Chapter 670: The Battlefield in the Shadows
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In Yongxing County, a middle-aged man in his thirties stood on the side of the street and looked ahead, and a huge mansion was in front of him. This mansion occupies an extremely wide area, and the tall hoarding wall covers the inside, and only the half-exposed glazed tile eaves show the owner's extreme luxury.
Dozens of guards stood in front of the courtyard, and in the corner gate on one side, there were truckloads of vegetables, fruits, chickens, muttons, fish and meat from time to time, which formed a sharp contrast with the sparsely populated houses and dwellings in the streets and alleys of the city.
Since the Song Dynasty raised the army 'Qing Jun side', it has been three months in the past, this city first experienced the siege of the Jin army, and then killed the Sizhou army, the former capital of Kaizhou, densely populated, prosperous commerce, manor shops pΓΉ row after row, the Yongxing royal city of fighting for research, with a speed visible to the naked eye.
The prosperity of the past seems to be irrevocable. Zhu Biao's victory on the southern front, the miraculous feat on the northern front, is to inject a vitality into Yongxing City, but this vitality is too short-lived, with the second fight, Yongxing City is like a patient who has taken a cardiotonic after the effective period, just a little improvement and then decay again at a speed visible to the naked eye, people with a way have long fled to other places, and many people without a way have abandoned their homes and fled.
Ji Gang did not take any coercive measures, because he knew that the flight of those big families was not a bad thing for him, but a good thing.
Because, human nature is self-interested, when their defeat is decided, or even when the defeat appears, these big families may have a large area of communication in order to get rid of their own involvement. Now that they're gone, hello, I'm good, everyone's good.
However, Yongxing City still has a huge amount of food. The preparations made by Ji Gang in the past ten years have accumulated not only the armor of the soldiers with the power of Kaizhou, but also countless grains. Enough food was sown to recruit civilians in the city to rest in the city defense. The city defense was strengthened, so some residents remained. After the great escape turmoil passed, there were still no less than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in Yongxing City, compared with the previous 50,000 or 60,000 households and 340,000 people, although it was far inferior, and it was much less populated, but it could not be called an empty city.
But if you want to talk about the glory of the city, you still have to count the Song Palace, where there are still such warblers singing and dancing. **Incense.
"Your Excellency, you've been standing here for too long, beware of attracting suspicion." A young man with a long-looking appearance quietly came behind the middle-aged man and reminded.
"Haha, what if someone doubts? Now the city is withered. Who still has the heart to buy their lives for Song Rebellious? The middle-aged man sneered. His eyes were still looking at the house in front of him, and there was a faint moist color in the corners of his eyes.
I escaped, but my daughter ......
At this moment, a group of Song Army armor soldiers came from nearby, although the middle-aged man said contemptuously, when he saw this group of Song Army armor soldiers coming, he quickly retracted his eyes and shouted, "Go." "Quickly retreat out of the street with the young people. Then he disappeared into a small alley.
"Huh?" A surprised voice sounded from the front of the Song Army's armor ranks.
"Marquis, what's the matter?" A Song soldier asked.
"It's nothing, I'm dazzled." The Song Junjun shook his head and said nothing. I secretly wondered in my heart that I really seemed to have seen an acquaintance just now. It's just that how is it possible, he should be in the Shendu Tianjing, how dare he appear in Yongxing City?
The iron armor of this team of Song army armor soldiers is shining, and the military uniforms are brand new. All of them are full of red light, but. It's just a lack of energy. It's like a catastrophe is coming!
The military marquis is the old man of Yongxing City, and they can patrol the perimeter of the palace, and they are not only responsible for maintaining the peace near the palace, but also to prevent anyone from colliding with the nobles who go out. Although the military marquis who led the team suspected that he had seen a person who should not have appeared here, but the other party had already retreated, and in his heart that more things were better than less, he put what he had just done in his mind for a while.
"Smack, smack, smack!" Two single knocks sounded in front of the door of a house in the city, as soon as the knocking stopped, there was a rush of footsteps in the courtyard, and then a "squeak" sound, the door of the house opened a crack about one person wide, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy poked his head out of the courtyard door, saw the middle-aged man and the young man, and said with surprise: "Uncle Jiang, are you back?" Come on in. β
"Hmm." The middle-aged man nodded, and his companion immediately flashed into the courtyard, and the young man who opened the door looked out again to see that no one was paying attention, and immediately closed the courtyard door again.
The courtyard covers a wide area, and the front yard alone has a size of several acres, although it is far from being comparable with the mansion just now, but it is definitely not something that ordinary people can have in Yongxing City. As soon as the middle-aged man and his companion entered the hospital, a young man wearing a Song Army uniform greeted him, and when he saw the middle-aged man, his face flashed with joy, and he immediately complained again: "Uncle Jiang, how many acquaintances do you have in Yongxing City?" How did you go out in person, if you have any orders, your little nephew will definitely do it for you. β
"It's nothing, just looking at Song Yi's house outside, uncle will be careful." The middle-aged man laughed, but the laughter sounded like crying.
The young man's face also flashed, and the young man who came in after closing the door showed a deep murderous intent on his face at the same time.
"Uncle, don't worry, don't worry. In this battle, the imperial court strategized, the temple was superb, and the Song Dynasty would undoubtedly die, and when Yongxing City was taken, Sister Yiqiu would naturally be saved. β
The middle-aged man shook his head and said nothing, what if his daughter was saved? The name has been defeated, and it is difficult to have a good result in this life. Middle-aged people love their daughters like pearls in their palms, and they won't give their daughters the slightest grievance before, but now it's a kind of torment when they think of these!
This middle-aged man is the original Yongxing County Taishou, a very 'loyal' descendant of the Song Dynasty. Loyal to the point that he couldn't bear the King of Song to go astray, while sending all the actions of the King of Song to Tianjing, he once planned a kidnapping against the King of Song the day before the King of Song raised his troops.
Yes, hijacking, not assassination.
If it was the latter, he might have already succeeded. But the hijacking, which did not harm the life of the Song king, failed, or failed.
The middle-aged man's name is Jiang Yunfan, and the forces he has managed for many years and the nails that have been quietly buried in Yongxing City have been destroyed in that failed hijacking operation, and only the secret intimacy and superficial relationship like the mansion in front of him have been preserved. But the number is also limited tight.
Since the last time the Jin army was defeated, Jiang Yunfan had already infiltrated Yongxing City, and he had been active in the city for more than half a month.
Because of the last military defeat, because of the perseverance of Yongxing City under the siege of the Jin army, Jiang Yunfan's activities had to be carried out.
With this kind of advantage in hand, whether it is the King of Jin or Sizhou, it is not like experiencing the heavy losses of another heavy siege and fierce attack.
There were more than 30,000 people in Yongxing City, and relying on the strong and tall city defense, according to their last appearance, even if the imperial court could capture this city, it would have to pay at least two or three times as many casualties. That's tragic!
Therefore, King Jin and Sizhou all expect to be able to take advantage of it. Jiang Yunfan thus entered Yongxing City, reorganized the remnants of the past and the relationship that could not be exposed, and rebelled against some Song generals who were wavering in their minds and were not resolute, and did his best to reduce the resistance of the army to attack the city.
"Brother Yunfan." The owner of the mansion came out of the hall, a very clear person, with three long whiskers under his chin moving lightly in the wind. If an outsider sees him here, he will definitely be able to recognize him at a glance, this person is the servant of the Song Palace, Huang Qi, who is more senior than the county middle and long history, and the guest of honor praises the matter. That is to say, he is a member of the Song Wang's group of ministers, or a member of a higher status.
"How is this person in the text, can you pull it over?" Jiang Yunfan and Huang Qi turned into the hall, and after sitting on both sides, Jiang Yunfan asked a little eagerly.
Zhang Nan, the chief general of the Yongxing City defenders last time, had already gone to Linshui, and now he was serving under Zhu Biao's account, and the chief general of the Song army in Yongxing City became Zhang Nan's deputy Wen Zhongyue.
If you can really persuade Yue in the text to surrender, then Yongxing City can almost go down without attacking.
And even if there is still killing, it will be easy for the army to enter the city!
"This ......," Huang Qi's face showed a bitterness. I had just shown a little dejected tone in front of him yesterday, and I was reprimanded by King Song this morning.
Looking at the posture, if it weren't for King Song's predicament, he wouldn't have spared me. β
"Brother Yunfan, Wen Zhongyue is loyal to Song Yi, I'm afraid it will be difficult to persuade him to surrender. If I act rashly, I'm afraid I'll startle the snake. It is not beautiful to alarm Song Rebellion in this way, but I am good friends with Ma You, and I may be able to persuade Ma You to surrender to the imperial court. β
Hearing Huang Qi's answer, Jiang Yunfan was slightly disappointed, but he had already prepared for this in his heart. Wen Zhongyue is the confidant of the King of Song, in charge of the military power of the city, it can be seen that the King of Song trusts him, if such a general surrenders with a word, then he still needs to sneak into the city with great danger and quietly move? Yongxing City has long been decided.
He asked, "What position does Ma You have?" β
"This person is the patrol point of Dongping Gate, although he is not the guard of Dongmen, but he is also in charge of two thousand sergeants."
Hearing that Ma You was the patrol point of the East Gate, Jiang Yunfan's slightly unhappy expression immediately turned happy, "Okay, Brother Huang, you immediately contact Ma You, if you can really say that this person surrenders, and then there is the credit of the virtuous nephew, Yongxing City is broken, and you Huang Brother is the first to make a contribution." β
Huang Sui also showed a self-contained smile on his face: "Serving the court is a matter of duty." β
"But you have to be careful not to be reckless. Let's not be tempted to see if he has any complaints about King Song in his heart, and he is waiting for an opportunity. β
"Haha, Brother Yunfan can rest assured. This matter is related to the lives of my whole family, how dare Huang Sui be negligent? I still understand the truth that I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. β
"Then I'll congratulate my brother first!" (To be continued)