Poor Family Chapter 1048

  Chapter 1048 The decisive battle is approaching

  Li Ziqian chose to take risks out of desperation, Wan Yansheng ruthlessly rejected his request for help, and only expressed his willingness to take in his army and named him King of Korea.

This made Li Ziqian feel the pain of being abandoned after being used. He contributed 100,000 Goryeo cavalry successively to the Jinbing, and also built 100,000 elite soldiers with the power of the whole country. The last one did not come back, and all of them were buried in the Song Dynasty. The only thing in return for him was a light sentence, "Understanding the difficulties of Goryeo, but the Kingdom of Jin has no time to send troops to help."

  This sentence made Li Ziqian feel as if he was being cut by a knife, and made him completely desperate.

   But at this moment, an urgent intelligence made him see a glimmer of hope in despair. The Song army aggressively attacked all parts of Goryeo, and the current strength of Kaijing is only 15,000.

   Li Ziqian suddenly saw an opportunity. He was afraid that the reinforcements from the Song army would arrive, so he immediately ordered 3,000 people to guard Xinyi City.

The 40,000-strong army marched through the narrow official roads, and each soldier only carried seven days of dry food. Li Ziqian made a desperate move. If Kaijing could not be regained within two days, then he would not have to think about restoring the country, and he would directly turn around and join the Kingdom of Jin .

  At noon, 40,000 troops arrived at the city of Kaijing. At this time, the Song army solidified the walls and cleared the fields, and there was no family within a hundred miles outside the city, and the Koryo army could never get a grain of food.

  Looking at the familiar city, Li Ziqian turned his head and shouted to the 40,000 troops: "Your parents, wives and children are all inside the city. If you want to take back the city, there is no other way but to fight to the end!"

  The 40,000 army raised their arms and shouted, "Take the city! Take the city! Take the city!"

   After the slogan was finished, the most realistic thing was in front of Li Ziqian. They didn't have siege weapons, so what would they use to capture the city?

He immediately sent 10,000 troops to the nearby forest to cut down trees and build ladders, while the rest of the troops rested in place to prepare for battle. The siege time given to the Koryo army is only one and a half days, and the 40,000 army can take Kaijing in one and a half days? It is too easy to think.

  In fact, the Song army transferred another 3,000 people from Dong'an Island yesterday, increasing the number of troops in the city to 18,000. Except for 3,000 people to maintain order in the city, the remaining 15,000 people were all devoted to defending the city.

Of course, they also had to be wary of someone inside the city cooperating with the troops outside the city to seize the city, so the Song army guarded the four city gates very tightly. At least a thousand soldiers were deployed on each tower, and they would be highly vigilant even at night, and no one was allowed to approach city ​​gate.

  At this time, Ruan Xiaoqi suggested: "Dutong, it's better to keep a hand when the enemy's tentative attack, and when they attack in full force, then use Zhentian Lei to deal with them severely!"

  Zhang Shun shook his head, "Their real threat is not us, but their food. You don't need to keep a hand, and attack with all your strength when they are tempted to attack!"

   "Follow the order!"

In the early morning of the next day, the Koryo army sounded the war drums, and 10,000 troops quickly assembled in Nancheng. They built hundreds of simple siege ladders overnight. Li Ziqian decided to make a tentative attack first to find out what the Song army was up to. True and false.

   "Attack!" Li Ziqian swung his saber and shouted sharply.

   "Woo—"

  The attack horn sounded, and 10,000 troops, carrying hundreds of siege ladders, rushed towards the city like a tide.

  The forty medium-sized trebuchets on the top of the city creaked and opened, forty giant thunderbolts were put into the throwing pockets, and the soldiers of the Song Army also raised their crossbows.

  The Koryo soldiers came overwhelmingly, and the army at the top of the city stood still, waiting patiently for the order to shoot. After a while, the Koryo army had rushed to about a hundred paces, and the chief general Zhang Shun gave the order to fire.

The sound of clappers on the top of the city suddenly sounded, and five thousand god-armed crossbows were fired at the same time. The dense arrows shot at the soldiers of the Goryeo Army. The soldiers below the city raised their shields to meet them. With a bang bang sound, forty giant thunderbolts soared into the sky and flew towards the heads of the Koryo army.

   "What's that?" Li Ziqian asked in surprise, looking at the small black dot in mid-air.

   "It should be a boulder shot by a trebuchet." A general discovered the trebuchet on the top of the city.

"There's not enough!"

  Li Ziqian shook his head lightly: "It doesn't work!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a series of earth-shattering explosions came from the crowd. All the soldiers covered their ears with pained expressions on their faces. The strong shock made their ears buzzing, black smoke enveloped the ground, and the city The crossbow on his head also stopped shooting.

After a while, when the black smoke cleared, the remaining Goryeo soldiers turned around and ran wildly. They were already terrified, and forty thunderbolts exploded in the dense crowd, and no one was spared in a radius of more than ten feet. More than 100 people died from the direct explosion, or were killed by the shock wave, or were hit by iron pieces, and hundreds of people died from the shooting of the **** arm crossbow. Only 5,700 people escaped.

  Li Ziqian's face was pale, and then he remembered the sound of thunder mentioned by the first reporter. It turned out that the Song Army had such powerful firearms.

  The courage in Li Ziqian's heart was completely lost at this moment, he realized that he could never regain Kaijing.

  That night, Li Ziqian led more than 30,000 people to retreat to the Yalu River. They will get supplies in Xinyi City and cross the Yalu River to the Kingdom of Jin.

  But what Li Ziqian never dreamed of was that the Song army had captured Xinyi City by sea and burned down two pontoon bridges across the river at the same time.

   At this time, serious divisions also appeared within the Koryo Army. More and more generals and soldiers were seriously dissatisfied with Li Ziqian. The hatred and anger were growing, and a storm was coming.

In the past few days, the wolf lord of the Golden Kingdom, Wanyan Cheng, was extremely troubled. A series of bad news came one after another. First, Wanyan Zongbi led 30,000 cavalry to chase after the Khitan Yelu Department and Xi Rensu Gu Department, and encountered 60,000 Khitan and Xi Ren joint cavalry. interception.

  The two sides broke out in a fierce battle on the south bank of Huangshui. The fierce battle lasted for two days and two nights, but in the end both sides suffered losses. Nearly 30,000 Khitan and Xi people were killed in battle, and nearly 20,000 Jurchen were killed in battle. Wanyan Zongbi was defeated and returned to Shangjing.

  Wanyan Sheng was furious and wanted to kill Wanyan Zongbi, but the generals begged hard to avoid the death penalty. Wanyan Zongbi was beaten with a hundred sticks.

The second thing is the iron mines in Liaoyang Prefecture. Since the mines and blast furnaces have been destroyed, it is necessary to reopen the mines and build furnaces. At the same time, it will take 100,000 miners and smelters and a year or two to restore it to its original state. half of the output.

   To reopen mines, build furnaces, and recruit people, it requires the investment of millions of taels of silver. Jin Guo's financial resources have been exhausted and cannot support it at all.

Taking a step back, even if there is money in the national treasury, the most serious problem now is that there are no people. There are not so many miners in the Kingdom of Jin. The Khitan and Xi people fled completely. Most of the slaves of the Han people in the Liao Kingdom were women, and there were some children, but there were no young and strong men that Wanyan Zongwang urgently needed.

   In desperation, Wanyan Zongwang had no choice but to recruit miners among the Jurchen people. After half a month of recruitment, he recruited less than 10,000 people, which really disappointed Wanyan Zongwang.

The lack of a guaranteed supply of pig iron will seriously affect the state of Jin's war readiness, making it impossible for the state of Jin to recruit troops on a large scale. In order to conquer the Mobei grassland in the past two years, the state of Jin has exhausted its reserves of national power. All kinds of strategic materials have been exhausted, and almost all warehouses are empty.

  Pig iron is the top priority. It was only then that Wan Yansheng realized how important the supply of pig iron from Goryeo was to the Kingdom of Jin, but it seemed too late to change course now.

Wan Yansheng had just received a message from a spies in Sinuiju. Li Ziqian's army ran out of food, and internal strife broke out near Sinuiju. The army broke out a large-scale cannibalism to **** hundreds of prey, killing 7,000 people. Li Ziqian He was also killed in the internal strife, and the remaining 20,000 troops lost their leaders and fled overnight.

   Another news is that the Song army burned down the pontoon bridge, the powerful navy blocked the Yalu River, Jin soldiers could not cross the Yalu River, and the supply of pig iron in Goryeo was completely cut off.

  At this time, news came from the Song Dynasty that the Song Army had recruited 400,000 soldiers, and the Song Dynasty had obtained 150,000 horses from the Hexi Grassland. These two news especially hit Wanyan Sheng hard.

  Anxiety and worry about the future of the Jin Kingdom made Wanyan Sheng physically and mentally exhausted. When the first winter snow came, Wanyan Sheng, the wolf lord of the Jin Kingdom, couldn't afford to fall ill.

  Winter goes to spring, and the spring of the second year of Song Xing came.

   On the seventh day of March, news came from Shangjing of the Kingdom of Jin that Wanyan Sheng, the wolf lord of the Kingdom of Jin, died of illness after surviving a winter.

  Wanyan Sheng left a decree that the 12-year-old Wanyan Aguda's grandson Wanyan Quan should inherit his throne, but it was too late for Wanyan Sheng to reconcile the increasingly intensified conflicts among the upper echelons of the Kingdom of Jin.

  When Wanyan Quan first came to the throne, a fierce power struggle broke out within the Kingdom of Jin. Wanyan Zonghan, who was originally the most hopeful successor to the position of wolf lord, was the first to be eliminated. He was dismissed from all official positions and placed under house arrest in his mansion in Shangjing.

The Kingdom of Jin quickly formed two factions. One was headed by Wanyan Zongpan, Wanyan Zongjun, and Wanyan Xinilie. Wanyan Zongjun and Wanyan Xinilie are in command.

  The other faction was led by Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zongbi. Wanyan Zongwang led 70,000 troops to guard Linhuang Mansion on Zhongjing Road, and Wanyan Zongbi led 50,000 troops to guard Liaoyang Mansion in Nanjing. Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zongbi formed an alliance.

  In order to stabilize Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zongbi, the imperial court of the Kingdom of Jin named them Hulu Bo Jilie and Zuo Bo Jilie respectively, which are equivalent to Shang Shuling and Prime Minister Zuo.

  But among the five Bo Jilie, Wanban Bo Jilie and Nuoban Bo Jilie fell into the hands of Wanyan Zongpan and Wanyan Zongjun, and the other Wanyan Xinilie, who held military power, was named Asherbo Jilie.

  The three of them formed an alliance and controlled the court power of the Kingdom of Jin.

  In mid-March, the 25th army of the Grassland Alliance held a troop dispatch ceremony in Ketun City, and began to crusade against the Kingdom of Jin. At the same time, the Song Dynasty also assembled an army of 600,000 in Yanshan Prefecture.

  Since the river ice melted in February, the Song Dynasty began to transport grain and grass materials to Yanshan Prefecture on a large scale. They transported them all the way northward through river-sea combined transport. The destination was Lu County, 50 miles east of Yanjing City.

It used to be the transit point for supplies, grain and grass used by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty to conquer Goguryeo. It was also the logistics center for the battle between the Liao Kingdom and the Song Dynasty. The Liao Kingdom once built hundreds of large warehouses along the Lu River, which were later used by the Jin Kingdom. It became the logistics center of the Song Army.

The other way is to go north by sea. Hundreds of sea boats set off from Lin'an Mansion full of grain and grass supplies, and arrive at Luanzhou in the northern part of the Bohai Sea. They change boats at the mouth of the Rushui River. The boats go north and can directly reach Lulong County, Pingzhou. The confrontation Yuguan is less than a hundred miles away, and the main barracks of hundreds of thousands of Song troops are stationed here.

The transportation of grain and grass materials by the Song army took a full month and a half. It transported 1.2 million shi of grain and 500,000 dan of grain and grass to Yanshan Mansion, as well as a large amount of various military supplies. The states requisitioned 50,000 carts and 200,000 civilians to go north to help the Song army deliver supplies.

  On March 20th, Li Yanqing, the commander-in-chief of the Song Army, arrived at the main barracks of the Song Army in Lulong County, Pingzhou by boat. Li Yanqing also came with hundreds of young civil servants. They will be responsible for taking over the captured land of the Jin Kingdom.

  The footsteps of the great war are getting closer and closer.

  【Historically, the internal strife in the Kingdom of Jin was very serious. The reason why the Kingdom of Jin turned from prosperity to decline was because of the internal strife. In this book, because the Kingdom of Jin did not have the financial support of the northern Song Dynasty, once the internal strife broke out, the consequences would be even more serious.

Moreover, the current state of Jin has not yet transformed into the rule of the landlord class, and is still dominated by the plundering of the grasslands. As long as the property and population can be plundered by this type of rule, it will quickly grow stronger, but once the property and population cannot be plundered, will rapidly decline.

The rapid decline of the Kingdom of Jin in this book is due to this reason, so the Song Dynasty was able to fight a protracted war with the Kingdom of Jin, but the Kingdom of Jin was unable to fight a protracted war with the Song Dynasty. If not, perish. 】

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