Zhang Yang drove the army to come this time, and he was not fighting hard to be arrogant. As long as Zhang Qiang can not attack Jinyang City, it can be regarded as Zhang Yang's victory. As for whether to fight with the Taixing Army, it is not the thing that Zhang Yang is most concerned about.

The current situation is that the Taixing army has penetrated deep into the enemy's territory, and the supply of grain and grass needs to be transported from Xihe County, which is three hundred miles away. And because Zhang Yang was invited by Taiyuan County, the supply of grain and grass could be solved on the spot. In terms of logistics, the Shangdang army can be said to have taken advantage of it.

Moreover, with Zhang Yang's understanding of Jinyang City, at this time in Jinyang City, at least 3,000 defenders and 5,000 young men could be gathered. Relying on the city wall of Jinyang, which is more than four zhang high, Zhang Yang believes that if the Taixing army does not have more than 20,000 elite soldiers, it is impossible to forcibly capture Jinyang City.

Now, as long as he squats nearby with an army of 10,000, he and Jinyang City will become a rivalry. If the Taixing army wanted to divide its troops to conquer Jinyang, they had to face the front and rear attacks of Zhang Yang's army. If the Taixing army wanted to defeat Zhang Yangjun first, Zhang Yangjun, who was camped in the mountains, just took advantage of the terrain and killed and injured a large number of Taixing soldiers.

Since the situation is so favorable, why did Zhang Yang take the initiative to move forward and fight hard with the Taixing army?

Zhang Yang's idea, as soon as it was proposed, was unanimously approved by the heroes and powerful people accompanying the army. These heroes are the head snakes of the state, and they are naturally quite familiar with the past combat experience of the Taixing army. Although they really wanted to beat the Tai Xing army back to Xihe County in one go, they were not sure enough.

Even the Southern Huns, who attacked and killed the history of the Bingzhou Assassin back then, were not the enemies of the Taixing army. These heroes, who were tossed by the Hun barbarians, naturally did not have the confidence to fight the Taixing army in their hearts.

Now in the face of the Taixing army, with the idea proposed by Zhang Yang, they don't need to fight their own family backgrounds to be able to win the final victory. As a result, they will be paid handsomely, and the powerful will not be so stupid as to gamble with their lives. Although there are tens of thousands of troops, the amount of grain and grass consumed every day is not a small amount. However, Taiyuan County, as the most important grain-producing area in Bingzhou, can still provide it by relying on the savings of previous years.

Let's boil.

Let's just boil it.

As long as you stay up until the march is too long, the army can't support it. Even if it's a win!

Zhang Yang and Haoqiang both think this is very good. As for the people in Jinyang City, whether they will be frightened because of this, that is not in Zhang Yang's consideration.

In the face of the turtle of the Shangdang army, he couldn't cry or laugh. He originally thought that since the other party had 10,000 troops, he would have to make a move with the Tai Xing army before he could react next. Unexpectedly, Zhang Yang, a hero recognized by the people of Bingzhou, so simply expressed his weakness and did not want to compete with the Taixing army at all.

For Zhang Yang's turtle shrinkage. There's no good way to be arrogant. The lack of troops made it impossible for the arrogant to launch a strong attack. Even though there are currently four "10,000 enemies" first-level powerhouses under Zhang Qiang's command, they are helpless in the face of the defensive positions arranged by Zhang Yang. In case the strong attack fails, and which of his generals is injured or even damaged by this, Zhang Qiang will really cry out for injustice.

However, even the tide of the war has reached a temporary stalemate. The current record of Zhang Qiang is enough to make the world look sideways.

with only five or six thousand soldiers. In addition to 5 or 6,000 auxiliary soldiers and civilians who had undergone short-term training, Zhang Qiang not only attacked the three counties of Taiyuan County one after another, but also suppressed the enemy's superior strength of nearly 20,000 in total, and retreated in the fortified fortress, not daring to show his head. Such a military might is no less than the deterrent effect of the Liangzhou Army on the Kwantung princes!

For Zhang Yang's conservative tactics. Many Taiyuan people, especially the guards in Jinyang City, were very unimpressed. For this reason, someone made up a ballad, saying that "Zhang is not as good as Zhang" to satirize Zhang Yang for not daring to fight with Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang had no idea about the songs circulating in Jinyang City. He was bent on dragging the Tai Xing army down. Therefore, just hold the camp tightly and never go to war. But what makes Zhang Yang feel strange is that Zhang Qi does not seem to be nervous about the current situation. Zhang Yang refused to fight, and Zhang Yan didn't take the initiative to challenge.

Not to mention anything else, in the face of the two-sided attack between Jinyang City and Zhang Yangjun, Zhang Qiang only asked his subordinates to build a small camp that can accommodate 500 people ten miles away from Jinyang City and ten miles away from Zhang Yang's camp. And the main force of the Taixing army actually stayed in the main camp without moving.

No, not without action. Zhang Yang heard such a strange news through the local Haoqiang's contact network.

It is said that in the three counties of Zishi, Pingtao, and Daling, which were occupied by the Taixing army, the remaining Taixing army made a big move to carry out a major purge of those heroes who had expressed a hostile attitude towards the Taixing army in the past battles.

It is also said that for this purge, the Taixing army mobilized no less than 2,000 elites, including the top three heavy generals and commanders, as well as the famous Dian Wei and the newly promoted "10,000 enemies" Bao to participate in the battle.

The three powerful stockades that dared to resist to the end were all forcibly uprooted by the dominant Taixing army within one day. All the captured Haoqiang people were severely punished. The leaders were exterminated, and the coerced followers were exiled to the Wuyuan and Shuofang areas to reclaim the barren tuntian. The wives and concubines and children of the offenders were all confiscated as slaves and maids, and they were used to reward the meritorious servants of the Taixing army.

In just ten days, the Taixing army claimed to have beheaded 300 people and relocated more than 1,000 families. This ruthlessness frightened many Haoqiang with unclear attitudes.

Under such a strong deterrence, he was still unwilling to obey the strong and powerful of the Taixing army, so he could only try all kinds of ways to escape from the range of the three counties. Most of the Haoqiang, who were not so firm in their sense of opposition, began to give full play to their characteristics and sent envoys one after another to express their submission to the Taixing army.

For the powerful clan that expresses submission, arrogance is naturally not too harsh. Now that the work of killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys has been completed, it is still necessary to appease those who know the current affairs a little. Otherwise, the Taixing army occupied the land everywhere, and it would not be good for insolence. So, in addition to ordering the heroes to give a sum of grain and grass, and handing over a group of people to support the Taixing army to fight, Zhang Qiang let them go for the time being.

The Taixing Army's behavior of cleaning up the rear and stabilizing its own rule naturally cannot be said to be wrong. However, in Zhang Yang's eyes, if the behavior of the Taixing Army happened now, it would inevitably seem a little unreliable.

You know, it's wartime!

In order to win the battle, how many important things will be postponed and only serve the war. As a veteran who has been fighting on the battlefield for many years, Zhang Yang can't figure it out, when the two armies are facing each other, Zhang Yang actually doesn't think about how to do his best to fight for victory, and has the leisure to care about the pain of ringworm scabies from the heroes in the rear?

If Zhang Yang insisted on giving a reason for the actions of the Taixing Army, Zhang Yang could only understand:

First, the Taixing army had no intention of continuing the attack, and planned to occupy the land of the three counties and stop the army.

Second, the Tai Xing Army still has a back move, and this back move is enough to completely lay the victory of the Tai Marching Army!

For the first point, Zhang Yang believes that his family will not be stupid enough to make such a decision. If the Taimarching army turns from offensive to defensive, and only wants to keep the three counties, militarily speaking, it is actually extremely difficult.

Not to mention the heroes of the three counties, now they are only forcibly subdued by the Taixing army, once the wind direction is wrong, the heroes will immediately jump out to resist the Taixing army; The geographical characteristics of the isolation of the three counties in Taiyuan County alone mean that if the Taixing army wants to hold on to the three counties, it must deploy heavy troops in the three counties.

This kind of military situation of hanging by a thin line is something that any experienced general must try to avoid.

Therefore, Zhang Yang can only speculate that the second reason is the reason for the strange and leisurely behavior of the Taixing army now.

However, Ren Zhang Yang wanted to break his head, and he couldn't imagine what the Tai Xing Army could rely on to win this battle in one fell swoop?

However, Zhang Yang soon didn't have to think about this problem that made him sad. Because, an urgent military report from Shangdang County knocked Zhang Yang into the endless abyss at once.

Shangdang County Governor Changzi City, three days ago, suddenly fell!

At the first glance of this military newspaper with three chicken feathers sticked, Zhang Yang had the feeling that the sky was falling. Obviously, in order to ensure the safety of the party, Zhang Yang specially left 1,000 county soldiers to guard the eldest son city, and also arranged for experienced and cautious generals to stay behind. Even if there is a sudden invasion of 5,000 troops, with its solid ability and the defense of 1,000 soldiers, it will be able to resist it for at least a few days?

If it weren't for the person who sent the letter, a county official known to Zhang Yang, he would have doubted the authenticity of this military report.

Zhang Yang was furious, but he also felt a little panic in his heart. He wanted to know more about the fall of the eldest son city.

However, in the first military newspaper, in order to deliver it quickly, not much information was written, and the process of the fall of the eldest son city was not detailed. This is also normal, after all, it is only a large piece of cloth, and the words that can be written are of course extremely limited. And the county official who delivered the letter only saw with his own eyes from a distance that the battle flag of the Taixing Army was erected at the head of the eldest son city, and from this he judged the fall of the eldest son city, but he could not say more detailed details.

Reacting from the shock brought by the military newspaper, Zhang Yang immediately thought of blocking this unfavorable news. However, it is a pity that when Zhang Yang wanted to give the order to seal his mouth, there was actually a strong man from the Shangdang who was close to him, and rushed directly to the military tent to ask about the news of the fall of the eldest son city!

Faced with a few questions from close to Haoqiang, Zhang Yang regretted that he was too lax in governing the army on weekdays, so that the military orders were not strict, and he actually let such bad news leak out at once.

Since the news could no longer be kept, Zhang Yang had no choice but to admit it depressedly. So, in less than half a day, in the entire barracks of the Shangdang reinforcements, even the horsemen who raised horses, knew the news of the fall of the eldest son city.

And this rumor became more and more outrageous later, and it was even said that the Taixing army mobilized 50,000 troops at once, and launched a flanking attack on Shangdang from the east and west, so that now the entire Shangdang County has been occupied by the Taixing army!

It wasn't until the next day that there was more detailed and reliable news from the Shangdang area, explaining to Zhang Yangjun why the eldest son city suddenly fell into the hands of the Taixing army.

All of this is a good thing that Zhang Yang Xinzhong's subordinates have done in secret! (To be continued......)