Lord of the Gaming World Chapter 237: Aid from the Mi family
"Capture Tancheng and capture Leyi alive!"
Teams of captured Xuzhou infantrymen, under the urging of the supervising team, continued to attack Tancheng day and night, with two or three thousand casualties every day.
Faced with the attack of the Langya army, Tancheng was impregnable and stood still.
Li Guang took his soldiers to storm many times and tried to get there first, but was blocked by the ten-meter-high city wall, making it difficult to break through.
Le Yi personally defended the city, prepared various defense equipment, and had 30,000 soldiers to defend it. If he wanted to forcibly capture Tancheng, he would need at least 100,000 elites.
The military advisor Fang Xuanling frowned as he looked at the city of Tancheng, which had not been under it for days.
Li Guang and the Xian Deng team withdrew, and they complained to Fang Xuanling: "The opponent's defense has no flaws, and a strong attack is not the best strategy at this time."
Fang Xuanling nodded silently.
"Also ask the strategist to persuade the lord to focus on attacking the heart and attacking the city. Attacking Tancheng will only waste low-level soldiers, and it will also consume labor. The morale of the army will also decline due to repeated attacks. Once the morale drops, The defenders in the city will come out to make a surprise attack."
The always calm Zhou Yafu also took the initiative to find Fang Xuanling.
At this time, only Fang Xuanling's words could be heard by Chu Tian.
"Half of the troops were lost in one battle, and all the generals suffered casualties. Even Miss Xia...it was inevitable that the lord would lose control. Now that Tancheng has been stormed for three days, six or seven thousand prisoners were killed and injured, the lord should calm down."
Fang Xuanling knew that when a man was angry, he splattered blood for five steps, and when the emperor was angry, he buried a million corpses and bleed thousands of miles. As a lord with a population of several million, Chutian is really angry, and it is not impossible for tens of thousands of people to die.
"The siege was ordered to stop and a siege to take place."
"Master."
When the generals saw Chu Tian appearing, his expression seemed to return to calm.
Chutian came out of the tent and looked at the generals who had been attacking Tancheng continuously for three days. Seeing that everyone was tired, he issued an order to stop the attack.
In one go, you may be able to conquer Tancheng.
But now that the storm has not been attacked for three days, it shows that the city of Tan is really indestructible.
Chutian also took this time to calm down.
There is no need to sacrifice the captured Xuzhou infantry, because after Chutian becomes the Xuzhou shepherd, they will become part of the new Xuzhou army and attack the city for him.
"Le Yi's offensive is sharp, and the defense is equally indestructible. He is really a troublesome opponent."
Chutian surrounded Le Yi in Tancheng, but there was nothing he could do about him.
Tancheng has a series of fortifications such as strong city walls, city gate towers, arrow towers, and city gates, as well as sufficient defensive equipment, as well as a famous general, even if an army of 100,000 cannot conquer it.
The next step is an endless siege, and the enemy will surrender until the enemy's army is exhausted.
In addition to the large number of casualties given to Chutian by Le Yi's army, Chutian somewhat understands why Cao Cao massacred the city when he attacked Xuzhou.
It's irritating at times, and even heroes can lose their minds.
"Master, how can we break through the city as soon as possible?"
Chutian is not willing to delay too much time in Tancheng, otherwise the Xuzhou coalition will have enough time to regroup and organize the next attack.
Fang Xuanling replied: "Attack the heart is the first, attack the city is the second. Try to lure some foreigners and aristocratic families besieged in the city, and divide the defending army."
"According to what you said. In addition, shoot notes into the city, capture Le Yi alive, open the door to offer the city, let go of the past and reward thousands of taels of gold."
According to Fang Xuanling's suggestion to differentiate the other party, Chu Tian took out a thousand taels of gold and offered a reward to Le Yi.
You can attack the city of Tan without a strong attack, and then capture the famous general Le Yi alive, even if you pay a thousand taels of gold, it is not much.
"Before their internal division, they dug trenches outside the city, set up earthen fortresses, surrounded them, and did not give them the opportunity to sneak out of the city. The navy camp blocked the surface of the Yihe River, making Tancheng completely an isolated city."
"It is somewhat difficult for our troops to completely surround Tancheng..."
"My lord, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang led the East China Sea Rebel Army to join us. There are more than 20,000 Rebels!"
When Chu Tian was deploying troops to besiege the city, brothers Mi Zhu and Mi Fang fought all the way from Donghai Guoqu County to Donghai Guotan City, and finally joined forces with Chutian.
As for Mi Fang's self-proclaimed rebellion against the Vanguard General and the Unparalleled General of Langya Country, Chu Tian can do as he pleases, as long as the Mi family provides financial support.
With the victory of the Battle of Xuzhou, the counties in the East China Sea were terrified, and Mi Zhu and Mi Fang did not encounter any obstacles when they marched to Tancheng, and the number of troops instead increased from ten thousand to twenty thousand.
Teams of carriages transported gold and silver to Chutian's military camp. Mi Zhu's keen sense of smell made him understand that now Chutian is short of money, very short of money.
Without money to recruit troops and horses, Chutian would not be able to consolidate the existing results and occupy the entire Xuzhou.
At this time, Chutian's rewards will be even greater in the future.
Mi Zhu and Mi Fang finally saw the victorious Chu Tian in Tancheng, and their eyes couldn't help but look a little scared.
By virtue of military merit, the victor naturally has an invisible coercion.
In addition, Chutian now has the status of an aristocratic family, and he is even higher than the Mi family in the contempt chain of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce.
"I have prepared 100,000 taels of silver and 50,000 catties of salt to reward the army. It may not be enough. Please don't take offense to General Fubo. It is difficult to raise more in a hurry."
Mi Zhu explained the purpose of his visit, one tael of silver is equal to one thousand copper coins, and one hundred thousand taels is one hundred million.
The 100,000 taels of silver were raised in a hurry, showing the wealth of the Mi family.
The main property of the Mi family is goods, farmland, shops and other hard-to-realize assets.
"One hundred thousand taels is quite a lot. The Mi family sent charcoal in the snow, I will remember this kindness."
"There are still more than 20,000 rebels, many of whom are slaves, and they will all be the property of General Fubo in the future."
Mi Zhu not only donated money, but also people, even Chutian was a little scared of his generosity.
I almost didn't give up my sister.
Apart from the military talents, the Mi brothers have nothing to say.
"I will try to make up for the loss of the Mi family in the battle of Xuzhou in the future, please don't worry. If brother Mi Fang doesn't give up, he will temporarily serve as the Sima of another department to assist Xu Sheng in transporting grain."
Since the Mi family had stated that Chutian couldn't just ignore them if they wanted benefits, and considering that Mi Fang's ability was a problem, Chutian arranged for him to assist in the transportation of food and other rear matters.
After Mi Fang left, in order to win over Mi Zhu, Chu Tian deliberately said: "If things can be done in the future, Brother Mi will not lose the position of general and prince."
It was a blank check anyway, and Chu Tian, eager to get gold and silver to supplement the loss, managed to win over Mi Zhu.
Seeing that Chu Tian made a promise, Mi Zhu knew that he could get the status he wanted in the future, so he worked even harder: "In the next two months, I should be able to raise another 100,000 taels of silver to supplement the military."
How rich is the Mi family near the sea...
Chutian discovered that Mi Zhu could almost buy a town with 100,000 taels of silver at every turn.
"With the financial support from Brother Mo, why can't the big things be accomplished. If..."
Chutian has made progress.
"You might as well speak up."
"If Brother Mi can contact other aristocratic families and ask them to help me enter Xuzhou and become the new Xuzhou shepherd, that would be great. But there is no need to force it. It is only a matter of time before Xuzhou is captured. With the support of the aristocratic family, we can It’s just a matter of losing a few soldiers and horses.”
"It's easy to say. Maybe the Chen family in Xiapi is willing to give up the dark to the bright."
Xiapi Chen family?
Chu Tian knows the characters Chen Gui and Chen Deng and their sons. Both of them are smart people and should know how to be flexible.
Tao Qian's elite went through three battles, Beihai Kingdom's suppression of the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, Cao Bao's invasion of Langya Kingdom, and the battles of Xuzhou, almost all of them were wiped out, and their prestige was shattered.
Even Tao Qian's Danyang soldiers lost a lot.
Now that Tao Qian's rule in Xuzhou is in jeopardy, the family that is still willing to support Tao Qian may have to weigh the possibility of being purged by Chu Tian in the future.
"You go and contact the Chen family in Xiapi. If they are willing to respond, they will not lose their positions as prefects and state ministers in the future."
Chutian intends to recruit the Chen family.
Chen's father and son are very capable, and being the prefect of a party is enough to reassure Chutian.
Xuzhou has five prefectures and states, each prefecture must have talents to govern, Chutian lacks internal affairs talents.
Mi Zhu agreed and sent people to lobby the Chen family in Xiapi.
Mi Fang went to help Xu Sheng transport food, and Mi Zhu temporarily stayed in the camp.
Mi Zhu and Mi Fang brought more than 20,000 people, 10,000 of them were professional soldiers, and more than 10,000 were villagers.
Professional soldiers were incorporated into each battalion by Chutian to replenish their troops, while Xiang Yong went to Xiacheng and changed jobs to professional soldiers.
The Chutian army, which has taken prisoners from Xuzhou and reinforcements from the Mi family, has grown in strength, with 70,000 to 80,000 troops!
It seems that more and more troops are fighting, but only Chu Tian knows that half of the elites are indeed gone.
He needs time to reorganize the Legion, and then after the baptism of war, can he truly recover.
When the troops are inferior in the future, it is absolutely impossible to confront the commander-type hero head-on.
The Leyi incident taught Chutian a lot of lessons.
There are also intelligence failures.
The real lord of Xiang Yan secretly contacted the players of the Xueyue Guild and asked for one hundred taels of silver, so he got accurate information.
In the future, the identity of the other party's leader needs to be repeatedly confirmed.
There is no good lord who can survive, and if they are not careful, they will be calculated by them.
Especially under the circumstance that Chutian has the upper hand, the opponent still has the courage to fight for Xuzhou with him.
Beijing State, Jimo, the lord Zhao Gongzi failed to persuade him to surrender after besieging the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou for more than half a year. He finally couldn't hold back. He recruited hundreds of thousands of villagers in Beihai State and Donglai County to attack Jimo.
During the siege, he had ordered the army to fill in the moats and trenches outside Jimo City one after another.
The next thing you will face is the solid body of Jimo City.
After learning that Chutian had begun to attack Xuzhou, Zhao Gongzi accelerated his attack on Jimo.
Dorgon, Wu Sangui, and Guan Hai have held him back for so long that they have seriously affected his development speed.
Qingzhou, like Xuzhou, has a weak local power, and alien lords are popular.
Originally, Young Master Zhao could swept Qingzhou faster, but as a result, a city of Jimo contained his main force, and the development speed was greatly affected.
"Chu Zimou has already won the battle of Xuzhou. He will be sitting in Xuzhou in a year or two. If I can't break the game, Qingzhou will also become his possession."
Zhao Gongzi knew that Qing and Xuzhou were not separated, and someone who occupied Xuzhou would definitely plot against Qingzhou.
His development speed is already slower than Chutian. If he does not speed up the expansion, he will not be able to compete with Chutian in the future.
"I will send envoys again to persuade Dorgon, Wu Sangui, Guan Hai and others who are trapped in the city to surrender. I am willing to negotiate with them before the battle."
Taishi Ci had left the incompetent Kong Rong during this period of time and was loyal to Zhao Gongzi.
Kong Rong is incomparable with a great Confucian like Lu Zhi. He has repeatedly lost to the Yellow Turbans. In addition to the stark contrast of Zhao Gongzi's repeated victories, after Taishi Ci weighed it, he still followed Zhao Gongzi.
He heard that Zhao Gongzi was going to the city of Jimo to negotiate with Dorgon, so he said to stop it: "My lord, they are like leopards, ambitious, and recruiting them is difficult to control."
"They are human after all, and they will have weaknesses, and if they have weaknesses, they will be controlled. Their former lords can't use people, and I'm different, I have the ability to use them, and I have what they have always wanted and not.”
The envoy sent by Mr. Zhao arrived in Jimo.
Dorgon, Wu Sangui, and Guan Hai were trapped in Jimo. They faced an alien lord who had the means and strength.
Although there is no shortage of food, the food will eventually run out after being besieged for another year and a half.
During this time, Dorgon and Wu Sangui wanted to get the seventh-order cavalry battalion, but they couldn't get it, and they were suppressed by Zhao Gongzi.
"Zhao Gongzi's army started to attack, indicating that he was in a hurry. What made him so anxious?"
"I heard that Chu Zimou was attacking Xuzhou, and he probably felt threatened by Chu Zimou. Last year they joined forces to suppress us, but now they are going to part ways. It seems that there are no permanent friends, only permanent interests."
Dorgon stood on the city wall, looking down at the villagers who were surrounded by mountains and plains.
Wu Sangui came over: "He persuaded us to surrender again, and planned to invite me to negotiate under the city. He claimed that there was a seventh-level cavalry battalion in his territory."
"Promise him, we agree to negotiate. Chu Zimou has Xu Wangqing, and it is of little significance to continue to defend this strong city."
Dorgon held on for more than half a year, waiting for the situation to change, but Zhao Gongzi always sent the main force to besiege Jimo~IndoMTL.com~ Dorgon could not find any chance to come back. If it drags on, he won't be able to develop.
The Beihai Kingdom represented by Zhao Gongzi negotiated with the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans represented by Dorgon under the city of Jimo.
The Han court lost its majesty, and the shocking Qingzhou Yellow Turbans no longer attracted attention. The remaining Qingzhou Yellow Turbans negotiated with Mr. Zhao did not cause a sensation in the entire Eastern Han region, but caused quite a stir within Qingzhou.
At this time, Chutian, who was besieging the city in the East China Sea, learned that Zhao Gongzi was trying to recruit the remnants of the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou, and secretly ordered the northern towns of Langya to recruit soldiers to increase the troops in the northern part of Langya.
He and Zhao Gongzi are still allies, but he must guard against others. If Zhao Gongzi recruits Dorgon and others, he suddenly goes south to Langya, and Chutian will be very passive.
Alliance is based on common interests, and in the event of a conflict of interest, the alliance may collapse.
"Dorgon, Wu Sangui, Guan Hai, these are all fierce people, all of which fall into the hands of Zhao Gongzi. If he uses it well, it will be a trouble..."
Chutian realizes the threat posed by erstwhile allies.