Li Yue's way of winning people's hearts is, in a sentence now, to fight local tyrants and divide land; In the feudal era, the land was in the hands of the landlords, Li Yue's policy was tantamount to offending the landlord class in the entire Sichuan and Shu regions, and the land was the lifeblood of the landlords.
Li Yue led the 200,000 troops all the way from Weicheng to Chengdu, and there were basically no obstacles along the way, although those landlords and nobles had the intention to resist, but when they saw the army under Li Yue's command, they lost the confidence to resist, and the confrontation with the Xia army was tantamount to a dead end; For them, Li Yue has no action for the time being, and the most important thing for Li Yue now is to take over the entire complete land of Sichuan and Shu.
"Dashuai, fifty miles further is Chengdu Mansion."
A general said to Li Yue.
This person's name is Fang Kui, he is a general of the Song army, Fang Kui's hometown is in Chengdu Mansion, and the Fang family is still a big family in Chengdu Mansion, Fang Kui surrendered to Li Yue for a reason, it is nothing more than to take a fancy to Li Yue's power, and Fang Kui's surrender has also been promised by Li Yue that Li Yue of the Fang family will be properly protected, and Li Yue is also doing this in order to control the entire land of Sichuan and Shu as soon as possible.
"The herald ordered the army to camp thirty miles outside the city."
Li Yue immediately ordered: "Fang Kui, you go to Chengdu Mansion on behalf of Ben Shuai, and ask the officials and people in the city to surrender to Ben Shuai, otherwise there will be no chickens and dogs left after the city is broken." ” "Yes, the last general commands" Fang Kui immediately took the military order.
In the face of the 200,000 menacing Xia army, the entire Chengdu Mansion was trembling; Chengdu has been the political, economic and cultural center of Sichuan and Shu since ancient times, and the control of Chengdu can basically control the entire land of Sichuan and Shu, although Chengdu is located in the west of the Sichuan Basin, but it is in the hinterland of the Chengdu Plain, with flat terrain, vertical and horizontal river network, rich products and developed agriculture, and it is an important grain-producing area and rich land in the Great Song Dynasty; Chengdu was the world's leading metropolis at that time, and the splendid scenery was even more famous all over the world.
Although the world is in turmoil all year round, the war has never affected the land of Sichuan and Shu, and it is still a scene of the country of abundance; After the Jiangnan region was hit hard by Li Qing, the king of Yan, the land of Sichuan and Shu became one of the most important tax places in the Great Song Dynasty, from Sichuan and Shu to the south of the Yangtze River, all of them were trough ships that transported baggage, and the reason why the Great Song Dynasty was able to continue to confront the Great Xia Empire was that the land of Sichuan and Shu continued to transfuse blood to the Great Song Dynasty.
Standing outside Chengdu, Li Yue looked at the outer city of Chengdu Mansion with a telescope; The city walls of the entire Chengdu Mansion are built very strong and tall, and there are many private houses outside the city, which are obviously expanded outside the city due to the lack of land in the city, and the scale of the entire Chengdu Mansion is no less than that of the imperial capital of the Great Xia Empire and the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, Jiangning Mansion.
Li Yue looked at the city and muttered, "This city will be mine sooner or later." ” After saying that Fang Kui came to the gate of Chengdu Mansion, Fang Kui shouted loudly to the city: "Open the city gate, open the city gate quickly." ” "Who is under the city," the general guarding the city asked Fang Kui.
Fang Kui replied: "I am Fang Kui, the envoy of the Xia Army, don't open the city gate yet." ” As soon as I heard that it was the general of the Xia army's envoy guarding the city, he didn't dare to have any slackness, the north gate of Chengdu Mansion was slowly opened, and Fang Kui immediately entered the city with more than a dozen guards.
Fangfu is located in the west of the city, the Fang family is also a family in Chengdu Mansion, many children of the Fang family are also officials in Sichuan and Shu, before coming back, Fang Kui has already written with his family.
After entering the house, Fang Kui immediately shouted, "Dad, Dad, I'm back." ” "Young master, you're back, the master and all the uncles are waiting in the lobby, you can go quickly," the butler said to Fang Kui.
When Fang Kui heard this, he immediately walked quickly to the lobby, Fang Kui came to the lobby and saw that the elders of the Fang family had basically arrived, Fang Kui immediately saluted everyone and said, "Child Fang Kui to meet my father, uncles." ” "Qui'er, get up," said Fang Kui, sitting above the throne; Fang Yuan is Fang Kui's father and the leader of the Fang family; Although Fang Yuan is not an official, he still has a lot of say in Chengdu Mansion.
After Fang Kui sat down, Fang Yuan asked Fang Kui: "Kui'er, you have just come back from the Xia army, quickly tell your father how the situation is in the Xia army, and whether this Chengdu Mansion can hold it." ” Hearing Fang Yuan's words, Fang Kui was surprised that he was able to stuff a duck egg with a big mouth, Fang Kui asked Fang Yuan, "Dad, what do you mean by this?"
Fang Yuan said to Fang Kui: "Kui'er, for my father and Lord Thorn Shi, as well as the patriarch of the big family in the city have discussed, if possible, to prevent the Xia army from entering the city, for this reason has urgently recruited 100,000 troops in the city, Chengdu Mansion has sufficient food and grass, countless ordnance to defend the city, it is not a problem to arm 100,000 troops, with these 200,000 troops, and the number of Xia troops outside the city will not be constant, forgive him, Xia troops will not be able to enter the city." ” "Dad, the number of people who can measure the practicality of this war and combat can be measured."
Fang Kui's face was full of black lines, and Fang Yuan said: "Chengdu Mansion doesn't say that there are 200,000 troops, even if there are 500,000 troops, they can't stop the attack of the Xia army. ” "Virtuous nephew, what you said is a bit alarmist, right?"
At this time, a person wearing an official uniform walked in from outside the lobby, and this person was Chengdu Thorn Shi Cui Gan.
Cui Gan is a pure literati, and he is an expert in governing the country, but he knows nothing about marching and fighting; Seeing Cui Gan come in, everyone saluted Cui Gan; Fang Kui stood up and said to Cui Gan: "Lord Cui, it's definitely not a junior, among the more than 200,000 troops of the Xia army, although 180,000 are soldiers of the Song army, but in just half a month, Li Yue has already been able to pack up the clothes, not to mention the tens of thousands of elite Xia troops; I still say the same thing, marching and fighting is not measured by numbers, even if there are no tens of thousands of elite Xia troops, just these 180,000 soldiers, these improvised patchwork troops in Chengdu Mansion are not their opponents, not to mention, these tens of thousands of Xia troops still have excellent red-coated cannons and bird guns, Chengdu Mansion's city defense seems to be strong and tall, but it is still vulnerable in front of the Xia army's artillery; Before I came, Li Yue, the commander of the Xia army, once asked me to say a word to you, after the city is broken, there will be no chickens and dogs, where should you go, you had better discuss it quickly, the marshal outside the city does not have such a good temper; By the way, Li Dashuai also said that if Lord Assassin Shi and the people in the city can surrender, Li Dashuai promises not to move you at all."
"Virtuous nephew, is that really what Li Dashuai said," one person asked Fang Kui.
"Of course."
Fang Kui said to everyone: "But you must show your sincerity at that time, anyway, one is wealth, the other is life, you weigh it yourself, according to my speculation, if you don't give a reply today, tomorrow the Xia army is estimated to attack the city." ”: