Chapter 224: Changing Heavens (5)
In the next few days, Ying Guang wandered around Shuyang County as if he was fine, and the Guiling County soldiers who brought them were also very honest, and they stayed in the camp and didn't come out much, which made Zhang Shouxin, who was secretly monitoring, feel a lot more relieved. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
However, such days did not last for a few days, and a messenger with a red flag on his back sent the king of Puyang to Zhang Shouxin's desk, although the words were euphemistic, but the content in it was exactly the same as what Ying Guang said at the beginning. Debriefing? Debriefing! It's easy to go back, but it's hard to come back! Although Zhang Shouxin is dressed ordinarily, but it is used to show outsiders, in his bones, he is a person who pays great attention to enjoyment, Shuyang is his foundation, is everything he has, once he leaves the homeland of nutrients, the wealth he has will immediately become the source of disaster, with the experience of the Lu family, Zhang Shouxin does not think that he can do better than the Lu family.
After a short exchange, the soldiers of the two counties were urgently mobilized, Ao Lie's pioneer battalion and Yingguang's 1,000 personal soldiers assisted Shuyang to defend the city, grain, grass and equipment were provided by Shuyang County, and the army and Fan Li sat in Guiling County and the Yupanshan camp, thinking that Shuyang County was backing up, and urgently transferred Gongsun Ze to Shuyang to serve.
On the other hand, Zhang Shouxin started procrastinating, and in the face of Puyang's continuous urging, he always made a verbal promise, but there was no substantive action, so he dragged on and off for a month, and finally waited for the news from Puyang.
In the seven counties of Weiguo, there are a total of four county guards who went back to report on their work, and all four of them have been added to the rank and knighted without exception, and they stayed in Puyang to listen to them, and their families were also urgently sent over, as for the vacant county guards, they were naturally taken over by the candidates formulated by the imperial court. In addition to Guiling County and Shuyang County, there was also a county that did not obey orders.
Tai Shi Heng, the county guard of Yan County, was originally a Qi person, and then fell to Wei Guo due to persecution, and was taken in by Wei Ling, who was still the prince at the time, and in the later exchanges, Tai Shi Heng showed outstanding military talent, first appointed as the county lieutenant of Yan County, and then promoted to the county guard, mainly to prevent the invasion of Qi people. After taking charge of the army, Tai Shiheng became a huge help to Wei Ling, providing military protection for Wei Ling's smooth accession to the throne.
So in Ji Chong's eyes, Tai Shi Heng's loyalty to Wei Ling is his biggest threat, after controlling Wei Ling, he immediately issued an order in Wei Ling's tone, wanting to trick Tai Shi Heng into returning to Puyang, but he didn't know where to show his feet, and was recognized by Tai Shi Heng, cut off the messenger, and quickly shrank his forces to make a defensive move.
A month later, King Wei abdicated due to illness, Gongzi Kang took over the authority to defend the country and became the new King Wei, after ascending the throne, the first order of the new king was to send troops to conquer the county in the name of treason, and the Shuyang County and Guiling County were mainly pacified, recognizing their independent status at the same time, ordering them to send troops to besiege the county.
"Brother Zhang, our new king is very expensive, tsk, the entire Shuyang County has now become the fief of the old brother, as long as the army is sent to suppress Tai Shiheng, a reward for the Hou Ye is indispensable."
Ying Guang has recently become familiar with Zhang Shouxin, and if he has nothing to do, he will run to his mansion to fight the autumn breeze, no way, who can let the most enjoyable place in the entire Shuyang County is his county guard's mansion.
Zhang Shouxin scolded with a smile: "Do you think I'm a fool and lead troops to recruit and suppress?" I've never led an army to fight as a literati, so should I hand over all the county soldiers I have to Ji Zhong's people? No one will do the thing of cutting off his arm, Ji Zhong is a little taken for granted, oh yes, he is no longer the Hou Ye, but the prison country! I'm afraid that the eldest prince of the past will be of little use except for the use of seals. Didn't my brother also receive the king's order, why don't you go? ”
"Me? I'm recuperating in Guiling County now, and I don't see any guests, how can I bring the troops! That messenger is blocked by the pawn army, let him boil slowly. ”
"I'm just worried now, I don't know if Tai Shi Heng can stop the army of conquest."
Seeing Zhang Shouxin's worried face, Ying Guang couldn't help but feel relieved: "There should be no problem in blocking it, and I don't know where Ji Chong's confidence comes from, so he actually let Ji Wuwu be the main general, maybe in his eyes, Tai Shiheng is a ready-made merit, and his son can easily take down the county with the 30,000 soldiers at hand." Tai Shi Heng has been in battle for a long time, and he has no worries about Shang Ji, and it is definitely no problem to protect himself. Even if conditions permit, it is very possible to fight back. ”
"Actually, I'm just afraid that Tai Shiheng will have the emotion of underestimating the enemy because the opponent is Ji Wuwu, there are many generals under Ji Chong's command who can fight well, you look at these deputy generals who are matched by Ji Wuwu, which one is good to match, all of them are fierce generals who have experienced the war, and now these people have become Ji Wuwu's deputy, but no one has objected, let this newcomer who has not led the army as the main general, this trace is too obvious."
"I hope he can support it a little longer."
Under the tall walls of the county, the corpses of countless guards were piled up in one place, the hot weather accelerated the speed of corpse decay, and a pungent stench was everywhere in the air. Where did Ji Wuwu endure this kind of hardship, and on the day he set up the camp, he handed over the command, hid in the tent and did not come out again, and handed over everything to the deputy general to deal with.
In fact, when he came, Ji Chong said very clearly, Ji Wuwu was just a flag, deliberately showing weakness to the enemy, wanting to lure Tai Shiheng out of the city, and then kill and injure his living force in the field. Under this premise, Ji Wuwu really got over the addiction of unifying the army at the beginning, and commanded a regular army into a ragtag army. But even so, Tai Shiheng is very serious, let the defense under your city be full of loopholes, I just defend the city wall and never fight, but let Ji Wuwu waste a few days of expression in vain, and then saw that Tai Shiheng was not fooled, so he simply handed over the command and hid in the tent to enjoy the blessings.
In this way, the brutal siege began, the tall city wall turned into a huge meat grinder, a large number of soldiers on both sides died here every day, the hot weather aggravated the cleaning of the corpses, although both sides will collect the corpses of their soldiers after the battle, but there will always be some time to deal with them, especially those who died in the morning, and when they converge in the evening, they have become stinking and can only be burned in one place.
After surviving the tragic attack at the beginning, the two sides gradually entered a stalemate stage, and Ji Wuwu paid the price of nearly 10,000 people, but failed to take advantage of the slightest. And Tai Shiheng, who defended the city, also had more than 2,000 soldiers killed in battle, and countless wounded, although all the doctors in the city had been recruited, but there were still many seriously wounded every day, who died of wound infection due to the hot weather. Everyone knows that this is a war without reinforcements, one less soldier dies, and a little less grain and grass, Tai Shiheng has been persecuted by the guards in front of him, and there is an old enemy of Qi in the back, and he has fallen into a dilemma. (To be continued.) )