In less than ten days of siege fighting, most of the local troops in the Sichuan Army had suffered casualties. Then, Yang Zhao issued military orders to the county chiefs in various places. Like the previous military order, he still recruited local troops.
There are no local troops to provide to the local government. In desperation, the government can only capture strong men from house to house in the local area. Moreover, this time they cannot even provide decent armor and weapons, so they escort the captured strong men directly to Jinsha. The city's front line.
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 caused in the battle were basically all Zhenren. As the main attacking party, the Sichuan Army had an 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 wind and a lingering cloud. 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, 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 Zhenjun inside Jinsha City has gradually felt the pressure, and similarly, Yang Zhao outside the city is also under pressure. His tactic of using a chaste man to defeat a chaste man was not recognized by all the Sichuan generals, and Lu You was one of them. However, Lu You and Yang Zhao had a close personal relationship, and it was not easy to play against him in person, so there were not many Anyway, among the generals, the ones who most clearly expressed their opposition to Yang Zhao's tactics were Chen Lihua and Chai Song.
During the discussion, the two of them mentioned more than once that there was something wrong with Yang Zhao's tactics. Even if they were only used once or twice, there would be endless troubles, not to mention that he would continue 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 in detail 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 though Yang Zhao's methods were a bit extreme, he was doing it for the sake of the Sichuan soldiers after all. He was excusable. .
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 being reckless, short-sighted and lacking in foresight. The Sichuan Kingdom does not want to fight Zhendi and Zhen people and then run away. Instead, it wants to occupy and assimilate Zhendi. It wants to permanently make Zhendi the territory of Sichuan Kingdom, and it wants to assimilate Zhen people into Sichuan people from generation to generation. It's good now. Yang Zhao is self-righteous. He forced the Zhen people to fight against the Zhen people and made the Zhen people kill each other. He also boasts that he is smart. If he continues to do this, I believe it won't be long before Li Shu's power has not been eliminated. The second, third or even more "Li Shu" will appear in Zhendi, and rebellions will break out. When will the Sichuan Kingdom be able to completely quell the rebellion 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 shrank his neck after reading it. Even if he only read the letter without seeing Xiao Xiang himself, he could feel Xiao Xiang¡¯s anger between the lines.
Yang Zhao, who has such a fierce and tough temperament, still made a compromise after receiving Xiao Xiang's letter and followed Xiao Xiang's instructions.According to the order, all the local troops were repatriated, and part of the military salary was allocated to them for 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 fierce defense of more than 100,000 troops. The fierce fighting 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 corpses 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 dropped sharply to more than 200,000, and Zhen's army of hundreds of thousands was reduced to only 70,000 to 80,000. This is a bloody battle worthy of the name.
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 been depleted long ago, and the hungry Zhenjun soldiers could only eat people. After eating the corpses, they ate the wounded soldiers. After the wounded soldiers had eaten up, 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 No news came back from Li.
Now the vast majority of the 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. They are afraid that the Sichuan army will be powerful, and it is true that he fled before the battle.
Li Shu was very stubborn, insisting that Yinli would never abandon him. He must have been blocked by borrowing troops. He believed that with his intelligence, he would soon be able to persuade Ga Yue to lead reinforcements to come back for rescue. Li Shu said this, but in fact, he was also desperate for Yinli in his heart.
It¡¯s just that 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 really guessed it right, and he didn't go to Jiyue at all. Doing something you know you can't do is not Yinli's style.
Li Shu had previously borrowed 30,000 troops from Chi Yue, but in the battle on Wangxi Plain, all 30,000 Chi Yue troops were wiped out. Jiyue has already secured thirty thousand elite men in vain. Now if he asks others to borrow troops, Jiyue will not borrow any more under any circumstances.
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 oppose it.
As time goes by, this protracted bloody battle in Sands 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 wave after wave, 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 had 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.