Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 577 Immediately Wushan First Peak

Guo Tingzhi soon knew that his strategy of abandoning the outer city and only guarding the inner city was unsuccessful.

Because after the Zhou army occupied the outer city, not only did they not rape or loot, but they also gave porridge and food. Elderly over 60 years old and children under six years old will also be given cloth and candy.

What's even more exasperating is that these grains, cloth and sugar were all obtained from the official warehouse in Chuzhou.

Thinking of this, Guo Tingwei felt his teeth itch with hatred. He would not be so stupid as to leave the supplies to Zhou Jun, so he specially arranged for people to burn these supplies.

But there are mountains of cloth, salt, sugar, tea, and rice grains. Given the thrifty nature of the Chinese people, it takes a lot of courage to set fire to it, or even just to order it.

As a result, after a little hesitation, Zhou Jun's cavalry arrived. It is inevitable that such a large warehouse cannot be placed in the city, and it is basically outside the city with convenient water and land transportation.

The Lord of Zhou gave dozens of pieces of cloth to each of the guards and soldiers who guarded the warehouse, and bought them, not to mention setting fire, they not only did not set fire, but also helped Zhou Jun to count.

With these acts of benevolence and righteousness, the people of Chuzhou immediately stopped opposing Zhou Jun, and even some relatives in the inner city went directly to the city to ask their relatives not to resist, and even went out of the city to surrender.

Guo Ting's so-called poisonous plan had no effect at all, but it made Chuzhou people start to distrust him. The official voice of Chuzhou's governor was completely defeated in an instant.

And when the hearts of the people in Chuzhou were stabilized, Zhang Zhao immediately began to attack the city. Although the inner city of Chuzhou was strong, it was too small, and the east and west were only two or three miles away.

The army first raised the nest car, and suppressed the city with strong bows and crossbows.

There were many soldiers in Zhou, and there were also many crossbowmen. The Southern Tang army who shot soon couldn't lift their heads.

After they did not dare to break away from the cover of the crenel and the Peng Pai, the second move of ants attacking the city began.

Zhang Zhao abandoned the northeast and south sides, and rushed to the west, and the defenders complained endlessly.

And Guo Ting said that he was forced into this, and he didn't dare to withdraw the defenses on the other three sides.

Because he knew that once the defenses on the northeast and south sides were deployed, the prepared warriors of the state of Zhou would surely take advantage of the weak points.

But Guo Ting said he didn't know everything, because Zhang Zhao didn't use all his strength, if he really wanted to use all his strength, he would attack from all sides and attack continuously for several days and nights so that the defenders could not rest, or they might break the city.

Zhang Zhao is not doing his best to attack now, he is just fishing, to see if he can catch the Qinghuai Army from Shouzhou or the Baoxin Army from Luzhou, and surround them for reinforcements. This will always be Zhang Shengren's favorite.

Sure enough, on the fourth day, the Shouzhou Qinghuai Army under the Qinghuai Army Jiedu Envoy Liu Daqi arrived, and there were about 10,000 people.

It seemed that they had set off early, because Shouzhou was not close to Chuzhou, about three hundred and fifty miles away.

It's just that the Shouzhou Qinghuai Army arrived, but the Luzhou Baoxin Army, which was almost a hundred miles closer than them, did not arrive.

Moreover, the arrival of the Qinghuai army was almost the same as if they hadn't arrived. They walked to Jiangjun Ridge, more than [-] miles north of Chuzhou, and did not leave, but camped directly at the foot of the mountain.

Mosquitoes are meat no matter how small they are. The mountain is not just me, so I will go to see the mountain.

Zhang Zhao immediately ordered Murong Xinchang and Gao Huaide to lead [-] cavalry to attack.

The Southern Tang army at Jiangjunling didn't expect Zhou Guo's iron cavalry to come directly to them. They came so fast that 10,000 people got off their horses without any preparation and were defeated.

However, the terrain around Jiangjunling was complicated, and most of the Southern Tang army fled to the mountains.

Nobunaga Murong got a lot of clothes and armor, and only then did he know that it was not the Qinghuai army from Shouzhou, but the Dingyuan army from Haozhou.

And according to a captured Haozhou Dingyuan Army Du Yuhou, it was Liu Renzhan, the Jiedu envoy of the Qinghuai Army in Shouzhou, who asked them to use the banner of the Qinghuai Army.

Zhang Zhao immediately convened all the soldiers to discuss, and finally came to the conclusion that the only chance for Liu Renzhan, the governor of the Qinghuai Army in Shouzhou, was to personally lead the army to go south to Luzhou, and then gather the Qinghuai Army and the Baoxin Army. The troops of the family led the warships out of Chaohu Lake, entered the Yangtze River along the Ruxu River (Yuxi River), and then intercepted the Zhou army from crossing the river.

However, Li Jinquan and Zhang Yanqing, the governor of Chuzhou, who were well aware of the operating laws of the Southern Tang court, disagreed with this view.

This old boy Li Jinquan was originally from the north, and he didn't fight against Zhang Zhao, so after being captured, he quickly joined him.

What's more, he had no choice but to go south in the past, and he didn't intend to seek refuge in Nantang in the first place.

Who is this?This is a brave man in battle when he was young, and he was a chicken thief, but he didn't have much wisdom, and he was a fool who governed the country in a mess.

If Zhang Zhao promoted Dunzhu and let him guard one side as the commander-in-chief, he would look like Li Jinquan, except that Dunzhu was a little bit more powerful than Li Jinquan.

But although Zhang Zhao despised him as not having great wisdom, he still knew the Southern Tang court very well, the old boy said to Zhang Zhao with a smile.

"The sage thinks of the Southern Wu Kingdom as the Great Zhou Dynasty. Although Liu Renzhan is well-known, it is impossible to integrate the Luzhou Baoxin Army casually!

He is not the Lord of Southern Wu, why did the whole Baoxin Army listen to him and go out to Chaohu to fight with us?
Besides, if Southern Wu had this ability to act, how could the army of saints easily break through the Eastern Capital and still come to Chuzhou. "

what!It seems that this is the reason, Zhang Zhao suddenly nodded, Nan Tang's mobilization and action can reach the level he thought, and Zhang Zhao can easily beat Nan Tang like a pig?
Thinking of this, Zhang Shengren's expression changed, and he shouted to Zhang Liecheng: "Put Yuhou, the capital of Haozhou Dingyuan Army, to death, this person must not be telling the truth."

Zhang Liecheng immediately went down and loosened the bones of Du Yuhou himself, so the real situation came out.

It turned out that Liu Renzhan had written to Jiangning long ago, requesting to join the Baoxin Army and Dingyuan Army and leave Chaohu to reject Zhou's division.

But he had no backer in the Southern Tang court, and no one spoke for him.

In addition, the Qinghuai Army in Shouzhou was originally a big town with more than [-] soldiers. If Haozhou Dingyuan Army and Luzhou Baoxin Army were added, and the Chaohu Navy was added, it would immediately have a force of [-].

This Liu Renzhan has always been famous, and with a [-] army in hand, if he takes refuge in Zhang Zhao or has some small thoughts, it will be troublesome, so Li Jing dare not give him such power at all.

Liu Renzhan had no choice but to confuse Zhang Zhao by mixing his cronies into the Dingyuan army when the Haozhou Dingyuan army went south to support according to the military order.

He himself led the army to walk slowly after a hundred miles behind the Dingyuan army. If Zhang Zhaozhen was encircling a point to fight for reinforcements, he would stand still. If there were not many people, he would come to relieve the siege of Chuzhou.

As for commanding the Baoxin Army to go out of Chaohu Lake, it was just that he wanted and led Zhang Zhao to think that there was nothing to do.

"The old thief is so cunning, hateful!" Murong Xinchang cursed with a dark cloud on his face.

If he searched another twenty or thirty miles, he would definitely find the Qinghuai Army, and it would be great when the time came!

He is a ruthless man!This is also Zhang Zhao's evaluation of Liu Renzhan. He is cunning and cautious, and he is definitely a good player in defending the city. No wonder Guo Rong has been tortured so much in history.

"Since that's the case, then we can't wait any longer. Soldiers are precious and swift. Take down Hezhou immediately and cross the river!" Zhang Zhao waved his hand and gave the order.

Although Liu Renzhan didn't do what he wanted to do, it was indeed a threat.

Once Li Jing granted Liu Renzhan full power in desperation, the Qinghuai Army plus the Baoxin Army plus the Chaohu Navy, Zhang Zhao was really a bit vain.

On that day, Zhang Zhao ordered people to throw the flags and armor of the Qinghuai Army of Shouzhou and the Dingyuan Army of Haozhou under the inner city of Chuzhou.

Zhou's elite troops attacked the west with all their strength, but Guo Ting said that he couldn't resist, so he had to draw troops from the other three sides.

Zhang Zhao immediately ordered Manxiong, Dunzhu, Wang Tongxun, and Qiongre Duojin to lead the three-layer armor to lead regret mountain as the first warriors to attack the northeast and south respectively.

How could the defenders of the Southern Tang Dynasty be able to withstand it? The barbarian bear first climbed to the top of the city, and the hearts of the troops in Chuzhou collapsed.

Guo Tingzhi and his younger brother Guo Tingzan and other 600 people were captured, and Li Yanzou, who was a recorder and joined the army, committed suicide and died for his country.

Zhang Zhao led an army of [-] troops to guard Chuzhou, while the more than [-] soldiers and horses in the headquarters went straight to Hezhou without stopping.

Before setting off, Zhang Zhao let go of the detained messengers from Chuzhou, and now they can send the information to Jiangning.

Two days later, the army arrived in the north of Hezhou, and Zhang Zhao was stationed at the foot of Jilong Mountain, preparing to go down to Hezhou City first, and then cross the river.

Hezhou is the later Hexian County in Ma'anshan, Anhui, opposite to the urban area of ​​Ma'anshan, and Caishiji is on the outskirts of Ma'anshan.

Now that he came to Hezhou and Caishiji, Zhang Shengren rode on Jilong Mountain to observe the terrain, and immediately thought of Zhao Liang and Wanyangou, half brothers.

These two brothers, that was really bright for a while!

Elder brother Zhao Gou is called Wanyan Gou, also known as Nine Sisters, he is cowardly, not to mention men and women, no one is as cowardly and shameless as him.

As the younger brother, Wan Yanliang is also a heavyweight, he is so crazy that he has no side but no way to control him, he is simply a small Gao Yang.

Thinking of this, I, Zhang Shengren, became very poetic, and opened my mouth to chant: "Wanli Shuche is confused."

Uh!As soon as he said it, Zhang Zhao immediately shut up, bah bah bah!It's so inauspicious.

However, he thought it was unlucky, but the people around him didn't think so. Li Fang's eyes sparkled, and all the academicians of Qionglin Academy who followed Zhang Zhao's side as secretaries also praised him.

"I have long heard that the sage is good at composing poems, and he has the style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. If you are so lucky, you should engrave it in stone!"

Seeing that everyone around was so supportive, Zhang Zhao was indeed uttering the poem, and immediately pondered for a moment.

"As soon as Wanli Cheshu is confused, how can there be another frontier in the south of the Yangtze River? Raise a million troops to the West Lake, and immediately go to the first peak of Wushan Mountain!"

"Good! Great poem!" All civil servants and generals flattered like thunder, even a guy like Dunzhu who didn't know a single word, shouted good poems, and Zhang Zhao looked at him speechlessly, and he was not at all embarrassed. .

But I have to say that Wan Yanliang's poem is really good, if nothing else. This song "The First Peak of Mount Wu immediately" really has the air of being the only one in the world, and I am the only one who respects me.

The poem was just exported, and before the admiration fell, messengers came from the foot of the mountain to announce the good news.

It turned out that Li Cunhui led [-] riders as the vanguard. When he first arrived in Hezhou, he found that the four gates of Hezhou were wide open. Before the arrival of the army, the Southern Tang Hezhou Zhizhou and others had already abandoned the city and fled, and even the people almost ran away.

(End of this chapter)