choke element

Chapter 733

"withdraw?"

The general manager of the troops and horses of the East and West Roads in Shanxi, and the Jiedu envoy of Wuning Army in Xuzhou, Xie Lie, sneered twice.

"Those in Kaifeng thought it was the situation in the past. Once you beat the Song people, you will get a benefit; even if you can't get anything on the battlefield, you can still get benefits from the Song people's court after returning from retreat? The situation is different now!"

He took two steps back and forth on the tower, and asked another subordinate, "What's the news from the north?"

The subordinate shook his head, and just about to open his mouth, Mingming waved his hand abruptly: "It's so early in the morning, I don't think there's any news."

He returned to his seat, his heavy body making the wooden chair rattle: "I want to get benefits from Song, but I only know how to fight, and I can't stop Song from having close contacts with the rebels. This made both the north and the south tense, and the central government There's a fart sound over there, from Xijing to Daming Mansion, you have to face the enemy!"

The voice of his complaints slowly fell, because the situation was just like this, and no one could do anything about it.

Earlier, Wanyan Congtan, Hou Zhi, Tian Zhuo and others surrounded King Sui and went south to let Zhongdu go against the Mongols, while his family slowly managed in Henan, opening up another world for the Jurchens.

But what I didn't expect was that the Mongols and the Zhongdu court were both unreliable, and the rebel Guo Ning seized the Dajin regime in one go by force.Seeing that Guo Ning's actions in Zhongdu were one step at a time, Kaifeng had no choice but to follow passively, and King Sui became emperor.

King Sui is different from Guo Ning.Guo Ning has the army as his foundation, and what he lacks is money and food to appease the local government and reorganize government affairs.However, after King Sui became emperor, he had to support such a big situation, not only lacking money and food, but also exposing the weakness of the entire regime in terms of force and prestige.

So we have to fight to break the situation.

However, Nan Chao always has such an old cowhide appearance...

Right now, Xie Lie's famous name doesn't expect the imperial court to get much benefit from the Song Dynasty. He only hopes that the hundreds of elites he dispatched to support will not suffer too much loss and can return to Xuzhou safely.

He once wrote to the imperial court that instead of fighting the Song people, it is better to devote energy to the east, try to capture Dongping Prefecture, Jeju, Yanzhou, Tengzhou and other places, and drive the rest of the Red Coat Army back to the mountains and occupy the plains. Anyway, it can squeeze some oil and water.But Kaifeng was worried that this would force the Red Coat Army to surrender to Zhongdu, so they still refused.

Therefore, although the Kaifeng imperial court's Shanxi East and West Road General Manager's Office is in place, there are very few Shandong sites that it really controls.Sometimes Xie Lie's famous names don't understand what they got in exchange for two years ago when they fought to the death with Yang An'er.

In the past few days, he felt vaguely uneasy in his heart, and always felt that something would happen in the direction of Shandong.

Outsiders think that Xie Lie's name is a fierce general who has experienced many battles, and a fierce general must be as bold as a fight.But he himself knows how the name of the fierce general came about.

Since the founding of the Great Jin Kingdom, the Jurchens massacred Han'er was not more difficult than mowing grass, and the number of Han'er killed was also more than that of wild grass in the mountains.

As long as you have the strength of your arms, wear solid armor, charge into the enemy's formation on a big horse, and hack at those thin-faced Han peasants holding sickles and bamboo poles, it is actually not dangerous.Killing a hundred people is only a little more tiring than killing one and ten people. Experienced in hundreds of battles can only represent hard work and nothing else.

But as the situation changed, Daikin's enemies were no longer ordinary Han farmers.And the Kaifeng imperial court was ruled by all Han children, and the court only relied on hundreds of thousands of Jurchens who fled south to control hundreds of millions of Han children, just like a group of sailors drifting in a boiling sea in a small boat, capsized at any time danger.

If you think about it more, the Red Coat Army is a Haner, and Guo Ning in Zhongdu is also a Haner. The court always feels that these two families have fought fierce battles, and they must be on guard against each other, and there is no room for relaxation.However, if these men join hands, what will happen to the entire sea controlled by the Kaifeng court?Xie Lie's fame is beyond guessing.

Thinking of this, Xie Lie became more and more nervous.

Even though he was surrounded by a group of subordinates, Xie Lie Mingming still felt that some danger was approaching.This inexplicable sense of tension has made him more and more irritable these days, cursing at every turn.The subordinates all thought that he could not make money going south to make meritorious service, so he was irritable, but they didn't know that he was just afraid.

As the Kaifeng court continued to fill Huainan with troops, Xuzhou became more and more empty.

Theoretically speaking, those poor ghosts of the Red Coat Army entrenched in the mountains have neither the ability nor the courage to do anything.But Xie Lie Mingming really felt that something was wrong.He is a vulgar person, he doesn't have the ability to analyze and analyze, and he has never been able to explain the truth to the Kaifeng court.

But in the past few days, he has felt more and more that if the south is fighting and the north is facing off, but the east is the only one that is calm, then there will be problems if the east is not sure.

"In the past few days, don't slack off looking for sentries along the river, and there must be no shortage of scouts in Pizhou and Tengzhou! Are the sentry personnel in these places reporting back twice a day?"

"Yes!"

"Not enough!" Xie Lie Mingming slapped the table and shouted: "Send more people! Four times a day, no, six times a day!"

Surabaya and the Nanqing River are all silt left by the flooding of the Yellow River. How hard it is for the knights to travel.The remnants of the Red Coat Army in Pizhou and Tengzhou were rampant, and the road was so difficult.

When Chief Xie Lie gave an order, he would report back six times a day. Where did the three times the manpower come from?
The officer in charge of the sentry was unhappy, but he didn't dare to talk back to Xie Lie.

While bowing in response, he secretly glanced at his colleagues around him, wanting to see where the county lieutenant in charge of local security was.

This county lieutenant is a native of Pengcheng. He once led hundreds of neighbors to avoid soldiers and was promoted as the village owner.Most of this person's subordinates are also proficient in geography. If he can send a few teams to help, the sentry can be assembled.

Ok?
The county lieutenant didn't come to answer Mao today?

The officer looked around again, and it seemed that there was more than one person who didn't come to answer.Several Qianhu and Mouk who were born in Xuzhou and have been promoted successively in the past two years, why didn't they come?Nowadays, military positions such as Qianhu and Mouk are flying all over the sky. These few people are not important figures, but they are bold if they don't do it. Aren't they afraid of being scolded by the general manager?
He was about to ask about this, when several soldiers from outside the meeting room crawled in: "Boss, it's not good! An enemy is coming!"

Half a moment later, Xie Lie Mingding led his subordinates hurriedly up the tower, looked up, his face turned dark immediately.

He saw the boiling sea.

Guo Ning walked ashore through the mud, taking dozens of short steps, one foot deep and one foot shallow.

The Yellow River is in the hands of the Dajin Kingdom and has not been properly managed.In the fifth year of Mingchang, the entire Yellow River broke through the old embankment of Yangwu in Nanjing, engulfed Fengqiu County, swept across millions of Li people in 29 counties along Surabaya, and finally seized the Huaihe River into the sea.That horrible scene was only 20 years ago.

The Yellow River came all the way east from Caozhou and Shanzhou, leaving a large area of ​​yellow sand and silt wherever it went.At this moment, Guo Ning and others walked all the way, and it looked like a flat natural embankment, but it was actually a tidal flat. When they stepped down, the dry soil shell on the surface cracked, and the silt was submerged up to the knees.

When the entire army crossed the mud flat horizontally, the mud flat was stirred up by tens of thousands of feet and horseshoes, flowing wantonly.Every soldier had to struggle in it to get out, and almost all of them turned into clay figurines, as if endless ghosts had risen out of thin air from the water of the Yellow River.

At this time, if the defenders cover the city with arrow rain, it will definitely cause huge casualties.But the city of Xuzhou in the early morning remained silent. Even though the low footsteps of the red-coated army trekked like thunder, the guards on the city wall did not respond.

Liu Erzu said that he has internal support in Xuzhou City, which is true.The position of the internal response is very important, the status is also high, and there are many accomplices, they are ready!

Guo Ning paused and looked around at the generals: "Everyone, are you tired?"

Yesterday, I marched in cover all day, and this morning, it was the third shift to make food, and the fifth shift to dispatch troops. It was still this kind of yellow mudflat. How can I not be tired?This kind of tidal flat trekking, one mile is more tiring than usual ten miles. Many soldiers have just walked half way, their shoes and socks are swallowed by mud and sand, and they are barefoot for the next twenty miles; There were more than 500 Red Coat Army soldiers resting in place.

But those who follow Guo Ning at this moment are indeed the tough and brave group in the Red Coat Army.They are willing to follow Guo Ning, but it doesn't mean that they have lost the rebelliousness in their hearts, and they don't want to lose their prestige in front of Guo Ning.At the moment everyone said: "Not tired!"

"It's good not to be tired!"

Guo Ning issued an order in a deep voice: "Send the order, divide the troops to surround and attack immediately. Within half an hour, I will collect and seize them in the city!"

The soldiers following Guo Ning rumbled on their leather drums.The big drum roared, and the sound spread for tens of miles.The sound of the drum was also a signal agreed in advance. At the same time as the sound of the drum, the entire arc-shaped city wall in the north of Xuzhou City was full of noise, and the north gate and the Pengzu Tower in the northeast corner were on fire at the same time.

Looking to the south, there was also flames rising, and a thick smoke shot straight up tens of feet. It turned out that Xiang Yu's Liangmatai outside the south gate was on fire... That was the largest barracks of the defenders!
"Siege! Siege!"

Countless red-coated soldiers rushed forward with clamor and noise, like a turbulent flood, Peng Yibin, wielding a broadsword in his hand, rushed straight ahead.

Xie Lie Mingming was watching from the north gate, and he kept shouting at the defenders, but the elite of the Ding Navy immediately pressed close to the city wall, and the arrows covered the sky like locusts, and immediately knocked out the defenders on the city.

A more clever officer of the Golden Army led his subordinates to bow and walk away, using the female wall to avoid the arrows.They rushed towards the city gate, brandishing knives and shouting, "Close the gate! Close the gate!"

After shouting twice, dozens of defenders near the city gate all gathered their gazes.

The officer scolded angrily: "Look what I'm doing? Close the door!"

Before he finished speaking, no less than seven or eight long knives and long swords pierced him, piercing him into a water sac spurting blood on all sides.

The next moment, the gates on both sides of the city were completely opened, and Peng Yibin led dozens of people to rush in first, and killed the officer's subordinates like chopping melons and vegetables.

The torrent poured in from the north gate and poured in from the east gate; another large stream rolled to the south, swallowed the Nanshan Mountain, and returned to pour into the south gate.

Arrows flew, spears were raised simultaneously, horseshoes roared, and the sound of fighting echoed throughout the city in an instant.

(End of this chapter)