"Report Sir, General Qin has come to report that the Pingding and Guangyan reinforcements have been defeated and captured by our army. Guangyan and Pingding have been captured by our army. Tomorrow evening, General Qin will use the Bingzhou Army reinforcements to kill them back. ¡±
Hearing this, Zhao Xun smiled and said: "Very good. Send an order to General Qin. Tomorrow afternoon, according to the planned plan, Meiji City will be replaced with the flaming unicorn flag tomorrow night."
Zhao Xun breathed a sigh of relief when he learned that Pingding and Guangyan had been conquered and the Bingzhou army in the two places had been completely wiped out. In this way, not only Meiji City will be isolated and helpless, but the 50,000 Bingzhou Army and the Bingzhou Northern Army at Dingping at the North Gate will also be the turtle in the urn. Now, even if the 50,000 soldiers and soldiers from Dingping and the two armies were well integrated and retreated south to outside Meiji City, Zhao Xun no longer had any worries. Prior to this, Zhao Xun had the cavalry team disguised as a large number and roamed back and forth in Dingping to intimidate the 50,000 taels of soldiers in Dingping and force them not to dare to leave lightly. All this put a lot of pressure on Zhao Xun, fearing that he would retreat south and gather in Meiji City.
"Inform Han Xuwen and send civilian officials to the two places to take over government affairs, implement the new policy, and appease the people. Order the first team of the Guards to bring three thousand new barracks to the two places, take over local security, and establish county soldiers, township inspection departments, and other places Security Yamen." Zhao Xun ordered three times in succession.
"Send an order to Xue Qinglan's command, and the army will continue to move south, with the goal of conquering the entire Jinzhou Prefecture and reaching Shangdang Prefecture. Wei Dong, give an order to Li Huaiyuan, asking him to advance northwest and attack Taiyuan Prefecture. In addition, , garrisoning the Yong army from Yongzhou. Although the two sides are negotiating for peace, it does not mean that Situ Lei will not take any action, so be careful. "
Immediately, Zhao Xun said to General Yang Hu of the town army: "Call the three armies, the army will continue to rest and regroup today. Tomorrow morning, we will continue to attack the city. Tomorrow night, we will spend the night in Meiji City! General Yang Hu, although we are resting and regrouping today, we must also Inform the soldiers on all sides to be careful and be on guard, and to launch a surprise attack inside Meiji City."
Yang Hu said in a deep voice: "The last general takes orders!"
"Well! In this way, with the east, south and north facing each other, the Bingzhou area should be solved quickly. The top priority is to persuade Situ Tai of Bingzhou to hand over the Bingzhou area and let him return to Luoyang and Situ Lei's It's better for the other sons to fight for power. Murong Cheng, you are the next target. As for the north, the Turks cannot be ignored. It seems that they still have to find a way to win over a few tribes to serve as watchdogs in the north. Zhao Xun was in a good mood and thought secretly in his heart.
Meiji City, Pingding and Guangyan were captured, and basically all the Bingzhou Army soldiers in Xihe Prefecture were eliminated. Of course, there are 50,000 people surrounded by Zhao troops in the north. Then, there is no threat to this land of Xihe Mansion. After Meiji City was captured, the army descended on the entire Xihe Prefecture overnight.
On the second day, which was the eighth day that Zhao Xun attacked Meiji City, Zhao Jun, who had rested for two days, began to attack again. At this moment, the northern wall of Meiji City no longer looks like the important city in the north of Xihe Prefecture in the past. The entire north city wall can be said to be in a mess, and the female wall above the city wall was almost completely demolished. Under the action of the catapult, almost the entire female wall was reduced to half. Even though Shi Lin, the defender of Meiji City, repaired it back and forth, it could not stop Zhao Jun's fierce attack.
But fortunately, perhaps it was the infantry of Zhao Jun's stone bullets. The catapult attack in the last few days was not as good as before. The garrison under Shi Lin's command was less than 15,000, of which 5,000 were composed of county soldiers and township warriors. In addition, Shi Lin also recruited 30,000 young men from Meiji City. Only half of them were intact.
In addition, in the past few days, especially in the past few days, Meiji City guard Shi Lin made two raids at night. Unfortunately, he was unable to do anything to the Zhao army, and instead lost troops and generals.
"Whoosh whoosh" Arrows flew across their heads. Shilin and the generals around him had no choice but to hide behind some relatively intact parapets. Of course, there was a giant shield in front of them. It was slightly better than the onslaught of the previous few days. Zhao Jun did not continue to use catapults today, but the opponent's crossbows did not stop at all.
"Damn it, where did Zhao Jun get so many arrow clusters and missing crossbows?" A general said in a hateful voice as he reached out to pull out the flying arrow clusters from his arm.
"Reinforcements from Pingding and Guangyan should be arriving soon. If this continues, let alone whether we can stop Zhao Jun, even the food and grass needed by the army will be a big problem." Ge Yangzhang, the general, frowned.
"It should be soon!" Shilin said slowly after a while. But his tone was not sure. I hope nothing happens to the two places. Perhaps, I shouldn't let the two places come to support me with food and grass. Suddenly, Shilin began to worry about the reinforcements from the two places.
"Well, if the armies of General Yang Li and Cao Gang in the north can be organized, work together to go south, and withdraw from us, Zhao JunCan they forcefully besiege us? Even if Zhao Xun came in person, the current situation would not have happened. Ge Yangzhang said in a muffled voice.
Shi Lin didn't say much. He was also aware of Ge Yangzhang's anger. It is precisely because of the fifty thousand troops to the north that the defenders of Meiji City are trapped here and do not dare to evacuate easily. In addition, the food and supplies in Meiji City were many times those taken away by Yang Li when he went north to support Cao Gang. If Yang Li's troops were not in the north, Shi Lin could have abandoned the city earlier, sent his army south, and gathered together the armies from Pingding and Guangyan.
What made them even more annoyed was that the more than 20,000 Bingzhou Army under Yang Li and the over 20,000 Bingzhou Northern Army under Cao Gang did not get along well with each other in Dingping. It was also because of this that the two could not fight each other. Determined to go south earlier.
"General, the Zhao army's infantry are here!" The general interrupted Shi Lin's thoughts.
"Archers, prepare, counterattack! Rolling stones, rocks, logs, prepare!" Shi Lin, with a hoarse voice, shouted sharply as he watched Zhao Jun getting closer and closer outside the city.
In an instant, inside and outside the city wall, arrows were flying, screams were heard, blood was flying, and they entered a fierce offensive and defensive battle.
After several days of fierce attack, Zhao Xun's new infantry composed of descendants outside the city were trained into Zhao Jun's soldiers at the cost of five to six thousand casualties. Some of these soldiers will be replenished in each town, and the rest will be combined with the Guards and all eight capitals to form the Eighth Guards Army. This was also Zhao Xun's original plan. The town army was an army that conquered various places, and the forbidden army was the elite under his direct control. Each department in the town army will return to the Forbidden Army for rotation training every year. All officers above the team leader must rotate in the Forbidden Army for half a year and study at the Armed Forces Academy for half a year before they can be promoted.
Of course, this is also a preliminary idea, and Zhao Xun will start implementing it step by step.
As time went by, the fighting on the city wall began to become fierce. Zhao Jun attacked the city many times, but was repelled by Shi Lin. The fierce resistance of the defenders of Meiji City also made Zhao Jun very difficult. It is difficult to gain a foothold on the city wall and support subsequent soldiers to climb the city.
"My lord, General Qin has arrived with fifteen thousand soldiers. They will come pretending to be reinforcements from the pacification land. Should we start letting them take action now?" Han Meng reported in a deep voice.
Zhao Xun shook his head and said: "Let our soldiers attack for another half hour. After half an hour, the defenders of Meiji City and we will be exhausted. At this time, their reinforcements can suddenly attack and break through our defenses." The rear camp enters Meiji City, and the defender of Meiji City also hopes to receive reinforcements at this time, and his caution will be reduced to the lowest level this time. "
Han Meng nodded and said: "I will go and reply to General Qin's messenger immediately!"
Half an hour later, Zhao Jun once again attacked the city, causing the Meiji City defender to rush to deal with it. This time, Zhao Jun moved very quickly and actually gained a position on the city wall.
"Kill them! We must kill them, kill them!" Shi Lin, covered in blood, roared as if he was going crazy.
At this moment, a guard grabbed him and said urgently: "GeneralGeneral, look, look at the rear of the Zhao army outside the city, reinforcements, our reinforcements have arrived."
Shi Lin finally wiped away the blood on his face and looked up. Suddenly, on the left side of Zhao Jun's formation outside the city, a commotion began to spread in all directions. A large flag also rushed in from the outside, closing Zhao Jun's camp. It started to get messy.
"It was Liang Wu who was pacifying! In addition, he was the only one with five thousand cavalry in his hands. Well, yes, that person is indeed Liang Wu. Get ready, open the city gate, and welcome them in." Shi Lin said in a deep voice.
"Brothers, our reinforcements are here, kill these Zhao Jun thieves!" Slin suddenly shouted. In an instant, the morale of the defenders on the city wall was greatly boosted, and they forced Zhao Jun down again.
As for the Zhao army's center, Zhao Xun looked at the left side of the commotion and couldn't help but smile slightly and said: "Let the soldiers attacking the city in front slow down a little, and prepare to enter the city directly later. Rule the various units of the cavalry of the Guards, and for a while, Follow the reinforcements from Meiji City and rush in together."
On the city wall, after watching Zhao Jun retreat due to the chaos in the rear, he immediately descended from the city tower and prepared to greet Liang Wu who came for rescue. Although Liang Wu had to obey his orders, their positions were the same. When Liang Wu came to help, it was only natural for him to go and greet him.
¡°Creak¡¡± The north gate of Meiji City was opened.
"General Liang, you finally" Opening the city gate, the person who came to greet him was none other than Shi Lin. Unfortunately, as soon as he got close to Liang Wu, Liang Wu's bodyguard put the long knife on his neck.
"Come on, get it for me!" Lieutenant Ye Xi, pretending to be a personal guard, said coldly.
"Liang Wuwhat are you" Looking around himShilin asked angrily as he tied up several soldiers and his bodyguards who were shot and killed constantly.
"General Liang Wu has surrendered to our Zhao army, and our Lord has accepted Meiji City." Ye Xi answered Shi Lin's inquiry coldly. As for Liang Wu, his face was full of shame and he didn't say much.
"Brothers, change the flag and kill me!" Ye Xi roared and rode forward. The flag bearer changed Liang Wu's peaceful flag into a flaming unicorn flag and rushed into the city gate.
"General Liang Wu, I think you don't want to attack the former Paoze. Let's do this. You will take care of the defender of Meiji City. You can also put aside the whole story. Our lord values ??all capable people." ." A captain said with a smile.
"Okay, thank you, Captain!" Seeing this, Liang Wu also breathed a sigh of relief, and took Shi Lin and the other dozen generals and prisoners to the side.
"Zhao Jun has entered the cityZhao Jun has entered the city"
"The city is broken"
"The general was captured by the Zhao army, and General Liang Wu surrendered to the Zhao army"
"Those who surrender will not be killed!"
In an instant, various slogans spread from the North City Gate and spread everywhere.