Chapter 203: Wuxi Fights Strict Public Opinion
Tao Ying led his troops to Wuxi City, which was a very small county town at this time, and he was not much different from Suzhou City, but the city wall was much shorter than Suzhou City.
At this time, the south was still a barren land, and there were very few county towns in Suzhou, and a large area of land was idle and overgrown with wild grass. This Wuxi is not as prosperous as Wuxi in later generations, Wuxi has a population of less than 10,000 people, and compared with the north, Wuxi is more like a small town.
But Tao Ying knew the value of these places, and although the maritime trade had not yet begun, if the crowded population from the north could be sent to Suzhou and Wuxi for a generation, it would inevitably turn the wasteland of Suzhou into fertile land. In addition to the criss-crossing rivers, how can such convenient transportation not make people applaud?
Seeing Xu Sheng, Xu Sheng lowered his head a little ashamedly.
Inside the barracks, the rainy days in the south had passed, and the air was filled with the smell of earth. Tao Ying's table was full of food, and the soldiers came over to pour wine.
Xu Sheng walked to the middle of the tent and said, "Big brother, I'm incompetent, beg big brother to punish me!" ”
Tao Ying shook his head, let Xu Sheng get up and said: "Second brother, everything is providential, don't blame yourself too much, second brother, let's talk about the situation in Wuxi City." ”
Zang Ba sat at the table, if it weren't for Xu Sheng being Tao Ying's second brother, Zang Ba would have pushed him out and beheaded him a long time ago. Everyone completed the task so smoothly, but he neglected the morale of the army and affected the morale.
"Big brother, I've seen that Yan Yu in the town, although this person has some skills, he is not my opponent. However, he has one of his men who is extremely brave, and I can't fight. I wanted to besiege the city with a large number of people, but the general was killed again, and the soldiers couldn't resist it! ”
Xu Sheng said while regretting that he shouldn't have asked for orders to attack Wuxi City in the first place. How good it is to be like the third brother, he went to attack Piling, but before he got to the place, the county order scared away.
As soon as I heard that there were cattle people here to help, I counted with my fingers, and it was true that the six counties of Dongwu were full of talents, so what kind of gods did you encounter?
In the barracks, he couldn't think of it, so Tao Ying prepared to lead the troops to see what was going on in person. In Wuxi City, hearing that Tao Ying's army had returned, Yan Yu hurriedly asked people to defend the city. Yan Yu has 5,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, Xu Sheng has been surrounding him for nearly half a month, and in this half month, Yan Yu's generals led the troops out to fight for food several times, which caused the surrounding people to be resentful.
Tao Ying came outside the city, because he came to inspect the situation, so Tao Ying only brought less than 500 soldiers and horses. Seeing that Tao Ying only had 500 soldiers and horses in the city, and saw Tao Ying's outfit, the city gate suddenly opened, and nearly 100 cavalry were killed from the city.
Seeing that a general had been killed, the people around persuaded Tao Ying to retreat quickly and return to the camp first. I don't want Tao Ying to see that person from afar, but he feels so familiar!
So Tao Ying stopped the people, and Zang Ba here hurriedly led the army to stand up to protect Tao Ying. When he got closer, Tao Ying suddenly shouted: "The person who came is Zhou Tai, it is Zhou Tai who escaped, and this person is the one who chased Zang Taishou in the grove that day!" ”
Hearing someone on the other side shouting his name, Zhou Tai sneered at the corner of his mouth, and without saying much, he went directly to Tao Ying. In the panic, Zhou Tai directly killed Tao Ying, Zang Ba hurriedly brandished his weapon and came to fight Zhou Tai, the two hell demon armies covered Tao Ying and walked back, and the rest of the military horses fought with Zhou Tai's soldiers and horses.
100 people against 500 people, I don't know where Zhou Tai's confidence comes from, is it because he can beat Xu Sheng? The two armies fought on the battlefield for less than half a pillar of incense, and Zhou Tai found that what he encountered this time was not a persimmon that was easy to pinch, but a difficult stone!
Because he fought Zang Ba, the two of them fought for so long, and they couldn't defeat Zang Ba. Moreover, the hundred elite soldiers he brought out, after encountering Tao Ying's military horse, half a pillar of incense's kung fu was killed.
It's not that Tao Ying's soldiers and horses are so powerful, but that the nearly forty people led by them are too powerful, some of them are wearing white armor, some are wearing black armor, and they are like black and white impermanence, and they have no power to parry the soldiers and horses they kill. The other cavalry quickly cut off their back roads, and Zhou Tai wanted to go, but he couldn't leave, and if he didn't go, he was surrounded by people again.
Just when everyone was about to poison Zhou Tai, Tao Ying suddenly shouted: "Don't hurt him, capture him alive and reward him with a hundred taels of silver!" "As soon as I heard the reward of one hundred taels of silver, the people around me instantly exploded in combat effectiveness, one hundred taels, this is enough for a family to eat for a lifetime!
The people around him became more and more courageous, Zhou Tai was stabbed a few times, blood flowed out, and the war horse was stabbed a few times by Tianwei Jun, if it weren't for his war horse being a BMW, he would have been poked to death a long time ago.
Seeing that Zhou Tai had lost, the city hurriedly led nearly a thousand men and horses to support. The drawbridge was opened again, more than 1,000 people were killed, Zang Ba was afraid that Tao Ying would lose, so he hurriedly lost Zhou Tai and escorted Tao Ying towards his camp.
After returning to the barracks, Tao Ying couldn't help but sigh, and almost caught Zhou Tai, why did he let him run away again? What a great opportunity, I missed it, and it won't be so easy to catch him next time.
Zang Ba persuaded beside him: "Don't worry, the lord has a deep friendship with Jiang Qin, it is better to call Jiang Qin and let Jiang Qin surrender to him!" ”
When Tao Ying heard it, it was also, it seemed that Jiang Qin had said that he was going to surrender to him when he took refuge in himself, and he met Zhou Tai here today, why didn't he recruit him? So Tao Ying hurriedly asked the envoy to take his letter and go to the Taihu Lake next to Suzhou to summon Jiang Qin.
Jiang Qin wants to come, it will take at least three days, and in these three days, the young Zhuge Liang has a plan. Tao Ying adopted Zhuge Liang's strategy, shot a bow and arrow from a letter of persuasion, and entered the city.
The letter was written by Tao Ying to Zhou Tai, saying that Wuxi is now short of food, and it is a matter of time before the city is broken. Zhou Tai has good skills, and he does not take refuge in the second son of Xuzhou, but mixes with people like Yan Yu, which is simply a tyrannical thing!
Moreover, Zhou Tai can't get much official position here in Yan Yu, so it is better to kill Yan Yu and then go out of the city and surrender, at that time, Tao Ying will make him a partial general and the captain of his own personal guard.
In order to express his sincerity, Tao Ying also told Zhou Tai about Jiang Qin, and after writing on the paper that Jiang Qin took refuge in himself, Tao Ying named him the commander of Taihu Lake and the commander of Yangxian County.
The letter was shot at 10 o'clock in the middle of the night and went to the city wall, and after the soldiers picked up the letter, they hurriedly reported it to Yan Yu. Yan Yu was furious after reading the letter, this Tao Ying actually separated Zhou Tai, but after thinking about it carefully, it seems that Yan Yu was moved by such tempting conditions!
Therefore, Yan Yu was a little suspicious of Zhou Tailai, and every time Zhou Tai asked to leave the station in the past two days, Yan Yu was not allowed. Seeing that Yan Yu didn't trust himself very much, Zhou Tai was a little depressed in his heart, and he only cared about drinking alone at night.