The siege of the Tang army and the defense of the Sui army are like exercises, they have already cooperated with each other very skillfully, when the Tang army is about to attack the city, the archery stops, at this time, the Sui army hiding behind the battlements appeared, they began to fight back strongly, rolling wood and stones fell down like hailstones, the Tang soldiers could not resist, and they fell down from the city screaming. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Sui army's own weapon was a war lance, but because the length of the war lance was not enough, the soldiers all changed the spears of the Tang army, stabbed left and right, and picked off the soldiers who were about to kill the head of the city one by one.

The corpses under the city have filled the trenches, extremely bloody and hideous, but in the cruel war this is already commonplace, no one will take it to heart, and many Tang soldiers fell on the corpses but can save their lives, after more than 20 fierce battles, both sides have gradually figured out each other's routines, casualties have been greatly reduced, the casualties of the Tang army each siege have been reduced from the initial hundreds to more than 100 people, and the casualties of the Sui army have also been reduced from twenty or thirty people to less than ten people,

There are not many siege ladders of Tang soldiers, only ten, but each siege ladder is very heavy, difficult to destroy, more than 20 Sui soldiers with a long fork against a ladder, at this time the Sui army specially made a big iron fork, up to two feet and five feet, weighing more than 450 catties, it takes more than a dozen soldiers to use, it is the siege ladder buster, tried and tested.

More than 20 Sui soldiers shouted loudly, picked up the steel fork and exerted force together, the siege ladder gradually left the city wall, in a miserable scream, the siege ladder turned outward, and dozens of Tang soldiers on it fell to the ground one after another, or were smashed by the heavy ladder below, with heavy casualties.

Followed by the second siege ladder and the third siege ladder...... In just half an hour, six siege ladders were overthrown, and the siege ladders were so crudely made that they could not withstand the beating, and almost all of them broke under the heavy fall.

Li Xiaogong was furious and shouted: "Go up ten more siege ladders!" ”

"Your Highness, there is no siege ladder left."

Li Xiaogong was stunned for a moment, he let out a long sigh, and ordered dejectedly: "Retire!" ”

'When! While! While! ’

The bell rang for the retreat, and the Tang soldiers withdrew like a tide, and the battle lasted for an hour and a half, and they suffered more than 180 casualties, while the Sui soldiers only suffered 11 casualties, all of whom were stabbed to death and stabbed in the fierce fighting, and none of them were injured by arrows.

The soldiers of the Tang army retreated, and the Sui soldiers at the head of the city did not even have time to cheer, so they immediately fell down to rest and sleep, and the thirteen days of high-intensity siege made the soldiers exhausted, and they seized all the time to eat and sleep.

Liu Lancheng wrote another stroke on the record scroll, "On the afternoon of the thirteenth day, the twenty-fourth attack of the Tang soldiers was repulsed."

He put down his pen and sighed lowly, he hoped that he could hold out until the twentieth day, so that they could create more opportunities for the main Sui army.

Under the city, Li Xiaogong finally waited for the messenger, the messenger came from Nanpu County, there was a letter post there, they received an urgent letter from Xiangyang, the messenger presented the letter to Li Xiaogong, Li Xiaogong opened the letter and read it, the letter was written by Qu Tutong, but the letter was relayed from the original words of the King of Qin, asking them why they had not yet come out of Yiling Road, so that the fighter plane was seriously delayed.

There was an obvious reproach in Li Shimin's tone, which made Li Xiaogong hate and annoy, was he willing to be trapped in Wushan Road? The food is about to run out, since the Xiangyang army feels that something is wrong, why don't they send troops to meet them?

"Is there a letter eagle in Xiangyang?"

"Yes! Humiliation brought. ”

It would be good to have a letter eagle, Li Xiaogong immediately wrote a short message, briefly explained the situation, and asked the Xiangyang Tang army to attack Zigui City from the east to support him, and it was relatively easier to attack Zigui from the east.

The letter eagle circled and flew towards the northeast, Li Xiaogong's heart was slightly relieved, no matter what the final result was, but at least they had seen hope.

At this time, Li Xiaogong turned around and asked, "How many days can we still support food?" ”

"Your Highness, you can still support it for about six days."

Li Xiaogong nodded, they were traveling lightly, each of them only brought six days of dry food, if it weren't for the fact that Badong County and Wushan County still had a little grain in stock, he would have had to withdraw back to Ba County, I hope that the reinforcements from Xiangyang can arrive within six days.

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Poyang County was already in a state of rumors, and the news that the main force of the Sui army had killed Poyang County from the south spread to every corner of the county, and the people began to panic, and people with large bags and small bags were seen everywhere evacuating outside the city.

The reason why the people panicked was not that the military discipline of the Sui army was demonized, but that at least half of the people in Poyang County were family members of Lin Shihong's army, and they were afraid that the Sui army would retaliate against them and evacuated the county in large numbers, either to the countryside or to other counties.

At this time, more than 100 cavalry escorted more than a dozen carriages and rushed quickly, and the warrior at the head shouted: "Let go, His Royal Highness the King of Chu will go out of the city!" ”

The soldiers defending the city hurriedly stopped the people and gave way to a lane, and the cavalry escorted the carriage out of the county like a whirlwind.

After a short time, the motorcade arrived at the wharf, which is the Poyang River wharf, the river leads directly to the center of Poyang Lake, Lin Shihong built dozens of hiding places large and small in Poyang Lake, distributed on various islands in the lake, generally speaking, Lin Shihong just went to rest and play, and refuge was the first time.

This time the Sui army came too quickly, Lin Shihong did not dare to take the land route, he habitually wanted to evacuate by water, in addition to himself, his wife and concubines and children also evacuated with him.

On the wharf, his two sons Lin Zhengxiong, Lin Zhengbiao and son-in-law Zhao Fang have been waiting for a long time, and there are only a few large ships on the wharf, which cannot accommodate the evacuation of 30,000 troops, so the 30,000 troops will retreat to Jiujiang County by land.

Lin Zhengbiao was secretly happy in his heart, he had been thinking about how to let his father leave the army temporarily for the past two days, but he didn't expect the opportunity to come so soon.

More than a dozen carriages came galloping and stopped in front of the dock, the three of them hurriedly stepped forward to salute, Lin Shihong stepped out of the carriage and said to the three of them: "You can go to the camp in Huancheng County quickly, I will go there to join you after I settle down, remember, you must temporarily avoid the edge of the Sui army, and there can be no war, understand?" ”

"We get it!" The three of them bowed together.

Lin Shihong nodded, "Go ahead!" Quickly lead the troops to evacuate. ”

The three of them saluted, then turned over and got on their horses, Lin Shihong immediately took his family on the big boat, and the three big boats pulled up their sails and slowly sailed west.

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On the east bank of Yishui, the mighty Sui army is marching north along the official road, a hundred steps away from the official road is more than 20 zhang wide Yishui, a fleet composed of more than 100 flat-bottomed tugboats is moving synchronously with the Sui army, the ship is sailing along the water, no need to pull the fiber, full of 20,000 stone grain, can be eaten by 50,000 troops for a month.

Zhang Xuan is located in the front of the team, because Fang Xuanling is ill, he stayed in Yiyang County to recuperate, did not go north with the army, at this time, the sky is drizzling, it is the middle of spring, peach and plum Fangfei, green water such as jade belt, the mountains in the distance looming, as if it is a very beautiful ink painting, even the marching soldiers also feel relaxed, the scenery in the south is so beautiful.

At this time, several scout cavalry rushed over, clasped their fists in front of Zhang Xuan and saluted: "Marshal Qiqi, most of the residents of Poyang City have been evacuated, and Lin Shihong and the army have retreated north. ”

This was expected by Zhang Xuan, after all, Poyang County is Lin Shihong's lair, and his army is in Poyang County, how could Lin Shihong not know?

"How far is it from Poyang County?"

"About fifty miles!"

Zhang Xuan looked at the sky, just after noon, he should be able to reach Poyang County before dark, and he immediately asked, "Where is General Su?" ”

A guard rushed away, and after a while, Su Dingfang hurried over, clasped his fists and saluted: "Please command!" ”

"You can lead 3,000 cavalry as the vanguard, go to Poyang County first, and beware of the enemy's ambush."

"Obey!"

Su Dingfang led the order to go, and after a short time, he led three thousand cavalry to gallop away.

At dusk, the main force of the Sui army and the fleet arrived in Poyang County at the same time, at this time, Su Dingfang's army had already controlled the whole city, and the Sui army immediately moved into the barracks of Lin Shihong's army.

At this time, a man who looked like a shopkeeper was taken to Zhang Xuan's big tent, this person's surname was Yang, and he was a scout spy planted by the Sui army in Poyang County.

He was led into the big tent, stepped forward and knelt down on one knee to report: "Humble Yang Xu, see the big handsome!" ”

"Get up, please!"

Zhang Xuan asked him to get up and asked with a smile, "What are you doing in the county seat as a cover?" ”

"I bought an inn in the county seat, so that I wouldn't be suspicious when dealing with people coming and going."

The inn and the wine shop are both good covers, Zhang Xuan nodded with a smile and asked, "Is there any news from General Lu's side?" ”

Shopkeeper Yang took out a thick letter and presented it to Zhang Xuan, this is a letter left by General Lu Ping to the marshal, please take a look at the marshal, and the soldiers will transfer the letter to Zhang Xuan, Zhang Xuan looked at it briefly, then put down the letter and asked: "Why has the whole city almost become an empty city?" ”

"Returning to the marshal, half of the population of Poyang County are family members of the army, and if the army retreats, the family members will naturally not stay in the city."

"And what about the other half? Why did they run away? ”

"I asked a few neighbors around, they are not military dependents, I asked them why they want to leave, they said that people are panicking, everyone is leaving, so it is safer to leave."

It turned out to be a fleeing from the wind, Zhang Xuan couldn't help but smile dumbly, he knew most of Lin Shihong's information, and he just wanted to ask about the news of the Lu brothers, and he didn't need to know anything else, so he encouraged the Yang shopkeeper and asked his soldiers to lead him out.

Zhang Xuan was the only one left in the big tent, he opened Lu Ping's letter and read it carefully, and couldn't help but be amazed, this pair of Lu brothers can be called talents, they have been unknown before, but they have also buried them, especially Lu Ping's strategy is ruthless, even ordinary strategists may not be comparable to him, if this person can be loyal to himself, he is definitely a very useful chess piece.

Zhang Xuan pondered for a moment, then wrote a letter, asking several scouts to find a way to blend in with Lu Ping's army. (To be continued.) )