The rise of the late Song Dynasty reigns supreme

Chapter 121 God-given opportunity
Zhao Gou made a plan for marching to attack the city, and he also knew that Fang La's army was full of strong generals, and he could not face it head-on.

"Marshal, our army has been going south to conquer Fangla, and has fought several times in succession, killing and injuring many brothers. If there is a strong attack, there will be more casualties. Our army is stronger than the bandit army, so we can't do that."

Zhao Gou sighed and said, "How come I don't know that you can't attack by force, you can only attack by wisdom. Now, I don't know if the military commander has a good strategy to defeat the enemy?"

Wu Yong calmed down and said eloquently: "The marshal's marching deployment has been done, so let's do this. I don't know what the marshal thinks?"

Zhao Gou saw that Wu Yong was playing tricks, and said: "Military division should not be cheating, just speak up if you have something to say!"

Wu Yong said with a smile: "Since the marshal has already deployed the combat force and direction, the Beiguan Gate is the gate of Hangzhou City. If the marshal goes to attack in person, the deployment of troops there is bound to be very important. In this way, the marshal can feign an attack. Really attack, just wait for other pioneers to attack."

"What's the meaning of this?"

"Other vanguards attack the gates of the city. Qiqi's attack will inevitably arouse Fang La's vigilance, and will definitely send troops out to meet the enemy, but our army will not confront them head-on. We pretend to be defeated and lure the enemy out of the city, away from Hangzhou City. At that time, as long as they are successfully lured out, they can use guns as a signal to formally counterattack and advance together. As long as a vanguard army enters the city, they can set fire as a signal. At that time, if the bandits want to return to the city to respond, it will be too late!"

Zhao Gou praised: "This plan is very clever!"

Therefore, all the generals nodded in agreement one after another, and acted according to plan.

At the same time, an emergency meeting was held in Hangzhou to discuss countermeasures.All the main forces of the Song army came, and the army had already gathered in one place, but Zhao Gou was worried about what measures Zhao Gou would take to attack.

Fang La said in a deep voice: "Today the Song army came to attack and attacked four gates respectively. Our army was caught off guard and lost another tiger general. Next, the Song army will definitely choose to attack each of them. We have to guard against it!"

"According to my will, all generals must guard the gates of the city, and never allow the Song army to enter the city."

"According to the order!"

Fang La nodded, and after ordering everyone to go down, said again: "The prince stays here, I have something to discuss with you!"

Fang Tianding looked back at his father curiously, not knowing why he was left behind.However, Fang La's order had to be obeyed.As for what they said, no one knew at all, only the father and son knew it clearly, and it didn't appear in everyone's sight until the Song army attacked the next day.

The next day, Zhao Gou first ordered Guan Sheng to lead some soldiers and horses to the Beiguanmen city to call for battle; drums were beaten on the city, and Shi Bao led the army out of the city to confront Guan Sheng again.However, after only ten rounds of fighting, Guan Sheng was defeated and hurriedly led his troops to escape. Seeing that Guan Sheng was not his opponent, Shi Bao confidently led the army to pursue him.

Seeing that Shi Bao led the army to chase him, Guan Sheng was overjoyed, and immediately ran faster.Seeing that Guan Sheng was defeated by him with his tail between his legs, Shi Bao was even more delighted. He directly lit the trumpet to celebrate, but he didn't want to catch Guan Sheng in his arms. No longer attack.

Unknowingly, Shi Bao fired the trumpet, but told Song Jiang that it was time to attack, which also caused the army to attack the city one after another.

Let's say that the deputy vanguard Lu Junyi led the army to attack the Chaochao Gate. The army had already arrived at the city, but saw that the city gate was not closed, and even the suspension bridge was lowered. He couldn't help frowning and thought: "Why is the city gate not closed? Can't trick?"

Lu Junyi was very suspicious. He felt that the matter was not that simple, but Liu Tang stood up and begged for orders: "Lu Xianfeng, at the end, I would like to come here in person to find out!"

Lu Junyi shook his head and said, "Brother Liu Tang, I'm afraid there may be fraud, so don't go deep!"

Liu Tang was originally assigned to Huarong to attack the Jungen Mountain Gate, but he didn't want Yan Qing to go readily, so Zhao Gou agreed to the personnel exchange and transferred Yue Fei to his side. Liu Tang followed Lu Junyi to attack the Chaomen Gate, and he continued: " Lu Xianfeng, if you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you catch a tiger's cub!"

Seeing that Liu Tang was so determined to go, Lu Junyi agreed with him to go alone.So, Liu Tang rode his horse alone and charged into the city with a big knife in his hand.It turns out that Hangzhou City was the capital of King Qian. There are three gates: one gate outside the pass, two iron leaf gates in the middle, and a row of gates inside.

Although Liu Tang was brave and invincible, he entered the city first, how could he be able to defeat thousands of troops, when he entered the city, the gates were lowered, directly blocking Liu Tang's escape route.Hearing the sound of the gate being lowered, Lu Junyi knew that Liu Tang had fallen into a trick and strayed into the camp, so he hurried to see Liu Tang facing the bandit soldiers alone, and witnessed the process of his being killed.

Seeing that Liu Tang died tragically on the spot, Lu Junyi could not rescue him in time, so he had to order the soldiers to retreat temporarily, stay outside the city and not enter the city at will.At the same time, the news of Liu Tang's death in battle also reached Zhao Gou. After hearing about it, Li Kui, the black whirlwind, roared angrily, "This guy deserves to die. He plotted against my brother. He must be killed!"

Zhao Gou was deeply saddened and calmed down, and ordered to attack Beiguan Gate. The army came to Beiguan Gate, beat drums and waved flags to fight.However, Fang La was no longer seen on the city wall, only the figure of the enemy general, and he couldn't help but wonder: "Could it be that Fang La is hiding in the city of Hangzhou and dare not come out?"

Li Kui hurriedly came to the miscellaneous place, raised his double axes, stood in front of the horse, and also beat drums and waved flags.This time, he wanted to avenge his brother, so he went directly to Guan Sheng to replace him and became the main general who attacked Shi Bao.After Guan Sheng told Li Kui, he led the army and horses to attack the city elsewhere.

I saw the sound of drums and gongs in the city. Shi Bao rode a melon-yellow horse with a wind-chopping knife and led two generals out of the city to meet the enemy.Three generals from the Fang La army came out of the city, but Li Kui didn't care at all, he was a real fearless person, he yelled and was taken aback by one of them fighting the three of them.

When Shi Bao and the other three saw Li Kui killing him alone, they looked at him sneeringly, thinking that he was looking for death.Since Li Kui wanted to think about it, how could Shi Bao and others not help him.So, the three of them directly confronted Li Kui.Shi Bao raised the wind-chopping knife and attacked Li Kui. He didn't want him to underestimate Li Kui carelessly. Instead, Li Kui chopped off his horse's foot with an ax and fell directly to the ground.

Then, Li Kui cut off the legs of the war horses of Lian Ming and Wu Zhi, and fell straight to the ground.At this time, Li Kui was like a god of war, with endless strength all over his body, he threw Shi Bao aside, and instead struck Lian Ming with an axe, unable to dodge in time, he died on the spot.

Shi Bao and Wu Zhi saw Li Kui was so powerful and killed Lian Ming with one move, they were really terrified, they ran away without thinking, and fled back to the camp in a hurry, not daring to come out easily.Li Kui caught up immediately, but when he arrived at the city, he found a tree and a cannon stone thrown from the city.

For a while, the whole battle situation became a stalemate. Song Jiang couldn't get in, and Fang La's army couldn't get out. The two armies just faced each other.Looking at the thick city wall and the enemy soldiers, Zhao Gou was very worried. If there was no gain and his brothers died in battle again, he, the marshal, could not shirk his responsibility.

Just at the right time, Jie Zhen excitedly announced the good news to Zhao Gou, saying: "Little brother, Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen and others went to attack the city, and walked more than [-] miles outside the south gate. There were dozens of boats in a row. When General Lin went down to ask, it turned out that it was Yuan Pingshi from Fuyang County who was releasing grain."

"The younger brother wanted to kill him directly, but he didn't think about that guy but said that he was a good citizen of the Song Dynasty, and he was persecuted by Fang La. He had to obey orders. If he didn't obey, he would be killed. He obeyed orders to save his life. The younger brother thinks he is also a lover." If there is an excuse, let him go, but I didn't expect that he would repay his kindness and tell little brother Yu a great news."

Zhao Gou hurriedly asked, "What's the good news?"

"That guy followed Fang Tian's decree and went down to the counties to clean up the villages and collect [-] shi of white grain. The old man was the leader. He collected [-] shi and paid them first. However, our army besieged the city of Hangzhou. I don’t dare to go, so I can only dock the ship here.” Xie Zhen excitedly said, “I’m here to report to the Marshal, what should I do?”

"It's God's will, it's really good news!" Wu Yong said excitedly when he heard the words.

Zhao Gou asked suspiciously, "What is the military division's intention?"

Wu Yong said: "Reporting to Marshal, if our army wants to break through the city of Hangzhou, we can only rely on these grain ships. Just pretend to be a boatman or a boatman, enter the city with the boat, and then wait for the opportunity to kill him by surprise. Just enter the city, and then Opening the city gate will allow our army to enter and use this as an opportunity to break through the city."

It wasn't until this moment that Zhao Gou understood where the joy came from. This was really a great thing, and he laughed and said, "It really is 'good news'!"

(End of this chapter)