The circumference of Changzhou city is seven miles, the square is straight and strong, there are thousands of camp tents outside the west gate of the city, here is the rebel camp of An Renyi and Zhang Hao. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In the middle of the night, most of the fires in the camp had been extinguished, and it was pitch black, except for the glimmer of light from the torches held by the patrolling soldiers.

"The situation of this attack on Changzhou is not very good, An Zhijun, why don't we return to Runzhou first? Wait for Tian Yuanjun to take Shengzhou, let's make plans? Under the dim light, Zhang Hao asked with some concern.

A few days ago, after he and An Renyi raided Guangling together, they burned the Dongtang battleship when they withdrew, and when they returned to Runzhou, they went straight to Changzhou non-stop, wanting to take Changzhou first to expand their territory.

However, Changzhou used to border Suzhou, and before Huzhou and Suzhou were captured by Huainan, it was the front line against Qian Biao, and there were often fierce battles.

After Suzhou and Huzhou were captured, Changzhou was changed from a border state to an internal state, and its military status dropped a lot, and the garrison of Changzhou, with 5,000 Changzhou soldiers, was transferred to Jiaxing, and the garrison strength of Changzhou was further reduced.

Therefore, An Renyi and Zhang Hao thought that they could take Changzhou with a surprise attack, but they didn't expect that although Changzhou became an internal state and county, Li Yu's vigilance did not decline at all, as An Renyi's old neighbor, he always knew An Renyi's inner restlessness, so Changzhou's garrison was not relaxed at all, and the raid launched by An Renyi and the two did not work at all.

At the same time, Tian Yan's plan to raid Shengzhou also failed, and now Chen soldiers are attacking the city day and night under Shengzhou City. After receiving the news, An Renyi and the others realized that they had estimated the difficulties of the rebellion too little.

Before that, they felt that as long as Zhu Yanshou dragged Yang Xingmi's main force in Jiangbei, Tian Yan took Shengzhou, and he took Changzhou himself, no matter how bad it was, he would be able to confront Yang Xingmi across the river; But now, as soon as their plan was implemented, they were taken seriously.

"General Zhang is exaggerating, although we have suffered some setbacks, but it may not be good to say that the situation is not good!" An Renyi shook his head and smiled.

Although he also had some bad feelings in his heart, as a veteran general who had been in the army for a long time, he didn't know how many battles he had fought in his life, and he knew that he could not easily lose confidence, let alone say such discouraged words so as not to shake the morale of the army.

At this time, there are still their subordinates below, and An Renyi must cheer them up.

"Although our plan to raid has been frustrated, this is just Li Yu's defense of the city, and we can't break through the city in a hurry. But at this time, Yang Xingmi's naval warships left in Guangling have been burned by us, and the rest of the warships have been with Yang Wu in the north of Haizhou, plus Zhu Zhijun has raised troops in Shouzhou to respond, and the army led by Yang Wu will inevitably take pacifying Shouzhou as the primary task. During this period, we have enough time to attack Changzhou, and there will be a way to break through the city and capture Li Yu alive in one fell swoop! ”

Because the news between the north and the south was further interrupted after the rebellion, the news that Zhu Yanshou had been killed had not yet reached the rebels at this time. Therefore, An Renyi thought that Zhu Yanshou had received the news and raised troops to respond to them.

With the strength of Shouzhou's troops, coupled with the fact that it is located on the northern front, the location is extremely important, An Renyi naturally feels that Yang Wu's army must be fighting with Zhu Yanshou at this time.

"As An Envoy Jun said, Yang Wu is likely to be at war with Zhu Envoy Jun at this time, but there are also tens of thousands of troops outside Guangling City, although we burned the Dongtang warship, but the last general thinks that as long as there is enough time, they can also recruit enough ships to cross the river. So we don't actually have much time, I don't know if you have any good way to break through Changzhou in a short period of time? ”

At this time, Zhang Hao completely treated An Renyi with the attitude of his subordinates, which was also a helpless thing, although Zhang Hao was nominally the leader of the rebel army with the same status as An Renyi, but in fact, there was a gap between the status of the two sides before the rebellion and the strength of the two sides after the rebellion, so Zhang Hao consciously regarded himself as a subordinate.

An Renyi said with a smile: "First of all, our two families have a total of 15,000 troops together, and in addition to the 5,000 people left behind in Runzhou, there are 10,000 troops that can be mobilized; However, Li Yu only has 3,000 defenders to defend the city, and in terms of troops, we have the upper hand. ”

"Secondly, the general has not made preparations before raising the army, and now there is already a general in Changzhou City, and he has hundreds of people at his disposal, as long as they suddenly launch an occupation of the city gate at night, they can accept us into the city!"

"Is there an internal response? Why didn't you come out earlier? Zhang Hao was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, but in his heart he wondered why An Renyi didn't have to wait until the raid failed to use it since he had an internal response.

"Ahem, this, there was a problem with contact before, so I didn't use them, and I was suddenly contacted two days earlier."

Speaking of internal response, An Renyi was a little embarrassed, and the explanation given was not very clear, Zhang Hao became even more suspicious when he heard it, and asked again and again.

Although he regarded himself as a subordinate, he was nominally An Renyi's ally after all, so An Renyi had no choice but to explain in detail.

It turned out that this so-called internal name was Ren Fen, although he was indeed his subordinate before, and he had been sent to Changzhou City for many years, and he was a bold man, starting a grain business in Changzhou, and relying on An Renyi's help to get into the mix.

While secretly inquiring about An Renyi, he enjoyed his rich life, and his life was not bad.

But it is precisely because of the good life that Ren Fen is gradually dissatisfied with continuing to be An Renyi's marionette, plus Ren Fen's parents who stayed in Runzhou to be a hostage to An Renyi suddenly died of illness a year ago, and there is currently only one nephew who is not very close to Ren Fen left in Runzhou, so the relationship between An Renyi and him is a little delicate now. This is also the reason why An Renyi did not contact Ren Fen before launching the raid in the first place.

But now that the raid has failed, he can only hit the idea on Ren Fen, these days while the siege of the city has been constantly shooting letter arrows into the city to pass the code, and Ren Fen's men have also been recruited to defend the city, and today took advantage of the siege to give a response to his request.

After hearing what happened, Zhang Hao couldn't help frowning and said, "Do you think you can continue to believe in this assignment?" It can't be some conspiracy, right? ”

You must know that what Ren Fen is doing now is not the small thing of providing information before, but the big thing of directly helping him open the city gate, and once he fails, he will definitely be killed.

What's more, now that Ren Ren's parents who stayed in Runzhou have also passed away, and the remaining nephew, An Renyi, also said just now that he is not close to Renfen, does he have the courage and necessity to continue to work for An Renyi?

An Renyi smiled bitterly: "Who can say for sure? However, Ben will have a second way to break through Changzhou, which will definitely succeed, and there is no need to take risks! ”

The reason why An Renyi mentioned Ren was originally to boost morale, but he didn't expect to be exposed by Zhang Hao in person, so he had to skip and continue to talk about the second way.

Hearing that there was a second way to break through the city without taking risks, Zhang Hao and the other generals couldn't help but be interested.