Chapter 681: Annexation of Cochin (Part II)
When Nong Zonggan was complacent about his decision to choose to join the Great Song Dynasty, he suddenly heard Li Changjie say that he could have dominated one side, but chose to take refuge in the Great Song Dynasty to be a military general.
Thinking of the above, Nong Zonggan's face couldn't help but show a little hesitation, Li Changjie next to him looked at it, and a little imperceptible excitement flashed in his eyes, Nong Zonggan seized military power from him, and imprisoned him here, but these are not what made him the most angry, what really made him angry was that Nong Zonggan and the Great Song Dynasty joined forces to annex Jiaozhi, and since then there has been no Jiaozhi This kingdom, which makes Li Changjie, who has always regarded himself as a loyal minister, very angry, so he wants to use words to provoke Nong Zongjiao's ambitions, Even if you can't keep the Jiaozhi Kingdom, you can't let Nong Zong die well.
However, Li Changjie didn't come and was happy for too long, but he saw Nong Zongjian suddenly sneered and looked at him and said: "Thanks to the Taibao, I can afford the last general, but the last general has always had no ambition, and it is really difficult for me to dominate the party, so I still honestly be a military general of the Great Song Dynasty, not to mention that the salary of the military generals of the Great Song Dynasty is extremely rich, and I don't have to worry about the problem of insufficient money to spend in the future!" ”
Hearing Nong Zongji's answer, and then looking at the sneer on the other party's face, Li Changjie couldn't help but sigh secretly, it seems that the other party has seen through his thoughts, but it's not strange to think about it, although Nong Zongji is a little reckless, but his brain is not stupid, and he can even be said to be very smart, otherwise he would not be so valued by Li Changjie, and it is naturally normal to be able to see through his intentions now.
"Since you have already made up your mind to be the lackey of the Great Song Dynasty, as the so-called Tao is different, the old man will not keep you!" Li Changjie waved his hand at this time and said, everything he could have done had already been done. It's a pity that it doesn't work, and it's useless to continue talking about it.
"Hehe, Taibao Duoduo take care, the war has been busy these days, I'm afraid I won't have time to visit you again, but wait until Li Rizun's army is defeated. I will definitely come back to see you! Hearing this, Nong Zongyan also smiled lightly again, and then withdrew his hand.
After Nong Zonggan left, Li Changjie heard the prison door behind him lock again, which made him finally sigh weakly and said to himself: "It seems that my Jiaozhi is in danger of being robbed this time, I hope the king can make a decision as soon as possible and quickly lead the troops out of Shenglong Mansion, so that there may be a glimmer of life!" ”
Li Rizun outside the city returned after a day's attack in vain, which made him furious when he came back, and scolded all his generals. Wait until the next morning, Li Rizun once again urged his generals to attack Shenglong Mansion City, but unfortunately there was no breakthrough in the next few days, but a large number of soldiers were discounted, in this case, many soldiers in Li Rizun's military camp have begun to complain, and even did not contribute to the siege of the city, after all, no one wants to go up to death in vain. This also made Li Rizun furious, but there was nothing he could do.
As the so-called disaster is not a single line. Just when Li Rizun was angry that he couldn't attack Shenglong Mansion for a long time, there was a sudden news from the rear that made him extremely frightened, the Great Song Dynasty actually sent troops from the deep-water port, and went straight to his rear Nanding City, when the news came, Nanding City had been surrounded by the Song army, and now I don't know if it has been conquered. However, thinking that the Great Song army was equipped with terrifying firearms, Nanding City may have already fallen into the hands of the Great Song Dynasty.
Thinking that his nest had been occupied by the Great Song Dynasty, Li Rizun was angry and frightened, and he didn't know what to do for a while, if he turned back to rescue Nanding City. I'm afraid that with his current strength, he is not the opponent of the Great Song Dynasty army at all, and then he will only be a sheep in the mouth of the tiger, if he ignores the Great Song Dynasty and seizes the time to attack the Shenglong Mansion, unless he can capture the Shenglong Mansion before the Great Song army arrives, and then make all the defensive preparations, otherwise he can only be wiped out by the Great Song Dynasty in the end. However, judging from the current situation of their attack on Thang Long Mansion, it is extremely unlikely that they will be able to take this fortified city in a short period of time.
It is precisely because of the above reasons that many of Li Rizun's subordinates persuaded him to abandon the plan to attack Shenglong Mansion and withdraw to the inland areas to the west.
However, Li Rizun is a very stubborn person, and he is not willing to give up his Jiaozhi Kingdom to the Great Song Dynasty, so after thinking about it for a day and a night, he finally decided to storm the Shenglong Mansion, as long as he can defeat this place and eliminate Nong Zong's army, then they only need to face the army of the Great Song Dynasty, and he also learned that the main dispatch of the Great Song Dynasty this time was the native army on the other side of the city, and he didn't pay attention to these Zhancheng people at all. After all, he had captured all the kings of Champa alive at the beginning, and in his eyes, the army of the Champangs was not vulnerable at all.
For Li Rizun's decision, many generals have objected, but unfortunately at this time Li Rizun could not listen to any opinions at all, and even he disposed of a few generals who refused to obey the order, which suppressed the opposition in the army, so that his army launched a fierce attack on Thang Long Mansion again, and even he divided the army into three parts, and launched an attack day and night, which made Nong Zonggan in the city tired to deal with, and several times he had been attacked by the other party, but in the end he was driven down by Nong Zonggan himself.
Li Rizun's crazy siege made the troops in his hands deplete very quickly, the soldiers in the army were even more reluctant to fight hard, and even many people secretly escaped, which made Li Rizun also have a headache, and finally he came up with a more crazy way, that is, to drive the ordinary people around Shenglong Mansion to attack the city, so that his army only needs to supervise the battle in the rear, which greatly reduces the casualties on his side.
Li Rizun, as the king of Jiaozhi, actually drove his people to attack the city, this move can be described as madness, and this will definitely make him lose the hearts of the people, but Li Rizun can't care about these anymore, he just wants to quickly kill into the city to wash away his shame, even if he loses everything because of this, he will not hesitate to do it.
Although the method of driving the ordinary people to attack the city was frenzied, it was indeed very effective, especially Li Rizun detained the old people, women and children in the rear, and forced the men to pick up rudimentary weapons to attack the city, so that they had to work hard, as a result, this caused a lot of pressure on Nong Zonggang in the city, and the casualties were also very large, and the city of Thang Long Mansion was also in danger for a while.
After using ordinary people to consume a lot of Nong Zong's strength in this way, Li Rizun finally felt that he had the certainty of capturing Shenglong Mansion, but at this time he also got the news that the Great Song Dynasty had indeed conquered Nanding City, and the Song army was rushing from behind, preparing to attack Nong Zonggan on both sides and wipe him out under Shenglong City in one fell swoop.
In this case, Li Rizun decided to launch a general attack on Thang Long Mansion, and that morning he once again drove the people to attack the city, and when the defenders in the city were exhausted in the afternoon, Li Rizun finally used all his remaining forces to press on the whole line, preparing to capture Thang Long Mansion in one fell swoop, and then rely on Thang Long Mansion to block the Song army.
I have to say that Li Rizun's opportunity is very good, the troops in the hands of Nong Zonggang are indeed very expensive, before he only had 30,000 troops in his hands, but now there are only more than 20,000 points left, and Li Rizun has been driving the people to attack the city from the morning to now, so that the soldiers under Nong Zonggang are also exhausted, on the other hand, the soldiers under Li Rizun have been resting for a long time, and it is the time when morale is strong, so at the beginning of this general attack, Nong Zonggang is in a very unfavorable state.
As time went by, Nong Zong's side also showed more and more difficulty, Li Rizun even saw that his own side of the soldiers had already attacked the city in many places, and was slowly connecting together, generally speaking, the siege war to this extent already means that the city is about to be occupied, and the defending side has almost no possibility of turning the tables.
It is precisely because of this that Li Rizun couldn't help laughing happily when he saw this, and even he was already fantasizing about the scene of killing into the city and capturing Nong Zonggan alive, he had already thought about it, as long as he caught the other party, then he would personally use a knife to cut off the flesh on his body piece by piece, and during the period, he would feed him ginseng soup and other medicines to ensure that Nong Zonggan would not die too early, so that he could torture him for a few more days.
But before Li Rizun was happy for too long, he suddenly saw a change in the city, and saw Nong Zonggan once again lead a group of people to kill the city, and these people were all holding torches, and then seemed to have lit something and threw it at the crowd of soldiers on their side, but only heard "Boom Boom~", a series of explosions sounded, and the city was immediately shrouded in thick gunsmoke, and it was impossible to see the situation clearly, but a burst of screams came out of the gunsmoke, which sounded like heavy casualties.
"Fire ...... Firearm! Li Rizun couldn't help but scream in horror when he saw the upheaval in the city, because this thing really left him with too deep an impression, Guo Kui was the Shenglong Mansion that was attacked with firearms, but he never expected that Nong Zonggan would have firearms in his hands, but this also proves one thing, that is, there is indeed collusion between Nong Zonggan and the Great Song Dynasty.
In fact, not only Li Rizun recognized the firearms, but also many of his soldiers recognized the firearms that defeated them at the beginning, these people have a natural fear of this powerful weapon, and now when they see Nong Zonggang take out the firearms, many people immediately stopped attacking in fright, and even retreated again and again, and some of the soldiers who captured the city turned around and fled directly to the city, for fear of being torn apart by the firearms. No matter how much they urged, the soldiers below were just unwilling to step forward.
Li Rizun was also angry when he saw this situation, pointing at Nong Zongqian at the head of the city, his whole body trembled, and finally suddenly raised his head to the sky and spurted out a mouthful of blood, and the whole person fell off the elephant's back at once. (To be continued......)