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Volume 7: Laughing and Talking about Drinking the Blood of Huns Chapter 28: Old Enemy

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    Update time: 2010-05-08

    From the Zhou Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, the Bianliang Forbidden Army attacked Taiyuan for the fourth time.  At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial family declined, and two powerful heroes, Zhu Wen and Li Keyong, competed for hegemony.  In the stories passed down from the Taiyuan soldiers' household registration, the Hedong army always played the role of a tragic hero who was not afraid of power.  In Taiyuan City, calling someone Bianliangzi means accusing him of being lazy and treacherous.

    In the fourth year of Zhonghe, Xuanwu Town in Bianzhou was forced by the rogue Huang Chao and asked Li Keyong, the governor of Hedong Province, for help. Fifty thousand Hedong disciples swore to fight against King Qin and defeated Huang Chao in a row. When the overall situation was decided, Bianzhou begged for help.  The Xuanwu Army suddenly turned against the enemy and sent troops to surround the Shangyuan Station where Li Keyong lived. They set fire on all sides and fired random arrows. Li Keyong narrowly escaped death and separated the Xuanwu Army stationed in Bianzhou from the Hedong Army Commander stationed in Taiyuan.  The prelude to a hundred years of fighting each other.

    After that, Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty and proclaimed himself emperor, and the country was named Liang Dynasty. Hedong Jiedushi Li Keyong was loyal to the Tang Dynasty all his life. When he died, he gave three arrows to his son Li Cunxu, one arrow to attack Liu Rengong, because Youzhou was unfair and Henan was unreachable;  The arrow struck Khitan, because Abaoji broke the promise and joined the thieves; with one arrow, he killed Zhu Wen, who had usurped the Tang Dynasty and established himself as a self-reliant nation, but his ambition was not fulfilled, and he was filled with regret.  His son Li Cunxu worked hard to govern, and finally destroyed the Later Liang Dynasty and established the Later Tang Dynasty.

    In the next hundred years, the Hedong Army repeatedly sent troops from Taiyuan to attack Bianzhou, the capital of the Central Plains imperial court, and played an important role in frequent dynasty changes.  In the third year of Kaiyun's reign, Kaifeng's 300,000 troops surrendered without a fight. The Khitans invaded the Central Plains in large numbers. Hedong Town was the first to raise the banner of righteousness. Towns in the Central Plains mobilized to attack the Khitan army, forcing the reigning Khitan Emperor Yelu Deguang to retreat hastily from the Central Plains.  Until Guo Wei became independent on behalf of the Han Dynasty, Hedong Zhenbing maintained an absolute advantage over the Bianliang imperial court's imperial army in terms of morality and victory-loss ratio.  In the Battle of Gaoping, the Hedong Army had just begun to attack, and the Bianliang Forbidden Army lived up to their true nature as grassroots soldiers. They called out to Liu Zhiyuan and surrendered. However, Zhou Shizong reversed the situation with his unparalleled and violent commander-in-chief who was comparable to Li Keyong.  After the death of Emperor Shizong, Zhao Kuangyin succeeded him, and the fate of the country in the Central Plains was changing rapidly between Hedong and Bianliang.

    Although Emperor Yin of the Han Dynasty was cruel and unkind, Liu Chong, who occupied Hedong and established the Northern Han Dynasty, did not lose to Guo Wei. The Northern Han Dynasty took Taiyuan and declared itself orthodox, resisting the Bianliang court.  However, the general trend of the world is that even with the best fortified cities and elite soldiers in the Central Plains, under the full attack of the Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, the fall of Taiyuan is only a matter of time.

    Looking out from the city head in the south, an embankment made of rammed loess is gradually forming. The Song army recruited tens of thousands of civilians and adopted the method of contracting the work in sections, with each section extending to the left and right until finally they were all closed.  The earth embankment has not yet been built, and most of the drinking channels from Fenshui have been completed. The Hedong Army repeatedly went out of the city to destroy the Song Army's construction of the earth embankment, but they were always repelled by the superior Song Army cavalry who were watching and guarding. Thousands of people were killed and injured.  , had no choice but to live in seclusion behind the city wall, watching helplessly as this fatal embankment gradually took shape. Jinyang City has been repeatedly attacked by floods in its history. The soldiers and civilians in the city even experienced the disaster of Song Taizu's flooding of the city, and they were all gnashing their teeth at the Song army outside the city.  He cursed, but there was nothing he could do.

    While building the embankment, the Song army did not relax its attack on the city. More than 200,000 forbidden troops took turns to go into battle and opened up their posture. The Song Dynasty's advantage in gathering the world's material resources was undoubtedly revealed.  The Yangma City in the southwest corner of the city was first captured by Cao Han. Liu Jiye, the governor of Jianxiong Army, was forced to retreat and tried to protect the southern city wall. The west wall of Jinyang, on which Liu Jiyuan's palace city relied, was directly exposed to the Song army.

    Han Emperor Liu Jiyuan tried to send an envoy to ask for help from the Khitan, but the envoy was captured by Guo Jin, a subordinate of Shiling Guandu, and was taken to Taiyuan City and beheaded.  From spring to summer, Governor Pan Mei attacked the city from all sides, with hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops attacking day and night. Arrows rained down from Taiyuan City, the city head was crenellated, and the houses in the city were damaged by stone bullets, leaving few intact.  Most of the adult men in the city went to the city to help guard the city, leaving only the old, weak, women and children in fear at home.  However, the feud between Hedong and Bianzhou has been deep for centuries, and they have been attacked four times by the Forbidden Army in recent years. It has been repeatedly heard that the Bianliang army will destroy the city after taking Taiyuan, so although the defenders are exhausted, they still fight hard.  more than.

    In April, the officials of the Song Dynasty sent envoys to surrender Liu Jiyuan and the soldiers who were defending the city. The soldiers who defended the city did not even want to report the matter and shot him back with random arrows.  Zhao Jiong felt that he had been humiliated, so he put on his armor and urged the generals to attack Taiyuan day and night.  Liu Jiyuan, the leader of the Northern Han Dynasty, mobilized the people in the city to collect the arrows shot into the city by the Song army. They paid ten cents for each arrow, and actually collected millions of arrows.  In May, the hearts of the important ministers of the Northern Han Dynasty began to fluctuate. First, the Northern Han Dynasty's Xuanhui envoy Fan Chao claimed to go to war, but actually attempted to surrender and was accidentally killed by the Song army. Later, the Ma Jundu commander Guo Wanchao surrendered and was accepted by Zhao Jiong.  .

    From then on, the Northern Han court officials began to talk about surrender. Only Liu Jiyuan, Liu Jiyuan's sworn brother who had previously advocated accepting the land and surrendering to the Song Dynasty, and Liu Jiye, the commander of the Jianxiong Army, refused to surrender. Liu Jiye said that if the war did not start, the Han ruler would  Accepting land and surrendering to the Song Dynasty was the best way to protect the people. However, in the past four months of fighting, both sides suffered heavy casualties. Once they surrendered, although the Han clan ministers could be saved, the possibility of the Kaifeng soldiers who were full of hatred from Hedong massacred the city was extremely high, so in order to  The city is full of people?, if you insist on defending the city, the Song army will withdraw after running out of money and food.  At most, it would be better to die together, than to kill everyone at the slightest provocation after disarming and returning.  Most of the soldiers and civilians in the city agreed with Liu Jiye's statement, but Liu Jiyuan, the leader of the Han Dynasty, was surrounded day and night by officials who wanted to surrender, and gradually he had some ideas.

    The Song army gradually detected some movements in the city and began to consciously intensify its attack on the southern city wall defended by Liu Jiye. However, the Jianxiong army was the leading elite soldier in the North.  After taking turns to attack, the city was defended very tenaciously with its towering and thick city walls.  When there was a fighting opportunity, Liu Jiye would occasionally lead his elite cavalry out of the city to attack the siege guards who were exhausted and in disarray. Song general Zhangde Jiedushi Li Hanqiong, who was in charge of the southern city wall, was also a fierce general. In order to mobilize elite troops to stop Yang  During the counterattack of the house cavalry, they had personally been stationed in the siege holes dug under the city wall for several days, directing the troops to attack upwards without sleep.  Zhao Jiong was originally supervising the battle on the west side of Taiyuan City, which was approaching Liu Jiyuan's palace. When he heard that the fighting in the south was more brutal and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, he put on heavy armor and went to the siege cave to personally command the troops to attack the city.  Li Hanqiong was shocked when he heard this. He rushed back from under the city wall regardless of the arrows, and cried bitterly to advise the officials to take care of the dragon body. Only then did Zhao Jiong give up the idea.

    In Taiyuan City, it has become a normal life for the people in Taiyuan City to pick up the arrows shot by the Song army into the city, exchange them for copper coins from the yamen subordinates, and then buy some subsistence food.  After the old man Li Jiuyan defected to his son, due to the constant war in Daibei, Li Chengxiang, the leader of the Jianxiong Army, bought a house for him to live in the city of Taiyuan. Li Jiuyan took Juan'er to stay in Taiyuan. Originally, Li Chengxiang was guarding the border in Daibei.  Old man Li and Juaner depend on each other for life.  The imperial troops pressed on the border, Jianxiong's army returned from Daibei to help, and the family was reunited. However, Li Chengxiang had been guarding the city wall for ten days, and military pay and rations had not been distributed for many days. In order to make ends meet, Old Man Li still had to take Juan'er with him every day.  Risking your life to pick up arrows.

    At this moment, Old Man Li and Juan'er were hiding in a broken house on the street without their owner, waiting in fear for the rain of arrows from the Song Army to thin out.

    After these days of running around, Juan'er is no longer afraid of walking in an environment where arrows are raining down. Li Jiuyan is also a veteran. He actually deduced the approximate time when the Song Army's arrows will be exhausted based on his experience in the past few months, and specifically chose this time.  Take Juaner out to pick up undamaged arrows.

    "Grandpa, why does the court have so many arrows?" Juan'er waited for a long time, but the rain of arrows didn't lighten up. She couldn't help but look with envy at those people who were picking arrows behind the houses on the street despite the rain of arrows. These people were big  They were all in ragged clothes, and seeing clusters of intact arrows was like a hungry mouse seeing white-faced steamed buns.  Liu Jiyuan's reward for an arrow was ten copper coins, but a thousand copper coins could only be exchanged for a bowl of gruel in today's Taiyuan City.

    As soon as she finished speaking, there was a sudden loud noise, and Old Man Li shouted "No!". A stone bullet of more than 100 kilograms smashed through the roof, and landed with a bang less than half a foot away from the two of them, smashing out the ground.  There was a big pit more than three inches deep.  For a while, the room was filled with dust, which was choking people's ears and noses. Juan'er was so frightened that she stood there, speechless.  Li Jiuyan was afraid that she would be frightened, so he coaxed: "Don't be afraid. The place where the stone bullets have fallen has been touched by God. It is rare for another stone to fall."

    Just at this time, several screams came from the street. It turned out that the rain of arrows from the Song Army suddenly became denser for some reason. A few civilians who were picking up arrows could not avoid it and were hit by several arrows. They could not bear the pain but shouted loudly.  Even more ineffective, he was hit by arrows repeatedly and rolled on the street for a long time before making no sound.

    Juan'er looked at this scene with fear, and finally couldn't help it, and started to cry softly.  Li Jiuyan's mother-in-law died early, and Li Chengxiang relied on the ancient adage that a filial son will come out from under the stick, and a man will bleed but not shed tears. Seeing her cry, he just sighed. When the arrows of the Song army finally became sparse, according to the hour, there were about one group.  After running out of arrows and waiting for the baggage to be picked up, Li Jiuyan walked out of the house alone without calling Juan'er, carefully selecting arrows with undamaged arrows.  Not long after, Old Man Li felt some noise behind him. When he looked back, it was Juan'er who had followed him. She didn't have the strength to lift up the arrow that had been shot into the cracks between the masonry and the beam, so she could only look around for the arrow that happened to be at an angle.  It hit the roof tiles and bounced off the arrow branches that fell to the ground.  Seeing that tears were still hanging on Juan'er's face, like a cat with a colorful face, but she was biting her lips tightly, Old Man Li sighed again, stretched out his hand and took out the arrows that had been inserted into the bodies of the people who had been shot to death.

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