sweeping the world

Chapter 203 The Fourth Troop

Where is the other branch of the Han army?Probably when Yao Lan, Yao Jing, and Liu Zheng were confused, the cavalry led by Xu Zheng happened to enter Dong'an County.

It will take some time for Xu Zheng to enter Dong'an County to survey the terrain. Before that, he can only hide as much as possible. If he is ambushed or blocked in a certain place because he is not familiar with the terrain, it should become synonymous with stupidity .

The pace of the offensive and defensive battles in the city was not fast, and the secret attack and defense had only lasted for twelve days. It must be that Liu Zheng, Yao Lan, Yao Jing and others felt slow because they had not experienced similar battles.

You need to know one thing clearly, but for those cities with better city defense facilities, which cities were knocked down?The easier cities to attack took a few days, and some took several months, but there were more cities that had not been captured after several years of fighting. (Need an example?)

In this way, the slow-paced offensive and defensive battles continued.

Because the attack could not be defeated for a long time, the casualties were slightly heavy, and the morale of the coalition forces was changing every day. Of course, those who were the chief generals of the coalition forces discovered the signs, but in many cases, they could not effectively solve them without knowing something.

"Nearly 4000 people were lost today, but the third layer of the camp was finally breached!" Yao Lan gritted her teeth when she spoke: "I paid special attention, the enemy army still has 1000 soldiers."

It's so weird, no matter how much you lost yesterday, it will definitely be a thousand soldiers the next day, as if you can't kill them all.

Yao Lan can assure one thing that he never found out that the Han tribe sent reinforcements to the camp from the east bank, and it was because of this that he couldn't figure out how the soldiers in the camp were replenished.

"It's because Liu Yan deliberately wasted our strength, so he didn't send out the soldiers all at once?" Yao Jing was not stupid, he just didn't know what a "system cheat" was, so it was inevitable to be confused like that.He smiled bitterly: "If that's the case, he succeeded."

Taking down the third camp was originally an extremely morale-boosting thing, but the price paid was too high.If yesterday's losses are included, the coalition forces have deployed nearly 11 troops to attack the camp.The coalition forces combined had a total of 8000 people. They lost 4000 people in the camp, and nearly 8 people in the main city and sub-city of Xiami, and nearly [-] people were lost in attacking the corridors established by the Han Dynasty. , less than [-] people remained in less than half a month.

The reason why "people" are used instead of soldiers is a very clear thing. Those who can be called soldiers in the coalition army are nearly 1 Qiang soldiers and [-] in the Qingzhou Army. Most of the people who got up were young and strong.

"Even if those corridors are breached today, they will be able to build them up again the next day." Liu Zheng happened to know what tunnels are, and said: "Liu Yan's tribe has set up [-]th-rank nobles, and learned from the Qin army that they must build tunnels every battle. Where did he get that knowledge?"

Liu Zheng was wrong in some places. Although the tunnel was one of the "patents" of the Qin army, the tunnel was a product that did not appear until the first emperor. The previous Qin kings or Qin emperors did not have similar products.According to legend, the tunnel was created by Meng Tian, ​​a general of the Qin army, but it is not known whether it is true or not.

Regardless of who created the tunnel, it has caused the coalition forces to suffer enough.The Hu people who participated in this battle had enough status and status to make up their minds early. In addition to learning the band shooting of the Han archers, they must also learn how to build tunnels during wartime.

In fact, the coalition forces have already started to do it. They have drawn roads in various camps, almost completely copying the methods of the Han Dynasty to build a series of corridors. It is because of the tight time, the quality... ...I'm afraid not so much.

The coalition forces are looking gloomy here. They have agreed that if they cannot capture Gaomi City within a month, they will choose to besiege it and dispatch several partial divisions to attack Changguang County, Donglai County, and Dongmou County.They believed that the main battle force of the Han tribe had been dispatched and the interior was empty. Firstly, by capturing those counties, the results would look better. Secondly, they hoped to plunder enough people from the three counties to attack Xiami.

Liu Yan didn't bring his own remote mind reading machine, so he naturally didn't know that the coalition forces had agreed on a time limit.Instead, relying on his observation of the map in his mind, he knew that Xu Zheng had already led his army into Dong'an County, so there were some opportunities that could be brewed.

The Han Department is not only a partial division, but there are actually four troops currently in use. Apart from the Xiami battlefield, the cavalry led by Xu Zheng who broke into Dong'an County was the first one, and stayed at the border between Gaomi County and Dong'an County. Sangyu's department is the second branch, and there is a third branch supported by Liaodong and North Korea.

Ji Chang is leading the third army to march, not by land, but by sea by boat. They will go directly from the Zishui River connecting the Bohai Sea to Judian Lake (the east side of modern Guangrao), and then go southward along the muddy water. , Landing directly on the edge of Guanggu City is tantamount to blitzing Guanggu City, even if it fails to capture, you can return by water.

Naturally, Liu Yan would not mention Ji Chang's troops. After all, if the emperor is not secretive, his ministers will be lost. Many things can cause serious consequences inadvertently.

"The enemy army has been attacking the camp for more than ten days, and the third line of defense has been lost yesterday." Liu Yan looked at Lu Yi and others who had been transferred temporarily, and said, "There is only the last line of defense left in the camp, and we should start building a pontoon bridge."

It is time to force the coalition forces. The recent weakness of the coalition offensive is not what Liu Yan wants to see.

People will have fewer flaws when defending, and once the attack is unavoidable, more flaws will be exposed. The same is true for the army.

Liu Yan could roughly judge that the morale of the coalition forces continued to decline, but it was far from the moment when the Han army turned defense into offense. It seemed that a group of troops had been prepared that day, but in the end it was only preparations because of the wrong timing, and did not say to send troops. Go out and lose in vain.

The Han Department wrote the script and set up the stage, but after all, they are not really acting. Yao Jiajun and Qingzhou Army will not really act according to the script. All Liu Yan and others can do is to observe the situation and make corresponding changes , forcing the enemy to choose.

Watching the crumbling camp begin to set up a pontoon bridge, Liu Zheng, Yao Lan and others finally smiled after learning of this situation.

"It seems that I can't hold it anymore." Wang Teng frowned and said, "It's just...the situation is still not right."

The defenders of the Han tribe in the camp started to build the pontoon bridge today, which indicates that they were able to build it before. As the attacking party, they should think about why they didn't build the pontoon bridge before.

"Is there reinforcements from the Han Dynasty on the east bank?" Liu Zheng said the most likely answer.

"No, not at all." Yao Lan was able to replace Yao Jing, the direct blood of the Yao family, as the leader of the army. Naturally, her ability would not be inferior, and it was impossible for her to forget some details.He said: "Our army has been wandering on the east bank with scouts, and if we find Han reinforcements, we will notify them in the form of beacon fire."

Liu Zheng had to ask: "Is it a scattered scout?"

Yao Lan nodded: "Of course."

Well, the scattered distribution of scouts, even if some of them are killed, there will always be caught fish. They will gather in batches at the agreed time, and as long as they find that the staff is reduced, they will strengthen the investigation and always pass on the information, let alone the scouts. It is a means of warning with wolf smoke.

Yao Jing asked: "When will Liu Gong's reinforcements arrive?"

"It will take half a month at the earliest, at the latest..." Liu Zheng would not die, he shook his head before continuing: "Even if the reinforcements come, they can only be responsible for the siege."

Most of the troops in Guanggu City, the capital of Qingzhou, had already been brought out by Liu Zheng, and the remaining ones were the ones that could not be moved lightly no matter what, so the reinforcements could only be armed by local families.

These days, it is difficult for the regular army to attack the city, and Liu Zheng doesn't seem like the two brothers of the Yao family have a good father, so it is impossible to push those local family private soldiers or young and strong as livestock to the knife's edge. The only thing we can do is to transfer them to besiege rather than consume them in large quantities.

Speaking of cannon fodder, Liu Zheng asked the two brothers of the Yao family. He didn't expect Yao Jing to shut up immediately, but Yao Lan stammered out some truths.

Yao Jing came from the direction of Yanzhou, photographed by Yao Yizhong's prestige, along the way there were too many families who wanted to curry favor with Yao Jing and embrace the Yao family's thigh. First, Yao Jing gathered a group of troops, and then Yao Jing threatened The lure brought a large number of them, and in fact someone had already filed a complaint against Xiangguo. The two brothers had been warned by the family, but they did not dare to harm the locality so recklessly, so there was no reinforcements.

"Grand Liu, my two brothers came to Qingzhou, I think you know it is to cut off Ran Min's wings?" Yao Lan said nonsense seriously: "Now that Fei Yan and others are rebelling, and if someone below the Han tribe commits crimes..., you also Declare Liu Yan a traitor, so..."

What Liu Zheng announced was that Liu Yan was a rebel, but he did not include the entire Han tribe. According to the previous routine, there should be civil strife in the Han tribe. Liu Yan killed a group of people, or someone else killed Liu Yan, Ang or anyone else. Can't get rid of who fell into internal strife, but the previous routines didn't work in the Han Dynasty.

"Let's attack. In short, capture the camp first and block Liu Yan's return to the east." Liu Zheng added, "I have already reported to the court and requested to mobilize troops from the neighboring counties of Jizhou and Yanzhou. I will receive a reply soon."

The two brothers of the Yao family looked at each other, a little dazed and gloating at the same time.

It is obvious that the scale of the war is getting bigger and bigger, and Liu Yan, a rebellious person, will never be able to escape.

Liu Zheng is not entirely because of Liu Yan's problem. There is nothing wrong with Liu Yan being a scourge, but Liu Yan, who seems to have few troops, is just a scourge. For Qingzhou, Guo Xiang and others in Xuzhou are more dangerous, that is, Shi Zun's camp.

Liu Zheng originally wanted to deter Guo Xiang and others by quickly destroying Fei Yan and other rebels, but Fei Yan fled without hesitation, leaving the Han tribe to put on a confrontational posture in Xiami City. The target of elimination was placed on Liu Yan's army.Another thing Liu Zheng guessed wrong was that although Liu Yan's troops were small, he was not easy to chew on, but it was too late to wait to discover this fact.

(End of this chapter)