Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty Chapter 304: The soldiers approach the city

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Jinju, a land of long battles. Shi Yanchao had also fought **** battles here, and now Xianggong stood at the head of the city.

Xiang Gong raised his head and chested out, pressing the sword with his left hand, eagerly taking a deep breath in the wind. There seemed to be a breath of war in the wind, but there was nothing to see or hear at the moment.

"Will Murong Yanzhao surrender quietly? The Jinzhou army is in his hands." Zhang Jianxiong said softly.

The atmosphere is already very tense. Li Jixun’s forwards are less than two hundred miles away from Jinju; Xianggong has the military power, and he “deploys both Hedong and Hebei frontiers” to control all frontier troops from Hedong to Hebei. There are only two thousand people in the Zhen'an Army.

After a long time, Xiang Gong turned his head and said: "No, I believe who Murong Yanzhao surrenders; but he is not willing to surrender to Li Jixun...because Zhao Kuangyin may be in Li Jixun's army."

Zhang Jianxiong may not understand the bad things in the generals' circle, but Xiang Gong knows well. Xiang Gong has never been in the Forbidden Army. He is the highest local Jiedu Envoy, but he has entered the Tokyo power circle since Wang Pu recommended to participate in the Battle of Shu, and he knows many things.

After Zhao Kuangyin took office, his attitude towards Gao Huaide and Murong Yanzhao was similar. Gao Huaide was kicked from the front of the palace to the guard of the guard, and Murong Yanzhao went from the front of the palace to the place to serve as an envoy. Xiang Gong doesn’t know exactly what gap there is in the middle, but it can be guessed from the actual results.

Zhang Jianxiong was all worried and said: "This battle is difficult! The lord only has two thousand horses in his hand, and Murong Yanzhao may only have seven or eight thousand soldiers. I don't know what he thinks... Li Jixun Keri As soon as the soldiers came to the city, Li Chongjin also arrived in the northern Han Dynasty. He must be directed at us. The total number of people who attacked Jinzhou was 60,000?"

Xiang Gong said: "Although Li Jixun has three cities, all soldiers and horses can add up to 20,000. His big battle may temporarily engulf some horrendous people; Li Zhongjin has only seven or eight thousand soldiers, mainly There is the Gande army incorporated by the Huainan army. The Huainan army is not bad in combat power and loyal. Li Zhongjin is slightly stronger than Li Jixun."

"How to calculate it is five or six times our strength." Zhang Jianxiong sighed.

Xiang Gong said in a very positive tone: "Guo Shao will come to save me."

"It's possible, but Guo Du has just been on the spot for inspection, and Tokyo is overwhelmed, just don't know when to come." Zhang Jianxiong said.

"No! You don't understand him, Guo Shao will definitely reinforce it in time." Xiang Gong shook his head and said thoughtfully, "Guo Du Check is a person who can seize the opportunity, Xinkou rescues Shi Yanchao. I was very impressed. He is also a person who is very good at cooperating with his companions... At that time, he was in a critical condition in Xinkou and surrounded by enemies. His brother was fierce, but he would have died thousands of times without Guo Shao. !"

Xiang Gong seemed to be persuading himself, muttering: "I believe he can see the situation in Jinju and will cooperate with me tacitly!"

Zhang Jianxiong still insisted: "If Guo Du does not come, we will be completely over."

...A few days later, Li Jixun came to the city. Xiang Gong and Murong Yanzhao kept themselves behind closed doors, unable to stick. Li Jixun set up camp and deployed ten miles away from the west of the city, neither approaching nor besieging the city, and the force of the besieged city was slightly insufficient.

Except for scouts in the field where skirmishes occur from time to time, the two armies have yet to show signs of fighting.

At this time, Zhao Kuangyin has arrived in Li Jixun's army. The two sighed and sighed, only the vicissitudes of life.

After a while, Zhao Kuangyin stopped talking gossip, and hurriedly asked: "Brother Li, I will give you the prescription for you to prepare gunpowder, can it be done?"

Li Jixun said: "It has been set up and filled with twelve coffins. Charcoal is easy, but more sulfur is more difficult. The most difficult thing is saltpeter. Fortunately, it is not too far from Guanzhong. I have more than two. I sent people to Guanzhong a month ago to contact the dealers to buy them with a lot of money; the dealers brought some from Hanzhong and Longyou, and several round trips were finally enough."

"In the Battle of Shouzhou, Guo Shaoli's order to break the city within one month is all dependent on this stuff." Zhao Kuangyin said, "Jinzhou Chengjian, Brother Li is not strong enough, and siege is the next best thing. You can try to send detailed work on the side Go in and contact Murong Yanzhao to try to divorce. While preparing to explode the city with gunpowder, the people who burst into Brother Li will have more than twice the advantage."

Li Jixun said: "If the attack cannot be broken, I have to wait for Li Zhongjin to arrive."

Zhao Kuangyin nodded and said: "That's right. If Li Zhong advances in a joint attack, he can take half of Jinju, thinking that he will retreat; if Brother Li captures Jinju alone, you occupy Jinju and tell Li Zhong to enter the south of Jiang. State...but it’s better to quickly capture Jinju to avoid Tokyo’s aid; after taking Jinju, immediately divide the troops to the southeast to reinforce the defense of Zezhou. That place relies on Taiyue, if it is properly defended, it will take a few months. Easy."

The next day, Li Jixun and Zhao Kuangyin began to deploy the siege in an orderly manner. There are more than 40,000 people in total, but only 20,000 of them are town soldiers; more than 10,000 of them are township soldiers and prisoners from all over the country. The township soldiers are still inadequate, and each person has almost a long spear or a short sword. Shield, no armor at all. The rest are all forced lords and even women who carry grain and work.

Li Jixun's ministry did not plan to surround it. They first divided the main force of 20,000 into three battalions, with one battalion on each side of the city's west; three thousand cavalry were stationed five miles away from the southeast of the city.

Then he drove the prisoners from Zhuangding to start building fences and trenches in front of the west gate, and then pushed them to the bottom of the city, three-story fortifications; heavy soldiers were set up to the west. There are also some craftsmen who are busy working on the camp to build various tools such as catapults and ladders.

(Several tens of li in Jinzhou has been looted; Li Jixun first snatched away the three cities of Heyang, then took Jiangzhou, which was empty of troops, as a guard, and then robbed Jinzhou and Jiangzhou outside Again, because they don’t have a reliable source of supply.)

For a while, the empty ground outside Jinju City seemed to be a construction site for the construction of the main hall. "Wow..." the sound of sawing wood, the clinking beating, the chants of people carrying wood and rammed earth... all sounded like a busy scene.

On both sides, there are flags like clouds, a line of people and horses, and they don't move. Looking at the top of the city, several military commanders walked around on the wall. There were many soldiers standing on the wall, but the defenders did not give a single shot, because no weapon could reach the "construction site" outside the city.

Behind the fence, eight tunnels have been dug quietly, using houses, tents and trenches as a cover to prevent people in the city from seeing where the tunnels are.

Zhao Kuangyin rode up to a tunnel and took a look. He turned around and saw Li Jixun. He immediately said, "When you dig the front fence, open a hole upwards, one for ventilation, and the other to make sure Location; after digging to the bottom of the city, there are only more than a hundred steps, and then find a hidden place to make a small hole, so you don't have to worry about the direction too far. At night, I quietly find someone to measure the distance of the city wall with a rope, just dug the tunnel under the wall. "

Li Jixun said: "During the Huainan War, Brother Zhao was in Yangzhou, but he knew the tactics of the Shouzhou War so clearly, which is really impressive."

"I don't know how Guo Shao dug, but they should be similar." Zhao Kuangyin said, "Digging tunnels to hide gunpowder, the same way as the previous'acupoint attack', the acupuncture has to be dug into the city. Farther... There are not a few generals in the army who know acupoint attack, and there are other specialties, such as wood support to prevent collapse, knowing how to dig will make no mistake."

Li Jixun said: "Brother Zhao will take care of the bombing of the city."

"Then I will take the order." Zhao Kuangyin bowed.

...... On a sunny afternoon, the autumn is high and the sky is very clear, but the ground under the city is full of dust. Xiang Gong stood on the tower and carefully observed the fortifications below. He did not intend to take the initiative to attack.

"The deployment is very rigorous, unlike Li Jixun’s style." Xiang Gong said without looking back, "When Li Jixun was in Huainan, he wanted to fight Chai Kehong’s reinforcements because he was careless and opposed to China Chai Kehong. The soldiers’ ambush was defeated; he was not a prudent person at all... Zhao Kuangyin should be in Li Jixun’s army."

The man with round cheeks and round eyes next to him is Murong Yanzhao, Jianxiong's military ambassador. When Murong Yanzhao heard Zhao Kuangyin's name, his expression changed slightly.

While Xiang Gong is much whiter, his cheeks are flattened, his features are straight, and his beard is very shallow. Xiang Gong was silent, Yu Guangli had already seen Murong Yanzhao's expression in his eyes.

"Jeshua Murong, look over there..." Xiang Gongyao pointed forward.

Murong Yanzhao said: "The dust is too big to see anything."

"The new soil behind the fence, look carefully." To the arch, "Zhao Kuangyin is digging a crypt."

"Acupoint attack?" Murong Yanzhao frowned.

Xiang Gong said: "Acupoint attack is too difficult. I think Zhao Kuangyin wants to draw gunpowder to blow up the city. In the famous battle of Shouzhou, Guo Du checked the gunpowder to blow up the city wall. Zhao Kuangyin may have been. I got a way...So Zhao Sanlang tried to assassinate Guo Du at the Datong Temple Inn and used gunpowder."

"Hey, I know a lot about the general! I also heard about the Zhao Family Saburo, but the first time I heard about the assassination." Murong Yanzhao said.

Xiang Gongdao: "The Zhen'an Army under me will deploy more than two thousand horses on Chengxi Avenue. If the gap is blown up, the Zhen'an Army will take the lead in quickly plugging the gap; then Murong Jie Shuai sees the opportunity to reinforce me."

Murong Yanzhao worshiped: "I must follow the orders of the capital!"

Xiang Gong said again: "In this way, the defense of the city depends entirely on the Jianxiong army. Once the city is broken, life will be burned, you and I will die without a place to bury! Hope Murong Jieshuai will not retreat."

"Take Ling!" Murong Yanzhao's expression condensed, "The last will step back half a step, raise his head to see you."

Xiang Gong listened, then turned around and said: "Zhang Jianxiong, you immediately send someone to seal off Chengxi Heng Street and the main roads of east and west, and issue notices that these two roads are no longer passable, blocking the route of the troops. Fa-rectification on the spot!"

Zhang Jianxiong clasped his fist and said: "The final commander will get the order!"

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