Chapter 705: Capturing the Dragon (Part 2)(1/2)
The Jiaozhi scout was blocked by the three passes and one village and could not immediately notify Li Rizun, but the Song Dynasty scout was able to convey the front line news to Zheng Lang.
Just when the fleet returned to Qinzhou with the first batch of captured people and supplies, Zheng Lang was very unhappy when he heard the news ahead. In fact, there had been arrangements long ago. The Jiaozhi army was almost nailed to Qianlong, Jiangzhou and Taiping Village, and the army withdrew to Zhennan Pass or Yongping Village, which would take at least one day. This day was enough for the scouts to send the news to Guo Kui and Yang Wenguang, and seize the three passes and one village in front.
Yu Jing's eagerness to promulgate the merits disrupted Zheng Lang's arrangements.
After delaying in Qiongzhou, when entering Fuliang River, Jiaozhi may not immediately send people to return the front-line army. It will be controversial. Another period of time can save at least four to five days for the front line. What does four or five days mean for Zhennan Pass and Yongping Village?
However, when it reaches this point, you cannot be anxious. Send a large number of scouts to observe the situation, then wait for the Jiaozhi army to support the king.
Although he was anxious, Zheng Lang calmly ordered the soldiers to dig a trench in front of the Fourth Battalion and asked the soldiers to fill the soil into the moat to make a dam. The moat was very wide and deep. After several days, a lot of manpower was wasted, and only six or seven river dams were filled. In order to increase the width of the army's attack, trench bridges were built on both sides of the river dam, and the river dam trench bridge was not used to launch an attack on Shenglong City.
Finally, the army of the king asked him to wait.
Nearly a hundred ships were sent to Hualu City, carrying three or four thousand soldiers, but they were afraid of the strength of the Song army and dared not advance any further. If they tried to advance, they could sit and support Shenglong City, and retreat back to Hualu City to defend themselves.
There is another group of reinforcements driving nearly a hundred ships to the west, Ruyuedu, stationed in the upper reaches of the Fuliang River.
A group of reinforcements came from the land in the north, but there were not many, only three or four thousand soldiers, and most of them were only five or six thousand soldiers. There were some people who were forcibly arrested.
Jiaozhi country is too small.
It was such a small country that violated the Song Dynasty repeatedly. Zheng Lang was sometimes speechless when he thought about it.
The first batch of troops in the Dunhe direction were the troops.
All the large ships returned to Qinzhou. But many small ships with flexible maneuverability were left behind. Even these small ships could go to sea, with a faster speed than the Jiaozhi ship. Their mass was better than the Jiaozhi ship.
The fatal reason was that the Song Dynasty's purge in Hualu City and Jiaozhou City made the two cities completely a ghost city, and the surrounding people fled together.
A large number of Song ships were on the south side. The two armies fought. The Song ship was equipped with a large number of turbulent oil, some small trenchers, and gunpowder were placed. Then they set fire to the Jiaozhi ship with rockets. The weapons were more advanced than the Jiaozhi people, and the number of troops was more. The battle lasted for a while. The Jiaozhi people were defeated and many ships were on fire. They had to jump into the ship and escape. The unburned ship turned around and could not escape, so they went ashore one after another and fled to the empty city of Hualu.
The idea was very good, but the battle was in front. Later, Zhong Yanzao and his cavalry took Hualu City again. Seeing the deserters coming, he took the initiative to kill him. The two attacked each other, and reinforcements from the south were greatly defeated. In the battle, Jiaozhi lost nearly 3,000 soldiers.
Turning around and dealing with the Jiaozhi soldiers of Ruyuedu, the battle lasted a little longer. The sacrifice was also slightly heavier, but the Jiaozhi soldiers were eventually defeated. Then cross Ruyuedu and march northward.
The ambush was set up before Doudingling Ridge, 30 miles away from Shenglong City. There were not many ambushing soldiers, only two thousand infantry, and they were tied with more than five thousand Jiaozhi soldiers. Zhong Yan, Zheng Xia and Zheng Su came with two thousand cavalry. It was just a sprint, and this miscellaneous army was defeated.
The defeat of reinforcements on the northern route means that the troops in Tiandezhou (north of Doudinglingling) and Yong'anzhou (north of Tang Luzhou and southeast of Su Maoman) are both empty.
Zhong Yan brought a thousand iron cavalry and three thousand soldiers to fight lightly, heading north. When the two cities and several cards heard that the Song Dynasty troops had arrived, there were no soldiers to defend. All the officers and soldiers fled when they heard the news. Zhong Yan did not care about Xiluo. Even though Xiluo was only two small cities, the harvest was not big, and he slightly supplemented the supply and rushed north. After entering Yong'an Prefecture, he passed by Su Maozhou. At this time, Su Maoman opposed the Song Dynasty and sent his children into that pocket. Because of Jiaozhi's recruitment, some of the children died in the ambush battle of Doudingling, which could not be stopped. Zhong Yan brought reinforcements and arrived at Yongping Village smoothly.
Yang Wenguang was overjoyed and ordered the South City Gate to be opened and the army was put in. Zhong Yan quickly led the soldiers to join the battle.
This industry has achieved great results, and Zheng Langmo saw that they had not excessively opened small treasury activities and promised to give out rich rewards after the war. The soldiers were fighting spirit and finally defeated the enemy soldiers. Zhong Yan began to follow the intentions of Zheng Lang and Zhang Kang, and shouted to the people of Jiaozhi. Most of them were Su Maoman. Therefore, he told them that the Song Dynasty army had successively defeated the Chang'an Prefecture of Jiaozhi, the Protectorate and several states, and defeated several Jiaozhi troops. At this time, the troops in Jiaozhi were empty and the country would be destroyed soon. Let these Su Maoman take advantage of the situation and surrender to the Song Dynasty, otherwise you would face the end of extermination.
In order to make him believe, he also brought several important officials from Hualu City and forced them to watch.
He would not surrender immediately because of this. Even if he surrendered, he knew that there would be no good end. However, the three armies seized their anger and Yongping Village began to be safe.
But the Zhennan Pass has increased the pressure.
Su Maoman is a group of robbers. He can rob the morale high, but he will scatter the birds. The main force of Jiaozhi is the army, and his family is in the rear. Hearing this news, they will be even more desperate. Fortunately, Guo Kui received the news from Zheng Lang that the soldiers knew that the overall situation would be settled in a few more days. Zheng Lang did a bit too much on this trip. But the soldiers liked it. The more they captured, the more rewards they gave, and the morale became high, and they defeated the attacks of Jiaozhi people again and again.
However, Shenglong City launched a fierce counterattack.
Seeing many soldiers going out to attack reinforcements, Li Dezheng mobilized the people of the whole city to join the war and came out of Xiangfu Gate in Dongcheng. Almost as many as 20,000 people launched an attack on the weakest Song army in Dongcheng Gate.
The Song army did not send soldiers to fight, but only used the deposit to defend the camp.
The people attacked again and again and again, and were repelled again and again. As more and more people left the city to participate in the war, Zheng Lang asked the troops from the north and south to divide a group to provide assistance to the east city gate. This time the attack on the people of Jiaozhi was very brave. If they were all regular troops, it would be possible to defeat the Song army at the east city gate.
The Song army made some sacrifices, but the Jiaozhi people died more.
Finally, seeing hopelessness, Li Dezheng had to let this miscellaneous army withdraw back to the city.
Zhang Kang and Zheng Su led the divided army across the Fuliang River from Douling, and at this time the Qinzhou fleet returned.
Only then did Zheng Lang implement the dragon capture plan.
The soldiers who defeated one after another were placed in front of the gates of the city, and the soldiers were sent to the top to shout, surrender and not kill them, at most they were captured to Lingnan as a commoner. This was a promise that the heads of the rebels would be the final outcome. As for what kind of people they were, Zheng Lang did not say. The troops were also the people, the tenant farmers were even the people, and ordinary people were also the people. However, the people on the city were quite hostile. The guard at the Daxingmen gate of the south gate actually ordered arrows to shoot the shouting Song soldiers to death.
Zheng Lang ordered a formal attack.
Zhennan Pass is also unaffordable.
Several air boats will not play much role when rising into the sky, but mainly shocking. Important officials in Jiaozhou may know this, but ordinary people may not hear it. The air boats are wandering on the dragon and constantly dropping various weapons.
Finally, some people were depressed.
But it's not a fatal kill.
Shenglong City is located in the Honghe Plain, close to the sea, with rich resources and prosperous population. As the center of the feudal dynasty, it can get rid of the restrictions of the mountain tribes and pastoral farmers' economy in the old capital, and is very beneficial to the rule of the new dynasty.
In addition, water and land transportation were very developed. After the Li Dynasty moved the capital to Shenglong City, it soon became the largest city in Jiaozhi.
There are advantages and disadvantages. Its foundation is not like Zhennan Pass, which stands on the rocks, but stands in a plain area, which is very similar to the original Beizhou City and is about the same scale.
While Zheng Lang surrounded the points to fight for help, he used the cover of digging trenches to build trenches. He secretly dug several authentic tunnels, passed through the river dam and went straight to the bottom of the city wall of Shenglong City. It was a little difficult, and the trench bridge would work, but it was mainly used to make coordinates. The tunnel was below and the exit was in some of the Song army's tents. The direction was unclear. The wooden piles embedded in the river dam could be used as the coordinates of the correct direction. Otherwise, the river dam would be dug through and the river water would flow backwards, and the tunnel would be scrapped.
That's it. Two authentic tunnels were scrapped, and more than 100 civilians had no time to evacuate from the authentic tunnels and were drowned alive.
It doesn't work after digging. It's very watery and requires constant pumping. However, four or five tunnels were dug under the city wall.
The deathly large coffin was carried in.
The Song army was preparing to attack on the ground, and the Jiaozhi people were on guard at the top of the city. Suddenly, a few loud roars came from the ground. The Shenglong City Wall collapsed everywhere, and the two collapsed gaps were several meters wide. This could not be resisted by human power, and the Song army immediately rushed to Shenglong City.
In the face of this huge change, all the soldiers and civilians in Shenglong City were dumbfounded and lost the courage to resist. Nearly 20,000 soldiers and civilians were fully armed and killed in.
Zhang Kang led the main army to rush straight to the palace.
In recent years, Jiaozhi invaded everywhere, from Chameng to Zhenla in the south, from Song Dynasty to Dali and the barbarians in the north, and from Jiaozhi to Dali and the barbarians, and had a great harvest. If it weren't for the several major floods in Jiaozhi in recent years, Jiaozhi's finances would be healthy. The Li Dynasty then built several luxurious palaces in Shenglong City, including Qichao Hall, Jixian Hall, Shangwu Hall, Qigao Hall, Qianyuan Hall, Long'an Hall, Longrui Hall, Sunlight Hall, Yueming Hall, and there was a luxurious imperial garden behind it, Cuihua Palace. A tall palace wall was built around the palace, and the dragon must be captured first and Li Dezheng was captured. Otherwise, the palace would be resisting and the people would take up weapons to fight in street battles. Even if the Song army took over Shenglong City, the losses would be heavy.
A large number of soldiers flocked to the imperial city.
It was too sudden. I didn't expect that the Song Dynasty would easily blow up the Shenglong city wall. The Song army was rushing into the city. Li Dezheng and his ministers fled to the palace from the top of the city. Before the palace could organize resistance, the Song Dynasty had already flooded into the palace. Zhang Kang stopped the soldiers from plundering and continued to chase, and captured Li Dezheng and all the ministers in Cuihua Palace, as well as a large number of concubines.
As the emperor of a small country, Li Dezheng was in charge of the government, but he liked women. Many beautiful women from Jiaozhi gathered in the harem as palace maids. Some soldiers touched Zhang Kang and asked Zhang Kang to organize some law enforcement teams to stop them again, and even beheaded a disobedient barbarian soldier.
Li Dezheng will have great uses, so he should not be disheartened.
The emperor was captured, and all the people in Shenglong City lost hope and stayed at home and wailed.
Zheng Lang entered the city and ordered someone to drag Li Dezheng over and said, "Li Dezheng, it is Zheng Lang and Zheng Xingzhi."
"I know," Li Dezheng rolled his eyes and said in frustration. He was very wise and did not say anything about me.
"Someone talk to you."
"Please say it."
"My court is the most important thing, and we will continue to give you a chance. The first one will agree to ask Your Majesty to continue to appoint you as the governor of Jiaozhi, but you don't have the title of that king, and all these things that are beyond the rules will be demolished." Zheng Lang glanced at the brilliant palace of the Golden Wall and said.
Zhou Qing shook his head, what is the most important thing about harmony? Even if it is not out of the rules, it will be demolished. How much money will it get when this demolition is made?
Li Dezheng thought Zheng Lang was going to kill him, and after hearing hope, he hurriedly said, "I agree."
"The second one will promise you that the people in the city will not resist. I will not bring the people back to Lingnan like Hualu City, and give you some strength to govern Jiaozhi."
"Thank you." Li Dezheng said with difficulty.
But he also knew that sweeping was inevitable.
What Jiaozhi often did in the past is now used to themselves, and Li Dezheng felt mixed feelings.
"The third one is the border..."
"I agree to use Guangyuanzhou, Menzhou and Qiyuanzhou as the border."
"Do you think it's possible?" Zheng Lang sneered.
Zhang Kang and the generals laughed at the same time, and Li Dezheng stumbled and said, "So what does Mr. Zheng mean?"
"Qiyuan Prefecture, Guangyuan Prefecture, Menzhou, Liangzhou, Silang Prefecture, and Suman Prefecture will all be included in the Song Dynasty from today," Zheng Lang said sternly.
In fact, they are all mountainous states, and most of them are places where barbarians are distributed, which are difficult to manage. However, there are many benefits. Half of the strong men of some hostile tribes join the army and are trapped in their pockets. After this weakening, the tribes will weaken.
However, some of these barbarians also wanted to surrender to the Song Dynasty. For example, Su Maoman was the base camp of Jiaozhi, but under the oppression of some powerful tribes, some tribes joined their clans to surrender to the Song Dynasty. However, the Song Dynasty did not want to be too much and sent them back, resulting in many barbarian tribes eventually turning to Jiaozhi completely.
However, the Song Dynasty's attitude towards the states was only a policy of buying security, unlike the Jiaozhi people who donated miscellaneous taxes. Some tribes were very envious and intentionally supported these tribes, which would create a basis for governance. Moreover, it was only used to continue to be detained.
The second thing is the geographical environment. Although there are many barbarians and complex terrain, they are highlands. They occupy these states and pose a serious threat to Jiaozhi. They can easily send troops to attack Jiaozhi, and Jiaozhi becomes afraid. As long as the Song Dynasty continues to develop, Jiaozhi can only be a good grandson.
Li Dezheng also knew his strategic position, but at this time he was dependent on others and was good enough not to hang his head on the city gate. What else could he do? He could only answer: "I agree."
"In the future, as a minister of our dynasty, we will not be allowed to use a single army to the Song Dynasty. We will pay 50,000 pieces of silk every year to express our loyalty to our dynasty."
"I agree."
Even if you disagree, it is impossible for Jiaozhi to restore the original grand occasion.
"Also, go to Zhennan Pass immediately to persuade your subordinates to surrender, and at the same time send your son, Li Rizun, the commander of the invasion of our dynasty, to apologize to His Majesty."
Zheng Lang originally wanted to take Li Dezheng to the capital in person, but after thinking about it, Li Dezheng immediately died of beauty because he was greedy for beauty, and he would die in a few months because of beauty. It is not suitable to bring him to the capital. Therefore, he changed to Li Rizun.
"Then our country..."
"You still have a country?"
"It's Jiaozhi."
"I will leave thousands of soldiers to garrison until you make a smooth transition, and then you will change Shenglong City. No, this name must be changed back to Daluo City. When the smooth transition is made, your son will return from the capital. I will ask the soldiers to withdraw their troops. As long as you do not invade our Song Dynasty in the future, our dynasty will not station a soldier in Jiaozhi."
"I agree," hope appeared in Li Dezheng's eyes.
To be continued...