In fact, this is not the first batch of people sent by Kou Yanqing to ask for help, since the Huainan army broke through the Yongqiao Village, he has continued to send messengers to ask for help, and the reason why he is so urgent is because his enemy is the Huainan army led by Yang Wu himself!

I don't know when it began, the name Yang Wu has gradually become synonymous with attacking everything, as long as he personally leads the army to attack, there is almost no camp, which city can be defended. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Not to mention the achievements in the previous battles with the southern feudal towns, just the battle with Kang Huaizhen, from the soldiers who escaped later, Kou Yanqing knew the story of that battle.

The camp defended by Kang Huaizhen's 50,000-strong army was actually breached in one day, and the speed of this attack was too fast.

The strange weapons and unbelievable means of attack made Kou Yanqing feel that he had not guarded the state at all.

Therefore, when he defended the city these days, he tried his best to engage the Huainan army in the camp built outside the city, so that even if the camp was captured by the enemy, it would be nothing.

Through these means, he successfully delayed for more than 20 days, but unfortunately the offensive of the Huainan Army was indeed fierce, and now he has no way to continue to delay.

And once the Huainan army began to attack the city, he really couldn't guarantee how long it would last, and could only hope that Zhu Quanzhong would send reinforcements as soon as possible.

Bianzhou.

"This is the third group of messengers who have come to ask for help! Kou Yanqing is afraid of the enemy like this, which really disappoints Lonely! ”

At this time, Zhu Quanzhong's former mansion in Bianzhou City has been transformed into a gorgeous palace, and the palace maids and guards are no different from those in the palace.

However, Zhu Quanzhong has always been deeply wary of the situation of eunuchs controlling the government since the middle of the Tang Dynasty, so he not only forced Li Ye to kill all the eunuchs in the world, but also stopped appointing eunuchs himself.

"King, since Kou Yanqing keeps sending messengers to ask for reinforcements, maybe something really happened in Suzhou that I don't know. What's more, that Yang Wu is scheming, unpredictable, and really difficult to guard against, and now that he personally led the army to attack the city, there may really be a way to break the city. Jing Xiang said with some concern.

Judging from the current situation, Yang Wu has been urging the Huainan army to launch a fierce attack, if he does not have a certain grasp and determination to break the city, he should not be like this. Therefore, his subordinates felt that the king should have sent reinforcements to relieve the siege earlier! ”

Zhu Quanzhong said: "What about Li Keyong?" Don't you need to guard against him? ”

Jing Xiang said with a smile: "Judging from the current situation, Li Keyong should not have planned to use troops on a large scale, which can be seen from the fact that he has not gathered troops until now. Therefore, it is no longer meaningful for the king to keep the more than 100,000 troops in Bianzhou, it is better to leave a part to continue to guard Li Keyong, and the rest go south to relieve the siege of Suzhou! ”

Zhu Quanzhong nodded, at present, Li Keyong does not look like he has made a big move, and it seems that he has been scared in the past few years.

"Then if you send a part of the army south to relieve the siege, will it be broken by Yang Wu?"

Zhu Quanzhong now has lost his original courage, especially on the night of Wangjiadu, when he thought that a 1,000-strong Huainan army would stir up chaos with his 100,000-strong army, killing and wounding more than 10,000 people, he felt afraid.

If it was not the 1,000-strong Huainan army that suddenly launched a surprise attack on them, but the more than 100,000 Huainan elites led by Yang Wu himself, I was afraid that the Liang army would be wiped out.

After those lessons, he naturally didn't dare to despise Yang Wu anymore, now there are nearly 100,000 Huainan troops in Suzhou, so he must send at least 70,000 or 80,000 people to relieve the siege to ensure safety.

If you not only want to relieve the siege of Suzhou, but also want to avenge the Huainan army, then you need more troops.

"Has the king forgotten Webb's army?" Jing Xiang said with a smile: "Didn't Luo Shaowei send someone to ask the king for help last time?" This time I just helped him get things done! Presumably, as long as the king tells Luo Shaowei about the specific plan, he will definitely be very active in helping the king. ”

"You mean to recruit Wei Bojun to go south to deal with the Huainan Army?" Zhu Quanzhong's heart moved, and he immediately came to his senses.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the tooth soldiers, as the personal soldiers set up by the marshal of the feudal town, were often used to defend the Yacheng and were responsible for guarding the residence of the marshal, so the treatment was more generous than that of other armies, and they were generally arrogant and difficult to control.

The tooth soldiers of Wei Bojiedu are particularly arrogant and ignore the law, and in this era there is a saying that "the son of Chang'an, the tooth army of Weifu".

For Wei Boyabing, the abolition of the festival envoy or the establishment of the festival envoy was a common thing.

At the beginning, when Tian Chengji became the envoy of Wei Bojie, he recruited 5,000 strong and brave warriors from Liuzhou as tooth soldiers, and gave them generous supplies and rewards to defend themselves as confidants.

Since then, more than 100 years, this tooth soldier father and son successively, relatives united, more proud and domineering than at the beginning, a little unsatisfactory, abolished the festival commander and replaced, since 80 years ago Wei Bo Jiedu made Shi Xiancheng since the successive Jiedu envoys are in their hands. Today's festival makes Luo Shaowei, and his father Luo Hongxin is no exception.

Therefore, Luo Shaowei has always been worried about the tyranny of the tooth soldiers, and once sent a messenger to secretly ask Zhu Quanzhong for help, hoping to use his strength to eliminate the tooth soldiers. Although Zhu Quanzhong agreed, he never had time to help him.

In June this year, Wei Boya planned a rebellion against Li Gongga, which was detected by Luo Shaowei, and as a result, Li Gongga's mansion burned down and plundered before fleeing to Cangzhou. After this incident, Luo Shaowei became even more worried, and sent his confidant Yang Liyan to ask Zhu Quanzhong for help again, urging him to help him eliminate the tooth soldiers as soon as possible.

Luo Shaowei has been obedient to him since he became a vassal Zhu Quanzhong, whether it is to recruit the army or provide tax money, Luo Shaowei has not shirked it, so this time Zhu Quanzhong wants to do him a "small favor", which can be regarded as repaying Luo Shaowei's support for him for so many years.

Thinking of this, Zhu Quanzhong immediately decided to send an envoy to requisition 40,000 Wei Bo's troops to the south, plus 80,000 Liang troops, a total of 120,000 troops, even if not counting the defenders in Suzhou City, it was enough to deal with 90,000 Huainan troops, not only to relieve the siege of Suzhou, but also to defeat the Huainan army in one fell swoop.

As for the Yingzhou side, Zhu Quanzhong ordered Shannan Dongdao Jiedu to make Yang Shihou lead 30,000 troops to relieve the siege.

For a time, the Liang army was dispatched in a big way, and all places were scenes of troop mobilization.

Outside the city of Suzhou, the Huainan military camp.

In the past few days, Yang Wu ordered Wang Maozhang to go north to Yongcheng to delay and cut off the reinforcements of the Liang army, and at the same time ordered Zhang Xun and Zhou Ben to besiege one side of the city, and he himself was responsible for the western city wall.

The section of the city wall that Kang Huaizhen mentioned that was later repaired was located in front of him.

In order to confuse the Liang army as much as possible, in order to achieve the suddenness of the action, Yang Wu made a special deployment in the deployment of troops, he let Zhang Xun, who was located in the south of the city, play his banner, and at the same time put up a banner, trying to pretend to have a large number of troops, so that from the city wall, it seems that the south of the city is the main direction of Yang Wu's attack.

As for the west of the city, Yang Wu only left 10,000 people to attack the city, and his troops were much smaller than the other two, plus Yang Wu ordered them to hide their strength as much as possible, so the Huainan army on this side seemed to be the weakest.

However, Yang Wu knew that although the 10,000 Huainan army in the west of the city was only 10,000, it was the real elite, and it was further selected from the two armies of Zhang Xun and Zhou Ben, and its combat effectiveness was definitely the crown of Huainan.

However, the Huainan army on the other two sides was mixed with a large number of state soldiers, which seemed to have a large number of troops, but their combat effectiveness was not necessarily stronger than the 10,000 people in the west of the city.

At this time, a tentative siege had just ended, and the Huainan army was unsurprisingly repulsed by the defenders.

"How? See that section of the wall? What is the situation? ”

"Your Highness, according to General Kang's instructions, the last general went to see it in person just now, this section of the city wall is about thirty steps long, it is difficult to distinguish the difference from a distance, but if you look closer, you can find that it is different from other city walls, this should be the city wall that General Kang said was repaired later!" Mi Zhicheng said with some excitement.

Yang Wu nodded, his face also showing joy.

According to the latest news, Zhu Quanzhong is already deploying troops, according to his mobilization speed, he can go south in five days at most, and then rush to Suzhou in five days, and Wang Maozhang can almost resist five days, so if you calculate it, the time left for the Huainan Army is about fifteen days at most.

Fifteen days, this is still the longest time, if the Liang army first sent a part of the reinforcements to break through the Huainan army's defense line on the periphery, enter the city to join the defenders, then the Liang army's morale will inevitably be greatly boosted, and the Huainan army's morale is frustrated, and it will be even more difficult to break the city.

Moreover, when the enemy arrives on a large scale, the Huainan army will even withdraw in a hurry, and it may be taken advantage of by the enemy.

Therefore, the time really left for Yang Wu is actually only ten days, and if the city cannot be broken within ten days, the withdrawal of troops will begin.

As for a decisive battle with the Liang army, Yang Wu has not yet made up his mind.

Now that the Huainan army has just won a great victory, Yang Wu's reputation is at its highest, and if he rashly fights the Liang army, he is not sure of victory.

Moreover, because of the lack of cavalry, even if the Huainan army wins, it will be difficult to play the kind of big victory in the south of the Huai River before; And once defeated, the previous victory will be overshadowed by this defeat, and Yang Wu's prestige will definitely be frustrated, which is inevitably a bit more than worth the loss.

"Send the order, tell Zhang Xun and Zhou Ben, let them step up the siege of the city, don't care about casualties, don't be stingy with the number of grenades, and take eight days as the deadline, be sure to break through the city!" Yang Wu ordered in a deep voice.

At the same time, hundreds of Suzhou guns brought from the rear are also being quickly assembled, and as long as these sharp weapons are assembled, the 1,000 grenades brought by the army last time, and the more than 500 grenades that have been transported one after another, will continue to be fired at the enemy.

This time, for the sake of Suzhou, Yang Wu was ready to use half of the grenade to open the road to victory.