my wonderful zoo

Chapter 212

June [-], Zhengzhou Prefecture.

Sun Zheng, who had completely sorted out Kaifeng Mansion, did not stop.

After the ravages of the Jin people, the area around Gyeonggi Road was in a state of emptiness. In addition, Zhao Gou had been too busy taking care of himself in Daming Mansion. Of course, such a good opportunity could not be missed.

After considering the two directions of going south and west, and considering that the Yellow River could be used to transport supplies to the west, Sun Zheng finally led his army to Zhengzhou Prefecture.

The Kaifeng Group Army has a total of 2 regular troops. Sun Zheng brought out one army/1 troops this time, plus [-] auxiliary troops, for a total of [-] troops, leaving [-] regular troops for Kaifeng Prefecture.

As for Zhengzhou Fucheng, because part of King Qin's army stayed here before, the garrison strength reached [-]. Compared with before the war between Jin and Song Dynasty, the garrison strength expanded six to seven times.

"Heyang County was captured by our army yesterday. We only need to capture Xingze County to open up the transportation road from Zhengzhou to the Yellow River." Hui, a deputy commander under Sun Zheng, reported that this deputy commander is mainly responsible for ensuring The army's logistics supply road is smooth.

Although Heyang County belongs to Mengzhou, it is located in the easternmost part of Mengzhou, inserted into the northwest corner of Zhengzhou Prefecture, and adjacent to Xingze County of Zhengzhou Prefecture.Heyang County is adjacent to the Yellow River. The Song Dynasty built an artificial river from the west of Heyang County, named Bianhe River, and the Bianhe River flows through the north of Yingze County.

To attack Zhengzhou, if you want to use the Yellow River to transport siege equipment and supplies, you must first capture Heyang County and Xingze County.

"Take Xingze County as soon as possible. We have few people and rely more on siege equipment to attack the city. Zhengzhou, as the west gate of Kaifeng, is an absolutely fortified city. It's useless even if you fill it in." Sun Zheng ordered.

"Yes!"

In order to help Kaifeng, Beijing Northwest Road had recruited many militia groups. Most of these militia groups had dispersed after the Battle of Kaifeng, but a small number of militia groups were used by those who wanted to.

Miao Fu is one of the best.

The last time he played by ear, he got a lot of rewards from Chen Jiajun. He didn't send a tael of the money back to the master's house, but withheld it himself. He even withheld the rewards for each of his subordinates. Most of it.

Miao Fu who stayed in Zhengzhou no longer had to guess what he wanted to do. Although this kind of person was disgraceful in terms of character, he could usually accomplish great things.

In troubled times, most of the small princes are such unscrupulous characters.

You can succeed by any means, and you can fail by any means. People who are eager for quick success and quick profit usually cannot make it to the end.

If you want to achieve unparalleled achievements, no matter how ruthless you act, you still have to be righteous!

Otherwise, how can your subordinates serve you?trust you?How do people respect and love you?
"Although this Master Miao is not very good in character, he has to admit his courage, generosity, and generosity." An officer commented to the commander of the Zhengzhou garrison.

"Indeed, I heard that he spent all the money he intercepted on recruiting troops and horses and buying grain."

"In comparison, the generals of King Qin's army in the south were much more cowardly, and they took their money and people back obediently."

"Miao Fu's boss made a mistake and raised a white-eyed wolf."

"In this troubled world, whoever laughs last will be the winner." Sun Zheng finally said.

The success of the king and the defeat of the bandits, Miao Fu also met Chen Jiajun, otherwise it would really be possible to achieve great things.

"Minister Pei sent someone to tell us yesterday that Miao Fu also made some gunpowder weapons and asked us to be careful when attacking the city." An officer reminded us.

"I knew that this day would come sooner or later." Sun Zheng replied: "Don't worry too much, it's just some explosive packets. Mature muskets are not so easy to make." Gunpowder, one of the four great inventions , has been invented in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

It first appeared in Taoist alchemy as an elixir refined by Taoist priests in order to seek immortality. After poisoning many Taoist priests and emperors to death, it was eventually reduced to a raw material for fireworks.

It is not that no one has thought of using gunpowder to make weapons, but the power of gunpowder prepared by different formulas varies greatly.

The ones with low power can explode even the skin when pinched in the hand.

And because there is no rigorous production process, the produced gunpowder control is very poor, and the final product is sometimes very powerful and sometimes less powerful.

However, there are always some curious, open-minded, wealthy and smart people in the world. Therefore, the research on gunpowder weapons has never stopped. Chen Xun just advanced it by several hundred years.

For smart people, one look at Chen Jiajun's gunpowder weapons and they can roughly estimate their principles and then imitate them.

Crossing the river by feeling the stones while blindfolded is not the same difficulty as crossing the river by dragging the rope with your eyes open.

With Chen Jiajun's lessons learned, the development process of gunpowder weapons in this world has been greatly accelerated.

Not only around the Chen Jiajun's sphere of influence, but also in the Jin Kingdom in the far north, they must have started the research and development of gunpowder weapons.

Among all gunpowder weapons, explosive packs are the simplest.Wrapping gunpowder and inserting a fuse is the simplest explosive package.

On the [-]th and [-]th, Sun Zheng continued to rest and train troops outside Zhengzhou.

Since there were no siege equipment, there was no siege warfare.

On the 21st, the siege equipment transferred from Xuzhou through the Yellow River was finally in place. But on this day, a large group of Song troops left the city from the west gate of Zhengzhou. Intelligence personnel reported that it was Miao Fu's army.

To the west of Zhengzhou is Songshan Mountain, below Songshan Mountain is the Funiu Mountains, and to the west of the Funiu Mountains is the majestic Qinling Mountains.

If the Miao Fu army wanted to retreat westward, there was only one way, and that was to go west along the Yellow River and enter the Weihe Plain.

However, there are many checkpoints along the way. Miao Fu is now the person who carries the master and is carrying a large army. It is impossible for the defenders at each checkpoint to let him pass, otherwise they may be destroyed by the false way.

So where does he plan to go west?Could it be some kind of plan to attack the east and attack the west?
In order to find out what happened, Sun Zheng quickly sent out a large number of detective horses to investigate, and sent letters to Chen Xun and the military government to obtain intelligence support.

Sure enough, the scouts sent out to investigate found that Miao Fu's army turned south after walking more than 20 miles to the west. When Sun received this information, he also wondered whether Miao Fu planned to go around behind him.

After the replies from Chen Xun, the General Staff and Pei Ren arrived one after another, Sun Zhengcai finally figured out Miao Fu's purpose.

Ask someone to bring the map and immediately summon the generals to discuss matters.

"This is the Huanghuai Plain, and we are located in the northwest corner of the plain." Sun Zheng pointed to Zhengzhou.

“The west side of the Huanghuai Plain is surrounded by various large and small mountain ranges, including Songshan Mountain, Funiu Mountain, and Laojun Mountain from north to south. The southwest corner of the plain is the Nanyang Basin.”

(End of this chapter)