The Richest Man in the Heavens Starts from Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 103
Sun Anbing took down the first small city after entering Liao Dynasty without bloodshed.

It is wrong to say that it is a small town. It should be said to be a military fortress on the border.It is said that the city is actually a fortress built of adobe with a height of more than four meters.

But the area is still relatively large, it can accommodate at least [-] infantry, and there are several granaries inside.

However, because the Liaojin War was at a critical juncture, the stocks of military supplies such as grain, grass, ordnance were all transferred to the battlefield over there.

There are only hundreds of stones of grain in this earthen fortress on the border of Song and Liao, which shows that the life of the Han army in Shannan is really not very good.

In fact, Zhang Xiang hinted that those soldiers expressed their willingness to join the ranks of the Great Wei Army. After all, in their eyes, when have they ever seen the Han army have such good weapons and equipment.

Especially when eating, those Wei Jun even added a kind of canned meat to the soup pot, and the aroma of the cooking made their mouths water again and again.

Moreover, Wei Jun was not stingy, seeing them greedy and even gave them a few pots of 'broth', it was obvious that the Han people treated them equally, and they were not like the Khitan people or the Xi people who just beat and scolded them.

For a while, the Shannan Han army was full of emotions, and some veterans even swallowed the food given to them by the Wei army with tears in their eyes, and it became a matter of course to switch to the Wei army.

Of course, Sun An didn't expect them to charge forward, what he valued most was the familiarity of the Shannan Han army with the surrounding geographical conditions.

With them leading the way, they can avoid many Liao army's bright and dark whistle, which is of great benefit to the army's advancement.

In fact, under the guidance of these Shannan Han troops, the Wei army swept all the way, cleaning up the earth fortresses in the county towns from Hejianfu to Yingzhouzhou City one by one, laying a solid foundation for the transfer of grain and grass in the rear.

In less than three days, Sun An's vanguard army had already set up camp under the city of Yingzhou, and only waited for a two-day rest before launching an offensive.

When the army was resting, the craftsmen led by Wei Junzhong were not idle. After building the barracks, they immediately cut down the surrounding trees and assembled heavy trebuchets with core components.

When Du Yu arrived with the main force, Sun An was already attacking Yingzhou City with trebuchets.

The prefect of Yingzhou is Han Zhongchao, a Han from the Liao Kingdom. The Han family is considered a relatively powerful family in the Liao Kingdom, and the people of the Liao Kingdom have always had the policy of "rule the Liao people by the law of the Liao people, and rule the Han people by the law of the Han people", so he was able to be in Yingzhou. Made the prefect.

Facing the sudden huge army, Han Zhongchao was stunned. At first he thought it was the Song Dynasty who broke the agreement of the Liao Song Chanyuan Alliance to invade rashly.But when he saw the yellow banner with the banner of Wei on the opposite side, he knew it was not Song Bing.

Seeing that the army on the opposite side is obviously attacking from the south, could it be that something happened in the Great Song Dynasty?

Han Zhongchao couldn't figure out why, but there were not many defenders in Yingzhou City, only more than 4000, and most of them were the "Shannan Han Army" dominated by Han people. Don't expect too much combat power at all.

But he thought it was possible to wait for reinforcements for a period of time, so he called the garrison of the state capital to discuss matters of defending the city and asking for help.

The officer of the garrison is of course from the Liao Kingdom, and that man's name is Yeluping, who is an outlying branch of the Liao Kingdom's royal family.

Not every Liao countryman is a hero who has the courage to fight, otherwise they would not be beaten by the people of the Jin country and run away.

Yeluping saw that the Wei army outside the city was too powerful, and the battalions they had set up stretched to the sky. He knew the virtues of the defenders in Yingzhou City, so how could he stay to defend the city.

After some strong words, Yeluping led a group of personal guards and rode fast horses out of the city from the north city gate, intending to go to the city of Nanjing in the Beiliao to 'inform' the new emperor Yeluchun.

Han Zhongchao was dumbfounded. The top general of the defending army went to report the letter and left the whole mess to him as a civil servant. How can this be done.

After Sun An attacked the city with a counterweight trebuchet for three consecutive days and saw that the city wall was in danger, he raised a white flag at the top of the city to declare his surrender.Soon he led the people to open the city gate and dedicated Yingzhou City to the Wei army.

No bloodshed, another city.

Du Yu asked Dong Cheng, Shen Ji, and Geng Gong to be responsible for dealing with the defenders and officials, large and small. It is now a time of war, and it is impossible to keep them in Yingzhou.

Therefore, the three of them sorted the captives into different categories, divided them into teams according to their identities, and escorted them back to Hejian Mansion for processing.

To occupy a city, it is indispensable to post notices to appease the people in the city.Yingzhou City was originally a Han area, and the Han people are still the mainstream ethnic group here.

Although there is no "eating pots of pulp to welcome the king's teacher", there is no obvious hostility towards the new Han army.

In addition, the Wei army has strict military discipline and has no habit of harassing the people, so in their opinion, it can indeed be called a king's army.

Just like in Weisheng Prefecture, the supporting officials of the Great Wei immediately followed up after winning the land, and after finding out the powerful families in the city, they treated them separately.

Those who are used to oppressing the common people and follow the Khitan people wholeheartedly will naturally be liquidated and suppressed, and those who are more kind-hearted to the Han people will naturally be wooed.

However, he was not so polite to Du Yu, a Khitan nobleman in the city. Killing chickens to make an example to monkeys should be done. Since he wanted to fight for the world, he was not afraid of killing people.

But for those ordinary Khitan people, Wei's decrees are much more relaxed, as long as they are comfortable living under the rule, they can go with them, but they must abide by the decrees of Great Wei.

Du Yu doesn't need to go to battle in person to deal with political affairs, what he cares about is military achievements.

Because there was no such operation as taking a ladder to attack, Sun An's vanguard army did not suffer any losses. When the army was resting in Yingzhou, they set up camp and advanced to Mozhou.

Sun An absorbed the experience of winning in Yingzhou, and as soon as he entered Mozhou, he collected Shannan Han troops everywhere and asked about the local military deployment.

Bing is expensive, and he intends to take down a few more cities before the Liao Kingdom reacts.

After five days of rapid march, Sun An's vanguard army came to the city of Mozhou, surrounded the city, and began to build counterweight trebuchets again to prepare for attacking the city.

Du Yu's army followed closely behind, and continued to send small groups of troops to clean up the surrounding county towns and earthen fortresses to help Sun An deal with the aftermath.

It has to be said that the counterweight trebuchet is indeed an ancient siege weapon.

Before his main force could advance to Mozhou, Sun An made another contribution by capturing the city of Mozhou with less than a thousand people lost.

The great Wei army's successive battles and victories have indeed made a good start.

After repeated battles, Sun An's army was a little tired, so they rested in Mozhou.But Du Yu's main force will not stay.

They cleaned all the way north while cleaning the county town under the jurisdiction of Mozhou, and at the same time approached Waqiaoguan, an important military town on the Baigou River.

At this time, the news that a mysterious army under the banner of the Wei Dynasty was attacking Yanyun finally reached the ears of Liao Xuanzong Yeluchun.

Above the court, Yeluchun looked at the ministers and sighed. It wasn't that he didn't want to send troops to resist, but he sent all his troops to Zhongjing Dingfu. He couldn't send the only remaining guards of the capital there.

In desperation, he can only focus on Yelu Dashi who has always supported him, hoping that he can stand up and share his worries.

Seeing this, Yelu Dashi had no choice but to leave the squad, and asked Yelu Chun to send some troops so that he could lead troops to resist the enemy.

Yeluchun gritted his teeth, and took two thousand Khitan cavalry and one thousand Xiren cavalry from the capital guards and handed them over to him, and said that he would recruit people to form an army as soon as possible to support him.

Yelu Dashi had no choice but to set off to Mozhou with [-] cavalry.

In his opinion, if what Yeluping said was true, then Yingzhou would definitely fall, and it would be useless to go there. It would be better to go to Mozhou to resist the enemy. At least the prefect of Mozhou is a Khitan, and he will definitely stick to the city.

It's just that he didn't expect his three thousand cavalry to get the news that Mozhou had fallen to Waqiao Pass and besieged as soon as they left Xijin Mansion.

Yelu Dashi frowned, secretly thinking in his heart that it came so quickly, according to his previous knowledge, this is definitely not a Song army pretending to be a new rising force.

Opening the portable map, his heart skipped a beat when he saw the location of Waqiao Pass. If Wei Jun was lost here, he would face Zhuozhou and Youzhou directly. Jinfu and other places.

Thinking of this, Yelu Dashi didn't dare to delay, and urged the [-] cavalry to speed up their journey, and in order to avoid a huge disadvantage in strength, he would take away the Khitan and Xiren cavalry guarding the city from every state capital he passed by to make up for it.

(End of this chapter)