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Chapter 279

The soldiers of Dangxiang at the top of the city looked at the large area of ​​black cannons outside the city, all huddled in the corners of the walls, and looked indifferent. Now, let alone the stone cannons of the "Puxi" army, even the crossbows dared to set off the Song army. Somewhere there was something falling off the city wall, and a burst of cannons would come out of the city. Even if you accidentally shake the stones while walking, it would attract the Song army's cannons to bombard the Song army's cannons.

Esangge never came to the city gate again, hiding in his city lord's mansion to spend time and cherish the last happy time. He was extremely conflicted, and knew that he was going to surrender quickly now, but he was lucky and thought about dragging it out for a day.

The sun rises from the east and the sun shines all over the earth. The most beautiful spring benefits of the year are the mountains outside the city. This should be a great time to go out with relatives and friends in spring, but Lingzhou City ushered in the most violent storm in hundreds of years.

Liu Jianji and Zhao Xun arrived at the city, raised their telescopes and looked at the top of the city, and said, "The thieves have been hiding. If they don't dare to show up, they seem to be beaten to death. The weather is sunny today, and it's a good day. So, let's bang the sky city gate. You bring your troops and horses to kill the generals and catch the Lord of the Siniao City who will not surrender! Fight quickly, we can rest nearby for two days!"

Zhao Xun crossed his hands and agreed.

Liu Jianji nodded, and when he was about to instruct his subordinates to fire, he turned around and ordered Zhao Xun when he remembered something, "You can occupy the city gate first after entering the city, and then go to attack the city lord's mansion after you have stabilized. Liu Hu's army will follow soon, don't be too anxious."

Just give orders, and then the personal soldiers were ordered to use horns and flags to command the cannons he tried yesterday to bombard the city gate.

Esangge hugged a village woman in the city lord's mansion and drank. Suddenly, a shocking sound came, and the whole ground seemed to be shaking. He jumped up from the couch. Esangge shouted in panic: "Why is it so powerful? It seems like the sky is falling and the earth is sinking! Yesterday, the Song army attacked for a day, but there was no such movement!"

I wanted to go to the city wall, but I didn't dare to, just wandered around the hall.

Esangge was in a panic in the city lord's mansion, and the East City Gate of Lingzhou had collapsed. The soldiers guarding the city said to the people around him: "The Song army has military laws, and those who abandon the sticks will not be punished! They will soon lose their sticks to avoid being killed!"

Zhao Xun commanded the troops of his headquarters and rushed out of the black smoke and headed straight for the open city gate.

The Longyou Army was law, and the chief general could not take the lead in rushing. When Zhao Xun reached the position of Zhao Xun, he could only coordinate and command from behind. The commander rushed to the front. The commander's personal soldiers around him kept reporting the situation of the war ahead with the front army.

Not long after, the first commander of the personal soldiers came back and said with his hands crossed, "General, the sixth commander entered the city first and occupied the city gate! The subsequent troops were entering the city one after another, and there was no fighting!"

Zhao Xun was stunned for a moment: "There are still many soldiers guarding the city, why are they so smooth? Be careful of fraud!"

The commander's personal soldiers said: "There are many thieves, but they have no desire to fight, and they all abandon their sticks and wait aside, so there is no fighting!"

The most intense battle between the Song army was the Battle of Tiandu Mountain. The last tenacious resistance was in Tiansheng Village. After that, the autumn wind swept away the fallen leaves, and there was no encounter with the Dangxiang army fighting to the death. Lingzhou was the last tough battle that the Song army believed to be. Zhao Xun was ready to fight with the defenders. He was surprised after hearing the words of the personal soldiers in the order.

After thinking about it, Zhao Xun said, "Since that's the case, I will move the will to the city gate. You fly to report to the city gate, tell me about the matters there, and by the way, I've gone to the city gate!"

The commander of the personal soldiers crossed their hands and agreed and ran to the rear.

Zhao Xun took his subordinates and guarded them from their own soldiers to the east gate of the city that had been opened. As soon as he arrived at the city gate, he saw two rows of Dangxiang soldiers with abandoned sticks in the door opening, standing there in a regular manner.

Zhao Xun was furious when he saw this, and ordered his personal soldiers to call the commander guarding the place, pointing to the soldiers of Dangxiang and said, "How dare you ask them to stand here? What if they have evil intentions and take the city gate again? Take it out of the city quickly!"

The commander was busy counting the number of people and checking how many were seized. After hearing Zhao Xun's words, he couldn't help but feel guilty and hurriedly took people to take the surrendered Dangxiang soldiers out of the city. Now Zhao Xun's troops are entering the city one after another, letting the surrendered enemies get in the doorway, not to mention the trouble, if they suddenly attack, they will also cause unexpected losses.

Upon climbing the city tower, Zhao Xun saw that there was no resistance here. After walking around, he knew that Lingzhou City had been captured. Zhao Xun felt a little proud and a little disappointed when he captured the city so quickly. After preparing for so long, the Dangxiang people surrendered after firing a few shots. It really didn't look like a tough battle.

After the Battle of Tiandu Mountain, Dangxiang's troops with some combat power were the remaining remnants of Yuanhao's personal guards, about a few thousand people, and now they are guarding Weizhou. These thousands of people are Yuanhao's last reliance and are not sent to fight easily. Without these guards, the defenders of Weizhou City will take him out of the city and lead the merits from the Song army. Another unit with combat power is the remnants of Cheng Keshang Hongzhou Army. However, due to the recent uprising against Yuanhao in Hengshan, the morale of that army has also dispersed. They all come from the most core tribe of Dangxiang in Hengshan area. They have closest relationships with the Yuanhao family. No one can survive. What else can they fight?

The tribal army is such a characteristic. When fighting a downwind battle, it is extremely arrogant and constantly annexes the surrounding tribes, and it is getting bigger and bigger like a snowball. Once it is hit hard, it falls apart and quickly declines. In the past, the Song army has been unable to stabilize the place, so it has to find the reasons for itself. It has repeatedly beaten Dangxiang to only have one breath, but it cannot win the hearts of the tribe.

Dangxiang is a big clan, and the core population of its own tribe and the territory it occupies is not weaker than the Khitan. In front of the Khitan, it was a small country because the Khitan integrated several ethnic groups and became a real country. Until Yuanhao's time, Dangxiang was just a tribal alliance and had a precursor to the state. It was not that he called the emperor, Dangxiang had really become a country. Several major tribes in Dangxiang had always had great independence and had huge power.

Xu Ping never dared to underestimate Yuan Hao, but was influenced by the historical knowledge of his previous life. After all, Yuan Hao in history did act like a young strongman who could not be beaten. But that was under the condition that he had always mastered the largest power in the territory and was constantly successfully weakening other major tribes. Now that his elites have been destroyed, Dangxiang's real power has fallen into the hands of several other major tribes.

Since Zhao Jiqian, Dangxiang has always adhered to the tribal policy, and the military and population in the territory are not concentrated in the city, but are scattered in various tribes dominated by mountainous areas. After Yuanhao's main elite was defeated, there was no siege, and the city was never the core area of ​​Dangxiang. Even the capital Xingqing Prefecture was not a strong city. Yuanhao built the Li Palace in the Helan Mountain dozens of miles away. He mainly lived in the Helan Mountains. The city was just some yamen, and there were several Han families who served as senior officials in Dangxiang, and there were no major Dangxiang clans and heavy troops.
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