Lord of the House: Chapter 36 Xuzhou Raiders

After entering May, the refugee army and soldiers split up and spread out in the vast land of Huaisi.

Along the way, Ge Ping Tianbao army was the main force, and it was stationed in Jining to guard against the enemies in the north and northwest. This route has the most soldiers and horses, but few elite soldiers are available.

Liu An'er also kept an elite army in Weishan County, north of Xuzhou, in case Ge Ping could not stop the attack of the Liangjia troops and horses in the north. Also, beware of Cao Yiqu suddenly sending troops along the river and Bian to attack their flanks.

All the way, the three tribes of Chen and Han were the main ones, and they were stationed in Yancheng County and Fenghe Dazhai in the south of Shuyang City. In addition to encircling the Shuyang defenders and cutting off the contact between Xu and Yi and the south, the more important thing was to guard against the enemy of Huaidong.

Liu An'er still had more than 30,000 troops in Hao and Si in Huaixi, and invited Gong Yucai to enter Shouchun to contain the enemies of Dongyang and Luzhou.

Liu An'er personally led the elite troops of the headquarters and his sister Liu Miaozhen's elite troops to besiege Xuzhou with a total of more than 100,000 people.

Since Hongzepu raised its army, hundreds of thousands of people have moved to battle all over the world, sieging cities and looting no less than a hundred places, causing the officials and generals in various places to be frightened. However, in the past two years, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses have been hungry and thin, and the government has slowed down a little bit. Liu An'er felt that he was being restrained everywhere, and the large number of soldiers and horses could not be used, and he repeatedly worried about food and grass.

After thinking about it, there is still no solid foundation.

Xuzhou was called Pengcheng in ancient times, and it could resist the enemies of Henan and Shandong.

In addition to the mountains and rivers, Xuzhou also produces coal and iron. Mining coal and smelting iron can also strengthen the army.

This time, Liu An'er was determined to lay down Xuzhou as the foundation, and also promised the generals that they would lay down Xuzhou and divide the land.

In addition to the Bian River and Si River flowing through Xuzhou, Xuzhou belongs to the Huanghuai Plain and is an extension of the southern Shandong.

The territory is ups and downs, surrounded by mountains.

There are Guangshan and Zifang Mountain in the east, Yunlong Mountain and Phoenix Mountain in the south, Luliang Mountain in the southeast, Spring Mountain in the southwest, Jiuli Mountain in the northwest, and Tongshan, Jingshan and Guishan in the northeast.

Although these hills are not high, ranging from thirty to forty feet to more than one hundred feet, they stand on the Huanghuai Plain, but they are obviously very prominent and become a natural barrier for guarding Xuzhou.

The refugee army besieged Xuzhou, crossed the Bian River and Si River first, and removed the outer Shanzhai Lingbao one by one.

When the Changhuai Army was sealed in the city, the outer Gangling became a natural trench for the refugee army to besiege Xuzhou.

The refugee army camped on Gangling, and drove tens of thousands of civilians to set up fences between Ganglings, dug trenches and fortified walls, forming layers of siege barriers, which emerged from a single gap in the northeast of Xuzhou City.

Liu An'er wasn't playing the strategy of "encircling the three quarters and weakening the will of the defenders".

Since Yue Lengqiu led the Changhuai army to the north to suppress the bandits, although there was no major loss of the battle, but the accumulation of less and more, the troops and horses were also weakened a lot, and they had to divide their troops to defend Linyi and Shuyang, and finally retreated to Xuzhou's Changhuai soldiers. The local defenders in Upper Xuzhou were less than 20,000 in total.

Liu An'er came with more than 100,000 elite troops, intending to wipe out the Changhuai army once again. When the Changhuai army is wiped out, there will be no troops and horses that can compete with Jianghuai. As long as the enemy from the north and the northwest are blocked, they will be able to manage Huaisi calmly for a few years.

Liu An'er deliberately left a gap in the northeast of Xuzhou City, because in the northeast direction, where the Si River flows through, there are rocks, rushing water, rough waves, and the terrain swoops into Xuzhou City. As long as the Yanshan embankment is removed, Sishui will flow directly into Xuzhou City from the opening between Jingshan and Guishan.

In addition to building fences and releasing water to fill the city, Liu An'er built a high platform on the **** between Nancheng and Phoenix Mountain.

The city of Xuzhou is four feet high and more than four feet thick. It is built with stone foundations and rammed earth, and the city walls are outsourced. After filling the moat, and drawing Sishui to fill the city, for nearly a month, there was no possibility of the city wall collapsing.

Yue Lengqiu had no shortage of guards in the city, and the refugee army used ladder ants attached to the city wall to be useless. Building a high platform is time-consuming and labor-intensive, but it is also simple and effective. Put the earth and stone under the base of the city wall, the same height as the city wall, even higher than the city wall, take the cloud bridge, and rush to the city head. It can also be placed on a high stone to suppress the city head and the defenders of the city head, and assist in the siege of the city, all of which have miraculous effects.

There is a disadvantage to building a high-level siege of a city based on civil construction, that is, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it is not conducive to a quick attack.

Yue Lengqiu, who led the army as a civil minister, was famous for being good at guarding.

Five years ago, the frontier army was crushed thousands of miles after the defeat at Chentangyi.

At that time, Yue Lengqiu regarded the frontier as the leader of the military. When the frontier army was defeated, he led more than 10,000 remnants to defend Heihe, and then retreated to Linyu to organize the Yanshan line of defense.

At that time, Liu An'er led his troops to abscond back to Sizhou. He was familiar with the Liang family and his son, but he had never met Yue Lengqiu. However, in the past six months, he had fought with Yue Lengqiu on both sides of the Yingshui River for more than half a year, and he also understood his situation. Habits, then take the water mill time to attack Xuzhou.

Liu An'er was only short of food, and most not short of people.

In addition to the 200,000 soldiers and horses, there are also hundreds of thousands of family members who follow the army, who can serve as a force. From the east and south of Xuzhou City, build a few high mountains approaching the city wall, and it does not take much time.

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The refugee army built a high platform to attack the city, and the city wall was built against the city wall. The offensive and defensive changes in the city head have changed in recent months, but the refugee army has not been allowed to attack the city.

What caused Yue Lengqiu's headache the most was the flood of water pouring into the city from the northeast corner, almost submerging more than two-thirds of the city.

Today, the northwest corner of the city, which is on a slightly higher ground, has not been flooded. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians mixed with refugees are crowded there. Even the people of the Chu Palace can only squeeze in a small courtyard the size of three inches.

In addition, Yue Lengqiu built a causeway in the water, connecting the four cities, as a military road for troops and horses to advance and retreat.

It was the first ten days of June, and sometimes torrential rain poured. Although the heavy rain could force the refugee army who attacked the city to retreat temporarily, the city was flooded with more water, and the northwest **** of the city became more and more crowded.

There are also many civilians who can't retreat to the northwest slope, so they climb their houses and trees in the flooded area. When there is no place to make a fire, they chew raw rice, but the feces are drained, and the bodies of those who died of starvation or drowning also float on the water, and no one is buried.

The weather is hot, mosquitoes and flies are breeding, and there is an uncontrolled spread of emerging diseases.

In summer, autumn and rainy season, the water potential will only be bigger, not smaller. The flooding in the city will not retreat. Before the food runs out or bandits invade the city, and the epidemic spreads, Xuzhou City will become a dead city by itself. In the current situation, Xuzhou will wait for the water to recede in less than two months.

Standing at the head of the city, the rain was pouring down, and the raindrops could not stop the rain from pouring into the armor. Looking at the long camp of the bandits, he was determined to live and die. He knew the habits of the Liang family and his son, and he made enough capital to capture Jinan Ren. , it is impossible to easily go south and carry Liu An'er hard.

Liu An'er went out of the side army and acted as a criminal. In two or three years, he accumulated merit and served as a general officer. In addition to being brave and daring to fight, he was also good at military affairs. Commander.

It can be regarded as the commander of the vanguard battalion.

The Liang family's father and son were unable to fight in Jinan, and Yue Lengqiu suspected that they and Liu An'er were secretly filthy.

No wonder Yue Lengqiu had such doubts: Xuzhou city was destroyed, Changhuai army was destroyed, Jianghuai army fell, the luxury family marched into northern Zhejiang, and Beijing couldn't get enough food and salaries from Jianghuai and Zhejiang, so what would be used to support the border army? If the frontier army is weakened again, it may be able to barely maintain the Yanbei line of defense, but no one can control the Liang family to separate Shandong and Zhongzhou.

"Crazy ministers and thieves, everyone can get them and kill them!" Yue Lengqiu stood at the head of the city and cursed in his heart, but he forgot that when he went north to King Qin, he also sat on the wall and watched, and let Lu Jingyan and Lu Wang Yuanjian be trapped in Jinan when the city was broken. .

It's not that Yue Lengqiu didn't think about breaking out of the siege. In addition to the opening from the northeast, there was another opening in the southeast that was not sealed. From there, you could go to Linyi.

But Yue Lengqiu knew that it was a tempting trap left by Liu An'er. They couldn't see the situation behind Luliang Mountain in the southeast from the city. When the river Surabaya can hit a fatal blow.

Even if he knew that Liu An'er had a trap, but being trapped in the city was dead, that gap became extra tempting.

Yue Lengqiu weighed the pros and cons in his heart~www.mtlnovel.com~ When weighing the breakout, there was still some chance of winning the bandits' fortress on Luliang Mountain.

Correcting refugees in rebellion is usually not a climate. But Liu An'er was well prepared. He had been dormant for nearly two years before, and he gathered the forces of 21 villages in Hongzepu, and there were three or five thousand elites.

After the uprising, Liu An'er quickly occupied Sizhou, Shiliang, Wuhe and other cities west of Hongzepu, obtained sufficient supplies, expanded his army by more than 100,000, and faced off against Zuo Shangrong, who was guarding Haozhou, for half a year.

Chen Hansan defected, and Liu An'er quickly sent troops to attack Haozhou. At first glance, Chen Hansan's rebellion turned into the key to Zuo Shangrong's defeat in Haozhou, but it was not.

When Chen Hansan rebelled, he had only 2,000 elite soldiers in his hands, and he had 3,000 or 4,000 people under threat. Zuo Shangrong had more than 20,000 capable soldiers in Haozhou. The mutiny could not induce Zuo Shangrong's defeat and death in Haozhou.

Liu An'er's fierce reputation was one of them when he wiped out the Changhuai Army, and he received a large number of soldiers and armor supplies, which made his troops more powerful.

Liu An'er abandoned Haozhou, entered the Huai Army, joined forces with various bandits, and moved to Nanyang and Hanzhong. At its peak, the army reached more than four hundred thousand. It would be unfavorable to move to Wuchuan to advance into Qin and Shaanxi. From Wuchuan, he returned to Hanzhong, then went down to Nanyang, moved to Henan, and advanced to Huaisi.

It was unfavorable to enter Qin and Shaanxi, and Liu An'er did not suffer any major losses, but his troops were reduced to 200,000. It can be seen that he stayed in the Nanyang area for several months to complete the army.

If Lu Liangshan's opening was a trap set up by Liu An'er, based on the judgment of the convection bandits' strength, Yue Lengqiu would not have much confidence in attacking Luliangshan when he broke through, unless Lin Bie led an elite team to appear in Luliangshan just in time. The back side cooperates with this side to break through...

How can I get Lin Fu to send troops?

Yue Lengqiu racked his brains. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter