Chapter 197 Lost land, everyone lost land. People who saved land lost land
Even if he was recognized, he would take over the military power of the reinforcements from the east route.
But when Li Yunze expressed his intention to continue going to Taiyuan Mansion, the surrounding generals were still in an uproar.
"Your Majesty." Qin Feng Road Manager Sun Wo couldn't help but advise him, "Don't get ahead because of a temporary victory. The strength of the Jin people is still there. If we go to Taiyuan City at this time, it will be like hitting an egg against a stone."
"Why, was your courage broken by the golden man?"
Li Yunze's words made Sun Wo feel even more humiliated: "Your Majesty, the general is not afraid of death. But these tens of thousands of soldiers and horses cannot all be buried here!"
"If I hadn't come to rescue you today, you would all be dead."
No one can refute what he said.
Li Yunze looked around, "Who else objects?"
Zhao Dian, Li Fu, Sun Wo, Xigong and others all spoke out against it.
Remembering them in his mind, Li Yunze first said, "The king has made his decision and this matter cannot be changed."
Then he explained, "The Jin people don't have many soldiers and horses near Taiyuan City at this time."
"Nianhan and others went to fight Yao Gu, Wanyan Tu and others went to fight Zhang Hao, and Wanyan Xiyin went to fight Liu Guangshi, plus the troops who stayed behind in Datong Mansion. They came over after receiving the news
, it will take at least five days. It is enough for us to rescue the Taiyuan Prefecture defenders."
Han Shizhong heard something was wrong: "Your Majesty, are you going to save someone?"
"That's right." Li Yunze nodded, "Save the land and lose the people, and both the people and the land will be lost. Save the people and lose the land, and both the people and the land will be saved!"
"This battle is not to continue to defend Taiyuan City, but to support the defenders' breakout and concentrate their effective forces. As for Taiyuan City, just leave it to the Jin people. If they occupy Taiyuan City, they must divide their troops to garrison them. If there are fewer people, not only will they lose
It loses the mobility of the cavalry and is easy to eat. If there are more people, the mobility of the Jin people will become weaker."
"Don't think that you can eat up all the golden soldiers in one battle. That is unrealistic and does not have the strength. Concentrate your own strength, disperse the enemy's strength, eat one bite at a time, accumulate small victories into big victories, until the final battle. Can the golden soldiers have
How many people? They will all be wiped out one day."
Having already explained it, Li Yunze no longer cares about whether he can understand it or whether he is willing to carry it out.
The defenders of Taiyuan City persisted for more than 200 days, and finally ran out of ammunition and food (stone bombs from trebuchets). After the city fell, they fought bloody battles to the end.
Such a force with a determined fighting spirit must be rescued. Moreover, the main force defending the city was originally the thousands of victorious troops left behind by Tong Guan before he escaped.
Such elites must be saved.
As for the impeachment of the imperial court and the loss of Taiyuan City, Li Yunze, who has military power in his hands, would not care about this.
By the time he returns to Bianliang City, it will be ninety thousand miles away.
In order to rescue the Taiyuan City defenders, the only golden soldiers that need to be dealt with in the past few days are Wanyan Yinshu and Wanyan Loushi.
This combination was considered the strongest of the West Route Army, but Li Yunze's power also expanded from the Shengjie Army to the entire East Route Reinforcement Army.
"Han Shizhong."
"The end will be here."
"Count the troops and horses of each unit and tally the results of this battle. The remaining units will immediately set up camp and repair."
Li Yunze moved directly into Wanyan Lou's main camp, established the main account, opened the space-time door, and transported boxes of copper coins, silver ingots and silk from the warehouse opposite.
It is not difficult to make the Song army of this era work hard, just feed them.
"We have to promote Yue Fei as soon as possible." Looking at the mountains of wealth in front of him, Li Yunze exhaled.
There is no way now. It will be difficult to change the inertia formed by the Song Army in a short period of time.
Yue Fei's Yue Family Army is the army that Li Yunze really admires.
But even so, Yue Fei's Yue Family Army received very high military pay and full pay.
In other words, if you want to raise soldiers, you must have money. If you don't have money, you won't have soldiers.
Early the next morning, Li Yunze first prepared all the ministries to call in all the above, and then signaled that there were hundreds of thousands of taels of silver ingots piled up.
"This is my king's reward. You can share it among yourself."
The circulating currencies of the Song Dynasty were copper coins and silk, but gold and silver were still precious metals recognized by everyone.
He is reluctant to part with gold, but 925 industrial silver is available for as much as he wants.
The generals of the Western Army did not think there was anything inappropriate, and even Han Shizhong distributed the money generously.
This has been their tradition for many years and has become a clear rule.
If you are given enough money, you will naturally be willing to sacrifice your life. If you don't have enough money, it is normal to put down your weapons and run away.
After the generals had finished distributing the silver ingots, Li Yunze showed the mountains of copper coins and silk cloth in the camp, "This is for distribution to the sergeants. You have already distributed the silver coins, and you are not allowed to pass them by, otherwise you will not blame me for being unkind."
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Everyone sang in unison, expressing their disdain.
Just distributing money and silk was busy until the afternoon.
After lunch, Yue Fei and others with the Shengjie Army infantry rushed over, and then the army broke camp and headed towards Taiyuan City.
On the way, Han Shizhong reported statistics to Li Yunze.
The reinforcements from the east route, which originally numbered more than 100,000, were now numbered to be less than 70,000 that could still fight.
Losses included wounded soldiers and fleeing sergeants.
As for the results of the battle, the total number of gold soldiers killed, wounded and captured seemed to be more than 7,000.
And most of these results were achieved by the victorious cavalry group yesterday.
Li Yunze directly promoted Han Shizhong to the commander of the Shengjie Army and placed the entire Shengjie Army under his command.
He also collected the remaining cavalry from various units and concentrated them all into the victorious army.
Although the generals were dissatisfied, they only complained when faced with Li Yunze's orders.
Guo Yan, the strategic envoy of the Yongxing Army, was overtaken and killed by Jin soldiers on the way back from Yuci. Li Yunze directly took over the leaderless Yongxing Army and made him the central army.
Later, Yue Fei was promoted to the commander of the Yongxing Army, and he was given the power to command the various departments of the Yongxing Army.
Han Shizhong was promoted, and although the various departments of the Western Army were dissatisfied, they were able to accept it.
After all, although Han Shizhong had enemies all over the place, his qualifications and military exploits were there after all, and he was still an old man in the Western Army.
But before Yue Fei was just a small branch of the Pingding Army, he was able to lead an army on his own. Even though the Yongxing Army had been crippled, and even though he was only nominally under the jurisdiction of King Kang, it still aroused the dissatisfaction and dissatisfaction of many generals.
be opposed to.
Li Yunze didn't talk nonsense. Anyone who objected had their hair cut off in Chengdu and was sent to serve under Han Shizhong.
After seeing Li Yunze's toughness, everyone quickly stopped.
"I will hand over the Yongxing Army to you despite the pressure." When setting up camp at night, Li Yunze summoned Yue Fei, "Do it well and don't let others say that I have lost sight of it."
Yue Fei is the type of person who doesn't speak much harshly. At this time, he should be more loyal and express his gratitude.
But he thought about it for a while and just said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for trusting me. I will definitely live up to my command."
The Yongxing Army was an imperial army during the Battle of Yuci, and suffered heavy losses after being defeated.
In order to help Yue Fei, Li Yunze added the manpower he recruited from various places in Hebei, especially Xiangzhou, Zhending Mansion and other places into the Yongxing Army.
In addition, when the Yongxing Army sent troops before, more than a thousand people selected from the local garrison and incorporated into the Shengjie Army also passed through and joined the Yongxing Army.
As a result, the content of the Western Army in the Yongxing Army was greatly reduced, making it easier for Yue Fei, a Hebei native, to command.
The next day, the army began to move faster, marching nearly fifty miles in one day.
By the time they set up camp, they had arrived at Yongli Prison, which was only more than ten miles away from Taiyuan Mansion.
What puzzled the generals was that not only did the Jin soldiers fail to block the attack along the way, they even withdrew the defenders who had previously been stationed at Yongli Prison.
"What else could it be for?" Facing the generals' puzzled inquiries, Li Yunze grinned, "It's just an idea for us to wait for the whole army to enter Taiyuan Mansion and then surround it."
Wanyan Loushi and Wanyan Yinshu did not have enough soldiers and horses at this time.
Yelvma's fifth division has been crippled, and Wanyanlou's division has also lost troops and generals.
The number of troops and horses that can be mobilized, even including the siege troops and horses surrounding Taiyuan Mansion, is less than 30,000.
In the past, Wanyan Loushi would have been confident to defeat these Song troops with 30,000 men.
In the battle of Kesha Xiongling, Li Yunze's fighting showed the combat effectiveness of this Song army, which made him choose to let them enter the city after careful consideration.
If the Song army entered the city, the defenders, who were already short of food and grass, would not be able to hold on for long.
When Nianhan and others defeat the rest of the Song army and rush back, they will eat it in one bite.
Even if the Song army chose to escape instead of entering the city, he would have enough confidence to pursue it all the way and defeat it completely. What he is best at is pursuit battles.
When we fought against Xixia, we relied on pursuit battles to defeat and annihilate the Xixia field army in one battle.
"Attack the Jinren Cannon City tomorrow." Li Yunze looked at the generals in front of him, "Who wants to attack the city?"
Taiyuan Prefecture is an important military base in Hedong. The city is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
Nianhan was unable to break through despite repeated attacks, so he could only use the lock-up method to siege.
He first attacked the surrounding cities of Taiyuan City and isolated Taiyuan City.
After that, people from all over the country were captured to fill the moat, and countless people died tragically.
Then a large number of trebuchets were launched to engage in artillery battles with the trebuchets in the city.
Moreover, he also built a new city on the edge of Taiyuan City and set up artillery carts on the new city to destroy Taiyuan City's defenses.
The fierce artillery battle on both sides will continue until all the stones in Taiyuan City are used up.
Nianhan, who had failed miserably after several attacks on the city, planted antler trees within a few miles of the city wall, leaving only a path in the middle for people to walk on, and arranging military dogs as a warning.
It is true that there were military dogs. The original words in the history books are ‘dogs serve as police’.
What Li Yunze wanted to attack was the Jin Bing's artillery city.
The generals were puzzled as to why they did not go directly to Taiyuan City, but instead went to attack the Jinren City. Isn't this unnecessary?
"The Jin soldiers were cruel. They treated the people of the Song Dynasty like livestock and killed countless people." Li Yunze's expression seemed calm, but his words were full of killing intent. "The other Jin soldiers have horses that are difficult to chase, and the defenders in the artillery city can't escape."
.I want to kill them all. We must let the Jin people know that we are killing them just like slaughtering animals!"
Han Shizhong was so excited that he volunteered to attack the city.
"Shengjie's army is dominated by cavalry. What city are you attacking?" Li Yunze glared at him. "I will be guarding outside the city to deal with the Jin soldiers' reinforcements."
Nianhan used the tactic of encircling a point and calling for reinforcements when he besieged Taiyuan City. Li Yunze followed suit and also encircled a point to call for reinforcements.
He knew Wanyan Loushi's thoughts very well, because he would have to do the same thing. Moreover, Wanyan Loushi was good at pursuit battles, and he also knew it very well.
In order to avoid being pursued, it is necessary to defeat the soldiers and horses that hurt Wanyanlou's chamber before retreating to eliminate this trouble.
It was finally decided that each department of the Qin Feng Army would be responsible for attacking the artillery city, while the other departments would wait for a decisive battle with the Jin soldiers' reinforcements.
Early the next morning, before the soldiers of Qin Feng's army set off, Li Yunze showed them hundreds of thousands of copper coins and mountains of silk cloth.
"The first person to reach the top of the battle in the first battle will be rewarded with 10,000 guan and 3,000 pieces of silk. Those who capture the heads of the golden soldiers in this battle will be rewarded with 100 guan or 50 pieces of silk for each head!"
The value of silk cloth in the Song Dynasty was relatively stable, maintaining at the level of two guans per piece of silk cloth for a long time.
Li Yunze is not short of money, he just wants to drown those gold thieves with mountains of copper and sea of silk!
When Qin Fengjun shouted slogans of revenge for Mr. Xiaozhong and attacked the city, the defenders of Taiyuan City on the bank of the Fen River and the main force of the Jin soldiers assembled not far away were all shaken.