Yedu is not the ancient Ye County (now Linzhang), and the two Han Dynasty, Wei and Jin Dynasty Yecheng is not the same place, after the changes of the times, it is no longer enough to be the same place. It's just that since the end of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao was crowned King of Wei and Du Ye, for a long time, Wei and Ye are the same, belonging to the same place and different names.

During this period, the capital of Ye, the city name Yuancheng, originally belonged to Weizhou, and now belongs to Guangjin Mansion. At the beginning of the Later Tang Dynasty, Weizhou was changed to Xingtang Mansion, built as Tokyo, and later changed to Yedu. During the Shi Jin Dynasty, the Tang Mansion was changed to the Guangjin Mansion, which was still called Yedu.

Autumn is lonely, and Yedu at this time has become a sad city, shrouded in a gloomy and cold, silent, and the atmosphere is particularly depressing, after all, the siege has been two months. The besieged soldiers are always the besieged side, and the pressure is even greater. Especially in this kind of lonely city, there is no food inside, and there are no reinforcements from outside.

Outside the city, there were continuous Han army barracks, which locked the Yuan City and strangled the Ye soldiers to move.

On the side of Nancheng, the traces of the battle are very heavy, and the previous attack should be the main direction of attack of the Han army. Behind the city walls, the few Ye soldiers cowered and curled up, but the cool breeze still kept drilling into their bodies through their robes.

These soldiers in the city were arranged on the city wall to be guarded, and more people hid in the urn city. However, it seems that he is obviously not very careful, and since the last Han army attack was repulsed, there has been no movement for more than ten days. In addition, all the city gates were completely blocked by Du Chongwei's faction, and he retreated in the city.

Since the siege of the city, the city of Yedu is still strong, but the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the city has been extremely low. Du Chongwei was not loved by the army, let alone the people, and the two losses of Lujiadian were even more devastated.

To be able to resist to this day, Du Chongwei has also tried his best. First, they sent people to preach in the city that the Han army wanted to slaughter the city after breaking the city and intimidate the military and civilian officials; On the other hand, he organized several teams of superintendents, who took turns to patrol and supervise day and night, and restrain them with strict laws; Of the three, there is still a powerful Yan army in the city, which serves it, and is even more relied on by Du Chongwei than those Ye soldiers; Fourth, he wantonly oppressed the soldiers and people in the city and plundered their grain and goods for military needs, but he had a large amount of money and grain in his own mansion, but he was stingy with Zhou rewarding the soldiers......

The enemy situation is like this, and the failure to capture it is basically the problem of the Han army itself. Of course, it's not just a matter of the disagreement between the generals and the commanders, the Han army under the city, including those forbidden armies, is a second-class army of the Han Dynasty, and its combat power is not as strong as that, plus Gao Xingzhou's conservative style of play.

In fact, from the beginning of the siege, except for the previous onslaught, the two sides have not clashed much, and this city attack and defense battle, the scene does not look so cruel.

But the cruelty of war does not stop at the direct manifestation of the battlefield. In addition to the remaining more than 30,000 Ye soldiers in the city, there were still more than 100,000 people, these people became the object of Du Chongwei's exploitation, and with the deterioration of the war, they were already regarded as a burden.

And the situation of the people in Weibo, especially in the Guangjin Mansion, is also difficult to explain. Earlier, the imperial court issued an edict that Ye would camp the Han army, because the grain was in the state. Ordered, the Han army did the same, taking advantage of the autumn harvest, and constantly sent troops to the countryside to collect grain with the local government.

Nominally, it was a requisition, but in fact it quickly evolved into robbery, at first it was just a robbery of grain, and later it was almost a robbery of people with food. The Han army fortress on the front line can't waste the physical strength of the imperial court soldiers to build. Up to now, more than 100,000 people have gathered in the city of Yedu, and more than half of them are young and strong people who have been recruited nearby.

As a result, on the south side of the city, with the passage of time, the fortress erected by Gao Xingzhou was steadily moved to the city, very close, only less than two arrows away, basically, as long as the Han army out of the camp, run a few steps, you can directly enter the stage of rushing into the city...... For this kind of threat, Du Chongwei didn't react much, and almost watched as the swords of the imperial court soldiers and horses hit his nose.

A hill in the southeast of the city, which was originally a dense forest, was only bare at this time, and the trees in the middle of it, together with the sand and gravel and soil, turned into the camps under the city.

The cold and depressing inside the Yedu is depressing, and the Han army outside the city is actually not much better, in the case of the two armies, the army is particularly cruel, these days, there have been many soldiers, because of violating military law, were beheaded. Some of them lost their lives because of the unprovoked noise.

Fortunately, compared with the defenders in the city, the life of the court soldiers was better, at least there was basically no shortage of baggage. Eating may not be good, but it is full. The weather was cold, and the imperial court added a lot of autumn and winter quilts, plus Gao Xingzhou dragged the old body and constantly inspected to appease the army.

In contrast, the tens of thousands of people who were recruited to serve in front of the army were much more miserable, although they did not deliberately abuse, but they did hard work in front of the army, but in those days, they were not as good as dogs.

During this period of time, Ding Zhuang fell under the capital of Ye, and there were nearly 2,000 people before and after. Those who died of exhaustion, those who died of disease, those who were dealt with by military law, and those who were killed by the defenders. Some time ago, the temperature suddenly dropped, and after a night, more than 400 people were directly frozen to death......

In the southern camp, behind the fortress, in an open field, the autumn wind swept the ground, the withered grass was flying, and the craftsmen recruited were concentrating on building siege equipment. They are all big guys, nest cars, ladders, wooden curtains, and people who come and unload materials around them, and the sound of knocking and beating is non-stop, combined with the poignant chirping of cicadas nearby, which looks particularly sad.

Guo Rong led a team of people to inspect and observe, summoned the responsible instrument supervisor, and asked about the progress. The cool breeze was blowing on his face, and it was already a little painful, Guo Rong made a bitter face, looked around, gave advice, and led people to the north.

In front of the Nanying Village, the people of the first battalion, under the command of the military superintendent, strengthened and repaired the most cutting-edge fortresses, with a tough attitude, and when they saw a lazy person, they would mercilessly reward a whip. When Guo Rong arrived, he saw this scene, and he didn't have a sense of justice, so he went up and said something decent to show mercy in his heart.

Participating in this counterinsurgency war, Guo Rong really realized what it means to be in charge of the army. Compared with the previous Khitan break in Luancheng, how proud he was at that time, killing his corpses all over the field, and bleeding like a river, he didn't feel anything, but felt very happy.

However, in the face of this kind of civil war, the Han army and civilians fought brutally, which touched Guo Rong even more. As mentioned in the preface, the bloodiness of the two sides at both ends of the attack and defense was not too high, but the fierce battle of more than 200,000 people inside and outside the city had a great impact and a wide range of effects, and the consequences were so serious that he felt even more depressed.

Guo Rong knew the sufferings of the people, and he also knew what Wei Bo and even the people north and south of the Yellow River had paid for this counterinsurgency. And as a general of the imperial court, even if he couldn't bear it, he had to work for the common people for the victory of the war.

Guo Rong noticed the eyes of the people who were repairing the fortress, numb and indifferent, and looked at the supervising sergeant, even with hatred in his eyes.

Climbing up to a sentry tower in front of the camp, Guo Rong looked towards Yuancheng, his gaze was almost condensed, and after a long time, he sighed, and then his cold expression became more firm: No matter what, this war must end as soon as possible!

"General Guo!" A herald hurried to find Guo Rong.

"What?"

"The Son of Heaven is coming, Du Shuai has summoned you to return to the Chinese army, ready to meet you!"