Chapter 1661 Daming Palace, if I can win it once, I can win the second time
"Previously, we worked together with the brothers to attack Daming Mansion by surprise and temporarily take over the city. The planning and deployment we made before leaving can now finally be put to great use..."
In the large tent of the Chinese army, Xiao Tangzheng said leisurely. Of course he knew very well that in the original work of Water Margin, Song Jiang listened to Wu Yong's plan to capture Daming Mansion in Beijing, the first place in the Song Dynasty in Hebei Province, and took advantage of the Lantern Festival night to follow the annual pattern.
With the lights brightly lit, the people were first ordered to sneak into the city and ambush them. After setting fire as a signal, they drove the troops outside and cooperated with the outside. This led to the chaos of the army and the people in the city and was able to break it. At that time, there was a temporary alliance with the Shuibo Liangshan Army and Horses commanded by Song Jiang.
, when they jointly conquered the important places in the state capitals supported by Chen Xizhen and even the surrounding officials, he led the heroes from the two mountains of Qingzhou to take down Daming Mansion. It was also the time when Jiao Shiqian laid the first fire in the prosperous building under his own name in Daming Mansion.
The capable brothers sneaked into a familiar city to carry out trouble together, which is also very similar to the method Wu used to outwit the Daming Mansion in the book.
But today is different from the past. The current war situation is far from the first famous city in Hebei, the first famous city in Hebei, which was invaded by the green forest elites in the Song Dynasty. The same trick will not work once and twice. At present, foreign invaders have invaded and regained the lost territory.
In view of the scale of the national war, the Jin army had already closed the city gates tightly, imprisoning the common people so that they could not enter or leave. If they repeat the same trick again, they would instruct some sophisticated leaders to only bring a small number of people to disguise themselves as merchants or traders, or
They were ordinary villagers who pretended to be in the city and were looking for a living. Xiu said that he sneaked into the city without telling the defenders. He was afraid that he would be shot into a sieve when he got to the city gate. This method was no longer possible.
However, Xiao Tang briefly captured Daming Mansion. Although given the situation at that time, it was inconvenient for him to occupy the Song Dynasty city and military state to split the territory and fight with the imperial court to the end. However, Xiao Tang knew very well that once the Jin army followed the official history,
As Lujie marched his army south, Daming Prefecture in Hebei Province would be the first to fall to one of the important prefectures in the Song Dynasty. How could he not have made preparations to take over this important place one day?
After Xiao Tang, Xu Guanzhong, a resourceful confidant who was also from Daming Palace, stepped forward and laid out a map on the table showing the key passes inside and outside Daming Palace and the layout of the city, and then spoke loudly to all the leaders present.
Said: "Although it is also one of the companion capitals of the Song Dynasty, the layout of the city of Damingfu is not as row upon row as Bianliang in Tokyo, with shops and houses, tiles and railings, and high terraces and pavilions scattered at random. Instead, it is based on the Weibo Festival established in the Tang Dynasty.
The city walls were repaired during the Dufan town (since in the Tang Dynasty, Wei Bo Jiedushi Tian Yue formed an alliance with other vassal towns to defy the imperial court and each claimed the king. Tian Yue claimed to be the King of Wei for good omen, so the Weizhou was named as a daimyo, which was used thereafter).
During the Qingli period of the Song Dynasty, although the title was promoted to be the accompanying capital, the layout of the city was still based on the layout of the city in the Tang Dynasty. The streets and alleys in the city were rigorously structured and regular in shape. All city buildings, archways, government offices, academies, temples, residences, and neighborhood houses were distributed in priority.
It is clear, so once you can infiltrate the city, where should you go to attack the enemy's key points first? Many brothers have been in and out of Daming Mansion, and they are also very clear.
The terrain of Daming Mansion is high in the middle and low on the four sides. The center of the cross street in the city is like the back of a turtle. There is a dark passage under the south gate of the city leading to the outer river, just like the head of a turtle. However, the Tatars of the Jin Army and Chen Xizhen's traitor are guarding the city wall, and there is an underground ditch at the water gate in the south of the city.
Even Waihe must also know it well..."
Xu Guanzhong spoke eloquently, cleared his throat, and added: "The underground ditch of the water gate in the south of the city connects the upper water and the lower water of the Zhanghe River. It is just like the topography and water conditions of the two city gates in the east near the Wei River. They are divided.
We moved our troops and horses to the south to avoid the wind, and the three gates of Zhanyi were beating drums, pretending to attack and luring the enemy. As for the place where we built the plank road openly and secretly attacked Chencang, it was located to the west of Daming Mansion in Shati Village.
The site of the old city of Weizhou in the Tang Dynasty..."
After Xu Guanzhong finished speaking, he immediately pointed his finger at the southwest corner of the Damingfu city map. However, when some of the leaders present were listening attentively, Lu Junyi, Yan Qing and other confidant leaders who were from Damingfu looked at each other and nodded, their faces seemed to be filled with confusion.
He showed a knowing smile.
Today, one of the companion capitals of the Song Dynasty was the Weibo Jiedushi vassal town that was co-located with the governor's office in the Tang Dynasty. The original Weizhou is known as the first of the four towns in Heshuo. Although it is not as perimeter as the outer city built in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, it is
It is eighty miles wide, but also stretches for more than forty miles. However, it is precisely because the area that the defenders in the city need to defend is too wide. When Xiao Tang dispatched troops and horses to attack fiercely from the other two directions,
Under normal circumstances, it is difficult for the defenders in the city to cover everything, and the vast outer city area is closely guarded. However, if the defense deployment of Damingfu City and the distribution pattern of the old and new cities are not known clearly, it is difficult to determine the cause of the city.
The main direction of attack that is most suitable for the situation.
However, not only Xiao Tang, Xu Guanzhong, Yan Qing, Lu Junyi and other figures from Daming Mansion, but also all the leaders who had lived and worked in Xiaojiaji for a long time, had a better understanding of the layout of Daming Mansion City than anyone else.
Moreover, the larger the city, the easier it is for people to ignore many deserted and dilapidated remote corners. Only the leader of Xiao Tang's rebel army can choose a suitable location and dig a hole in the ground to open a passage to the outside of the city.
, the more it will be beyond the expectations of the defenders in the city...
What's more, several tunnels that can be sneaked into the dark places of the city from outside the city at a suitable location were concealed when Xiao Tang led his troops to evacuate Daming Mansion. He only ordered a few close friends around him to call on his confidant Yong Jian, and they had already been dug along with the city wall.
Inside and outside, the entrance to the cave is remote and extremely difficult to detect.
Although the method of digging tunnels and escaping into the city walls has been broken, Mozi, the Mohist sage in the pre-Qin period, had already summed it up. Compared with collapsing the city walls and gates, or rushing to attack from the city walls, digging tunnels would be better.
It was too easy to be noticed by the defenders, and it was time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the gains outweighed the losses. Xiao Tang also thought that in the Qing Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom troops only dug the ground and buried firearms and explosives under the city wall, causing the wall to collapse and then led his troops to rush in.
Under the current conditions, the cave siege strategy is not impossible to implement, but it is not necessary. Wherever you can occupy a city first, you have to deliberately open up the passage into the city and wait for the next time to recapture it.
The reason for coming back? The Jin army who was defending the city must not have expected that Xiao Tang, who had occupied Daming Mansion, had secretly made arrangements before sending his troops to evacuate, and had already made plans to recapture this place one day.
The deployment of key areas.
And even if Chen Xizhen was cunning and scheming, when Xiao Tang suddenly attacked Daming Mansion, the Jin Kingdom was still busy occupying the entire Liao Dynasty.
Going south to invade the Song Dynasty. Xiao Tang supposedly said that unless that guy really had the ability to predict the future, how could you know that I would be able to predict the direction of the current situation, and that Daming Mansion would eventually fall into the hands of the Jin people sooner or later?
"Brother Li Zongzheng followed my instructions and went into Daming Mansion disguised as ordinary people for a long time. After several secret exchanges of letters, he never reported that the people in the city coincided with the Jin army's soldiers and horses, but he glanced at the southwest side of Daming Mansion.
Those hidden secret passages in the old city... have been there for a long time, and now they are pretending to attack from both sides. If they secretly send troops and horses to sneak into the city, they will definitely be able to kill those guys by surprise..."
Xiao Tang first chanted in a low voice, then stood up and said loudly: "Now that the army has been set, all the generals and subordinates have gathered their troops and horses, waiting for me to dispatch the orders. We will set off now, no need