Climbing the earthen city wall and looking south at the wall, Guo Rong finally breathed a sigh of relief, looking relieved.

"Envoy, there are not many people in this city, and the city has been cleared and controlled. It's just that there are too many prisoners, more than 15,000 people, and the pressure on the guards is too great, so the weapons and armor are temporarily confiscated and guarded separately at the east and north gates! An Shouzhong found Guo Rong and said.

The problem of too many captives is probably a happy worry for the victorious Han army. In this regard, Guo Rong groaned slightly, and directly ordered: "Prisoners of the Tang Army, soldiers and people, generals and soldiers, each separated from the prison, less food, starve him!" ”

"Yes! Deal with this! An Shouzhong responded.

"Wait!" Guo Rong suddenly called An Shouzhong.

An Shouzhong stopped and asked, "What else does the envoy command?" ”

"I'll go with you!" Guo Rong thought for a moment and said, "These captives have to find a way to collect them for their own use!" Since the southern expedition, the need for transport, the army has served, and the city has been garrisoned, and at least 150,000 soldiers have been recruited before and after. In the Central Plains and Huaibei Prefectures, the people's strength is exhausted and the burden is too heavy. If the Tang army can be captured and the people of Huainan can be captured, it will be of great benefit to our army's strategy.

His Majesty sent the king to Qiwu in Zhihao Prefecture, Dianzhou affairs, control the people, and win people's hearts, which is a long-term plan! The prisoners of this battle should be selected as auxiliaries and those who are willing to serve, and they should be used before the army! ”

"Make your words reasonable!" An Shouzhong responded with a word, and couldn't help but hesitate: "However, this move may be suspected of expanding the army without authorization......"

Hearing this, Guo Rong couldn't help but glance at An Shouzhong's eyes, his eyes were clearly surprised, and he paused, and then said, "Xinchen, you have a promising future!" ”

"It is difficult to quench the thirst of the near in the far water, and it is the most important thing to deal with these captives. Otherwise, with so many prisoners gathered together, it is easy to cause trouble or second, for fear of slowing down the actions of our army! While walking, Guo Rong said: "I will write a letter and send it to Shouchun, with the wisdom of the Son of Heaven, I will agree." I don't know what the situation is in Shoushou Prefecture......"

Before Guo Rong went to deal with the prisoner problem, Zhao Yanjin found him first, looking over-energetic. Guo Rong asked, "How is the situation?" ”

"According to the captive, Huang Fuhui went north, leaving only 3,000 soldiers stationed at Qingliu Pass! Moreover, yesterday, Huang Fuhui also issued an order to transfer 2,000 people from Qingliuguan to the north. But when I heard about it, I withdrew! Zhao Yanjin said: "Envoy, do you want to take the opportunity to take Qingliu Pass?" ”

Guo Rong thought about it, smashed his fist, and said to Zhao Yanjin: "With your five hundred soldiers, change into the Tang Army armor, pretend to be a defeated soldier, cross the clear flowing water, and go to the Fraud Pass!" Remember, act according to the situation, and if you are prepared, don't force it! ”

"Obey!" Without the slightest hesitation, Zhao Yanjin responded: "The last general will go immediately!" ”

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When Guo Rong won a great victory in Lai'an, relieved the difficulties of the Han army, searched for the entire Huaidong, and drank the Yangtze River, Zhao Kuangyin, the deputy envoy of Huaidong Economic Strategy, led 5,000 troops all the way to the east to aid Shanyang.

Five thousand soldiers and horses, it seems to be a lot, but in fact it is useful, there are less than 3,000 Suzhou regimental training, and the rest of the people are selected from Huaibei Ding Zhuang, although they are issued with weapons and rough training, but in essence they are still farmers who pick up knives and guns. Of course, there has never been a shortage of warriors in the Central Plains, and these people, as long as they fight a battle and survive, can become qualified soldiers.

There was no way, even Guo Rong only led 4,000 steps to deal with Huang Fuhui. Xuyi's side, can't help but leave enough strength to contain it, after a long time of entanglement, Guo Tingwei's fight, is not an easy opponent to deal with, if it is relaxed, then Xuyi's tens of thousands of Tang troops, under the leadership of Guo Tingwei, will definitely cause big trouble to the Han army.

Almost following the route of the raid on Shanyang last winter, except for the winter scene turning into a spring scene, there was not much change along the way, and Zhao Kuangyin even felt familiar. Although in the face of the siege of the Tang army, the situation in Shanyang was already critical to a certain extent, Zhao Kuangyin was ordered to help, and he was not impatient.

Since the conquest of Huai, to this situation, the main mode of combat of the Han army is to besiege the city and send reinforcements. Whether Tang Jun will also come like this, this is an uncertain thing, and Zhao Kuangyin has to guard against it.

Therefore, while sending troops to investigate the battle situation in Shanyang, they moved slowly all the way, repeatedly thinking about how to fight. Until entering Hongze, taking into account the situation in Chuzhou, Zhao Kuangyin made up his mind how to fight this battle.

He divided the army into two groups, one with 3,000 soldiers, mainly composed of Suzhou regimental training, led by Dang Jin, and hidden behind. The remaining 2,000 or so people are those auxiliaries, although some officers have been mobilized to lead, but their combat effectiveness and execution are worrying. For the Honored Academy

Zhao Kuangyin led these two thousand pawns, showed the banner, did not hide his tracks, and swaggered towards Shanyang.

On the Shanyang side, the Tang army of 40,000 has surrounded the city, of course, there are 20,000 sailors who are helping in the battle. But Xishanyang is built near the river, and the greatest threat to it is these sailors, the Tang army's warships are as high as two zhang, build a platform and build a ladder, and the Tang pawn can climb the city wall along with it.

Although there were not many reinforcements from the Han army coming by land from the west, it can also be seen that the Han army was short of troops in Huaidong. And Yao Feng, the chief general of the Tang army, obviously did not want to be affected by this army when the city was broken, so he sent a general to lead a division of 5,000 to cross to the west of Fuliang to break the Han army reinforcements.

Tang Jun's actions were as Zhao Kuangyin meant, and even an unexpected joy. He only planned to show the enemy weakness with the remnants of the army, lure a part of the Tang army to the west, and share the pressure of Chen Sirang to defend the city.

I never thought that Yao Feng would be so generous, and he directly divided 5,000 troops to come, and Zhao Kuangyin could be said to be overjoyed. Then, it was still the same old routine, feinting to lure the enemy, ambushing the soldiers in all directions, and breaking it. It's just that this time, due to the urgency of the war, Zhao Kuangyin's feint defeat was actually a real defeat, and he was almost driven into Hongze by the Tang Army to feed the fish.

However, it is precisely because of the real defeat that the strategy of luring the enemy is more effective, when Dang Jin led the main force to kill, the 5,000 Tang Army was directly defeated, and the leader of the army was taken off by Dang Jin, adding another stroke to his military merit book.

After defeating this Tang army, Zhao Kuangyin did not chase the dead to the north as usual, and killed all the defeated soldiers, but only expelled them to the south. After that, Zhao Kuangyin only reorganized his troops slightly, and once again divided the army into two groups, one of which selected the auxiliary soldiers and the wounded, erected a large banner, raised Zhao Kuangyin's general flag, and continued to go towards Shanyang in the northeast.

Zhao Kuangyin, together with Dang Jin, led the remaining 2,700 Suzhou regiments to practice, turned to the southeast, crossed the canal at Baoying, south of Shanyang, and completely annihilated the 500 defenders left there by Yao Feng, and the subsequent goal was very clear.

On Yao Feng's side, he also received a battle report of the Han army reinforcements before, and the defeat report followed, and the defeat was complete, directly allowing the Han army reinforcements to approach the canal. Although the Han army was outnumbered, for the defenders of Shanyang, who were almost desperate, it was tantamount to an injection of a booster.

The Tang army obviously felt that the originally crumbling city defense was stabilized by the Han army. When he noticed the "Zhao" flag on the west bank of the canal, Yao Feng realized that the Han who came to the aid was Zhao Kuangyin, who had won a great victory in the vortex before.

In this regard, Yao Feng immediately raised his vigilance, although he had many soldiers and was not afraid of the Han army, but after thinking about it, he still decided to temporarily stop the offensive against Shanyang. After several days of fierce attacks, the Han army guards in Shanyang City suffered heavy losses, and the Tang army was also dragged tired and needed to rest.

If it was only for rescue, then judging from the reaction of the Tang army, it had achieved a good effect, although it was a symptom but not a cure, but at least it gave the Han army guards in the city a chance to breathe. However, Zhao Kuangyin led the main force, sneaked south, and crossed the river through Baoying, and it can be seen that he has a great plan.

In the middle of the night, outside Shanyang City, the four Tang army villages on land and water were silent, except for the gusts of wind and the sound of snoring one after another, only the Chinese soldiers patrolling the camp made some movement.

Upstairs in Nanyingzhai, the sentry tried his best to remain vigilant, condescendingly, observing the surroundings, but at night, it was pitch black all around, and only the outlines of some trees could be seen. The spring night was very cold, the hands and feet were cold and numb, and when the sleepiness hit, the sentries could only hope that time would pass faster, waiting for the person on duty.

Just about two miles away from Nanying, Zhao Kuangyin personally led more than 2,000 soldiers, sneaking here, the black armor of the Han army, contrasting with the night, completely blended in the middle, overhead, is the dim moonlight. Looking into the distance, he observed the situation in the Tang camp.

All of them slept all afternoon during the day, and then took advantage of the night to sneak north for nearly forty miles. Dang Jin stood beside Zhao Kuangyin and also looked at it, nervous and excited: "The layout of the Tang camp is quite organized, not without vigilance!" ”

Zhao Kuangyin nodded, but his expression was extremely stiff, but his eyes were unusually bright, and he said to Dang Jin: "Tonight, we are going to risk our lives to fight, success is great, defeat is death, have you ever been afraid?" ”

"Brother Zhao's words, you can underestimate the brothers! It's just Tangying, it's not a Longtan tiger's den, so what's the matter? Dang Jin was immediately unhappy.

Seeing this, Zhao Kuangyin smiled slightly. stared at the enemy camp tightly, and his expression was solemn: "Pass the order, night attack is a dangerous strategy, all battalion soldiers follow their command, follow my flag and kill, don't get lost." Although the Tang army was said to be 40,000, only half of its infantry soldiers were killed, and after the casualties and fatigue of the siege, there was still nothing to fear. As long as the land camp is disturbed and defeated, the navy army is not worried! ”

After waiting for another quarter of an hour or so, before the Han soldiers' bodies were completely cool, Zhao Kuangyin gave an order, came out first, led the people, and quickly headed towards the Tang camp. This time there was no horseback riding, that would be too big.

More than 2,000 pawns, mouth-to-mouth, kept silent, until they approached Tang Zhai and were observed by Tang Pawn, before they suddenly burst out with a loud shout of killing. Under the leadership of Zhao Kuangyin, the goal was unified, the pace was the same, several battalions were broken in a row, and killing and chaos befell the Tang army......

With the big night attack of Zhao Kuangyin's army, rushing to the village and dreaming, stepping on the camp and kicking the tent, the Tang camp under Shanyang City soon became chaotic.