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"No! But our spies have come to report that [-] soldiers from the Qianjun Army are taking over the counties and counties of Qizhou one by one. All our troops left in Qizhou must be gone!"

Tan Daoji reined in his horse and stopped, "This Zhao Junsheng is not simple. Under such weather and covered by ice and snow, he has an absolute advantage with a large number of cavalry. He even resisted not bringing troops to chase our army, but sent troops to recover In the counties and counties of Qizhou, the old man's plan has failed again!"

Tan Yi said: "Yes, Marshal, Zhao Junsheng is not fooled, what should we do now? We can't keep retreating south, we finally took Xuzhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Guangzhou and other places, so we just gave up? In order to capture these lands and cities, we have killed thousands of people, could it be that these brothers died in vain?"

Tan Daoji pondered for a while, and then ordered: "Order the army to turn east, let's go to Qingzhou! In addition, order our troops who stayed in the counties and counties of Qizhou to withdraw from Qizhou and go to Qingzhou to join the main force of our army. !"

"Father commander, you can't give up the counties and counties in Qizhou. They were fought by the brothers with their lives. How can you just give up if you just give up?"

Tan Daoji scolded: "So what if you don't give up? Let them stay there to die?"

Tan Yi retorted: "How can it be said that we are waiting to die? If the defense is proper, a county town can consume a lot of troops. The northerners are good at cavalry and not good at attacking cities. This sentence is not just talking!"

"Hey!" Tan Daoji sighed, "I have received news this morning that the Gan army captured Linyi in only half an hour, and Zhu'a City in only one round. How long can the other cities last? If those defenders are not withdrawn, they will be wiped out one by one!"

Tan Yi was shocked: "Impossible, this is absolutely impossible? When did the Northern Dynasty have such a powerful siege capability? Maybe it's just a coincidence!"

Tan Daoji said: "As a father, I also hope that it is just a coincidence, but it is a fact. The report of the soldiers who escaped from Linyi City will never be false!"

Tan Daoji had tens of thousands of troops when he first sent out troops, but after conquering Xuzhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, and Guangzhou, he lost many people and captured many people, but the above areas need troops to garrison, and his current army actually has less than 7 people. Keep those troops stationed in the counties and counties of Qizhou, those people will definitely not be able to come back, it is better to let them withdraw to preserve their strength.

The news was known to Zhao Junsheng within a day, and he laughed after hearing Guo Yi's report: "Tan Daoji, an old man, wants to play tricks on me, pretending that I don't know what he wants to do! Most of his soldiers are infantry , The snow on the ground is deep. If the terrain is flat, our cavalry has an absolute advantage. He can't fight at all. If he wants to fight our army head-on, he must find a place with rough terrain or a long and narrow place to restrict our army. The maneuverability of the cavalry, he lured me to lead the troops to pursue, and then confronted our army according to the battlefield he preset! Hey, this old man is so interesting, am I so stupid?"

Dongfang Chen smiled and said: "No one is stupid, and Tan Daoji just wants to make use of his strengths and avoid his weaknesses. After all, in this weather, his disadvantages are obvious,"

Chapter 627

Tan Daoji's Southern Dynasty soldiers who fled back from Linyi City learned from their mouths that the Qianjun's siege battle was fierce, and that ordinary cities could not withstand the Qianjun's attack at all, so they simply ordered the Southern Dynasty troops in all states and counties of Qizhou to withdraw. Qingzhou.

Gao Xu was ordered to lead the army to attack the counties and counties of Qizhou occupied by the Southern Dynasty army. On the first day, the first county was captured. After that, there was basically no battle. The cities previously occupied by the Southern Dynasty army were all empty, and the defenders withdrew. After leaving, Gao Xu led his troops to take over directly, and it took only five days to take over the entire Qizhou.

At this time, Zhang Xing and Cao Jiao were attacking Du Gui in Xiangzhou from the north and the south. Du Gui wanted to lead his army north to meet Zhang Xing, but Cao Jiao came from the south again and broke through two cities in three consecutive days. , Du Gui was frightened by the speed.

Du Gui had no choice but to send [-] infantry to Quliang County for reinforcements, and ordered the generals to defend Quliang City, while he personally led an army of [-] to meet Cao Jiao's troops in the southeast.

At this time, Quliang City was the county government of Guangping County. As a county government, the city walls of Quliang City were relatively tall and strong, and Zhang Xing sent troops hastily after receiving Zhao Junsheng's order. He did not prepare a large number of heavy siege equipment in advance, so he sent troops from In the beginning, they only broke through Nanhe and the surrounding counties by surprise at first, and were blocked when they reached Quliang City because they did not have large siege equipment.

Du Gui believed that it was impossible for Quliang City to be breached by Zhang Xing in a day or two. He would have enough time to defeat Cao Jiao's troops, and then return to the north to meet Zhang Xing.

The population of the Northern Wei Dynasty itself had dropped sharply due to the 100 years of endless wars. In the past few years, Zhao Junsheng recruited refugees and common people to reclaim wasteland in Youzhou. Due to a large number of measures to benefit the people, many people in the states and counties of the Hebei land Being attracted to the past caused the population of Xiangzhou to decrease a lot.

In a mere Xiangzhou, Du Gui actually raised [-] soldiers and horses. He did not dare to exploit the rich and powerful families. Xiangzhou's reputation is very bad, and the people all hate him.

Du Gui led [-] soldiers and horses straight to Cao Jiao's tribe heading north, thinking that it would be easy to defeat Cao Jiao's tribe with [-] troops, but he knew that he hit the iron plate this time, and during the battle, he was careless The dispatch was not timely, and Cao Jiao seized the opportunity to storm the weakly defended left wing with superior forces.

The left wing of Du Gui's army couldn't resist, and the generals were defeated one after another. Of course, Cao Jiao would not let go of such a good opportunity, and pursued the victory. When they fell, the soldiers lost all fighting spirit and turned around and fled one after another.

Cao Jiao took advantage of the situation and led his troops to hide and kill. Du Gui's soldiers and horses suffered heavy casualties. He fled back to Yecheng with more than [-] people in embarrassment. After taking the captives, they continued to march northward and killed them all the way to the city of Yecheng.

Zhang Xing, who got the news, immediately publicized the news, letting the officials, soldiers and civilians in Quliang City know.

The morale of the defenders of the Quliang Army plummeted when they heard the news, and their perseverance weakened a lot. The soldiers all suggested that the defenders surrender to the Qianjun, but the defenders are Du Gui's confidantes, how can they surrender to the Qianjun?After killing a group of generals and schools of the surrender faction, no one else dared to mention the matter of surrender.

But the common people hated Du Gui for a long time. They persuaded the soldiers guarding the city gate to unite with them to quietly open the city gate in the middle of the night and let the dry army enter the city.

Quliang City was broken, and Zhang Xing led his troops to kill the diehard defenders and their confidantes, reorganized the Xiangzhou Army that had surrendered and captured them, and then led the army and the reorganized captives to attack Yecheng. .

Yecheng is a prefecture city. It used to be the capital of Cao Wei and Jin Dynasty. , plus the 5000 people left behind in Yecheng, there are more than 3000 defenders in total.

Cao Jiao and Zhang Xing respectively led their armies to join forces under the city of Yecheng, and after reorganization and surrender of soldiers and captives, the total force reached 3000. These troops surrounded Yecheng and made it impenetrable.

The next day, Cao Jiao and Zhang Xing sent troops to attack the city. Du Gui was not good at defending the city, but he and his father Du Chao had already secretly communicated with the Southern Dynasty, and the Southern Dynasty sent a general to help him defend the city.

In the absence of heavy siege equipment, no matter how Cao Jiao and Zhang Xing attacked, Yecheng was always as stable as Mount Tai. The two men commanded troops to attack for five or six days, but they still could not break through Yecheng. The generals rested for a period of time, and the situation inside and outside Yecheng became stalemate.

When Yecheng was surrounded by Zhang Xing and Cao Jiao, the Jeju Army in Jeju City was blocked in the city by Bai Jinguang with 3000 troops.

Du Chao was very depressed. This young Bai Jinguang had only 3000 people under his command. He forced more than [-] of them to stay in the city and dared not leave the city. He went out of the city several times to fight Bai Jinguang. Bai Jinguang used his cavalry speed and mobility to play him If you have to go around, not only did you not get a bargain, but you lost a lot.

After coming down several times in a row, Du Chao was a little scared of Bai Jinguang, a young general. With more than [-] people, he dared not go out of the city to fight, so he could only hide in the city to defend.

In fact, Du Chao doesn't have any great military skills. The reason why he made his fortune at the beginning was entirely because he was the uncle of Emperor Taiwu Tuoba Tao. .

Du Chao had never fought any battles at all, and he had no experience in fighting. After the only two leading generals under his command were killed by Bai Jinguang, he no longer had any generals under his command, and more than 1 soldiers and horses were forced to die Bai Jinguang's 3000 people were stuck in the city and couldn't get out, not to mention how aggrieved he was.

At the end of [-] A.D., it was the first time for Zhao Junsheng, Hua Mulan and his son Zhao Dong's family to celebrate the New Year outside. At the same time, there were nearly [-] soldiers and soldiers who were celebrating the New Year outside.

The reunion dinner is eaten at noon, with a family of three and several accompanying maids and guards.

We had a reunion dinner at noon, and in the afternoon, the family of three made snowmen, had snowball fights, and warmed up around the fire in the courtyard of their residence in Qizhou City.

In the evening, the family of three took their maids and soldiers out of the city to the barracks to have a New Year's Eve dinner with tens of thousands of soldiers to celebrate the New Year.

As the general of Qizhou, Sima Chuzhi was appointed by Zhao Junsheng as the general of Zhendong. He originally wanted to bring some supplies to the sidelines to condolences to the generals of the army, but Qizhou City has been fighting for more than half a year, and the city is about to die. It was destroyed, the defenders and the people in the city were hungry every day, so how could he have extra supplies to condolence to the generals.

Although Qizhou quickly returned to calm after the Southern Dynasties army withdrew, and the common people went out of the city to find food and work in order to survive, but the rations for the New Year were still provided by the government.

Although he couldn't provide supplies to condolences to the generals, Sima Chuzhi still had to take civil and military officials out of the city to the barracks to meet Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan, at least it was a gesture.

Not only did Sima Chuzhi and the accompanying officials and generals not bring anything, they also had a New Year's Eve dinner with Zhao Junsheng, with enough wine and meat.

New Year's Eve is a rare holiday. Zhao Junsheng allowed each of the soldiers to drink a bowl of wine. Numerous fires were lit in the open space outside the camp, and the soldiers gathered around the fires to drink, eat meat and chat.

Sima Chuzhi and others stayed in the barracks outside the city for less than an hour before leaving and returning to the city.

Before leaving, Zhao Junsheng sent him outside the gate of the camp.

"General, the counties and counties of Qizhou have been taken back by our army. As the governor of Qizhou, the government affairs of the governor's mansion and the prefect's mansions and county government of the following counties must be resumed as soon as possible. After the Spring Festival, the people must be organized to resume production as soon as possible. In particular, the construction of water conservancy facilities, dredging of canals, plowing of land, preparation of improved seeds, etc. must be gradually put in place before spring plowing!"

The recovery of counties and counties in Qizhou was done by Gao Xu's troops, and the new officials were also temporarily appointed by Gao Xu, and Gao Xu is Zhao Junsheng's confidant. Didn't the appointment of those officials mean Zhao Junsheng?

Sima Chuzhi is well aware of this, he basically has no way to intervene in the government affairs of the counties and counties below, if he wants to issue some government orders, if the prefects and county magistrates of the counties and counties below do not obey, isn't he the prestige of the governor? none?He wouldn't do such an ugly thing for himself.

Now that he couldn't control it anymore, Sima Chuzhi decided to simply put aside the government affairs. He said to Zhao Junsheng: "I heard that all the prefectures, counties, and counties under the king's rule implement the separation of military and government. If there is an exception here in Qizhou, it will be fine if you say it." It's not good. At this time, I have to think about it

It has been a few days, but I still decided to hand over the affairs of government affairs. I only take care of military affairs, and the minister is much more relaxed, and can focus on military affairs. For the position of governor of Qizhou, please ask the king to appoint another talented person to take up the post! "

Zhao Junsheng turned his head to look at Sima Chuzhi and asked, "Did the general hear any gossip?"

Sima Chuzhi hurriedly clasped his fists together: "No, no, this minister really thinks so, and has planned for a long time. The minister concentrates on military affairs, which is beneficial to Qizhou soldiers!"

Zhao Junsheng thought about it, and agreed: "Since the general has this plan long ago, let me appoint another person to be the governor of Qizhou. The general regards the general of Zhendong as the general of Qizhou. Well, how about this, the king will order the generals to supervise the military forces of Qi and Qing, and the soldiers and horses of Qizhou will be reorganized into two armies, namely the Taishan Army and the Wenshui Army. The envoys of these two armies, the general has the right to recommend!"

With this kind of treatment, Sima Chuzhi already felt very high, he clasped his fists and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Zhao Junsheng waved his hands back to the left and right, and said to Sima Chuzhi: "This king plans to send troops eastward after the fifth day of the first lunar month to attack Qingzhou. I wonder what the general thinks?"

Sima Chuzhi thought for a while and said: "Northern people are resistant to cold, but southerners are not. Although it is beginning of spring, it is still early before the warmth of spring and flowers bloom. I think that the king can take advantage of this cold season to make a big attack. Tan Daoji will not dare to fight with the general." In field battles, heavy troops will be sent to garrison the main cities. Your Majesty can send troops to recover the county towns, and then concentrate your forces to attack the county and prefecture cities. This war minister, please order to go out with the army, and your majesty will allow it!"