Poor Family Chapter 889

  Chapter 889 Risk Testing (Part 2)

  The gates of Taiyuan City have all been replaced with new ones, with double-thick wood as the base and a layer of iron covering the outside. The huge iron gate bolts also weigh hundreds of catties and must be opened from the top of the city.

  The Song army blew up the city gate this time, using a giant 80-jin thunderbolt, which was several times more powerful than before.

The original Zhentianlei should not be able to blow up the city gate, but based on the precedent of the Jinbing attacking Taiyuan City last time, Li Yanqing is almost certain that this time the Jinbing came to attack Taiyuan City, they will definitely use the Zhentianlei to attack the city. Bomb the city.

   Therefore, it is necessary to pass practical experiments to get an accurate answer. The reason why he was able to defend Taiyuan and Bianliang is that he did not let go of every detail.

The test was arranged in Beicheng. There is a large area of ​​open space in Beicheng, and it will not affect the lives of ordinary residents. The army has temporarily put Beicheng under martial law and no pedestrians are allowed to pass through. At the same time, the whole city is also informed that the army will test firearms. Please do not panic. .

Li Yanqing stood one hundred and fifty steps outside the northern city, watching several soldiers place the thunderbolt at the city gate in the distance. The Jinbing's thunderbolt was the first to be tested, and the soldiers quickly ran away and hid together. Behind the big rock for cover, but after a long time, there was no movement.

   "Mute Thunder!"

  Hao Wu waved his hand and shouted, the first thunder met dumb thunder, Li Yanqing secretly shook his head, the state of Jin was still far behind the Song Dynasty in manufacturing level.

Immediately afterwards, another mine was replaced, which was still dumb. It was not until the third mine finally exploded. The explosion was loud, and a puff of black smoke rose into the air. Li Yanqing urged his horse to run up, and saw a black patch on the gate. , filled with small pieces of iron, but the gate is still intact.

  Li Yanqing knew it well, and ordered: "Change to our original Zhentianlei!"

  The crowd left again. Several soldiers hid behind the boulder immediately after lighting the match, covered their ears, and heard a deafening explosion, and a thicker smoke rose into the air.

After a while, everyone returned to the city gate, only to see that the corner of the city gate on the left was slightly deformed and sunken in by the shock wave of the air wave. Li Yanqing frowned, and said to Hao Wu and Wang Gui's group of generals: "Although an explosion did not Blow open the city gate, but if Jin Bing uses the method of continuous explosion, it will still blow open the city gate, that is to say, the shocking thunder is the number one threat we guard against."

  Wang Gui thought for a while and said: "The humble official suggested setting up a special army, with about a thousand people, who are responsible for preventing the Jin soldiers from attacking with thunder."

  Li Yanqing nodded, "This plan is good. I will give you full authority to build this special anti-explosion army."

The recruitment of recruits has progressed extremely rapidly. In just two days, Jing Zhaojun recruited 50,000 recruits in Taiyuan Mansion, and 30,000 of the 50,000 recruits were former soldiers of the Song Army, either from the Xiang Army or from the Imperial Army. After the defeat of the Song army, they all fled back home, and for their own reasons, they put on their armor again.

The training of new recruits is under the responsibility of Mr. Liu Kai. On the first day of assembly, 50,000 new recruits stood on the vast school field. The 50,000 new recruits were divided into five square teams and lined up neatly. Uniform leather armor, this is the leather armor of the Liao soldiers. There are more than 100,000 sets in the Taiyuan warehouse. Many Jin soldiers also wear this kind of leather armor. In order to distinguish it from the Jin soldiers, the Song army unified the leather armor and The helmets were all painted black, completely different from the original red-yellow leather armor.

Li Yanqing stood on the high platform, with a black dragon flag of the Song Army fluttering above his head, Li Yanqing said loudly: "I know that many of you are wearing battle armor for the second time, maybe some of you need to earn money to support your family, Maybe some people want revenge, but no matter what your purpose is, but now you, like me, will face the order of ruining your country and becoming slaves of foreign races. Parents, wives and children, the only way out is to take up arms and fight to the death with Jinbing. Some people say that Jinbing is strong and cavalry is sharp. We Song people are not opponents. It's absolutely correct, we have our own advantages, we have the mighty Zhentianlei, we have the magic weapon for defending the city, the Feihuolei, and we also have thousands of hot-blooded men who are unwilling to be enslaved, this is you alone."

  Li Yanqing took out a chopstick and broke it lightly, "The strength of a person is so fragile that it is difficult to survive under the iron cavalry of the golden soldiers, but gather tens of thousands of you"

Li Yanqing took out a pair of chopsticks, but he couldn't break them even with force, "If you become what you are now, with 50,000 soldiers standing here, your collective strength will become extremely powerful, and the golden soldiers will no longer be able to defeat us. I believe we will stick to it." In Taiyuan City, Jin Bing will not let Jin Bing go any further!"

  The 50,000 soldiers were full of excitement, and Li Yanqing couldn't help raising their arms and shouting after Li Yanqing's highly infectious speech.

The next step is cruel and heavy training. Although most of the new troops put on their battle armor for the second time, and most of the rest of the soldiers have participated in bow and arrow clubs and village soldiers, they all have good military qualities and training foundations, but What needs to be done at this time is to make them reborn and abandon some of the bad habits of the past, especially to cultivate team spirit, which is especially important for recruits.

The 50,000 soldiers were divided into dozens of teams to train formations on the school field, shouting and killing loudly. At this time, Liu Kai walked up to Li Yanqing and said, "Today Wang Gui came to me to complain, saying that the soldiers were all arrested and used as transporters. It's over, the recruits are training again, and the city doesn't even have the manpower to install the trebuchet.”

   "Has the substance not been shipped yet?"

   "There is still a little left, mainly tents, paint, war drums and other sundries, and it will be almost enough to carry it for another day."

   "How many civilians are assisting in the transportation?"

   "About 30,000 people."

   "Then let the soldiers come back first! Please ask the civilian husband to help move the remaining materials. I still need your help with a few things."

   "Please give orders!"

"The first is to move the camp into the city. The area around the northern city is pretty good. It is empty and there are few residents. Some buildings can be demolished so that the camp can be built. The second thing is to dispatch 10,000 soldiers to help all the people in the counties of Taiyuan Prefecture. Moving into the city is already underway, but the action is too slow and needs to be accelerated, I hope to move all of them into the city within three days."

  Liu Kai hesitated and asked, "Will this make Taiyuan City too crowded?"

Li Yanqing shook his head, "There are only more than 100,000 people in total, and the current residents in the city are only 300,000. Taiyuan City is likely to have at least 600,000 to 700,000 people, which is far from being crowded. Most of the recruits are recruited from various counties. , need to move their family members into the city, so as not to worry about the future.”

   "The humble job understands!"

"In addition, there is anti-spies. I guess there are many spies of the Jin Kingdom in Taiyuan City. I am worried that they should cooperate inside and outside to help the Jin soldiers break the city. They must dig out these spies. I will entrust this task to Zhang Shun, but Zhang Shun may We are understaffed and need your assistance."

   "Humble job will definitely fully support."

   "As far as these three things are concerned, I will consider other details of defending the city!"

  In the middle of winter, the Taihang Mountains were also blocked by heavy snow. Jingxing, Fuyangxing, and Baixing were all blocked by heavy snow. Even if the army passed by, the supplies could not be transported.

  Wanyan Xie also finally chose a long way to counterattack Hedong County, so that Wanyan Zongwang took over the Central Plains territory occupied by Wanyanchang, and Wanyanchang led an army of 50,000 to turn northward, return to Hedong Road, and regain Taiyuan City.

   It took a lot of time to choose the route. When Wanyan Xie finally made the decision to let Wanyanchang go north, five days had passed since the Song army occupied Taiyuan City.

On the east bank of the Fenshui River in Jiangzhou, a golden army of 50,000 men is marching northward rapidly. This army is composed of 20,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry. Composed of infantry and Han infantry, the main general is Wan Yanchang, a famous general of the Jin Kingdom.

Wanyan Chang was about forty years old. He followed Wanyan Agu in the South and North War more than ten years ago, and made great achievements in establishing the Jin Dynasty. But at the same time, he was also heavily in debt. Over the years, his hands were filled with the blood of tens of thousands of innocent people of the Khitan and Xi tribes. After capturing Taiyuan, in order to vent his personal anger, he indulged his soldiers and slaughtered tens of thousands of innocent people in Taiyuan. He was a famous executioner in the Kingdom of Jin.

It was not his original intention for Wanyanchang to attack Taiyuan this time, especially Marshal Du Wanyanxie also ordered Wanyan Zongwang's army to take over the territory he occupied, which made him even more dissatisfied, but he had no choice. The marshal, and even the younger brother of the emperor, said that when it came to making decisions about the southern expedition, he said that anyone who dared to disobey his military orders would be severely punished and driven back to the Jurchen tribe.

As night fell, the angry Wan Yanchang directly ordered the army to enter Quwo County to rest. Quwo County was filled with cries, shouts, and screams until midnight, and the next morning, 50,000 troops Continue northward, leaving behind a ravaged county town.

  Not long after the army set off, Liu Yanzong, the commander of the Han army, urged his horse to catch up, "Deputy commander, there is news from Taiyuan City!"

  Wan Yanchang reined in his horse, "Is it a pigeon letter or an express?"

   "It's Express!"

   "Bring the messenger to me!"

   After a while, a messenger scout stepped forward and knelt down on one knee in front of Wan Yanchang to salute, "I want to report to the deputy commander, I came from Taiyuan Mansion to report the letter!"

   "How many Song troops are there in Taiyuan City?"

   This is Wan Yanchang's most concerned issue. The number of Song troops in Taiyuan City is related to the difficulty of taking back the city.

"Deputy Commander Qi, a total of 30,000 Song troops have come, but 6,000 troops are going to guard Yanmen Pass and Loufan Pass respectively. There are currently 24,000 troops stationed in the city, but the Song Army is recruiting new troops. Fifty thousand new troops were recruited."

  Wan Yanchang didn't take the newly recruited soldiers seriously. For him, the recruits would be defeated in one battle, so he didn't need to waste his thoughts. He heard that there were only 24,000 Song troops, and he was relieved.

   "Who is the general?" Wan Yanchang asked again.

   "It's Li Yanqing!"

The news made Wan Yanchang both surprised and delighted. Jin Bing was defeated by Li Yanqing several times, which caused Jin Bing to talk about Li's discoloration. Wan Yanchang was extremely dissatisfied. This time Li Yanqing was actually in Taiyuan, Wan Yanchang's heart was filled with fighting spirit, he had no choice but to fly to Taiyuan immediately and fight Li Yanqing.

   "Pass my order, the army will speed up, let me march day and night, and must arrive in Taiyuan in three days!"

  (end of this chapter)

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