"The sage has a saying: A good bird chooses a tree to roost in, and a good minister chooses his master to serve. Prince Qing Nurhaqi of Dajin is exactly the figure of the Ming Lord, and it is precisely based on the words of the sage that I take refuge in the Ming Lord." Kong Youde is not only in
The momentum has not diminished, but the words are more plausible and well-founded.
"The Beizong of the Kong Mansion can produce a talent like you. Kong Qinli is really good at managing his family. He is sincere and upright, and he cultivates himself and manages the family. He can't even manage his family, so how can he talk about running a country and bringing peace to the world?!"
Yu Yanyi did not dwell on this matter, but unexpectedly brought the topic to Kong Qinli.
But it was this move that caused Kong Youde's expression to change suddenly.
The reason why the Northern Sect of the Kong Mansion sent people to Houjin Nurhaqi was that they were optimistic about Nurhaqi's potential and pledged their allegiance to the new king in advance.
But investing in advance does not mean that all your wealth must be invested.
The fact that Kong Qinli, a bachelor of Dongge University, is still in the capital, shows that the Kong family is still loyal to the Zhou Dynasty. They just want to invest in Hou Jin in advance and have no intention of doing anything.
So when Yu Yanyi mentioned Kong Qinli, Kong Youde's expression changed.
If it was because of him that Zhou Ting started targeting the Kong family, that would be very bad!
Not to mention that Yu Yanyi now holds great power and supervises the seven states; even if the original bachelor of Wuyingdian wants to deal with an Imperial Academy Jijiu who has no real power, it will not be difficult.
Moreover, Yu Yanyi was not a pure Confucian disciple, and he would show no mercy when he took action.
So Kong Youde immediately pretended to be angry, "I am originally a mixture of Mohe and Zhou people, and I have been discriminated against in the government! Now that Prince Qing has finally led his army to the Central Plains, I will naturally be loyal to him!"
Kong Youde said this deliberately, wanting to get rid of the relationship with the Beizong of the Kong family.
But Yu Yanyi just smiled on the city wall. What use is this little trick in his eyes?!
He could see Kong Youde's expression clearly.
"Don't talk about these things. If you have anything to say, say it quickly!" Although Zhao Tianlin was a military general and had been in the officialdom for a long time, his ability to talk is still inferior to that of many literati like Kong Youde. Listening to Kong Youde's sophistry here, Zhao Tianlin became angry.
Coming up!
"I have been ordered by Prince Qing to come to negotiate peace with the Great Zhou Dynasty! As long as Grand Scholar Yu can agree to our conditions on behalf of the Great Zhou Emperor, we will withdraw immediately!"
When Zhao Tianlin was about to refuse, Yu Yanyi beside him said calmly: "Old General Zhao, calm down! Let's listen to his conditions first!"
Although Zhao Tianlin has seniority, after all, Yu Yanyi is the current coach of Jinyang's defense, so he temporarily suppressed the anger in his heart. Zhao Tianlin said loudly: "Tell me, how to negotiate a peace?"
Kong Youde smiled slightly and took out a piece of sheepskin from his sleeve. Of course, it was not because Hou Jin was too poor to take out the paper, but it was the tradition of the Mohe tribes to negotiate peace with sheepskin.
"First, ask the Emperor of Zhou to reward the officers and soldiers of the Mohe tribe; second, cede You, Ji, and the three prefectures; third, pay an annual tribute of 500,000 taels of silver, 100,000 taels of gold, and one million shi of grain and grass to Houjin; fourth, Da
The Emperor of Zhou is his younger brother, and the Emperor of Jin is his elder brother. The two parties are brotherly states and will always form a good alliance. Five, present the princess as the concubine of His Majesty the Emperor of Jin! Six,..."
After Kong Youde explained the terms of the negotiation one by one, the Zhou army on the city wall could no longer suppress their anger.
From another perspective, Kong Youde can be regarded as a pig teammate.
These peace terms also completely aroused the morale of the Zhou army.
Zhao Tianlin was also tearing up his eyes, and when he heard the fifth article, he interrupted Kong Youde, "You don't have to read it anymore! The ancestral precepts of Emperor Gao, the founding ancestor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, are that all the kings and ministers of our later generations of the Great Zhou Dynasty are not allowed to pay tribute to the enemy.
Anyone who violates the terms of ceding territory, making peace, and professing vassal status is not a member of our great Zhou Dynasty. His Majesty will not agree to your conditions. You should go back and prepare your troops. Both sides will still show their true nature... despicable!"
Just when Zhao Tianlin on the city wall was furious and yelled, a man next to Kong Youde pretended to shoot an arrow at the left chest of the coach Yu Yanyi.
Zhao Tianlin was once a general who commanded thousands of armies across the battlefield. He was a warrior in the Yuan Hua Realm. He immediately drew out the long sword at his waist and tried to block the sword.
But the archery skills were extremely good, and Zhao Tianlin was still a step too late.
Just when everyone thought they were about to hit, they only felt a blur in front of their eyes. A white ribbon appeared in front of Yu Yanyi. It was just a slight roll. That ribbon had the power to penetrate the clouds and the sun, and penetrate gold and stone.
The powerful arrows turned into powder.
Although Zhao Tianlin's martial arts and reactions are no longer at their peak due to the aging of his physical skills,
But the veteran power is still there.
Zhao Tianlin immediately took a strong bow from the hand of the attacker on one side, opened the bow and nocked an arrow, and shot at the sharp archer who had hurt people with hidden arrows.
The opponent also reacted quickly. He immediately drew his bow and shot an arrow.
The arrows from both sides crossed in mid-air, and the opponent's arrow was deflected by Zhao Tianlin's palm force.
But Zhao Tianlin's arrow hit him directly in the face.
Although the Mohe Archer tried his best to avoid it, Zhao Tianlin's arrow was still hit on his face, leaving a shallow wound.
In this round, the veteran Zhao Tianlin was better.
Kong Youde saw that Yu Yanyi was protected by a master, so he put away the blank sheepskin in his hand, shook his head and returned to the formation.
Then he turned over and fell off his horse, kneeling in front of Nur Haqa's horse, "Your Majesty! I have disgraced my mission. Please punish me, Your Majesty!"
Originally, Kong Youde wanted to take advantage of the Zhou people's inertia of thinking, surprise him during the negotiations, and kill Yanyi.
As soon as Yu Yanyi died, half of Jinyang City fell.
But unexpectedly, Yu Yanyi would be followed by a master of the Dongxuan Realm at any time.
The turtles on the side went to see Kong Youde to apologize, and were considering whether to apologize together. After all, Kong Youde had just helped him before, and now everyone had to express their gratitude, but why should he apologize? Could it be that he sneezed just now and affected the arrow?
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But just when Turtle Bai was thinking hard about how to share the responsibility for the crime, Nur Haqi had already dismounted himself and helped Kong Youde up.
"Sir, you are so talented, what's wrong with that?! If this plan doesn't work, it's not your fault!"
Turtle Bai on the side felt that the joys and sorrows between people are not the same. Why is there such a big gap between the attitudes towards Kong Youde and towards himself?!
Since hidden arrows cannot hurt people, then the only option is to attack by force!
Under the command of Prince Nurhaji of Later Jinqing, a dull horn sound sounded, and the soldiers of Later Jin Dynasty slowly rolled out the Zhou army's siege equipment obtained from Jizhou and Bingzhou counties.
Make steady progress towards the city wall.
"Shieldmen come forward! Crossbowmen fire arrows!"
Under the command of the generals of each department, the Zhou army on the city wall began to defend in an orderly manner.
Arrows rained down from the city wall.
The Zhou army in the city had a lot of arrows, and in the workshops in the city, craftsmen were still making them.
There are many materials for making feather arrows in the warehouses of Jinyang City.
"Cum again!"
Under the command, the Mohe soldiers also began to fight back.
The Mohe people are originally a fishing and hunting people. They may not necessarily be good at riding, but they must be good at shooting.
But after all, it is a bottom-up upward attack, so the power of the arrow is greatly reduced.
Fortunately, the arrows of the Zhou army could not tear apart the armor of the Mohe soldiers as easily as before!
Houjin's smelting technology was extremely poor, and both the quality and quantity of the smelted iron were far from meeting their armament needs. That's why so many businessmen smuggled salt and iron into Jianzhou to earn high profits.
In the past, ordinary soldiers of the Later Jin Dynasty used wooden shields and leather armor.
In the face of ordinary feather arrows, the wooden shield and leather armor can still resist, but in the face of strong bows and powerful crossbows, it is difficult to protect them fully, and it is no different from paper.
However, because of the capture of many counties in Jizhou, Houjin obtained a large number of iron armor and steel shields.
This was one of the reasons why they dared to attack the city directly.
It's a pity that these armors cannot completely resist the damage from feather arrows.
Because there are two thousand divine machine crossbows on the tower of the east main gate.
The Divine Machine Crossbow is a single-shot infantry crossbow among Wednesday's crossbows. It does not have the power of ten arrows fired in succession like the Mysterious Machine Crossbow and the continuous mystical magic, nor does it have the power of attacking cities and breaking down walls like the Tianji Crossbow.
Being ranked among the three crossbows, the Shenji Crossbow naturally has its own power.
Break armor, penetrate iron armor, and penetrate steel shields.
This is the power of the divine machine crossbow.
The Divine Machine Crossbow is a masterpiece of craftsmen after improvement, based on the original Divine Arm Bow of the former Song Dynasty.
With the crossbow as the body, the sandalwood as the crossbow, the iron as the head of the gun, the copper as the hair of horse teeth, the silk and isinglass as the string, supplemented by spring steel, the body of the crossbow is three feet long, and the string is five feet long.
Inch, the wooden feather of an arrow is several inches long, and when shot four hundred and forty-five steps, it can penetrate half an inch of iron.
The stirrup is raised from the ground and shot four hundred and fifty steps. It can penetrate the hole and re-pierce it. This is called the "magic machine".
The Shenji Crossbow is a crossbow with an offset frame. The bow is placed vertically instead of horizontally, and the arrows are pressed to the right side instead of above.
This design makes the Shenji Crossbow, like an ordinary bow, able to use the marks on the bow body for aiming in the ejection state.
Although the crossbow is more powerful than the bow, its shortcomings are also very obvious.
The crossbow is too wide to form a dense formation; the rate of fire is slow; the height of the sight is limited, and it can only be used for direct shooting. Not only is it impossible to aim in the projectile state, but the crossbow arm will block the target, etc.
The Shenji Crossbow overcomes most of the shortcomings of traditional crossbows. The vertical positioning of the bow also allows the Shenji Crossbow to form dense formations. Its shooting accuracy is better than that of a bow, and it is easier to operate and learn than a bow.
As the armor-piercing arrows on the city wall tilted, the Mohe soldiers wearing iron armor fell to the ground one after another.
The rate of fire and the number of people meant that the Shenji Crossbow could only delay Mohe's attack rhythm, but could not completely stop Mohe's attack.
In a short time, the Mohe people had approached the moat.
Nur Haqi had obviously also studied the methods of defending the city in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Sandbags had been prepared early and placed in the siege vehicle.
A large number of soldiers took out sandbags from the siege engines and threw them into the moat.
If you want to attack Jinyang on a large scale, you must first fill in the moat.
But you can lay the planks first, and then a small number of soldiers and siege engines cross the river first.
As the long planks were erected, countless soldiers crossed the moat from the planks.
"Xuanji Crossbow! Shoot at the Mohe soldiers on the wooden board!"
"The Divine Machine Crossbow continues to suppress the enemy's rear formation!"
"Strong bows give priority to the Mohe soldiers holding ladders!"
Although Mohe's archers also fought back, the shieldmen on the city wall seemed to have erected a shield wall. The Zhou army on the city wall could counterattack through the gaps between the iron shields, but the feather arrows of Mohe's soldiers could not overcome the iron shields.
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In fact, it is not that there are magical crossbows in the Mohe army.
When Tumubao was defeated, the Mohe people obtained more than 30,000 crossbows, including many divine machine crossbows.
But Nurha was used to living in poverty. When he saw such sophisticated weapons, he was reluctant to use them and distributed them all to his own guards.
And those who attacked the city on the first day were not Nurhaqi's personal soldiers. As cannon fodder, being able to distribute iron armor and steel shields was already showing that Nurhaqi had the overall situation in mind. Wanting to distribute divine machine crossbows was simply
It's a daydream.
Kong Youde, who was under the city wall, was also observing the situation on the city wall, and then he grabbed the horse's belly and came to the side of the sharp archer just now.
The sharp archer's name is Amurutaiqi, and he is the general of the Zhenghuang Banner among the eight banners under Nurha Tooth.
"General Amuru! Did you see the suddenly erected shield wall above? I will let the catapult be thrown in that direction later. Once there is a chance, I will ask General Amuru to take action and kill another week.
Generals of the army, boost the morale of our army and destroy the enemy's prestige!"
Amurutaqi smiled and nodded at Zhang Hongfan and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Kong! Just leave it to me!" Just now, Kong Youde created a mobile phone opportunity for him in the name of negotiating peace, which made Amrutaqi feel uncomfortable about it.
Kong Youde looked at him with admiration. In Amrutaqi's eyes, Kong Youde was a man of great wisdom.
At this time, as soon as Kong Youde opened his mouth, Amrutaqi agreed wholeheartedly.
Following Kong Youde's order, the eighteen catapults in the rear army started moving at the same time. The joints of the mechanism made a tooth-breaking creaking sound, followed by the sound of eighteen huge rocks roaring.
, eighteen huge rocks flew out.
Just when Amrutai was concentrating and preparing to take action, something embarrassing happened.
Since Nurhaqi was not sure about Zhou craftsmen, all those who operated the catapults were soldiers of the Mohe tribe who had just gotten started.
It’s not that Houjin didn’t have catapults, but Houjin’s catapults and Dazhou’s catapults were completely different in terms of aiming system and range.
It is not an easy task to skillfully control Zhou Jun's catapult.
The soldiers of the Mohe tribe who had just started to use it were unable to accurately control the landing point of the boulder.
The eighteen huge rocks that were just launched landed in front of the Jinyang city wall, causing considerable casualties to the Mohe soldiers.
Only the farthest one among the eighteen was worthy enough to be thrown into the moat.
Kong Youde and Amuru were speechless across from each other. What kind of situation is this!
When the Zhou army on the city wall saw this scene, their morale was greatly boosted.
Sometimes a pig player can boost morale better than a godly teammate!
The cloud echelon team at the forefront of the siege still put the ladder up on the city wall.
But waiting for them were the strong warriors of the Zhou army who were already prepared and holding putters.
The only criterion for these people to select healthy men from the army is strength.
They held pronged poles and waited on the city wall. Once the ladder reached the city wall, they immediately used the push rod to push the ladder away.
The Mohe soldiers who were climbing the ladder didn't know what happened when they saw the ladder fall down and fall heavily to the ground.
The Hou Jin army attacked for two hours, but not even a single soldier could touch the top of the city wall!
Only more than two thousand corpses were left under Jinyang City.