Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 336
In just one hour, Taiyuan City was suddenly surrounded by the Qin army. By this time, the city was in chaos and people were in panic.

There were not many defenders rushing to the top of the city from all sides, looking at the Qin army below the city in horror.

After the Qin army arrived at the city and crossed the moat, they immediately began to move east and west, surrounding the moat to clean up the remaining enemies outside the city. At this time, as long as they stayed outside the city, they would basically suffer. All attempts to enter the city were refused.

The closed city gate is like a moat, completely isolating people outside the city.

The Qin army didn't come to do good deeds, and when they met, they used swords and arrows to reason. Many people fell outside the city. After the first round of arrow rain, they knelt down and surrendered before they were killed.

A large number of people were captured by the Qin army, and soon many ordinary people were released directly. After trying to enter the city but unable to enter, they began to cry.

But the defenders at the top of the city remained unmoved. The Qin army was outside the city, and they did not dare to act rashly.

Soon thousands of dense crowds gathered in front of the south gate of the city, crying and wanting to enter the city.
"General, don't we care about it?" Next to Xiang Gong, the adjutant who followed him pointed his horsewhip at the people in front of the city gate in the distance. Arrows from the city had already started to drive them away one after another, and a few unlucky ones were shot to death and injured.

"What do you want to do, pull them over to raise them or just kill them all, we don't have much military rations, and we can't support too many people if we rob them on the way." Xiang Gong was dissatisfied.

"But the officials said they should treat the people well." The adjutant is an official from the Privy Council. He used to be a civil servant and read a lot.

He is also a man who can endure hardships all the way and follow the army to kill here, but at this pass, he and Xiang Gong have a disagreement, "We can't just watch, those people will die sooner or later if this continues, bring them here and settle down here go outside."

"Not enough manpower." Xiang Gong said perfunctorily.

"It doesn't take many people, give me 100 people, and I can take them to settle down."

"We killed hundreds of them before." Xiang Gong reminded.

"That's different. We are the teachers of justice. We are here to deter the enemy. For the great affairs of the world, they are purely massacring innocent people." The adjutant retorted.

"Besides, if we save people at this time, we can win the hearts of the people in Hedong, which is more effective than knives and guns."

Xiang Gong was silent for a while, and looked at the city gate in the distance, the guards at the top of the city were mercilessly dispersing the people outside the city with arrows, "It will take time, I don't care so much now, it's already benevolent and righteous not to kill them. "

Then he said coldly: "Besides, I hope they can let people in. There are thousands of mouths in the city, and they don't have much preparation. There must be not much food, but it will be beneficial to us."

"But."

The adjutant still wanted to speak, but was interrupted loudly by Xiang Gong: "The most important thing now is to send people as soon as possible to kill the reinforcements coming to Taiyuan from all over, before they gather."

After finishing speaking, he ignored the adjutant and began to dispatch troops on his own.

"You will tell the officials about this!" The adjutant said angrily.

Xiang Gong snorted, "Do whatever you want, I'm fighting a war, if I win, I won't be afraid of being gossiped, the officials will naturally know what XX means, otherwise they wouldn't trust XX to lead the army.

If you want to save people, you should do it yourself, so stop talking here. "

As he spoke, he ignored the adjutant whose face was flushed with anger, and dispatched his troops. He knew that the troops rushing to help Taiyuan should be on their way, but as long as they didn't gather together, they could easily defeat each of them with superior strength. At that time, Taiyuan had no more reinforcements.

Over there, the adjutant really hit the horse alone, ventured to the bottom of the city, kept yelling, and brought back a large number of people from the bottom of the city.When he came back, he was shot by an arrow in the back shoulder, but fortunately he was wearing leather armor, so it was only a flesh wound.

That night, Xiang Gong arranged the siege camp, and then the whole army blocked the road and had a good night's rest outside the city.

Early the next morning, Xiang Xun began to dispatch troops to various avenues near Taiyuan, preparing to surround the reinforcements.Most of them consisted of two battalions of [-] cavalry, among which the most people went in the direction of Tuanbai, ten battalions of soldiers and horses went there.

Because according to the account of the captured prisoners, there are the most state soldiers in Tuanbai camp, and they are usually responsible for defending Tuanbai Valley and its surroundings, in case the southern army goes north. If reinforcements are to be made in Taiyuan, the southeast will be the main force.

In the afternoon, there was no movement in Taiyuan City, and no enemy dared to go out of the city to meet the battle.

Then the ambush soldiers sent to the east came back, suppressing a large group of prisoners of war, and excitedly reported the battle situation to Xiang Gong.

They ambushed the reinforcements coming from Tuanbai in the east. They blocked the beginning and the end, smashed in the middle, and defeated the enemy. About 2000 people were killed and dispersed.

This was a big victory, and everyone was very excited. After that, the ambush troops from other places also came back one after another. Most of them encountered a small team of 200 people rushing to Taiyuan.

Seeing their large numbers, most of them turned around and fled directly. Some of them surrendered and basically dispersed the reinforcements near Taiyuan without fighting.

Now the vicinity of Taiyuan is completely isolated and helpless.

But Xiang Gong was still worried, and sent scouts and messengers to the south one after another: "No matter what, we must find the officials and tell them the situation here, we need reinforcements!
If time drags on and the farther states and counties know that the leaders are coming, we may not be able to survive this! "

The messengers and scouts did not dare to delay, and hurried south.

Someone asked: "I don't know where the official family is now. The official family defeated tens of thousands of enemy troops in Zezhou before, and they should be coming soon."

Everyone is looking forward to it, looking south from time to time.

"The officials know that our contribution is the best!"

"When the officials come with the army, they have to obediently open the city and surrender."

Everyone said something to each other, excitedly speaking, and waved to Gong: "Fuck, you don't know the thoughts of the officials, and the officials have a lot of things to do every day, how can you understand."

Shi Congyun doesn't manage everything every day, he is a little yellow flower.

When more than 5 troops gathered at the foot of Luzhou City, and when the northern and southern armies joined forces, Li Yun's eldest son, Li Shoujie, did not observe the festival. He immediately led the civil and military officials to surrender.

Shi Congyun accepted his surrender, did not kill him, and promoted him to serve as a trainer for the Cizhou regiment.

Then the army entered the city and took over the city defense.

Luzhou is Li Yun's old nest, hoarding a large amount of military rations and military equipment, which has greatly replenished the army. The government buildings in the city and the city defenses are much better than other cities. After entering Luzhou, Shi Congyun suddenly couldn't think of leaving.

Xiao Huanghua, who had just experienced human affairs, was by his side, and this was the most refreshing time he fought.

After that, he decided to sit in Luzhou by himself and not go north for the time being, but let Li Hanchao, Dang Jin, Wang Shenqi, Li Chuyun, Wang Quanbin and other generals lead the army north.

If the battle has been decided, it will not be too late for him, the emperor, to go to Taiyuan.

The subsequent arrangement was roughly the same. Several people led their troops to set off one after another, walked north of Taipingyi, and marched into Taiyuan from all directions.

And Shao Ji stayed in Luzhou to accompany him.

Firstly, Shao Ji is his most trusted general, and secondly, he feels that Shao Ji has worked too hard. He has been following him for so many years without losing any battles. Luzhou rested.

But that night, Shi Congyun, who was the little yellow flower of the Orthodox Church who climbed the tree, was shocked by an astonishing news.

At that time, he was in high spirits, when someone came to report him suddenly, he was so angry that he yelled and cursed, but after he went out reluctantly to read the battle report, he was shocked and stopped cursing, and even rewarded the reporter with [-] qian.

Because this is such a big news, Xiang Gong actually took advantage of the emptiness in the north and went directly from the river to Taiyuan!
Shi Congyun and his keenness immediately sensed that this was an opportunity, so he summoned Shao Ji all night, gave him two thousand fine horsemen, and ordered him to go north immediately instead of going to Tuanbai Valley, and take the north road to capture Shiling Pass.

(End of this chapter)