Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

Zhao En mobilized the army, he arrived on the tower, looked towards the harbor, and saw the darkness in front of him.

Zhao En sneered and said, "Not many people!"

After mobilizing before the war, Qian Yuqing led the army to advance towards the royal city of Champa.

Banners fluttered in the air, and eight thousand Song troops spread out on the flat ground, lined up neatly, like a mighty torrent.

Their steps were surprisingly consistent, and the ground seemed to tremble slightly.

When they approached the royal city, the two wings of the Song army began to diverge.

The Song army adopted the method of besieging the city on three sides.

The fourth side is not empty, it's just hidden.

When he got downstairs, Qian Yuqing said, "Let someone spread the word, surrender to avoid death."

Li Kun immediately arranged for an interpreter to send a message: "Kaesong surrenders and does not kill!"

Zhao En taunted the interpreter: "There are [-] elite soldiers in my royal city, and you people dare to come to our country to run wild! I advise you to put down your weapons immediately! Otherwise, I will kill you all!"

The translator came back and said, "Not only are they unwilling to surrender, but they also want to attack us."

Qian Yuqing said, "Do it!"

The drums of war sounded.

The Song army held crossbows, lined up neatly, and began to quickly equip crossbows.

The officers shouted: "Fire the arrows!"

One of Zhao En's subordinates said: "I heard that Song Jun's bows and arrows are very powerful."

"No matter how powerful it is, we also have bows and arrows. We have more people than them, unless their bows and arrows can shoot farther than us!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a crossbow bolt shot out, shot Zhao En's subordinate in the head, and nailed it directly.

He fell to the ground and died in front of Zhao En.

Zhao En was stunned.

"Be careful!" someone shouted from the tower.

But it was too late, the Song Army's arrow rain soared into the sky, pressing towards the top of the city.

That crossbow is a god arm crossbow with a range of more than 300 meters. In fact, it can compare with human bows and arrows?

But I saw Zhanren soldiers falling to the ground and screaming after being shot by arrows, and some even fell from the top of the city.

The crossbow arrows crossed the three-meter-high tower and flew towards the inside of the city.

The Zhan army on the tower began to fight back. They drew their long bows and shot towards the Song army, but the bow and arrow could not reach the position of the Song army.

Seeing this scene, Zhan Jun couldn't believe his eyes.

Zhao En, who was quite miraculous just now, lay on the ground and shouted loudly while crawling: "Quick! Fight back!"

Not long after, Song Jun stopped shooting.

After all, the number of weapons like the God Arm Crossbow is limited.

When the navy originally had only 3000 people, only 1000 were equipped with the God Arm Crossbow, and the rest were equipped with ordinary crossbows.

Later, the navy recruited in Guangzhou was even less likely to use the god arm crossbow. They only had ordinary crossbows, and many of them even did not have crossbows.

After killing Zhan Jun with a god-armed crossbow, the Song Army's drums were loud again.

All the Zhan troops on the top of the city looked bleak.

Qian Yuqing said to Li Bao, "Do you want to attack the city?"

Li Bao said: "There must be a lot of troops occupying the city. It is really disadvantageous for our army to attack the city now."

"Then what should we do?" Qian Yuqing said, "We are going on an expedition after all, and we don't have an advantage in military strength, so we should make a quick decision."

Li Kun said: "Shaoqing, if we can lead the occupying army to fight in the field, our army will be victorious, and the siege will be weak."

What they said was true. After all, Qian Yuqing's army was not the elite of the Song Dynasty. The ones who really had some experience were the [-] navy formed before.

Even they have never fought a large-scale battle.

As for the recruits later, they are even more recruits.

Want to siege?

Basically hard.

If you fail to attack several times, it will greatly affect morale.

No matter what the expedition is, once the morale is affected, everyone just wants to go home, which is very dangerous.

But if you want to fight in the field, there is still no problem.

Why is there no problem in field combat?

Because Zhanren was short and thin, and his weapons were not as sophisticated as the Song army, if Zhanren was willing to go out to fight in the field, the Song army's crossbowmen, archers, and pikemen would all have an advantage.

Qian Yuqing asked, "How to get Zhan Ren out to fight in the field?"

Li Kun said: "The lower officials have a plan."

Chapter 564 Song Army’s Strategy (Third Change)

"Say it quickly."

Li Kun said: "One is to cut off all the supply of food and grass in the city, the other is to surround the city without attacking, and build an earthen wall near the city wall, which not only preserves our strength, but also creates psychological pressure on the enemy. Prepare for a general attack."

Qian Yuqing couldn't help but nodded.

Just besieging and not attacking, the move of building an earthen wall on the decay of the city wall is ruthless enough.

Just think about it, you are sitting at home, and you suddenly find that someone has built a high wall around your house and is going to surround you in the house, how do you feel?

That depressing feeling is bound to come like a tide.

If you are the only one in your family, that's okay, but if there are several people, what should we do if we must immediately argue with each other?

"So, Zhanren will come out to fight?" Qian Yuqing asked Li Bao.

Li Bao said: "The chances of coming out are extremely high."

"Okay, that's it."

Qian Yuqing had no choice but to do this. If he had elite infantry and a large number of powerful crossbows, he wouldn't need to use these tricks at all, he could just go up and do it.

However, everything in the world is not perfect.

The Great Song Buren Jia didn't know how to fight at sea, let alone come to Champa to fight, even if they went south and stayed in Guangzhou for a while, they might fall ill, and life at sea might even kill them.

It can be said that the first-generation navy of the Song Dynasty had to rely on him, a layman, to pull it off.

Fortunately, the imperial court gave people money and policies.

That Zhao En was in a panic dungeon.

The occupying army in the city has gathered a lot, and the whole street is densely packed with people.

The occupying army was suppressed just now, its morale was damaged, and the soldiers in the city were also in shock.

Everyone looked at the people on the ground who were shot to death by the arrow rain just now, and they all showed panic.

"Everyone, don't panic, the Song army has stopped attacking now, they dare not approach!" Zhao En shouted.

Song Jun's attack did stop.

Many people looked up and looked outside, as if they believed in Zhao En's words.

However, they didn't have much impression of Song Jun, and many of them had never seen Song people, let alone how many Song people had come.

Zhao En continued: "Song people only came in a few thousand people. Their bows and arrows are indeed excellent, but the number is limited. As long as we guard the tower, they will not be able to attack!"

One of Zhao En's subordinates said: "Commander, why don't you attack?"

"No hurry, what's the hurry, the time is right, wipe them out in one fell swoop."

After speaking, he hurried to the palace.

Khalivarman was drinking and having fun in the palace when Zhaoen came.

"how?"

"The Song army only came with a few thousand people, and they were all crooked, not worth mentioning."

Khalivarman smiled and said, "Then what are you going to do?"

"The Song army is going on an expedition. We don't have to pay attention to the Song army. The Song army can't attack at all. As long as we hold on, the Song army will withdraw soon."

Khalivarman said, "What if there is not enough food and grass in the city?"

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, even if a group of people outside starve to death, His Majesty will still have a lot of beauties."

"Okay, I believe you, just let it go."

Early the next morning, the Song Army began to build earthen walls outside the city.

At first, Zhan Jun at the top of the city didn't know what Song Jun wanted to do. It wasn't until two days later that the earth wall got taller and longer, and they didn't know that Song Jun was repairing the wall.

Li Kun came back and said, "Shaoqing, I took people around for a walk. Champa is rich in food, and the crops in the countryside are piled up at home. We don't have to worry about food and grass at all."

"When Champa is taken down, we can continuously transport food back here." Qian Yuqing said to his staff.

Everyone beamed with joy.

What is everyone working so hard to follow Qian Yuqing to do?

Did he really come to serve the Song court?

This is a bit nonsense, everyone is not related to Zhao Guan's family, one is in Tokyo and the other is in Guangzhou, why should they take their lives for Zhao Guan's family?

However, Champa is rich in products. After taking this place, merchant ships will be unimpeded in the future, and getting rich is just around the corner.

This kind of interest drives everyone, and they are full of energy.

A few days later, Song Junxiu's siege was already 200 meters long. At a glance, it looked like a cage, and the soldiers on the tower became more and more anxious.

The city wall is not a wall made of bricks, but a mound of soil and a frame of wood.

"Marshal, the walls of the Song people are getting longer and longer."

Zhao En's face was gloomy. He didn't expect Song Jun to be so shameless that he could even think of such a trick.

If the whole city is surrounded, let alone whether he is willing to fight, I am afraid that the soldiers on the tower will go crazy after seeing this scene.

If the people in the city knew that the north of the city was surrounded like a cage, they would probably go crazy again.

At this time, the prime minister arrived at the palace because of Jiang Tao.

Khalivarman said, "Prime Minister, if you want to persuade me to let him go, you don't need to waste your efforts."

"Your Majesty, do you know what Song Jun is doing now?"

"what are you doing?"

"Are they building the city wall?"

"City wall?" Khalivarman stopped the cup in his hand.

"That's right, they are building a city wall to surround the city wall of the king's city."

"What's the matter, let them fix it. Anyway, I'm in the palace, and there are so many warriors who occupy the country outside. As long as the Song army can't fight in, everything will be in vain."

"Your Majesty, if the Song army really surrounds the royal city, it means that no food can be transported in, and the entire royal city will be sealed." Yin Jiang Tao said worriedly, "Think about it, if the soldiers see those siege every day Our walls, what will become of them?"

"What will happen?"

"They will go crazy." Yin Jiang Tao said hoarsely, "Like wild animals trapped in a cage."

"The prime minister is worrying too much."

"If your people know about it, what will they do?"

"What will they do?" Khalivarman asked.

"There will be internal strife among them, and some people will disturb the order in the city." Yin Jiangtao continued, "There is a saying in China that people's hearts are like water, and people's movements are like smoke."

Khalivarman murmured: "People's hearts are like water, people's movements are like smoke..."

Yes, the human heart is very sensitive and weak, prone to turmoil.