Chapter 350 Seize Nanyang County
"Where is the token?"
Zhang Xun didn't have the token, so he pretended to take out the token, and suddenly took action, and cut over the door army with two blows.
“Hand it.”
The spear stabbed and attacked suddenly. The defenders never expected that someone would come to seize the city because there were no enemies nearby.
Yuan Shu was already in a state of decline and was not in defense. The Jingzhou soldiers were fighting fiercely with Xiahou Dun, and there were only 3,000 miscellaneous soldiers left in Nanyang.
"Puff puff puff."
The unprepared defender was pierced through his body and fell to the ground weakly.
In almost a moment, Zhang Xun occupied the city gate, and the horn signal was sent out, and Zhang Liao led a large army to swarm.
"Running." Zhang Xun got off his horse and rushed to the city wall.
Because the defenders fired arrows on the city gate tower, they would cause casualties to the cavalry led by Zhang Liao.
Zhang Xun is also a first-class general and has never had the chance to make contributions. Today, he has seized the opportunity. The big sword in his hand flew up and down. Where can there be a single general? The soldiers on the city wall quickly dispersed.
The Xuzhou Army's flag was inserted into the city, symbolizing that the Xuzhou Army had obtained Nanyang City.
Nanyang City has experienced too much in the past two years. Liu Biao, Yuan Shu, Liu Bei, and Cao Cao are now occupied by Lu Bu.
Zhang Liao led the cavalry to rush in, and Zhang Xun completely controlled the city gate.
Immediately afterwards, more cavalrymen rode on the city wall and quickly controlled the city wall.
You should know that the city wall is four gates, and now it only takes one gate, and you still need to continue to fight.
Zhang Liao went straight to the county magistrate's mansion. Why did he go to the county magistrate's mansion? It was because the food and the silver gulf were all in the county magistrate's mansion, and it was the command center. If the defenders here were defeated, they would be without a leader.
There was no one on the street, and shops closed one after another, not even a stray dog.
The group went straight to the county magistrate's yamen. There were many soldiers stationed in the county magistrate's yamen. Zhang Liao pointed at the spear: "Surrender and don't kill them, put down your weapons, and spare you all the time."
The defenders were not willing to listen, and the bows and arrows fought back.
This annoyed Zhang Liao. Zhang Liao's light cavalry was best at riding horses and shooting archery.
The feathered arrows swished and frightened, and the defenders were constantly being killed by arrows, and 30% of them were killed, but they could not stand it for a moment.
They lost their weapons one by one and kneeled down and surrendered.
Zhang Liao did not make things difficult for them. After all, they were poor people who worked as soldiers with food.
Seize the grain warehouse and the silver warehouse.
There was not much copper coins and silver, but there were several warehouses of wheat, rice and forage. I guess it was the food and grass collected last fall to supply food and grass to Xiahou Dun's army.
After a while, the army occupied the grain warehouse and ordered people to take strict supervision.
In the evening, Zhang Xun heard a message: "The four gates have been controlled."
Zhang Liao was overjoyed: "Okay, this battle was beautiful and cut off Xiahou Dun's retreat. It depends on what you do."
The next day, the results of the battle were counted, more than 500 enemy troops were annihilated, and more than 2,000 were captured. Only 100 of them were killed or killed, which was a huge result.
The deputy general came in to report: "There are more than 200 Li Dian's family members, all of whom were blocked from the mansion."
Zhang Liao thought for a moment: "Take me to see."
"yes."
There are not many male men in the Li Dian family, their sons are only eighteen, and the others are wives, children, servants, servants, maids and women. There are only more than fifty soldiers guarding them.
The Xuzhou army did not have the tradition of killing randomly. Lu Bu often taught them that the battle now is actually fighting with insiders from the Han Dynasty.
Zhang Liao shouted: "I general Zhang Liao has now fully occupied Nanyang. I will hand over the bows and crossbows and armor, and I will withdraw the army. As long as you don't do anything randomly, safety will be guaranteed."
Although Li Dian's son is not old, he is very calm and not panicked.
"General Zhang keeps his word?"
"I am the main force of the Xuzhou army and always keep my word."
"Okay, general and later."
As long as Zhang Liao handed over bows, crossbows, armor, and long swords, spears, etc., they did not hand over them.
Zhang Liao ordered a retreat without harassment.
Zhang Xun was puzzled: "General Zhang, Li Dian Mansion has a lot of money and food, so why not snatch it?"
Zhang Liao shook his head: "One of the reason why the military orders are not allowed, and two, the lord personally fights Xiahou Dun. The possibility of victory is very high. If Li Dian surrenders, he will be a colleague from now on."
"You're still far from what you think."
Nanyang City was unprecedentedly stable, and there was no riot soldiers robbing people's wealth. The main reason was that the Xuzhou army had sufficient money and food, so there was no need for the soldiers to rob.
Zhang Liao ordered the messenger to go to Lu Bu's office to report the results of Nanyang.
Next, we began to strictly guard Nanyang City.
Zhang Liao climbed the city wall, both happy and afraid.
I was happy that the city walls were filled with piles of thunderstones, and the women's walls and shields were placed in place. I was afraid that the city was raided. If I really wanted to attack hard, more than half of the six thousand people would be injured or killed.
But there is also one thing: Nanyang City is a medium-sized city, and some of the six thousand people are understaffed in defense.
Moreover, Cao's reinforcements and Xiahou Dun's army could have been able to attack the city.
The newly captured Cao army did not dare to use it, so they could only ask them to do some auxiliary work.
"A hundred cents a month, recruit 3,000 infantry to defend the city. Collect Cao's spears and swords as the equipment for defending the city. In addition, build more shields and shields." Zhang Liao issued an order.
After a series of things were arranged, the Xuzhou army began to recruit soldiers in Nanyang City.
For people in Nanyang, many people don’t know where Xuzhou is, and Lu Bu and Zhang Liao have no influence here either.
However, this does not affect the progress of the recruitment. Many local young people, when they heard that three meals a day are enough to make a full meal, and a subsidy of 100 cents a month is enough.
There were thousands of people queuing up to join the army, but in the end only three thousand people were collected.
The combat capability of the new recruits is actually very poor. If they do not have field combat capabilities, they may get messed up with feather arrows.
Zhang Liao knew this very well, only trained recruits to defend the city, how to use shields, and how to use shields.
There are many veterans in Zhang Liao's army who are proficient in training methods and they are very good at training in a few days.
Besides, Xiahou Dun was leading his troops to attack Jiangxia on this day, and suddenly he heard the horn behind him.
"Report, report to the general, Lu Bu's army suddenly appeared and formed a formation five miles away."
Xiahou Dun was so surprised that he almost glared out his eyes: "What, Lu Bu is here?"
"Yes, Lu Bu's army has about 40,000 people, and is huge in scale."
"Get out troops, form formation, retreat, let's go and meet Lu Bu."
Xiahou Dun's personality is somewhat similar to Guan Yu. Seven are dissatisfied and eight are resentful. He doesn't think he is inferior to Lu Bu, and the two of them have really resisted it.
Xiahou Dun gathered more than 20,000 troops and stabilized the army. Li Dian on the left and happy to the right. After a while, he slowly retreated.
The sword and shield soldiers knocked on the shield, and the spearmen yelled at the trumpet.
Thousands of cavalry were quiet, and their faces were cold.
Small catapult cars were also pushed in the team, and these were built by Xiahou Dun using house beams.
Chapter completed!