Chapter 313: Victory in the First Battle
The large-scale thunder bombs whipped by the Ghostly Poison Doctor were extremely powerful. More than 20 thunder bombs landed on the city wall, blowing up the limbs and bodies of Liao soldiers with blood and flesh flying everywhere. More than a dozen battlements on the city wall were blown away. More than a dozen thunder bombs that landed behind the city wall just exploded above the heads of Liao soldiers who were busy supplying supplies to the top of the city wall. Blood and flesh flew everywhere, and ghosts cried and wolves howled...
The Liao soldiers who were not blown up were also frightened, and they shouted in fear: "The Song army's thunder bombs are coming... Run!..."
Marshals Yelu Xiezhen and Yelu Xiu'ge did a good job in popularizing the knowledge of thunder bombs to the Liao army. The original intention was to let the Liao army soldiers know that the Song army had such a powerful and even more shocking thunder weapon, so that when they suddenly encountered it, they would not be scared out of their wits and regard it as a punishment from heaven. Unexpectedly, it frightened the Liao army soldiers even more and made them lose the courage to fight.
The Liao army soldiers on the city wall could not run far away, but could only push and run to both sides, away from the explosion point of the thunder.
Yelu Buhua stood up, looking at the bloody flesh, limbs and bricks all over the ground, and the soldiers screaming and pushing and running to both sides in fear, and suddenly woke up!
"Don't run! Anyone who escapes from the battlefield will be killed!"
At this time, Cao Wei, who had seen the power of the thunderbolts, was also frightened and excited, and commanded the archers to take the opportunity to quickly run into the range.
A thousand divine arm bows were divided into two teams, north and south, and they all raised their heads and shot arrows at the Liao army, which was in a panic.
The rain of arrows was like locusts, and the Liao army, who were crowded on the top of the city wall, fell down one by one with screams.
Yun Yi, who had been waiting for this moment, waved his hand, and twenty shadow guards and a thousand Moyun cavalry elite soldiers, carrying siege ladders, quickly ran towards the city wall.
The second round of thunderbolts fell on and under the city walls one after another. The rumbling sound of thunder rose and fell. The commander, Yelu Buhua, was hit by an iron nail that flew out after the explosion of a thunderbolt. He screamed, covered his face and fell in a pool of blood.
After each of the archers shot three arrows, they stopped shooting. At this moment, siege ladders had been placed on the city wall.
The Liao army, which had lost its commander, was in great chaos and scrambled to escape.
When Cheng Yu saw Yun Yi leading twenty shadow guards to leap up the city wall along the siege ladder, his shocked mind finally came back to his senses. He
stammered, "Prince...Prince, fighting like this is too...too damn unfair!" "
The elegant Cheng Yu, coughed and spoke out his heart.
Regent Prince Zhao Defang smiled indifferently, "There is no justice for the enemy. It is a blessing for our Song Dynasty to have this kind of crushing war method and means."
Cheng Yu then realized that he had said the wrong thing in his shock and excitement, "Your Majesty, I was so excited that I spoke without thinking. Yes! This is a blessing for the Song Dynasty!
Your Majesty, let alone a mere Liao Kingdom, our Song Dynasty's elite soldiers can sweep the world with the Shenbi bow and this powerful thunder!"
Zhao Defang said calmly, "Although the Zhentian Thunder and the Shenbi Bow are invincible, the number of elite soldiers in the Song Dynasty is limited, and the treasury is not rich. After acquiring the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, we will temporarily defend it and recuperate for two years before expanding the territory." Cheng Yu
was full of admiration. The Regent Prince was young, but he was neither arrogant nor impatient, and he was not greedy for merit and reckless. He was a blessing to the Song Dynasty!
"My Lord, with you in the Song Dynasty, the territory will be vast, prosperous, and last for thousands of years! "
Regent Prince Zhao Defang just smiled, this was also his ideal.
Zhuozhou City was easily breached, the first battle was a victory!
The army was excited and the morale was high!
With the previous experience of the Song army's attack on the local tyrants and the poor after the four states of Yunying, Huanshuo were captured last year, many Khitan nobles in Zhuozhou City fled with their gold and silver when they heard that the Song army was coming.
But more than half of the Khitan nobles, because they were reluctant to give up their huge property, stayed in the city and fantasized that the Liao army could defend the city. Even if they couldn't defend it, it wouldn't be too late to run away when things got bad.
No one expected that 15,000 Liao soldiers defended the city, and the city was broken in less than half a day. When the Song army attacked the city, they wanted to escape again. It's too late to run.
The three teams of 3,000 elite cavalrymen of the Song army had already rushed to the south, north and east gates, and a hail of arrows shot back at the Khitan nobles and Liao army who were crowding at the open city gates and trying to escape.
The Han people in the city began to hide in their homes and watch in fear. When they heard that the Song war god Zhao Defang led the Song army to break through the city, they all walked out of their homes and came to the streets in ecstasy.
They enthusiastically helped the Song army clean up the battlefield and capture the Khitans and Liao army stragglers. Last year, His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin conquered the four states of Yunying, Huanshuo, and his actions of beating the local tyrants and equalizing the rich had been secretly spread by the Han people in the Sixteen States of Yanyun for a year.
Sure enough, apart from arresting those Khitan nobles and the Liao army who had fled and hidden, the Song army did not harm the people at all. Even those ordinary Khitan people were treated equally without killing or oppression.
The King of Chu and the King of Xiang, who hid their identities and followed the army, used the aliases of Wu Qi and Wu Ren, and were two seventh-rank civil officials who took over the government affairs of Zhuozhou City.
The two princes who witnessed the Song army's siege of the city were as excited as if they were injected with chicken blood. The regent prince was indeed the god of war of the Song Dynasty. This unprecedented way of fighting was absolutely invincible. The recovery of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun was just around the corner.
The regent prince Zhao Defang looked at the two busy princes who were sweating profusely. The prince smiled secretly in his heart. The pseudonyms he gave them with a sense of humor were suggested by Sima Qingyun. Sima Qingyun's pseudonym in Shu, "Wu Qiren", was just split into two.
Sima Qingyun was also dressed in ordinary civil servant clothes. His task was to be the new highest local governor of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, responsible for the implementation of this pilot new policy reform.
Sima Qingyun, dressed in the fourth-rank official uniform, sat in the office drinking the fragrant tea sent by the prince. He looked at the two subordinates of the prince who were busy with the account books and land deeds. He was so happy that he wanted to find a feather fan to wave.
The Regent Prince Zhao Defang glanced at him with dissatisfaction, "Sima Qingyun, you are not so rampant for being lazy, right? Right under my nose, you treat my two brothers as coolies while you enjoy yourself. Is that right?"
Sima Qingyun said with a sly grin, "Your Majesty, don't you see the energy in those two young men? I, an old man, leave the opportunity to release my passion to them. It can be considered a win-win situation, right?"
"Cunning, shameless." Regent Prince Zhao Defang gave an eight-character comment.
Sima Qingyun smiled sinisterly again, "Your Majesty, reform them, and you will have less worries, right?
Besides, a red plum will turn red when it is close to a red plum, and a black plum will turn black when it is close to a black plum. I am a person who has been following you and the Ghost Hand Poison Doctor. How can I not be cunning, shameless and shameless under the influence of your whispers and eyes? "Sima Qingyun sent the eight-character comments back in a nasty manner.
The King of Chu and the King of Xiang, along with more than twenty petty officials, spent three days sorting out the land deeds that had been confiscated from the government offices in Zhuozhou City and the mansions of the Khitan nobles, and were ready to implement a new policy that was even more ruthless than that in Shu.
The aristocratic families and powerful landlords in Shu were given some face. As long as they did not resist, the land except for the extra thousand mu of grain fields would be taken over by the government, and the rest of the gold, silver, and real estate would be kept.
In the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun ruled by the Khitans, all the property of the Khitan nobles was confiscated, the gold, silver, and jewelry were put into the treasury, and the land was evenly distributed to the poor people for low taxes and rent.
The Han people in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun were classified as lowly scum by the Khitans, and most of them were still slaves. Now, everyone can have land to cultivate at low rent, which is really a turnaround from the dire situation.
When the regent Zhao Defang led the army to leave Zhuozhou City and headed for the next battlefield Youzhou, Zhuozhou City was plunged into a cheering and enthusiastic atmosphere of equal distribution of land.