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- Chapter 142 "The Eve of the Central Plains War"
In order to obtain the capital of the Ugo Kingdom at the lowest price possible, Xu Shu and Fazheng thought of many ways to do this. The most important one was to divide and disintegrate the defenders in the city, and use different attitudes to force them to intimidate them. []
Soon after the army surrounded the city, Xu Shu commanded the army to conduct a tentative attack on it. The main area of ??attack was the south where the Burmese Army was responsible for defense. The impression given to the people in the city was that the Burmese Army was what Xu Shu's army hated the most, and the ones they wanted to eliminate were the Burmese King and his men.
Because the wall of this city is not high and is almost the same size as a county town in the mainland, even if it is a feint attack, the Burmese army responsible for the defense feels a lot of pressure. In this attack, Xu Shu also ordered the soldiers to use the serial crossbows seized from Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang's army in Changsha and some of the serial crossbows copied based on the seizures. After using more than a hundred crossbows, the defending Burmese army could really attack. They were caught off guard - almost half of the Burmese soldiers on the city wall were killed by Xu Shu's army. In just one hour's attack, soldiers from Xu Shu's army stormed the city wall and held on for a short time. If the King of Myanmar hadn't seen the emergency and personally led his troops out to rescue and cut down the Yizhou soldiers who came up, Then a dense garrison was placed on the city wall so that Xu Shu's army could not take advantage of it, and the situation was initially stabilized.
Not only Xu Shu outside the city was shocked by being attacked so easily, but also the leaders of the two defenders in the city were shocked: Why are the Central Plains soldiers so powerful? No wonder they easily captured the checkpoint, defeated 60,000 Burmese troops in the Water Snake Valley, and occupied the Monkey City! What kind of weapon is that? How can it shoot out a batch of arrows just by pointing at it?
Seeing how powerful Xu Shu¡¯s army is. What they are most afraid of is not the soldiers of the Burmese Kingdom who are directly under the pressure of Xu Shu's army, but the soldiers of the Ugo Kingdom who are loyal to the Wutu Iron. While they are afraid, they are also glad that their side is not the main force of the Yizhou people. Strike object. Of course, I also had strange thoughts in my mind: Fortunately, they didn't attack the city wall we were guarding. People here are in panic. If someone really attacks, how can we possibly drive them down? I'm afraid some people have surrendered long ago and our heads have fallen to the ground. What can we do next?
That night after the feint attack. Some strange things began to happen: a guard came to Xu Shu with some notes and reported:
"Report! The defenders in the city shot out several letters, and they were picked up by our soldiers!"
Xu Shu took the letter. After looking at it for a while, he waved the guards to leave, and then happily said to Fa Zheng: "The effect is really good, it's immediate. Haha, look at it!"
Fazheng also smiled, took out a piece of paper from Xu Shu's hand and read it.
Although there are many letters, the contents are almost the same, and the writers all claim to be from the old department of Wu Tu Gu. He also said that the reason why he took refuge in Wutu Tie at that time was because Wutu Gu's life and death were unknown after being captured by Liu Jia, so he did so as a last resort. Now that the old king Wu Tu Gu is back, they are ready to return to Wu Tu Gu's men. They are willing to cooperate with the outside army in the city, and so on.
Of course, some people also experienced the cruelty of Wu Tu Tie, scolded the tyranny of King Myanmar, and praised Wu Tu Gu for his kindness in the past; some people asked Xu Shu and Wu Tu Gu to agree not to execute them and to pardon their lives. Family members; some even suggested how many troops they could bring out this time. Ask Xu Shu to allow them to continue to bring as many troops as they can in the future;
Those who express loyalty, offer suggestions, make requests, report on the situation in the cityanything goes.
Xu Shu was so confident that he had a large number of letters written and sent into the city the next day. The content of the letter is nothing more than that Yizhou does not blame the soldiers and civilians who followed Wutu Tie in the city. As long as it draws a clear line with Wutu Tie, King of Myanmar and others from now on, both soldiers and generals will guarantee their safety. If they can lead the troops Anyway, after the city is defeated, rewards will be given based on merit; of course, if you persist in your persistence, you will continue to follow Wutu Tie and King Myanmar and become enemies of Yizhou. Then the day when the city is destroyed is when they will be beheaded.
Now the city is even more chaotic, and there is more and more information showing that there is an irreconcilable conflict between the king of Ugo Kingdom, Wututie, and the king of Myanmar: the king of Myanmar wants to replace Wututie, Use thunderous means to get rid of the half-hearted soldiers or officials in the city, thoroughly reorganize Wutu Tie's troops, and then confront Xu Shu's army. Although King Myanmar also knew that the city would eventually be occupied by Xu Shu's army, he believed that with the remaining 40,000 elite soldiers under his command, the newly reorganized troops, and the people in the city, he could hold the city for a long time, as long as Xu Shu can't attack for a long time, and if people from home are sent to help him, he can escape from here. As long as they can escape, the final "victory" will still belong to the Kingdom of Myanmar. The country of Myanmar is so big. The king of Myanmar could become king again wherever he occupied a piece of land. From now on, as long as you don't take the initiative to attack Yizhou, you will give way when you see them. It is absolutely impossible to be the king for another few decades.Question. Therefore, the key to the problem is to find ways to twist the hearts of the people in the city into a rope. The top priority is to remove the Wutu Iron stumbling block that has lost the morale of the military and the people.
Wu Tutie had the opposite idea. He had long been dissatisfied with the way the King of Myanmar was gesticulating in front of him, and he had long been aware of the idea of ??the King of Myanmar wanting to become a guest. He knew that if the city was breached by Xu Shu's army, he would definitely die. If the city was not breached by chance, he would definitely be killed by King Myanmar. His only chance of survival is to try to capture the Burmese troops who now have no foundation in his own hands, hold on to the city or wait for an opportunity to escape to the Burmese country. If you occupy a random place there, you can live happily for a few years.
The two leaders both wanted to eliminate each other, and the conflicts between the two sides naturally intensified uncontrollably. On the tenth day after Xu Shu's army surrounded the city, a battle finally broke out between the two sides. Not long after the battle, Xu Shu gained a fisherman's advantage - occupying the city.
The battle started at the entrance of the city¡¯s grain depot. What happened at that time was as follows:
More than a hundred Burmese troops, led by a small officer, came to the grain depot as usual to collect ten days of food and grass. When the officer leading the Burmese army took the grain from the grain officer, the leader of the guards at the grain depot, I discovered something was wrong after reading this. The Burmese officer asked in surprise: "Are you mistaken? We are here to receive ten days of food and grass. The amount on this strip is not enough for our army for six days."
The grain officer listened. Looking up at the clouds in the sky, he said nonchalantly: "Now is an extraordinary period. The city is surrounded on all sides. How can we open our stomachs to eat? I have received an order from my superiors to reduce the quota of food and grass by one-third from now on!"
"What? Why didn't we receive the notice? No, our food and grass were not enough in the first place. We must receive it for ten days this time, otherwise we will not receive it!" Naturally, the Burmese soldiers did not show weakness. "How can there be any reason to suddenly call for a reduction of one-third of the grain and grassland without mutual communication?"
"Humph, do you want love? It's best if you don't take it! You have 40,000 soldiers to defend one city wall. But you consume almost half of our food and grass. If you don't bring a grain of food here, how can there be a free banquet in the world?" The food officer continued to raise his voice. Nodding his head, he sneered.
"You fart! We are here to save you. We agreed at that time that you would provide food and grass. We worked hard to come from thousands of miles away and defend the city for you. It's already good. You bastards dare to defraud us. of grain and grass. Humph. How do you grow it? I started telling you not to listen, and I must annoy your uncle. Okay! Today, your uncle, I will let you know. If there is a grain of grain missing, I will use you. Give them the heads of these guys. Hurry up, my food transport team will be here soon. If you delay my time, I will kill you guys who are lazy and make trouble for nothing!" the Burmese officer said viciously.
"Oh. Are you so awesome? Do you want to rebel? Seize military rations? You don't know the consequences of seizing military rations, right?" The grain officer lowered his head and stared at the Burmese military road.
Another Ugo soldier who was guarding the grain depot laughed and fanned the flames: "Haha, that's really hilarious. Are you here to help us defend the city? Do you dare to leave the city now? Is there a way home? You are already there He is a homeless person, relying on our city walls to survive, and now he even boasts that he is here to help us. Xiaodi only heard about shameless people in the world before, but he never thought that he would be lucky enough to meet him today. Kind of Just grab it!"
The Burmese army has been aloof since they entered the city. He claims to be the savior, but he has never heard such vicious words. The officer was furious when he heard them singing. He had already grabbed the weapon in his hand and shouted sternly: "Do you think I really don't dare?"
Seeing the other party yelling, the grain officer did not take action. Instead, he smiled and said: "As the saying goes, a biting dog doesn't bark. If you have the guts, just rebel. The soldiers below are not vegetarians!"
The soldier just now also sneered: "I'm sorry you don't have the courage, you only know how to give away groups of elephants to others. What eggs are there Ah¡ª¡ª"
The Burmese officer, who was already angry, didn't care about anything and just drew his sword and chopped. While slashing, he shouted: "Brothers, kill!"
When the grain officer saw it, he quickly ran into the warehouse, shouting as he ran: "The Burmese army has rebelled to steal grain, kill them!"
As soon as he finished speaking, hundreds of soldiers rushed out from inside and outside and surrounded the more than one hundred Burmese regiments. After rushing over, they did not answer and only started to kill them.
When the Burmese officer saw it, he became even more indifferent and just kept fighting. While fighting, the soldiers shouted: "The Ugo Kingdom wants to kill the Burmese soldiers!"
The roar of more than a hundred Burmese soldiers in unison could be heard almost throughout the city. The Burmese soldiers who were close to here automatically rushed here. Naturally, the soldiers of Ugo State were not willing to lag behind and joined the battle one after another.
The scale of the sudden battle expanded rapidly with the addition of soldiers from both sides, and the scope of the battle also changed from food to food.?Expanded to wherever soldiers from both sides come into contact. It can be said that a melee broke out in half of the city. By this time, no one could control the development of the situation.
The side with stronger combat effectiveness was the small Burmese army. Since they had no foundation, they knew that if they failed, they would lose their heads. Therefore, they were more united and worked harder than the soldiers loyal to the Wutu Iron. The battle did not start long, and the Burmese army Lan Jun had the upper hand.
Unprepared, Wu Tu Tie saw that the situation was critical and that his life was about to be taken care of by the Burmese Army. He did not care whether to defend the city or not, and hurriedly ordered the entire army to join the battle to annihilate the Burmese Army.
At first, the fighting was limited to soldiers, but as the chaos expanded, many innocent people were also involved. When a person died, his family members began to take revenge with wooden sticks and kitchen knives. How can the red-eyed Burmese soldiers care whether you are a civilian or a soldier? Just kill anyone who threatens you! The situation suddenly became out of control.
When the soldiers loyal to the King of Myanmar and the soldiers loyal to the Utut Iron, as well as the common people who intentionally or unintentionally joined the fighting, were fighting in melee. The soldiers and generals on both sides who were not loyal or loyal to Xu Shu's army outside the city took the opportunity to open the city gate and rushed out of the city with loud shouts, asking Xu Shu's army, who still didn't know why they were shouting in the city, to enter the city. Acting decisively, Xu Shu immediately ordered the army to take the elephant group as the vanguard, advance from the north and south of the city at the same time, and immediately blockade the east and west gates.
Watching Xu Shu's army surge in under the cover of the elephant field, the exhausted soldiers on both sides surrendered one after another when they saw Xu Shu's army approaching.
Seeing that the situation was over, the usurping king Wu Tutie quietly slipped back to the palace. Hiding in a dark corner, he raised his sword and wiped his neck. However, the king of Myanmar seemed much braver. He personally led his troops to fight against Xu Shu's army. However, before the roaring man could reach the elephant, he was shot into a hedgehog by the archers on the elephant.
The melee only lasted for just over an hour, but the number of casualties on both sides reached as many as one Piao Tianwen was destroyed, and tens of thousands of people were killed and burned to death. The entire capital of Ugo Kingdom is simply a hell on earth.
Xu Shu organized soldiers to escort the prisoners out of the city, and asked the soldiers to help the people put out the fire. At the same time, he sent troops to suppress the people who were filled with indignation and shouted for revenge against the Myanmar prisoners.
After three days of busy work, life in the city finally settled down.
With the death of the King of Myanmar and the annihilation of the main force of Myanmar, the crazy Myanmar Kingdom and the Ugo Kingdom disappeared from this world together. When Yan Yan and Wu Tugu led 15,000 troops, they took advantage of the situation and set off to attack other cities in the south. The former Burmese city guards all presented their cities and surrendered. In just a few months, the remaining enemies of Myanmar and Ugo were eliminated. When the news of the destruction of the Burmese Kingdom reached Jiaozhou, which bordered the Burmese Kingdom, the counties in Jiaozhou that had been temporarily occupied by Zhou Yu also lost their last support and rushed to surrender to the Samoko army that came to capture it. In this way, Shamoke, who was responsible for recovering the counties in Jiaozhou, also successfully completed the task assigned to him by Liu Jia.
Next, Liu Jia, the king of Shu, redivided the former Burmese and Ugo states into two very large states: the southern state was called South Myanmar state, and the northern state bordering Yizhou was called Beiwu state. Meng Da and Yan Yan are their state pastors.
In June of the 17th year of Jian'an, when Xu Shu's army was ordered to return to Chengdu when it was still thirty miles away from Chengdu, Liu Jia led Pang Tong, Liu Ba, Huang Quan and other officials to greet him on the road.
Seeing the endless stream of troops on the road, Liu Jia smiled from ear to ear: Last year, Xu Shu and Fazheng only brought 55,000 people to the southern expedition. In just one year, not only did they pacify the Ugo Kingdom and occupy the Burmese Kingdom, but their number of troops also increased to 120,000.
In addition, Shamoko also added a lot of soldiers. Originally there were 15,000 troops, but now it has increased to 30,000. He himself stayed in Guiyang to continue guarding Sun Quan's troops, and transferred the 30,000 mobile troops to Xu Shu to take back to Chengdu.
So the number of troops entering Chengdu this time reached a record of 150,000 troops.
Through this series of wars in the south, Liu Jia's strength has greatly increased. Not only does it own a total of five states, including Yizhou, Jingzhou, Jiaozhou, Southern Burma, and Beiwu. The number of soldiers also reached 300,000.
After the troops settled down, Liu Jia, Pang Tong, and Xu Shu divided all the troops into several large blocks according to the needs of future wars:
The first large piece is the Chengdu Mobile Force, with a total of 180,000 troops, all composed of elite soldiers. These included 10,000 imperial guards and 10,000 cavalry troops, who were personally controlled by Liu Jia for future conquests;
The second large part is the garrison, which mainly guards strategic locations. The total strength is about 70,000. They are:
The garrison of Cangwu and Gaoliang in Guiyang is 20,000, mainly to prevent Sun Quan from invading from the south. Led by Samoko;
There are 15,000 troops in Jiangxia and Xiakou front lines, also used to guard against Sun Quan's invasion, led by Li Yan;
The Xiangyang garrison consisted of 15,000 troops, led by General Huang Zhong, to defend against Cao Cao's attack;
There are 20,000 garrison troops at Hanzhong and Yangpingguan lines, led by Zhao Yun, to defend against Cao Cao's attack;
The third large part is the support force or reserve army. The total number is uncertain. They are:
The Jiangling garrison was led by Gan Ning and consisted of approximately 20,000 troops. Among them, there are 10,000 people each on land and water. Mainly used to support Guiyang, Jiangxia or Xiangyang;
There are tens of thousands of troops garrisoned in Bajun, mainly new soldiers or captured soldiers. They are trained by the generals here and then replenished to other places. The number is uncertain, depending on the recruitment situation and battlefield conditions.
The fourth block is the security forces or garrison of large and medium-sized cities in other places. They are not many in number, with a maximum of two thousand. The only special thing is that there are some extra troops left in Southern Myanmar and Northern Wuzhou. However, these troops are soldiers with weak combat effectiveness left after Xu Shu selected them. Because they played a certain role in the capture of the capital of Ugo, there is no They were disbanded and instead raised to be used as security forces. Because it was impossible to send them out to fight, the old and weak soldiers from these two states were not included in the calculation of soldiers.
It can be said that with these territories and troops, Liu Jia basically has the capital to compete with Cao Cao and Sun Quan. As long as Liu Jia rests and trains the troops transferred back from the south for a period of time, nearly 200,000 troops can be transferred to the north to deal with Cao Cao or to the east to deal with Sun Quan at any time.
Is the vigorous Central Plains War about to break out?
Chapter 142
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