For a time, the Yanmen Army was divided into two armies, water and land, marching together and heading south to Jiangling.
The hussar general Gao Qi claimed that the 300,000-strong army went south, vowing to completely annihilate Xiao Liang in one fell swoop and restore peace to the world.
With the move of the Yanmen army to the south, the people in Wangcheng Jiangling suddenly panicked.
Because of the more than 100,000 elites of Xiao Liang's army, the elite of the Northern Expedition was broken by the Yanmen army in more than a month.
After the news reached Gangneung, the people of the whole city were frightened and panicked.
And now I heard that hundreds of thousands of troops of the Yanmen Army are marching south.
The ordinary people, who had long been frightened by the prestige of the Yanmen army, could not help but further aggravate the panic in the city.
Finally, a few days later, the sailors led by Zheng Chenggong and Gao Qi's main army converged outside Jiangling City.
And because all the warships of Xiao Liang's army were captured by the Yanmen army in Xiangyang.
Now, Xiao Mill, the king of Liang, gathered the only 90,000 soldiers and horses in the city, firmly defended all parts of the city, and did not dare to lead the army to battle.
Since the battle with the Yanmen army, Xiao Liang's army has not won a single battle.
The morale of the army has long been hit, and now it can be said that everyone from the generals to the colonels and the soldiers have no fighting spirit.
In today's situation, how dare Xiao Mo lead the army to battle The most important thing is that Gao Qi led his army to garrison northern Xinjiang for several years.
Several times out of the fortress to fight with the Hu people, all of them returned with great victories Deterred by such a record, Xiao Mo had no choice but to passively defend the city in order to fight a war of attrition with the Yanmen army.
Outside the city, it is only said that after consulting with his advisers, Gao Qi finally decided to divide the army into two camps and station.
Since Xiao Liangjun's warships were all captured by the Yanmen Army, there must not have any warships.
Therefore, Gao Qi continued to appoint Zheng Chenggong as the commander of the water division and led his men to build a water camp.
Drive the warship above the river to distract the defenders from the river.
After the division of troops, because the number of the two armies was almost the same, Gao Qi did not dare to besiege the city.
In case the rebels in the city took a risk, they suddenly killed and were defeated here.
Therefore, Gao Qi set up a large camp thirty miles away from Gangneung City.
Of course, if you set up a large camp, you will definitely inevitably attack the city.
The first is that the whole army gathered outside the city to carry out some persuasion and the like.
As a result, you don't have to think about it, it must have been rejected by Liang Wang Xiao Milling.
For a while, Gao Qi raised his spear and shouted the order for the whole army to attack.
In an instant, the Yanmen army was under the command of the generals, lined up in a neat siege array.
For a while, I saw the Yanmen soldiers with high morale, gradually advancing towards Jiangling.
However, after a long time, after the Yanmen army entered the firing range, the defenders of the city decisively released arrows.
All of a sudden, a rain of arrows rose in the air.
The Yanmen army was well prepared and had already prepared a big shield.
Under the rain of arrows, the casualties were not outstanding.
As they got closer and closer to the city wall, the Yanmen soldiers also tilted the ladder on the city wall and began to climb up without fear of death.
It's just that Gangneung City has high walls and thick walls, so how can it be so easy to attack I saw that the Yanmen soldiers had only climbed to a distance of less than one-third, and they were smashed down the ladder by the rapidly falling thunder stones and rolling logs.
In an instant, the scene was extremely bloody, and there were layers of corpses everywhere.
Among them, the faces of the Yanmen soldiers have already been smashed to hideous faces, which makes people feel a sense of fear.
There was also a thick smell of blood in the foggy air.
The time gradually continued, and it was almost an hour before the siege of the city.
Although the soldiers of Yanmen tried their best to attack the city, Jiangling was too strong.
Furthermore, the rebels had tens of thousands of troops to defend the city.
If you want to break the city, the difficulty is not only average Therefore, within an hour of siege, the Yanmen army suffered nearly thousands of casualties.
"General, give the order to withdraw the troops" "Gangneung Fortress is so strong that the rebels are numerous" "If we continue to fight like this, not to mention the heavy casualties of our army, we may not be able to break the city." only said, at this time, Zhang He quickly galloped to Gao Qi's side and said hurriedly.
All of a sudden, Gao Qi saw that the soldiers were all falling under the siege battle, and his heart couldn't help but start dripping blood.
You must know that the Yanmen Army is a strong army that Gao Qi has pulled out after hard work in Yanmen for several years.
Although today this army is still nominally subordinate to the so-called Great Sui Dynasty.
But anyone with a discerning eye can see that this army has long been the first to look forward.
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It is no exaggeration to say that as long as Gao Qi rises up and raises his arms, it will be regarded as leading them to rebel.
The whole army can be said to follow without scruples.
This is now Gao Qi's prestige in the army.
Seeing the soldiers under his command fall in pieces, how could Gao Qi sit still and wait to die only said that at this time, not only Zhang He was trying his best to persuade him, but the rest of the generals couldn't help but start admonishing one after another.
In the end, even the strategists began to persuade Gao Qi to order the withdrawal of the army.
After all, it was a tentative offensive now, and it was our own military strength that suffered heavy casualties.
Hearing this, Gao Qi took a deep breath and shouted in his throat: "The whole army listens to the order, and the various departments alternate to cover and retreat."
The order was passed, and the Yanmen soldiers who were besieging the city retreated one after another.
Subsequently, under the alternate cover of the various ministries, the safe withdrawal was made.
It is only said that Xiao Mo, the king of Liang who was supervising the battle in the city, also wanted to take advantage of the brief chaos of the Yanmen army's retreat.
Take advantage of this opportunity to open the city gate in one fell swoop and lead the elite to fight out to expand the results.
It's just that when he saw that the retreat of the various units of the Yanmen Army was orderly and orderly, without a trace of chaos, he completely dispelled his mind.
For a while, Xiao Mo couldn't help but stand on top of the city, looking up to the sky and sighing: "The Yanmen Army really deserves to be the elite of the world."
"With such a degree of advance and retreat, I really don't know how Gao Qi'er created such an iron army" Yanmen Army Camp In the big tent, Gao Qi is discussing with his strategists and generals how to break the city.
It's just that after half a discussion, everyone didn't have the slightest idea.
After all, Gangneung Fortress is now extremely strong, and its location is excellent.
It is exactly in the center of Jingzhou, located in the hinterland.
As long as you occupy Jiangling, you can attack Jingxiang and other places in the north, enter Jiangxia in the east, and then attack Jinling, an important town in the south of the Yangtze River.
The west can also enter the Bashu generation, and the south is the Jingnan region.
That is, the starting place of Xiao Milling, and it is the top priority of Xiao Liang Group.
And if Gao Qi wants to completely destroy the Xiaoliang group and attack the Jingnan region.
Only by capturing Gangneung City first can we continue to move south.
Otherwise, with Xiao Miao's tens of thousands of troops entrenched in Jiangling City.
You can give the Yanmen army a fatal blow at any time In the end, Gao Qiping retreated from everyone and reluctantly took out the summoning stone.
This time, he was going to make the most helpless summoning since activating the summoning stone.
The reason why it is said to be a helpless call is because Gao Qi now has so many strategists and generals, but he can only look at the city under Jiangling City and sigh Di, summon the stone to activate, I don't know what the host commanded the great chaos of the end of the Sui Dynasty to summon :