Offensive? That's impossible, at least not today.

There are tens of thousands of rebels in the city, and even if they capture the city wall, if they want to take the entire Xiangzhou City, they will have to pay a lot of price.

Zheng Congyan didn't want too many casualties.

"The Art of War" said it well: "Therefore, the first army is to attack and plan, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the army, and then the next is to attack the city." The siege of the city is a last resort. Repair the oar, with equipment, three months and then become, distance from the trench, and then three months and then be. The ants will be overwhelmed and the ants will be attached to it, and those who will kill a third of the soldiers and the city will not be pulled out, and this attack will also be a disaster.

Therefore, those who make good use of soldiers, the soldiers of the people instead of the war, the city of the people instead of the attack, the destruction of the country of the people instead of the long, will fight for the whole world, so the soldiers are not immediately profitable, and the method of attacking is also. ”

Zheng Congyan advocated plotting to attack, and he could try to take Xiangzhou by strategy, so why should he pay the price of large casualties.

In the next half a month, every morning and afternoon, Zheng Congyan would let the Tiance Cannon work for an hour, and then collect the troops.

Zhao Delu didn't think about sending troops to destroy these Tiance cannons, but before his soldiers could get close to the Tiance cannons, they were killed by the cavalry and collapsed.

After several failures, Zhao gave up on this method.

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In the past few days, the forbidden army outside Xiangzhou City did not launch a siege, and the army was only stationed outside the north gate and the west gate, and the east gate and the south gate were not defended by the forbidden army.

At the same time, the Jinyi guards in the city also took the opportunity to spread rumors, which made the people in the city panic, and many rebel soldiers fled.

On the first night, hundreds of rebels secretly flowed out of the city to join the imperial army.

The second night it became more than a thousand, and on the third night it exceeded three thousand.

On the night of the fifth day, Zhao Delu sent an elite tooth army to suppress the escape of the rebels in the city, not only failed to stop it, but launched a large-scale conflict, and there were shouts of killing in the city throughout the night.

Although the riots were eventually suppressed, Zhao's elite tooth army suffered heavy losses, with only half of the more than 20,000 men left, some of whom died in the clashes last night, while others took the opportunity to flee.

As soon as the morning dawned, the streets of Xiangzhou City were full of corpses and bloodstains, without exception, rebels.

They did not die at the hands of the enemy, but at the hands of their own people.

By the sixth day, there were only about 30,000 rebels left in the city.

And Zheng Congyan still did not order the siege of the city, but he was not idle.

In addition to besieging Xiangzhou City, he also sent people to contact the rebels in other prefectures and counties to recruit these rebels first.

In addition, 15,000 cavalry were sent to block the 50,000 rebel reinforcements from Caizhou.

A great battle broke out between the two sides in Tangzhou, and in the end, the imperial army killed 20,000 rebels at the cost of losing 4,000 cavalry, captured 15,000 people, and the rest of the rebels fled back to Caizhou in disarray.

Since then, there have been no reinforcements in Xiangzhou City.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Zheng Congyan put Zhao Kuangning back and asked him to persuade his father Zhao Deyu to surrender Kaicheng.

"Father!"

Zhao Kuangning, who had been under house arrest by the imperial army for more than half a month, couldn't smile when he saw his father, who he hadn't seen for many days.

In the past, his father was such a proud person, but now, he looks haggard, and he has aged a lot compared to before he left, which is a little surprising.

"Big brother, are you okay? Did they embarrass you? Seeing his brother returning, Zhao Kuangming hurriedly stepped forward to check the other party carefully to see if there were any scars.

"Waste, not enough success, more than failure, can't do a simple thing, what do you want to do when you come back?" Zhao Delu looked at his eldest son, and felt a lot more relieved, but he didn't give a good look on his face.

Zhao Kuangning, who was kneeling on the ground, hesitated for a while and said, "Father, Tang Jun deliberately let the child come back. ”

"Tang Jun is so kind? Willing to let you go? Could it be that you can't persuade you to surrender? "Zhao Deyu didn't have a good airway.

"Father, Tang Jun didn't let the child persuade the father to surrender, but just asked the child to bring a piece of news. Our reinforcements are gone, and just yesterday, the 15,000 cavalry of the Tang Army defeated the reinforcements sent by His Majesty in the territory of Tangzhou, and only more than 10,000 of the 50,000 reinforcements fled back to Caizhou. ”

"What?"

Hearing this news, the faces of everyone present turned to ashes, what does it mean?

Without reinforcements, they want to hold Xiangzhou City with the demoralized 30,000 troops in the city? Even if the flight of soldiers is curbed, but the small scale still exists, how can such an army still fight?

When Zhao Delu heard the news, his body couldn't help but shake a few times, and then he fell to the ground.

"Jie Shuai!"

"Father!"

Zhao Deyu's fainting frightened these people, and finally woke up faintly under the rescue of the doctor.

The first thing he did when he woke up, Zhao Delu sent someone to contact the Tang army outside the city to discuss surrender.

This is true surrender!

Early the next morning, Zhao Delu took off his armor, wore a single coat and tied thorns on his back, knelt outside the city gate, and took the remaining tens of thousands of remnants to formally surrender to the Tang army.

On the second day of Zhao Deyu's surrender, Zheng Congyan held a 'grand' ceremony to enter the city.

The people in the city opened the doors and windows in ragged clothes and looked numb, and when they saw the flags representing the imperial court and the imperial army appearing in a neat queue on the street, many people cried directly on the spot.

A few years ago, when Liu Jurong was in charge of Shannan Dongdao, Xiangzhou, as the largest city, was prosperous in commerce, and the people did not say that they had enough food and clothing, but they could still live and work in peace and contentment.

But after Xiangzhou was jointly attacked by Zhao Deyan and Lu Yanhong, not only Xiangzhou, but the entire Shannan Dongdao became hell. Civilians were slaughtered, food and property were robbed, women were humiliated, and men were forcibly taken to join the rebels.

And with the recapture of Shannan Dongdao by the imperial army, it means that the nightmare is coming to an end.

When the news of the recovery of Xiangzhou reached Chang'an, the first thing Li Ye did was to appoint Zheng Congyan as the envoy of Shannan Dongdao to control the military and political power of Shannan Dongdao.

The Left Tiance Army, the Right Shence Army, and the Left Longwu Army were still stationed in Shannan Dongdao, and when the situation stabilized, the Right Shence Army was transferred back to Guanzhong.

And the second thing is to issue an order to remove Zhang Gui's Jingnan Jiedu envoy from his post and replace it with Guo Yu, the assassin of Guizhou.

Even if Li Ye personally ordered Zhang Gui to send troops, the other party still did not send troops in the end, which made Li Ye unbearable.

However, Zhang Gui did not want to hand over power so easily, so the imperial court made Zhang Gui a rebel and ordered the new Jingnan Jiedu envoy Guo Yu to lead the soldiers and horses of the headquarters, Xiazhou, Lizhou, and Langzhou to pacify Zhang Gui, and then escort Zhang Gui into Beijing.

It was only at this time that Zhang Gui regretted it, he didn't expect the court to show no mercy at all, and directly characterize him as a rebel.

Zhang Gui hurriedly sent someone to Xiangzhou, wanting to find Zheng Congyan to make peace, but Zheng Congyan didn't buy it.

At this time, I regretted it, what did I do in the first place?

As for whether Guo Yu can defeat Zhang Gui, that's his business. If the other party is finally defeated by Zhang Gui, Zheng Congyan will send troops.

Now, let Jingnan consume it internally.

After the Shannan Dongdao Buchen forces are completely cut off, the Jingnan problem will be resolved.

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