Quick wear is not a cannon fodder

The defeated troops who escaped not only embarrassed General Wang, but more importantly, Lu's policy of not killing and surrendering had indeed broken the morale of the large army just as An Ran thought.

You must know that the rebels in the past all killed prisoners, and some of their methods were particularly cruel. Therefore, all the soldiers of the imperial court fought bravely to kill the enemy. After all, if they failed, the imperial court would pursue them, and they would be dead.

But now, since the enemy does not kill prisoners, then naturally everyone does not need to fight so hard to avoid losing their lives.

Everyone thought so. Dong Hanzhang soon realized that the situation was wrong, so he strictly prohibited discussion of the matter. At the same time, he put all the defeated soldiers who spread the enemy's no-kill policy under guard and told them not to talk nonsense outside.

It's a pity that he did it too late. This kind of thing had been spread by people, and everyone knew about it.

Seeing such a situation, Dong Hanzhang couldn't help but look ugly. At the same time, he was very dissatisfied with General Wang. After all, this man just didn't reach Liuye Fort, and he was still holding back like this. How could Dong Hanzhang look good?

If it weren't for the fact that the war was about to begin, it would be hard to blame him, otherwise Dong Hanzhang would have sent a memorial to him, taking away General Wang's position and asking him to go home and sell sweet potatoes.

Although he did not do this, General Wang was not stupid. Dong Hanzhang must have had opinions about him after such a big defeat this time and such a miserable defeat. Therefore, he was very honest and did not dare to hang around Dong Hanzhang anymore, fearing that he would He was scolded by Dong Hanzhang.

However, General Wang's defeat and return was also beneficial to Dong Hanzhang's command of the newly arrived army that was not his own. Because General Wang returned with a defeat, the others who had just come to see Dong Hanzhang were besieged and did not dare to attack An Ran for a sneak attack. They were quite disapproving of Dong Hanzhang. The general is now honest and no longer questions his decision. After all, he has been attacked by Lu bandits so many times along the way. The soldiers still have the morale to besiege the city. In contrast, General Wang's soldiers have not yet reached the location. It was so rare to be dispersed, which made other generals put aside their contempt for Dong Hanzhang.

You must know that before they saw Dong Hanzhang being beaten so timidly by An Ran, they thought that Dong Hanzhang was a bit exaggerated and was just blown out. Now looking at General Wang's performance, no one dared to think so. They didn't understand Dong Hanzhang. After all, the other party had previously They have been fighting in the south of the Yangtze River and have never dealt with them, but they know General Wang who is stationed near them. He is a general with about the same ability as them. They don't dare to think that they can be better than him when he fights like that. well played.

Although there are advantages in this regard, the disadvantages are also obvious - Dong Hanzhang originally expected others to attack Liuye Fort. If Liuye Fort could be destroyed, he would have an excuse to leave this ghost place and lead others to fight against other good enemies. The fort was defeated, but as a result, General Wang was scattered by others without even touching Liuye Fort. Seeing such a result, even if his Dong family army was much stronger than General Wang's men, he would still be afraid. Go on the road and find other forts to attack?

It's useless to be afraid of the enemy and force people to go on the road. On the contrary, now the army is coming continuously, and there are more and more people on the siege line. Although the enemy sneak attacks are still there, because there are more people, the casualties will be higher. Being dispersed, in this way, naturally fewer of our own people will die. With fewer deaths, everyone wants to hold on to the siege here even more, and they all want to go on the road without taking such a big risk and trap the enemy here. .

Thinking of this, Dong Hanzhang couldn't help but feel very worried, because he was not sure about the siege of Maple Leaf Castle. The reason why he did this was just to force the Lu family to send people to attack and give everyone a chance for direct contact, but the other party was not convinced by him. He moved, still cowering, and sent only a few people to harass him, so that he could not find anyone to fight, but he could not afford to lose hundreds of people a day. Thinking of this, could Dong Hanzhang not worry?

And he kept besieging him like this, but there was no movement. He thought that the court would probably rush him soon.

He was not wrong. The imperial court came to urge him very quickly. The reason was very simple. This Lu bandit was fighting with them here, and in other directions, he was still seizing the time to build fortresses.

There were four provinces where the rebels rebelled before. Although Fang Guozheng defeated Li Xiu and other rebels also failed due to the encirclement and suppression by others, due to the short time, these four provinces were still in chaos for the time being, with stragglers and refugees. , there are still a lot of defeated rebels, bandits, etc., so when officials are sent to these provinces, they usually have to bring a large army. Otherwise, if they are purely civilian officials, they will not be able to take office at all.

The imperial court also cleaned one place before moving to the next place, but Lu took advantage of this time lag and kept building fortresses.

They now have more people and are building forts faster - at the beginning, they would only add one more bastion every two months. Now, they often mobilize all their men and advance the bastion in all directions. , and because the autumn harvest is coming to an end recently, they can free up manpower to do these things, and the construction will be faster. Often after two or three months, they will have a bunch of bastions popping up.

Seeing that Dong Hanzhang was sent to attack the Lu family, not only was he not defeated, but his territory was still growing, which made the court uncomfortable, so he sent people to urge Dong Hanzhang to launch an attack quickly and not to besiege anymore.

When Dong Hanzhang received the news, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. Naturally, he could not use his direct line to attack Anran, a fortress armed to the teeth. He immediately said that the enemy's artillery was strong and asked the court to send more artillery battalions and recruit more artillery battalions. Many foreign gun teams attacked.

The foreign gun team was not directly related to him, and he would not feel bad even if he died, so he asked the court to recruit more foreign gun teams.

At the same time, he sent letters to the embassies of various countries, saying that the Lu family was powerful and had many foreign guns and artillery. The Wu Dynasty was afraid that it would not be able to defend it. He asked the embassies and embassies whether they felt that it was not good to cooperate with the Wu Dynasty and were ready to replace them. Cooperate? If not, please ask all countries to ban the sale of firearms to the Lu family; in addition, if you still want to continue to cooperate with the Wu Dynasty, it is best to send troops and teams to intervene, lest the Wu Dynasty is not protected.

He just wanted to get rid of An Ran with the help of foreigners.

He had no choice but to try his best to get rid of it, so he had no choice but to turn to foreigners for help.