Chapter 244: Northern Expedition to Yanyun

Chapter 244: Northern Expedition to Yanyun

It was relatively straightforward for Zhao Cong to kill Zhang Zhenzhen, and it was his cousin by blood. He didn't want the Zhang family to have any more illusions, and the involvement was too deep. In the future, they would become the ashes of this actual change of dynasty.

These trivial matters are not detailed.

Time flies, and after two years, Zhao Cong's new army has been able to maturely use new equipment and new formations through training and exercises, becoming an elite soldier among the elite soldiers. This elite soldier is also piled up with money.

In the autumn of this year, Zhang Qing, who was in the south of Zhang Sutiao, led 50,000 elite troops from the north to rest and recuperate, and only dispatched 60,000 first-level troops to Guangnan West Road, Advertising South East Road, and Jingnan Road each, led by Zhang Qing's henchmen. Served as a three-way through a little envoy.

When Zhang Qing passed Jingbei Road, Han Xing almost thought that Zhang Su was going to rebel with his confidant Zhang Qing, but Han Xing did not dare to directly conflict with Zhang Qing's troops at that time. The bad words of Zhang Su and his distrust of Zhang Su, to persuade the emperor to persuade the emperor, but the stone sinks into the sea.

Beijing secretly wanted to bring down Zhang Su's group members. In the past two years, because Zhang Su did not engage in party disputes and did not kill people, he had become bolder, and there was a lot of discussion in the circle. It is a pity that although most of them are the traditional literati and literati interest groups and some ambitious clans of the ancestors, they do not have the absolute right to speak.

Zhang Su's prestige among the common people and knights in the arena is too high, and all walks of life are her influence: farmers represented by the people who have been assigned to the land; in the business community headed by the cotton textile industry; headed by Xu Xian The medical community of various medicine halls and medical factions; and the artisan groups of shipbuilding, iron smelting, and military industries. Zhang Su not only has military power, but also has a broad "alliance of class interests". It is useless to be killed by civil servants and officials like Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty.

Because no matter how many officials Chongzhen killed, in the end the people he could use were from the circle of literati, while Zhang Su was able to use mostly his grandsons, students he trained, business friends, friends from all corners of the world, and some literati he attracted.

It was only in the past two years that Zhao Cong saw clearly: Zhang Su has always been "full of idle chess" and "doesn't work properly" since 20 years ago, but she just kept things in such a low voice, and the layout was terrifyingly grand.

She has been in power for eight years, and there is not much money left in the county master's mansion, but after all the gold and silver are scattered, she said a word, and the ground still shook three times.

In February of the following year, the Celestial Dynasty integrated 180,000 forbidden troops and mobilized 800,000 civilians in Gyeonggi to assist in transporting grain and grass, and the mighty northern expedition.

The emperor appointed Zhang Su as the "Great Marshal of the World's Soldiers and Horses" concurrently as the Marshal of the Eastern Route Northern Expedition Army, and appointed Chong Han as the Western Route Army Marshal. Yue Pengju was the deputy commander of the East Route Army, Zhao Cong was the vanguard of the East Route Army, Zhang Qing, the Duke of Jingguo, was the deputy commander of the West Route Army, and Hou Zhongping, a disciple of Zhang Qing in the Guangnan West Road, was the vanguard. However, Xu Shilin was the chief manager of allocating grain and forage in Beijing, and all departments thought that the Northern Expedition was the most important thing. Xu Xian is the director of the field hospital, leading the medical team to accompany the army.

Zhang Su wrote "Fengtian Expediting the Di Bei Expedition" and announced it to the world. Combining the actual situation, the scriptures draw on Zhu Yuanzhang's northern expedition scriptures, as well as grandfather Mao's "Inscriptions on the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor" and other masterpieces.

Its core is "the mandate of heaven" as the center, with the nationalism of the distinction between the Chinese and the barbarians and the shameful national dignity. Through the textual research of "since ancient times", it is clear that it is right and right - it shows that Yanyun and Liaodong are both The homeland of the Han and Tang Dynasties. Chen Ming's purpose: to comply with the people's will, to restore the Han family's homeland, and to stand on the commanding heights of destiny and morality.

As soon as this article came out, some people went to the vernacular to promote it to let the common people understand that the common people have been aroused by their national self-esteem.

And many young and vigorous scholars who were secretly opposed to Zhang Su couldn't help but feel heartbroken when they saw that this article was majestic and its literary style was unprecedented. They knew that with their talent, it was impossible for them to write such an essay. Even Wenqu star Xu Shilin thinks that he is far inferior to Zhang Su's literary talent.

This article also cooperated with the smooth progress of the Northern Expedition military operation, and the rapid consolidation of Yanyun after that, making the descendants of Yanyun Han people and Han and Hu mixed blood surrender, laying the foundation for further northward travel.

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However, it was said that seven or eight out of ten Gyeonggi elites went to the Northern Expedition, and Cui Liang returned to Beijing from the east to be stationed in Gyeonggi. Cui Liang was inevitably disappointed that he didn't have a chance to go on an expedition. Zhang Su promised to let him participate when he attacked Liaodong in two or three years.

The East Route Army from Kyoto consisted of two new armies, the 20,000 "New Second Army" directly under the protector of the country, and the "New First Army" led by King Yan.

The "New Second Army" is also known as "The Women's Army". This does not mean that there are women in the army, but that there are many female generals in the army. For example, the original artillery instructors Li Bilian and Zhong Lan are in the "Department of Women", and some of them are Zhang Su. The disciple and grandson of Zhang Su, who served as a woman in Jianghu.

The biggest difference between the new army and the old army is that it has an artillery regiment, with ten large-caliber artillery pieces and forty small and easily maneuverable artillery pieces.

A military subordinate: the commander and the military headquarters of about 260 people. The military headquarters includes staff officers, confidential personnel, communication reinforcement squads (mainly relying on running and signaling), personal guard companies, and so on. A reinforced light cavalry regiment of 2,000 people is mainly used in tactics to quickly flank the enemy's flanks and pursue the enemy. The two infantry divisions were all trained in accordance with the Qi family's army, and each division was equipped with a battalion of bombardiers, mainly throwing wooden-handled grenades. There are 2,000 engineering corps and 2,000 logistics corps directly under the military.

The New Second Army also has a special soldier, the scout soldiers led by the three half-demon sons of Du Yin and Du Moyun. They can't use magic, but their martial arts are also higher than ordinary people. They brought a company of scouts and trained two soldiers. More than a dozen excellent Chinese pastoral dogs.

The new army is made of money. If the literati were in power in the past, who would be willing to spend money on it, if Bei Di didn't come to fight, the money would be stuffed into his pockets to do something elegant.

The New First Army was formed the year before, and then a small half of the backbone was transferred to the New Second Army. The New Second Army took shape in the first half of last year. Not to mention the New First Army, the New Second Army has also been trained for half a year of fast mobile marching, so they went all the way north, and it took only ten days for an army of more than 40,000 to reach the commanding camp of Yue Langjun in Hejian Mansion.

At this time, under the order of Zhang Su, Yue Langjun had issued a war mobilization long ago. The people of the frontier have worked together with the Yue family army in recent years, and the Beidi army almost dared not come to fight the autumn wind.

The reputation of the imperial court has been extremely high among the people in Hebei in recent years, so this time the Northern Expedition regained the lost land has been positively influenced by the people: because cotton has been widely planted, young women made a military quilt for the soldiers of the Northern Expedition last year, providing one foot for each household. Cotton cloth; and the men began to make 20,000 stretchers for the army last year to carry wounded soldiers. At this time, after the spring ploughing, they sent people to help transport the grain, and prepared to help the 100,000-strong army bake pie.

This time back in Hebei, Zhao Cong, Chong Lan, and Li Bilian all felt deeply that Zhang Su had been upholding the war potential of "hiding wealth in the people" over the years.

The common people will not suffer from great hatred and deep hatred, support the court, support the protector of the country, cooperate with Yue Langjun, care about the war and have a more positive attitude. Because in their minds, the Beidi people are not so scary, they used tunnel warfare or under the guidance of the frontier army to kill a lot of Beidi Youyong who broke into the village.

Zhang Lu's army rested for three days, and together with the kings of Yan Zhao Cong and Yue Peng, they marched in three separate routes.

The Yue family army had a total of 100,000 troops. At this time, only 60,000 elites were brought out, because the Yue family army had 30,000 of the most elite iron cavalry in the Tian Dynasty and was ordered to march to the northeast of Yanyun, attacking the front lines of Jizhou, Jingzhou, Pingzhou and Yingzhou. Connect the northern cities into a line.

The New Second Army directly under Zhang Su and Zhao Cong's New First Army crossed to attack Mozhou, Zhuozhou, Youzhou, Shunzhou, and Tanzhou.

The first is that the New Second Army took advantage of it and attacked the nearest Mozhou after crossing the river.

Mozhou and Yingzhou were adjacent to each other. Back then, when the Southern Dynasty and Beidi fought against Donghu, they originally wanted to recover Yanyun, but they only took over Yingzhou and Mozhou in the south. Later, the Bei Di army went south, and Yingzhou was always under Beidi's control. When Zhang Suli sent the Beidi Xi army back to the north, he wanted to return to Yingzhou, and then fortified the city.

In recent years, due to the gathering of troops from Hebei and Hebei, the Beidi people were also uneasy, so they strengthened the city defense of Mozhou and dug deep ditches.

There are few Beidi people, the army and the people are integrated, and the fierce case is restrained. After Yanyun was occupied, some Beidi people moved south, but the Han people in Yanyun still had local governors. Beidi and Han people intermingled in Yanyun, and they exchanged Independence. Meng'an is a defensive state-level system, and Mauk is a county-level system.

However, in places like Mozhou that bear the brunt, there were originally several "Meng'an" around, and in the past two or three years, more than 1,000 strong men were lost, all of which were looted by the border residents when they went to the south to loot. Among these Di people who migrated from the north and the south, those border residents in Hebei who can resist looting and dig burrows are "barbarians".

The commanders of the city, Ishbu and Wu Dabu, led the Han city defense troops under the rule of Bei Di to defend the city. They learned that the frontier scouts came to report, and the southern army was pressing down on the border.

Since the Tang Dynasty, it was the first time that someone was so careless about going north.

Knowing that there were too many troops in the Southern Dynasty, Ishbu and Udada did not dare to take 2,000 cavalry out of the city to stop them.

Zhang Su's new Second Army was stationed 20 miles outside the city overnight, and at night Wu Da supplemented with light cavalry to harass the raiding camp. However, the triplets of the half-demon Du family discovered the sound of horse hooves in advance, and set up traps with scouts at night, which made the cavalry raiders suffer some losses, and Wu Dabu returned with nothing.

Early in the morning the next day, before dawn, the army got up to bury the pot to make rice, eat and drink enough food.

Zhang Su's army sent two infantry divisions to attack the south and east respectively. The New First Army took out an infantry division to attack the west, using the classic siege method of encircling three parts and one. The Second Infantry Division of the New First Army serves as a reserve.

Mozhou is too close to Yingzhou, farther from Zhuozhou, and farther from Shangjing.

Therefore, when Zhang Su attacked the city, Ishbu could not get reinforcements, and Wu Dabu had gone to defend Dongcheng.

Ishbu stood on the city wall and saw that the army was densely packed, and there were tens of thousands of people outside the southern city alone. But thinking that there are less than 20,000 Han troops in the city, including more than 3,000 Beidi cavalry, how can they be defended?

In a short while, a handsome flag was erected in the middle of the army of the Southern Dynasty, with a big "Zhang" written on it.

Ishbu has been in Mozhou for a long time, and the local officials here are actually Han, so he can speak Chinese.

Ishbu shouted like a bell: "Isn't the commander of the Southern Dynasty Marshal Yue?"

Bei Di lost half of his elites eight or nine years ago, and his vitality was severely damaged. In these years, the main idea of ​​the imperial court has also been delayed until he has the strength to pull up enough elites. Therefore, Bei Di didn't want to go to war with the Southern Dynasty in all these years. Ishbu used to only allow a small group of Youyong to go to the Southern Dynasty to loot, but in recent years, he has suffered a lot. Therefore, Ishbu had already heard about Yue Pengju's name and knew his ability to travel through Hebei.

But I saw that the army of the Southern Dynasties separated into a corridor, and ran out of it for a few horses. In the middle sat a tall man with a slender figure, wearing a purple robe and a cloak around his shoulders.

Zhang Su pulled the reins, laughed at first, and said loudly: "You are such a small character that you have no choice but to know me. Your Lord Orlubu is very familiar with me. He was treated by me when he was a prisoner under my command. He has been back to Beidi for eight or nine years, and he has never thanked me, he really doesn't know how to behave!"

Ish preached: "You are Zhang Su of the Southern Dynasty!"

Zhang Su smiled and said: "I am indeed Zhang Su! Now that you know that I am here, if you open the door and surrender, you are the first to revolt, and I can treat you preferentially. I have many troops, and there are long-standing rules."

The imperial court's Fan army, like the Zhejia army, also follows the rules of the Fan army.

Although Ishbu was afraid, how could Zhang Su surrender after saying this?

Ish preached: "Zhang Su, I heard that you are extremely cruel and tyrannical, how can we surrender? The two countries have been at peace for nine years. Why did the Southern Dynasty start wars again?"

Zhang Sudao: "Head of Beidi, Tian proclaimed the king and emperor in Liaodong, and he was crowned as a monkey. This dynasty also treated you with kindness. However, the barbarian wolves were treachery after forming an alliance, drinking horses in the Central Plains, slaughtering countless people and killing me. There are tens of thousands of scholars in the clan. With such a national humiliation, how can there be no snow? I will give you three breaths to think about whether it will come down?

Ishbu:  …

Zhang Su is not "Sakura, Bing, Mingluo, Elizabeth, Kahuangdi", so although she also knows that her appearance is peerless in the mortal world, she has never had the ability to make all men fall in love with her and surrender to her feet . If she had such a magical and colorful Mary Sue ability, there would not be so many people inside and outside the court who wanted to bring her down. Those who want to bring her down are all men!

In the same way, it is impossible for Ishbu to unconditionally betray the motherland and surrender to Zhang Su's charm - surrender in three breaths.

Therefore, Zhang Su ordered the large-caliber cannon to prepare, and a round of solid shell bombardment came first.

Zhang Su returned to the rear and got the flag signal from the artillery battalion, indicating that he was ready. Zhang Su asked the signal soldiers to get on the chariot and raised the flag to fire.

Li Bilian, the temporary commander of the Artillery Corps of the New Second Army, saw the signal and shouted, "Fire!"

Not long after, I saw twenty cannons fired in unison, the sound of the cannons was earth-shattering, solid bullets were helpful for siege, and the city walls were shaken.

On the tower, both the Beidi people and the Yanyun Han people shivered.

After one round of gunfire, another round came, and many soldiers on the stacks were injured by the flying stones smashed by solid bullets, or died or injured. The two bullets hit the tall tower, which collapsed.

Li Bilian also ordered the removal of traditional defensive equipment such as trebuchets on the tower.

When the fight was sloppy, Zhang Su ordered the engineers to step forward and build a bridge to cross the moat.

At this time, the defenders on the city tower were all curled up on the city wall, and many soldiers fell in a pool of blood. Ghosts know what they experienced.

The engineers just executed their orders and stepped forward, shouting their horns, and soon after five pontoon bridges were built, the infantry rushed up, and sporadic arrows were shot. However, the shield soldiers of the Yuanyang Formation blocked it. The manganese steel armor was attached to the shield, which could be worn by ordinary bows and arrows.

Once the Beidi people lost the mobility advantage of the cavalry, who were good at field warfare, and fought the city defense battle, which they were even less good at, they would be defeated like a mountain.

However, Zhang Guang, the defense envoy of the Han state guarding the Dongcheng tower, had already given up his mind when he saw the siege of tens of thousands of people from the Southern Dynasty, and Zhao Cong, who had attacked the Dongcheng, only fired a cannonball, and he communicated with his confidants and raised his flag to surrender.

Zhao Cong led his army into the city smoothly and accepted Zhang Guang's surrender, showing that he was not to blame for the past, and helped the southern army to control Mozhou.

The new Second Army, which Zhang Su personally supervised in Nancheng, also entered the city at this time. The remnants of the Beidi people were not the opponents of the Yuanyang Formation. The diehards were either eliminated or fled from Beicheng. This allowed Zhang Su to settle Mozhou City more quickly.

Zhang Su laid down Mozhou City, and the local officials that the court had prepared for a long time moved in, and together with the surrendered general Zhang Guang, guarded Mozhou and ensured the supply line of the army.

And the new army took a little rest, went out to fight with lightning, and attacked Zhuozhou.

Within half a month, the new army attacked in Yandi, and even conquered Zhuozhou, Youzhou, Shunzhou, and Tanzhou. When they conquered Youzhou, the Yue family's army had already captured Jizhou. In another half month, when the Yue family's army in Jingzhou, Pingzhou and Yingzhou reached Yingzhou, Bei Di Mengan fled north by boat, and the Han generals surrendered.

The Eastern Route Army completed its strategic mission within a month.

Soon Chong Han and Zhang Qing of the West Route Army also conquered Weizhou, Xinzhou, and Wuzhou, and then went west to attack Yunzhou and Shuozhou. Within two months, the whole territory of Yanyun was recovered.

Seeing that the strength of the Northern Expedition was still alive, Zhang Su ordered Zhang Qing of the Western Army to lead 35,000 elite infantry to the east, combined with Yue Pengju's 30,000 cavalry, and the New First Army and New Second Army of about 40,000 troops to open up the Western Liaoning Corridor to continue the Northern Expedition.

At this time, Wushu, the general of Beidi, had already received the news that Yanyun had been attacked and Duocheng had fallen. The little emperor of Beidi had not been in power yet. Before the kings fought for the throne, the three kings assisted the government, and Wushu was one of them. Wushu hurriedly organized an army of 100,000 troops to go south, which was the bottom of Beidi's town. He lost half of his elite nine years ago, and it is not easy to build this family under the "economic sanctions" of the DPRK over the years.

Zhang Suzhen's army of 110,000 troops was like a broken bamboo, and he attacked the small cities along the corridor of western Liaoning, and he was determined to attack Jinzhou.

Meeting with the Bei Diwu Artillery Corps at the foot of Jinzhou City, Jinzhou City was solid, and the sound of artillery was loud.

The saintess of the Moon Worship Cult who came with the army was shocked to see that the qi of the Southern Dynasty had risen so much. This kind of qi could not be obtained by magic.

At this time, the Southern Dynasties used precious explosive bombs, which blew the defenders on the city wall into flesh and blood, causing heavy casualties.

The right protector said to the saint: "Holy, look, the Southern Dynasty used a spell, let's do it!"

The saint was puzzled and said, "The power of this thunder technique is very powerful, but I didn't feel the magic power."

The right protector said: "It must be that the magic of the Southern Dynasty is different from my worship of the moon, so you didn't feel it. If you don't stop it, the city will be destroyed."

The Holy Maiden made up her mind and flew into the air under the protection of the left and right guardians. Her daughter, Tengger, summoned all the spirits and gods of Liao to fight, and the dark clouds overwhelmed the city, and a torrential rain fell.

Now the artillerymen are most afraid of rainy days. There is no rainy season in spring in the north, so the Northern Expedition Army has artillery blessings and has been marching smoothly.

Although the Holy Maiden of the Moon Worship did not know what a cannon was, she could see that the cannon was fire, and she could overcome it with water, and immediately summoned the Rain God.

As soon as Zhang Su saw the dark clouds over the city and the sudden heavy rain, he secretly said: "Okay, I will compete with you with strength, you have to cheat!"

Zhang Su pulled down the red cloak on his shoulders and waved his magic power to the sky. The red cloak suddenly grew larger and blocked the artillery of the New Second Army.

Zhang Su cast a spell to summon Zhang Tianxin, who was a pioneer under Yue Pengju. Zhang Tianxin flew to her and said, "What's the matter with mother?"

Zhang Sudao: "There are monsters in the sky, you go and get them!"

Zhang Tianxin said happily: "As ordered!"

With that said, Zhang Tianxin turned into a white rainbow and rushed into the sky. Zhang Su looked up and watched his son go away, and hoped that he would complete the calamity of cultivation. Because at this time, she worked hard to manage the national power in 1989, and Bei Di was killed by her nearly 70,000 elites. At that time, the money taken by the Western Army was also a small part. In recent years, she has been subject to "economic sanctions". The breath is not that strong.

At this time, fighting against the Moon Worship Teaching will not be more difficult than she was back then.

Zhang Qing found out about this and wanted to go to heaven, but he was already the head coach of the attack on Xicheng, so he was not allowed to leave without authorization. This former king of the Wuji Kingdom has the talent to govern the Wuji Kingdom in three years and achieve national prosperity and peace. He has traveled through Guangnan and Jingnan. This time, it was not his turn to win the battle, Zhang Qing could only look at the sky and sigh.

Instead, Chong Lan, the company commander of Zhang Su's personal guard company, stepped forward and said to Zhang Su, "Uncle Shi, let me help the young master."

Zhang Sudao: "Don't worry, he can call for help."

Chong Lan said, "But the helper didn't come so quickly. Let me go."

Zhang Su said, "Okay, be careful."

Chong Lan was delighted that his skillful spells could finally come in handy, and hurriedly turned around and turned into a azure rainbow that went up to the sky.

Zhong Lan went up to the sky and saw Zhang Tianxin, the young master in white, fighting with the four Bei Di spirits.

Zhang Tianxin danced with a trident halberd, and from time to time, the divine power of earth, water, wind, thunder and fire confronted the great **** Beidi.

A young Beidi woman held a token and summoned more gods. Chong Lan raised her sword and fought with a goddess.

Zhang Tianxin was the son of Yuanshi Tianzun and was taught by Sanqing himself. How could the ordinary gods summoned by the Holy Maiden of the Moon be able to fight against him.

After the seven moves, two people died under his halberd, and the other gods took a step back in embarrassment, but the saintess were in charge of the battle and could not step back.

Zhang Tianxin saw that more enemies were flying between the clouds in the north, and he knew that they were in a hurry and would go to the bottom to fight. Whether they will have a legacy will be a matter of later, but the active soldiers of the Southern Dynasty will definitely suffer.

Therefore, Zhang Tianxin squeezed the tactic, and his magic power reached the sky and spread to the three realms under the heaven. Zhang Tianxin was the first to summon the four masters and disciples of Tang Seng. There was no way. Although they were Buddhists, he often heard about them when he was in his mother's womb. 's name.

Then they summoned the nephew and Yang Jian, and then summoned all the heavenly kings and star generals in the heavens.

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