Qian Song

Chapter 66
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When Sun He led the Jinwu left army to Xiuzhou, Li Cun had already personally led the Huben army to go straight to Suzhou along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

But this does not mean that after Li Cun handed over Xiuzhou to Sun He, he didn't care about anything.

On the contrary, Li Cunxiu spent a lot of energy in Xiuzhou.

After discussing with Chen Kuutong, Lu Jiang and others, Li Cun designed a chain plan for Chen Yun.

First, Li Cun sent Sun He to lure the defenders in Xiuzhou out of the city for a decisive battle.

At that stage, if the defenders in Xiuzhou City really dared to go out of the city for a decisive battle, then Chen Yun and the others would really lose, because at that time the three thousand guards and horse troops were also in Xiuzhou.

With [-] Jinwu right troops plus [-] guard horse troops, the [-] to [-] defenders in Xiuzhou City can almost be said to be defeated.

If Li Cun's troops are sufficient, Li Cun will definitely keep this number of troops to lock Xiuzhou City, and will not give Chen Yun the slightest chance.

But the problem is, Li Cun only has [-] battle-ready troops in total, and leaving [-] locks in Xiuzhou City is Li Cun's limit. It is impossible for him to keep his only mobile force in Xiuzhou City. State.

Therefore, Li Cun's order to Niu Wei was that he could only stay in Xiuzhou for three days, and then he had to go to Suzhou in batches to catch up with the large troops, so as not to delay the battle between the Huben army and the Song army.

However, although Li Cun asked the guard Ma Jun to evacuate from Xiuzhou three days later, Li Cun did not let the guard Ma Jun evacuate from Xiuzhou all at once.

—— Li Cun's order to Niu Wei was to evacuate one battalion of horse troops every day, completely evacuate on five days, and finally leave another battalion of horse troops in Xiuzhou just in case. Qi Fang, who came out to cooperate with Sun He to lock up Xiuzhou City, must bring different horse troops to the battle every day, and he can take that battalion into Sun He's camp to rest until the last battalion of horse troops is left.

To put it bluntly, the problem that Wang Ziwu and the others found was that Li Cun deliberately sold it to the defenders in Xiuzhou City. Go out of the city to fight with Sun He.

To be honest, for Chen Yun, Li Cun can be said to have taken great pains.

Sun He is the smartest of Li Cun's generals.

Li Cun's view of Sun He is that he may not be able to become a good fighter, but he may become a good loser.

Those who are good at fighting will not be defeated, and those who are good at losing will not be chaotic.

In Li Cun's view, Sun He is a bit like Liu Guangshi in history.

Don't think that Liu Guangshi has the name of "Liu Paopao" and often competes with Zhao Gou's "Zhao Paopao" to run faster, so he looks down on Liu Guangshi.

Although Liu Guangshi is a second-generation official, he is really not a wine bag. , Liu Guangshi participated in almost all the battles in the Song Dynasty.

Moreover, when others did not dare to resist, such as when the Jin army besieged Taiyuan City, only Liu Guangshi and Zhe Keqiu led troops to rescue Taiyuan City. The first batch went to King Qin, and when Zhao Jian established the Grand Marshal's Mansion, Liu Guangshi was the first batch to lead his troops to vote.

As for the war, Liu Guangshi was a bit of a loser, but in terms of facts, Liu Guangshi was worthy of Zhao Song.

After all, since he was a teenager, Liu Guangshi has been fighting for Zhao Song. He has fought hundreds of battles, big and small, and trained Zhao Song to be two fierce generals, Wang De and Li Xianzhong.

The reason why Liu Guangshi has been able to fight for so many years without failing, and finally made him one of the four generals of ZTE, is because he is a general who is good at defeating. He has been losing all his life, but he rarely has a real big defeat. .

Li Cun didn't ask Sun He to be as good at fighting as Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jie, and Liu Qi. He only hoped that Sun He would not be eaten by Chen Yun, who had more than 1 people.

As for Qi Fang, he can also be classified as a good loser. After all, in history, he was not wiped out after fighting Yue Fei.

Putting such two people under Xiuzhou City, Li Cunming told them that Xiuzhou City must be locked up. In fact, he just hoped that they would not be wiped out by Chen Yun.

Some people may want to ask, what if Sun He and Qi Fang can't lock Xiuzhou City, and the defenders in Xiuzhou City go out of the city and cut off Li Cun's grain road?
easy to do.

As long as Sun He and Qi Fang can lock Xiuzhou City for ten days, it will be enough for Li Cun to conquer Suzhou and Huzhou.

By then, Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Huzhou belonged to Li Cun, and even the rest of Xiuzhou belonged to Li Cun—the 2000 people from the Jinwu Left Army who disappeared had been sweeping other areas of Xiuzhou, and Recruit and grow in those areas.

In that way, Xiuzhou City is not a nail stuck in the defense area of ​​the Huben Army, but a piece of fat surrounded by the Huben Army, and the Huben Army also cut off the defenders in Xiuzhou City and the Song Army. all contacts.

Taking a step back, even if the defenders in Xiuzhou City led by Chen Yun repelled the Huben Army led by Sun He and Qi Fang, as long as the defenders in Xiuzhou City cannot wipe out the Huben Army led by Sun He and Qi Fang, then Sun He and Qi Fang, especially the latter, can constantly harass the defenders of Xiuzhou City. If the defenders in Xiuzhou City really dare to go out to cut off the food roads of the Huben Army, then Sun He and Qi Fang may not be able to do so. Taking advantage of the emptiness of Xiuzhou City, attack Xiuzhou City directly.

Fighting and not being able to fight, and not being able to go out, the defenders in Xiuzhou City could only be trapped to death in Xiuzhou City.

When Li Cun has time, get more gunpowder weapons, not to mention that there is only one Chen Yun in Xiuzhou City, even if Chen Yun, Wang Bao, Zhan Du, Li Yanxian and Zhao Li are all in Xiuzhou City, it will definitely be useless.

—— Pulling out a hundred cannons does not require money-like indiscriminate bombing. How can this ancient city not be broken?

It's just that Li Cun really doesn't have time to make those weapons now.

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The sixth day of the first month.

Li Cun led the Huben army to the city of Suzhou.

Zhu Xi and others in Suzhou City were frightened. On the one hand, they defended the city, and on the other hand, they hurriedly sent people to negotiate with Li Cun to see if the people in Suzhou City could use money and food to buy Li Cun and not attack Suzhou City.

Li Cun said yes to those who came to negotiate, but I want 50 ingots of gold (50 taels per ingot), 100 ingots of silver ([-] taels per ingot), [-] pieces of silk, [-] sets of armor, and three horses. Thousands of horses, thousands of cattle, sheep, pigs, donkeys and mules, and [-] million shi of grain. As long as the people in Suzhou City hand over these things, they will not attack Suzhou City.

Someone said that Li Cun wanted too much, and there were not so many things in Suzhou City.

Li Cun said, I will not bargain with you. After three days, if I can’t see these things, I will attack Suzhou City. After the city is broken, all the officials, gentry and nobles in the city will be sent to the public trial platform, and their homes will also be ransacked. .

The visitor hurried back to report the matter to Zhu Xie and the others.

Zhu Xi gathered all the officials, gentry and nobles in Suzhou City for a meeting overnight to discuss how to get Li Cun's blackmail...

At the same time, Wu Desi's spies found Shi Sheng in Suzhou City, and said to him: "The governor has an order to attack the city at midnight tonight, ordering you to open the gate of the city..."

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(End of this chapter)