Chapter 416

Li Kuang was a local tyrant five years ago. He thought he knew what virtue the Central Plains family was. Any Jin family under the rule of the Hu people for a long time would not have any loyalty, especially for the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty who abandoned himself. As for the Hu people's family, they don't have any sense of belonging. They are not the same as the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. They won't break their families for the sake of the Jin army.

In the afternoon of the same day, there was another attack that consumed the equipment of the Garrison Army. The number of servants who lost and retreated in the attack reached more than 2000, and the war was temporarily stopped at night.

At night, Li Kuang sat quietly in his big tent. He was waiting for something that would happen with a high probability.

Facts have also proved that Li Kuang did not wait for nothing. First, the city head shot arrows to help write cloth strips outside the city, and then someone simply came down from the city head with a rope. Without exception, they all represent some families in the city, and their basic destinations are surprisingly consistent. They should serve as insiders to help the Han Army capture Ruyin.

"There are people who work." Li Kuang didn't seem very proud. He checked the cloth again and again, and even asked the people who worked in person. When he returned to the big account, he called the generals and said calmly, "what should be distinguished now is that they really want to be insiders, or the enemy is setting traps."

Previously, Li Kuang's Department swept around Ruyin City, uprooted some good strongholds or fortresses, and accepted the refuge of some local giants. There is no lack of people who know the situation in Ruyin city.

Most of the followers identified the families who wanted to be insiders. If they were not right, no one might know, or the Jin army was laying out the plan.

"You must attack the city." Wang Biao naturally suspected that there was a trap, but he thought he should try anyway. As long as he was careful, even failure would not damage too many people and horses, and he would not miss the overall situation if he didn't hurt the strength of the army. He said, "make an appointment with them to make a signal and make an emergency?"

Li Kuang shook his head and said to the crowd, "counselors will push out some solutions according to what will happen."

What the army is most afraid of in combat is contingency. Even if it appears rigid and tied up, it is better than not having a plan in advance. That is because the army relies heavily on coordination, military orders can only be written by one person, and a large army must not go its own way.

The next morning, Li Kuang continued to send his servants to attack the city. He didn't call in until the evening. On this day, some servants successfully climbed to the city from the army, but they were soon defeated. Those servants who successfully boarded the city were honored by Li Kuang's promise in advance. They got 100 gold (copper) after removing the slave nationality. After passing on to the whole army, they made the servants whose morale had decreased a little high again.

The next night, people who wanted to take refuge the day before contacted again. A Qiang family in the city said that they had gathered about 1000 private soldiers with friendly families and could try to capture the city gate when the Han army attacked the city.

"Qiang people?" Li Kuang asked whether it was a Qiang family surnamed Zhang or a relatively famous family in Ruyin city. What he had to ask was, "what are their conditions?"

Wang Biao entertained the people who came to discuss and replied, "Zhang Luo wants to become the guard of Ruyin city. The children of his family and some people of the friendly family want to become the Han army."

Of course, it's impossible to be a servant of the Han army. It's going directly to the field group. It must also want a post.

It is not that there are no naturalized officers who were originally Hu people in the Han army. For example, Qian Jiantong also held important positions in the Yulin army.

Li Kuang said before that he wanted to kill the city was purely a threat. He didn't say that he didn't have enough status to really order the city to be killed. Even if he had enough status, he didn't dare to do so.

The main problem is that the first case of slaughtering the city will certainly be criticized as the person who ordered it. In addition, it is possible for the Han Army to levy the South and face one city after another with firm resistance to the end.

Of course, it may frighten other cities to resist.

On the third day, the soldiers attacked the city as usual. They had more enthusiasm to attack than the previous two days, just because their hard work could really be rewarded.

At the same time as the soldiers attacked the city, the 6000 Han Army also began to make their own preparations. If there is someone inside the city to open the gate, the first people to rush in will be servants, and the Han army will firmly control the gate.

In the morning, as usual, I attacked your defense, and both sides bled at the gate and on the wall section.

At noon, during the temporary armistice and dinner, the siege equipment of the Han Army in the rear was transported up. Li Mai looked very bad after seeing those siege equipment.

"The atmosphere in the city is very strange." Li Mai said to his deputy general, "once a large number of people gather, send troops to suppress them immediately."

It should be said that the Jin army did not find that some people in the city were false, but the length of the city wall was too long to absolutely stop. The Jin army killed dozens of people trying to get out of the city in two days. There were more archers who wanted to shoot cloth strips. How can we not know that the Han Army's threat to kill the city really had an effect.

LV Wang was Li Mai's deputy general. He asked nervously, "have we succeeded in pretending to be an insider?"

Li Mai is not sure if he is successful. The people he sent had an agreement with the Han Army, and the next night they interacted with the Han army with torches at the head of the city, as agreed. It is reasonable to say that the possibility of success is still very high.

"There is no urn in Ruyin city. Opening the gate and pretending to let the Han Army in may cause the gate to be lost." Li Mai frowned and said, "in fact, I don't know how to set up a bureau to calculate the Han army. It's just a rainy day."

Because Chu Li had completely "static braking", the Jin army strongholds around Ruyin city had been pulled out by the Han army. The reality is that the Jin army only has defenders in Ruyin city.

After three days of fighting, the Jin garrison in Ruyin City killed and injured more than a thousand people. To say that the loss was not serious, but the city became turbulent. Li mai not only had to defend the four walls, but also had to draw out his few troops to monitor the city.

The so-called isolated city not only means that it is difficult to obtain support, but also that there are no own troops outside the city. There is no good way to defend a city. In addition to defending it, we can only hope that reinforcements will come.

Li Mai knows that unless Shouchun has reinforcements coming, he can't count on Xincai.

Thinking about it, Li Mai couldn't help looking at the direction of Shouchun. There was a green mountain and flat field. At this moment, the distance between Ruyin and Shouchun was really more distant than the reality.

Li Mai's understanding is to see through Chu Li. It's not how hard Chu Li didn't work, nor what Chu Li did to bring the whole war to a halt. It's precisely Chu Li's inaction that led Li Mai to despair about this sudden war.

Chu Li, the abbot of the State Council who had a good reputation before, was actually a thief who had no real name. When he was challenged, all his good reputation was completely exposed, which was still the way to expose the bottom to the sky.

"If... The end will mean if..." Lv Wang looked left and right, lowered his voice and asked, "if your Yin is not enough, do we have any hope of breaking through?"

"Break through?" Li Mai thought about this problem more than once. He raised his hand and pointed to the side of the Han Army camp outside the city, where a large number of war horses were blowing: "about 70000 Han troops, there should be more than 40000 cavalry."

In fact, there are not as many as 40000 cavalry in the Han army. The cavalry of the Han army is matched with at least two war horses. According to the standard, there are more than 40000 war horses outside Ruyin City, that is, about 20000 cavalry.

LV Wang also felt a trace of despair for a moment. The 20000 Jin troops in Ruyin city only had less than 2000 war horses. Even if 2000 people fled out of the city on horseback, they should think of escaping from the pursuit of 40000 Han cavalry. It was not generally difficult.

"Hold on!" Li Mai is not only giving encouragement to his deputy general, but also to himself: "the imperial court must know that there is a war here and will send reinforcements."

The news that the Jin Army Navy in Jingkou was seriously damaged has not yet reached the ears of Chu Li or Li Mai. Of course, the news that Shouchun's reach of the Yangtze River was blocked by the Han Army has not come.

Because of the unequal news, Chu Li, who stuck to Xincai and Li Mai, who stuck to Ruyin, were confident that Chu Li was waiting for the arrival of reinforcements to launch a counter attack, and Li Mai's inner despair did not reach the peak.

The Yangtze River was blocked, and a large number of Han scouts were wandering on the north bank. It would be difficult for the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to spread any news to Xincai, especially to seal Ruyin, which was besieged on all sides.

On the fourth day of the war in Ruyin City, Huan Wen's fleet finally arrived around Xinxi. When they were about to land, they were attacked by the Jin army of coastal defense. Xie Shi was in charge of the Jin army.

Xie Shi is only 18 years old this year. Considering that he can marry and reproduce at the age of 13 at this time, and knowing that he is the main direct member of Xie's sect, it's really not too surprising to be a herdsman official in a place or a commander of an army at the age of 18.

Xie Shi has more or less mastered a series of news about the Han Army going south, Xincai and the north of Ruyin have been completely occupied by the Han Army, the Han army is attacking Ruyin garrisoned by Li Mai, and Chu Li concentrated the remaining Jin troops of Xincai county and Ruyin County in Xincai city.

As Xie an's younger brother, Xie Shi received a very good education since childhood. He immediately mobilized the Jin army of Runan County to camp near the reach of the Yangtze River near the information, and vowed to his subordinates that "since the Han Army has gone south, it is entirely possible to land on the back of the Yangtze River, and Xinxi will be the most likely place to be attacked."

Sure enough, Huan Wen came with a fleet. Xie Shi was not afraid at all and ordered the Jin army to block the attack on the shore. What was more depressing was that the Jin army on the shore was covered by the bed crossbow and strong crossbow on the Han warship. After the death and injury, he had to retreat inland.

"What?" Xie Shi looked tall and straight, but he looked thin. He asked in disbelief, "the range of the Han Army's bed crossbow is 250 steps (375 meters), and the range of the strong crossbow is more than 500 steps (750 meters)"

Xie Shi's shock did not come from how far he could shoot. You should know that the Qin army in the Pre-Qin Dynasty had pursed crossbows, and the range of pursed crossbows was close to 400 steps (600 meters). {there is another saying that the range of strong crossbows of the Qin army can reach 800 meters}

The long-range attack distance of the Han army was too far. The Jin army was killed and injured before hand to hand combat with the Han army. It was obviously difficult to prevent the Han army from landing.

Xie Shi, a young man, really didn't believe in evil. He personally came to the front of the battle and urged a thousand jin troops to try to launch a tentative attack on the landing Han army again. He saw with his own eyes that when the Jin army was about 300 steps near the river bank, the Han Army ships on the river immediately launched strong crossbows, and the crossbows and arrows fell intensively in a few breaths, About a hundred jin troops were killed or injured. They turned and ran away.

"Who is the enemy commander?" Huan Wen didn't think that the other party didn't cherish the lives of soldiers, but said, "it's a little for the consciousness of generals, that is, he doesn't believe the reports of his subordinates, suspicious and stupid."

As generals of the unified army, soldiers can only be regarded as numbers in their eyes. That is the psychological quality that the unified army must have, that is, the so-called kindness does not control the army. The difference is whether the loss of soldiers will create enough value.

Yuan Qiao replied, "the scouts have walked around. The reward is that the enemy should have about 15000, and the flag is the word 'thanks'."

"Thanks?" Huan Wen thought a little and knew that it must be Xie's gate valve, but Xie's gate valve has many children. It's hard to guess who it is. He shook his head indifferently: "I know we will land, but I can't change anything."

Yuan Qiao did not comment and talked about other things: "Wang Pu led the army to advance from Xuzhou. Considering that the Yangtze River has been mastered by us, it is difficult for the Jin army to cross the river to support the north bank. 80000 troops should come in recent days."

Li Kuang headed south from Yanzhou. According to the military establishment of the Han Army, Li Kuang can be regarded as the second deputy general of Huan Wen.

As the first deputy general, Wang Pu led his troops from Xuzhou and walked close to the Yangtze River. The purpose was to let the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty know that the state of Han was playing really this time, and to let the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty know what the cost of provoking the Han Parliament was.

If you want to land from a ship, especially when a large ship can't get close to the shore, you can't land quickly with many small boats.

It took four hours for the 10000 Han troops to land from midnight (9 o'clock) in the morning to Youshi (17 o'clock) in the evening.

During the landing of the Han Army, Xie Shi tried to invade the river bank many times, including organizing a shield array or cutting wood to make a wooden wall. After trying again and again, it was difficult to tell how many casualties were temporarily, but he failed to break through the cover of the bed crossbow and Crossbow of the Han army once, and waited until the evening before Mingjin returned to his camp.

"It's Xie Shi!" Huan Wen didn't know who the commander of the Jin army was until the evening. He said to Yuan Qiao, "I know the younger brother of Anshi (Xie an). He has been smart since childhood, but he is very stubborn. In this way, he doesn't worry that the Jin army will retreat to Xinxi city."