"Zhongjian, sir, you are also thinking about these people!" Yu Wenshiji explained for Yuan Wuben while shaking his head at Li Xu.
"Humph!" Li Xu snorted coldly and turned around to inspect and comfort his wounds. He felt worse than eating a hundred flies. He admired Yuan Wuben's calmness and courage after his defeat.
.But this man's attitude of treating the common people like rutted dogs is really annoying. In Xu Zi's eyes, although those prisoners lacked courage and were weak in combat effectiveness, they were all honest and honest people like his uncle Zhang Baosheng.
.If it weren’t for Yang Xuangan, Yuan Wuben and others who were too ambitious, and these captives were still farming and playing at home, who would come to trade their heads?!
Now that the battle has been defeated, Yuan Wuben still poses as a lofty saint, as if he can take on all responsibilities and use his courage and wisdom to find a way out for the "mobs" under his rule. But he doesn't want to think about what it would be like if it weren't for a few of them.
For the sake of fame and greed, they dare to start a hasty attack without even armor or weapons. How could those people end up in such a situation!
The other generals in the Xiongwu camp did not have a good impression of Yuan Wuben. When they saw Li Xu coming to review the results of the battle, they immediately raised their voices deliberately. "Reporting to the general, our army has 212 killed, 47 seriously injured, and 600 lightly injured. Shang
Those who can fight, 4,358! We killed more than 3,000 enemies and captured 20,363 enemy soldiers. Among them were 60 colonels, governors, 11 generals and 1 general.
"Chang Shi Zhao Ziming held the inventory and read it aloud. The rough statistics were not so accurate, but in order to humiliate Yuan Wuben, he deliberately read the numbers to single digits.
"The pseudo-prefect Yuan Wuben has surrendered and is waiting for the general's resignation!" Zhao Ziming handed over the inventory, glanced at Yuan Wuben with the corner of his eye, clasped his fists, stood in awe, then turned and stood aside.
"General, twenty flags, one hundred and fifty pairs of armor, more than five hundred horizontal knives, six thousand kitchen knives, six thousand iron forks, and more than fourteen thousand wooden sticks were captured in this battle!" Sicang joined the army Qin Xingshi!
The stick reading was deliberately lengthened so that everyone present could hear it clearly.
The generals of the Xiongwu camp laughed loudly, but Yuan Wuben seemed to have not heard the laughter of others and continued to discuss military affairs with Yu Wenshiji calmly. After a while, Li Xu finished handling the military chores, and Yu Wenshiji also finished talking to Yuan Wuying.
A few key figures in the army negotiated briefly, and left Chief Zhao Ziming and a thousand soldiers and horses to take care of his wounded soldiers and escort the prisoners slowly towards Liyang. More than 3,000 other soldiers followed Li
Xu and Yu Wenshiji, led by Yuan Wuben, went straight to fetch Liyang.
The rebels who were left behind to guard Liyang City had long since learned from the defeated soldiers that their entire army had been annihilated. They were as anxious as ants on a hot pot. When they saw Yuan Wu, the governor of Liyang City, leading the enemy troops to capture the city, they were unable to mention it.
He summoned up any courage to resist, and obediently followed Yuan Wuben's orders to open the city and surrender.
Li Xu, Yu Wenshi and Daxi immediately sent people to take over the city defense, place soldiers, seal up the treasury, and maintain public security. They were busy from dusk to midnight, and then they remembered that they had won such a big battle and had not sent anyone to report the victory to the commander.
The two hurriedly discussed their speeches and reached an agreement. They wrote down the field battles during the day and the capture of the city in the evening. They divided them into two parts. One part was sent to Pegasus to report to the old general Yu Wenshu. The other part was sealed with fire paint and marked with eight pieces.
Baili hastened to report back to His Majesty the Sui Emperor.
When the messenger was ordered to leave, the two men remembered that Li Anyuan was still pretending to be moving toward Ji County with hundreds of troops. They quickly sent out their own soldiers to intercept Li Anyuan along the official road and ordered him to quickly move closer to Liyang. Then, they sent Zhang
Xiu led people to pick up Zhao Ziming and ordered him to bring all the surrendered soldiers back to Liyang and place them in the military camp in the city for supervision. After all the miscellaneous things were done, it was already dark before they knew it. The situation between ourselves and the enemy was unclear, so the two of them did not dare to rest and did whatever they wanted.
After getting something to eat, he went out with his soldiers to inspect the city defense.
Liyang City is located next to the Yongji Canal. It was an important place for the storage and transportation of grain and grass in the Sui Dynasty, so the city walls were built very tall. There are urns, horse faces, watchtowers, arrow towers, and other city defense buildings. There are a large number of rolling logs and hammers on the city walls.
Stones, spikes, long hooks and other weapons for defending the city. There are still more than a dozen crossbows stored in the two tall gatehouses in the east and north, but they are old and I don't know if they are suitable for use.
The city has a small population, so there are very few residential buildings. In the square city, every thirty steps or so, there is a brick and stone granary. Each granary is five feet round and more than two feet high. There are dozens of them.
The total amount of grain stored in the granaries is tens of millions of stones. As Yuan Wuben said yesterday, even if a hundred thousand troops feed for five years, they may not be able to use up all the grain.
"So much food!" Yu Wenshiji looked at it and shook his head. He originally decided to attack Liyang with light troops, and the idea was to take advantage of the rebels' unpreparedness and burn down the granary. But now that he saw so much food,
Seeing such a tall city again, he was undecided.
"Yes, so much food!" Li Xu responded with a sigh. At this moment, what he was thinking about was not how tall Liyang City was, but the unharvested wheat in Shanggu County and the burned farmland around Liyang. Three hundred thousand people were rushed.
The returning army abandoned all the supplies on the road. If Liyang's food was kept, the army would not have to go around to collect it. The lives of the surrounding people would be somewhat easier in the coming year.
The two looked at each other, and both saw the reluctance in each other's eyes. Although their starting points were different, they rarely thought of one thing.
"This city is very well built. If Yuan Wuben hadn't led us into the city yesterday, it would have been difficult for our more than four thousand brothers to enter the city gate for a while!" Yu Wenshiji nodded at Li Xu and smiled.
He said.
"That's natural. We came here in a hurry and there is no one who can match our skills! Even if we build ladders, we won't be able to build enough in just three or five days!" Li Xu nodded in response, his eyes full of smiles.
"We don't have any siege equipment, and Yang Xuangan may not have it either. Even if Han Shihe comes in person, I don't believe he can climb to the top of the city with his bare hands!" Yu Wenshi pointed to the mountains and rivers in the distance and said loudly.
"Old General Yuwen will definitely come to the rescue at starry night after receiving our victory news. If Han Shihe dares to stay under the city for a long time, you and I will tell him to come and go." Li Xu slowly raised his head, feeling very proud in his heart.
The two looked at each other and laughed, deciding to stick to the end. Whether it was Li Mi or Han Shihe, their reputations were spread by others. Sanlang of the Yuwen family and the boy of the Li family were not as famous as them and had more experience, but in a real fight, they might not be able to win.
Whoever wins will win.
Now that they had decided to defend the city, the two immediately began to discuss the deployment of troops. At present, there are only more than 4,000 soldiers in the Xiongwu camp who can participate in the battle. It is obviously a stupid idea to arrange them all on the city wall. In addition to their own robes, the two men
The only people who can still be used are the prisoners in the city. Currently, those people are being held in the military camp waiting to be dealt with. After withstanding yesterday's blow, everyone is as submissive as a sheep. Zhao Ziming escorted more than 20,000 prisoners with a thousand soldiers and horses.
No one tried to escape during the journey.
"The general has the courage to replace the officers above the group leader with our people! With these officers guarding them, they can't rebel even if they want to!" Yu Wenshu took a stone and drew a series of numbers on the ground.
"Twenty thousand people need 2,000 team captains. Add in the team captains, brigade leaders, and school lieutenants. More than half of our brothers in the Xiongwu Camp will have to live with the official addiction for the time being!"
"Leave three regiments of cavalry on standby. If the enemy attacks too unscrupulously, I can take some people out to kill them!" Li Xu grabbed a branch and squatted next to Yu Wenshi and others.
"The Third Young Master is becoming more and more like a soldier!" Several generals of the Yuwen clan frowned and cursed in their hearts. "They were all led by this wild boy. I don't know what good this wild boy has. He actually let the Third Young Master."
So close to him!"
Despite the slander, the generals dispersed dutifully and looked around to prevent other people from approaching and disturbing the two adults' discussion of military affairs. Yu Wenshiji and Li Xu squatted under a huge granary, using the ground as a case to pick rocks.
As a pen, slowly outline the general outline of the city defense deployment.
"Tell the prisoners that if they can make a contribution in defending the city, they will be credited and rewarded just like the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty!" Li Xu reviewed the results of the discussion between the two again and added in a low voice.
"Well, the chief culprit is Yuan Wuben. Since the chief culprit has been executed, we will not ask any questions about the enemy. After we finish asking about the enemy's situation tonight, we will treat Mr. Yuan to a drink and we will send him on his way!" Yu Wenshiji threw down the used stones.
, clapped his hands and stood up, with a particularly relaxed expression on his face.
"Isn't the strategy of using soldiers to defend the city dedicated to you by Yuan Wu Ben?" Li Xu gently put down the branch in his hand, with unconcealed surprise in his question. He originally thought that Yuan Wu Ben offered the city again, but
He also proposed a plan, thinking that because of his submissive attitude, at least Yuwenshiji would consider begging him in front of the emperor to save him from death. However, he did not expect that Yuwenshiji did not care about Yuanwuben's life at all.
"Of course it is. Don't forget that he rebelled and surrendered to the enemy, but he also pretended to be a good official for the people. He said that the soldiers who were thieves were all captured by him, and there was no right or wrong in his heart. He suggested that I reorganize them, and
The brothers from the Xiongwuying camp will stick to Liyang together!" Yuwen Shiji sighed and replied. In his eyes, Yuanwu Benn handed over Liyang City after the defeat, and he was an upright and famous person. But the more famous he became among the rebels, the more his whereabouts became.
