Chapter 1011: Exchange of Arrow Scripts (Supplement)
Although Xuzhou City is now surrounded, it is not completely surrounded.
Until now, all defensive pressure has basically come from one side.
Because until now, the direct purpose of the Qi Army...or General Tu was to drive the Huai'an Army out of Xuzhou, rather than trap the Huai'an Army in Xuzhou.
Because the difficulty of the latter is really too great.
Under such circumstances, apart from the fact that Xuzhou City is unlikely to break through from the front, it is not particularly difficult to break out from the other three directions.
On the third day after Shen Yi talked with Xue Wei, the Qi people once again stormed Xuzhou City from the east gate.
Su Ding, the commander-in-chief of the East Road, personally sat at the East City Gate and directed the operations in the East City.
However, Shen Yi himself was not at the east gate where the fighting was fiercest, but at the west side.
At this time, Qi people were also attacking the city in the west, but they were just pretending to prevent the Huai'an army in the city from completely gathering their forces at the east gate.
Shen Yi stood on the tower and looked at the Qi army in the distance. He looked back at Xue Wei and said slowly: "The people from the scout camp reported that there are only four or five thousand Qi troops outside the west city gate."
"With the strength of the troops, it is unlikely that they will surround you."
"After you break out of the siege, turn south and attack Suqian."
Having said this, Shen Yi paused and said: "At this time, my warrant has arrived at the Huaihe Navy for several days. As expected, the Huaihe Navy has already begun to cross the river. By the time you arrive in Suqian, the Huaihe Navy will also It’s almost there.”
Having said this, Mr. Shen took out a document from his arms, handed it to Xue Wei, and said: "This is my warrant. With this, you can control the Huaihe River Navy."
At this point, he paused and continued: "If you don't find the Huaihe Navy after arriving in Suqian, then don't attack Suqian and continue south, and then go to the east to join the Forbidden Army who are about to cross the river."
Xue Wei took the document with both hands, lowered his head and said, "I obey!"
Shen Yi turned back and patted his shoulder, and said with a smile: "The battle in Huaibei, whether we can break the situation, the key is not Xuzhou, but whether you and the Forbidden Army guerrillas can fight well and beautifully."
At this point, Mr. Shen narrowed his eyes and said softly: "As long as you fight well, when the time comes, we can immediately switch from defense to offense and truly start to regain the lost ground."
Although the current Huai'an Army is said to have begun the Northern Expedition, the gap in strength between the two sides is still too large. As a result, even if Shen Yi captured Xuzhou, they still stayed in Xuzhou and never truly regained Xuzhou.
The so-called recapture of Xuzhou is to drive out all the Qi people in the entire Xuzhou Prefecture, let Dachen officials stationed in Xuzhou, organize households and people, and truly rule this place.
But now Shen Yi can only say that he has occupied Xuzhou City, but not Xuzhou Mansion.
As for the "timing" in Shen Yi's words, it naturally refers to the death of the Northern Qi Emperor.
Once the Northern Qi Emperor dies, not to mention whether it will directly affect the war situation in Huaibei, at least Yandu will definitely be in chaos for a while. At that time, Shen Yi can start to recover the lost territory.
Ideally, it would be to regain Shandong and Henan provinces in one fell swoop...
If the victory is not ideal, then it is acceptable to capture half of Shandong.
Xue Wei bowed his head respectfully and said: "The final general will definitely live up to Duke Shen's high expectations!"
He raised his head to look at the sky and whispered: "Mr. Shen, the brothers below are all ready. The general will leave now!"
"I will send people from the Di Di News Department to follow you and provide you with information at any time."
Shen Yi looked at Xue Wei and said: "Remember, you have only one mission when you go south this time. This mission is not to occupy Suqian, let alone control the Huaihe River Navy!"
"Instead, use all means to eliminate all the living forces of the Qi people to the greatest extent!"
Shen Yi said in a deep voice: "Do you understand?"
The word "vital force" is no longer an uncommon word among the Huai'an army. After all, Mr. Shen often mentions it in meetings.
Xue Wei and others are already familiar with it.
He bowed his head respectfully and said: "The general will finally get the order!"
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Half an hour later, the west gate of Xuzhou opened wide.
Under the cover of a hail of arrows, Xue Wei took the lead and rushed to the front. With his face glowing red, he rushed towards the Qi army who was "feinting to attack" outside the city.
General Xue shouted angrily: "Brothers, pick up your sword and kill the enemy and make achievements!"
The Qi army outside the city was also taken aback by the sudden rush of thousands of Huai'an troops.
Moreover, when thousands of people rushed out, it was impossible to tell how many people there were. At a glance, it was almost endless, and soon everyone was shouting.
"The Southerners are out of town!!"
Xue Wei, wearing iron armor, raised his sword and slashed a shouting Qi Ren to death with one blow, and then shouted angrily: "Kill the thief! Kill the thief!"
On the battlefield at West City Gate, blood is flying!
The strength of the troops was almost equal, but the troops brought out by Xue Wei were relatively elite Huai'an troops. Not long after the two sides came into contact, the Qi troops were forced back step by step by Xue Wei.
After an hour of fierce fighting, Xue Wei's shoulder was slashed from the side. Fortunately, he was wearing a shoulder armor, and the slash only caused sparks to fly and did not hurt him.
At this time, Xue Wei had been on the battlefield for a long time. Without any hesitation, he directly bumped into the enemy with an iron mountain, knocking the group of people away, and then caught up with him in two or three steps and made a finishing blow.
After killing this man, Xue Wei roared and shouted.
"Concentrate and rush out!"
The officers and soldiers of the Huai'an Army knew about this mission. After hearing Xue Wei's voice, they immediately began to concentrate their forces and highlighted the Qi people's encirclement.
This is not difficult.
Because the Qi troops at the west city gate are not large, and the word "encirclement" is a joke when the forces are equal.
Soon, thousands of households with people discovered the intentions of Xue Wei and others, and began to shout loudly.
"The Southerners have broken through! The Southerners have broken through!"
This news was reported to everyone in Qi.
It didn't take long for the news to reach the ears of Tu Yuan and Zhou Shizhong. These two generals at the general level were very happy when they heard the news.
Without hesitation, they immediately got on their horses, led the reinforcements, and rushed outside the west city gate.
At this moment, the west gate of Xuzhou has been closed.
Tuyuan looked at the closed west city gate and said nothing.
Zhou Shizhong called a general and asked about the situation here. Soon, he returned to Tu Yuan's side, cupped his fists and said: "General Tu, Ximen fought for about two hours, and the Huai'an army broke out with about five or six thousand soldiers.
people."
Tu Yuan picked up the telescope hanging around his neck and looked at Xuzhou West Gate from a distance.
At this time, there was also a young man on the tower of the West Gate of Xuzhou, holding a telescope and looking at him.
The two coaches, who have been playing against each other for more than a month but have never met before, met for the first time under such circumstances.
Tu Yuan put down his telescope, looked at Zhou Shizhong, and said slowly: "General Zhou, what do you think the Huai'an army means by this move?"
Zhou Shizhong thought for a while and whispered: "Probably because we ran out of food and grass, we wanted to try to break out. Later, when we saw our reinforcements arriving, we gave up and continued to break out and closed the city gate..."
"The two of us came here with only one or two thousand people. What kind of reinforcements are we?"
After Tu Yuan said this, he looked up and saw the Shen flag still flying on the wall of Xuzhou city, and said slowly: "Shen Yi, probably still in the city."
He said solemnly: "Use the sounding arrow to send a message to Shen Yi and tell him that our army will increase its troops at Ximen tomorrow."
Tu Yuan was the top general of the Conquering Southern Army. After he spoke, the sharpshooters of the Conquering Southern Army soon drew their iron-tied bows and shot a piece of cloth on the west city gate tower of Xuzhou.
At this moment, Shen Yiren was still on the tower, and the arrow was only a dozen steps away from him.
Soon, the banner was delivered to Shen Yi. There were not many words on the banner, but it was concise and straightforward.
"To prevent the southern thieves from escaping, I will send additional troops to the west gate tomorrow."
"Tuyuan."
Mr. Shen laughed dumbly and threw the piece of cloth aside.
Tu Yuan's intention was very clear. He gave Shen Yi one day to let the Huai'an army leave the city.
It's just that he was a general of the Northern Qi Dynasty, so he couldn't write it directly, so he changed the wording to be more euphemistic.
"Bring me a pen and I'll write him a reply."
Soon, someone brought pen and ink to Shen Yi. Mr. Shen pulled off a piece of cloth, wrote a line of words on it, and had someone shoot it back with an arrow.
The piece of cloth written by Shen Yi was quickly picked up by Qi Jun. However, these Qi Jun did not give it directly to Tu Yuan, but first sent it to Zhou Shizhong.
Zhou Shizhong glanced at it, shook his head slightly, and passed it to Tu Yuan.
"General Tu, a reply from Shen Qi."
Tu Yuan looked at this piece of cloth and his expression turned ugly after just one glance.
"To prevent barbarians from becoming rampant, tomorrow... I will increase our troops in Huaibei."