Chapter 433: Chess meets opponents

The administrative division of Yanzhou, known as Fuzhou, has changed its administrative divisions many times over the ages. To the Song Dynasty, the four counties of Zhiluo, Luojiao, Luochuan and Jucheng were the prefectures, forming a barrier in the southwest of Yan'an Prefecture. Yan Yan all the way, put "Yanzhou" before "Yan'an", which shows its importance. It is no exaggeration to say that if Yanzhou is lost, Yan'an will be in danger. Because of the dangerous terrain of Dunzhou, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, especially in Luojiao County, where the government of Yanzhou Prefecture is located, although the scale of the city is not as grand as that of Yan'an. However, because of its important strategic location, after the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, it was renovated many times. It has formed a complete defense system with high walls and thick walls, supplemented by corner towers, enemy towers, horse faces, urn cities, and moats. It can be said that although the sparrow is small, it has all kinds of organs.

Attacking such a city is a headache for everyone who leads troops. But in Wang Yu's view, this is not the case. He thinks that he has a certain amount of research on the planning and construction of all the cities in the Great Song Dynasty, and there is no city in the world that cannot be broken. This time, Xu Wei didn't give him many troops, but fortunately, the equipment was sharp, especially the firearms were sufficient. In addition, most of the soldiers and horses in Yanzhou went to aid Yan'an, so he was completely sure of taking this important place.

After Ma Wu led his army north, he led his troops across the Fanghu border. The people who were deeply exploited by the Beiyi naturally greeted each other and suffered from the fall. This strengthened the determination of the soldiers to recover Dunzhou, and Wang Zhengchen himself was determined to win. Although he didn't say it explicitly, he decided in his heart that within five days, he would swear to break the city

On the tenth day of September, the city of Juzhou.

After Ma Wu left, Juzhou was already under martial law. The Jurchens did not care how severely martial law would affect the lives of the common people, and they did not have this concept, so everything made way for war. At the head of the city, soldiers with guns and bows come and go, and mountains of rolling stones can be seen everywhere. Everywhere the gates and drawbridges were hung high, and all entry and exit were forbidden. Jin Jun may still wrap himself in an iron bucket for the first time.

After a change of guard, the soldiers who had been standing at the head of the city all day rested. The newcomers inspected the equipment under the command of the officer and took over the post. After counting the number of instruments in several Jurchen soldiers wearing fur hats, they went to their respective posts and chatted with their companions. It is nothing more than that after the summer harvest, the food is getting worse and worse, and it is said that it is because there is no war. However, the sergeants privately rumored that the real reason was actually the destruction of the wheat harvest by the Song army, and it was impossible for the grain collected in Shaanxi today to be eaten during next year's summer harvest.

These few were scolding their mothers, and suddenly their companions in the city were agitated. A person looked south, only to see that at the end of the post road in front of the city, a black shadow appeared, dense, and it was not real. But the experienced Jurchen warriors knew what it was, and immediately there was a lot of discussion. The commander on duty immediately reported the news back to the city

Finally, the black shadow moved towards the city of Yanzhou, and the closer the distance, the more distinct it became. It was a large army winding up the post road, stretching back and forth for an unknown time, and there was no end in sight. The soldiers have legends that the Song army of Yanfang Prefecture came to seize the city

Hurried and dense footsteps reinforced, and the troops at the head of the city were all dispatched, pouring from the streets to the walls. The people avoided it and retreated home, not daring to show their faces again.

"Hurry up the Western Army, go to the city"

The anxious shouts of the officers came and went, and the soldiers rushed into the city. At a glance, the Song army was already two miles away, and the formation was gradually lined up. The crowd of people was all over the mountains, and the noise was clearly audible. The experienced ones don't care about the number of Song soldiers, but go to see the equipment. When they saw the goose cart flying bridge and other objects standing in the crowd of the other party, they knew that the other party had been thinking about the city of Yanzhou for more than a day or two.

Among the ten thousand troops, Wang Yu was dressed in military uniform, straddling a war horse, and looked at the city accompanied by Zhang Qing. After a long time, he said in a deep voice: "If this battle is won, within three or two years, the entire territory of Shaanxi should be recovered." ”

Zhang Qing pointed the horsewhip in his hand and said loudly: "Let's not talk about the distance, it is important to take the city." ”

Wang Yu smiled, and looked at the city of Yanzhou not far away, as if looking at something in a bag. Then a military order was issued to besiege the southwest two sides of the city, and the siege of the city began today

When the battle of Dunzhou began, Xu Wei just broke through Danzhou City. The broken city is really not worth an attack, and the city defense will be broken in less than half a day, and before dusk, the enemy who resists stubbornly has been cleared. In the words of the era in which Xu Wei originally lived, the destruction of Danzhou City was a move that directly approached Yan'an's psychological defense line. Unless Lou Su sees through the intention, he should heat the ants on the pot and the frogs in the boiling water at this moment.

Lou Su naturally hasn't seen through it yet, but he is not in a hurry. Han Chang brought more than 10,000 men from the security army and was in full swing to strengthen the city's defenses. The worst is that there is no problem in holding out until Ma Wu comes to help. Although Xiao Tzu brought back the news that Yelu Ma was stationed in Ganquan and would not go north for the time being, Lou Su was very annoyed. But he knew in his heart that once the offensive and defensive battle of Yan'an began, Ma Wu had to come, unless he had two hearts.

Danzhou City

This small city can only be described as dilapidated, Danzhou is already small, and there are only one county and two towns in the whole state. After several wars, the walls collapsed, the houses were damaged, and the people in the city were less than 100 households.

Xu Weizheng took several soldiers to visit people's homes, came to a house facing the street, and saw an old woman sitting at the door of the house. Leaning against the door frame, he was indifferently watching the sergeants coming and going in the street. When Xu Wei walked in front of her, she just raised her head to look, and there was no trace of vitality in her cloudy eyes.

"Get up," shouted the soldier when he saw her so rude.

Xu Wei stopped him with a whip, squatted down in front of the old woman, and asked, "Old man, I see that most of the people in this city are closed and hidden in their houses. Aren't you afraid? ”

"The soil is buried under the nose, what is there to be afraid of? Jin Bing didn't treat my wife and son, could it be that the official army will harm me? "The old woman is estimated to be over the age of six, full of silver threads, and only wrapped in a cloth. The clothes on the body are no longer shabby, they are too bad to be a rag. Her skin was like the bark of a dead tree, wrinkled and dark, earthy. Xu Wei noticed that the autumn was cool, and she was still wearing only a single dress.

"How many people are in the family? After the Jin army occupied the city, what did you live on? Xu Wei asked again.

The old woman didn't answer, and Xu Wei's soldiers saw this and reprimanded: "The marshal asked you, why didn't you answer?" You mother-in-law is so rude."

I don't know if she was impatient, or the sentence "handsome" scared her, the old woman stood up slowly, went inside, and after crossing the threshold, she actually covered the broken door.

"Hey, this old lady"

"Well, I think they have a hard time. Later, a notice will be drawn up to let the people left behind in Danzhou be able to provide convenience to those who are willing to go to Chang'an Yaozhou and other places. Xu Wei said.

"Yes." As soon as the soldier finished speaking, he suddenly saw Li Guan, who was known for "not doing his job" in the army, coming over, so he reminded the commander.

Li Guan's men and horses were still not established in the army, and he himself was only a name, and on the surface it seemed that there was no actual dispatch. Many people don't understand, why does the marshal take him with him almost every time he goes out? Xu Wei once said that Li Guan and his subordinates are the eyes and ears of the whole army. In the past few years, it has also been thanks to Li Guan's intentions, not to mention Xu Wei's meticulous spies all over Shaanxi, at least, in the occupied areas, there are people at the prefecture level. And these people are not going to go and returning, but have been lurking for a long time. And the identities are different, some are in the army, some are in the yamen, and some are even in business. These people were not all sent by Li Guan, and some of them were absorbed locally.

Their identities are only known to two people, one is Xu Wei and the other is Li Guan. Because of this, Xu Wei often knows his opponent in great detail. Compared with this, the emptiness of Yan'an's defense is the tone released by a certain Yuan Zhang Shen's subordinates. And Wanyanhuo female commander of the Guanzhong Plain, and with the help of Tiefutu, she was bought by the fine work in Yan'an for a lot of money.

"Dashuai." Li Guan's image of a roe head rat often makes people look down on him. Xu Wei has always been glad to have gathered this talent, Li Guan's talent does not lie in his light body kung fu, nor in his pair of elusive double knives and hidden weapons. It's that this person has a lot of experience in the rivers and lakes, and he knows a lot of people from three religions and nine streams. And he is decisive and ruthless, and he is very valued by Xu Wei. Some generals in the army who don't know the truth have a lot of complaints about Li Guan's quality on an equal footing with them, but with Xu Wei's support, Li Guan has always stood still, and now he has just been promoted to the sixth grade.

Xu Wei glanced at him, nodded, and waved his whip, signaling that his soldiers did not have to follow. He and Li Guan left the street and turned into an alley.

"Things don't seem to be good." Li Guan's first sentence made Xu Wei stop. Turn away and listen to what he is saying.

"Despicable officials have sent spies everywhere in Yan'an, and earlier they found out that there were soldiers and horses stationed in Yanyan, and it is estimated that they came from the security army. And today, a large number of Jin troops have been detected coming from the south. ”

"There will be no one from the south, except Jeruma5. What, what's wrong? Xu Wei asked.

"The problem is that after this army went north, it has been stopped in Ganquan County, and after a few days, there has been no movement, neither advancing nor retreating." Li Guan replied.

Sweet Spring? The southernmost county of Yan'an is only two or three days away from Juzhou. There is no doubt that this is Ma Wu's troops, he stopped at Ganquan, did not advance or retreat, so what happened? Didn't you see through my intentions? This is really not good news, if Ma Wu garrisoned Ganquan to wait and see, once Wang Yu started to attack Dunzhou, he would be able to return to help in two days at the earliest. And in two days, no matter how powerful Wang Yu is, it is impossible to completely take down Dunzhou. And with Wang Yu's troops, if he divides his troops to block Ma Wu during the siege of the city, it is obviously inadequate......

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