Li Kuang was still a local tyrant five years ago, and he knew what kind of virtue the Central Plains family was, and any Jin family that had been ruled by the Hu people for a long time would not have any loyalty, especially to the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty that abandoned him. As for www.biquge.info Hu people's family, they will not have any sense of belonging, they are not all the way to the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but they will not make their own family ruined for the sake of the Jin army.

In the afternoon of the same day, there was another attack that consumed the equipment of the defending army, and the number of losses and retreats of the servant army in the attack reached more than 2,000, and it was only at night that the fighting was temporarily stopped.

At night, Li Kuang sat quietly in his big tent, waiting for something that had a high chance of happening.

Facts also proved that Li Kuang did not wait in vain, first there were arrows from the city head to the outside of the city to help write cloth strips, and then some people simply came down from the city with ropes. Without exception, they all represent some families in the city, and their basic goals are surprisingly consistent, and they want to contribute to the capture of Ruyin by the Han army.

"There are people who have served." Li Kuang didn't look very proud, he repeatedly checked the strips of cloth, and even personally asked the people who came out to express their service, and then returned to the big tent before summoning the generals and colonels, and said calmly: "What should be discerned now is that they are really trying to respond internally, or the enemy is setting a trap." ”

Before, Li Kuang's troops swept the surrounding areas of Ruyin City, uprooted some well-fought cities or dock forts, and accepted the refuge of some local heroes, and there was no shortage of people who knew the situation in Ruyin City.

Those who cast the effect identified it, and most of them were able to match those families who were going to be used as internal responses, and those who didn't match might be that no one knew, or it might be that the Jin army was arranging.

"It must be an attack on the city." Wang Biao naturally suspected that there was a trap, but he thought that he should try it anyway, as long as he was cautious, even if he failed, he would not lose too many people, and if he didn't let the vitality of the army be greatly damaged, he would not miss the overall situation. He said: "Agree with them on a signal, and respond to the situation in time? ”

Li Kuang shook his head and said to everyone: "The counselors will deduce some response plans according to what will happen. ”

The most feared thing about the army is what to respond to, even if it seems rigid and restrained, it is better than not having a plan in advance, that is because the army is extremely dependent on coordination, and military orders can only come from the hand of one person, and absolutely cannot be a large army to do its own thing.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Kuang continued to send a servant army to attack the city, and the attack lasted until the evening before Mingjin withdrew his troops. On this day, some servants managed to climb the city, but they were quickly repulsed. Those servant troops who successfully landed in the city were fulfilled by Li Kuang's promise in advance, and they got 100 gold (copper) after removing the slave status, and after spreading the news to the whole army, the servant army whose morale had declined again became high again.

By the next night, when the people who had wanted to take refuge in the city were contacted again, a Qiang family in the city said that they had gathered about 1,000 private soldiers with friendly families, and could try to capture the city gate while the Han army attacked the city.

"Qiang?" Li Kuang asked, is it a Qiang family surnamed Zhang, or a relatively famous family in Ruyin City. What he had to ask was: "What conditions are they?" ”

Wang Biao complicated the reception of the people who came to discuss, and replied: "Zhang Luo wants to become the defender of Ruyin City, and the children of his own family and some people from friendly families want to become Han soldiers. ”

said that if you want to become a Han army, of course, it can't be a servant army, and you just go to the field group, and you must also want to be an official and a half-job.

It is not that there are no officers in the Han army who were originally Hu people but have been naturalized, such as Qian Jiantong, who also held important positions in the Yulin army.

Li Kuang said before that the slaughter of the city was purely a threat, not to mention that he simply did not have enough status to really order the slaughter of the city, even if he really had enough status, he would not dare to do so.

The main problem is that as soon as the first case of the massacre of the city opens, the person who gave the order will definitely be criticized, and then it is possible that the Han army will conquer the south and face one city after another that will resolutely resist to the end.

Of course, it may also frighten the rest of the city into not daring to resist.

On the third day, the servants attacked the city as usual, and they were more enthusiastic about attacking than they had been in the previous two days, because their efforts were really rewarded.

While the servant army was attacking the city, the 6,000 Han army also began to make its own preparations. If there is really an inner city that should open the city gate, the first to rush in will be the servant army, and the Han army will have to firmly control the city gate.

In the morning, as usual, I attacked and defended, and the two sides were bleeding at the gates and on the sections of the city walls.

During the temporary truce at noon, the siege equipment of the Han army in the rear was transported, and Li Mai's face was extremely bad after seeing those siege equipment.

"The atmosphere in the city is weird." Li Mai said to his lieutenant general: "Once you find that a large number of people have gathered, you will immediately send troops to suppress it." ”

To say that the Jin army did not find out that some people in the city were doing any tricks that were fake, but the length of the city wall was too long to absolutely stop it. The Jin army killed dozens of people who tried to get out of the city within two days, and the number of archers who were killed to shoot the strips of cloth was even greater, so how could you not know that because the Han army threatened to slaughter the city, it really worked.

Lu Wang was Li Mai's lieutenant general, and he asked nervously: "Did we succeed in pretending to send out the people who wanted to be the internal response?" ”

Li Mai is not sure if it was a success. The people he sent had an agreement with the Han army, and the next night they also used torches to interact with the Han army at the head of the city as agreed, and it stands to reason that the probability of success is still very high.

"There is no urn city in Ruyin City, and opening the city gate to pretend to let the Han army kill in may cause the city gate to be lost." Li Mai frowned and said: "Actually, the general doesn't know how to set up a situation to calculate the Han army, just to take precautions. ”

Because of Chu Bao's complete "static braking" before, the Jin army strongholds around Ruyin City have been pulled out by the Han army, and the reality is that the Jin army only has defenders in Ruyin City.

After three days of fighting, the Jin defenders of Ruyin City were killed and wounded more than 1,000 people, to say that the losses were really not serious, but the city became turbulent, Li Mai not only had to defend the four city walls, but also had to draw out the already small number of troops to monitor the city.

The so-called lonely city refers not only to the difficulty of obtaining support, but also the lack of its own troops except inside and outside the city. There is no good way to trap a city in this way, and you can only hope that reinforcements will come over in addition to defending it.

Li Mai knows one thing very well, unless there are reinforcements from Shouchun, he can't count on Xincai.

Thinking about it, Li Mai couldn't help but look in the direction of Shouchun, where there was a green mountain and a flat field, and at this moment, the distance between Ruyin and Shouchun was really farther away than reality.

Li Mai's understanding in this way is because he saw through Chu Li, not how hard Chu Li was, nor what Chu Li did to make the whole war collapse, it was precisely Chu Li who didn't do anything, which caused Li Mai to feel somewhat desperate for this sudden war.

The former abbot Chu Pei, who had a good reputation before, was actually a vain name thief, and all his good reputation was completely exposed when he encountered challenges, and it was still that kind of way of revealing the sky.

"What if...... The last general said that if ......" Lu Wang looked left and right for a while, lowered his voice and asked: "If Ruyin is not enough to defend, do we have any hope of breaking through?" ”

"Breakout?" Li Mai thought about this question more than once, and he raised his hand to the side of the Han army camp outside the city, where a large number of war horses were letting off steam: "About 70,000 Han troops, there should be more than 40,000 cavalry. ”

In fact, the Han army did not have as many 40,000 cavalry, and the cavalry of the Han army was matched with at least two war horses, so according to the standard, there were more than 40,000 war horses outside Ruyin City, which is about 20,000 cavalry.

Lu Wang also felt a trace of despair in an instant, the 20,000 Jin troops in Ruyin City only had less than 2,000 war horses, even if 2,000 people fled out of the city on horseback, thinking about it, they should think of getting out of the pursuit of the 40,000 Han cavalry, the difficulty is not ordinary.

"Hold on!" Li Mai is giving his lieutenant general, and he is also encouraging himself: "The imperial court must know that a big war broke out here and will send reinforcements." ”

The news of the heavy damage suffered by the Jingkou Jin Army has not yet reached the ears of Chu Li or Li Mai and others, and the news that the Yangtze River section of Shouchun was blocked by the Han army has certainly not been transmitted.

Because of the asymmetry of the news, Chu Li, who was sticking to Xincai, and Li Mai, who was sticking to Ruyin, were confidently waiting for the arrival of reinforcements to launch a counterattack, and the despair in Li Mai's heart did not reach the peak.

The Yangtze River was blocked, and there were a large number of Han army scouts roaming on the north bank, and it would be very difficult for the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to reach Xincai, and it would be even more difficult to seal Ruyin, which was besieged on all sides.

The battle in Ruyin City entered the fourth day, and Huan Wen's fleet finally arrived around Xinxi, and when they were about to land, they were attacked by the coastal defense Jin army, and the person who commanded the Jin army was Xie Shi.

Xie Shi is only eighteen years old this year, considering that at the age of thirteen at this time, he can get married and reproduce, and you must know that he is the main descendant of the Xie clan, and it is really not too surprising that he is a herdsman official in a certain place or a commander of an army at the age of eighteen.

A series of news about the Han army's southward movement, Xincai and the north of Ruyin have been completely occupied by the Han army, the Han army is attacking Ruyin, which is garrisoned by Li Mai, and Chu Li has concentrated the remaining Jin troops of Xincai County and Ruyin County in Xincai City, and so on.

As Xie An's younger brother, Xie Shi received a very good education since he was a child, and he immediately mobilized the Jin army of Runan County to set up camp near the section of the Yangtze River near the information, and swore to his subordinates, saying: "Since the Han army has moved south, it is entirely possible to land from the back of the Yangtze River, and Xinxihui is the most likely place to be attacked." ”

Sure enough, Huan Wen came with the fleet, Xie Shi was not stunned at all and ordered the Jin army to block the attack on the shore, and the more depressed thing was that the Jin army on the shore was covered by the bed crossbow and strong crossbow on the Han warship, and had to retreat inland after being killed and wounded.

"What?" Xie Shi looked tall and straight, but he looked thin, and he asked in disbelief: "The Han army's bed crossbow has a range of two hundred and fifty steps (three hundred and seventy-five meters), and the strong crossbow has a range of more than five hundred steps (seven hundred and fifty meters)?" ”

Xie Shi's shock did not come from how far he could shoot, you must know that the Qin army of the pre-Qin had a crossbow, and the range of the crossbow was close to 400 steps (600 meters). {There is also another theory that the Qin army's strong crossbow can reach a range of 800 meters}

The long-range attack of the Han army was too far, and the Jin army suffered heavy casualties before it could fight the Han army in hand-to-hand combat, and it was obviously difficult to prevent the Han army from landing.

The young Xie Shi was really a little unbelieving, he personally came to the front of the formation, urging a thousand Jin troops to try to launch a tentative attack on the Han army that was landing again, and saw with his own eyes that when the Jin army was about three hundred steps close to the river bank, the Han ships on the river immediately fired a strong crossbow salvo, probably a few crossbow arrows fell intensively between breaths, and the Jin army with nearly 100 casualties turned around and ran away.

"Who is the commander of the enemy army?" Huan Wen didn't feel that the other party didn't care about the lives of his soldiers, but said: "It's a bit of a general's consciousness, but he doesn't believe in the reports of his subordinates, and he is suspicious and stupid." ”

As the commander of the army, the soldier can only be regarded as a number in their eyes, which is the psychological quality that the commander must have, that is, the so-called mercy is not in charge of the army, the difference is whether the soldier's loss will create enough value.

Yuan Qiao replied: "The scout has already walked around, and the report is that the enemy army should have about 15,000, and the general flag is the word 'Xie'." ”

"Thanks?" Huan Wen thought about it for a while, and knew that it must be the person of the Xie Gate Valve, but there are many children of the Xie Gate Valve, and it is difficult to guess who it is. He shook his head indifferently, "It was prescient to know that we would land, but there is nothing to change at all. ”

Yuan Qiao didn't comment, and talked about other things: "Wang Pu led the army to advance from the direction of Xuzhou, considering that the Yangtze River has been mastered by us, it is difficult for the Jin army to cross the river to support the north bank, and the 80,000 army should come over in the next few days." ”

Heading south from the direction of Yanzhou was Li Kuang, and according to the military establishment of the Han army, Li Kuang could be regarded as Huan Wen's second deputy general.

As the first deputy general, Wang Pu led the army from the direction of Xuzhou, walking close to the banks of the Yangtze River, the purpose was to let the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty know that the Han State was playing real this time, and also let the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty know what the price of provoking the Han State would be.

If you want to land from a ship, especially if a large ship cannot get close to the shore, you will definitely not be able to get ashore quickly with many small boats.

It took four hours for the 10,000 Han troops to land from 9 o'clock in the morning to 17 o'clock in the evening.

During the landing of the Han army, Xie Shi tried many times to force the riverbank, including organizing a shield array, or cutting wood to make a wooden wall, and under the repeated attempts, it was difficult to tell how many casualties were for the time being, but once failed to break through the cover of the Han army's bed crossbow and bow crossbow, and waited until the evening before Mingjin returned to his camp.

"It turned out to be Xie Shi!" Huan Wen didn't know who the commander of the Jin army was until the evening, and he said to Yuan Qiao: "I know this younger brother of An Shi (Xie An), he has been smart since he was a child, but he is very stubborn. In this way, I don't have to worry that the Jin army will retreat to Xinxi City. ”