Tai Shici's attack on Wu County was carried out at about the same time as Liu Feng, and before Liu Feng defeated Qu'a, he took the lead in taking Youquan County with an army of one million and pulling out one of the only two nails south of Wu County. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But correspondingly, Tai Shici's losses are also very large.

According to the policy formulated by Xun Yu before, Tai Shici belonged to the partial division, containing the Wu soldiers south of Wu County, preventing the escape of the Wu County clan, and preventing the two counties from going north to support Wu County, and the requirement was to take the two counties before Liu Feng's side attacked Wu County.

But obviously, Tai Shici is unwilling to play a supporting role, and he is eager to make meritorious contributions, even if he does not have enough siege equipment, he also relies on his own bravery and the lives of his subordinates to forcibly break through the defense of Youquan.

The goal was achieved, but the result made Liu Feng dissatisfied, not to mention the loss of more than half, not to mention the full effort, let the fist escape hundreds of thousands of people, including the original county soldiers nearly 200,000, in order to quickly stabilize the fist, Tai Shici did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, and finally these people fled into Haiyan, continued to resist, and strengthened Haiyan's strength in vain.

After Liu Feng took Qu'a, he sent someone to apply for Tai Shici, so that he could quickly restore the order of Youquan and stabilize the place, as long as Haiyan did not have the intention of sending people north to Wu County, there was no need to rush to attack, everything was to restore strength as the main task.

Therefore, Tai Shi Ci waited for a few months in Youquan, regained his strength, cleaned up the Inhuman forces, developed the economy, and with the help of the rear, replenished a considerable part of the troops, plus the soldiers recruited from Youquan, the strength was even better than before. Although the previous strong attack suffered heavy losses, it was not without effect, at least some of these people who survived were directly promoted to the elite. Tai Shici, who felt that his strength was already strong, left enough men to defend the city after consulting Liu Feng, and led troops to surround Haiyan.

Tai Shici is recovering his strength, and Haiyan is certainly not idle, and is also actively preparing for the war. Fortunately, Wu County's focus is on the north, and they don't pay much attention to the south, or they are trying to block Liu Feng's main force in the north, even if something goes wrong, Tai Shici leads his troops to kill, and they have enough ability to deal with it.

Therefore, Tai Shici was lucky, Wu County did not send a single soldier to the two southern counties at all, and he was even more dominant than Liu Feng, with a steady stream of support from the rear. If nothing else, just say that the Huiji Water Army, under the leadership of Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai, harassed the port of Haiyan from time to time after the siege of Tai Shici, and we know the situation in the south of Wu County.

This time, Tai Shi Ci learned the previous lesson, and did not attack the city by brute force, but slowly besieged the city, consuming the patience in the city, just like Liu Feng surrounded the Dantu, he had more time. Although most of the siege equipment manufactured by Huiji was transported to Liu Feng's side, Tai Shi Ci was able to get some every time, and as more and more siege equipment arrived, Tai Shi Ci finally launched a general attack, and in just two days, he broke through Haiyan, and the speed was no slower than Liu Feng's attack on Dantu.

This time, Haiyan's people finally did not escape, the north was blocked by Tai Shici, and the navy of Wu County in the south did not arrive, and the few small broken ships in Haiyan had already been solved by the Huiji Naval Army, Haiyan's officers and soldiers, in addition to being killed in battle, were captured, and even the chief of Youquan, who had fled into Haiyan before, was not spared this time and was captured by the Huiji Army.

The time is already October of the fourth year of the first peace, and it is winter, Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu in the north have truceed due to heavy snow, but the land of Jiangdong is not very cold, and even snow has not fallen. Liu Feng left some people to guard the Dantu, focusing on preventing the soldiers and horses of Wu County from raiding from the Yangtze River, and then led a large army to the city of Biling.

Piling is also a very famous place, the late Spring and Autumn Period is Yanling Yi, that is, the fief of Yanling Jizi of the great sage of Wu State who resigned the position of the monarch several times, Qin changed the Yi to the township, the county was first placed in the Western Han Dynasty, and then changed its name several times, and later changed to the current Biling.

When Liu Feng arrived, Biling did not face the enemy like Qu'a and Dantu before, but everything was as usual. The great clans of Wu County did not lay any more defenses here, the gates of Biling were wide open, and the county soldiers did not look nervous, and those who should guard the city gates guarded the city gates, and those who should patrol the city walls inspected the city walls - although there was no one who entered or exited the city gates.

Liu Feng was not surprised by this, so the scouts who had already sent the news to the intelligence hall had already arrived, and he knew that there must be a reason for it, and after the army arrived, he stopped a few miles away, waiting for someone to come from the city.

Sure enough, not long after, the chief of Biling came to visit with the county magistrate and the county lieutenant.

Biling Chang is a scribe in his forties, surnamed Lin, according to Xun You quietly told Liu Feng that this is a person with 5th order strength, and he is in charge of a small county, which is Qu Cai.

"General Liu, this is the tax and population register of the whole county of Piling, all here, what is the situation in Piling, the general has also seen it, we are here, we are here to surrender to the general." After exchanging names and greetings, the county magistrate Lin spoke first. In his hand, he held a pile of thick accounts that he had received from the county next to him.

"Where did County Magistrate Lin start with this? The same is the Han courtier, said that the surrender is a little too much, the Wu County clan disregards Jun'en, rampant in the township, I am waiting to come here, is for the Han Dynasty Sheji's permanence, a few are willing to return anyway, in the next can not beg. Liu Feng motioned to the guards around him to take over the accounts and hand them over to Xun You for inspection, and he followed the words of County Magistrate Lin.

"Thank you for the general's understanding, Biling is the place where Jizi is fiefdom and the mausoleum, if you can not disturb the sages, it is the best." County Magistrate Lin breathed a sigh of relief.

"Our company is very happy that County Magistrate Lin has this choice, but I don't know why a few people would make such a decision, don't the Wu County clans ignore this?" Liu Feng asked coldly.

"General Mingjian, maybe the Wu County clan did not mean to block the general here at all, after the news of the fall of Dantu came, within a few days the Wu County clan began to evacuate the county, not only the big clan evacuated, but even the local clan was the same, the lower official was originally the county magistrate, and he has been elevated, the county Cheng and the county lieutenant were newly appointed when the Wu County clan withdrew, and it has only been two months so far, just to deal with the general here. As for why they are like this, and what their plans are, I don't know. County Magistrate Lin replied.

Liu Feng looked at Xun You who was looking through the account books, Xun You sensed Liu Feng's gaze, raised his head, and then bowed his head, signaling that what County Magistrate Lin said was correct, and then continued: "According to the above display, at present, the population of Biling City is less than 800,000, the army is only more than 100,000, and most of them are old and weak, and there are almost no taxes, and almost everything has been taken away when the Wu County clan withdrew. Xun You said.

"I see, if this is true, it means that the Wu County clan has abandoned this place and is waiting for us in the next place. It's just that, in addition to Wuxi, there is only Wu County itself, do they really want to refuse the city and defend it? Liu Feng said, "Wuxi's recent intelligence has not returned?"

"Not yet, but according to previous information, Wuxi has built a large number of city walls before, and it is estimated that Yan Baihu and the last army of Wu County will be assembled here." Bai Jian said.

"Very good, County Magistrate Lin, I know your intentions, you can continue to serve as the head of Piling, take care of the former residence of the sages, and after I sweep the Wu County, I will come back to pay tribute to the sages." I won't enter the city, and after you go back, pacify the people, resume production as soon as possible, pay attention to the movements of strangers, and don't give them a chance to make trouble. I'll leave some people to help you. ”

Liu Feng was very satisfied with the soldiers who surrendered without a fight. Regardless of the reason, this is the first county town to take refuge in itself, perhaps it is a recognition of its own strength, and in the future, it may not be necessary to attack the city county by county, as before.

This is what Liu Feng dreamed of, just like when Gongsun Zan was extremely strong, he put out a large army and walked around, and easily included the three counties of Qingzhou in his bag. Even now, these three counties are under the control of Gongsun Chan - albeit only on the surface. (To be continued.) )