Chapter 181: Breaking the City (Part 1)

Rensha City, Xijiang Province

The catapult crashed into the machine, and the tide of shouting and killing came. Dozens of stones flew into the sky, and arrows were covered with rain. Li Jun's soldiers rushed forward with neat and skillful movements.

But the defending army was unmoved at all and stood up solemnly. The rolling oil cannon stones and wood fell down like a heavy rain, flooding the dense circles under the city. The smell of blood and fire spread to the entire battlefield.

The hundreds of generals from the guards of Li Jun personally led their subordinates to fight up and fight up. They rushed over like ants through the cart and ladders through the tide. They were then slashed by guns, hammers, knives, and axes on the city walls, causing countless flesh and blood to fall down.

In ancient times, cold weapons battles paid special attention to the warriors' bravery. More than a thousand people were real commanders, so a group of 100 people who were skilled in martial arts were specially selected to win over the city by breaking the formation. The reward was also extremely high. Those who could break the city would be immediately promoted to the second level first level.

Fang Xin was on the high platform, watching these brave generals who were skilled in martial arts cry down in the boiling water and oil, falling into countless broken bodies on the ground.

Until another wave of attacks collapsed and retreated.

"The master has launched seven waves of attacks. Do you still need to continue attacking?" The person who spoke was Zhou Bingbin, who was newly promoted to the general of a town. This person is skilled in military tactics and is actually the material for famous generals.

Fang Xin looked at it and said, "Forget it, let's retreat today!"

"yes!"

The military order was passed, and the soldiers fighting in front retreated like a tide, and entered two miles outside the city to organize formations and clean up weapons.

The craftsmen who followed the army seized the time to repair or build new siege vehicles and ladders.

Compared with the noise caused by retreating from the front, the guards and cavalry in the middle and back were all still and quiet, making people know that they have the taste of famous generals at first sight.

Amid the embers, time has ushered in the evening sunset.

Although the war was not good, Fang Xin still had a relaxed expression when he entered the camp. When he entered, he saw that Shen Xuan was reviewing the documents, and said with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work, don't be too tired."

"The situation is still very good. Today I report that three more counties have surrendered. Now, except for two or three counties, the whole province has basically surrendered. The master's plan to siege the city and attack the aid and swallow the county is still quite good."

The so-called siege of the city and attacking aid means that the attacking party uses part of its forces to surround the enemy defending the city, induce the enemy to send troops to rescue, and then use the main force to annihilate the enemy's reinforcements. The key point is that the battle against the siege of the enemy is quite long-lasting, but the enemy must be able to fight quickly and decide quickly.

This was not original to someone. It was found in ancient times, but the requirements were also very strict.

The most important thing is that if the city is besieged and aided, it will become surrounded by internal and external forces, and will be attacked from beginning to end, and will be killed.

The first point is that the besieged army must have a strong guardian to prevent the city from breaking through.

The second point is that when attacking the opponent's reinforcements, the army must have strong attack power and can quickly solve the reinforcements. If you can't fight for a long time, you will fall into a dangerous place where you divide the troops at both ends.

Fang Xin's conditions were just launched. He had 300,000 troops. This time he mobilized 200,000 cavalry and 30,000 cavalry, and brought enough food and grass. But for a month, the army ignored the nearby counties and counties and was directly pressing against the opponent's main force, forcing the opponent to shrink and defend the city. If he went out of the city to fight in the field, 30,000 cavalry cooperated with four times the enemy's infantry, and there was almost no suspense to defeat the opponent.

After confirming that the enemy's main force had to shrink back, Fang Xin first surrounded the county city. Sure enough, there were still several ignorant troops coming to help, so they were naturally quickly eaten - the Wanxu cavalry rushed and it ended.

Seeing that no county dared to send troops, it was only then that the city was captured. It was quite convenient for 200,000 troops to attack a county. The first county only took three days to surrender.

After occupying a county, Fang Xin's main force approached, and then divided the troops and divided them into two branches. Wu Xinghe led one, 30,000 people, Jiang Wenxuan led 30,000 people, and each led 5,000 cavalry to capture cities and plunder the land of the two nearby counties.

The same is true for the policy. First, I surrounded the county and saw if there were any counties willing to send troops - basically no one.

Then there were five thousand cavalrymen, and the cavalry had good mobility. They could basically go back and forth once a day and overnight within the county, which greatly reduced the problem of food and grass. They threatened the county town, but the method was really good. Most counties with only a thousand militia were scared and surrendered.

In this way, the other party will grow and develop a domino effect. In less than a long time, most of the county surrendered. Even if the county is left alone, it will be useless. Then the newly surrendered county and county will send troops to join the siege, and they will put up a banner, and send surrendered officials to call under the city to shake the morale of the army.

In this way, the county town will almost surrender. No matter how hard the troops are, the two branches will join forces to attack, and there will be a group of 100,000 people. They should be taken down. In this cycle, the whole province will almost be surrendered in less than a month.

Two troops were sent to defend the provincial border, and Fang Xin surrounded the provincial capital with a 150,000 army. The matter was so simple, without a vigorous battle, and without a heroic plan.

"Master, but depending on the situation, the troops and food guarding the city are quite sufficient, and the morale is also high, and they may have to be besieged for a long time." A voice interrupted Fang Xin's thoughts.

"No hurry. The so-called lonely city cannot be guarded. There is no food or grass, and no source. There is still time for the general trend of the world, so don't hurry!" Fang Xin said slowly: "Now the supply of the five provinces, there should be no problem with the grain. It's okay to be trapped for a year and a half."

Shen Xuan thought about it and nodded and smiled. Indeed, Fang Xin moved forward with the power of Anchang, Lunan, Jinsha and Zhongming. He was almost irresistible. Other provinces took care of themselves and found it difficult to truly interfere. In addition, although the world has changed, the real trend of separatist tyrants has just begun to be established. If the besiege for some time, it will not delay the general trend.

Just below the city, Pei Xuzhou watched and saw two miles away, all kinds of flags were everywhere. Although there was noisy, it was difficult to cover up the neat and exquisite military armor and the powerful people who were ready to go.

Over the past few days, the opponent's catapults, crossbows, turbulent oil, etc. have exerted great lethality. Although Li's casualties reached about 15,000, there were also 10,000 casualties in the city.

The key is that those who were injured but did not die were transported to the rear for treatment. A large number of such people had been seen on the city. However, there was an isolated city in our own city and there was a lack of injury medicine treatment. This offset the advantage of defending the city was offset by most of the advantages.

As for food and grass, the city originally had the grain supply from the countryside every year, but now 50,000 people are in the city. Although they have prepared for it, the locust plague last year and tried their best to collect some of this year, they could only last for the first half of the year.

If there is no change within half a year, then... Pei Xuzhou thought in a daze that the gentleman was originally graceful, but now he is much haggard, and there are also white hair on his hair.

Just as he was about to retreat, he suddenly saw a team of cavalrymen in the distance quickly entering the camp and breaking into the central army. He couldn't help but feel moved, and what news did he bring?

But what he couldn't have thought was that big news was indeed happening.

In the camp, Fang Xin and Shen Xuan changed their color after hearing this: "What, Gao Mingtong is dead?"

"Yes, he is dead, his eldest son succeeds to the throne." said the messenger.

After a moment of silence, Fang Xin looked at the sand table again and looked at the map again. At this time, Chen Xuan pondered and said, "Master, Gao Ming died, although his son ascended the throne, his country has not been long."

"Well, relying on power to gain power, the foundation is unstable. Once his father dies, there is no need to say about those generals and ministers." Fang Xin nodded and said.

Even if they reunite the world by force, those founding heroes were all talented, formed cliques in private, and had prestige. They might still have some fear of Taizu, but it is not a big concern for future generations, so Taizu was often willing to defeat them for future generations.

What's more, Gao Mingtong relied on power to gain power and usurped the country, but did not unify the world, and had insufficient prestige. Once he died, the country had actually fallen apart, and what his son got was just an empty affair, and maybe even the Imperial Kyoto might not be able to control it.

"In this way, the Central Plains will be in chaos, and the world will enter a strong stage." Chen Xuan pondered again and said, "Master, maybe the attack on the city should be accelerated, so as not to be gained by the heroes."

Fang Xin thought about it and smiled calmly: "It's okay, there is still one or two years left to pull out the Xijiang River first, and there is still some time to renovate and establish the system, and then we will work hard."

Even so, Fang Xin still sent an order and then transported the reserve service behind him with all the machine stones.

Since there was an order, the guards came down according to the order, and the jingle of the jingle made a jingle, and they rushed out to convey the order.

Of course, it will take a lot of money to mobilize all the equipment, at least one month, but since the situation in the Central Plains has changed drastically, it is terrible to wait.

Although you are not eager for quick success or instant benefits, you must speed up.

50,000 new troops will be transferred, and the equipment will be added. The general attack will be launched in one month. By then, there should be only 20,000 troops left in the city...

Pei Xuzhou, I have 300,000 troops to mobilize a group of people to deal with your city. Of course, the so-called "eagle force" is used to fight chickens and will not give him any chance to turn over. Thinking of this, Fang Xin couldn't help but sneer.

After thinking about it, he said, "Chen Qing, are you ready for the reform of the cabinet and the official system?"

"It has been sent down, and all the officials have understood that they can only wait for the lord to be king." Speaking of this, Chen Xuan also felt energetic and answered respectfully.

Although he was called king, he did not divide the land and was granted titles, he also established a complete imperial system.

The cabinet and the seven parts were established, and Chen Xuan was the first prime minister, ranking above all officials. This was the ultimate of the ministers, and the Li family was also officially called Wang Chuanzong.
Chapter completed!