On the snowy night of the 25th, the campfire lit at the head of Yangxin City by Zhu Longpo illuminated the wilderness outside the west city like a moonlit night, and a large snowflake fell on the head of the city, and Lin Tie made the Jiangdong Left Army, the Jinzhong Army, and the Shao Wu Army take turns to go out of the city to harass the captives who monitored the city gate and the captives who were stationed in Zhulongpo, and this kind of disturbance continued until dawn, and Ning Zechen led the third battalion to come with 500 cavalry.

With Ning Zechen's troops, a large number of materials were transported by 400 mules and horses in simple sleds and camels, taking advantage of the snowy night to cover the approach to Yangxin City along the frozen Zhulong River, and then quickly retreated into the city under the cover of the defenders in the city.

Ning Zechen came into the city, in addition to tens of thousands of catties of rice and grain, he also brought a large number of arrows, ordnance and medicinal materials, etc., which were all materials in short supply in Yangxin City.

Crossbows, especially crossbows and waist crossbows, play a huge role in countering the tactics of captives' light cavalry guerrilla, delaying and disrupting the captive's light cavalry rush and killing and wounding a large number of captives, and will inevitably play a huge role in defending the city.

Ning Zechen's troops carried 300 strong crossbows in 500 steps, and almost half of the strong crossbows in the fourth and fifth battalions were brought over. In addition, there were enough components to install eight bed crossbows and four scorpion crossbows, all of which were concentrated on strengthening the northern city, which was most conducive to the deployment of the siege captives.

In order to raise more arrows, Lin Lian requisitioned the only four blacksmith shops in the city for military use, collected iron tools and melted them to make arrowheads of various specifications; Even the stones in the stone street in front of the county government were raised, and stonemasons were requisitioned to make stone bullets fired with scorpion crossbows.

Ning Zechen led his troops to arrive, and Lin Jian asked the city wall on the sea of Ao Cang to assist in defending the city, and dispatched elite soldiers to strengthen Ning Zechen's department. In addition to the more than 500 Jiangdong Left Army infantry soldiers on the city wall and the original 800 Yangxin Defender Army, the mobile troops that Lin Jian could call on were 600 soldiers of Ning Zechen's department, 300 elite cavalry of the Jin Zhong Army of Zhou Tong's department, and 1,200 infantry soldiers of Geng Quanshan and Chen Dingbang's troops after being supplemented. In addition, there are more than 1,200 auxiliary soldiers, and more than 8,000 young and strong men are organized, and they can be transferred to the city at any time to strengthen the defense.

On the 26th, a large number of captives flocked to the outside of Yangxin City, just as Lin Jian expected, the Linqing rebel general Ji Shiben led more than 6,000 Linqing troops to fight for the Dongyu to fight the forward, and more than 3,000 captives and cavalry coerced a large number of captured people, surrendered troops, so that the troops outside Yangxin City amounted to more than 12,000 people.

"The thief really looks up to Yangxin!" Lin Jian said with a slight sigh, he pressed the handle of the knife, draped in a crimson coat, and stood on the gate tower of the North City, watching the soldiers slowly unfold in the wilderness between Zhulongpo and Yangxin City.

"The Jiangdong Left Army has accumulated nearly 4,000 captive soldiers in other battlefields, and they can't look down on Yangxin if they want to......," Geng Quanshan said.

Lin Jian smiled.

Yangxin is not close to Jinan and Linzi, about 250 miles away from Jinan and about 200 miles away from Linzi, which is generally outside the dangerous distance that the foot soldiers can directly attack. But the East Captives have the difficulties of the East Captives.

After the capture of Jinan, Mo Jiben, the rebel general of Linqing, led the Linqing army to surrender as the main force of the siege, and the casualties of the main force on the southern front of the Dongyu were limited. However, in addition to the capture of Jinan City, the number of people captured by the Eastern Captives was close to 300,000, except for a small number of people who were driven to fight with the army as auxiliary soldiers of the people, most of the captured population was concentrated in Jinan, Dezhou and other cities to take care of them, and they could no longer move with the army.

This will also force the eastern and southern fronts to divide their forces again, so that the captives who entered the army this time will be divided into three routes: the northern front, the southern front, and the eastern front.

The main force of the southern front left behind in Jinan, Dezhou, and Linqing could not divide too few troops, which meant that the number of captives on the eastern front was limited.

Yangxin's geographical location does not seem to be surprising, and it is even a little far from the direction of the eastern line of the captive army, but it is only eighty miles away from Zhulong Bay, retreats into the sea, and is sent to the coastal area south of Bohai County by sea ship. Entering the cities of Bohai, Shouguang or Changyi in the northeast or east of Linzi City can directly contain the main force of the eastern line of the captives attacking Linzi, and even if the main force of the eastern line of the captives successfully captures Linzi, it can also prevent it from continuing to advance eastward.

In addition, advancing westward from Yangxin can recover Shanghe, Linyi and other cities, directly reach the waist of Jinan and Dezhou, and form a flanking southern line with the Qinwang division gathered in the northeast of Zhongzhou.

Lin Tie has gathered more than 6,000 elites in Yangxineng, and among these 6,000 elites, in addition to the remnants of Shaowuzhen, the Jiangdong Left Army and the Jin Army have just joined forces to defeat 4,000 captured enemies, with high morale and strong willingness to fight. The degree of vigilance of the Jiangdong Left Army was even greater than that of the Qinwang Division gathered in the northeastern part of Zhongzhou County.

It is impossible for the Dongyu to sit idly by and watch Lin Jian gather forces in Yangxin to form a situation of flexible containment and attack on its eastern and southern fronts.

Either suppress the Jiangdong Left Army in Yangxin City, or directly press the main force of the Eastern Front under Yangxin City and conquer Yangxin City. No matter which strategic intention is realized, it is impossible to send Yangxin fewer troops.

The First Battle of Jinhai also proved the field combat ability of the Jiangdong Left Army, and it was impossible for the captive light cavalry of less than 5,000 captives to suppress the Jiangdong Left Army in Yangxin City and not move.

The captives came east this time, and the joint rebel generals surrendered more than 12,000 troops, which was not surprising to Lin Bin, but it was not up to him to decide whether this captives would attack or besiege Yangxin.

But in any case, the captives did not lose the courage to attack the city, not to mention that the rebels could be driven, even if they did not have a strong will to capture Yangxin City, it was also a choice that the captives should make to drive the rebels to surrender their troops to attack the city.

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Ye Jiduodi rode up to Zhulongpo and looked at the garrison at the head of Yangxin City.

The 3,000 captives who pursued to Yangxin in the early stage were actively harassed by the defenders, and they did not even set up a simple camp, Ye Jiduodi had a gloomy face, and did not say anything about the incompetence of the forward general, but just sent a large number of cavalry to guard along Zhulongpo, and changed the left capital of the Han army, Mo Jiben, to lead the Linqing troops to speed up the construction of the camp.

It is already difficult to seize from the locality, and it is limited to half a month, and there are nearly 16,000 light cavalry plus soldiers and civilians accompanying the soldiers and civilians, and more than 12,000 military horses, mules and horses, and 20,000 stones, rice, grain, and 180,000 forage for half a month.

The logistical baggage is so huge, there is no strong camp, and it is simply not possible to camp in the field.

Nakh Xiongqi temporarily removed all military posts, and only asked Yezir Khan to send him as a staff officer to the third prince Yezidordi.

The person who made him suffer the humiliation that he couldn't wash away in his life was in Yangxin City, although it was far away, there were no other generals in Yangxin City who wore green armor and red helmets. If he could have a longbow with a shooting distance of 1,500 paces, then He Xiongqi would never hesitate to shoot at Lin Lian, but at this time, he had to strongly advise the third prince to come to Yangxin to besiege the city, and not to attack the city easily.

Ye Ji Duodi glanced at Na He Xiongqi and did not say a word.

The Donghu soldiers are divided into eight divisions, of which the royal tent soldiers are led by Yezir Khan, and the other seven are tribal soldiers, which are served by the four princes and the three county princes.

Ye Ji Duodi is the commander of a department, although he must march cautiously in the face of the Jiangdong Left Army, which has won three victories in a row, but he wants to passively besiege the city and block the Jiangdong Left Army, so where can he put his face as the third prince? Besides, if Mo Jiben is not driven to lead the Linqing troops to fight a dozen hard battles, how can they harden their hearts to follow the Great Eastern Hu Khanate?

In addition, the Khan sent Azig and other young generals to watch the battle with the army, but he did not send them to see how they besieged the Jiangdong Left Army in Yangxin City.

It is also strange to say, Mo Jiben did not even have the courage to defend Linqing under the hooves of the Donglu Iron Cavalry, after he led the troops to surrender, the generals in the army would not particularly trust them these rebel generals, only the Khan Wang Li rejected the public opinion, added the Han army outside the eight departments, and appointed Mo Jiben as the left capital of the Han army, so that Mo Jiben led the Linqing troops to attack the two cities of Xiajin and Gaotang, and made Mo Jiben as the vanguard to attack Jinan City.

Unexpectedly, whether it was attacking Xia Jin, Gaotang, or attacking Jinan, Mo Jiben was surprisingly hardworking, and there were rules and regulations for attacking the city, and he did not hesitate to kill the casualties of his soldiers, not at all like a cowardly and cowardly general, as if he was determined to please the new master, and this time he also took the initiative to invite the battle to attack Yangxin.

Now Zhao Jinlong, who fled into the mountains of northern Thailand, also led 5,000 Zhejiang soldiers out and surrendered, and the king of Khan directly appointed Zhao Jinlong as the right capital of the Han army, so that he led the troops to attack Jiyin and slaughter the city first.

Now the Eastern Front is dominated by the surrendered Han army.

Ye Ji Duodi is puzzled by the different temperaments of the southerners, and can only attribute this phenomenon to the fact that the southerners are all cheap bones. But it's okay to drive the troops to attack the city, but it can make the Donghu boys who are not good at attacking the city shed less blood, but the Khan King also asked the generals to carefully study the southerners' foot warfare and the method of attacking and defending the walled city, so that Azig and other young generals came to watch the battle with the army, and it seems that the Khan King still has some confidence in Mo Jiben's siege.

Mo Jiben galloped up the gentle slope on his horse, got off the horse and saluted Ye Ji Duodi, Nahe Xiongqi and others, pointed to Yangxin City, and said to Ye Ji Duodi: "Yangxin City has four city gates, and when this village is built, please send cavalry to monitor the four gates, and the humble duty can drive the Han army and the people to dig and build a fortress outside the four gates, so that the defenders can not go out of the city to disturb our siege army, and then they can attack the city......"

"How much effort does that take?" Azig scolded, "You shouldn't be afraid to attack the city, right? ”

"You talk a lot of nonsense," Ye Jiduo's horsewhip twitched in the space, and glared at Azig viciously, even if he looked down on Mo Jiben and these generals in his heart, but to drive them to attack the city with their hearts, what to do He still knew in his heart, and after teaching Azig a lesson, he said to Mo Jiben, "Let Mo Dutong bother, whatever you need, even if you say it, this king will do his best to do it for you!" ”

Mo Jiben thanked Dade for kowtowing to Ye Jiduodi, and went to drive the Han army and the people to step up the construction of the village.