Chapter 52: Xiao County's Great Victory

On the middle line, when the white-clothed army and the Chu army were in the Wuguan area, suspicious of each other, and playing "Ming Xiu plank road, dark Chen Cang", the battle situation on the eastern front has undergone earth-shaking changes. 【Latest chapter reading. 】

Xu Haidu, Ni Kefu, used the thunderous momentum commonly used in the Internet to make Xiao County impassable, but there were very few attacks.

Logically speaking, this is not surprising, sieges are extremely common in the history of warfare. Judging from experience, the intention of the Chu army to do this is most likely to besiege the city and send reinforcements. Especially ten days later, the Great Chu Emperor Ma Yun led 10,000 soldiers and horses to Xiao County in person. The Chu army in the entire Huaibei was greatly boosted and had the momentum of a decisive battle.

However, the momentum of the Chu army was high, but the attack on Xiao County was not fierce. Guo Chong, a famous general of the Great Zhou Dynasty who was sitting in Songzhou, was the commander of the Eastern Front, and Guo Chong did not stay in Xiao County, otherwise Ni Kefu surrounded Guo Chong in Xiao County, and the troops on the periphery would not have anyone to command? , but they don't care about it. Because, if you want to besiege the city and send reinforcements, Xiao County is not an ideal place. What kind of place is Xiao County, after Xiao County, less than 100 miles is Songzhou, after Songzhou, less than 200 miles is Bianjing City, which is the heart of Da Zhou. Xiao County is so important to Bianjing, in the past year, Guo Chong rebuilt Xiao County as a whole, the city wall is no worse than Xuzhou, the grain and grass ordnance in the city is enough for the army to use for three years, and the Zhou army stationed in Xiao County also has 15,000 people, plus Xiao County is based on the Bianhe River, relying on Ding Gong Mountain, itself is not so easy to attack.

In other words, if the Chu army besieged the city of Xiao County to send reinforcements, Guo Chong in Song Prefecture would not bother at all, and only wait until the Chu army ran out of food before sending troops to pursue it. If the Chu army puts on a posture of strong attack, it will be even more beneficial to Guo Chong, so that the energy of the Chu army will be consumed under the high walls of Xiao County, and when the Chu army is tired, it will not be a great victory to dispatch the army again?

It's a pity that the heavens don't fulfill people's wishes.

Since the arrival of the Great Emperor Ma Yun in Xiao County, the strategic plan of the Chu army seems not to besiege the city for reinforcements, but to attack the city. But the method of attacking the city is unthinkable.

Ni Kefu's soldiers besieged Xiao County, but they didn't do anything. Ni Kefu's troops were 40,000 people, and the 10,000 horses brought by Jia Ma Yun were 50,000 horses in total. However, after Ma Yun arrived in Xuzhou, he immediately recruited and mobilized 50,000 people in Xuzhou to rush to serve in front of the army. This method of effectiveness is also extremely peculiar, that is, it is not to let the people carry grain and grass, nor to let the people be used as cannon fodder.

Instead, let the common people pile up a high earthen mountain in the east of Xiao County. The Chu army in Tushan can see the situation in Xiao County clearly.

This person is really powerful, this dirt mountain is getting bigger and bigger, and it is slowly leading to Xiao County, because the earth mountain is higher than the county seat, so Xiao County's attack firepower is completely suppressed by the Chu army stationed in Tushan. This is similar to the strategy of flooding Loess Town by Gao Huaide in the middle line, if the soil mountain is piled up to the edge of Xiao County, then Xiao County will not be able to hold it.

Guo Chong, who had just received the news, still couldn't believe it, did Ma Yun really have such a big deal and pile up such a big mountain of dirt? This mountain of dirt is not an easy job. The Chu army standing on the earth mountain can suppress the arrows and stone throwers in the city, which shows that this earth mountain is not only very high, I am afraid that the area on the top of the mountain is also very large. How much soil does Chu have to dig to complete such a big project! And where did the soil of this mountain of dirt come from?

The officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty may have felt that the mound of earth was very miserable, but for the people of Chu, especially Xuzhou, soil and adobe bricks were extremely easy to obtain. Have you forgotten that last year, the horse thieves in Xuzhou became a disaster, and the people of Xuzhou could not farm and were preparing to flee one after another? When the emperor Ma Yun was forced to reluctantly agree to the suggestion of Cao Bin, the envoy of the Xuzhou regiment, and issued a decree: the order to repair the canal!

The canal repair order stipulated that the imperial court would come forward and hire the people of Xuzhou to open channels, reclaim barren fields, and let the people directly build an earthen wall on the periphery of the village to prevent horse thieves from attacking. And this time, when Ma Yun issued an edict to call the people of Xuzhou, he ordered those people to tear down the earthen wall and bring the soil to Xiao County. In this way, the people naturally participated, and many even brought the soil from the fields. There is a lot of strength in numbers, and it is easy to deal with Tucheng.

But even Guo Chong's heart was a little puzzled. But what does it mean that this mountain of dirt is piled up next to the city wall of Xiao County, he is completely clear, which means that the tall city wall of Xiao County has lost its effect all of a sudden. Xiao County must be saved. If Xiao County is not saved, the Central Plains will be in danger.

Guo Chong was forced to passively attack and lead the army to rescue Xiao County. However, although he turned from active to passive, he was not too worried in his heart. Because, there were not many troops in Chu besieging Xiao County, which made Guo Chong, who was preparing for rescue, feel a lot more relieved. As the commander of the army on the border of Chu and Zhou, he still has some understanding of the situation in Chu. The state of Chu took the road of elite soldiers, and the army was very strong in combat, but the overall number of the army was not as large as that of the Great Zhou. From Haizhou in the east to Dengzhou in the west, the army of the Chu army on the front line of the Huai River was only more than 100,000 horses, which was less than that of the Great Zhou. In addition, five or six years ago, he once followed Emperor Guo Wei to the south and fought with the Chu army in Dengzhou, the military strength of the Chu army was not weak, but it was not stronger than the Zhou soldiers. Finally, Guo Chong, as a frontier general, naturally participated in many military pressure operations against the Chu State, and he had a clear understanding of the situation between Zhou and Chu, and he felt that the Chu State was the same as the Great Zhou, although he regarded the other party as a dead place, but he was full of internal contradictions, and it was absolutely impossible for a major war to occur at present.

So, Guo Chongan led the 80,000 troops of Songzhou with peace of mind, set off from Songzhou City, and prepared to patrol Xiao County, so that the Chu army would retreat. It's a pity that he didn't expect that this time Chu Guo would make a lot of determination to really wrestle his wrists with Da Zhou Zhen. After the Tushan outside Xiao County began to take shape, Ma Yun secretly ordered Zhu Yuan, the head of the Eastern Front Camp, to transfer all the troops in Huainan to the vicinity of Xiao County, except for 10,000 men and horses left in Shouzhou.

Guo Chong took the road to Dangshan and prepared to rush to Xiao County for reinforcements. However, just after Dangshan County, on the side of the Bianhe River and at the foot of Mo Mountain, he was ambushed by the Chu army. The 80,000-strong army was killed and more than 50,000 people were captured, and even Guo Chong lost his life on the battlefield. The state of Chu made a breakthrough on the Eastern Front.

Under the pressure of the army, Songzhou surrendered without a fight, and Ma Yun personally led the army of ten thousand to Bianjing.