Chapter 72: The Siege of Suzhou (5)

At this time, in the north of Hangzhou, Qian Biao's face was very gloomy. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After he heard that Xu Juan and Xu Zaisi had rebelled, he immediately returned to Hangzhou with the Badu soldiers and stationed them in Longquan. Although the news of Huainan's dispatch of troops has not yet come, just the rebels of Xu Juan and Xu Zaisi are enough to give him a headache.

"What's going on in the city?"

"The outer city was completely occupied by traitors, but fortunately, the third prince led the troops to defend the inner city, and now the traitors are not good for attacking the inner city, and they are now stationed in Longxing Temple." Cheng and replied with a fist on the side, he is Qian Biao's old brother, and he is deeply valued by Qian Biao. In normal times, Qian Biao will discuss any major military affairs with Chenghe.

At this time, Qian Biao said apologetically, "At the beginning, I asked Wu Yong to repair the moat, the soldiers complained, and the others were silent, but you persuaded me to stop conscription, and now I deeply regret not listening to you!" ”

"The king is serious, in the final analysis, it is still the ambition of Xu Juan and these Caizhou thieves and wolves, otherwise Xu Zaisi's subordinates stayed in Hangzhou without conscription, how could they follow the opposite?"

Qian Biao nodded, and did not pursue this topic, at this time, the guards outside came to report, "King, Du Jianwei of Xincheng is here to help!" ”

Du Jianwei is the son of Sima Duling, the former marching army of Qian Di, and now he is the commander of Wu'an, and he did not hesitate to raise troops to help after hearing that Xu Juan and the two rebelled.

Qian Biao was overjoyed, personally greeted him, and sighed and said when he saw Du Jianwei, "Lu Yao knows that the horsepower has been in the hearts of the people for a long time!" When Gu recruited Sun Ru's old department to establish Wuyong Capital, your father told me that Xu Juan and their wolf ambitions would be a disaster in the future. Lone didn't listen to him back then, and now he regrets not being at the beginning! ”

In fact, at that time, it was not only Du Ling who warned Qian Biao, when Qian Biao built the outer city of Hangzhou, he said to his subordinates: "A city tower ten steps away from the outer city of Hangzhou can be called solid." But his secretary Luo Yin replied: "The towers of the outer city are not as good as facing inward." ”

Now it is indeed the rebels of Xu Juan and Xu Zaisi who occupy the outer city, relying on the "ten steps one" tower on the city wall to deal with the Qian Biao army outside the city.

However, Qian Biao is a generation of heroes after all, and he immediately personally worshiped Du Ling, who had been sick and died for many years, in recognition of his foresight, and also won over Du Jianwei, a reinforcement general.

After doing all this, he said to Cheng Ji and the others, "Now the situation is critical, I don't know the situation in the inner city outside the city, and now I plan to enter the city to command in person, do you have any opinions?" ”

Although the inner city is still in the hands of Qian Biao's son, if Qian Biao can't personally boost morale, I'm afraid that the inner city won't be able to support it for long. So as soon as his proposal came out, Cheng Ji, Du Jianwei, Gu Quanwu and others all nodded in agreement.

That night, Qian Biaohua asked Cheng Ji to raise his banner in the army, but he pretended to be a civilian and climbed the city wall with his bare hands.

Because of the topography, after the expansion of Hangzhou, part of the old city wall in the inner city is still connected to the outside of the city, but I don't know whether this section of the city wall is still in my own hands, so Qian Biao is really risky tonight.

However, he was relieved after going up to the city wall, because the soldiers here still looked dressed and were obviously not from Wuyongdu.

"It's strange, why haven't the defenders found me yet?" He was a little puzzled, but when he looked closely, he found that the soldier in charge of the guard was actually sleeping leaning on a drum.

"Hmph, it's wartime now, and this soldier who keeps vigil dares to be so slack, it's really damn it!" Qian Biao didn't say a word, and personally drew his sword and killed the soldier.

After this commotion, the defenders on the city wall knew that Qian Biao had arrived in person, and their morale suddenly soared and they cheered loudly.

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In Longxing Temple, Xu Juan and Xu Zaisi also looked melancholy. A rebellion began to go well, quickly occupied the outer city, but did not expect to attack the inner city but there was a problem, most of their soldiers were still busy looting, as a result, the time was delayed, so that the defenders of the inner city had a garrison, and when they quickly gathered soldiers to attack, they were repelled by the tooth general Pan Chang.

Since then, they have continued to attack, but they have never been able to stop the inner city. The current situation is that they are resisting the Qian Biao army outside the city and attacking the inner city at the same time. If it weren't for the fact that the outer city was indeed very strong, I am afraid that they would have been defeated long ago under the internal and external attacks.

"Brother Xu, in the current situation, should we invite reinforcements? If we continue to fight, I'm afraid that the situation will become more and more dangerous! ”

Xu thought about it again before replying in a deep voice, "Let's wait." Our Cai Zhoujun has been away from his hometown for so many years, has he received less white eyes? Now that we are finally in charge of our own house, we are not willing to find a master for ourselves! ”

The forces around this are Qian Di, Yang Xingmi and Xuanzhou Tian Yan, and Tian Yan is the only one who is willing to support them at present. However, Tian Yan was also the vanguard of dealing with Sun Ru back then, and there was a lot of hatred between him and the old troops of Sun Ru's army. Therefore, they are not willing to take refuge in Tian Yan unless they have to.

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Compared with Hangzhou and Suzhou, Kunshan is only a small county, but its geographical location is superior, and it has become a corner with Suzhou.

Five years ago, Qin Pei, a general of Huainan, led 3,000 men to capture this place and defend the city; At that time, Suzhou was also still in the hands of Huainan. Later, Gu Quanwu, a famous general of the two Zhejiangs, led the army to the north and defeated the Huainan army.

After Gu Quanwu occupied Suzhou, he led more than 10,000 troops to attack Kunshan, but the Kunshan defender Qin Pei resolutely resisted and never surrendered. He made the old and weak in the army wear armor and spears, and erected military flags to strengthen their momentum; And let the sturdy soldiers all have strong bows in their hands, and be sure to hit the enemy every time they fire. As a result, Gu Quanwu's army attacked the city many times and suffered heavy casualties, and it was never able to help Kunshan City.

But as time passed, Qin Pei's troops in battle became less and less, and Gu Quanwu saw the opportunity to send people to persuade him to surrender. Qin Pei then sealed a thick envelope to Gu Quanwu, who thought it was Qin Pei's letter of surrender, and smug summoned the generals to watch.

However, after opening the letter, Gu Quanwu was red-faced and furious. It turned out to be a volume of scriptures, because Gu Quanwu had been a monk at the beginning, so Qin Pei's move was to laugh at him.

Later, Gu Quanwu increased his troops to continue to attack the city, and at the same time diverted water to irrigate the city, and when the city was exhausted, Qin Pei had no choice but to surrender, and at that time there were only more than 300 old and weak defenders left in the city.

Qian Biao was very angry when he found out, could it be that Gu Quanwu's tens of thousands of troops were blocked out of the city by these hundreds of people? He sent someone to inquire about Qin Pei, wondering why he dared to resist the army.

Qin Pei replied, "The strength is bent down, not the heart is surrendered." (Qin) Pei Yi did not dare to bear Yang Gong (Yang Xingmi)". Qian Biao was moved by his loyalty and finally treated him kindly.

Qin Pei was in Hangzhou for four years, and it was not until April this year that Huainan exchanged him with Gu Quanwu under the persuasion of Yang Wu.

At this time, Yang Wu and Qin Pei rode horses and stood outside Kunshan City to observe this small county seat.

"General Qin, four years have passed, and it is also this Kunshan City, when you were defending the city, two Zhejiang soldiers attacked the city; Now the situation is reversed, the two Zhejiang soldiers are defending the city, while we are attacking the city. I wonder if General Qin has any views on siege? Yang Wu asked Qin Pei with a smile.

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