"Kill! The general has an order, and those who climb the city wall first will be promoted to one level and rewarded with one hundred taels of silver! ”

On April 6, the fifteenth year of Zheng, outside Xinhua City, Zhang Shihui commanded 3,000 soldiers and horses under this account to launch an attack on Xinhua City, where all the soldiers added up to less than 2,000 people.

At this time, only half an hour had passed in this battle, and in the face of the Chu army, which had an absolute advantage in terms of troops, combat power and ordnance, the external defense lines such as the moat and moat outside Xinhua City were all broken under the thunderous attack of the Chu army.

Now, the black-clothed army, which is as irresistible as a flame, has launched the final ant-attached siege.

"Kill, !!" A thunderous roar came, that is, about a quarter of an hour after Zhang Shihui offered a reward, a Chu army soldier grabbed a knife and killed the city wall.

Then, more and more soldiers of the Chu army couldn't help but rush onto the city wall. In this way, after a short quarter of an hour, the section of the city wall to the west of Xinhua City all fell.

"Kill me, the soldiers will open the gates of the city for me, and let the brothers outside the city enter the city!" On the city wall, after cutting off the head of an enemy soldier with a knife, a hundred household officials of the Chu army threw the head that represented the battle exploits to a brave soldier behind him, and then wiped the blood on his face, and then couldn't help but take dozens of soldiers to kill the city gate.

"Bang!" With a loud bang, I looked at the hanging door rope outside the city at this time, which was also cut by the Chu soldiers.

The load-bearing wooden hanging door slammed down, kicking up a cloud of dust.

"Ahem~" The dust kicked up when the hanging door fell down caused a coughing sound, but these hundreds of Chu soldiers who were already sharpening their knives outside the city and waiting were still staring at the direction of the city gate, waiting for the city gate to be opened from the inside by their fellow brothers.

"Squeak~~" The dust cleared, a loud grinding sound came, and finally the city gate was opened.

"Brothers, kill !!" The city gate was opened from the inside little by little, and the thousands of officials of the Chu army who were waiting outside the city to sharpen their knives roared, and they couldn't help but carry their blades and rushed to the city gate first. And under his leadership, hundreds of Chu soldiers outside the city shouted "Kill Tartar", and they couldn't help but rush to the city gate like a tide.

"His grandmother's, go, go. This Xinhua City can't be saved, so follow me to break through from Nancheng and flee to Shaoyang City, and it is important to save my life. In the city, Ye Ziming, the leader of the Baoqing Road with a bloody face, rode on a war horse and greeted him like this.

Then he was already frightened by the powerful strength shown by the Chu army, and at this time he didn't say anything nonsense as hard as he could, so he shouted and greeted, and then gave up the troops who were fighting in the streets, and took more than forty knights who he regarded as his confidants, and fled directly towards the south city gate.

"Kill! The general has an order, don't let one go in this battle. In this battle, it is important to let others understand the fate of the Wang Division of the Chu Army. ”

Suddenly, a shout came into the ears of Ye Ziming, the leader of Qianhu, who was fleeing with his head bored.

And Ye Ziming, who was running away on horseback, subconsciously looked at it, and couldn't help but see that more than ten Chu army knights were chasing behind him.

There are more than ten knights of the Chu army, if they are placed at other times, Ye Ziming leads these dozens of henchmen and knights, and they also have the heart to fight.

But now, when hundreds of Chu soldiers continued to pour into the city, Ye Ziming was not willing to entangle with these people at all at this time.

Therefore, at this time, dozens of their cavalry soldiers were chased and killed by more than ten knights of the Chu army. Even in this process, seven or eight people were shot by the crossbow arrows in the hands of the Chu army, who were chasing behind.

"Run, run, run." escaped all the way out of the city, and was almost shot by the Chu soldiers on the way. The last bit of courage of this Qianhu, the leader of Baoqing Road, is gone.

So after escaping from the city, he didn't care about anything else, and fled to Shaoyang City in the south, and he didn't even have the courage to look back at Xinhua City.

And the siege was so smooth and the enemy was so weak, so the Chu army on the attacking side was naturally demoralized.

Therefore, after capturing Xinhua City, Zhang Shihui left 2,000 soldiers and horses, and after staying for a day, he couldn't help but continue to lead the army to kill in the direction of Shaoyang City, the Baoqing Road Governance Office.

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"What is Master Batu Timur doing now? I want to see him. "Tianlin Road, Chang and Shacheng Propaganda Embassy, as a member of the Sanpin Propaganda Department, that is, Wei Tao Wei Shubo, who is really in charge of the entire government affairs of the Propaganda Department, couldn't help but be anxious at this time.

A pair of eyes are staring at the butler of the Xuanwu envoy Batu Timur, and if you are here to delay time for me, the labor and management will be mad to show you.

And besides, the butler, although he is the butler of Batu Timur, and he is a well-known figure in the Chang and Shacheng cities of Nuoda, but at this time, he was stared at by the Xuanwei Si Tongzhi, who was only one level younger than his master, and at this time, he naturally had a feeling of numbness in the scalp.

So after he was busy saluting Wei Tao, the same knowledge of the Xuanwei Division, he couldn't help but say: "My lord, please wait again, the villain will go to my master again now." ”

"No need. Get out of the way, I'll go find him myself now! "I've been waiting here for more than half an hour to drink tea, where else can Wei Tao do. So at this time, as soon as he pushed the housekeeper, he stepped into the backyard by himself.

You must know that although Wei Tao is only a fellow of the Propaganda Division, but in the entire Propaganda Division, he Wei Tao is the real leader of the Propaganda Division.

And even so, compared to his old-timers, Wei Tao's real power at this time is still a lot smaller.

Because in normal times, in order to avoid the monopoly of the consolation envoys, the consolation department has three consolation envoys, and there is only one deputy envoy of the consolation division from the third product and the deputy envoy of the consolation division of the fourth product. In this way, in the past, when the three consolation envoys restrained each other, most of the real power of the Consolation Division was in the hands of the Tongzhi of the Consolation Division.

And now, the reason why Wei Tao is still waiting here for this Batu Timur, who is not very good at the city. It is entirely because of the wars in the past few years, the other two ambassadors appointed by the imperial court cannot come to take office at all, and only Batu Timur is left in the Department of Comfort.

Therefore, the power will be held by Batu Timur, and the situation in Lake and South Province will gradually erode to such an extent.

But today, when the Chu army had already begun to attack them in Hu and Nandao, Wei Tao, as a fellow of the Xuanwei Division, naturally couldn't sit still anymore. And he came this time for the Chu army to attack Baoqing Road.

"Lord Timur, Lord Timur!" Wei Tao stepped into the backyard and immediately shouted loudly.

When the guards in the backyard heard such a shout, they naturally leaned over one after another, wanting to see where the rudeness came from and dared to shout here.

However, when they saw that the person shouting was Wei Tao, the same acquaintance of the Xuanwei Division, they couldn't help but stop, you look at me, I see you staring at you, I don't know what to do.

Although Wei Tao is only a Han man, where is his official position? Even if they gave these subordinate guards a hundred dares, they wouldn't dare to offend this Tongzhi Lord, whose official position was only one level lower than his master!

And no one dared to step forward to stop it, so Wei Tao's voice was naturally even louder. So at this time, in the backyard in the building that should be dressed as a Buddhist hall, Batu Timur, who was concentrating on worshipping the Buddha there, couldn't help but be dissatisfied.

"Who, who, where is yelling." He opened the door and walked out angrily, "Don't you know that I am worshipping the Buddha now, master!" Yelling, rushing into the Buddha, I want it, uh...... Wei Tongzhi. ”

Pushing through the crowd, he couldn't help frowning dissatisfiedly when he saw that the person yelling in his backyard turned out to be Wei Tao.

"Wei Tongzhi, what are you doing here with me!?" But it was Lord Batu who had been worshipping the Buddha, and he didn't know why Wei Tao came here.

Seeing this, Wei Tao in the crowd naturally felt a burst of anger churning in his heart. So at this time, he didn't care about the relationship between his boss and subordinates, and he pointed to Batu's nose with his eyes glared in public and said, "Batu, now that your eyebrows are already burning, you still have the heart to worship the Buddha." Don't you know that the black-clothed thieves have already begun to attack Baoqing Road!! ”

"You, Wei Tao!!" was scolded by his subordinates in front of his subordinates, Batu naturally couldn't help blushing, "Wei Tao, don't forget what your identity is, you dare to talk to me like this!" ”

"What identity, I see that you Batu have forgotten what your identity is! You are my courtier, not a monk in that temple!! ”

"You, Wei Tao, you are presumptuous!" It was the first time he was treated like this in public by his subordinates, and Batu, who was blushing when he was angry, had already turned his face into a monkey's ass at this time.

"Everyone, why are you stunned. Get him out of here, get him out of here! ”

Being treated like this by his subordinates, Batu Timur was already annoyed and angry at this time. He roared angrily at this time, waving his arms vigorously like an irascible orangutan.

Seeing him like this, the subordinates in the courtyard looked at each other, and then they couldn't help but come to Wei Tao, the same acquaintance of the Xuanwei Division, and prepared to "invite" him out.

"Get out of here, Ben-sama will go by himself!" Knowing that nothing can be done at this time, Wei Tao is naturally angry at this time. So he shouted angrily, and after parting the crowd, he threw his sleeves and left.

But at this time, a herald ran in in a panic without going through the ceremony.

"It's not good, something is wrong. Yesterday, the coalition forces of Baoqing Road and Hengzhou Road suffered a heavy defeat. Ye Ziming, the leader of the Qianhu army of Baoqing Road, surrendered in battle, and Lord Yang, the governor of Zhizhou, was killed in battle, and Baoqing Road had completely fallen at this time! ”

"What!!" Suddenly, hearing this, Batu Timur and Wei Tao, who were still angry, exclaimed at the same time.

Then the two looked at each other, and Wei Tao, who was hit repeatedly, rolled his eyes with a red face, and fainted with a "hiccup".

"Master, master!" Seeing this, the servants and guards exclaimed, and the courtyard and back house, which was originally quiet and orderly, suddenly became a mess again.

At the same time, when there was a mess in the mansion of this consolation envoy, Shaoyang City, Baoqing Road, in the southwest, the Chu army, which had been overwhelming all the way, had completely taken over the city. And at this time, Zhang Shihui and Shi Shisan (who has not yet changed his name to Shi Kaida) Bai Xi have discussed the next battle plan.

"Heh, compared with the elite Yuan army on the Jiangxia side, the soldiers and horses of this lake and Nanxuanwei Division are simply vulnerable. In the past, we did overestimate them. "Baoqing Road was easily taken, and the casualties of the Chu army in this battle were all less than three hundred.

With such results, he couldn't help but bring great confidence to Zhang Shihui, as the commander of the army.

So at this time, full of confidence, he pointed to the map hanging on the wall, and couldn't help but smile and said: "You see, three hundred miles east along the official road from Shaoyang City, it is Hengyang City, the seat of Hengzhou.

And now, after our army took Shaoyang City on Baoqing Road, this Hengyang City is also the only channel for Tianlin Road to connect with the south. Therefore, as long as our army occupies this city, it can surround Tianlin Road on three sides, so that the entire Tianlin Road will become an enclave of the Yuan and Mongolian army in Huguang Province.

And in doing so, our encirclement of Tianlin Road is far stronger than the method of breaking through Xiangtan Prefecture by Xinhua City going deep into Tianlin Road. So in the next step, I am going to change the battle plan we made earlier, I want to go east to Hengyang and attack and take here. 13. General Bai, what do you think? ”

"This ......" Suddenly hearing Zhang Shihui say this, Shi Shisan and Bai Xi, who were sitting there, looked at each other. Then the two were silent for a long time, and Shi Shisan couldn't help but speak first: "It is feasible to attack Hengyang City, but in this way, the supply line of our army will be stretched too much."

At that time, if the Yuan and Mongolian troops in the south send troops to constantly harass our army's grain routes, the pressure on our logistics supply will undoubtedly increase greatly! ”

"Haha, I naturally thought of this." Regarding Shi Shisan's worries, Zhang Shihui at this time looked at the chest, "Sun Tzu once said: Those who make good use of soldiers will no longer be recruited, and no more military service will be increased, and food will be taken from the enemy."

Lake, south, rich land, as long as the enemy army does not strengthen the wall and clear the wilderness, our army can completely take food from the enemy territory. And as long as our army can take Hengyang City, then from the perspective of the people of Hengyang City, the food problem is definitely not big. Besides, you have also seen the strength of the enemy, this time General Bai and I led an army of ten thousand five, and within three days, it was enough to break the city.

And you can lead the remaining 3,000 soldiers and horses to defend Shaoyang City and help us guard the back road. How is it? ”

"Well, then, there will be nothing to worry about in the end. It's just a general, let's temporarily change the battle strategy, can we ask the king for instructions first, and then ......"

"Please!? The battle array is changing rapidly, how can you ask for instructions on everything. If the two generals had no other concerns, the matter would have been settled. ”

"Yes, the last general will obey!" Hearing Zhang Shihui say this, Shi Shisan and the two of them naturally had nothing else to say. So the two responded in unison, and a new battle plan was formulated.