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Chapter 330 Siege and Borrow a Ship
The Yi army is actually searching and rescuing victims?

And there was still a massive search and rescue operation?

Many people find it difficult to understand.

However, someone soon contacted the previous behavior of the Wei army that only captured Yanling, Fugou, Taikang, Weishi, and Tongxu counties.

The Tai army left important towns such as Xuzhou nearby without attacking, but instead attacked Chenliu and Qixian counties far away from Kaifeng Mansion. Its military purpose was already obvious, which was to open a road to Kaifeng!

But was the Yi army doing this just to search and rescue the victims?
Almost no one thinks so.

The Chuang army was in short supply of food, so the Yi army should also be short of food, right?Since the Tai army was willing to spend a lot of food to search and rescue the victims, there must be a major conspiracy as Yuan Zongdi guessed.

"Can you please discuss this matter?" Li Zicheng spoke up, breaking the silence in the tent.

Niu Jinxing saw Li Yan's strange expression and didn't know what he was thinking, so he said: "Your Majesty, I think that the Wei army is trying to win over the people. In the final analysis, they still want to seize Kaifeng Mansion."

Li Zicheng nodded slightly - he thought so too.

Then he asked: "Then what does Prime Minister Niu think we should do?"

Niu Jinxing thought for a while and said: "Even if we take in the victims of the Kaifeng Prefecture, we don't have enough food to feed them. In this case, it is better to throw them all to the Yi army so as to consume the Yi army's food and grass.

Since the Yi army is busy searching and rescuing victims, it should not move westward for the time being. Our army can take the opportunity to conquer Xi'an and other places as soon as possible, and then return to Henan depending on the situation. "

Li Zicheng was a little dissatisfied after hearing this.

To sum up what Niu Jinxing said, he actually watched the Yi army rescue the victims, while the Chuang army did nothing in Henan.

Niu Jinxing was very good at observing people's words. When he saw this, he gritted his teeth and said: "Speaking of which, the Wei army suddenly marched north this time and captured all the cities of our army. It was unjust.

Now that the Yi army has gathered heavy troops to search and rescue the victims near Kaifeng City, the king may order Yuan Zongdi to send two or three brave generals to attack its food routes.It would be even better if we could take the opportunity to recapture Yanling, Fugou and other cities. "

"This is not allowed!" Li Yan, who had been silent just now, suddenly objected, "The search and rescue of the victims is a righteous act by the Yi army. If our army takes the opportunity to attack their food routes, how will the world view our army and the king? Wouldn't this mean that the king is in danger? Unjust?!"

Niu Jinxing said: "Didn't I make it clear enough just now? The Yi army's relief effort was to win over the people's support, and they first captured our army's city. How can it be unjust for our army to attack its food route now?"
Besides, if you can take the opportunity to defeat the Yi army and seize the many grain and grass materials they used for disaster relief, wouldn't your Majesty use some to help the victims? "

Niu Jinxing set a trap for Li Yan again.

No matter what Li Yan thought, he couldn't deny Niu Jinxing's words in public - oh, he Liu Sheng knew how to send troops and spend food to rescue the victims, so Li Zicheng couldn't do it?Are you, Li Yan, so underestimating?

Do you still have this king in your heart?
Under Li Zicheng's gaze, Li Yan finally said nothing, acquiescing to Niu Jinxing's proposal.

"In that case, let's do what Prime Minister Niu said. If we can really seize a lot of grain and grass from the Yi army, we will also save the people of Kaifeng."

After Li Zicheng said this with a smile, he issued a military order, asking Yuan Zongdi to choose the opportunity to attack the Yi army's grain road leading to Kaifeng.

Immediately, he discussed with the civil and military personnel under his command about attacking Xi'an City.

Nowadays, if you want to attack a fortified city like Xi'an, you either have Hongyi cannons that can blow down the city walls; or you have internal agents in the city who can create chaos, or even instigate certain defenders to open the city gates.

If these two conditions are not available, the only option is to attack the city with the ant attack method, place gunpowder at the base of the city wall, and try to blow down the city wall, just like the invasion army did when they attacked Kaifeng before.

Fortunately, the invading army captured more than a dozen Hongyi cannons in Luoyang and other cities as well as Tongguan, and also had internal agents in Xi'an. It should not be difficult to capture Xi'an this time...
Xuzhou.

Liu Shijun, Liu Tichun, and Xie Yinglong looked at the tens of thousands of troops under the city, all frowning and looking solemn.

Liu Shijun is now the deputy defense envoy of Kaifeng Prefecture of the Chuang Army. He is ordered to lead more than 3 troops to garrison Xuzhou. Several surrounding counties are also considered his military jurisdiction.

Previously, Yanling, Fugou, and Taikang had fallen, and he had already shouldered a lot of blame.If he loses Xu Zhou again, he may have no choice but to die in front of Li Zicheng to apologize.

As for Liu Tichun and Xie Yinglong next to them, they are now middle-level generals of the Chuang Army.As Liu Shijun's deputy, although the responsibility for losing soil is not that big, he will still be punished.

Xuzhou City is also considered one of the strong cities in the Central Plains. There are more than 3 intruders defending the city. Logically speaking, it can withstand the attack of [-] enemy troops.

However, my family knows their own affairs. The more than 3 soldiers in the army sounds very scary, but there are only more than [-] people in the army who can barely be called "elite". The rest are second- and third-rate troops in the army, and they can only fight with the wind. The battle cannot be fought hard.

In addition, they already knew from the previous losses of Yanling and other cities that the Wei army had many "Red Yi artillery", which were more powerful and could destroy cities and strongholds with great speed.

Now there are tens of thousands of elite Yi troops outside the city. If they want to attack Xuzhou, they really have no chance of holding it.Liu Shijun and Liu Tichun have even keenly realized that the army has become cowardly and afraid of death, and is very likely to flee in the face of battle.

Just when the three of them were worried about Xuzhou City, a rider from the Yi army suddenly came to the city and shouted across the moat.

"Listen to the city guard. If you don't want our army to attack the city immediately, send someone out to discuss the matter!"

Send someone out to discuss matters?

Liu Shijun and others heard this and Monk Zhang Er was confused.

Then Liu Tichun said: "It is better to send a general out of the city to see what the Yi army is up to - if we can delay more time, our hope of waiting for reinforcements will be greater."

Liu Shijun thought the same way and immediately sent a flag officer out of the city.

Not long after the flag officer left the city, he came back with a strange look on his face. He cupped his fists at the three men and said, "Reporting to the three generals, outside the city are the Kuei guards led by Liu Sheng himself."

hiss!
The three of them gasped after hearing this.

Although they saw that the tens of thousands of troops outside the city were elite, they did not expect that the Xingmei King Liu Sheng would personally lead the army.

If this is the case, if the Yi army wants to capture Xuzhou, even the [-] reinforcements they have already sent may not be enough.

As a king, he must win every battle, otherwise how can he convince his generals?

After coming back to his senses, Liu Shijun quickly asked: "What did the other party say?"

"Liu Sheng hopes that we will help collect ships in Xuzhou and lend them to Kaifeng to rescue the victims. At least [-] usable ships will be sent out today, and at least [-] ships will be sent out every day."

Borrowing a boat to rescue victims?

Liu Shijun and the three of them had surprised expressions on their faces, obviously they didn't expect that Liu Sheng and his army would make such a strange request.

Xie Yinglong doubted: "Isn't Liu Sheng's request to deceive us and distract us? Since he has led tens of thousands of troops here, how can he not take Xuzhou?"

Liu Shijun felt the same way.

Liu Tichun said: "The most important thing for us at the moment is to delay. Since Liu Sheng has made a request, let's try to satisfy him first. Maybe we can really postpone the Eijun's attack on the city?"

Liu Shijun knew that if they refused, the Yi army would immediately attack the city.

Therefore, no matter whether they believe Liu Sheng's promise or not, they have to give it a try, because they have no choice.

Xuzhou is where several rivers converge. There is also a large lake (East Lake) nearby, and there are indeed many ships.

However, before the invading army arrived, many people hid their ships in the city docks.

Now the Chuang army sent out soldiers to forcibly collect, and soon obtained [-] large and small ships, which were sent to the vicinity of the Yi army's camp through the river flowing through Xuzhou City.

Under the night, Liu Sheng looked at hundreds of ships and was quite happy.Immediately dispatched a thousand victory guards to escort these ships to Kaifeng, and also participated in the search and rescue of disaster victims near Kaifeng.

As for the tents of the Thousand Victory Guards, they remained in place.

Liu Sheng plans to use this method to gradually send Shengjie Guards to Kaifeng to search and rescue the victims. As for Xuzhou City, he is not ready to attack it now.

It's not that he kept his promise, but he was preparing to besiege the city and mobilize reinforcements to see if he could use Xuzhou to attract the intruders to fight a big battle. He would completely hurt and frighten the intruders, and they would voluntarily withdraw from Kaifeng Mansion.

As the art of war goes, soldiers never tire of deceit.

I believe that as long as Xuzhou's Chuangjun garrison is not so naive, he will not believe everything he says.

But whether they believed it or not, in order to delay time, they had to work hard to collect ships as Liu Sheng asked.

This is called being forced to work.

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)