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There are many openings in the wall section of Linyuan City, so whether or not to break through the city gate is no longer the key, Ji Bu sent auxiliaries with ladders to feint and attack a large number of defenders who attracted Baiyue, and the seemingly huge battle of climbing the wall really attracted most of the defenders to the city wall.

Due to the large number of people and too many choices to make, Lu Zhe was relatively strict in selecting soldiers, even if he was positioned as an auxiliary, the majority of them were young and middle-aged.

A large proportion of auxiliaries are eliminated from the ranks of soldiers, but this elimination is not "just not down", as long as they can obtain the head of the enemy army, it is still possible to be promoted to soldiers. Similarly, if a soldier's record is not equal to his status, he will also be used as an auxiliary.

A set of not very mature deletion and selection is the system that Lu Zhe initially formulated for the army, and the treatment of soldiers and auxiliary soldiers are two different kinds, and if you fight hard, you will hope to change your treatment, and if you do not fight hard, you will be demoted. Of course, the class treatment in the Qin army will also be continued.

In some sense, the auxiliary soldiers under Lu Zhe are actually much more powerful than the Baiyue soldiers, after all, the soldiers of the Baiyue people rarely have metal weapons, do they?

The auxiliaries in charge of the feint attack on the city wall section held back most of the Baiyue defenders, and Ji Bu immediately ordered the soldiers who had been prepared for a long time to attack as soon as the time came.

Although the Baiyue people had arranged for troops to guard the Linyuan city wall, it was difficult to resist in the face of the wolf-like Qin soldiers, and they were easily rushed in by the Qin army with just a charge.

The soldiers rushed into the city, they captured the tower and opened the city gate so that more robes could enter Linyuan City, and some people began to shout "The city is broken" and the like, Ji Bu did not expect the enemy defenders to collapse after taking the city gate.

If it was the army of the Central Plains that was fighting against Ji Bu, the defenders would have collapsed after the city gate was lost, but the enemy army was Baiyue. The Baiyue people actually don't have much concept of the offensive and defensive battles of the city, and in their minds, it is nothing more than fighting. So in the eyes of the Baiyue people, isn't it just a city wall, isn't it just a city gate, where to cut people is not to cut.

The siege battle gradually turned into street fighting under this situation, and most of the troops of the Baiyue people were concentrated on the city wall, and the number of troops in the city was not too much.

Ji Bu found that the breach of the city gate did not cause the defenders of Linyuan City to collapse, and quickly changed his strategy, he had some of his soldiers jam the upper and lower entrances and exits of the city wall, and then transferred crossbowmen to shoot arrows.

It was naturally impossible for the Baiyue defenders on the northern wall of Linyuan City to sit still and let the archers of the Qin army kill themselves. They fought back very fiercely. However, the space for the horse paths and stairs in the city wall section is really not large, and each counterattack can only be directly touched by a dozen or twenty people.

Unable to break through the past, a large number of companions were shot to death by the Qin army, forcing the Baiyue defenders to jump directly from the city wall about six meters high, and many of the people who jumped directly broke their legs or broke their spines. Only a handful of Baiyue defenders who only twisted their feet were able to try to escape, but they could not take two steps before they were killed by the Qin troops who caught up with them.

After spending a morning clearing the defenders to the north, and withstanding several enemy forces from the other three walls, when Ji Bu asked the junior officers to gather his soldiers and continue the attack into the city, he was rewarded with everything that the Baiyue people in the city could escape.

Get the news. Ji Bu was a little annoyed in his heart, he thought to himself: "I still don't have enough experience!" You should first send men to guard the gates and the openings on the other three sides......"

It was negligence, Ji Bu did not understand the habits of the Baiyue people, nor was he familiar with the combat methods of the Baiyue people. He used the thinking of the Central Plains people to think about how the Baiyue people would respond, thinking that after the Baiyue people lost control of the northern city wall, they would concentrate their forces to counterattack, but he didn't expect to give up just by losing the northern city wall.

"Order Wu Liang to lead the army to pursue!" Ji Bu looked at the several military marquis beside him. "You lead your troops to find the granaries in the city, and if you don't find them, you will immediately take over the other three walls!"

A lot of people have already run away, and Ji Bu can only remedy it if he wants to implement Lu Zhe's combat purpose. Otherwise, the people will run out and occupy only an empty city. However, the most important thing now is to find out the granary in Linyuan City in the intelligence, if the enemy dog jumps under the wall and burns the granary, Ji Bu will definitely be cut off by Lu Zhe.

Wu Liang was the direct commander of that auxiliary force, and he actually served under Lu Zhe earlier than Ji Bu, and was one of the few leading officers during the Yiling Rebellion.

"The commander of the Left Association asked me to lead the team in pursuit, but how far is the pursuit?" The expression on Wu Liang's face was a little excited.

The herald was stunned for a moment, and he replied truthfully: "The commander just ordered the pursuit, and did not say how far. ”

Wu Liang nodded and stopped talking. He felt that he had to cherish this opportunity, so he immediately ran to reorganize his troops, and inquired about the general direction of the enemy's escape, and led his troops to chase after them.

Ji Bu, who was standing on the city tower, did not forget to tell how far to chase, but he deliberately did not mention it.

The habit of fleeing after the defeat of the Baiyue people has always been to escape into the forest or into the mountains, and if Wu Liang is a qualified officer, then the pursuit will turn back on its own in the evening.

There is another one, Ji Bu wants to use auxiliaries to achieve another purpose, that is, to test whether the Baiyue people have the rest of the army around.

Using auxiliaries to test the enemy army is also something that generals in the Central Plains often do, Ji Bu doesn't think there's anything wrong with taking an adventure with auxiliaries, he even thinks that Wu Liang, who is eager for meritorious service, including those auxiliaries, will be grateful to him.

Indeed, Wu Liang, who has been looking for an opportunity to perform, is really grateful to Ji Bu for giving him the opportunity to fight independently. He saw very clearly that the Baiyue people in Qianzhong County were even lower in combat power than those Baiyue people who invaded Nanjun, even if all the troops under his command were auxiliary troops, it was not difficult to deal with such Baiyue people at all, let alone just chasing the defeated army that had lost its courage?

Ordered the soldiers to continue to clear the remaining defenders in the city, and drove the garrison in the city to the open space in the east of the city to take care of it, and Ji Bu took his own soldiers to the government of Linyuan City. He saw a ruined ruin, which looked like it had been burned down, so he didn't want to find any books or records.

A middle-aged man from Baiyue who seemed to have a relatively high status was brought up, Ji Bu asked a translator and repeated it, and he couldn't laugh or cry when he asked, the rule of the Baiyue people was really very rough, and there were no classics and records at all.

"And how do you collect your taxes?" Jibu asked a little strangely.

The middle-aged man in Baiyue was just a small leader, and he replied, "Send someone down." See with your own eyes how big the acres are, and collect the corresponding grain. ”

Ji Bu was a little crying and laughing again, he shook his head: "Where is the granary of Linyuan City?" ”

This middle-aged man from Baiyue truthfully stated the location.

In order to confirm something, Ji Bu led people to the south of Linyuan City, which was a position fenced by the Baiyue people, and there were indeed countless granaries made of wood and mats, which were no different from those of the Central Plains.

It may be that the defeat of the Baiyue people was too sudden, and the granary here didn't have time to burn or something, it seems that there is some firewood piled up, but it is well preserved.

An attacking marquis has led his army to guard it tightly. He sent someone to tell Jibu, but the people who sent him did not find Jibu at all. At this time, when he saw Ji Bu coming, he thought that he had been notified of the report, and led Ji Bu in while talking.

Jibu himself opened a granary, revealing stacked sacks of sacks. He used his sword to cut open a sack, and the unhulled rice flowed down like quicksand, grabbed a handful and smelled no musty, but it looked like it was stale grain, it should be last year's grain.

Ji Bu, whose face became excited, laughed a long time: "Okay! Good! ”。 Turning his head to look at the middle-aged man of Baiyue who was escorted over, "How much grain is there in a granary?" How many granaries like this are there? ”

This can be difficult for this little leader of Baiyue, he just knows the location of the granary of Lu Dao, where does he know how many granaries there are in Lu Dao. How much grain is in a granary?

Ji Bu was not angry when he saw that the guy couldn't answer, and asked the prisoner to be taken down with a smile on his face, and then found the warden who accompanied the army: "Check how much food there is here." ”

The warden respectfully responded, "Hey! "There was a smile on his face, too. Finding the expected food was part of the fun, and he was even happier that their kind of military clerks were accumulating merit by counting something.

Jibu, who was in an upbeat mood, walked back and forth with people in the granary. He himself counted the number of cylinders in the granary at least two hundred, and this was only one area, not all.

"Okay!" Ji Bu high-fived and celebrated: "The Lord will be clever, and he has long known that there is a hundred more hoarded grain in Linyuan City. Attacking it can alleviate the lack of food for our army, and this is finally ......"

Lu Zhe did not hide the news of the lack of food, he wanted to "encourage" his troops to fight bravely for survival. Now seeing that so much grain has been captured, everyone in the Qin army is very happy, and they think that there should be no shortage of food in the army after capturing so much grain. As a unit that has captured so much food, it is because of their brave battles that they have captured so much, so their military merits will inevitably be improved by a few grades, how can they not be in a good mood?

Calculating the total amount of food will not be able to be done in a moment and a half, and Ji Bu arranged for the garrison of the troops, and also learned about the casualties of this battle.

As a feint attack force, the casualties of the auxiliary troops were not large, but more than 100 people were killed in battle, and more than 300 were slightly and seriously injured. Because this battle was to compress the enemy army in the city wall section for the crossbowmen to shoot, the Baiyue people simply abandoned the city and fled, and the casualties of the war troops were relatively light, only more than 200 people were killed in battle, and only less than 100 people were slightly and seriously injured.

At a slight cost, more than 1,000 enemy troops were captured, and nearly 2,000 enemy troops were captured, while more than 20,000 inhabitants were driven to the east of the city.

Ji Bu didn't have the time to distinguish whether the inhabitants were Chu or Baiyue, and according to Lu Zhe's plan, the population captured by Qianzhong County would be used as the future labor force, and he didn't care who it was.

The end of Linyuan City was in savings, and Wu Liang, who led the army to pursue, was also very busy, he did not chase after the fleeing people's buttocks, but very cleverly went around to the front, distributed people to investigate the direction of those fleeing, and led the army to block on the road in front of the forest to make an ambush

The enemy troops who escaped from the city, including some of the residents, had fled into the forest as fast as they could, but most of them were still behind, and Wu Liang and his auxiliary troops had successfully blocked a large part of the people in front of the forest.

Of course, the blocked enemy troops and residents would not surrender obediently, and the auxiliary troops led by Wu Liang fought with the stubborn enemy army for a while at the edge of the forest, and some people took advantage of the Qin army to try to escape into the forest by the attraction of the enemy army.

Of course, Wu Liang was unwilling to run away with the meat in his mouth, and urgently mobilized his men to get stuck at the edge of the forest, and after killing all the enemy soldiers who were stubbornly resisting, he didn't care about the Baiyue people who had run away, and took about 3,000 captives back to Linyuan.

On the way back, Wu Liang's personal soldiers asked, "Why do you want to return all the way after chasing all the way?" What about enemy forces in other directions? ”

Wu Liang replied with a smile: "In this battle, more than 400 heads were cut. More than three thousand people were captured. That's enough. ”

The soldiers were puzzled and wanted to ask again, but they were stopped by Wu Liang.

Of course, Wu Liang wanted to make more contributions, but he was self-aware, and the auxiliaries were just auxiliaries, and their combat effectiveness and organizational skills could not be compared with the combat troops. He could also guess what Ji Bu was doing not limit the mileage of the pursuit, it was nothing more than not knowing if there were any other Baiyue troops near the road when the scouts had not yet returned, and using auxiliaries to create a very dynamic pursuit was just a temptation and temptation. When they pursued to the edge of the forest, the position was already about six miles away from Linyuan City, and if there were still enemy troops near Linyuan City, then they should have discovered it.

"More than 400 heads have been beheaded and more than 3,000 prisoners have been captured. It was time to make a gesture to attract the enemy troops, and it was done. Whether there are enemy troops or not, there should be nothing wrong with turning back to Linyuan City before dark. "Wu Liang's previous official position was not low. It is probably an officer at the level of a lieutenant colonel of the Qin Army, and he has some relatively rich combat experience, not a straw bale. It's just that he hasn't been given a chance to let Lu Zhe notice him.

At dusk, Wu Liang turned back to Linyuan City, and he reported what he had seen along the way to Ji Bu's order, and proposed: "The speed of the march is not fast, if there are hundreds of enemy troops outside the city, they will be killed long ago." Two hours have passed, and there are no enemy forces around. Why don't you take advantage of the situation and send troops to invade the countryside around Linyuan County overnight? ”

Jibu was meant to do the same. He looked at Wu Liang with some appreciation: "Since you proposed so, why don't you let your headquarters do this?" ”

Wu Liang readily agreed.

looked at Wu Liang, who turned around and left after saluting. Ji Bu was satisfied with this auxiliary officer who could comprehend the intentions of the battle.

After Wu Liang's report, Ji Bu also roughly understood the actual situation around Linyuan City, their invasion this time was really unexpected by the Baiyue people, and the Baiyue people near Linyuan City were not psychologically prepared at all.

According to Lu Zhe's deployment. After Ji Bu captured Linyuan City, he should divide his troops to capture the population of the surrounding villages into the city, and expand the results of the battle according to the actual situation, he originally wanted to leave the auxiliary troops to stick to Linyuan City and take care of those prisoners of war, Wu Liang's performance made him think: "The Baiyue people are unprepared. It is better to let Wu Liang lead the auxiliary troops to attack the countryside and make some contributions. The soldiers use this time to recuperate, wait for the follow-up troops to recover, and then ask for orders to attack more valuable targets. ”

Relative to the credit for attacking the county seat. The relatively intractable invasion of the countryside can only be regarded as soup. After a few days of getting along, Ji Bu could see that Wu Liang was a capable person, and he did so to make some good karma, which could be regarded as digging out a talent for Lu Zhe.

Consolidating the defense of Linyuan City is not a job that 10,000 people can do, all Ji Bu can do is to simply fill the gap in the city wall section and search out the defeated troops and residents who are hiding in the city.

Wu Liang had no difficulty in raiding the countryside around Linyuan City, and he divided the 3,000 men he brought out into three directions, so that thousands of auxiliaries approached a certain village, and the inhabitants there either resisted in a panic, fled, or were attacked while they were stunned.

Each village was easily captured by three subdivisions of auxiliaries, which was more difficult to find the location of the village. However, this is not difficult for Wu Liang, who has rich experience, when he captured the villagers, he lured some of the original Chu people, let the people who were lured as guides, and let the two officers who led the other team do the same, and the speed of the attack was much faster for a while.

On the afternoon of the second day after Linyuan City was captured, 10,000 soldiers led by Lu Zhe personally arrived in Linyuan, and Ji Bu was very excited to report that he had seized 163,000 stone of rice that had not yet been hulled, and more than 32,000 stone that had been hulled. But Ji Bu said that this was only part of it, more in a granary about ten miles away from Linyuan.

These are because Ji Bu caught the Linyuan order of the Baiyue people in a relatively palatial mansion, and after a period of torture, he knew the news of Lu Dao.

According to the conversion ratio, the current stone is about 30 catties of modern times, and the amount of food for a soldier is about 8 taels, although the actual weight of the more than 160,000 stone of rice after hulling is about 130,000 stone, but plus the 32,000 stone that has been shelled, the total number is more than 160,000 stone.

How many catties is 160,000 stones? It's 4.8 million catties! That's almost 10,000 tons of grain! And this is only the seizure in Linyuan City, not counting the countryside. The grain that will be harvested in a month is not counted.

Although Lu Zhe was excited, he didn't get dazed, he restrained his smile: "Then the intelligence is confirmed, and the Baiyue people really want to gather troops to retaliate against us, so they will only make a move to reserve food in Linyuan, which is close to us!" ”

That is what the main general should be worried about, and Ji Bu is anxious to fight: "The main general, please lead the army to attack the granary ten miles away from Linyuan City!" ”

Lu Zhe nodded in agreement, and called out to Ji Bu, who was about to go down to prepare: "When I entered the city, I saw a small number of auxiliaries, and I didn't see the shadow of Wu Liang. ”

Ji Bu replied with a smile: "I ordered Wu Junhou to lead the army to attack the countryside around Linyuan, he led 3,000 auxiliary soldiers out of Lu last night to fight, and he has not come back yet." ”

Lu Zhe let out an "oh". He also said: "How many enemy troops are ten miles away, and what is the terrain, do you have a good idea of these?" ”

At this time, Ji Bu realized that he only mentioned that there was a granary ten miles away, and did not report the military situation there. However, this person was really arrogant sometimes, and he didn't realize what he had done wrong when he was asked by Lu Zhe, but said: "The information that came out of torture is that the granary was built at the foot of a small mountain, and the number of defenders is 10,000. ”

Lu Zhe nodded and stopped talking, signaling that Ji Bu could go down and go out to fight the whole army.

After Ji Bu turned around, he naturally couldn't see Lu Zhe's frowning move.

"If you can fight, you can fight, but it's just a little bit of your own way." Lu Zhe looked at Ji Bu's back as he trotted away. I thought to myself: "I don't really care about the superiority and inferiority, but it's just that it's not okay when it comes to important military situations." It seems that after this battle, we should have a good talk with Jibu? ”

Lu Zhe, who already had a plan in his heart, didn't think much about it, he ordered someone to lead the way and personally go to see the situation in Linyuan City. Of course, the most important thing is the food.

10,000 tons of grain is only enough for 500,000 people to eat for a whole month, so 10,000 tons of grain is far from enough for Lu Zhe. There were 1.2 million people in South County, and he made a rough calculation of those who had enough food. Even after the autumn harvest in Nanjun, most people will be in a state of food shortage.

What is the purpose of raiding Qianzhong County in the form of destruction? It may not be appropriate to demolish the east wall to make up for the west wall, but Lu Zhe really wants to loot the grain of Qianzhong County to supplement the lack of food in Nan County.

Lu Zhe has already made many judgments, if Xianyang has not been instructed. Then, in the next year or so, he will defend the existing territory with all his might, and will not expand into foreign troops.

In a year or so, Lu Zhe could consolidate his rule in Nanjun, and planned to pull the clans and gentry of Nanjun into his camp to form a community of interests. The other is to use a year to train the 110,000 troops under his command, and more than 30,000 county and county soldiers will also be included in his command, so that these troops can be trained and rectified well, not to be able to fight as well as the army that came out of the Lantian battalion, but also to train into troops that abide by military discipline.

In addition to training for the army, Lu Zhe will continue to alleviate the food shortage of the people in the form of work-for-relief. Those more than 3,000 acres of land need a lot of manpower, and the leaders of the Qians have served the farmland for half their lives, and it is estimated that it is not difficult to do that, and he has no doubts about this. However, he wanted to hurry up and finish the planned defensive chains, and the outer walls of the new city should be built as soon as possible.

After the outer city wall of Xinchengchi is built, Lu Zhe's next step of planning will also be launched, and he can imagine that as long as there is a little guidance, those recruited people will definitely be willing to settle in Xinchengchi, after all, Qianshou, who has personally experienced turmoil, will definitely be happy to live in a place protected by the city wall.

In this way, there are also residents of the early stage of the new city. He then hired them to participate in the construction of the new city, and then the Qiantou would also be paid. If they use that money to buy a new house, it will also be of great help to the future economic chain.

Lu Zhe used to be responsible for supervising the construction of the kind of project with more than 20 floors, but building a giant city and a majestic city is an opportunity that only ancient times can have, just thinking about it a little bit makes me feel excited!

The east of Linyuan City is a vacant land, where three wooden fences are now erected, regardless of their identities and how many people have been detained in total, Ji Bu has not reported, Lu Zhe stood on the arrow tower and looked down, the crowd should be about 20,000.

Pay attention to their outfits, Lu Zhe can distinguish between the Baiyue people and the Chu people, and slightly distinguish that the Baiyue people account for the majority, but the Chu people only account for less than two percent.

The data ascertained by Lu Zhe shows that there are more than 300,000 Chu people who stayed in place, but no one knows how many Baiyue people live in Qianzhong County.

If the battle goes smoothly and a large number of people are captured, the old people in the Baiyue will basically be killed, the able-bodied men will be sent to the mines, the young women will be distributed as rewards to the soldiers, and the children will be brainwashed by centralized management. The Chu people will have another way of dealing with it, although there will be no good benefits, but at least the old people will not be slaughtered.

Probably when the rear army arrived in Linyuan City, Wu Liang, who led the army to battle, also successfully cleaned up the surrounding countryside. He marched with 3,000 men, and since the resistance of the countryside was not much of a threat, the casualties of the auxiliaries were very slight, less than 100.

Wu Liang learned that Lu Zhe was already in Linyuan City, and as soon as he entered the city, he hurriedly ran over to report.

When Lu Zhe heard that Wu Liang led his army to clean up 23 townships, he captured a large amount of supplies, not to mention that he captured nearly 20,000 people. After listening to the report, Lu Zhe was of course satisfied, and he also remembered Wu Liang, an officer who could lead the army to fight alone.

Wu Liang observed the expression of the main general very carefully, and saw that Lu Zhe's face was very approving, and he was also very happy in his heart.

Lu Zhe ordered the warden to record Wu Liang's exploits on the spot, and after completing this set of procedures, Wu Liang left with a satisfied expression.

"Linyuan's attack is a good start......" Lu Zhe looked at the mountains and rivers alone, but he was thinking in his heart: "All kinds of signs show that the Baiyue people are preparing for the northern invasion again, otherwise Linyuan would not have hoarded so much grain and grass!" Now they didn't expect me to attack, so they didn't take precautions. So shouldn't the early strategy be too difficult? What we have to do now is to expand the results of the battle as much as possible before the Baiyue people react, and leave the necessary buffer zone! (To be continued......)

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