Ding Feng was too lazy to perfunctory these things, but Bailichuan was quite interested.

According to what he had discussed before, he took out an official document from his sleeve and showed it to the envoy of the Liyang Army.

"You see, the order of the Grand Governor is for us to guard the area around Liyang, and be ready to meet the reinforcements of Qingxu at any time."

Liyang had known about this for a long time through their intelligence system.

The envoy from Liyang obviously recited his words earlier, and said indignantly, "My Liyang army has always been loyal and has never dared to betray. I don't know what the meaning of the Metropolitan Governor's unauthorized writing is? When we see Sun Jiangdong in the future, we will definitely plead our case, and when the time comes, Sun Jiangdong will definitely take most of you for questioning. ”

When Bailichuan heard this, he cut off, "Don't come to this set, if Sun Jiangdong hadn't ordered us to come to Liyang, who would have bothered to take care of you?" What are we here for, don't you have any points in your own minds? ”

The Liyang Army's intentions for the Eastern Route Army have long been judged.

This time, Sun Quan is bound to win, of course, he has the intention of taking Liyang City, but the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and the Jiangdong Army may not be able to take advantage of Hefei City.

Once the Jiangdong Army was defeated and retreated to the south of the Yangtze River, then the status of Liyang City became important again.

When the time comes, Sun Quan will not have time to win them over, where will he dare to ask for the guilt.

For the Liyang Army, the most important thing now is to drag out time.

The envoy didn't dwell too much on the intention of Jiangdong Army's arrival, and he simply asked neatly, "Then I don't know, what are you going to do?" ”

Bailichuan smiled, came up without a straight shape, took the messenger's arm and said, "Your Liyang City is hard to break, and the soldiers and horses in my hands are not vegetarians." Neither of us can help anyone, why don't we just wait here and see what the result is under the city of Hefei. ”

The envoy's heart moved, this was exactly the result that the Liyang Army was expecting, but he still asked with a pretended hesitation on his face, "General, what do you mean by this?" ”

Bailichuan said with a grin, "We don't say dark words in front of the Ming people, although I can take down your Liyang City." But if the Jiangdong Army suffers a loss under the city of Hefei, Lao Tzu will have to invite you back with a good voice and continue to guard the border city north of the river. Otherwise, why should I bother? It's better to wait for the war on the front line to come to an end, and then come and fight you. ”

When the messenger heard this, he was secretly happy in his heart, and he asked in a whisper, "If this is the case, is this the general's own idea, or is it the intention of the Grand Governor?" ”

Bailichuan laughed, "Of course it's what the Metropolitan Governor meant." ”

As he spoke, he took out a document from behind his waist, "This is a secret letter from the Governor of the Metropolitan to me, so I will simply show you it." ”

The envoy unfolded the secret letter in disbelief, and what was written on it was really to ask Sima Bailichuan, the other part of the front line, to control the rhythm of the army, and not to attack the city without authorization, so as not to suffer losses in vain, and everything was based on preserving strength.

The seal below is fully signed and obviously not forged.

The envoy thought slightly, the other Sima was only half a level lower than their Liyang Commander, and according to the previous information, he was already one of the best people in this Relief Camp.

The letter is powerful.

However, the envoy had always been cautious, and he asked tentatively, "Most of you governors are so disobedient to the yang and yin, aren't you afraid that Sun Jiangdong will trouble you?" ”

Bailichuan said nonchalantly, "Anyway, we have a large army to trap Liyang City, not to mention the elite soldiers of our Eastern Route Army, there are two thousand cavalry alone, are you still running?" If the wind is not right, we can force the siege at any time. Our men are mainly cavalry, good at field warfare, and the siege of the city is already difficult, and no one else can say any gossip. ”

The messenger nodded secretly when he heard this, and the defensive ability of the Annoying Battalion had already seen it. I didn't have to be able to penetrate the defense after spending so much effort before, and the Liyang army just suffered a loss last time, and it didn't have any strength in a short period of time, so there was no spare strength to fight again.

Defending the city to the point of attacking the city, this thing is enough to hurt.

Now that this was not necessarily a bad thing, they saw the dense horses on the walls of the city during the day.

With the confirmation of what Bailichuan said, it is not difficult to conclude that the troops and horses in front of them have much stronger field combat capabilities, and going out to attack the city is really a self-defeating thing.

The envoy saw that the other Sima who were besieging the city were so slack, and his heart relaxed a lot, "Then let's wait for the news from the front line." ”

Bailichuan said half-jokingly, "Okay, if Lao Tzu wants to attack the city at that time, don't blame Lao Tzu for turning his face and not recognizing people!" ”

After the envoy went back, he told Feng Yi and Wang Zhi and others everything about the matter.

Feng Yi discussed with Wang Zhi and others for a while, and agreed that what this kid said was quite sincere!

Because the current situation is that the people in the city can't get out, and the people outside the city can't get in.

Feng Yi simply ignored the matter anymore, and only waited patiently for Hefei's victory or defeat.

Feng Yi was stabilized by Ma Zhong with a delaying tactic, and then, Ma Zhong launched a crazy onslaught on the townships and towns around Liyang.

In ancient times, transportation was inconvenient, and the common people depended on the land to live, so they could only form clusters of settlements around each piece of land.

These Wubao villages are not large, but there are quite a few of them.

Liyang is composed of displaced people gathered in various places along the river when Cao Cao forcibly wanted to demolish, and there are three counties in the place, with 100,000 households.

Judging from Ma Zhong's judgment, 100,000 households may be exaggerated, but the total population is still 200,000 or 300,000.

In later generations, with a population of two or three hundred thousand, there was nothing to see at all, but in this era, Liyang was already a big county.

Ma Zhong has a population of more than 1,000 people, and it is still a little troublesome to control the population at 200,000 or 300,000 without relying on the support of local tyrants.

Fortunately, Ma Zhong has been planning for a long time, and he drove the local heroes into Liyang City early.

He spent a lot less effort on the capture of these villages.

In particular, those captured bed crossbows have become the most deadly weapons of mass destruction! How could those ordinary villages withstand such an onslaught?

Some villages that originally planned to die were shocked by the murderous weapons, so they could only obediently open the village and surrender.

Ma Zhong ordered his soldiers to loot the local Haoqiang without hesitation, but they did not commit any crime against those ordinary tenants.

After Ma Zhong plundered the materials, he took out the title deed of Haoqiang's family and distributed it to his soldiers in turn in front of all the troops.

At the same time, the tenants who were attached to the land were summoned and introduced to their new masters.

The soldiers rejoiced, and for a moment their morale was boosted.

Ma Zhong left the rewarded soldiers in the area, gave them weapons, and allowed them to unite with each other to protect themselves.

It also clarified the local household registration, and all those who have family members in Liyang City will be expropriated and distributed as military merits.

Those whose families have no one in Liyang City will be given a reward field, and strong men will be levied as soldiers to supplement the original shortage of the camp to solve the trouble.

(End of chapter)