Lord of the House

On the snowy night of the 25th, the campfire lit by Zhu Longpo at the head of Yangxin City illuminated the wilderness outside the west city like a moonlit night. Large snowflakes fell on the head of the city. They harassed the prisoners who were monitoring the city gate and the prisoners stationed at Zhulongpo. This harassment continued until dawn, when Ning Zechen led the third battalion with five hundred cavalry.

What came with Ning Ze's officials was a large amount of supplies transported by 400 mules and horses in a simple sleigh and camel. They approached Yangxin City along the frozen Zhulong River under the cover of the snowy night, and under the cover of the defenders in the city, Quickly retreat into the city.

When Ning Zechen came into the city, in addition to hundreds of thousands of kilograms of rice grains, he also brought a large amount of arrows, weapons, and medicinal materials, all of which were in short supply in Yangxin City.

The crossbow, especially the staggered crossbow and the waisted crossbow, played a huge role in resisting the light cavalry and straggling tactics of the captives, delaying and disrupting the light cavalry clashes of the captives and killing and wounding the captives in large numbers. effect.

Ning Zechen's troops carried 300 strong crossbows in five hundred cavalry, almost half of the strong crossbows of the 4th and 5th battalions. In addition, there are enough components to install eight bed crossbows and four scorpion crossbows, all of which are concentrated on the northern city, which is most conducive to the deployment of siege soldiers.

In order to raise more arrows, Lin Fu enlisted the only four blacksmith shops in the city for military use, collected iron tools and melted them to make arrows of various sizes; , to requisition stone masons to make stone bullets fired by scorpion crossbows.

Ning Zechen led his troops to come, and Lin Fu asked Ao Cang's sea wall to assist in defending the city, and dispatched elite soldiers to strengthen Ning Zechen's troops. In addition to the more than 500 Jiangdong left army infantry on the city wall and the original more than 800 Yangxin defenders, the mobile forces that Lin Fu can call include 600 soldiers of Ning Zechen's army, and 300 Jin Zhongjun elite cavalry of Zhou Tong's army. , Geng Quanshan, Chen Dingbang's Ministry of 1,200 infantry after supplementation. In addition, there are more than 1,200 auxiliary soldiers, and more than 8,000 young and strong men are organized, and they can be transferred to the city head to strengthen the defense at any time.

On the 26th, a large number of captives swarmed outside Yangxin City. Just as Lin Fu expected, the Linqing rebel Ji Shiben led more than 6,000 Linqing soldiers to play the front line for the Donglu, and there were more than 3,000 captives riding threats. Wrapped in a large number of plundered civilians and soldiers, the troops outside Yangxin City reached more than 12,000 people.

"The captive thief really looks down on Yangxin!" Lin Fu said slightly with emotion. He pressed the handle of the knife and wore a scarlet cloak. He stood on the north gate tower and watched the captive soldiers slowly in the wilderness between Zhulongpo and Yangxin City. Expand.

"Jiangdong Zuo Army has accumulated nearly 4,000 heads of captive soldiers in other battlefields. They can't even look down on Yangxin..." Geng Quanshan said.

Lin Bie smiled.

Yangxin is not very close to Jinan and Linzi. It is about 250 miles away from Jinan and about 200 miles away from Linzi. Generally speaking, this distance is beyond the dangerous distance that the infantry can attack directly. But the Eastern Captives have the difficulties of the Eastern Captives.

When Jinan was captured, the Donglu envoy to Linqing rebel general Mo Jiben led the Linqing troops to be the main force in the siege, and the main force on the southern line of the Dongluo had limited casualties. However, in addition to the capture of Jinan City, the total number of people captured by the Eastern Captives was close to 300,000. Except for a small number of people who were driven as auxiliary soldiers to fight with the army, most of the people captured by the people were concentrated in Jinan, Dezhou and other cities to guard them. Can no longer move with the army.

This will also force the troops of the Eastern Captives to divide their troops again, so that the captured troops this time will be divided into three routes: the Northern Front, the Southern Front and the Eastern Front.

The Eastern Captives had to guard against the Qinwang Division gathered in the northeastern part of Zhongzhou County. The main force on the southern front left behind in Jinan, Dezhou, and Linqing could not be divided into too few troops, which meant that the number of Eastern Front captured soldiers was limited.

The geographical location of Yangxin seems to be unsurprising, and it is even a little far from the direction of the east line of the soldiers, but it is only 80 miles away from Zhulong Bay. . Entering the northeast or east of Linzi City, such as Bohai, Shouguang, or Changyi, can directly contain the main force of the eastern front of the captured troops attacking Linzi.

In addition, advancing westward from Yangxin can recover Shanghe, Linyi and other cities, and directly reach the waist of Jinan and Dezhou, forming a trend of attacking the southern line of captured soldiers with the Qinwang division gathered in the northeastern part of Zhongzhou.

Lin Bie gathered more than 6,000 elites in Yangxin. Among these 6,000 elites, apart from the remnants of Shaowu Town, the Jiangdong Zuo Army and the Jin Army had just joined forces to defeat the 4,000-captured enemy, with high morale and strong willingness to fight. It is a military force that cannot be overlooked. Donglu's defense against Jiangdong Zuojun was even higher than that of Qinwang's division gathered in the northeastern part of Zhongzhou County.

It is impossible for the Donglu to sit back and watch Lin Bie gather troops in Yangxin to form a situation of flexible containment and attack on the east and south fronts.

Either suppress the Jiangdong Zuo Army in Yangxin City, or directly suppress the main force of the eastern front under Yangxin City and conquer Yangxin City. No matter which strategic intention is realized, it is impossible to send less troops to Yangxin.

The Battle of Jinhai also proved the Jiangdong Zuo Army's ability to fight in the field. It was impossible for the light cavalry of less than 5,000 captive soldiers to suppress the Jiangdong Zuo Army in Yangxin City and unable to move.

When the captive soldiers came east this time, the combined rebel generals surrendered more than 12,000 troops, which was not unexpected for Lin Fu, but it was not up to him to decide whether this captive army would attack or besiege Yangxin.

But in any case, the captive soldiers did not lose the courage to attack the city, not to mention the rebels can be driven, even if there is no strong will to capture Yangxin City, to drive the rebel generals to surrender to attack the city, is what the captured generals should do s Choice.

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Ye Jiduo went straight to Zhu Longpo and looked at the garrison at the head of Yangxin City.

Under the active harassment of the defenders, the 3,000 captive soldiers who had chased Yangxin in the early stage did not even set up a simple camp. Ye Jiduo had a gloomy face, and he did not say anything about the incompetence of the forward generals, but sent a large number of cavalry along Zhu Longpo was on alert, and Mo Jiben, the left capital of the Han army, led Linqing troops to speed up the construction of the camp.

From the local area, it has been difficult to capture, and it is limited to half a month. Here, there are nearly 16,000 people with light cavalry, soldiers, and civilians, and more than 12,000 horses and mules. They need 20,000 grains for half a month. There are 180,000 stone rice grains and fodder.

With such a huge logistical load, there is no solid camp, and it is simply impossible to camp in the wild.

Na Hexiongqi temporarily removed all military posts, and only asked Yezierhan to send him to serve as a staff officer to the third prince Yejiduodi as idle personnel.

The person who caused him to suffer humiliation that could not be washed away in his life was in Yangxin City. Although it was far away, there were no other generals in Yangxin City wearing blue armor and red helmets. If there was a longbow with a range of 1,500 steps, He Xiongqi would never hesitate to open his bow and shoot at Lin Fu, but at this time, he had to strongly advise the third prince to come to Yangxin to besiege the city. Siege easily.

Ye Jiduo looked at He Xiongqi without saying a word.

The Eastern Hu soldiers were divided into eight divisions, of which the king's tent was led by Yezierhan himself, and the other seven were tribal soldiers.

Ye Jiduodi is a head coach. Although facing the Jiangdong Zuojun who has won three consecutive victories, he should march cautiously, but he should passively besiege the city and block the Jiangdong Zuojun, so where should he put his face as the third prince? Besides, if Mo Jiben was not forced to lead Linqing troops to fight a dozen hard battles, how could they harden their hearts to follow the Dadong Hu Khanate?

In addition, the King Khan sent young generals such as Azige to accompany the army to watch the battle, but not to see how they would besiege the Jiangdong Zuo Army in Yangxin City.

Strange to say, Mo Jiben didn't even have the courage to defend Linqing under the hooves of Donglu's iron cavalry. After he led his troops to surrender, the generals in the army would not particularly trust them, these rebel generals, and only King Khan. Forced to reject the public opinion, the Han army was added outside the eight ministries, and Mo Jiben was appointed as the left capital of the Han army. Jinan City.

Unexpectedly, whether it was the attack on Xiajin, Gaotang, or Jinan, Mo Jiben was surprisingly diligent. He also attacked the city well, and he didn't care about the casualties of his soldiers~www.wuxiaspot.com~ It doesn't look like a coward at all. The general of Zhan, as if he was determined to please the new master, also took the initiative to invite Zhan to attack Yangxin this time.

Now Zhao Jinlong, who fled into the mountainous area of ​​northern Thailand, also led 5,000 Zhejiang soldiers out and surrendered. The King of Khan directly appointed Zhao Jinlong as the right commander of the Han army, so that he led his troops to attack Jiyin Tucheng first.

Today, the eastern front is dominated by the surrendered Han army.

Ye Jiduodi was puzzled by the disparate temperament of the Southerners. He could only attribute this phenomenon to the fact that the Southerners were all scumbags. However, it is also good, to drive the troops to attack the city, it can make the Donghu man who is not good at attacking the city to bleed less, but the king of Khan also asked the generals to seriously study the foot warfare of the southerners and the method of attacking and defending the city. Jige and other young generals came to watch the battle with the army. It seemed that King Khan still had some confidence in Mo Jiben's siege.

Mo Jiben rode his horse up the gentle slope, got off the horse and bowed to Ye Jiduo, Na Hexiongqi and others, pointed to Yangxin City, and said to Ye Jiduo: "Yangxin City has only four gates, wait here. After the fortress is built, please ask Prince Duodi to send cavalry to monitor the four gates. The lowly position can drive the Han army and the civilians to dig and build a fortress outside the four gates, so that the defenders cannot go out of the city to harass my siege army, and then they can attack the city... "

"How much effort will it take?" Azige scolded, "You shouldn't be afraid to attack the city, right?"

"You're the only one talking nonsense," Ye Jiduo whipped his whip in the space and gave Azige a vicious look, even if he despised Mo Jiben and these subordinate generals, but to drive them to attack the city, what should he do? He was still clear in his heart. After he had taught Aziger a lesson, he said to Mo Jiben, "Modutong has been bothered. Whatever you need, feel free to say it, and this prince will try his best to do it for you!"

Mo Jiben thanked Ye Jiduo for giving him a kowtow, and then went to drive the Han army and civilians to step up the construction of this village. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter