It was just getting dark that day, and the lights in the Huang Mansion were brightly lit. In the main hall, there was a table of good wine and food. Huang Kui and his eldest son Huang Ying entered the hall together with a military general in his thirties, who looked like a tiger and a bear.
sit down.
"The food and wine are shabby. Brother Ma, why don't you ask for a meal?"
This brother Ma was Ma You, and he immediately replied: "Mr. Huang, you are too polite. The Sizhou Army is currently in the outer city. Although there is no need to worry about rice and noodles in the city, there is less and less meat. You have wine and meat here, and there are
If there are so many good dishes, if they are simple, then I, old Ma, can't bear to be so simple every day." After speaking, Ma You politely picked up the wine bottle, took a few sips, and then picked up the chopsticks to pick up the dishes.
He put several pieces of meat into his mouth and started chewing it. While eating, he said: "Enjoyed, enjoyable!"
"It's been hard for me to hold a tooth ceremony in the past two days, but I'm so slanderous. Don't blame me for being vulgar, Mr. Huang!"
Seeing Ma You's appearance like this, Huang Kui's heart moved, and she stopped what she had thought of before and said, "Brother Ma, couldn't it be that he hasn't had any meat or wine in the past few days?"
"To be honest, sir, I haven't tasted meat for five days." This was the most painful ordeal for Ma You, who loves meat. Ma You took another piece of braised pork and put it in his mouth.
The non-greasy braised pork was cooked just right, making him sigh with satisfaction.
"Impossible, who doesn't know that you, Ma You, are the favorite general of the King of Song Dynasty, in charge of the patrol at the east gate, and you can't get any delicacies. Could it be that you are tired of eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, and you come here deliberately to entertain your brother." Huang Kui said with a pretended disbelief on his face.
Ma You drank again, and drank a few sips of wine, "I'm not going to lie to you. Sir, it's not that I don't know, the King of Song has issued a strict order, and the city gate is not allowed to be opened without the king's order. And I am only in charge of the east gate.
Patrolling, the patrolling at the north gate is a reminder..." Ma You made a gesture, and everyone knew what it meant.
"I've been so greedy these days that I can't help but want to kill a horse!"
There was a solemn look on Huang Nian's face: "I didn't expect that the city would be in such short supply." Then with a sad look on his face, he said, "How can it happen if this goes on for a long time?"
"Hey, why are you so idle? You have to live one day at a time. The battle now is not about Yongxing City, but Zhu Shuai in Linhe. The Jin army is the courage of the Sizhou army. As long as Zhu Shuai can defeat the Jin army,
The siege of Yongxing City was resolved without a fight."
"But there are 200,000 Jin troops, three times the strength of Zhu Shuai's troops. It's not easy for Zhu Shuai to defeat the Jin thieves!"
There was also a touch of bitterness on Ma You's face. Yes, three times the military strength. "Then it depends on Zhu Shuai's ability. I hope he can create another miracle..." But the reason why a miracle is a miracle is that it happens.
The possibility is very small, and the number of occurrences is very small. If it occurs more often, and it can appear before dangerous moments, then is a miracle still a miracle?
Huang Kui didn't say any more explicit words. He felt that Ma You still had a glimmer of hope in his heart. But he drank the wine until late at night. Ma You returned home happily. In the next few days, Huang Kui drank almost every day.
Taking Ma You to drink will only stop if Ma You really can't get away.
Just as Huang Kui and Ma You were getting closer and closer, bad news came again from the Song Army on the southern front. The imperial court sent an additional 300,000 troops to Dong'an, attacking day and night, and Jinniu Pass was in danger.
At the same time, Jiazhou, which had been silent on the western front, seemed to have unified its thinking and made up its mind to ride 50,000 men to attack Yonglong. The main force of the Song army is now concentrated in Dong'an, Yongxing and Linhe.
Not to mention soldiers, most of them were militiamen. Both their combat effectiveness and morale were at their weakest stage. Many Song soldiers did not have a decent set of armor and their weapons were old. As soon as they came into contact, the Yonglong Song Army was completely defeated. The counties were almost completely destroyed.
They surrendered to the Jiazhou Army on a large scale without resistance. Fifty thousand Jiazhou cavalry marched into Kaizhou. The most common thing they did was to collect prisoners.
For ordinary Song army officers and soldiers, they joined the army just to protect the country and the people, but this wish was almost never realized except for a period of time at the beginning. Both the Jin army and the imperial prince's army were defeated by the Song army.
Later, all the veterans of the local county and national soldiers were mobilized, and many of the newly added militiamen could not even form a queue.
How can such an army fight? Now that the Jiazhou Army is coming, how can anyone from top to bottom think of resisting in this situation? Even if a small number of people want to resist, they are drowned in the trend of most of the Song Army who want to surrender.
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The Jiazhou Army entering Kaizhou is more like marching than fighting. They can keep advancing at a speed of about sixty or seventy miles every day. If they were not hindered by being captured and accepting local towns, their advancing speed would be completely
Can be faster.
Outside Yunmen County, groups of Song Army soldiers filed out of the city, threw their weapons on the ground, and then swarmed toward the rear of the Jiazhou Army. There were two passages for them to go, and the one on the left was the one returning to the Jiazhou Army.
The family is a commoner, and the one on the right continues to be a soldier.
The Jiazhou Army, which has almost occupied Yonglong County, does not want to leave most of its soldiers and horses to guard it, so it is the best choice to organize local men and strong men to serve as guards.
Yunmen County is the easternmost part of Yonglong County and the west gate of Yongxing County. The occupation of this area means that Yongxing City has completely become an isolated island in the central and northern parts of Kaizhou.
Although they had always been in danger, the top brass of the Song Army were still greatly shocked after the news reached Yongxing City.
Because of this, a more direct manifestation is that the enemy troops under Yongxing City will increase to 150,000.
The enemy had five times the number of troops in the city and was able to attack with force.
That night, in Huang Mansion.
"Come on, brother, let me toast you. Drink."
It was getting dark that day, and Huang Kui invited Ma You to his home for a drink as usual. After these days of interaction, the friendship between the two has deepened to a new level, and they have already become brothers.
Ma You, who usually drank from the glass, did not pick up the glass. Instead, his face showed a look of confusion. He sighed sadly: "Brother Huang, thanks to your banquet these days, if there is anything you need from me, Ma You,
We only have time tonight. If we miss tonight, I’m afraid I won’t have the chance to repay you.”
Ma You was not a fool. He knew that a person like Huang Kui would not invite him to drink every day for no reason. He must have something to ask for. However, because he had no hope for the future, he let him take it one day at a time.
Huang Cui didn't mention the abacus and didn't open his mouth, so he was happy to pretend to be confused.
But today is different. After tonight, his whole army will be merged into the East Gate, and the position of the East Gate patrol will be replaced by a group of soldiers of the King of Song. Naturally, Ma You did not expect that what Huang Kui wanted to do was to persuade him to rebel.
Instead, he thought that Huang Kui had something to do at the east gate. Now he didn't want to keep the matter in his heart anymore, so he simply brought it up himself.
"Brother, what are you talking about? I invited you to drink just to get along with you. I have no intention of taking advantage of you. In this way, I will do it first as a courtesy to you, brother, and I wish you to make new achievements in Dongpingmen." Who is Huang Kui? Ma You
How could he not know about the change of position?
"Really not?"
"Really not."
Although Ma You still had doubts in his heart, looking at the determined look on Huang Kui's face, he didn't want to argue anymore. He picked up the wine glass and drank the wine in one gulp. Huang Kui's son was on duty tonight.
There was no companionship. Huang Kui and Ma You went back and forth, and soon the small jar of wine was empty. Compared with the past, the drink was a bit boring. It only lasted about half an hour, and Ma You got up to tell his wife.
Went.
After sending Ma You away and returning to the living room, Huang Kui saw Jiang Yunfan already waiting there. Before Huang Kui could speak first, Jiang Yunfan asked: "How is the heat?"
"I still owe a little." Huang Kui couldn't get any words of dissatisfaction from Ma You tonight, which was a pity. But then he asked in confusion: "Brother Yunfan, I think the time is almost ripe, why don't you let me
Let’s have a look first?”
Persuading someone to surrender is a subtle effort that requires little effort. Huang Kui felt that he could conduct the test.
Jiang Yunfan shook his head: "No, the time is not ripe yet. Let's wait until he gets to the east gate." According to the news sent from outside the city, Ming's army will take advantage of the Jiazhou Army's incoming force to launch a feint attack, and the location will be the same.
At Dongpingmen.
"But if he is unlucky and dies on the city wall tomorrow, all my hard work will be in vain."
"It shouldn't be that unlucky. If he really dies or is disabled, then it can only be considered a misfortune for him. The worst we can do is find someone else. But if you tell him now, if it doesn't go well, it will cost you and me our lives."
There is no guarantee." Jiang Yunfan said calmly.
Huang Kui thought about it carefully and had to admit that Jiang Yunfan thought more carefully than he did, and it was not Jiang Yunfan's unilateral fear of death.
Because even if Ma You surrenders now, without news from outside the city, it will be of no benefit to the court for the time being. On the contrary, if Ma You goes to Dongping Gate, he will be suppressed by the army outside the city and beat violently, and it will be very difficult to persuade him to surrender.
will be greatly reduced.
Early the next morning.
The Sizhou army was dispatched outside the city. The east wall of Yongxing City was six miles wide, and the urn city was located in the middle, still enclosed. It was generally in the shape of a semicircular bow, two hundred paces wide, and nearly one hundred feet in diameter.
The heavy shield car creaked and arched towards the east city wall, followed by five thousand heavy shield soldiers, sword players, spearmen, broadsword soldiers, etc. The sound of neat footsteps was deafening. It was almost unstoppable, fifty
With the cooperation of five hundred heavy shield soldiers and five hundred sword players, a shield chariot turned into a mountain made of steel fifty steps away from the east city wall. Despite the rain of arrows from the Song army on top of the city, the bed fell.
Crossbow, the big yellow crossbow is like flying, standing steadily in the endless rain of arrows.
The ‘big mountain’ blocked the Dongping Gate, blocking the possible attack by the Song Army. So, the large equipment of the Sizhou Army was dispatched.
There were still fifty large Pili chariots, all of which were uniform, moving slowly from the rear of the Sizhou Army to a distance of 200 steps from the east city wall. In front of each large Pili chariot, there was a strong and steady shield protecting it.
car.
At a distance of two hundred steps, the walking bow and the powerful crossbow no longer pose any threat. Although the big yellow crossbow has a long range, it is still considered an 'individual' weapon after all. Its effectiveness in destroying siege equipment is far behind that of the bed crossbow.
Therefore, these shield chariots, which can withstand great force and remain unwavering, are the best tools to protect the thunder chariots. Previously, Zhu Biao ordered heavy shield soldiers and sculls to support in front of the thunder chariots. It was completely light chariots pulling heavy artillery.
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At Chen time, the Sizhou Army's "siege" began... (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)
