After the first capital withdrew into Nantang Village, Yang Yuanyan, the king of letters, led 800 elite cavalry to the north bank of Meizhu River, but then did not stay for too long, but escorted the remnants of Zhao Zhen's troops to Liyang City to rest. Except for the dozens of scouts and scouts who went around to Xuancheng from the west of Tianyin Mountain, the scouts have not seen any signs of the Chuzhou army moving south to join Gu Zhilong for the time being! ”

The sun was setting in the west, and Han Qian stood at the head of the ruined city, listening to Guo Qi's report on the information gathered from the northern front.

Xi Ren, Yuan Guowei, and Feng Yi were guarding behind Han Qian, and when they heard the news, they were all relieved, this battle was already extremely difficult to fight, and if it continued, they were all worried about whether the Chishan Army could support it.

After Han Qian pondered for a while, he instructed Guo Qi to say: "Spread the latest information on the northern front to Gao Shao and Zhao Wuji, and slow down the speed of the third capital and cavalry battalion to attack Xuancheng, and choose a place to camp on the north bank of the Xiadu River at night, divide a small number of soldiers and horses, and choose a place to set up a sentry post on the west bank of Nanyi Lake." Before the new military order, it is not advisable to force the Xiadu River for the time being, and be careful that the Xuanzhou soldiers may organize troops and horses to counterattack on the south bank of the Xiadu River......"

"I'll go there myself, and then transport Guo Nuer's body to Langxi for burial." Guo said.

Han Qian nodded tiredly, and motioned for Guo to go over and deliver the message in person.

The 6,000 elites stationed in Nantang Village had a casualty rate of more than 40%; The subsequent reinforcements transferred from the Eastern Front to Nantangzhai also had a casualty rate of nearly 30%.

Xiao Dahu and Lin Jingzong's more than 2,000 soldiers and horses, after the third capital soldiers surrounded Langxi City, all rushed to Honglinbu to participate in the interception of Xuancheng reinforcements, and there were less than 1,000 people left.

There were more than 1,000 elites in the cavalry battalion, scattered to support the three battlefields, and in the end there were less than 400 people left.

Guo Nuer, the son of a family soldier who had followed him for many years, also rushed to Honglinbu to supervise the battle on his behalf, but unfortunately died in a night battle when his skull was pierced by the enemy's iron arrows; In addition to Guo Nuer, there is also a senior general at the level of deputy general, Shi Ji, who was also the first Taowuji disciple to rush back to Jinling with Han Qian from Xuzhou, and died heroically in the battle to reinforce Nantangzhai.

The third capital was to capture Langxi City, and there were more than 2,000 corpses killed under Langxi City!

Guo Ke and the others have a deep brotherhood with Guo Nuer, and they want to send Guo Nuer's corpse back to choose a place for burial, and Han Qian feels that it should be so.

Looking at the corpses of the dead soldiers in the women's battalion under the city, Han Qian was sad in his heart at this moment, but also had a deep luck, secretly feeling that if the Chuzhou Army sent more elite troops south to join Gu Zhilong at this time, he would have to further squeeze the potential of the Chishan Army to intercept the operation, and he really didn't know how much the vitality of the Chishan Army would be injured at that time.

Feng Zhang was ordered to temporarily requisition two thousand recruits from the southern Zhuzhai of Guangde, most of them had no armor, only a wolf tooth whisk, wearing straw sandals, and entered Langxi City in time.

Seeing that there were still many corpses of generals on the city wall that had been scorched with fire oil and had not been collected, Feng Zhang was also embarrassed, but he didn't expect that after Gu Zhilong's elite army was deceived out of the city, it would be so cruel and bloody to attack Langxi.

Fortunately, it was captured, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

Of course, it is precisely because of this that the elite of Gu Zhilong's tooth army was deceived out of the city in advance, which is even more crucial.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for them to take Langxi City in such a short time, and if they can't take Langxi City, they must rush to Huzhou before the food runs out, and then there will be a lot of hard and vicious battles waiting for them.

However, after this battle, just like the rise of the Dragon Bird Army, no one in the world dares to believe that the Red Mountain Army is composed of cheap people.

"Gu Zhilong is really an ambitious person, he has 112,000 stone in Langxi City, which is enough for us to breathe a sigh of relief!" Feng Xuan took a breath of excitement and reported the situation that he had just taken to the various grain depots to inspect in a rough manner.

Gao Shao led the third capital to have some remaining strength to squeeze the 4,000 soldiers and horses to go south to join Zhao Wuji, and the third capital left 3,000 soldiers and horses, of which the wounded soldiers accounted for two-thirds, and Feng Xuan was led to stay behind to help Han Qian stay in Langxi - Han Qian was also in charge of Langxi's military and political affairs.

Fortunately, Feng Zhang rushed over with two thousand recruits from Guangde in time, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

Otherwise, just holding 2,7800 prisoners would make him dare not sleep at night.

"Gu Longzhi hoarded so much grain in Langxi?" Yuan Guowei asked in surprise.

It wasn't that he didn't believe it, but he was a little shocked, but he also understood better why Feng Xuan would say that Gu Zhilong was an ambitious person.

Before the Langxi garrison, there were only 6,000 people at most, and even if 50,000 or 60,000 stone of grain were prepared in the city, it was enough to supply the garrison for a year.

Gu Zhilong hoarded far more grain in Langxi City than they estimated, which meant that Gu Zhilong actually wanted to gather all the soldiers and horses of Xuanzhou to Langxi when the Chuzhou army and Anning Palace were inseparable, so as to show his pivotal role and status in the next battle.

Speaking of which, Gu Zhilong just wanted to sell it for a good price.

Gu Zhilong's calculations fell into vain, and now they have the harvest of these 120,000 stone grain, plus the autumn grain harvest in Guangde Old County and Langxi in a month, even if the Chishan Army no longer expands to the central and southern areas of Xuanzhou south of Langxi and to Huzhou, the 300,000 old and weak women and children should be able to support until the next year.

This will win a rare and precious three-month rest for the Chishan Army.

Yuan Guowei has been by Han Qian's side these days, and he knows very deeply how difficult it is to protect so many old and weak women and children with such simple conditions, and to do his utmost restraint not to plunder civilians and small households.

Although the women and children evacuated to the northern foot of Fuyu Mountain can get some food sources from the deep mountains and old forests, the food rations allocated are still too small. Some elderly people even secretly give food rations to the young, so that dozens of elderly people die every day from severe hunger and edema.

The Chishan Army was able to maintain its high morale under such a difficult environment, and successfully captured Langxi City, obtaining relatively sufficient supplies and time and space to recuperate for the next three or four months, Yuan Guowei certainly knew how difficult it was.

Such a brilliant result can be said to be completely fought by the bloody battle of the generals who are not afraid of death.

At this time, the capture of Langxi, the capture of nearly 6,000 sets of armor, as well as the use of the hoarding of iron coal, leather, cloth and many workshops in better conditions than Guangdezhai in the city, the equipment of the Chishan army can also be greatly improved in the next two or three months.

"Gu Zhao's body was buried in a coffin?" Han Qian asked Feng Xuandao.

Gu Zhao is Gu Zhilong's second son and the chief general of Langxi City.

Although Han Qian ordered to keep Gu Zhao alive as much as possible before the siege, Kong Xirong took the first sharp pawn to attack the city, and the generals on both sides were killed with red eyes, Gu Zhao also dared to fight, and led his guards to defend the gate tower of the east city without retreating, and finally died under the chaotic knife, and his body was cut to no complete place.

It was impossible for Han Qian to blame Kong Xirong for not obeying orders, but he just ordered Feng Xuan to collect Gu Zhao's body in a coffin, and then detain all the female relatives left in the city by the Gu family to prevent the generals from rioting.

"It's been collected, and Zhou Yuanhe is under the city." Feng Xuan said.

"Bring him up." Han Qian said.

Zhou Yuanhe was a scribe, and he was not on the east gate tower when the siege was at its most intense.

After Gu Zhao died in battle, the defenders collapsed and surrendered, and Zhou Yuanhe was captured in the county office, so in addition to being punched and kicked and knocked out a few old teeth when he was captured, he was not seriously injured.

The blue nose and swollen face were brought to the city wall, but Zhou Yuanhe was also quite embarrassed.

"In this battle, both sides fought too hard and too miserable, the generals were impatient and rude, and there were faux pas, and I hope Lord Zhou will forgive me." Han Qian looked at Zhou Yuanhe and said calmly.

No matter how much he looked down on the Han family's son before, Zhou Yuanhe still knew the truth of "the winner is the king, the loser is the loser", he just didn't know Han Qian's intention to drag him to the East City Gate Tower at this time, so he was silent.

"Although before the war, I ordered to try to leave you and Gu Ergongzi's lives alive, but under the fierce battle, the sword and arrow have no eyes, and Gu Ergongzi unfortunately died in battle, and it is not what Han someone wants, I hope that Lord Zhou can apologize on my behalf after seeing Lord Gu," Han Qian said indifferently, "Tomorrow I will send someone to escort Lord Zhou and Gu Zhai's family to Xuancheng, after Lord Zhou saw Lord Gu, he told Lord Gu and the heads of the families in Xuancheng that my patience is very limited, and there is no practical action in Xuanzhou within ten days to serve His Royal Highness King Tan and serve Hunan Xingshangshu Province, When I lead the elite of the Chishan army into the city, don't blame me for indulging the generals and slaughtering the whole city! ”

Speaking of this, Han Qian didn't signal Feng Xuan to take Zhou Yuanhe down first.

Seeing Zhou Yuanhe being taken down, Ren Ying asked, "Is it possible that Gu Zhilong will be scared by you?" ”

"Scared may not be able to be frightened, but now that he is attached, he can still sell it for a good price, and if it is delayed for another two or three months, the stronger the Chishan army will be, and he will be cowering in Yishan, who can he sell himself to, and what price can he sell?" Han Qian said.

Feng Xuan glanced at Yuan Guowei, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Gu Zhilong may not be willing to surrender at this time, and we don't need to be too urgent......

Yuan Guowei coughed and said, "I'll go to the city to have a look." ”

At this time, if Gu Zhilong can be asked to serve Yueyang, of course, it will be more conducive to the current situation to lean towards Yueyang, but Gu Zhilong's strength has not suffered a big loss, but he has to rush to win him over and surrender him, then he and the family lords in Xuanzhou can only be allowed to retain considerable strength to join Yueyang, and Gu Zhilong will be one of Yueyang's powerful figures in the future.

And after this battle, even if Gu Zhilong and the family lords of Xuanzhou surrendered to Yueyang and His Royal Highness, their hatred for Han Qian and the Chishan Army would only deepen, and it would be impossible to easily resolve them.

In other words, if Han Qian won this battle, the support he could get within Yueyang not only did not increase, but it was possible that the forces against him and against him would be strengthened.

The meaning of Feng Xuan's words was actually to wait for the Chishan Army to be fully rested and strengthened, and then to come to Xuancheng City, forcing Gu Zhilong to surrender his troops and horses unconditionally, and the Chishan Army would fully incorporate Xuanzhou's troops and take over all the resources of Xuanzhou.

That is the most beneficial to Han Qian and the Chishan Army.

Yuan Guowei felt that he was really not suitable to stay and participate in the discussion of this kind of topic, so he should find an excuse to go down to the city gatehouse.

"It is His Highness's will to surrender Gu Zhilong, and we can't go against it. We sent troops to fight Langxi City, and we also urged Gu Zhilong to serve His Highness! Han Qian looked at Yuan Guowei, who was about to go down the city wall, and asked, "Master Yuan, what do you think?" ”

"To fight and promote surrender, Lord Han is really a wonderful strategy," Yuan Guowei heard Han Qian say this, he smiled and saluted, "The Chuzhou army has withdrawn north, Lord Zhang Ping should come back from Nantang Village, I will go to the north of the city to have a look, and by the way, wait for Lord Zhang Ping to come back - at this time, maybe Lord Zhang Ping and I can do something for Yue Yang and His Royal Highness in this matter, and welcome Lord Han back safely!" ”

Yuan Guowei naturally didn't want to see Han Qian and the third prince have a disagreement, thinking that he and Zhang Ping rushed to Xuancheng to see Gu Zhilong as soon as possible, if he could say that Gu Zhilong would be surrendered and save the lives of Han Wenhuan, Han Daochang and others, maybe he would be able to dispel some of the hidden dangers caused by Han Qian's undeclared war and attack on Langxi, and it could also make the Marquis of Xinchang and the people of Yueyang have nothing to say and blame for Han Qian's dispatch of troops to attack Langxi.

"Then I'll bother Mr. Yuan." Han Qian returned the salute to Yuan Guowei.

"It's just the merits of Lord Han with a shy face." Yuan Guowei smiled and went down the city wall.

Seeing Yuan Guowei leaving, there were only Xi Ying, Feng Xuan, Feng Yi and others on the left and right, Han Qian said to Feng Xuan again: "It's not that I don't think about Xuzhou, not for many hard-working sons, the most important thing now is that I don't know when Emperor Liang will be able to fully control the situation in the Central Plains, or if it is possible, we must drive the Chuzhou army to Jiangbei as soon as possible." Otherwise, Huaishou and other places will fall into the hands of the Liang army, and it will be too difficult to defend the Yangtze River alone - the strategic significance of guarding the river must defend Huai, I remember mentioning it to you, we must look far away, and we can't care about the momentary gains and losses, otherwise how different are you and me from that Gu Zhilong? We must attach importance to military power, or we must not be afraid to show military power, but we must also remember that military power cannot solve all problems, and even the display and use of military power is only a better paving for solving problems......"

"Understood." Feng Xuan replied in a sullen voice, more or less reluctant in his heart, but thinking that the old lady was still in Gu Zhilong's hands, the compromise he thought was also a last resort.

Han Qian smiled in his heart, there were too many lessons in the dream world, and he also had some deeper experience at this time, and he didn't expect Feng Xuan to understand them more thoroughly than him, the academy already had a prototype, so it was a big deal for him to print more pamphlets and be more verbose.

At this time, a fast horse galloped from the east, and when it galloped to the city, he saw that it was a county prince palace guard who was waiting beside Li Yu, and saw that he was wearing a white linen filial piety robe outside the leather armor at this time, Han Qian saw this scene, and sighed slightly in his heart, a generation of famous generals Li Yu passed away in Guangdezhai......

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