During the day, Jinyang Palace is full of splendor and splendor. If you can calm down and visit carefully, you will be dazzled by the magnificent palaces and ingenious decorations and will never leave.
Of course, Li Tai does not have such a leisurely mood now. The harvests piled up inside and outside the hall have already made him elated. Although he had known that the situation in the Eastern Wei Dynasty was much better than that in the Western Wei Dynasty, when the gap was really before his eyes.
At that time, I still gave myself a big shock in Jinyang.
Gold, silver, jewelry, and other tacky things can really be carried on trucks. The warehouses are also full of silks and satins. There are several rows in the warehouse alone, and more than a dozen Gao Aocao may not be able to take them all. As for the value of those things
The incalculable exotic treasures are also dazzling and countless.
Of course, the most valuable thing at the moment is the military supplies reserves. Just thousands of fine armors of different regulations and styles have been found. This is what is left in the inventory after allocating it to the army.
If they had arrived here before Gao Huan's army went to Yubi, the amount of ordnance and supplies accumulated would have been even more unimaginable. Of course, if Li Tai had come here at that time, he would have been simply tired of living.
Jinyang Palace has many palace slaves working here, so it also stores a lot of food and pickles. There is no need to worry about being stuck here in the short term. When checking the palace, we even found a place where food and pickles were stored.
There is a warehouse with a large amount of coal and a wide variety of material storage. It can be said that the idea is very thorough.
In addition to the harvest of these materials, another thing that made Li Tai happy was the captured people. These men and women were definitely not ordinary laborers, but craftsmen each with their own skills, making bows, forging swords.
, tailor-made leather goods, military uniforms and armors, polishing and maintenance, etc., all kinds of military industry categories are available.
For example, the Sutie sword that Lady Miaoyin gave to her as a gift to her father-in-law, not to mention those confiscated from the arsenal, several of the captured craftsmen were proficient in the technique of filling steel with Sutie, and they all had rich forging experience.
No matter in any era, talents are the most precious. If these craftsmen, who represent the pinnacle of various skills nowadays, can be packed and brought back to Guanzhong, the harvest will be countless times more valuable than the captured materials. With these craftsmen, there will be a steady stream of resources.
Continuously create wealth!
Of course, if you want to truly be safe, you must resist the counterattack of the remaining troops of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and successfully escape.
However, Li Tai is not worried about this. At this moment, his heart is filled with the consciousness of "people will die for wealth and birds will die for food." Even if he is fighting to the death with his life and blood, he will never give up the things he has captured.
Personnel and resources!
At dawn, when the night gradually faded, various noises and noises could be heard around Jinyang Palace. It was nothing more than the troops left behind in the nearby city surrounding the place and preparing to counterattack.
After some running and tossing, Li Tai's soldiers were now exhausted. After collecting the personnel and materials in the palace, they took the time to cook and eat, and took turns to guard and rest in batches.
The sky had just brightened, and the sound of attacks sounded from all sides of Jinyang Palace at almost the same time. Jinyang soldiers who were mobilized from all sides climbed in along the ladder and quickly rushed into the palace in groups.
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Li Tai followed Liang Shiyan's suggestion and did not completely disperse his troops among the palaces and rooms in an attempt to defend the entire Jinyang Palace. Instead, he focused on defending the three palaces in the northwest corner of the palace. However, there were also settings between the palaces and alleys.
Many obstacles are added to increase the difficulty of the attacker's advancement.
There were many wood and stone debris piled up in front of the gate at the end of a palace road. After a group of Eastern Wei troops rushed in, they were ordered by the soldier commander to quickly clear these obstacles.
When the soldiers moved forward to move the debris, they found that the wood and stones were all wet and slippery. When they peeled off the surface and looked down, they found several earthen jars containing ointment. They suddenly felt something bad and hurriedly shouted a warning:
"This place is full of grease, beware of thieves using fire..."
As soon as he finished speaking, several rockets shot straight from the gate. Sparks flew out immediately after hitting the debris. The debris that had been soaked in grease immediately burned, and the heat waves emitted by the raging fire went straight to both sides.
It swept away, making it almost difficult to stand in this long and narrow alley.
"Back off, back off!"
Because they saw the opportunity early, the soldiers of the Eastern Wei Dynasty who rushed in were able to withdraw in time without causing any casualties. However, seeing that the pile of debris was on fire fiercely, this long alley became impassable in a short time.
When Gao Yue and She Di Qian, who were responsible for supervising the war between the north and the south, saw the billowing smoke rising from the palace, their expressions changed and they hurriedly ordered: "Attack quickly, attack quickly! Put out the fire quickly, don't let it spread and burn the palace!"
It was already a sin for them to be careless and the enemy invaded Jinyang Palace. If they allowed the enemy to burn the palace and garden to the ground, it would be an even greater sin.
Therefore, the soldiers who entered the palace city first did not want to find the enemy to fight and expel them, but first found the water channels, sand and other fire prevention materials in the palace city, and first established a fire prevention isolation zone around the fire.
After such busy work, the fire points scattered among the palaces and rooms were basically controlled, and it was already three o'clock in the morning. Then they began to assemble in some open areas in the palace city, and then attacked several palace courtyards where the thieves were still guarding.
Kill.
The construction of Jinyang Palace is indeed magnificent and magnificent, making people admire it at first sight. However, it has now become an obstacle for the soldiers of the Eastern Wei Dynasty. The twists and turns of the palace roads and lanes completely limit the attack route. From time to time, there are towers overhead.
Flying stones and cold arrows fell down, and every winding intersection was a pass. The enemy only needed a few men to occupy this pass, and they could block the attacking men.
Although these Jinyang soldiers are very capable, with a sense of shame and courage, and are more fearless than usual, it is still very difficult to move forward.
In the outer passage of a palace courtyard guarded by the enemy, under the defensive counterattack of strong bows, powerful arrows, and strong armor and sharp blades, corpses had been piled up several feet high, and the stone steps in the alley were covered with a thick layer of
The thick plasma makes it difficult to stand upright as if walking in a muddy swamp.
Although the defenders suffered fewer casualties than the attackers, the physical burden was enormous. Some soldiers could hardly stand on their own after being withdrawn from the front line.
This kind of street fighting without any tricks is the ultimate squeeze on human physical strength and will. It is true that Li Tai's troops were in a desperate situation and would die if they did not fight, and the performance of the Jinyang soldiers on the attacking side was worthy of their reputation, even though they had already
There were heavy casualties, but as long as the commander gave the order, he would continue to charge forward without hesitation.
This high-intensity battle lasted from morning to evening. The attacking Jinyang soldiers lost at least a thousand lives, and there were countless wounded. Li Tai's side also lost hundreds of people, mostly
Even the veteran Zhu Meng, who died while resisting the opponent's desperate offensive, was hacked twice by the enemy because he was too selfless in the fight.
In the end, the area where the two sides fought was too bloody and cruel. Even if other troops came to attack, the stacks of flesh and blood corpses would frighten the people and demoralize them. The Eastern Wei troops had no choice but to temporarily retreat, and also
Station yourself in the palace to prevent the enemy from destroying other palaces at night.
Because the march was so smooth, Li Tai couldn't help but secretly despise the Eastern Wei army. After the day's battle, he couldn't help but sigh that the reason why he and his party achieved this step was mainly because of their unexpected plan and victory.
It's luck, not the fact that the Eastern Wei people are really vulnerable, these old town soldiers are really good at it.
The battle during the day was too fierce. The more than two thousand people under his command took turns going into battle and resting for more than ten times. The frequency of the cycle became faster towards the end. If they had not received sufficient ordnance supplies from Jinyang Palace, they would have
In addition, the opponent seems to be attacking fiercely, but in fact he is afraid of using an offensive method that is too destructive. He may not be able to persist all day long.
In the evening, most of the soldiers were exhausted. Taking advantage of the retreat of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, Li Tai directly abandoned a palace to reduce the defensive pressure, and captured some of the soldiers who were disabled and in serious decline.
The personnel were transported outside the city, and the troops stationed at the Xishan Passage were replenished into the city.
The distance between Jinyang Palace and the mountain wall of Xishan Mountain is only a few feet wide, and in order to prevent people from peering into the palace, the mountain ridge is difficult to climb. Li Tai ordered people to remove the buildings in the palace on both sides of the road.
In addition to the defensive offensive that was more than ten feet high, the waste pile was piled up. Although the enemy troops came to attack, they were repulsed under the flanking attack from both the palace castle and the mountain road.
At this time, they were transporting personnel and supplies outside the palace city under the eyes of the Eastern Wei Army. This was undoubtedly a great provocation, and immediately more men and horses approached.
But Li Tai also felt the effectiveness of fire attack. He had already gathered the ointment, paint, pine oil and other materials collected in the palace. At this time, when he saw the enemy approaching, he threw them to both sides, using the power of fire
Push back the enemy and speed up transportation.
He is not worried that the enemy will do the opposite. Jinyang Palace does not belong to him anyway, and the enemies obviously do not dare to set fire to it.
At this time, outside the palace, Shedi Qian and Gao Yue were relatively speechless after meeting. They both felt that their enemies had brought them to this point. They were really full of resentment. But it was useless to worry about what they were doing right now.
There is no help, we can only seriously discuss how to eliminate this bandit army.
When they learned that the enemy was transporting personnel and materials to Xishan Mountain, Shedigan and Gao Yue both frowned. Although Xishan Mountain Mountain had undulating mountains and rugged roads, it was not suitable for large numbers of people to travel in and out.
But if the enemy enters the Xishan area, they will have to expand the scope of the encirclement and pursuit, and they will inevitably invest more troops. Gao Yue had ordered to summon the powerful tribes here last night, and gathered more than 5,000 people in total. After all,
Many generals followed King Gao southward with their troops, and not many of them stayed in Jinyang.
Although these more than 5,000 powerful and powerful soldiers are a big supplement, they are still not enough to effectively block Xishan.
It is obviously too late to send orders for reinforcements from other areas, so we can only recruit and enslave the strong men and criminals on the spot. Only in this way can we ensure that this bandit army is intercepted and annihilated!
But Shedigan was still hesitant about this, and frowned and said: "The former recruited the Hu people in Beishan and did not achieve any merit. Now if we recruit many miscellaneous soldiers who are difficult to obey orders, I am afraid the situation will be even worse!"
"The Grand Master and I stayed behind. If such a bad situation occurs, we will inevitably be held responsible, and we can't expect to be exempted. But if we allow the thieves to cause trouble and then retreat calmly, you and I will not be guilty enough.
Redeem!"
Gao Yue naturally understood that doing so was suspected of seeking medical treatment in a hurry, but when things got to this point, they didn't have much choice. They could only save some face by annihilating the invading enemies, so they sighed again:
"The thieves were able to accurately attack Jinyang Palace, which shows that there must be an insider who is familiar with the situation. Although the Western Mountain is rugged, we should not imagine that the thieves can be trapped and difficult to escape just by relying on the mountains."
After hearing this, Shedigan couldn't help but sigh. The reason why the thieves invaded Jinyang Palace was mainly due to his negligence in defense arrangements. Now it is difficult to recapture it.
Therefore, at the moment, we can no longer look forward and backward. The right plan is to race against time. So he said: "The military affairs here are entrusted to the governor, and I will recruit soldiers from all sides for my own use."
At the same time, seeing the first batch of personnel resources successfully transferred to Xishan, Li Tai was secretly glad in his heart. Seeing whether they could be taken away was definitely one of the most painful things.
The great hero Luo Chao strode forward again, clasped his fists at Li Tai and said: "Li Kaifu's troops are indeed very brave and brave. With such an offensive by the East Thieves, it is difficult to shake the army. But here, after all,
This is the lair of thieves, and we are all alone. If we can recruit a group of helpers, we will have a greater chance of getting out of trouble safely!"
"What can General Luo teach me? I will definitely listen attentively!"
When Li Tai heard what Luo Chao said, he immediately said with an enthusiastic and expectant smile.
"Foreword: A certain person once supervised the prisoners of war from Kansai to work here, and learned from the palace slaves here that most of these laborers were sent south to the Jinci Temple. I know that there are many loyal people among them who want to return to the west, but they are trapped in the
If there is no one to guide us, we can’t do it. If we can take advantage of this opportunity to gather people together, we can not only strengthen our current power, but also help them return to their country with righteousness!”
When Luo Chao said this, he said to Li Tai confidently: "Although I am not talented, I am somewhat popular among other people. If Kaifu is willing to send an envoy to go, I will bring these volunteers back."
Help in the fight!"
After Li Tai pondered for a moment, he bowed to Luo Chao and said: "I am really lucky to be able to work with General Luo here. The general has such enthusiasm, so why worry about not being able to accomplish anything!"
As he spoke, he assigned dozens of elite soldiers to escort Luo Chao, and sorted out some valuable belongings to carry with him to gather people's hearts.
Regardless of whether what Luo Chao said was true or not, even if he wanted to escape, if he alone led Li Tai and his party to Jinyang Palace, Li Tai would still accept his love and be willing to let him go.