Such a spectacular scene also made Song Jun stunned.

In fact, Wang Ju himself also felt shocked, and he thought silently in his heart: I don't know if such a tiger cannon is as powerful as the Mongolian return artillery to attack Xiangyang.

However, with the large thunderbolt and fierce fire oil, they can be said to be the strongest siege weapons in siege warfare in the cold weapon era. So Wang Ju thought in his heart, I don't know if if he can capture Lingzhou if he launches a larger-scale tiger cannon when attacking Lingzhou.

Of course, the Dali army is not comparable to the Western Xia army.

Especially the army of the Gao family's cronies, it is even more difficult to compare.

Huang Hua also said softly: "What an exciting scene. ”

He said again: "Shaobao, there is also a fire in the city, and you can attack." ”

Wang Ju came to occupy it, and either it was completely destroyed like Jiaozhi, or he had to govern the area, and Dali was the latter, and if a fire broke out in the city, it would have to be rebuilt in order to settle the people. As the second largest city in Dali, how much does it cost to rebuild?

But if you really can't attack it and kill your red eyes, then you won't care about anything.

Wang Ju nodded, and the order to attack was given.

The tiger cannons continued to throw, and there were many Divine Arm Archers behind them who used the Divine Arm Bow to cover.

Then the soldiers pushed the ladders out of the camp and pushed them down the embankment to the bottom of the wall.

This is when the siege really began.

This was a real ladder, and the small rolling stone rafts and bows and arrows did not work at all, but some of the large rafts still smashed the baffles on the ladders, causing casualties among the soldiers below.

However, most of the ladders managed to reach the bottom of the walls.

The soldiers below opened the folding board and set it up to the top of the city at once.

So go back. Since the time of the Ming Dynasty. Some important cities are getting taller and taller. This is to prevent the ladder from being compared to a normal siege ladder. But it didn't work. So in a sense, Wu Qi's sentence is solid, and it is not dangerous in Germany, and it cannot be said that it is wrong.

But this country is really difficult in Germany......

That was the Ming Dynasty, and now the city is still further repaired on the basis of the Tang Dynasty city, that is, the standard Tang Dynasty city wall, two zhang high.

This height is really nothing for the ladders, and the folding boards of each ladder are placed on the top of the city.

The second wave of casualties began, and the role of the ladder was only to cover the soldiers who successfully carried the ladder under the city wall. And it is not easy to push it down. Eventually, it had to be climbed up by the soldiers and then on top of the city.

In order to prevent accidental injury, the Divine Arm Bow and the Tiger Cannon stopped.

There were also some outlaws who began to fight back.

The fierce battle begins.

But this time was not long, and even from the beginning to the end, the city did not force the Song army to fall from the city, but more and more Song troops poured into the city.

There are not many troops in the city, plus some soldiers hesitate when they see Duan Zhengchun, coupled with the deterrence brought by the tiger cannon, many soldiers have fled from the city by themselves, and now they don't know where to hide.

So less than an hour. The Song army gradually took full control of the east gate and put down the drawbridge. Open the gates.

Wang Ju said, "Enter the city." ”

The Song army rushed into the city in batches.

Seeing the Song army rushing into the city, there was no Gao family soldier on the head of the city to resist.

The Song army then took control of the West City Gate, and then extinguished the fire and captured the prisoners. Ordinary soldiers are temporarily imprisoned, and when they settle down, they are all released. As for the important generals, none of them were left, which was to prevent Liu Heimin from such a situation (Liu Heimin was a famous general under Dou Jiande, after Dou Jiande's defeat, Liu Heimin fled and returned to his hometown, but was soon persuaded by Fan Yuan, an old general under Dou Jiande, to rebel again, which once gave the Tang Dynasty a headache and killed Luo Cheng's original form Luo Shixin). Although it is impossible for Dali to have a powerful character like Liu Heimin, what if a more powerful general escapes and rebels again?

Then there are the nobles in the city, most of these nobles are very close to the Gao family, and the new capital of Dali will be in Shanxian City in the future, and of course these nobles will not be able to stay.

There are also some big businessmen close to the Gao family who can't stay.

And they all have a lot of assets in their families, what Wang Ju lacks most now, money!

But it was not for money to kill people indiscriminately, and the merchants in the city who were not close to the Gao family and had no serious evil deeds in normal times were all protected, and the three armies were also ordered not to plunder any of their property.

The arrest continues.

That's a bit long, and no three or four days is over.

But the most important ...... When Wang Ju entered the city, the first place he went to was the warehouse in the city.

I can open the door of the warehouse and look at them one by one, and my face is very bad after seeing it. There was still some grain in these barns, and even some cured meats and other supplies.

However, Wang Ju has more than 100,000 troops to eat and drink, and he also has to reserve some food in case of sudden disasters. Then in two or three years, these people will think that they are Song Dynasty people, or Chinese.

Then these food supplies are far from enough.

Huang Hua said: "Shaobao, maybe they fought against the Yang family, and most of the supplies were transported to Nongdong City. ”

"Mellow, there will be some in the city, but not too many." Wang Ju said very soberly.

It seems that the Yang Gao family competed for victory and lost and consumed a lot of materials, grain and grass.

Wang Ju took a few steps and said, "Give the order to General He, after taking Xiushan City, pacify several tribes in the south of Zhenchi, and immediately lead the army to fight to the most Ning Mansion."

The most Ningfu also has to divide the cultivated land equally, and its east is Temo Road, and the southeast is Jiaozhi. The Song Dynasty got Jiaozhi and wanted to govern Dali, and the geographical location of the most Ning Mansion was particularly important.

But the main reason is to eat.

Guangnan West Road was governed by Wang Ju, and last year's grain harvest was huge, but last year's grain consumption was amazing, especially the grain used by the displaced people, as well as the grain used by the migrants to settle the people, so the food was very tight. However, under Wang Ju's promotion, winter wheat began to be planted in many areas.

This batch of winter wheat is very close to maturity, but the Yushui water system can only be navigated to the central area of Guangnan West Road, and there are still various tributaries of Yushui in the western region. But it's not easy to navigate. Therefore, the only way to transport grain from land to Dali step by step.

The same is true for Cochin in the southeast. Although the Fuliang River runs through the valley between the Mt. Wuli and the Ailao Mountains. However, the navigable section of the river can only be maintained in the southern part of the province, and further on, the river is dangerous and turbulent, and it is no longer navigable.

The waterways are a little better, as soon as they are on land, the cost of transportation will immediately skyrocket.

Although the harvesting of dry-season rice is approaching in Jiaozhi, there is no way to transport grain to the central and even northwestern regions of Dali on a large scale.

A loss alone would be an astronomical amount.

Yao Lin scolded angrily: "These two losers. ”

Wang Ju pinched his nose. It can't be said that Yang Yizhen and Gao Zhisheng are losers, but they promoted this situation. He walked a few steps and said: "Huang Hua, post a piece of dew cloth in the whole territory of the rear, from now on, anyone who has signed a contract with the various stewards in the rear to sell grain within this month, regardless of corn and wheat beans, will increase each bucket by ten cents to buy from them this year." ”

"That's going to add a lot of use."

"Brother Alcohol, not only are we using troops in this battle, but the Gao Yang family has been using troops for a longer time. How much did it destroy spring ploughing production. And the war is not over. Even if the Gaoyang family is taken, there will be many regional rebellions in the future. or if you don't submit to me, you will use soldiers. This time may extend into the late fall, or even next year. Moreover, the people themselves have to eat, and the people take food as the sky, and the weather in the south is mostly warm, and people will not freeze to death, but they will starve to death. As soon as there is no food, the people will spontaneously riot. Therefore, the signing of this agreement is to let them actively engage in agricultural production, and in addition to the cultivated land that is equally divided in many areas, the taxes are low, and there is no forced labor, and in addition to the high-priced purchases, the enthusiasm for production will be increased, and the problem of grain consumption by the three armies will be solved after the autumn, and the grain consumption of the common people will also be solved. ”

As a later generation, this is the clearest one, just like a large package to the responsible field, the same amount of land, but how much change the peasants have made.

However, Yao Lin and Huang Hua also saw some differences, that is, Guangnan West Road.

Yao Lin asked curiously: "Shaobao has banned forced labor, what should I do if there is an errand in the future?" ”

"I will also apportion the exemption money as in the case of Guangnan West Road, but try to reduce unnecessary errand labor so that the exemption money can be reduced, and at the same time, I will also write a letter to the imperial court to state that Dali has decided that the surplus money must not be apportioned. In fact, this is a wide surplus of money...... It's time to ban it. It doesn't seem like much, but if it is actually implemented, it is often the four million guan kuan surplus money, and then it is exploited by the officials and servants and apportioned to the people, and the real one is the eight million guan kuan leftover money. ”

This was also a major drawback of the Song Dynasty.

Just like Song Renzong heard that the people of Qiongzhou were suffering because of the salt administration, so he exempted him from more than 1,000 yuan of salt tax in Qiongzhou, and as a result, he incurred an additional expenditure of nearly 10,000 yuan in the second year. After Song Renzong heard about it, he sat in the palace stupidly for most of the day.

"In fact, the imperial court began to pay the officials for their errands, and they could formulate laws and punish them severely." Yao Lin said.

"It doesn't work," Wang Ju shook his head. Of course, after the implementation of the conscription law, dealing with corrupt officials can be justified, but the role is still limited. Just like Zhu Yuanzhang killed so many corrupt officials and corrupt officials, has he put an end to corruption?

Or not.

The root of it is the centralized system + official-based ideology + official businessmen + the opaque income of officials and their families, so that the upper class has unlimited more resources. If we do not reform this evil, we will not be able to eradicate corruption. In fact, this malaise was reformed, and the later Western people's cooking system was implemented in an epoch-making way, but the phenomenon of corruption still cannot be eradicated, just like the election donation system of US imperialism, which is actually the biggest open corruption, the biggest game of combining power and money.

It can only be said that the combination of the law and the advanced system, the separation of officials and businessmen, the loss of respect for officials, and the impartial supervision system will greatly reduce the phenomenon of corruption.

"That's going to cost a lot." Yao Lin was also worried.

"What to do?" Wang Juyi spread his hands and said.

It's really not good, in addition to smuggling, he also gave the court a year of grace, anyway, he will pay one million guan interest every year, I believe those officials in the court will also like it, and they will repay the five million guan next year.

In fact, it doesn't need much, as long as the imperial court can allocate another 10 million yuan, Wang Ju's hands will not be so nervous. This is Ruo Dali, every time you take a city, as long as you fight the local tyrants one after another, you will have some gains.

But there is no need to go to the book, Wang Ju guessed that someone would come up with Wen Yanbo's sentence, and it was so. It's like repairing a house. At the beginning, the wages were low. Now that the repair is halfway through, and the salary is required again, what should the homeowner do? This is what Wang Ju does.

So Wang Ju didn't bother to ask the court for financial assistance.

The city was still being arrested, but the people escorted the grain and grass into the city.

In the future, it will continue to employ many people, step by step, to Langdong Mansion, Dali City, and even Luolu City (Jianchuan, the capital city of Moutong Mansion), Sanzhi City (Lijiang), Yongchang City (Baoshan).

In fact, this time the army was used in Dali. The biggest problem is not the troops, there are enough troops. The main thing is logistics......

The next day, the people returned, and the city continued to arrest, but on a smaller scale. Yao Lin took most of the soldiers and horses out of Shanyan City again, and all of them went into battle lightly, all the way to the west.

Soon Gao Shengtai also received the news.

In fact, after the Song army took Shanyan City, the entire battlefield scope has been further reduced, and the farthest of the three-way soldiers and horses is the Song army of Shanyan City to the rear army of Yang Yizhen in Dali City, which is less than 700 miles. If it's about scope. Not much bigger than the Battle of Gyeongju.

Of course, the difficulty is a little lower. But it should not be underestimated, after all, the strength of the two families is still above the Song army, and they also have some advantages in time, place and people.

It is not far from Huanzhou Village to Shanxian City, only 400 miles away.

So after Yao Lin's army set off, the news also reached Gao Shengtai in the afternoon of the next day.

His face was full of grief and indignation at first, needless to say, his family was about to be beaten by Wang Ju.

However, his mind was still very clear, and Shanyan City could not be taken back, although he couldn't understand now how the Song army could capture Shanyan City in only three days. Actually, it doesn't take three days, only half a day. On the first day, we camped to rest and prepare, on the second day, we filled the embankment, and on the third day, we officially attacked the city, and only after noon, the Song army captured the city of Shanxi.

But whether it's three days or most of the day, Shanyan City can't be recovered.

And his current army is very dangerous, although the five thousand soldiers and horses on the side blocked the Song army in the western mountains of Luquandian, but how to block the rear?

As long as the Song army kills it, it will not be the Song army that surrounds Yanda with its own two-way soldiers and horses, but will be quickly annihilated by the Song army.

So he immediately ordered Lu to persuade his younger brother Gao Xiangxiang's son Gao Xiangyong (Bai Man's custom is to take the Han surname and use the Buddha's name, but after the Duan family became the ruler of Dali, he also used the father-son joint name system, but only the joint name, and the Han surname was retained, such as Gao Zhisheng, Gao Shengtai, Gao Taiming, Duan Silian, Duan Lianshou, Duan Shouhui. There is no record in the annals, but Duan Zhengming Duan Zhengchun's father, if nothing else, is named Duan Lianzheng, who is Duan Silian's third son. However, it is a bit chaotic, such as Duan Yu is also known as Duan Zhengyan, in fact, according to this father-son joint name system, it should be called Duan Chunyu...... The flank army led by him immediately withdrew in the direction of Huazhubu, joined up with his own army and horses, and then withdrew to Nongdong Mansion. Where is there still a Gao family's soldiers and horses. If you can be the enemy, you will be the enemy, and you can no longer be the enemy of Ailao Mountain and Wuliang Mountain, and fight guerrilla warfare with the Song army. It's really not good, you can also retreat to Yongchang Mansion and Tengchong Mansion, where the terrain is more complicated, even if the Song army sends a million soldiers and horses, it can't be wiped out.

Moreover, in order to control Dali, his father Gao Zhisheng deliberately put himself in charge of some areas in the east of Dali and let his younger brother take charge of some areas in the southwest of Dali.

From the Ailao Mountain to the west, his brother has great authority there. It's a pity that in order to deal with the Yang family, his younger brother also came to support with the army over there, and now that he is in Shanyan City, there will definitely be no good end. Otherwise, this line of work is more vigorous.

But even without his brother, there is only this way to live.

And it just so happens that the Yang family still has 40,000 soldiers and horses here, allowing them to resist Yanda's Song army. Otherwise, let these 30,000 Song troops be entangled, and they would not want to withdraw to Langdong Mansion safely.

There is a wide tropical valley on both sides of Huazhubu, surrounded by vast lofty mountains.

However, there are fragmented small river valleys from Huazhubu to Nongdong City, one-third of which are mountain roads, and two-thirds are flat valley roads, and the retreat is very fast.

After the order was issued, Gao Shengtai quickly asked his soldiers and horses to pack their luggage and quickly retreat.

The action was too fast, and when Gao Shengtai withdrew all the more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, the commander of the Yang family, Yang Zhenhe, the eldest son of Yang Yizhen, learned the news.

Yang Zhenhe was shocked, what was going on.

Just when he was incomprehensible, Gao Xiangyong withdrew the army, and Miao Lu quickly killed him with 10,000 infantry.

Yanda also got the signal and also began to counterattack.

In just a moment, Yang Zhenhe's army began to rout.

Naturally, they also retreated to Huazhubu. The only way to evacuate from here is to continue to the Nong Dong Mansion. Then withdraw from Nongdong Mansion to Dali City. Otherwise, retreat to the Gao family in Shanxian City?

Dare to love until now. They didn't know that Shanxian City had been taken by the Song army.

Miao Lu and Yan Da were on the left and on the right, biting the 40,000 soldiers and horses of the Yang family to death, but fortunately, there was a vast mountain range between Huanzhou Village and Huazhubu.

Yang Zhenhe took advantage of the mountain, fought and retreated, and finally retreated to the large river valley of Huazhubu. He immediately ordered to continue to evacuate to Nongdong City, why the Gao family retreated, he didn't know very well. However, I know that the Gao family is retreating in the direction of Nongdong Mansion.

As long as you catch up with the Gao family's army, anyway, Langdong Mansion is the territory of the Gao family, then it will become the death bite of the Gao family and the Song army, and you will be able to withdraw to Dali City safely.

While giving the order, Yang Zhenhe scolded the Gao family in his heart for not keeping his promises, and at the same time he was thinking about why the Gao family retreated.

At this moment, another 5,000 Song Dynasty cavalry suddenly came out.

This is the 5,000 cavalry led by Yao Xiong, who did not really support Yan Da and Miao Xu, but made an appearance to confuse Gao Zhisheng. So that Gao Zhisheng can dispatch troops and horses from Shanyan City again, and go to Luquandian to block it.

I want to take down the city of Shanxi. If Gao Xiangyong's 5,000 soldiers are still in Shanyan City, the situation may be different. Of course, after taking Shanxian City, the whole battle situation has become a different trend.

After Wang Ju broke through the city of Shanxi, he immediately informed Yao Xiong with a fast horse, Yao Xiong led five thousand cavalry, made a big circle, and killed Hua Zhubu, of course, at this time, Gao Shengtai's more than 30,000 soldiers and horses fled, but even if he didn't escape, Yao Xiong would not snipe Gao Shengtai's soldiers and horses, so it was handed over to his father. His goal is the Yang family's soldiers and horses.

Dali also has cavalry, which is a real "cavalry". The Song Dynasty can barely be called a "cavalry army".

It was originally a big defeat, and it was on the flat river valley, where was the opponent of this cavalry, and soon these tens of thousands of soldiers and horses rushed together. Soon Yan Miao's two armies killed again.

In fact, Yan Da also had thousands of cavalry in his hands, but there were vast mountains in the middle, and the cavalry could not play much advantage, and it was not until here that these thousands of cavalry came in handy.

Most of the soldiers of the Yang family began to surrender on the ground, and Yang Zhenhe had no choice but to take a few soldiers over the mountains and continue to flee in the direction of Nongdongfu.

But at this time, a huge battle began to be fought in front of him.

Gao Shengtai and his nephew Gao Xiangyong fled frantically, but Yao Lin was even faster than him. It's not good if it's not fast, after all, Yao Lin has to walk nearly three hundred miles. After Gao Shengtai got the news, Yao Lin arrived at Lu Yuan. There was also a small city in Luzhen, and Yao Lin did not attack, but climbed a little mountain road and let it go. When Gao Shengtai retreated to Huazhubu, Yao Lin had just arrived in Muzhou. At this moment, Gao Shengtai still had plenty of time to escape to Nongdong City.

However, after arriving at Huazhubu, he continued to retreat westward, and Gao Shengtai's subordinates began to mutiny, especially those barbarian soldiers, whose homes were all in the east, were originally dissatisfied in their hearts, why they retreated inexplicably, and retreated to Nongdong City. Gao Shengtai didn't give an explanation, so some of the soldiers didn't leave.

Gao Xiangyong was about to suppress it, but was stopped by Gao Shengtai.

In the end, Gao Shengtai's mediation was unsuccessful, so he had to say, if you want to stay, you will stay, and if you want to leave, don't ask anything. Then continue to retreat west with grain and grass. Seeing that there was nothing to eat, these barbarian soldiers hesitated for a while, and had no choice but to retreat.

It was at this time that Gao Shengtai still wanted to fight to the death, so he waited again, and then sent someone to explain, the specific reason, when I arrived in Langdong City, I would explain it to everyone.

However, Gao Shengtai didn't know that it was for this reason that he delayed the most precious day.

Nongdong City, also known as Baozhou City, is also located on a river valley, but this river valley is much smaller than the river valley in Huazhubu. The city is built by the mountains and rivers, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Except for a river valley that runs north-east, south, and northwest, the rest is surrounded by mountains. In the east, there are some small broken valleys in the middle of the lofty mountains, but in the middle of the high mountains, there is a valley that is more than sixty miles away from the state city, and there is a valley that is relatively wide.

Yao Lin and Gao Shengtai arrived in this valley at about the same time, but Yao Lin succeeded in bringing the army to the west side of the valley first, stopping Gao Shengtai's army.

Both armies were tired divisions, and relatively speaking, Yao Lin's three armies were more tired and had much fewer troops.

So Yao Lin preemptively held all roads and carried out defensive battles.

The two armies fought for a day, and there were a lot of casualties one after another. However, the soldiers of the Gao family in Langdong City also heard the news and began to go out of the city to respond.

For the time being, it is difficult to say that side suffered a loss, in short, when it was a stalemate, Yang Zhenhe rushed over with the defeated army, and then Yao Xiong led a large number of Song Dynasty cavalry to kill again, and then the Song army of Yan Da and Miao Lu killed again.

Reinforcements from the city arrived, but the huge valley became a slaughterhouse...... (To be continued......)