As the night faded away, a hint of pink fish belly white appeared on the horizon, and dawn was approaching. △￠

Jin General Zhong Xingyin, who was supposed to lie on the couch and sleep peacefully, fled in a panic in the morning dew.

The majestic Dacheng Chaoge is behind him, the walls are getting farther and farther away, and those who are far away from Bank of China Yin are the victory that Fan and Bank of China had longed for a few months ago.

After the death of his father, Zhong Xingyin took over the huge Zhongxing clan, and was tied with the Fan clan as the first and second strongest in Jinqing. His proud capital also makes the greed and selfishness in Bank of China's character more and more obvious.

Handan Wu's death, although outsiders generally think that the Zhao family is very suspicious, but in fact, it was Bank of China Yin and Fan Yang who poisoned their in-laws ruthlessly.

The Handan clan had plans to return to the Zhao clan, which made Erqing very angry, because several counties in Handan were sandwiched between Hanoi and Dongyang. , Fan and Bank of China will be separated from it, which is absolutely intolerable.

That's why Fan Yang made a move in Chaoge. After that, Bank of China Yin also bought Handan Wu's cronies and took the opportunity to poison them to kill them, so as to divide Zhao's and Handan's hands and trigger this war.

In Zhong Xingyin's view, with the strength of the three families, the army of 40,000 to 50,000 people recruited is enough to wipe out the small area of ​​Zhao and Han by the river.

However, they guessed the beginning, but did not guess the process and the end: Zhao Wuxi dispatched reinforcements from the east at an unexpected speed, and defeated Handan and Fan before the strong troops of the Central Bank went south, and the battle reached this level. The previous advantage has disappeared, and the battle between Fan and the Communist Party is partly based on luck. Half of it depends on strategic deployment. The result was that the Zhao family was even better and won a big victory.

nowadays. Bank of China Yin didn't even hold the Chaoge, and within a month, the city was broken, and the process was even more incredible...

The mountain and tsunami of Zhao Jun's destruction of the city are getting louder and louder, but the resistance of the guards is gradually getting smaller. I think the inner city has already been breached. Bank of China Yin fled in a hurry, even the food, weapons, and equipment in Chaoge City. The treasuries piled up like mountains were too late to burn down.

He was sitting in the military car, looking back at Chaoge, and there were tears in both of his old eyes.

"It's really embarrassing..."

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in those days. Xingyin of China can play Zhao Yang in the palm of his hand. In the casting of the cauldron more than ten years ago, one of Xingyin and Fan Yang performed in front of the stage, and the other planned behind the scenes. Zhao Yang also passively joined their camp. The ruling Wei Shu was helpless, and the first written law of Jin was born.

At the Zhaoling meeting eight years ago, Bank of China Yin failed to ask Cai Hou for bribes, so he advised Fan Yang not to attack Chu for him. In the end, the most grand meeting and alliance activity since the Spring and Autumn Period ended in a mess, but Wu Guo seized the opportunity to rise.

All in all, Bank of China Yin has played an extremely crucial role in Shanxi's domestic and foreign affairs over the past two decades. It is not an exaggeration to say that he influences the overall situation of the country.

"But why did I end up like this?" He turned his head and asked Jiazhu, who followed him southwards and used divination every time of war.

Jiazhu hugged the tortoise shell and yarrow tightly. Do not speak.

Bank of China Yin Qianqian said angrily: "You are my family's blessing, and the sacrifice you made must be not fat enough. Or you were disrespectful when fasting, which caused my fate to escape today!"

Jiazhu replied: "In the past, our ancestor Muzi (Zhongxing Wu) had only ten chariots and did not worry about how few. He only worried about his own lack of morality and righteousness. And what about the lord? The righteousness is meager, and you only worry about the lack of vehicles. The more beautiful your own boats are, the heavier the burden on the people is. The people will naturally complain and curse. Even if I pray that the Zhongxing family will last forever, the oppressed people in Dongyang will also It will curse the defeat of the Zhongxing clan. How can my prayers beat 10,000 curses? It's normal for your lord to be at this level today..."

Zhong Xingyin's face turned pale for a while, but he still insisted: "My defeat is purely a crime of war..."

He looked at the Qishui soup four or five miles ahead, rolling from west to east, and there was a glimmer of hope in his eyes.

"Although I lost 10,000 Dongyang children, as long as I can cross Qishui, Handan, Bairen, and Gufei can still recruit more than 10,000 soldiers!"

That's right, as long as you can cross the Qi Shui!

Qishui is a tributary of the great river. It originates in the deep mountains of Taihang and flows to the southeast, just north of Chaoge. It is both a barrier and an obstacle.

The poem says, "The soup of Qishui soup, gradually the car and the curtains", in the shallow water period, the water of Qishui is shallow and soothing.

But now is the season of high water, the water in front of you is rolling, the waves are splashing, and you can feel the water vapor hitting your face even a few miles away. The startling bird flew out.

At this time, the night will come to an end and the sun will rise. Zhong Xingyin, who ran to the shore, can also see the situation in the distance.

There are about two or three thousand people in formation two or three miles offshore, and the Bank of China can see clearly that this army is the Zhao army...

And behind them, there were also smoke and dust, and the cavalry who drove Zhong Xingyin all the way from Gongcheng to Chaoge also chased after them.

"Heaven kills me too!" Zhong Xingyin slammed angrily on the rail of the car, and immediately became fierce, drew out his long sword, pointed at the Zhao Jun in front of him, and said loudly: "Dongyang Jinzong, rush to kill with me, swim with me. When the water crosses the river, there will definitely be people from the Handan clan on the opposite side of the river!

The morale of the Zhongxing clan's soldiers was low and their movements were extremely slow, so the person on the opposite side moved first. Liu Xiazhi had been instructed to guard the riverside this month, keeping an eye on the city's movements at all times, so he just happened to be caught.

He thought to himself that he was defeated by Zhong Xingyin once in Jijin, and this time he was able to regain his place. With the urging of Liu Xiazhi's flag and the sound of drums, a thousand people from the right flank of Zhao's army were the first to go to battle, and the soldiers cheered. Almost at the same time, a thousand people from the left wing also attacked. They directly attacked the position of Zhong Xingyin, and saw the rustling of flags, drums and thunder, rivers, fields, sunrise, and the earth. Thousands of people were fighting together.

The battle site is not far from the shore, the ground is soft and there are many potholes, which is not conducive to the impact of cavalry. Therefore, the chasing cavalry did not get involved in the battle group for the time being, but just shot arrows by the side, ready to stop the remaining enemies from escaping.

This time, Liu Xiazhi was waiting for work, and the remnants of the Zhongxing clan were frightened and tired after the city was broken.

Qishui was not far in front, and cavalry was eyeing at the back. In this defeat, there was no way for the soldiers in the middle to retreat. Apart from fighting to the death, there was only one way to surrender.

Not only were the heads thrown into the city along with the stone bullets before, there were not only menacing heads, but also some letters of amnesty written on sackcloth.

"Whoever resists will be killed, and whoever descends will be spared!"

Zhong Xingyin's elite has been wiped out in several battles. The people around him are not good or bad, and they are not loyal to his death. Following him to break out of the city is only one ten thousandth of hope. Back home. Now that the road ahead is cut off and there are chasing troops in the back, he is completely passive and naturally loses the courage to resist.

For a while, a series of collapses began around Xingyin. With a bang, one person put down his weapon, and a hundred people followed suit. They knelt down and surrendered, and the military officials were powerless and unwilling to stop them.

Compared with the attack and defense of Chaoge just passed, this battle by the river was easily won. The battle was fought at dawn, and the victory was won before the sun had fully risen.

Just like that, Zhong Xingyin watched the entourage around him disintegrate, and saw that he had lost everything. In despair, he raised the poison bottle he carried around his waist and drank it all at once!

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In Chaoge City, while Yu Xi was chasing after Zhong Xingyin, Zhao Wuxi asked for the body of loyal soldier Zhang Liushuo to be gathered up and prepared for a thick burial. Later, he personally took over the Chaoge map and household registration in the official office with his officials, which was the basis for his future rule here.

From the map, Chaoge City is a rectangular structure. After entering, Zhao Wuxi discovered that the layout inside is very neat: from the east gate to the west gate, from the south gate to the north gate, there is a wide street. Forming a cross and meeting in the center of the city, these two streets are the main roads in the city.

In addition to these two main roads, there are several branch roads on both sides of the North and South Streets, dividing the entire city into more than a dozen areas of equal size. These areas include Fan's palace and ancestral temple, official offices where retainers work, some are cities, some are handicraft areas, and most of them are where the people of the country live. To be more, it is simply the capital of a medium state.

Although many places were forcibly demolished during the attack and defense of the city, and some fortifications that were not in use were also built around, it did not affect the integrity of Chaoge. Although the trebuchet was terrifying, it didn't kill many people, and there was no shortage of food in the city, so the main casualties occurred in yesterday's battle of breaking the city. A rough calculation shows that the Zhao army died and injured about 2,000, and the city's casualties were about 4,000.

Compared with other siege battles in which the city fought and killed Yingcheng, these losses were considered extremely small~lightnovelpub.net~ The vitality of this large city of ten thousand households has been largely preserved.

After the death and injury on both sides of the temple and school, Zhao Wuxi went to inspect the Chaoge House without stopping.

Walking into the treasury, Zhao Wuxi first took a deep breath.

The inside is divided into granary, armored warehouse, arsenal, etc. The first is the granary. Once inside, he saw old corn piled up like golden hills. He took the slips handed over by the warehouse official who was kneeling on the ground. Glancing at the shirt, he was amused by the numbers on it.

"Fan has prepared a lot for this war. He actually saved 1.1 million shi of grain, enough to feed 60,000 people for a year..."

Soldiers rely on food as their heaven, and the tens of thousands of Zhao Wuxi's men are also waiting to be fed. In addition to collecting food from the conquered land, the Han family's territory provides the previous food. After a few months, the speeding carts were pulling millet, and the grain carts were endless, and it was quite difficult to turn around. These grains suddenly relieved their urgent needs. It was a happy event.

But what was even more surprising was that he went to the next place with a happy mood. Looking at the bamboo slips presented by the arsenal officer, he was a little stunned.

"A total of more than 12,400 pieces of weapons and vehicles?"

He asked the little commander who was in charge of Fan's arsenal with some surprise: "Are you sure you're not mistaken? This is a weapon that can arm an entire army!"

ps: It’s only 1/200 of the arsenal data of Donghai County in the Han Dynasty. Chapter 2 is at night…

(To be continued.)