Youyan, Xinle City
At a quarter of a second, when most people were still sleeping, Yuan Song, with an unshaven beard and a tired face, stood on the low wall of Xinle, holding a telescope and observing the Yan Army camp not far away... ················
Two days ago, Yuan Song led 8,000 Fengwu troops to attack the Yan army's camp in Fuhu Gang, and then attacked Xinle City non-stop overnight. Although there were a full 5,000 Yan troops in Xinle City, they did not attack at all. Unexpectedly, the Fengwu Army would come to them so quickly. Under the fierce attack from Yuan Song's troops, they only resisted for an hour before surrendering after suffering more than a thousand casualties.
Just like how he dealt with the prisoners at the Yan Army camp in Fuhu Gang, Yuan Song preached the Fengwu Army's policies to these thousands of Yan Army prisoners and distributed leaflets to them. These leaflets were all produced by the Fengwu Army before. Considering that Since these big-headed soldiers were illiterate or even illiterate at all, the contents of these leaflets were written in vernacular and were very simple and easy to understand.
After releasing the prisoners and retaking Xinle City, Yuan Song ordered his soldiers to appease the people in the city and tell them not to panic or go out. On the other hand, he also organized manpower to begin to reinforce Xinle City. The city wall has been in disrepair for a long time, and the various sections of the city wall are uneven in height. The highest part is only a little over ten feet, and the shortest part is only about half a foot. Therefore, if you want to defend Xinle City, you must build new defenses.
Recapturing Xinle City and defending Xinle City was Yuan Song's approach to defend Shunping City. However, this was not Yuan Song's first choice at the beginning. His first choice was to lead his elite troops to attack the Yan army at night. However, after observing that Zhao Fuqu's Yan army camp was heavily guarded and there were no defense loopholes that could be exploited, Yuan Song could only choose to do the next best thing. First, he destroyed the Fuhugang camp that made siege equipment for the Yan army. , and captured Xinle City again·················
Xinle City and Shunping City are at odds with each other. The strategic significance of capturing Xinle City is that it can threaten the Yan army attacking Shunping from the side. Therefore, any general with some military knowledge will not sit back and watch Xinle City. fell, so in order to ensure his own safety, all Zhao Fuqu could do was to attack Xinle City first.
In order to ensure that he could attract Zhao Fuqu's attention, Yuan Song hung his Yuan flag on the gate tower of Xinle City, and wrote a personal letter to Zhao Fuqu, telling Zhao Fuqu that he was waiting in Xinle City. He came to fight, and with such operations, the Yan army really gave up attacking Shunping and gathered tens of thousands of main forces to attack Xinle City.
Perhaps knowing that he didn't have much time, Zhao Fuqu was no longer content with attacking the city during the day. Even late at night when he was most exhausted, he would drive his Yan Army soldiers to launch a crazy charge towards Xinle City. This undoubtedly caused greater casualties to the soldiers of the Yan Army, but it also caused a lot of trouble to the soldiers of the Fengwu Army guarding Xinle City!
In just two days, the 8,000 elite Fengwu troops brought by Yuan Song killed nearly 1,700 people, and among the remaining 6,000 people, as many as 50% were brought into battle. , of course the Fengwu army defending the city suffered so many casualties, and the casualties of the Yan army already exceeded 10,000 people!
Seeing the dust gradually rising from the Yan Army's camp in the telescope, Yuan Song, who had not slept all night, knew that the Yan Army was about to launch a new round of offensive, and immediately ordered the bugler beside him:
"Blow the trumpet! All units assemble!"
Following Yuan Song's order, the Fengwu Army officers who had just slept for less than two hours immediately got up from the bed, put on their cotton armor, picked up their weapons, and ran towards the city wall under the leadership of the supervisors of each department. Go and prepare to defend Xinle City...
At the same time, on the Yanjunyingzhai watchtower outside Shunping City, Zhao Fuqu, like Yuan Song, was also observing Shunping. The only difference was that Yuan Song used a telescope, while Zhao Fuqu could only see visually and listen to the sounds in Shunping City. The sound of the bugle sounded, and Zhao Fuqu, who was full of exhaustion, felt even more gloomy.
Of course he understood that Yuan Song captured Xinle City and publicized that he was in Xinle City in order to attract the Yan army's firepower to protect Shunping City, but he had no choice but to follow Yuan Song's ideas. On the one hand, this is because if they continue to attack Shunping with all their strength, the flanks will inevitably be attacked by Yuan Song's troops. On the other hand, it is also because the camp at Fuhu Gang was destroyed and the Yan army no longer had sufficient siege equipment in a short period of time. Unable to maintain the intensity of the previous siege against Junpei.
So after quickly weighing the pros and cons, Zhao Fuqu made the choice to change the focus and focus his firepower on Xinle City. Xinle City was in disrepair for a long time. Attacking it did not require a large number of siege equipment like Shunping City. Yuan Song The appearance of Zhao Fuqu was also one of the reasons why Zhao Fuqu made this choice!
Now Shunping City cannot be captured for a long time, and a large number of reinforcements from the Fengwu Army are getting closer and closer. The situation of the Yan Army is getting more and more dangerous. Zhao Fuqu's strategic gamble is getting closer and closer to bankruptcy, and he himself is getting closer and closer to defeat and death. close
And Yuan Song is now known as the number one general in the Fengwu Army. He has outstanding military exploits in the Fengwu Army. His reputation even surpasses that of the second-ranking figure in the Fengwu Army, Chief of Staff He Jingyun. He is second only to Ye Mingsheng himself in the Fengwu Army. The second person!
If Xinle City can be breached and he is captured alive, perhaps he can be used to blackmail Ye Mingsheng into negotiations and buy enough breathing time for the Yan army to delay the sudden death of Ye Mingsheng, the gambler, and the civil strife in the Fengwu army.
Even if Yuan Song cannot be captured alive, if Yuan Song can be killed, it will be a good thing that can greatly damage the morale of the Fengwu Army and improve the morale of its own army. At that time, the Yan Army may have the opportunity to break the cauldron and give the Fengwu Army a blow. Jedi Counterattack·····················
With this expectation, Zhao Fuqu ordered his men to attack Xinle City for two days regardless of casualties. Unfortunately, he was disappointed again. In two days, they exhausted the Yan army and killed more than 10,000 people. But still can't go beyond the thunder pool.
Just when Zhao Fuqu's heart was filled with grief and indignation, and he was about to make a last-ditch effort, an indignant voice came to his ears. Zhao Fuqu raised his eyes and saw his guard commander Liu Chuanbiao, escorting a very ashamed Yan army general. , walked up to him and handed him a leaflet.
"Commander, we found Fengwu Army leaflets from Wang Tao!"
Taking the leaflet from Liu Chuanbiao, Zhao Fuqu saw eight big characters written on it: "Surrender without killing, go home and divide the land!" In addition to these eight big characters, it also had the black dragon logo of the Fengwu Army printed on it, as well as the Signed by Ye Mingsheng himself.
Seeing this thing and then looking at Wang Tao who was kneeling on the ground in shame, Zhao Fuqu, who was about to give it a try, suddenly felt despair in his heart!
Two days ago, Yuan Song led the Fengwu Army to conquer Fuhu Gang one after another. After Xinle, he released a large number of Yan Army prisoners of war. Many of these released Yan Army prisoners of war chose to run home as deserters, but there were also some. More than a thousand people chose to return to the Yan Army camp and return to Zhao Fuqu's tent. Zhao Fuqu laughed at Yuan Song's wife's benevolence and did not take it seriously. He casually reorganized and reorganized these returning Yan Army troops into the army. In the team······················
But only the next day Zhao Fuqu was dumbfounded. Some Fengwu Army leaflets suddenly appeared in his military camp. At the same time, due to the failure of the siege, the Yan Army suffered heavy casualties, and most of the Yan Army themselves were farmers and were forcibly recruited. , so based on the widespread existence of these factors, strong anti-war sentiment gradually emerged within the Yan Army. After learning about the Fengwu Army's policies through these easy-to-understand leaflets, these leaflets began to quietly It quickly spread within the Yan army.
By the time Zhao Fuqu discovered these leaflets and realized the huge harm caused by them, a considerable number of people in the Yan army had already understood the contents of the leaflets. Although Zhao Fuqu reacted quickly, he immediately conducted a large-scale inventory of the entire army to seize the leaflets. He was also very strong-armed and immediately beheaded anyone who dared to hide the leaflets, but it was too late and still did not stop the circulation of leaflets within the Yan army. These leaflets still played a great role, greatly weakening the Yan army's will to fight, and provided Yuan Song with The foreshadowing was laid to defend Xinle City.
"Today we discovered that Wang Tao and his soldiers were sneaking around in the camp. After investigation, we found that this bastard actually hid leaflets from the Fengwu Army!" Chen Chuanbiao pointed at Wang Tao and said angrily:
"Commander, you are so kind to this bitch. You single-handedly promoted him from a small team to the position of general, but this beast actually has other intentions..."
After listening to Liu Chuanbiao's words, Zhao Fuqu looked at Wang Tao with eyes full of disappointment. If it was just a lower-level soldier who secretly hid the leaflets, he would be angry but could understand it to some extent. But as Liu Chuanbiao said, this Wang Tao had been following him for several years. Zhao Fuqu, an old brother of ten years, also valued him very much. Not only did he promote him all the way, but he also married his cousin to Wang Tao. But now Wang Tao is in his own crisis, and it is really hurtful to do such a thing. His heart is broken,
Feeling the disappointed look in Zhao Fuqu's eyes, Wang Tao, who was being escorted by Liu Chuanbiao, also said with shame:
"I, the old Wang, are greedy for life and afraid of death. I can't help the commander in chief! The commander-in-chief wants to beat or kill me, the old king, and he will admit it!"
However, the brothers have suffered heavy casualties in the great battle, but they can't even defeat a small Xinle. The soldiers below no longer want to fight anymore. Commander, listen to Lao Wang's last advice, let's retreat to Yun. Go together, it is never too late for a hero to take revenge in ten years..."
After hearing the old brother's heartfelt words, Zhao Fuqu closed his eyes in despair, waved his hand painfully at Liu Chuanbiao and said, "Put him in military law!"
"yes!"
As Zhao Fuqu's words fell, Liu Chuanbiao accepted the order very excitedly. This Wang Tao had been relying on his seniority in the Yan Army. Zhao Fuqu's old brother had neglected him a lot. He had long wanted to deal with this old thing. Yes, now I finally have a chance!
Just after Zhao Fuqu "killed Ma Su with tears", when he was preparing to launch a new round of offensive against Xinle City, he saw a Yan army scout covered in blood and with several arrows stuck in his body. He was in a panic. He crawled into the Yan army camp and shouted with all his strength;
"A large number of reinforcements from the Fengwu Army appeared in Xiaoliuzhuang ten miles away!"
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Yijing, Governor's Mansion
In the study room, Ye Mingsheng looked at the ferocious head wrapped in lime in front of him, then glanced at He Jingyun and Zhang Meng standing in the hall, and finally locked his eyes on Zhang Meng and asked:
"Is he Mensa?"
Zhang Meng heard this and said respectfully:
"Replying to your lord, this person is Mengsa, a close confidant of the great Luobei Han Alsleng. This person has been plundering our territory for many years, causing great harm to our army and people. He also once attacked Anhe Three years ago, there was a massacre in Xiaoliu Village in Shanggu. No one from dozens of households in the village was left alive. Because of this incident, Zhao Fuqu was furious. He once issued a pursuit order and offered a reward of a thousand taels of silver for this person's head, but in the end nothing happened. "
After hearing Zhang Meng's introduction, Ye Mingsheng nodded slightly and asked with a smile:
"How did he die?"
Seeing Ye Mingsheng ask this question, Zhang Meng said with a look of pity on his face:
"I originally wanted to get to know this Luo Bei barbarian with my own hands, but I didn't expect that before I could find him, he was hit in the throat by a stray bullet and died..."
Feeling the regret in Zhang Meng's words, Ye Mingsheng smiled and shook his head, then turned to Ye Cheng and ordered:
"Hang Mengsa's head on the city gate tower of Yi Jing. I want all the people of Youyan to see it. Anyone who offends me will be killed no matter how far away the Zhou Dynasty is! Those who can't be killed by the Yan army will be sent by the military army. kill!"
"Yes! Sir, I'll do it right away!" Ye Cheng took the wooden box containing Mengsa's head and bowed and stepped back.
After giving instructions, Ye Mingsheng turned his attention to Zhang Meng and asked:
"Zhang Meng, you have made great contributions in this battle. Tell me, what do you want?"
Facing Ye Mingsheng's inquiry, Zhang Meng hesitated and asked tentatively:
"My lord, may I have a horse?"
Ye Mingsheng raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and asked with a little surprise:
"Do you want a horse?"
Zhang Meng nodded heavily and said sadly:
"In this battle, General Lin and I attacked Mengsa's headquarters from front to back. The casualties among the soldiers were not great, but more than a thousand people were lost. However, my war horse was unfortunately shot to death by the Luobi people. This war horse was still in the army that year. When we were in Fengzhou, the commander-in-chief gave it to us. I fought many battles with me in the past two years, but unexpectedly it was lost here... ··”
After listening to what he said, Ye Mingsheng also somewhat understood his thoughts. As a military general, he didn't like good horses, swords, and armor. There were even some military generals who had a deep relationship with their horses. He personally fed and washed the horses. Don’t take advantage of others!
