The Taiping Army took the city lightly!

When the news spread, even if the people were mediocre and unclear, at this time, they knew that the Taiping army had overwhelmed the Songjiang officers and troops in the situation.XshuOTXt.CoM especially the specific process of the blockade and natural disasters that shook the city wall spread, and it changed the minds of a large number of people. The army was killed under the city, and a few days later, there was heaven to help open the city wall, what else could it be if it didn't get the mandate of heaven?

Taking advantage of this natural disaster, which was not too strict, Chen Wu's previous pretending to be a ghost in Taiping County was also mentioned and spread.

Several ghosts and gods are tied together, and there is a real earthquake to prove it, and the effect is extremely amazing.

As the situation of the blockade of the city initially stabilized, the 800 cavalry of the official army was also forced to withdraw to Wushan, and the Taiping army, which did not suffer much losses, quickly dispatched. The army split into two routes and began to divide up to pacify the four counties around the blockade. Affected by the earthquake, there are also disaster relief and disaster relief actions of the Taiping Army in the closed city, and after the army arrived, the county order of Tonglu County directly opened the city to ask for surrender.

The two counties of Pingjin and Gyeongcheon also surrendered one after another after a little resistance.

Only the county order of Taiquan County chose to defend to the death, but there was no way to fight against the Taiping army.

By the time the time of June, the Taiping army had already taken over the entire blockade of the city.

The land of the Three Mansions is in hand!

As the third batch of nearly 2,000 recruits was about to complete their training and join the combat sequence, the Taiping Army's advantage in Songjiang was further amplified. Just wait for the capture of the last Osan Mansion, and then besiege Dengzhou from all sides and capture the entire Songjiang County.

Affected by this, the land price and the price of the shop industry in Osan Province, which bear the brunt, fell in response.

With the momentum displayed by the Taiping army after entering Songjiang, no one thought that Wushan Mansion would be able to block the Taiping army's attack. Some wealthy people who could not trust the Taiping army began to sell their properties one after another to prepare for escape. They were not even willing to go through Daqing Pass, which was controlled by the Taiping army, and contacted the cargo ships on the Qingjiang waterway in advance to prepare to leave Songjiang County.

Only a few people still have confidence in Dengzhou and hide in Dengzhou County in advance.

However, these actions that directly led to the panic of the people of Wushan and Dengzhou did not affect the economy and stability of the two places too much. After the Taiping Army entered Songjiang, strict military discipline, taking the initiative to suppress bandits, and providing disaster relief and rescue in the earthquake all clearly conveyed a certain signal. Therefore, most of the aristocrats and families chose to continue to wait and see, and even a few radical and gambling wealthy businessmen boldly spent a lot of money, taking advantage of the low price to buy the property sold by others.

In a certain way, this is a kind of expression of confidence in the Taiping army.

The actions of the wealthy businessmen in Osan spread to Dengzhou, which was already gloomy and bleak, and even aroused the anger of Wei Chichang. What a bullshit "Mandate of Heaven" first, and now even the merchants of Osan have indirectly proved that they are optimistic about the Taiping Army with speculative actions, which is undoubtedly a humiliation for him, the governor of Songjiang.

However, after his temper was vented, he had to accept the facts at hand.

After the last desperate plan proposed by the state of Gouda was rejected, they have lost their most suitable and last chance. As for the forces behind the Wei Chi Changtong guò, they put pressure on the center of the empire in an attempt to get the empire to transfer troops to Songjiang to quell the rebellion, but it also ended in failure.

It's not that the empire doesn't want to take care of Matsue, a large county with an extremely important status, but it's really powerless.

The three-sided battles against Rena, Oman, and Wudou Midao attracted the entire attention of the Empire. Elsewhere, there have been many small-scale rebellions. If Daqingguan was still in the hands of the official army, the empire might consider dealing with the weakest of the four hostile forces, the Taiping army, first. But with Daqing Pass, the Taiping Army was the most difficult to deal with for a while.

Therefore, before the empire withdraws its hand, Matsue-gun can only rely on himself!

This reply made Wei Chichang angry and at the same time, he couldn't help but be extremely frustrated. He knows very well that the current situation in Songjiang will not be able to support that time.

After capturing Dengzhou, the Taiping army clearly felt the urgency of time. Fearing that the threat from one direction of the Lena dynasty or the Kingdom of Oman would be lifted, the empire would withdraw its hand, so he accelerated his move more and more. In mid-June, the Taiping army ignored the threat of the envoy of the Kingdom of Oman to "make the secret treaty between the two sides public if he did not go south", and despite the troubles caused by the continuous expansion, he forcibly sent troops to attack Oshan.

Chen Wu knew very well that the sequelae caused by blind expansion could be cleaned up slowly after mastering the entire Songjiang and creating the established facts. Even if it takes a year or two to do this, it's definitely worth it. Otherwise, if there were unexpected changes in the external shape, the development momentum of the Taiping army would likely suffer an unprecedented setback.

The fact that the current situation is very good cannot hide the fact that the Taiping army is still very weak! Like Wudou Rice Road, it has been painstakingly operated for decades, and once it is launched, it can connect the two counties in a short time. Chen Wu tried his best, but he could only fight slowly one house at a time, this is the gap between the two sides!

Time waits for no man!

Even if he struggled to eat and had indigestion, he had to do his best to eat Songjiang's big fat meat first.

June 21st!

After leaving a wing of troops at Yuyang, Chishang, Fengcheng, and Daqingguan, Chen Wu mobilized all the forces of the Taiping army, more than 7,000 infantry troops, all horse teams and infantry archers, and arrived at Wushan with a large number of baggage and siege weapons.

Although there are a large number of quick recruits who have just completed their training, they are still quite strong overall due to the large increase in the total number of recruits.

Under the guard and cover of the horse caravan, the army camped outside the west gate of Osan Province.

From the moment the camp was established, the original situation of the officers and troops of Songjiang County was completely changed. In addition to Dengzhou itself, the communication with the last province was also cut off by the Taiping army. On the contrary, starting from Daqingguan, Yuyang, Chishang, and Fengcheng were connected to each other, but formed a sphere of influence of the Taiping Army that was similar to the character "匸". And the army of the Taiping army happened to plug the last gap.

For the first time, Wei Chichang regretted his decision to be conservative and sluggish.

But at this time, it is too late to make any saving moves. There was only one direction left in Dengzhou, which was firmly monitored by the Taiping army along the way, and two key bridges were also watched. In case the 1st Garrison Brigade really gave up Dengzhou and took advantage of the Taiping Army's attack on Osan to attack from behind, then the Taiping Army could calmly decide whether to sabotage the road and delay time, or abandon Osan and take the initiative to turn back and attack.

Such passivity doomed the First Garrison Brigade to no possibility of desperate success.

As a result, Gaoda State could only lament while powerlessly watching the connection between Dengzhou and Osan being cut off. The Taiping army was arranged in an orderly manner under the city of Wushan, and then took the lead in starting the river reclamation operation.

This will be the longest siege battle since the capture of Wu'an.

The reason is very simple, in the past siege wars, the reason why the Taiping army was able to break the city in a short period of time was either because there were special circumstances that could be exploited, or because the defenders in the city were under-armed, they attacked and consumed, and then quickly broke the city. But this time, in the face of the heavily defended Wushan Mansion, the Taiping Army really has no loopholes to exploit.

First of all, the defenders in the city of Osan are sufficient.

In addition to the 1,500 officers and soldiers, in the past few months, the Wushan Mansion itself has also started to train 1,000 people and distributed weapons and armor. In the battle to defend the city, the newly trained 1,000 men were not necessarily worse than the recruits of the Taiping army, and may even be exceeded.

This means that there may be 2,500 officers and troops in the city, which is four times more than the 600 people in Yuyang Mansion.

Secondly, there are still 800 cavalry in Osan Mansion!

In the Taiping army's previous sieges, almost all of the defending sides did not have cavalry in the city. Even if there were cavalry patrolling around him, Chen Wu also made all kinds of countermeasures, and the threat was not great. But this time, because there were no towns around for cavalry to station, supply, provide intelligence and cover, Osan Province put cavalry into the city and did not seal the city gate.

This means that when the Taiping army attacked the city, it was always necessary to guard against 800 cavalry from attacking from the city, and quickly retreated to the city after a surprise attack.

There is no way to let go of the attack, which is undoubtedly another big impact on the Taiping army.

Two reasons determined the course of the battle at Ossan.

Chen Wu was well prepared for this, so he repeatedly told the Taiping army that when attacking Wushan, they must not be quick and greedy, but slow down the pace and fight steadily. The pattern of the Taiping Army cannot be delayed for too long on the entire imperial territory. It can be placed in Songjiang County, but it has completed the division and encirclement of the remaining officers and troops in Songjiang. Wushan, who defended the city, was isolated, and when the Taiping army was approaching the city, there were still Yuyang, Chishang, and Fengcheng in the rear to provide a steady stream of manpower and material resources.

As long as the small situation of Songjiang County can be completed before the big situation of the entire empire, the Taiping army will be the victor.

Under the guidance of Chen Wu's thinking, the Taiping army's siege pace was very stable. After careful attrition, it took three days to fill the moat, and then began a tentative attack. Due to the constant preparedness of the cavalry counterattack in the city, the defenders in Osan Mansion were actually very uncomfortable. Although the cavalry's two battles out of the city successfully killed and wounded many Taiping troops and delayed the progress of the siege, they also suffered a lot of losses.

In this stalemate and attrition situation, Chen Wu only had to let his generals take turns to organize attacks every day. He boldly delegated power and set aside more than half of his time to coordinate the resource mobilization, talent recruitment, and military expansion of the three governments.

In addition, he is also preparing another thing that will hopefully allow Dengzhou to go down without a fight.

Blockade the Qingjiang waterway!

Because of Songjiang's topography, almost all the rest of the goods produced had to be shipped to the north, except for a part of the bulk grain that had to be transported south to Tiannan County to supply the Tiannan Army of Nanfeng Fortress. Part of it is shipped to Daqingguan on land, and part of it is transported to Donghai County through the Qingjiang waterway, and then unloaded and transshipped from Donghai.

If only the Daqing Pass is controlled, the wealthy merchants and chambers of commerce in Dengzhou will inevitably try to change the Qingjiang waterway. But what if while controlling Daqingguan, the Qingjiang waterway will be blocked across the river with iron chains?

Joining on land and water is tantamount to choking the lifeblood of Songjiang County's trade routes.

Those world-famous tycoons and chambers of commerce in Dengzhou were accused of the main shipping channels, will they jump in a hurry?

If they supported the governor of Songjiang, Chen Wu would impose a high tax on them, and even directly ban their caravans. As long as the time drags on a little longer, this trick alone can force them into the arms of the Taiping army.

If the merchant forces in the entire Dengzhou Mansion abandoned the official government......

Chen Wu had already anticipated the final outcome.