Wu Kui walked on the head of the city of Xianyang County.

Less than a mile south of the city wall is the gushing water. At this time, the peach blossom flood has come to an end, and the river beach, which was originally flooded, is now gradually revealing the river. However, no matter how shallow the Weishui is, it must be crossed by a raft. Even after the crossing, there was still a battalion of officers and soldiers stationed on the opposite side. In addition to the south, large armies were stationed in several other directions of Xianyang City. With the river on one side and the enemy army on three sides, Wu Kui, who was trapped in the city, was already unable to fly.

Yes, now Wu Kui and the 3,000 rebels he led are now besieged in Xianyang City.

Xianyang County, located on the north bank of Weishui, is the north gate of Chang'an Jingzhao Mansion. In the past few decades when the Dangxiang cavalry ravaged Guanxi, the Great Song monarchs had to consider the worst-case scenario of the war situation - that is, the situation that the Dangxiang army broke through the blockade of the four roads on the edge of the border and went straight to Chang'an. When the northern defense line was broken through, in order to protect the safety of Chang'an City, the plan was to take Xianyang City as the core to defend on the north bank of Weishui.

Although in the past few decades, even though it was an era when Li Yuanhao was crisscrossing the north and the south, and the Great Song Army was wiped out several times, the Iron Harrier had never crossed the defense line of the four roads on the edge of Shaanxi Province. However, in order to resist possible dangers, Xianyang City was still built in the shape of a border state city. The city is high and deep, the war equipment is sufficient, the arsenal and grain hoards are complete, and it is far from being comparable to ordinary county seats.

However, it is precisely because there has never been a dangerous situation in which the party soldiers have pointed directly at Chang'an, and Xianyang, which has always been stable and peaceful, has lost the awareness and means of guarding against danger in the protracted peacetime. When Wu Kui led 3,000 rebels to the east along Weishui, he easily attacked the city of Xianyang.

With Wu Kui's original intention, after replenishing the necessary grain and grass and military supplies in Xianyang City, he wanted to cross the south of the river, dangled on the edge of Chang'an, forced the official army to enter Chang'an City to guard, and then tried to jump out of the encirclement and march to Qinling according to the plan.

But Wu Kui never expected that the speed of the Qin Feng army led by Yan Da would be so fast. Yan Da first blocked his first attempt to force the Weishui River in Xingping to the west. And when he led the army to gallop and capture Xianyang in one fell swoop, when he was ready to cross the river again, Yanda's general flag also appeared again on the south bank of Weishui, and behind the 'Yan' word general flag, there was a mighty Qin Feng army of nearly 10,000 people. And the Jingyuan army, which had been following Wu Kui closely, also followed his footsteps all the way to the outside of Xianyang City.

The two roads joined forces, together with the defenders of the counties near Xianyang, surrounded Xianyang City.

Thankfully, for some reason, the actions of these armies suddenly became stupid. Before they could make any preparations, they began the siege. Not only did they not pay attention to the siege of the three gates, but they also did not clean up the houses outside the city that were close to the city walls during the siege, and there was no action of demolishing or burning them at all. In Wu Kui's observation, the commander in command of these besieging armies did not even allow his soldiers to enter the houses at will.

From the perspective of benevolence, morality, and love for the people, there is certainly no problem with the actions of the officials and the military, and they deserve to be commended. But from a military point of view, there is nothing more stupid than that. Xianyang is close to Chang'an, extremely rich, and there are nearly 10,000 people living outside the city. The houses are lined up one after another, and they are not inferior to those in the city. With such a dense concentration of houses, how could any siege equipment other than long ladders reach the city, so how could the advantage of the number of officers and soldiers outside the city be exploited? Moreover, the people living in the houses under the city have long run away, and the soldiers besieging the city are holding ladders in these empty houses to attack the city, isn't this a lure for him Wu Kui to prevent fire?

Wu Kui really set the fire, in the area where the spring rain is as expensive as oil, it is the time when the spring breeze is just right, a fire came down, and the officers and soldiers who attacked the city did not know how many died. Wu Kui only knew that the stench of burnt skin and flesh in the Dao Dao had been wafting in Xianyang City for three days before gradually disappearing.

After a fire, the besieging armies suffered heavy losses, and the encirclement became as fragile as a page that could be pierced at the moment. At this time, it was a good time to break out, but the rebels in the city did not move.

Outside the city of Pizhou, Wu Kui's control over the rebels dropped to a notch when he lost his right-hand man Xie Ji due to an ambush by the official army. A fire and easy victory made the generals below colonize the officers and troops outside the city without fear. Instead, they had time to sit down and quarrel, and there were disagreements about the direction of the next escape. Just this dispute deprived the rebels of the most desperate opportunity to escape from Xianyang.

Only a day later, Qin Feng's army was re-encircled, and the Jingyuan army was also surrounded, and the general banner of the famous marshal Guo Kui arrived with the 20,000 troops from the Yongxing military road in Chang'an. They blocked the gate outside Xianyang City again. The people who had just been requisitioned began to dig pits, desperately digging pits, and digging a circle of pits around the Xianyang city wall. The soil taken out also became a one-zhang high wall, surrounding Xianyang City.

At this time, Wu Kui already knew that he could only choose the path between waiting for death and committing suicide.

But if he didn't see the enemy give him a head, he wouldn't be willing to die!

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Guo Kui returned to Chang'an, and did not forget to take his general flag with him by the way.

Yan Dazhi said that his benefactor was taken away by Zhao Zhan.

Guo Kui served as a member of the Privy Council and was one of the most famous generals in the world. Although he had to be transferred to Qinzhou because of his disagreement with Han Jiang, in the case of the rebel troubles, the first Dinghai Divine Needle that the Son of Heaven and the court thought of was still him.

But this is the kind of Guo Kui, who was still so angry by Zhao Zhan that he was stunned for thirteen chapters, and the two quarreled for seven or eight days about how to break through Xianyang City. After the last, Guo Kui was so angry with Zhao Zhan, who was three points harder than the stones in the pit, that he turned his head and left the front line.

Looking at the ever-increasing walls and the deepening ditch, Yan Da couldn't figure out why Zhao Zhan's style of action had shifted from extreme radical to extremely conservative because of a failure. It's like a copper plate on the table, which suddenly jumps up on its own, from the back with words to the front with flowers, which makes people feel very abrupt.

Zhao Zhan hurriedly arrived at the besieging army, first took away the command of Yanda, and then forced the army to attack the city in a hurry in the name of attacking him, and then more than 800 soldiers were burned into black charcoal, and the same number of soldiers were injured.

After this setback, when Guo Kui's army arrived outside Xianyang City, he gathered again to discuss how to solve the thief army in Xianyang City, Zhao Zhan completely opposed Guo Kui's plan to break the city, and asked the surrounding places to levy the people, let them dig a pit and ram the earth, build an outer city around Xianyang, and also found a doorman named Zhao Hexiong who followed him to direct the people to dig a pit.

This is the tactics used by the officials and troops during the rebellion of Wang Ze in Beizhou, which is famous all over the world for consuming time, finance, taxes, and manpower, but Zhao Zhan just wants to do this, in the name of it, not to let a traitor escape.

However, except for Xianyang, which is entrenched by the main master, the situation in other places is better.

It was almost the end of early March, and the thieves in all states and counties who wanted to take advantage of the Guangrui Army mutiny and jump out to stir up the water were already killed, killed, caught, and almost wiped out. Now, as long as you walk on the Guanzhong Road, no matter which road you follow, you can see heads in bird cages on the outer wall of the city you pass, and they are neatly arranged.

Under the order of the capture envoy Yanda, this letting go of the ruthless killing made the atmosphere in Guanzhong suddenly a lot better. Many old bandits have become ghosts under the knife in this wave of actions that the government has aspirations to work with, and they don't even have a place to cry out for grievances. Of course, there are also rumors among them, and there are not a few wrongful killings.

But in the end, Yan Da has completed his task and compressed the danger of war to only Xianyang. In this case, Yanda's job of recruiting envoys cannot be regarded as dereliction of duty, at least until now, Tokyo City has not sent an edict to change generals.

It's just that now Yanda is also unable to attack, and the elites who rushed to the front that day, Tai was half lost in the sea of fire. Brave and powerful generals were burned to the ground—along with their men. A fire almost broke the backbone of Qin Feng and Jingyuan's armies, and the good-tempered Yan Da almost had people tie up Zhao Zhan and throw him into Weishui.

If it weren't for the name of a catcher, he would have wanted to leave, Zhao Zhan's temper really didn't make people clean up and do things well. Thinking of this, Yanda couldn't help but envy Guo Kuilai. As the commander who replaced Sima Guang and became the commander of Jingzhao Mansion, he really only needs to sit in Chang'an, and he doesn't need to go to the front line, and it is difficult for Zhao Zhan to trouble him.

You Shixiong walked to Yan Da's side at this time, his performance outside the city of Pizhou was outstanding, and he was first valued by Zhao Zhan, but because of military disagreement, he was alienated by Zhao Zhan. But Yanda didn't pick and choose, and directly used You Shixiong and appointed him as his staff.

The official document received from You Shixiong's hand was not simple, and it was the amount of materials and money and food consumed during this period of time, which was really surprising. Compared with the consumption of Luo Wu City, the use of the besieging army in the past few days is not much lost.

'I really don't know when I will be able to break through Xianyang?' Yan Da shook his head and changed his mind: "When will the reinforcements from Yanzhou arrive?!" ’

The news of the smooth evacuation of the Luo Wu defenders, together with the good news of the great destruction of the Western Thieves, has already been delivered, and the tens of thousands of elites who were originally trapped on the front line in Yanda Zhilu Dao are now coming at the same time. But when it will arrive, Yan Da doesn't know, only that Lu Dao is probably in the past few days......

Just thinking so, I quickly reported that the reinforcements from the south had arrived more than ten miles away.