The time left for Liang Jun is actually very limited. On the one hand, the fourth capital of the Longque Army is approaching here step by step. On the other hand, hundreds of generals of the Xiangzhou Army on the south bank are beginning to come out of the walled city and gather here.
In front of the river beach, prepare to take a boat across the river to help.
Liang Jun noticed that there were a lot of tung oil reserves in the city, and it was not beneficial for them to disperse the besieging ants, so they quickly moved outside the south city.
Dozens of highly skilled and daring cavalrymen drew their swords and stabbed their horses, stimulating the dismounted horses to madness. They then rammed their horses towards the seemingly fragile city gate. The moment they hit the city gate, these cavalrymen jumped.
He dismounted, then retreated quickly, retreating under the protection of the large shields of the other infantry who dismounted and fought. No matter how fast Zhao Wuji moved, he only had time to shoot two of them.
At this time, Canglang City could only be regarded as a rammed-earth fortress. The city gate was made of thick wood and was not clad with iron or copper. It was hit by more than a dozen crazy war horses, and the door shaft was broken and fell sideways.
However, the five or six foot deep door opening was filled with sand and gravel. In a short period of time, there was no fear that Liang Jun would be able to dig up the sand and stone and attack through the city gate opening.
What was really difficult was that Liang Jun fought with extraordinary bravery. After they had been mentally prepared, in such a cold day, they still soaked their clothes and armor with river water, then covered their heads and faces with large shields, and concentrated their attack from the south gate...
Liang Jun was in a hurry and did not prepare too many ladders. He was afraid of the tung oil fire. In the end, he mixed the horse corpses with soil and piled them near the south gate of Canglang City, forming a simple ramp. No need to climb a ladder, he could directly attack the top of the wall.
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This is mainly because the protective wall of Canglang City is too short. It is only eight feet high except for the outer ring of sewage ditches. Twenty horse corpses were piled under the wall, and thousands of bags of soil were transported in military tents and dumped.
Coming over, a ramp six or seven steps wide and twelve or three steps long was formed, almost reaching the top of the wall. At this time, Liang Jun could even ride his horse directly to the top of the wall.
In the city, short logs that were more than ten feet long when hugged by a single person were filled with caltrops and rolled down the chute, and barrels of tung oil were thrown into the fire near the chute regardless of the cost.
Haili helped increase the fire and suppressed Liang Jun's charge.
One hundred, sixty and seventy able-bodied civilians took the initiative to participate in the battle, especially the leaders of each village who almost all stood up. Han Qian's troops seemed much more abundant - looking at Liang Jun outside the city, Han Qian also secretly sneered.
, I thought that these Liang Jun soldiers might think that there were only 40 or 50 elite Zuosi scouts defending the city, but they did not have a deep understanding of the situation of hundreds of large and small cottages on both sides of the Han River and Danjiang River, or maybe they did not know much about their situation.
What time has done in the old city of Jun County is not fully understood!
Han Qian rushed the remaining civilians to the houses in the middle of the city and asked them to defend themselves with shields and spears. Seeing that the Liang army's offensive was too fierce, he even moved the roof directly opposite the ramp out of the way, and moved to Tiancheng to organize troops from both wings to attack
Liang Jun rushed over to protect the wall.
After the battle reached the treetops, several hundred generals of the Xiangzhou Army on the south bank came in three warships. Liang Jun left behind more than a hundred corpses and was forced to bypass Canglang City and fight from the west side of Heilong Mountain.
The remaining road between the Danjiang River recedes to the north.
At this time, the Liang Army's offensive against Tiegushan in the north had just begun.
Han Qian was unable to reinforce Tiecrocodile Mountain at this time. The two elite battalions transferred by Li Zhigao from Jingzikou should have arrived at Tiecrocodile Mountain soon.
Regarding the Xiangzhou Army who had been reinforced from the south bank, they just said that the city was in a mess and could not welcome them into the city. They sent people to send more than a hundred kilograms of meat and wine as a reward.
Ten elite scouts died in the battle, twenty slave soldiers died in the battle, and more than 30 civilians died in the battle, with more than 100 injured. This battle can be regarded as crippling Zuo Si's little family.
What made Han Qian even more heartbroken were the losses caused by the war and the post-war pensions.
The newly built town of Canglang was beaten to such a state that it would take at least ten or eight days to clean it up before it could be restored to its original appearance.
It is easy to provide pensions to slave soldiers. If the deceased in the war include their family members and heirs, as well as those who were brave and injured in battle, it is logical to exclude them and the younger ones from the slave status. The Zuosi scout has formal military status in the Longque Army, and will be rewarded uniformly according to military merit.
Even the heads of Liang Jun harvested this time can be attributed to them. Each person is divided into two or three heads, which can almost solve the status of a large number of elite scouts as low-level honorary officers.
Han Qian almost paid out nearly four hundred loaves of gold to reward the civilian husbands who died in the battle, as well as the civilian husbands who were wounded due to their bravery, and to fulfill his promise before the war.
Han Qian secretly felt that if another brutal battle continued, Zuo Si would go bankrupt, but he couldn't care about that at the moment.
In addition to the military merit rewards that are yet to be determined, the biggest gain is to peel off more than a hundred sets of tattered armors from the dead soldiers of Liang Jun, and to push out more than 30 horse corpses from the mound, and can cut out five or six
Kilograms of horse meat.
The fourth capital's 1,500 generals rushed to Canglang City by boat before noon, and almost as many generals as the fourth capital's generals rushed to Canglang City, including Yang Qin and Feng Xuan, who set off from Xuzhou.
The Four Famous Fleet and the Xuzhou Boat Gang headed north again.
However, this time the fleet was twice as large as the previous two. In addition to Yang Qin, Feng Xuan, Feng Zhang, Gao Bao and other shipping gangs and the escorts of the four surnamed fleets, Zhao Kuo even led more than 500 people to Cang.
Langcheng.
To be honest, when they saw Zhao Kuo bringing so many people off the boat from the river beach, Tian Cheng, Xi Rong, Zhao Wuji and others were all shocked. They never thought that Yang Qin and Zhao Kuo could bring so many people here from Xuzhou: "Why?
With so many people, how can you get so much money and food to ask Yang Qin and others to redeem so many village slaves?"
When Han Qian saw Zhao Kuo jumping off the ship, he felt relieved. He knew in his heart that the letter he had asked Yang Qin to bring to his father had successfully persuaded his father.
Facing the shock of Tian Cheng and others, Han Qian just smiled and said nothing.
In order to resist the Liang Army's offensive this time, the imperial court mainly recruited troops and horses from Jiang, Huang, E, Ying, Jingtan and other twelve states, and supplemented the food supply to Deng and Xiang's defense line in the northwest. However, Chenxu, Shaoheng and other southwest border states were not present.
Within the scope of this recruitment.
However, this does not mean that Chenxu and other prefectures and counties cannot actively support the war on the northern front.
In fact, although prefectures and counties such as Hui and Gansu are not within the scope of this recruitment, these places have been completely included in the territory of Da Chu. Prefecture and county officials are all sent by Jinling, more or less in the form of tribute.
In addition to normal taxes, an additional portion of money and grain was also allocated to the front lines to support the war effort.
The money and food under the control of Han Daoxun in Xuzhou was very limited, but Han Qian wrote to his father, requesting that all the prisoners in Xuzhou Prison be transferred to Xiangzhou to reinforce the northwest war in the form of prisoners.
This is also a form of support.
This time Zhao Kuo escorted 500 Xuzhou prisoners to Xiangzhou and handed them over to Han Qian.
For these prisoners, being enlisted as a convict can reduce their crime by one level. Depending on their military merit and length of service, they may have the opportunity to have their crime reduced or even be rewarded.
It is not a coincidence that among the five hundred prisoners in Xuzhou, more than thirty are from the Xi clan. They were all sent to prison for contradicting or injuring their old master, or stealing their property.
A kind of restlessness.
Han Qian had thought about secretly collecting these Xi clan members before, but his father insisted on the imperial laws and refused to allow them, but this time they were sent to Xiangzhou together as prisoners.
Although these prisoners have not received much training and have not yet developed much combat effectiveness, the fact that so many people have entered Canglang City is enough to make people feel at ease.
Yang Qin and Zhao Kuo did not expect that they would miss the fierce battle that took place in Canglang City early in the morning. After landing, they saw the mess inside and outside Tucheng. It was unimaginable that Han Qian and his group of more than a hundred people could survive with such a simple building.
The walled city was able to withstand the attack of more than 400 elite Liang troops.
When Yang Qin, Zhao Kuo and others came over, Han Qian fulfilled his promise to the villagers before the war and gave him 60 pieces of rock salt to offset the reward.
The village is in urgent need of salt and iron, and is more willing to use salt to compensate for the reward. This is what Han Qian is most happy with.
On the one hand, this batch of salt was a civilian military resource allocated by Du Chongtao to the Longque Army, and there was no need for Han Qian to pay extra reward lines from Zuo Si's private account.
On the other hand, when Emperor Tianyou issued the edict to Xiangzhou this time, he also formally agreed to the Longque Army's expediency and specialize in salt affairs in the territory of Jiujun Prefecture west of Xiangzhou to raise military resources.
Han Qian is now receiving salt from the Xiangzhou Salt and Iron Institute, which is priced at a thousand yen per stone. He is now offering the high price of six to seven thousand yen per stone as a bounty to the villagers. No matter how much he calculates, he will not lose money.
Afterwards, Han Qian immediately arranged for ships to send more than 200 civilians across the Danjiang and Hanjiang Rivers, and allowed them to return to the village as a sign of his commitment.
Most of the villagers in the village were unwilling to participate in the war.
Besides, Han Qian's extremely generous reward this time will allow most of the civilians to live a comfortable life for two or three years when they return to the village.
For most people, this kind of money earned at the risk of life is enough if they are not forced to do so once. Even if Han Qian shows full sincerity, even if they really want to leave the village and move to the plains
, it also depends on how the war develops.
However, in the end, there were more than 20 able-bodied civilians who were helpless and had no worries in the village. They thought that they might as well go back to the village and continue to live the hard life before, so they might as well stay, at least they could eat every meal before dying in battle.
You can have enough food and clothing, and there is also a supply of meat and wine every now and then.
These people are also the most powerful among the villagers. Most of them are old soldiers who have been defeated and fled into the mountains. They don't need any land or houses in Canglang City. They just hope to have armor and good quality.
weapons, and part of the reward.
Han Qian sent a group of scouts northward to keep an eye on the development of the war in Tiejingling in the north. At the same time, he also arranged for Yang Qin, Zhao Kuo and these people to go down as quickly as possible.
The prisoners in Xuzhou were naturally divided into native and foreign nationalities.
There were about 200 native prisoners belonging to the four surnames. Han Qian assigned these people to the old engineer Zheng Tong and organized them into a craftsman camp. After the villagers left, they took over the task of cleaning up the battlefield, repairing the walled city, and
The supplies shipped from Xuzhou were moved off the ship.
If possible, Han Qian also wants to continue to expand Canglang City to the north on the existing basis and build several trebuchets at the same time.
As for the other native and guest prisoners with minor surnames, Han Qian decided to combine them with the slave soldiers led by Xi Chang into a temporary Xuzhou camp.
After the war, these convict soldiers had to be sent back to their place of origin, and the slave soldiers led by Xi Chang did not have a formal establishment within the Longque Army.
Han Qian could not immediately let Zhao Kuo go back to Xuzhou, so he temporarily appointed him as the commander of the Xuzhou Battalion, with Xi Chang and Guo Nuer as his deputies. In addition, he transferred a dozen veterans from Zuo Si's military depot to serve as the team's commander.
The rate is very long, and the framework of Xuzhou Camp is first erected.
In addition, Han Qian organized more than 20 villagers who were willing to defect to Zuosi into the military depot and used them as elite scouts to supplement the shortage of manpower.
In this way, Han Qian has the Jianghu camp with 300 people, the Xuzhou camp with 400 people, and the barracks for fifty elite scouts in Canglang City.
Of course, Yang Qin, Feng Xuan, Feng Zhang and others also had more than 200 guards, sailors and eighteen ships. After unloading the cargo, Han Qian did not want to let them go back to Xuzhou yet.
The war on the Western Front suddenly became tense. Water transportation of materials and personnel on the upper reaches of the Han River would also become increasingly heavy. The Xiangzhou Army's ships were also limited. From today's south bank reinforcements were delayed until the last moment before crossing the river, Han Qian also knew that he could not send any messages to friendly forces.
Expectations too high.
With the Xuzhou fleet staying temporarily, he could feel more at ease.
