Twenty thousand Tang troops were dispatched in full swing, and brought all the siege equipment to the city like a tide.

Li Hongji stood behind and commanded the elite cavalry to supervise the battle. Soon someone climbed the wall, but there was only one battalion of troops on the top of the city.

"No, I ask for support. There are too many enemies, so we can't stop them!"

After more than a month of tossing, even the patient will relax. Some people are even used to it. If they don’t see Tang Jun one day, they will not be able to sleep.

But they did not expect that Li Hongji would observe every time he tried. Today, he felt that the time was ripe and immediately issued an order to attack the city.

The Zhou army in Yingzhou City was indeed half a beat slower. After a while, the Tang army had successfully occupied the city. The Tang army continued to climb up. Seeing that the situation was not good, Yang Guangyi led his troops to retreat and prepared to join forces and fight again.

For a time, the city was covered with blood, most of which were from the Zhou army, and there were many corpses of the Tang army at the base of the city wall. They used their flesh and blood to open up a path of merit.

"What? The Tang army has attacked in!"

Li Chongjin did not expect that the Tang army broke through the city so quickly, and he immediately dispatched troops to block the attack. However, the Tang army was in full swing, but the Zhou army was depressed and soldiers began to flee.

When Li Chongjin saw this scene, he knew that it would be futile to continue fighting, so he ordered a retreat, but more than 10,000 people were crowded at the city gate and could not get out for a moment. His order was very wrong. More people were squeezed to death and trampled to death than those killed by the Tang army.

The people in the city watched this scene in horror. The disaster was too sudden and they were not prepared at all.

Although Li Hongji had military talents, he was really not very good. After entering the city, he did not restrain his soldiers and allowed them to rob him everywhere. This made the people of Yingzhou suffer.

"Mom, mom, let go of my mom!"

"God kills you, I'll fight you!"

"Dad, don't-"

"Let go, you let go, ah..."

Tragedies began to take place in the city. With the Zhou army's escape, the Tang army in the city became more unscrupulous.

After leaving Yingzhou, Li Chongjin ran for more than ten miles before he came to his senses. He had more than 10,000 troops, why did he run?

Looking at the black smoke rising in Yingzhou City, Li Chongjin knew that the city was over, but he could not give up on the people, otherwise he would be over.

"Come here, go and pick up the people in the city immediately. If you can save one..."

Li Chongjin's words were not tough, because he didn't know what was like in the city. Tang Jun obviously wouldn't be polite. Thinking about the support from the people before, he suddenly felt a little regretful.

However, before the responding troops arrived at the city gate, a large number of people suddenly flocked out. Li Chongjin looked closely and saw a group of people behind him fighting against the Tang army.

Li Chongjin was a little surprised because there were only a hundred people, half of them were ragged and the other half were neatly dressed. Each of them held a stick in his hand, and three people in groups resisted the Tang army.

"Who is this!" Li Chongjin couldn't help asking.

"Go back to the commander-in-chief, those who are from the Beggars' Sect, half of the supply in our city are transported here!"

"Beggars' Sect..."

When Li Chongjin heard this name, he felt very uncomfortable. He looked back at his sergeant. His soldiers were actually not as good as beggars!

When the people who were receiving the support arrived, the Beggars' Sect breathed a sigh of relief. In order to rescue the people, Yingzhou branched out more than 100 Beggars' Sect disciples, but now there are only more than 20 left.

Although they have been trained, most of them have never been on the battlefield, so they use their lives to protect blind dates, which makes many people respect them.

When the Tang army saw the Zhou army coming back, they did not attack rashly, but retreated back to the city. Li Chongjin was so angry that he wanted to curse himself.

They were in good condition in the city, but now they are in a different situation. Although he could go to Bozhou behind him, Yingzhou was lost like this?

After counting the number of people, there were only more than 8,000 left in the Zhou army. In fact, not many people died in battle, and most of them escaped.

Thinking that there were at least 10,000 Tang troops in the city, Li Chongjin felt powerless and sent people to find the separated soldiers and asked the court for help.

But he really didn't know how to speak. Now he was not up or retreating. His reputation for being a lifetime was ruined, and he really underestimated Li Hongji.

...

Although Li Chongjin dared not say it, the news still reached Bianliang. Chai Rong was furious when he learned that he had lost Yingzhou.

"Waste, a group of waste, guarding the city, can't even beat you. What's the point of using me?"

Chai Rong sat on the dragon throne, and none of the ministers below dared to speak. It doesn’t matter if they lose the battle, but if they lose their territory, it would be too big.

The Tang Kingdom has always been eyeing the Great Zhou, and several neighboring countries are also afraid of him, so the Great Zhou can compete with him.

But now that he lost Yingzhou, his morale was very detrimental to the Zhou Dynasty, especially when he lost his territory as soon as he ascended the throne, how could Chai Rong accept it?

"No, I must personally fight for the imperial dynasty this time. I don't believe that he is so powerful. If he is not solved, he will eventually be a big trouble for my Great Zhou!"

This time, no one was organizing it. I thought that if I just guard it, the Tang Kingdom would not do anything to them.

Unexpectedly, the appearance of Li Hongji changed the situation of the war. After taking Yingzhou, Li Hongji immediately sent someone to ask for more troops, using Yingzhou as a breakthrough point, and he wanted to march towards the Central Plains!

After Li Jing learned the news, he realized that this was an opportunity and immediately sent Li Jingda to lead an army of 80,000 north to cooperate with Li Hongji to attack the Great Zhou!

The situation in the south is urgent, and war reports are delivered every day, but Guo Hao is very leisurely in the north. He puts the soldiers and horses and the Yiwu Jiedushi in the same place. The two of them can dispatch 20,000 soldiers and horses, and they are not afraid of Khitan attacks at all.

Seven days later, Guo Hao received news that the Southern Tang Dynasty had launched a large-scale invasion, and the 100,000 troops had set out. Chai Rong asked the Privy Councilor Zheng Renhui to be responsible for state affairs and led a 100,000 troops to personally lead the army, so that he must defend the north!

After receiving this news, Guo Hao frowned. In his memory, the Southern Tang rarely took the initiative to attack the Great Zhou, but Chai Rong fought against the Southern Tang three times.

But he didn't know that it was precisely because of him that Li Jing retired early. Li Hongji had no worries and made great efforts, focusing on fighting for hegemony.

In history, Li Hongji did not have the military power at all at this time. The military power was actually in the hands of Li Jingsui. Li Jingsui was an authentic literati and did not have the ambition to fight for dominance in the world. Of course, he would not take the initiative to infringe on his own initiative.

So the initiator of all this is actually Guo Hao, but he is now guarding the north, and he is anxious but can't do anything.

At this time, he had not realized that all this was caused by him, and Da Zhou was facing an unprecedented crisis, hoping that Chai Rong could withstand it.

While Guo Hao received the news, the Khitan also received the news. The Southern Tang was serious. They were not willing to be outdone and immediately sent an army of 50,000. This time the target was Daizhou!

Daizhou is the territory of Hedong and Guo Hao's territory. After several years of rest and recuperation, his troops were also 30,000.

However, others were in Bianliang and had never mobilized this army, but this time he had to use it because he had to defend the north and block the Khitan army.

"Mr. Zhou, this time the Khitan is coming. I now have 30,000 soldiers and horses in my hand. I have to borrow 5,000 soldiers and horses to make up 40,000, so that I can have the power of a battle!"

When the Yiwu Jiedushi Zhou Heng heard this, he clasped his fists and said, "In the moment of crisis, the Duke of the State will dispatch it. If necessary, Lao Zhou and my body will be handed over to the Duke of the State!"

Guo Hao patted his shoulder when he heard this, with a smile on his face, but he couldn't be happy.

Fortunately, Hedong is his territory, otherwise it would be strange if there was such a big mess, the local governor would not take the opportunity to rebel.

Even so, many Jiedu governors were a little anxious. Judging from the situation of the two countries, they would not give up until they divided the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Fortunately, after Guo Wei became the emperor, he was not bad at the governors of various places, and his main forces were on the border, so they actually didn’t have much power and couldn’t make much trouble.

The survival of the Great Zhou Dynasty depends on Guo Hao and Chai Rong now. As long as the two defeat the enemy, they can also undermine the aura of the two countries.

A few days later, Guo Hao came to Daizhou, and 30,000 troops gathered one after another. The four main generals under him were also upgraded, each leading at least 10,000 troops.
Chapter completed!