Xianxia version of Water Margin

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Liangshan heroes came one after another to climb the city. After the defeat of the defenders of Daming Mansion on the city, they abandoned their armor and threw their troops and scrambled to escape down the city wall.

Of course, some Song Army generals wanted to lead their soldiers to recapture the city wall after being driven out of the city wall. However, the Liangshan Army officers and soldiers who occupied the city wall were raining down arrows, forcing them to retreat into the inner city without being able to climb the city wall. .

Due to the vast city walls of Daming Mansion, the defense zones in each defense area were unfamiliar with each other, and information could not be communicated in a timely manner. Therefore, rumors spread during the chaos.

For example, the defenders at the East City Gate wanted to escape down the city, so they lied and said: "General Zhang dedicated the West City Gate."

The defenders at the North City Gate wanted to go down to the city and escape, so they lied and said: "The South City Gate has been broken, and all the Liangshan bandits have entered the city."

After hearing the true and false news, the citizens and soldiers in Damingfu City spread rumors.

As a result, the soldiers abandoned their armor and turned against each other, wandering the roads; the citizens ran around without knowing where they were going. People were panicked, everyone was in danger, and Damingfu City suddenly fell into extreme chaos.

After the Liangshan Army captured the city wall, they followed Jiang Hongfei's instructions and continued to capture various city gates along the city wall. Along the way, the towers and oars and other city defense facilities were set on fire by the Liangshan heroes to frighten the soldiers and civilians in Damingfu City.

In addition, more than a dozen places in the city were also filled with fires.

This caused the fire to spread across the sky and illuminate the whole city in red.

When the Liangshan army occupied all the city gates, heavy snow fell like goose feathers from the sky, and the wind whirled and roared, like the sound of thunder.

The flames sometimes protrude in the strong wind and soar into the sky; sometimes they are blown to death and thick smoke billows.

This scene is like the end of the world.

In fact, after occupying all the city walls and gates, Jiang Hongfei ordered all Liangshan troops to withdraw and not to enter the city without permission.

Of course, because it was too chaotic at the time, some soldiers of the Liangshan Army did not receive Jiang Hongfei's orders.

For example, Liu Guang, Liu Qi and his son did not receive orders from Jiang Hongfei, so they divided their forces according to their previous plan and sent Liang Zhongshu, Wang Taishou, Wen Da, Li Cheng and a dozen other famous dignitaries, wealthy families, and The homes of public ministers and scholar-bureaucrats were "protected".

Because of insufficient military strength, Liu Guang, Liu Qi and his son "protected" their family with fifty regular troops and fifty auxiliary troops.

This division of troops is actually very dangerous. You must know that there are still a large number of Song troops defeated at this time.

It is really an irony to say that although each of the Sixth Infantry Army had only a hundred people, and there were only fifty Qi Refiners among them, the Song Army collapsed in anticipation, and no one dared to step forward to fight the Liangshan Army.

In addition, the Fourth Infantry Army was sent by Zhu Wu in advance to "protect" the granaries and various warehouses of Daming Mansion.

And Ma Sanjun was sent by Jiang Hongfei to seize the ferry and seize Hebei's autumn grain.

Also, Lu Junyi and Jiang Hongfei borrowed a hundred personal guards to go home and take revenge.

Except for these four Liangshan armies, none of the other Liangshan armies left the city wall or city gate.

To be honest, after the Liangshan army captured Dongshui Gate, some Liangshan heroes went down to the city without permission to set fire to it and massacred all the residents under the city.

After Jiang Hongfei heard about this, he sent Pei Xuan with his personal guards to execute all the Liangshan heroes who went down the city wall without permission to kill good people on the spot to correct Liangshan military discipline.

After this incident, no Liangshan heroes dared to go down the city wall to kill people without permission. They all followed Jiang Hongfei's order to consolidate their positions on the city to prevent the Song army from counterattacking in the city.

But even so, a lot of crimes still happened in Damingfu City that night.

The soldiers of the Song Army did not dare to kill the enemy, but they did not hesitate to kill their own people.

After the army was defeated, more than a hundred officials of the defending army were killed by the defeated army in a short period of time. They also trampled on each other, and the number of dead was unknown.

There were also some defeated soldiers who took the opportunity to plunder the people. They rushed to the houses in the lanes with weapons and armor in hand, and forced the people to take out firewood, rice, wine and food for them to enjoy. Some even stole money and committed all kinds of evil.

Damingfu City has been in peace for a long time, so many ignorant people and idle people have emerged. Most of them usually live in inns, restaurants, bathhouses and shop cabinets, and live in the alleys.

These are people like gangsters who like to take advantage of opportunities to cause trouble and gather people to cause chaos.

When Damingfu City was in danger, these people were recruited by Liang Zhongshu and others and enlisted in the army.

But their habits die hard.

However, because Liang Zhongshu and others wanted to resist the attack of the Liangshan army, they ignored their actions or had no time to interfere, so the soldiers did so.

However, judging from the facts, the Song army and rogues who took advantage of the chaos were still in the minority, and more of the defeated troops ran from the outer city to the inner city together with the common people.

Some people risked jumping into the moat and chose to cross the river to escape, but most of these people drowned in the moat.

Some dignitaries, wealthy gentry, ministers and officials took their wives and children, put on coarse clothes, and hid in ordinary people's homes in the alleys.

Soon, Governor Wang led dozens of officials who were still fulfilling their duties and came to see Jiang Hongfei under white flags.

Jiang Hongfei immediately said: "I and the people in the city are all Han, of the same species. I, the hero of Liangshan, will never do anything to cleanse the city. As long as the chaos is determined, in three days, I will open the city gate and teach those who want to leave the city." When people leave the city, you must pass this on, organize people to put out the fire as soon as possible, and maintain law and order. If you can do your job effectively, I will spare you and your family members from going to the public trial."

Although Jiang Hongfei made no other promises, at this moment, it is not easy to survive. Who dares to ask for more.

Of course Jiang Hongfei would not only count on these officials of the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

In fact, when Jiang Hongfei came to attack Daming Mansion this time, he also brought Wang Lun and a large number of capable officials he carefully selected.

As soon as this chaos calms down, Wang Lun will lead people to take over Daming Mansion.

That night, the snow continued to fall, and the snow was up to a foot deep. The fire on the city wall stayed on all night and burned until dawn.

After dawn, Wang Lun quickly led the officials from Shuibo Liangshan to take over Damingfu City.

In addition, Jiang Hongfei accepted Pei Xuan's suggestion and set up sixteen inspectors, each with one official and one deputy. There are 500 troops in each patrol. If there is a police emergency, a sergeant will lead 250 people to rescue, leaving 250 people to patrol in place. If someone is found making trouble, military law will be used. At the same time, three members of the Metropolitan Patrol were set up to provide an overview of the city patrol.

The purpose of Pei Xuan's suggestion was to prevent villains from causing chaos and maintain order in Damingfu City.

Of course Jiang Hongfei had to adopt such a suggestion.

Through the efforts of the Liangshan heroes, the key is the overwhelming reputation that the Liangshan heroes have accumulated among the poor in the past, which makes most people in Damingfu City willing to obey the command and deployment of the Liangshan heroes.

Therefore, it only took three days for the Liangshan heroes to completely take over Damingfu City.

Jiang Hongfei also kept his word and opened the two city gates. As long as he did not carry valuables or armor, anyone could freely enter and exit Damingfu City.

This undoubtedly made the people in Damingfu City breathe a sigh of relief, and also prevented the people in Damingfu City from going to extremes.

Of course, because Jiang Hongfei opened this hole, many high-ranking officials, wealthy gentry, ministers and literati took this opportunity to escape.

Jiang Hongfei knew this very well. It can also be said that this was a way of survival that Jiang Hongfei gave them in order to prevent these high-ranking officials, wealthy gentry, ministers and scholar-bureaucrats from jumping over the wall in a hurry.

——Seven days later, Jiang Hongfei directly ordered that all the ownerless homes of high-ranking officials, nobles, gentry, ministers, and officials would be confiscated without asking the reason, and he hired people from Daming Mansion as civilian husbands to dig three feet into the ground of these homes to find where they had buried them. of treasures and property.

What was the most important thing in conquering one of the four capitals of the Zhao and Song dynasties?

Needless to say?

Of course it's the inventory of the warehouse.

In fact, after losing Damingfu City to Wang Lun, Jiang Hongfei personally took people to inventory the warehouses to see how much the first harvest of this battle could be?

You know, the main reason why Jiang Hongfei came to attack Daming Mansion in Beijing this time was because there was a shortage of food in Shuibo Liangshan, and there was not enough spiritual money. Even Jiang Hongfei's cultivation resources were almost at the bottom.

Coupled with other reasons that were either important or unimportant, Jiang Hongfei decided to attack Daming Mansion in Beijing.

Moreover, Jiang Hongfei knew very well that after he had done this, the Zhao and Song court would no longer be able to put him behind Tian Hu and Wang Qing as they had done in previous years.

In other words, the good days of Shuibo Liangshan are coming to an end.

In this case, of course Jiang Hongfei had to first see if the gain this time was worth the consequences.

Also, Jiang Hongfei needs to see if this harvest is enough to support the development of Shuibo Liangshan in the future, as well as the huge consumption caused by the war?

The first thing Jiang Hongfei checked was the treasury. It turned out that the total amount of spiritual stones and spiritual money in it was only a few hundred thousand.

Isn’t this the most ridiculous thing in the world and the most ridiculous thing in the world? The majestic Daming Mansion, the richest city of Beijing in the Zhao and Song dynasties, the second richest city in the Zhao and Song dynasties, only had such a small amount of spiritual money? ! A wealthy family with a little bit of money definitely has more than this.

Jiang Hongfei directly called Prefect Wang over and asked what was going on?

Wang Taishou smiled bitterly, and then explained implicitly but clearly that the Liangshan heroes came at the wrong time. Daming Mansion originally had a surplus of more than 5 million yuan this year, half a year's salt tea and other miscellaneous tax revenue, but just before the Liangshan army attacked Daming Mansion. Previously, Liang Zhongshu had just brought five million spiritual stones from the warehouse and said that he was going to honor Zhao Ji and build the Genyue Long Live Mountain.

When it comes to the emperor, who dares to ask for details?

So these five million Spiritual Stones disappeared. No one except Liang Zhongshu knew where these five million Spiritual Stones had gone. Was they dedicated to Zhao Ji?

This is easy to do.

Jiang Hongfei sent Shi Xiu to interrogate Liang Zhongshu.

As a result, Shi Xiu interrogated Liang Zhongshu to death without taking any serious measures. The whereabouts of these five million spiritual stones became a complete mystery.

However, the hero of Liangshan quickly diverted his attention from the five million spiritual stones.

Damingfu is the largest military and economic center in Hebei, and all grain, grass, supplies, and weapons in Hebei must be allocated from Damingfu.

It is precisely because of this that the granary in Daming Mansion alone has 4.5 million shi.

According to the orders of the Zhao and Song Dynasties, the 4.5 million stone granary should be kept full at all times.

But in the past few years, there have been successive years of famine. Jiang Hongfei could guess without looking that it would be good to have half of the 4.5 million stone granary.

Fortunately, this year's 2 million shi of autumn grain from Hebei has just arrived at Damingfu, the distribution center, and has not yet been dispersed.

——A large part of the reason why Jiang Hongfei chose to attack Daming Mansion at this time was because of the two million stones of autumn grain.

Therefore, as soon as the Liangshan Army took control of Daming Mansion, Jiang Hongfei sent Tang Bin and Ma Sanjun to send the two million stones of autumn grain back to Shuibo Liangshan together with the grain boat.

Then, Jiang Hongfei personally checked all the granaries in Daming Mansion one by one, and found a total of 1.8 million shi of grain reserves.

I don’t know if the shortfall of three million shi was resold by Liang Zhongshu and his corrupt officials, or was used for disaster relief in the past two years.

As a robber, Jiang Hongfei would definitely not care about this kind of thing. He had no time to investigate this kind of thing, and there was no need to investigate this kind of thing.

——Anyway, Jiang Hongfei will take away all the money and food of all the dignitaries, gentry, ministers and officials in Daming Mansion. The meat must have rotted in the pot.

In order to fight for the chance of survival, Prefect Wang took the initiative to explain: "My Daming Mansion has three horse prisons. In addition to the heroes occupying Niujiao Gang, our Daming Mansion's Mulongfang is also divided into the first prison and the second prison. The first prison is released There are 4,000 to 4,500 spirit horses. The second prison has 3,000 to 3,500 spirit horses... Our eighteenth square horse prison in the Song Dynasty has nearly 90,000 official horses, and our Daming Mansion accounts for more than 10% …”

Hearing that Governor Wang said that there were more than 8,000 spiritual horses in Daming Mansion, Jiang Hongfei immediately sent Lin Chong and Shi Jin to lead their own troops to retrieve the 8,000 spiritual horses.

Wang Taishou also explained: "The armor storehouse of our Daming Mansion is responsible for the supply of the entire Hebei Imperial Army, the Xiang Army, and the Rural Army. At this time, there are about 50,000 sets of various armors, and a total of more than 200,000 swords, guns, swords and halberds. There are more than 40,000 bows and crossbows..."

Jiang Hongfei interrupted Wang Taishou and said, "Be specific."

Upon hearing this, Prefect Wang immediately said with all his family treasures:

"Not counting those already equipped to the army, there are still 11,233 sets of armor in the warehouse, including 1,550 sets of first-class armor, 3,776 sets of second-class armor, and 3,776 sets of third-class armor. There are 5,907 sets of first-class armor; 19,357 sets of leather armor, including 2,722 sets of first-class rhino armor and 6,350 sets of second-class ox leather armor. , there are 10,284 sets of third-class combined armor; there are about 20,000 sets of paper armor, including more than 8,000 sets of first-class paper armor, and the rest are second- and third-class paper armor."

"There are more than 3,000 first-class weapons, more than 50,000 second-class weapons, and more than 150,000 third-class weapons."

"There are 36,000 ordinary crossbows and 13,000 divine arm bows. In addition, our Daming Mansion also has 187 bed crossbows and 2.7 million bundles of various types of arrows."

"773,500 kilograms of iron bars, more than 103,000 horns, more than 135,000 cow hides, more than 53,000 kilograms of beef tendons, more than 176,000 sheepskins, arrows There are 3.55 million feathers and 5.62 million feathers..."

After listening to Wang Taishou's introduction, the breathing of all Liangshan heroes became rapid, even Jiang Hongfei, Sun Jing, Zhu Wu and other usually relatively stable people were no exception.

At this time, Jiang Hongfei and other Liangshan heroes all had two words in their minds: "It's worth it!!!"

Not to mention the income of those high-ranking officials, wealthy gentry, ministers and officials who will raid the Daming Palace on behalf of Heaven in the future. With only these grains, soldiers and armor, and war preparation resources, the Liangshan hero's trip will be worthwhile!

After calming down his excitement, Jiang Hongfei asked Wang Taishou: "Didn't you just take office? Why do you know so much about Daming Mansion's inventory?"

Prefect Wang did not dare to say: "Because you came to fight, I took inventory of the warehouse overnight. The focus was on food, soldiers and armor, and strategic materials, in order to prepare for a long-term war of resistance."

Taishou Wang could only avoid the important things and said lightly: "When the villain took office, he had just handed over the affairs. A few days ago, he was ordered by Liang Zhongshu to conduct an inventory of each treasury."

Jiang Hongfei nodded and added: "I heard that the prosperity of Daming's sericulture was resounding throughout the Song Dynasty. Even the Khitan people called Daming's Mansion 'Lingjuan Prefecture'. There should be a lot of raw silk and satin stored in the treasury?"

As soon as Prefect Wang heard this, he knew that Jiang Hongfei had come prepared this time and would definitely not be able to fool him. How could he dare to hide his secrets? He quickly handed over all the inventory in Daming Mansion...

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