Chapter 623: Woe to Nanyang

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Liu Xiu carefully looked at the file submitted by Fu Di and asked, "That's all?" ”

Fu Di bowed down and said, "Yes, Your Majesty, I will find these for the time being." ”

Liu Xiu nodded, put down the bamboo slip, and said quietly: "Liu Yong, it is the trouble of my Han family!" ”

Liu Yong's move is actually quite ruthless, he wants to mess up Luoyang and the imperial court, once he really succeeds in implementing it, his own third-line battlefield will completely collapse, and then Liu Yong will take the opportunity to send troops, and Luoyang will not even have the ability to save himself.

Fu Di looked at Liu Xiu cautiously, lowered his head, and did not answer.

Liu Xiu now wants to drive the conquest in person, invade Yuzhou, and take Liu Yong's old nest Suiyang, but unfortunately he really has no soldiers available, and he can only temporarily suppress Liu Yong's thoughts about using troops.

At present, Liu Xiu is very eager for Wu Han to quickly pacify Jingzhou, withdraw his main army, and then use troops against Liu Yong to eradicate this henchman as soon as possible.

At present, Wu Han's war in Jingzhou is very smooth, and he has won successive battles, first taking Jianyang, and then taking Nieyang, Yuyang and other places.

Wu Han led more than 30,000 Han troops to arrive in Xinye first.

The county order of Xinye County is called Mu Yang, and it is the first minister, and the Mu family is also one of the big families of Xinye.

Wu Han thought that after he led the army to Xinye, Mu Yang would not dare to resist and would surrender the city. Unexpectedly, Mu Yang led his troops, held the city, and never surrendered.

In addition, the big families in Xinye City, and even the ordinary people, also supported Mu Yang, contributed people, money, and food to help Mu Yang resist the Han army.

Xinye's local big family, the impression of Liu Xiu was originally very good, Liu Xiu's wife, Yin Lihua, who is now named a nobleman, is from Xinye's big family Yin family, and they have a natural sense of closeness to Liu Xiu.

The key problem is that after Wu Han led the army into Nanyang, he did nothing good, connived at his subordinates, looted everywhere, and caused the people of Nanyang to complain.

Wu Han himself is a native of Nanyang Wancheng, Nanyang is his hometown, he should treat Nanyang well, but the actual situation is the opposite, which makes Nanyang people not resent Wu Han?

Indulge his subordinates, one of them is related to Wu Han's own character, he himself has a strong ruffian and banditry spirit, killing, burning and looting, in his opinion, this is not a big deal.

Second, and most crucially, fighting a war requires money and food. Now Liu Xiu has just set the capital of Luoyang, and all kinds of ruins are waiting to be rebuilt, and it is still a three-line battle, and the internal is extremely unstable, there are not only thieves running around, but also traitors like Peng Pet who have rebelled, and Wu Han, who is leading the troops outside, is really embarrassed to the imperial court

Stretch out your hand to ask for military pay, grain and grass.

But if there is no salary, the soldiers will have no enthusiasm to fight, and without food and grass, the soldiers will go hungry. We can only rob and solve the problems of military salaries and grain and grass on the spot. In addition, there was a general concept in the army at that time, the soldiers were desperately fighting to win a city, and the commander had to reward the soldiers

The soldiers went to rob themselves.

For these reasons, Wu Han turned a blind eye to the evil deeds such as burning, killing, looting and plundering in the places where the Han army passed, and did not see them at all.

The connivance of Wu Han and the unscrupulousness of the Han army naturally aroused the strong dissatisfaction of the people of Nanyang, so Mu Yang wanted to resist the Han army with all his might in Xinye, not only with the support of the big families in the city, but also from the people in the city.

The Battle of Xinye was a difficult battle in which Wu Han led his army into Nanyang and offended.

First of all, the city defense of Xinye is strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and secondly, there are many defenders in the city, mainly because of the large number of strong men who voluntarily joined the city defense, and the strong men plus the defenders exceeded 10,000 people.

When the Han army launched an attack on Xinye, it encountered stubborn resistance from the Xinye army and civilians. On the top of the city, arrows rained down, and rolling logs and stones were like snowflakes.

The attacking Han army, 1,000 people attacked, and it didn't take a meal to kill or wound anyone.

On the first day of the attack, the Han army fought extremely unsmoothly, with heavy casualties, as many as more than 2,000 people.

The next day, Wu Han personally went into battle and commanded the Han army to attack the city, but the battle was still not going well, and he failed to tear through the city defense of Xinye. On the third day, Wu Han again organized his troops and stormed Xinye, but was still repulsed by the defenders.

Attacking the city for three consecutive days, he failed to take Xinye, but suffered heavy casualties himself, which made Wu Han angry. Looking at Xinye close at hand, Wu Han gritted his teeth and said: "On the day the city is broken, I will definitely collapse Xinye to the ground!" ”

With more than 30,000 soldiers, he couldn't defeat Xinye, and Wu Han hurriedly transferred the main force of troops and horses in the rear. The main force of the Han army, with too much baggage and slow marching, Wu Han drew 60,000 soldiers from the main army, went into battle lightly, and went straight to Xinye.

With the arrival of these 60,000 fresh troops, Xinye finally began to be unable to support it. After all, it is not the regular army that guards Xinye, and its main force is the strong Ding team formed spontaneously by the people.

If the Han army's offensive was not too fierce, they could still hold on, but now the Han army, which is close to 100,000 people, is besieging Xinye City on all sides, and this formation alone has shocked the people.

The Han army, which was personally commanded by Wu Han and attacked the northern city of Xinye, took the lead in breaking through the defenders' city defenses and attacking the city. The Han army that rushed up the city wall was like a tiger descending the mountain, engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the defenders at the head of the city.

There was no city defense to rely on, and the two sides had a face-to-face confrontation, and the combat strength of the Xinye defenders was too different from the battle-hardened Han army. The Han army slashed and killed the defenders like chopping melons and vegetables.

As the number of Han troops attacking the city increased, the Han army began to advance into the city.

The defenders could not resist the attack of the Han army at all, and retreated down the steps of the city wall. Some of the defenders retreated into the city, and the other part retreated under the city wall and cowered in the area of the city gate.

For the time being, the Han army ignored the defenders who retreated into the city, and first besieged the defenders at the city gate.

In the face of the red-eyed Han army, the defenders were really powerless to resist, and more than a thousand remnants of the soldiers put down their weapons one after another and shouted loudly: "Surrender!" We surrendered! ”

The besieging Han troops stopped their attacks one after another and looked at each other. At this time, someone in the Han army roared loudly: "My three fellow villagers have all died at their hands, and we will not accept their surrender!" ”

"My eldest brother also died at their hands!"

"My brother's leg was broken!"

"......" Han army soldiers, shouting everything.

After so many days of siege, the casualties of the Han army were not small, and it was inevitable that there would be casualties among relatives and friends in the siege battle.

The Han army did not accept the surrender of the defenders, and regardless of whether the defenders laid down their arms and continued to attack, the next step could not be called a battle, but a one-sided massacre.

More than 1,000 desperate defenders were finally spared, and all of them were slaughtered by the Han army.

Then, the soldiers of the Han army opened the city gate and put the main force of the Han army outside the city into the city. Wu Han rode a high-headed horse, surrounded by many generals and guards, and held a tiger and a bright silver halberd, and entered the city.

A soldier of the Han army stepped forward quickly, intervened in the salute, and said: "Report to the Great Sima, the defenders in the city have retreated to the county government!" ”

The corners of Wu Han's mouth hooked, he sneered, and ordered: "Attack the county capital, kill all the enemy troops, and leave no armor!" ”

"Yes!" The soldiers of the Han army shouted in unison and began to advance towards the county government.

On the way, there were scattered defenders who came out to resist, but they were quickly killed by the Han army and fell to the ground. The Han army encountered almost no decent resistance and attacked all the way to the county capital, surrounding the county government.

Now, the defenders who retreated into the county capital did not even have a thousand men. More than a dozen Han soldiers with big shoulders and round waists and bare shoulders jointly carried large wooden stakes and slammed into the gate of the county government.

The roar was endless. The defenders in the county government are working together against the gate of the mansion and making the last resistance. It's a pity that the gate of the county government simply can't withstand such a strong and continuous impact.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the gate of the county government was violently knocked down, and a shout came from inside. Seeing the panicked defenders inside the door, the soldiers of the Han army roared one after another, holding their spears, and rushed inside.

The county commander Mu Yang held a sword in his hand and personally participated in the battle, slashing and killing the Han army that entered the attack. Just as he was leading his men to fight desperately, he heard someone in the rear of the Han army shouting: "Get out of the way!" ”

With the words, Wu Han rode a war horse and rushed directly into the courtyard of the county government. The soldiers of the Han army dodged to both sides, making way for Wu Han. Wu Han rode his horse to the front of Muyang and slashed down with a halberd.

Mu Yang's horizontal sword blocked upward. He underestimated Wu Han's strength too much, and he overestimated his own strength, the one in front of him was evaluated by Liu Xiu as the great Sima of one enemy and one country, Wu Han and Wu Ziyan.

Wu Han's powerful halberd shook Mu Yang upside down and flew out, and the sword in his hand flew out as far as he could. Mu Yang was falling to the ground with his back facing the sky, and before he could get up, he spat out blood first.

He struggled to sit up from the ground, only to feel a cold flash in front of him, and the silver halberd of the tiger power pierced through his chest, nailing him to the ground.

In front of Wu Han, Mu Yang didn't go through a single round, and Wu Han only had two halberds, one halberd shook back the enemy, and the other halberd pierced the enemy. Crisp and neat, two halberds take the enemy's life!

killed Mu Yang, Wu Han still couldn't eliminate the hatred in his heart, pulled his halberd out of Mu Yang's body, returned to another halberd, cut off Mu Yang's head, and raised his severed head high with the tip of the halberd, he looked up to the sky and let out an angry roar.

Wu Hanzhi's ferocity frightened the defenders present, Mu Yang was dead, and the people lost the will to continue to resist, and they surrendered on their knees.

Raising his hand to point to the defenders kneeling on the ground, Wu Han said word by word: "Pull outside, no one will be left!" ”

As soon as he gave the order, the soldiers of the Han army agreed one after another, dragged the prisoner who was kneeling on the ground, and dragged him out.

Outside the county government, the swords and axes were ready, and the Han army pulled out a group of prisoners and beheaded a batch. In front of the county government, headless corpses were piled up, and bloody severed heads were also piled up.

Among the defenders, except for the county soldiers, most of them were civilians in the city. Now that the Han army wants to kill their heads, their closest relatives have come to the county government and knelt down to beg the Han army to spare their lives.

The Han army told the people with practical actions that it was impossible to spare these people who joined the defenders. The Han army still dragged batches of prisoners out of the county government, dragged them out and cut them down in batches.

Many people wept loudly when they saw their loved ones beheaded, and even fainted to death.

When a young man saw his eldest brother being dragged out of the county government by the Han army, he rushed forward regardless of it, and at the same time shouted: "Let go of my eldest brother!" Let go of my big brother! ”

The nearby Han army raised their spears horizontally and blocked his way.

The young man couldn't rush over, his eyes were red, and he suddenly pulled out a dagger from his back and stabbed it into the chest of the Han army in front of him. The Han soldier's eyes widened, and with an expression of disbelief on his face, he fell straight on his back. Seeing that his comrades and brothers were killed by the people in the city, and the Han troops present were gone, the people roared angrily, rushed to the young man's approach, and stabbed their spears together, and heard a series of muffled sounds in the ear chakra, at least fifteen

Six spears pierced his body.

Killing this young man, the Han army present still did not understand their hatred, people stared at the people of Xinye present with bloodshot eyes, and they didn't know who it was, and shouted: "Kill-" Immediately after, the Han army launched a bloody massacre of the unarmed people present.