Poor Family Chapter 802

  Chapter 802 Jin Bing Withdrew Northward

   Hundreds of large vats were quickly buried under the west and north walls of the inner city, and two thousand soldiers climbed on the large vats to listen to the movement underground.

Li Yanqing finally thought of the reason why the Jin soldiers drained the water from the moat. It must be that the Jin soldiers were going to enter the city through the tunnel. Soldiers would enter the city by tunneling from the north or west. Since the ground buildings in the north were demolished, the tunneling was easily discovered by the defenders. So far, no traces of tunneling have been seen outside the North City, and Li Yanqing also ruled out the North City.

   Most of the buildings in the outer west city were well preserved, which provided excellent cover for the Jin soldiers to tunnel. Moreover, the nearest building was only a hundred steps away from the city wall, and the Jin soldiers only needed to dig more than a hundred steps to enter the city.

  Li Yanqing focused on the northwest corner, where the terrain is the highest and the soil quality is the strongest, and it is also the least likely to collapse when digging holes from here.

At the same time that the Song army was fully protected, the epidemic situation in the Jinbing camp further deteriorated. Beizhai, where the epidemic was the most severe, had more than 10,000 soldiers sick and nearly 3,000 dead by night. Today alone, 2,000 died For the rest of the people, it was the day with the highest number of deaths since the outbreak of the epidemic, and this was only the case of a military village.

Hundreds to thousands of people fell ill in several other military villages. The total number of cases reached 15,000, and more than 4,000 people died. Among them, the smallest army village was Zhongjun Village, and only more than 400 people fell ill. , There is no death case yet. This is also the experience of the Han military doctors in Zhongjunzhai. They were the first to ask the Jurchens to change their habit of drinking raw water, so that the epidemic did not break out in Zhongjunzhai on a large scale.

  Wan Yanxie also ordered the 50,000 troops in the Zhongjunzhai to go north first after withdrawing the troops, and the other troops waited for the final step to attack the city before considering pulling out of the camp and returning north.

  Under the night, Wanyan Xie also stood on the high platform and watched the Tokyo city from a distance. The moonlight was dim, and he could only faintly see the outline of a city.

  At this time, Wanyan Loushi said in a low voice, "Humble and incompetent, I have failed Marshal Du's expectations."

Wan Yanxie also shook his head, and said slowly: "Do you know why the Jurchen cavalry was able to defeat 200,000 Song troops with 30,000 elite soldiers, and only lost a few hundred people, but it was the opposite when we attacked the capital? Our 200,000 troops But the city wall guarded by 30,000 defenders cannot be breached, what is the reason for this, have you considered it?"

  Wanyan Loushi thought for a while, then whispered: "Maybe it's because siege is not our forte."

   "Then why can Taiyuan City be captured? Why can the outer city of Tokyo be captured?"

   "Could it be because of Li Yanqing?"

"Actually, part of what you said is right. It has something to do with our inability to attack cities, and it has something to do with Li Yanqing's ability, but these are not the main reason. The main reason is the character of the Han people. They often explode unimaginably in desperate situations. This is the reason why we are born in adversity and die in peace. The same army, when they are in a desperate situation, is commanded by a famous general, and they will no longer shrink back. Instead, they will fight with their backs and die to survive. This is our failure. s reason."

   "But we captured the emperor and the Supreme Emperor of the Song Dynasty. In fact, it is not too much of a failure."

  Wan Yanxie also gave a wry smile, and shook his head, "The most important thing for Han people is the emperor."

   After finishing speaking, Wan Yanxie also turned around and walked down the sentry tower. His order came from a distance, "Let Xizhai retreat north!"

  Wanyan Loushi suddenly had a feeling that Marshal Du was not optimistic about tonight's final blow.

The reason why Jin Bing decided to dig tunnels to enter the city was also an accident. When a group of Jin soldiers searched for property, they accidentally found a secret passage in a mansion close to the northwest corner of the inner city. The moat is only a dozen steps.

  After Yan Xie also got the news, he decided to let the soldiers continue digging and dig a tunnel leading to the inner city, so that the Jin soldiers could enter the inner city through the tunnel.

But the moat overhead was a huge threat. After Wan Yanxie also inspected the terrain, he sent Wan Yan Zongwang to lead 100,000 civilians to cut off the Bian River. It subsided, and from dusk, five hundred gold soldiers led by a commander began to dig into the tunnel. The progress was very fast. In just half an hour, the tunnel crossed the moat above the head and began to march towards the city wall.

  In the city, two thousand soldiers were concentrating on putting their ears on the big tank to listen carefully. The big tank is a very good sound amplifier, which makes full use of the principle of the earpiece and can amplify subtle sounds.

  At this time, a soldier jumped up suddenly, and hurriedly waved to Zhang Qing, the chief general on duty in the distance. Zhang Qing stepped forward quickly and said, "Did you hear any movement?"

  The soldier nodded again and again, "The humble officer heard the sound of digging!"

  Several soldiers next to it also stepped forward and leaned on the tank to listen carefully. They all raised their heads and said, "There is indeed movement!"

  Zhang Qing also leaned down, listened for a while, then got up and said to a soldier: "Quickly go and report to the Dutong, saying that they have discovered the sound of enemy digging!"

  The soldiers rushed away, Zhang Qing ordered the soldiers to remove the surrounding large tanks, leaving only one master tank, and after a while, hundreds of soldiers rushed over surrounded by Li Yanqing.

   "Have you found the tunnel?" Li Yanqing asked.

  Zhang Qing pointed at the big tank, "It's just under this big tank, about two feet away from us.

  Li Yanqing immediately ordered: "Dig the tunnel and prepare for a poisonous attack!"

Hundreds of people dug the pit together, and some soldiers brought hundreds of poisonous pyrotechnic mines. Poisonous pyrotechnic thunderbolts are a kind of firearm invented by the Song army in the early days. Afterwards, a large amount of poisonous smoke will be emitted, which is a sharp weapon for dealing with tunnels.

   Not long after, a big pit with a depth of one foot and five feet and a square of nine feet appeared in front of everyone. At this time, everyone heard the obvious 'boom! Boom! ' There was the sound of digging, only a few feet away from the big pit.

Suddenly there was movement in the big pit, and the soil on the pit wall loosened, revealing a big hole two feet wide, and then a human head poked out from the hole, before he could react, a sharp arrow shot out, killing the golden soldier's head The shot passed through, and the golden soldier died tragically immediately. Several soldiers jumped down the big pit, dragged the body out of the hole, ignited more than a dozen poisonous smoke and mines, and threw them into the hole. Immediately, there was a violent coughing sound from the hole. , Immediately afterwards, someone in the cave shouted in fear, poisonous smoke filled the cave, and soon there was no movement.

   Not long after, a soldier shouted from the top of the city: "Smoke is coming from the house outside the city."

  Li Yanqing immediately ordered, "Water!"

  The soldiers had already prepared two thousand barrels of water, and poured them into the pit together. The water flowed in along the opening of the hole, and soon overflowed from the outer city. ' There was a loud noise, and a thunderbolt exploded in the moat, blowing a big hole in the moat, and the tunnel below collapsed, and more than a hundred golden soldiers were buried in the tunnel.

   A quarter of an hour later, Wan Yanxie also received Jin Bing's bulletin that the tunnel attack had failed, and he couldn't help but sigh, "Order the entire army to pull out the camp and return north!"

In May of the first year of Jingkang, the defense of Tokyo, which lasted for nearly half a year, finally ended with the withdrawal of the Jin soldiers to the north. In this battle, the Jin soldiers successively suffered nearly 100,000 casualties, and the Song army also paid the price of nearly 200,000 casualties. At the same time, Song Dynasty Emperor Zhao Huan and Supreme Emperor Zhao Ji were captured and taken away by the Jin soldiers, but in the tragic battle to defend the capital, the Song Army finally defended the inner city and preserved the last dignity of the Song Dynasty.

The day was getting brighter, and there were a few dull explosions in the distance. The temporary Bianhe dam was blown away by the Song army. The Bianhe River rushed in and quickly filled the moat, and the water level of the Bianhe River in the city also began to rise rapidly. , and soon returned to its original state.

   Soon, as the news came from the spies that the Jin soldiers had withdrawn to the north, there was cheering on the top of the city, and the whole capital was boiling. Hundreds of thousands of people rushed out of their houses, beating gongs and drums, singing and dancing to celebrate the victory

But Li Yanqing knew that this was only a military victory, and that the devil, the plague, was lurking outside the city. He ordered that the city gates not be opened, and sent two thousand soldiers to cover their mouths and noses with gauze, wear gloves and boots, and go out of the city. Clear the battlefield and throw all the corpses into the pit and burn them with fire oil.

Li Yanqing immediately issued several orders, "All soldiers and civilians in the city drink raw water and eat raw food. The water must be boiled, and the food must be cooked;" . '

In fact, since yesterday evening, Li Yanqing has ordered the implementation of extremely strict epidemic monitoring in the city. Every five households elect one person to be the monitor, who must report the situation five times a day. A medical officer was set up for one hundred households. At the same time, the Imperial City barracks were converted into isolation camps, and the Beicheng barracks were set up as observation camps. All soldiers who went out had to live in the observation camp for three days.

Not only that, the Song Army also spread a layer of quicklime in the urn of Jinglong City and built a potion pool. All soldiers who came back from outside the city would soak in the potion pool first, then change into new clothes, shoes and socks, and put the old The clothes were thrown into the pit and burned, and then entered the barracks to observe for three days.

Li Yanqing dispatched a total of 4,000 troops. They each had their own tasks. In addition to the 2,000 troops who cleaned the battlefield, Zhang Hu led 500 cavalry to meet King Kang Zhao Gou in Guancheng County, Zhengzhou, and Zhang Qing led 1,500 troops. Carry fire oil to the Golden Camp for destruction, mainly to completely burn the Golden Camp.

Li Yanqing came to Cai's mansion to visit Cai Jing, the old prime minister who lived deep in the mansion. Cai Jing did not leave the capital after Zhao Huan ascended the throne, but was ordered by Zhao Heng to contemplate his mistakes behind closed doors at home. The catastrophe of illness and death on the road.

Cai Jing's Xiangguo Mansion was originally in the outer city, and there was also a ten-acre villa in the inner city. After Zhao Huan came to the throne, he moved back to live in the inner city and donated the outer house to the imperial court. His sons were not so lucky.

The eldest son, Cai You, followed the Supreme Emperor and was killed by the rebel army. The second son died early, the fifth son was bitten to death by a snake, the third and fourth sons were dismissed and exiled to Baizhou because of their involvement in the Wang Fu case, the sixth son was in poor health and stayed in his hometown. Then he took a group of grandchildren back to his hometown to take refuge. At present, only his grandson Cai Zheng is with him and takes care of him in daily life.

   When Li Yanqing came to Cai Mansion, Cai Zheng had already been waiting at the door. He hurriedly stepped forward and bowed to salute, "Welcome to Li Shaobao. It is a great honor to have a prosperous and prosperous mansion!"

  Cai Zhengnian was in his early thirties. He was the fourth grandson of Cai Jing.

  Li Yanqing smiled slightly and said: "The yamen is too polite, is Lingzu here?"

   "The family ancestor is in the mansion, Li Shaobao please follow me."

Li Yanqing followed him into the mansion. Li Yanqing had been to Cai Xiangguo's mansion in the outer city. Rough and rough, it looks like a small family living a tight life, which really makes Li Yanqing secretly admire, this Cai Jing is really good at disguising, no wonder he has been able to rise and fall for decades, he is indeed outstanding.

When Li Yanqing came to the inner house, he saw an old man planting vegetables in the garden. He was wearing a half-worn flat scarf, a coarse gray jacket, coarse knickerbockers, white cloth leggings, and a pair of old cloth shoes. Back, holding a water ladle in his hand, he was watering the vegetable field, no different from an old farmer in the countryside. Cai Zheng stepped forward and gave a deep salute, "Grandfather, Li Shaobao is here!"

  Li Yanqing couldn't help being stunned, this old vegetable grower is actually Cai Jing?

  (end of this chapter)

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