Chapter 202: The Fleet
Cai Yangcheng shouted to kill the earth, and the smoke and dust rolled out of the city for half an hour, and the stubborn Jingzhou soldiers hid in the houses and houses, and resisted each other with short knives and bows and crossbows, so that the Liao army was left and right, and it was not a long time to be in a hurry. Although they knew that Jingzhou's soldiers were not the enemy of Liao, the street battles really brought them great casualties. So much so that after capturing half of the city, Jiang Jin ordered that all the houses guarded by Jingzhou soldiers should be thrown with torches and smoked with firewood.
The results of this brute force were immediate. Whether it was the people or the enemy hiding in the house, they were choked under the smoke and fire, and they could only flee from the house in great disarray, and they could not only flee from the house in extreme confusion, and they would either shout and drop their lives, or kneel on the ground and surrender to the captives.
After Gan Ning left, the two lieutenants who did not want to go south with him, one died on the street under the piercing of a hundred arrows, and the other led more than a dozen soldiers to die in the house behind closed doors, and finally the Liao army only found a burnt skeleton under the iron armor, as small as a child, which made people dare not believe that this belonged to the warrior who shouted his bow after the fire in the deep wall.
No matter how good a warrior is, he can only turn into a pair of charred and dry bones after the fire, and only those who survive are warriors.
Jiang Jin walked very slowly, so that the area three or four miles ahead had already been cleared by the sergeants, and he walked on the main street of Caiyang City without concealment, even so, there were still generals and guards wearing large armor and shields to prevent the enemy hidden in the shadows. General Du Liao enjoyed this feeling, and every time he took a step south, the territory of Zhao would have to go one more step south.
The soldiers in front fought with the enemy with their lives, and Jiang Jin in the rear measured the land with his feet.
Behind him, the measured land was redistributed among its own soldiers, and the people who had not escaped from the city were driven to the northeast and northwest corners of the city, where there used to be two large garrison camps in the city, and now the empty school grounds had been packed up with armor and armaments, leaving tents to temporarily house the women and children in the city. As for the few young and strong, they were conscripted by the army to do the most tiring work - collecting corpses and pushing them in small carts into a valley more than ten miles away.
The corpses of the Liao army were collected by Zhang Wan and piled up outside the city when they were packing up their armor earlier. Later, when Caiyang City was emptied, Jiang Jin would personally preside over the lighting of the fire, burn them to ashes, and send them back to the north.
When they were alive, they fought with their comrades until they died, and the ashes of the dead were mixed together and put into a box to be laid in peace.
Redistribution of land, this is all Tian Ce originated in Youzhou, since the Yan family swept down the dust of Youzhou, in a blink of an eye, half of the world's fields were divided. This will undoubtedly deepen the resistance of the south, which is also the reason why the people of Jingzhou fled north in the past...... At least in the campaign of the Liao army to conquer Jingzhou, the strangest thing was undoubtedly that the people ran north, and the big clans fled south or stood still.
The big clans and wealthy families all want to run, but they only control the local land, and if they run south, they have nothing, and if they stay in Nanyang, they have nothing.
The Yan clan had already announced to the world that it was no longer the big clans but the bureaucrats who controlled the fields in the north, and only the six hundred stone military marquis and the county order could give three hectares of land, and at most eighteen hectares. The Yan clan was not strict, but it set a ceiling for everyone, and instead made the northern wealthy families turn their attention to the north and south of the goods or devote themselves to craftsmanship to increase their income...... In the past, annexing the fields did not work.
This is also the reason why Jiang Jin is poor and only has money left, even he, limited by his official position of 2,000 stones, only has a hundred hectares of land, and he is still the most prolific among the generals in the north. Naturally, the fields he had acquired would not be just 100 hectares, but they could only be sold, leaving the most abundant 100 hectares of fields on the north bank of the Yellow River, and tens of thousands of stone of grain could be harvested a year.
"General, the war has started in the south of the city."
Just as Jiang Jin was looking at Cai Yang's past books in the official temple in the city, waiting for his subordinates to completely clear the city, a soldier reported from the city that Zhang Xiu in the south of the city and more than 3,000 Jingzhou soldiers who escaped from the city fought, and the two huge military formations occupied almost the entire field in the south of the city.
In the blink of an eye, the fighting in the central and southern parts of the city also came to an end, and there were only sporadic shouts of killing in the entire city to remind people that the city was still in flames. Jiang Jin climbed the south city wall, stood in front of the city gate tower and looked south, and he could see the two military formations.
"Jingzhou soldiers are not far from the riverbank."
From his direction, he can even see the trajectory of the Jingzhou soldiers all the way south, on the way they advanced from the south of the city straight across the fields to the south, leaving corpses everywhere, there are Jingzhou soldiers and Liangzhou soldiers, the war horses that have lost their owners in the field are running all over the south of the city, the Jingzhou army has suffered heavy casualties, and the Liangzhou soldiers are not much better.
Jiang Jin shook his head secretly, and said to the left and right: "Tell the east and west of the city to go forward to support General Zhang and defeat the enemy army together." A message was sent to the uncle in the west of the city, asking him to lead his troops and baggage troops to the village under the water, and when the battle was over, he sent riders to requisition civilian boats along the river bank to drive away the people in the river, and dropped driftwood from the upper reaches to sink all the enemy ships downstream. ”
"That's right!" After that, just as the herald was about to leave with his fists clenched, Jiang Jin stopped them again, pointed to the war horse wandering outside the city, and said, "Don't forget to send someone to bring the war horse back and hand it over to General Zhang at that time." ”
Jia Xu beside him arched his hand and said, "The general is wise!" ”
Zhang Xiu's battle was a death force for the Yan family, and the soldiers under his command were afraid that they would lose most of them if they fought this battle. Jiang Jin didn't know what Yan Bei thought about Zhang Xiu, but he felt that Zhang Xiu's surrender to the Yan clan was sincere, and there were countless Liangzhou soldiers who died in the south of the city and in the north of the city in this battle, and he didn't have the slightest complaint.
Jiang Jin appreciated this very much, and he decided to write to Zhang Xiu to say something good. Thinking of this, he turned back to Jia Xu and said: "General Wenhe, I bother you to tell General Zhang afterwards that the Liangzhou soldiers suffered a lot of losses in this battle, and they were killed and disabled in battle, and Zhao Guo had his own wounded soldiers who died in battle, so General Zhang would not be worried." As for his subordinates, Jiang helped him send people to recruit troops in Nanyang, but Jiang recruited as many people as he could, until the number was sufficient; The missing armor and war horses, Jiang sent someone to Xinsizhou to frustrate the duke, the same until the full number! ”
Recruiting troops in Nanyang? Of course, Jiang Jin wanted to recruit troops for Zhang Xiu in Nanyang, but Nanyang would definitely not be able to recruit so many soldiers. As long as Jiang Jin doesn't want to, then he can't. In the end, some generals and junior officers will be transferred from the division, and the people in the division are all veterans and veterans, and there is absolutely no problem in fighting the war. Coincidentally, Jiang Jin's idea is not accidental, in fact, this idea of moderation runs through Yanbei's rule.
At this moment, suddenly a sergeant pointed to the river and shouted: "General, fleet, enemy fleet!" ”