"Is the golden thief about to withdraw?"
"They should be evacuating... They are all demolishing the fortress. If they don't evacuate, where will they sleep at night?"
"Look, a large group of gold thieves have already left their camp!"
"Oh, this is the kidnapping horse team protecting the large convoy. It should be transporting grain and grass baggage, right?"
"The soldiers and horses have not moved yet, but the food and grass go first... The golden thief is really leaving!"
"Then we won?"
"It should be a win!"
"Thank God!"
"I haven't even enjoyed this, so why did you just leave?"
"The gold thief must have seen that our Kaifeng city was so strong that he knew he couldn't succeed, so he retreated in the face of difficulty!"
"What the Prime Minister said is absolutely true. The strength of Kaifeng is all due to the Prime Minister's command and planning!"
"The success of Kaifeng was all due to the strategizing of the Privy Council and the use of troops like a god!"
"The Prime Minister is really the Jiang Ziya and Zhang Zifang of today!"
On September 15th of the first year of Jingkang, in the north of Kaifeng Prefecture, on top of the Jingyang Gate Tower, what was supposed to be a formality for the important officials to supervise the battle at the top of the city has now turned into a praising meeting for Li Gang.
The reason why these ministers who climbed to the top of Kaifeng City put down their dignity as ministers and flattered Li Gang in front of Li Gang was because these ministers who climbed to the top of the Jingyang Gate in the north of Kaifeng City used the Thousand Miles in their hands. Looking in the mirror, I saw the Jin soldiers in the vast camp twenty miles away, breaking up the camp and setting off.
Obviously, this golden soldier is leaving!
Although the battle to defend Kaifeng was not enjoyable at all, the gold thieves did not even fill in the moat outside Kaifeng City.
Moreover, except for a small area in the north of Kaifeng Prefecture and in the east and west of the city, no golden thief can be seen in other areas outside Kaifeng Prefecture.
Even most of the city gates and water gates in Kaifeng Prefecture can still be opened as usual every day. Merchants and various supplies can enter and exit Kaifeng Fucheng as usual... Most of the citizens of Kaifeng probably did not feel that the war was coming.
But the gold thieves are really withdrawing their troops from outside Kaifeng City now!
Two to three hundred thousand gold thieves came in force and stayed outside the impregnable Kaifeng Prefecture for half a month. They didn't even hurt the hair of Kaifeng Prefecture and ran away with their tails between their legs.
As soon as the golden thief ran away, the winner of the Kaifeng Mansion defense battle was decided. The winner was undoubtedly the Song Dynasty!
And Li Gang, who took charge of the defense of Kaifeng Mansion after Zhao Kai led his troops to attack, was of course the biggest contributor to this battle.
Although the battle to defend Kaifeng Mansion was not fierce at all, the golden thief obviously did not try his best. He was just repeatedly testing the defense of Kaifeng Mansion, looking for weaknesses that could be broken through.
As for the Song Army, they also held on to Wang Zhao tightly and did not throw him away.
For more than ten days, the scale of the battle between the two sides was always controlled below 3,000 people. In other words, hundreds of thousands of troops from both sides were serving as cheerleaders, and only a handful of soldiers actually went into battle to participate in the battle.
And the results of these battles were without exception the Song Army won! This "win rate" is one hundred percent!
This shows that Kaifeng's city defense is impeccable, and the gold thief's army of 200,000 to 300,000 people finally found no chance to attack, so they had to retreat.
This is a soldier who retreats without fighting!
Li Gang has accomplished the great feat of "retreating the enemy's troops without fighting". When the official returns to Kaifeng Mansion, he should be promoted to the Grand Prime Minister, right?
So this flattery needs to be filmed quickly!
Amidst the compliments from everyone, Li Gang himself felt a little elated. He didn't care whether he was the Grand Prince or not, but he still wanted to leave his name in history. Thinking of this, Li Gang gave a look to the officials from the Secretariat Province and the Academy of National History (the Academy of National History is under the jurisdiction of the Secretariat Province) who were on the Jingyang Gate Tower for the first time today to supervise the battle - you must write history well!
But just when he was winking at these officials who were writing history, he caught sight of two faces with very serious expressions - the owners of these two faces were Chen Gui, the counselor of the personal expedition camp, and the military commander of the personal expedition camp. Control Han Shizhong!
These two are no small characters!
The fact that the city defense of Kaifeng Mansion can be built to the present level is all due to Chen Gui - although this guy is not a Jinshi, but just a Mingfa major, and is a "third-class official" in the civil service world, he is a self-taught city-building expert. , and is also proficient in machinecraft and firearms manufacturing!
Therefore, he was responsible for more and more things in the expedition camp, not only building the city, but also building cannons, poisonous smoke fireballs, and fire oil tanks. Of course, the official position was promoted very quickly. When he first came here, he was just a county magistrate at the level of a Beijing official. Now he has been promoted to the rank of court minister, and has also been given the cabinet post of Zhilong Tuge.
Han Shizhong is of course even more important. He is one of the only two "entity famous generals" among the four ZTE generals appointed by Zhao Kai.
That Lieutenant Gao has entered the "delayed death" state, and Zhao Bupo is Zhao Kai's "vest", neither of them is an "entity person". And Han Shizhong and He Guan are real famous generals!
And Zhao Kai's treatment for Han Shizhong, a "real famous general", is also very high. Now he has been worshiped as Wu Shengjun's Jiedushi and is under the control of all armies in the camp. The dispatches under the control of all armies in the camp are the same as those of the camp envoy and the camp and march counselor. , the number of positions is more than one person, but is set according to needs. As for Han Shizhong's capital control, he was specifically responsible for controlling the armies in and around Kaifeng City!
"Yuan Ze, good minister," Li Gang knew the abilities of Chen Gui and Han Shizhong, so he asked, "Do you think the gold thief really retreated, or is he pretending to retreat?"
Real withdrawal or fake withdrawal?
When Chen Gui and Han Shizhong heard this, they couldn't help but smile slightly.
The military level of this privy minister who is in charge of the city defense of Kaifeng Prefecture and who personally conducts military campaigns is really worrying!
"Master Privy Council," Chen Gui said, "I think the gold thieves are just moving their camp. If they wanted to retreat, they wouldn't tear down the wooden fences around the camp. Wouldn't it be easier if they burned them on fire?"
yes!
There is a shortage of wood around Kaifeng Mansion, but there is no shortage elsewhere. Why did the wooden fence be pulled out and taken away? How heavy is this thing?
Han Shizhong said: "The gold thieves are heading eastward... If the general guesses correctly, they will move their camp to the Wuzhang River!"
"What? Move the camp to the Wuzhang River?" Li Gang was stunned, and his brows immediately wrinkled, "What do they want to do?"
Han Shizhong frowned and said: "They want to cut off the Wuzhang River with a camp of two to three hundred thousand people, and then push towards the Bian River... thus forcing us to fight with them in the field between the Bian River and the Wuzhang River. "
Li Gang suddenly became nervous after hearing Han Shizhong's analysis.
Bianhe River is the lifeline of Kaifeng Mansion!
The Bianhe River is the main water transportation road leading directly to the southeast. It transports millions of stone goods to Kaifeng Prefecture every year!
If the water transport of the Bianhe River is cut off by gold thieves, then there will be no need to fight the battle of Kaifeng Mansion... The neck of Kaifeng Mansion is choked, so how can we fight it?
Li Gang looked at Chen Gui again, and Chen Gui also nodded and said: "Kaifeng Prefecture has a solid foundation and is not afraid of gold thieves attacking... But the population of Kaifeng Prefecture is too large, and the total number of soldiers and civilians is close to one million. The daily consumption is extremely astonishing. If there is no supply from the Southeast Sixth Waterway, Kaifeng Mansion will have problems with its supply within three months. Therefore, the Wuzhang River is the key to success or failure in the Battle of Kaifeng!
We can see this key, how could the gold thief not know it? So the battle of Kaifeng hasn't been won yet, it hasn't even really started yet! "
Li Gang frowned, feeling a little depressed. He originally thought he would be able to leave his name in history... but now it turns out that he has not yet decided who will write this history!
"Are you sure?" Li Gang looked at Chen Gui and Han Shizhong with some uncertainty.
"Yes!" Chen Gui seemed confident, "If the war starts on a plain with vast plains, we are indeed not sure, but with a five-foot-long river, we will be sure!"
Han Shizhong also nodded and said with a smile: "Although the Wuzhang River is not wide, it is enough for a boat. No matter how brave the gold thieves are, can they still use their iron pagoda to charge our warships?"
Li Gang thought for a while and asked again: "The golden thief has a cannon!"
Chen Gui laughed when he heard this: "It is precisely because the golden thief has a cannon that we have a chance to win this battle!"
Han Shizhong also smiled and said: "Don't worry, Mr. Privy Council, the gold thieves' cannons can't beat our cannons... They are far behind!"
Not even close?
Li Gang looked at Chen Gui a little suspiciously.
Chen Gui smiled and pointed at a horse-faced pier near Jingyang Gate, "Mr. Privy Council, there are six cannons on that horse-faced pier. You can move over and take a look, and you will know the certainty of this battle!" "
...
In the Jinbing Camp, on a watchtower that has not yet been dismantled, Wanyan Wu Qimai was holding his arms, watching from a distance as the convoy escorted by a large number of kidnapper cavalry soldiers left the camp and rumbled toward the southeast. .
What these convoys transport is not food and grass, but disassembled cannons!
In order to attack Kaifeng Mansion, Jin Bing began to build cannons in Daming Mansion a few months ago. When the Jin soldiers arrived outside the city of Kaifeng, they used the wood sent by Nianhan to build two to three hundred cannons. The Jin Army now has as many as five or six hundred cannons!
These tips are Wanyan Wu’s confidence in begging!
If five or six hundred cannons were deployed by the Wuzhang River, they would be raining down bullets! The warships of the Song Dynasty were not made of iron, so how could they withstand them? Moreover, the cannon can not only fire mud bombs and stone bombs, but also fireball bombs... which can even burn down the Song Dynasty's warships!
As long as the Song warships were repulsed, how could the five-foot-wide river, which was only five or six feet wide, be able to stop the Dajin Heavenly Soldiers?
As long as Dajin's two to three hundred thousand troops cross the Wuzhang River, the Bianhe River will be under the sword of Dajin's heavenly soldiers... They don't even need to cross the river. They can use cannons and bows and arrows to defeat them. The Bianhe River was cut off.
Without the water transportation supply from Bianhe River, how many days can the big Kaifeng Prefecture survive?
Thinking that Kaifeng Mansion was about to fall into his hands, Wanyan Wu was in a good mood. Just as he was about to shout a few times, he heard a sound on the stairs behind him, and then the voice of his son Pruhu: "Dad, whistle Ma Lai reported that the southern waterway army is marching out of Kaifeng Fucheng along the Wuzhang River!"
