On the tenth day of February 19th, when the sky was dark, the Gongji Gate, the north gate of Taiyuan Prefecture City, suddenly opened wide. It scared the Republican cavalry close to the Taiyuan city wall to reconnaissance. He thought the Song army was about to leave the city to fight, so he quickly gathered teams and stopped them.

When I got closer, I realized that something was wrong, because it was not the soldiers and generals of the Song Dynasty who came out, but a group of ordinary people driving cattle and sheep, carrying bamboo baskets, and holding tiles.

What does this mean? Do you want to escape? Go to the west! The north and east are battlefields, and war is about to start at any time. What are you, a group of ordinary people, who are you walking here? Who will be killed by accident?

A team of scout cavalry affiliated to the First Infantry Division (named scout cavalry, but can actually do heavy cavalry work) was led by Lieutenant Zhang Gao, the "second-generation knight", lined up, blocking the group of people suspected of being the elders of Taiyuan.

"Who are you waiting for? Why are you leaving the northern gate of Taiyuan? Where are you going?" A loud-sounding Zhou cavalry shouted and asked loudly without waiting for the people to approach.

At the same time, the other cavalrymen set off on Zhang Gao's command hem to attack the formation. The half-armored knights were all wearing horses and were full of murderous aura. They were so powerful that they were amazing elites at first sight! They scared a group of Taiyuan people.

However, the common people did not escape, but instead introduced an old man with white beards, who was always in his seventies or eighties, looking like a rich man. The old man was not walking, but riding a donkey, supported by two servants beside him, wearing a well-crafted Confucian uniform sewn with high-quality Tianjin cloth, and a Dongpo towel on his head.

With the help of two servants, the old man rode a donkey and staggered towards the cavalry of the Great Zhou Kingdom, and it didn't seem like he was going to fight.

"Dear Grand Marshals," he did not get too close to the vicious cavalry of Zhou State, and he clasped his fists on the back of the donkey and bowed, "I am Wang Shouli, the teacher of Yangqu County, Taiyuan Prefecture. This is a polite person."

The teaching in a county is a worthless sesame official, and is generally awarded a special Jinshi. It is the kind of juren who failed the exams many times. This old man obviously was in this situation. But he was not a big shot, because his ancestors had two Jinshi, and he was a first-class famous family in Taiyuan City. Looking through the genealogy comes from the Wang family in Taiyuan!

Big landlord!

"Teacher Wang," Lieutenant Zhang Gao also bowed, "Where are you going? This is a battlefield, and a war is about to go. You are going to flee to the west."

Seeing Zhang Gao's polite appearance, Old Teacher Wang's tense face also relaxed, and smiled and said, "This Taiwei, there is no need to fight. I am the entrusted by the gentry in Hecheng, Taiyuan Prefecture, and we went out to welcome the royal army."

Welcoming the King's Army? Isn't it meant that our Republican Army? Zhang Gao was stunned for a moment and looked at the people who followed the old teacher out of the city, all holding bamboo pots and wall pots. This is probably the purpose of eating pots and slurry to welcome the King's Army?

"You Taiyuan City is going to surrender?" Zhang Gao asked uncertainly.

"It's not surrender," the old teacher Wang shook his head and said with a smile, "We are here to welcome the King's Army into the city! The bandits of the Great Zhou Tianshang were the weak Song soldiers, not our gentry and people in Hecheng, Taiyuan. Last night, the bandits of the weak Song ran away and washed the city. Now they have fled... So the gentry and the gentry of Hecheng, Taiyuan, discussed for a while and pushed me out of the city to welcome the King's Army."

What? I ran away now? It’s too fast, right? I don’t even give us the chance to chase!

All the Zhou cavalry, including Zhang Gao, were disappointed.

Because Taiyuan is now a "two-city plan", there is also a west city on the west bank of the Fen River, and the east and west cities are connected by floating bridges. There is no second floating bridge on the Fen River near Taiyuan, so it is impossible to cross the ferry and fishing boats. Therefore, when the Song army in the east city of Taiyuan retreated through the floating bridge, the Zhou army outside the city could not pursue it.

They could not even find the retreat of the Song army. Because there was a corridor made of rammed earth walls between the west gate of the east city of Taiyuan and the floating bridge, and there were wooden boards on the floating bridge, it was impossible to visually observe the withdrawal of the Song army.

Moreover, the Song army evacuated at night, and the visibility was not enough.

...

"What? Running?"

"Taiyuan is a strong city, why don't they guard it?"

When Wu Yiyong and his two elders were also a little surprised when they saw Mr. Wang and a group of Taiyuan elders.

They are actually having a headache about attacking Taiyuan City!

Taiyuan is 750 miles away from Yizhou, which was set off by the Hedong Legion, and there is a large section of mountain roads with poor road conditions in the middle. Therefore, the heavy artillery transportation of the siege lags behind the plan. Two siege artillery battalions equipped with 12 jin and 18 jin runs were equipped. Now, they have just entered the Pingxing Pass and cannot reach Taiyuan City in a month.

In fact, not only were the 12-jin and 18-jin cannons not transported, but even the 6-jin field cannons standardized by the Republican Infantry Division were not pulled to the Taiyuan front line. Only the 4-jin cavalry cannons belonging to the Third Cavalry Division had just arrived.

The city walls in Taiyuan are high and thick, and it is unlikely that it will be difficult to collapse the city wall with the 4 kilograms of cavalry cannons that have been transported.

Moreover, Taiyuan not only has Dongcheng, but also a Xicheng located on the other side of the Fen River!

If you rely solely on 4 kilograms of cannons, 6 kilograms of cannons and simple siege equipment, you're afraid you won't be able to hit it for a month.

So Li Xiaozhong and Wu Yiyong both thought that they could not conquer Taiyuan for the time being, and they were all ready to go around the city. As a result, they welcomed the Republican Army...

"Reply to the words of the two Grand Marshals," he was already regarded as guests of honor and invited to a fortress on Dongshan. When he heard the two generals of the Great Zhou Tianshang soldiers ask questions, he quickly touched his white beard and answered, "The weak Song bandits have long been scared by the Great Zhou Tianshang soldiers. How dare they fight?

Besides, the people of Taiyuan have never been weak in Song. Since the founding of the Northern Frontier of the Great Zhou Kingdom, they have been looking at the king's army north. Now they have finally seen each other, and they have been able to join them. If the king's army attacks the city, the people will be in the inner world. If the weak Song bandits do not leave, they will be in trouble with internal and external forces and will be wiped out."

Is there such a thing?

Li Xiaozhong and Wu Yiyong looked at each other, and they were a little unbelievable.

"Two Grand Marshals," said the old teacher Wang at this time, "I have something that is not very clear. Can you ask?"

"May I ask." Wu Yiyongdao.

"Does my Great Zhou Dynasty want to open a vocational school to win a scholar and not to suppress the merger?" asked Old Man Wang.

This is the most important issue! The scholars and officials in Hedong don’t care who is the emperor. They only care about whether there is an imperial examination to take the exam and whether they can continue to occupy land and collect rent...

"Oh," Wu Yiyong nodded, "The Chinese government decided to hold the imperial examination on Hedong Road, and the trial will be held within the year. Those who pass the examination can go to Tianjin for the tenth year of the Republic, and will go to Tianjin next year to participate in the Ministry of Rites."

When I heard that there was an imperial examination for the exam, the several Confucian scholars present dressed in Taiyuan literati and officials were a little excited.

Taiyuan in the Song Dynasty was no more than Taiyuan in the Tang Dynasty. It declined significantly in all aspects and its literary style was even less prosperous. The number of Jinshi was the last among the dozen or so prefectures in the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, the Taiyuan Juren has been miserable in the imperial examination competitions over the years, and is even worse than many counties in Jiangnan.

A Jinshi who is a true scholar who is in Taiyuan is like a god!

And this time the imperial examination was held in the Great Zhou Dynasty, which was undoubtedly an opportunity for the talents from Taiyuan.

The Great Zhou Dynasty will not be able to fight Jiangnan for a while, right? This means that the Ministry of Rites Examination in Tianjin will not have Jiangnan’s disciples participating in it. Maybe there will be no Henan disciples. At most, it will be Hebei and Hedong disciples with literary talent.

Now, why should all Taiyuan Prefecture produce a group of Jinshi?

Wu Yiyong said again: "As for land annexation, our country has not suppressed it. Private land can always be traded freely."

The land of the cavalry is granted to the knights, and the land of the cavalry is state-owned land, and the cavalry only has the right to use. Moreover, they exchange the obligation to join the army for the right to use. In order to ensure the quantity and quality of the source of troops, the state must of course stipulate that the right to use the land shall not be transferred, nor shall it be inherited by the property.

In Zhou State, private land has always had the right to dispose of freely.

The so-called suppression of mergers is mainly achieved through the vast majority of state-owned land, rather than by prohibiting the transfer of private land.

Wu Yiyong said again: "As for the land issue in Taiyuan Prefecture, I and General Li are officers, and I will not ask about it. Later, local officials appointed by the Republican government will come to deal with it. If you don't understand, please ask them.

However, I know that our country's government recognizes the land ownership rights of the landlord in BingDai Road."

Li Xiaozhong said again: "Old sir, can we send troops into Taiyuan City now?"

"Yes, yes... The people of Taiyuan have long been preparing to greet each other, eat and drink slurry to welcome the king's army!"

...

The change of ownership of Taiyuan City was not seen in the military newspapers of the Great Zhou Republic, but the harmonious scene of Taiyuan people cheering and welcoming the royal army.

But in the memorial presented by Liu Guangshi, the commander of the Hedong Xuanfu Department, was a bloody battle that shocked the world and wept the ghosts and gods!

In this battle, Zhou Jun used a giant cannon weighing ten thousand kilograms, and the projectiles weighed 30 kilograms! And he also used a giant flowering bullet that would explode with gunpowder! That was really a one-shot of more than ten miles!

Under the bombardment of cannons, the walls of Taiyuan collapsed, countless houses in the city were destroyed, officers, soldiers and people were killed and injured, and the explosion of the flowering bullets fired again, burning half of Taiyuan City into white land, and the grain and gunpowder reserve coefficient of the defenders in the city was burned. He had to use hand-to-hand combat to resist the fierce attacks of the 100,000 Eastern thieves, and finally they were all killed and injured, and had to break through... Now, Liu Guangshi, the commander of the Hedong Xuanfu Department, has led his troops to retreat across the Yellow River, enter Shaanxi to rest, and prepare to recruit troops to replenish them, and then fight back to Hedong. In any case, he will fight with the Eastern thieves to the death!

So Liu Guangshi's determination is commendable. The soldiers of the Hedong Army also looked quite brave, but this cannot change such a reality - Hedong Road will soon be penetrated by the East Pirates!
Chapter completed!