Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 384
Under the city of Chenzhou, dark clouds overwhelmed the city, and the army overwhelmed the border. Many houses in the surrounding villages and towns were occupied. The camps of the Qin army stretched out like a large white cloud, covering the key roads around the city for more than ten miles.

The four gates of the city had already been closed, and the people in the city were panic-stricken. All the few defenders were dispatched to the top of the city, and the rest of the young and strong were sent out weapons as a temporary army.

"Two or three days, they came here." Lu Guangtu, the governor of Chenzhou, looked ashen, staring at the Qin army's barracks spread across the wilderness below. On the mountain pass in the north, people who looked like ants in the distance were going down the city in the east. Gathering, more Qin troops are still coming, gathering towards the camp under the city.

A sense of despair permeated his whole body, and he even had to sit on a pear wood chair to stabilize his body.

Lu Guangtu's eyes lost focus, he half-lyed on the chair, and sighed, "I've heard of the strength of the Northern Dynasty army before, but I haven't seen it before. I feel a little lucky, and I think it might be hearsay, exaggeration, or the Northern Army is strong." The intimidation method of power and influence is outrageously wrong."

Everyone didn't dare to speak, and many civil and military people around them had different expressions, maybe they had their own thoughts. At such a juncture, someone must have had other ideas, and wanted to use his head to exchange for peace. Wei's reason.

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"The matter has come to this, what is left to do?" Lu Guangtu shook his head, not because he had never thought of Kaesong's surrender.

Chenzhou is not a strong city, and the Northern Army's momentum is like a rainbow, driving straight in, and it is difficult to compete.It's just that His Majesty's personality is well known. He has always been eccentric, moody, often ignoring state affairs, and often killing ministers at will. He likes to kill people with poison.

Many people in the court were terrified when they heard the news. Behind him was the great eunuch in the palace. If he surrendered here, the big man behind him would be in trouble, and his family in Panyu would not be happy either.

He is old and has a few years to live, but the children in the family still have a future, and they cannot be ruined because of him.

"The Qin army is making equipment for siege." Someone looked at the busy Qin army camp in the distance and whispered. Not only him, but everyone can see that in the northeast corner of the Qin army camp, many people are setting aside the woods in the north. The timber cut down here was transported to the camp.

The avenue has been widened, and a large number of ox carts and horse-drawn carts moved in an orderly manner along the wide road. The Qin army did this with ease and in an orderly manner. Obviously, it was not the first time they had done such a thing.

And they could only watch as they could no longer send out troops to launch a counterattack. Successive defeats frustrate their vigor. Commander Shao Lingzhong's head was still hanging next to the banner of the Qin Army, as if demonstrating to everyone that the fate of daring to resist would send chills down the spine.

"It's not that the Qin State is rebelling against the Jiedu envoys in the north, and the Puppet Han State in Hedong is also fighting with them. Why, why is there such a powerful army in the south?" Someone whispered.

"Is there such a possibility?" Someone said cautiously: "The Qin army outside is not the imperial army of the Northern Dynasty, but was transferred from the north."

As soon as these words came out, the city was quiet for a moment. The defeat in the past few days was too miserable. It can be said that there is no power to fight back. The fear of the Qin Dynasty army has reached the extreme, but at least there is a trace of comfort and support in my heart.

I thought to myself that those were the forbidden troops of the Qin Dynasty who had swept all directions over the years. No one could ever win against them. Bingfeng.

In this comparison, at least they felt better in their hearts, and they were somewhat comforted, feeling that the fiasco was not so difficult to accept.

But this reminder hit the last dignity and confidence in everyone's hearts, and they were stunned for a moment, and then no one dared to answer it, and the atmosphere suddenly became weird.

That's right, this time you took the initiative to send troops to provoke the Qin army to retaliate, isn't it because His Majesty heard that the Jiedu envoys in the north of Qin rebelled, and they were fighting with the great country of Hedong, so they couldn't take action, and the old fairy Fan in the palace prayed for the king. , The emperor was overjoyed when he got a good result, and sent troops to take the opportunity to seize some places.

If that's the case, the Qin Kingdom is famous all over the world, and the elite Forbidden Army with illustrious military exploits should be in the north. Then these troops who beat them to death are the local Xiang army in the south of Qin Kingdom?As soon as such an idea popped up, it almost destroyed the morale of everyone present.

The person who spoke also realized that the situation was wrong and dared not speak anymore.

There was a tacit silence at the top of the city, looking at the Qin army camp in the distance, their banners were not as frightening as the Qin army's forbidden army, and the iconic tigers and cranes were not seen.

The atmosphere suddenly became more opportunistic, and there was some embarrassment in it.
A sentence is almost blurted out, it's all up to this point, if you don't vote, forget it.

But thinking about his own head, the governor didn't show his attitude. No one dared to say such words. In the end, the governor Lu Guangtu left the city without saying a word.

The next day, the weather was calm and the Qin army camp was busy, full of people working in full swing, but no attack was launched.

But the soldiers at the top of the city looked more and more frightened. The Qin army was making siege equipment, consumable equipment, arrows, artillery stones, etc. for the siege.

A large number of military supplies are being transported down the city under the escort of the cavalry along the avenue. In the camp in the northeast corner, many large siege equipment are being built at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Chenzhou is not a big city, nor is it an important military town. It lacks countermeasures. The defenders at the top of the city can only watch the Qin army comfortably and safely prepare to attack the city without being able to fight back.

A large number of troops were scattered, captured, and killed on the road from Guiyang to Chenzhou, so that there are not enough troops in the city to fight back.

When Liu Renshan, a general of the Southern Tang Dynasty in Shouzhou, faced the siege of tens of thousands of troops from Hou Zhou, he personally led more than a thousand people out of the city to launch a counterattack. In the latter week, when it finally led to an absolute superiority of troops, they fought against Shouzhou for more than a year.

This is the importance of the city, but Chenzhou is not Shouchun, and there is no Liu Renshan in the Southern Han Dynasty. The commander of the ship, Ji Yanyun, was shot and killed by soldiers of the Qin army when he fled, and his head was shown to the public.

This is a very desperate situation. Facing the army of Qin, such despair almost spread throughout the city.

So much so that when the Qin army did not attack, but sent people to the city to say surrender, the soldiers at the top of the city had a tacit understanding that none of them dared to shoot arrows at the Qin army envoys, let alone shoot arrows, and dared not even swear. Instead, he kept listening to the envoys of the Qin Army to persuade them to surrender.

But Governor Lu Guangtu didn't express his opinion, and they didn't dare to do anything. Many people were already trembling when they saw the heads of Ji Yanyun and Shao Lingzhong brought by the envoy.

However, the Qin army's persuasion to surrender did not achieve results that day, not because the defenders' generals and soldiers were determined to resist, nor because they were unmoved, but what was strange was Lu Guangtu's attitude at this time.

He didn't make any statement, he didn't want to express his willingness to open the city and surrender, he didn't care about the wavering and slack of the defenders and Qin's surrender, and he didn't respond in any way, so that no one knew what he was It means to resist to the end, or to surrender in Kaesong.

At such a critical juncture of life and death, it is very dangerous for the governor, as the highest commander in the city, to fail to express a clear political orientation. The people below will be frustrated, and under the huge external pressure, it is likely to lead to internal divisions and conflicts, and internal fighting will break out.

Outside the city, Pan Mei stood on the temporary five-zhang sentry tower, looking at Chenzhou in the east. The terrain outside the city was flat, with no prominent hills and hills, so the Qin army had to build a high platform by itself to observe the movement in the city and use it for visual surveillance. .

Pan Mei looked at the soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty who did not dare to shoot arrows at them in the distance, and had no fighting spirit, and she was also puzzled: "What is the situation in Chenzhou? It depends on whether they want to fight or not. Ignore our envoy, the governor inside is not stupid, is it, or is there something wrong in the city?"

"Of course you will know when you get in. In three days, all the siege equipment will be ready, and I think the city wall will be smashed in ten days and a half." Yin Chongke is full of confidence. He has rich experience in fighting and his judgment is relatively accurate. , He said that if it can be broken open in ten days and a half months, it is generally correct.

Pan Mei nodded: "It won't be long before I can report victory to Your Majesty, but I think it would be better if I don't use weapons, this city will also be the city of my Qin Dynasty in the future, and it will be repaired after it is destroyed.

Speaking of which, it's not far from Panyu. Pan Mei froze for a moment, frowned and thought for a while: "I may understand what the governor of Chenzhou is thinking. If that is the case, it may not take ten days and a half months to break the city." "

Yin Chongke glanced at him, confused.

(End of this chapter)