Qian Song

Chapter 46 Hangzhou! (Please follow up!)

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The southeast is prosperous, the three Wu cities, Qiantang has been prosperous since ancient times!

This is a sentence that the poets of the Northern Song Dynasty praised Hangzhou.

It is true that Hangzhou has beautiful mountains and rivers, picturesque scenery, and outstanding people. It has always been the capital of Liangzhe Road in the Zhao and Song Dynasties, and the center of political, economic and cultural focus in the southeast.

Countless big bureaucrats, big landlords, and big businessmen all regard Hangzhou City as their gold-selling cave and comfortable nest, and they gather here to indulge in pleasure.

The rich and powerful were not only obsessed with this place during their lifetime, but even after their death they wanted to be buried in Hangzhou, which is "the first Qiantang, extremely majestic". Here it is.

Therefore, Hangzhou City is almost the second richest capital of the Zhao and Song Dynasties after Bianliang City in Tokyo.

The terrain in Hangzhou slopes from northwest to southeast. The area is surrounded by mountains on three sides in the north, west and south, forming a horseshoe-shaped barrier facing southeast. A hard-to-attack place.

In order to ensure that this rich city is more impenetrable, the Zhao and Song Dynasties spent nearly 200 years, on the basis of the former Hangzhou City, from Qin Wangshan, from the Jiajiang River to the east of the Jiangjiang River, Jiqiantang Lake, Huoshan, Fanpu, [-] miles a week Created an indestructible outer city of Hangzhou.

And there are thousands of elite soldiers and strong generals in the city, as well as mountains of grain and grass.

These are enough to ensure that Hangzhou City can stick to it for a long time.

However, Zhao Ting, the prefect of Hangzhou, the current supreme leader of Hangzhou, feels that the rebel army has won successive battles, their morale is high, and they are unstoppable.

The third day of December in the second year of Xuanhe.

The defeated soldiers who had returned from the front and the dignitaries and nobles who had fled to Hangzhou reported to the officials in Hangzhou that the rebels had broken through Jiande, Tonglu, Xincheng, Fuyang and other cities and were heading towards Hangzhou.

Upon hearing the news, Zhao Ting immediately gathered all the officials in Hangzhou and said to them:

"The generation of Cai and Yan defeated all the elites of Zhejiang and Zhejiang in Qingxi. Now the ants are powerful and invincible. I want to destroy Hangzhou's food and grass. I want to fortify the walls and clear the fields. There are many ant thieves. If there is no food and grass to support them, they will leave without fighting. At that time, I will go back to Hangzhou to clean up the mess, but I can defeat the bandits without a fight, what do you think?"

Hearing that Zhao Ting acted so recklessly, the governor Chen Jian, the Lian interviewer Zhao Yue and others all gasped!
You know, these local officials are responsible for guarding the land.

Yes.

If things are really as Zhao Ting imagined, they can consume the rebel army and recover Hangzhou, they may have done nothing wrong.

But in case they failed to consume the rebel army, they would abandon the city and flee, but they would be severely punished by the court.

Chen Jian immediately expressed his objection: "There are three to five thousand soldiers in the city today, and I will call on each family to send out some villagers and servants, and all the people can gather. If we stand firm and wait for reinforcements, we may not be able to defeat the bandits. Mr. Zhao does not need to make dangerous moves."

Zhao Yue also said: "If Hangzhou's grain and grass are all destroyed, how will millions of people in Hangzhou live next year? And although the bandits are powerful, they can't suddenly attack me in Hangzhou. We have already asked the imperial court for help, and the army will be launched soon Come."

Others also disagreed with Zhao Ting's proposition.

Seeing this, Zhao Ting flicked his sleeves: "Shuzi is not enough and tricky!", and then left alone.

Back in the government office, Zhao Ting was restless.

After thinking for a long time, Zhao Ting called all his confidantes, and said: "Others don't know what the government knows, and the ant thief is unstoppable. You should immediately prepare fire oil and go to the granary to wait for the order of the government. If the order of the government Once it arrives, you will definitely burn all the food and grass, um... the Bingjiaku will also be burned!"

"Without food and grass, and without armor, the government sees how long those ants can stay in Hangzhou for a few days!"

At the same time, Chen Jian, Zhao Yue and the others were all ashen-faced when they saw Zhao Ting leaving in a huff and scolding them for "insufficient uprightness and conspiracy".

The judge Feng Ge said bitterly: "He is a new official, his property and fields are all in Suzhou, he is not here, and he is Mr. Zhu's wife and brother, so he has nothing to be afraid of, what can we do?!"

Chen Jian, Zhao Yue and others nodded in agreement at the same time.

At this time, someone came to report: "Hundreds of gentry and nobles at the gate of the city want to leave the city with their families and belongings."

Zhao Yue said to Chen Jian: "Don't condone this matter, otherwise the hearts of the people will be disturbed, and if other generations leave, they will take away a lot of dealers and family members. How can this city be defended?"

Chen Jian heard the words and sent troops to intercept those gentry and nobles.

During this process, there were fierce conflicts between the two sides, and in the end Chen Jian had to send troops to suppress the riots of the gentry and nobles.

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In the evening, the sky suddenly became dusty.

Chen Jian, Zhao Yue and others got the report, thinking that the rebels were coming, and hurriedly climbed up the city wall to watch.

Soon, Chen Jian, Zhao Yue and others saw that this army was definitely not the rebel army, but the Song army, and they were the elite imperial guards in the Song army.

In the eyes of Chen Jian, Zhao Yue and others, not to mention the elite equipment armed to the teeth on this team, the three or four hundred war horses under their crotch bought from the Northland are not what those poor rebels can have. of.

This group of people came under the city wall, and the leader came out more and more, and then shouted at the city wall: "Chen Xianggong, please come and answer."

Chen Jian took a closer look. He knew this person. He was Liang Jin, the deputy commander of the Hue Horse Army, and Yan Tan's general.

Not only did he know Liang Jin, he also had a vague impression of all the generals around Liang Jin.

Seeing this, Chen Jiancai responded loudly: "I am here, but you are Liang Jin?"

Liang Jin immediately got off his horse and said: "The guilty general Liang Jin pays homage to Mr. Chen."

Chen Jian straightforwardly asked them the biggest doubt in their hearts: "The battle of Qingxi, how will the outcome be? Where are Cai and Yan Xian?"

Liang Jin replied respectfully: "Cai Xianggong did not listen to Yan Xianggong's advice, and underestimated the enemy and rushed forward. As a result, all the 5000 troops in our army were surrounded by hundreds of thousands of ants and thieves. Xianggong was rescued, but Yan Xianggong was not ashamed of being defeated, and he drew his sword and killed himself by the side of the field. It happened that the ants came to chase him.

Speaking of which, Zeng Sheng was also blamed for this matter. If Zeng Sheng hadn't fled to Zhenjiang in fear of crime to find someone to blame him, but had gone to Hangzhou first to explain the whole story of the battle at Xikeng, Liang Jin's lie would have been self-defeating.

now...

After Liang Jin finished his report, he took the initiative to say: "I have brought all the news crimes. If you have no other errands, you will eventually bring people back to Hue and wait for the court to deal with them."

How could Chen Jian let Liang Jin and the others leave like this?

You know, although Liang Jin and the others only have an army of three or four hundred horses, if they can gather the horses in the city and the dealers who can ride horses, and be led by these three or four hundred horses, it is possible to become an army that can determine the outcome of the battle. important force.

So Chen Jian directly ordered: "You wait for the speed to enter the city, I have other arrangements."

Liang Jin hurriedly thanked him: "Xie Xianggong gave me the opportunity to redeem my sins."

Seeing this, Zhao Yue hesitated: "Maybe there is fraud?"

Chen Jian glanced at Zhao Yue like an idiot, as if to say: "I know all these people, they are my soldiers, how could there be fraud?"

Chen Jian didn't talk nonsense, and directly ordered: "Put down the suspension bridge and open the city gate."

Chen Jian's order was passed down layer by layer, and finally reached the generals of the Song Army guarding the city gate.

Then, the winch was turned, the suspension bridge was slowly lowered and put on the moat, and then the jack gate was slowly hoisted up...

Just when the jack gate was completely hoisted, dust suddenly rose in the distance.

Chen Jian, Zhao Yue and the others took a closer look, and saw countless ants-like tiger and ben army rushing from a distance.

Seeing this, Liang Jin ordered to prepare for battle.

Following Liang Jin's order, three or four hundred cavalry troops simultaneously picked up their bows and crossbows and clenched their sabers, as if they wanted to go back and fight the tiger and cardinal troops who rushed up.

When Chen Jian saw it, he secretly scolded Liang Jin and the others for not knowing whether they were dead or alive. Even if they were able to fight, how could three or four hundred people beat an army of tens of thousands?

Chen Jian urged: "Open the city gate quickly! Hurry up!", and then ordered Liang Jin and others: "Don't fight, enter the city quickly!"

This short period of time seemed as long as a century.

Finally, the heavy city gate slowly opened with a toothache "creaking" sound.

Liang Jin and others entered the Wengcheng without any surprise or danger.

Then the gates of the outer city began to open slowly.

As long as Liang Jin and his three or 400 people can rush through this city gate, the city of Hangzhou will almost be broken.

But at this critical moment, Zhao Ting rushed over on horseback and shouted, "Close the city gate quickly, this generation must be here to cheat the city gate!"

Seeing that the gates of the outer city had been opened enough to allow a person and a horse to pass through, Liang Jin shouted, "Do it!"

After speaking, Liang Jin rushed into the city of Hangzhou in the first place.

The so-called brothers fighting tigers, father and son soldiers in battle!

Seeing Liang Jin's fight, Liang Zhen, Liang Xing and other Liang family all stepped forward.

Those who came out of the pit with the Liang family also knew that it would depend on whether they had nothing or everything in the future, so they all went forward to fight.

And Niu Wei is also going to use this opportunity to prove that he can be the acting leader of the tiger horse army, not only by his big brother Niu Meng!

Therefore, he, who was at the end, shot and killed the soldiers of the Song army who were closing the suspension bridge one by one.

"boom!"

The suspension bridge, which had been raised a little, crashed down again with a bang!
Leading people to kill all the soldiers of the Song Army at the gate of the city, Niu Wei left a detainee to guard the gate and meet the coming Huben army according to Li Cun's prior explanation, and then led the rest of the Huben army to kill the already captured The gate of the outer city that Liang Jin and the others broke through...

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(End of this chapter)