"What? Where did you get the news?" Guangling Prefecture Yandu, Qi army camp, Murong Cheng roared again. He got the news about Qi. In addition to Jingzhou being attacked by the Tang army, Yuzhou was occupied by Yanzhou army and Yangzhou was taken by Yangzhou army.
In addition to the attacks of Xuzhou army, Jiaozhou and Jiangzhou in the south and west were also attacked by their great enemy Situ Lei.
Zhang Tu's face was solemn and said anxiously: "Report to the Lord, this news was obtained from the Yanzhou Army of Huaiyin Prefecture."
Murong Cheng said with a ugly expression: "Yanzhou Army? Will they kindly pass the news to us? Is it fake news? When we leave Huaiyin City, we will massacre all the people in Huaiyin City, making it a white land. In addition, we will also
The news of his peace talks with us spread out, how could they be happy to pass the news to us?"
Zhong Yan smiled bitterly and said, "Master, we have slaughtered the people of Huaiyin City and the six surrounding counties, and for the Yanzhou Army, there is no personal loss of interests. In other words, the Yanzhou Army hates us on the surface. But in fact, it is still there.
Thank you for massacring all the people there. In this way, they will take over Huaiyin Prefecture and turn the people's hostility towards them into hostility towards us. As for spreading the news of our disputes with him, what can we do?
Nowadays, all the princes are fighting on their own, and no one can punish him.”
"This news should be true, because the Yanzhou army hopes that we can go south to Yangzhou as soon as possible, which is better than the Xuzhou army's fierce battle. The Yanzhou army occupied Huaiyin Prefecture and has touched the interests of the Xuzhou army. Now, the Yanzhou army is busy cleaning up the internal affairs of Yuzhou.
. Therefore, he hopes that there will be no enemy harassment outside. We are important people who restrain the Xuzhou army, the great enemy in the eastern part of the Yanzhou army. Therefore, he conveyed the news of the invasion of Diestu Lei from behind us."
"Therefore, this news is true. We are trapped in the enemy territory, so I cannot know these news. If Situ Lei and Zhao Xun had fought, I was afraid that Xuzhou Army and Yanzhou Army would have already begun to spread wildly, and
There will be no news. After all, the Zhao army is in the north of these princes."
"Now that Situ Lei and Zhao Xun have not started a war, what will Situ Lei do? Restoring energy? At this time, our Qi army was facing a counterattack from the princes and was at a disadvantage. At this time, Situ Lei would
Will you still be indifferent? The master, the subordinate, think that Situ Lei will definitely take this opportunity to attack our rear."
"Most of our army is concentrated in the north, especially now that the Tang army is attacking Jingzhou and the Xuzhou army attacking Yangzhou is restraining its limited military strength here. Therefore, the western part of Jiaozhou and the western part of Jiangzhou have become empty places.
With Situ Lei as a cunning person, it is impossible not to seize this opportunity."
"I..." After hearing the two of them, Murong Cheng softened his whole body and immediately sat on the main seat, unable to speak.
After a while, Murong Chengcai murmured, "I have been plotting for the plot, but I failed to plot against the Xuzhou army. Instead, I was plotted by various princes, and Situ Lei took a big advantage. Should I be so lucky?
The king failed?”
When Murong Cheng said this, Zhang Tu, Zhong Yan and others' faces changed drastically. Murong Cheng was the leader of the Qi army and was still in the enemy territory. If the commander loses his fighting spirit and gives up his heroic spirit, then the Qi army will be
It's over.
Zhang Tu said anxiously: "Lord Wuyou, this is also our inference. Besides, it is not easy for Situ Lei to attack the rear of our Qi. As for the Tang army and the Xuzhou army, it is not a big deal.
The problem. The most urgent thing now is that we will return to Yangzhou immediately to find out the situation and make plans.”
Zhong Yan also said: "Yes, Lord, you must not lose your fighting spirit because of the unknown situation in front of you. So what about Situ Lei? He is old. Even if he has the advantage now, how can he be the Lord's opponent? His few
All the sons have started to fight for the position of the heir. In the future, Situ Lei will die. We will not be allowed to ask for this Yong army. As long as we can defend the Yangzhou, Jiangzhou and other fundamental places, the rest of the places will be
What can these villains occupy?”
When he thought of Situ Lei's current situation, Murong Cheng suddenly felt a sense of pride in his heart. Yes, according to information, Situ Lei's current physical condition is already very bad. As long as he dies, Yong Jun will no longer have any threats.
His sons are not powerful people. For me, it is easy to deal with them...
In a blink of an eye, Murong Cheng's thought flashed, and he immediately calmed down and asked in a deep voice: "We had retreated to the western part of Yangzhou and went east to attack Xuzhou Jiangdu Prefecture and it was difficult to make a decision. Now, what do you think,
Should we march directly south, drive away the Xuzhou army from Yangzhou, or attack Jiangdu Prefecture, and force the Xuzhou army to withdraw its troops?"
Three days ago, the Qi army had defeated the Xuzhou army several counterattacks. The Qi army first killed a lot in Guangling Prefecture, and then plundered all the people in the territory. Although this behavior made the defenders of Guangling Prefecture feel frightened,
The Xuzhou army also united as one to fight the Qi army to the death. Therefore, after the Qi army occupied most of the Guangling Prefecture, the defenders of Guangling Prefecture, the reinforcements and local young and strong people all joined forces to fight back against the Qi army.
The loss of Qi army was also considerable.
It was also because of the constant war in Guangling Prefecture that the people of Guangling Prefecture fled here one after another. With this situation and the policies of the Yanzhou Army, they accepted a lot of people in Guangling Prefecture and continued to flow in from afar.
Neither the Qi army nor the Xuzhou army had time to take care of others, and most of the counties in Guangling Prefecture had been captured by the Qi army, so it was not blocked by the Xuzhou army's official office, which was extremely convenient.
After defeating the reinforcements sent by Li Chi, the local soldiers in Guangling Mansion were no longer the opponent of the Qi army and could not stop the Qi army. Therefore, there were two roads in front of the Qi army. One was to go south to Yangzhou directly.
Return to the place where the western half of Yangzhou junction with Jingzhou, and then rectify the troops and fight with the Xuzhou army in Yangzhou. Another is to directly attack Jiangdu Prefecture in the southeast of Guangling Prefecture, and cut off the connection between the Xuzhou army in Yangzhou and the rear of Xuzhou.
The food and supplies of the front-line army were cut off, and the Xuzhou army on the front-line was forced to withdraw its troops to ensure the safety of Yangzhou.
The two strategies have their own advantages and disadvantages and support. For a moment, neither side could convince each other, so they continued to move south while plundering the food of the people in Guangling Prefecture to make reserves for the army's subsequent march.
In addition, the Qi army suffered a lot of losses in the battle in Guangling Prefecture. Murong Cheng also recruited tens of thousands of soldiers here to supplement his shortcomings and could be used as cannon fodder.
Now, they have obtained Situ Lei to attack Qidi's rear, so they naturally cannot continue to delay here. Therefore, it is urgent to solve the danger in Yangzhou now.
Zhang Tu said: "The subordinates believe that they should go south quickly at this moment and withdraw back to Yangzhou as soon as possible to inquire about the details of our army, and make plans."
General He Tian said in a deep voice: "Why don't we divide our troops into two groups, heading south to Yangzhou and attacking Jiangdu Prefecture? In this way, the Xuzhou army in Yangzhou must retreat, and our army heading south to Yangzhou can be completely in the Xuzhou army.
The rear was cut off, and when he retreated in panic, he besieged him again, and gave the Xuzhou army a heavy blow to completely eliminate most of the Xuzhou army."
Zhong Yan shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it won't work. If we fight the Xuzhou army alone, this would be great. However, we are enemies on all sides and we are not clear about the situation in the territory. Split into two groups will inevitably lead to the strength of the two groups of troops.
All were weakened by half. It was not easy to attack Jiangdu Prefecture directly. Jiangdu Prefecture had Li Chi, the leader of Xuzhou Army, personally took charge. If it could not be taken down quickly, then the troops we went south could not reverse their disadvantages.
It will even be suppressed by the Xuzhou army in Yangzhou and the Tang army in northern Jingzhou. By then, the situation will be very bad. Not to mention, there is still an unknown situation in the north of us, and they also have a sympathy towards us.
Great hostility.”
"Therefore, the subordinates mean that now we can only work with the army and attack the weak with strong force to change our current disadvantages. After all, attacking Jiangdu Prefecture requires support from the rear, but our rear is no longer stable, so we
We cannot continue to stay in Xuzhou. Secondly, we have been separated from the prefectures under our army for a long time and have cut off our ties with the rear. The longer we delay here, the more likely it will be to change in the rear. Therefore,
We should assemble the army, go south immediately, and withdraw back to Yangzhou to integrate the military and political affairs of Yangzhou, and then make decisions."
"Okay, send the orders to the army and gather, and go south immediately. We must withdraw back to Yangzhou as quickly as possible." Murong Cheng said sternly, "In addition, send the orders to Yangzhou, let them gather in the west, wait for our army to meet and do it.
A counterattack strategy." After thinking about it, Murong Cheng said again, "In addition, plunder the people in Guangling Prefecture, drive them north to Huaiyin Prefecture. Since the Yanzhou army sent us news, I will give them some benefits.
You have to see, is Li Chi still indifferent to the Yanzhou army occupying their Huaiyin Palace and plundering their population?"
"Situ Lei! You old bastard, I will swallow up all the places of your Yong army sooner or later!" Finally, Murong Cheng gritted his teeth and whispered. Now, the princes are besieging him, but they are not as threats as Situ Lei has given him.
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Jingzhou, Bei'an Prefecture Chongcheng, Xiangyang Prefecture, Fancheng, the key area north of the Han River, was also attacked by the Tang army at this moment. Tang Xian spliced together the foundation of the former general in the north of Jingzhou and the remnant power of the former family, in just over two months.
It occupied the three prefectures of Nanyang Prefecture, Huai'an Prefecture and Danyang Prefecture in the north of Jingzhou. Now, Bei'an Prefecture has gradually fallen and entered Tang Xian's bag. Tang Xian was very satisfied with the current situation. He has now been with Zhao
Inquiry and negotiations, he prepared to transfer the territory occupied by the Tang army in the north to the Yanzhou army in exchange for his army's transit and some food and supplies.
Fancheng is located north of the Han River. After passing the Han River, it is Xiangyang Prefecture, which is the center of the entire Jingzhou. For this place, Jingzhou Pacifier and Jingzhou Governor have not brought down many troops, but it is already difficult to resist the fierce and powerful The Tang army attacked. After gathering the surrendered soldiers in Jingzhou and recruiting new soldiers, the Tang army has been stronger than the garrison troops in Jingzhou. However, the Qi army in Jingzhou still has to guard against the Yong army in the west.
On a vast open space under Fancheng City, the 60,000 troops who had already lined up to wait were shouting! The 60,000 troops were as dark as if there was no end, which made people feel scared when they looked at it.
Tang Xian is a general of the 12 guards of the Great Yan Dynasty and is considered a veteran. He has always been an extremely experienced man in the arrangement of military formations. The attack formation of Yun Sixty-one Army is a relatively traditional attack formation. The entire military formation is divided into infantry and military formations and Two-wing cavalry.
The infantry military formation is composed of several square arrays of similar size, divided into two parts: front and back. The square array in front is the siege square array, and the front of each square array is the sword and shield soldiers, and the rear is the shoulder. Assault soldiers carrying a ladder or pushing a rushing cart.
The square formations lined up behind generally do not participate in the siege. Their task is to suppress the formation. This type of suppressing the formation is generally called the central army, and the generals in charge of command are generally in the central army. In addition to these infantry and military forces, they are generally in the central army. In addition to the formation, there are nearly 20,000 cavalry on the two wings of the infantry phalanx. Their mission is to deal with possible enemy raids and protect the safety of the entire army's wings.
"Send the order to attack the city immediately! Before the sun sets, you must take it down!" outside Fancheng City, Tang Xian, who was full of energy, shouted loudly.
"Kill! Kill! Kill..."
A loud shout followed, and at the same time, hundreds of war drums located in the central army suddenly sounded together. Suddenly, "rumbling" rolled in the air like the thunder before the storm, roaring. The sound of war drums sounded, and tens of thousands of troops seemed to have been shot into a dose of stimulant. They shouted loudly, like a thunderclap.
"Defense! Defend with all your strength!" Seeing the situation of the Tang army, the face of the defender of Fancheng Gao Wu changed drastically. The morale of the Tang army was so high. It seems that Fancheng, in the next battle, is very likely... to be unable to defend...
Despite this, Gao Wu did not give up resistance and shouted loudly. The 20,000 defending troops in the city quickly started to move, and various defending equipment were pushed to the top of the city.
The Tang army began a large-scale attack amid the thunderous drums, and saw two attacking arrays breaking away from the main array and slowly pressing towards Fancheng in an orderly formation.
The troops of one square formation are 5,000, and the two square formations attack together. This means that the Tang army invested in the first wave of attacks with enough 10,000 troops. This is a 10,000 army, already a large army defending the city. Half of them. In Fancheng, the 20,000 army also included thousands of young and strong men who were temporarily recruited.
More than 10,000 attacking troops slowly approached Fancheng. At a distance of 150 meters, the two phalanxes of swords and shield soldiers in the front raised their shields at the same time, while behind them were carrying ladders and pushing carts. The soldiers were also protected by other swords and shields with shields. Obviously, these Tang soldiers were not a group of reckless men who only knew how to charge. They were well-trained soldiers.
"Shooting the arrow! Cast the stone car, shoot!" Although the opponent began to advance with a defensive momentum, Gao Wu had no choice. After hesitation, he finally couldn't help but start using the sharp weapon to defend the city, ordered the crossbow and catapult car, Launched a counterattack. In an instant, crossbow arrows on the city wall and stone throwers behind them fired one after another. Crossbow arrows as thick as babies' arms flew out with a whistling sound and penetrated directly into the Tang army formation; one by one, the size of a millstone Huge stones flew into the air together, and the flying stones covered the sky and the earth were covered with darkness, covering the sky and the sun. The scene was really shocking! The huge stone flew into the air and hit the shield hard the next moment. Among the two Tang military formations that were advancing slowly.
The crossbow arrow shot, blood splattered, shield cracked; huge rocks fell, residual limbs shot everywhere, and swords and guns were broken. Many soldiers siege were shot by crossbow arrows, and were knocked to the ground by huge rocks, shields shattered, plasma splattered,
Then a wailing sounded...
However, the living people are still moving forward. Are they not afraid? No, they are afraid, but this is the case on the battlefield. There is advancement but no retreat. There is still a possibility of survival. Once they retreat, they will surely die.
The tragic battlefield continued with the drum sound, and the offensive and defensive battle began with the shocking sound of war drums. Over the sky, crossbows and huge rocks flew back and forth, and the screams never stopped...
The battle was very cruel, with blood flying all over the sky, and crazy shouts resounding throughout the sky. The injured were still fighting hard. The soldiers who died in battle fell down unwillingly, and both sides fought against each other like red-eyed bulls.
Time moved slowly in blood, from noon in the morning, from noon to afternoon, and finally in the evening, the battle continued, the sun set in the west, and except for the endless shouts of killing, it seemed that there was no other way.
The sound of the city wall flew out, leaving only a bloody color and a mountain of corpses.
Obviously, this time the Tang army was determined to take down Fancheng and take down the city north of the Han River, which was also the last city blocking the north of Xiangyang City. Taking this place, Xiangyang City lost its northern gate.
Countless soldiers, one after another, regardless of the price. In order to block the Tang army's terrifying offensive, the defenders of Fancheng paid an extremely heavy price.
Although Gao Wu struggled to resist, the strength of his strength did affect the key to victory or defeat. Although Fancheng occupied the advantage of the territory, the strength in his hands was far weaker than that of the Tang army. With the hard battle, Fancheng defenders became more and more powerful.
Younger, even Gao Wu was seriously injured.
Finally, when the sunset was about to set the last ray of afterglow, the city wall had suffered countless times and collapsed. Then, the Tang army howled like a flood that opened the gate and rushed into the gap...
"Gao Wu is incompetent, so he is ashamed of his lord!" Seeing the Tang army swarming in, Gao Wu drew his sword and committed suicide to express his loyalty to the King of Qi.
When he saw his side breaking Fancheng, Tang Xian, who was in the central army, was overjoyed. However, when he saw the guard general committing suicide, he said with a little regret: "What a pity! Gao Wu, the guard general of Fancheng, did not serve the same army as me, but the governor knew that he was also aware of him.
Yes, I wanted to take it for myself, but I didn’t expect that he would be like this...oh...forget it, it’s already a great joy to take down this city, why bother asking for too much?"
"Congratulations to the lord, congratulations to the lord, take down Fancheng and pacify Jingbei!" All the generals of the Tang army expressed their congratulations.
Tang Xian laughed and said, "Okay, pacify Jingbei, and Jingnan cannot escape the hands of this governor. Let's go and enter the city!"