Chapter 425: Hard Bone
Yang Zilu sent troops this time, but he was deadly... Seven armies in total... The 10,000 people in each army are under the command of seven people, including Tongue Yong, Euyang, Yang Tugou, Xia Hu Roar, Chou Wuyu, Zi Lu, and Xia You. [No pop-up novel network] e^ see that except for Xia You's boat division, the others are all army. In addition, there is Zigong as the main general' Yu Miao, and Aya is hired as the rear army of the deputy general.
The maximum number of rear troops was 60,000. However, only 15,000 of them were county soldiers, and the rest were people. The duty of the rear army was to transport grain and grass to the front, and to act as a reserve. During the autumn period, even the people received a certain amount of military training. Yang Zilu also asked them to 'let Zigong train them more' and give them weapons when they were free on the front line, so the people were actually strictly light infantry. Once the damage on the front line is too severe, they will recruit people as soldiers on the spot and join the battlefield battles.
Because of this, 'in the eyes of other princes', this time Yang Zilu sent more than 130,000 troops! It must be determined that he wants to destroy Dong Chu', Shi Qi was also scared by this matter, and his heart was nervous, not to mention the other Dong Chu doctors, 'They are three souls and seven spirits.
On the one hand, Shi Qi sent Xiong Shidian to lead an army of 50,000 to 'Yingwei at the boundary between Yingshui and Huaishui Lou', and set up camp on the west bank to 'strengthen the city defense' to resist the invading Han army. On the one hand, he sent people to ask for help from the Chu State, hoping to get the full support of the Chu State. Originally, according to the meaning of King Chu Hui, it was best to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, "Anyway, his dislike of Li Chu is compared with the Han Kingdom", but one is a decisive decision, and the other is a thousand cuts, anyway, they all want the other party to perish.
But Shen Baoxu is not the king of Chu Hui in the end, he is not so short-sighted. Shen Baoxu told King Chu Hui the allusion of the dead tooth cold, and came to persuade King Chu Hui. However, in the end, King Chu Hui only reluctantly sent some soldiers to support Eastern Chu, and the reason was very simple: Han Jiading in Zaiye has not yet been pacified. If the army of Chu is exhausted, I am afraid that of course there will be a disaster of course and will be attacked by the Han State.
Although Shen Baoxu was a little unwilling, he still agreed, and he personally led 20,000 Chu troops to support Eastern Chu.
Shi Qi couldn't have imagined that King Chu Hui would be so short-sighted, and he would actually send 20,000 people to support! But he can't help it... Who called Yang Zilu to fight Dongchu now. Shi Qi had no choice but to send the doctor Dou Shu Ao to the Jin Kingdom, hoping to get support from the Jin Kingdom. The Jin State was already the only vassal state in the world that could compete with the Han State.
However, Uncle Dou taught him to set off, "Xiong Shidian has already sent someone to send urgent documents", and the Han army has arrived at Yingwei at the boundary between Yingshui and Huaishui.
......, Yingchen...
Yingwei's geographical location is very critical, he leads to Yingshui in the north, and goes upriver along Yingshui, which can go directly to Zheng Guo and Zhou Wang's room. And Shenyi, the foundation of Eastern Chu, is also on the edge of Yingshui, and the soldiers of Eastern Chu now, 'jīng Rui', are basically the army that Bai Gongsheng raised in Shenyi. And their families are basically in Shenyi... It is conceivable that if Shenyi is captured... The impact on Dongchu.
And the people of Shenyi are also very loyal to Eastern Chu, and it can be said that if Xincai is captured, Shi Qi is likely to take the current monarch and Gongzi Wuxu to escape to Shenyi.
And the west of Yingwei is the upper reaches of the Huaishui, and you can reach the mouth of the Rushui into the Huaishui when you go upstream... From there, go north for a hundred miles' is Xincai. It can be said that after opening up Yingwei, 'the Han army can come by water to transport grain, not to mention, it can also quickly send soldiers. The soldier walked no more than 100 miles in a day, but the boat could walk 200 miles in a day and a night. And sitting on a boat, maintaining physical strength is not comparable to walking.
Because of this, 'Yingwei this place... If the Han army doesn't fight, it can't work!
The Han army knew this truth, and it was naturally impossible for the Chu army not to know, so they built a lot of defensive buildings in Yingwei.
When Yang Zilu came, he couldn't help frowning, and he only had three words in his heart to evaluate Yingwei in front of him!
I saw that on the small high ground at the boundary between Yingshui and Huaishui, "the Chu army built three arrow towers with finished characters", and through clairvoyance, you can clearly see that there are two simple trebuchets placed on each arrow tower... The kind that is purely human. But it's enough to block the river.
In addition, on the riverside, the Chu army built an earthen wall two zhang high, which stretched for fifteen or sixteen miles, and every hundred to one hundred and fifty steps, there would be an arrow tower. And the earthen wall is very close to the river... The furthest place is only a hundred paces. In such a narrow terrain, even if a pontoon bridge was built to send the soldiers through, there was no way to put down enough troops. And this is still the time of retreat' It is conceivable that the place will be even narrower when the cháo is rising.
It seems that 'Eastern Chu was not unprepared for the attack of the Han army'. It is clear that these fortifications are not something that can be built in a short time.
"Lord! It's not easy to fight! , 'Hou Xiong's brows are tightly locked' face sè indescribably grim.
"It's not good to fight! You have to fight too! , 'Yang Zilu is also distressed in his heart, but as the head coach, he can't panic. If he panicked, his men would probably panic even more.
"What should I do now? 'Hou Xiong asked hesitantly.
Yang Zilu turned around and instructed Houxiong without looking back: "Order the whole army to camp on the spot!" Have a good night's rest! ,’
'No!' Hou Xiong replied.
Yang Zilu was not prepared for You Yingwei and Shi Qi to have a hard time, and after thinking about it, he appointed Yu Yong as the deputy marshal, and led the soldiers and horses of his headquarters to Lujiang County south. He joined forces with Chen, the county guard of Lujiang County, to cross the Huaishui River in the north, to launch an attack from behind the Eastern Chu army, and to attack the Han army in front and back, to break through the Eastern Chu army in Yingwei.
When Hou Xiong heard this order, he couldn't help but disagree with it. "Lord! Isn't that too much time-consuming? ,’
"Nope! During this time, the widow can train well! Anyway, with the 500,000 stone of grain sent by the Lu State, plus the reserves of our Han Kingdom over the years, there is no problem at all until next year's autumn harvest! But Dongchu is not, they are classified as luàn, and there is not much surplus food in their hands, and they can't consume us! And by the time they go north, it's probably February and March! At that time, the people of Dongchu were thinking about farming, and the people's hearts were even more panicked, and it was the time to break the enemy! ,' Yang Zilu said confidently.
"The Lord's 'ministers are not questioning whether the Lord can break the thief', but there is so much time! The minister is afraid that other princes will get involved! Hou Xiong said worriedly.
Hou Xiong saw that Yang Zilu hadn't said yet, and couldn't help but say again: '... The Lord's 'Jin domestic luàn has subsided!' The monarch of the Jin State has been expelled from the Jin Kingdom, and the Jin State has given the monarch a nickname! , out'! This means that they have died as kings. Now that they are under the control of the four kings, they are very dissatisfied with the Lord's support for Jin Zhugong in the first place! In addition, I am afraid that the Jin Kingdom will unite with other princes to deal with our Han Kingdom