and the state capital, 13,000 Chuzhou soldiers were stationed outside.

Before the opening, it was clear that the place and county where the state capital was located claimed to have 5,000 defenders, but in fact it was not enough, and the actual number was only about 4,000.

Deng Jian led 7,000 troops and began to besiege Hezhou on August 28.

On August 29, Tang Guang led 3,000 people from Hanshan County.

On August 30, Du Laoba led 3,000 people from Jiangpu County.

So far, Hezhou City has been besieged for five days.

Tang Guang hit Hanshan County, and Du Lao beat Jiangpu, all of which were won within three days.

It was Huo Wuda Wujiang, and it was also within three days.

After receiving the good news from Wujiang, Deng Jian's body became more and more gloomy, and he looked at the city wall in the distance.

Everyone handed over the most glorious battle to him, but he did not shine.

And the state has a ballista!

Chuzhou also has ballistas to defend the city,

It's just that they are all old objects from ten or twenty years ago, and they have long been rusted.

Of the ten, less than half of them can shoot arrows.

The high-level officials in Chuzhou did not take the ballista guarding the city in their eyes.

I didn't expect to come to Hezhou, and I suffered a big loss from the ballista.

On the first day of Deng Jian's arrival in Hezhou, Tang Guang and Du Laoba had not yet arrived.

As early as the army arrived at the Hezhou capital, Deng Jian sent 500 people into the city one after another, wanting to cooperate with the army outside the city to seize the city gate.

As a result, it was all lost in the sea, and there was no news.

Wait until 7,000 horsemen and horsemen come to the city, and wait until half a day, and the city wall gate has not moved.

Deng Jian tentatively attacked the city, 7,000 men and horses, and sent half of them.

As a result, hundreds of casualties were lost.

Steel-headed crossbow arrows are ninety-fifty percent new!

On the city wall of Hezhou, there are hundreds of crossbow carts!

The strong crossbow is a hundred feet away, but the trebuchet of the siege is far from this distance.

Deng Jian was anxious, but he would not fight with the flesh and blood of the soldiers.

While he ordered people to cut down trees and make siege equipment such as Lu Gongcha and Xianren Bridge that could be blocked, he also ordered his soldiers to hide under the block and dig tunnels under the city wall.

In the past few days, they have been waiting for the combined forces of Tang Guangbu and Du Lao's eight divisions.

……

Right now, Tang Guang and Du Laoba looked at the city wall where the crossbow machine was displayed, and they were also at a loss.

"Damn! Doesn't it mean that this is a gentleman with the state governor? What kind of relatives of the military department, why are the guards of the city so tight! ”

Tang Guang was puzzled.

Du Laoba touched his belly and said, "What else?" I'm afraid of death! ”

The more noble the person, the more he spares his life, Huainan has been in chaos for half a year, if he doesn't run, there must be a way to protect himself.

Long before attacking the four counties of Hezhou, Chuzhou sent people to find out the situation in the four counties.

How many soldiers are in each county, and who are the generals.

I didn't expect such a big accident with the state.

Five hundred people went in, silent, and looked at it like this, fearing that it would be more than lucky.

In addition, during the first siege of the city, more than 300 people were killed and wounded.

Before the official siege of the city, Deng Jian lost more than 10 percent of his horses.

Deng Jian was depressed in his heart, remembered something, and asked Tang Guang and Du Laoba: "The bandits recruited by Xiaohe in the mountains have brought?" ”

Tang Guang shook his head: "No, I still don't obey, I'm afraid that they will make trouble, so I sent the Binjiang camp together with the hundreds of county soldiers who surrendered in Hanshan." ”

Du Lao Ba said: "Lao Deng, you want to use those boys to attack the city?" It's useless, it's all eggless cowardice! ”

Deng Jian did not answer, looked at the city wall in the distance, thoughtful.

Tang Guang's heart moved, and he guessed Deng Jian's intentions.

Deng Jian wants those who use those people as cannon fodder to attack the city!

Tang Guang couldn't help but rejoice.

Fortunately, the person was sent back to Binjiang, otherwise Deng Jian would have to stop or not?

Stop, offend Deng Jian.

If you don't stop it, it's too evil.

However, since Deng Jian had this idea, I am afraid that it will be difficult to dispel, and he can't say that he can't worry about the people of Hezhou.

Tang Guang looked forward to Huo Wu's arrival as soon as possible.

Du Laoba said: "Seventh brother has been walking for half a month, it's time to return!" Hangzhou sauce duck is delicious, I don't know if Seventh Brother can't remember to bring it back! ”

Tang Guang glanced at Du Laoba's stomach and kindly persuaded: "Brother Du...... You've added two more inches to your belt...... No matter how delicious it is, you have to take it easy. ”

Du Laoba "haha" smiled: "Life is in the world, eat and drink, take care of his mother!" ”

Tang Guang couldn't cry or laugh, but he envied Du Laoba's heartless temperament.

Deng Jian was beside him and looked up at the sky.

It was cloudy for several days, and the sky was foggy.

Tang Guang also raised his head: "This day is also a meaning, I can't get up for a while." The fifth master and they don't know where they are! ”

The distance from Wujiang County to Hezhou is fifty miles, and if you start early, you can arrive in the afternoon.

Deng Jian didn't answer, got up and walked out of the camp.

He closed his eyes and didn't know what he was thinking, and then looked at the fields of crops in the distance.

The millet and sorghum have been harvested, and the remaining piles of crop stalks have not yet had time to be harvested.

The army is infested, and the farmers who have harvested the autumn can't avoid it, where will they come out to harvest the crops?

Deng Jian narrowed his eyes and summoned the herald: "Take a thousand people down and bring back these crop stalks!" ”

The herald went down.

Tang Guang and Du Laoba heard the movement and looked at each other.

Tang Guang hesitated: "Deng Ye, do you want to try fire attack?" ”

Du Laoba shook his head and said, "With that layer of crossbows, it's not easy to go to the city wall to light a fire." ”

……

In the morning, a thousand soldiers were sent down to collect all the crop stalks within a radius of several miles.

Occasionally, a few disobedient urchins picked up crops, and were frightened like quails by the soldiers, and their legs were too weak to run.

No one paid any attention to them, but only loaded the crop stalks or wagons or carts and left.

It was not until the soldiers were far away that the children relented and ran to the village.

Hurry up and tell the adults to go, the Buddha army is coming.

The Buddhist army wore white clothes, and instead of beating and scolding people, they picked up all the crops.

……

It was noon.

Outside the Chuzhou barracks, there are crop stalks like hills.

……

on the city walls.

Standing with the governor of Hezhou, looking at the Chuzhou camp, he was not without the smug look of defending the city, but he was even more worried.

Hezhou Governor was also on the city wall, and when he saw this, he persuaded: "Don't worry, the newly repaired city wall this spring, if you want to attack it with fire, it's not easy to talk about!" ”

Du Wei smiled bitterly: "My lord, where am I worried about the fire attack?" ”

The imperial court is still there, but Huainan Dao seems to have been abandoned by the imperial court.

Hezhou and Yangzhou are so close, but the capital of Yizhou has been besieged for several days, and there is no movement of reinforcements.

With the examples of Bozhou and Chuzhou in front, where does the governor dare to expect the defenders of Huainan Province to come to help?

"The white-clothed thieves besieged but did not attack, they should wait for the follow-up men and horses to come...... Two teams came one after another, and with this follow-up, I'm afraid it's the ...... that divided the troops to fight the other three counties before."

can come over and join forces, the three counties are obviously more auspicious.

The state verdict was speechless and helpless.

Last year, the white-clothed thief burned incense in Bozhou, and the whole state began to be on guard, and the lieutenant personally went to Yangzhou for help.

Except for the state capital, which was stained with the light of the governor and got a hundred new crossbows, the other three counties are still the same.

If you want money, you don't have money, you want ordnance without ordnance.

Huainan Province garrison, is a member of the queen's family, this spring for the queen Qianqiu congratulatory gifts, tribute of 50,000 taels of gold.

These are the armament silver allocated to Huainan Province in the past two years!

Du Wei is the nephew of the military department Shangshu, the garrison is interesting, and when Chuzhou is in chaos in the spring, he divided the new strong crossbows in Yangzhou into a hundred.

At that time, the garrison mentioned that the army should not move lightly.

Yangzhou is the place of Taoism, and there is no room for error.

It's just that the lieutenant saved a little bit of luck in the end.

Unexpectedly, when it came to the end, I could only carry it on my own.

"What about the gentry and the people of the city?"

The lieutenant asked.

Who knows how long the battle will last.

When the time comes, it will be impossible to say that the whole city will draw a piece and defend the city together.

The state judge sighed and said, "I caught more than 300 white-clothed thieves who sneaked into the city...... There should still be some falling, and the people have been hidden......"

The lieutenant was speechless, but he knew that there were extenuating circumstances.

Hezhou is rich, but in the year of famine, wealth makes it an eyesore.

Last year's severe drought also affected Hezhou, but because Hezhou is near the river and there are many canals, the crops will also be saved.

Huainan Province collected agricultural taxes twice last year, and this summer, it was increased to three times.

Most of the crops saved by the people through canals and water were collected by the government.

No one paid attention to the fact that these were collected by Huainan Province, and the local officials just listened.

Everyone put their resentment on the state officials and cursed endlessly.

The grain was not shipped to Yangzhou, but was directly loaded into the Jinling official warehouse.

From Jinling to Chuzhou, it is a continuous grain transportation team.

The grain of Hezhou has supported Chuzhou through successive droughts, making the Chuzhou army expand again and again!

The first step in the expansion of the Chuzhou army, which was eating food from Hezhou, chose Hezhou!

Ridiculous!

The two states are adjacent to each other, and news of Chuzhou often comes over.

The Chuzhou Army does not collect agricultural taxes.

The Chuzhou army helped the people to open canals to fight drought.

The Chuzhou army gave seeds on credit to protect summer ploughing.

How much the people of Hezhou resented the exploitation of the government, how much they looked forward to the Chuzhou army.

Thinking of this, the lieutenant became more and more gloomy.

Whose home is this guarding?

The people who are guarded see them as thieves and rebels as saviors!

Is this court really hopeless?

……

In the afternoon, another 2,000 people were dispatched to the Chuzhou camp outside the city.

One thousand people continued to carry crop stalks, while the other thousand went to dozens of villages within a radius of ten miles.

……

I had long heard that the people of the Chuzhou Army had entered the country, and they couldn't help but be frightened when they really saw the white-shirted soldiers.

This is "Ye Gong Good Dragon"!

When he cursed the government's heart, he looked forward to the Chuzhou army coming to help the suffering.

I really saw the Chuzhou soldiers wearing armor and holding sharp blades, and the little people were cowardly again.

The tun chief restrained the soldiers and went directly to find the village.

"General Deng's military order was passed on that cattle, horses, mules, donkeys and other livestock were requisitioned for a fee...... And the big cart ......"

The tun chief glanced at the board and said the military order to the village.

The old village with white hair is a mouthful, and no one dares to object.

But the farmer's family, whose big livestock are the root of life!

Say it's paid expropriation?

But isn't that a fool?

Haven't you heard that soldiers take things and give back money?

"Our Marshal Huo in Chuzhou has long had an order that the people are not allowed to take a stitch from the people, and violators will be dealt with according to military regulations! This is evidence of the requisition of these two cattle with numbered iron plates, two copies of this sheepskin deed, one copy of the people, one copy of the Chuzhou army, and these two cows...... Within a month, someone will come to settle with the account book, and if you can't wait, you can also settle in Binjiang after ten days......"

The village is the richest, and the two cows are outside, and there is nowhere to hide.

It became the first to be requisitioned.

Seeing the kindness of the tun chief, the village was hesitant and said: "Some people, with little land, point to the cattle and pull their feet on the wharf, can such people be accommodating?" ”

Natun said with a straight face: "The military order is like a mountain, please forgive me for not daring to disobey it...... If there are people who disobey the order, they will be held accountable for 'great rebellion' and detained by their families! ”

Muramasa: ......

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