Yu Chaozong guessed Luo Geng's attitude and Liu Li's treachery, so he also knew very well that the moment he broke through Jizhou City, these two people would bite like wolves.

But Yu Chaozong's troops are enough, so he has some confidence.

The defenders in Jizhou City have to divide their troops to defend, and he knows the inside of Jizhou City very well, because there are Li Qi and Zhuang Wushu who often send him information, and he also knows very well what the strength of the Jizhou army is.

So he made a judgment...... After he stormed the city, Jizhou Jiedu made Zeng Ling able to call in an army to resist him, which would not exceed 20,000 people.

He made a deduction that Zeng Ling only had a total of 60,000 or 70,000 troops, and after a series of battles, it was absolutely impossible to reach another 50,000 troops.

Calculate that Zeng Ling has 50,000 people, but in fact, there may only be 30,000 or 40,000 people left, counting 50,000 people, how can Zeng Ling use it?

Even if the Yuzhou army was pretending to attack the city and make a show, Zeng Ling did not dare to withdraw the troops of the southern and eastern cities, because if he withdrew, the Yuzhou army might really attack from the southern or eastern cities.

Jizhou City is so big, as long as the defense force of the three cities in the southeast and west is still maintained, Zeng Ling can use about 20,000 people at most, Yu Chaozong feels that this is the largest estimate of the strength of the Jizhou army.

Speaking of the Youzhou Army, Luo Geng's Youzhou Army is good at fighting, but there are only 50,000 people, plus the surrender of 23,000 Qingzhou Army, the strength of the Youzhou Army is about 80,000.

The Yuzhou army was originally defeated for a while, plus some Qingzhou army soldiers were surrendered, and the total strength was about 100,000.

Luo Geng and the Yuzhou army combined, there are not as many soldiers as Yu Chaozong.

When Yu Chaozong originally went south, he brought 150,000 troops, and received 40,000 Qingzhou troops, which already had 200,000 troops.

He had calculated how to fight this battle two more times before the general attack, and he thought it should be possible.

After he broke through the city pass, he personally led 50,000 people to continue to seize Jizhou, fighting 20,000 with 50,000, and he had a great chance of winning.

He lined up outside the city with nearly 150,000 troops to resist the two armies of Luo Geng and Liu Li, and both armies had to assign a part of their forces to continue to pressure Jizhou City, so the total number of troops was reduced to tens of thousands, which was at most comparable to the number of troops he left behind to block.

With 150,000 troops to block 150,000 enemy troops, he only needed to hold on for half a day, and he deduced that he could completely take Jizhou.

What's more, Yu Chaozong speculated that if Luo Geng and Liu Li made a move, they would also pioneer the Qingzhou army to surrender and attack, instead of using their own men and horses as soon as they came up.

The Qingzhou Army was newly defeated, and the people were panicked, and their combat strength was naturally greatly reduced.

The next battle was actually not so difficult to fight, Yu Chaozong thought, after taking Jizhou, quickly occupy all the walls of the northern city, suppress the troops on the city wall, and also assist the team that resisted the enemy outside the city.

However, Yu Chaozong's miscalculation was that the Yuzhou army and the Youzhou army did not plan to capture the city at all, nor did they plan to leave troops to deter Zeng Ling.

Luo Geng's goal from the beginning was not Jizhou City, but how to destroy these rebels.

Yu Chaozong thought that he was here to stir up the situation, but in fact, Luo Geng was.

Yu Chaozong's even more miscalculation was that he knew that the Youzhou army was good at fighting, but he didn't expect to be so good at fighting.

Luo Geng didn't use those Qingzhou troops at all, and used the big killing weapon in his hand as soon as he came up.

Heavy armor and iron cavalry marched into battle.

Although the soldiers of the Yanshan battalion are not weakly equipped, they are mostly lightly armoured, and there is almost no way to resist this heavy armor like a torrent of steel.

Their arrow formations can't damage the fully armored men and horses, and when the heavy armor steps into battle, they can't stop the impact of the horses on their horses.

If the team that resisted the first-line offensive of the Yuzhou Army could hold on, the soldiers of the Yanshan Battalion who resisted Luo Geng's Youzhou Army were experiencing a nightmare.

In the past few years, the soldiers of the Yanshan battalion have indeed been very proud.

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They have experienced a lot, defeated the local official army countless times, and also fought the defense of the frontier and repelled the black warriors.

All this is worthy of their pride, but they forget that defeating the local official army does not mean anything, they actually have no experience in facing the elite soldiers of Great Chu.

What level of existence is the government soldier of Great Chu?

In this way, most of the local officers and troops defeated by the Yanshan battalion are just box soldiers, if it is a battle of 10,000 against 10,000, the Yanshan battalion will undoubtedly win, if it is 6,000 against 10,000, the Yanshan battalion is stable, and there is also the possibility of winning.

If it was five thousand against ten thousand, the Yanshan Battalion basically had no chance of winning, unless it was a miracle.

After the chaos of the Great Chu, the officials of various states and counties were also developing private soldiers, but the combat effectiveness of these private soldiers could not be counted as an army at all, and the so-called local official army was more like a rabble than the Yanshan battalion.

The Yuzhou army is a real government soldier, and Liu Li is the most powerful general of Prince Wu.

Or compare, with the Jizhou Army as the standard, 10,000 Yanshan Battalion soldiers will undoubtedly win against 10,000 local officers and soldiers, but 10,000 Yanshan Battalion soldiers will undoubtedly lose against 10,000 Jizhou Army.

The Jizhou army can't beat the Yuzhou army, and the Yuzhou army can't beat the Youzhou army.

The real elite soldiers of the Great Chu Mansion, how strong their combat power is, in fact, Yu Chaozong knew before.

It's just that later, the Yanshan battalion seemed to be too powerful, dominating the north, and even many local state and county officials directly asked him for shelter.

It looks so powerful that it makes people's hearts flutter.

Yu Chaozong didn't think about it at all, his people couldn't hold on for even half a day.

In fact, the defensive forces he arranged on the Western Front did not hold on for even an hour, and they were rushed away by the Youzhou Iron Cavalry.

Mounted cavalry, marching in a neat formation, they only need to go forward, that is, to crush.

In an hour, the Western Front was broken.

Yu Chaozong had to send troops to the Western Front for reinforcements, and that place became a slaughtering field.

On the Eastern Front, his troops only held out for two hours, barely meeting his requirements, and then they were defeated and retreated by the Yuzhou army.

There was no way, Yu Chaozong could only order the team outside the city to retreat to Jizhou City, they had already captured half of Jizhou City, and after the team all retreated, they could continue to block it by relying on the city defense.

But how dangerous is it to retreat?

Yu Chaozong himself was also extremely difficult to fight in Jizhou City.

Zeng Ling's eyes were red, and the Jizhou army was determined to die, this kind of battle had never been fought for the Yanshan battalion.

They quickly fell from the high mountain to the bottom, and before the excitement after breaking the city had time to retreat, they were beaten to the death by the Jizhou army and suffered heavy losses.

If it weren't for the fact that the forces really had an advantage, let alone continue to expand the territory they occupied, it was very likely that they would have been squeezed out.

At this moment, if Jizhou City is a huge square box, half of the square box is the Jizhou army, and half is the Yanshan battalion.

The people outside the box who wanted to squeeze in had already squeezed their heads.

After Li Qi and Tang Pidi came out of the underground palace, they wanted to find Yu Chaozong and Zhuang Wudi, but they couldn't get by.

The location where they were after they came out happened to be the line where the Jizhou Army and the Yanshan Battalion fought desperately, and it was still on the side of the Jizhou Army.

If you want to kill in such a melee of tens of thousands of people, or go quietly without being noticed, it is basically nonsense.

Li Qi and Tang Pi were two people crawling high on the roof, and the street below them was a fight, the kind of fight that crowded people.

"I can't get by."

Tang Pidi lowered his voice and said: "You can't get by, you can't see Yu Chaozong, even if you see Yu Chaozong, it's already at this time, Yu Chaozong can still listen to you?" What can you do? ”

Li Qi said: "Break through, the only thing to do now is to break through, don't think about Jizhou City, if I guess correctly, now the Yanshan Battalion army outside the city is being besieged by the Youzhou Army and the Yuzhou Army." ”

"At this time, if Brother Yu can organize all the cavalry immediately, there are probably more than 10,000 people, and he will raid towards the Youzhou army, first, because the Youzhou army would never think that the Yanshan battalion would counterattack, and second, the Youzhou heavy armor is too slow to catch up with the light cavalry."

"The rest of the infantry, relatively speaking, it is better to attack the Yuzhou army, if you are lucky, you can kill half of them, I speculate that Prince Wu's army will be behind Liu Li of the Yuzhou army, so the infantry of the Yanshan battalion broke through, and Prince Wu's army will not be blocked in order not to be exposed, and Prince Wu's soldiers should be to fight Liu Li."

Li Qi said in a low voice: "I just want to persuade him to break through as soon as possible, if he can fight with all his strength now, at least the whole army will not be wiped out, and he can return to the Yanshan camp to regroup." ”

Li Qi said in a low tone: "If Brother Yu still thinks about taking the city now, I'm afraid he will really be wiped out...... At this time, the next step is to feel that the city can be self-preservation. ”

Tang Pidi sighed lightly.

And at this moment, Yu Chaozong was around.

Zheng Gongru was already panicking, he was now afraid that the dream would be broken just at the beginning.

"Big boss."

Zheng Gongru said eagerly: "At this time, the most important thing is to concentrate forces to capture Jizhou as soon as possible, now only one of the gates of the northern city of Jizhou is open, and we still have more than 100,000 troops outside the city gate." ”

"Mobilize more teams to come in, defeat Zeng Ling within two or three hours, capture the entire Jizhou, and then rely on the strong city of Jizhou to block the official army outside the city."

Zheng Gongru's anxious voice was already hoarse, he glanced at Yu Chaozong and continued: "It will be dark in three hours, and before it gets dark, we will take Jizhou, and we will win more than half of this battle." ”

"After dark, the enemy's offensive outside the city will inevitably slow down, and we will be able to withdraw more people."

Yu Chaozong's face kept changing, and after hesitating for a moment, he nodded, and he commanded loudly: "Give the six masters an order, let him hold on for another three hours." ”

The sixth head of the Yanshan camp is called Xilizi, and he was guarding the city at the border pass, but this time the Yanshan camp went south, and Yu Chaozong replaced him back in advance.

Xilianzi won the trust of Yu Chaozong in Yanshan Camp, because this person's background was similar to that of Yu Chaozong.

Xilizi's family background is good, and his father Xili Chongming is a general of the border army.

Xili Chongming was killed in the battle with the black warriors six years ago, and I don't know why, instead of compensating, the imperial court sent people from the Department of Detectives to investigate, saying that it was because of the light enemy of Xili Chongming that thousands of soldiers under his command were killed.

Xili Chongming was raided, and his son Xili Guang was able to escape, changed his name to Xilizi, and after wandering for two years, took refuge in Yanshan Camp.

Later, Yu Chaozong knew his background and noticed that this person was extraordinary, so he promoted him to the sixth master.

Of course, that was after Bi Datong's people were killed, when Yu Chaozong was employing people.

At this time, there were only a few masters by Yu Chaozong's side.

Fourth, when the family Changdingzhou attacked the city, he died in battle, and the fifth family Changdingzhou was at the age of Changding, and he was leading people to fight with Zeng Ling's Jizhou army in front of the battle.

Zheng Gongru, the eighth master, has always been by Yu Chaozong's side.

The six masters of the West Fence led the army to defend against the enemy outside the city, and the seven masters of the golden armor stayed behind to guard the Yanshan camp cottage.

Therefore, the only thing Yu Chaozong can rely on is Xilizi alone.

Yu Chaozong's face turned a little pale and said to the herald: "Tell the sixth master, he blocked it, we can live, he can't stop it, we will all be buried in Jizhou, I only need three hours to take Jizhou, then he can withdraw into the city, tell him..... I entrusted everything to him. ”

The herald answered, turned and ran out.