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    Chapter 8 All-out Offensive

    Wang Zhonghan did not hold on for too long, and the generals below could no longer withstand it. Jianmen Pass relied on the powerful Guancheng for defense. Li Qi captured the first pass wall, and soon the stone chariot climbed up the wall.  The more recent result was that no one could stand on the wall. Coupled with the threat of powerful thunder, Zhou Jun's second attempt to persuade Wang Zhonghan to surrender soon made Wang Zhonghan feel that everything was out of control.  4¡à8065 wins the phone bill,

    The way the generals under his command looked at him and gathered together to discuss from time to time made Wang Zhonghan feel that the situation was out of control. When Wang Zhonghan's Pixian Guard Captain Chen Cong came to Wang Zhonghan with a group of generals, Wang Zhonghan knew that he had no choice but to surrender.  If they don't surrender, then these generals who cherish their own lives will cut off their own heads and give them to Li Qi as a gift of surrender.  []

    If Wang Zhonghan¡¯s prestige in the army was not low, Chen Cong and the others would probably not come to discuss with him at all?  Wang Zhonghan reluctantly nodded and agreed to surrender. Li Qi was preparing for the second attack. Hong Tianlei was already ready and was waiting to explode the second gate tomorrow. Unexpectedly, Wang Zhonghan directly led the Jianmen Pass guard general to surrender together.

    The densely packed Shu soldiers came out of the city one by one under the supervision of the Zhou army and formed a square formation outside the city. Wang Zhonghan and other surrendered generals were at a military and horse school field in Jianmen Pass. In front of Li Qi who was riding a war horse, Li  Behind Qi were soldiers lined up in a row. The bright armor and cold weapons revealed murderous intent. Wang Zhonghan and more than a hundred generals behind him had despair in their eyes. Could it be that Li Qi wanted to kill all of them?

    "Do you know the rules of our Zhou Dynasty?" Li Qi asked leisurely. Seeing the confusion in the eyes of Wang Zhonghan and others, he continued: "The first time I persuaded to surrender, I opened the city and surrendered. All official positions remain unchanged. If you can keep them  If you surrender your family property and official position after being persuaded to surrender for the second time, if you leave the official position, you can keep your family's official position. If you surrender after being persuaded to surrender for the third time, your official position will be removed and your family property will be confiscated, and only your life will be retained. Am I clear enough?"

    As soon as Li Qi finished speaking, many Shu generals showed relaxed expressions on their faces. Only when they really faced the Zhou army could they feel the gap between them and these professional soldiers. Now they no longer had the idea of ??promotion through force, they only thought about what to do.  I was able to go back and save my family's property. Although I was persuaded to surrender to Kaicheng for the second time and my official position could not be kept, my property and my family were safe. This was already a good result. Except for some people who still had ambitions to climb up.  General, the rest of the people had expressions of relief on their faces.

    Li Qi couldn't see such boneless soldiers, curled his lips and said: "Some of your family members are not here? Then go to the Army Sima to register. If your family members are accidentally injured in future attacks, the prisoners of war here are  After staying in the camp for three months, the war in Shuzhong should be basically over by then, and you will be able to go home. If you still want to join the army in the future, you can go to the recruitment point. Then you can start from the soldiers below.  rise."

    Wang Zhonghan raised his head and looked at Li Qi, his eyes full of exhaustion: "General, my family and children are all in Yizhou. It is estimated that they will all be killed if they get the news of my surrender. I am willing to lead the way for the general, and the guards of the three cities and five counties on the way will be killed."  The army is basically all my former generals, and they can help the general quickly capture the entire Jiannan Road."

    Li Qi glanced at Wang Zhonghan in surprise. Li Qi had heard of Wang Zhonghan before he came. He was also considered a general in Shu. He was very capable of dealing with barbarians, but he was captured so easily. Li Qi felt in his heart.  He looked down upon Wang Zhonghan a bit, but after Wang Zhonghan said this, Li Qi still felt that it was good. It would be best to capture Jiannan Road as soon as possible. Li Hu also sent a partial force along the river in Jingzhou. If he moves slower here,  , Yizhou was captured by a partial army of Li Hu, so Li Hu took the lion's share of the credit.

    As a military general, he must be very eager to perform meritorious service, and Li Qi is not exempt from this. Wang Zhonghan's words just fit Li Qi's wishes. Li Qi nodded and said: "Very good, I am very happy that General Wang can have this idea. Then  I feel sorry for General Wang and the army for their hard work. As long as Jiannan Road can be pacified quickly and Li Longji is presented to the Holy Lord, General Wang¡¯s great achievements will not be lost. Maybe his official position will be even greater than it is now."

    At this time, several generals behind Wang Zhonghan who were unwilling to go home also spoke: "General Wang has many men serving in the cities on the road, but the last general also has brothers in the army, and I would like to persuade them to surrender."  My brother-in-law is General Pu'an, and I would like to persuade him to surrender." "I would like to serve as the general's vanguard. Apart from the army, I have no other abilities." "I would like"

    These are young officers with low official positions. They are really unwilling to resign and go home. They know that this is the only opportunity in front of them. If they do not seize it, they will never be able to make a difference after Jiannan Road is conquered.  So they all expressed their determination in front of Li Qi, hoping to join the Zhou army.

    Li Qi took a look and saw that there were about twenty people. The one with the highest official rank was a sixth-grade captain. The other frustrated officers just lowered their heads and said nothing.The head said: "Very good, I didn't expect that you still have a bit of military blood. Then go and select five thousand people from the surrendered troops outside the city as your subordinates. General Wang will be the chief general. I will send Yuan Xi to be the vanguard with you."  , fight me to the gates of Yizhou City within twenty days, can you do it?"

    Those generals who were willing to join the Zhou army were all excited, and they all said that they could do it. They did not expect that the general of the Zhou army would be able to give themselves such great military power. As long as they could make contributions, promotion would be easy.  Now that the Zhou army is powerful, it cannot be said that there are no such people who will really fight to the death. However, Jiannan Road has been devastated by Yang Guozhong's two crusade against Nanzhao. The people have long complained about the Tang Dynasty. This is the basis for desperate resistance.  There is no more.  txt e-book download**

    But Wang Zhonghan slowly shook his head. After seeing this, Li Qi asked curiously: "General Wang seems to have a different view? Don't you have the confidence to defeat Yizhou City?"

    Wang Zhonghan said: "Half of the troops on Jiannan Road are at Jianmen Pass. You, general, have basically wiped them out. The prefectures and counties along the way do not have enough troops to stop the army. We don't need an army of 25,000 people. We only need 10,000 soldiers."  , there is no problem in defeating Yizhou City."

    At this point, Wang Zhonghan changed the topic: "However, the roads in Shu have always been difficult to walk. The road from Jianmen Pass to Pu'an takes four days, and it is still a light journey. It takes at least twice as long to carry a heavy baggage.  From Pu'an to Mianzhou, it will take another fifteen days of marching. Mianzhou is still two hundred miles away from Yizhou, and the road will be easy to walk at that time. Just marching to Mianzhou, regardless of the weight of the baggage, will take nineteen days.  It will take time to sort out the cities that are not needed yet, so twenty days is definitely not enough.¡±

    Li Qi then realized that it was not because of Wang Zhonghan's lack of confidence, but because of the distance, and said: "General Wang is more familiar with the situation in Bashu, so how many days do you think it will take to attack Yizhou City?"

    Wang Zhonghan lowered his head and thought for a moment, then raised his head and said: "Even processing the states and counties along the way will take at least about forty-five days, and the delay in each city is only one day."

    Li Qi looked a little unhappy and said: "Forty-five days is really a long time. Former general Li Hu has already sent a partial army upstream from Jingzhou. If they get to Yizhou before us, I will be embarrassed."  If we continue to attack, the credit for destroying Shu will be lost."

    Wang Zhonghan understood Li Qi's thoughts as soon as he heard it, and said with a smile: "So that's it. General Li doesn't have to worry. The time it takes to go upstream from Jingzhou is definitely not short, not to mention the difficulty of going upstream after the army gets on the boat.  Xiao, after landing in Bazhou, the commander of Bazhou was Qin Kaiyuan. He had 50,000 elite soldiers, 5,000 of which were barbarian soldiers, with good fighting strength. Qin Kaiyuan was loyal to Jiedushi Wang Yi and would not  If they surrender easily, the former general's partial division will not attack Bazhou soon. The final general estimates that after they capture Bazhou, it will take them at least two months to attack Yizhou. As long as everything goes well here, the former general  When the partial troops arrive, Yizhou may have already fallen into the hands of the general."

    Li Qi was overjoyed after hearing this. He liked Wang Zhonghan no matter what. He quickly got off his horse, grabbed Wang Zhonghan's arm, and laughed loudly: "General Wang is really my lucky general. Come on, come on, I will have a good drink with General Wang today."  ," he said to those surrendered generals who were willing to serve: "You go outside the city to select strong soldiers, and they must be quick, and they will go out tomorrow."

    Li Qi dragged Wang Zhonghan away. At this time, the big stone in his heart also dropped. He was really happy. Li Hu was not honest in what he did. Originally, Jiannan Road came to fight by himself, but he actually sent a side force to come. This is not what he can do.  What is length?

    Li Hu, who was cursed by Li Qi, shrank his neck and sneezed, which was strange.

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    ou nose, there is a drizzle in March along the river. As the saying goes, spring rain is as precious as oil. This spring rain is of great benefit to farming, but Li Hu doesn't like it very much. The reason is that the drizzle moistens the road and makes the road very difficult to walk.  .

    After Li Hu's navy covered the army and landed in Yuezhou, the 200,000-strong army was divided into three groups. Li Hu personally led 100,000 troops to capture Yuezhou. After capturing Yuezhou, Li Hu would go south to Changsha and capture Jiangnan West Prefecture.  , and the other two groups have 50,000 troops. One group is led by Hong Tiewu. Hong Tiewu was transferred from the rangers. In the past few years, he has been promoted very quickly by killing enemies. He also attended Shule Military Academy and participated in countless battles.  At this time, he already had the title of General Changwu of the fourth rank. He led 50,000 soldiers across the river and attacked directly to the west. His mission was to sweep the western part of Jiangnan West Road, attack Wuling and Puyang first, and then go south to attack Shaozhou and Lingling, completing the entire process.  Occupation of the western part of Jiangnan West Road.

    And Yang Huaiyuan, who was born the same as Hong Tiewu, led an army of 50,000 to attack eastward, with the ultimate goal being Fuzhou, an important town in the east of Jiangnan West Road. Li Hu sent a partial force of 10,000 people along the river to march to South Fengdao. In fact, he did not want to fight with  Li Qi grabs the credit, while Li Hu wants to occupy the western part of Jiannan Road and completely block Li Longji's escape route. Entering Jiannan Road, this partial division intends to attack the southern part of Jiannan Road and cut off all of Li Longji's escape routes.  ??Of course Li Hu would not tell Li Qiming. Li Qi was worried that Li Hu would attack and would attack with all his strength. Li Hu would grin silently with joy when he thought that Li Qi had been tricked by him.

    Li Hu looked at the Yuezhou City in front of him. Because it was located in the hinterland and there had been no war for a long time, Yuezhou's city defense was very poor. The entire city was quite large, but the city wall was only about three feet poor. The width of the city wall was not enough to be able to go up.  The troops in the city battle could not be deployed, so Li Hu directly asked the army to surround Yuezhou City. Although the city wall of Yuezhou was not high enough and the morale was not high, Yuezhou is located on the river and is an important city after crossing the river. Li Hu  Although Heng was short of money, he still prepared a lot of defensive equipment for Yuezhou. In addition, there were 20,000 defenders in the city, and there were 10,000 local regiments in the city. It was considered a sufficient force. Yuezhou's geographical location  It is important, not only in the middle of the entire Yangtze River defense line, but also where the Tang army's military supplies and supplies are located, so Li Hu is determined to win Yuezhou.

    The Tang army had actually expected the Zhou army to cross the river for a long time. Li Wenkong, the governor of Yuezhou, was an old minister of Li Hengqian's residence. He crossed the river south with Li Heng and was very loyal to Li Heng. In the past two years, Li Wenkong had tried his best to strengthen Yuezhou's defense.  Determined to be loyal to the Tang Dynasty, Li Wenkong may not have strong other abilities, but he still showed some skills in controlling Yuezhou. He gathered all the family members above the school captain and set up a special area in the middle of the city. In fact, it was  Taking these family members as hostages,

    I forced the army to fight to the death. Of course, this alone was not enough. Li Wenkong spent half of all the money in the treasury to labor the army, which improved the low morale of the Tang army a lot. He was determined to fight to the death with the Zhou army under Yuezhou City.  .

    Li Hu didn't care at all. In the face of absolute strength, any trick played by a party without strength is ridiculous. It's not that Zhou Jun has never fought tough battles. For Li Hu, those armors on Yuezhou City  No, soldiers with low-level weapons, even if they have courage, will never be able to withstand the attack of hundreds of elite soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

    After trying to persuade him to surrender to no avail, Li Hu ordered an attack. Braving the drizzle, the soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty began to attack Yuezhou from all sides. Under the cover of superior long-range weapons, the Zhou army captured Yuezhou City in just one afternoon.  The moats on all sides filled in countless roads leading directly to the city, and also killed many Tang troops defending the city. The Zhou army did not immediately launch a battle on the city, but retreated, still using their superior crossbowmen to attack the city.  .

    This kind of attack lasted until dark, and the Zhou army returned to camp to repair. Early the next morning, the elite Zhou soldiers really started to attack. Sword and shield soldiers swarmed out, and countless ladders were erected.  The Tang army defending the city showed astonishing courage. The archers and infantry defending the city ignored the rain of crossbow arrows on their heads and fired at the Zhou army below the city regardless of casualties. Several times, the Zhou army attacked the city.  , and was driven down the city by the Tang army desperately. The situation on the four walls was basically the same. Li Wenkong personally put on armor and went to the city, raised his sword and shouted for a fierce battle.

    The two sides repeatedly saw each other, but in the evening, the powerful Zhou army did not capture a single city wall, and the damage was not small. Li Hu saw the Zhou army being frustrated at the bottom of the city, and did not move until it was getting dark. The Yuezhou city wall in front of him  The Zhou army was driven down again before Ming Jin retreated his troops. Li Hu's face was already extremely ugly.

    The Tang army was at the end of its game. The brutal defense of the city on this day directly killed four thousand Tang soldiers and injured five thousand, which was almost one-third of the entire defender. Under normal circumstances, the defender would have collapsed long ago.  But this time, under the supervision of all the generals with blood-red eyes, all the Tang troops fought like crazy and defended Yuezhou. Looking at the retreating Zhou troops, many Tang troops sat down directly on the ground at the head of the city.  Many injured soldiers hung their heads and died on the city, and the ladders left by the Zhou army were also destroyed by the Tang army.

    This time the Zhou army suffered a lot of losses, with more than 3,000 casualties. For the Zhou army, which had strong armor and weapons, such losses represented failure. Yuezhou has been producing welding soldiers since ancient times, and Yuezhou's soldiers don't look very tall.  , but the unruliness imprinted in the blood is the key point that can be supported.

    Li Hu was furious. After the war, a group of Zhou army generals were bearing Li Hu's anger in the tent: "You generals have fought from Anxi to the Central Plains, breaking hundreds of cities, but now you are taking advantage of them."  There is nothing we can do about this small Yuezhou City, Sun Jie, you didn¡¯t ask for gold today, who asked you to step back?¡±

    The person whose name was called by Li Hu was a school lieutenant with a thousand swords and shields under his command. Sun Jie happened to be attacking the city wall where Li Hu was. Although he was the first to attack the city, he was followed by a crazy counterattack by the Tang army.  He retreated and fought twice more. Each time he could not stand at the top of the city and was driven down again. At this time, hearing Li Hu's accusation, Sun Jie stood up and stood out, wearing armor.  The blood stains were not yet wiped dry, and there were marks of knife blows on the armor. It was obvious that Sun Jie had tried his best to fight to the death. His face was covered with a piece of white cloth, and blood stains were still seeping out.

    Sun Jie's face was a little pale. He stepped out and clasped his fists and said: "My subordinates have climbed to the city three times, but the resistance of the Tang army was too strong and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties.?Has retreated, with more than half of them dead or wounded.  "

    Li Hu interrupted Sun Jie: "The resistance is too strong and is the reason for retreating? Does that mean that as long as the losses of soldiers are too great, military orders will be ignored? You can retreat if you want. Is this your reason, Sun Jie?"

    Li Hu's roar echoed in the tent, and all the generals lowered their heads. In fact, the Zhou army did not devote all its troops to the attack today. Only five thousand people were dispatched to attack the city on all four walls. For Yuezhou City,  , this strength is enough. After the battle, Li Hu felt that the Yuezhou defenders were very good. They suffered far casualties from the Zhou army, but they gritted their teeth and persisted. It was not easy. There was an arrogance in the Zhou army, and Li Hu knew it.  All the generals felt that the Zhou army's combat power was unparalleled in the world and that any enemy could be easily defeated. This kind of pride was not good in the army. It was just that since the army started in Anxi, the Zhou army had swept the world. It had never suffered a defeat at all. It was so proud.  It gradually grew.

    Li Hu knew the dangers of this mentality. When Li Hu started to attack Yuezhou this time, he saw that the Tang army was resisting resolutely, so he took advantage of the situation and stopped adding troops. This was just a good opportunity to combat the arrogance in the army. Seeing  Sun Jie's face was earthy, with despair in his eyes. Li Hu secretly laughed in his heart. Li Hu was also distressed for the loss of his soldiers, but now he saw that all the generals in the tent had ugly faces and lowered their heads deeply.

    Li Hu then knocked and said: "Don't think that we are really invincible. The Holy One once said that the world is very big, and there are more than one or two powerful empires. We must maintain awe and vigilance towards any enemy. If there is only one  If you are arrogant, you are not far from failure."

    "Sun Jie," Li Hu called his name, and Sun Jie bowed his head in response, "You violated military regulations today and are punishable by execution. But I will give you a chance. Tomorrow you will be the vanguard, and you will lead your remaining troops to be the first to ascend.  If you can capture Yuezhou, you will atone for your merits, but you will be the first to select auxiliary troops to supplement them. If you are defeated and retreat like today, then you will be beheaded in public, are you willing?"

    Sun Jie was overjoyed. Li Hu had always been strict in running the army. It was a capital offense for soldiers to leave the camp during the camp. Today, Sun Jie thought that he would die. He didn't expect that Li Hu would give him a chance. He immediately bowed deeply. Sun Jie gritted his teeth and said: "The last general  We will definitely fight to the death tomorrow. If we cannot capture Yuezhou, we will die in the hands of the enemy and will not come back to embarrass the general."

    Li Hu glanced at the generals on the remaining three city walls and saw bloodthirsty anger in their eyes. He nodded with satisfaction and said: "Okay, tomorrow's general attack will definitely capture Yuezhou for me. As for the guarding generals, tomorrow  I¡¯ll persuade you to surrender again. If you don¡¯t surrender, you¡¯ll have to follow the rules after breaking the city.¡±

    The generals accepted the order in unison, and dispersed out of the tent amidst the clanking of armor. At this time, Li Wenkong, who was wearing armor on the Yuezhou City, was crying without tears. The strong combat power of the Zhou army caused heavy casualties to the Yuezhou defenders.  Ten thousand people were killed and wounded in just one day of attack and defense. The wailing wounded soldiers demoralized the Tang army, which fought hard during the day. It was nothing but bloody eyes during the day, but once the Zhou army retreated, the huge casualties would be bloody.  Before your eyes.

    If this continues, the Zhou army will be able to kill all the Tang troops in Yuezhou in just three days. However, Li Wenkong can see clearly that from the beginning to the end, the Tang army only had a few thousand soldiers attacking each city wall, and the rest of the soldiers were standing still.  There were more soldiers killed and injured by Zhou Jun's sharp crossbows than those on the city wall.

    Fighting soldiers, the lethality of the triangular arrows is simply terrifying. After being hit by the arrows, many soldiers lost their combat effectiveness due to excessive blood loss in a short period of time. Many of them died of bleeding like this.

    Li Wenkong looked at the faces of his subordinate generals, and thought that his own face was even worse. The general hated Li Wenkong for controlling his family, and dared not speak out against Li Wenkong. They also knew the rules of the Zhou army's killing of generals.  , but now resistance means death. If you don't resist, your whole family will die. It's just a matter of time. The general's courage will also affect the soldiers. The general's resentment also affects the soldiers. In any battle, unless you know that the end is death, then it will

    I am determined to fight to the death. If I fight to the death now, the general will die, but the soldiers will not. He was captured by the Zhou army and only heard that he had to serve hard labor. Li Hu also has a reputation for killing prisoners, but he only heard of killing foreign captives. In the Central Plains  Never killed a prisoner.

    The morale of the Yuezhou garrison is divided into two types. One is red-eyed. Their comrades and relatives died in the battle, and there is a blood in their hearts that they want to fight to the death with the Zhou army. The other is fear caused by the tragic bloody battle.  , broke out at this time, as the night fell, the entire Yuezhou became quiet. From time to time, the dying groans of the wounded soldiers could be heard, which spread far in the night. Li Wenkong returned to his residence and ordered his soldiers to guard it well.  At the same time, they arranged large barrels of tung oil around the generals and their families. Li Wenkong did not expect to be able to defend Yuezhou now. He only hoped to destroy all the grain and grass in Yuezhou and the families of these generals. He could be considered loyal to the Tang Dynasty. Li Wenkong  As I thought about death, a kind of fear arose. Since I was a child, I have been taught that loyalty and filial piety should be fearless in life and death, but when it comes to death, who can truly let go?

    Li Wenkong¡¯s family members are all in Hangzhou, with only one concubine beside him, standing in the courtyard at night, the breathing of the soldiers standing at the door could be faintly heard. Li Wenkong was at a loss, thinking of the resentful eyes of the generals, is this worth it?

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