Chapter Seventy-Two: Cangyuan City of Crisis

Seeing that Liu Ji took Su Lie, Chen Hao and Hua Xiong into Quyang County not long ago, and returned to the camp, Lin Xiya and Lin Xiwen, the twin sisters, immediately breathed a sigh of relief, they knew the county order of Quyang County, and invited Liu Ji to a Qinglou in Quyang County, and they couldn't help but feel up and down in their hearts, they didn't want Liu Ji to go to the Qinglou to find those messy women. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

When Liu Ji returned to the camp, he immediately summoned all the generals under his command, and then told him about his trip to Quyang County and the agreement reached with the Geshan Zhao family, and all the generals had no opinion on going to Cangyuan City.

According to the strategy formulated by Liu Ji, Su Lie, and Le Yi when they were in the Yamawangling Cottage, after they entered Wanzhou, they had to expand the number of soldiers as much as possible along the way, and the way to expand the soldiers was to rely on clearing out some rogues and converting the prisoners of the rogues into soldiers.

Although there are more rogues in Cangyuan City now, but the Geshan Zhao family offers such a generous price, there is no reason not to agree, and rescuing Cangyuan City can also kill two birds with one stone.

Early the next morning, the southern gate of Quyang City was opened, and the soldiers under Zhao Hanzhi transported 10,000 taels of gold, 200 war horses, 100 iron armor, 300 leather armor, 200 seven-bucket bows and 30,000 arrows into Liu Ji's camp.

100 pieces of iron armor and 300 pieces of leather armor were immediately allocated to the foot soldiers by Liu Ji, so that the 400 archers under Liu Ji's command were also put on leather armor, and the number of soldiers wearing iron armor in the foot soldiers also reached 200 people, but the 100 new soldiers recruited from the disaster gathering area outside Quyang City were not assigned armor for the time being, and even weapons were not distributed.

After having dinner at noon, Liu Ji ordered the tents of the camp to be put away, and then set off for Cangyuan City, and at this time, the south gate of Quyang City opened again, and a team walked out of Quyang City, this team was the reinforcements sent by Quyang County to Cangyuan City.

This team of Quyang County has about 2,000 soldiers and horses, of which there are about 300 cavalry, and the rest are foot soldiers.

The team of Quyang County waited for the soldiers under Liu Ji to pack up their ropes before they took the lead and walked in front, while the team under Liu Ji followed closely behind the team of Quyang County.

"Killβ€”"

"Rushβ€”"

"Quick! Moving up in the world! Climb the city wall and take Cangyuan City! ”

Just when the reinforcements of Quyang County set off, in Cangyuan City, the county capital of Geshan County, Anhui Prefecture, a large number of rogues were storming the four walls of Cangyuan City at the same time, and under the walls of Cangyuan City on each side, there were already piles of corpses, and even a large number of corpses were piled up on the city walls.

An officer and army general in iron armor slashed to death a rogue soldier with a knife, and shouted loudly: "Knock down the rogue and plug the gap!" ”

"Follow General Mu to kill the rogueβ€”"

"Fight with the rogue, killβ€”"

In the evening, the officer and army general sat behind a battlement of the city wall with a tired face, and asked a captain next to him who also looked tired, "How about the other three city gates?" ”

"General, the direction of the main attack of the Liukou is at our east gate, and although the other three city gates have suffered great losses, they can still hold on, but we don't have many soldiers at the east gate."

"How many people are left at the East Gate?"

"General, there are less than 700 people, and many of them are strong men who have been recruited temporarily."

"Alas, in four days, almost 1,800 people have died at our east gate, and I don't know when reinforcements will come?"

"General, did you send someone to ask Taishou for some soldiers? We were left with these men guarding the east gate, and we were a little nervous. ”

"Then send someone to the Taishou Mansion to ask for help! However, Zhao Taishou should not be able to take out many people to support us, alas--Ge Peng's defeat is equivalent to removing seventy percent of the elite of our Cangyuan City, if there are no reinforcements, our Cangyuan City will not last long. ”

"General, at least 10,000 or 20,000 young men in the city can be gathered, how can Zhao Taishou not be able to bring someone to support?"

"You don't understand, now in Cangyuan City, it's not easy to recruit those young and strong men, alas-"

In the Taishou Mansion of Cangyuan City, the Taishou of Geshan County is also Zhao Mincheng, the head of the Zhao family of Geshan, and said to the 4 staff members under his command with a haggard face: "Just now, Mu Zhen, the partial general who guarded the east gate, sent someone to the Taishou Mansion to report that the east gate is tight, and the Taishou has already brought the newly recruited 500 strong men and 100 guards of the Taishou Mansion to Zhao Zhong to lead, and they all supported them to the east gate. ”

A staff member sighed and said: "My lord, the leader of the rogue Zhang Ding sent spies to spread rumors in the city, saying that breaking the city will only punish the family and the strong, and will not commit any crime to the ordinary people, but if we help us defend the city, it will affect the family, which makes it very difficult for us to recruit strong men, but we can't carry out forced conscription, otherwise it will cause a civil uprising, and the situation will be even worse, and we don't have soldiers to carry out the forced conscription now, and now we can only increase the reward of the strong men, maybe we can recruit more strong men." ”

The remaining 3 staff members looked at each other, and they didn't come up with other good ideas, Zhao Mincheng said helplessly: "Then increase the reward of the strong man, isn't it 5 taels of silver?" Immediately doubled, become 10 taels of silver, as long as you join the strong man, you will be rewarded with 10 taels of silver, and tell the other families in Cangyuan City that Cangyuan City is broken, and these families can't escape, let them gather all the men who can gather together here in Taishou Mansion to act as a reserve, no matter what, you must hold Cangyuan City!. ”

After a pause, Zhao Mincheng said again: "The people sent by Ben Taishou to contact Zhang Ding, the leader of the Liukou, have not returned, it seems that there is more luck and less luck, and that Zhang Ding is determined to break Cangyuan City!" Now there is no other way but to defend it, I just hope that the reinforcements can arrive as soon as possible, and other places are not sure, but the reinforcements from Quyang County and Lingcheng County will definitely arrive! ”

In the Liukou camp in the east outside Cangyuan City, Zhang Ding, the dragon of Qingtianlong, slapped one of his generals a few times, "Waste! After attacking for four days and losing more than 8,000 erlangs, but still not breaking through the walls of Cangyuan City, how many sons do you say you have to lose to break through Cangyuan City? ”

This rogue general was slapped several times by Zhang Ding, and the corners of his mouth were bleeding, but the rogue general did not reach out to wipe it, "Great commander, Cangyuan City is the county government, the city wall is too high, and the city gates on all sides are blocked by the officials and soldiers, our sons can only rely on the ladder to climb the city wall, which is such a big loss, but the loss of the officials and troops in the city in the past four days is not small, as long as this attack intensity is maintained, the subordinates will be able to break through Cangyuan City in another 3 days!" ”

"Hmph-tomorrow send people from the rear camp to attack the city, and if you attack like this for three more days, Lao Tzu will have to lose at least thousands of soldiers!"

The rogue general was shocked: "Great commander, the rear camp is full of old and weak women and children, isn't it sent to death if they let them attack the city?" Give your subordinates three more days...... No! Give your subordinates two more days, and your subordinates will definitely help the Grand Commander take Cangyuan City! ”

Zhang Ding waved his hand and said: "Needless to say, Lao Tzu has already decided, tomorrow he will send people from the rear battalion to attack the city and consume the strength of the defenders of Cangyuan City." ”

The rogue general sighed secretly and said, "Grand Commander, then let your subordinates take their sons and daughters to cooperate with the rear camp to attack the city?" β€œ

Zhang Ding said impatiently: "Let's talk about it tomorrow depending on the situation!" ”