Chapter 286: With officials in charge, who dares to act recklessly?
Guo Cheng also captured more than 100 party cavalrymen, tied them up, and divided them into four teams, giving them to Wu Jie, Wu Lin, Yang Zaixing and himself.
When he planned to attack the remaining defenders of Zhejianghui, he first asked the prisoners to shout and inform the remaining Dangxiang defenders in the city that the East City had been captured by the Song army and that the commander of Zhejianghui, Xi Fengman Niu, had been killed in the battle. With this,
Achieve a strategy that focuses on attacking the heart.
Sure enough, Guo Cheng's four-pronged army launched an attack in Zhejianghui City, so it caught the remaining Xixia defenders off guard. Coupled with the shouts of those surrendering troops who had sharp steel knives held on their necks,
This made the defenders in the west, south and north of Zhejianghui City and the guards in the military camp in the city panic. After only making symbolic resistance, they saw that the Song army was powerful and they suffered heavy casualties, so they threw their weapons away one after another.
Unarmed, knelt on the ground and surrendered...
In the Battle of Zhejianghui, the Song army killed more than 1,000 enemies and captured more than 900 Xixia generals. More than 100 party cavalrymen and small colonels were defeated and fled from the city...
The Song army seized more than 900 uninjured war horses, more than two weapons such as swords and guns, more than 2,000 bows, and more than 50,000 arrows.
When the Song army was cleaning the battlefield, they brought back more than 400 dead horses and more than 300 seriously injured horses. According to the military order of the commander-in-chief Guo Cheng, these dead horses and the seriously injured horses that could not survive the treatment or were disabled even after the treatment.
Distribute the soup pots equally to all the subordinates of the Song Army to reward the three armies...
Open several granaries in Zhejiang Club and get three thousand dan of grain!
One stone is equal to ten buckets. One stone is equal to one hundred and twenty kilograms.
It was impossible to bring all this food with the army, so Guo Cheng temporarily used Zhejianghui as a grain storage warehouse for the Song army.
As for the five oxcarts filled with silver and other property that were brought into the city by Yang Zaixing and other twenty-one Wu Jinshi who had previously disguised themselves as Song merchants and were snatched away by the Xixia soldiers, they were also recovered.
The housekeeper also became a prisoner of the Song army.
Guo Cheng also ordered to send troops to quickly repair the damaged East City Gate and the East City Wall that had been blown into gaps; Zhejianghui implemented temporary control, and no one was allowed to enter or exit the city without authorization from the General of the Song Army...
In Zhejianghui City, notices were posted to calm the people.
Guo Cheng sent troops to publicize along the streets that the reason why the Song army attacked the city was that Xi Feng Man Niu, the commander of Zhejiang Hui, robbed the property of Song merchants and led others to sabotage the peace negotiations between Song and Xia, which triggered the Song-Xia war.
Don't worry, merchants and merchants. The Song Dynasty officials and soldiers are benevolent and righteous troops and will never disturb the people...
Guo Cheng also ordered his soldiers to notify the 3,000 residents and hundreds of businesses in Zhejianghui City, requiring each household to send at least one representative to gather in the square of the original barracks of Zhejianghui at Unity Time today.
The order cuts...
At the end of the Shen Dynasty, more than 3,000 local residents and more than 400 businessmen gathered early in the square of Zhejianghui's former military camp of Xifeng Manniu...
The more than 3,400 people who came after hearing the order were all adult men.
This is also easy to understand. After all, Zhejianghui had just been conquered by the Song Army. Although the Song Army's notices of strict military discipline and never disturbing the people were posted in conspicuous places in the city, they even heard that the Song Army had hired many people who could speak Chinese.
In the local language and Dangxiang, he acted as a translator and publicized on the streets that the Song Army General Qiu had committed no crimes...
However, how could the residents of Xixia Zhejianghui dare to believe this under the cloud of war?
The reason why each family sent an adult man to attend the meeting was because they were afraid that the soldiers of the Song Dynasty would do something inappropriate when they saw the eldest daughter and daughter-in-law of their family...
Three years ago, when the Song Dynasty and Xia Dynasty were at war, the Xixia troops under Xi Feng Man Niu's army, after attacking the cities on the border of the Song Dynasty, snatched back many of the eldest girls and wives of the Han family...
However, the Song army under Guo Cheng's army invaded Zhejianghui City. So far, it is true that they have not burned, killed, looted, raped, and raped the women in the city like the Xixia army under Xifeng Manniu after they broke into the city.
This made the merchants and people in Xixia City all admire the Song Army's strict military discipline.
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At Youshi, the veteran general Guo Cheng, who was wearing a helmet and wearing armor, led Wu Jie, Wu Jie, Yang Zaixing and other martial scholars, and under the protection of a thousand soldiers, appeared in the square of the Xixia military camp in Zhejianghui.
Guo Chengrang translated and announced in Dangxiang dialect to the people and business representatives in the city who came here that the reason why the Song Dynasty sent troops was because the Xixia soldiers had broken the peace treaty first. The Song army had strict military discipline and the people and businessmen must not panic...
Then, Guo Cheng asked his soldiers to hang the dead body of Xi Feng Man Niu, the commander of the Xixia Zhejiang Hui, on a high place, so that the people and businessmen in the city would know about the Xi Feng Man Niu who was the chief culprit in sabotaging the Song-Xia peace talks.
Already executed...
The Xixia people who came here were horrified when they saw the corpse of the famous Xifeng Man Niu.
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Guo Cheng ordered: Strictly guard the city gate of Zhejianghui. Our army will rest in this city for a day, waiting for the follow-up army to come and join forces.
That night, Guo Cheng followed the ingenious plan of Emperor Zhao Guan of the Song Dynasty and tied hundreds of messages with the same content that he had already written, tied around the necks of the prisoners, and handed them to the party merchants who wanted to go out.
The general content of this statement is:
"The Xixia Kingdom betrayed its alliance, and Zhejianghui commanded Xi Feng Man Niu to rob the Song merchants, and sent troops to attack the Song soldiers, causing the Song Dynasty to go to war with Xia. It was all the Xia Kingdom's own fault..."
Veteran general Guo Cheng looked at the hundreds of Xixia army prisoners tied up. If he had his intention, it could be said that the two countries of Song and Xia had been at war for several years three years ago. He hated Xixia's Dangxiang soldiers and wanted to kill them.
Drop them.
However, in the Zhao Guan family's clever plan, they asked Guo Cheng to break through the first Xixia city, seize the weapons of the captured prisoners, and let them release them out of the city and return with a message from the Song Dynasty to send troops to attack the ruthless Xixia Kingdom.
Xixia Kingdom...
Guo Cheng knew that this was a tactic by Zhao Guan's family to gain the upper hand, but he was a little unwilling to let go of these Xixia prisoners in vain.
Your orders cannot be violated.
However, the veteran general Guo Cheng showed some flexibility. Before he sent out troops, he invited a blacksmith to make more than ten engraved irons.
The soldering irons are engraved with small characters that look like seals, and they are written in Chinese characters and party items.
When hot irons half the size of a palm were pressed against the faces of captured Xixia soldiers, the pungent smell of burnt flesh and green smoke floated into the air, and the screams were extremely harsh...
"Ahhhh..."
"Ahhhh..."
"Ahhhh..."
When the iron was removed from the faces of the captured Xixia soldiers, their left and right faces were printed with Chinese characters and party items respectively:
[The Xia army betrayed the alliance and robbed the Song merchants; the Song army attacked them and released the prisoners in a righteous manner!]
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Guo Cheng did not release these prisoners of war immediately, but kept them under strict guard in the army for future use.
Guo Chengxiu wrote two letters.
A military report was sent to Han Shizhong's troops, telling them that they had found an excuse to go to war with Xixia. The Song army had conquered Zhejianghui, allowing Han Shizhong and his troops to cross the border and attack the hinterland of Xixia.
The other letter was a secret report. He wrote down everything that happened here in detail and prepared to forward it to Zhao Guan's family...
"Report!"
At this time, the reporting officer entered the Chinese army's tent and reported to Guo Cheng:
"The Emperor of the Song Dynasty has arrived in the northwest in person and was conducting a military parade at the Western Military Division's Road Department two days ago..."
When veteran general Guo Cheng heard this, he was extremely surprised: Zhao Guan's family came to the northwest to inspect the Western Army. So, Zhao Guan's family was stationed in the northwest, I led the army to attack Xixia, and Han Shizhong led the army deep into the hinterland of Xixia. There were no commanders and commanders of the various armies in the Western Army.
We must be able to unite sincerely, not daring to undermine each other behind our backs, and not daring to die without saving each other again...
Guo Cheng immediately stopped the messenger and changed his words: "This route is secret and there is no need to send it to the capital. It was quickly sent to the army of Prime Minister Lao Zhonglue overnight and handed over to the emperor Zhao Guan's family!"
"Follow orders..."
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Half a month ago, Zhao Ji led his envoy Zhang Jun, Wu Jinshi Yue Fei, Wu Jie and others to leave the capital in Guo Cheng. On the fourth day after Zhao Ji led his trusted ministers and two princes, Zhao Kai and Zhao Gou, to
Under the protection of official guards, Qianhuang City Secretary took more than ten official boats and left Bianhe River to go north...
Zhao Ji did not come to veteran Guo Cheng's barracks first because he had far-reaching considerations...