Yanjing, on the day of the Double Ninth Festival on September 9, the local tyrants of Beiping and Hebei Erxing provinces were invited by the King of Qin to gather in Yanjing and take Youzhou for a period of time. In front of the Qin army, which was in full swing, and under the favorable conditions of the Qin domain, the great clans of the original Lulong Town could be regarded as sincere and convincing.

After this period of development, the Qin army's control over Youzhou gradually strengthened, attracting some parts, suppressing some parts, and promoting some parts, and Youzhou, the new center of the Qin domain, was finally stabilized.

In the recent days, Li Jing's life has been satisfactory. took Youzhou and successfully disintegrated the anti-Li alliance. Lulong Town was destroyed, Yiwu Town was destroyed, Yanmen Town was also hit hard, and Chengde Town also suffered a big loss. Although the Qin army did not make much military moves after taking Youzhou, Li Jingxi refused to pass the capital of the army, and the south to the south of the three passes, and Yiwu Town was also completely dependent on the Qin army's wings. Qin Jun was gearing up, preparing for a new round of moves.

This time, Li Jing summoned the powerful clans of Hebei and Beiping provinces in an attempt to further promote the improvement of the official system of the Qin domain, as well as matters such as Juntian. At this time, Li Jing received the latest battle report from Xuzhou.

The battle report from Xuzhou is good news!

It has been several months since the siege of Xuzhou, and the troops of the Jianghuai camp have been besieging Xuzhou without attacking according to Li Jing's arrangement, implementing siege tactics, and have not forcibly attacked Xuzhou, an important town and a lonely city.

During this time, Li Jing lived a nourishing life in Youzhou, but the brothers Huo Cun, Zhang Guiba, and Zhang Guihou in Xuzhou were living like years, because the elite troops in his hands were almost lost. Xuzhou has completely become an isolated city, surrounded by the Qin army, Yu Xuan, Xin Yan and other sides. The most painful thing for them was after the siege. The Qin army was not in a hurry to fight. Instead, they practiced the tactics of an iron barrel siege.

All ties between Xuzhou and the outside world have been cut off. Cut off reinforcements, cut off supplies.

The people in the city are panicked, and their days are like years. Although the Qin army did not storm the city, after besieging the city, it carried out artillery bombardment and fire attacks on the city every once in a while. Jianghuai's Qin army was dominated by township soldiers, and this time Zeng Yuanyu and Zhao Li completely besieged Xuzhou. It served as a training ground for the rotation of various troops. In particular, the Firearms Department of the Ordnance Bureau directly sent a team to Xuzhou City to test their various firearms.

Every three or five rounds of shelling, all kinds of firearms, ballistas, and catapults were tested.

Then, the engineering units also dug ditches and tunnels day and night under the city to carry out civil engineering operation training. Even the special operations brigade sent 1,000 members to Xuzhou for special training, using Xuzhou as a special operations training battlefield, and carrying out night raids, infiltrations, assassinations, and so on at every turn.

The soldiers and horses of the Qi army in Xuzhou have been in continuous losses, although this is not a large number of casualties in a short period of time, but it is a continuous loss of blood. There are no reinforcements outside, no morale inside. Huo Cun and the others just wanted to fight to the death with the Qin army, but they couldn't do it. Huo Cun organized soldiers and horses several times to try to go out of the city to counterattack the night attack, but the outside of Xuzhou had already become a big construction site. Everywhere there were ditches, antlers, fences. Arrow Tower, Diao Dou. As a result, every time the Xuzhou army went out of the city, it would be discovered as soon as possible, and then it would become the prey of the Qin army, and it would be beaten in embarrassment, and the soldiers would be lost.

After doing this several times, Xuzhou soldiers finally did not dare to go out of the city again. A company sent more than a dozen groups of dead soldiers to Luoyang to break through and ask for help, but they held out for several months and did not see a single soldier coming. In fact, Luoyang received a request for help from Xuzhou and also sent reinforcements. The Assassin of Maozhou was from Zhou, the Yingzhou Assassin Zhang Guimu, and the Bianzhou Assassin Zhu Wen successively sent troops to rescue, but none of them could reach Xuzhou, and each time they were intercepted halfway, and they returned in vain.

After several successive rescues, Zhu Wen and Ge Congzhou finally discovered that the Qin army was not unable to defeat Xuzhou, but was completely opposite. The Qin army is fully capable of taking Xuzhou a long time ago, but it has been surrounding Xuzhou, which is obviously to lure the Qi army to rescue and want to besiege the city for reinforcements.

The main force of the Qi army has entered Guanzhong, and there are not many Qi troops left in Henan. The main force is Ge Congzhou, Zhu Wen, Zhang Guimu, Zhuge Shuang and other departments, if several main forces are destroyed, then if the Qin army takes the opportunity to counterattack and launch a powerful offensive, it is possible to collapse the entire Qi army near Luoyang.

No one, whether in business or private, wants to take this risk.

Therefore, after reaching the end of the year, Xuzhou was completely abandoned. Although Huang Chao, the emperor of the Great Qi and Jintong of Chang'an, has always claimed to send troops to rescue Xuzhou, in fact, whether it is Chang'an or Luoyang, the Qi army from all over the country no longer has a single soldier sent to Xuzhou.

Xuzhou has become a piece of chicken ribs, tasteless to eat, and it is a pity to abandon it.

Rescuing Xuzhou can only be a refueling tactic. can give up such an important town as Xuzhou, and Huangchao is reluctant. Moreover, even if he wanted to give up Xuzhou at this time, the Qi army in Xuzhou City would be surrounded like an iron bucket, and he would not be able to withdraw at all.

As a result, it has caused a strange situation on the battlefield in Xuzhou.

The Qin army was obviously able to capture Xuzhou as soon as possible, as long as it was willing to spend some casualties, it could be taken, but the Qin army could not be surrounded for a long time. On the Qi army's side, a southeastern town like Xuzhou, the Qi army just sat back and watched him being besieged, shouting fiercely, but in fact, he didn't send a single soldier.

Although Xuzhou was besieged, the dead soldiers in Xuzhou City who asked for help could always stand out from the siege. Although a hundred are sent at a time, only one or two may get away with it in the end. Once or twice, it can be said that he is lucky, but it has always been like this, and Zhu Wen from Bianzhou has already understood that things are not so simple.

Zhu Wen's advisor Xie Tong once looked at the Xuzhou messenger who came to the rescue from the eighteenth, shook his head and said to Zhu Wen, "Zeng Yuanyu is fishing, and he wants to use Xuzhou to fish to attract the troops near Luoyang." ”

Zhu Wen sent troops three times to try to rescue Xuzhou. Three times to send troops, once in Songzhou encountered Xin Yan and Yu Xuan ambush, losing more than 3,000 people. The last two times even just left Bianzhou, they fought with Xin Yan, Kang Chengyu, and Yu Xuan, although the loss was not big, but they were also blocked at home and couldn't get out.

Since then, Zhu Wen has continued to play to Chang'an, saying that the Qin army is strong, preparing to counterattack Luoyang, and asking for reinforcements.

In fact, Zhu Wen also knew that the emperor of Chang'an would not believe a word of his recital, Li Jing obviously shifted his center of gravity to the north, otherwise he would not have besieged Xuzhou without attacking, but the holy decree issued was full of encouragement and instructed Zhu Wen to think of good generals. Let him be sure to contain the offensive of the Qin army.

The Great Qi court pretended not to know about Zhu Wen's false report of the military situation. This was also expected by Zhu Wen's staff group. Now the situation in JAC is completely broken. The Great Qi court could not send reinforcements to Henan at all, so it could only talk nonsense with its eyes open.

The Qi army in the city of Xuzhou has long been desperate, and the reinforcements have not arrived for a long time, although there is no shortage of grain and grass in the city, but the soldiers are getting fewer and fewer, and the morale has fallen to the bottom. What's more critical is that Qi Jun did not take over Xuzhou for long. There are still 10,000 horses in the Central Plains Reform Army in the city, and the local tyrants of the big clans in the city are even more powerful people in Xuzhou. Previously, when Pu surrendered to Qi, in the Jianghuai area, the three armies of Qi, Qin, and Huai were staggered, and the situation was unclear.

But now, as the siege lasted longer and longer, as the Huai army was defeated by the Qin, the Qi army lost one after another, and almost the land east of the canal was completely owned by the Qin army. In such a situation. No one can see it, at least in the competition here in Xuzhou. The Qin army completely had the upper hand.

Huo Cun also knew that the people in Xuzhou City were unstable, and there were even many probationary officers who secretly consulted with the local tyrants in Xuzhou. But he was helpless, although there were less than 5,000 people left in the probation army, the big clans and tyrants in Xuzhou City were quite powerful. In the defense of Lianyue, Huo Cun also armed the families of these people, and now the number of these people's families and the young and strong forces of Xuzhou is as many as more than 30,000, which has exceeded the remaining 15,000 people of the Qi army.

What's more, even Huo Cun, these crazy former grass thieves, would not be crazy to think that the probation army and the local tyrant clan in Xuzhou City would kill all of them. Since many generals of the Qi army used to kill people without blinking, they were still very smart. If they don't understand people's hearts at all, how can they develop to today's scale.

The so-called law does not hold the public accountable, let alone the grim situation today. The city of Xuzhou has completely become a large powder keg, and any slightly drastic action of the Qi army may cause the explosion of this powder keg.

The probation army that once surrendered to the Qi army has gradually risen again, and during this time in the city, there have even been many fights between the Qi army and the probation army. If it was in the past, even if the reforming army was bullied by the Qi army, they would not dare to speak out, let alone openly fight with the Qi army. But now, every time, after Huo Cunzhi Dao, he can only try his best to suppress the two sides and not punish each other. Now Huo Cun no longer dares to punish the probation army.

However, Huo Cun's concession did not make things better. On the contrary, when the probation army saw that the Qi army retreated, they became more and more convinced that the Qi army would be defeated. The boat has leaked and will sink, at this time, most people will choose to jump into the water as soon as possible to escape from the broken ship, if there is a boat next to it, it is naturally the best policy to change the boat as soon as possible.

After the probationary army in Xuzhou was invited to Luoyang after Pu surrendered to Qi, the probation army in the city was dominated by Liu Zhijun, the commander of the Yanei capital. Liu Zhijun, like Zhang Yun in Suzhou at the beginning, was once Shi Pu's right-hand man and a staunch supporter. After Shi Pu became the marshal, the two were also able to sit in important positions in the probationary army as young generals. Since the siege of Xuzhou, Zhang Yun has been in secret contact with Liu Zhijun.

Liu Zhijun saw the situation clearly early and had the intention of surrendering Qin. It's just that Huo Cun is not stupid, and has been sending people to keep an eye on Liu Zhijun and others.

After waiting for a few months, Liu Zhijun finally had the opportunity, and he secretly instigated the probation sergeants and the families of the local tyrants to clash with the Qi army, which led to a brawl. And Huo Cun's concession and disposal, so that the probation army and Xuzhou people who have always been dissatisfied more and more emboldened, and finally under the instigation of Liu Zhijun, the matter gradually escalated, and after the worst, on the evening of the first day of September, the reformed army and Xuzhou's armed men and the assistant defense Qingzhuang suddenly broke out, and attacked all the military camps of the Qi army at night.

It was night, and the city of Xuzhou was full of fire, shouting to kill and shake the ground.

However, the gate of Xuzhou has been closed, and some generals proposed to take the opportunity to attack Xuzhou, Zeng Yuanyu glanced at Zhang Yun and said with a smile: "Order all soldiers and horses to surround Xuzhou, without this general's order, no one is allowed to attack the city without authorization." ”

The generals were still a little surprised by this military order, but after dawn, the gate of Xuzhou, which had been chaotic all night, was finally opened.

After the city gate was opened, it was not the Qi army that wanted to break through that came out, but the bloody Xuzhou Reform Army, local tyrants, and young men.

After a night of scuffle, Liu Zhijun finally won the victory by virtue of his first strike and numerical superiority. Liu Zhijun was a talented and ambitious man, and after the attack last night, he was able to immediately open the city gate and lead the Qin army into the city.

But he didn't do this, he sent people to seize the city gate, held the city gate, and then led the troops to surround and kill the Qi soldiers, until finally the Qi army was killed more than 12,000 people, and only less than 3,000 scarred wounded soldiers surrendered under the leadership of Huo Cun.

Liu Zhijun's action revealed to Zhang Yun in advance that he was willing to choose an appropriate opportunity to fight back and seize Xuzhou and the king of Qin. In this battle, Liu Zhijun did not open the city gate and did not let the Qin army enter the city, firstly, because he wanted to borrow the head of the Qi army as a vote, and secondly, he was still worried in his heart, afraid that after the Qin army entered the city, he would simply serve them and the Qi army. For this reason, he did not hesitate to take the risk of relying on the Xuzhou army, which was large in number but obviously inferior in combat strength, to deal with the Qi army alone.

He won the battle, annihilating 12,000 Qi troops in a night of melee and capturing 3,000 captives, including Huo Cun, Zhang Guiba, and Zhang Guihou, three generals of the Qi army. However, the Xuzhou soldiers also suffered heavy losses, less than 2,000 of the 5,000 probation troops remained, and nearly 20,000 of the 30,000 Jiading and Qingzhuang were also killed.

As soon as the success was achieved, Liu Zhijun used the blood of tens of thousands of people to take an important step towards joining the Qin army.

After Zeng Yuanyu entered the city, he couldn't help but be moved after hearing the battlefield cleaning report. After this night, the city of Xuzhou became a complete hell, the two armies fought and tore apart, more than 30,000 soldiers died, and more than a third of the city of Xuzhou was destroyed in the war, and more than 30,000 people died in the chaos of last night's war.

After dawn, Xuzhou is full of white plains, and almost every family has filial piety.

Zhang Yun approached Liu Zhijun and privately accused him that he should not have done so. If the Qin army had been released into the city earlier, there would never have been such a tragic consequence. However, Liu Zhijun smiled, Ci is not in charge of soldiers, and Ren is not in business. He is the general of the probation army, and he cannot guarantee that if the Qin army entered the city early last night, he would not annihilate the probation army together. Besides, although many people died last night, how can there be immortals in the war. Although sixty percent of the probation army died, the remaining thousands of probation troops had definitely won the trust of the Qin army. Even the other big tyrants and people in Xuzhou City also used their actions to show their loyalty to Li Jing, the king of Qin. This is extremely important for Xuzhou, which is at the intersection of the three forces.

Zeng Yuanyu quickly understood the conversation between the two, although Liu Zhijun's idea of living the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain was a little ridiculous, but he did not punish or snub Liu Zhijun. Regardless of whether Liu Zhijun was right or wrong, at least he annihilated more than 10,000 Qi troops, captured several Qi generals and more than 3,000 prisoners, and dedicated the important town of Xuzhou. With this battle, Liu Zhijun's right and wrong are not something he can deal with.

Lifting the pen, Zeng Yuanyu wrote the details of the entire capture of Xuzhou into a long chapter and sent a messenger to report to Yanjing! (To be continued......)