If they could, everyone, including Huan Wen, would like to go to Puyang County to participate in a war that is destined to be a battle for the ages, rather than staying on the periphery to do something meaningful but difficult to get noticed. \ The Battle of Puyang will definitely go down in history, even if it is a dry war of attrition, all because it is a war that will determine the fortunes of the country, and future generations will interpret countless versions of the story based on real combat experience and some imagination out of thin air.
Huan Wen's eagerness was manifested in action, and he ordered all the rest to go out and sweep the surrounding area except for the 70,000 troops who surrounded Xin Cai.
That kind of extermination war in which those who obey me prosper and those who oppose me perish, regardless of what ethnic group, there are only two choices in the text, either submit or resist.
The Han army's major operation swept out from Xincai as the center, and some of the signs that had been made before finally played a role, that is, to first defeat some local heroes who were considered strong and famous to be used as an example to deter other weak people.
Chu Li, who was trapped in Xincai, first learned that there were at least 160,000 Han soldiers in the city, and after two days found that there were only about 70,000 Han troops left outside the city.
"Let's talk about it."
Chu Li didn't look like there was any catastrophe coming, he was asking in an extremely calm tone: "Is there any good way to break the enemy?"
In the lobby, on the right side are several rows of scribes sitting on their knees, all of them look very dignified, some of them are literati who served in the Jin army, and many of them are great calligraphers, great poets, great painters, etc., who came to find Chu Li to play happily and were trapped in Xin Cai; On the left side are also about 20 generals and colonels sitting on their knees, all of whom are undoubtedly from families south of the Yangtze River, and there is no shortage of dignified people just by looking at their appearances.
In the face of Chu Li's expectant inquiry, whether it was Wen or Wu, their first move was to look at familiar people, and then they looked at Chu Li in a unified manner, but no one said anything.
Before, many people gave Chu Li advice.
For example, at the beginning, someone put forward a suggestion to "let go of the road, lead the Han army south, and mobilize troops to encircle", but this suggestion was vetoed by Chu Li's "static braking".
When the outlying strongholds around Xincai were swept away by the Han army one after another, some people suggested that "all the strongholds should resolutely resist on the spot, and Xincai's Jin army should move to the middle of Ruyin, and Xincai, the field camp, and Ruyin would become a corner", and it was no surprise that it was once again vetoed by Chu Li's "static braking".
Well, it was waiting for the Han army to march into Ruyin in a big way, and Chu Li finally accepted a suggestion according to his own wishes, that is, to transfer all the troops that could be contracted to Xincai, to concentrate the superior forces to hold a little, and wait for the arrival of reinforcements from the south.
Now, in addition to Xin Cai, what Chu Li knows is that only Runan County still has the Jin army.
In fact, he didn't know that Huan Wen had landed on the Yangtze River, and after conquering Xinxi, he laid a good reputation, and at the same time that Huan Wen went north, it was Wang Pu who relayed to sweep the rest of the cities in Runan County.
This is the information inequality that comes with being trapped in one city.
The city is completely blocked, and what happens outside can only be guessed by one's own imagination, and whether or not it can be won is completely a matter of luck.
It was precisely because he didn't know the situation outside at all, and when Chu Li asked, no matter who he was, he couldn't answer a single one.
Chu Li was not annoyed when he saw that no one spoke up, he was even in the mood to smile, and laughed for a while before saying: "The Han army has not attacked the city, obviously knowing that Xincai City is not easy to attack.
We have plenty of food, so you can think about it slowly. ” At that moment, more than one person in the lobby admired Chu Li's bearing in his heart, such as what was calm and calm, or he was not surprised, in short, he felt that he was very general.
After thinking about it, the people who were originally a little anxious because the city was besieged, they inexplicably felt a sense of peace of mind.
After talking about the business, according to the social habits of Wei and Jin, Chu Li prepared the banquet very conscientiously, waiting for food, water and wine, Wushi San, including Mei Ji, Lingren and other playthings, and a carnival in the besieged city was staged.
The social habits of the Wei and Jin dynasties can be summed up in some simple descriptions, and during the Cao Wei period, the family developed to its peak, and extravagance formed a trend in the upper class society.
In the period of Sima 1 Jin Kingdom, the Western Jin Dynasty was still Cao Wei's social habits, and after the "Southern Crossing of the Clothed Crown", it became a kind of self-abandonment after the social elites repeatedly returned to the Northern Expedition to restore the hopelessness of the Central Plains, believing that there was no better way to forget their troubles except for drunken dreams and deaths to vent their hopelessness in serving the country.
Huan Wen didn't know what his opponent was doing, what he was doing was trying to find the weak points of Xincai City as much as possible, and after walking around day after day, he was surprised to find that Chu Li had really turned Xincai into a strong city.
"How many people are there in the city" Huan Wen found that Xincai did not have a canal outside the city, and he asked: "How many wells are there in the city?"
Li Mai was taken around, and in the face of Huan Wen's question, he replied honestly: "In addition to the army, there are about 40,000 inhabitants in the city.
Wells have not been specifically calculated, there should be hundreds" Seriously speaking, the war between the Han and Jin states can be said to be a civil war, and the two sides will not do anything to abuse the generals and surrender prisoners, and it is not too difficult to make them serve after being captured.
Li Mai did not surrender, and he would answer that it was out of a kind of kindness to treat him well.
"How much firewood did that Guozhang prepare in advance" Huan Wen felt that this question was very important, he looked at Li Mai with a smile and asked, "This should be clear."
Li Mai shook his head silently, and after a while, he said: "Before I left, the Xincai defenders didn't collect firewood, and I didn't know after I left." ” Huan Wen has been thinking about the chance of winning the attack, and then how many troops will be lost by attacking his own side.
The city wall of Xincai is a boxy shape, the height is about four zhang, and there are eight crossbows arranged on the city wall, and the Jin army will not lack strong bows and crossbows, and it will definitely suffer heavy losses if it is really attacked.
According to ordinary military common sense, the best way to face a fortified city is to besiege it without fighting, relying on the siege to cut off the grain of the absolute side, but any siege battle will take a long time, which is exactly what Huan Wen does not want to see.
Xincai's side spent time in besieged observation and being besieged and observed, but the war on the periphery broke out very fiercely.
The headquarters of the Han army is to supervise the servant army to launch a campaign against those who are unwilling to belong to the local heroes, because it is to pick the strong local heroes to kill chickens and monkeys, and the Hu people of the servant army are not good at attacking the city, so the difficulty of attacking the dock fort must be great.
The wanton attack on the local Haoqiang was not without side effects for the Han army, that is, the attitude of the originally neutral local Haoqiang towards the Han army turned hostile, which was equivalent to Huan Wen ordering an attack on the local Haoqiang to force more people to take refuge in the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
The situation of Xincai County and Ruyin County reached Runan County, and the news of the Han army's wanton attack on the enemy's Haoqiang made Xie Shi relatively easy to persuade a large number of Haoqiang, and almost when the spearhead of the Han army's attack turned to Runan County, Xie Shi included the gathered rout troops and enemy forces, and actually put together a miscellaneous army of about 20,000 people.
By this time, Xie Shi already knew the situation in Xincai County and Ruyin County, and he also knew the news that the Yangtze River was tightly guarded by the Han fleet.
He knew very well that before the Jin army and naval division south of the Yangtze River seized control of the Yangtze River, it would be impossible for the southern reinforcements that the national lord wanted to penetrate to go north.
There is also other information, such as the Ran Min Army who was co-opted, they attacked Nanyang County about a month ago.
In this way, as far as Xie Shi knows, the Han army is not only fighting with Shijie Zhao, but also making a large-scale move to invade the Jin State.
"It's really powerful," Xie Shi looked more mature after the blow, and he said to the strong people who took refuge in him: "But it is precisely because the Han army is fighting everywhere that it proves that the number of troops they have in Runan County will not be too large. ” The local heroes who took refuge in the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty all had their own reasons, the main reason was that the Han State was more harsh on the local heroes, for example, the Han Congress conducted the most detailed population statistics and registration, and this act alone was enough to kill most of the local heroes, not to mention the rest of the measures.
There are indeed too many places where the Han State went to war, and the news is not so closed, and most of them know that the battle of Puyang will be related to the fate of the Han State and the Shijie Zhao State, so it is definitely impossible for the two sides not to work hard.
It was because they knew the importance of the Puyang battlefield that more than one local Haoqiang thought that it was impossible for the Han army to spend too much troops or time to deal with them, and most of them felt that delaying it would usher in an opportunity to change the situation.
Moreover, they have another plan, such as the victory of the Han army on the Puyang battlefield, and the betrayal of the same Haoqiang or the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is also a means of meritorious service.
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Similar to the puppet army, it has been transformed into a revolutionary, 1 life, 1 battle, and 1 soldier Time passed bit by bit, Huan Wen from the order to clear the local Haoqiang, to the Han army camp outside Xincai City has gathered about 50,000 prisoners of war, he finally issued the first siege order on the forty-sixth day of the siege of Xincai.
When he learned that the Han army had a siege of the city, he was taking drugs with a group of close friends one moment ago, and with a drowsy mind, he was helped to the city wall where the Huan Wen flag was located.
"This vertical press is insufficient" Chu Li's face flushed, which was the prelude to the exertion of the medicinal power of Wushisan.
He shouted to the left and right: "We have towering and strong walls, sharp city defense equipment, and soldiers who are united in their hearts, and the Han army will definitely be broken to the head."
First of all, the general colonel and a group of literati cheered for Chu Bao's face, then the soldiers guarding the city of the Jin army were driven to shout, and then the war drums joined in unison, looking at Xincaicheng really a little bit of high morale.
Zhang Mi is a miscellaneous general, unlike Chu Li and many other families who "crossed to the south in clothes", he was born in an authentic southern family, and to be honest, there has always been a contradiction between the family from the north and the indigenous family in the south, and it is the status quo that the indigenous family in the south is suppressed by the family that migrated from the north.
"Boss, look at the appearance" Zhang Mi didn't want to speak, he was excluded from the banquet held by many families just now, and he was unhappy with the boss in his heart.
The problem was that everyone in the city had become grasshoppers on a rope, and he had to remind: "The people who are about to attack are the people who have been forced to come from the surrounding area" Chu Li didn't know if he heard it, he just said "hmm" and closed his eyes.
Chu Li is not the only person who is in the wrong situation, and the people who participated in the drug abuse banquet just now all look relatively weird, either being supported and closing their eyes, or running around like a madman, adding a kind of strangeness to the originally serious and tense atmosphere Amid the sound of drums, Huan Wen ordered an attack, and in a moment there were nearly three thousand rabble who were forced forward by the servant army to run towards Xincai.
It should be said that the people who were captured and brought to Xincai City to be cannon fodder were slave soldiers, and there were almost any ethnic groups among them, so that whether they were dressed or shouted "kill", the language was relatively confusing.
The slave army that launched the attack did not have any siege equipment except for the ladder to the city, and it was impossible for them to have sophisticated weapons or armor, and even the shields were also shoddy assembled wooden planks, and when they ran within the range of the crossbowmen of the Jin army at the head of the city, the defenders at the head of the city fired long-range attack weapons, which were fired by eight crossbows, strong crossbows, and strong bows, and the screams of the arrows fell endlessly.
The Jin army defending the city already had a high advantage, and they still had relatively sophisticated equipment, and under the constant rain of arrows, the three thousand slave army did not even get close to the city wall for a hundred and fifty steps, and after killing two or three hundred people, they turned around and fled.
Huan Wen, who was sitting on the high platform of the Great Malaysian Golden Sword, frowned when he saw the slave army retreating, and he ordered sullenly: "The overseer team first warns the archery, and if you don't turn around and kill the city, then shoot them all." ” Yuan Qiao opened his mouth to speak, but before he could speak, Huan Wen had already ordered, so he had to say nothing.
There was such a scene on the battlefield, the slave soldiers were first shot in the head and face by the Jin army defending the city, and when they ran back, they were warned by the servant army to shoot arrows, and the warning was invalid, and the servant army immediately covered them, followed by light cavalry to kill as much as they wanted.
At that scene, the Jin soldiers at the head of the city stood on end, and there was an uproar on the side of the slave army.
The uproar and agitation of the slave army in the camp did not bring anything good, and where the loudest voice was a burst of arrows, and when there was organized resistance, they were divided and killed.
"Uncle Yan."
Huan Wen's temperament looked a little cold, and he said depressedly, "We need more slave soldiers." ” Yuan Qiao's response was simply a nod of approval.
He actually felt that Huan Wen had been getting more and more impetuous, and his murderous nature was also bullish day after day, of course, because of the new news from the rest of the battlefield, such as Xie An led the army to defeat Sun Fudu and had officially joined the Puyang battlefield, and the friendly forces attacking Nanyang County had also completed their goals and left for Puyang.
Seeing others doing what they wanted to be involved in one after another, Huan Wen was dragged in place and couldn't move, if you want to say how depressed, how irritable it is
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