Lord of the House

To capture Nanyang and take Jingzhou, Ye Jiluorong's mind has been set, and the task left to Zhou Fan, Tian Chang and other generals is to capture Nanyang City as soon as possible and completely open the channel for the army to go south.

It has been twenty days since Zhou Fan, Tian Chang, and Meng Anchan led their troops to Nanyang City. However, in the early stage, it was mainly to clear the obstacles on the periphery of Nanyang City, fill in the trenches, build siege roads, build siege weapons, and conduct tentative attacks.

It was not until August 8 that the Nanyang offensive and defensive battle entered its real climax.

More than 70,000 soldiers and horses took turns to seize the head of Nanyang City from the siege road, the cloud ladder or the boarding vehicle. Hundreds of catapults of various types forced Nanyang City. , grinding discs and other objects, all smashed into Nanyang City.

For a time, arrows inside and outside Nanyang City were like dense rain, and blood flowed into rivers.

Ye Jiluorong and Shewenzhuang also stayed in the Dushan Camp in the north of Nanyang City to supervise the battle. Ye Jiluorong doesn't care about the casualties of the siege troops and horses. He only cares about the casualties of the defenders at all times. He only cares about whether the fighting will of the defenders has been shaken. The defense tore a hole.

On the third day, Ye Jiluorong even allocated more than a thousand white cloak elites who accompanied him to the Dushan Camp to Zhou Fan for siege.

The sources of troops in the early battles of the various tribes in Yandong mainly came from the soldiers of various tribes. It was only after the change of Yeqiujian and the early days of Yejier's rule that elites were selected from the soldiers of various tribes to form a standing army called Wangjingsu Weijun.

These people are skilled in bowing and horses, practicing martial arts since childhood, and participating in brutal wars all year round. They are the real elites of the Yandong tribes.

In the ninth year of Chongguan's reign, Ye Ji'er personally led a hundred thousand soldiers and horses to break through and invade Yannan, and there were no more than ten thousand people selected as the guardian of the king's house.

With the annexation of the Huhus in Yanxi, the scale of the cavalry troops controlled by Beiyan became larger and larger, and the scale of the newly attached army also rapidly expanded to more than 200,000 horses. Except for a part of the former king's house guards who stayed in Yanjing and the palace guards, almost half of them were given to princes and dukes to act as personal guards.

On the basis of the elite guards in the king's tent, Ye Jiluorong set up his direct line of troops, numbering 6,000 people. Over the years, he fought in the north and south, and he was the elite of the elite in Beiyan. He used to wear white felt to fight. It is different from the other troops and horses under Ye Jiluo Rong's command, so it is also known as the White Cloak Army.

In order to open the gap as soon as possible and capture Nanyang City, Ye Ji Luorong could only hand over the white cloak to Zhou Fan for a **** hand-to-hand battle.

The 50,000 soldiers and horses of the newly attached army under Zhou Fan were based on the incorporation of the Xuanzhen surrendering troops into other surrendering troops and the people.

After the establishment of the new military household system, the status of the soldiers was improved, and deduction of food and salaries was rare in the army. Therefore, the morale and combat power of the newly attached army increased compared with that before the surrender. Those who can be called elites are mostly Xuanzhen border troops who surrendered with him, and the total number is only more than 20,000. Even if there are more than 20,000 people, not all of them will fight to the death.

Yandong Zhuhu originated between the white mountains and the black waters, with the Bulun Mountains as their ancestral land. The white cloak army under Ye Jiluorong is actually a hundred battle tigers who are familiar with horse and foot battles. , and they are all the most sophisticated in the Yanbei Army.

The elites of the white cloak were incorporated into the siege troops and horses, forming a sharp knife-like front, along the siege road, and stabbed the already precarious Nanyang city defense with **** wounds one after another, making the casualties of the defenders sharp. rise.

Standing on the viewing platform with Ye Jiluorong, She Wenzhuang watched as the troops and horses kept standing at the top of the city, and started a hand-to-hand battle with the defenders for the city. The Hu Ben elites tempered by the **** battles to establish the clan and the country through battles are truly extraordinary and can be compared to the elites. I thought that this kind of offensive would continue, and the Nanyang defenders would continue to bleed. Even if Liang Chengchong died, he would not withdraw from Nanyang. Go, it won't last a few days.

Ye Jiluorong stood on the railing and said to Zhou Fan, "It's been a long time since the city was massacred. Send the order. After the city is broken, Xu siege troops and horses will slaughter them for three days and then head south!"

Hearing Ye Ji Luorong's order, Shewenzhuang's heart was like a dry well, and Bosi did not move.

Hu Wenmudang would not give up Jingzhou easily, but after crossing the Han River and heading south from Xiangyang, with several cities in Dangyang (Jingmen) in front, he could reach Jingzhou.

Although Hu Wenmu used Dangyang as the outer fortress of Jingzhou, there were not many garrisoned troops, but he had to capture them one by one, and he would also waste a lot of time.

If the enemy of Dangyang was asked to hold back Beiyan's march to Jingzhou, the main force of the Huaidong Army might be called to cross the river before them to form an encirclement of Hanjin (now Hankou).

Now in Hanjin, Yang Xiong's 10,000-odd navy army guards the city and blocks the Han River. Although after taking Wuguan, Ye Jiluorong ordered Sun Jichang, one of the Eight Capital Commanders of the newly attached army, to rush to Hanjin with 15,000 cavalry for reinforcements and strengthen the defense of the southern line; even if Sun Jichang could arrive at Han in time However, with the strength of Hanjin, it was far from enough to fight the main force of the Huaidong Army in the open area between East Hanjin and Qichun.

At this time, Huaidong had nearly 40,000 water infantry troops in Jiangzhou. After some of Huaidong's forbidden water infantry troops in Ganzhou, Yuanzhou, Fuzhou and even Jiangning were transferred to Jiangzhou, Lin Bie was in Jiangzhou. The total number of troops that can be called to fight Hanjin can reach a maximum of 100,000.

If the main force of the Huaidong Army is asked to cross the river first to form a siege of the Hanjin area, and the road they take south from Jingzhou is blocked by Dangyang and other cities, then they can only give up Jingzhou without fighting, and first go south along the east bank of the Han River to relieve Hanjin. around.

The slaughter of Nanyang is to deter the defenders of Dangyang from daring to resist.

The slaughter of Nanyang is to make the newly attached army and the generals of the luxury family who have just surrendered become more bloodthirsty, let go of the ideological burden, and let go of the delusion that surrendering Huaidong will escape the reckoning.

Zhou Fan led the order to the front to supervise the battle, and Ye Jiluorong said to Shewenzhuang: "I will discuss with the King of Fujian carefully about the military food..."

"Yes." Shewenzhuang replied, and returned to the tent with Ye Jiluorong.

After the capture of Nanyang, the Yuehan River rushed to Jingzhou. The most troublesome problem for Ye Jiluorong and Shewenzhuang was not the lack of troops, nor the large-scale gathering of the Huaidong Army in Jiangzhou to cross the river north, but the raising of food and grass.

This time, the fight against Nanyang was very hasty, but in order to gain time and prompt Luo Xiancheng to join forces and send troops to contain Huaixi, the Nanyang battle had to be launched in July.

Fortunately, Chen Zhihu defeated the troops and horses retreating from Hezhong Prefecture with Liang Chengyi in the Beiru River, and intercepted a large amount of grain, so that Ye Jiluorong was able to lead the main force of more than 100,000 cavalry to attack Nanyang immediately from the western Henan area.

In the past, Beiyan soldiers and horses used to grab food from the battlefield to supplement military food, but all the prefectures in Henan were destroyed, and Nanyang and Huaixi carried out a thorough clean-up before the war. After the Beiyan soldiers and horses were called in, it was impossible to raise them from the local area. enough food.

For this war on the Western Front, the Emperor of Heaven, Ye Jier, specially dispatched Zuo Chengzheng Fan Lan to enter Luoyang, the Hezhong Prefecture, to take charge of the food and salaries of the Western Route Army.

Although Yanji and Jinzhong have recovered relatively well over the years, and they were able to raise one million more grains for the war on the Western Front a few years ago, it is not easy to transport these grains from the banks of the Yellow River to Nanyang.

The water system from the Yellow River to the south mainly converges on the Huaihe River, and the river can be used to transport grains to the south. The safer route is to transport the grain and grass of Jinzhong and Yanji to Luoyang, and then transfer from Luoyang to Nanyang.

From Luoyang via Ruyang to Nanyang, there is no direct waterway to go, and water systems such as Yishui, Rushui, and Shashui have to be cut off. To transport the one million shi of grain from Yanji and Jinzhong to Luoyang and transport it south to Nanyang by land is a great test for the logistics system that Beiyan has just established.

From Fangcheng to Luoyang, it is about 700 miles away. Unlike the rapid march, 20,000 people and thousands of mules and horses have to travel back and forth between Luoyang and Fangcheng to transport food, which takes about a month.

Going back and forth once a month can only transport 112,000 stone grains to Fangcheng, and consume nearly 20,000 stone grains along the way.

Naturally, Ye Jiluorong cannot be satisfied with such logistical capacity, but no one can do better than Fan Lan.

After a lot of consumption in the previous war, the grain reserves in Fangcheng and Ruyang are only 60,000 to 70,000 stone. When the next batch of grain arrives, the grain reserve will not exceed 100,000 stone. It should be said that it is not enough to support more than ten thousand stone. Wan Dajun attacked Jingzhou immediately after taking Nanyang.

Therefore, it is necessary to collect and store grain and grass from its channels and in Xiangyang for the upcoming war in Jingxiang.

At this time, there were three sources for raising grain in Xiangyang, one was from Xiangfan, the other was from Suizhou, and the third was from Guanzhong through Wuguan.

However, these three places are not places with surplus grain. Shewenzhuang is not at all sure how much grain can be raised in a short period of time.

However, in Ye Zhi Luorong's eyes, the most difficult period is not too difficult, it is already the first ten days of August.

In Jingxiang area, including Suizhou and Xiangfan areas, wheat is grown in spring and ripe in autumn. By mid-to-late September, a large amount of autumn grain can be obtained to supplement the shortage of military food on the Jinghan Plain. Before, if you could raise 200,000 shi of grain in Xiangyang, you would be able to support the consumption of the early battles to attack Jingzhou.

However, regarding the food issue, Shewenzhuang was not as optimistic as Ye Jiluorong thought.

Luo Xiancheng dispatched troops from Tongbai Mountain to attack Huaixi~www.wuxiaspot.com~ A large number of Ding Zhuang were recruited into the army, and the farm system in Suizhou was in a semi-abandoned state almost after June. Even if there is grain in the field, a large number of people will be dispatched to harvest it in the ten days of autumn ripening. In order to supplement the horse food for the war horses, the young crops outside Nanyang City are all eaten by the war horses. From Xinye to Fancheng, it is the strategic buffer zone between Nanyang and Suizhou. ) on the east bank of the Han River, which has been in ruins for several years. After the remnants of the luxury family entered, they wanted to clean up the wasteland and cultivate crops, and it was not a short time.

Not to mention that at the moment, even when the autumn is ripe, the food that can be obtained from Xiangfan and Suizhou will not be too much. I am afraid that if Luo Xiancheng’s own troops are supplemented, there will be serious shortages; the situation in Guanzhong will definitely not be better than Suizhou.

In the end, it is necessary to strengthen the transportation capacity from Luoyang to Nanyang.

As long as the food can enter Nanyang, it can enter the Han River via the Ganshui River and go south to the front line. Another is to raise food from the periphery of Jingzhou.

From Dangyang to the south and Jingzhou to the north, between Hanshui and Jingshan, is the main wheat growing area of ​​Jinghu Lake.

Shewenzhuang analyzed many things carefully with Ye Ji Luorong, and said: "From what I see, from Luoyang to Nanyang, the transportation of grain is still too slow, and 10,000 soldiers and horses should be drawn to make up for the lack of transportation capacity, and then It may not delay the next Jingxiang war..."

When it comes to food, Ye Ji Luorong will not be sloppy.

However, even if there is not enough food from Jingxiang when the autumn is ripe, Ye Jiluorong believes that as long as Nanyang is taken, the passage from Luoyang to Nanyang via Ruyang, then via Fancheng and Xiangyang to the south will be unobstructed, and the food in Luoyang will be unobstructed. It is still energy that is continuously transported to the front line of Jingxiang, and perhaps the transport capacity needs to be strengthened. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter