Datang New Order

Marshal Liu Rengong vomited blood was strictly sealed, and no one knew about it except the marshal's personal guards and hundreds of brothers from the Jianzhu camp present.If this news gets out, it will be enough to shake the morale of Lu Longjun who is at a disadvantage in the war.Three days later, Liu Rengong, surrounded by a group of generals, began to inspect the battalions.He loudly encouraged the soldiers to continue to fight bravely, talked impassionedly about his dream of ZTE Datang, laughed and said all kinds of nasty words to the soldiers at the bottom, and patted every brother around him on the shoulder and vowed to bring them the same wealth. A total of promotions...

Everything showed that the coach was optimistic about the future war. His high-profile and positive attitude to a certain extent swept away the haze that weighed on Lu Longjun's head, and brought a little vitality back to the barracks.But Li Chengzhong, who witnessed the scene of Liu Rengong vomiting blood and falling to the ground with his own eyes, saw his pale face and the distress between his brows.

"The commander-in-chief is forcing a smile..." Jiang Miao, who also knew the inside story, whispered in Li Chengzhong's ear, "Look, the commander-in-chief's hand holding the whip..."

Li Chengzhong nodded and did not speak. He had long noticed the hand that was always resting between the mane of the horse. The hand was trembling constantly, reminding him of his grandfather who suffered from Parkinson's syndrome in his life.

The peace of mind gained by Liu Rengong, who supported himself to patrol the barracks, did not last long, and was broken by a news from the southern scouts—the Bian army had increased its troops.

Generals Li Si'an and Zhang Cunjing of the Bian Army commanded [-] troops and had already crossed the Yellow River. Now they are approaching Neihuang, pointing to Weizhou!

"I heard that these soldiers are just vanguards, and the Bian army brigade is still walking slowly behind," Wang Dalang said with a sad face, with a trace of frustration in his eyes: "The flags are like forests, and the horses are like clouds! I heard that the smoke and dust along the way covered the sky. Cover up!"

Wang Dalang's big name, Wang Yibo, is also a brother of Bendu's Jianzu camp. During the siege battle a few days ago, he almost fell off the ladder. Fortunately, Li Chengzhong, who was under the ladder, pushed him sideways hard, and he survived. Fate came, did not fall to death.From then on, Wang Dalang, who claimed to repay Li Chengzhong's "favor of push", often went to Li Chengzhong and Jiang Miao's camp.This is a familiar guy, he is neither big nor small when talking to Dutou Zhang Zhongyan, and he is even more unrestrained in front of Li Chengzhong and Jiang Miao, the two newly promoted gang leaders.He is very popular in the capital, but he likes to inquire about things too much. To use Li Chengzhong's words before crossing, this person is very gossip.

"There are really that many people? Thirty thousand for the forwards alone?" Li Chengzhong asked.

It has been almost two months since we came to this era, and Li Chengzhong has a general understanding of the population situation at this time.After experiencing the Huangchao Uprising and years of melee in military towns, Datang has long since lost its prosperous Tang atmosphere. Even Lulong Town, which is still relatively stable, governs 35 counties in thirteen prefectures. , but only [-] soldiers and [-] civilian husbands.No matter how strong the Bian army is, it is impossible to draw so many troops to the north while fighting on several sides at the same time.So Li Chengzhong has deep doubts about this number.

Wang Dalang was stunned for a moment, hesitated and said, "Uh... I heard about it too..."

"Who did you hear that from?" Li Chengzhong asked.

"Liu Wu...he is from the same village as XX, and now he is working as a scout for the commander-in-chief Yajun. A XX was going to join him, but he couldn't make up his mind, so he let XX come to the health camp. Speaking of which, Yajun is really kind Ah, the food is good, the knife is also good, much stronger than our blade... If you can be a scout, you can also get a horse. Liu Wu's horse is really strong, it is a horse that can go into battle, and it is better than a certain horse. The horses raised at home are much stronger..." Wang Dalang digressed while talking.

The Ya Army is the Ya Nei Army, belonging to the commander-in-chief's army, so the treatment is naturally different.

Li Chengzhong coughed, and pulled him back from the topic of horses: "Can you ask again? How many people are there in the Bian Army?"

Wang Dalang nodded, opened the curtain and went out with a promise.

Jiang Miao asked softly, "Li Lang, why do you want to know so much?"

Li Chengzhong said: "The so-called know yourself and the enemy, you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles!"

Jiang Miao sighed: "So what can we do if we know the enemy? We are just the team leader, and now we have no one under us..."

Li Chengzhong was speechless for a long time with a bitter face.

When Wang Dalang came back and told the news he had found out, the matter would become clear.Li Si'an and Zhang Cunjing of the Bian army command more than ten thousand troops, claiming to be [-], and they are now stationed in Neihuang. It is still unknown whether there will be a brigade of the Bian army in the future.Although according to Li Chengzhong's estimation, there should be no follow-up, but the more than [-] Bian troops alone made Lu Long's army feel like a thorn in his back, making it difficult to sleep and eat.

Neihuang is less than [-] miles away from Weizhou, and the army can travel day and night in one day. If Lu Long's army is attacking the city with all its strength, Bian's army suddenly arrives, and the consequences will be disastrous under the attack of internal and external forces.Li Chengzhong thought of this problem, and Lu Longjun's senior management naturally did not dare to ignore it.On the second day, Li Chengzhong saw a large group of people set up camp and head southwest.

Wang Dalang, who loves to inquire, told Li Chengzhong and Jiang Miao some more accurate news: the Jiedu Envoy of the Yichang Army and the young commander Liu Shouwen led the troops to Neihuang to meet them.The Yichang Army only governs Cangzhou, Jingzhou, and Dezhou. The Jiedu Envoy Liu Shouwen himself is the eldest son of Lu Longjun Jiedu Envoy Liu Rengong. Therefore, in essence, the Yichang Army is Lu Longjun’s subordinates. No one regards the Yichang Army as an outsider. In the eyes of all the vassals in the world, the Yichang Army is actually a part of Lu Long's Army.

In addition to the more than [-] soldiers and horses of the Yichang Army's town, the young marshal also accompanied the [-] Badu cavalry who were useless in the siege battle.

Wang Dalang described Shan Keji's extraordinary bravery with joy, and couldn't help but dance when he talked about the excitement.Li Chengzhong and Jiang Miao were not interested in hearing it, and after finally waiting for Wang Dalang to finish speaking, they gave Wang Dalang a reason to leave.

As the young marshal Liu Shouwen went south, the besieging army became weaker, but even so, there were still [-] elite soldiers from Yameni Army, Shanbei children, Yinhuludu, and town soldiers from various prefectures, and nearly half of the thousands lost. The camp of healthy soldiers still has the power to besiege the city.The original [-] Wei Boya soldiers in the city and the Bian army whose number is unknown, but estimated to be no more than [-], should also be severely damaged now, and the comparison of strength is still dominated by Lu Long's army.

The current situation is rather delicate. Lu Long's army is fighting on two fronts. Whether it is Weizhou or Neihuang, the progress of the battle will determine the outcome of this battle.So after the young general went south, the Chinese army issued an order to attack Weizhou again!

According to the news relayed by Wang Dalang, the one who proposed to attack Weizhou again was Liu Zhiwen, the general staff officer in the Yameni army.Wang Dalang recounted it in great detail, even telling the story of the commander-in-chief who was so excited that he accidentally tore his clothes when he got up from the case, as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

Li Chengzhong was stunned and asked Wang Dalang how he knew it so clearly. Wang Dalang said proudly, "There is a certain soldier in the same village!"

Jiang Miao blinked and asked, "Which village is Dalang from?"

Wang Dalang chuckled: "Shenzhou Wangjiatun." Then he quickly opened the tent and went out, leaving only the two people in the tent with a cool back.

Jiang Miao murmured to Li Chengzhong: "Good country party..."

Li Chengzhong was puzzled and asked Jiang Miao, "What's a good way?"

Jiang Miao sighed and said, "Our commander is from Shenzhou."

In the next day, the whole army began to mobilize. First, the silver gourds suppressed the top of the city with bows and arrows under the city, and then the peasants piled up soil into bags and built the city along the pre-drawn baseline.Men from Yanzhao are good at shooting, especially those from behind the mountains. They live together with barbarians outside the pass all the year round, and they have practiced shooting and archery since they were young.Liu Rengong selected 3000 people who were more outstanding among them to form an army, and distributed them with excellent arrows and crossbows. During this Southern Expedition, they showed extremely excellent long-range strike capabilities.Because these sergeants like to carve silver ornaments on their bows, it is named Silver Gourd Capital.

In the Weizhou siege these days, the silver gourd has played a great role. The precise arrow skills of the soldiers almost always overwhelm the defenders at the top of the city, and they have taken up enough points in the confrontation. Cheap.At this moment, the civilian husbands were building the city under the city, and the silver gourds also successfully suppressed the bows and arrows of the defenders at the top of the city, greatly reducing the casualties of the civilian husbands.

After the unremitting efforts of tens of thousands of people, the Tucheng took shape in just two days.The earth city was built on a relatively flat terrain to the north of the east gate. It was completely piled up with earth bags and was as high as the city wall. More than a dozen people could pass side by side on it.The Tucheng extends from a hundred feet outside the city to the side of the city wall, directly fills in the moat, and is only three feet away from the city head, which can ensure that Lulong soldiers can board the Tucheng from a safe place.To put it simply, this is a big slope pointing directly to the top of the city.

On the fourth day, the battle intensified. Both sides mobilized a large number of crossbowmen to the side of the slope to shoot each other. The arrows were as dense as migrating locusts.Soldiers of Lu Long came to the front to resist the rain of arrows with the huge wooden boards built in advance, while the peasants boarded the earthen city under the cover of wooden boards, and then continued to dump the soil bags forward.The distance between Tucheng and Chengtou gradually narrowed, from three feet to two feet, and from two feet to one foot.

At this time, Lu Longjun didn't care much anymore, and pushed out the last few archery towers, and they reached the side of the earth slope. On each archery tower stood more than a dozen archers from Yinhuludu, condescendingly shooting towards the city.

The defenders at the top of the city braved the rain of arrows from the silver gourd soldiers of the Lu Long Army, and threw oil tanks one by one at Tucheng, and then fired rockets, trying to repeat the old trick, but they were covered up with mud by the soldiers of Lu Long Army who had been prepared for a long time.The defenders focused on burning the large wooden boards at the front of the slope, but these boards were all soaked, so it was not easy to ignite them.Some wooden boards finally caught fire due to too much oil, but Sergeant Lulong's soldiers only need to throw this wooden board down, and a new wooden board can be replaced from behind.

Li Chengzhong was waiting in the line of the city. Because of the heavy losses in the previous battles, the Jianju camp was still behind the siege, so he had time to watch this scene carefully. He couldn't help sighing, and couldn't help thinking, The method does work. If this method had been used earlier, why would the situation be so urgent now?

Seeing that Tucheng was getting closer and closer to the top of the city, the peasants withdrew back along the slope, and the elite of the Yamen army of the brigade rushed up to Tucheng to assemble.When everything was ready, the battle drums of the Lulong army's central army suddenly became dense, and the whole army shouted loudly. The soldiers in the front row of Tucheng suddenly put down the wooden plank and directly put it on the top of the city. Pounced into the densely packed defenders at the top of the city.

Li Chengzhong looked excitedly at the group of Ya Nei Army brothers shouting and rushing up the slope, and then stepping on the wooden boards and jumping into the top of the city. His blood was boiling and he couldn't help shouting.

During the siege of the city for more than a month, many brothers fell under the city, and now it seems that the success is about to be completed, and the city is about to be broken, how can we not be excited!How can you not be excited!