When the night came, Zhou Xin and Zhao Xun personally verified the battle exploits and registered them. The latest chapter of the book - out and !keep in mind. There were some quarrels, the battlefield was chaotic, and it was impossible to judge who killed the enemy soldiers. This kind of quarrel is not very beautiful, Zhao Xun and Zhou Xin went to the side and muttered. In the end, he would rather record some more feats than let the quarrel spread.

In that case, it will cost more money, which is Zheng Lang's business and the court's business. We have to get through the difficulties in front of us first.

But there was good news, and hundreds more young men asked to fight.

The Cochin military camp was discussing countermeasures.

It's the method that the master of Jiaozhi on the Lianzhou side came up with.

The disparity between the casualties between the two sides is huge, and the Lianzhou side is more difficult to attack than Anyuan City, so the main general is Guo Jiayi, a brave general of Jiaozhi, who attacked the city in the past few years, he had obtained 30 elephants, killed the general Wang Rendou, captured 5,000 people, and killed countless soldiers of the city. But it was a field battle, and now the Song Dynasty organized a large number of militias, and they cowered in the city, like a little hedgehog, unable to start. Guo Jiayi quickly stopped the attack, sat in the camp tent and thought hard for a long time, and came up with a plan.

Use striking wood.

Both walls have a distinctive feature, which is that they are rammed earth walls, not masonry walls. So the wall was hit with a striking wood, and after the wall fell, it turned into a sniper battle, and the Song Dynasty militia lost its advantage.

There will be sacrifices, but the number of sacrifices will decrease. And Guo Jiayi observed that the Song army lacked a strong crossbow, and the bow was not a good bow. Zheng Lang also had no choice, if he was fully armed with a soldier, using high-quality standard weapons, infantry armor, and other supporting facilities, the cost would be at least 100 yuan. So much money? The regular forbidden army has not been realized, can it be popularized to the militia?

Coupled with the lack of organizational cooperation of the militia. If you want to stop the crashing wood into the walls, you must waste the weapons in the city. Judging from all indications, although the Song Dynasty was on guard. But it was not expected that Cochin would invade in a big way. Although there are weapons in the city, there will not be many. You don't have to knock down the walls, you just run out of weapons. The city is self-defeating.

Or the Song Dynasty had reinforcements coming.

But it's also planned.

The reason why the attack was chosen in March was the time of spring ploughing.

There were not many Song troops in Liangguang, the strongest Fan cavalry withdrew from Liangguang, the regular forbidden army was 10,000 people, plus the native soldiers were only about 20,000 people, and Guangnan East Road also divided a part of the troops.

When spring ploughing and production came, the people were all scattered, and even the rabble of the people could not be organized. It's the season of miasma again. It is beneficial to fight against their own army. Before the war, there were all kinds of disputes in the country, and some ministers did not want to fight, while others wanted to fight. The emperor asked the generals, whether it is Wu Er or Guo Jiayi, they are all one voice, and they must be beaten. Once the autumn is over, the harvest of Guangnan West Road will come up, and more barbarians will defect. It would be too late to do anything more about Quang Nam West Road. Moreover, the prime minister has said many times that he will stay in Liangguang for a long time, and his attitude towards Jiaozhi is very bad. Maybe after two or three years of operation, if Guangnan West Road is not hit, this prime minister can personally organize an army to attack Jiaozhi. Then. The people of Liangguang and the Song Dynasty wanted money and food, and the people adapted to the weather of Liangguang, and they did not need the Song Dynasty court to send troops, and they could recruit a huge army from Liangguang alone. Cochin is surrounded by enemies on all sides, and there are rebellions from time to time inside, and Cochin is in danger.

Moreover, Wu Er and Guo Jiayi are both the same saying, Zheng Lang can not use many troops in his hands, at most 20,000 people.

Attacking the two states of Qinlian by himself, the Song Dynasty divided the troops with few troops, and could eat them alive in the plains. There are many troops divided, and two routes can be met by ships and concentrated on one road. If the Song Dynasty army all supported Qinlian Erzhou, it could be returned to the ship. Then the Song Dynasty's troops in Yongzhou will inevitably be empty, and their own line will achieve the goal of countermeasures.

If he was unprepared, Guo Jiayi's strategy would have succeeded.

But whether it will succeed now is difficult to say.

There is a more long-term one, which only Zheng Lang and Zhang Kang know.

After this battle, many people have had actual combat experience, and if there were any more problems, they would not have been as hasty as yesterday. These people were soldiers during the war and people after the war, and they only needed to pay some rewards and pensions for this war, and they did not need the court to take out money and silk to support them. And scattered in the fields and towns are the people, who are called up when the need is needed, and they are a decent army. It is of great significance to the safety of Gongwei Guangnan West Road. At least before they are old, Guangnan West Road is equivalent to no money, and tens of thousands of elite soldiers are hidden.

It is not necessarily aimed at Jiaozhi, there are also Yizhou, Yongzhou and Leizhou Peninsula are tyrannical and lawless, and it is very likely that they are barbaric, and Guanzhou and Yongzhou are invaded by the northwest.

But this battle must be endured.

The most difficult thing was Anyuan City, so Zheng Lang asked Zhou Xin and Zhao Xun to come over and command in person, the former was Anmin, and the latter commanded the battle. In fact, other regions also need good generals with military talents, so they have to do it.

The next day the wind picked up, and for a while the rain poured down.

In this bad weather, both sides ceased fighting. It was the Jiaozhi armistice, and the Song army breathed a sigh of relief.

But there were still many Song troops on duty at the head of the city, Zhao Xun looked at the enemy camp, and the Jiaozhi people were busy tying the cables of the ships, and nearly a hundred ships almost filled the Qinjiang River. He suddenly thought of Xiao Zhu's burning of Nong Zhigao's ship, but just to think about it, Jiaozhi was heavily guarded, his own troops were small, and he was blocked by the terrain, Xiao Zhu's strategy could not be replicated. Zhao Xun was also afraid of forcing the Jiaozhi people to hurry and suppress this desire.

In a handful of heavy rain, he received an order from Zheng Lang.

The two orders were that Zhou Xin and Zhu Shoulong must hold on for twenty days.

But there is also a secret order, which is unpredictable and must be guarded against, and Zheng Lang did not say it to Yu Jing and other officials.

The secret order is not an order, but only a notice, saying that it will not actually take twenty days, and it may only take ten days, which will be enough for them to resolve this crisis. And in less than ten days, a group of reinforcements will arrive.

Then wait for Zheng Lang's orders and notices to make arrangements. But in these ten days, we must find a way to hold on.

Zhao Xun frowned, even if it was ten days, it was not easy to hold on. Once the enemy desperately attacked the city regardless of sacrifices, with the scale of Anyuan City, Zhao Xun even doubted whether he could hold out for five days.

It's raining harder and heavier, which is a good situation, and it's best to rain for 10 days. With the arrival of reinforcements, it will be easy to defend Anyuan City again. As the water of the Qinjiang River also began to rise. At this time, the Jiaozhi people did a crazy thing.

Seeing the Qinjiang River rising. Pei Qingcheng looked at the head of the city and then at the field.

There are many embankments in the field, and many of them carry rice. The seedlings were alive, revealing a lovely green color.

He gave an order for the soldiers to open the steep gates of the embankments and put the water into them, and in the blink of an eye, many of them were back into lakes and swamps.

This time, there was really chaos in Anyuan City. Some of the people were weeping, and some of them wanted to remove the mud bags that blocked the city gates. Rush out of the city and fight desperately with the Jiaozhi people. Zhao Xun smiled, he sent officials down to appease, don't be afraid, what about Zheng Xianggong, could it be that Zheng Xianggong let them starve to death? Besides, as long as the enemy is defeated, one crop of late rice can be replanted. And he told all the people of the city that it was not long coming. Reinforcements arrived five or six days later. The enemy did not come much, only more than 8,000 people, and as soon as the army came, it could be calmly annihilated.

Now I can't mess with myself, I have to defend the city. The city is in the people, the city is broken, and the people are dead, and with the misery of the Jiaozhi people, there will be nothing left.

It's already the third day, and in another five or six days, it's eight or nine days, and although the reinforcements may not have arrived, they won't be too far away.

Although this release of water and flooding the enclosure made Zhou Xin's heart hurt, it was of great benefit to motivate the people.

The embankments in front spread into lakes, and the number of people who signed up for the army in the back immediately increased. However, there were only five or six thousand pairs of rattan armor in the city, and there was no need for so many people to join the army.

Soon Pei Qingcheng stopped this crazy move.

After Guo Jiayi heard the news, he scolded loudly, and sent someone to stop Pei Qingcheng's approach. The reason why there is a certain siege of the city is that the city is full of temporary militias organized by ordinary people, who have no combat experience and are afraid of fear. Once there is a shortage of weapons, casualties increase, morale is bound to be low. Now, if you set fire to other people's houses, you will flood people's crops, cut off people's livelihoods, and take the initiative to force these people to work hard.

In this way, there are tens of thousands of acres of rice fields, and several embankments have been flooded.

That night, the wind and rain stopped.

The siege continued the next day, but in a different way. The road surface was muddy, but it did not affect the Cochin soldiers much.

Scattered, it was not the method that Pei Qingcheng came up with, but the method that Guo Jiayi came up with. This is also the lucky place of Anyuan City, if Guo Jiayi comes, Song Jun will have more headaches.

When they came to the edge of the moat, they began to line up and shoot arrows.

The city has an advantage, but in this range, the range of the bow and arrow of the Cochin army can also be extended to the city, and the number of Cochin troops is larger, occupying the numerical advantage. Zhao Xun had no choice but to organize the soldiers to raise the rattan card to fight back.

Both sides are protected by shields, and the lethality is not great. However, the consumption of weapons was not good for the Song army, and the arrows were put down, because they could not get out of the city, and they could not be recovered. On the contrary, the Jiaozhi army was able to pick up the arrows shot by the Song army and use them for their own use.

This is Guo Jiayi's weapon consumption strategy.

There are also arrows in Jiaozhi that fall on the head of the city or in the city, but they are all regular armies, and the efficiency of using bows and arrows is far higher than that of the miscellaneous armies of the Song Dynasty, and the consumption of weapons is several times or ten times lower than that of the Song Dynasty.

But this is a conspiracy.

Because there were many Cochin soldiers behind them carrying the crashing wood cut from the nearby mountains and forests, could they sit back and watch them carry the collision wood against the city wall?

Knowing that the consumption of weapons was serious, the Song army had no choice but to do it.

It also made it impossible for the Song army to use gunpowder tactics. Although a temporary gunpowder plant was set up in Guangzhou, the manufacturing cost was still very high, the trebuchet was not accurate, the Jiaozhi people were scattered, the lethality was small, and the use of gunpowder was not worth it.

After nearly an hour of shooting, Zhao Xun reluctantly ordered to reduce the speed of the shooting. If this continues, it is well prepared, and the weapons stored far exceed Guo Jiayi's imagination, and all the arrows will be used up in two days.

Seeing that the speed of the Song army's arrows slowed down, Pei Qingcheng gave the order to attack.

The soldiers rushed to the other side of the moat with the bumper wood.

This can't let them rush over, Zhao Xun asked the herald to concentrate his forces and shoot at these soldiers. He had no choice but to carry the gunpowder rolling wood and stones to the city, although it was wasteful, but for the safety of the city wall, he had to do so.

However, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he said softly: "I didn't think of this idea until now, it's not very smart, and it's not very stupid." ”

"Why?" Zhou Xin didn't quite understand.

"Zhou Anfu, think about the wood in the warehouse."

Zhou Xin thought about it and smiled. It turned out to be ready.

Still, a cochin approached the city wall, and a huge crash of wood hit the wall. The dirt fell in a big chunk.

However, the threat was not long, and under the counteroffensive of the Song army regardless of the cost, it was repulsed one after another.

It's approaching evening. Jiaozhi withdrew his army, but Zhao Xun repeatedly refused the requests of the Jiaozhi people to prevent them from collecting the dead bodies under the city walls. It's a hot day in March. The corpses decayed quickly, which plagued the defenders on the city, but made it more difficult for the Jiaozhi people to attack the city.

For Song Jun's "miserable", Pei Qingcheng was so angry that he jumped like thunder. Of course, he won't reflect on what he did.

On the contrary, because Guo Jiayi's practice in Lianzhou was very "benevolent", the two sides tacitly allowed the recovery of the bodies of soldiers killed in battle. It was only allowed to carry the corpses back to the Cochins, not allowing them to clean up the battlefield. Collect weapons.

On the fifth day, the weather was clear, and after a day of sun exposure, the road surface was also dry.

In the morning, Jiaozhi did not send troops, but continued to cut down big trees, made some more carts, and put the crashing wood on the carts. Make a simple siege engine.

In the afternoon attacked again.

After hitting it in half a day, the city wall of Anyuan City was destroyed in many places. But another day passed.

In the face of the tenacity of the Song army, Pei Qingcheng questioned why Nong Zhigao was able to quickly take Yongzhou City, and he passed five days. Anyuan City is safe and sound?

For this second ancestor, Guo Jiayi has no choice. I had to answer patiently, Nong Zhigao was able to break through Yongzhou City, but it was the cooperation of the barbarians, and the attack inside and outside broke Yongzhou City, otherwise with Nong Zhigao's ability, he would give him a month, and he would not want to take the taller and stronger Yongzhou City. Don't be cranky, about the Song Dynasty Beibu Gulf all the troops gathered together in the two cities, as long as these two cities are taken down, the Song Dynasty army is dragged by the Jiaozhi army in the direction of Yongzhou, and our army can drive straight in.

So far, no reinforcements from the Song Dynasty have arrived, and the army in the direction of Yongzhou has launched a general attack. It's just that because it's separated by mountains and seas, I haven't received any feedback so far.

On the sixth day, the siege continued.

The dead bodies under the city officially decomposed, and Zhao Xun had to let the soldiers cover their noses with towels, and some directly plugged their noses and breathed through their mouths.

This also brought difficulties to the attack of the Jiaozhi people, and many soldiers were reluctant to push the siege carts, even if Pei Qingcheng promised to give a heavy reward after capturing Anyuan City.

And after the initial panic, fear, worry, nervousness, and anger, the militia gradually adapted to this bloody atmosphere. Some people are born in poverty, and they have good archery skills, which increases their lethality. The Song army no longer needed to use many rolling logs, stones, and gunpowder, and only used bows and arrows to attack and retreat the Jiaozhi people again and again.

Pei Qingcheng had no choice but to use the law enforcement team again to kill more than a dozen soldiers who were greedy and unwilling to move forward, and under the threat of death, a large number of soldiers once again pushed the siege vehicle and crashed into the city wall.

In the afternoon, a city wall finally collapsed under the slamming of the city, and together with a dozen soldiers on the head of the city, they were crushed under the mud and could not get up again, and a few soldiers fell outside the city, allowing the Jiaozhi people to be hacked to death, and several more fell on the houses and were injured.

Seeing that there was a gap, Pei Qingcheng immediately ordered his subordinates to rush towards the gap.

The situation was critical, Zhao Xun gave orders continuously, personally came to the gap, and commanded the soldiers on both sides to use bows and arrows and gunpowder bags to suppress the enemy.

He also ordered Zhang Zhixian to go to the city urgently, and called on the barbarians who had bows and arrows at home to organize spontaneously, and used the cover of the houses to release arrows from both sides at the Jiaozhi soldiers who poured in at the gap.

This is the greatest credit of the people.

Despite the gunpowder packs and bows and arrows, many of the Cochins were killed in the city. However, the wall fell in a bad direction, and it fell right on the house, not the street, and the speed of rushing in was not fast. Then the dense crowd of people spontaneously organized, raised arrows to shoot, and some people did not have bows and arrows in their hands, so they found sticks and beat the fish that slipped through the net to death. It is not only to protect the safety of the family, but also to fight money, and to kill a Jiaozhi person is five pieces of money, two pieces of cloth, and five stones of grain. There are many immigrants who may not be able to achieve this harvest at the end of a year.

Then Pei Qingcheng saw a depressed scene, and there was obviously a gap, but that gap was like a black hole that swallowed people without seeing blood, no matter how many soldiers poured in, they were swallowed alive by that black hole.

It was dark again, and Pei Qingcheng had to order the troops to be withdrawn.

It was the most vicious battle in a few days. The Jiaozhi people lost nearly 600 soldiers inside and outside this gap, and the people and militia in the city suffered nearly 400 casualties. But these days, except for the third rainy day off, there were casualties every day in the city, and the people were numb.

Looking at the empty eyes of the common people one after another, Zhou Xin couldn't help but shake his head, others didn't know, but he knew that this war seemed to be the one who took the initiative to attack, but it was actually a war instigated by Zheng Lang. I don't know if Zheng Lang did it right. If he hadn't known some of Zheng Lang's plans, Zhou Xin would have opposed them in his heart at this time.

The wood that Zhou Xin saw came in handy.

Under the command of Zhao Xun, the people brought the wood, rammed the wood down through the gap, and built a strong fence. Seeing that the Song army was building a fence, Pei Qingcheng was anxious, and regardless of the coming night, he urgently ordered the army to go out and attack again.

But this time the Song army had already prepared, gathered a large number of soldiers on both sides of the gap, and let the people shrink in the fence to release arrows, and attacked for more than an hour without success, but the fence was all erected. Pei Qingcheng had to order the withdrawal of the army again, and sent someone to question Guo Jiayi.

Guo Jiayi was so angry that he was about to scold again, he had encountered many difficulties here, but the city wall of Lianzhou was too strong, but this second ancestor actually let a small Anyuan City stop it. He angrily asked the herald to reply, you are a pig, why didn't you take advantage of the Song army's panic at that time to storm that gap while continuing to crash into other city walls! Two or three city walls collapsed at the same time, and the Song army blocked your army with their hands! And then another idea came up.

Pei Qingcheng was scolded so much that he didn't dare to keep silent.

Starting from the seventh day, it actually dragged on for a day, which was beneficial to the Song army for one day. At this time, the people in the city were calculating when the reinforcements of the Song Dynasty would arrive, and Zhao Xun was also calculating. There are still three or four days to go.

But when I got up and looked, the Cochin people changed their tricks again.

In front of the soldiers in the city, he began to dig tunnels. Three dirt hills were piled up with mud dug out of the tunnel. Not only can you attack the city from the tunnel, but you can also use the height of the earth mountain to suppress the advantage of the city wall.

At the same time continue to ram the city walls with crashing cars.

In the afternoon, two walls were knocked down one after the other.

However, because Jiaozhi divided his troops to dig tunnels and pile up dirt mountains, the offensive was not fierce, so two fences were erected in the city again.

But if it continues like this, Anyuan City becomes more and more dangerous. (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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