Chapter 617
"Really took it down?" The ink soaked ink in the tip of Han Zhongyan's hand dripped on the official document being processed, and he still didn't realize it.
"That is, both Yanzhou and Qin Tuokou can be said to be intact. Because it was a surprise attack to capture the city, our army suffered minimal losses..." The messenger who was appointed by Zhe Kexing to report was excited.
"The more than 2,700 enemies were killed and nearly 5,000 enemies were captured. The rest fled and got 3,000 iron armor, more than 8,000 war horses, about 10,000 tents of grain, and two thousand cattle and more than 30,000 sheep. In addition, the treasury of Yanzhou also contains 300,000 tans of taxes to be paid to Xingqing Prefecture this year. In addition, the salt warehouse in the city also has more than 35,000 tents of good green salt..."
"I heard that Yanzhou produces a lot of salt, which is rare in the world. You can get 200,000 dan of salt a year. It seems that it is not a boast." Han Zhongyan then noticed the huge drop of ink on the official document he wrote, and quickly took a piece of clean rice paper and covered it with it to absorb the ink.
"This good news will be placed here first. You can go and have a good rest. Come and copy two copies of this good news quickly, one to the general Zong army of Zhongshidaozhong, and the other to Huanzhou and hand it over to Mr. Su."
"If such good news cannot be conveyed in time, I believe that Mr. Su will definitely blame me at that time."
After putting down the pen and walking around the house for a few times, Han Zhongyan sent out another military order. Soon, he stayed among the 30,000 defenders of the Dingbian Army and transferred out 10,000 infans and headed straight towards Yanzhou.
Since Yanzhou has been taken down, there must be no mistakes. There is a group of vitality. Only in this way can General Zhe and others be able to attack from Yanzhou with peace of mind, and strive to control the entire Jianing Army Office as soon as possible in the hands of the Song Dynasty.
When the messenger sent by Han Zhongyan to the hands of Zhong Shidao, the 40,000 elite troops of the Song Dynasty led by Zhong Shidao could only reach about thirty miles south of the Great Wall, and the distance was only more than fifty miles.
As for such news, the generals of the Song Dynasty were all smiling happily, and they couldn't help but feel a little more jealous of the uncle and nephew of the Zhe family who had won the victory.
I was still on the way to the marching side, but it was good to have only spent one night and half a day to take Qin Tuokou and Yanzhou into my pocket.
If this is my own side, if I can't take over Hongzhou and Youzhou, wouldn't it mean that the Zhong family army is not as good as the Zhe family army?
Seeing the generals under his command staring with their eyes and biting their cheeks, Zhong Shidao was both moved and helpless.
At this moment, I couldn't help but feel a little envious of the uncle and nephew of the Zhe family. It seemed that Lord Xiao Wang was the lucky star of the Great Song Dynasty, and this was really correct. The last time, it was because he followed Zhe Keshi.
As a result, Zhe Keshi received great contributions. This time, this combination was like this. Qin Tuokou, which was regarded as a fear of the Song Dynasty's border troops in the past, was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it was not even a problem to capture the entire Yanzhou. If it weren't for Lord Xiao Wang's luck.
Well...at least Zhong Shidao is more willing to think about it this way. After all, he would not admit that the Zong family army is inferior to the Zhe family army.
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"Okay, generals, everyone must be very happy for General Zhe and the others. However, we cannot be happy for them alone. After all, Hongzhou is not far away, and the Great Wall Ridge is now under the control of the Han army under Liang Yibi. After passing Great Wall Ridge, it is only twenty miles away from Hongzhou. At that time, you have to cheer me up..."
"Although Liang Yibu has agreed to surrender to me in the Song Dynasty, you should be careful before Liang Yibu put down his weapons. If you are lazy and contemptuous, if something happens, don't blame some military law for being ruthless."
"No!" The dozens of generals and schoolmen in the tent were shocked, and they bowed to Master Zhong in an orderly manner, then quickly scattered and rushed to their respective teams.
After a brief rest, the army continued to rush towards the Great Wall Ridge Pass in the northeast, and must arrive in the evening and take over the defense work of Great Wall Ridge.
Finally, at the turn of midnight, the army arrived at the Great Wall Ridge Pass. The guards were Liang Yibu's confidant. The army of the Song Dynasty was still ten miles away from the pass, and the guards of Guanzhong had already led dozens of cavalry to welcome him in the south of the Guannan.
After Liang Zuo introduced it on his behalf, the army continued to move forward. Zhong Shidao commanded 10,000 elite cavalry and 30,000 infantry successfully passed through the Great Wall Ridge Pass and set up a camp to rest. The army had been on the journey for two consecutive days, and the soldiers were tired. If they didn't have a good rest, who would know what kind of accident would be when they arrived in Hongzhou.
The defense of the Great Wall Ridge was naturally handed over to the Song army, and the pass guard led his troops and horses to act with the Song army.
At this moment, it had been two days and two nights since Sa Chen arrived at the city of Hongzhou and guarding the nearly 10,000 Tieguai Li.
Ten thousand reinforcements from Yanzhou have arrived here, making Sa Chen's command, in addition to the original 10,000 Yanzhou troops, it has become 20,000, plus 20,000 garrison troops, and more than 3,000 defeated troops gathered along the way. The troops under Sa Chen's command have reached more than 43,000.
Well... this does not include the 10,000-strong version of Tieguai Li. If those guys were included, then Sa Chen would have more than 50,000 elite troops, which was definitely the most in his life that he had led the army in his life.
Then is it useful? In Hongzhou City, Liang Yibi's number of troops was inferior to his own, but the problem was that he had 10,000 people on his side, and he was dragged down by the storm, not to mention that he was going to fight a surprise attack and a storm.
I was not prepared to fight a difficult siege battle, so I didn't have any decent siege weapons at all.
These problems that originally made Sa Chen feel bad were solved at noon the next day after the reinforcements sent from Yanzhou arrived.
Well... this is actually a slander, and it should be said that all these problems were nothing compared to the bad news received the next day at noon, which was more than two hours ago.
That is where I garrisoned the troops before, the most important place of wealth and wealth in southern Xixia, and the salt-producing place of Yanzhou, has been captured by a group of Song troops from Qin Tuokou.
Remember, they were not including or attacking, but they had already captured Yanzhou. When they first received this news, Sa Chen thought it was these idiot soldiers who were playing unnutritional jokes.
But when the authenticity of this news was confirmed, Sa Chen was completely confused. It was Yanzhou. In the eyes of the Xixia court, its importance was almost as important as Yanzhou in the Hetao area where the best horses were produced.
Chapter completed!