"Good news! Good news! Good news from Jinyang!"
A flying horse entered the center, and the news of success was passed to the Governor's Mansion.
The person in charge at the center of the cabinet at the moment is Li Hongyi, the Grand Scholar of Jianji Palace.
Although the situation in Gyeonggi Province is calm, everyone's hearts are raised.
The natural danger of Tongguan cannot bring a sense of security to the capital. What can make the princes and ministers in the capital feel at ease is the person in charge of Jinyang City.
Unmovable as a mountain, as solid as a rock!
"Master Li! A great victory in Jinyang."
Li Chengguang, the right minister of the Ministry of War, handed over the battle report from Jinyang. In the absence of Yu Yanyi, Li Chengguang became the temporary head of the Ministry of War. All armament matters, including the deployment of troops and horses from various places, shrinking the defense line, and changing the defense layout, were all It is hosted by Li Chengguang.
When Li Hongyi heard this, he stood up suddenly. A large number of memorials on the desks fell to the ground of Jianji Hall with the hem of his clothes.
Logically speaking, it is impossible for Li Hongyi's city government to be so rude. The war in Jinyang is really too urgent.
On the contrary, Li Chengguang, who has been in charge of military affairs all year round, is more stable.
But Li Hongyi couldn't care so much anymore and took the bamboo tube that reported victory from Li Chengguang.
The original wax seal had been opened by Li Chengguang, and Li Hongyi took out the paper in the bamboo tube.
By the time he finished reading the content, Li Hongyi's hands were already trembling slightly.
He is indeed the most favored person by the emperor and former cabinet chief Fan Xiwen, but he is not as talented as Yanyi!
On July 12, the late Jin pioneer general Bietai led 50,000 elite soldiers of the Eight Banners to approach Jinyang.
Yu, the general of Fuguo and the bachelor of Wuyingdian, led his army to attack at the east main gate of Jinyang City.
At that time, the army formed a formation behind the city, fought hard, and defeated the enemy's front army head-on.
The ambush troops on the flanks and rear flanks took advantage of the situation and rushed out. After the defeat, the Jin front troops were defeated at the gate of Jinyang City. They severely wounded the enemy general Bietai, beheaded more than 12,000 people, captured 8,000, and surrendered 9,000 horses, killing and injuring countless people.
With 30,000 soldiers and horses, they defeated the 50,000 elite soldiers of the Eight Banners head-on, killed 12,000 enemies, and captured 8,000 enemies.
This was quite a victory among the original Long Wu Army!
But now, this victory was won by a team of old and new soldiers.
Among the 30,000 people in Yanyi, there were of course 8,000 elite Shenwu Army soldiers, but the rest were the Beiman Army and Bei Cao Army from the Jingchu and Chu states.
The translation of Beimanjun and Beicaojun is reserve force, which is a level higher than that of militia regiment, and their performance is not brilliant.
Of course, what shocked Li Hongyi the most was that Yu Yanyi, with a bunch of second-line reserve troops, dared to go out of the city to fight with the Jin army in the field!
There is a difference between killing and injuring the enemy while defending a city and defeating the enemy in a frontal battle.
This good news is like a ray of light, breaking through the haze caused by the two defeats of Yaoerling and Tumubao.
Da Zhou can fight!
It must be because of this that Yu Yanyi chose to go out of the city and fight a field battle with the enemy's vanguard.
"Zhengming, I will report this good news to the emperor immediately. After you copy this good news, the whole city will announce it!"
Zhengming is Li Chengguang's nickname.
"Your Majesty, take your orders!"
After Li Chengguang copied a copy, Li Hongyi hurriedly took the good news to the palace.
It was said that it was reported to the emperor, but in fact it was reported to the queen behind the curtain. The current Emperor Zhou was awake for less than half an hour every day. The great scholars could only try their best not to disturb Emperor Zhou with trivial matters.
What Emperor Zhou needs to do most now is to live well.
As long as he is alive, the world will be able to stabilize the overall situation. Even if the undercurrent surges, it will not come to light.
If Emperor Zhou died at this time, then the Great Zhou Dynasty would really be on the verge of collapse.
"Your Majesty, Grand Scholar Li of Jianji Palace is waiting for you outside the palace!"
Yuhuatian has been accompanying Emperor Zhou these days and dare not leave even half a step.
The queen who was accompanying Emperor Zhou stood up. She was not from a famous family. She was just a commoner's daughter. She was promoted from a concubine to a queen. She didn't know how to govern the country, but now she knew that the current Zhou Dynasty , she needs to stand up.
"Please ask Grand Scholar Li to wait in the side hall. I will go there immediately."
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Just when the people of Gyeonggi Province were excited because of a great victory in Jinyang City, the situation in Jinyang City was still grim.
The battle lasted all day, and finally when dusk fell, Mohe retreated and returned to the camp.
After a day of fighting, the Hou Jin army suffered a lot of casualties.
A captain in charge of counting casualties entered the account and took the results he had just counted.
"Your Majesty! Mr. Kong! We lost 5,600 warriors in today's siege of the city! There are countless minor and serious injuries!"
This number of casualties made the current supreme commander of the Houjin Army feel a little distressed. After fighting for a whole day, they could not even touch the top of the city wall, and they had already suffered so many casualties. I don’t know how many more people will be needed to fill this Jinjun. Yangcheng.
Fortunately, none of the casualties this time were Nur Haqa's direct soldiers, so they were roped in as cannon fodder and were the first to attack the city!
Nur Haqia set his sights on Kong Youde. After these days of contact, he found that Kong Youde was indeed talented, resourceful and cunning. As a Zhou man, he would definitely be better at attacking the city than Mohe foreigners like them. Maybe he would have Method.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
"Mr. Kong, look, what should we do now?"
Kong Youde didn't feel sorry for these Mohe people who died today. He was thinking about how to capture Jinyang City in the shortest time. It didn't matter how many people died or the price paid.
As long as Jinyang City is captured, all casualties will be worth it.
To capture Jinyang was to capture Zhou Ting's psychological defense.
Kong Youde pondered slightly, and then said: "There are two most important things right now."
"Sir, please speak!"
"First, Your Majesty, you need to find a group of people in the Zhou army who are good at operating siege equipment! The accuracy of today's catapults is really too low. Without the help of catapults, it is absolutely impossible for us to break through Jinyang. A fortified city."
Nurha nodded awkwardly. Indeed, the level of the Mohe engineers today could not be described as unsatisfactory. It was simply extremely inferior.
At the end of the day, eighteen large catapults fired a total of 180 giant stone projectiles, of which only four actually hit.
On average, it takes forty-five stone bullets to hit one, and no one can hit this target!
If you can't just hit the opponent, forget it! The key point is that the stone bullet also hit him. There were nearly 400 Mohe soldiers who were not injured by his own stone bullet.
In the third round, the general in charge of the army also learned to be smart. In order to avoid hurting his own people, he first ordered the sling to be thrown.
After two rounds, if the shot fails, the catapult will stop attacking, and the infantry will attack again!
Originally Nurhaqi was afraid that the craftsmen and soldiers of the Zhou army would not try their best, but now it seems that he has lost his foresight.
No matter how hard these people paddled, they would not be hit by four bullets.
Two of the stone bullets hit the city wall directly and did not cause any casualties.
What really caused effective damage to the Zhou army was two stone bullets.
"Second!" Kong Youde approached Nur Haqia and whispered, "Your Majesty only needs to..."
After hearing Kong Youde's clever plan, Nurha Qia's eyes lit up.
"Sir, you are really talented!"
"Ha ha ha ha"
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While Kong Youde and Nur Haqi were discussing, Yu Yanyi was also stepping up his efforts to rectify armaments and count casualties.
"Yu Shuai, in today's battle, only Dongzhengmen and Dongzhaomen were attacked by Houjin. No trace of the enemy was found in the other six gates!"
Xu Qin, the lieutenant general of the Royal Forest Army, took a stack of paper and reported to Yu Yanyi the situation of today's battle.
Although this person is young, he is vigorous and resolute in his work and has the style of a general.
"What's the result of the casualties?!"
"A total of 117 soldiers of our army died for their country, including one captain, three captains, and five captains. 226 were seriously injured and 400 were slightly injured."
Compared with the casualties of the Mohe tribe, the casualties of the Zhou army as a defender of the city were much smaller. Nearly a hundred of them were killed or injured by the giant stone bombs of the catapult.
One of them happened to hit a crowded place, causing huge casualties. Most of the remaining people were injured by Mohe's bow and arrow.
Yu Yanyi nodded and said, "I am ordering you to do your best to treat the seriously injured. The pensions for soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country will be twice the original standards of the Ministry of War! It is up to you to keep an eye on this matter. If anyone dares to ask If anyone stretches out his hand, I will cut him off."
"yes!"
The reason why Yu Yanyi asked Xu Qin to keep an eye on this matter was because Xu Qin was not just a lieutenant general in the Royal Forest Army.
A lieutenant general in the Royal Forest Army is not enough to deter greed. His true origin is the Palace of the Prince of Zhongshan.
The grandson of King Xu Tiande of Zhongshan and the third son of the contemporary King of Zhongshan!
King Zhongshan, King Qiyang, King Kaiping, and King Dongou are the four most powerful lords of the Zhou Dynasty, and are also called the Four Kings.
Together with the later posthumous title of King Zhaojing of Qianning, Wu Wu formed the representative of the founding military nobles of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
By this dynasty, although the emperor's power had weakened due to the reorganization of the army and the reorganization of the twelve guards into six armies, the Zhongshan Palace was still a towering tree in the army.
For example, Li Chengen, the commander-in-chief of the Tiance Army, was originally under the command of King Zhongshan.
Yu Yanyi had to coordinate the overall situation and could not handle it personally, but with Xu Qin personally intimidating the army, no one would mindlessly think about this pension.
"Also, have someone take inventory of the ordnance needed for city defense! If there is any shortage, someone will immediately replenish it. All matters should put city defense first."
"Yes!" After receiving the order, Xu Qin stood up and went down to do it. Today's siege is more of a test, and tomorrow Mohe's attack will be more fierce. The Zhou army needs to race against time to repair the city defense.
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Qingzhou.
A group of soldiers and horses are besieging the Mohe cavalry.
This was a group of Mohe cavalry going south from Youzhou. They were plundering Qingzhou and ran into the Dengzhou guards and horses heading to Jinyang for support.
Dengzhou County is a county under the jurisdiction of Qingzhou. It faces Canghai to the east and is a place where Japanese pirates are active.
Although large-scale attacks are rare, small-scale robberies do occur from time to time.
Especially after Li Taibai guarded Jin'ao Island in the East China Sea with one man and one sword, all the Japanese pirates in the East China Sea ran towards Qingzhou.
This greatly increased the pressure on Qingzhou's coastal defense. In view of this situation, the cabinet sent people to transfer Qi Yuanjing from Yuezhou to Dengzhou County.
In the previous granary case, Qi Yuanjing had meritorious service in escorting grain and grass, so the Ministry of War promoted him to the commanding officer of preparing for the Japanese, and he trained troops to prepare for the Japanese along the coast of Yuezhou.
Originally he was stationed in Yuezhou, but later he was transferred to Qingzhou by the imperial company.
This time he led his troops to march westward to support Jinyang.
Although Qi Yuanjing only has 8,000 people under his command, he must go!
Just at the junction of Qingzhou and Qizhou, Qi Yuanjing met this Mohe Ranger.
Although these rangers only numbered 800 people, they did not take the soldiers and horses under Qi Yuanjing's command seriously!
Qingzhou and Qizhou no longer had any soldiers to fight. Ordinary county soldiers would be killed by the Mohe cavalry in a sudden charge. Therefore, these eight hundred Mohe cavalry did not regard Qi Yuanjing's army as an opponent. They only regarded it as a mobile military achievement. But I didn't expect to hit a hard spot!
This troop was completely incomparable to the rangers they had encountered before. The moment the two sides encountered each other, they immediately formed their formations.
Using spears and crossbows to fight in formation, the light cavalry had no way of breaking through the formation. Instead, they were divided and surrounded by these troops relying on their superior strength, and gradually died miserably.
Wait until all the eight hundred rangers are dead or injured. Qi Yuanjing's soldiers and horses only slightly injured a hundred people, seriously injured 21 people, and seven people were killed by arrows.
It was almost noon, and the sun was shining brightly. The march had started at Yin hour, and the soldiers had not had a proper rest yet.
So Qi Yuanjing sent an order to the whole army to find a forest to rest and seize the time to light a fire and cook.
And he himself took out a pen and paper and recalled the battle just now. There were still flaws in the military formation and there was still room for improvement!
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The next day, the battle under the city started again.
But this time the vanguard was not arrows, flying stones, or ferocious Mohe soldiers armed with swords and shields, but thousands of defenseless Zhou people.
These people, who had been plundered under Nurhaji's order, were driven by the Mohe people with scimitars and strong bows, and walked towards the moat with sandbags on their backs, followed by murderous Mohe soldiers monitoring their actions.
As they threw the sandbags into the moat one by one, the people of Dazhou began to return and continued to carry the sandbags.
Looking at this scene, Nurha Qia and Kong Youde also had proud smiles on their faces.
The moat that was half filled yesterday has been filled for 30%.
The soldiers on the city wall looked at each other in confusion.
Facing the wolf cubs of the Mohe tribe, they will not show mercy at all. But now the target has become his own people, how can the soldiers do it?
On top of the city wall, Yu Yanyi's face remained as usual, seemingly unconcerned, but his hands were clenched so tightly that his skin was broken, and blood seeped out from between his fingers. He was also struggling and hesitating in his heart.
Using the people of the Zhou Dynasty as a shield and letting the Zhou army throw a rat-proof weapon was a vicious and effective method.
The flying stones and crossbow arrows on the city wall were not dared to be fired, and the stones and rolling wood were turned into decorations.
Most of Zhou Jun's biggest advantage was offset!
If the Mohe soldiers who were following the people were really allowed to approach the city wall, then there would be mountains of bones on the city wall today!
"Sir, you really have a great idea!"
Seeing that there was no reaction on the city wall so far, Nur Hachi couldn't help laughing and approving.
"Your Highness is ridiculous, I'm just taking advantage of Yu Yanyi's mentality! People as noble as them care most about their reputation. If he really dares to order the arrow to be released today, then his reputation will be ruined!"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Kong Youde, Nur Haqia was laughing wildly, and the walls of Jinyang were filled with the whispers of soldiers and generals!
"Yu Shuai! What should we do!?"
Zhao Tianlin on the side looked a little anxious. If he didn't take action, the Mohe soldiers would be close to the moat!
The corners of Yu Yanyi's eyes were slightly moist, what else could he do now?
