armies, and Dingzhou has about 25 permanent forbidden armies.

As for the left and right sides of the Daimyo's Mansion, there were about 100 permanent forbidden armies under their command.

Figuratively speaking, there are about 250,000 permanent forbidden troops in the entire Hebei, not counting the Xiang army and the township army.

And don't forget, the Gyeonggi region, which is not far from Hebei, claims to have 800,000 forbidden troops.

What's more critical is that the Zhao and Song Dynasty still has two or three hundred thousand Western troops that can fight the most.

Be.

The Liangshan army wiped out about forty forbidden troops commanded here in the Daimyo's Mansion.

But only on the left and right of the Daimyo's Mansion, there were still sixty forbidden troops under command.

Note!

And that's just a permanent forbidden army.

There are also those box troops and township troops.

The key is that in wartime, Liang Zhongshu can also temporarily recruit soldiers and horses.

Therefore, if Liang Shanjun does not move quickly, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Jiang Hongfei estimated that Song Jiang in the original book may have been able to see this, so he was anticlimactic, and after conquering the Daimyo's Mansion City, he grabbed it casually and ran away.

Jiang Hongfei learned the lesson of Song Jiang when he fought the Daimyo's Mansion in the original work, and adopted the experience of Song Jiang in the original book to successfully conquer the Daimyo's Mansion City, and discussed with a group of military advisors a strategy to take the Daimyo's Mansion City in the shortest time, the key is to use Jiang Hongfei's foresight to ambush the ambush in advance.

So Jiang Hongfei still has a chance to achieve his goal.

In a nutshell.

After the soldiers came to the city, the Liangshan army rested for a day, and then the main force gradually dispersed, and set up a number of military fortresses on the four walls of the Daimyo Mansion Castle to close the four sides of the Daimyo Mansion Castle.

There are many military villages in the Liangshan Army, some large and some small, and there are not many of them.

Jiang Hongfei also ordered the auxiliary army and the people who had heard the news to help the Liangshan army attack the Daimyofu City to openly hold banners in the suburbs and go back and forth between the military villages.

Also, because the strength of the Liangshan army was too small, Jiang Hongfei could only let Gongsun Sheng, Wu Jiao, and Shi Gugong use the trick of spraying clouds and forcing fog among the armies to envelop the armies, so that the soldiers and civilians in the Daimyo's mansion did not know how many men and horses the Liangshan army had, giving them enough psychological pressure.

Jiang Hongfei's doing this was effective, and the Song army defending the city stood on the city wall, and they were all afraid of the situation of the Liangshan army outside the city.

In the face of the formation of the Liangshan army, Liang Zhongshu ordered all the gates of the Daimyo's Mansion to be closed, the whole city was under martial law, and the officers and soldiers defending the city were waiting for them in their respective positions.

But even so, seeing that the Liangshan army was really going to attack the Daimyo's mansion, many ordinary people who didn't know much about the style of Liangshan's heroes, as well as those high-ranking officials and nobles and wealthy families who knew the style of Liangshan's heroes, fled with their families.

——Before the siege of the city by the Liangshan army, before Liang Zhongshu ordered the closure of the gates of the Daimyo's Mansion City, tens of thousands of people escaped from the Daimyo's Mansion City, and even after Liang Zhongshu ordered the closure of the gates of the Daimyo's Mansion City, there were still many privileged people who opened the East Water Gate and ran out of the city.

To be honest, because the troops are too small, the Liangshan army really can't take care of these people.

But how so?

Maybe God is helping the heroes of Liangshan to do the right thing for the sky, and not let those rich and unkind guys escape.

Some lawbreakers even took advantage of the chaos to gang up to commit thieves, intercepting and robbing on the road, and some even pretended to be Liangshan heroes to rob everywhere.

Those who ran out of the castle were all attacked by these gangsters, and almost half of them were killed and plundered.

The gangsters also set fire to houses outside the city, and the light and candles continued overnight.

The people in the city of the Daimyo's Mansion, especially those high-ranking officials and nobles, and the wealthy families, saw this scene from the city wall and thought that it was done by the heroes of Liangshan, so they were all very frightened and did not dare to try to escape from the Daimyo's Mansion City anymore, so they could only follow Liang Zhongshu to defend the Daimyo's Mansion City together.

On this day, everyone is rumoring that the heroes of Liangshan will definitely attack the city tonight.

This made the defenders of the Daimyo Mansion Castle dare not slack off, and they have been patrolling their respective defense areas.

Liang Zhongshu and other management personnel in the city of the great names, including the officials and nobles, and the stewards of the wealthy gentry, all went to the city wall to prepare for the siege of the Liangshan army.

Really!

The Liangshan army began to attack the city that night.

The Daimyofu Castle is high in the east and low in the west, and the moat here in the West Water Gate is shallow and narrow, so the Liangshan Army chose to attack the Daimyo Mansion Castle here.

In this regard, the defenders in the castle of the Daimyo's Mansion had already guessed.

What the defenders in the Daimyofu City never expected was that the Liangshan army did not honestly fill the river or cross the river by boat like the previous siege army, and used all kinds of siege equipment to attack the city.

It is extremely rare for the Liangshan army not to use the infantry army as the main force for the siege, but to use the horse army as the main force for the siege.

Can't think of it, right?

The defenders of the Daimyo's Mansion Castle didn't expect it either.

This matter has to start when Jiang Hongfei fully understands the ability of the materialized attribute spirit root qi refiner.

For a period of time, Jiang Hongfei gave full play to his imagination and wanted to take the materialization attribute ability as his killer feature, so he thought about a lot of things, what machine guns, missiles, aircraft cannons.

Later, experiments proved that Jiang Hongfei thought too much, and it was too difficult to materialize such a complex thing, and it required extremely strong talent, anyway, Jiang Hongfei couldn't do this kind of thing.

But Jiang Hongfei didn't think in vain, he still came up with several useful things based on his insight of people beyond this world.

One of them is the flying bridge, that is, to let the physical attribute qi refiners build bridges out of thin air to help the army quickly pass through places that they would otherwise be unable to pass, including sieges.

Jiang Hongfei can think of the flybridge for many reasons.

One of them is Liu Huiniang's invention of "made of cowhide." If the bridge is dismantled, the sergeants can be separated. Put together into a pontoon bridge in an instant, thousands of troops and horses, can be crossed at will. After use, it can be cleaned up in an instant, and there is no trace" of the flybridge.

What's more, Jiang Hongfei watched a military program in his last life, and saw a pontoon boat that can make tanks cross the river quickly, which also gave Jiang Hongfei a lot of inspiration.

In short, Jiang Hongfei thought of it, if the Qi Refiner with materialized attributes did not take the route of materialized weapons, but took the auxiliary route of materialized bridges, wouldn't he be able to rewrite some forms of warfare in this world?

Therefore, Jiang Hongfei ordered people to select those Qi Refiners with good talent for materialized attribute spiritual roots, and spent a lot of spiritual money to cultivate them to comprehend the supernatural power of the "Flying Bridge".

After years of accumulation, Jiang Hongfei has cultivated more than a dozen flying bridge qi refiners.

This time, attacking the Daimyo's Mansion City, Jiang Hongfei did not hide it.

At the beginning of the war, more than a dozen flying bridges appeared out of thin air, and from the moat side directly to the city wall of the Daimyo's Mansion Castle, the Liangshan horse army quickly rushed to the city wall from the flying bridge, and the defenders of the Daimyo's Mansion City were caught off guard......

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