The White-Haired Girl began to perform continuously in Jizhou, causing huge sensation and repercussions in every village she visited. These five or six years were the poorest period for the people of Jizhou. The 4 million people of Jizhou were oppressed by heavy taxes and corvee.
They are in dire straits every day. It can be said that every common person in Jizhou can be the Xi'er family and see their own shadow.
Under the propaganda of the Tengjia Army, they realized the cruel oppression of Jizhou clans and knew that only by getting rid of them could they live a good life.
So every day, a large number of Jizhou people came to Li Gang's camp, wanting to join the Tengjia Army to defeat the Jizhou nobles who oppressed them!
Although it was difficult for the old, young, women and children to pick up swords and guns to help the Tengjia Army fight, hundreds of thousands of people in Jizhou volunteered to help the Tengjia Army build wooden tracks and roads and help the Tengjia Army transport grain and grass to the front line.
With the help of these common people, the Tengjia Army saved a lot of civilians and food, and the efficiency of transporting food, grass and materials was also greatly improved.
Seeing that the white-haired girl was so effective, Wang Guojun began to arrange for people to perform for the Jizhou Army who were captured by the Tengjia Army. These captured Jizhou Army officers also cried in confusion, and then, under the persuasion of the supervisors of the Tengjia Army, they joined the army.
Tengjia Army, became a member of the Tengjia Army soldiers!
In the end, the Royal Army arranged for these Jizhou Army soldiers to go to the countryside of Jizhou to incite the local people to rebel! It can be said that the countryside of Hejian Kingdom has been completely controlled by the Tengjia Army.
Every move of the Jizhou Army is under the surveillance of the Tengjia Army. It can be said that the battlefield in Jizhou is completely transparent to the Tengjia Army.
Knowing yourself and the enemy means you can fight a hundred battles with no danger. On such a completely transparent battlefield, Li Gang's offensive was even more overwhelming. Zhongshui, Wuyuan, Shuzhou, Dongpingshu, Gaoyang, Muxian, Wen'an, Yixian and other places were all defeated by Tengjia's army.
, the countryside was even dyed red!
Seeing this situation, Jiang Ji, the defender of the Hejian Kingdom, could only retreat all his 50,000 troops to Lecheng County, relying on the Hutuo River as a defense line to resist the invasion of the Tengjia Army. Now only Lecheng was left in the entire Hejian Kingdom.
Gong Gao, Cheng Ping is still in the hands of Jizhou County!
At this time, the army in Li Gang's hands had exceeded 200,000.
But when Li Gang wanted to take advantage of the victory and completely occupy the entire Hejian Kingdom, he suffered a small defeat at the Hutuo River.
His army wanted to cross the Hutuo River, but the defender Jiang Ji had already been prepared. When Li Gang's vanguard wanted to cross the river, he mobilized hundreds of ballistae, trebuchets and tens of thousands of archers to attack Tengjia.
Li Gang's soldiers crossed the river, and in the end Li Gang suffered thousands of casualties and had to retreat first!
Then Li Gang tried to cross the river several times, but the Jizhou Army set up a beacon tower every five miles along the Hutuo River, set up a small fort ten miles away, and arranged 200 soldiers to monitor the movements of Bei'an, and arranged a beacon every 30 miles.
Thousands of soldiers were stationed. When they found out that the Tengjia Army wanted to cross the river, these soldiers first held back the vanguard of the Tengjia Army. After success, Chiang Kai-shek immediately sent reinforcements to prevent the Tengjia Army from crossing the river! So Li Gang failed to cross the river several times.
did not succeed.
This is not only the case here in Jiang Ji, but Shenpei in Lunu County also resisted Wang Yong's attack along the river.
At this time, Jizhou and Xu Wei's perceptions were completely different. He was influenced by modern memory and believed that the entire Jizhou was a series of large plains, and some rivers were also small ditches and ridges.
But the reality of Jizhou is indeed completely different from what he thought. There are more than 9 rivers running east to west in the territory. The width of these rivers is more than one or two miles. There are still a large number of swamps and lakes in the territory that have not been developed.
Shen Pei knew that without cavalry, they would have no advantage in the field, so they planned to use these rivers as lines of defense to hinder the Tengjia Army's attack.
Li Gang suffered a big loss without paying attention, and thousands of soldiers were injured or killed.
After Xu Wei learned that Li Gang's attack was blocked, he brought Fan Xian's navy to support Li Gang and others.
At this time, Fan Xian's navy has completely changed. Now they are all 2,000-material cement ships. In order to increase the attack power, each ship also has 10 ten-pound cannons. Such warships can be regarded as shallow water battleships.
, in terms of power alone, it should be the most powerful battleship in the world, and this time Fan Xian brought a total of 20 such battleships.
Such a fleet could fire hundreds of artillery shells in one direction at the same time, so Chiang Kai-shek's army stationed along the river was in bad luck. Hundreds of artillery pieces continuously bombarded his camp.
Most of the Jizhou Army were recruits who had been trained for half a year. Who could withstand such progress? The powerful power of the artillery instantly caused Jiang Ji's soldiers to blow up the camp. The Jizhou Army rushed up and fled from such a hellish place.
Go to Lecheng County!
In this way, the Hutuo River defense line was defeated by the Tengjia Navy. Li Gang's 200,000-strong army successfully crossed the Hutuo River and surrounded Lecheng!
Then more than 300 artillery pieces continued to bomb the successful fortifications, destroying all the ballistas and trebuchets in Lecheng County. It can be said that the Jizhou Army had no ability to counterattack at this time.
At this time, the cultural troupe led by Wang Guojun began to show off its power.
He built a simple stage on the four walls of Lecheng, all outside the attack range of the Jizhou army.
Then the four art troupes began to perform the opera "The White-Haired Girl" in front of the Jizhou Army. In order to let the defenders in the city hear what the art troupes and the art troupes were saying, Wang Guojun specially found those with loud voices, and even gave each of them a big
Trumpets, so even the defenders of the Jizhou Army a hundred steps away can hear and see what is being performed on the stage!
People in this era are simple and simple. They have never watched any stage plays. They were quickly attracted by the plot of the white-haired girl. Every time they watched it, many soldiers cried bitterly. As people at the bottom, they were most concerned about such things.
I feel the same. Especially at this time, the big man has a powerful family, with knives and guns. He is even more vicious and cruel than Huang Shiren in the plot!
Jiang Ji knew about this situation but was powerless. He could neither stop the soldiers from watching nor go out of the city to fight with the Tengjia Army!
He could only watch as the morale of his soldiers declined day by day. Many soldiers even sneaked down the city wall to join the Tengjia Army. It was very difficult for him to stop them.
Because the Tengjia Army welcomes soldiers who surrender to them like this, if anyone on the city wall dares to shoot arrows at such surrendering soldiers, they will definitely be greeted by Tengjia Army's artillery bombing and crossbow retaliation!
Jiang Ji defended like this for three days, but his soldiers no longer wanted to fight. Why did they give up their lives to protect the world of the nobles? The nobles only brought them death and suffering!
So one night the soldiers opened the city gate and welcomed the Tengjia army into the city.
At this time, the 40,000 troops in Jiang Ji's hands almost surrendered without a fight. Even Jiang Ji had no choice but to surrender to the Tengjia Army with his personal guards. He became the first general of the Jizhou Army to surrender!