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Volume 1: Entry Chapter 105: The October Siege

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    Suddenly, the war that had suddenly come to a standstill was revived by Wu Qing and others.  Wu Qing's original number of more than 300 people, plus the more than 700 soldiers who had left the city, with the help of the rain of arrows from the soldiers at Guanqiang, the number was not much different from that of Zhou's army, and they attacked Zhou in a decent manner.  The army pounced.  At this time, more than a thousand Zhou troops who had stopped acting had already formed a formation to protect the retreating Zhao Kuangyin and Huangfu Hui into the formation.  Wu Qing and others rushed to the edge of the critical arrow range and waved provocatively to the Zhou army, inviting them to come forward and attack.  Zhao Kuangyin looked at Wu Qing, who was standing in the front row with an arrogant look on his face, gritted his teeth secretly, and waved to signal everyone to retreat temporarily.  Watching the Zhou army retreat toward Xiaoluling, Wu Qing turned around and asked for a switch to let the army in.  After closing the door and opening it again, Superintendent Yao Feng rushed out and looked at Wu Qing in disbelief: "I just arrived. Could it be that General Huangfu was really" Wu Qing shook his head sadly and replied in a sad tone: "Return  General Yao and General Huangfu accidentally fell into the hands of the enemy. Fortunately, Lord Huangfu was brave and unyielding and resisted vigorously, so he was not thrown out. But General Huangfu is probably more in danger." Yao Feng's eyes seemed to be wider than a closed door.  Looking at Wu Qing, he said, "The soldier said that you have a secret order from King Qi. Can I have a look at it?" "Okay, of course." Wu Qing touched his arms, his face immediately changed, and he turned around and made a gesture of wanting to return.  The appearance of the battlefield, "No, he must have fallen on the battlefield just now." Yao Feng's face was extremely ugly, and his hands and feet were trembling as he looked at Wu Qing's figure who was trying to leave.  Wu Qing took two short steps, turned back, looked at Yao Feng, and said sincerely: "General Yao, the most important thing now is to discuss how to arrange the next war. The imperial edict is a small matter. The next time I see King Qi,  Wu can ask King Qi to testify in person." Yao Feng glared at Wu Qing, turned around and left.  Wu Qing was anxious, stepped forward and grabbed Yao Feng, and said in a low voice: "Master Yao, the only way now is to burn the pass to stop the enemy, and retreat to Chuzhou City. Qingliu Pass is just a small pass. As long as Chuzhou City does not  If we lose, we will not be considered defeated." Yao Feng looked at Wu Qing coldly and said nothing.  Wu Qing was anxious, pointed at Beiguan where the sound of war drums could still be heard, and shouted in a low voice: "If we continue to fight, we will suffer. Now, we have lost our commander, and there is not much food in the pass. If the enemy from the north and south  If they trap us for a few days, we will be finished. Qingliu Pass cannot be saved. Mr. Wang of Chuzhou is a scholar. He is afraid that he will not be able to defend the city. By then, our sins will be great. How many heads we have will not be enough for the emperor.  , King Qi chopped it off." Yao Feng sighed softly, his expression desolate.  Wu Qing suddenly fell to his knees and kowtowed: "General Yao, please make a quick decision. Burn the pass immediately and charge the entire army to Chuzhou. This is the way to win in defeat. Once more enemy troops come over the mountains, we will be defeated."  I'm completely sleepy." Yao Feng closed his eyes fiercely, punched the air a few times with his fists, and growled twice reluctantly, before speaking loudly: "The whole army retreats, burn the gate." Soon, a lot of hay came.  and food were quietly moved up and down the Beiguan Tower, and the remaining soldiers began to pack their bags.  A quarter of an hour later, a raging fire broke out from Beiguan and spread rapidly. At the same time, the gate of Nanguan was opened wide, and several ladders were put up on the wall. The soldiers anxiously crossed the gate through the city gate and the ladders.  Wall, there was an emergency formation under the pass.  Wu Qing seemed to have become the commander-in-chief of the army. He asked Tao Chun and Zou Shengping to lead a group of brothers who had been through life and death to supervise the battle team. He punched and kicked himself and directed the soldiers on the sides of the battle formation to hold their big shields and run back and forth, constantly  Repeatedly roared: "The enemy has no horses, so they can only compete with us by running. Remember, keep the formation and run until we reach Chuzhou City. We will win. Anyone who dares to run around and shout, I will chop him with a knife." This fierce god is known as  He has the secret decree of the marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, but even General Huangfu dares to abandon it.  Under Wu Qing¡¯s intimidation, the soldiers who had learned about the current situation all shut their mouths, quickly formed a rectangular shield formation, and the whole team ran towards Chuzhou City, seven miles southeast.  Zhao Kuangyin, who had just withdrawn his troops to Xiaoluling, saw the fire and smoke rising from Qingliu Pass, his expression changed drastically, and he immediately rushed back with his entire team.  Soon, more than 6,000 retreating soldiers from the Southern Tang Dynasty appeared in front of them in a neat shield formation.  Zhao Kuangyin, who did not expect the enemy to act so decisively, led a total of more than 2,000 soldiers from the Later Zhou Dynasty to attack several times in turns. Although they successfully killed several soldiers, they were not able to easily attack because they had all gone into battle lightly in order to make it easier to cross the mountain.  After breaking through the entire shield array, they had no choice but to do nothing. The soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who were bent on saving their lives, tried their best to keep the formation unchanged, and their feet became faster and faster.  Zhao Kuangyin looked at the exhausted brothers around him, and then at Qingliu Pass where the flames were blazing into the sky. In the end, there was nothing.Determined to block it desperately, he had no choice but to follow this infuriating turtle shield array unwillingly.  Seven miles away, the soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty who were eager to save their lives ran to Chuzhou City in less than two quarters of an hour.  Yao Feng stepped forward in person, opened the city gate, and led his troops to gradually withdraw into the city.  Seeing Yao Feng successfully withdrawing with his elite troops, Wang Shaoyan, the governor of Chuzhou, who was so anxious that he was sweating coldly on top of the city, sat down on the ground, then jumped up quickly, ran to hand over the task of defending the city directly to Yao Feng, and led a group of soldiers.  Ban's subordinates hurriedly hid back to the governor's mansion.  Yao Feng, who was determined to defend Chuzhou, did his part and assigned generals to guard the four cities on the spot. He also temporarily promoted Wu Qing and Tao Chun as deputy generals, and Zou Shengping as captain. The three men guarded the west gate facing the enemy. At the same time, he strictly required the cities to guard the west gate.  We must hold on to the end and wait for reinforcements from Jinling.  On the evening of October 15th, the mountain fire was basically extinguished. The remaining two thousand soldiers from the Hou Zhou raid finally arrived from the east mountain road. Hou Zhang's army, which extinguished the fire at Qingliu Pass, also successfully passed through Qingliu Pass and joined forces.  The army of the Later Zhou Dynasty surrounded Chuzhou City.  At this point, after Shouzhou, the outer areas of Haozhou and Chuzhou in the south of the Yangtze River and Huainan in the Southern Tang Dynasty were all lost, and fell into the situation of holding the city alone.  Almost at the same time that Chuzhou was besieged, Qian Hongchu, the envoy of Wu Yue Jinghai Festival, led an army of 100,000 people to successfully break out of the mountainous sniper formation, surrounded Fuzhou City, and began to recruit civilians from all over to besiege the city.  Deputy General Zheng Yanhua of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who led the retreat, and Deputy General Chen Decheng, who was temporarily stationed in Fuzhou, agreed early on on the strategy of holding on to the city. They had already sealed all the waterways in and out of Fuzhou and most of the city gates with bricks and stones, leaving only  Yansheng Gate in the northwest and Ningyue Gate in the south.  After deliberation, Chen Decheng and Zheng Yanhua repeatedly announced throughout the city that as long as each household had one strong man to help defend the city, not only would their treatment be the same as that of the regular army, but their families would also be rewarded and exempted from military service for one, two, and three years according to their merits.  With taxes and rent, 3,000 men were temporarily gathered in the city to defend the city together with 15,000 Southern Tang soldiers.  After half a year, Fuzhou City once again faced a brutal offensive and defensive battle.  Going south, Zhangzhou City, which was guarded by less than 20,000 soldiers, was also surrounded by 60,000 Southern Han troops. The Southern Han army did not attack the city on a large scale for the time being, but they continued to harass and feign attacks day and night. Zhangzhou City was shocked three times a day.  Further south, Chaozhou City, which was guarded by just over 6,000 soldiers, was attacked day and night by a combined army of 80,000 Southern Han Dynasties. The city was attacked several times. The entire city was crumbling. Zhang Yunkai, the deputy general of the city defense, was isolated and helpless, leading a group of his men.  Struggling.  Because these cities were all intensively besieged around October, later generations called this period of history the "October Siege." However, as the starting point and center of the war storm, Shouzhou City began to stage another ridiculous scene.  Strange War: Garbage War.
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