In the eighth year of Hongwu in the Song Dynasty, February 23rd.
One by one, the 5-pound and 10-pound long cannons were finally pushed onto the gun positions on the wall of Chenqiaoguan, and the muzzles of the guns were all aimed at several forts on the west bank of the Chenhe River. All the siege troops have also arrived at Chenqiao Pavilion.
The Chenqiao Pavilion, which was previously set on fire by Wanyanyan, has now been occupied by the Red Turban Army of the Northern Song Dynasty. It has also been remodeled and repaired and turned into a large fort. A city wall was built along the Chenhe embankment, with 40 5-pound cannons and 16 10-pound cannons... They came from the Thirteenth Army under Liu Zhengyan's military command and Miao Fu's military commander respectively. The 14th Army was formed.
Liu Zhengyan and Miao Fu also fought with all their strength! Although both of their troops were infantry, they had to attack the city during the march. But they still acted quickly. They set off from Damingfu on the same day as Yue Fei's 8,000 cavalry, and divided their troops into two groups.
Among them, Liu Zhengyan led the Thirteenth Army to defeat the two prefecture cities of Puzhou and Jeju, and on February 15th, he arrived at the suburbs of Pengcheng, the prefecture city of Xuzhou.
Miao Fu's Fourteenth Army marched along the eastern part of the Huangfan District, defeating Xingren Prefecture, Guangji Army, Shanzhou, and Songzhou. They also entered Xuzhou on the 15th, and on February 16th Joined forces with the Thirteenth Army and captured Pengcheng, the first county of Xuzhou, two days later.
After conquering Pengcheng, Liu and Miao led an army of more than 30,000 people (the two armies were full of more than 40,000 people, but they had assigned cavalry to Yue Fei and left garrison troops in the occupied state capital, so they only There were more than 30,000 people left) who only rested for one night, then marched with dozens of cannons and singing "Man Jiang Hong" to Pizhou to attack Zhao Gou, no, to kill Wanyan Zonggou!
I don’t know what happened to Liu Zhengyan and Miao Fu? The thought of killing Wanyan Zonggou makes my whole body feel excited!
So these two N generations of the Western Army, like Yue Fei, put on leggings, set an example, and took the lead on foot. A group of government soldiers below who were holding back their energy to give out a big vote saw the two military commanders acting like this, and they all thought that there were mountains of gold and silver in Pizhou City!
So they all followed the march like crazy, and the closer they got to Pizhou, the higher their morale and the faster they went! In this way, the infantry was stunned to outpace the cavalry, and finally arrived at the Pizhou front line on February 22 to complete the rendezvous with Yue Fei's army.
This energy and morale are almost over the top!
This is probably the situation that often occurs in Chinese history, where "the north determines the south, like a broken bamboo"?
Southeast is so damn rich! And it's easier to fight...
Because the southeast faces the sea and is backed by the hinterland of China, there is no need to maintain a strong force, and it is difficult to raise strong soldiers.
However, the natural conditions in the northwest, northeast, and the area along the Great Wall are too harsh or too unstable (susceptible to the impact of the Little Ice Age), making transportation of goods inconvenient, and facing pressure from northern nomads. It is difficult to become rich, but it is easier to build a strong army.
How could a bunch of poor and unruly Northern troops not be very motivated to fight against the Southeast, which was extremely rich and didn't know how to fight (if there was no war, they wouldn't know how to fight)?
This is also the reason why Zhao Kai wanted to regain the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun before going bankrupt!
As long as there is still an appetite for the "oil and water area" in the southeast, and Zhao Kai can fairly distribute the confiscated land to meritorious soldiers, the brothers below can energetically help Zhao Kai pacify the southeast.
Liu Zhengyan and Miao Fu, who had suffered from a lack of sleep due to continuous marching, walked into a shelter made of sandbags and wood to the west of Chenqiao Pavilion with red eyes. This fortress is not far from the wall of Pizhou City. The straight-line distance is only three or four miles. There is only a not-so-high embankment wall and a few gun towers in the middle, so you can see the situation on the Pizhou City Wall without a telescope.
However, when Liu Zhengyan and Miao Fu walked into the shelter, they found Yue Fei standing behind the crenel, looking out with a telescope.
The two of them hurriedly got up and stretched their necks to look at Dicheng and several gun towers, but found nothing.
"Ye Gong, what are you looking at?"
"Yeah, there's nothing... we didn't even see a few defenders."
Yue Fei looked back and saw that it was Liu Zhengyan and Miao Fu, so he raised his hand and pointed at the Pizhou City Wall in the distance, "Look to the top of the city!"
"Chengtou?"
"Let me see."
Liu Zhengyan and Miao Fu both took out a monocular telescope equipped with a crystal lens, looked in the direction of Yue Fei's finger, and were shocked!
"Ouch, why are there so many heads? They are all carrying spears..."
"Who are these people? Are they loyal people in the city who want to join the imperial court?"
It turned out that the two of them saw many ferocious human heads... only heads, no bodies, and a spear stuck under the neck.
There are a lot of heads carried on these spears, and they are all standing behind the crenellations of the Pizhou City Wall opposite. On a large section of the city wall, there is a spear carrying heads behind almost every crenellation. The total number is probably more than a thousand!
Yue Fei shook his head and said: "I don't know who those people are? I only know that people have been killed every day in Pizhou City these days...The severed heads were hung on the wall facing Chenqiao Pavilion! However, Look at the hair on these heads, they don’t look like righteous citizens, but like thieves who surrendered to captivity!”
Liu Zhengyan and Miao Fu became anxious when they heard this... Of course Zhao Gou was anxious to kill the righteous people, but they were even more anxious to kill the thieves. The thieves were rich!
"What? Zhao Gou is killing the thieves in Pizhou City? Is he crazy? Those are his people!"
"This is not possible... We still have to catch those thieves and pay them! What if Zhao Gou kills them all?"
"Yes! Mr. Ye, let's attack the city quickly!"
"Yes, yes, we must get in before Zhao Gou kills all the thieves!"
Yue Fei frowned, why did this sound so awkward? I, Liu Zhengyan, and Miao Fu brought so many troops and fought day and night to Pizhou. Was it just to save these traitors who deserved to be cut to pieces?
But no matter how awkward this matter is, we have to do it this way!
Otherwise, if all the rich people were killed by Zhao Gou, where would Yue Fei bring so many wolf-like and tiger-like heavenly soldiers to be tortured?
"Then can your people still fight?" Yue Fei asked, "Are they tired these days?"
Of course, infantry must be used to attack the city. The cavalry under Yue Fei is not for this job. So after he arrived in Pizhou, he just besieged the city and did not launch a strong attack. While besieging the city, he also ordered the red scarf cavalry and their auxiliary troops to repair Chenqiao Pavilion. He also asked the light cavalry to collect many small boats along the Yellow River. Now they have been dragged to Chenqiao Pavilion, preparing to use them to force the crossing. Chen He.
But the infantry who followed Liu Zhengyan and Miao Fu all the way were a little tired. According to the plan, they have to rest for another day.
"It's okay to be tired!" Liu Zhengyan said, "We can't let Zhao Gou kill all the fat sheep!"
"Yes, this Zhao Gou must be crazy... If he kills himself so happily, who will sacrifice his life for him? Pizhou City must be vulnerable!"
Yue Fei nodded and said: "Okay... let the brothers work harder! Let's work together to break into Pizhou City and capture Wanyan Gou alive!"
"Okay, break into Pizhou City and capture Wanyan Gou alive!"
Liu Zhengyan and Miao Fu also raised their arms and shouted. Like Yue Fei, they missed the word "Zong" and accidentally shouted out Zhao Gou's historical Jurchen name - Wanyan Gou!
Following Yue Fei's order, the gunners, who had already been in place, quickly stuffed bags of gunpowder and shells into the barrels. The gunners of each gun immediately used the ignition rods in their hands to put the match ropes. Stuffed into the fire doors of these cannons.
The artillery roared, the ground trembled, and dozens of projectiles roared towards several gun towers facing Chenqiao Pavilion...
The infantry of the Thirteenth Army and the Fourteenth Army, which had only rested for less than a day, were also mobilized. They all rushed to the bank of the Chen River and formed square formations one by one. The selected soldiers among them began to fight among the officers. Under the leadership of the police, we boarded the sampan placed on the shore, and then began to forcefully cross the Chenhe River!
...
When the siege artillery sounded, Zhao Gou was in charge of beheading criminals in the university grounds!
He might really be crazy... These days he was surrounded by Yue Fei in Pizhou City. Except for those eunuchs, he looked at everyone as a traitor!
These days, day and night, people never take off their armor and never leave their swords. If someone is disobedient, they will find a crime to kill, and sometimes they will do it themselves! His current martial arts skills are not bad... In the past few years in Koryo, he was not greedy for wine, lustful, or reciting poems, but devoted himself to fighting tigers, and sometimes he also killed bears - —Bear Whip looks pretty good!
Although he has not been repaired, his martial arts skills have really been developed... He is a warrior who stabs tigers and kills bears! This kind of martial arts is definitely unrivaled in Pizhou City. Even if he meets Yue Fei, he might be able to compete with him in two moves!
Why is he such a fierce man? He is still an official, and he is surrounded by a group of relatively obedient eunuchs. There are not many powerful characters in Pizhou City. Why don't you just let him do whatever he wants?
His misbehavior has made the traitors and Jinshi who followed him on the pirate ship suffer... These people finally knew what "accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger", and they also met a A mad tiger that only eats its own people is really living with its head in the air!
And this group of people were cowardly and did not dare to resist Zhao Gou. They could only hope in their hearts that Yue Fei would come in soon... They might not be dead if they fell into Yue Fei's hands, but they would die in the hands of that crazy tiger. , he will definitely die.
So when everyone heard the rumble of cannons, they actually felt like they were about to be saved!
But at this moment, Qianyou Zhengyan Wanqixi, who was kneeling there in a state of embarrassment and waiting to be stabbed, only had despair in his heart... How could he expect Yue Fei to come to rescue him?
And it’s too late, he’s about to be killed!
Now all Wan Qixi could do was cry: "The official spares his life. The guilty minister knows that he was wrong. Please spare the guilty minister. The guilty minister is willing to atone for his sins and fight Yue Fei for...for the official family!"
After hearing this, Zhao Gou just sneered, "Behead this traitor first!" Then he looked around with red eyes, "My sons, I will take you to kill Yue Fei!"
