The second more, the third more later

Shangwan City (Nanyang), Shangwan County, an important town of Jingzhou Governor's Office, has a solemn atmosphere in the official office meeting hall, and Liang Shiyan, the marshal of the march of the Southern Army, is discussing with a cadre of officials and generals about resisting the enemy.

The Zhengnan army led by Liang Shiyan was defeated in the Battle of Lianghekou, losing a large number of baggage and foot soldiers, and only a few thousand cavalry withdrew to Jingzhou Prefecture with him and the main generals such as Yang Su, the head of the march.

But the city can not be defended, first of all, more than 80 miles north of the Lianghekou battlefield, Xinye County Zhizhiyangcheng, faced the tide of Anzhou army surrendered without a fight, Jianyang City is located in the southeast of the city, more than 50 miles, the army can be reached in one day.

Liang Shiyan did not think that the city could organize an effective city defense in such a short period of time to deal with the endless siege equipment of the Anzhou army, so he immediately decided to lead the cavalry to retreat north and came to Shangwan, which was more than 100 miles away in the northeast, to organize the defense of the city.

Shangwan has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times, and the city defense facilities are stronger than those of the city, and the Anzhou army wants to attack Shangwan and take down the surrounding states and counties first, so there is time to breathe, and the subsequent developments give the defenders a little time.

Jingzhou Prefecture Zhicheng was besieged by the Anzhou army, the defender of the city of Anzhou promised not to harm the people and not kill the officials and generals after the surrender, Xiuyang City, the northwest of the city, was also taken by the West Route Army led by Du Shijun, the governor of Xiangzhou, so far the exit of the Wuguan ancient road from Chang'an to Jingchu was blocked by the Anzhou army.

Xiuyang City of Zhezhou Prefecture and Zheyang County is the southeast exit of the Wuguan Ancient Road, and the army from Chang'an must pass through here if they want to enter the land of Jingchu, so it is a place where soldiers must fight.

The Anzhou army now does not have the extra forces to attack Chang'an, but it blocks the exit of this narrow passage, so Yang Cheng, the prime minister of Chang'an, wants to send troops into the Jingzhou governor's mansion, and can only go south from Luoyang.

This is a matter of course and expected, but after the other party's toss, the Shangwan defenders have seized the time to strengthen the city defense day and night, and recruited state and county soldiers from the surrounding cities to assist in defending the city, and it has been July in the blink of an eye.

"Just now that the envoy has sent military information from Luoyang, the Turkic army has retreated!" Liang Shiyan announced a shocking news, and the generals and officials present were stunned and speechless when they heard this.

Now the countermeasure of the imperial court is to defend the north and attack the east, relying on the passes and cities everywhere to defend the attack of the Turkic army and the other party's attrition, the main army first repelled Wei Chi Dan in the east and Yu Wenliang in the southeast, but now the Turkic army has withdrawn?

"The Tubo Khan, who led the troops south to attack Chang'an, died of illness during the march, and the leaders of the Turkic tribes were anxious to fight for the position of Khan, so they all led their troops back to the steppe." Liang Shiyan saw that everyone was suspicious, so he revealed the inside story, and everyone came back to their senses.

"God help me!" Marshal Changshi Zheng Yi raised his hand to increase the amount, he quickly joined Marshal Liang Shiyan and others after escaping from the Lianghekou battlefield, and he was also one of the people who strongly advocated holding on to Shangwan City and waiting for help.

Everyone was impressed by the courage of this long history who was a little afraid of death on weekdays after the defeat, of course, the strangeness is not known to outsiders.

There is more than one good news, and Liang Shiyan announced another military information that he had just received: "The Yuzhou Governor's Office has put down the Barbarian rebellion at the northern foot of Tongbai Mountain, and sent troops north to support Luoyang a few days ago. ”

Luoyang is the top priority, even if the whole territory of Jingzhou falls, it is not as important as Luoyang is still in the hands of the imperial court, and it is natural that the Yuzhou Governor's Mansion will not save Shangwan in the west and send troops north to reinforce Luoyang.

"In this way, Wei Chidun, who attacked Luoyang, will not stay long, and the siege of Luoyang will be lifted just around the corner." Yang Su, the head of the march, immediately judged that the battle situation was about to change, and this was a very beneficial change for his side.

"Exactly, as soon as the siege of Luoyang is lifted, the army can be divided into troops to support Shangwan, as long as our army is stubborn, it will be able to hold on until that day!" Liang Shiyan began to cheer everyone present.

In the face of the powerful siege equipment of the Anzhou army, the generals here have little confidence that they can carry it for a long time, and the Xiangyang City, which is famous for its strong city, will fall after a few days, and Shangwan is afraid that it will not be much better, but now that they have hope, they will have to top it for ten days, and the reinforcements from the north will only retreat as soon as the reinforcements from the north arrive.

Luoyang's army is the elite of the elite, mainly cavalry, he Yuwen Liang has a few dares to fight against tens of thousands of elite cavalry in the wilderness outside Shangwan City, and so many cavalry can make the Anzhou army finish just by disturbing the grain road.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the day of Anzhou's rebellion is not far away, and I also ask you to live and die together with Shangwan City, if anyone dares to fornicate with the rebels, they will be decided!" Zheng Yi gave full play to his long history and began to 'remind' everyone, so that those who wanted to surrender to Yu Wenliang, the governor of Anzhou, could weigh the situation and not think about it for a while.

Seeing that everyone had a look of death as if they were at home, Zheng Yi nodded, but he didn't think so, he already had insurance on the side of Yu Wenliang, the governor of Anzhou, even if Shangwan was broken, he could still retreat to Chang'an, so how beautiful words are good to listen to, how to say, of course, Shangwan can hold the best.

"I'm afraid I still can't hold it" Zheng Yi thought of someone's harmless appearance of humans and animals, and sighed in his heart......

At the mouth of the two rivers, a pontoon bridge connects the east and west banks, and the atmosphere in the military tent of the pontoon defenders in a certain place in the camp in Hexi is solemn, and the generals under Yuwen Wen and his subordinates are in a meeting, and the newly attached Shi Wansui is also in the list, and he is participating in the new army as a new 'captive leader'.

The scum captives that no one wanted after the previous war have now been successfully attracted by Yu Wenwen with full food and military pay, and the method is simple: let them eat and chat with the soldiers of the new army, and let them know that Yu Wenwen's sign is 'integrity'.

A small number of stubborn prisoners of war in the southern army had been 'disposed of' by the Anzhou army on the day of the war or the next day, and those who could be absorbed and supplemented by the generals of various departments had already followed the army north, and the remaining hundreds of prisoners who could fight but were not pleasant and no one wanted were recycled by Yuwenwen.

They have actual combat experience, but they have a disgruntled personality, and they dare to shout and curse in the face of such methods as deducting military salaries, so they are not likable.

But Yuwenwen's new army did not have this kind of problem, so after several 'in-depth exchanges' with the soldiers of the new army, these prisoners began to secretly want to serve and not do coolies or chores, as for those suspicious and constantly introducing the benefits of the new army during the period, God knows who sent them.

Able to eat and eat, have high-quality robes and shoes to wear, do not deduct military salaries, strict military laws, and fair rewards and punishments, the scum decided to sell their lives to the Xiyang County Prince.

Seeing that the fire was almost off, Yu Wenwen asked the military lord Chen Wudi to arrange for each building to pick people, first of all, the long knife team selected people with good knife skills or good physical fitness, accounting for about half of the number.

Then there is the cavalry, and the cavalry is skillful, but the number of people is not much, there are only about a dozen, plus the more than 200 captives newly recruited by Shi Wansui on the first day, a total of nearly 300 people, mixed with the existing 300 cavalry on his side, and then divided into two buildings, let Yuwen 15 and Shi Wansui lead them respectively.

Shi Wansui is a person who has led soldiers to fight, and as a general, he has commanded an army of thousands of people, so all military affairs are clear, and Yuwenwen is not taboo that the other party is a newly surrendered person, and he gritted his teeth and let Shi Wansui take care of a cavalry.

If the three hundred cavalry of Yuwen Fifteen is Yuwen Wen's self-defense dagger, then the three hundred cavalry of Shi Wansui is a knife that specializes in slashing people.

The rest of the archery skills are supplemented by archers and strong to become halberd soldiers, and then there are daily routine drills and competitions, especially the foot bow and mounted archery are the top priorities.

Shi Wansui is skilled in archery and archery, so he is the head coach of the cavalry during training on weekdays, and the other is the long knife team, and the team owner Yang Ji has nearly sixty more people, and he is excited to teach and train tirelessly.

Seeing that the combat power was replenished, everyone was enthusiastic, waiting for another battle with the imperial army, Yu Wenwen, who had just gone to discuss military affairs with the governor Sima Zheng Wanqing, but relayed the latest order of the governor of Anzhou to everyone present, and that order was like a slap in the face for everyone.

"The manager asked me to wait until I returned to Anlu?!" When everyone heard the news, they were all anxious, and they rested for more than ten days, waiting to go north to fight with the imperial army, but they were driven back to Anlu, which was not war-free, to count ants, who could accept it.

"Tomorrow, I will pull out the camp, go south to Fancheng, and then take a boat along the Han River and continue south to Yingzhou Changshou and land on the shore." Yuwen Wen said expressionlessly.

"Lord Lang! No, no, unification of the army! You have to talk to the old man! Yuwen Fifteen was so anxious that he was incoherent, he and his subordinates held back for a long time, waiting to go to the battlefield again, and cut people, seeing that the opportunity for their own side to participate in the war was gone, it was really unwilling.

"What will Ben say when he goes to the camp? Your father is pondering that after the war, he will tell you about family affairs, why do you have to go to the staff for one or two? Yuwen Wen glanced at Yuwen Fifteen, as if smiling.

"What is that old ghost tossing, when did the mother-in-law not have it!" Yuwen Fifteen was led by Lord Lang's words and began to worry about the headache of his father Zhang Luo's family.

Yang Ji glanced at Yuwen Wen and saw that there seemed to be nothing abnormal on his face, and muttered in his heart that there was a problem, he knew that Yuwen Wen was 'cunning' and seemed to be selling Guanzi, and then he had an idea: "South, the south is not calm." ”

Xu Shao also came back to his senses and looked at Yuwenwen and wanted to speak, but in the end he held back, he knew that Yuwenwen liked to sell Guanzi and would not step on the trap, and the rest of the people looked at the main general with anticipation.

"It's still Team Leader Yang who is calm!" Yu Wenwen saw that the atmosphere was almost brewing, so he picked up the topic: "Chen Guo's gang of bastards are restless and start to do it!" ”

Everyone here breathed a sigh of relief: it's good to have a fight! Cutting the army of the imperial court is also chopping, and chopping the army of Chen Guo is also chopping, anyway, they are all chopping people, who cares if the battlefield is south or north!

The atmosphere in the tent was relaxed, and Fifth Brother Chen thought about it and asked a question: "Commander the army, will it be too late for our army to rush to the Huangzhou Governor's Mansion this way?" ”

His problem is also very real, Chen Guo in the south of the Yangtze River attacked the Jiangbei states of the Huangzhou Governor's Office, and the idea was to grab a handful and leave, and he was afraid that when he arrived, Chen Jun would have already slipped away and returned to the south bank of the Yangtze River by boat.

Facing the inquiring eyes of his subordinates, Yu Wenwen couldn't deny: "I must be able to catch up." ”

Shi Wansui looked at Yuwen Wen and thought for a moment before being shocked, and after being entangled for a while, he cautiously asked, "Could it be that something happened to Liang Guo's side?" ”

The state of Liang was a subject state of the Great Zhou Dynasty, located on the south side of Xiangzhou, west of the Anzhou Governor's Office, and the national capital Jiangling was located on the north bank of the Yangtze River, which would be disturbed by Chen's army from time to time.

"Well, Shi Wansui guessed correctly, it was Liang Guo who was attacked by Chen Jun and made the chickens and dogs jump." Yu Wenwen unraveled the mystery and told the specific situation.

The Chen army almost succeeded in raiding Jiangling, the capital of the Liang State, and beat the Liang State Naval Army to the west, and now they are besieging Jiangling City.

On the west side of the Liang State, under the rule of the Xinzhou Governor's Office of the Great Zhou, there was a Zhou navy, and they joined the Liang navy and then marched eastward again and the Chen navy was defeated, and now the Chen army controls the Yangtze River and is mobilizing troops to step up the siege of Jiangling.

The land reinforcements sent by Kip Zhou were blocked by the Chen army to the west of Jiangling, and the other reinforcements of the Liang State were defeated by the Chen army when they went south to rescue, and Jiangling City is now considered a lonely city.

Because the imperial court and the governor of Anzhou, Yu Wenliang, turned their faces and were fighting a decisive battle, so Liang Guo, who usually used the Xiangzhou army as a strong backup, could no longer ask Xiangzhou for help, so he could only carry it, but Yu Wenliang decided to be anxious and 'take the initiative to help'.

"Brother, Xiangzhou Thorn Shiyu Civilization has led the army south, and the task of our army is to fight together." Yu Wenwen pointed out the task, "This matter cannot be publicized, before Fan Cheng gets on the ship, if anyone dares to leak the news, he will hang the southeast branch!" ”

Liang is a subject country of the Great Zhou, and the soldiers of An and Xiang Prefectures, as the officials and soldiers of the Great Zhou, naturally want to draw their swords to help each other, as for taking advantage of the fire to rob or something, there is no such thing at all!