After less than ten days of siege, the local troops in the Sichuan army had already suffered most of their casualties. Then, Yang Zhao issued military orders to the county chiefs in various places. Like the previous military order, local troops were recruited.
There were no local troops to provide to the local government. In desperation, the government could only capture young men from house to house in the local area. Moreover, this time they could not even provide decent armor and weapons, so they escorted the captured young men directly to Jinsha.
The front line of the city.
The bloody battle in Jinsha City has been going on for nearly a month, and now it has entered a strange cycle. The main force of the Central Army of the Sichuan Kingdom does not directly enter the battle at all. It completely puts the local army in front and acts as cannon fodder. And the local army is no longer from Sichuan. They are all
Zhenren, the casualties incurred in the battle were basically all Zhenren. As the Sichuan Army was the main attacking party, the Sichuanese suffered incredible zero casualties.
Yang Zhao has now made up his mind, which is to use the Zhen people to consume all the rebels in Jinsha City, at least most of them, and then his own army will fully attack. By then, he can easily capture Jinsha like a whirlwind.
City, the rebels were completely wiped out.
His idea was very good, and the battle situation was becoming increasingly unfavorable to the Zhen Army led by Li Shu. Although the Zhen Army was able to repel the Sichuan Army's fierce attacks every day, they themselves also suffered casualties. Today's casualties
One thousand or eight hundred people will be injured tomorrow, and hundreds or even thousands more will be injured tomorrow. Accumulated every day, the number of casualties will be in the tens of thousands.
At this point, Yinli has been away for more than a month, but there is not even a sign of reinforcements. What's more terrible is that the food and grass in Jinsha City have been severely depleted.
Not knowing how long Yinli would have to wait to return, Li Shu could only order the entire army to control rations from three meals a day to two meals a day.
The Zhen army in Jinsha City has gradually felt the pressure. Similarly, Yang Zhao outside the city is also under pressure. His tactics of using Zhen people to defeat Zhen people were not recognized by all the Sichuan army generals. Lu You was one of them, but
Lu You had a close personal relationship with Yang Zhao, and it was not easy to confront him in person, so he didn't say much. Among the generals, Chen Lihua and Chai Song were the ones who most clearly expressed their opposition to Yang Zhao's tactics.
During the discussion, the two of them pointed out more than once that there was something wrong with Yang Zhao's tactics. Even if he only used them once or twice, there would be endless troubles, let alone if he continued to use them.
Yang Zhao sneered at the opposition of the two of them, and finally said in public that Chen Lihua and Chai Song were the least qualified to make irresponsible remarks in front of him. Under their command, the 400,000-strong Sichuan Central Army was betrayed.
Only hundreds of thousands of people were killed by the army. This was not only a humiliation for the Sichuan army, but also a humiliation for the Sichuan country. Both Chen Lihua and Chai Song were sinners of the Sichuan country.
As the saying goes, beating someone is not a slap in the face. Yang Zhao accused and even humiliated Chen Lihua and Chai Song in public. How could these two people stand it? Moreover, their military ranks were all the same, and Yang Zhao did not
Hold them accountable for their rights.
Chen Lihua and Chai Song were extremely angry. If the generals had not stepped forward in time to smooth things over, they would have had to fight Yang Zhao in public.
Afterwards, Chen Lihua and Chai Song jointly wrote a letter to the court, describing exactly what Yang Zhao did in Jinsha City.
Soon this letter was sent back to Zhaoyang, the capital of Sichuan. After reading this letter, many ministers thought it was nothing. Even if Yang Zhao's methods were a bit extreme, he was doing it for the sake of the Sichuan soldiers after all, so it was excusable.
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However, after Xiao Xiang read the letter, he became furious and wrote a reply to Yang Zhao himself.
In his reply, Xiao Xiang denounced Yang Zhao for his recklessness, short-sightedness and lack of foresight. The Sichuan Kingdom did not just fight Zhendi and its people and then run away, but wanted to occupy and assimilate Zhendi and make Zhendi a permanent place.
In the territory of the Sichuan Kingdom, the Zhen people must be assimilated into Sichuan people from generation to generation. It would be better now. Yang Zhao thinks he is right. He forcibly recruits the Zhen people to kill the Zhen people and makes the Zhen people kill each other. He still thinks he is smart. If he is allowed to continue doing this
, I believe that it won’t be long before Li Shu’s power is eliminated, and a second, third or even more “Li Shu” will appear in Zhendi. When rebellions break out, when will the Sichuan Kingdom be completely defeated?
To quell the chaos in Zhendi?
Although Yang Zhao was a great contributor to helping Xiao Xiang ascend to the throne, Xiao Xiang was not polite to him at all on issues related to the vital interests of the Sichuan Kingdom. The words in the letter were extremely tough and ordered Yang Zhao to stop immediately.
His tactics were to repatriate all the forcibly recruited Zhen people and use his Sichuan army officers and soldiers to directly attack Jinsha City.
It can be said that Xiao Xiang's stop was timely, but the damage caused by Yang Zhao's tactics has already been caused, and it cannot be wiped out in a moment.
After receiving Xiao Xiang's letter, Yang Zhao winced when he read it. Even if he only read the letter and did not see Xiao Xiang himself, he could feel Xiao Xiang's anger between the lines.
Yang Zhao, who had such a fierce and tough temperament, still made a compromise after receiving Xiao Xiang's letter. Following Xiao Xiang's order, he repatriated all the local troops and allocated part of their military pay to pay for their travel expenses.
After repatriating the local army, the Sichuan army began the real siege. On one side, there was a strong attack by an army of 400,000 people, and on the other side, there was a defensive defense of more than 100,000 troops. The fierce battle between the two sides lasted for more than a month.
During this period of more than a month, the Sichuan Army attacked the top of Jinsha City countless times, and was finally pushed down by the Zhen Army countless times. The walls of Jinsha City were smashed into gaps countless times, and finally they were pushed down by the Zhen Army.
The bodies of soldiers from both sides were filled countless times.
More than two months of fierce fighting have passed. The walls of Jinsha City are already riddled with holes, and the outside of Jinsha City is littered with corpses.
The fresh corpses covered the rotting corpses, and then the originally fresh corpses gradually rotted and were covered by fresher corpses. The ground was covered with black corpse water, and the smell of blood and stench in the air made people laugh.
People do evil.
The current Jinsha City is like a huge meat grinder, constantly grinding the soldiers on both sides of Sichuan and Zhen every day.
By this time in the Battle of Jinsha City, both the Sichuan Army and the Zhen Army were exhausted. Sichuan's 400,000-strong army had dropped sharply to more than 200,000, and the hundreds of thousands of Zhen Army had only 70,000 to 80,000 left. This
It was a bloody battle that was literally filled with human flesh.
Compared with the Sichuan Army, the Zhen Army, which had been besieged in the city for more than two months, undoubtedly had a more difficult time. The food and grass in the city had already been eaten up, and the hungry Zhen Army soldiers could only eat people, and after the corpses were eaten, they ate the wounded soldiers.
After eating all the wounded soldiers, they rushed into the city to eat the people...
All the medicines in the city have been used up. Once the Zhenjun soldiers are injured, there is no cure at all. They can only simply bandage them. Those who are strong and lucky may be able to survive. Otherwise, they can only sit and wait.
The wound becomes inflamed, festers, and finally rots, leading to death from septic bleeding.
The Zhen army has been resisting the Sichuan army for more than two months. Including the time when Yin Li left earlier, it has been nearly three months in total. However, in these three months, not to mention not seeing the shadow of reinforcements, Yin Li
Not even a single message came back from Li.
Now the vast majority of Zhenjun officers and soldiers have no hope that Yinli will no longer report. They believe that his going to Chiyue to borrow troops is a lie, and that he is afraid of the Sichuan army's strength and fleeing before the battle is real.
Li Shu was very tough, insisting that Yinli would never abandon him. He must have been blocked from borrowing troops. He believed that with his intelligence, he would soon be able to convince Ji Yue to lead reinforcements back for rescue. Li Shu said this, but in reality
On top of that, he also despaired of Yinli in his heart.
But he couldn't say that, at least he had to leave a glimmer of hope for his soldiers. Otherwise, his own morale would collapse across the board and he would no longer be able to withstand the Sichuan army's strong attack.
Where is Yinli now? The Zhenjun soldiers guessed it right. He didn't go to Zhiyue at all. He did something he knew he couldn't do. That's not Yinli's style.
Li Shu had previously borrowed 30,000 soldiers and horses from Chiyue, but in the battle on Wangxi Plain, the 30,000 Chiyue soldiers were wiped out. Chiyue had already used 30,000 elite men in vain
, now if I ask others to borrow troops, Chiyue will not borrow them again no matter what.
The reason why Yinli said he was going to Chiyue to borrow troops was just to give Li Shu and the entire army a hope, and also to find an excuse for himself to leave Jinsha City. If he directly stated his intention, let alone Li Shu wouldn't
If you agree, all the soldiers under your command will also oppose it.
As time goes by, this protracted bloody battle in Jinsha City enters its fourth month, which is also the most difficult month in the entire campaign.
The exhausted soldiers on both sides were exhausted. The soldiers on both sides gritted their teeth and went into battle. Since the Zhen army's city defense weapons had been exhausted, it was easier for the attacking Sichuan army to attack the city wall. The number of hand-to-hand combats between the two sides was also reduced.
Started to increase rapidly.
For the Sichuan Army, it is now easy to attack the city head, but it is too difficult to attack the city from the city head. Facing the ferocious counterattack of the Zhen Army, the Sichuan Army rushed forward and was repulsed, often in one fell swoop.
After a whole day of fierce fighting, the Sichuan army was able to attack the city no less than fifty times, but in the end they were all forced back by the Sichuan army.
The close combat between the two sides on the city wall did have an advantage for the Zhen army, that is, their food became abundant. In the following time, the walls of Jinsha City were covered with corpses mixed with bones, and bones mixed with corpses.
The situation was no different from hell, which also gave the Sichuan soldiers who rushed to the city a sense of fear in their hearts.
By the time the fourth month of the bloody battle in Jinsha City passed, the strength of the Zhen Army was already less than 30,000. The remaining Zhen Army were all skinny and skinny, with sunken eye sockets and protruding cheekbones.
Li Gui, of course, the Sichuan Army is not much better. It cannot be said that nine out of ten battalions are empty, at least six or seven are empty. Most of the company camps originally stationed around the city are empty camps, and the main forces are concentrated in Jinsha City.
Outside the east gate.
Feeling that the rebels in the city had reached their limit, Yang Zhao now began to plan a final blow to the rebels defending the city.