The first thousand two hundred and forty-eight chapters change in Jincheng
Zhu Tao also knew that his time was short. In order to prevent his two sons from killing each other after his death, he decided to divide his inheritance into two, leaving Yingzhou and the original Andong Protectorate to his eldest son Zhu Ling.
Silla gave its third son Zhu Ye, which undoubtedly inspired Zhu Ye's enthusiasm to conquer Silla.
From the beginning of spring, Zhu Ye led his army to attack Silla on a large scale. In order to motivate his soldiers, Zhu Ye promised to loot every city he captured for three days. This promise made the morale of Zhu Ye's army high, and they worked extremely hard on the battlefield.
Attacking the city and plundering the stronghold is unstoppable.
In just a few months, they occupied most of Silla and marched to Jinzhou City.
Zhu Ye's 100,000-strong army was mainly composed of Mohe, Goguryeo, Xi and Khitan people, with almost no Han people. This was because there were only a few Han people in Liaodong, with only a few hundred thousand people in Yingzhou. They were the foundation of Zhu Tao and his son in Liaodong.
, Zhu Tao did not want to lose his Han roots, so he divided the army into the Han Army and the Donghu Army. Thirty thousand Han troops were stationed in Yingzhou and Andong Protectorate, commanded by his eldest son Zhu Ling, and did not participate in the Silla War.
The 70,000 Donghu Army was responsible for attacking Silla, and was led by the third son Zhu Ye. After eight years of attacking Silla, the Donghu Army became more and more fierce as the war continued, increasing from 70,000 to the current 100,000, becoming a powerful cornerstone for Zhu Ye to strive for hegemony in Silla.
Zhu Ye was not without political acumen. On the contrary, his political ideas were very clear. He wanted to build a tower-shaped dynasty with himself and his sons as the top rulers, Khitan and Mohe as the backbone, and Silla people as slaves.
The Silla Dynasty was also a tower-shaped dynasty, with bones as the ruling class and the people at the bottom as slaves. Then Zhu Ye only needed to kill all the other party's ruling class, and then continue to enslave the other party's bottom people, forming a perfect
Replacement.
His idea was strongly supported by his soldiers. They made huge profits by following Zhu Ye. Each of them had several or a dozen women, a lot of wealth and houses, but no one thought he had too many women.
No one thinks that their wealth is enough.
Especially the capital city of Silla, where 70% of the wealth of the Silla Dynasty is concentrated here, including countless beautiful women, countless gold and silver treasures, silk and silk, countless exquisite houses, and even more natural resources.
slave.
The one hundred thousand troops have never been so eager to conquer a city as they are today. They are like a group of hungry jackals, attacking Jinzhou City day and night. The morale of the defenders is low and the casualties are huge.
But thanks to Zhu Ye's army's backward siege weapons, tens of thousands of defenders and hundreds of thousands of civilians were able to barely hold on to the city. But even so, the city was crumbling, like the last piece of dead wood hanging on a tree in a violent storm.
Ye, it's only a matter of time before the city is captured.
The regent Jin Yansheng is about forty years old. He has fair skin, a thin face, and is very well maintained. He looks like he is in his thirties. Ten years ago, Jin Yansheng's eldest brother, King Jin Junyong of Silla, died of illness. The thirteen-year-old prince
Jin Qingming ascended the throne and Jin Yansheng became the regent.
Power is the most seductive drug in the world. The taste of controlling power has penetrated into Jin Yansheng's bones. It is impossible for him to hand over power to his nephew Jin Qingming again. Even if his nephew is already twenty-three years old, the uncle and nephew have been together for several years.
The power struggle of the Silla Dynasty has caused the Silla ruling class to split, seriously affecting the Silla Dynasty's ability to concentrate its efforts on dealing with the invasion of Zhu Tao's army.
The morale of the Silla army was low and they were retreating steadily on the battlefield. This was also directly related to the power struggle between their uncles and nephews. Without rewards for military achievements, lack of morale, and lack of money and food, how could the Silla army remain undefeated?
Jin Yansheng faintly heard the sound of war drums outside the city, and he was really upset for a while. He was not unaware of the serious crisis that Silla was facing now. He also knew the only rescue method, which was to ask for help from the Tang Dynasty, but...
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Jin Yansheng was really regretful. Last year, under the persuasion of his brother Jin Tiyong, he made a foolish move and actually sent an assassin to assassinate King Guo Song of Jin. He wanted to trigger chaos in the Central Plains and make Zhu Tao turn around and attack the Central Plains to resolve the Silla War.
Danger, euphemistically called: Disaster water diverts to the west.
But Jin Yansheng realized now that this was the stupidest mistake, and it would probably end up ruining the Silla Kingdom.
There is no news at all now, and even normal news exchanges have been interrupted. It is very likely that the intelligence station in Chang'an was destroyed. Once the assassination failed, how could Guo Song not know that it was them?
The delay in providing them with assistance from the Tang Dynasty was most likely related to the assassination.
Not long ago, Jin Yansheng specially sent someone to send his brother's two daughters to Xiongjin City to take a Tang Dynasty merchant ship to Chang'an. He hoped to use these two princesses to calm the anger of King Jin and ease the crisis caused by his assassination.
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Now that Xiongzhou has also fallen into the hands of thieves, I wonder if these two princesses will be kidnapped by the thieves?
Jin Yansheng sighed, his heart filled with helplessness and annoyance.
At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps outside. Jin Yansheng turned around and saw his brother Jin Tiyong appearing in the yard. Jin Tiyong was a military general with a fierce appearance, impulsive personality and a simple mind.
Precisely because he was simple-minded, Jin Yansheng did not blame him for persuading him to assassinate King Jin. He just hated himself for being stupid and making misjudgments in major decisions.
"Can't the city be defended?" Jin Yansheng asked.
"No, the bandit army has temporarily stopped attacking the city. It's Jin Qingming. Someone reported that he was secretly recruiting dead soldiers. He has recruited 300 people. There may be action tonight."
"What!"
Jin Yansheng was furious, and he recruited dead soldiers to obviously attack himself.
"Is the news true?" Jin Yansheng asked, holding back his anger.
"It's absolutely true. It was reported by his confidant guards. The three hundred dead soldiers have been trained almost. They will attack us either tonight or tomorrow. Brother, no one has the heart to kill a tiger, but a tiger has the intention to bite people. It should be done."
Determined!"
Jin Tiyong had been persuading his brother to kill his nephew Jin Qingming and directly ascend the throne as King of Silla. However, Jin Yansheng couldn't bear the thought of his eldest brother's death.
However, in the past two years, the power struggle between him and Jin Qingming became increasingly fierce. Jin Yansheng became less and less tolerant of his nephew, and his nephew recruited three hundred dead men to deal with him. This finally became the last straw for Jin Yansheng and offended Jin Yan.
rising bottom line.
Jin Yansheng's eyes flashed with murderous intent, and he said coldly for a while: "You can handle this matter!"
Jin Yansheng doesn't need to say too much about his brother, he knows very well how his brother handles things.
Jin Tiyong was overjoyed. He had been waiting for this day for a long time. He immediately said: "I will handle it thoroughly!"
The brothers walked away quickly. Jin Yansheng looked at the sky with his hands behind his hands. After killing Jin Qingming, he would also start packing his luggage and prepare to evacuate south to Jin Haijing.
Half an hour later, Jin Tiyong led three thousand troops to attack the Silla palace. The soldiers loyal to Jin Qingming resisted desperately, but the number was too small. In the end, the entire army was destroyed. King Jin Qingming of Silla was killed by Jin Tiyong, but Jin Tiyong
Yong did not give up, and immediately killed more than 20 ministers loyal to Jin Qingming.
Under the threat of Jin Tiyong, the Hebaek Council composed of dozens of Silla nobles recognized Jin Yansheng as the new king of Silla, and all officials unanimously recommended Jin Yansheng to inherit the throne.
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Jin Yansheng eliminated his nephew and succeeded him as the king of Silla, which eliminated internal differences to a certain extent, so that the ministers in the city had no other thoughts and united to resist Zhu Ye's army's siege. From this point of view, Jin Yansheng killed his nephew and seized the throne.
Not necessarily a bad thing.
On a hill more than ten miles away from Jinzhou City, Yu Linhai led his scouts to observe Zhu Ye's army attacking Jinzhou City. He had been watching for three days and found that Zhu Ye's army did not have the technology or experience to attack the city.
, the siege ladder is very crude, and there is no iron hook at the front to hang the city wall, so it can be easily overturned by the defenders at the top of the city. Several times, Zhu Ye's soldiers have already attacked the top of the city, but because of the lack of troops following behind, they have to attack the city.
The soldiers were helpless and were eventually surrounded and killed by the opponent.
The morale of the Silla army was too weak and they had no fighting spirit at all. If the siege ladder had been a little better, Zhu Ye's army would have captured Jinzhou City long ago.
Secondly, Zhu Yejun's battering ram was too small. It was a small battering ram carried by dozens of people. If it were replaced with a large battering ram, with the front sharpened and a pig iron head installed, even if it could not open the city gate, it could still open it.
A big hole was opened in the city wall.
I really don’t know how they attacked the city and plundered the stronghold after fighting all the way?
Of course, Yu Linhai understood the strategic intentions of His Highness the King of Jin. The King of Jin hoped to use Zhu Ye's hand to kill off the ruling class of Silla, so that annexing Silla to the Central Plains would not be so troublesome in the future.
Yu Linhai looked around and found a huge pine tree. He and his men cut down the big pine tree and made it into a huge battering ram. There was a key problem here, that is, the trunk was too big.
It was so thick that the soldiers couldn't pick it up, so Zhu Ye's army used a smaller battering ram.
But it was easy to solve this problem. The Jin army scouts each carried an iron chisel, and they drove the chisels deeply into the hammer body one after another, so that the soldiers had the handle to lift the battering ram.
At night, Yu Linhai led his men to throw the battering ram into the Jinshui River. This river flows through the Zhu Ye Army camp. The soldiers of Zhu Ye Army will definitely find this battering ram.