The stars are shining brightly, and the moonlight is faint.

A group of soldiers and horses are wearing stars and moons, hurrying towards Taiyuan City. The first person in the team was the Hedong Road soldier and horse, dressed in familiar copper armor, riding on a horse, with a very burly figure, with a dignified look on his face, holding a big pole knife in his hand, and leading the team with a solemn face.

Behind Zhi Yanzhi was a deputy general who called Zhang Bao, followed by five or seven thousand soldiers and horses, and in front of them were hundreds of cavalry, but all of them were Fuzhou soldiers and horses.

There are not many of these people, but they are the essence of the Hedong Army. Compared with those soldiers who were hastily recruited and recruited without much training, the thousands of Hedong soldiers at present are either the usable people selected from the Hedong Forbidden Army, or the brave men selected from Fuzhou, Linzhou, Fengzhou and other border areas.

The soldiers were heavily armed and clad in iron armor, and the long journey made them very tired and tired, as could be seen from their faces. However, Orihiko did not give the order to slow down the march.

Because he knows too well the importance of Taiyuan City. Jingcheng also seems to be very important, but it is far less than Taiyuan. Zhe Yanzhi very much agrees with Zhang Xiaochun's intention to defend Taiyuan. This place is not lost, what if the Liangshan thieves just get through the act?

As we all know, the east of the river is backed by Taihang, the mountains and rivers on the surface, the terrain is undulating and the ravines are longitudinal. But in this loess of earth, there are also several basins that appear to be flat, although their elevation is still very high. But compared to that, it does deserve to be a basin.

From north to south, they are Datong Basin, Xinding Basin, Taiyuan Basin, Linfen Basin and Yuncheng Basin. The five basins are either connected or divided, but Taiyuan lives in them, and if this place is not broken, the Liangshan army will not be able to go south. Maybe Lu Qian can start another army and horses, from south to north and then into Hedong.

It's just that Zhang Xiaochun and Zhe Yanzhi don't know what the city lock-up method is. They only heard sporadically that Lu Qian was fighting for Zhuozhou, and then the army entered the city of Nanjing, but they didn't know what kind of siege method the siege of Zhuozhou was.

With the city locking method, Lu Qian couldn't take Taiyuan City in the short term, and in fact, there was no need to leave a large army outside the city to watch and search. To tell the truth, this lockdown method seems clumsy, but it is really a clever move when the situation is superior.

In fact, it is. When Zhang Xiaochun and Zhe Yanzhi looked at the Liangshan army outside Taiyuan City, and divided their troops with great fanfare, all the way to the south and all the way to the west, their hearts were already full of despair.

All the way to the south, it must be directed to the south of central Jin; All the way to the west, he was still shouting to Benfu Prefecture and Linzhou.

If he has a resolute face, he is also worried.

No one doesn't care about their family. In the official history, the folded family is like the Confucian family, at the critical juncture of the country's ruin, the whole family is divided into two, Zheyan is loyal to the Great Song Dynasty, and Zheke can ask to surrender to the Jurchen. There may be many external factors influencing this, but the foundation of the Zhe family is in Fuzhou, which is extremely important to the Zhe family, but there is no doubt about it.

Now that Zhe Ke can ask for and save in Jiangnan, Zhe Yanzhi was transferred to Hedong to serve as the commander of the soldiers, which in itself has no intention of protecting the foundation of the family. But now......

At this time, the time has entered April, but the temperature in Taiyuan is still cool. At least compared to the same period in Shandong, it is much better. Lu Qian suddenly had a new understanding of the word 'summer retreat'.

The cool wind is blowing, and this kind of refreshment is a completely different feeling from the ice basin + animal/manpower fan. It's even more refreshing!

"Come, send someone to the city." Lu Qian's eyes would not deceive him, in the past few days, with the establishment of the city lock law, as well as the dispatch of troops and horses from the south and west, the morale in the city has been much lower. Now don't say that the clouds are in full swing, and even milk white is not as good. Give it a try!

After all, blindly besieging without attacking will put too little pressure on the city.

The drums of war outside the city sounded continuously, and battalions of Liangshan troops gathered, gathered together, and lined up solemnly.

A few fast horses galloped towards Taiyuan, and went straight to a distance of twenty paces below the city before stopping. These men are also bold.

"Listen to the city, the king of my family told Yu Er and others, I will be ordered to carry the whole world, and I will definitely dominate the world and stabilize the people. King Qi has always valued virtue and ability, and he does not hesitate to reward. If you are willing to lead your troops to join you, the king should choose the best and appoint them, and the rest will be preferred. This is the king's love for the people, don't let it down. If you dare to resist blindly, the day our army breaks through Taiyuan, the city will be full of soldiers and civilians and jade stones, and at that time, it will be too late to regret! ”

Hearing what the people in the city said, all the soldiers and generals in the city looked at Zhang Xiaochun, Zhang Xiaochun was furious, and shouted: "I am a minister of the Great Song Dynasty, how can I stoop to serve the thief?" You and other thieves, the world is ruined, the common people are corrupted, the sin is heavy, it is difficult to write, and you dare to think about the world? It's a shame. Tell Lu Qian that the thief just let the horse attack the city, everyone in my Taiyuan army and people is based on loyalty and righteousness, and they are all children of the court! ”

No matter how worried he is, at this moment, Zhang Xiaochun must not be soft, otherwise Taiyuan will break itself without a fight.

Zhang Xiaochun is over fifty years old, and his voice is the same as Hong Zhong, spreading far away, and he can hear it clearly in the city and under the city.

The people in the city were furious when they heard this, and they didn't say much, turned their horses back, and went back to tell Lu Qian. The latter was not angry, but just said: "If you don't reach the heart of the Yellow River, you won't die." Someone, call the artillery battalion on the incendiary bomb. ”

Since the trade with the Khitans, the tallow and mutton fat were purchased by the Liangshan army in large quantities, and the increasingly prosperous whaling operations, although a large amount of grease was turned into candles, lubricating oil, etc., but only the remaining scraps were enough to make a large number of incendiary bombs;

In particular, the most simple incendiary bomb is the kind that is repeatedly soaked in grease by soaking the wooden shell, which can be described as inexpensive.

It's just that this is not a foreign war, so this method is still very hurtful. It is impossible for Lu Qian to use it unscrupulously, and it is also the north wind blowing today, and he knows that there are no people in the middle of the south gate of Taiyuan, but there are many military tents and shacks. That's why people use incendiary bombs to bombard a wave.

They are all sergeants, and they are not wronged when they die.

The incendiary bomb is a simple one, which means that the inside is made of stone, and the outside is covered with multiple layers of wooden shells. Once on the ground, the wooden shell will inevitably break, unless it has fallen into the water or mud. The wooden shell is soaked with grease inside and out, and there are lumps of grease inside. Once it is broken, sparks will fly. The arson effect is still okay.

It's just that this scene is too inhumane, just like the oil pot at the head of the city during the siege war, once it is affected, with the current medical methods, the injured are almost unable to live.

Even in the previous life, on the earth, gasoline bombs were banned internationally. Although better and more effective incendiary bombs have long been updated.

An incendiary bomb shot out, as if a flint meteor had suddenly fallen from the sky. Whether it was the head of the city or the city, it was soon chaotic.

The flame at the head of the city is not yet great, but it is inside the city. The military tents were tightly knit, and they had been burned in large areas. There are not many people who died in the fire, but the people of No. 100 are all on fire and are struggling to call, and the scene is also miserable. Although the actual casualties are not large, the deterrent effect is more than 10 times that of death.

Smoke rose and shouts were unnoticed. At this time, although it was noon, the sun was brilliant, but the black smoke was billowing down, and Taiyuan City was not sad. But it was the unmanned dwelling that was set on fire, and fortunately it was not the south wind today, otherwise, half of Taiyuan might have been burned.

The fire is blazing, and the eyes are full of light.

Pacify the yamen.

Zhang Xiaochun, who was tired, walked into the inner house, followed closely by several guards behind him, accompanied by his son Zhang Hao and several staff members.

Taiyuan City is a newly built city that has only been built for more than 100 years, and at the beginning of construction, a large enough place was opened up in the city to build a public house; The inside cannot be said to be Huayu contiguous, but it is also an overlap of high halls and pavilions.

The appeasement envoys of the past dynasties will arrange some things they like, such as Zhang Xiaochun, who loves strange stones. There are a few pieces inside. But at this moment, he had no intention of staying for a moment.

Striding into the study, his grim appearance immediately turned into endless sadness. He is not a fool, how can he not see that the morale of the soldiers and horses in the city is declining? The soldiers and horses from the land of Fuzhou are especially strong.

But Zhang Xiaochun was helpless. There was a gloom in the study.

Going west along the Fenshui flowing through Taiyuan, it is Lanzhou. Further west of this place is Linzhou, and its western end to the north is Fuzhou.

Fuzhou and Linzhou are both bordering Western Xia, and the soldiers and horses can go directly to the back of their country Xingqing Mansion through the two places. Of course, there is also a land in between, that is, the Mu Us Desert in later generations. At this moment, although there is a desert here and the southern section of the Hetao (Xingqing Fu), Dijinze is not a desert.

The surname of the governor of Lanzhou is Jiang, and the single name is a kuaizi. A native of Chenju on Gyeonggi Road, a mid-year jinshi in Daguan.

This person is not skilled in martial arts, but he is quite good at internal affairs, and he is very famous in the local area.

There is a small lake in the backyard of the state government, and there are weeping willows planted on the edge of the lake, and there is a small pavilion standing on the water. When the spring breeze comes, the green willow clear pond is connected into a piece, people sit on the pavilion, look around, quiet and deep.

At this moment, there are two people talking in the pavilion, one old and one young, and the chess game has entered the second half of the game, but the minds of the people who play chess are obviously no longer on this chess game. The young man was in his early twenties, and he left a son, saying: "Father, the Liangshan army is already advancing west along the Fen River, and I, Lanzhou, are the first to bear the brunt. What did my father think? "That's a big deal. When a loyal minister becomes a second minister, or he pats his ass and leaves, it will affect the future of the entire Jiang family.

"The Liangshan army is prosperous, and it is impossible to fight with it in the flat ground. However, I have several military states in the northwest, the terrain is rugged, the roads are narrow, and several ministers in Fuzhou have already been in the army, and the king of Qi wants to sweep my east of the river in a short time, but it is difficult. "This is not a smooth road to Hebei. The middle-aged man who spoke, wearing a cyan straight embellished, a wide shirt and long sleeves, was none other than Zhizhou Jiang Kuai!

"But the general trend is aligned, and non-Fuzhou can be recovered." Jiang Zhe, Jiang Kuai's son, said with a smile.

This attitude was already very obvious, Jiang Kuai's eyebrows raised, "Unexpectedly, you actually have your heart set on King Qi?" ”

"The north has a large population, rich in products, and the people teach the south to be brave. And the king of Qi has a long-term vision, knows people well, Qilu Huainan has been settled, Hebei is settled, the foundation is solid, and hundreds of thousands of people can be won by raising his hand. The fierce generals under his command are like clouds, and he is also a famous general in the world, how can he not dominate the world? ”

"I heard that the land of Hebei is already expanding its army, and the Daimyo Mansion alone has recruited 30,000 new troops. How can there be more than 100,000 in the entire land of Hebei? ”

"How can such a large army be Hedong, Gyeonggi, Guanzhong, and Kansai? If the imperial court transferred the western army back to Guannei, this northern land would soon be in the hands of the king of Qi. ”

This outsider didn't know Lu Qian's difficulties at the beginning. With soldiers and no officers, his expansion must be slow. But now that Qilu and most of Huainan are the training bases, there are waves of officials of all sizes available for harvesting. Since he has no shortage of officials, the speed of conquering various places is naturally rising in a straight line.

This side will take Hedong when it goes down to Hebei, and the land of Gyeonggi Road will not wait for next year, and everything will be here.

"Jiangnan's methods are too cool, ten times better than the king of Qi, and he can't be the heart of Shilin. Now he is fighting with the imperial army undecided, and his son sees it as a fight between two tigers. But the king of Qi can reap the benefits of the fisherman, and this foundation is a godsend! ”

"At that time, the army was pressed, the two tigers of the southern country were injured, and the king of Qi could take more of the world, and he would not lose the situation of Cao Wei when he retreated." The worst is also two out of three. At this moment, he switched to the command of King Qi, and in Jiang Zhe's opinion, both horizontal and vertical were earned.

Jiang Kuai's face was bitter when he heard this, he thought for a while, and said slowly: "King Qi is indeed a great trend!" ”

Jiang Zhe hurriedly got up and saluted, "Please also ask my father to make a decision quickly." Settle this matter early, and finalize this matter before the army reaches the city, so that my family can make great achievements. ”()

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