marquis of jingan

Chapter 1071 Fireworks in Yanzhou

At this time, Shen Yi was unaware of the chaos in Jiankang City.

After he sent Kong Shangzhen away, in his opinion, the affairs of Qufu have basically been dealt with.

Therefore, he set his sights on Yanzhou City.

Of course, the Kong family couldn't just let it go so lightly. In Shen Yi's private letter to the emperor, he gave his own opinions on how to deal with it.

The assets of the original Kong family in Qufu, including the land, will be confiscated. The status of the original Kong family in Qufu will be handed over to Jiankang Chongsheng Hou. In the hands of Shenghou, only [-]% is left for them.

As for the Confucius Temple...

After the repairs were completed, officials from the Ministry of Rites were dispatched to manage it.

As for the Confucius family in Qufu...

Shen Yi's opinion is that, except for the people in the main line, everyone else should be treated as common people. People like Kong Shangde and Kong Yanli from the main line moved to Jiankang. As for what kind of treatment the court will give, it is not Shen Yi's responsibility. It’s up to you.

And what is more important to him is to attack the Yanzhou city in front of him.

Yanzhou is extremely critical to Shen Yi.

Because this is the first big city in the south of Shandong, if Yanzhou is captured, Shen Yi can use Yanzhou as a stronghold and establish a firm foothold in Shandong without being driven out by the Qi people.

What's more, according to the internal guard's information, Yandu's forbidden army has already begun to move south.

Although it will take some time for them to reach Shandong, it is foreseeable that the decisive battle on the land of Shandong is not far away.

By capturing Yanzhou, it can become the second Xuzhou City and the base of the Huai'an Army. In this way, the Huai'an Army will not be rootless in Shandong, but will have a foothold.

Even in the future, Master Shen will have enough confidence in a tug-of-war with the Qi people in Shandong.

But right now, the purpose of the Huai'an Army's attack on Yanzhou is not to directly take down the big city, but to use Yanzhou as a bait to destroy the reinforcements that support Yanzhou first.

After Shen Yi gave an order, the Huai'an Army's left and right armies sent out five thousand battalions each, and began to attack Yanzhou City from the east and west.

Here in the East Route Army, the deputy general Liu Mingyuan led the five thousand-household battalions.

Under Ling Su's command, the leader of the expedition was the lieutenant general Zhang Meng.

These two people, who had always been Ling Su's right-hand men, now attacked the city together, but they fought side by side again.

Master Shen stood on a high place, watching the battlefield with Ling Su.

At this time, in Yanzhou City, most of the remnants of the original Southern Conscript Army were hidden, and they were all the elite of the Southern Conscript Army.

Moreover, after such a long time of calm preparations, the defense equipment in Yanzhou City is very complete at this time.

The soldiers of the Huai'an Army had just survived a few rounds of arrow rain. On the tall city wall, rolling stones, hot oil, and stinky golden juice were thrown. They only met each other, and within half an hour, many Huai'an Army soldiers appeared. casualties.

Master Shen stood on a high place, looked at it for a while, then turned around and said, "Okay, Mingjin."

Ling Su and Su Ding looked at each other with surprise in each other's eyes. Su Ding lowered his head slightly, clasped his fists and said, "Mr. Shen, the fighting has just begun. We haven't even set up the ladder. If we withdraw our troops now, , won’t it boost everyone’s morale too much?”

He hesitated and said, "And..."

"Morale is waxing and waning, which will be very detrimental to our future attack on the city."

Shen Yi shook his head, and said lightly: "There is no benefit in continuing the fight. Besides, these 1 people will not be able to touch Yanzhou."

"Today's siege is just to see what the Yanzhou defenders look like. Now that we have seen it, there is no need to continue fighting."

"Let's withdraw troops."

Shen Yi gave the order again, neither of them dared to be negligent, they turned around and ordered a few words to their subordinates, soon, the sound of gold ringing on the battlefield resounded.

The generals and soldiers of the Huai'an Army in the formation all turned their heads in astonishment, some of them didn't quite understand what the above meant.

However, the military order was like a mountain, and these people still started to gather the army in a regular manner, and slowly retreated back.

Shen Yi used a telescope to look at the retreating Huai'an army and the Qi army cheering and celebrating on the city wall, and said softly: "The defenders of Yanzhou are indeed different from the defenders of Zouxian and Qufu."

Su Ding also nodded and said: "It's very different, much more elite."

Shen Yi smiled and said, "It seems that the Soviet generals took advantage of the attack on Zou County and Qufu."

Su Ding also bowed his head and said sincerely: "It is true. Since entering Shandong, the Eastern Route Army has not encountered too many obstacles. The defenders in Zou County and Qufu were originally the local guards of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and their combat power is low. .”

Ling Su on the side opened his mouth to say something, hesitated for a moment, still didn't speak, just lowered his head and clasped his fists and said: "Mr. Shen, your original strategy was to encircle Yanzhou to fight for aid. If the battle in Yanzhou does not go well, then this method It just doesn’t work out…”

"Not in a hurry."

Shen Yi put his hands behind his back and said in a calm voice: "Let's rest for a day. After dark tonight, each of you will lead 5000 people, together with 5000 people from our Central Military Guard Camp, to attack Yanzhou at night."

Hearing Shen Yi's words, whether it was Ling Su or Su Ding, their eyes were a little dazed, and they didn't quite understand the meaning of Shen Yi's words.

If the people of Qi were camping in the wild, night raids would indeed be a good idea, and might be able to achieve miraculous results, but now that the people of Qi were in the city and their own side was in the wild, night raids would be too unreasonable under such circumstances.

Could it be that Duke Shen is certain that the Yanzhou defenders will go out of the city to attack the camp tonight?

The two of them still couldn't figure it out, but because of Master Shen's prestige in the Huai'an army, they didn't say much, they just bowed their heads silently and said yes.

…………

The day passed quickly.

At dusk, Shen Yi personally led his own guard battalion, as well as 5000 troops from the left and right armies, making a total of 5000 troops, and marched towards Yanzhou City together.

As soon as they set off, Su Ding and Ling Su realized something was wrong.

Because Shen Yi asked them to march with torches.

This is almost the same as attacking the city with integrity!

The Huai'an army's garrison is very close to Yanzhou, only about [-] miles away. They set off at dusk, and when it was completely dark, they had already arrived at the city of Yanzhou.

After arriving at the reserved position, the two chief generals came to ask Shen Yi for offensive tactics. Master Shen was already wearing iron armor at this time, and he ordered calmly: "There is no need to divide the troops, and attack the east gate of Yanzhou with all your strength."

Ever since, under Shen Yi's order, the guard camp of the Chinese army took the lead, and the left and right armies were like two guards. The guards were on the left and right sides of the guard camp, and rushed towards Yanzhou aggressively.

The Yanzhou defenders on the city wall have already been alarmed, and even a former deputy general of the southern army who guards the city wall is holding a binoculars in his hand, watching the Huai'an army in the distance.

Seeing the Huai'an army charging toward Yanzhou with torches raised, the guard general Zhu Lizhen, surnamed Yuan, looked excited.

He glanced at the battlefield with his telescope again, and then laughed and said, "The Qianlu named Shen is so incompetent that he, a scholar, doesn't know anything about military formations!"

"Lighting torches in the middle of the night to attack at night is unheard of throughout the ages!"

Seeing that Shen Yi's central army had already entered the area of ​​an arrow, the Yuan general no longer hesitated, waved his hand violently, and said with a long smile: "Archers!"

"Fire arrows!"

Countless feathered arrows fell like raindrops and fell into the center of the Huai'an army.

Shen Yi's guard camp had been practicing for a long time, with huge shields erected, and they were still slowly advancing towards Yanzhou City.

General Yuan was stunned, raised his telescope and took another look, then lost his voice and said: "Such a big shield!"

Indeed, the shields raised by Shen Yiwei's front camp were much larger than ordinary shields.

This shield is not even a one-handed shield, but a two-handed shield. As long as you squat down slightly, you can hide your entire body behind the shield!

And the two-handed shield means completely giving up the attack.

General Yuan was stunned for a while, then frowned and said: "How can such a big shield be able to attack the city? Could it be to cover the battering hammer?"

He took a look through the binoculars, but he couldn't find the location of the battering ram.

At this time, Shen Yi's Chinese army had stopped.

Behind hundreds of two-handed shields, there are a total of thirty cannons hidden.

General Yuan saw the artillery.

But still disagree.

This is nothing new. After all, Chen Guoren used artillery to attack the city for a long time.

But the role that artillery can play on the battlefield is not particularly great, and it can't even catch up with ordinary bows and crossbows.

Under the gaze of General Yuan's binoculars, the gunners of these artillery seemed to be gesturing at the Yanzhou City Tower with their thumbs.

Finally, the first gunner finished his gestures, lit the cannonball with a torch, and stuffed the cannonball into the barrel of the gun.

At the same time, the sub-gunner lit the gun's fuse with a torch.

With a loud bang.

A black cannonball, through a graceful parabola, smashed towards the Yanzhou city tower.

On the city wall, there are dense Yanzhou defenders.

Originally, they were condescending, whether it was bows or artillery, it was difficult to cause particularly large damage to them.

Therefore, after seeing this shell, General Yuan just sneered and didn't care.

until…

This cannonball exploded in the air!

Yes, it exploded before it fell onto the tower!

The flames were so bright that General Yuan was dumbfounded.

Following this explosion, a main gunner in the Chinese military tent let out an annoyed voice.

"Damn, the lead is left short!"

Fortunately, the rest of the gunners also fired one after another.

Of the more than 30 shells, only less than [-] fell into the tower of Yanzhou City.

at the same time…

Also fell into the crowd.

One of them landed near General Yuan, only a dozen steps away, and then exploded.

The brilliant firelight almost illuminated the night sky!

The iron ball was blasted, and iron pieces splashed everywhere, and for a while, there were screams and screams everywhere!

Master Shen was also watching the situation on the tower. Seeing this, he waved his hand and shouted in a cold voice.

"Attack! Attack!"

My father-in-law is hospitalized, and he has been staying in bed with me in the hospital recently... I am writing some rough words in the hospital, please forgive me, brothers!