On the afternoon of August in the autumn of the first year of Qianyou, the siege was established, and four days after the garrison was under the city, with the order of Liu Chengyou, the official army officially launched the first wave of attacks against the rebels. According to Liu Chengyou's instructions, the armies of the Western Daying, under the command of Yao Yuanfu and Song Yanwu, launched an attack on the rebel Hexi Village.

Zhang Yansi, the guard general of the enemy Xizhai, was an ordinary middle-level officer in the Pu army before, and was promoted as the chief general of Xizhai by Li Shouzhen's cronies. Only with the help of Deputy Envoy Zhou Guangxun, it will be blocked.

In the southwest direction of Hedong City, facing the river, Liu Chengyou is stationed on the side of the horse bank and looks to the west. Across the river, you can see the place in the west of the river, where the fireworks are rising, obviously using fire to attack. The latest wave of killing has lasted for half an hour, and has slowly weakened, Liu Chengyou looked at Xizhai until the killing sound completely dissipated in the more and more bleak autumn wind.

"It seems that the attack failed, this is the third attack in two days!" Liu Chengyou asked, stroking the horse's mane with his hand.

"Yes!" Next to Liu Chengyou, is a gray-haired old minister, with a ruddy complexion, wearing strong armor, and looking old and strong.

This person's name is Hu Yanke, and he is also one of the ministers, and now he is the envoy of the Xuanhui North Courtyard as the camp supervisor. is already in the age of the sixtieth year, he is humble and kind, quite knowledgeable, and belongs to one of the ten capable ministers in Liu Chengyou's eyes.

In the original history, with Guo Wei to quell the rebellion, counsellor military affairs, in the military decision-making before and after, Guo Wei provided a lot of important advice. Coincidentally, this expedition was also recommended by Guo Wei to Hu Yanke to accompany the army, and the two seem to have a good relationship.

"One blow, then decline, three and exhaustion." Regardless of whether it was appropriate or not, Liu Chengyou dragged a sentence and ordered: "Summons Yao Yuanfu, temporarily stop the attack, restrain the soldiers, regroup, and wait for the military order!" ”

Regarding the failure of the attack, Liu Chengyou did not have negative emotions such as anger and dissatisfaction. Of course, it is also because the counterinsurgency officers and troops have not yet contributed, otherwise, if it is still difficult to take this small city with all his strength, Liu Chengyou will definitely not be able to hold back.

Back at the imperial camp, the seated party drank a few sips of tea, and the battle report from the west was quickly presented to the desk through the water army on the Yellow River.

Yao Yuanfu and Song Yanwu jointly reported that they attacked the village on three days, and more than 700 officers and soldiers of the Xida Battalion were killed or wounded. However, the rebels were not easy, and the battle losses were conservatively estimated at more than 1,000 people. In addition, under the attack of artillery shells and fierce fire oil, the west of the enemy river was seriously damaged.

Yao Yuan Fuyan said that the morale of the rebels in Hexi Guanzhai was already very low, and he asked for orders to continue the attack, and he was willing to set up a military order to break the enemy village within two days.

"The old general Yao's ambition is not weak and prime, he is proud and courageous, and he is on the paper, which makes people yearn for it!" The general handed the report to Hu Yanke, and Liu Chengyou hooked the corners of his mouth and said with emotion. Because of the war, Liu Chengyou let the medicine and the second general Song do not need to cross the river to come to the pilgrimage, so until now, Liu Chengyou has not seen this veteran who has repeatedly entered his ears since this year.

"Yao Gong has been fighting horses for many years, and his courage is as good as before, which is indeed admirable!" Hu Yanke smiled slightly, sighed in a tone of admiration, and then took the military report and handed it over: "Your Majesty wants to invite him?" ”

"With the ability of the generals of Yaogong, it is certainly not a problem to lead the crowd to take down the enemy village. However, the casualties of the soldiers are not small. Liu Chengyou said.

"Your Majesty is sympathetic and loves soldiers like children......"

Seeing that Hu Yanke also opened his mouth to compliment, Liu Chengyou gently raised his hand, stopped him, and asked: "I want to level Xizhai first, and then break Pucheng, can Hu Qing have a strategy to break the village?" ”

Hearing this, Hu Yanke didn't show any embarrassment on his face, pondered for a while, and waved his hand and said, "Maybe you can use a strategy." ”

"Who?" Eyebrows raised, Liu Chengyou asked.

"Zhou Guangxun!" Hu Yanke said simply.

"Is this person in the room?"

Hu Yanke's eyebrows were full of confidence, and he simply explained to Liu Chengyou: "This person was originally the deputy envoy of Hexi, and the first emperor thought that Li Shouzhen went out of the town in the river, and the original dove occupied the magpie's nest. The previous defeat in Tongzhou, Li Shouzhen seized his military power and replaced him with an unknown Zhang Yanhei ......"

"This matter will be handed over to Hu Qing to deal with!" Without waiting for Hu Yanke to finish speaking, Liu Chengyou said directly.

After the order, Liu Chengyou pondered for a while, and then looked at Feng Dao next to him: "Hexi Village can be intermittent, and Hedong City can also imitate it!" Feng Qing has the ability to observe people, and he has been sent to Hezhong before, and he knows enough about Li Shouzhen and his subordinates, so he can choose the world! ”

"Yes!" Hearing the order, Old Fox Feng immediately got up and answered. His eyes rolled shrewdly, and he was already pondering, and his heart was slightly happy, and he felt that there was a possibility of operation in this matter.

Liu Chengyou completely handed over the matter to these two old ministers to operate, and he only needed to see the results.

For Liu Chengyou, if the fortress can be broken from the inside, it is naturally the best, but Liu Chengyou has not relaxed at all in the preparation for the strong break of the external force, and is in full swing to prepare.

There are four gates in the east of the river, the west is close to the big river, and the north lacks one of them, but the east and south sides, together with the strength of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians, after a few days of rushing work, the walled city stands horizontally, the fence is connected, and the layered structure, just like two giant beasts, and the heavy crossbows, artillery carts and "artillery" distributed in the middle are sharp fangs.

The walled wall drove forward, looking at it from a distance, almost sticking to Pucheng, and the moat was only dozens of steps away from the moat, and the moat was dug extremely deep by Li Shouzhen, almost eliminating the possibility of the official army's cave attack. Looking at the sword, shield and spearmen stationed behind the wall, the enemy army stood out.

On the watchtower in the front row, hundreds of brave men, holding "big horns", shouted in turn, persuaded to surrender, announced, and intimidated.

"Only punish the evil, regardless of the rest" was shouted again, and asked the city general to rectify it as soon as possible, otherwise, after the city was broken, it would be too late to regret it.....

The siege of the city by a large army, such a method that can hit the enemy's morale and stir up the morale of the army with just a little throat has been tried and tested, after all, the attack is the best.

Looking at the layout of the city, it is not much different from Guo Wei's practice in the official history. It's nothing more than a tough village and a dumb fight, but Liu Chengyou has no plans to fight for a year and a half.

Such a method of warfare can be regarded as a good and prudent method when the country is stable and its national strength is sufficient. However, the damage to people's livelihood is too serious for the loss of national strength.

In the original history, the national strength of the Later Han Dynasty was basically spent on the suppression of the three rebellions. In order to support Guo Wei to break the thief, Yang Wei, Wang Zhang and other ministers were in the rear, amassing money and grain, and doing everything they could.

As a result, he exhausted all means, betrayed his infamy, and sent money and grain to the river, and of course the effect of counterinsurgency was achieved, but more often than not, it was used to buy the hearts and minds of the army for Guo Wei.

A small Hedong city, a lonely city, no foreign aid, and Li Shouzhen is unpopular, he needs hundreds of thousands of horses and soldiers for a year? And in the end, there was no fierce fighting, and the people in the city were disheartened, and Li Shouzhen set himself on fire.

Raising thieves is self-respecting, regardless of whether Guo Wei has this intention or not, but the result is very clear, after the rebellion, it is Guo Wei who gains the most.

It is said that Guo Wei was forced to rebel by Liu Chengyou, however, looking at the various behaviors and methods of Guo Wei before and after the counterinsurgency in Hezhong, his heart can not be revealed?

It's just that the follow-up development is a bit out of control. Who would have thought that as soon as the original owner lifted the table, he would come in such a hurry and so ruthlessly?

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