It's chaos...... Now up and down Quanzhou, I'm afraid it can only be described by this word. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Some people may say that Xu Shu is also a capable person, so he shouldn't be so bad, right?

In fact, the key problem lies in the outbreak of the epidemic in Quanzhou. By the fourteenth year of Jian'an, the total population of Quanzhou was about 50,000, while Lu Xun's troops were more than 4,000 and almost 5,000. At least compared to Quanzhou's population base of more than 50,000, 5,000 regular soldiers have reached the limit that Quanzhou can bear. You must know that Yizhou, which is the base camp of Lu Ren, has a total population of about 300,000 at present, but the regular soldiers of the army are only 8,000.

It is said that Xu Shu has these 5,000 troops, and it is no problem to defend Quanzhou, at least according to Lu Ren and Xu Shu's plan, in the face of Sun Wu's offensive, under the premise of defending Quanzhou City, how can he buy enough time for Yizhou to be armed. However, the outbreak of the epidemic in Quanzhou this time made Xu Shu have to transfer a lot of people from the 5,000 troops to control the epidemic, and even the three customs defenses in Quanzhou have been halved because of this, with an average of only three or four hundred people per pass.

At this moment, Xu Shu knew where he was negligent, that is, when he learned that Gu Yong was visiting, he himself had told Lu Ren to be vigilant, but when it was his turn, because of the epidemic in Quanzhou, he did not immediately replenish his troops to go to the three customs and transfer back the troops to control the epidemic.

Now that the Wu army is approaching Quanzhou, Xu Shu's hands are still scattered around Quanzhou except for the two thousand directly subordinate troops who dare not move at will. And under the urgency of the military situation, I am afraid that I will not be able to call back hundreds of people if I want to convene urgently.

In short, Xu Shu urgently ordered the defenders of Quanzhou to assemble, and the news of Sun Wu's sudden attack also spread throughout the city at the same time. The people outside the city had to rush into the city for refuge, the soldiers had to gather in a hurry, and the previous impact of the epidemic was too great, and the chaos became a mess.

However, compared with the chaos between the soldiers and the people in Quanzhou, the more than 1,000 female soldiers brought by Shirley from Yizhou showed good quality. It didn't take long after Shirley's order to gather more than a thousand female soldiers, and then even helped the Quanzhou soldiers and some of the people outside the city who were relatively fast to enter the city before the Wu soldiers came to the city, and Xu Shu was ashamed of himself.

"Report! The Wu army has been assembled ten miles outside the city......"

"Needless to say, step aside!"

Xu Shu waved his hand and repelled the herald, and immediately turned his head to Shirley and said: "Changshi, Shu originally wanted to ask Changshi to lead a thousand female soldiers from his headquarters to board the ship and return to Yi as soon as possible, but now it seems that it is too late." Please Changshi immediately mobilize the female soldiers of the headquarters into the city to defend the city! ”

Shirley is first-class in development, but the real opponent is the last of the third-rate. And Shirley also knew this, so she immediately nodded to Xu Shu and said, "Transfer all the female soldiers under my command back, right?" Yes! But there are still some people outside the city......"

Xu Shu said categorically: "It's too late!" Ten miles away, the Wu army is coming in an instant, if we are still thinking about the people outside the city at this time, the Wu army will take advantage of the chaos to storm the city gate, so Quanzhou will be lost! ”

"But, but ......"

Xu Shu interrupted Xue Li's hesitation with a wave of his hand: "There are still more than 1,000 Quanzhou soldiers outside the city, and they can be instructed to lead the people who have not yet entered the city to flee in other directions to temporarily avoid the front of the army." The Wu army came here to attack Quanzhou urgently, and it was expected that they would not have time to care about these people outside the city. ”

Shirley nodded: "Okay, I can't fight a war, and you have full command here." ”

After Xu Shu's military order was issued, the gate of Quanzhou City was closed in time. Soon after the city gate was closed, dust rose outside Quanzhou City, and about hundreds of cavalry appeared in the field of vision of Xu Shu and others. These hundreds of cavalry were personally led by Lu Meng, who originally wanted to take advantage of the chaos to forcibly seize the city gate, but now seeing that the city gate of Quanzhou City had been closed in time, Lu Meng's brows wrinkled slightly, and he immediately turned his horse's head and took these hundreds of soldiers around the city wall of Quanzhou and went straight to the harbor ten miles southeast of Quanzhou City.

Xu Shu saw Lu Meng's cavalry turn on the city gate, and immediately understood Lu Meng's intentions, and immediately said with hatred: "Oh no! This cavalry is blockading my Quanzhou harbor! can change so immediately, General Sun Wulai's ability to unify the army cannot be underestimated! ”

Shirley said: "Blockade the harbor? Isn't Quanzhou's connection with the outside world severed? Yuan Zhi, think of a way! ”

Xu Shu shook his head helplessly: "There is nothing to be done now." The sudden attack of the Wu army caught our army off guard, and the morale of the soldiers was still unstable under the chaos, and it was difficult to win if they attacked rashly. Moreover, I don't know how many Wu soldiers there are, but I don't think it should be less than 20,000, but my Quanzhou garrison is currently less than 3,000, and the cavalry is only 100 cavalry, so it is impossible to fight these hundreds of cavalry at all. The only way to do this is to hold on to the city and wait for the opportunity until the elder brother's reinforcements arrive. ”

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More than a dozen miles, for a well-trained soldier, it will not take long to complete. By dusk in the afternoon of the same day, Lü Meng's troops, totaling more than 20,000 men, had completed the encirclement of Quanzhou City.

It should be made clear here that Quanzhou City is actually not large, and if it is measured by the strict standards of the Han Dynasty, Quanzhou City is just an enlarged and strengthened version of the city. This is mainly because Quanzhou, as a transit point for transporting population to Yizhou, has relatively limited conditions in all aspects, especially in terms of labor force in the early stage, it is impossible to build as much construction as Keelung and Mangjia in Yizhou.

In normal times, Quanzhou City is just acting as a trading center for residents around Quanzhou, and there are not many permanent residents in the city, probably only 30,000 at most. Except for the 20,000 people who live in the city, the rest are engaged in agriculture and sideline industry and fishing in the surrounding areas of Quanzhou...... In fact, in ancient societies where agriculture was the mainstay, the ratio of residents between urban and rural areas was mostly the same.

Now that Lü Meng has surrounded Quanzhou City, the people outside Quanzhou City are unlucky. Lü Meng was attacked by a light army, and the rations carried by his soldiers were not much. Now that the initial goal has been achieved, of course, it is to immediately use the method of "relying on grain for the enemy" to supplement the grain and grass of the Wu army. To put it more simply and bluntly, the Wu army began to plunder the surrounding areas of Quanzhou.

Lü Meng originally thought that the plundering and supply of the army would not be hindered by the large army, but what he did not expect was that the plundering troops he sent out would encounter stubborn resistance from the residents in many places.

About half of the residents in Quanzhou were originally from the Shanyue tribe, and there was never a shortage of battles with Sun Wu, and there was never any good impression of Sun Wu's soldiers. Later, Sun Wu's power grew stronger and stronger, and these Shanyue tribes who refused to obey Sun Wu's rule were driven out of the original land, and these Shanyue tribes came to Quanzhou and settled here in Quanzhou.

And here in Quanzhou, compared with the excessive suppression of Sun Wu, Lu Ren paid more attention to the comfort and stability of these Shanyue tribes. In fact, in the original history, Lu Xun advised Sun Quan to adopt some milder and gentle methods towards Shanyue, but now Lu Ren used it. After going through hardships, these Shanyue tribes have gained stability and prosperity in Quanzhou, and they are all grateful to Lu Ren. But now that the city of Quanzhou is under siege, and these feuds are now coming to rob them of the fruits of their labor, where are these Shanyue tribes willing to do it?

Therefore, there has been no fight under Quanzhou City, but there has been a lot of fighting outside Quanzhou City...... Although the scale was not large, and these tribes were quickly completely defeated by the Wu army, Lu Meng, who received these returns, already had a faint sense of uneasiness in his heart.

However, under the sharp word, it is easy to get carried away in people's minds. Although the wealth of Quanzhou is far less than that of Yizhou itself, it is not an exaggeration to say that "the people here in Quanzhou have three years of grain in their homes" after so many years of stable development and the use of many golden fingers made by Lu Ren and Shirley.

After the Wu army defeated the resisting Shanyue tribes, it grabbed again, and immediately made some profits. When Lu Meng saw the cart of money, grain, and cloth transported back to the camp, he also secretly made up his mind that Quanzhou City must be captured no matter what, and then Yizhou should be captured...... This is just that Quanzhou is so rich, and Lu Meng has seen the situation in Yizhou with his own eyes, so for Lu Meng, Lu Ren's threat to Sun Wu is too great.

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It was already night, and Xu Shu, who had been secretly blaming himself in his heart, couldn't sleep at all, so he patrolled back and forth on the city wall of Quanzhou. And here in Guangzhou, Lu Ren also couldn't sleep, and kept going back and forth in the meeting hall of the bamboo building.

Xu Shu's telegram for help has already been sent, but the worst thing is that Lu Ren can't send reinforcements at all now!

In terms of the navy, Gan Ning's fleet went to deliver supplies to Mi Zhen in Luzon after returning to Yizhou before, and it couldn't come back for a while, and there were only a few thousand convoys with dragon set characters. With such a transport team, it is simply unrealistic for him to lead the navy to fight, so at the moment, the most he can only ask him to transport reinforcements to Quanzhou;

In terms of the army, there are still 5,000 regular troops in Yizhou, but because there are many new recruits, they were taken to the mountains of Yizhong by Gao Shun and Huang Zhong for training, and it will take a little time to call them back after being notified. After thinking about it again and again, Lu Ren first ordered the army left behind in Yizhou to cancel its patrol and training mission immediately, and at the same time asked these thousands of navy to prepare for ships, food, grass and ordnance in advance, so that Huang Zhong and the others could board the ship and set sail as soon as they arrived in Keelung...... (To be continued.) )