Li Nong has never been a decisive person, and he also knows that he is a person who is easily swayed by personal feelings, and it is easy to hesitate for a long time to cause the beggar army to split, and now he has fallen into a situation where he cannot advance or retreat.
Wang Mo only spoke after receiving Li Nong's eyes: "What kind of conditions did the King of Han offer?"
Ran Min told him bluntly: "The troops disarmed on the spot, and the generals, including Li Gong, went to Fenggao. ” "Swords and fish meat" Wang Mo made a ridiculous expression and said, "King Han is really" "That's true."
Ran Min looked at Li Nong and said in the tone of an insider: "There are more than 300,000 people under Li Nong's command, and there will be no more than 50,000 people who can fight.
You don't have weapons, you don't have enough warm clothing, you don't even have food.
If you are facing an opponent with similar conditions, you can naturally fight with a brave spirit, but you are facing a Han army with excellent armor and equipment, and the battle is more fearless than death. ” Li Nong didn't need to say anything more, the reality of the beggar army was just as Ran Min said, and it could even be said that the conditions were never better.
He couldn't help but look at the Han army that had stopped, looking at the men and horses all wearing heavy armor and cavalry, and then looking at the men and horses equipped with plate armor, and the Praetorian Guards behind him didn't see it and knew that they were basically equipped with armor.
The Han army is really very well-armed with weapons and armor, and it is not so well equipped with silver spear wax heads.
This is a fact that has been shown in war after war in recent years, and anyone who faces it will feel a deep pressure.
"Yongzeng."
Li Nong said melancholy: "It's not that we don't have the ability to resist, and the Han King's approach is too underestimating for us. ” "Li Gong, it seems that you really don't know what kind of opponent you are facing."
Ran Min had already begun to pull the reins, turning the horse's head and saying, "In the end, we still have to do it." ” The beggar army from Taocheng had already arrived, and they did not continue to move forward after being signaled by Li Nong, waiting for Ran Min to lead people away, and then this beggar army stepped forward to hug Li Nong and Wang Mo back to the city.
"The King of Han is really excessive, it is clear that he is forcing surrender rather than surrendering" Wang Mo is actually more inclined to change his flag and switch to the Han Kingdom, after all, Ran Min has already given a good example, but Liu Yan's reaction is really exaggerated.
He asked Li Nong unwillingly: "What should we do?"
"It seems that we are going to do a game, so that the Han Kingdom will no longer underestimate us and others."
Li Nong was in a situation of wandering left and right, knowing that he couldn't fight and didn't want to depend on others completely, and said: "It's just that the Han army is really difficult to deal with, especially in the field. ” Thinking about it, having 5,000 armored cavalry is enough for Li Nong to be stunned, he is not a fledgling young man, and he knows very well what the situation will be in the face of mounted heavy cavalry in a field battle with flat terrain, especially with an infantry army that does not know how to set up a formation to fight with the mounted heavy cavalry is simply looking for death.
How many armor and cavalry equipment is on behalf of how strong the national strength is, Shi Hu set the strength of the whole country and also armed 3,000 armored cavalry and 8,000 armored heavy infantry, it is precisely because of the existence of the dragon guards that the Qian people have become a solid overlord of the Central Plains.
Looking at Liaodong again, Murong Xianbei, who was armed with three thousand armor cavalry, immediately swept through the entire Liaodong, including the surrounding areas.
"Yongzeng already has 3,000 armor cavalry equipment."
Li Nong actually didn't understand how Ran Min did it, but said: "In this way, there are 8,000 armored cavalry under the command of the King of Han, and even tens of thousands of heavy infantry."
According to the people at this time, as long as they wear iron armor, they can be regarded as armor, and people and horses wearing heavy armor can also be called armor and riding equipment.
The armor is still relatively well armed, that is, the armor and cavalry equipment must not only have excellent knights, but also have enough tall and excellent war horses.
Speaking of which, today's world should be the best era of war horses in the Central Plains, not only with the bantam horses on the grassland, Mongolian horses, but also from the Western Regions brought from the Dawan horse and Wusun horse, and even the hot-blooded horse Arabian horse from Central Asia.
The number of types of horses far exceeds that of previous dynasties, and the number is beyond people's imagination, which is why the Jin army in the east is well equipped but difficult to go north, and the Jin army has repeatedly faced a huge number of Hu cavalry.
The begging army also has cavalry, which can be regarded as a relatively elite group of people in the begging army, all of whom are the aftermath of a hundred battles.
Some of their leaders were summoned by Li Nong and asked if they were confident of fighting the Han army outside the city.
"You can't fight head-to-head."
Li Cunxiao already knew the conditions offered by the Han State, and he had a depressed feeling in his heart: "There is no space for guerrilla warfare."
Now it is the Han army attacking, begging the army to defend.
As a general on the side of the beggar army, no one wants to go out of the city to fight with the heavily equipped cavalry in the field, and if you defend it, it seems that you can defend it, but what is the value of it The beggar army is at the most contradictory moment, and the Han army is not sitting and watching the show.
The day after Ran Min arrived in Taocheng, when the Han army drove out of the camp again, you could already see equipment such as crossbows, catapults, and ladders to climb the city, and there were about 3,000 infantry troops in contrast.
"Li Gong."
Miao Song didn't go back, he was standing on top of the city pass of Taocheng at the moment, making the last effort: "The dangerous city is not enough to defend, and the army's spirit is floating and cannot be fought."
In addition, once a war actually starts, I am afraid that there will be unforeseen consequences. ” Miao Song was wandering around Taocheng yesterday, fully knowing what the current situation of the beggar army was like.
After a winter, at least the beggar army in Taocheng is very embarrassed, and the frozen corpses can often be seen on the roadside, and most people can also see that they are skinny under the condition of lack of food and clothing.
It seems that only a few soldiers seem to be relatively good, but in fact they are not much better.
"Gong Li, why bother shedding unnecessary blood and causing unnecessary casualties" Miao Song has already seen the crossbow outside the city installing crossbow arrows on the winding, and the catapult is also twisting the winch to protect the stone bullets: "My lord belongs to the King of Han, and no one has been killed inexplicably, and they are all properly resettled."
The Han army has already begun to move, the first test shot of the bed crossbow off the string, the length of the crossbow arrow should be a zhang long shot into the rammed earth city wall for a distance, must have caused a certain shock to that section of the city wall, causing the beggar soldiers in that section to exclaim.
"King Han didn't say anything about treatment."
Li Nong looked calm, and said: "The old man is not afraid that he will be imprisoned or killed, Yongzeng is still trying his best to fight for the treatment of those who follow him, how can the old man not make any efforts" A very loud bowstring sound came from the Han army, and the sound of breaking the air sounded one after another, and the sound of collision and screams continued to be heard from the side of the city wall.
The crossbow was followed by a catapult, so that the beggar army general who was defending had to order the defense to be temporarily abandoned and let people take refuge under the city walls.
The Han army did not attack the tower, so that a group of people, including Li Nong, could stand here and watch the Han army outside the city.
The 3,000 infantry of the Han army advanced to about 150 steps, and a "swish" sound resounded, and a "dark cloud" rose from the ground to the sky, which was a dense array of crossbow arrows that were shot out, and soon the city wall resounded with a dense crashing sound, and the covered city wall section was full of crossbow arrows.
Almost in half an hour, although there were no defenders on the city wall at all, the Han army's various long-range attack weapons were constantly demonstrated, but they did not ascend the city.
At the beginning, the beggar army generals on this side of the city tower could still speak, and when they saw that no one was silent in the middle.
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Most of them were not wrong to fight for half their lives, but it was the first time that they had seen such a powerful and continuous coverage of multiple long-range attack methods as today.
Suddenly, there was a muffled sound from the city walls, followed by the cracking and collapse of the walls, which were constantly hit by stone bullets, and a series of movements brought dust rolling around.
Li Nong muttered: "The reinforced gap could not withstand repeated bombardment, and collapsed."
In the final analysis, the beggar army was not a regular army, and their means of repairing the gap was only to re-tamp the soil, and in winter it was rain and snow, and after a period of rainy weather, the rebuilt gap did not have time to dry at all, let alone form a fit with the old city wall.
The collapsed section of the city wall does not look small, and after the dust dissipates, it looks like it should be about four zhang wide The movement on this side of the city wall reached the city, and a burst of exclamation could be heard in the distance, and it seemed that a commotion could be heard.
The people in the city, they are really in chaos, they are in turmoil, but no one is running around, after all, they all have the experience of fighting with the army for a long time, but exclamations and wails are really unavoidable.
"Surrender" Li Nong was looking at his subordinates, and what he saw was their faces full of iron and fear: "Surrender." ” When no one was silent, Miao Song's relieved voice was especially obvious.
Li Nong looked as if he was ten years old, and said with a sense of loneliness: "It is not a crime of war, but a war without war." ” It was Shi Hu who threw the beggar army to the south bank of the Yellow River, Li Nong didn't believe that Shi Hu would not know what the beggar army was like, not to mention the lack of armor and equipment, and even the lack of food and straw.
But in this way, Shi Hu also threw the beggar army to the south bank of the Yellow River, and Li Nong didn't know whether Shi Hu trusted the beggar army, or threw it away like discarding some piece of garbage.
The apricot yellow flag was raised in Taochengzhi, the tightly closed city gate was opened, and Li Nong, who was walking on foot, was the first to come out, followed by a group of generals and colonels of the beggar army.
Ran Min, who received the news, didn't make much of a show, he came to the front of the battle to greet Li Nong in person, and when he saw Li Nong with a vicissitudes of life, he comforted: "The troubled times make people have too much to do, and sometimes passive acceptance is unavoidable. ” Li Nong really didn't know that Ran Min could say such a thing, he looked at Ran Min with an unattractive gaze, and asked in a hoarse voice: "Yongzeng, what will the King of Han do with us?"
"Those who can fight should be co-opted, and those who can't fight should be resettled separately."
Ran Min actually has a lot of feelings, and the fall of Li Nong's group is equivalent to the withdrawal of the beggar army from the stage of history.
He squeezed out a little smile: "Gong Li, please rest assured."
Now is the time for the king to employ people, and maybe Min will soon be able to gallop side by side with Gong. ” Li Nong's response was a bitter smile.
Xie An, who was standing quietly on the side, suddenly asked: "Gong Li, if you are willing to come to the south bank of the Yellow River, I'm afraid you have made a decision from the beginning."
Ran Min was stunned when he heard this, and quickly reacted, thinking: It is true that Li Nong is not a reckless man, how can he not know what will happen after crossing the river.
It's just that the back is twisted and pinched, which is really in line with his personality.
Li Nong still smiled bitterly.
There were already Han troops entering the city, Li Tan was at the forefront of the entire army entering the city, and what he saw was that there were people standing on both sides of the road who were cold but unclothed, and those people didn't look too emotional, just stood quietly and watched.
First, the Han army entered the city, followed by a steady stream of carriages entered, and there were auxiliary soldiers who set up pots and pans to find firewood, and soon bursts of rice incense spread throughout the city, waiting for the call to let people line up to receive rice porridge, the city immediately resounded bursts of cheers.
Li Nong heard the cheerful cheers from Taocheng in the camp of the Han army, but the bitterness on his face did not diminish at all, and he said to Ran Min, who was kneeling and kneeling in front of him, with emotion: "I haven't heard such cheers for a long time. ” "The abundance of materials in the Han Dynasty is beyond imagination, and the king has never been stingy with his people."
Ran Min didn't have any righteousness, looked at Li Nong intently, and asked: "Duke Li, Min Ke wrote a letter to the king, but he didn't know what to do with the public will."
"Yongzeng, cutting first and then playing is not something that a minister can do."
Li Nong shook his head and said, "Come again, I don't want to meet the Heavenly King on the battlefield." ” It turned out that Ran Min had a big package, saying that it was completely possible to bring Li Nong to the Puyang battlefield first, and then write a letter to explain it to Liu Yan.
Ran Min looked down on Li Nong for so much sentimentality, and his willingness to fight for Li Nong was based on his previous friendships.
Seeing Li Nong's resolute attitude, he stopped mentioning it, and instead began to reminisce, but there was not much to talk about.
Being able to force down the beggar army entrenched in Jibei County without a fight was a good thing for the Han state, saving time and increasing the population by about 300,000 at the same time.
Liu Yan, who was in Fenggao, received the news of Li Nong's surrender of his army three days later, and at this time, the news that the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was really assembling in a big way was sent a day earlier.
Not only did the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty move, but the Shijie Zhao army of Sun Fudu's department and Chenliu County and Liang County also began to be agitated, and it seemed that Shi Hu knew that the Han Dynasty would send troops north from Yuzhou.
"Since the enemy forces in those positions moved first, the first battle after the beginning of spring would be in the south."
Liu Yan was standing in front of the map of mountains and rivers, and he looked at a lot of positions, and his eyes frequently swept over Jiankang: "The mobilization of the servant army is in place."
One winter, the Han State reorganized 200,000 slaves as servant troops, which were dispatched to the Yangtze River in batches, with the Huainan line and the Yingshui line being deployed in most of them.
Wang Meng hurriedly checked the document and carefully discerned it before answering: "Your Majesty, there are already 120,000 servant troops arriving. ” Liu Yan first bowed his head, and then touched his chin, as if asking and as if talking to himself: "What gave the small court so much courage to really go north":