Chapter 420

If you can, all people, including Huan Wen, hope to go to Puyang County to participate in a war that is destined to be an unparalleled war, rather than stay outside and do something that is meaningful but difficult to pay attention to.

The battle of Puyang will certainly be remembered in history, even if it is a dry war of consumption, all because it is a war that will determine the national destiny. Future generations will develop countless versions of stories based on real combat experience and some out of thin air imagination.

Huan Wen's inner eagerness was reflected in his actions. He ordered all the rest to go out and sweep the surrounding areas except the 70000 troops surrounding Xincai.

The war of annihilation in which those who obey us prosper and those who oppose us perish, regardless of ethnic groups, there are only two choices when the call comes, either obedience or resistance.

The big action of the Han Army swept out from Xincai as the center, and some previous signs finally came into effect. That is to first destroy some local giants who think they are strong and famous as an example to deter others.

Chu Li, who was trapped in Xincai, first learned that at least 160000 Han troops were coming to the city. After two days, he found that there were only about 70000 Han troops outside the city. He had been thinking hard about what countermeasures should be taken. Many poems had been brewing, but how to carry out military operations was at a loss.

"Talk about it all." Chu Li looked at the appearance that there was no great disaster. He asked in a very calm tone, "is there any good plan to break the enemy?"

In the lobby, on the right side, there are several rows of literati kneeling on their knees. Each of them looks a little dignified. Some of them are literati in the Jin army. Many of them come to play with Chu Li and are trapped in Xincai, such as great calligraphers, poets and painters; On the left, there are also about 20 generals kneeling on their knees. There is no doubt that they are all from an aristocratic family south of the Yangtze River. Judging by their appearance, there is no lack of dignified people.

In the face of Chu Li's expectant inquiry, whether Wen or Wu, their first move was to look at familiar people and look at each other. Then they looked at Chu Li uniformly, but no one said anything.

Before, many people gave Chu Li suggestions.

For example, at the beginning, someone proposed to "let go all the way, lead the Han Army to the South and mobilize troops to encircle", which was rejected by Chu Li's "static braking".

When the peripheral strongholds around Xincai were swept away one by one by the Han Army, it was suggested that "all strongholds should resolutely resist on the spot. The Jin army of Xincai moved between Ruyin and Xincai, and Xincai, wild camp and Ruyin became a corner". Without accident, it was rejected by Chu Li's "static braking" again.

Well, it was waiting for the Han Army to march into Ruyin. Chu Li finally accepted a suggestion according to his own heart, that is, to dispatch all the troops that could shrink to Xincai, concentrate the superior troops and stick to it, and wait for the southern reinforcements to arrive.

Now, in addition to Xincai, what Chu knows is that only Runan County still has Jin army. In fact, he didn't know that Huanwen had landed from the Yangtze River. After conquering the new interest, he wrote a letter of praise. While Huanwen went north, Wang Pu's relay was sweeping the rest of the cities of Runan County.

This is the information inequality caused by being trapped in one city. The city is completely sealed off. What happened outside can only be guessed by your imagination. Whether you can get a chance is entirely a matter of luck.

It was precisely because he didn't know the situation outside that Chu Li couldn't answer anyone.

Chu Li was not angry when he saw that no one spoke up. He even had the mood to smile. After smiling for a while, he said, "the Han Army has not attacked the city. Obviously, he knows that Xincai city is not easy to attack. We have enough food and fodder. You can think about it slowly."

At that moment, more than one person in the lobby praised Chu Li's demeanor, such as being calm or calm. In short, he felt very dignified. After thinking about it, the people who were worried about the siege of Jucheng felt a sense of peace of mind.

After the business talk, according to the social habits of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Chu Li dutifully prepared the banquet, waiting for food, wine, five stones, including Meiji, actors and other playthings to play, and a carnival in the besieged city was staged.

The social habits of the Wei and Jin Dynasties were summarized by simple descriptions. In the Cao and Wei dynasties, aristocratic families developed to the peak, and extravagance formed a trend in the upper society. During the Sima 1 Jin period, the Western Jin Dynasty was still the social habit of Cao Wei. After "crossing south in clothes", it became a kind of self abandonment of social elites after repeated northern expeditions to restore the hopelessness of the Central Plains. They believed that there was no better way to forget their troubles except to live and dream of death to vent their hopelessness of serving the country.

Huan Wen didn't know what his opponent was doing. What he was doing was looking for the weaknesses of Xincai city as much as possible. He strolled down day after day and was surprised to find that Chu Li really turned Xincai into a strong city.

"How many people are there in the city?" Huan Wen found that Xincai did not connect the canal outside the city. He asked, "how many wells are there in the city?"

Li Mai was taken for a walk. Facing Huan Wen's question, he answered honestly, "except for the army, there are about 40000 residents in the city. Water wells... No specific calculation, there should be hundreds?"

Seriously speaking, the war between Han and Jin can be said to be a civil war. The two sides will not abuse and surrender their generals and prisoners. In fact, it is not too difficult to make them serve after being captured. Li Mai did not surrender. He would answer that it was for the sake of Huan Wen's good treatment to him.

"How much firewood did the abbot prepare in advance?" Huan Wen thought this question was very important. He looked at Li Mai with a smile and asked, "should this be clear?"

Li Mai shook his head silently. After a little while, he said, "before I left, Xincai garrison didn't collect firewood. After I left, I didn't know."

Huan Wen has been considering the odds of a strong attack, and then how many troops will be lost by a strong attack on his own side.

Xincai's city wall is square in shape and about four feet high. Eight horse crossbows can be found and arranged on the city wall. The Jin army will not lack strong bows and powerful crossbows. If we really want to attack, we must lose a lot.

According to common military knowledge, the best way to face a strong city is to surround it without fighting, and rely on siege to cut off each other's food and supplies. However, any siege war will take a long time, which is exactly what Huanwen doesn't want to see.

Xincai spent his time in Besieged observation and besieged observation, but the war on the periphery broke out very fiercely.

The headquarters of the Han army is to supervise the slave army to launch attacks on local giants who are unwilling to belong to them, because it is to pick strong local giants to make an example. The Hu people who are slave soldiers are not good at attacking the city, so it must be very difficult to attack the fortress.

Wantonly attacking local giants did not have side effects for the Han Army, that is, the originally neutral local giants turned hostile to the Han Army, which was tantamount to Huan Wen ordering attacks on local giants and forcing more people to take refuge in the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

The situation of Xincai county and Ruyin County spread to Runan County. The news that the Han Army wantonly attacked the enemy's powerful forces made Xie Shi relatively easy to convince a large number of powerful forces. Almost when the attack spearhead of the Han Army turned to Runan County, Xie Shi included the collapsed soldiers and enemy forces, and even put together a miscellaneous army with about 20000 people.

By this time, Xie Shi had known the situation of Xincai county and Ruyin County, as well as the news that the Yangtze River was tightened by the Han fleet. He knew very well that before the Jin Army Navy south of the Yangtze River seized control of the Yangtze River, the southern reinforcements that the national Abbot was eager to see could not go north at all.

There is also other information, such as the incorporated ran Minjun, who attacked Nanyang County about a month ago. In this way, as far as Xie Shi knows, the Han army is not only fighting with the state of Zhao in Shijie, but also making a massive invasion of the state of Jin.

"How powerful!" Xie Shi looked more mature after the attack. He said to the local giants who took refuge in him, "but it is precisely because the Han army fought everywhere that they won't have too many troops in Runan County."

The local giants who took refuge in the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty had their own reasons. The main reason was that the Han state was more harsh on local giants. For example, the Han parliament carried out the most detailed demographic statistics and registration. This act alone was enough to kill most local giants, regardless of other measures.

There are indeed too many places for war in the Han Dynasty. The news is not so closed, and most of them know that the battle of Puyang will be related to the fate of the Han Dynasty and Shijie Zhao. Therefore, it is impossible for both sides not to work hard.

Because they knew the importance of Puyang battlefield, more than one local power thought that the Han army could not spend too much force or time against them. Most of them thought that procrastination would usher in the opportunity to change the situation. Moreover, they had another plan. For example, the Han army won in Puyang battlefield. Selling out the same powerful or small imperial court in the Eastern Jin Dynasty was also a means of meritorious service. (similar to the puppet army transformed into a revolutionary, a life, a war and a scholar)

As time went by, Huan Wen had gathered about 50000 prisoners of war from ordering the collection of local giants to the Han Army camp outside Xincai. On the 46th day of the massive siege of Xincai, he finally issued the first order to attack the city.

Chu Li, the country's father-in-law, who had been living and dreaming all the time, learned that the Han Army had attacked the city. The moment before, he was taking drugs with a group of close friends. With dizzy thinking, he was helped to the wall of the city where Huanwen general's flag was located.

"This shaft is not restrained enough!" Chu Li's face flushed, which was the prelude to the five stones' exertion. He shouted to the left and right: "we have high and solid walls, sharp City guarding equipment, and soldiers with one heart and one mind. The Han army will be broken and bleeding!"

First, the general and a group of literati cheered Chu Li's face, then the soldiers guarding the city of Jin army were driven to shout, and then the war drums joined in the chorus. Looking at Xincai City, it really looked like high morale.

Zhang Mi is a miscellaneous general. Unlike Chu Li and many other aristocratic families who "dress to the South", he was born in a genuine Southern aristocratic family. To tell the truth, there has always been a contradiction between the aristocratic family who "dress to the South" from the north and the southern indigenous aristocratic family, which is the current situation that the southern indigenous aristocratic family has been suppressed by the aristocratic family migrated from the north.

"Commander, look at the appearance..." Zhang Mi didn't want to talk. Just now, many aristocratic families had a banquet. He was excluded, and the boss was unhappy in his heart. The problem is that everyone in the city has become a grasshopper on a rope. He had to remind: "those who are about to attack are the people forced around?"

Chu Li didn't know whether he heard it or not. He just "Oh" and closed his eyes.

Chu Li is not the only one who is not right. One of the people who attended the drug party just now seems relatively strange. They are either helped to close their eyes or run around like crazy people, adding a kind of... Monster to the originally serious and nervous atmosphere?

In the sound of beating drums, Huan Wen ordered the attack. For a moment, nearly 3000 mobs forced to come forward by their servants ran to Xincai.

It should be said that the people who were sent to Xincai city to be cannon fodder after being captured were the slave army. There were almost any ethnic group among them, so that the language of dressing up or shouting "kill" was confused.

The slave army who launched the attack did not have any siege equipment except the ladder to the city. They could not have excellent weapons or armor, and their shields were also made of rough assembled boards. When they ran within the range of the bow and crossbow men of the Jin army at the city head, the garrison at the city head fired long-range attack weapons, including eight horse crossbows, strong crossbows and strong bows, The moment the arrow fell, there was a constant scream.

The Jin army guarding the city had a high advantage. They also had relatively sophisticated equipment. Under the constant arrow rain, the 3000 slave army didn't even close to the wall 150 steps. After two or three hundred people died, they turned and fled.

Huan Wen, who sat on the high platform with the golden dagger, frowned when he saw that the slave army had lost its achievements and retreated. He ordered stuffy: "the supervisor team warned to shoot arrows first. If you don't return to the city, you'll kill them all."

Yuan Qiao opened his mouth to speak. Before he could speak, Huan Wen had ordered him to say nothing.

There was a scene on the battlefield. The slave soldiers were first shot and collapsed by the Jin army defending the city. When they ran back, they were warned by the slave army to shoot arrows. The warning was invalid. The slave army immediately covered them, followed by light cavalry to kill.

The scenes showed that the soldiers of the Jin army at the head of the city stood upright, which also caused an uproar from the slave army.

The uproar and agitation of the slave army in the camp did not bring anything good. The loudest voice was a burst of arrows, and organized resistance was divided and killed.

"Uncle Yan." Huan Wen's temperament looked cold. He said depressed, "we need more slave soldiers."

Yuan Qiao only nodded in agreement. In fact, he felt that Huan Wen was becoming more and more impetuous recently, and his murderous nature was bullish day by day. Of course, it was because of the new news from other battlefields. For example, Xie an led his army to defeat sun Fudu, and had officially joined the Puyang battlefield. The friendly forces attacking Nanyang County also completed their targets and headed for Puyang.

Seeing others do one thing after another that they want to participate in, Huan Wen is dragged in place. If you want to say how depressed it is, it's more irritable.