Ding Chou (20) in March of the first year of Yuanyou.

When the dawn sun fell on the towering top of Beizhang City.

boom!

A loud noise, more violent than thunder, suddenly sounded from under the city wall of Beizhuang City.

The rammed earth walls began to shake and crack.

Then it collapsed!

With the collapse of the city wall, Beijia City was no longer in danger of being defended.

Arranged in front of the Song army, the chieftain soldiers from the Liu family in Silang Prefecture and the Wang family in Menzhou were dumbfounded.

The wall of Beijia City, which was indestructible in the eyes of these people, collapsed with an incredible loud noise.

An entire section of the city wall collapsed.

Nong Kexiang, who was sent by Nong Zhihui to assist the Song army in attacking the city, immediately shouted frantically: "Charge!"

Then he raised the Teng Dun in his hand, led his own bodyguards, and rushed towards Beizhu City.

Behind him were thousands of mad-looking chieftain soldiers.

For these chieftains, they could not understand why, in their opinion, the walls of the seemingly majestic Beijia City collapsed after a loud noise.

Therefore, it can only be attributed to the power of gods and Buddhas.

Since the gods and Buddhas are on his side, then what else is there to worry about?

Just kill and that's it.

Di Yong reined in his horse and looked at the completely collapsed Beijian City wall.

Then he turned to look at Yan Yuan, who was smiling at him.

"Yan Guan Gou." Di Yong asked: "Are firearms so powerful?"

Yesterday, after surrounding Beiji City, Di Yong was still worried about how to capture such a strong city.

Yes, Beizhi City is a fortified city in the land of Jiaozhi.

The city has high walls and thick walls. Even if it is placed along the edge, it can be called a "military stronghold".

If you want to capture it, you must have several times the number of troops and besiege it for dozens of days.

If we attack by force, the price paid will be unimaginable.

Just when Di Yong was worried about how to capture Beiji as soon as possible, Yan Yuan came to ask for advice.

So what happened now - it took just over an hour, using the gap before dawn, the Song Army dug a tunnel under Beijian City, and then stuffed a small coffin into it.

Then what we see now happened.

Di Yong once guarded the border and saw the firearms manufactured by the Specialized Arms Manufacturing Bureau.

But most of those firearms have no effect other than scaring people and creating smoke.

But now, under the northern city, there was a thunder, and an entire section of the city wall collapsed.

Incredible!

How could firearms be so powerful? It's hard to imagine.

Yan Yuan smiled, cupped his hands and said, "This is the reason why the late emperor and the two generations of saintly masters of the official family focused on manufacturing weapons bureaus, and it is also the way Li Ding died!"

Yan Yuan faced Bianjing respectively and bowed to Yong Yuling: "The late emperor was sacred. He climbed high and reached great distances. He knew the wonderful uses of firearms. He was advised by his descendants, so he was awarded to the official family... The official family inherited the legacy of the late emperor and developed the wisdom of the sage. , using Shen Kuo's talents and the palace's internal funds, and going through hardships, he finally obtained this weapon for the military and state."

"From now on, there will no longer be a strong city in the world."

In order to blow up Beizi City, Yan Yuan spent a lot of money and put one hundred kilograms of extremely precious gunpowder into a coffin.

Now it seems that I used too much force.

Next time, a rammed earth city wall less than two feet high like this will collapse with thirty to fifty kilograms of gunpowder.

I am afraid that only the fortified city of Beilu requires hundreds of kilograms of gunpowder.

Di Yong listened to Yan Yuan's words and watched the chieftain soldiers rush in through the gap in the collapsed city wall in the north.

This city, the transportation hub of Jiaozhi in the north, an important town similar to Yangzhou in the Song Dynasty, was destined to fall into the hands of the Song army.

"The late emperor was sacred, and the officials were saintly!" Di Yong was filled with emotion.

This is a sigh from the heart.

"This thief Li Ding has done so much harm to our country!" Di Yong spat, cursing Li Ding who had been demoted to Yingzhou.

He understood that after this battle, Li Ding would be nailed to the pillar of shame.

Stinking for eternity!

…

The battle in Beiji City came to an end after an hour.

In fact, the defenders in the city had completely lost their will to resist after the city wall was blown down, and they all knelt down and asked to surrender.

Even the officials and generals of Jiaozhi are like this.

The reason it took an hour was mainly because the chieftain soldiers were busy catching prisoners.

Men and women, old and young, were screened one by one.

By the time Di Yong led his army into the city, the chieftain soldiers were already cleaning the bloodstains on the streets of Beiji City.

Dozens of heads were hung in front of the state government gate in Beizhang City.

These people were all scholars with Jiaozhi meritorious service selected by the chieftains from Beijia City.

They used to be the high-ranking scholar-bureaucrats in this northern city.

He has countless privileges and enjoys superior treatment.

They originally thought that when the Song army entered the city, they would be treated with courtesy.

But all they waited for was the butcher's knife.

The chieftains loyally carried out the orders of the generals who came to the Song Dynasty with the highest efficiency: Jiaozhi scholars, who betrayed the teachings of the saints and helped the tyrants to do evil, are beasts, beasts, everyone can find and punish them!

Although there is no reward for this general order.

But they were meticulous and carried out the work extremely meticulously.

They not only executed those scholars with meritorious status, but also those without meritorious status who were found to have participated in the examination room of Shenglong Mansion.

All their books, articles, and poems were found and burned.

In addition to the official atlases and household registration files of Beijiaocheng, all other texts and books that could be found were also burned.

These toasts are not stupid.

They knew very well that doing so would benefit them and their descendants' future rule on this land.

In fact, after Zhang Dun issued the order.

In Menzhou, Silangzhou and Sumaozhou, great purges began.

The Liu family, the Wang family, and the Zhang family were originally worried about offending the Song Dynasty and did not dare to deal with the scholars in their territory who gave them a headache.

it's good now.

The Song Dynasty Jinglue Xianggong loosened the chains that bound them.

They immediately started to search the territory according to the map, and arrested and executed those guys who had disgusted them in the past.

Liu, Wang, Zhang and other families have now reached an unprecedented level of recognition of the Song Dynasty.

The mutual trust between the chieftains and the Song Dynasty has also reached an unprecedented height.

Even scholars in the Song Dynasty were allowed to be killed.

This means that the Song Dynasty did not want to set up officials in the north of Jiaozhi at all.

These lands are all theirs.

The Emperor of the Song Dynasty did not even ask them to pay tribute, as long as they surrendered.

Naturally, the morale and fighting will of the chieftains also reached their peak.

Di Yong has received the news that Liu Yin from Silang Prefecture and Wang Jing from Men Prefecture have personally led their troops, escorting cattle, sheep and wine, to work for the army.

It's a waste of food and drink.

Di Yong rode his horse and walked to the gate of the government office in Beizhang City. He looked at the heads hanging in front of the government office and at the countless books that had been burned to ashes.

He let out a slight breath. To be honest, he didn't know what kind of commotion Zhang Dun's order would cause if it were sent back to Bianjing.

But he knew that wherever the Song army went from now on, the Jiaozhi rebels would no longer have room to move around.

Killing all the scholars actually meant killing all those who potentially supported the Cochin rebels.

So, he smiled and greeted the chieftains who were already kneeling in front of the government office to greet him.
To be continued...