Poor Family Chapter 743

  Chapter 743 The main battle and the main battle

Li Yanqing calmly said: "Your Majesty, before the Jin soldiers besieged the city, I sent out a cavalry cavalry of about 3,000 people. According to the information I got, they attacked the scattered Jin soldiers in Hebei, and they succeeded repeatedly. Jin Bing's logistics is extremely passive, and now Jin Bing can't spare the barracks to deal with this Song Army cavalry, I believe that Wan Yanxie will definitely transfer some Taiyuan Jin Bing to Hebei."

"But there are 100,000 Jin soldiers in Taiyuan. We counted 20,000 casualties when they captured Taiyuan. There are still 80,000 of them. I estimate that at most 20,000 people will be stationed in Hebei. What about the other 60,000 Jin soldiers?" Min retorted to Li Yanqing from the sidelines that peace negotiation was his proposal, and he naturally did not want Zhao Huan to be persuaded by Li Yanqing.

Li Yanqing said indifferently: "As I said just now, when the Jin soldiers captured Taiyuan City, the morale of the Jin soldiers who besieged Tokyo must be greatly increased. This is not as simple as a piece of news. With the support of the army, the morale of the Jin soldiers will naturally increase."

  Wu Min's face turned cold, and he shook his head disapprovingly: "Li Dutong's words are a bit taken for granted. You are not the commander of Jin Bing, how do you know that the West Road Jin Bing will definitely come to support?"

   "Although I am not the commander-in-chief of the Jinbing, the Marshal of the Jinbing is just outside the city. He is not good at attacking the city. Of course, Jinbing from the West Road will come to support him."

  Wu Min wanted to refute again, but Li Gang bowed to Zhao Huan and said, "Your Majesty, since Li Dutong is so sure, we might as well wait a few more days."

Li Gang belongs to the centrists. He is not opposed to the peace negotiation, but he hopes to maximize the interests of the Song Dynasty. It is best if the Jin Kingdom takes the initiative to negotiate a peace. Now the Jin soldiers are obviously unable to attack the city. After a while, the Yellow River will be thawed He believed that Jin Bing would definitely make a decision of war or peace before the Yellow River thawed, so Li Gang considered delaying the time as much as possible and let Jin Bing take the initiative to negotiate a peace.

  Zhao Huan pondered for a moment, he understood that Li Yanqing was a resolute advocate of the war, and in this matter, it was not easy for him to quarrel with Li Yanqing.

   "Okay! Just wait a few more days."

   Coming out of Ziwei Hall, Li Yanqing's face was extremely gloomy, and he finally couldn't help it. He gritted his teeth and said angrily: "Bastard, I must kill that Wu!"

  Li Gang came up from behind, but just felt Li Yanqing's anger, he was startled, and quickly said: "Li Dutong, please calm down!"

   Li Yanqing suddenly turned around, stared into Li Gang's eyes and asked, "When did this matter start?"

Li Gang's eyes flickered, avoiding Li Yanqing's sharp gaze, after a while, he sighed and said: "This matter is not only Wu Min's idea, he is just the leader, this is actually the wish of all the courtiers, at least Zhizhengtang Unanimously agreed."

  Li Yanqing narrowed his eyes, but his eyes became sharper, "Then what I don't know?"

   "In the past month, Li Dutong didn't care about government affairs! There were five Zhizheng Hall discussions, but Li Dutong only came for the first time, and didn't participate in the subsequent ones. It's normal not to know about this matter."

   "I don't believe it, all the courtiers agree?" Li Yanqing's eyes became a little puzzled.

Li Gang shook his head, "There are three factions on this matter. Those who advocate the initiative to negotiate a peace request are called the positive peace faction, those who advocate waiting for Jin Bing to propose a peace, are called the anti-peace peace faction, and those who advocate resolutely fighting against Jin Bing , called the main combat faction, the positive peace faction has the largest number, accounting for 70%, followed by the anti-peace faction, accounting for more than 20%, represented by Zhang Shuye and me, and the main combat faction has the least number, only a few people."

   "Who is the representative of the main combat faction?"

   "Zongze, or you."

  Li Yanqing shook his head, "I really don't understand. We are strictly guarding against death. The Jin soldiers can't attack the city for a month, and they are helpless. We obviously have the upper hand. Why are there so many peacemakers?"

  Li Gang smiled bitterly and said: "After more than a month of suffering, everyone is a little bit unable to support it. After all, they are civil servants, not as strong-willed as you. In fact, the officials are almost unable to support it, otherwise they would not lose their composure today."

   "It's just an excuse!"

  Li Yanqing threw down a word and walked away. Li Gang looked at Li Yanqing's back and couldn't help but let out a long sigh. What he was most worried about was unavoidable. There might be a rift between Li Yanqing and the officials.

Suddenly there was an unhurried sound of drums in the camp of the Jin soldiers. This kind of drum sound was very familiar even to the Song army on the top of the city. This was the victory drum of the Jin soldiers. The victorious drum returned to the camp to cover up the failure of the siege.

   But this time it was the real victory drum, and Wanyan Xie had also received the news that Taiyuan had been captured, which made him ecstatic, and immediately ordered the drums to be played to celebrate.

In the big tent, Wanyan Xie was really pacing back and forth with his hands behind his hands, his face still angry, he glared at Wanyan Zongwang who was standing aside with his head bowed, and said: "What is number one in your hearts? Is it my Dajin's career, or Your personal grievances?"

  Wanyan Xie only turned joy into anger because he wanted to transfer Wanyan Zonghan's army to Kaifeng Mansion to help attack Song Jing, but Wanyan Zongwang strongly opposed it, which aroused Wanyan Xiye's monstrous anger.

He waved his arms and roared, "I don't care what **** grudges you have, I just look at the results. Wanyan Zonghan captured Taiyuan, and what about you? You have lost countless troops in a month, but you still can't take down a city gate. How dare you fight with him?" than?"

  Wanyan Zongwang gritted his teeth and stiffened his neck and said: "That's because he didn't meet Li Yanqing this time, and he failed miserably in Taiyuan last time. It's just his luck, what has it to do with his ability?"

  Wanyan Xie was also furious, slammed the table hard, and glared at Wanyan Zongwang, "If that's the case, why are you afraid of him? If you don't let him come, isn't it just admitting that you are not as good as him?"

  Wan Yan Zongwang was stunned, and after a long while, he nodded, "Since Marshal Du thinks he can capture Song Jing, then I have no objection, everything will be decided by Marshal Du!"

  Wanyan Xie also gave him a hard look, turned around and walked out quickly.

Liyang County, Weizhou, has been one of the most important granaries in the Central Plains since the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The layout of Liyang County is two cities, one is the county town and the other is the grain city. The distance between the two cities is only 500 steps. A long and narrow moat is connected through the water gate, but in winter the river freezes, and this waterway also loses its function.

Liyang County has no food storage at present, but Jin Bing has used the granary in Liyang County to store fodder. More than one million tons of forage has been piled up in the Liyang warehouse, which is another supply for Jin Bing besides Daming Mansion. Importantly, the importance of fodder to Jin Bing is self-evident. Jin Bing also deployed 10,000 heavy troops in Liyang Cang. In addition, Liyang Cang City is very dangerous. Without an army of more than 50,000, it is basically impossible to capture Liyang Cang.

However, the defense of Liyang County is far worse. There are only two thousand golden soldiers guarding it. Perhaps it is because the Liyang warehouse is more important. The prosperity of the past.

At noon, a group of vegetable farmers were bustling in front of the north city gate of Liyang County. A group of vegetable farmers carried their loads into the city to sell vegetables. Dozens of soldiers guarded the north city gate and kept pushing the vegetable farmers who were scrambling to enter the city. One of the soldiers used too much force. The burden of a vegetable farmer was overturned, and dozens of radishes fell onto the ice of the moat.

  The vegetable farmer was annoyed, and hurried down to pick up the radishes, cursing in his mouth, "People who have no eggs have the nerve to be arrogant. If you surrender to the Jurchen, your ancestral graves will be smashed to pieces!"

Hearing his vicious scolding, the soldier was furious. He rushed forward to hit him with his old fist, but he was hugged by the soldier next to him, "Liu San, forget it, forget it, what do you care about with them? What do these countrymen say? fart!"

The vegetable farmer was also a little scared, so he picked up the vegetables and ran into the city quickly. At this moment, a caravan came from a distance, about a dozen people, leading more than a hundred donkeys. of goods.

   "Stop!"

  The defenders stepped forward quickly, "Where is the caravan?"

  In the past, no one would pay attention to a caravan, but now a caravan is a rarity, so it is naturally the object of attention of soldiers.

  The young businessman headed by him bowed and saluted, "Masters, this villain is from Daming Prefecture, come to Liyang County to earn some money."

  The young businessman spoke the local dialect of Daming Prefecture, which was somewhat similar to Li Yang's accent. The leading soldier stepped forward to look at the donkey's goods, and asked, "What's inside?"

   "It's a little. Salt!"

  All the soldiers looked at each other and laughed loudly, "Boy, you can make money!"

These days, Liyang County is seriously short of salt. Salt is a government monopoly, but the salt supply system has been destroyed. As a result, there is no source of salt after the stockpile is eaten. Therefore, the price of salt has soared these days. Unexpectedly, private salt dealers Smell a business opportunity so quickly.

  The soldier went forward and searched his body, and after confirming that there were no weapons, he waved his hand and said, "Let's enter the city!"

  The merchants drove their donkeys into the city without haste.

  (end of this chapter)

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