Chapter Eighty-Six: The Siege

"What? Tian Yan was killed and defeated? Under the city of Suzhou, Yang Wu was shocked when he heard the news. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In history, Qian Biao listened to the advice of Gu Quanwu and Du Jianwei, and sent his son Qian Chuanhui and Gu Quanwu to Guangling to ask for marriage; And Yang Xingmi also agreed to the marriage and sent someone to recall Tian Yan.

In this life, because Yang Xingmi quickly sent troops to Suzhou under his persuasion, history changed significantly, and Qian Biao did not send Gu Quanwu to Guangling, but sent him to Yuezhou to find reinforcements. And Gu Quanwu also lived up to the trust, not only successfully captured the Yuezhou army, but also defeated Tian Yan in one fell swoop.

In this regard, Yang Wu also had to sigh: "Gu Quanwu is Gu Quanwu after all, although the Chang Sheng general was captured by Li Shenfu last year, but now he is so powerful." ”

But after thinking about it, Gu Quanwu is already so powerful, so how powerful should Li Shenfu, who captured this person last year, be?

At the beginning, Sun Ru's army ravaged Jianghuai, and Yang Xingmi's generals were unstoppable, and they were defeated in successive battles, and only Li Shenfu led his troops to achieve some victories; And when Gu Quanwu was powerful, there were not a few famous Huainan generals who lost to him, and it was still Li Shenfu who captured him in one fell swoop.

And this is not the most brilliant record of Li Shenfu's life.

Yang Wu remembered that in the next year, Li Shenfu led the Shengzhou naval army of 10,000 people to go up the Yangtze River to defeat Du Hong, the envoy of Wuchang Jiedu, and defeated the 100,000 army led by Cheng Wei, the envoy of Jingnan Jiedu, who came to aid Du Hong, at Junshan in Dongting Lake, which completely collapsed this powerful feudal town.

However, it is a pity that Li Shenfu died early in history, and died of illness two years later.

At this time, many generals on the field listened to Yang Wu's sigh, and their faces were a little unnatural, after all, Gu Quanwu's many achievements that year were contributed by several generals present.

I saw Zhou Ben snort coldly, and looked at Yang Wu with unkind eyes: "The eldest son is so long, what does it mean that others will destroy our prestige?" Could it be that Ben General is not as good as him Gu Quanwu? ”

Yang Wu suddenly remembered that Zhou Ben had also been defeated by Gu Quanwu back then, and at this time, seeing that his future father-in-law was not speaking in a good tone, he quickly changed his words: "The last general will not dare, and although Gu Quanwu won a big victory, the strength of the Xuanzhou army in Hangzhou still has the upper hand, and the current situation is more favorable to us!" ”

Tian Yan's strength was very strong, Xuanzhou had 60,000 troops, this time only 30,000 people were dispatched, and the other troops stayed in Xuanzhou to defend.

Although it is unlikely that Yang Xingmi will attack Xuanzhou, Tian Yan still does not dare to dispatch all of them; Although he has suffered a big defeat now, as long as he sends reinforcements from Xuanzhou, plus Xu Juan and Xu Zaisi's martial arts still have tens of thousands of people in their hands, they still have a big advantage in terms of troops.

However, Tian Yan's defeat not only meant that Xuanzhou's strength was weakened, but also meant that it would take more time for him to take Hangzhou, which was naturally greatly beneficial to the Huainan army.

After listening to Yang Wu's words, everyone present laughed tacitly, "Let's take Suzhou as soon as possible, if the time comes, we will defeat Huzhou again, and we will win a big victory this time." ”

Zhou Ben, who was sitting on the main seat, also smiled: "Everyone, let's discuss how to capture Suzhou next!" Eldest son, you are in charge of the trebuchets made by the craftsmen, I wonder how it is going now? ”

These days, while the Huainan army is stepping up the siege of the city, it is also making trebuchets with all its might, and only when the number of trebuchets is enough to launch a general attack.

"The general can rest assured that the craftsmen have already built twenty trebuchets, and the last general feels that after building enough thirty in a few days, our army will be able to launch a general attack, and at that time it will definitely be able to capture Suzhou in one fell swoop."

"Well, if you can really take Suzhou in one fell swoop, then the eldest son will make the first contribution this time. I only hope that this trebuchet designed by the eldest son is indeed so powerful. ”

Although the strong attack of these days has caused great pressure on the defenders, their own casualties are not small, if it is not for the full strength of many generals, I am afraid that there will be a big chaos in the army.

However, Zhou Ben also knew that the army had now reached an extreme, and it would be good if he could really break the city in one fell swoop when he launched a general attack; If not, then the only way to do this is to besiege the city for a long time.

Thinking of this, Zhou Ben felt excited and had some worries at the same time.

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At this time, the city of Suzhou had completely become a military camp.

The streets were full of patrolling soldiers, and groups of leather-armored samurai not only took over the grain stores in the city, but other places such as teahouses and taverns were also closely watched.

Suzhou is the capital city, and is located in the front line, usually the defenders have 8,000 people, but unfortunately the Huainan army came too fast, Changshu, Kunshan and other places of money and grain and defenders did not have time to retreat to Suzhou was surrounded, as a result, Suzhou not only the defenders lacked, the money and food were also somewhat insufficient.

However, Sun Yan took swift measures according to the situation, he first asked all the big families in the city to send hostages to the Assassin's Mansion, and then recruited the families of each family, and sent them to each battalion to be responsible for strengthening the city walls, repairing fortifications, and guarding the city; At the same time, he took over the grain stores of the whole city and distributed food according to the population, so that only those soldiers who defended the city could get enough rations, and the other old people, children, women, and those who did not contribute to the defense of the city would have their food in half.

After this measure, Suzhou not only got enough soldiers, but also enough food in the city to support it for more than half a year.

Some time ago, the Huainan army outside the city sent a large group of soldiers to shout in unison under the city, claiming that Hangzhou had been captured by the Xuanzhou army, and Qian Biao had also been killed by an arrow. This news caused a huge panic to the defenders in the city, and even the big families in the city were a little unstable, and Sun Yan had to come forward to explain, repeatedly emphasizing that this was a rumor spread by the enemy; He also ordered a banquet to be prepared at the head of the city, and to talk and laugh with his generals, and when the soldiers saw that their lord was so calm, they regained their peace.

However, Suzhou has been completely cut off from external contact, and even if Sun Yan behaves so calmly, he is very anxious inside.

At this time, on the city wall, Sun Yan was wearing armor, sitting on the city tower, and he was stuffing wine and meat into his mouth without a mouthful, his face had become black and thin at this time, and his eyes were full of bloodshots. These days, the Huainan army has taken turns to attack, and he has barely gone down in the city, and he is really tired.

At this time, the guards outside hurriedly reported: "General, the enemy army has begun to attack the city again!" ”

"Well, I know, I'm going to get over it." During this time, the Huainan army came to attack the city every day, so Sun Yan didn't care much.

After eating in a hurry, Sun Yan wiped his mouth with his hand, lifted the long knife in his hand and rushed to the female wall to check.

I saw that the Huainan army outside the city did not rush to attack the city this time, but stopped five hundred paces away and began to dig a new trench, and behind them, one after another trebuchets were pushed up. Sun Yan looked around and found that there were about 30 trebuchets in total, and there were about 30 or 40 people behind each trebuchet.

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