The standing strength of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was only 200,000, and it was deployed along the Yangtze River all year round.
Yu Bing used 30,000 troops to take advantage of the Han army to contain Shijie Zhao's army to easily take Xincai County, Ruyin County and Runan County, and waited for Chu Li to take over as the governor of the three counties.
After almost half a year of preparation, the newly occupied three counties of the Eastern Jin Dynasty were formed in Yubing's defense planning, with Ruyang, Nanton, Pingyu, Liyang, Gushi, and Song counties as the frontier defense chain in the north.
Ruyang is located in the westernmost part, it is more than 200 miles away from Song County from the plane map, but because there are multiple defense chains, the defense line arranged by the Jin army is not a straight line, it is a semi-crescent moon shape.
It stands to reason that the first target of attack should be Song County, which is located in the easternmost part of the entire defense chain of the Jin army, but it was the first to attack Gushi, the absolute place of four battles, so it can be seen that the Han army at least formulated an attack plan Huan Wen looked down on Chu Li.
After capturing Li Kuang's troops in Gushi, they did not encounter a strong counterattack from the Jin army, and even attacking everywhere could always have a good harvest.
That is based on the premise that there is no interaction between the Jin army stationed everywhere, and the Han army can concentrate superior forces to conquer one point after another occupied by the Jin army, and at the same time constantly eliminate the Jin army whose strength belongs to the inferior position.
"Together with the Jin army that ambushed the original deer, we have killed nearly 5,000 enemy troops and captured nearly 30,000 enemy troops."
Wang Biao looked very happy, and he patted the document in his hand: "The number of defense points to overcome the enemy army is also very large, there are thirty-four."
According to Yu Bing's defense plan, the Jin army is scattered and sticks to some key points while absolutely being able to echo each other from afar, and even will flexibly mobilize the Jin army to a siege and annihilation battle with the attacking enemy army.
"The number of Jin troops entrenched in the land of the three counties should be more than 100,000" Li Kuang actually counted the regular Jin army, the private soldiers of the family, and the people.
He asked: "The enemy army has retreated, and most of them are concentrated in Xincai County."
"Yes, General."
Wang Biao said excitedly: "Only by constantly intercepting the small forces mobilized by the enemy can we achieve those results." ” Li Kuang didn't mean that at all, he just wanted to know how many defenders of Xincai City had gathered.
Wang Biao is still more observant, and when he saw Li Kuang's brows, he frowned and said, "The number of Xincai's defenders is estimated to be about sixty thousand. ” "Then that is to say, except for Ruyin, the rest of the Jin army is concentrated in Xincai" Li Kuang couldn't understand what Chu Li wanted to do at all, so he asked another question: "What are the actions of the locals?"
The small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty always thought that he was the king's teacher, not only the people of Li where they passed should eat pot pulp to welcome them, but also unconditionally help the Jin army.
What is the reality of the situation, of course, there are locals who help the Jin army, but more of them are treated with indifference, and there is no shortage of resistance and resistance because the Jin army wants to levy taxes.
Nowadays, the situation in the world is very complicated, the Han King Liu Yan challenged the Zhengshuo status of the Sima royal family of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the last time he worshiped the Yanhuang Temple of Mount Tai caused the world to shake, which is equivalent to the situation of "there are two days in the sky".
In the past, the Han Ministry was too tough in dealing with the local Haoqiang in Qingzhou, so that although the Haoqiang and the big clans in the newly occupied counties did not dare to resist, the soft resistance of the big clans and Haoqiang never stopped.
In the land of the three counties, at least those places where the Han army appeared, most of the local heroes and big clans took actions that did not help each other.
Li Kuang had already transferred his troops from Gushi to Ruyin City again, and he had already received the news that Huan Wen was going to attack Xinxi from the belly of the Jin army, and he needed to respond to it in the north, so there was no better move than trying to conquer Ruyin City.
"With the lesson of the last time, the Jin army of Xincai City will definitely not dare to come to the aid again."
Wang Biao reminded of his own responsibilities: "We only have 20,000 troops left in Gushi, and I don't know if Xincai's Jin army will attack our back road."
In fact, what Wang Biao wanted to say was that Huan Wen's order was to contain and attract the Jin army and attack Ruyin City, which was only garrisoned by 20,000, so what should the nearly 60,000 Jin troops on Xincai's side do "Gushi will only have three thousand garrisons left."
Li Kuang already believed in Huan Wen's judgment, that is, Chu Li reacted very slowly, and there was another Chu Li who didn't know how to command the army to fight at all.
He said: "Seventeen thousand troops going to Xincai can attract the Jin army out of the city to fight, and it can't be contained."
I believe that with our army under Xincai City, the southern ruler will be very nervous. ” Wang Biao was a little speechless.
He can also see that the prince in the south seems to have not done anything since the war, oh there is still something, that is, he gave up the outer defense line and transferred the Jin army to Xincai to protect himself, so that the Han army is very easy to contract, and it can be easier to make Xincai and Ruyin become two isolated cities that cannot echo each other at all.
The Hu people are not good at attacking the city, but Li Kuang will not send the Han army headquarters to attack Ruyin City, he actually does not regard the life of the Hu people as human life, and even hates the Hu people from the heart, after all, he has caused misfortune to the Hu people.
However, he did not deliberately consume the servant army composed of the Hu people under his command, and the price he offered for the first to ascend was even quite good.
"The first person to attack the city wall, regardless of whether the battle captures Ruyin or not, can be released from slavery, reward 100 gold and retreat without an order, God will decide who lives and who dies" Li Kuang's voice was very loud, and he shouted to the servant army who was about to attack the city, and immediately slashed with his sword: "Attack" Regardless of whether the Hu people can understand the Chinese full of Shandong flavor, it seems that the morale of the servant army who was arranged to attack the city is not bad.
Shouting and charging, they came within range of the Jin archers defending the city, and swooped under the walls in the face of a rain of arrows, followed by attacks from Mulberry and Rolling Stones.
The servant army braved all kinds of attack methods to defend the city, and soon there were people who kept shouting and climbing with shields on their heads, and their actions were strongly counterattacked by the Jin army defending the city, except for the wood and rolling stones, there were actually burning and boiling feces and urine being tilted down.
Defending the city with "gold juice" is a common means, and it will appear to be very effective, the skin of the person who is drenched will soon fester, even if he does not die on the spot, there is actually no very good means to treat it later, which means that the person with insufficient resistance will die even if he is drenched in his hands and feet.
Shouts and screams are never uncommon on the battlefield, and there are bound to be casualties on both sides at every moment, and Li Kuang watched with a blank face as his troops were blocked under the city walls.
"Our troops will soon be in retreat."
Wang Biao observed that not a single member of the servant army could climb the city wall, and he shouted: "Do you want the crossbowmen to come forward and suppress the defenders?"
Siege is never easy to attack, especially when the defenders have sufficient defense equipment such as wood, rolling stones, and gold juice, so there is a saying that the siege is the next one.
There are many correct ways to siege the city, and the best is to lure the defenders out of the city to fight, otherwise they can only continue to consume the defenders' defense equipment, until the defenders' arrows, wood, rolling stones, gold juice and other defense tools are consumed, and it is also waiting for the defenders' morale to become extremely low, before it is possible to say that the city is captured.
"Nope."
Li Kuang was still expressionless: "After the attacking troops retreated, they sent people to shout to the city. ” Wang Biao's cheeks twitched, and he asked, "What are you shouting?"
he genuinely suspected that Li Kuang was deliberately consuming the servant army.
"Those who donate the city will be rewarded, and those who resist will be killed after the city is broken, and the whole city will be slaughtered if they resist for more than ten days."
Li Kuangpi said with a smile: "Let's see if those big clans or Haoqiang in the city and the Jin army are all the way." ” The ordinary residents of Ruyin City are right, the ordinary residents in the city must be the most, but it is impossible for them to decide their own fate, and it must be organized by a respected person, which is a matter determined by the social class.
"Slaughter, slaughter the city" Wang Biao was shocked, he lost his temper and said: "Look at the situation, the city does not find the people, you will make the whole city resist, once Ruyin becomes united" It's not that Wang Biao was shocked to slaughter the city, there are actually many ways to attack a city.
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There are those who have broken through the city and have not committed any crimes, there are those who have liquidated the defenders after breaking the city, there are those who have killed the defenders and indulged in the looting of their own soldiers after breaking the city, and there are those who have slaughtered the whole city after breaking the city, which is the so-called siege, defeat, and breaking the city.
Historically, the destruction of the city heralded a feast of slaughter and looting, and he was shocked that Li Kuang was making it more difficult for him to conquer Ruyin City.
Li Kuang didn't bother to explain, and put on a confident posture.
Soon the first batch of servant troops to attack the city retreated, and the headquarters of the Han army gathered the retreating servant army, escorted them to another place, and one after another clay pots were moved, and the servant army who ordered the retreat to retreat took out a stone from each of the jars, and those who drew the black stones were either relieved or ecstatic, and those who drew the white stones collapsed or cried.
A very simple way to punish the defeated army is usually to take one out of ten kills, and those who get the black stones will survive, and those who get the white stones will be executed.
This is a set of rules that have been handed down since the Shang dynasty, and the Romans who also punished the defeated army in the same way as the Romans in Europa.
The execution was carried out in public, when the ugly and unlucky people fell to their knees in a row, and some other lucky ones were killed from behind with sharp weapons.
The servants didn't get any agitation at the sight of that scene, they just watched quietly.
Of course, the headquarters of the Han army would not have any ideas, if they were not allowed to retreat in advance during an attack, they would also be executed by one out of ten kills.
However, the Jin army in Ruyin City exclaimed, they should not understand why the Han army would kill their own people in large numbers, and felt that the Han army was barbaric and unreasonable at the same time, after all, the attacking troops fled back after nine deaths.
"It's really ruthless" Li Mai felt unprecedented fear, he actually knew what the Han army was doing.
He turned to a man dressed as a scribe and said, "They are bound to win the city of Ruyin." ” The scribe is the palace of Ruyin, it doesn't matter what his name is, his face is pale, and his hands and feet are a little trembling is really important.
The two hadn't come up with a conversation yet, but they found that the Han army wearing uniform and the soldiers of the Han army headquarters should have more than 500 people lined up.
"We want to use 500 people to attack the city" Li Mai did not show his fear, and when he saw that only the headquarters of the 500 Han army was advancing, he laughed and said: "Aren't they crazy?"
Of course, the 500 Han soldiers were not going to attack the city, they had about 5,000 servant troops behind them, including those servant armies in the west and east, which were the troops besieging the city.
This group of Han troops came to the distance of the arrow attack of the defenders at the head of the city, and began to shout in unison: "Sacrifice the city and reward it, resist and kill, and the whole city will be slaughtered after ten days." ” Only 500 people will definitely not be able to spread the shouts throughout the entire Ruyin City, but the defenders at the head of the city in the north will definitely be able to hear what is being shouted, and these people who hear clearly will spread the shouts of the Han army to the whole city.
Although it is difficult to imagine, Li Mai's expressions began to alternate with each other, he looked at the Han army who was still shouting in a daze, and waited for a reaction to shout at the Jin army soldiers at the head of the city: "Release the arrows, release the arrows", this sentence was shouted at least twenty or thirty times in a row, which shows how frightened he was, and then ordered: "No one is allowed to pass the words he hears to the city, and those who violate the order will be beheaded" The Scribe's response was more direct, he fell straight backwards, was caught by his own servant, and then the master and servant disappeared into the city.
Looking at the reactions of the two, it is clear that the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which has only occupied Ruyin City for less than half a year, has a bad relationship with the city, otherwise they should have surprised the Han army at the first time to force the residents in the city to cooperate with the defense.
Li Mai didn't notice that the scribe's mansion was missing, and he personally walked around the city, repeating again and again that he couldn't pass on the shouts of the Han army into the city.
He also had to do one more thing, that is, to send someone to invite some of the big clans and heroes who had been friendly before, and even more so to monitor those who had not cooperated for half a year.
As for the ordinary residents in the city, they are very sorry, and it is no joke that Li Mai and Li Kuang, two people who may have been a family five hundred years ago, also ignored them.
In today's social situation, it is not unreasonable for them to do this.
Wang Biao was very melancholy, he quietly looked at the servant army that was preparing to attack for a while, and when his eyes turned to Li Kuang, he thought: It's basically a hammer deal, someone who sacrifices the city is easy to capture, and the city becomes united I'm afraid it is to move to Xincai: