Lord of the House

Yuanzhou Xinyu, the scarlet battle flag was waving in the wind on the ruined city head, the Huaidong soldiers like wolves gave out earth-shattering shouts, and continued to climb the city head from the cloud ladder and the climbing car to annihilate the recalcitrant enemies. The soldiers, the more guards, fled into the city in a panic, screaming again and again.

The city towers were all on fire, and billowing black smoke billowed on the sun, covering the city and the countryside, making the sunny day look like a dusky night.

The four gates of Xinyu City were surrounded to death, and the defenders had no way out except for surrender. Fortunately, most of the defenders were still willing to surrender, and they chased after them after listening to the shouts of killing, throwing away their armor and kneeling with their hands on their heads. Come into town to accept.

The gates of the city are blocked by the defenders from the inside. The soldiers and horses entering the city are all climbing into the city, and there are only less than 2,000 people. At this time, the defeated defenders must be cut off to prevent them from gathering in one place. Knot.

When the city was broken, Zhang Xiongshan fled into the city, obviously there was no hostility; Zhang Xiongshan still had two or three hundred direct line elites who did not die, and if they were not careful, there would be unnecessary casualties.

Zhang Jiheng climbed to the top of the city so that he could keep abreast of the changing situation in the city at any time. Zhang Zuowu and Gu Hao also climbed from the bus to the top of the city.

Gu Hao and Zhang Zuowu, the eldest son of Zhang Han, the envoy of the Tanzhou system, and Zhang Zuowu, who is currently the Tanzhou government's judge and supervising military preparations, entered Xinyu on August 6, and in the name of debriefing, Entering the Huaidong Army was a pledge to show Tanzhou's sincerity in resisting Jiangning without ceding territory.

At that time, Lin Fu and Gao Zongting had already left Xiayuan and rushed to Jiangzhou, and ordered Zhang Jiheng to bring Zhang Zuowu and Gu Hao into the army and accompany them to Jiangzhou.

Zhang Jiheng's team also undertakes the important task of clearing and suppressing the remnant enemies of Xinyu, and they cannot go north for a while, so Zhang Zuowu and Gu Hao can only stay in Xinyu. , It didn't hold up for a day, so the Huaidong Army broke the city.

Although the remnants of the Yuanzhou army who were trapped in Xinyu with Zhang Xiongshan had long since lacked the will to fight, there were still four or five thousand people, and they knew that Lin Bie wanted to kill chickens and frighten monkeys by staying in Xinyu to watch the battle. Zhang Zuowu and Gu Hao felt uneasy. .

Yuanzhou's soldiers and horses were really defeated without wrongs, the soldiers had no fighting spirit, and the generals had no bravery, and the Huaidong Army was so strong, how could they not be defeated?

Zhang Jiheng was on the other side of the tower, Gu Hao and Zhang Zuowu were a little behind, and pressed their voices to Zhang Zuowu, "Prince Chongguo didn't have the means to take Yuanzhou in late May, but it dragged on for more than two months. It's hard to understand..."

Even if the road from Xinyu to Yuan is rough, the Huaidong Army generals are so strong in morale, skilled in tactics, well-armed and armed that even if they send 20,000 soldiers to the west, they should be able to smash Yuanzhou hard. down.

Zhang Zuowu frowned slightly, but it was inconvenient to discuss Huaidong in private at this time, so he suppressed his thoughts and went to join Zhang Jiheng.

Although Huaidong often adopts Huairou measures against the forces in Huaidong and Jiangnan Prefectures, it does not mean that if there is trouble in Tanzhou, Huaidong can continue to use Huairou methods to face each other-Huang Binghao died and his clan was wiped out, but it was Lin Bing who gave those who returned. Some forces not controlled by Huaidong gave a warning, and the one who had the most direct feeling for this warning was the Zhang family in Tanzhou.

"Master Gu, Master Zhang..." Zhang Jiheng greeted Zhang Zuowu and Gu Hao when he saw Zhang Zuowu and Gu Hao approaching.

"Looking at the situation in the city, the battle will probably be over after dark?" Gu Hao asked.

"Two or three hundred dead soldiers retreated with Zhang Xiongshan into a large mansion in the East City. The courtyard wall of the mansion was high and thick, and the surrounding alleys were narrow, making it difficult to attack for a while..." Feng Yan, the brigade commander, said by the side.

Feng Yan was originally Yu Wangao's former subordinate. After joining Huaidong with Tang Fuguan, Yang Zichen and others, he was promoted to brigade commander after accumulating military exploits.

Hearing that Zhang Xiongshan was still unwilling to surrender, Zhang Jiheng and Gu Hao secretly sighed: Huang Binghao still has one or two old men who are loyal to him and never forget him.

Zhang Jiheng said, "Come into the city with a hanging basket and hang some kerosene cans. Since they don't die, let them do it..."

Feng Yan agreed, so he arranged to annihilate the remnants of the defenders who resisted and refused to surrender. Zhang Jiheng, Zhang Zuowu, and Gu Hao passed through the city wall and went to the east gate tower to watch the battle.

The mansion is surrounded by a group of residential houses, and the front and back gates are connected by stone alleys. At this time, Feng Yan and his troops have been blocked from both sides. The Huaidong Army soldiers gathered firewood and other flammable things all over the city, threw them into the hospital together with the kerosene cans, and ignited them.

When the remnant enemy was forced by the fire and broke through the gate, in the depths of the wide alley outside the gate, waiting for them were arrows as dense as locusts.

Zhang Xiongshan, the self-proclaimed number one brave general in Jiangzhou, wanted to rush out with a sword to fight, but he called a giant spear to shoot, and even broke a blood hole in the battle armor and chest, howling unwillingly, in the house He fell dead in front of the door, mixed with the blood of the dead.

Thinking that Huang Binghao also set fire to the Huaidong Army when he broke down Yuancheng, Zhang Zuowu and Gu Hao felt a little sad.

Nearly 500 enemies were wiped out, and more than 4,000 enemies were captured, and the end of the Yuanzhou war came to an end. Nothing was unexpected. The last remaining soldiers of Yuanzhou's troops in Xinyu seemed to end like this.

The entire Xinyu city was in dire straits. Zhang Zuowu and Gu Hao lived with Zhang Jiheng in the barracks outside the city. The Xinyu side only had Feng Yan and his troops temporarily stationed.

The livelihood of the people inside and outside Xinyu City is also crippled. Fortunately, the days of the war will not last long, otherwise it will not be known when Xinyu will be restored to life.

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Unable to clear up the mess in Xinyu, Feng Yan led his troops to stay for a few days, Zhang Jiheng led the main force to leave Xinyu the next day and headed north from the foothills of Mount Mengshan, accompanied by Zhang Zuowu and Gu Hao.

Arrived in Yuzhang on the 12th day of the eighth lunar month. After the army arrived in Yuzhang, it did not enter the city, but bypassed Yuzhang City and headed northward, heading for Jiangzhou. They traveled hundreds of miles every day, and they were delayed for a moment. Zhang Zuowu and Gu Hao were both literati and had mules and horses to ride. After walking for several days, they still felt exhausted. With the ability to march for five hundred miles, the Tanzhou Army was thrown a few streets away.

The post road from Yuzhang to Jiangzhou is located on the west bank of Poyang Lake.

Zhang Zuowu and Gu Hao followed the army. Apart from the fact that the post road was crowded with army horses, there were thousands of sails racing on the lake near the shore of Poyang Lake. These military ships, loaded with armored soldiers, traveled north at the same time as Zhang Zuowu and the others.

He was so far away that he couldn't see the flag clearly, and Zhang Zuowu didn't know whether it was from Ganzhou or Fuzhou to mobilize troops and horses to go north.

If you think about it again, the Chen Zuo division in Ganzhou and the Zhang Gou division in Fuzhou are the elite fighting forces of the Huaidong Army.

If Nanyang falls, the army of Beiyan will join forces with She and Luo to go south, and at most nearly 300,000 troops will sweep south along the Han River like a flood. 30,000 troops lost in the hinterland of Jiangxi?

Although it is not certain that the Huaidong Army will not be able to contain the momentum of the North Yanxi Road army's southward march, at least according to the current situation, even if Jinghu, Chizhou and Huaixi can advance and retreat together with Huaidong this time, the disadvantage is also very great. obvious.

On the surface, it seems that the troops and horses of the Yue Dynasty on the western front are not a few. The troops were scattered on the periphery, and it was difficult to gather in the Jingxiang area to fight with Beiyan.

And once Beiyan was called to take Nanyang, Beiyan would be able to gather up to nearly 300,000 soldiers and horses to go south, in addition to leaving a small number of soldiers and horses on the east wing (such as Chen Zhihu's army) to contain Dongyuan in Huaixi.

In the south, the Huaidong Army in Jiangzhou, the Chizhou Army in Hubei, and the Jinghu Army in Jingzhou and Jiangxia have a total strength of only 170,000.

The Chizhou army had just suffered a major setback in Zongyang, and its morale had not recovered. The 30,000-strong fighting force could not be expected too much; and Hu Wenmu stood on Jinghu, although he had 60,000 soldiers and horses, he did not even dare to fight Suizhou in the early years. The combat power is even less worth looking forward to, and there are no famous generals available under his command.

Therefore, Huaidong really wants to cross the river north and fight with the Beiyan soldiers and horses in Jingxiang, and more can only rely on their own combat power.

Although Huaidong still has more than 30,000 elites in Luzhou, the soldiers and horses deployed by Huaidong in Luzhou are to protect the Huaixi flank. Once Huaidong transfers the troops from Luzhou to Jiangzhou, and Beiyan takes Nanyang, it is a better choice to take advantage of the situation to leave Tongbai Mountain, sweep Xinyang, and attack Shouzhou.

Huaidong alone can gather troops and horses in Jiangzhou, it is difficult to compete with the main force of the north Yanxi line, but for Huaidong, the biggest advantage is that there is natural danger of the Yangtze River, and the big deal is to give up the Jingxiang area on the north bank of the Yangtze River. Retreat to the south bank, still without losing a row across the river.

For Hu Wenmu, even if he had to give up the site on the north bank, the most difficult thing to keep Jiangxia and Ezhou on the south bank~www.wuxiaspot.com~ was the Chizhou army.

The Chizhou army guards Huangmei and Zongyang, although it is dependent on Jiangzhou across the river, but after all, it has to directly contact the Beiyan army, which has become the baffle of Jiangzhou and Luzhou. But the Chizhou army wants to give up Huangmei and Zongyang to withdraw, where can they withdraw? To the east is Luzhou, and to the south is Jiangzhou. They have to ask Lin Fu to agree to their withdrawal before they can withdraw.

The closer Zhang Zuowu and Gu Hao got to Jiangzhou City, the more they believed that Huaidong would eventually give up Jingxiang. Although giving up Jingxiang was also quite unfavorable to Huaidong, they believed that Huaidong did not have the conditions to compete with Beiyan for Jingxiang at this time.

When they arrived in Jiangzhou, Zhang Zuoyou and Gu Hao naturally wanted to see Lin Fu, but they entered Jiangzhou on the 15th, and none of Huaidong's important figures in Jiangxi, from Lin Fu and below, disappeared.

Only then did Zhang Zuowu and Gu Hao know that Lin Fu, Fu Qinghe, Gao Zongting, Song Fu, Ao Canghai and others had already led the Jinghaihai Camp Ge Cunxiong's troops and the Changshan Army Yu Wencheng's troops to cross the river to the north bank and marched to the south of Qichun City. , and Deng Yu's subordinate of the Chizhou Army formed a pincer attack on Qichun Chen Hansan.

Only then did Gu Hao and Zhang Zuowu know that their guesses along the way were all wrong. Huaidong was posing for a battle with the Beiyan army in Jingxiang.

On the Jiangzhou side, it is temporarily presided over by Yang Zichen, the prefect of Jiangzhou.

Yang Zichen told Zhang Zuowu and Gu Hao that if they wanted to go to the north bank, they could send a boat to send them there. Of course, they could also stay in Jiangzhou City temporarily until the war was over.

Although it was safer to stay in Jiangzhou, Zhang Zuowu and Gu Hao wondered why the Huaidong Army was clearly at a disadvantage, why they chose to fight with the Yanbei Western Front Army in Jingxiang, so they wanted to go to the front to watch the battle. They all understand that as long as they stay by Lin Fu's side, no matter how bad it is, they can still escape back to Jiangzhou to save their lives. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter