Zhao Bing used dual defense tactics to attack Quanzhou. Although it could ensure that the Song army had enough time to capture the city, he also had hidden worries in his heart.'Ω    He knew that according to the eight principles of military use formulated by Sun Wu, "The encirclement of the army must be vacancies". The "vacancies" in it meant a gap, which meant that the gap should be left when siegeing the enemy, and the same was true for siege battles.
This account is actually very simple. If the enemy is surrounded on all sides, it may prompt the enemy commander to make up for the death. On the contrary, if a gap is deliberately left, it may cause the enemy commander to sway between running away or fighting to the death, and at the same time it will cause the enemy soldiers to lose their fighting spirit. More importantly, leaving the gap is not to let it go, but to set an ambush in the place where the enemy must pass, so that the enemy will fall into an ambush during the hasty escape.
Especially for the siege of enemies who are defending the castle, once the enemy abandons the city and flees, it can avoid the pain of siege and completely eliminate the enemy on the field battlefield. In contrast, the difficulty of fighting against the fleeing enemy is obviously much smaller than that of fighting against the dead enemy, and the cost will be much less. A little wise general can calculate this account, so besieging troops are a common tactic used by war generals in all dynasties.
However, although the tactics used by Zhao Bing this time blocked the enemy's reinforcements, it obviously blocked all the enemy's escape routes, leaving them without hope of survival. Therefore, he was worried that the enemy would still fight, especially when they had powerful foreign aid outside, he would be willing to hold on to the enemy and wait for assistance at all costs, so that he would make heavy sacrifices to break the city, which would be a little more costly.
Therefore, Zhao Bing used a large number of crossbows to saturate the enemy at the beginning of the siege, in order to destroy the enemy's barriers to defend the city and defeat their confidence. Then, he suddenly used heavy troops to go to the city to make them desperate and lose their determination to fight, so as not to fall into cruel street battles after entering the city. But this time he miscalculated. The merchant's shrewdness and willingness to sacrifice his life and wealth made Pu Shougen choose to exchange the minimum cost for the greatest benefit. He voluntarily gave up the city and retreated to his house. He had to accept Pu Shougen's gift with trepidation.
Everyone refused to let the emperor take risks on the grounds that the city had just been recovered, Pu Shougen and other thieves had not been tied up, and the remaining soldiers had not been eliminated, and they forced him to stay on the ship. Zhao Bing had no choice but to give up his plan to enter the city to see, and asked Zhang Shijie to lead the central army into the city to continue attacking the Pu Mansion, and to round up the scattered soldiers and yelling. Wen Tianxiang also asked the city to preside over the affairs, appease the people, investigate the rebellion, and contact the famous people in the city. He could only stay outside the city to command the troops to deal with the enemy soldiers coming to aid.
"Your Majesty, what else do you have to do?" Everyone was very happy when they fought down Quanzhou City. Wen Tianxiang was also ready to enter the city and say goodbye to His Majesty.
"Suan Wen, you should refer to what happened to attack Quanzhou this time!" Zhao Bing thought for a while and asked.
"Your Majesty, I know that this battle is to avenge Pu Shougeng's treason and collude with the Tatars to slaughter the sons of the city; and to solve the financial difficulties of the court, and to raise military funds!" Wen Tianxiang replied.
"Well, you must not sympathize with the surrendered officials of all sizes. You must be severely punished. You must be strictly punished. You must not be ruthless. Otherwise, it will not be enough to shock the surrendered ministers and rebels. I am sorry for the thousands of clans who died." Zhao Bing knew that these scholars fought in their own nests, and they would not be willing to die, and they would be quick to die. However, they often pay attention to being gentle and generous to those foreign enemies to show their kindness and righteousness of the great country. Although Wen Tianxiang once led his troops to fight and was decisive and ruthless in his work, he was a scholar after all, and his spirit of scholars had long been soaked in his bones, so he had to remind him a few words.
"Yes, Your Majesty, I understand!" Wen Tianxiang bowed to receive the order.
"Okay, no one who participates in the Quanzhou Incident should let go. Those who do the business will be executed, confiscated, and their families will be exiled. This also applies to those merchants. Those who are forced to comply with their followers must confiscate their wealth, but they can save their lives and exil to Qiongzhou. As for those who are just for money and have no evil deeds, there is no need to investigate it. Just confiscate some wealth and property soldiers." Zhao Bing also ordered that he had to set rules for Wen Tianxiang, and he could not let him do whatever he wanted, so as not to come in vain.
"I received the order!" Wen Tianxiang thought about it and said in response to the order.
"Prince Cai and Manager Gao once presided over the punishment of rebellion and cleaning up the rebellion in Guangzhou. I will ask them to assist the right prime minister!" Zhao Bing pointed at Cai Wanyi and Gao Yingsong and said.
"I will definitely not let Your Majesty down!" Cai Wanyi and the others immediately stepped forward to pay tribute to the order. Cai Wanyi was even more excited at this time. He had been away from Quanzhou for three years. At that time, he was just a city official, but now he was his Majesty's close minister and a third-rank official in the court. This time, he could not only avenge his family, but also return home in glory.
"Well, this is a list of some rebellious people in the city. You can take as much as possible!" Zhao Bing handed a volume of official documents on the case to Wang De and asked him to hand them over to Wen Tianxiang.
"Your Majesty, I will not miss one of them, I will give it to the stairs!" Wen Tianxiang glanced at the list, which not only recorded his name, address, but also detailed list of his family's population and property. He was secretly surprised. His Majesty seemed to have prepared for it, and even found out the family's background, and was waiting to search the house with someone...
After seeing off everyone, Zhao Bing's fatigue was revealed. He pinched his forehead and tried his best to relax the tense nerves, but this was just in vain. Although the army has entered the city, Pu Shougeng has not been tied up yet. There are nearly 4,000 remaining soldiers in his mansion, which is still a force that cannot be underestimated. And those rich and big businessmen are not all good people. They have more private soldiers in their mansion, hundreds of more and dozens of whom are fewer, and they will fight for money. This is still a force that cannot be ignored. After entering the city, they are in the light and the enemy is in the dark.
On the other hand, the task of attacking aid was still arduous. Although the troops along the Sodu were blocked by landmines and had been struggling for several days, the method he finally adopted was exactly the same as the Japanese devils' battle against landmines. He forced livestock from nearby villages to open the way, and made a way for the large group of people, and finally caught the end. However, it was not easy for him to successfully cross the river face guarded by the brave army.
Chapter completed!