Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 227 Mutation
Starting from the next day, the Northern Han Army once again launched a brutal siege, with great intensity and determination.

It went on for three consecutive days with high intensity.

The corpses of the Northern Han army were piled up everywhere under the city. Zhao Yuanzuo used Zhao Dezhao's strategy and ordered the soldiers to smear gold juice on the arrowheads and stuff fine iron filings into the fire oil pot.

The sergeants of the Northern Han Dynasty who were injured and splashed became wounded even if they did not die, and the wounds could not heal for a long time because of gold juice, iron filings, etc. Those injured soldiers of the Northern Han Dynasty lived in pain and irritability every day.

And because there are many wounded, it not only affects morale, but also causes a lot of waste of manpower and material resources.

Since the start of the war, the Northern Han Army has lost a total of 6 horses.

The 5000 Song Army under Zhao Yuanzuo also suffered [-] casualties.

Both parties were in a state of high anxiety.

It can be said that everyone has reached the point of exhaustion, it depends on who can persist and who can last longer.

Both Zhao Yuanzuo and Liu Youhu knew that the most pressing issue was of course the Northern Han Dynasty.

The 30 army is consuming a lot of food, grass and other supplies every day, and the war now has long exceeded the time and casualties they envisioned before the war.

In order to survive, a large amount of grain and grass materials were transported to the front line every day in the Northern Han Dynasty.

However, it has become more and more unbearable. After all, there are more people in the Northern Han Dynasty, and some people have begun to starve to death.

If it weren't for the casualties of [-] soldiers and a lot of rations left, Liu Youhu would not be able to hold on now.

"No! It seems that a big move is going to be made. Come! Arrange arrows and go to the city to release arrows at night!"

At night, tens of thousands of archers from the Northern Han Dynasty fired arrows into the city.

Knowing that Song Jun will hide and will not suffer any substantial harm, why do they still do this.

The next day, the soldiers and civilians in the city knew the answer.

It turns out that the 10,000+ arrows shot by the Northern Han army into the city did not have arrowheads, but letters of persuasion, copper coins, and even some precious treasures.

Liu Youhu figured it out, if he can't win Shuiluo City in this battle, he won't be able to reach Da Song's city, and he won't be able to grab Da Song's food and grass to save his life.

For the Northern Han Dynasty, this was a battle of fate, a battle of life and death.

I can't save my life, and the country is about to be wiped out. What's the use of keeping money at that time.

So he launched an undisguised psychological war.

The soldiers and civilians of the Song Dynasty, as long as they are willing to surrender to the Northern Han Dynasty, high-ranking officials and rich salary, money and beautiful women, you can choose.

Even unnamed civilians will get money and land after surrender.

At the same time, Liu Youhu slaughtered cattle and horses wantonly outside Shuiluo City, so he asked the sergeants to sit around the city far away and eat barbecue.

For the Northern Han army, it was because there was no food in the army that they killed cattle and horses to fill up the army food.

But for the soldiers and civilians of Song Dynasty in the city, it was just the opposite.

Since Zhao Yuanzuo was fully prepared, he searched for food from the first day here to the last moment before the war, so the city has not run out of food yet, but the meat has been running out for many days.

The meat stored in the city was eaten for three days, and all the poultry and livestock in the city were killed and eaten for another day. After that, corn bread and pickles were eaten every day.No more meat.

The smell of barbecue from the Northern Han Army outside the city wafted into the city, making everyone's stomachs growl and salivate.

So under the lure of money and beauties, high-ranking officials and rich salary, and even the smell of meat, some people really began to brew rebellion.

That night, a group of sergeants from the Tiger Guard Camp on the left side of the Zhongwu Army gathered in the camp to discuss the rebellion.

The battalion commander Fan Hui took the lead, along with Zhang Liang and Liu Yuancun, both leaders.

The Zhongwu Army consisted of 8 people, divided into the left, middle and right chambers, under which there were ten armies, each with 500 soldiers, and the commander was the army commander.

There are five battalions under the army, each battalion has 500 people, and the commander is the battalion commander.

There are five capitals under the battalion, each with 100 people, and the commander is the capital.

There are two teams under each, and the commander is the team leader.

Fan Hui was the commander of the Tiger Guard Battalion, but he couldn't guarantee that the entire battalion would rebel with him.

But Zhang Liang and Liu Yuancun both have heads, and Fan has always been the only one to follow.

The three of them contacted trusted sergeants overnight, and they gathered a total of [-] people.Swallowing blood for an alliance, and preparing to look for an opportunity to launch a rebellion the next day.

The sequence of actions was also agreed upon:
"Zhang Liang! You take the Bendu sergeant to catch the young prince Zhao Yuanzuo, Liu Yuancun! You take the Bendu sergeant to catch that old eunuch Wang Jien."

Fan Hui said, "Tomorrow night, I happen to be guarding the north city gate, and I will lead other people to take down the city gate. At that time, I will give an order, and Kaicheng and Beihan will join together. With Zhao Yuanzuo and Wang Jien, it is expected that we will get mixed up. It’s okay to be a high-ranking official with a generous salary.”

"Commander! Not only that, at least you can get beautiful women and money."

"Where! But when the time comes, I'm sure I won't be just a commander anymore, you should at least call me General Fan, and you won't be Liu Dutou then, at least you should be a commander, hahaha..."

Several people laughed obscenely.

Of course, these are all their own thoughts.

For some reason, intentionally or not, these people automatically skipped another big BOOS in Shuiluo City, which is the Jiedushi of the Zhongwu Army, the inspector Taiwei, and Gao Huaide!
Gao Huaide is the number one force value among the founding generals of the Song Dynasty.Along with Cao Bin, Shi Shouxin, etc., they are listed as the founding generals.

He is also a general with the highest military rank.

He has a detached position in the Song army.He has always been admired by the soldiers and civilians of the Song Dynasty.

So much so that even though Fan Hui and the others made up their minds to rebel against the Northern Han Dynasty, they did not dare to think about Gao Huaide.

It was precisely because of Gao Huaide's prestige in the Zhongwu Army that someone immediately informed Gao Huaide of Fan Hui and others' plan to rebel.

The next night, it was the time for Fan Hui and his troops to guard the north gate.

He stood on the top of the city, standing high and looking far away, he couldn't stop looking in the direction of Zhao Mansion and Wang Mansion in the city.

At midnight, several firecrackers suddenly exploded in the sky above the Zhao Mansion and the Wang Mansion, instantly lighting up the sky of Shuiluo City.

Fan Hui looked up to the sky and smiled, waved his hand and said, "It's done!"

I hurried down the tower and was about to give the order to open the city. Suddenly there was the sound of horse hooves and a dozen horses galloped towards me.

Seeing the blurry figure immediately, Fan waved his head and became dizzy, "It's over! It's revealed!"

Before he could react, Gao Huaide was in a hurry, and in an instant he was in front of him. He raised the knife and chopped off Fan Hui's head.

A group of sergeants appeared from behind and slaughtered all of Fan Hui's men without leaving any trace behind.

Regaining control of the city gate, Gao Huaide ordered his cronies and generals to guard the city gate at every step, and he mentioned rushing to the Zhao Mansion.

He has arranged for his two sons to rescue Zhao Yuanzuo and Wang Jien respectively.

Before arriving at the Zhao Mansion, the eldest son Gao Chugong was also surprised.

There were bloodstains outside the gate of the mansion, Dutou Zhang Liang had already been beheaded to the ground, but it was not Gao Gaogong who did it.

It turned out that Zhao Yuanzuo had been on guard for a long time, so he shot Zhang Liang himself and killed Zhang Liang on the spot.

Gao Huaide took a breath.

It seems that I have come at the right time. If I don't come, I will definitely be in bad luck, very bad luck!
(End of this chapter)