Chapter 683 Song Wensong's Courage!
Song Wensong and Cao Weiming did have relationships. Cao Weiming lives in Hebei and has been hiding his strength for so many years, but he has been secretly accumulating strength. Since the war began, there have been as many as 100,000 soldiers sent out from Hebei. Cao Weiming's accumulation over the years can be imagined.
There was a shortage of horses in the pass, and Cao Weiming wanted to acquire cavalry and needed to buy horses, while Song Wensong was short of money. Song Wensong had a difficult development over the years, and he relied on selling horses to make money. Therefore, the friendship between Song Wensong and Cao Weiming had been around for many years. Because of this, Cao Weiming sent a private message to Song Wensong, and the two invited each other to cooperate internally and externally to attack the Liaodong army and defeat Long Lingxiu.
By defeating the Liaodong Army, Song Wensong could successfully extend his power to the pass. One of the more important points was to defeat the Liaodong Army. Song Wensong could expand eastward in Longyou and further encroach on the territory of Liaodong. From then on, Song Wensong would have a more relaxed development environment.
Therefore, Cao Weiming and he agreed that the two had the same interests and hit it off, and the two sides quickly met. However, neither side expected that the Liaodong Army would suddenly retreat after a long time of unsuccessful capture of the capital, without any drag. By the time Song Wensong led his army to arrive, the Liaodong Army had already retreated without a trace.
What Song Wensong saw was the broken city wall of the capital, the corpses piled up below the city wall, and the exhausted soldiers on the city wall.
What should Song Wensong do about this situation? Should he immediately prepare to divide the two rivers with Cao Wei Minggong? Or should they enter the capital together and drink and have fun?
Song Wensong chose to attack the city, and his allies instantly became enemies, and the two sides immediately broke up! Who is Song Wensong? He is a loyal minister of Dakang. How could he be in sync with a scum like Cao Weiming who held the prince hostage?
Song Wensong laughed loudly and pointed at the city wall with his fingers and said, "The Cao thief is in this city. When our Longyou Army attacks, the city will be destroyed in an instant! Brothers listen to me, and we will take down the capital, rescue the prince, and kill the thief for Dakang!"
Song Wensong shouted, and the horn immediately sounded, and the strategist Wu Liewen said: "Three generals, siege the city is the most exhausting of troops. We come from the northwest and the distant army is exhausted. Why don't the general camp and rest for a day before siegeing the city again? Wouldn't it be twice the result with half the effort?"
Song Wensong sneered and said, "I, Song Wensong, never stick to the common law when using troops. Look at this city wall, it is obvious that the Liaodong army has just given them a heavy blow. This is the time when their defense is the most relaxed. We will make a big move and take it down while the enemy is not fully prepared. If we wait for a day and wait for them to recover, we will be at a disadvantage!"
Song Wensong did not listen to the advice of the counselors and ordered the three armies to attack. In the capital, another bloody battle was in the capital. In the capital, Cao Weiming was having fun in the palace! After this old boy occupied the capital, he closed the East Palace and put the prince under house arrest. He himself stayed overnight in the palace. Although most of the beauties in the harem of Emperor Xinde moved south, some of them remained in the capital. Cao Weiming captured them and ordered them to sleep.
His daily life was like an emperor. Cao Weiming tied up several powerful families to death by coercing the court officials, and no one dared to oppose him easily. It is no exaggeration to say that Cao Weiming is now living in the capital and is really a local emperor.
However, when he heard the report from his subordinates that the Northwest Army was sieging the city, he was shocked. He immediately rode his horse straight to the outside of the Meridian Gate. Standing on the Meridian Gate, he watched the black Northwest Army rushing towards the front and rushing straight to the city gate. His face changed drastically and immediately shouted:
"There are the three generals of the Northwest Song Dynasty under the city? The three generals of Song Dynasty, you and I have an alliance, why don't you obey the oath?"
Song Wensong walked out of the formation, but saw the boy wearing fat, tall and big cow, holding a long halberd in his hand, and he sneered at the top of the city: "Cao Weiming, although you and I have a good relationship, what is this friendship in front of the country and the country? I, Song Wensong, is the minister of Dakang, and you and Cao Weiming are the thieves of Dakang. How can I, Song Wensong, be with you?
Today, my army will attack the capital. If you know the truth, you will be bound by yourself. I can ask Your Majesty to spare you. Otherwise, hehe, once the city is broken, I, Song Wensong, will definitely not be favored and will be the first to kill you!"
Cao Weiming stood at the top of the city and listened to Song Wensong's words. He was so angry that one Buddha was born and two Buddhas ascended to heaven. What kind of virtue is Song Wensong's virtue? He dared to call himself a loyal minister of Dakang, which made people laugh.
Seeing this, Cao Weiming knew that a battle was inevitable. He immediately ordered the three armies to defend together. He planned to guard the city wall and gathered all kinds of wood and rolling stones to guard the city. In an instant, the capital was in a bloody battle...
The city walls of the capital are high and the moat is wide. Although Song Wensong took some advantage of the Liaodong Army, it was really not easy to capture the city. The two sides fought for a long time and were anxious. The Song family army consumed a lot.
Seeing this, Song Wensong personally wore armor and rode forward and said, "Let me listen to it. Who would like to follow me, Song Wensong to climb the city to kill the enemy? We are a man of ours, who will fight to kill the enemy with passion, and we should advance but not retreat!"
When Song Wensong shouted, hundreds of elite soldiers gathered around him, most of whom were his personal guards. Song Wensong laughed, raised his whip, and rushed forward fiercely. A team of cavalry rushed directly towards the city wall.
When approaching the city wall, Song Wensong took down the bow and arrow, bent his bow and shot several arrows in a row. The three soldiers guarding the city on the city wall could not dodge and were shot directly on the spot.
The guards around Song Wensong cheered together, and their morale suddenly increased. Everyone bent their bows and arrows and shot them at the city wall. These people were all warriors, and each of them had extremely strong strength. They rode a bow with one stone in their hand and shot arrows onto the city wall, which posed a great threat to the defenders.
In a blink of an eye, they rushed up and down the city wall. Song Wensong shouted: "Abandon the horse!" His people had already climbed the cloud ladder with one hand. He was tall and fat, but after climbing the cloud ladder, he was as light as a swallow, and his speed rose rapidly, and several ups and downs climbed to the top of the city.
The long halberd in his hand quickly shook off and killed several soldiers besieged on the city wall. Judging from his posture, it was like a god descending to earth, and there was no one-union enemy around him.
The commander led the way and rushed to the top of the city. How could the soldiers behind him fight without their own life? Soon, the city wall began to be broken through, and more than a dozen people climbed up the city wall. The enemy and us fought bloody battles on the city wall!
"Boom, boom!" The city wall was controlled and was in a state of anxiety. The city gate below began to experience a crisis. The squat with a diameter of like a water tank was surrounded by dozens of people and hit the city gate again and again. The city gate as solid as a city gate began to experience a crisis, and the Meridian Gate was about to be lost.
Cao Weiming was fighting in person, and he was shocked to see this scene. My God! He had heard about Song Wensong's name for a long time. Without Song Wensong, the number one warrior in the northwest, he had reached this point.
As the main general, he actually attacked the city himself after a disagreement, and rushed to the front. What's even more terrifying is that he was wearing heavy armor, tall and fat, as if he was invulnerable to swords and guns. Wherever he passed, he was like a wolf entering a flock of sheep, and no one could stop him.
The Northwest Army is too powerful, Song San is too strong, and the Liaodong Army has attacked the city that cannot be captured for so many days, and Song San will break through it in half a day! Cao Weiming knew in his heart that once the city wall was broken, the second line of defense in the capital was vulnerable at all. For the sake of the present, he could only escape quickly. Now the enemies are all at the Meridian Gate, and Cao Weiming can still walk through the North Gate!
As soon as he thought of this, Cao Weiming shouted: "Stop it with me, be sure to hold it!" He shouted and pushed up all the second defense thousands of soldiers and horses, and he quickly fled.
In the Eastern Palace, Prince Long Zhaohuan was in great trouble recently. His dignified prince, the future crown prince, is now living like a prisoner, and has not suffered such great grievances since he was born.
Cao Weiming, a fatherless man without a ruler, was extremely vicious. He not only put him under house arrest, but also deliberately humiliated him, causing Long Zhaohuan to lose all his prestige.
"Not good, no good, Prince, Cao...Cao...General Cao is here!" The eunuch ran in panic and shouted at Long Zhaohuan.
Long Zhaohuan's face changed. Just as he was about to turn around, Cao Weiming shouted: "Your Highness, the thief has broken through the city gate now. Please retreat from the north gate with me and go!"
Long Zhaohuan said: "General Cao, I am guarding the capital under the order of my father. I vow to live and perish with the capital. If the city is broken, General Cao can leave, how can I..."
Before Long Zhaohuan finished speaking, Cao Weiming came up and slapped his face and said, "Damn it, do you give you a chance? If you ask me to leave with me, don't talk nonsense, be careful that I'm ruthless under the knife!"
Long Zhaohuan stared at Cao Weiming hard. As the prince, how could he have suffered such humiliation and insults? Cao Weiming is really a jackal. How could he have ever had a trace of awe of the royal family in his heart?
"Cao Weiming, you, a man without a father and a king, dare to be rude to the crown prince. You won't die well!" The prince's adviser Sun Chengzhong's face changed drastically. He pointed at Cao Weiming and shouted angrily in the big news.
Cao Weiming pulled out the long sword from his waist and slashed at Sun Chengzhong without saying a word. He heard a scream, and Sun Chengzhong's head rolled down, and the head fell to the ground, blood splattered, and Long Zhaohuan was covered in blood.
"No matter how noisy you make me feel, I will be killed without mercy!" Cao Weiming roared. Long Zhaohuan's face turned pale in an instant. He didn't dare to say the word "no". He just nodded repeatedly and his words were no longer practical.
Cao Weiming grabbed him with one hand, as if carrying a chicken, and directly left the Eastern Palace, and then threw it to the guards beside him. The guards took Long Zhaohuan and ran to the north gate in shame...
Cao Weiming fled decisively, losing nearly 10,000 troops, and he still had more than 40,000 soldiers under his command. He fled out of the capital at night, relied on his familiarity with the terrain, and rushed to Yuzhou overnight and guarded the Yuzhou gate to settle the situation.
Song Wensong led the Northwest Army to capture the capital, occupy the Nine Gates of the Forbidden City, and quickly issued a notice of peace. After one night, the capital was calm and the people who were in the curfew did not even know that the capital had changed its owner last night.
Song Wensong set up his camp in Cao's mansion and took down the capital. He gained all the capital. From then on, he would occupy the passage from the pass to Longyou alone. Song Wensong's heart was thrilled and full of confidence!
He invited the heads of the Su family, Zuo family and Duan family in the capital, and was very enthusiastic and low-key. He also wrote a letter to Emperor Xinde in front of the heads of the family, which read:
"Long live the Emperor of the Northwest Central Army, Song Wensong, kneeling down to worship my emperor..." The above content is that Song Wensong dislikes the Northwest Song family and other forces accepting Long Zhaoyan's affairs. Song Wensong firmly draws a clear line with the Song family. From then on, he will only be loyal to Dakang, hoping to share Dakang's worries and Emperor Xinde's worries.
In the memorial, Song Wensong reported the situation in the capital to Emperor Xinde in detail, listing the ten major crimes of Cao Weiming, one of which was to injure the palace, and also to hold the prince hostage, etc., and locate the crimes committed by Cao Weiming in the capital.
Song Wensong presented the note to Su Xinghai and others. They all agreed and expressed their willingness to present the note to Jiangnan and hand it over to Emperor Xinde to read.
Cao Weiming was defeated in the capital. At the same time, the Liaodong army pointed at Shandong. Sure enough, the Qi king Long Zhaorui, who was guarding Shandong, was thinking about developing agriculture and sericulture, thinking about stabilizing the economy, and then slowly striving for it! The Liaodong army arrived, and it was unstoppable, and captured five states in Shandong in a row, approaching Qingzhou where the Qi king was.
The King of Qi was shocked and immediately organized defense, but it was too late. Tan Lei's cavalry was faster than the King of Qi's scouts, and many state prefectures were captured without even the chance to receive the news.
Seeing this, the King of Qi knew that Qingzhou was no longer in defense, so he immediately led his elite troops south to Huainan Road, and Shandong fell all the way and fell back into the hands of the Liaodong Army.
When the King of Qi arrived at Huainan Road, Sun Chongwen, the governor of Huainan Road, gave him Hezhou and Xuanzhou, the two prefectures of Chaohu, to him. The King of Qi and Jiangnan were close to him. Even after his cavalry crossed the Huainan River, they only needed a day and a night to reach the city of Jinling. Jiangnan was shocked and the wind and cranes were panicked.
There is something worse later. A change occurred in Huainan Road. Lingnan Dao Bai Jingchen suddenly announced his independence as King of Yue, and brazenly announced that he would be independent of Lingnan Road from Dakang, and he called himself a lonely and widowed person.
At this time, the Dakang country was already full of holes, and Emperor Xinde's government orders could only affect Jiangnan. All parts of the world, all the power families were ready to move. The foundation of Dakang's nearly two hundred years had finally begun to shake.
Lu Zheng has recently put all his thoughts on the Southern Prefecture Army in Jiangnan. Due to the sudden change in the situation, the north has lost control more and more. Under such circumstances, the business of Gu Zhilun and Beiyan has been affected, and the plan to accumulate a steady stream of huge wealth through trade between the north and the south has been hindered. This is the most annoying thing that Lu Zheng has been most annoyed and irritated recently.
Another thing is that Lu Zheng's 10,000 horses were transported only 8,000 horses, and two thousand were detained in the north and finally fell into Song Wensong's hands. Needless to ask, these thousands of horses were meat buns to beat dogs, and they went there but never returned.
Chapter completed!