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Section twenty-six stealing money

The Jin soldiers who were guarding the siege equipment were already defeated by the civilians, not to mention the enemy soldiers wearing Jin soldiers-like armor mixed with the civilians. When Wang Bing came over, although there were a few Jin soldiers fighting on their own in front of the siege equipment, they could resist it. Wang Bing quickly killed the defenders, spread the siege and other arson objects on the equipment, and started to burn them. The equipment was originally made of wood, but then it started to burn. Wang Bing was relieved, and suddenly the personal soldiers beside him shouted: "There is an enemy," Wang Bing looked towards the direction of the personal soldiers' fingers. Sure enough, an enemy army turned around from the side of the battlefield, obviously to attack him from the side. His subordinates asked loudly: "Sir Jie, do you want to summon brothers to fight a war for them?"

Wang Bing looked carefully at the burning equipment and approaching Jin soldiers and said, "No need, Mingjin ask the brothers to withdraw. We have few soldiers and don't fight hard. At least 30% of the siege equipment will be useless. There will be still many wars in the future, so there is no need to hurt the brothers too much."

When the Jin soldiers saw the enemy in front of them, they wanted to find an opportunity to kill a few behind, but they saw that the Song army retreated first and the latter were not timid. It was really an opportunity to take advantage of it. I heard that Wang Bingyong was famous for a long time, so they had to send troops to save the equipment and watch the Song army return to the city.

But there were more than 120,000 Jin soldiers along Wanyan Nianhan, and Wang Bing only had 3,000 soldiers. No matter how brave Wang Bing was and was wise in military affairs, he could not fight forty one of them. After several days of battle, the Jin soldiers forced the Song army out of the city and surrounded Longde Mansion. The tragic siege that was comparable to Taiyuan began.

Wanyan Nianhan set up thousands of siege tools under Longde City: there were thirty swims (cattering machines), and there were thousands of fire escapes in the stone cave.

Every time the city was attacked, the Jin soldiers first lined up thirty Youtuotuo. When the drum sounded, the Youtuotuo stones were all set off. The bucket-shaped stones flew into the city and hit the city tower. As long as the bricks and wood of the city tower were hit, they would be broken. Fortunately, Wang Bing used a fence to spread the curtain cloth, and filled it with bran bags under the curtain cloth to cover the city wall and the city tower. Even if the Youtuotuo stones were hit, they could be repaired in time.

The strange golf is not threatening, so he sent a cave car to fill the moat and attack the city. The cave car is the product of combining the siege car with a cowhide house: a wooden house is built with thick trees, with wheels under the wooden house, and iron sheets are wrapped on the wooden roof, and cowhide is covered with cowhide. The man wearing iron armor is pushed forward under the roof, so that the bows and arrows on the city and the smaller stone-rolling wood cannot hurt the people under the house.

As the sound of war drums sounded, the Jin soldiers pushed more than fifty cave cars to each other in sequence, forming a long convoy and advancing to the city. Whenever they arrived in front of the Song army's trench, the convoy stopped, and then followed the convoy's trench to pass the firewood to fill the trench, and the cave carriage was advanced again.

The Song army at the top of the city shot a sparsely, as if there was no way to deal with the cave cart. The cave cartel finally advanced under the city wall, and there was a trench next to the city wall. The Jin soldiers filled the trench according to the old method. When they were filled, the Song army suddenly dug the threshing gate below the city and threw torches into the trench. There was water in the trench, and the semi-wet firewood was burning and black smoke filled. The Song army arranged a blower behind the city gate to blow the black smoke away. For a moment, the flames spread across the sky. A drum sounded in the city. The Longde city gate opened wide, and the selection of the front rushed out and destroyed half of the cave cart.

Wanyan Nianhan attacked for a few days. On October 30, Wanyan Loushi led his troops to the city of Longde. Seeing that Nianhan was frustrated in attacking Longde, Wanyan's life-saving woman couldn't help but show off her contribution to the capture of Pingyang. Ailanhe Sigong, a subordinate of Nianhan, retorted: "How come he hasn't even been defeated in Fenzhou."

If they were not interested, the two of them would take action. Wanyan Loushi and Wanyan Nianhan called their subordinates respectively and divided the Longde City into two halves. The two attacked from both sides of the east and west, and were respectively guarding against reinforcements from the east and west.

The next day, thirty gazes continued to throw stones on the city, and countless goose cars were built on all sides of the city walls to siege Longde. The goose cars built a ladder on the wide car, and because their shape looked like a goose, it was called a goose car. Nearly a thousand goose cars were supported at the same time, which was spectacular. Although there were many goose cars, it was impossible to push them to the city wall at the same time.

A team of hundreds of Jin soldiers pushed the goose cart forward. When they arrived near the Longde city wall, they laid the suspension bridge on the top of the goose cart flat and placed it on the city wall. The Jin soldiers who had been waiting for the top of the cloud ladder to rush up to the Longde city wall.

The Song army was ready to set up spearmen at the entrance of the goose car suspension bridge to prevent the Jin soldiers from entering the city. Behind them, a high swing came over, but a rolling wood was hung with a rope where the swing was used to sit. The Song army shouted and pulled the swing up the opposite direction. A golden drum sounded, and the Song army, who was blocking the entrance of the city wall, quickly escaped. The swing swung downwards, and the rope tied with the rolling wood was cut off by the Song army. The huge rolling wood flew straight towards the goose car and hit the top of the goose car.

Although the design of the goose cart is good, it is not without weaknesses: its center of gravity is too high, and Wang Bing is the last general, so he will teach the entire army to deal with the goose cart. When the Jin soldiers approached the city wall, the Song army released a huge rolling wood and directly hit the goose cart. If the luck is good, he will knock down the goose cart. Even if the beating is not so accurate, it can sweep away all the Jin soldiers on the top platform of the goose cart.

There were ropes tied to the rolling wood. After the goose cart was defeated and landed on the ground, the Song army pulled the rolling wood back.

After the two armies fought for a day, Wanyan Loushi knew that Longde was as difficult as Taiyuan. Thinking about the fact that Taiyuan had been defending for nine months, Wanyan Loushi's head became bigger.

This time, it was impossible to stay under the city of Longde for nine months. The Jin army had a total of 160,000 troops and a large number of cavalry. The grassland tribes followed had no idea of ​​food and grass first. They all rely on the supply of the Jurchen headquarters or robbery on the spot. However, after two years of fighting in Hedong, it is hard to say how much there is to grab it.

After discussing with Wanyan Nianhan, the two decided to divide their troops into plunder. Jiangzhou, Zezhou, Huaizhou and other places south of Longde, as well as the surrounding military counties of these prefectures and cities were not poisoned when they first went south, and they thought they still had money and food. So they ordered Wanyan Olu to take Zezhou, Pu family slaves to take Huaizhou, and Gu Nan to take Jiangzhou.

Four days ago, on October 28, the first year of Jingkang, the prefect of Jiangzhou, Chaosan Doctor, and Hedong Transportation Commissioner Li Bichuan, wearing a green-robed and small hat, sat in a sedan chair. Dozens of soldiers carrying eight big boxes and quietly left the city. Beside the sedan chair, he quickly followed a Taoist priest and several family members. It turned out that Li Bichuan was afraid when he heard that the Jin soldiers surrounded Longde, so he packed up his property and ran away secretly.

Li Bichuan and his group set off early in the morning. At noon, they arrived at an unknown earth slope. The locals called Huangnigang and saw a wooden shed on the leeward below the hill. A small flag was hung on the eaves. "Drunk under the Huangnigang for a nap". There was a wine jar at the door and a stove for warm wine.

Li Bichuan poked his head out of the sedan chair: "Mr. Gongsun, after walking for a long time, it's cold and cold. How about drinking a glass of wine to warm up?"

The Taoist priest was called Gongsun Sheng. He said, "The army carried the load and walked on the road, and his hands and feet were probably frozen. If he saw the mansion drinking, it would cause a mutiny."

Li Bichuan thought for a while: "Then let's take a break here, and everyone will enjoy a glass of wine."

"That's right! That's right!" The last scene before Li Bichuan got drunk was the wine vendor smiling at him.

Gongsun Sheng and other Li Bichuan and the soldiers were drunk, so they dragged them into the house with a few people selling wine and moved the stove to the house. Gongsun Sheng said something: "Li Da Mansion, I won't let you freeze to death, so I am worthy of calling me a half-immortal."

After saying that, he walked out of the house and said to a red-haired leader in front of him: "Liu Tang, first ask someone to move the box back to the mountain village, and we will go to Jiangzhou to get the three million chunks. The lintel of our school in Everbright is at this time." Jiangzhou is the location of the Hedong Transportation Department, and there is a grain and hull of about three million chunks of gold, silver, brocade, silk, grain and hulls in the Hedong Caoshu.

It turned out that Gongsun Sheng was a Taoist priest from Chunyang Palace in Mianshan, Liu Tang was a person from Lucheng (under the jurisdiction of Longde Mansion), and a believer of Gongsun Sheng. Gongsun Sheng had long been interested in the three million plan of the Jiangzhou Transportation Department. He took advantage of the arrival of Jin soldiers and frightened the prefect Li Bichuan.

Gongsun Sheng and Liu Tang led more than a hundred believers to Jiangzhou and saw the flames of Jiangzhou soaring into the sky from afar. It turned out that the prefect fled, and the magistrate Xu Changyan also abandoned the city and fled. Jiangzhou had four defeated soldiers who retreated from Taiyuan, Weisheng Army, Pingyang and other places at that time. Seeing that the city guards fled, the defeated soldiers and the defenders of the city set fire to the fire.

But unlike another time and space, Hu Yangeng knew that there were 600,000 guan of military rations and pays that Tong Guan had reserved in Jiangzhou, so he sent Xuanzan. Shi Xingfang came to receive it, and Zhang Heng also brought another order from Hu Yangeng. Xuanzan and Shi Xingfang were in Jiangzhou, and they were not idle for a day. They had been recruiting defeated soldiers, with more than 9,000 people under their command. Moreover, Xuanzan had already moved the 600,000 guan under Tong Guan Xuanfu Department to his own station. Yesterday, he just learned that Pingyang had fallen, and today the prefect escaped, and the army was on fire. Xuanzan said, "This Jiangzhou is incredible." He sent Shi Xingfang to quickly take people to the warehouse of the Transport Department, and rob as much as he could.

Shi Xingfang led his men to the Transportation Office and found that the defeated soldiers were densely surrounded by the warehouse door. Shi Xingfang stood up and went to the crowd immediately, and saw Shi Bingyi standing at the warehouse door with his sword in his hand. His sword was pointed out, with blood dripping from the sword, and several soldiers were upside him.

It turned out that the rioters ran to grab the grain department, and all the officials ran away. Only Shi Bingyi, the city affairs affairs, shouted: "Those who acted rashly in the national economy (tax revenue) will be killed!" They guarded the warehouse door. The defeated soldiers did not dare to move lightly for a while, and a few recklessly rushed to the warehouse, but were stabbed by Shi Bingyi with a sword. Fortunately, the civil servants in the Song Dynasty were very powerful, and Shi Bingyi was righteous again. The military and military officials did not dare to fight with the civil servants for a while.
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