Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 384 Crazy Helian Bobo and Tong Wancheng

At the end of September, civilian husbands, grain and grass, and ten thousand righteous soldiers from Liangzhou began to arrive one after another from Xiaoqi.

Zhang Zhao asked Liu Zaisheng to act temporarily as the governor of Qingzhou, and called him the investigation and disposal envoy of the two states of Huiqing.

Let him dispatch [-] Gyeongju Dangxiang Rangers and [-] mules and horses. After annihilating Dangxiang in the north of Gyeongju, he went to Changze City for reinforcements.

These Dangxiangs in the north of Gyeongju were unlucky, thinking that they would be proud of holding the thighs of the Dingnan Army, but they were wrapped up in Baiyanchi with a small gift.

After the First World War, hundreds of people died and fled back in embarrassment, and then they were completely wiped out by Liu Zaisheng, the governor of Huizhou and the soldiers of Nandangxiang in Gyeongju.

Immediately afterwards, the terrified Weizhou, that is, more than [-] Han Chinese, Dangxiang, and Qiang tribes in Huanxian County, Shaanxi Province, also hurried to seek refuge.

Zhang Zhao ordered Li Yansi and Li Yanli to command the left and right, and three thousand horse infantry troops from the three prefectures of Zhengfahui, Qing, and Weizhou went to Changze City.

Since then, Zhang Zhao himself brought 20,000 people, not counting civilian husbands, and then conscripted another [-] Yi Cong Xiaoqi.

At this time, more than 7000 people from the three prefectures of Hui, Qing, and Weizhou came, and with the addition of more than [-] Dangxiang and Qiang people who were frightened by him and came to seek refuge, the number of troops in Zhang Zhao's hands reached [-] people about.

At the beginning of October, Zhang Zhao, who received the report from Cao Yanjing, received the envoy sent by Ding Shenqi, and then dispatched two battalions of horse infantry from Hanhai Town to follow Ding Shenqi's envoy to the south.

At this time, Gao Yunquan deliberately summoned the officers of the Zhangwu Army to have a drink. When the wine was hot, he was taken down by Hanhai Town in one fell swoop.

Later, with the support of Zhang Zhao, Gao Yunquan launched a purge in the Zhangwu Army, and reached a settlement with Ding Shenqi afterwards.

At the price of [-] guan per year, Zhang Zhao took more than [-] elite soldiers from Ding Shenqi's hands.

Ding Shenqi was able to get rid of the double-edged sword in his hands, took [-] guan in cash, and the post of governor of Suizhou promised by Zhang Zhao, followed Cao Yanjing to leave Yanzhou, let go of the dignity of a township envoy, Come to work for Zhang Zhao.

At the same time, Gao Yunquan sent [-] shi of grain to Zhang Zhao, and sold it to the Guiyi Army for [-] shi at a par price, initially solving the problem of grain and grass needed by the Guiyi Army to besiege Xiazhou.

Three or four days later, Guo Tiance came back, Zhang Xichong and Pei Yuan had already conscripted 3000 people from the Lingwu Army.

Among them, 2000 people will arrive in a few days, and the remaining 1000 people will be led by Zhang Xichong himself, and they will take over Youzhou only after Zhang Zhao gives an order.

However, Guo Tiance looked at Ding Shenqi who was walking out carelessly, and said with worry on his face: "This person only has more than a thousand soldiers, and he looks domineering, and he is still the commander-in-chief of the court, not a subordinate of the king.

I have waited for the Hexi Longyou Jianer to fight for the king for many years, and few people can get the position of governor of a state. Now that Suizhou is rashly granted to Ding Shenqi, I am afraid that the soldiers will be dissatisfied! "

Zhang Zhao nodded, "Soldiers have ideas, some relatives will explain it, Tiance knows where Suizhou is next to?"

Guo Tiance thought for a while, "It should be Shizhou and Xi (xi [-] tone) states next to the river east."

"Then you said that a person like Ding Shenqi, who won the land of Suizhou and has a certain gem in front of him, would he think of dedicating Suizhou to the imperial court, and then win a bigger reward?" Zhang Zhao smiled sinisterly.

Guo Tiance immediately understood, "This Suizhou was brought down by my Guiyi Army. If the imperial court dares to take it, it will be a failure to me, and it is their fault. Let's... hehe! Your Majesty is wise!"

Guo Tiance knew Zhang Zhao's strategy, in layman's terms, it was to act as if he were standing at the same time.

The Guiyi army regards itself as a loyal minister, and if they want to seize the court's territory, they always have an excuse. When Ding Shenqi's head is hot, he just gave the Guiyi army an excuse
"Send someone to pick out some quick-witted people from Liangzhou's Yier Army to join Ding Shenqi. When we have free hands, let them encourage Ding Shenqi."

Zhang Zhao waved his hand and told Guo Tiance to go down to do some work, while making preparations for departure.

So far, Zhang Zhao's men have a total of [-] horse infantry, more than [-] civilian husbands, more than [-] people and tens of thousands of mules and horses. They marched along the Hongliu River in the direction of Xiazhou.

. . . .

Hongliu River, the name sounds ordinary, but after arriving in Xiazhou, Hongliu River will change its name, that is the famous Wuding River.

Poor Wuding Riverside Bone is still a spring boudoir dream.

In just one day along the river, the Guiyi Army, with 60,000 people, arrived five miles outside Xiazhou City.

Thanks to my King Zhang for this journey, it was true that there was no chicken crowing for thousands of miles, and the surrounding tribes were all cleaned up by the cavalry of the Guiyi Army.

After arriving at Xiazhou City, King Zhang Zhao was immediately dumbfounded. He took dozens of elite riders to the hillside outside Xiazhou City to investigate.

The Xiazhou City at this time was the prosperous Tongwan City in history, which was expanded from the Sheyan City in the Han Dynasty.

In the past, Helian vigorously sent 100,000 people from Yixia in the north of Lingbei to this point, and then steamed the earth to build the city, and tapped into it an inch, killing the author and building it together.

That is to say, this Tongwan city was built with three-component soil and glutinous rice slurry. Every time a section was built, the quality was tested by the small awl of the supervisor.

As long as this section of the city wall can be pierced an inch by a pendant, the artisans who built the city will be killed and built into the city together with their corpses.

Under such strict requirements, Tongwan City is naturally extremely strong. After completion, it will be divided into inner and outer cities, and the inner city will be divided into east and west cities.

The circumference of the east city is more than five miles, and the circumference of the west city is close to five miles. The city wall is eight or nine meters high and three meters wide. Because it is made of glutinous rice pulp and three-component soil, it presents a beige white color, and the white city is quickly formed.

In terms of city defense, turrets, horse faces, stacks, urns, trenches, and moats are all available, especially the horse faces that are more than ten meters long and several meters wide. Only a few dozen people can block a large area.

In addition, there is also the sinister Huluo on the city wall. This thing is to dig holes on the city wall. It is covered with various objects on weekdays, and the cover is torn off during wartime.

When the fight started, the attacker finally jumped onto the city wall, but because he couldn't see the situation on the city wall clearly, he would jump directly into the tiger's fall if he didn't pay attention.

Huluo is more than one meter high, and it is full of spikes made of bamboo and wood. If it falls, at least it will pierce your hands and feet. Even a tiger can't climb it, so it is called Huluo.

Although Dingnan's soldiers were too few to defend the entire city at this time, they had to concentrate all in the inner city's west city, but this made the attack more difficult.

If Li Yiyin wanted to use the tens of thousands of people in the city to defend the two cities with a combined circumference of about ten miles, even if the entire city's soldiers and civilians were exhausted, they would not be able to defend them.

But now it is just right to only guard the smaller West City. The Red Willow River flows around the West City outside the city. Not only does it provide ample water, but it can also form a defense. As long as enough food is stored, it will be impossible to attack.

For Zhang Zhao, what is even more deadly is that with the quality of Xiazhou City, it is very likely that the black powder will not explode.

After reading it, Zhang Zhao's face turned green. This Helian Bobo is really fucking sick!

In this dilapidated place, a strong city similar to Xiangyang and Fancheng in the Southern Song Dynasty in his mother's history was built.

King Zhang now somewhat understands why the second brother Zhao, the Breaking Bad master, destroyed Xiazhou City. This Xiazhou City is really too difficult to fight.

At the head of Xiazhou City, Li Yiyin watched with a sneer on the Guiyi Army outside the city who were constantly mobilizing and setting up camp.

Before Zhang Zhao came, he had already shrunk all his troops to Xiazhou City, and stocked up enough food for eight months.

He also sent more than a dozen groups of messengers to the imperial court. Li Yiyin wanted to dedicate the four prefectures of Xia, Sui, Yin, and You to the imperial court, and was willing to move all his relatives to Tokyo.

The Dingnan Army had ruled Yinxia Yousui for hundreds of years, and the court in Tokyo knew that there was such an opportunity to take back the four states, so they would not let it go.

He only needs to stick to it for a few months. Once the imperial army arrives, Zhang Zhao can't help but not retreat.

. . . . .

"The whole army entered the east city of Xiazhou, built an earthen wall facing the west city, and blocked all the surrounding arteries.

Build a large trebuchet, dig a river channel, cut off the water of the Hongliu River, and divert it to Wushui ten miles away. "

In the army tent that had just been erected, a group of generals were a little dazed when they heard Zhang Zhao's order. Ma Yaozi asked cautiously.

"The Hongliu River is a big river in Xiazhou, just diverting water to Wushui, it will not take two or three months to finish the work.

It will be deep winter by then, and the army is stationed in the wild, and there must be a lot of sergeants with frostbite.

Let's try to attack first, if it doesn't work, retreat to Changze City and Yanzhou, and come back next spring. "

Bai Congxin immediately jumped out to express his disapproval, "Sending troops this year has already delayed the autumn harvest. If we do it again next year, the spring plowing will also be delayed. Tens of thousands of troops can't afford such a toss.

It will be even more troublesome if the imperial court sends thousands of soldiers into Xiazhou City while we are retreating. "

"However, Xiazhou City is Tongwan City built by Helian the Huns with 100,000 people. It is stronger than our Liangzhou City. Even if it is attacked by force, it may not take a month or two." Zhebu Jia Shi said worriedly.

Zhang Zhao looked at Shen Nianban who was hesitating to speak in the corner, and waved at him, "Shen Nianban, do you have any good suggestions?"

Shen Nianban heard the words and slowly stood up, "I have just followed the king to investigate Xiazhou City. This city is indeed high and majestic, and it is extremely difficult to break through. The Li family of the Dingnan Army has occupied this place for hundreds of years. If you want to come to the city to store food, you must Quite abundant.

But when I look at the four fields in Xiazhou, there are not many forests on the mountain, and there are no traces of large-scale felling recently. I have a question?Is this a military and horse resident in Xiazhou City?Don't you need a fire to cook? "

Huh?
Zhang Zhao stood up at once, and all the generals in the tent fell silent.

Yup!Due to the relatively early reclamation in Xiazhou Siye, there are no forests, and the forests on the mountains in the distance are sparse.

In Xiazhou City, there are tens of thousands of people, who use a lot of firewood to cook every day, right?Firewood is also used for heating in winter. Do they have so many reserves?

"Zhongde is really careful, and he rewarded twenty bolts of colorful silk!" Zhang Zhao was overjoyed.

"Du Lun Chixin, you go back to Liangzhou and let Chang Shi hurry up to make [-] sets of quilts and [-] sets of cotton clothes to Xiazhou.

All the armies blocked the four gates of the west city of Xiazhou, and told the sons and daughters, take Xiazhou City, and we will return home! "

As soon as Zhang Neijun heard that Zhang Zhao was going to release the quilts and cotton coats controlled by Shang Cao, he immediately felt Zhang Zhao's determination.

Because these materials are not from the Jiedu Yamen in Longyou, Hexi, nor from the Han Palace, but from Zhang Zhao's personal.

With these [-] sets of quilts and [-] sets of cotton padded clothes, the soldiers can survive this winter even if they squeeze together.

(End of this chapter)