Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 127 Breakthrough
Pan Mei turned her head and looked in the direction of the man's finger, and saw that the entire city wall of the Yanguan had collapsed, revealing a huge gap six to seven feet wide, where many defenders crowded like ants. Stones and logs are being moved, trying to plug the opening.

"Quick! Follow me to the level!"

Pan Mei jumped on the horse without any hesitation. He couldn't wait to gather more troops, so he only led dozens of soldiers under his command. While shouting loudly, he galloped to the front. Now is the perfect opportunity to break through. As long as the defenders and soldiers blocking the entrance are cleared away, and the opening is held for a while, when a large group of people rushes into the pass city, this mighty pass will be able to go down in one go.

But it was too late.

The defenders of the Southern Han Dynasty did not have time to block the gap, and Pan Mei also did not come to make a contribution. He had just galloped dozens of steps when he heard the sound of hooves in the distance. Auli rushed out suddenly, and rushed straight to the gap in the pass. The knights were brightly armored, burly and majestic, and the momentum was amazing when they galloped. The leader leading the whole team was a red king flag, and a knight under the king flag was wearing a gold The armor is extra eye-catching under the bright sunlight.

Pan Mei was taken aback, she couldn't help slowing down her horse, and rubbing her eyes, only then did she realize that the person who was leading the charge was Tianshui County King Zhao Dezhao himself, and the team he was leading was also his personal cavalry.

The cavalry team led by Zhao Dezhao was hiding in a very tricky location, so that it appeared extremely suddenly. It was obvious that they had prepared for this long ago, and they waited for the city wall to collapse and rushed to Guancheng.They were only three or four hundred steps away from the gap in the Guancheng, much closer than Pan Mei and the others, but in the blink of an eye they had already reached the bottom of the Guancheng, and the Southern Han defenders who were busy blocking the gap suddenly panicked , Half of them fled in an instant, and before the remaining half of the soldiers had time to put down the stones and logs they were carrying, the spear tip of the Song cavalry soldier Leng Sensen had already pierced his chest.

Pan Mei witnessed this scene from a distance and immediately became convinced. Although the Guancheng gap was still being fought over, he knew that this formidable pass must be broken.
By the time Pan Mei led his retinues to rush into Yanguan, Zhao Dezhao had already arrived at the overall situation. The soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty were kneeling all over the pass. The Southern Han army had always been weak. Losing the danger means that the general situation is over, and the soldiers from top to bottom will no longer have the will to fight.

Pan Mei galloped up to Wang Qi, reined in her mount and jumped off the horse. She looked around her surroundings, raised her hand towards Zhao Dezhao, and asked in surprise, "Your Highness, what are you—"

"General Pan wants to ask, how did this king accomplish his meritorious deeds?" Zhao Dezhao smiled slightly, and pointed the whip in his hand towards the gap in the city: "This king calculated with his fingers that the city wall would collapse today, so he was in the city early. A cavalry team lay down in the mountain depression, preparing to break through the pass and break through the city, and only then did they achieve meritorious service in one fell swoop. How does this king's fortune-telling ability compare to the general's fighting ability?"

Pan Mei could only smile wryly, he knew that Zhao Dezhao was making fun of him, but who made him lose the bet?Losers are not qualified to speak.

But deep down in his heart, he really couldn't figure it out. He didn't understand how Zhao Dezhao calculated that Yanguan's walled city would collapse today. Even if he could really tell fortunes and divinations, at most he could only tell good or bad fortune. He had never heard of it. It can also be calculated whether the wall collapses or not.

Zhao Dezhao didn't continue to play tricks, he smiled and explained the reason.

"General Pan, to put it bluntly, it is actually not surprising. The wall of this Guancheng is a rammed earth wall. Our army bombarded it with stone cannons for several days. In fact, there were already cracks inside and outside the wall, but because the base of the wall It's wide enough to hold up, like a big lump of dirt on the ground that won't fall if you don't push it, although the foundation isn't stable."

Pan Mei half-understood, thought for a while and asked: "So after the stone bombs bombarded the city wall, His Highness used the method of water attack to attack the city wall?"

Zhao Dezhao reined in his mount and went around in a circle, with a smile on his face, and nodded.

"That's right, but it's a pity that the city is very solidly built. Even if we stopped the Qinshui River and dug a channel to divert the river water to hit the city wall, we still couldn't break through a hole. Otherwise, our army would have broken through this place ten days ago. Closed. Although it didn't work immediately, it has somewhat shaken the foundation of the wall."

"If flushing doesn't work, then turn on the water?" Pan Mei was not slow-witted, she thought for a while, and immediately understood the key.

"The wall has been cracked, and the foundation of the wall must have been rotten after several days of flooding. At this time, breaking the embankment and releasing water is like pushing the city wall backwards and shaking it outward. How can the city wall still stand? Stable? It is bound to collapse."

After listening to Zhao Dezhao's explanation, Pan Mei showed a look of extreme admiration, but he was quite puzzled in his heart: "I'm afraid that the old officials in the Tokyo Ministry of Industry who have been in charge of water conservancy construction for many years have the same knowledge. You may not understand, this His Highness is a nobleman, he has never worked as a construction craftsman, nor has he held any position in the Ministry of Industry, how does he understand this?"

Of course, he never dreamed that there would be something called a "television" in a few hundred years, which would allow ordinary people to witness the world without leaving home, and at the same time teach people all kinds of bad things. In his previous life, Zhao Dezhao accidentally watched the scene after the flood on TV. There were many old-fashioned houses that stood upright in the water, and they collapsed as the flood receded. Some construction experts explained the scene on TV. principle.At that time, he thought this matter was quite interesting, so he kept some impressions on it, but he never expected that it would actually come in handy.

"Your Highness, the guards are here!"

At this time, Jiang An, Zhao Dezhao's personal captain, led a few soldiers, and escorted a Southern Han general to Zhao Dezhao's horse head. He was Yanguan's guard Liu De.

This man was about thirty years old, covered in mud and in a state of distress, but he didn't seem to be injured. His complexion was somewhat gloomy and depressed as if he had been defeated and captured, but his expression was not humble, and he didn't show it when facing Zhao Dezhao at the moment. The color of begging for mercy.

Sitting on the horseback, Zhao Dezhao looked at the man and nodded secretly.

He had inquired about this opponent from Fang Zhengqi early in the morning, and he knew that he was a relative of Liu Xuan's clan, and he could be regarded as the only warrior with a human appearance in the Liu clan of the Southern Han Dynasty.It was precisely because this person was from the clan that Dajing was able to gain Liu Ying's trust and was able to lead the army to guard the first pass facing the Song army.

(End of this chapter)