Yu Shichang and Qu Bo attacked twice, and Meng Sanjie lost his troops. Later, Tan Ye, Kong Bi and others kept chasing and killing, they were new entrants, and they had not made great achievements, but this time they got the opportunity and desperately led their troops forward.

Fortunately, Yu Zhilong's department is mostly a new attached army, with little daily training, and many soldiers have not been in battle, and it is night at this time, and it is inevitable that the various departments will not cooperate with each other. Meng Sanjie's troops relied on the soldiers to strengthen their armor, desperately fled in a panic, and desperately rushed to open a hole, which was damaged a lot, and the remnants of the army rushed back to the city.

At dawn, Meng Chang, Jin Yan and others counted the results of the battle, and the Yuan army was killed and captured about 1,000 people. Yu Shichang, Qu Bo, Tan Ye, Kong Bi and others handed over the prisoners and corpses to the Chinese military tent one by one for inspection.

Yu Zhilong interrogated several captured captives, and when he knew that he had escaped from Meng Sanjie, he couldn't help but regret greatly, and then thought that this battle had greatly eliminated the living force of the defenders in the city, and it should be of great help to the future siege of the city.

The various departments of the Jing'an army were elated, Yu Shichang even killed a Yuan army under 10,000 households, Tan Ye and Kong Bi also captured or killed several thousand households and hundreds of households, Wu Xingde turned his head and ordered his subordinates to hurry back to the village to kill pigs and sheep, and beat gongs and drums to reward. He already knew that Yu Zhilong was forbidden to drink in the army, so he just came with more wine and food.

Only Mu Chun didn't like it. It turned out that Yu Zhilong ordered him to stick to the north gate, and he didn't participate in the battle at all last night.

Taking advantage of the vigor of this warrior, Yu Zhilong ordered the army to have breakfast first, so that after resting, they would attack the city with all their might after breakfast on the second day.

On this day, the sound of fighting, shouting, and groaning at the head of Rizhao City resounded in the sky, and the Jing'an army forcibly slaughtered the city several times, but they were all pressed down by the defenders who regarded them as crazy demons. The two sides fought bloodily for three days, and the Jing'an army was unable to achieve anything!

In the evening of another day, the battle was over, and the tired generals and soldiers at the head of the city hurriedly finished their meals and seized more time to rest. Some of the sergeants brandished leather whips and reprimanded the frightened people for rushing to repair the fortifications overnight, carrying wood, stones, gold juice, etc.

Daluhua Chiwu Yanerdo regretted it at this time, he knew that the situation was so sinister, he said that he was going to leave for the north at the beginning, but he hated that Liang Si was an elm head, full of loyalty and patriotism, not only did he have to defend the land for the monarch and make his reputation, but also strongly persuaded himself to stay and preside over the so-called overall defense situation. It's good now, but now it's hard for me to fly!

He turned his mind and complained about the Yuan army, Meng Sanjie, if he wasn't greedy for military exploits and firmly believed that the local Yuan army's combat power was available, how could he stick to the city by the side!

Thinking that the Tanma Red Army in Jiaozhou in the north has thousands of Mu Chihu, and the strength of the local rebel army is well-known in Jiaodong, if you can escape there, you will lose your official body at most, why get involved in this dangerous situation?

Wu Yanerduo immediately resented Mu Chihu for sitting on the shore and watching the fire, and did not come to the rescue for a long time. The two places are less than 200 miles, and fast horses can reach it almost in a day. He had already sent a fast horse for help six days ago, but so far there has been no news. Although the two of them have always been close to each other, but at the moment of the great enemy, how can they not focus on the overall situation?

He had a lot of grievances in his heart, sitting on the county Yin Gao Hall, looking at the large circle of people sitting in the dark under the hall, he was angry in his heart.

As a civil official of the Yuan court, Liang Si's performance in the past two days can be described as conscientious and detrimental. It was precisely because of his persistence and assistance that the Yuan army did not abandon the city and fled north. In the past two days, he recruited a large number of rebels to assist Meng Sanjie in defending the city, taking care of the wounded, and raising money in many ways to reward the soldiers of various departments.

"Two adults, as long as we can repel the thief army, I am willing to give another 20,000 taels of silver and 8,000 horses of silk!" Dozens of local tycoons under the hall were filled with righteous indignation, and they said to the county Yin Liang impassionedly. After the war, they were summoned by Wu Yanerduo early and have been standing outside the hall for a long time.

The battle has been going on for several days, and everyone understands that in order to boost the morale of the army and resist the thief army, the money and food in Rizhao City have been spent like water in the past few days. They are all wealthy people, and everyone knows the means of plucking geese over the years. At this time, the army is in urgent need of money and food support, in order to cope with Wu Yanerduo's enthusiastic attention, everyone should make a statement as soon as possible, some blood, or go back to the house early to wash and scrub, and sleep on the hot kang head with Meiji.

"The war is so fierce, how can 20,000 taels of cash be enough? At least 50,000 taels! No, eighty thousand taels! Wu Yanerduo and Meng Sanjie were dissatisfied after hearing this.

In the past few days, the Jing'an army has attacked the city so fiercely, which has greatly exceeded the expectations of the two people, and more than the tens of thousands of taels raised in the early stage have been allocated military rewards or pensions, and now there is not much left. Meng Sanjie felt that even 100,000 taels was not much.

These rich people looked at each other, and couldn't help but have a bitter face, under the supervision of Liang Si next to them and the cold eyes of Wu Yanerduo, they gritted their teeth one by one and had to pledge a total of 70,000 taels of silver. Wu Yan Erduo was slightly satisfied, and ordered the secretary to pack up the paintings of the people, and ordered the messengers to go out with these merchants, go back to clean up, and collect money and money overnight to allocate to the army.

Since ancient times, asking unscrupulous rich households to take the initiative to pledge is tantamount to plucking the feathers of an iron rooster. If it weren't for the fact that they knew about Yu Zhilong's cruel methods against the big and inferior gentry in the early stage, no matter what, these people would not be willing to hand over an ingot. At this time, they lowered their heads, shook their heads and sighed, and hurried out of the county office, only God knows how much resentment there is in their hearts.

Speaking of which, Rizhao City can not lose a few days, and it is inseparable from the exhaustion of Liang Si and Meng Sanjie. Among them, the military merits and iron-blooded joint sitting played a great role.

The military gifts mainly came from the donations of these large households, and most of the money and food savings in the city treasury have been exhausted so far. In order to boost the morale of the army, under the auspices of Wu Yanerduo and Liang Si, in the past few days, the big families have donated 50,000 taels of silver, 10,000 silk silks, and no less than 600 cattle and sheep.

In order to stabilize the morale of the military, the payment of bereavement pensions in the past is also 10 percent, and it can no longer be deducted or delayed. Even eating empty wages is much less!

The morale of the defending army can be stimulated again, and at least half of it is due to the heavy rewards for military merits.

The iron-blooded joint sitting greatly reduced the phenomenon of sergeants avoiding battle and playing tricks. After Meng Sanjie did not hesitate to kill hundreds of soldiers who violated the ban and cowardly in a row, and even several Han army hundreds, at least the Yuan army rarely retreated from battle.

At the same time, in order to supplement the army, Wu Yan Erduo and Liang Si wantonly recruited young people in the city to defend the city, and temporarily recruited about 1,500 people with a daily remuneration of two taels per person, many of whom were still domestic slaves of various families, and incorporated them into the army to encourage them to go to the city to help defend it.

In addition, the artillery and guns at the head of the city also played a significant role in the past two days. For the first time, the Jing'an Army was confronted with a large and small firearm firearm, and under the surprise, the army's morale was inevitably unstable. Even Mu Chun, Qu Bo, Tan Ye, Kong Bi and others took the lead in the battle and rushed to the top of the city one after another, but they were also suppressed by several desperate counterattacks organized by Meng Sanjie.

Among them, Kong Bi participated in the war for the first time, although his troops were not trained, fortunately, they had a high fighting spirit, and once rushed to the head of the city and beheaded two Yuan army and 100 households. Yu Zhilong praised him greatly. Before the army, he rewarded his subordinates with a thousand taels of silver.

To the surprise of Yu Zhilong and others, on the second day of the siege, Wu Jinmei actually went to the front of the two armies with Qian Zheng.

Qian Zheng wanted to be the first, but Yu Zhilong just didn't allow it. If he makes a mistake, Wu Jinmei will not immediately become a bride and a widow!

In the face of the bloody battlefield, tossing and moaning soldiers, although Wu Jinmei is a woman, she did not flinch and retreat, and was even willing to be the same pioneer with Qian Zheng and climb the city. bluffed Wu Xingde out of the queue to block him.

Yu Zhilong praised her in public for her extraordinary courage, she was really a contemporary woman, and she secretly looked at Wu Xingde's face as white as lime, and then changed her words, but he and his wife led a division to the north to guard the official road in the north, waiting for the Yuan army in Jiaozhou to come to help.

Under the military order, Qian Zheng was helpless, led his own troops, accompanied by Wu Jinmei, slowly went north, and chose a critical place to station.

The battle situation is stalemate, and Yu Zhilong has been very troubled for the past two days. He didn't expect that after Meng Sanjie suffered a big loss, the defense force in the city was still so tenacious, and it had caused considerable losses to the Jing'an army in the past few days!

It is not a wonderful thing that the army has been trapped under the enemy's fortified city for a long time!

On the fourth day, the military envoy hurriedly delivered two letters to Yu Zhilong.

One letter came from Zhao Shi, Yu Zhilong was overjoyed after reading it, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

It turned out that Zhao Shi rushed to Ju County, not only succeeded smoothly, but also urgently recruited displaced people, broke down the settlement, and drove the mouth, and successively defeated the reinforcements from Defu and Huaidong Road, with a total of no less than 7,000 people!

Yu Zhilong and Zhao Shi were in Yishui at the beginning, Zhao Shi's department was only eight hundred, and then Yu Zhilong ordered Pang Biao and others to go to reinforcements, and the two groups of people all added up, and Zhao Shi's total soldiers and horses barely exceeded 1,000. He was able to defeat several times the enemy, and it was unimaginably difficult!

Zhao Shi's letter was not long, and he briefly explained that after he won the city, he brutally swept away the local gentry and official eunuchs who refused to be naturalized, robbed the rich and helped the poor, and distributed money and grain to help the poor, which immediately stabilized the situation in a very short time. He urgently recruited thousands of people, and took advantage of the contempt of the Yuan army to break the cauldron by the Mushui River, charge head-on, and defeat the 5,000 Yuan army that returned to Defu in a battle! With the power of a great victory, he quickly rushed to Xianggou eighty miles away overnight, and defeated the Yuan army on Huaidong Road in World War II!

Zhao Shi fought two battles in Dingju County, and the southern defense line of the Jing'an Army was completely stabilized.

In the letter, Zhao Shidao said, "After 30 years of obscurity, he was taught by the general, led an army, and became famous in front of the horse." Now I only hope to kill the enemy on the battlefield, save all the people from fire and water, and break your bones or repay the marshal's attention! ”

"Zhao Shi is here, Ju County is saved, don't worry!"

Yu Zhilong breathed a sigh of relief after reading it carefully.

The detachment army was defeated at Gaoyou, and countless defeated troops were routed to the north, and they were contained in Xuzhou, along the canal, Tancheng, Donghai and other places. Although the morale of these Yuan troops was relatively low, compared with the Jing'an army, they still had strong military strength, no less than tens of thousands, which made Yu Zhilong extremely jealous. Now that the Yuan army that dared to reinforce Juxian County has been defeated, in the short term, there will never be any more possibility of daring to invade the north.

Zhao Shi is straight and hard, generous, responsible, and not weak, so he soon became the leader of Yu Hai's team. Yu Zhilong really learned a lot of skills from him. In terms of the degree of irreversibility of the relationship with Yu Zhilong, Zhao Shi can definitely rank in the top three. The two families have friendships and kindness, which is also the reason why Yu Zhilong is relieved to order Zhao Shi to lead a partial division.

At the same time, there was also a military letter from Linqu Ji Xiancheng.

Sentinels reported that the Yuan military camp on the other side of the Mi River was not in order, and the orders were inconsistent, and the defensive strength seemed to be weaker than in the early stage; The investigation found that the Yuan army had a large-scale Yuan army baggage station in Weizhou, and there were at least 100,000 stones of grain and grass in the shape. The defense force of the Yuan army here is only a few thousand households that are not satisfied with the formation, and because they are in the rear, the guard is relatively lax. If it can be obtained, it will not only cause the logistics of the Yidu Yuan Army to suffer a heavy blow, but also greatly alleviate the current situation of Linqu's money and grain embarrassment, and effectively solve the needs of spring plowing and military food next year!

Ji Xiancheng and Mingxiong repeatedly discussed, and suggested that they should make a big show on the northern line of Linqu and cross the sea without concealment, while the main force would seek an opportunity to cross the river and attack Weizhou. If you can succeed, you can use the water as the boundary, and the east and west can advance to Yidu, and even cut off the connection between Yidu and Jiaodong, completely disrupting the deployment of the Yuan army.

Due to the urgency of the military situation, when the letter was sent, Ji Xiancheng had already begun preliminary preparations, and when the time was right, he could attack. At present, it is only waiting for Zhilong's permission.

Immediately afterwards, another secret letter was directly delivered to Zhilong.

This is Ming Shijie's own handwriting. Ming Shijie is the mastermind of the Intelligence Department selected by Yu Zhilong, responsible for secretly detecting all kinds of enemy movements and news, and even responsible for secretly supervising the abnormal movements of generals at all levels in the Jing'an Army. All the information obtained by the Intelligence Department was secretly reported to Yu Zhilong after Ming Shijie returned to the headquarters.

In this letter, Ming Shijie reported: After two Linqu battles, the grain and grass reserves of Yidu Road were greatly consumed, and the losses of soldiers were very serious. Nowadays, Yidu Road has wantonly collected money and grain, increased taxes and levies, and the counties around Yidu Road have been boiling with public resentment, and tax evasion and anti-levy have occurred from time to time.

But buying a slave and waiting first seems to have made up their minds and doesn't care about it. There are more and more Yuan military camps outside Yidu City, and there are no less than 10,000 elites looking at the banners. Armor, weapons, tents, grain and grass flow like flowing water, looking at the capital city to transport. The intensity of the military training suddenly weakened significantly 10 days ago, and there seemed to be a big move.

In particular, the strength of Meng Qing's rebel army recovered quickly, and after careful identification, the number of men and horses stationed in Meng Qing's camp quickly increased to 6,000 households.

"Meng Qing?" The corners of Yu Zhilong's eyes twitched slightly. This old guy's toughness is so tenacious! He fought with him several times, almost wiped out half of his military horses, and even Meng Qing's third son was killed by Zhao Shi. The blood feud between each other is simply irresolvable.

However, the combat power of the Meng Qingyi Army is quite high, and it can be said that if the two armies face each other head-on, in a comprehensive comparison on the whole, the Jing'an Army is slightly inferior.

Meng Qingyi's army was naturally not regular in the Yuan court. There are many children of the Meng family in the army, and most of them are officers at all levels, so the centripetal force of the Meng family army is no worse than that of the Jing'an army, which has serious military discipline.

The Meng family is a local family, and after the painstaking accumulation and operation of more than ten generations, the network and financial resources have been extremely huge. When Kublai Khan conquered Shandong, the ancestors of the Meng family immediately returned to the wind, and were rewarded with a large number of wealth, land, mountains and forests, and the background was even more profound. The local government and many other big clans were blue-eyed and attached to him, driven by common interests, and they had a steady stream of money, food, and personnel support, so it was enough for Meng Qing's military funds to be self-raised.

Fighting a war is extremely expensive. Weapons, armor, war horses, grain and grass, military pensions, organization and mobilization, and so on, are all staggering figures. Meng Qing has a natural great advantage in this regard. Even after a few defeats, soon his rebel army was replenished again. The quality of the soldiers recovered quite quickly after the drill and training.

And everything in Yu Zhilong is the gratuitous possession of the treasury of the Yuan court and the local wealthy families after the battle and victory. This approach works in the short term, but it is difficult to support in the long term. The larger the territory of the Jing'an Army, the more prominent this shortcoming will be. So victory, everything is easy to say, if it is a big defeat, not only will it be impossible to restrain the rout and deserters, but even Yu Zhilong himself will have no way out!

What makes Yu Zhilong even more jealous is that this Meng Qing has a tough personality, has been defeated and fought repeatedly, and the more he fights, the stronger he becomes. He is quite good at summing up gains and losses from failures, and managing the army well, similar to the shaved head of later generations. When he went head-to-head in Linqu, he was almost defeated head-on in Zhilong! Even if he is defeated, he will not be scattered.

Ming Shijie secretly inquired many times, and this Meng Qing seemed to be extremely loyal to the Yuan court and didn't see any ambitions. No matter how he was dispatched first, it was completed in an orderly manner, and the cooperation with the officers and soldiers was also clear-sighted. Meng Qing himself was also respectful to the Yuan court, and he continued to pay tribute to all kinds of filial piety to the heads of Yidu, such as Mainu, Yexian, and Zhuo Sicheng. Several people also admired him, and the Yuan court reward given to the Meng Clan Righteous Army was also rich.

There is a deep affection between them, and Yu Zhilong really can't see any chance to separate. He wrote back the book himself, and then asked Ming Shijie to inquire about the news in many ways. Now the intelligence department of the Jing'an Army has been created, and it has not been able to break into the high-level of the Yuan court for a while. There is a lot of gossip now, some of which are false and some of which are true, and many of them are still chasing after the wind, which can only be used as evidence to distinguish false information.

Excellent fine work requires long-term and rigorous training. Yu Zhilong secretly considered whether to wait for the situation to improve and prepare for the construction of a detailed training center for the future.