Chapter 1143 Entering Xiaopei and attacking Pengcheng
After Guangling County was captured, Liu Heitai did not lead his troops north to join Di Qing, Su Qin and others. Only 15,000 troops were left, led by Niu Hong to support Di Qing. He led his remaining troops to station in Guangling County to stop them.
Zhu Yuanzhang's journey north.
With Liu Heitai standing in the way of Guangling County, even if Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to send troops to intervene in Xuzhou, there would be nothing he could do without first solving Liu Heitao's stumbling block.
In order to deal with Zhu Yuanzhang who might intervene in the Central Plains, Liu Heitai not only actively took over the defense of Guangling County, but also took over and integrated the eight thousand garrison troops originally stationed in Guangling County.
These eight thousand defenders were handed over to Du Chongwei by Chen Deng for control.
From the moment Liu Gui accepted the imperial edict, and when Chen Deng helped Liu Heitai capture Guangling County, the imperial edict naturally took effect. In other words, Chen Deng is now Xuzhou's best friend.
, nominally even above Liu Heitai.
When taking over Guangling County, except for a few who resisted, although generals large and small finally chose to surrender, only Du Chongwei was the most suitable candidate to take charge of these 8,000 troops.
Du Chongwei also had a share of the credit for killing Gao Huailiang. He could not look back. He was a person who must stand on the same front as the Jin army. Therefore, only he could be trusted by Chen Deng and Liu Heitai.
Similarly, only by handing over these 8,000 troops to the former Xuzhou general can we integrate and command these 8,000 troops as quickly as possible.
Today, of the five counties in Xuzhou, only Pengcheng and Xiapi are still in the hands of the Xuzhou Army. However, the first family in Xiapi has been demoted to the Jin Dynasty, and Xiapi is the most empty among the five counties.
How long can it last?
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Pengcheng!
After taking Donghai and Langya, Di Qing and Xue Wanche had already led troops to arrive. However, Di Qing did not use all his troops to attack Pengcheng.
After leaving 50,000 troops to attack Pengcheng, another 30,000 troops were divided and handed over to brothers Xue Wanche and Xue Wanjun to attack Xiaopei as Xuzhou's western barrier.
Now that Liu Heitai had captured Guangling County and blocked Zhu Yuanzhang from interfering with Xuzhou, Xiaopei became an important key to blocking the return of Zhao Kuangyin's reinforcements.
As for the remaining 10,000 troops, they are stationed in the already captured areas of Donghai and Langya.
If you spread out the map and look at it, you will find that the geographical location of Xiaopei is very subtle. Although it belongs to the Yuzhou Governor's Department, it is far away from the center of the Yuzhou Governor's Department. It is like a sword inserted between the Yanzhou Governor's Department in the north and the Xuzhou Governor's Department in the east.
In the middle of the department.
According to the news from Floating House, during this period, Zhao Kuangyin sent a large number of lobbyists to Liu Bei. The purpose is self-evident, and where Liu Bei's main force is now, it is naturally on the Yanzhou front line.
If Liu Bei, whose main force is located in Yanzhou, wants to go south to Xuzhou, his first stop will be Xiaopei, so Xiaopei is the forefront of Xuzhou and the most dangerous place in Xuzhou. He is a steel helmet on Di Qing's head. After occupying this place,
Even if Liu Bei's army does arrive next, Di Qing can attack Pengcheng boldly with confidence.
Now all Di Qing has to do is to seize the time and let Xue Wanche capture Xiaopei before Liu Beijun arrives. Only in this way will they take the initiative strategically.
For this reason, Di Qing even left Xiapi County there temporarily and ignored it.
Xiapi County is located in the center between Xuzhou and Yuzhou. For Zhao Kuangyin, this is the rear area among the rear areas, with only 3,000 garrison troops. If Di Qing wants to win, it will be easy, but because there are more
It's something important, so I'll leave it alone for now.
Moreover, Xiapi has been handed over to Su Qin.
After all, the Chen family in Xiapi is also the first aristocratic family in the local area. Not to mention Xiapi, it also has considerable influence in the entire Xuzhou.
Moreover, Su Qin's strongest point is not his plans, but his words. With Su Qin's words, and with the Xiapi Chen family exerting influence, Zhao Kuangyin is in such a precarious situation, he will definitely be able to
He persuaded many aristocratic families to turn to him.
Therefore, even if the man in charge of the army is a general trusted by Zhao Kuangyin, it may not be impossible to directly capture Xiapi with Su Qin here.
In the aristocratic families of this era, even if there are not many private soldiers in the family, they are definitely servants and servants. With simple arming, although it is impossible to compare with the real army, it can still build up the momentum.
However, Zhao Kuangyin made the wrong payment after all. He had just given a reward to the Chen family because of Chen Baxian, but then he was betrayed by the Chen family. This was inevitably a bit more dramatic.
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Mountain rain is coming to Xuzhou City,
War will begin in the mountains and valleys.
The ministers hate and the people cry.
When the general is overthrown, the soldiers bleed.
The blood-stained battlefield shakes the world,
I swear to live and die with the city.
As Zhao Kuangyin's logistics manager, Yi Yin climbed onto the city wall under the protection of Suo Bao and Huangfu Yu.
Looking at the densely packed 50,000-strong army on the city wall, even Suo Bao, as a guard, felt his scalp numb. The impending battle made him tighten his grip on the weapon in his hand, and the fighting spirit surging all over his body was like
substance.
"Dong dong..."
The war drums were beating, and General Shan Xiongxin of the Qingzhou Army took the lead to kill Pengcheng in the front, with the army behind slowly but firmly following behind.
When the army arrived in front of the city wall of Pengcheng, General Shan Xiong ordered his soldiers to roll out the catapults, and the archers moved forward to prepare. As the catapults came within range, they shouted, "Let go."
An overwhelming amount of stones were thrown at the city wall of Pengcheng.
"Bang bang..." Stones continued to hit the city wall, causing Pengcheng's city wall to begin to shake.
On the city wall, Yi Yin, who had been waiting carefully, shouted, "Shoot!"
The fully equipped bed slaves on the city wall instantly shot at the enemy troops operating next to the catapults.
Squeaks and howls resounded next to the stone throws, and a long spear could always penetrate three or four enemy soldiers.
Shan Xiongxin, whose face was as red as pig's blood, saw this scene and immediately ordered the archers in position to quickly throw sharp arrows forward.
The rain of arrows from the sky instantly fell over the city wall and was thrown towards Yi Yin and the others.
When he saw the enemy's advancing archers preparing, Yi Yin had already asked the shield soldiers to set up large shields to protect the soldiers on the city wall.
There was a crackling sound, which was the sound of arrows hitting the iron shield.
Qingzhou General Shan Xiongxin saw that his archers did not cause much damage to the Pengcheng defenders, so he quickly ordered the shield soldiers to advance to protect the archers from retreating.
On the city wall, Xuzhou's archer troops also began to show off their power and fired at the enemy.
After a burst of crackling, the archers of the Qingzhou Army who had not yet retreated were shot dead by the archers on the city wall.
Taking advantage of the breathing time of the enemy archers on the city wall to change their arrows, Shan Xiongxin ordered the siege troops to attack and kill under the cover of shield soldiers and under the sparse rain of arrows. The retreating archers were also re-equipped and moved forward to cover up the attack.
