Hearing what Meng Shan said, these heroes suddenly no one squeaked anymore. They were willing to surrender to the Jieyi Army and give up their position here, because they were forced to be helpless because they were not defeated by the Jieyi Army. However, to make them hand over all the family's former money and land is to ask them for their old lives, and they are naturally unwilling to do it.

You know, they can come this far, and they can become the local heroes here, but it has cost too much, and I don't know how much hard work and sweat they have paid. But if they let it out like this, none of them willingly.

In fact, Monsan also thought about surrendering, but he understood that the Jieyi army would not bypass their strong places. He knew very well how much money and goods he had accumulated, and he also understood what the purpose of the Jieyi Army was to take this place and collect the water bandits. It can be said that these heroes and strongmen are still mortal enemies with the righteous army. There can only be one side in between.

It can be seen from the fact that today's Jieyi Army's sailors can allow those water bandits to surrender, but they still want to kill all the Haoqiang's children, and it can be seen that the Jieyi Army will not accept their surrender at all. Even if they hand over all the money, food and land. Therefore, what Monsanto said before was just a wake-up call for them, letting them know that unless they hand over everything, unless they become penniless again.

"Since you are not willing to scatter all your possessions, let us not talk about the surrender again. Of course, if you are confident that you can convince the Rebels to accept you, you can also send someone to communicate with the Rebels. However, I also want to remind you that judging from the situation on the front line today, the rebel sailors in this section will kill our people. The people who didn't send it couldn't get in touch, but they became meat buns and beat dogs. Seeing that no one spoke, Meng Shan saw that the matter came to an end.

"Now we don't have as many troops as the other side, so the method of dividing the troops is not advisable. Don't forget, Yan Mingfeng, who gathered the four most powerful water bandit forces in our south, was defeated by the partial division of the Jieyi Army's water division by dividing the troops. Now that the rebels are scattered around us, they have the initiative, and the only way we can do now is to hold on to the city, hoping to wait for reinforcements to arrive. ”

"All of you go back and arrange your private soldiers, and now it's up to us to guard this place. If this place is breached by the Sailing Army, you will know better than me what the consequences will be. If you want to maintain your current position, if you want to keep your wealth, then give me all my strength. If the righteous army does not retreat, we will not have a good result. Everyone is now sitting in the same boat, the boat is broken, everyone wants to sink. Therefore, I hope that the army can work together to bring out its full strength. If anyone dares to do something at this time, I don't mind sweeping him away first. ”

In the next two days, none of the soldiers of the Sailing Division of the Jieyi Army launched an attack on Xishan Town, but the soldiers of the Jieyi Army had already launched an open operation against other villages except for Xishan Town. The heroes in Xishan Town could only watch the villages around Xishan Town being controlled by the Jieyi Army one after another. To the west, to the south, to the north and to the east, all the villages gradually fell into the hands of the Jie Yi army. Even the villages and towns closest to Xishan Town were conquered by the Jieyi Army, and the Jieyi Army directly approached the outside of Xishan Town.

Until the afternoon of the third day, Monsan, who had been extremely depressed for the past few days, received the news that the Jieyi Army had begun to move. What shocked Meng Shan and other heroes was that the Jieyi army came out from all sides, and outside each city gate, there were troops of the Jieyi army, and there were quite a few of them, on average, outside each city gate, there were three or four thousand Qi army soldiers. With such a ratio, it can be said that no matter which of the righteous soldiers outside the city gate, they are not much different from the defenders in the city. Seeing such a situation, Meng Shan and others felt even more pressured in their hearts.

"What do they want to do? I don't want to storm this place right away! Meng Shan looked at the approaching army on all sides and couldn't help but say in a deep voice. It was already evening, and it stands to reason that the rebels should have camped and rested, rather than attacking the city immediately.

You must know that although this Xishan Town is only a town, the city defense here is not simple. Otherwise, Meng Shan and the others would not dare to wait for help. The town wall is based on a stone, covered with blue bricks, rammed earth as the core, four zhang high, three zhang thick, 800 steps in circumference. Among them, there are also the contributions of Monsan and other heroes. In the past, when Monsan served as the captain of this place, there were many water bandits around, and in order to protect himself, Monsan started construction in the name of building a city defense and guarding against water bandits, and the construction was extremely strong.

"Probably not! Now that it's getting late, the rebels should camp and rest before they take action the next day! The head of the He family, who was beside Meng Shan, muttered to himself in a deep voice.

In fact, these powerful children are all very nervous at the moment. The sturdy walls here could not suppress the worries in their hearts at all. Even the shrewd heads of various clans are facing the attack of the army at this moment, their faces are pale and they are also very nervous. Where have they ever seen such a situation?

"It's a pity, if we have enough troops, we can send men and horses to attack out of the city when they approach!" Meng Shan looked at the approaching Jieyi soldiers, and couldn't help muttering to himself. The Jieyi army came out from all sides, but he thought that the Jieyi army came from the southeast, so Mengshan personally sat in the east and was responsible for the defense of the east city wall.

"Meng Xin, how many people have we gathered now?" Monsan asked the guards beside him in a deep voice.

"Hui Yu, the total number of private soldiers of all ethnic groups is more than 4,500, and in addition, all the young and strong people have been recruited from the city, about 3,000 people. At this moment, they are all evenly distributed on all sides. ”

Meng Shan nodded solemnly, but it didn't make him feel the slightest relaxation. looked outside the city, and couldn't let the Jieyi army approach the city without any action, and ordered the officers under his command to bring some strong bows and crossbows to the city wall on this side to suppress the opponent's approach. In Monsan's view, the other party's behavior at the moment is just putting pressure on the powerful in the city, and he will not really choose to do it now.

In fact, as Meng Shan expected, although it seems that the Jieyi army is on all sides, the main force and the direction of attack are placed in the east and south, and there are about 4,000 elite soldiers on each side on average. They are familiar not only with water warfare, but also with land warfare. On the north and west sides, there were only about 2,000 men on each side, and most of them were sailors. Of course, on these two sides, the Jieyi army arranged a lot of crossbowmen. Even if you don't use these two sides as the main direction of attack, you can still suppress the enemy army and prevent the enemy army in the city from escaping from here. If they choose to do so, the sailors of the Rebels will let them know how powerful the arrows and crossbows are.

However, the actions of the Jieyi Army were beyond the expectations of Meng Shan and others, and the Jieyi Army did not pause in the slightest, nor did it have the intention of camping and resting. After waiting for the baggage team in the rear to assemble the various equipment, the siege immediately began.

The Jieyi Army came from the Zhao Army, and naturally had his own set of methods for the dismantling and reorganization of various instruments. The crossbow and catapult were all dismantled by the Jieyi Army and reassembled near Xishan Town. Why didn't the rebels take action in the first two days? Just to get more catapults and bed crossbows.

At first, the rebels did not attack immediately, but built their proposed protective wall with sandbags outside the city wall to avoid too many casualties on their side due to the best bed crossbows on the city wall. After all, the opponent occupies a favorable position, and his own soldiers cannot use the giant shield to protect the soldiers behind for a long time. A protective wall with sandbags can not only protect your own soldiers, but also serve as a support for a bed crossbow. After all, a bed crossbow has to fire at a high wall, and it is naturally impossible to do without a stand.

In this operation, Li Qingping, the governor of the Jieyi Army, did not personally sit in the town, but dealt with the families of the surrounding water bandits and those who had been included in the Jieyi Army's sailor system in the rear. The sailors of the Jieyi Army have long made a decision to use Xishan Island, the largest island in the waters of Taihu Lake, as the station of the Jieyi Army's sailors in Taihu Lake, and also use this Xishan Island as the place under the rule of the Jieyi Army. Naturally, only the sailors could not be left here, and on this large island, the Jieyi army had to move in a large number of people.

Of course, the surrounding islands will not give up, where will become the outpost of the Jieyi army, and the Jieyi army will set up outpost sailor camps in those areas as a network to monitor the waters.

In addition, after the Jieyi Army took the first line of defense on Xishan Island and drove the army into Xishan Island, Hu Changshui's persuasion work suddenly became rapid, and in just two days, 134 small and medium-sized water bandits surrendered to the Jieyi Army's sailors. Of course, the reason why these bandits surrendered was not only because of the great victory of the Jieyi army, but also because they had no food to spare. Water bandits can't go hungry, can they? Therefore, after learning that the Jieyi Army had won and how Xishan Island used those water bandits who were attached to Xishan Island as death squads, these small and medium-sized water bandits could no longer hold on, and directly under Hu Changshui's persuasion, they began to surrender to the Jieyi Army's water division. They also understand now that in the future, this Xishan Island and the waters around Xishan Island will no longer be ruled by the Qi army, but by the sailors of the Jieyi Army.

In addition, after the sailors of the Jieyi Army are in charge here, the good days of these water bandits are over. As a big force that wants to rule a water area and has a well-established sailor force, they will not allow such an organization as a water bandit to exist around them. Therefore, if they do not surrender now, they will face a comprehensive blow from the sailors of the Jieyi Army in the future.

Therefore, those water bandits with limited strength had to think about the future and had to surrender to the sailors of the Jieyi Army. Of course, Hu Changshui also played a very important role in this, and all kinds of fraud threats came out, which made these water bandits directly frightened. The life of these bandits is also very embarrassing now, and it is no longer a merchant ship that comes to the outer waters, but has always been a warship of the Jieyi Army, even if there is a ship to transport supplies, it is also to transport supplies for the Jieyi Army's sailors, as well as the escort of the Jieyi Army's sailors' warships. Even if there was no warship escort from the sailors of the Jieyi Army, they would not dare to rob the supply ships of the Jieyi Army easily.

After these bandits learned that the Jieyi Army had landed, they already understood that the food and materials they wanted were only afraid that the heroes of Xishan Island would not be able to get them. How to rule here will be the Jieyi army, they originally needed the materials, only need to buy Xishan Island. But now, not only is there no way to loot passing merchant ships to obtain money, but also there is no way to buy food and daily necessities through Xishan Island. Then, there is only one way to surrender to the Jieyi army in front of them.

Although the large groups of water bandits have not yet surrendered, most of those small groups of water bandits have begun to surrender to the Jieyi army. And they will be selected by the Jieyi Army, and choose the right one for the army, whether it is the navy army or the army non-commissioned officers, they will first pick out the qualified ones, and the rest will be scattered by the Jieyi Army, and then arranged separately on Xishan Island to avoid them from recurring.

The reason why the Jieyi army had to choose the water bandits who could become soldiers first was because they were used to making a living as water bandits raiding passing merchant ships, so if they were completely put in place, there would definitely be some trouble. So, just put these guys in the army and train them to become qualified soldiers.

Now, Li Qingping is very busy, on Xishan Island, he began to divide places, set up villages, and reclaim farmland, so that these attached bandit families can settle down here. For this reason, Li Qingping even sent an order to Songjiang Prefecture, so that Songjiang Prefecture transported a lot of food and daily necessities here. In addition, some refugees have also been relocated to settle here.

Originally, the people on Xishan Island were still very panicked about the attack of the Jieyi Army's water division, and Monshan's propaganda to the people here was that the Jieyi Army was more hateful than the water bandits. However, after the Jieyi army took this place, the management methods implemented here were quickly welcomed by the people in these villages and towns.

Therefore, when the sailors of the Jieyi Army attacked Xishan Island, the Jieyi Army had already begun to gain the hearts of the people and began to take over the local area.

In Xishan Town, under Hu Le's military orders, the soldiers of Jieyi quickly piled up sandbags to remove three protective walls of almost one meter, with the soldiers and bed crossbows behind the first two protective walls, and the catapults behind the last protective wall. The last protective wall is the tallest erected. It looks so weird that the attacker has set up a protective wall. However, the appearance of these protective walls protected the soldiers and the bed crossbows in the rear have been catapults.

Because this Xishan Town is the lair of the powerful people on Xishan Island, their defense here is not low. Especially now that these heroes are fighting for themselves, there are not a few catapults and bed crossbows that have been made privately.

It's nothing if some powerful people have a bed crossbow, but if they have a catapult, it's a little weird. However, the situation here is special, because they are surrounded by water, and there are too many water bandits around, in addition, they also have several water bandits, and it is normal for the water bandits' warships and lairs to have small and medium-sized catapults.

Therefore, the guys on this Xishan Island, who are far from those powerful clans in the big cities, not only have bed crossbows, but also have catapults. Before the Jieyi army attacked Xishan Island, Mengshan and others used this place as their last line of defense, so the defense here was very unusual. In particular, the number of bed crossbows and catapults, which they arranged here much more than at the docks. It's just scattered across the four walls, making it scattered.

Needless to say, the stone bullets thrown by the catapult not only smashed down and hit the enemy, but more importantly, these stone bullets can roll and slide along the ground, which will cause more casualties to the soldiers. And the appearance of these three protective walls will allow these stone bullets to hit one of them without rolling and injuring people. If you hit the protective wall where the sandbags are piled up, you can even make them lose their impact and fall to the ground.

Especially the last protective wall, the catapult is located behind it, which can effectively prevent the stone bombardment of the enemy catapult on the wall of Xishan Town, for the trebuchet, they do not need a very wide horizon, therefore, hidden behind the protective wall, has a good effect and effect.

In particular, the Jieyi army had just arrived here, and they didn't know much about the defense here. The defensive offensive on the city wall cannot be determined one by one. Therefore, just in case, Hu Le decided to use this safe way of playing. After all, in the heart, you already have a big advantage, and there is no need to let your side suffer more casualties in order to speed up the attack. Now, except for here and some mountain and forest areas, as long as there are people, they have basically fallen into the hands of the Jieyi Army. The enemy army here is already a turtle in an urn. Take it here, that's a matter of time.

For Hu Le's arrangement, the soldiers have long understood the importance of it. Not to mention the rest, but there is an extra layer of protection for the soldiers. In this regard, the soldiers were also extremely satisfied with the chief general Hu Le and others.

In addition, the purpose of attacking steadily is to train those newly recruited soldiers in the army, and they must be trained one by one in water warfare, land warfare, and mutual cooperation, so that they can grow up as soon as possible. This time, the Sailor Division of the Jieyi Army has expanded a lot here, and the original nearly 10,000 people have expanded to more than 15,000. Even because nearly 2,000 people were killed or wounded, they were arranged to patrol between local people, towns, and villages.

Expanding so rapidly will naturally lead to a decline in strength, and in this attack, it is also to restore the strength of the Jieyi Army's water division. In addition to these sailors, there are also more than 3,000 foot soldiers, who also joined in the training. In the future, they will be the defenders here.

In addition to these reasons, there is another reason, that is, to let Hu Le run in with the soldiers under his command. Hu Le did not participate much in the formation and training of the first town of the water division, and most of them recruited bandits in the waters of Taihu Lake. Therefore, after actual combat, Hu Le also has an understanding of his subordinates, and the soldiers below will also have some understanding of him as a general, so that they can better cooperate and fight in the future.