Chapter 114: Gongsun Xu's Plans
Gongsun Xu left several generals behind him and asked them to stay behind to command and clean up the battlefield, and he led his own troops to return to the camp of Xiangping City.
Nanlin's reinforcements have been dispersed, and there is no longer any threat to his back road, so he has to calm down and study how to do it, so that he can easily take down Xiangping City.
Along the way, corpses were strewn all over the field, and Gongsun continued to see the corpses that had been disemboweled, those who had been shot into hedgehogs or killed by trebuchets, and his face gradually turned ugly.
In later life, he felt uncomfortable when he saw normal dead people, but now he suddenly saw hundreds of corpses scattered everywhere, and there were all kinds of deaths, which made him want to vomit.
But what! The next moment, Gongsun Xu bit the tip of his tongue violently, and the feeling of vomiting immediately stopped.
He even thought that he would watch the scene of corpses everywhere, or choose not to watch it, and just treat this as a situation in a movie.
Since he has chosen to take this path, he must not have such a merciful heart.
How can there be a war that does not kill people, it is normal to kill and injure these Wuhuan people, and their deaths have been exchanged for more people's lives, no matter how you look at what he did, he did the right thing.
After cleaning up his mood, a look of resoluteness appeared on Gongsun Xu's face.
Now that he has chosen the path, he must continue to move forward, even if the road ahead is difficult, he must unswervingly continue.
Now he is not fighting alone, there are nearly 10,000 soldiers under him looking up to him, and he is responsible for these soldiers who trust him and support him......
After returning to the camp, Gongsun Xu looked at the fortified city of Xiangping from afar, and he felt a kind of depression in his heart.
He thought in his heart that the city was really big, and if the soldiers in the city were as difficult as those soldiers on the other side of the South Forest, it would cost a lot of soldiers' lives to defeat this Xiangping City.
When attacking the city this time, it must be strictly forbidden to have a certain degree, and a certain amount of rules must be played, especially the trebuchet must be used to the best extent, and Qiu Liju and Zhang Chun must be deterred by force, so that they will not think of the idea of stubborn resistance.
Surround the three and leave a gate that allows them to see hope, so that no matter whether it is a new recruit who has recently joined the army, or those veterans who have been following Qiu Liju and Zhang Chun, they can see the hope of survival, and they will not choose to fight to the death.
In the direction that was set aside, he arranged some of the most elite infantry, so that the cavalry could support at any time, even if Qiu Liju and Zhang Chun had three heads and six arms, they would not be able to escape from Xiangping's side.
In the big tent of the Chinese army, Gongsun Xu sat on the handsome chair in the middle with a serious face, and began to listen to the reports of the generals and the people who managed the logistics.
It wasn't until he listened to Han Yu's report that there was a little more smile on his somewhat depressed face.
Han Yu's side not only successfully blocked the road of the cavalry in Xiangping City, but also wrapped the cavalry who came out of the city with dumplings, and most importantly, Han Yu's side captured a full thirty excellent war horses.
According to the latest news transmitted by Gongsun Xu Xiangping City, the number of cavalry in Xiangping City definitely did not exceed 500 at this time, that is, the soldiers in the city, a large part of them were newly recruited, and the combat effectiveness in the city was not very strong.
Qiu Liju and Zhang Chun now want to abandon the city and escape, and there is no possibility of escaping, it depends on how he can take Xiangping City with the least loss.
The trebuchet is a large-scale killing weapon used in siege cities, which can be said to be far superior to other siege equipment, and a stone can basically sweep away the soldiers on the city wall.
For the people of this era, this kind of mass killing weapon is a kind of advanced thing, which will continue to destroy the enemy's faith, no matter how stubbornly Zhang Chun and Qiu Liju resist, they will not be able to resist the destruction of the soldier's faith.
At this time, the first thing he had to do was to ask his soldiers to bring back those big stones on the battlefield, and then collect more stones in the nearby mountains and forests.
Nanlin's reinforcements have been repulsed, Xiangping is a lonely city, Gongsun continues to estimate that in another ten days and half a month, he will be able to occupy Xiangping City.
After occupying Xiangping, if he wants to control the front line of Xiangping, he must carry out some operations, and at this time it is a time of turmoil in the imperial court, eunuchs are rampant, and he should have made plans in advance.
Liu Yu is the pastor of Youzhou, he is in charge of Youzhou, he definitely doesn't want their father and son to become big in Youzhou, and if he wants to control Xiangping, Liu Yu's road is impassable.
Then, he must follow the path of the eunuch Zhang Rang.
Zhang Rang is greedy for money, as long as he takes out the property that can make Zhang Rang's heart move, there must be no problem with being named Xiangping Taishou by the emperor himself.
Gongsun Xu felt that he sent his powerful cronies to Luoyang to bribe Zhang Rang, and the scholar asked Lao Tzu to send someone to write to Lu Zhi and let Lu Zhi operate it, which would basically be foolproof.
In Qingfeng Cottage and Storm Village, Gongsun Xu has scavenged a lot of good things that he can't use, and it can come in handy at this time.
Thinking of this, Gongsun Xu immediately wrote a secret letter to Gongsun Zhan, one is to tell the cheap Lao Tzu that he will definitely be able to take it down from Xiangping City, and let Gongsun Chan start to follow Lu Zhi's path at this time, tell Lu Zhi what happened here, and let Lu Zhi reveal the wind first.
After he took Xiangping City, he immediately took the road of saving the country, asked Lu Zhi to propose to give Gongsun a large number of rewards, and then asked Zhang Rang to exert his strength to take down the position of Xiangping Taishou.
In this way, the father and son can basically become the great princes comparable to Liu Yu in Youzhou.
Now the court has begun to be turbulent, above the court, treacherous and evil are rampant, and the likes of servile eunuchs have controlled the government, and the money in the treasury has been squandered.
What to do when the treasury is empty? Tax.
At the end of the Han Dynasty, the weight of the exacting donations had reached an outrageous situation.
Coupled with the corruption of local officials, with the help of the state to impose a showdown on the task of hard downward, the people of the Han Dynasty were even worse.
Zhumen's wine and meat stinky road has frozen bones, officials have money to eat and drink, and the common people have no way to live, even if they work every day, they can't eat a full meal.
At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the common people were still able to eat two meals a day, and they were able to eat and dress warmly, and at the end of the Han Dynasty, it was already good to be able to eat seven minutes a meal.
Now if he wants to get ahead, if he wants to become a prince on one side of the separatist side, he has to take everything into account.
He can't compare with Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, who are about to rise, and there is no way to compare, so he can only prepare in advance with the help of some foresight, so that he can get a piece of the pie after the complete turmoil at the end of the Han Dynasty.