Chapter 410

Li Nong was never a decisive person. He also knew that he was easily influenced by personal feelings. For a long time, it was easy to hesitate that led to the division of the begging army. Now he is in a situation where he can't advance or retreat.

Wang Mo was prompted by Li Nong's eyes before he opened his mouth: "what conditions did the king of Han offer?"

Ran min told him bluntly: "the troops disarmed in situ, and generals including Li Gong went to fenggao."

"Dao Zu and fish?" Wang Mo made an absurd expression and said, "the king of Han is really..."

"This is the reality." Ran min looked at Li Nong, In the tone of an insider: "There are more than 300000 people under Li Nong's command. How many can fight? No more than 50000. You lack weapons, enough warm clothes, and even food and fodder. If you fight against opponents with similar conditions, you can naturally rely on a spirit of bravery, but you face the Han army with excellent armor and equipment and more fierce and fearless of death."

Li Nong doesn't need to say more empty words. The reality of the Qi Huo army is like what ran Min said. It can even be said that the conditions have never been better. He couldn't help looking at the Han Army that had stopped, seeing that people and horses were all equipped with armor and riding gear, and then seeing that people and horses were equipped with plate armor, the forbidden guards behind didn't see and knew that they were basically equipped with armor.

The Han Army really had excellent weapons and armor. It was not so well equipped with silver guns and wax heads. This is a fact that has been shown in wars again and again in recent years. Anyone who faces it will feel deep pressure.

"Forever." Li Nong said sadly, "we are not without the ability to resist. The king of Han underestimated us."

"Li Gong, it seems that you really don't know what kind of opponent you are facing." Ran Min has begun to pull the reins, turning the horse's head and saying, "in the end, we still have to do one."

The begging army from Taocheng had arrived. They didn't move forward until they were signaled by Li Nong. They waited for ran min to take people away. The begging army came forward and hugged Li Nong and Wang Mo back to the city.

"The king of the Han Dynasty really went too far. It was clearly forced to surrender, not to surrender!" In fact, Wang Mo is more inclined to change his flag to the Han state. After all, ran Min has given a good example, but Liu Yan's response is really exaggerated. He asked Li Nong reluctantly, "what should we do?"

"It seems that it is necessary to have a fight so that the state of Han will no longer underestimate us." Li Nong was in a wandering position. He knew he couldn't fight, but he didn't want to completely depend on others. He said, "it's just... The Han army is really difficult to deal with, especially in the field."

Li Nong was frightened when he thought that there were 5000 armour mounted cavalry. He was not a fledgling young man. He knew very well what would happen to the mounted heavy cavalry in the field with flat terrain. In particular, fighting with the mounted heavy cavalry with infantry who couldn't stand in array was just looking for death.

The number of armor mounted cavalry equipment represents how powerful the national strength is. Shi Hu integrates the strength of the whole country to arm 3000 armor mounted iron cavalry and 8000 heavy infantry. It is precisely because of the existence of dragon guards that the Jie nationality has become a solid overlord in the Central Plains. Looking at Liaodong, Murong Xianbei, armed with 3000 armour riding gear, immediately swept the whole Liaodong, including the surrounding areas.

"Under Yongzeng's command, there are 3000 armour riding gear." In fact, Li Nong didn't understand how ran min did it. He just said, "in this way, the king of Han has 8000 armour cavalry and even tens of thousands of heavy infantry?"

According to people at this time, as long as they wear iron armor, they can be regarded as warriors. People and horses wear heavy armor, which can also be called armor riding gear. Armour is better armed, that is, armour and riding equipment should not only have excellent knights, but also have tall and excellent horses.

It should be said that today's world should be the best time for war horses in the Central Plains, It not only owns the dwarf horse (Mongolian horse) on the grassland, but also the Dawan horse and Wusun horse brought from the western regions, and even the hot-blooded horse from Central Asia (Arabian horse). The variety of horses is far beyond the past dynasties, and the number is even beyond people's imagination. That's why the Jin army in the East is well equipped, but it is difficult to go north. The Jin army is often faced with a large number of Hu cavalry.

Qihuo army also has cavalry. It is a relatively elite group of qihuo army, all for the rest of their lives. Some of their leaders were summoned by Li Nong and asked if they had the confidence to fight the Han Army outside the city.

"You can't fight head-on." Li cunxiao already knew the conditions offered by the state of Han, and his heart was a gloomy feeling: "there is no space for guerrilla warfare..."

Now it's the Han Army attacking and the living army guarding. As a general on the side of qihuo army, no one wants to go out of the city and fight with heavily armed cavalry. If you defend, it seems that you can defend. What is the value of defending?

The qihuo army is at the most contradictory moment, and the Han army is not sitting and watching a play.

The day after ran min arrived in Taocheng, when the Han army opened the camp again, you could see instruments such as crossbows, stone catapults and ladders to climb the city, as opposed to about 3000 infantry.

"Li Gong." Miao song didn't go back. At the moment, he was standing at the gate of Taocheng and making a final effort: "the dangerous city is not guarded, and the military heart is floating and can't fight. Moreover, once there is a real war... I'm afraid... I'm afraid there will be unpredictable consequences."

Miao song wandered around Taocheng yesterday and fully knew what the current situation of the Qi Huo army was like.

After a winter, at least the beggars in Taocheng are in a very difficult situation. Frozen corpses can often be seen on the roadside, and most people can also see that they are skinny under the condition of lack of food and clothing. It seems that only some soldiers look better, but in fact they are not much better.

"Duke Li, why shed unnecessary blood and cause unnecessary death and injury?" Miao song had seen the crossbows outside the city installing crossbows and arrows on the top chord, and the stone catapult was also twisting the winch to guard against stone bullets: "my lord belongs to the king of Han. He has not killed anyone inexplicably. He has been properly placed!"

The Han Army has begun to move. The first test firing of the bed crossbow left the string. The crossbow should be one foot long. It flew for a distance and inserted into the rammed earth wall. It must have caused a certain vibration to the wall section, resulting in the exclamation of the soldiers of the begging Army in that section.

"The king of Han didn't say what treatment to give." Li Nong looked quite calm and said, "I'm not afraid of being imprisoned or killed. I've always tried my best to win treatment for those who follow me. How can I not make any efforts?"

A very loud bow and string sound came from the Han Army, a series of broken air sounds sounded, and there were continuous collision sounds and tragic cries from the wall.

After the crossbow was the catapult, so that the general of the defending begging army had to order to give up the defense temporarily and let people take refuge under the city wall.

The Han Army did not attack the tower, so that a group of people, including Li Nong, could stand here and watch the Han Army outside the city.

The three thousand soldiers of the Han Army pushed forward to about 150 steps. A "Shua" sound rang through, and a "dark cloud" rose from the ground to the sky. It was a dense number of crossbows and arrows that were shot out. Soon, there was a dense sound of bumps on the city wall, and the covered city wall was filled with crossbows and arrows.

In almost half an hour, although there was no garrison on the wall, the Han Army's various long-range attack weapons were constantly demonstrated, but it did not climb the city.

At the beginning, the general and Colonel of the qihuo army on the side of the city tower would still talk. He saw that there was no one in the middle. Most of them are right to fight for half their lives, but it is the first time to see the continuous coverage of such powerful multiple long-range attack means as today.

Suddenly, a dull noise came from the city wall, and then the city wall that was constantly hit by stone bullets collapsed. A series of movements brought dust rolling.

Li Nong whispered, "the reinforced gap can't stand repeated bombardment and collapsed..."

In the final analysis, the qihuo army is not a regular army. Their means of repairing the gap is only to re tamp the soil. In winter, it is rain and snow. After a period of rainy weather, the newly repaired gap has no time to dry, let alone form a fit with the old city wall.

The collapsed city wall looks not small. After the dust dissipates, should it be nearly four feet wide?

The movement on this side of the city wall spread to the city, and bursts of screams came from a distance. It seemed that a riot had occurred.

The people in the city are really confused, upset, but no one runs around. After all, they all have long experience in fighting with the army, but exclamation and Howling are really unavoidable.

"Surrender?" Li Nong looked at his subordinates and saw their faces full of iron and fear: "come down."

When no one spoke, Miao song's relieved voice was particularly obvious.

Li Nong looked as if he was ten years old and said in a lonely voice: "it is not a crime of war, but a war without war."

It was Shi Hu who threw the Qi Huo army to the South Bank of the Yellow River. Li Nong didn't believe that Shi Hu didn't know what the Qi Huo army looked like. Not to mention the lack of armor and equipment, even food and fodder were very scarce. But in this way, Shi Hu also threw the Qi Huo army to the South Bank of the Yellow River. Li Nong didn't know whether Shi Hu trusted the Qi Huo army or threw it away like a piece of garbage.

The apricot yellow flag was raised above the Peach City, and the tightly closed gate was opened. Li Nong was the first to walk, followed by a group of generals of the begging army.

Ran min, who received the news, didn't play tricks. He came to the front to meet Li Nong personally. Seeing Li Nong full of vicissitudes of life, he comforted: "chaotic times make people have too many involuntarily, and sometimes passive acceptance can't be avoided."

Li Nong really didn't know that ran min could say such a thing. He looked at ran min with no look and asked hoarsely, "Yongzeng, what will the king of Han deal with us?"

"Those who can fight should be incorporated, and those who cannot fight should be resettled separately." In fact, ran min also had a lot of feelings. The fall of Li Nong's group was tantamount to begging the living army to withdraw from the stage of history. He squeezed out a smile: "Li Gong, but please be at ease. Now it is the time for the king to employ people. It is uncertain that Min will soon be able to ride the battlefield side by side with Gong."

Li Nong's response was a bitter smile.

Xie an, who stood quietly aside, suddenly asked, "Duke Li, you are willing to come to the South Bank of the Yellow River. I'm afraid you have made a decision at the beginning?"

Ran min was stunned. He quickly reacted and thought, "indeed, Li Nong is not a reckless man. He doesn't know what will happen after crossing the river. He just twists and turns behind, which really suits him."

Li Nong still smiled bitterly.

There are already Han troops entering the city. Li Tan is at the forefront of the whole army entering the city. What he sees is people standing on both sides of the road in cold weather but not wrapped in clothes. Those people don't have much emotion, but just stand quietly and wait and see.

First, the Han Army entered the city, followed by a steady stream of carriages. Auxiliary soldiers set up pots and tools to find firewood. Soon, bursts of rice fragrance spread throughout the city. When waiting for people to queue up to get rice porridge, bursts of cheers immediately rang out in the city.

Li Nong heard the happy cheers from Taocheng in the camp of the Han Army, but the bitterness on his face did not reduce at all. He said with emotion to ran min, who knelt down in front of him: "I haven't heard such cheers for a long time."

"The material abundance of the Great Han is beyond imagination. The king has never been stingy with the people." Ran min had no sense of righteousness. He looked at Li Nong attentively and asked, "Duke Li, min Ke wrote a letter to the king, but he didn't know what the general will be like?"

"Once upon a time, cutting first and then playing later is not what a minister can do." Li Nong shook his head and said, "come again, I don't want to meet the king of heaven on the battlefield."

It turned out that ran min took all the responsibility. He said that Li Nong could be brought to Puyang battlefield first, and then he wrote a letter to explain to Liu Yan.

However, ran min looked down on Li Nong's sentimentality. He was willing to fight for Li Nong or look at his past friendship. Seeing Li Nong's firm attitude, he stopped mentioning it and began to talk about the past, but he didn't have much to talk about.

It is a good thing for the Han country to force down the begging army entrenched in Jibei county without war. It can save time and increase the population of about 300000 at the same time.

Liu Yan, who was in fenggao, received the news that Li Nong led the army to surrender three days later. At this time, the news that the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was really gathering on a large scale was delivered a day earlier.

Not only did the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty act, but Sun Fudu's headquarters and Shijie Zhao Jun in Chenliu county and Liang county also began to agitate. It seems that Shi Hu knew that the Han parliament sent troops north from Yuzhou.

"Since the enemy troops in those positions move first, the first battle after spring will be in the south." Liu Yan was standing in front of the mountain map. He looked at a lot of places and glanced frequently at Jiankang: "the mobilization of servants from the army is in place?"

One winter, the Han Dynasty reorganized 200000 slaves as servants and sent them to the Yangtze River in batches, mostly along the Huainan line and Yingshui line.

Wang Meng quickly checked the papers, carefully identified them, and then replied, "Your Majesty, 120000 servants have arrived."

Liu Yan nodded first and touched his chin behind him. He seemed to be asking and talking to himself: "what gave the small court so much courage that it really wanted to go north?"