But Wu Er and Li Changjie don't know why, for your sake, we abandon this level, and the ghost believes it. ,!

But some people really believe it.

His Majesty can't bear it, Zheng Xianggong can't bear it, and no one in the emperor has seen it. But if you can allocate so much money to develop Liangguang, you will probably be a good emperor. Moreover, the family members of the people who were killed are treated with a very generous pension, and they can be said to be unbearable.

What Zheng Lang did was witnessed by many ordinary people.

In the past two years, Zheng Lang has traveled to almost all the states and counties in Guangzhou, coming and going in the wind and rain, not thinking that he is a barbarian, as the prime minister, he personally taught his children, so that his children have a chance to get ahead in the future. Let the Hanhu teach themselves farming, weaving, and other skills so that they can live a good life in the future. The road was overhauled, and the previously scarce Han goods came in a steady stream, and their own production was sold.

I can't bear it!

Can't bear it? How can it be.

However, in terms of not rejecting them, I really want them to live a good life, Zheng Lang said that he was second among the important ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, and no one dared to say that he was the first.

In the past two years, Zheng Lang has traveled to many places and many touching things have happened.

It has nothing to do with intolerance, this is the gap of a thousand years.

Discarding the three levels is to discard the three levels when the time comes, which is an important move. One abandons the level, the other can't bear it, and it will play a great role in the future.

But on the surface, Quang Nam West Road is more dangerous. Three passes and one abandonment, tens of thousands of Jiaozhi troops approached the front line unimpeded. After breaking through the first line, it will not be far from Yongzhou City.

But the reversal began here.

The cruelty of Jiaozhi in the south spread to Guanbei, in addition to some tribes still sticking to their homes, some tribes were hidden in the deep mountains and old forests, and some tribes were originally in the deep mountains and old forests, and the changes outside did not matter to them at all, and at least half of the remaining tribes packed their bags and fled to the front line, and were placed in major cities by the Song army. It also includes the 12 villages that guard the various roads.

This is a very delicate move, and I faintly see the role of An Yuancheng.

With the entry of the barbarians, it is equivalent to having a source of troops, and the second group of militia in the rear has arrived. More than 6,000 militiamen were assigned to Qinlian Prefecture again, and the remaining 4,000 militiamen were arranged to go to various villages. The local residents of Yongzhou were worried, and more than 2,000 people signed up to join the army and participate in the battle. This brought the number of garrisons to more than 2,000 per village. But it hasn't stopped yet, the third batch. The fourth group of militias continued to arrive from the states and counties.

Even the people along the Yushui side of Guangnan East Road were worried that Yongzhou would be lost, and the Jiaozhi army would go down the Yushui, and the tragedy of Nong Zhigao would happen again, and even the Jiaozhi people would be more cruel, with more troops, and greater harm. It's not impossible, Jiaozhi divided the troops into Qinlian and Qinlian, but he has the idea of pointing at Yushui and Guangzhou! Under the mobilization of officials. One after another, ordinary people also joined the militia.

But the reversal did not start in Yongzhou.

Zheng Lang used the militia, not to fight in the plains, that would be equivalent to sending early to the Jiaozhi people. The militia was used to defend the city. For these militias, who lack actual combat experience and lack training, having the cover of city walls, not field warfare, and not being as effective as the regular army, may come in handy. That's why there was a massive conscription. But now it is impossible to eat these tens of thousands of Cochin troops in one bite.

So the reversal is in the other direction.

First of all, it started with Anyuan City.

Zhao Xun is not worried about the gods and horses of the Jiaozhi people digging tunnels and repairing soil mountains.

Digging tunnels and repairing earth mountains is also a common siege method, which has been used many times in history. And on these two methods, some siege strategies are also extended, such as Li Changjie's attack on Yongzhou City in history. So he asked the soldiers to fill mud bags and put them under the city wall, and finally the mud bags were piled higher than the head of the city, and Yongzhou was held for forty-two days before finally falling.

But there must be two first conditions, time and manpower. Whether digging tunnels or piling up mountains, it takes a lot of manpower, and now Jiaozhi has to attack the city and dig tunnels, and has fought hard until now, and sacrificed at least more than 1,000 soldiers, manpower is insufficient, and the longer the time drags on, the more beneficial it is to himself.

It doesn't necessarily take much manpower to dig tunnels, but are tunnels scary?

As long as a trench is dug in the city, the danger of the tunnel can be easily resolved, unless the Cochin people can also make gunpowder.

Zhao Xun's biggest worry is that the crash will constantly knock the city wall open.

The main thing is that he doesn't know about the whole plan, so he thinks that Zheng Lang has been prepared for it in advance, why did he build the city wall so thin.

Guo Jiayi thinks differently.

He didn't think that leaning on the dirt mountain would be effective. I want a sense of oppression.

By the time of the war, he had seen some of the actual conditions of the Song army. The regular army of the Song Dynasty in the two cities was very small, accounting for less than 10%, and the rest were all militias organized by the common people. These militias will definitely not work in the field. But at the head of the city, there is the advantage of the city wall, which can play some role. As soon as the earth and mountains were repaired, these people were angry, and the city walls were constantly broken, and eventually the two cities were taken. Especially in Anyuan City, the city wall is far less tall than Lianzhou City, and this trick is more effective. Therefore, on the eighth day, he continued to dig tunnels to build earth mountains, and hit the city wall with a crash car.

Zhao Xun complained that the city wall was poorly repaired, but if it wasn't for the thin city wall, the Jiaozhi people would inevitably be suspicious, so the 17,000 Jiaozhi soldiers would not have been dragged under these two cities. It was because they saw the hope that they could break through the city at any time, and in the end this became a place of reversal.

The eighth day passed again, and many people asked where the reinforcements were, but the reinforcements had not arrived, but the news was that they had crossed Lingshan and would arrive tomorrow evening.

Hearing the arrival of reinforcements, cheers rang out from the city.

Pei Qingcheng heard the cheers in the city outside the city, and he was a little inexplicable.

As the ninth day continued, the earth hill gradually rose higher, and several more walls were knocked down. Anyuan City seems to be captured at any time, but every time you get to the door, you just can't step in. As evening came, reinforcements finally arrived. The two cities divided a total of 5,000 troops, because the situation in Anyuan City was more critical, 1,500 forbidden troops were distributed to Anyuan City, and Lianzhou City only transferred 500 forbidden troops. This is a relatively extravagant, and there is a shortage of troops in the entire Quang Nam West Road. However, 4,000 regular soldiers were divided into the two states, not only in Ercheng, but also in Lingshan, Ruhongzhai, and Shikang, all of which were forbidden to command the people and prevent the Jiaozhi people from bypassing the two cities and appearing in the rear.

Zhou Xin asked his men to open the northwest gate of the city and welcomed the three thousand soldiers into the city with a warm welcome.

At this point, Zhou Xin and Zhao Xun's hearts settled down.

The field battle out of the city is still inferior to the other side, but there is a city wall in hand. For defense alone, these forces are more than enough.

It was Zhou Xin's idea.

Zhao Xun had greater ambitions, and on the tenth day, it was raining. The sky was dark, and although the rain was not heavy, at night, the night was even darker.

Looking at the soldiers and people who were mending the gap, Zhao Xun looked at the Jiaozhi camp opposite. When reinforcements arrived, Pei Qingcheng was taken aback, but immediately found that most of the people who came to help were ordinary people. The bow and arrow were rusty, and he breathed a sigh of relief. The intelligence also shows that the Song army is insufficient, and the Song Dynasty has reinforcements arriving, which are from Jinghu South Road, only more than 10,000 people, and most of the troops have arrived in Yongzhou. What is the situation in Yongzhou, because of the long mountain road, it is not known until now. It is already known that the country starts from Ying Tien Fu (Thang Long City, Hanoi. In the area of Hanoi, there are also the old city of Jiaozhou of the former Tang Dynasty, the capital of Yue Li named Hufu, and the capital of the Li Dynasty, Hua Lu City. Yue Li thought it was small, and rebuilt the capital, namely Shenglong City, also known as Ying Tianfu, and named Hualu City Chang'an City), where is the main direction of attack of Jiaozhi. After attacking Anyuan City for a long time, he suffered heavy losses, and Anyuan City added another batch of reinforcements, and Pei Qingcheng gave up on himself.

That's true for the manager, and even more so for his men.

And he underestimated the people of the city. Therefore, the loose military discipline of the Jiaozhi people is revealed.

Zhao Xun narrowed his eyes, staring at the movement of the toe-toe people outside the city, and suddenly called several commanders together, and said, "Let's give the Jiaozhi people a surprise tonight." ”

"What surprise?"

Zhao Xun looked at the night sky outside, the rain had stopped, but the night was pitch black. Said fiercely: "Night attack." ”

The city was not without troops, the forbidden army alone numbered nearly 2,000, and although the rest were civilians, many warriors grew up after several days of fierce fighting. But night raids are also a double-edged sword, if used well, they will do miraculous feats, and if they are not used well, they will be easily ambushed.

But looking at the opponent's clumsy command style these days, Zhao Xun is not worried about the latter point.

The third watch arrived, and there were still some soldiers standing at the head of Anyuan City patrolling. There is now a shortage of everything in the city, there is a serious waste of weapons, there is a shortage of weapons, there are not many soldiers who can really go to the battlefield to fight, there is a shortage of soldiers, tens of thousands of people are tied together, there are barbarians and Han Chinese, there are locals and outsiders, and there is a shortage of officials to maintain order. But there is no shortage of people. Only people can be used to make up for the lack of soldiers. Although there was a shortage of major generals, Anyuan City was heavily guarded, and there were many people patrolling the city at night, which directly dispelled the idea of attacking at night.

But the night was so dark that I could barely see my fingers.

The group crept up to the city and lowered it with ropes.

There are not many people, only a thousand people, and not all of them are forbidden soldiers, but some of them are brave men who have shown courage in the past few days. Zhao Xun has always been at the forefront of the front, those people showed bravery, one relied on the record of military exploits, and the other relied on observation, and hundreds of people have always remembered it in his heart.

And these people also came out.

One by one, they quietly lowered from the city, followed the earthen embankment built by the Jiaozhi people, and dived across the moat.

Zhao Xun waved his hand and followed him forward, and after a while, seeing that he was about to approach the Jiaozhi military camp, Zhao Xun asked the soldiers to stop, crouched on the ground, and then let several scouts sneak to the front of the camp to observe the movements of the Jiaozhi people.

Several scouts came out on call.

Zhao Xun lay on the ground, the ground was still a little muddy, exuding the smell of earth, and a night crow chirped miserably in the distance. Zhao Xun was thinking about it, because he didn't know the whole plan, he was a little worried in his heart.

Zheng Lang issued a mobilization order that he did not reject, what should I do, there are too few troops in Liangguang, but it is not a way to keep it like this. Not only Qinlian two states, but also Yongzhou several villages. As long as something happens in a village, the big thing will go. However, the battle line is so long, can all the walled cities be kept from being lost?

The scout came back and reported in a low voice: "General Zhao, the enemy's defense is lax, most of the soldiers are asleep, very quiet, and the subordinates hear the snoring of the enemy camp like thunder outside. ”

"Up!" Zhao Xun shouted.

A thousand men pounced like wolves and quickly slaughtered into the enemy camp.

The Jiaozhi people were caught off guard, and their feet were in chaos, and they hurriedly got up and made a mess. In the end, he finally retreated to the Qinjiang River, and only under the command of some generals gathered his men one by one and organized a counterattack.

Zhao Xun sighed, if all the militia in the city can come in handy, then this battle can be a great victory.

However, the harvest was quite rich, this night attack killed nearly a thousand Jiaozhi soldiers, and also burned a large number of Jiaozhi materials and camp tents, if it were not for the dampness of the camp tent on a rainy day, the Song army could burn the camp tent of Jiaozhi together. The city gates were opened, and the people of the city welcomed these warriors into the city with thunderous joy.

But this night attack is still not a reversal point. On the contrary, Zheng Lang was very unhappy about this night attack later, because Guo Jiayi!

The next day, the Jiaozhi people built the earth mountain regardless of the siege and rebuilt the camp. And they were all in their hearts, and their morale was depressed, and when they came, they reached 8,000 troops, and now there are only about 5,000 left. However, Anyuan City still stands there, as safe as Mount Tai.

8,000 people can deter the city, and 5,000 people are not much different from the strength of the city. And even in terms of numbers. The Song army in the city, including the militia, had already surpassed itself.

But a shameful thing made Pei Qingcheng suppress it and did not report it to Guo Jiayi. For Song Jun, it was a very lucky failure to report.

On the twelfth day, Hengzhou again divided 2,000 militiamen, and Anyuan City divided 1,000 militiamen. If all of them can come in handy, it will be considerable. and to make the strength of the city nine thousand. In the face of this pressure, Pei Qingcheng no longer had the heart to attack the city and asked Guo Jiayi for help. We have only 5,000 men left. Don't talk about siege, you can't worry about preventing it now.

There will be losses in the storming of Anyuan City, but Guo Jiayi feels very strange, it is reasonable to lose more than 1,000 people, how can he lose more than 2,000 soldiers? If you ask tightly, you will interrogate the truth about the night attack. Guo Jiayi was furious. In fact, he also encountered great difficulties in Lianzhou, which not only has a high city wall, but also a very deep and wide moat. Before the Jiaozhi army arrived, the Song army took the initiative to abandon the three villages at the mouth of Yanshui, and the soldiers and the people were compressed in the city of Lianzhou.

I came to Lianzhou and couldn't attack it. Change your strategy now. If the earth mountain was not built, it would have no effect on Lianzhou City. But began to prepare a large number of siege equipment, and built another thing, a moat bridge. It is impossible to make an earthen dam with mud bags like Anyuan City, and the moat of Lianzhou City is not only wide. And deep. If the wooden bridge is forcibly repaired, there will be dozens of trebuchets in the city, throwing boulders, and finally smashing the temporary bridge. Therefore, Guo Jiayi made a large number of moats and bridges outside the city of Lianzhou.

This kind of thing was passed down from the Tang Dynasty to Jiaozhi. On the ground floor there were four wooden wheels, on which were planks with folded planks, which prevented the enemy soldiers in the city from shooting the soldiers with bows and arrows on the carts. When you come to the moat or in front of the moat, you can put the folding board down and it becomes a temporary pontoon bridge. When the attack is stopped, the pontoon bridge is folded up and brought back to the barracks. It is not as effective as an earth dam, but it is better in the province of labor. At one time, more than 30 moats and bridges were made, which threatened the safety of Lianzhou City. However, the sudden arrival of Song Dynasty reinforcements greatly boosted the morale of the city, and the hope of attacking Lianzhou City became vague again.

He was not Pei Qingcheng, thinking that he was only here to respond, and the main force was on the side of Yongzhou. What is the side response, not to give the Song army a threat, only a small number of soldiers, to defend the two cities, what is the side response? After scolding a few words, he thought about it, withdrew the army from Lianzhou, and the two armies were united, all gathered under Anyuan City.

Zheng Lang was unhappy about this incident, although he had a meritorious role in killing the enemy at night, and his morale was also increased, but he was startled. Guo Jiayi narrowed down the goal and strengthened his determination to capture Anyuan City. When he came to Anyuan City, he first scolded Pei Qingcheng. Then the troops were divided into two places, and the soldiers were transported by boat to the back of Anyuan City, and an army was also set up at the north gate of Anyuan City. At this point, the Song Dynasty had no way to transport reinforcements to Anyuan City. It wasn't to send reinforcements over, it was for the people of Jiaozhi to eat.

And it made Anyuan City, Lianzhou, and Lingshan soldiers feel embarrassed, the two armies are one, and if they don't save Anyuan City, they will undoubtedly lose, and they have all had their own. Save, there are enough Jiaozhi troops, and they can easily encircle the point to send reinforcements. Even because of the large number of troops, there is a threat to the rear such as Hongzhai and Lingshan City.

This is the darkest moment of Guangnan West Road, and the soldiers of the Sanguan on the Yongzhou front do not know for what reason, so they give up the Sanguan and retreat to the rear. The 60,000 troops of Jiaozhi, if you add the troops joined by the barbarians of various departments, are close to 80,000 soldiers and 20,000 people, all of whom are rushing to the hinterland of Yongzhou.

The two armies of Jiaozhi in the Beibu Gulf were united, and their power was greatly increased.

Everywhere it feels like Quang Nam West Road is crumbling safely.

Yu Jing kept receiving these military reports in the rear, and his face was as frightened as dirt, and he couldn't hear the news of the imperial court sending reinforcements, so he could only send a request for help to the capital every day.

Anyuan City.

Day 15.

If we take into account that it is a regular city, and the number of troops in the city reaches eight or nine thousand, it is nothing to defend it for fifteen days.

But after careful analysis, most of these more than 8,000 soldiers are ordinary people, many of whom have never even held weapons before, and then analyze its walls and moats, and the strength of the Jiaozhi people has already created a miracle.

But the darkest light came.

Come to Anyuan City. Divided into two places, Guo Jiayi did not immediately attack the city, but set up the two military camps, and used lions to fight rabbits carefully. Build a strong fence. Before attacking, do a good job of defense first. This fence was also used to enclose the ships in the rear, taking into account both land and water.

It took more than a day to carefully set up the two camps perfectly, and as for himself, he followed Anyuan City, inspecting back and forth. It can't be said that Pei Qingcheng is useless. After several days of attacking, several city walls were damaged. However, let the Song army repair the fence in time. But a palisade is a palisade, and the defense is nowhere near as strong as a thick wall. And after many impacts, the walls are not as strong as they used to be.

In the afternoon of the next day, the attack was officially launched, and the trench bridge brought from Lianzhou was lowered and divided into more than 30 troops. Launched several attacks on the Anyuan city wall. In just half a day, Anyuan City was in a hurry in many places, in order to fill the collapsed city wall. The people had to be forced to fight back. Fierce attacks again and again caused heavy losses on both sides. This is also the first time in more than ten days that the sacrifices in the city have exceeded the sacrifices outside the city. In fact, since Guo Jiayi steadily set up camp, Zhao Xun has been troubled, and he feels that the enemy he is about to face is far more terrible than the previous enemy.

When evening came, the offensive stopped.

Zhao Xun and Zhou Xin ordered the people in the city to build a fence immediately.

However, the two of them glanced at each other, and there was a gloomy look in their eyes, even if Zhou Xin was a civil official, they could see that if it continued like this, the situation in Anyuan City was very bad. Not days. As long as we continue to maintain the momentum of such a strong attack, it is possible that tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, Anyuan City will undoubtedly be lost.

The two discussed in a low voice for a while, counted the people who had died in the city, and distributed the cloth and grain in the warehouse as a consolation. By this time. It is no longer about finances, but about how to keep the city.

The officials went down to complete the task tiredly, and Zhou Xin and Zhao Xun sat in the county office drinking stuffy tea and were silent. They didn't believe that Zheng Lang let Anyuan City do this, but Yongzhou's side was also in danger, and if they wanted to resolve Anyuancheng's difficulties, they had to have a strong reinforcement come over. But where can I get reinforcements on Quang Nam West Road?

Luckily, the next day was a good day, and it rained heavily. I can breathe a sigh of relief. But although this stormy weather is relieved, it is like drinking water to quench thirst, it is impossible to have storms every day, and the city wall has been hit many times, and the heavy rain has drenched it, and the soil is softer, and when the weather is clear, it is easier for the enemy to knock down the city wall. But a day is a day.

It is this slow day is a day that produces a critical factor, time! Zheng Lang and Zhang Kang have been discussing this counterattack since last year, and there are two factors in the middle, one is the problem of troops, and the other is the problem of time. As time dragged on, the plan was closer to success.

The storm was raging, the Qinjiang River roared, and the ships were rising and falling in the waves, and it was impossible to attack the city in this bad weather, so Guo Jiayi had to let the soldiers stop and rest. It was not a complete rest, but let the soldiers continue to make more siege equipment in their tents.

Seeing a steady stream of siege vehicles, crashes, gate attack vehicles, and nest cars being pushed out of the Jiaozhi tent, standing on the head of the city, Zhao Xun and Zhou Xin were wearing robes, and the melancholy in their eyes was even stronger.

Zhou Xin said: "General Zhao, is there really no way to resolve it?" ”

“……”

"It's really not good, I can only learn from Xu Yuan and Zhang Xun, but it's a pity that tens of thousands of people in this city have been punished," Zhou Xin sighed.

"Don't ......be anxious" Zhao Xun wanted to comfort Zhou Xin, but he didn't know where to comfort him.

Zhou Xin's mood was so low, not to mention the people in the city. After the initial fear, to numbness and anger, now the people are gradually depressed again.

When night came again, Anyuan City was very quiet, and the mood of the people in Anyuan City at this time was as dark as this night......

The wind and rain gradually stopped, and there were soldiers patrolling the head of Anyuan City, but because they were collapsed everywhere, the entire city wall could not be connected, and it was gradually separated into one section after another, which increased the difficulty of defense. Suddenly, more than a dozen black shadows appeared from the west city wall, and the Song army at the head of the city was just about to draw a bow and arrow, and a black shadow inside shouted: "Stop, your own people." ”

"Who?" The leading fire chief almost released the arrow, but when he heard his own people, he immediately loosened the bowstring, at this time, what do these three words mean? It means that the above is paying attention to Anyuan City!

"It's me," a middle-aged man came from the darkness, but more than a dozen people on the side tightly guarded him together, staring nervously at the city, fearing that the Song army on the city would not know Mount Tai, so he released the arrow.

"Who are you?" The firemaster continued.

But one of his companions asked in a trembling voice, "But...... But...... Zheng Xiang...... Messire? ”

The middle-aged man smiled slightly and said, "It's me, quickly put the rope and let me enter the city, the enemy is not far from here, do you want to alarm the enemy?" (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )

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