Chapter 257

Xiangyang City.

Since Zhao Hong, the king of Xiangyang, established himself in Xiangyang City, Xiangyang City has obviously become the base camp of the king of Xiangyang, and even a military town.

Perhaps this is not accurate. Originally Xiangyang was one of the famous military towns in the Tang Dynasty.

However, with the independence of Xiangyang king, this military town has been out of the control of the Tang Dynasty and has become a natural barrier for Xiangyang King Zhao Hong to defend the army of the Tang Dynasty.

Xiangyang City is a city that is easy to defend but hard to attack.

In history, many powerful troops have been trapped under Xiangyang City.

During the period of the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu was a rare general in the world, even powerful in China.

But even Guan Yu failed to capture Xiangyang.

It took Zhou Yu two years to conquer Jiangling City, let alone Xiangyang City.

Xiangyang City, no matter its military status or the firmness of the city, is not comparable to that of Jiangling.

Even the invincible Mongol army broke its wings three times in Xiangyang City, and all of them were defeated.

At this time, Xiangyang City, a brand-new palace.

In the main hall.

Zhao Hong, the king of Xiangyang, was sitting on the big chair of tiger skin. Under it stood more than 30 civil and military officials under the command of the king of Xiangyang, but most of them were worried.

It was because the main force of the 200000 Tang army went down to the south, and in a twinkling of an eye, it directly conquered six prefectures and twenty or thirty counties north of Xiangyang City, which was a great blow to them.

"King, we don't have to worry too much about the loss of dozens of counties in the north now."

The first one is Wen chendao.

"Mr. Zhang, what do you mean by that?"

A general.

"Your Majesty, we all know how powerful the longwuwei and youweiwei armies are!"

"In particular, the combat effectiveness of longwuwei is known as the most powerful army in the Tang Empire. The soldiers in the army are the strongest soldiers selected from various armies and hundreds of government offices."

"And how many troops do we have in these counties to compete with such a powerful army as longwuwei?"

"The loss of our states and counties is also expected, but it's just that we can't accept it for a while."

"Your Majesty, there are 100000 troops in Xiangyang City, and Xiangyang City has always been an important military town. Xiangyang City has been built continuously in all dynasties."

"Now Xiangyang City has reached an unbreakable stage. If the Tang Dynasty wants to break Xiangyang City, it must have a force of 500000."

"Ha ha ha! Mr. Zhang is right. It was a dream that the Tang Army wanted to conquer Xiangyang City. "

The rest of the officials also laughed. It was because they were too careful and were frightened by the momentum of the Tang army.

If you think about it carefully, what Mr. Zhang said is true. It is impossible for the Tang army to conquer Xiangyang City, because there are not so many main forces in the Tang army.

It is impossible for the Zuowei army of the Tang Dynasty and the 100000 army of Liangzhou Wei to go south. However, the baotao army is to pacify Zhang Ping, the king of Huainan, and then support Qi Jiguang, the governor of Xuzhou.

It's said that Li Dan is attacking Xuzhou City and wants to unify the south of the Yangtze River.

But Xuzhou City is like a nail, firmly nailed there, which makes Li Dan and Li Longji very uncomfortable.

"Come here and reward Lord Zhang with a thousand taels of gold, ten brocades and five beauties."

Zhao Hong, the king of Xiangyang, laughs.

"Thank you, king."

Mr. Zhang is also very grateful.

The rest of the people looked at him enviously, but they also secretly decided to learn more from him in the future, and decided to get closer to him.

"Lord Zhang, in your opinion, how should we defend Xiangyang City?"

Zhao Hong's light way.

"King, due to the limitation of geographical location, the Tang Army wanted to attack Xiangyang City. They could only attack from two directions: the north gate and the east gate."

"But these two gates are the tallest, four or five feet high. It must be very difficult for the Tang army. No matter which direction they attack, as long as we keep the wall, we will be safe."

"Well, in your opinion, I will stick to Xiangyang City. I believe that with the passage of time, if the Tang army can't attack Xiangyang City, it will withdraw."

"I believe that we will be able to hold Xiangyang City. On the day of the withdrawal of the Tang army, we will have a banquet."

Three days later, 200000 Tang troops came down, and the atmosphere of Xiangyang City suddenly changed, even became very strange.

At the same time, the four gates of Xiangyang City are all tightly closed, and no one is allowed to get close to the gate.

At the same time, 30000 troops each moved the camp directly to the north gate and the east gate. ..