Li Shenfu's idea was also put forward by Yang Wu at the beginning, but Zhu Quanzhong never went south, and Huainan had sufficient troops, so Yang Wu wanted to capture Hangzhou before he went south. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Now it seems that he underestimated the difficulty of the siege and Qian Biao's determination to defend the city, so that he failed to succeed at such a great price. Now it can only change from a strong attack to a siege, no longer launching a large-scale siege, but using Suzhou artillery, bows and arrows to suppress and consume the defenders.

In fact, this is also a problem that usually occurs when attacking fortified cities, that is, at the beginning, the besieging side will launch a fierce attack, and after a while, they will find that the casualties are too great and have to change to a long siege.

The next period of time determines whether the siege can be successful or not, if the defenders have strong reinforcements to relieve the siege, then the siege will often end in failure; Conversely, if the siege lasted for a long time and the defenders never saw reinforcements arrive, they would usually be demoralized, and eventually either surrender or eventually lose.

Now the hope that Qian Biao and others can continue to hold on is that Zhu Quanzhong will go south to relieve the siege, if he realizes that Zhu Quanzhong can't save him, surrender will become his only choice.

On the city wall, smelling the thick stench in the air, Qian Biao couldn't help frowning.

He knew that it was the smell of the soldiers as they were burying the bodies of the dead of the two armies, and that in such a hot weather, if those corpses were not disposed of in time, there was likely to be a plague.

At such times, Qian Biao would return to his mansion and wait until the body was disposed of before personally climbing the city wall to comfort the defenders; However, today he deliberately went to the city at this time, not only because the losses of the defenders today were particularly huge, but also because his general Bao Junfu was also killed in today's battle.

In the first few days, the losses suffered by the defenders were actually very small, but they took advantage of the Huainan army to fill the moat and build the wall. However, after the Huainan army's wall was built, the enemy army also hid behind the wall and attacked them, and from then on, the losses of the defenders skyrocketed.

Especially in today's battle, the Huainan army's gunpowder blasting method blew five gaps in the city wall at the same time, three of which were blocked at the first time, but the other two almost allowed the Huainan army to break through.

At the critical moment, generals such as Sima Fu and Bao Junfu led the soldiers to launch a decisive battle, and finally repelled the Huainan army; However, the price they paid was that Bao Junfu was killed on the spot, and Sima Fu was seriously wounded; In addition, more than 3,000 soldiers fell in the gap.

The entire siege of the city has continued to this day, and the defenders in the city have lost a total of 10,000 soldiers and more than 10,000 wounded; Fortunately, Qian Biao mobilized a large number of people to defend the city, which made up for the lack of defenders.

However, at this time, Qian Biao also knew that if the Huainan Army did another offensive of today's scale, he was afraid that the outer city would be lost, and the defenders would have to hold on to the inner city at that time. But if the outer city is lost, how long can it hold out on to the inner city alone?

So even though he knew that it would be difficult for the defenders to continue to defend the entire outer city, he still gritted his teeth and persisted.

At the same time, he also secretly felt frightened, the Huainan army's large-scale siege of the city was somewhat beyond his expectations in terms of determination and strength, if he still thought that it was no problem to rely on the strong city to defend for a year, but now the situation is a little difficult even if it is held until the end of this year.

Fortunately, after today's bloody battle, coupled with the hot weather during this time, I believe that the Huainan army outside the city will also temporarily stop attacking the city.

It's just that when will Zhu Quanzhong send troops to relieve him? Can he hold out until Zhu Quanzhong goes south? More importantly, can Zhu Quanzhong relieve him of the siege?

These questions made him feel heavy, but unfortunately, now that Hangzhou City was besieged by enemy legions, it was difficult for news from outside to get in, so he could only rely on the occasional captured Huainan Army soldiers to find out the news.

However, no useful information is often obtained through this method, after all, the ordinary soldiers generally do not know anything, and the officers are difficult to capture, so they are now completely ignorant of the outside news.

Just when Qian Biao was waiting for Zhu Quanzhong's army to go south to relieve him, at the end of July, Zhu Quanzhong's more than 100,000 troops were finally dispatched.

However, what shocked everyone was that his goal was neither to attack the coalition forces of Li Maozhen and Yang Chongben to the west, nor to attack Huainan in the south to relieve Qian Biao's crisis, his target turned out to be Zhao Kuangning, the envoy of Shannan Dongdao!

"What? That's impossible! "Huainan Jiedu envoy Fuzhong, Yang Xingmi and others after learning the news, their first reaction was impossible.

"Zhu Quanzhong went to attack Zhao Kuangning? Is he crazy? In Guanzhong, in the joint army camp of Li Maozhen and Yang Chongben, Li Maozhen glared again and again after learning the news.

Similarly, Li Keyong of Hedong, Wang Jian of Shuzhong, etc., when they learned the news, their first reaction was that Zhu Quanzhong was crazy, or impossible.

After all, under the current circumstances, Zhu Quanzhong gathered more than 100,000 troops, neither to attack Li Maozhen, Yang Chongben, nor Yang Xingmi, but to attack Zhao Kuangning, which is unreasonable.

Zhao Kuangning's father was originally a general of Qin Zongquan, and later betrayed Qin Zongquan and took refuge in Zhu Quanzhong, and then was named the envoy of Shannan Dongdao, and later Zhao Kuangning took over after his death, and now has the territory of nine states including Xiangzhou and Jiangling.

At the beginning, Li Ke used his subordinates to cut off Li Chengsi and Shi Yan because of the road back to Hedong, so they had to go south with Zhu Jin to take refuge in Yang Xingmi. However, after all, these two people were Li Keyong's confidants and favorite generals, and there were also three thousand elite Shatuo cavalry who went south with them, so Li Ke was reluctant to do so, and later sent an envoy south to Guangling, trying to ask Yang Xingmi for these two people and the cavalry under their command.

Yang Xingmi agreed at the time, but later saw the power of the three thousand Shatuo Jing Cavalry during the Battle of Qingkou, and Li Chengsi and Shi Yan were both famous generals with outstanding talents, so Yang Xingmi later repented and dragged the two of them back for various reasons. Over time, these two people also adapted to life in Guangling, and they were reluctant to go back.

Although Li Chengsi and Shi Yan did not get it back, for the purpose of jointly dealing with Zhu Quanzhong, Huainan and Hedong still got into a relationship.

And the envoys of the two families borrowed from Zhao Kuangning's territory, but they were once intercepted by Zhu Quanzhong's people.

Li Keyong and Yang Xingmi are Zhu Quanzhong's mortal enemies, Zhao Kuangning so blatantly allowed these two families to come and go, which naturally caused Zhu Quanzhong to be furious, and sent his uncle and Kang Huaizhen to lead the troops to attack south, seizing the land of Mizhou, Suizhou and Dengzhou, until Zhao Kuangning took the initiative to sue for peace, then he stopped the army, but the two families also took over the grievances.

Some time ago, Zhao Kuangning and Wang Jian, Li Maozhen, Yang Chongben, Li Keyong, Yang Xingmi and others were connected with each other, and there were signs of joining forces to crusade against Zhu Quanzhong.

But to tell the truth, regardless of whether this coalition against Zhu Quanzhong can be established or not, Zhao Kuangning jumped up and down like this, wanting to unite with Yang Xingmi and other big feudal towns, but in fact, no big feudal town can look down on him, because his strength is too weak compared to several others, except for dealing with the weaker Langzhou Lei Yangong, there is no record at all.

Therefore, whether it was Yang Xingmi, Li Maozhen and others before, they didn't think that Zhu Quanzhong's goal of gathering more than 100,000 troops would be him.

However, the fact is that Zhu Quanzhong's army is heading for Zhao Kuangning, and the forward Wu Ning Jiedu he sent Yang Shuaihou has already begun to fight with Zhao Kuangning.

In the camp of the Liang army, Zhu Quanzhong played with the weak and boneless beauty in his arms with a relaxed face, but talked with several henchmen and strategists in his mouth.

Since his wife Zhang died some time ago, his temper has become more and more irritable, and at the same time, the demand for women has also increased, and he has brought several beauties to serve in the army.

"Mr. Jing, does this Ma Yin really have enough strength to fight against Huainan? If in the end, Ma Yin couldn't withstand Huainan's attack, wouldn't Gu give up Qian Biao in vain? ”

"The king can rest assured, after all, this Ma Yin is the remnant of the Caizhou army, and the generals under his command are also more outstanding, plus the soldiers use their lives, and the strength is still not small. Even if he can't compete with Huainan, it is impossible for Huainan to eliminate him in a short period of time. Therefore, Ma Yin should have the strength to contain Huainan for the king. Jing Xiang said very respectfully, he lowered his head and didn't dare to look at the beauty in Zhu Quanzhong's arms.

Zhu Quanzhong nodded, two months ago, he originally planned to lead the army south to rescue Qian Biao, but at that time, Jing Xiang told him that Qian Biao was gone, even if they sent troops, it would be difficult to save it, even if they saved it this time, it would be difficult to protect next time, rather than this, it was better to find another chess piece to contain Huainan.

In today's south, in addition to Qian Bi, who has been beaten to the death of Huainan, the only ones who are stronger are Zhong Chuan in Jiangxi, Ma Yin in Hunan, Lei Yangong in Langzhou and Zhao Kuangning in Shannan Dongdao. Among them, Zhao Kuangning must be eliminated first, Lei Yangong's strength is too weak, Zhong Chuan is old, and he has taken the initiative to marry Huainan, which is obviously not a suitable chess piece.

This selection comes and goes, and the most suitable chess piece is only Hunan Ma Yin.

At this time, the news came that Ma Yin defeated the Huainan army in Yuezhou and successfully recovered Yuezhou, and since then, Zhu Quanzhong has also determined that Ma Yin will be the next chess piece to contain Huainan.

In order to better play the role of this chess piece, Zhu Quanzhong was determined to eliminate Zhao Kuangning first, so that the two forces could be connected, so as to avoid the dilemma that Qian Biao was surrounded now, but he could not give effective support.