"Is Xu Erlang here?" Hu Zhen asked loudly, riding a war horse and building a pergola with his hands against the sunshine in the west.
There was a burst of chaotic footsteps on the Xin'an city wall, and after a while, Xu Huaiyu, dressed in military uniform, appeared on the top of the city.
"Hu Dalang, what are you doing here?" Xu Huaiyu asked expressionlessly.
"Today is the death anniversary of Qi Fengguo. Could it be that Erlang has forgotten his old brother?" Hu Zhen said loudly.
Qi Fengguo was Zhu Quanzhong's Yuancong elder, and he was among the oldest group. Like Hu Zhen and Xu Huaiyu, they were all his more than 80 old subordinates when he was in the army in his early years.
"Qi Fengguo..." Hearing this familiar name, Xu Huaiyu was in a trance.
In the Battle of Chigang nine years ago, Liang Jun defeated the Qin Zongquan. However, during the fight, the rebels struggled to the death and once counterattacked, Qi Fengguo gave up his horse to Xu Huaiyu, fought to the death and died in the battle.
In the previous battle of Bajiao Town, he and Xu Tang attacked together, but were defeated by Qin Zongquan, and Xu Tang died in the battle.
"How did Qi Fengguo die? How did Xu Tang die? How many of the old brothers we were with back then are left?" Hu Zhen continued to ask.
"Brother Qi..." Xu Huaiyu sighed and said, "He died for me."
"No, you are wrong!" Hu Zhen yelled: "Zhu Quanzhong only gave Brother Qi a thousand men to attack the counterattacking Cai thieves. Xu Tang also only had more than two thousand men, and they were surrounded in the stockade until they died. Didn't wait for reinforcements."
Xu Huaiyu was silent.
"After Li Keyong entered Jinyang, he generously awarded Yuan Cong to the old man. How many of these people died? Well, how many died? Or were they attacked and killed by Zhu Quanzhong at Shangyuanyi." Hu Zhen also took the risk, and the more he talked, the more he got more and more. Excited: "How many people in Shao Shude's Yuan Cong died? How many people in Yang Xingmi's Yuan Cong died?"
Xu Huaiyu looked up to the sky and sighed, saying: "Hu Zhen, I don't blame you for surrendering to Shao Shude. Everyone has his own ambitions, so don't try to persuade me."
"Xu Tang is dead, Qi Fengguo is dead, Wang Wu is dead..." Hu Zhen continued to shout: "Zhu Zhen was once too scared to take charge of the army. Zhu Yougong was Quanzhong's adopted son, and now he is also suspected. Li Fan, Li Chongyin They were also veterans of the Huang King era. We, Su Shi, were killed by Quanzhong. Liu Kangyi and Guo Yannai, the 500-yuan followers who accompanied Quanzhong to Bian, also died. Did Zhu Quanzhong cry when these people died? Why did Zhu Quanzhong die? After seeing Kou Yanqing and Liu Han, who is unknown about his life or death, Zhu Quanzhong will pretend to cry? We old brothers are not as good as these young people from Bianliang? What's the truth? "
The sergeants on the tower looked at each other and Xu Huaiyu. Xu Huaiyu didn't react at all, as if he was lost in reminiscing about the past.
In the chaotic battlefield, Qi Fengguo looked free and easy, gave up his horse to him, let him take care of his family, and then rushed towards the rebels without hesitation.
"I'm sorry Brother Qi..." Xu Huaiyu covered his face and walked down the tower.
The eldest son of Qi Fengguo died in the battle while attacking Xuzhou in order to gain wealth. Xu Huaiyu had always blamed himself, thinking that he was a lowly official and could not support Qi Fengguo's son, which led to this situation.
Hu Zhen was burning paper outside the city tower and muttering something.
Liang Jun at the top of the city didn't dare to shoot him with an arrow, so he just stared blankly.
When Xu Huaiyu was impassioned about the courage of the general, everyone followed him to live and die together. Now Xu Huaiyu is depressed and in a daze, and everyone feels that it is not interesting and suddenly feels very confused.
If you stay in the city, you will die! Sooner or later.
It is basically impossible to expect reinforcements from Bianzhou to rescue us. No one would have such a ridiculous idea.
What should we do? Someone sat down on the parapet. The officer scolded him twice and didn't bother to say anything more. He just let him go.
Wang Yu watched from a distance on the watchtower. Although he couldn't hear their conversation, he could generally guess a thing or two.
He sighed deeply.
After following the King of Xia for many years, he became more and more fond of reading. Even if he didn't know many words, he insisted on letting the literary officials read to him. Over time, he gained new understanding of many things.
What a pity! What a pity!
"It's like the morning dew. It's so bitter in the past. What a shame!" Wang Yu coughed twice, looking at the sunset in the distance with melancholy.
The soldiers of the Dingyuan Army have not attacked the city for two days.
They brought over a group of prisoners, all of whom were Xin'an defenders that Xu Huaiyu had let go before. They had not been mistreated, they had been working recently, and their food was guaranteed. The Dingyuan Army will take them to the city tomorrow and let them
They showed up to speak out and further undermined the will of the defenders.
This fortress city is too difficult to attack, so it's best to use this soft method to avoid hurting people's lives.
In the distance, there were sergeants returning from collecting firewood. They were operating close to Xin'an County, and the defenders in the city did not go out to attack. This seemed to further illustrate what was going on - everyone had been fighting for so many years, and they had never seen the defenders squatting.
He stayed motionless in the city, not even going out to attack the enemy's woodcutters or scouts.
There may be other ways to capture this city, but it may take a little too long.
...Gu Chen
Outside the south city of Heyang, a new group of Tutuan countrymen arrived.
The two prefectures of Shaanxi and Guozhou each selected 10,000 men whose families did not need spring plowing, and took a detour with simple equipment to Heyang.
Xin'an County can't do it, it's so painful, no matter what, we have to take a detour.
To be honest, the Xiangyong from Shaanxi and Guoan counties have been trained quite frequently in recent years, and they have gradually become more famous. At least their organization level is much better than before.
The farmers and soldiers who fought in the pre-Qin era were probably trained in this way by generations of military mobilization. Well, there are also examples in the country, that is, Henan, which was plagued by disasters, and Hebei, which has always been responsible for resisting the imperial court.
However, their equipment is most likely not as good as that of peasants and soldiers in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Most of them have no armor, and only a few from well-off families have equipped themselves with armor - not to mention that civilians cannot hide armor privately, and they have never been able to control it since the feudal rule.
Too much.
The instruments made by the government are not worthy enough for professional warriors, so they cannot be given to the local regiment soldiers. For example, a good bow, someone who has been practicing archery for more than ten years and practices it whenever they have time throughout the year, is no better than you who spend most of your time working in the fields.
Is Tian Shefu much stronger? Naturally, I have to use them closely.
Tutuan countryman, a cloth-made headband, a cloth-made shirt, a cloth-made hakama slave, and a piece of cloth tied on the forehead for wiping the forehead, what a powerful piece of equipment!
Fu Cunshen did not let these village warriors enter the trenches immediately. Instead, he assigned some military schools to train these people for a few days. After they became familiar with the situation and rules, they were assigned to various trenches.
The war was about to start again, but the nail in Heyang Nancheng had not yet been removed, which made him a little anxious.
He walked up to a high slope and overlooked the entire river.
Many ships have been built in Mengzhou City, and they are all piled on the shore. The craftsmen cut down large logs in Wangwu Mountain, stacked some of them after processing, and slowly dried them in the shed, while some of them were urgently used to build ships.
The ship is not small, but it is not used to transport goods, but to repair the pontoon bridge between Zhongli City and Nancheng.
In fact, this work has started slowly since last month.
The sergeants used iron picks to break up the ice, lowered the boats one by one, connected them with iron chains, and nailed thick wooden boards.
The city's defenders once rushed out and tried to destroy the pontoons, but they suffered a big loss due to their carelessness: the ice surface was somewhat broken by the knocks, and it was covered with thatch. The Liang people were unprepared, and there were two to three hundred people.
He fell into the cold river water and lost his voice.
After suffering such a big loss, the Liang people gave up. They had lost hundreds of people during the siege for so many days. This time, they lost more than 200 people, and their morale was severely damaged.
Then set your sights on Zhongli City.
Many powerful crossbows and artillery vehicles have been equipped. These equipment can only be used in Zhongli City. The river is too wide, and the range of these weapons is short, so they cannot cover the entire river surface. If deployed in Zhongli City, it may
There is still a little effect - it is about eighty miles from the south bank of the Yellow River from Lisuo County in Zhengzhou to Yangwu County, and the center of the Yellow River is the dividing line between Yangwu County and Huojia County on the north bank.
"Sixteen miles", that is to say, the Yellow River here is thirty-two miles wide, and the Heyang side is slightly narrower, also more than twenty miles wide. No powerful crossbow can block the river, let alone the range of a powerful crossbow.
One gun carriage.
However, after the pontoon bridge is completed, some small gun carriages can be deployed, but I don't know if they can withstand the crossbow fire of Liang Jun's naval battleship.
The range of the artillery car is really terrible!
On the other side of Zhongli City, there are still some people transporting heavy iron chains. There is no doubt that they are planning to cross the river with iron chains and block the river.
In order to prevent Liang Jun's navy from coming to rescue after the river thawed, everyone tried their best.
If you are far away, set fire to the ship. If you are closer, use crossbows. If you are closer, use artillery carts. Finally, use long wooden poles and iron ropes to intercept. In short, use all means to stop the enemy and prevent them from approaching Heyang Nancheng.
The defenders here rescued him.
In fact, some people also raised objections, thinking that they should simply let the Liang people rescue the Nancheng defenders. They ran away, and they just occupied the city, which saved everyone trouble. However, it was rejected in the end. The King of Xia had an order, and he must take it.
The several thousand people of the Baosheng Army did not give them a chance to escape back.
The last two strongholds of the Liang people are trapped alone. It would really be unreasonable to allow them to escape.
Fu Cunshen turned around and took another look at the grain and grass transportation team that was slowly heading eastward.
These are the masters recruited by the Henan Prefecture. They are transporting grain, grass, and equipment to the Chishui Army.
They recently camped outside the Xuanmen Pass.
Flags were scattered all over the mountains and plains on Dagong Mountain, and the sound of golden drums was heard everywhere. The Liang soldiers guarding the pass were greatly frightened and kept calling for help from Zhengzhou and even Bianzhou.
Hearing that Pang Shigu had returned with his troops, his vanguard group of more than 3,000 people had already moved into the Xuanmenguan area. In order to avoid repeating the same mistake and being cut into several sections by the Xia army, the Liang people were constantly adding more troops to this area.
soldiers.
They dispatched a large number of manpower every day to chip away at the river ice near the south bank. The methods used during the confrontation between East and West Wei were unexpectedly picked up by both sides, which is ridiculous.
But no matter what, tens of thousands of Xia troops gathered in Huojia and Wuzhi areas, while the strength of Liang troops in Zheng and Meng areas was also increasing rapidly. Both sides seemed to choose the battlefield here in unison, and a conference with a scale of hundreds of thousands of people
War seems inevitable.
"Hit me!" Fu Cunzhen spat. He had never heard that King Xia planned to fight the Liang people here.