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In the courtyard, Qian Biao, who had not slept all night, felt the warmth of the early summer sun, and couldn't help but sigh.

Judging from the results of yesterday's battle, there is no doubt that one side of the two Zhejiang armies is the victorious side; But if you look at it from the perspective of the entire war situation, Qian Di's main purpose has not been achieved, and the siege of Hangzhou has still not been lifted. Therefore, the two Zhejiang armies can be said to be undefeated and defeated.

What made it even more difficult for Qian Biao to accept was that it had been raining heavily a few days ago, which made him unable to launch a surprise attack as planned, but today, everything was over, but the sky was clear. Does this mean that even God doesn't want to see him win?

In addition, in yesterday's battle, although there were weather factors, the two Zhejiang armies were unable to wipe out the Huainan army that was encircled, but on the contrary, if the two Zhejiang armies were surrounded by the enemy, I am afraid that they would have completely collapsed long ago, right?

The elite of the hundred battles who still tried their best to resist in the siege of the enemy army was what he feared the Huainan army the most. If the Huainan army is like yesterday's army, then what hope does he have for victory?

"Old Luo, you better go and persuade your father, he didn't sleep all night yesterday and kept walking around the courtyard. After all, his health is not as good as it was back then, if he continues like this, if he falls ill, everyone is afraid that he will be in chaos! Not far away, Qian Chuanying whispered to Luo Yin.

"Hey! After planning for so long, it seems that he is about to see the hope of success, but in the end it falls short because of the weather, and it is normal for the king to be a little difficult to accept. Luo Yin said with some worry: "Third son, what the old man is worried about now is not the king's body, but the king's mentality!"

"Father's mentality?" Qian Chuanying looked at Qian Biao in the distance, and couldn't help but ask a little strangely, "Is there anything wrong with my father's mentality?"

"Yes, of course!" Luo Yin said in a deep voice: "The original king was confident but not arrogant, he firmly believed that he could create a career, firmly believed that his strength was not weaker than Huainan, and firmly believed that no matter how difficult the situation was, he could survive it." However, the king is different now, don't you feel it? ”

Qian Chuanying was silent, of course he felt a little different, Qian Biao dared to attack Huainan back then, Suzhou, Huzhou and these places had fallen into the hands of Huainan, at that time, Qian Biao's west was the powerful Huainan, and the east was Yuezhou occupied by Dong Chang, Qian Biao could be said to be attacked on both sides.

Although the situation is bad now, it is not worse than it was back then, and it is even better, at least Qian Biao is not attacked on both sides now.

At the beginning, when Qian Biao was faced with a crisis, he adopted Gu Quanwu's suggestion and first concentrated his forces to attack Dongchang's Yuezhou in the east, and defended it in the west. As a result, Suzhou and Huzhou fell one after another, Jiaxing was also besieged by enemy troops, and even Hangzhou was attacked.

But Qian Biao was able to deal with it calmly at that time, unmoved, and finally captured Yuezhou, and then went westward with all his might, defeated the invading Huainan army, and recovered Fuhui and Huerzhou, and achieved the foundation of the king of Yue.

But what about now? Qian Biao was a little constrained in the face of the Huainan Army when he had an army of 30,000, and he completely lost the arrogance he had at the beginning, and even Qian Chuanying could feel that Qian Biao now has a fear of the Huainan Army!

Yes, since the Annihilation of the entire army in the First Battle of Deqing, Qian Biao has been a little afraid, and even wanted to give up Yuezhou directly and transfer all the troops back to Hangzhou to defend, but in the end he didn't do so under Luo Yin's persuasion.

However, this time the Yuezhou army came to Hangzhou, and they were afraid that Qian Biao would not want them to go back, which was an extremely dangerous signal!

When a former hero begins to become conservative, has the idea of fearing the enemy, and has the idea of relying on a strong city to resist the enemy's attack, his defeat is not far away.

Qian Chuanying is not a person who reads poetry and books, but he also knows that there was a Gongsun Zan in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, who was strong at the beginning, and after the defeat of Yuan Shao in the battles and successive defeats, he began to fear the enemy, so he built Yi Jing and wanted to rely on a strong city to resist Yuan Shao's attack, but it didn't take long for him to be defeated.

"No matter how strong the city is, there will be a day when it falls, and the king understands this truth, but he still wants to rely on Hangzhou Jiancheng to protect himself, which shows that the king not only has fear in his heart, but also loses the confidence to win, only the strong city of Hangzhou can make him feel safe!" Luo Yin whispered his observations.

In Luo Yin's view, even if Hangzhou City is not counted as the Yuezhou army, excluding yesterday's losses, there are still more than 17,000 troops, plus the people in the city, even in the face of the Huainan army's large-scale attack, it can hold on; And the Yuezhou army is not completely out of the way to return to Yuezhou, for example, now before the enemy army reacts, let Cao Gui lead the army to return by sea.

In this way, there are more than 7,000 troops in Yuezhou, plus Cao Gui, a famous defensive general, who will definitely be able to contain a large number of enemy troops, which is also of great significance for the defense of Hangzhou.

However, looking at the current situation, Qian Biao is afraid that he will not let them go back to Yuezhou again.

Today's Qian Biao is like an extremely thirsty person, knowing that the wine is poisonous, but he will still drink it to quench his thirst.

After listening to Luo Yin's analysis, Qian Chuanying also felt that the situation was extremely bad, and he hurriedly asked, "Since Luo Lao knows what the problem is, is there any way to persuade his father?"

Luo Yin smiled bitterly and shook his head and said, "What can the old man do, it can only be up to the king to figure it out himself!"

The reason why he specifically mentioned yesterday that they were the victorious side, that they had wiped out more than 4,000 enemy troops in one battle, and so on, was to restore Qian Biao's confidence, but now it seems that it has not played any role. Therefore, he firmly believed in his original poem more and more: "When the time comes, heaven and earth will work together, and heroes will not be free."

If the Yuezhou army had not been discovered by the enemy yesterday and had to launch it in advance, they would have been able to carry out their operations according to the original plan when the weather was fine today, and perhaps by this time they had completely defeated the Huainan army outside the city and lifted the siege of Hangzhou.

Maybe it's true that even God doesn't help Liangzhejiang anymore, and he Luo Yin is just a person who has failed the imperial examination all his life, what can he do?

Luo Yin's hunch was not wrong, this morning, when the officials of the two Zhejiang provinces gathered in the Yuewang Mansion again, Qian Biao announced his decision, the Yuezhou army will stay in Hangzhou to continue to hold on, as for Yuezhou, it can only rely on the 3,000 people left behind.

For this decision, Qian Chuanying, Luo Yin, Bao Junfu, Cao Gui and a few other people stood up to oppose it, but the vast majority of the rest chose to support it, and the rest also chose to remain silent.

In their opinion, the strength of the Huainan army is so strong, and the current defenders in Hangzhou are not enough, how can they send the already insufficient army to other places?

In the midst of this controversy, the Yuezhou army was eventually retained.

Then, in order to hold out for a longer time, Qian Biao ordered the previously recruited people to be incorporated into the army, and more civilians were requisitioned to strengthen the city defenses, and even many streets in Hangzhou were fortified, and the inner city was further strengthened.

In addition, in order to ensure the supply of food, Qian Biao ordered a large vacant land in the south of the city to be converted into farmland and began to cultivate, while further controlling the grain in the city.

As for relieving the siege of Hangzhou, Qian Biao pinned his hopes on Zhu Quanzhong, the king of Liang in the north.

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Contrary to Qian Biao's undefeated defeat, although Qin Pei was the side that lost yesterday's battle, and the morale of the army was also affected somewhat, but in general, it was not a big problem.

As for Qin Pei and other generals, they encountered too many unfavorable factors in yesterday's battle, which eventually led to a small defeat, which was of course their responsibility, but the overall task of containing the defenders of Hangzhou did not fail.

Therefore, the generals feel that after the news reaches Guangling, maybe Guangling will have some accusations against them, but in the end, there should be no big punishment.

Sure enough, a few days later, the reply from Guangling's side arrived, and Yang Xingmi didn't say anything about their performance, just told them to defend carefully, so as not to let the enemy have a chance, as for the troops lost in this battle, they would be replenished in a few days.

After receiving this reply, the last worries were removed and they began to focus on how to prevent a similar situation from happening next time.

At the same time, Wang Maozhang, who was stationed in Wuzhou, did not hesitate to lead his army directly to Yuezhou after learning that the main force of the Yuezhou army had quietly gone to Hangzhou, and he was accompanied by 5,000 Quzhou soldiers led by Chen Zhang.

Because he did not know that the Yuezhou army was left in Hangzhou by Qian Biao, Wang Maozhang, in order to speed up the march and arrive in Yuezhou before the enemy's return, adopted the method of carrying only a small amount of supplies and advancing lightly, and finally arrived in Yuezhou on the fifth day after receiving the news.

In order to capture Yuezhou, Wang Maozhang took extremely radical measures and ordered the army to drive tens of thousands of people around Yuezhou to attack the city, and his army followed the rear to enter the city.

This kind of siege method was often seen in the past when the world was just chaotic and thieves were rampant, but in this era, although the world is still in chaos, except for the army of Zhu Quanzhong and other feudal towns in the north occasionally use this method, the army of the southern feudal town has rarely used such a cruel way to attack the city.

As a result, the Yuezhou defenders, who were originally small in force and mainly composed of locals, could not make a move at all when facing the fathers and villagers from the surrounding areas, and finally chose to go out of the city and surrender. In this way, Wang Maozhang conquered Yuezhou at a very small cost.

The fall of Yuezhou also means that the time for Huainan to launch a final general attack on Hangzhou is getting closer and closer, and now the remaining Mingzhou and Taizhou are not only less populous, not many defenders, but also have no strong figures, and it may not be long before they can be broken.