Prince Huo was granted military power by the King of Yue, and immediately sent a letter to Huangfu Nianfeng Feige who was stationed in Xianxia Town, and quickly retreated back to Lin'an, west of Hangzhou. At the same time, he ordered the Vietnamese troops on the Yixing front line to retreat to You'an City, east of Hangzhou.
Forming a horned force, he defended the city of Hangzhou. He transferred the southern camp and the northern British troops stationed outside the city back to the city. At the same time, he consolidated the city defense, stored food and grass, and appeased the people. The imperial army strengthened the defense of the palace.
Prince Huo also thought of the Qi merchants over at Qi Ci Fang and asked Liu Yunzhong to go directly to the store and detain all the people. But when Liu Yunzhong went there, Qi Ci Fang was already empty. Seeing that the things used in daily life were as usual, he
It was as if everyone had disappeared out of thin air. Liu Yunzhong asked the soldiers guarding outside the store, and they all said that it was open yesterday and the boss and his staff were operating normally. The door was closed at night, but it was not open this morning.
Liu Yunzhong hurriedly went to see Prince Huo and reported to Prince Huo that the people in Qi Ci Fang had left the shop empty. Prince Huo also smiled bitterly and said, "That's all, don't worry about him. You are only responsible for the safety of the city. Don't let others
Disturbing people's hearts." Liu Yunzhong received the order and arranged for his subordinates from the city defense office to patrol everywhere.
Huangfu Nianfeng received the flying letter from Prince Huo and hurriedly led his troops to retreat to Lin'an.
The defenders in the Yixing area also withdrew to You'an City one by one.
Prince Huo contacted his son Huo Yuan again, and Huo Yuan and the Lancheng defenders successfully stopped the Qi army's offensive. At the same time, taking advantage of the lack of rear defense support from the Qi army on the west route and the opportunity to advance lightly, Huo Yuan took the initiative to attack Qi army general Zhang Yankun.
He led the Qi army back to the upper city. If the Dali army did not attack quickly and Huo Yuan had to divide his troops to fight, Zhang Yankun and the Qi army in the upper city would have been surrounded by Huo Yuan's army.
Prince Huo learned that the war on the Western Front was safe, so he commanded the guards in Hangzhou with peace of mind.
Besides, Huangfu Nianfeng led more than 10,000 troops and escaped from the attack of the Qi army. In a few hours, they arrived less than thirty miles away from Lin'an City. Huangfu Nianfeng sent a scouting horse to the city to convey orders to the troops defending the city.
The soldiers hurriedly opened the door to greet them. When Huangfu Nianfeng arrived at the city gate, he saw that the defenders were waiting in full formation. Instead of leaving the city to greet him, the defenders had the city gates tightly closed.
Huangfu Nianfeng was surprised. He urged his horse forward in person and called the defender to answer. The defenders on the city fired a volley of arrows. Huangfu Nianfeng couldn't dodge and was shot in the shoulder. He hurriedly turned his horse and leaned over to hide back to the army.
The generals under his command hurriedly came to rescue him, and when he was out of the range of the bow and arrow, Huangfu Nianfeng was helped off his horse by the soldiers and began to treat him. Everyone was puzzled by the sudden arrow attack by the defenders on the marshal, and they wondered whether something had happened in the city and the defenders had betrayed him.
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Huangfu Nianfeng was also secretly confused. Fortunately, the injury from the arrow was not serious. Although it hit his shoulder, it was protected by armor and did not penetrate deeply into his body. After the military doctor took out the bow and arrow from his shoulder, applied wound medicine and bandaged it, Huangfu Nianfeng
He put his hands on his shoulders, looked at Lin'an, and discussed with the generals.
The general who had his subordinates said: "Marshal, most of the soldiers defending the city have rebelled and surrendered to the Qi army. Since we want to return to Lin'an to garrison, we can simply attack the city, capture Lin'an, and wipe out all the rebels."
"The other generals agreed one after another.
Huangfu Nianfeng pondered for a moment, and then said to the generals: "Lin'an is the gateway to Hangzhou, so there must be no mistakes. The Qi army behind is chasing eagerly, and we are afraid that we will not have time to attack the city. It is better to wait for me to talk to the defender.
, persuade him to accept his betrayal and fight with us against the Qi army. If that doesn't work, we can only withdraw to Hangzhou as soon as possible and cannot delay here."
After hearing this, the generals had no other choice, but they were afraid that the defenders would harm the marshal again, so they all wanted to follow the guards. Huangfu Nianfeng waved his hand and said, "Which of our generals is greedy for life and afraid of death? It doesn't matter."
After that, he remounted his horse and returned to the front of the city with only two shield bearers.
Huangfu Nianfeng shouted loudly to the city: "I am Huangfu Nianfeng, the generalissimo of the Yue Kingdom, and I have come with an army to garrison Lin'an. Why do you want to shoot at me? Are you trying to betray me, the Yue Kingdom, and surrender to the enemy?"
A general on the city responded: "I am Han Wei, the guard general of the Vietnamese army. I will not listen to your sweet talk. You defrauded my city yesterday and almost succeeded, but I was fortunate enough to repulse you. Today you are defrauding the city again. What are you talking about?"
Grand Marshal, even if you turn into a prince, I won’t be fooled.”
Huangfu Nianfeng heard this and vaguely understood in his heart that the Qi army must have formed a Yue army to fraudulently open the city gate, and almost broke the city defense, but was repelled by the Han general, so the soldiers guarding the city did not believe him.
As soon as he saw it, he shot arrows randomly. After hearing this, Huangfu Nianfeng felt a lot relieved.
Huangfu Nianfeng burst out laughing and said, "General Han, don't you really know me?"
Han Wei on the city heard Huangfu Nianfeng laughing and felt strange, so he took a look and saw that he looked a bit like Marshal Huangfu, but didn't the general who deceived the city yesterday also pretend to be Marshal Huangfu?
Han Wei shouted: "If you are Marshal Huangfu, do you dare to enter my city alone and let me identify you carefully?"
Huangfu Nianfeng said: "What's the difficulty? I'll go over there!" He was about to rush his horse over, but the generals behind him hurriedly urged their horses to come up and stopped him and said: "Marshal, don't do it, be careful of falling into his trick!"
Huangfu Nianfeng said proudly: "It doesn't matter." He urged his horse and went forward. When he reached the city gate, he looked up at the soldiers behind the wall and shouted: "I am Huangfu Nianfeng, the general marshal of the Vietnamese army. Could it be that
Don’t you know me?"
Han Wei could see clearly at this time, and when he saw that the opponent was hit by an arrow, he retreated and did not attack the city. He was also confused. Now that he saw that it was indeed the commander-in-chief Huangfu Nianfeng, he hurriedly confessed on the city wall:
"The marshal makes atonement. The general did not know that the marshal was coming and almost hurt the marshal. I beg the marshal to punish him."
Huangfu Nianfeng wanted to wave his hand, but it hurt the wound, and he frowned in pain. He just said: "General is also cautious, I will not blame you."
Then Han Wei hurriedly asked his soldiers to go down and open the city gate, and he hurriedly came down to greet them.
Huangfu Nianfeng led more than 10,000 men under his command into Lin'an City, and Han Wei hurriedly confessed to him. Huangfu Nianfeng comforted him with kind words, and asked about the story of the Qi army's sneak attack.
It turned out that when Huangfu Nianfeng retreated to Xianxia Town, Zilong had already ordered a group of light cavalry to rush to Lin'an City. At that time, the war was still going on in Ningcheng, and the cavalry who came were said to be Marshal Huangfu's personal troops, and the Marshal was there.
Later, Han Wei did not doubt that he was there, so he opened the door to welcome the cavalry in. However, when the cavalry entered the city, they quickly rushed into the city and killed Han Wei and the defenders in chaos. Fortunately, there were not many cavalry in that group.
, they just charged and killed for a while, and when they saw the defenders slowly gathering, they rushed out of the city. Han Wei did not have many troops and lacked cavalry, so he was unable to pursue them.
Today, Huangfu Nianfeng said that it was the Vietnamese army that was withdrawing from the front. Han Wei naturally refused to believe it, but seeing the large number of people on the other side, he did not dare to let them get close. As soon as they came up, he asked the soldiers to shoot with bows and arrows, but he almost shot Huangfu Nianfeng to death.
After Huangfu Nianfeng heard this, he couldn't help but be secretly frightened, thinking that Zilong was really powerful. When he attacked Lin'an with cavalry, he expected that he would withdraw and defend this place. If the cavalry attack was successful, they would directly occupy Lin'an and cut off his retreat.
Even if it is unsuccessful, it will arouse suspicion among the defenders and attack them. If they mistakenly believe that General Han has rebelled and surrender, and attack the city in anger, it will cause themselves and the defenders to fight each other.
When Huangfu Nianfeng thought of this, he couldn't help shouting: "It's so dangerous!"
Han Wei and the generals didn't know what was going on, so they looked around hurriedly, holding down the sword in their hands. Seeing this, Huangfu Nianfeng hurriedly signaled that everyone should not panic, and spoke out his thoughts. Everyone was frightened after hearing this.
I got to know Zilong's reputation a little better.
After Huangfu Nianfeng was stationed in Lin'an, he hurriedly sent a letter to Prince Huo and told him about his defense situation. There are now more than 3,000 defenders in the city, plus more than 10,000 defeated troops he brought, and the troops are gradually gathering.
There are more than a thousand scattered soldiers, totaling more than 15,000 people, among whom the majority are cavalry.
Prince Huo was in Hangcheng. On the one hand, he was consolidating the city's defenses. On the other hand, he was also eager to understand the defense situation in Lin'an and You'an. The defenders of You'an had already welcomed the retreating Vietnamese troops. The troops and horses in the two places were combined, and there were about
More than 10,000 people. Now Huangfu Nianfeng also sent a flying letter, talking about Lin'an's military strength. Prince Huo couldn't help but sigh secretly. He had less than 50,000 troops in Hangzhou, and Lin'an and You'an on both sides could only assist.
Defend, but cannot assist. If the Qi army and the Wu army attack with all their strength, Hangzhou may not be able to withstand it for long.
The Qi army sent troops this time, seemingly randomly, but it moved quickly. It should have been premeditated. So what is the connection between Qi Shang and the Qi army's attack? Or is it not involved at all? Prince Huo was also confused at this time.
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After arranging military affairs, Liu Yunzhong arranged city defense troops at various important intersections outside the city to accommodate the defeated Vietnamese troops in front. The first was to collect them, reorganize them into the army, and expand the garrison strength; the second was to prevent the defeated troops from advancing.
The city was further disturbed by the people; the third was to prevent spies from the Qi and Wu armies from sneaking into the city.
Prince Huo took a few of his troops and went to the palace of the King of Yue. When he met the King of Yue, Prince Huo signaled to the King of Yue that he had something important to report. The King of Yue naturally understood and asked the people on both sides to step back. Prince Huo then moved the people in front of him.
He told the King of Yue about the war, and finally said to the King of Yue: "Your Majesty, I have the right to guard Hangzhou, but I am afraid that I can't do it. For the safety of the country of Yue, I asked the emperor to move to Fucheng for temporary refuge. I will fight with the Qi army here.
Decisive battle. I expect that the Qi army will attack over a long distance and will rely entirely on the supply of food and grass from Wu. As long as Marshal Huangfu and I can endure it for three months, the Qi army will inevitably retreat due to lack of food and grass. At that time, we will welcome His Majesty back to Hangzhou.
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The King of Yue thought about it and realized that for the present, he could only follow what Prince Huo said and nodded in agreement.
Prince Huo returned to the army and continued to direct the reinforcement of the city defense. The King of Yue ordered the palace guards, the concubines in the harem, and the civil servants to tidy up, and said that they were inspecting Fucheng. The next day, the monarchs, ministers and the escorting imperial army came to visit Fucheng.
Nearly ten thousand people went to Fucheng.
After hearing the news, the gentry and dignitaries in Hangzhou also hurriedly packed up their gold and silver. They followed the Yue King's brigade and fled to Fucheng or other city defenses in the south. Hangzhou was in chaos for a while. Fortunately, Liu Yunzhong led the city defense army
The soldiers tried their best to protect it, so no other troubles occurred.