(First update.) ）

The reason why Jianzhou City, that is, the county seat of Pu'an, can become a fortress in the north of Liangchuan is that in addition to the natural danger of the Sword Pavilion in front of it, the location of the city itself and the terrain around the city are all important reasons.

The three armies of Hengchong, Longxiang, and Huwei all arrived at the foot of Jianzhou City and surrounded the city, it was already the afternoon of the same day. Prior to this, the soldiers of the three armies had spent a lot of time burying the river in front of the city and diverting it to other places. Otherwise, the three armies would not have been able to spread out in front of the city.

In the evening, the three armies began to attack the city.

Before the siege of the city, Li Congjing made another arrangement for Wang Hui's department in the back mountain, and he placed the Feiyun Army and the Hundred Battles Army on the two wings of the siege army to contain the former and prevent it from attacking from the side.

The layout of Jianzhou City is that Yacheng is built in front of it according to the back mountain, so Wang Hui's department in the back mountain can not only enter the city to defend the city, but also go out of the city to attack and disturb the besieging army, and when the war is unfavorable, it can also retreat according to this.

However, Li Congjing only needs to guard against Wang Hui's challenge from going out of the city, not from him escaping—which is what he wants. As for Wang Hui's attack out of the city, although Li Congjing said that he had to take precautions, he was not afraid at all, whether it was a field battle or otherwise, Li Congjing had a full grasp of the combat strength of the forbidden army.

The siege battle began in the evening, and the onslaught overnight did not stop for a moment - this is the advantage of the superiority of troops, the soldiers of the three armies can use wheel tactics to take turns to attack the city and take turns to rest, so that Jianzhou City can not breathe for a moment.

The news of the battle in Jianzhou was reported to Chengdu three times a day, Li Zhao's army was defeated, and the army was forced to return to the defense city, Meng Zhixiang knew it that night.

He was shocked after reading the war report, and summoned his staff and generals overnight to discuss the battle in Jianzhou.

The staff and generals all expressed great concern that if the river bridge was lost, Wang Shi would undoubtedly carry out a siege battle, which was like a big stone already hanging overhead, and it was only a matter of time before it fell.

After listening to the gossip of the staff and generals, Meng Zhixiang, who was in a high position, did not say a word and did not show any emotion.

Su Yuan pondered for a long time, and after everyone had spoken, he slowly spoke, and said to Meng Zhixiang: "Although Li Zhao has a small defeat, the situation in Jianzhou may not really be out of control. The city of Jianzhou is small, but the city defense is strong, the fortifications are complete, and the town can be weighed. The city is small, the battle line is small, and there are more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Jianzhou, even if the Tang army is several times the strength, it cannot be deployed, and it is impossible to give full play to the advantages of troops, so the city of Jianzhou is not easy to break - this is the same as Suizhou is difficult to break. ”

Meng Zhixiang nodded and motioned for Su Yuan to continue.

Su Yuan continued: "Li Congjing's labor expedition is very inconvenient for grain and grass transportation. Its military rations are used, or transported from Luoyang, or requisitioned from Guanyou, the former has a huge cost on the road, and the latter is difficult to bear through Guanyou, and no matter what method it uses, it must pass through the Sword Pavilion, which is bound to greatly increase the difficulty and loss of transportation. In this way, Li Congjing's attack on Jianzhou must seek a quick victory, once the war lasts for a long time, the loss of grain and grass is too large to the point that the grain and grass are insufficient, or the heavens are angry and resentful, and the accidents will change in vain, which is extremely unfavorable to him. ”

Su Yuan glanced at Meng Zhixiang and continued: "In this way, Jianzhou only needs to hold on for a while, and Li Congjing's successor is weak, so he will definitely collapse without a fight, and the siege of Jianzhou will be solved." ”

"That makes sense!" Su Yuan can recognize this situation, how can Meng Zhixiang not understand? He didn't say it, he wanted someone to say it for him, so the effect would be better, and when he saw that the people's hearts had been decided, he said: "Jianzhou is an important town, and it is not a problem to stick to it for more than a month." As long as the two rivers work together, Li Congjing will definitely return. The top priority is to contact Li Shaobin, and we will work together to take Suizhou and Hezhou first, remove these two thorns in the eye, so that Li Congjing has nothing to echo, and he will naturally retreat in the face of difficulties! ”

When everyone heard this, they all praised the handsome and wise.

It was late at night, Li Congjing was handling military affairs in the tent, outside the camp, the battle in Jianzhou City was tight, and the sound of the battle was like summer thunder.

Xie Yuwan, Zhu Xuan and other military affairs officers came to report on the dispatch of military rations.

"The grain and grass carried by the baggage battalion of the army are enough for the army for half a month; The follow-up grain and grass were transported through Chen Cangzheng, and the first batch of grain and grass of 5,000 stone has arrived at Yongding Pass, and will be transported to Daying in a few days; The latest dispatch of the imperial court for a batch of Wanshi military rations has arrived in Chencang three days ago. Chen Cang's current grain stock is enough for the front-line army in April. Xie Yuwan spread out a booklet in his hand and read it from the book. After closing the booklet, he concluded: "The half-load of military rations originally prepared is expected to arrive in Chencang in a month. ”

100 stone military rations are enough for 10,000 troops for a day, and 10,000 stone military rations can support tens of thousands of troops for half a month. Of course, other supplies such as meat and medicine should be counted separately.

On the road from Chencang to Jianzhou, batches of military grain, like flowing water, are constantly being transported to Beishan, and in more places, countless grain and grass streams are flowing into the big lake of Chencang. The transportation of grain and grass, like a river, is a continuous process. The so-called grain route means this, so once the grain route is destroyed, it is not difficult to imagine the extent of the disaster.

Thanks to the peace and tranquility of the empire in recent years, the common people have their fields, the grain output has increased greatly, and the granary can be so full.

At this time, Meng Ping opened the curtain and entered the tent, sat behind a desk in the tent, poured a bowl of water and poured it on his head.

After talking to Xie Yuwan, Zhu Ying and the others, Li Congjing turned his head and asked Meng Ping, "How is the war?" ”

Meng Ping put down the bowl and wiped his mouth, "In another half an hour, the Rampage Army should be replaced by the Long Xiang Army, it is estimated that before this, it will be difficult for the Rampage Army to gain a firm foothold in the city." ”

"Oh?" Li Congjing raised his brows slightly, obviously a little surprised by this answer.

"The city gate was knocked many times, but it failed to break through, but the city wall collapsed for a while, and it was blocked by the wooden female wall of the thieves, and it was not able to kill it." Meng Ping said hesitantly, "Gao Xingzhou is losing his temper, good guy, he is thunderous, those generals under his command were scolded by him one by one!" This guy finally grabbed the vanguard, but he failed to take the city as he wished, and it is no wonder that he was angry. ”

"It's near, so it's hard to break through this city tonight?" Li Congjing shook his head, a little dissatisfied.

If Meng Zhixiang knew, he thought that the important town that was as stable as Mount Tai and enough to hold on for more than a month, in Li Congjing's place, it would be very dissatisfied if he failed to take it overnight, and I don't know if he would vomit blood in anger.

"The rampage army was the first to become an army, and it was also the second brave in the forbidden army, Gao Xingzhou spent most of the day failing to take the city, and it was difficult for the Long Xiang army." Meng Ping was serious, and this was in line with Li Congjing's judgment that he couldn't take the city tonight, and he just said that the Rampage Army was the second brave in the forbidden army, not one of the best, which shows that he took it for granted that there was someone else in the first forbidden army.

As for which army this first is, it is self-evident in Meng Ping's opinion.

"By sunset tomorrow at the latest, we must take the head of the city and storm it." Li Congjing stood up and walked out of the tent, his tone unquestionable. There is a reason why he said this, he is not blindly strong, the forbidden army is strong, it is not just the soldiers who are brave, he defeated Li Zhao with a strong crossbow during the day, and took the river bridge without much effort, attacking Jianzhou City, and naturally it will not be without arrangement.

Meng Ping didn't agree with Li Congjing's words this time, in his opinion, it is not so simple to take the city, unless

Sure enough, Li Congjing turned his head, looked at Meng Ping, and said: "If after noon tomorrow, the Tiger Guard Army does not break the city, you will switch positions with the Hengchong Army, and Gao Xingzhou will guard against Wang Hui, and you will lead the Hundred Battles Army to take the city for Lonely!" ”

Meng Ping suddenly smiled, "The last general will take the order!" ”

In front of the tent, Li Congjing looked at the head of the city of Jianzhou, "After taking the head of the city, there will be a tragic street battle, and your department must be prepared." The situation of Suizhou and Hezhou is not optimistic, the Northern Route Army cannot delay in Jianzhou for too long, once it cannot capture Jianzhou City within a few days, it will have follow-up reinforcements to arrive, and the war period will be greatly extended. Only to quickly take Jianzhou, the right wing out of Longzhou, through Maozhou, overlooking Chengdu, the left wing to recapture Langzhou, Guozhou, support Suizhou, the Chinese military can go straight to Mianzhou, the army under the city of Zizhou! ”

Around dawn the next day, the Tiger Guards replaced the Longxiang Army and continued to storm the head of Jianzhou City. The two armies fought fiercely for half a day, and the Tiger Guards attacked the city many times, but the Liangchuan soldiers were also very brave, and the Tiger Guards failed to continue to expand the results of the battle and took the city.

At noon, Meng Ping came to Wang Sitong, the commander of the Tiger Guard, and said with a slightly hippie smile: "General Wang, the time has come, and your troops should rest." ”

Wang Sitong's face turned red, glared at Meng Ping, but after all, he didn't say a word, and ordered the Tiger Guards to retreat.

Although the order was issued, Wang Sitong did not leave immediately, but crossed his arms and asked Meng Ping, "What tactics does the Hundred Battles Army have to break through the city?" ”

Meng Ping put on his hood and rode away, "General Wang is looking at it!" ”

Before that, the army of the Hundred Battles began to attack the city.

Unlike the three armies of Hengchong, Longxiang, and Huwei, the Hundred Battles Army did not move the three armies in unison, and launched an offensive against the city gate, the city head and other places together.

Meng Ping concentrated the catapults of the whole army and first bombarded the city for half an hour.

On the head of the city of Jianzhou, a huge curtain was erected to prevent boulders from hurting the city. Meng Ping didn't care about this, the catapults of the Hundred Battles Army were not aimed at the head of the city, but at the city wall.

The city of Jianzhou is small, and the thickness of the city wall is limited, and in less than half an hour, he collapsed two more city walls.

After the Shu soldiers pushed out the wooden girl wall to block the collapsed city wall, Meng Ping ordered the winch crossbow that had already been ready to go, bring a fire oil cloth, and shoot at the wooden girl wall. Repeatedly, the wooden female wall was also seriously damaged.

Then, the army of the Hundred Battles began to attack the city.

At the beginning of the Wu, Meng Ping sent a fierce general to lead hundreds of trappers into battle.

Jianzhou City has been attacked by the Rampage Army, the Longxiang Army, and the Tiger Guard Army in turn, and has been hit and destroyed.

Among the Hundred Battles Army, the three generals who led the trappers to charge were Yang Chongba, An Chongrong, and Zhao Hongyin.

The three of them are also brave in the Hundred Battles Army, especially Yang Chongba, who is good at double hammering and is often invincible. The three of them led the warriors, followed the army, holding their shields close to the city wall, and divided into three groups, Yang Chongba climbed the ladder, An Chongrong and Zhao Hongyin ran towards the gap in the city wall.

The ladder that Yang Chongba climbed is not an ordinary wooden ladder, but a ladder car with a carriage higher than a person's head, a four-wheeled carriage under the carriage, and a ladder with a stable body of the ladder.

There are not only ladder carts, but also all kinds of boxcars and nest carts in the siege army, as many as dozens, densely leaning in front of the city wall, like a ship full of horses' heads. Especially the nest car is tall, more than three zhang are just ordinary, from the nest car to build a horizontal board, you can directly lean on the city, the armor from the top of the run, into the city is not difficult.

Jianzhou City is not a majestic city like Chang'an, Luoyang, and Youzhou, just a city of three miles, where can the city wall go?

It was precisely because of the large number of behemoths that the soldiers could easily capture the city, and Li Congjing had the confidence to take the city in ten days.

Of course, the source of Li Congjing's confidence is not limited to this.

Yang Chongba climbed the ladder that was tightly attached to the city wall, pinned his double hammer to his waist, held a horizontal knife in his mouth, and held a hook and sickle longer than a spear in his right hand. The Shu soldiers on the head of the city were densely packed, constantly pouring sharp arrows down, Yang Chongba ignored them, and the sharp arrows hit the iron armor, banging, but they could barely penetrate the armor. In addition, the arrows carry a powerful way, which can hinder the pace of the climbing sergeant, but for a fierce general like Yang Chongba, this bit of strength is equivalent to nothing.

The Shu soldiers on the city wall saw that Yang Chongba was so brave, and immediately a sergeant raised the thunder stone and was about to smash it down, Yang Chongba looked up and saw it, but he had no intention of retreating, and the movements on his hands and feet did not slow down by half a minute. Seeing that the sergeant was about to smash down the thunder stone, suddenly a burst of sharp arrows flew up from under the ladder, shooting the Shu soldier into a hedgehog, and the thunder stone raised above his head could not be thrown down, but he lost his strength and hit himself.

Immediately afterwards, a wave of hot iron was poured down, Yang Chongba's eyes were cold, he grabbed the ladder with one hand, turned his body to a side, and hung on the side of the ladder, and the molten iron poured down from his side, and he narrowly avoided it. It is also a loss that he is under the ladder car, if it is an ordinary ladder, he acts like this, he must call the ladder to overturn. In an instant, Yang Chongba turned around and went up again.

He was already close to the head of the city, and the Shu soldiers on the head of the city stretched out their bayonet guns, wanting to poke Yang Chongba down, Yang Chongba raised the hook and sickle to block it, and took another step forward, and the hook and sickle hooked the back of the Shu soldier's neck, and with force, he pulled the panicked Shu soldier out of the city.

After solving this Shu soldier, Yang Chongba changed the hook to a thorn, and the Shu soldier who made up for the city head was either stabbed or forced away, and at the same time his footsteps did not stop, and finally, he put his left hand on the city head, and his body followed the wall.

When he went up the wall, two Shu soldiers on the left and right, one with a spear to stab him, and the other with a horizontal knife to cut off his hand at the head of the city.