Outside Dingzhou City, as soon as night falls, the city walls are extremely busy. Soldiers descending from the city in twos and threes, just like the city in the middle of the river where the mountains and rivers were exhausted.
The deputy envoy of the He Controlling Army, Cao Yijin, took turns out of the camp with his sergeants to collect the scattered soldiers. By daybreak, more than 200 people had been collected. This was the largest number of people who had left the city to surrender in several months.
At Chen time, Li Gongquan, the Marquis of Du Yu, came with three thousand soldiers to replace Cao Yu's Jin tribe.
At this time, another massive siege was launched in the north, west and east directions of Dingzhou.
After the Tianxiong Army arrived at Beiping Prefecture, the Saint transferred a portion of the bodyguard army (ten thousand people) and the left and right wings of the Tielin Army who had returned to the city to the foot of Dingzhou City, together with the Hubei Daozhou Bingtu Regiment, the Youguo Army, and the Control He Army.
As well as more than 10,000 newly arrived soldiers from Henan Daozhou, they attacked repeatedly and fought bloody battles endlessly.
Li Gongquan has been to friendly army camps. In his view, all armies have made great progress.
The Hubei Daozhou Soldiers were indeed devastated by the brutal siege battles at the beginning. They were even defeated several times when the rebel army came out of the city to charge.
But Ge Congzhou was a qualified commander. He even personally used his mace to hit the deserters' heads and chests. At the same time, he generously rewarded the soldiers who performed well and asked for merit. He did not hesitate to negotiate with the Privy Council and the National People's Congress of the Six Ministries.
They were so noisy that they even went to the saint's desk for a time - Ge Congzhou wanted to fight for local official positions for the soldiers who dared to fight. It can be seen that after presiding over the attack on Cangjing and the Second Town of Youzhou, he had gradually lost his cautiousness.
His attitude became more like that of a tough commander.
The crane-controlling army also suffered heavy losses.
After all, this is a hastily put together army, and it is even filled with many recruits. As the saying goes, officialdom makes people grow old, so does the same on the battlefield. Those with physical strength, morale, spirit, skills, and even unlucky ones are eliminated, and the rest are left behind.
The people at the bottom marched forward bravely. Retreating meant death, but advancing might not necessarily lead to death. Under the leadership of the veterans of the Chishui Army, they honed their skills through high-intensity wars, and overall made considerable progress.
Li Gongquan looked back at the soldiers behind him. From a state of high morale, they quickly fell to the bottom. Then in the cruel war, they rebounded and climbed up bit by bit. Perhaps their morale was even better than the initial high morale.
No, but the morale that has not experienced war is "fake morale". The morale that can be maintained after experiencing bloody battles is "true morale".
The crane-controlling army has survived the training, and those who remain will only become more capable.
"The people of the Tielin Army are a little afraid of death." During the handover, Cao Yijin looked back at the battlefield and said with a smile.
"The more afraid of death, the faster he will die." Li Gongquan said: "However, the thieves are almost exhausted, so they don't dare to go out of the city to fight. Otherwise, the Tielin Army will be in a hurry."
"I heard that when he was in Weizhou, Liang Hanyong killed more than ten generals of the Tielin Army in one go, put the timid ones in the front row to attack the city, and promoted new generals who dared to fight and fight. The left wing's combat power was improved.
Recovery. The only thing worse now is the right wing, and we still need to practice more." Cao Yijin doesn't think there is anything wrong with commenting on the Tielin Army. In his opinion, the overall strength of the Controlling Crane Army is indeed not as good as the Tielin Army, but Ruola
When it comes to a field battle, it's hard to say who will lose and who will win, because the Crane Control Army has at least several thousand elite warriors who dare to fight for their lives. With them as the main force in the battle, the Tielin Army may not be able to stop them.
In the end, there is still a war to be fought.
The Saint is also the envoy of the Tielin Army, and he has always been nepotistic. Over a long period of time, there has been a problem with the upward and downward flow of this army. Now it needs the blood of the battlefield to refine it, remove the bad and retain the good, and rejuvenate it.
The siege battle lasted all day, with each unit taking turns to attack. When the guards and soldiers retreated under the sunset, the battle finally ended.
Each unit returned to its own camp, eating, bandaging wounds, and repairing equipment. They were busy and unhurried, just like they had been for the past half year.
And at midnight, under the dark night, within the severely damaged city wall, a group of people quietly opened the only south city gate where there was no fighting, and ran away.
Besieging three buildings is a common siege tactic. The purpose is to break the will of the defenders and induce them to escape. The Xia army surrounded Dingzhou and besieged it on three sides, leaving the south alone. The Yiwu army was not stupid, knowing that if they lost
With the support of the city wall, in the empty wilderness, it was easy for the enemy to catch up and the whole army was defeated.
Therefore, they did not escape from the south side at first. But today, when the situation is gradually becoming more and more desperate, they don't care about anything. They jump even though they know it is a trap. They try their best to use the cover of night to escape as many as they can.
The retreat was orderly at first. However, rumors started to spread, and the emotions of the volunteers were in an extremely unstable state. The wind was like rain, and morale collapsed instantly.
As a result, the chaos at the city gate began to intensify, and the initial shouting and scolding turned into pushing and shoving, and then turned into beating each other - in order to fight for the way.
Jiedushi Wang Gao looked back at the increasingly chaotic Nancheng, sighed and left with tears.
Two generations of the Wang family, and twenty-six years of inheritance, were finished like this.
The family members who remain in the city may wish themselves well.
In the dark night, the sound of horse hooves sounded in twos and threes. Wang Gao knew that it was the Xia army scouts who were active at night. He no longer hesitated, patted the horse and galloped towards Zhenzhou.
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On the tenth day of the sixth month of the fifth year of Jianji, only two days before the wedding of his eldest son Shao Siwu, Shao Shude suddenly received a military report from Ge Congzhou: Dingzhou was captured.
Dingzhou is a large county. It was called Boling in ancient times and has as many as ten counties. After the Huangchao Rebellion broke out and before Li Quanzhong came to attack, the population of Dingzhou reached its peak, almost exceeding the limit of Tianbao, with a population of 500,000.
What followed was a series of continuous wars. Because Li Keyong's strategic focus was in Hebei and Yi Ding repeatedly helped Hedong, the vassals in Hebei regarded him as a traitor and a lackey of the Jin people, and they were determined to pull him out.
Yi Ding could not escape from the war.
The population is declining and the economy is slowly declining. Dingzhou, which used to be able to produce various high-quality silks including Luo, 第, fine silk, Rui silk, double silk silk, single silk silk, Erbao silk, and mature silk silk, has
Silk production is declining year by year, and people's lives are becoming increasingly difficult.
But the lives of the warriors did not seem to be too affected. On the contrary, because of the frequent wars, the generals had to do their best to satisfy their appetites, and their incomes were even higher, at the expense of the shrinking private wealth.
Perhaps one day, when the existing wealth of the people drops below the warning line, and the new wealth cannot be spent, their lives will be affected. But the war may not end at this time. The martial arts men in Yunzhou, Yanzhou, and Xuzhou
When they couldn't even receive a few rewards and couldn't eat any meat, they were still fighting and resisting endlessly until the last bit of vitality in the town was exhausted...
Dingzhou's vitality was not exhausted at this time. But Wang Gao couldn't hold on anymore and abandoned the city to break out. From the perspective of ordinary people, this may be a good thing. The tragic situation of Xuzhou Shipu, Shao Shude felt that it should be cruel
A lot of people were killed.
"Where is the Wuwei Army?" Shao Shude asked.
"We have arrived in Weizhou," Nanya Privy Envoy Zhu Shuzong replied.
"Stop the Youzhou camp and set up the Xingzhou camp, with Lu Huaizhong as the commander of the camp." Shao Shude ordered: "The four armies of Wuwei, Tielin, Konghe, and Youguo are all under his command. Meng Zhixiang, the bodyguard of the bodyguard, and all the
The Daozhou soldiers and soil regiments were also subordinated."
"Zang Dubao, the envoy of the Tianxiong Army, is appointed as the commander of the camp behind the mountain. The Tianxiong and Yinqiang armies, the bodyguards of the Helianjun tribe and the Tibetan soldiers are all under his control. The Tianxiong army is temporarily stationed in Beiping Mansion."
"After Longxiang, Tiande, and Dingnan armies received their rewards, they reorganized their troops."
"Is Ge Congzhou a Marquis of Neixiang County? He must be rewarded for his great contribution to the destruction of three towns. Immediately prepare a book to confer him the title of Duke of Ji State and grant him four thousand households."
"Every officer who has made meritorious service will be rewarded according to the list."
"More than 10,000 Yiding soldiers captured before and after were sent to Beiping Mansion to build the palace city."
"Transfer Zhao Cen, the governor of Yuanzhou, to the governor of Dingzhou."
"Zhen Xu, the military envoy to the right wing of the Tielin Army, is old and has been transferred to the commander of the Dingzhou Prefecture Army. He will take up his post immediately."
"I obey the decree." The privy envoys and prime ministers present responded one after another.
Ge Congzhou accomplished great things and became a duke. He was still a real duke with a fiefdom, which was different from Zhao Kuangning's Duke of Jing who did not have a fiefdom.
Strictly speaking, there are only three official dukes in Daxia, namely, Li Tangbin, the Duke of Lu, who has a food grant of 4,300 households, Lu Huaizhong, the Duke of Wei, who has a seal of 4,000 households, and Ge Congzhou, the Duke of Ji, who has a seal of 4,000 households.
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After being granted the title of Duke, it is more difficult to perform meritorious service. Lao Lu is special because Li Tangbin is still sitting in the Privy Council. He, Yang Yue, Hu Zhen, and Wang Bian are all deputy envoys to the Privy Council of Nanya.
Wherever Shao Shude goes, people like Li Tangbin will follow him. It's called giving advice, but in fact, they don't trust him to stay in Luoyang, Chang'an, Peking and other important places in the capital - not to doubt him, but to protect him. Once he is kidnapped by soldiers,
Some things are unclear.
After the political discussion was completed and before leaving, Shao Shude issued another decree: to transfer Fu Cunxen to serve as the military envoy of the Tielin Army.
This is a rather surprising decree.
The generals of the Tielin Army, such as Ye Li Yu Lue, Zheng Yong, Xu Hao, etc., did not receive promotions. Instead, an outsider was transferred over. The meaning of punishment was very obvious.
But the saint still has expectations for the Tielin Army. He hopes that Fu Cunxun can reorganize this army and make it revitalized and become a strong force.
With the destruction of Yi Ding Town, only the crippled Chengde Town was left in Hebei.
When the Xia army attacked Yi Ding, Hedong and Chengde sent troops to rescue several times, but the results were not ideal. Especially Chengde, because it was close at hand, worked harder. However, in several field battles, the losses were heavy, and they were even captured
Arrived in Jizhou.
Wang Rong now only has Zhen, Zhao and Shenzhou left, and the morale of the army is also very average. The next step is to take action on him.
The formation of the Xingzhou camp is about to begin. By then, an army of 200,000 will be pressed against it. Chengde will not stop until it is destroyed.
But this time, anyone with a discerning eye can see how much power Hedong still has to rescue them.