She Song

Chapter 246: Holding Yin Shu Ke

Taibai Pavilion, as one of the few restaurants in Yanjing, is either rich or expensive.

In the private room, having a drink with friends, Wang Sui suddenly heard someone knocking on the door, thinking it was the waiter of the restaurant, but before he could speak, the door was pushed open, and he was annoyed when he saw that the other party was wearing a black uniform.

His eyes suddenly closed, his heartbeat accelerated suddenly, and the wine glass in his hand fell to the ground.

The leader of the men in black took the list and looked at everyone in the elegant room, and said: "I, Qingshan, the counter-espionage department, would like to ask King Cao of the Yanshan Prefecture to follow us. Tianji Treasures, Tiangui, come with us."

The Counterespionage Department is a special department, directly under the King of Zhenbei. Its main function is to eliminate spies, thus overriding other functional departments.

Others in the private room suddenly panicked and tried to explain, but Qingshan smiled and said: "It has nothing to do with other people, so there is no need to panic. You two, please!"

Although Wang Suisui had some skills, he did not dare to move, but Tian Gui suddenly jumped up and knocked open the window, trying to escape arrest.

As the leader of the counterintelligence team, Qingshan has been promoted steadily. His fighting skills and reaction awareness are top-notch. He has long expected that the opponent will not be able to catch him. He immediately jumped up and accurately grasped Tian Gui's ankle, forcing the opponent from the window. Pull it off and throw it to the ground.

Watching his men rush to restrain Tian Gui, Qingshan said calmly: "Tian Gui stubbornly resisted arrest, so he took coercive measures. Wang Bingcao, are you cooperating, or are you resisting arrest?"

Wang Suizhi knew it well, closed his eyes and let out a long sigh in front of everyone, followed Qingshan and left Taibai Pavilion, leaving behind a room full of friends who were talking about it.

"Wang Suisui turned out to be a spy! Could it be a mistake?"

"No, the Counterintelligence Department will never take action without evidence. And have you seen that Tian Gui is so skilled? He must be a spy. I just don't know if it's a Jurchen or someone from Tokyo?"

"The Yanshan Mansion and the King of Zhenbei are not of the same mind, so it is not surprising that there are several spies. Now that the Jin Kingdom has gone to war with the King of Zhenbei, most of them are Jurchen spies."

"Hey, tell me, we wiped out Zong Wang last time, can we win this time?"

"The Zhen Guojun is indeed powerful, but the number of people is too small. The Jurchen is still very powerful. It is said that there are [-] cavalry and things attacking together, probably [-]-[-]..."

"You don't know that the artillery is so powerful that it is impossible for the Jurchens to resist it. At least the defense of Yanjing is [-]% sure!"

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Outside Jinzhou, Han Qixian sat in a circle with Zong Han, Wanyan Oru, Wanyan Pujianu, and Yelu Yujian.

Hot air balloons carry people into the sky!
The telescope can observe the enemy situation ten miles away!
Han Xiaoyao's anger and revenge are unstoppable!

Han Qi first stated what he saw in Yanjing truthfully one by one. Oru, Pu Jianu, and Yu Jian were shocked and doubtful.

Only Wanyan Zonghan closed his eyes and meditated.

It is easy to capture Jinzhou, even Pingzhou and Jingzhou. The problem is that if Yanjing cannot be captured, no matter how many cities there are, it will be useless.

He has seen repeating crossbows. They are exquisite in structure and easy to operate. One repeating crossbowman can be as good as the original three crossbowmen. What's more terrible is that even a civilian can start operating it after half a day of instruction.

It is said that Zhen Guojun's deployment rate of Liannu is close to [-]%, and it will continue to increase. Even Guo Yaoshi, Zhang Jue and Xiao Qian's troops have allocated a batch. This fully shows that mass production of Liannu is not a problem for Yanjing.

There are many and smart people in the south, sharp weapons, and strong financial resources. If the combination of continuous crossbows and artillery is used, the advantage of the Jurchen cavalry may no longer exist, and the Great Jin Kingdom may be in crisis!

At this time, he regretted not supporting the Lou family. He was right to use all the troops from the whole country to destroy the Zhenguo army and flatten Yanjing!

But there is no turning back when the bow is fired. Now that the army is out for battle, we must not give up easily.

"Since Yanjing has no intention of peace talks, then take Jinzhou and Pingzhou and talk!"

Immediately, [-] Jin troops launched a siege on Jinzhou. Stone bullets and arrows rained down from the top of Jinzhou city, which was extremely tragic from the beginning.

Xiao Qian came to the city in person, patrolled constantly, and led the officers and soldiers of Xi to deal with it calmly.Han Shizhong, who was guarding Jinzhou together, was already the leader of the new independent regiment of the Zhenguo Army, with 300 men under his command, who were also struggling to support themselves in blood and fire.

...

At the foot of Zhuozhou City, Yin Shuke frowned more and more as he watched the artillery at the top of the city bombarding the siege troops again and again.

The taste is wrong, how could Zhuozhou's defense suddenly strengthen so much?Where did the artillery come from?

The pull-out speed of the gauze-wrapped head was felt more directly on the front line. The improvised ladders and light trebuchets were not very effective. In less than half an hour, nearly a thousand casualties had been lost, but the remaining twenty trebuchets had been destroyed by artillery fire. Not much.

Even the usual strategy of driving the people to attack the city was no longer effective. The defenders at the top of the city seemed to regard the people near the city wall as enemies.

In fact, he did not know that in order to repel the first wave of attacks, Guo Yaoshi had spent all his wealth and issued a military order to shoot indiscriminately. Even so, the casualties of the Zhuozhou defenders were the same as those of the Jin army.

Seeing the tidal wave of Jin troops withdrawing, Medical Master Guo looked slightly relieved. Zhen Wuchen wiped the sweat from his forehead and said happily: "Fortunately they retreated..."

However, Pharmacist Guo ordered people to carry out several large boxes of gold, silver and jewelry, dump them on the city wall, and at the same time said loudly: "My sons, you fought well! The golden dog has been defeated. Today's reward and pension will be doubled! You have enough food and wine!"

Whoa!
The officers and soldiers of the Ever Victorious Division cheered loudly at the same time, and their morale suddenly recovered!
Zhen Wuchen had to give a thumbs up. This is the great thing about Yaoshi Guo. He can always boost the morale of his subordinates at the right time.

The messenger in charge of pigeon communication suddenly came to the city head and reported: "The military order of the King of Zhenbei: Try to hold Yin Shuke's troops until Shenshi."

Zhen Wuchen said in surprise: "There are still three hours, how can we delay?"

Pharmacist Guo thought for a while and said: "It should be that Lao Yuan needs time to stab the wound. As long as it is delayed, the Silver Technique can be pulled out of the speed. These are [-] Jurchens!"

Zhen Wuchen suddenly asked: "Brother, I heard that the prince intends to expand? Are there any troops above the division?"

Pharmacist Guo glanced at him and said, "Don't even think about it. This good thing must belong to Lao Yuan, right?"

Zhen Wuchen was a little unconvinced, and said: "That is to say, the Daming House is supporting him, otherwise his command level is really not good... However, I didn't expect our Master Changsheng to be promoted, but we lost in this battle. It’s so big, and with hard work and merit, it’s no problem to get an A-level master, right?”

Pharmacist Guo nodded thoughtfully, and then turned his attention to the Jurchen army formation opposite. After a long while, he said: "Come here, send an envoy out of the city to negotiate, and bring wine, meat and property with you!"

At the same time, Zhen Wuchen was asked to secretly report to Han Xiaoyao his intention to hold back Yin Shuke through negotiations.

Pharmacist Guo actually sent an envoy to ask for negotiations?
Yin Shuke was full of doubts, so he chopped the knife into pieces on the desk in front of the envoy and asked angrily: "What? You killed so many Jurchen warriors, and you want to use money to solve the problem?"

Guo Yaoshi's dead soldier was somewhat courageous, and said calmly: "If we don't fight, the two generals will probably speak loudly. My master really has no choice... Considering that your army is running around and it is difficult to raise food, grass, food and drink, Therefore, we are willing to provide two thousand stones of food and grass and thirty thousand guan of goods, and ask your army to turn elsewhere."

Ba Lisu sneered and said, "This little thing really treats us as beggars?"

This is something to talk about, the dead man hurriedly asked: "I don't know how much the general thinks is appropriate?"

Ba Lisu looked at Yin Shuke, slapped the table and said: "Ten thousand stones of grain and grass, one hundred thousand gold and silver! Otherwise, we will definitely capture Zhuozhou today and chop off Yaoshi Guo's head!"

The dead man was overjoyed, but frowned and said: "This number is too much, can you reduce it?"

So the two sides talked about each other, and finally reached an agreement: five thousand stones of grain and grass, and fifty thousand pounds of gold and silver.

The dead man patted his chest and promised that he would persuade Yaoshi Guo to agree to pay the Jurchens when he returned.

Before leaving the tent, Yin Shuke suddenly ordered someone to stop the dead man.

(End of this chapter)