Chapter 195 Array Siege
Although the King of Yan could not see the movements of the domestic city, he could roughly guess the situation. The siege of the city will cause prices to rise over time, and the consequences of food shortages are beyond the reach of ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad. As for whoever felt the most about this in the Jin Dynasty, it must be His Royal Highness Changsha during the Eight King Rebellion. The biggest reason for his death is that some people around him think that Luoyang can no longer hold on.
The winter is long, and Sima Ji's biggest hobby is writing letters, including memorials to Luoyang, private messages to the royal family and letters to Youzhou. Of course, the tone of speaking in different types of letters is completely different. Of course, the memorials to the court are about to break the city, and Goguryeo is just around the corner.
You don’t have to be polite to keep the letters to the royal family and princes. The whole article is full of complaints. A few major princes can feel it thousands of miles away. Sima Ji’s resentment in the ice and snow was simply out of paper.
The most common one is to write letters to the Yan Prince's Mansion. After all, my daughter was just born, so I could still write a few letters to comfort her. The final result was that Sima Ji's calligraphy level has risen sharply recently.
As for where he wrote the letters, and where he was fake, they were all true and fake. This is just different aspects of his siege and war, and it is not surprising that he said different things to different people.
With a comparison of memorials to the court and private messages to the royal family, Luoyang's view of the situation of the King of Yan will become more fixed. He is unwilling to withdraw his troops, but he will not be able to conquer the domestic city in a short period of time, and he will be in a dilemma. This is also the impression Sima Ji wants to give Luoyang. There is no doubt that he doesn't care about how Luoyang thinks of himself. As long as he can enter the Northeast and have time to manage himself, as long as he doesn't catch up with a talented and strategic ruling leader, he will not be afraid of anyone.
In addition to class stance, the most important thing to maintain contact with the royal family is to keep the news flowing. He can judge the mobilization within the court and compare what Jia Nanfeng thought based on history.
From the comparison of current military towns, among the five most important military towns, there are Sima Yong, King of Hejian, Sima Xu, King of Fanyang, Ma Xin, and Ma Xin of Xinye Company. Guanzhong is Sima Jian, King of Qin, and Sima Yun, King of Huainan. The first three are distant relatives of the royal family, and the latter two are Sima Yan's son and the younger brother of the current emperor.
The biggest advantage of this arrangement is that it prevents the royal family from being united. In fact, if the royal family of the Jin Dynasty is united, its strength will far exceed any force. Whether it is the auxiliary minister headed by Zhang Hua or the aristocratic family represented by Wang Rong, they are not opponents, and Jia Nanfeng is also included.
The power of the royal family is the same as before, and the weaknesses of the royal family are still in a mess. After the death of King Sima Liang of Runan and King Sima Wei of Chu, no one has enough prestige to guide the royal family, so these five major vassal states are temporarily on the sidelines.
It can be imagined that what Jia Nanfeng was most worried about was that there were people in the royal family who had responded to the power from her. The biggest source of danger was that the two were the two kings and princes of Sima Yan's sons, Sima Yun, who had heavy troops in their hands since the death of King Chu. Because the King of Chu died of a bad life, both of them were guarding against Jia Nanfeng. The King of Huainan was fine, at least he dared to leave Huainan and go to Luoyang for no reason. The King of Qin would not leave Chang'an at all.
Therefore, Sima Ji did not envy the rewards of King Hejian and King Fan Yang, and was completely calm. It seemed as if he never knew this. Once there was a very powerful prince in the royal family, the situation of the prince would be very dangerous. Sima Ji would never want this person to be himself, so he would take his maid to fight and was unwilling to even try to attack the city. What if it was captured, how embarrassing it!
"It's not that I am incompetent, but that the domestic city is too strong!" Sima Ji finally found a reason for himself, and then called someone to send it to Luoyang. The last sentence was comparable to that of our army, but that the Communist army was too cunning, which was the finishing touch.
After writing the letter, Sima Ji walked out of the big tent and went out for a walk. In fact, the coldest month of the year has passed, but if the scope is expanded to the point where it will not freeze to death, there will be at least two months left to slowly endure it.
Through a city wall, Sima Ji was guessing the movements in the domestic city, and King Fengshang was also thinking about the situation of the army outside the city. However, the things I had made up for were far apart. The domestic city was an isolated city. As long as I didn’t think it was too far, Sima Ji’s guess would not deviate too far, and King Fengshang’s brain was not very difficult.
"Actually, it's okay to go out to fight and test the siege once!" Murong Yan looked at Sima Ji, who was alive and had his own opinions. You, the great cause of the Jin family, don't care about it. He has brought out so many powerful men of the Murong family. The Murong family is not a completely nomadic tribe. Now it's half-decided. Of course, they have to farm when spring comes.
Just as he saw Sima Ji walk out of the central army tent, Murong Jie quickly came out to pretend to chat and ask what the hell was thinking about the King of Yan.
"After waiting for two months, the Fengshang King is not a mediocre lord. Such a monarch has one thing in common, that is, he is very conceited with himself, and even in adversity, he thinks he can control the situation. Until the final collapse, they will never admit defeat!" Sima Ji calmly comforted Murong Jie.
Except for the unstable foundation of the Qin Dynasty, the foundation of the unified dynasty was good, and later it was played with it. The most famous monarch was Yang Guang. In fact, Emperor Wu of Han and Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty had this trend, but he could generally control the situation when he was alive.
Among them, Emperor Wu of Han was relatively lucky, and his heir was powerful and reversed the decline. Many people thought that his achievements actually belonged to Emperor Xuan of Han. On the other hand, Emperor Xuan of Han was the extremely unlucky kind. He was obviously the one who turned the world around, but later generations could not remember him.
This kind of monarch is usually very confident in his own skills, otherwise he would not reform. The King of Fengshang wanted to change the tribal elements of Goguryeo, and Sima Ji was of course very impressed, so he must let this person die. This is the greatest respect for King of Fengshang.
"I thought the king would starve all the people in the city to death!" Murong Wei breathed a sigh of relief, and had already made up his mind that if he encountered such a thing in the future, he would definitely abandon the city.
"I really thought about being surrounded for a year and teaching these disobedient forces a lesson. Maybe people in the city cannibalize now!" Sima Ji beat him up and said without seeing Murong Yan's expression. "Let's think about it later, this is also a burden for Youping and the two states. The Grand Governor can tell the warriors of the Murong family that the river water must be cultivated and the city must be attacked, so don't think about it."
"By the way, I don't want to see the women captured in Goguryeo, as for the fact that I don't want to see their bodies!" Sima Ji said again, some things are inevitable in this era, but in the end, don't do the greatest evil.
Murong Wei stood still, saying that he would treat women well, that he would be the King of Yan, that he would be siege for two more months, that he would be disdainful of people in his mouth. Is he kind or cruel?
The King of Yan didn't know that because he continued to siege the city and then tens of thousands of people died in the city. As the coldest time was about to pass, the situation in the city became more and more critical. Everyone could choose to surrender, but only one person could not, this person was his beacon king.
In two months, the King of Fengshang crushed two mutinies, and at the same time he became increasingly distrustful of others. Even the mentality of a troublemaker always trying to harm me, and he often killed people for trivial matters.
At the same time, the environment in the domestic city is getting worse and worse. Although winter is terrible, it takes away many people's lives, everything is one side, and the cold winter also suppresses the spread of the plague. If Sima Ji had been besieging the city until summer, many people might not be frozen to death because of the cold, but they would die of illness because of the harsh environment in the city, and a great plague spreading across the city would break out at any time.
As the winter girl slowly left, the real crisis had just begun, and all the problems that could be covered in winter broke out. The entire domestic city was stinking and there were excrement everywhere. The food was already bottoming out, and all the cattle, horses and livestock were eaten up, because once the food was gone, these livestock would starve to death sooner or later, so it would be better to eat them while they were still alive.
As we all know, Spring and Autumn are the peak seasons of diseases, and Sima Ji is not able to calculate, because large-scale diseases have already broken out in the military camps outside the city, but the King of Yan knew it was influenza when he heard the characteristics.
He quickly took isolation measures and selected strong men to take care of them. Although the King of Yan never caught a cold in ancient medicine, he always took care of the best of his ability. Even if it was not possible, clean water could still be guaranteed.
At least there are adult men who can join the army in the camp, and their resistance is stronger than that of ordinary people. As for the city, there is a completely different movement. Once a plague broke out in the domestic city where hungry people were everywhere, it instantly took the last string in the hearts of the people.
This riot was different from the past, because Sima Ji had already seen the thick smoke soaring into the sky in the city. This was definitely not ordinary smoke from cooking, but something big happened in the city.
"The entire army gathered to prepare to attack the city. The Grand Commander of Murong Governor attacked the two southeast gates. I led the Fuyu Army and the Jin Army to attack the northwest." Seeing the unhidden changes in the city, Sima Ji, who had to be besieged for half a month, jumped directly, and the opportunity was not missed. He didn't wait anymore, and the other party could no longer hold on.
The orders were issued to several generals of Hu Han. Two hours later, the 70,000 troops came out in full swing. "Dong! Damn! Damn!" The drum sound of the Jin army sounded in time, as if urging these soldiers who had finished arrays to attack quickly!
Chapter completed!