Lord of the House

In the face of **** slaughter, some people would rather die than give in, while others are cowardly and cowardly, trying to survive.

Watching nearly ten times as many enemies besieging the city, the flags are spread out like a black cloud covering the field.

In the misty morning, the roaring of the war horses, mixed with the wind blowing from the north, filled his ears, making the guard Chen Duo's heart shake, giving birth to a sense of frustration that it is difficult to be an enemy, but he thinks that his family is in Jingzhou. In the city, he was also told to intentionally die in battle at the front of the city, which was also a confession to Hu Wenmu: if he surrendered, Hu Wenmu would definitely not spare his family...

However, history did not give Chen Ye a chance to choose. When the Yan soldiers approached the city, Zhang Fang, Chen's deputy general, bribed the Jingmen gentry who wanted to sacrifice the city to save their lives, and led village soldiers to surprise the West City Gate, opening the city gate to attract Yan Soldiers enter the city.

On September 24th, due to the rebellion of the local village tyrants and the village soldiers who assisted the defending city, they opened the city gate and led the enemy into the city. Only a few of the five thousand defenders occupied the terrain in the city to resist, and most of them chose to surrender.

This was also the fourth day when the Huaidong Army stormed Huangpi.

Being able to win Jingmen so easily made Ye Jiluorong, who entered Jingmen Beishiheyi Camp yesterday, very satisfied. This also means that the last obstacle to entering Jingzhou has been removed, but what Ye Jiluorong could not have expected was the matter Just as Shewenzhuang had expected beforehand, the Huaidong Army actually chose Huangpi City as the main attack direction, and it didn't hold back once it came up...

"Sun Ji often eats dry rice! Thirty thousand defenders, it's only four days away, and even the city head can't be defended!"

Before the surrender, Zhou Fan, as a side general, was not used to being a general in a military town in the Mainland; after the surrender, Chen Zhihu and Yuan Lishan had the highest status. His status was actually equivalent to that of Sun Jichang, and he was somewhat dissatisfied, thinking that Sun Jichang had taken advantage of the first fall.

In front of the rescue messenger sent by Sun Jichang, Zhou Fan had nothing good to say.

Ye Jiluorong just pretended not to hear Zhou Fan's complaining words, he glanced at Shewenzhuang, smacked his lips and sighed: "The Huaidong Army is fighting so fast!"

According to reason, since the Huaidong Army has captured Huangpi, it must also capture Hanjin, then it is possible to break the blockade of Hanshui, and advance both land and water to attack the flank of Beiyan. But in the direction of the Huaidong Army's main attack, the guesses were wrong at the beginning, and the Huaidong Army attacked Huangpi so quickly, how many people could be sure that after the Huaidong Army took Huangpi, they would not go north directly from the Huangpi gap?

"The Huaidong Army has no reason to fight so fiercely!" Hu Zongguo frowned, puzzled.

Lin Fu is good at using magic tricks, but he is also a person who makes plans and then moves.

Before the battle of Shangrao, although the time for the Huaidong Army to finally break through the Shangrao Line of Defense was very short, before that, the Huaidong Army had made a lot of preparations. In order to storm the Shangrao Line of Defense, the Huaidong Army had prepared for almost half a year.

Now that the Huaidong Army is in front of Huangpi City, they do not make any preparations. The troops and horses are pushed to the front and directly attack the city. Although the strength of the Huaidong Army, as long as the casualties are not counted, it is certain to take the Huangpi City by force, but the first battle of Huangpi For the Huaidong Army, it was the prelude to the entire Jingxiang battle.

In such a prelude battle, how many casualties are the Huaidong Army willing to bear?

10,000 people can still be 20,000 people!

If the Huaidong Army had accumulated 20,000 casualties under Huangpi City, compared to the Huaidong Army, which could gather up to 100,000 infantry in the eastern Hubei region, that would be a 20% reduction rate!

If there is such a tough battle next, the Huaidong Army will lose its ability to continue fighting, and the initiative in the entire battle of Jingxiang will be in the hands of Beiyan.

Does the prologue battle have to be fought so fiercely?

Hu Zongguo was puzzled, and Ye Ji Luorong, Zhou Fan, and other generals were all puzzled.

"When it comes to potential, it's nothing more than 'one thing goes another'." Guo Song is a Han from Liaodong. Like Fan Lan, he was a Han minister recruited by Ye Jier in Liaodong. In charge of the affairs of the book and ink, he was also Ye Jiluo Rongyi's adviser. He said, "The prince ordered the massacre of Nanyang, which made the soldiers and people of Nanyue panic, and their fighting spirit was weak. Wherever the Yan army passed, they surrendered in hope of the wind. It can be inferred that Jingzhou defended The soldiers are also not strong-willed. Lin Fu attacked Huangpi as soon as he came up, so he should be the first to win back some disadvantages and strengthen the fighting spirit of his allies!"

"It does make sense," Ye Ji Luorong said, "other than that, there is no explanation."

"As far as I can see," Shewenzhuang said, "Huaidong's army slammed Huangpi to lure me from Shicheng to the south!"

"Most of the defenders in Hanjin and Tiemenshan were infantry, and it was difficult to win the field war with the infantry in Huaidong," Zhou Fan said. "Shicheng can't get rid of iron cavalry, and it is true that Hanjin and Tiemenshan help Huangpi. There are indeed too many drawbacks, but it is easier The treachery of the Central Huai Eastern Army, but the soldiers of Shicheng, were originally intended to aid Eastern Hubei."

At this time, the reserve troops and horses deployed in Shicheng on the east bank of the Han River had reached 40,000. Except for the 10 percent of the infantry under Su Tingzhan, the remaining 30,000 soldiers and horses were all elite cavalry from Yanbei.

The deployment of so many troops and horses in Shicheng is to prevent the defense line in eastern Hubei from being unable to support, and send reinforcements.

It's just that no one thought that the reserve troops of Shicheng would be transferred to reinforcements so soon.

Huang Pi must be rescued, if not rescued, Sun Jichang will not be able to support Huangpi for a few days.

Once the Huangpi defenders call the Huaidong Army to kill and annihilate the Huaidong Army, no matter whether the Huaidong Army will go further alone, or turn around and attack Hanjin, it will cause extreme damage to the defenders of Hanjin, Tiemenshan and Fengshan. The bad influence made Hu Wenmu in Jingzhou see the hope of winning the battle of Jingxiang, and his determination became stronger - the change of the situation will be as Guo Song said: one will disappear and the other will rise.

When She Wenzhuang saw Zhou Fan, Guo Song and others, they all believed that the Huaidong Army's fierce offensive in Huangpi was intended to gain a head start and regain the disadvantage, and Ye Jiluorong also tended to agree with this view. , with General Zhou as an assistant, I will be able to overcome it as I wish, I have no great use in Jingzhou, or I can serve as a staff member for the generals in Eastern Hubei..."

Shewenzhuang is willing to go to eastern Hubei, and Ye Jiluorong is naturally happy - these years, although they have paid enough attention to the Huaidong Army, Sun Jichang, Meng Anchan, Zhong Rong and Yang Xiong actually did not deal much with Huai. Eastern Army experience.

Although the She family has repeatedly been defeated in Huaidong, Ye Jiluorong believes that if there is anyone here who knows Huaidong the most, there will be no one other than Shewenzhuang.

Ye Ji Luorong said: "The King of Fujian is willing to go to eastern Hubei to supervise the war. That is the best! If the King of Fujian is going to control the generals in eastern Hubei, then I can also rest assured to fight Jingzhou."

Zhou Fan felt unhappy, Ye Jiluorong gave Shewenzhuang the power to direct the war situation in Eastern Hubei, not just going to Eastern Hubei to be a staff officer for the generals!

"Prince Xie Mu trusts, Wenzhuang will not dare to give up Prince Mu's trust!" She Wenzhuang did not shirk. The deployment of the Huaidong Army in Huangzhou and the fierce attack on Huangpi had too many places that made him feel uneasy. Said, "After Wenzhuang went to the east of Hubei, Prince Mu should have the soldiers of Jingmen descend quickly to build a pontoon bridge between Shicheng and Pengwanling to connect the two sides of the strait."

Although there are nearly a thousand ships in the navy, most of them are small and medium-sized ships with a capacity of one or two hundred stones, including the warships that Yang Xiong led to the luxury family, and most of them were converted from fishing boats on Dongting Lake.

After winning Jingmen, it is more efficient to transport grain and grass from Xiangyang to the front line of Jingzhou by land.

From Xiangyang to Jingzhou, it is almost a north-south straight line, a three-hundred-mile straight road. Since these areas have been under the control of Jinghu for a long time, the road conditions are good, including Nanzhang, Zhongyi, Jingmen, Changlin, Dangyang and other cities. After the fall, Yeji Luorong was able to requisition enough people from the west bank of the Han River.

On the east bank of the Han River, the land was ruined and the roads were tortuous and far away. There were not one hundred people, and there were not enough people to requisition. Naturally, the materials could only be transported southward from Xiangfan from Xiangfan by the Han River.

Because the grain and grass of Hanjin and Shicheng were given priority to supply the inland cities such as Tiemenshan and Huangpi, which were easy to be cut and surrounded by the Huaidong Army~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Shicheng, Hanjin and other cities along the Han River, including Suishu The people who fled from their homes across the Jiangbei, nearly 120,000 to 30,000 soldiers and civilians, needed materials to be delivered in time from Xiangyang - it didn't look like much, but it took up nearly half of the navy's transportation capacity.

In addition, it is necessary to prevent the Huaidong water camp from directly approaching the Han River branch from the downstream to clear the obstacles in the channel, and it is necessary to retain a part of the water army in Hanjin.

There are not enough ferries. If Ye Jiluorong wanted to transfer the troops and horses of Jingmen to the east bank or the troops and horses of Shicheng to the west bank at this time, it would be extremely inconvenient without a pontoon bridge. Without the pontoon bridge, Yanhu's 300,000 troops on the southern line would be separated into east and west. If something changes, there are no pontoon bridges, and there are not enough ferries, everything has to be detoured from Xiangyang, and it will take more than 400 miles to travel, and the cucumber dishes will be cold.

A pontoon bridge can be erected between Shicheng and Jingmen, and with the ferry boat, one can cross tens of thousands of soldiers and horses a day, which can greatly enhance the resilience.

Zhou Fan was dissatisfied that Shewenzhuang could go to eastern Hubei to supervise the war, but Shewenzhuang proposed to build a pontoon bridge in Shicheng, although it would make the supplies more scarce, but it was also a safe policy, and he did not object without reason.

Ye Jiluorong had limited resources. Although he had obtained 5,000 soldiers in Jingmen, the 5,000 soldiers were not enough to make people feel at ease in Jingmen, and Zhou Fan had to be coerced to attack Jingzhou by force.

Putting these soldiers into the battle to storm Jingzhou, one is to consume part of it, reducing the damage of the newly attached army elite; the other is that the soldiers are bloody, and it will not be repeated.

The matter of erecting the pontoon bridge, Ye Ji Luorong can only leave it to those villagers who surrendered-although a time limit of 15 days was stipulated, Ye Ji Luorong doubted whether they could erect a pontoon bridge in 15 days. . But it doesn't matter, just chop off a few heads at that time, and change a group of people to do it. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter