Chapter 387 (Thank you for looking for the monthly tickets of the two brothers of Gillian and Gen 087 class, especially thanks to the generous reward of the moshaocong brothers, today's three watches, add one more for the moshaocong brothers.) ）

After entering the territory of Shandong, the army immediately entered a state of combat readiness, and the entire western part of Shandong from Dongchang Mansion to Gunzhou Mansion was basically the control area of the thieves, and as soon as the army arrived, it encountered sporadic resistance.

Song Nan ordered Lu Wan to lead 3,000 cavalry to the east along the north of Jinan Mansion to clear the remnants of the enemy and recover the county occupied by the thieves; Lu Wan knew that this was Song Nan's test of his ability, so he led the army to sweep away for a day and a night, and soon drove all the thieves in northern Shandong to clear out, recaptured a small number of thieves stationed in the army, and compressed them to the area of Gunzhou.

Five days later, the army went south, thousands of thieves in Dongchang Province fled to defend Gunzhou, the army was like a bamboo, advanced to the area of Dongpingzhou, and was only dozens of miles away from the main force of the thieves and soldiers in the Gunzhou Mansion.

Song Nan ordered the army to stop advancing, and the Quartet sent dozens of groups of scouts to report the news to understand the deployment of the thieves in the Gunzhou Mansion, and at the same time make corresponding adjustments. Due to the pressure of the army, the 20,000 soldiers and horses of Yang Hu's department occupying Gunzhou have also reduced the pressure on Jinan Mansion, and the Tianjin Sanwei who stubbornly defended Jinan Mansion finally did not have to nest in Jinan Mansion.

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In the Gunzhou Mansion, Yang Hu received a letter from Liu Liu from the Feiyun Ferry in Pei County on the north bank of the Yellow River, which said that Feiyundu was about to be broken, and demanded that Yang Hu must defend Gunzhou to the death and gain time for Liu Liu to fully occupy Feiyundu, otherwise the men and horses would be compressed by officers and soldiers in these dozen prefectures and counties north of the Yellow River, and there would be no room for maneuver.

Yang Hu was anxious, he proposed to give up the south to cross the Yellow River, occupy Gunzhou and then go west into Henan, but Liu Liu did not listen to his own construction, Liu Liu said that the soldiers and horses on hand have exceeded 50,000 people, enough to occupy a stable territory; It is unrealistic to gain a foothold in the north of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, and only by crossing the Yangtze River and occupying Nanjing can it be possible to gain a foothold.

The southern part of the country is weak in troops, but it is a rich land, based on the south of the Yangtze River, and can also rely on the Yangtze River as a danger to block the pursuit of officers and soldiers.

Yang Hu also thought that this plan could work at that time, but now it seems that he took it for granted, and to say that the occupation of Nanjing, even a small Yellow River was crossed no less than seven or eight times, and he did not cross it at a painful price; Now that the officers and soldiers are pressing the border, this matter is even more difficult to do, and they are stubbornly defending Gunzhou? Damn, what's the use of guarding it? If you can't take the ferry, sooner or later you will die.

Although the officers and soldiers in the north are nearly 40,000 troops, it didn't take much effort to take Gunzhou, and there was not much damage to the city defense, and the 20,000 soldiers and horses on hand were enough to hold the city and delay the pace of the officers and soldiers.

"Immediately drive out the whole city to strengthen the city's defenses and help defend the city, and men, women, and children must participate. In addition, we stepped up the production of feather arrows, prepared a lot of rolling wood and stones, collected civil oil and other things, and attacked the city with a number of officers and soldiers, and Lao Tzu gave them some powerful taste. ”

In the lobby of the Gunzhou Mansion, Yang Hu summoned a large group of thieves who had been named the Great General of the People's Republic of China and the Great General of the Zhenguo to give an order to defend Gunzhou.

Qi Yanming, the founding general and the original ruffian leader of Wen'an County, frowned and said: "Generalissimo Yang, there are not enough rolling wood and stones in the city, and you don't dare to open the city gate, where can you find it?" ”

Yang Hu Senran said: "This is stupid enough, there are thousands of houses in the city, and there can be less wood and stone?" If you pick up their house, the beams are the best wood, and the stones on the walls are the best stones. ”

Qi Yanming scratched his head and said: "But didn't Tianshuai say more than ten days ago, let's rectify military discipline, not burn, kill and loot, and not allow nuisance to the people?" Where do all the people of the city live after they have stripped their houses? ”

Yang Hu looked at Qi Yanming for a long time, and suddenly laughed and said, "Old Qi, do you also believe in Tianshuai?" Tianshuai said to treat the people like parents, why don't you go to the street to call the people to go to their parents one by one? Why don't you kneel and kowtow to them? It's stupid, what are we rebelling for, not for ourselves? Tianshuai listened to the words of several scholars who took refuge in Dongchang Mansion, saying that they love the people and respect the people, what autumn is not guilty, and what gold, silver and jewelry are shared by everyone, they are all fooling the people and the soldiers below, otherwise who will follow us and lose their heads? ”

Qi Yanming scratched his head and said, "I see." ”

Yang Hu said: "Go and prepare immediately, the officers and soldiers have rested for a day, and tomorrow they will come to the city, today must be all prepared, if the people are disobedient, will they use me to teach you?" ”

Qi Yanming said: "Immediately cut and kill." ”

Yang Hu said: "Yes, you are not confused yet. ”

A general said: "Yang Dashuai, what's the use of us guarding Gunzhou City like this?" Will the army of Tianshuai come back to save us? If we don't save it, we'll be a lonely city. ”

Yang Hu glared at him and said: "How can Tianshuai ignore us, Tianshuai's letter said that the battle at the Feilong Ferry is in full swing, and two thousand soldiers and horses have successfully crossed the river, and the ferry can be completely captured in one day." After occupying the ferry, Tianshuai will lead a large army back to aid Gunzhou, and when the time comes, we should break through the siege of the officers and soldiers to the south of the Yellow River, and then cross the Yangtze River to capture Nanjing, and the officers and soldiers will be beyond the reach of the dust. Did you know? There are beauties in Jiangnan, and there have always been the most Jiangnan women in the harem of the emperor Lao'er, and when the time comes, each of you will get ten or eight, how to sleep and how to sleep. ”

The leaders looked at each other, and their mouths were rubbed together.

Yang Hu looked at everyone's expressions with satisfaction, and secretly prayed in his heart that Liu Liu could really take the Feiyun Ferry as stated in the letter, and then come back to welcome him to break through; Feiyundu has attacked so many times, and it stands to reason that he should be successful.

This day in the city of Gunzhou became a hell on earth, the wolf-like thieves began to drive the people of the city to participate in the defense of the city, and what was more cruel was that the people had to tear down their houses with their own hands under the drive of the thieves, and moved the beams and bricks and stones to the city as rolling wood and stones to defend the city, and their hearts were like knives.

The thieves were as vicious as wolves, punching and kicking at the slightest slack, and slew dozens of people in the streets to warn those who would not comply; Most of the people were like silent lambs, but there were also rebellious people who rose up to resist, dozens of riots broke out in the streets and alleys, more than 50 thieves were smashed into pulp with stones and sticks by the rioters, but the rioters did not do anything more, and hundreds of people involved were shot and killed by the thieves, who hung their heads on long poles on both sides of the street and gurgled in the wind.

Tens of thousands of people in the entire city of Gunzhou were forced to carry wood and stones back and forth, but there was a dead silence, except for the scolding of the thieves and the sound of whipping, no one made a sound, even the baby in the swaddling clothes opened their eyes wide and did not dare to cry, and the whole city was like a city of death.

On the morning of the next day, as Yang Hu expected, the main force of officers and soldiers arrived in two places in the north and west of the city.

Song Nan now has the three guards of Xuanfu, the three guards of Tianjin, and the five thousand cavalry of Jinyiwei, which is more than 40,000, and it is the first time to command such a large-scale army and horse to attack Jiancheng, Song Nan's feelings are very excited; After riding a horse to the city to inspect the city defenses of Gunzhou City, Song Nan's heart sank to the bottom; This fortified city is by no means light yì can be obtained, two zhang six or seven feet high city wall, it can be basically deduced that the thickness of the city wall should be about one zhang five or six, there is a large space behind the tall battlements, at least seven or eight thousand people can stand on the two walls to defend the city, and a large number of city defense equipment can be placed.

The city is basically full, it is conceivable that the number of thieves is far more than that, there are at least tens of thousands of thieves in this city, even if they fight in the field, their own army may not be able to guarantee annihilation, not to mention that there is a strong city wall to defend it, it is even more difficult.

Song Nan silently returned to the formation, convened several henchmen and generals to discuss countermeasures, Song Nan didn't want to force the attack, because the price was too great, he knew the disadvantages of the besieging side when he defended Xin'an County, a complete strong attack could not bring victory, even if the number was several times that of the enemy, Song Nan didn't want his soldiers and horses to die in vain.

"Dadu Governor, it seems to be a tough battle, I didn't say it, I am willing to lead the first wave of the forward army to attack, and whoever is not afraid of death will always win."

Xu Tai and Jiang Bin are friends, the tempers of the two are also somewhat similar, they are all a desperate posture, in the Xuanfu and the Tartars also fought hard several battles, once led a thousand infantry to shake the Tartars 800 cavalry, hard one by one life exchange, the last thousand soldiers left 300 people, the Tartars left 400 cavalry but took the initiative to retreat and was driven to run the record.

Song Nan looked at Xu Tai and said with a smile: "General Xu is a brave general, I have heard of this for a long time, but it is not your turn to be a pioneer." ”

Xu Tai hurriedly said: "What? Don't you believe in the power of lowly office? ”

Song Nan said: "It's not that I don't believe you, it's that I haven't reached that point, the loss is too great, the vicious battle has just begun, there is still the main force of the thieves on the north bank of the Yellow River, let's redeem all the children here, how to deal with the thieves behind?" ”

Xu Tai was silent, and Lu Wan spoke: "What the Metropolitan Governor said is that the cost of a hard attack is too great, and it is best to have clever moves. ”

Song Nan said: "Do you have any ideas?" ”

Lu Wan said: "I haven't thought it through yet, before I arrived at the city, I thought about the art of breaking the city, and I wanted to ask the adults to bombard the city gate or city wall with a cannon, and the city can be broken by destroying one place, but now it seems that it will not be possible." ”

Hou Dabiao said: "Why not? The city walls cannot be broken, and the city gates are always shattered. ”

Song Nan shook his head and said: "There are obvious traces of earth and stone near the city gate, it is obvious that the city gate hole has been sealed, and the thieves must have sealed the city gate hole, and they still can't enter after blasting the city gate open." ”

Lu Wan said: "What the lord said is that the city gate must be sealed. ”

Hou Dabiao and Xu Tai didn't believe it, Song Nan called Zhang Ning, launched three cannons aimed at the city gate and fired six or seven cannons in a row, and the city gate was smashed by the bombardment, but after the hole was opened, dense sandbags were piled up in the hole of the city gate, without a trace of gap, and it was really sealed.

"Holy shit, are these thieves going to bury themselves alive in the city?" Xu Tai scolded.

Song Nan sighed and said: "Set up camp first, it's useless to be in a hurry, I'll think of a way, Xu Tai and Hou Dabiao, you each lead a thousand cavalry around the city to see if there is a breakthrough in the city defense, Lord Lu, take people to set up camp." ”

The crowd was helpless and took the order to go; Song Nan smiled at Zhang Yong, who was following him, and said, "Grandpa Zhang, you can also go and rest." ”

Zhang Yongyi smiled and said: "Governor, the first battle must be fought beautifully, so that the court will be impressed." ”

Song Nan smiled slightly: "What Gonggong Zhang said is that it is precisely because it is the first major battle that I am so cautious, although it is feasible to attack, but it is not the best policy, Gonggong Zhang will not think that I am afraid of the enemy." ”

Zhang Yong laughed and said: "What Lord Song said, I, Zhang Yong, am not convinced by anyone, but I am a five-body surrender to Lord Song, as long as you Lord Song want to, there is nothing that cannot be done, my lord is in charge of the army, and I, the prison army, will not drag you back." ”