081 The Green Forest Army with No Fighting Spirit
After Liu Xiu broke out of the encirclement, the Green Forest Army was in high spirits for two days, but then its morale took a sharp turn.
On the third day, 80,000 troops reinforced by Yan You and Chen Mao arrived at the foot of Kunyang City, reinforcing the besieging armies on the east and south sides, and completely surrounded Kunyang City. At a glance, there were new troops all over the mountains and plains.
The beating of drums outside the city continued day and night, making people in the city panic. Rumors spread among the army that leaders Wang Feng and Wang Chang had the intention to surrender.
Liu Ergou and others were worried about this, while Lin Shuhang smiled slightly.
It's really unfounded worries.
It's obviously a technical adjustment. This is the battle of Kunyang. The city cannot be broken. God will help.
On the fourth day, Ju Wuba, who was famous in the new dynasty, led his beast army to the south of the city. Standing on the top of the city, you could see the giant animal pen rising from the ground in the southern camp. There were hundreds of tigers, lions and leopards, and eight giant elephants.
Hundreds of them, howling day and night, shocking people's hearts.
The mentality of the defenders had begun to collapse at this time. When Lin Shuhang and others went to work on the city, they could see that the Green Forest Army on the city basically stuffed their ears with cotton, because they were afraid of the roars of those ferocious beasts.
Rumors about surrender spread even more, and some people even began to target Liu Xiu, who had previously been regarded as the hope of the city.
Liu Xiu just went to Dingling and other places to move reinforcements. Dingling was only forty or fifty miles away from Kunyang, and Wuyang, which was closer, was only thirty miles away. One night was enough for a round trip, but it took four or five days.
, but didn't even see half of the reinforcements. Isn't this nonsense?
Then Liu Xiu must have run away in fear when he saw the strength of the bandit army!
Don't say it's impossible, this is something that has its own precedent. Long before Kunyang was besieged, Liu Xiu led his troops to Yangguan to stop the enemy. However, seeing the strength of the new army, he turned around and ran away without fighting a single battle.
, fled back to Kunyang City, and that’s why Kunyang was besieged today.
He is a deserter, and now he is running away, which is really reasonable, and now he is not only running away, but even having tens of thousands of people in Kunyang here to hold back the new army for him, allowing him to escape... This is even more unpleasant.
Already.
These speculations made the people in the Green Forest Army dissatisfied with the Chung Ling Army who were still in the city. Liu Ergou and others were often looked down upon, and their mentality began to become irritable. He was trying to clear his uncle Liu Zong's name every day.
, must have gone to Wancheng to move reinforcements. After all, the main force of the Green Forest Army is over there. Wancheng, how can it be possible to come back in just a few days?
Liu Ergou and other diehards were quarreling with each other, and the voice of surrender became common among the army. It seemed that the defenders were about to collapse before the new army began to attack the city.
Only Lin Shuhang remained calm.
Although I currently feel that I can't see any factor in these green forest troops that can defend Kunyang City...but there is no need to worry.
History has long said that Kunyang is unbreakable, everything is God's technical adjustment...
What I should consider is what happens after the Battle of Kunyang. I hope I can make a time difference and send out the express delivery a thousand years later.
On the fifth day, the baggage of the new besieging army had arrived. Dozens of rams and catapults began to be pushed to frontline positions in all directions for assembly. The morale of the army, which was already on the verge of collapse, was further disintegrated at this time.
Kunyang City is small. Although the city wall is strong, it is only three feet high and five feet thick. How can it withstand the destruction of these heavy siege weapons?
So someone suggested that the Chongling Army follow Liu Xiu's example, disguise themselves as new troops and attack the southern camp, break out, take the opportunity to destroy the enemy's siege weapons placed in front of the formation, create chaos, and then sneak out to investigate and urge Liu Xiu
of reinforcements.
Frankly speaking, this is obviously no longer a trick, but simply an attempt to deceive people and vent their anger.
Liu Xiu was able to rush out firstly because the siege in the south of the city had not yet been completely formed and the number of troops besieging the city was much smaller than now. Secondly, he was able to disguise himself as a new army and deceive the besieging army.
But now there are tens of thousands of troops on all sides, and there is a terrifying beast camp to the south. And since the new army is already wary of "disguise and disguise", rushing to the camp is no different from committing suicide.
To put it bluntly, many people in the Green Forest Army did not like Liu Xiu, so they vented their anger on Lin Shuhang, Liu Ergou and Liu Xiu's old Chungling Army. In addition, there was indeed too much pressure now and the news that reinforcements were urgently needed.
Come to cheer up people's hearts, otherwise this city will be destroyed if we don't attack it.
So let Liu Xiu's old Chungling Army do this. If it is effective, everyone will be happy. Even if it fails and is killed, it will let the Green Forest Army vent their anger and calm down the anti-Liu Army that has become increasingly fierce in the past two days.
'Voices.
In the end, Wang Ba argued hard and brought the matter to Wang Feng and Wang Chang, the leader of the Green Forest Army. He heard that he had a fight with Li Chang of the New City Army in front of the palace. Wang Feng and Wang Chang were surprised by his bravery and moved.
Because of his love for talents, he finally took back the order.
Speaking of Wang Ba, he was the general who Lin Shuhang had seen on the school field before who was absent-minded when training them.
This man was originally the son of Jue Cao of the former Yingchuan County. When the Green Forest Army captured Yingchuan not long ago, he had just led his retainers to defect to Liu Xiu, but he had not yet been reused. Even Liu Xiu had broken through the encirclement a few days ago.
Didn't even take him with me.
Therefore, let alone the Green Forest Army, even within the small circle of the Chung Ling Army, the commander Wang Ba can only be regarded as a newcomer in everyone's eyes, and not many people are really willing to obey him.
Liu Ergou had shown disdain when talking about Wang Ba before, but Lin Shuhang paid quite a lot of attention to him.
This is one of the twenty-eight Yuntai generals who is famous in history, the Ghost Golden Sheep King, but he has just yet to show his prominence. Even the rumored competition in front of the army is probably due to the weak situation.
Keep your hands and feet, otherwise what kind of character is Li Chang who can have a back-and-forth with one of the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai?
However, although the matter was temporarily suppressed, at this point, Lin Shuhang could no longer maintain the regular schedule of practicing every morning.
The Chung Ling Army did not dare to leave the city, so more than 300 old troops and dozens of family members were all deployed to the south gate of the city to cooperate with Wang Chang's Xiajiang soldiers to garrison.
The beasts roaring here day and night, the ghosts crying and the wolves howling, just listening to it makes people terrified and makes them unable to sleep at night. It is now the most difficult place among the four gates in the southeast, northwest and northwest of Kunyang City that the defenders are unwilling to garrison.
Shift change? It doesn't exist. Except for the soldiers in Xiajiang who have their own rotation, the old troops of the Chung Ling Army eat, drink, and eat on the top of the city 24 hours a day.
Fortunately, the method of practicing the Nine-layer Heavenly Sword is different from other methods. It does not require large-scale movements, just holding the sword in your hand.
It's just that the posture is a bit weird, the movements are a bit random, and the difficulty is a bit higher. But it is precisely the high difficulty of this random movement that is beneficial to mastering the Nine Heavenly Sword more skillfully.
You can easily condense that unparalleled form by lying down and leaning on it while sleeping. Wouldn't it be easier once you have a good posture?
Cultivation must not stick to formalities.
My proficiency in sword techniques is steadily increasing, and I will go to the Little Zhou Tianxin Technique from time to time at night when it is dark, but my practice has not been delayed.
He just looked at the growing military peak outside the city, then looked at the Kunyang City wall that was only three feet high, and looked at the defenders who were already a little sallow and thin from hunger.
Frankly speaking, Lin Shuhang was a little confused at first.
In the past few days, he has been helping the Green Forest Army to find the factors for victory, but... he really can't find them.
From the leader Wang Feng to Wang Chang, down to the small soldiers at the top of the city, they were either complaining or crying for their fathers and mothers. Nine out of ten people wanted to run away... This is even if ten thousand pigs are released in Kunyang City.
, I feel better than them.
Morale is the biggest problem now.
At this time, Lin Shuhang really couldn't imagine how God would help these people to defend Kunyang City.
I can't imagine how incredible the actual combat power of the New Army was, so it took more than half a month to climb over this small three-foot-high city wall.
Meteor falling to the ground?
That was just an exaggeration. Having experienced the experience of fighting jackals in Kanas, but being rumored to be the wolf-slaying god, Lin Shuhang actually knew the nature of historical biographies very well. How could such a thing really happen?
What's more, even if a meteor really fell to the ground, Lin Shuhang felt that it would be impossible for the New Army to collapse. It was a camp that stretched for dozens of miles. What kind of meteor could destroy it?
Either a nuclear warhead or an asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs is more or less the same, but in reality, there are no such crater remnants near Ye County at all...
On the seventh day, at dawn, a letter of war was sent from outside the city, saying that it would attack at Chen time, so that the Green Forest Army could prepare. They only needed two hours to capture Kunyang. Not only would they kill all the Green Forest Army, but also Kunyang.
The people of Yang would not let go and massacred the city together to rectify the prestige of the new dynasty.
A wave of tricks that normal people couldn't understand finally made Lin Shuhang feel that things were getting back on track.
Although the Green Forest Army has always had no fighting spirit, the new army commanders Kong Wangyi and Situ Wangxun used this letter of challenge to block the defenders' retreat in advance. Didn't this force the Green Forest Army to fight to the death?
Is it time to have some morale now?
Chapter completed!