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At the beginning of the establishment of the Yue Dynasty, there was a fierce battle with the early military horses in Jingzhou, and after Gao Zu fought hard to capture Jingzhou, the situation at that time did not allow him to defend Jingzhou, so he razed the cities of Jingzhou.

Most of the cities of Jinghu were rebuilt after the founding of the Yuan Dynasty.

Jingzhou city is rebuilt on the earthen wall of the old city of the previous dynasty, rammed earth plate building, the wall is more than 16 miles on Monday, there are more than two zhang high, set up six gates, the city is two zhang wide, one zhang deep, compared with Yanjing, Jiangning and other cities, Jingzhou City is far from being the city high pool risk.

Although Jingzhou has an important geographical location, it has rarely encountered wars in the past two hundred years, and like many cities in the rich land south of the Yangtze River, although it is old and dilapidated, few people think of repairing and strengthening, so that in the early years of Chongguan, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River were flooded, so that the embankments along the river were broken, and the water rushed in from the west gate of Jingzhou, and most of the Jingzhou cities collapsed, and more than 10,000 people drowned.

Zuo Chengmu was transferred to Jingzhou as the prefect after that time.

At that time, the central finance had become stretched thin and unsustainable due to border affairs, and although Zuo Chengmu was ordered to rebuild Jingzhou City, the county secretary only pulled out 60,000 taels of silver. Zuo Chengmu raised another 110,000 taels of silver from the local government to repair Jingzhou City on the old site.

At that time, the soldiers were not considered, and there was no condition to consider the soldiers, but the south city and the west city of the water were rammed with earth to build the inner wall, and then the stone and city bricks were used to plaster the masonry, which was strong and abnormal, and the east and north cities, which were prone to soldiers, were only repaired on the basis of the old earthen wall.

When Zuo Chengmu was appointed as the envoy of Jinghu Xuanfu, the prefect of Jingzhou was Hu Wenmu, and when the Jingzhou town army was suppressing bandits, Gong Yushu was defeated, and Hu Wenmu organized the township soldiers to defend, so that it was possible to master the military and political affairs of Jingzhou and Jingbei.

At that time, bandits in Jinghu were plagued, endangering Jingzhou. Zuo Chengmu intended to build an urn city outside the six gates of Jingzhou and draw silver to Jingzhou, but Hu Wenmu did not build an urn city, but built three more majestic towers at the east gate and the north gate and the south gate of the river bank wharf out of the city.

In front of the city tower, Shi Yu wall stone railing, the city bricks are paved, and there is a horse road, the momentum is magnificent, there are still arrow tower brick buildings in front of the city tower, when resisting the attack of the wandering army, it does play a very good defensive effect.

In the tenth year of Chongguan, Gong Yu led 100,000 soldiers and horses to fight Jingzhou, Hu Wenmu defended Jingzhou City, defeated Gong Yu's department, killed and wounded more than 10,000 people in the exile army, and drove Gong Yu away from Hanzhong - Jingzhou City could be defended before, not because Jingzhou City was strong, but it was not really tested.

After Haowenzhuang went to Eastern Hubei to supervise the war, Ye Ji Luorong left Hu Zongguo on the west bank of the Han River, thinking that he was a staff officer for attacking Jingzhou City.

Although the Zhejiang-Fujian army has beaten the Huaidong Army to pieces over the years, the level of siege tactics is still far higher than that of the Northern Yan generals, even if Zhou Fan, who was once the defender of Xuanfu and known for defending the city, is still inferior to a veteran of Zhejiang and Fujian like Hu Zongguo in siege tactics.

The Huaidong Army's offensive against Huangpi was unusually fierce, and Ye Ji Luorong was very aware of the serious drawbacks of the complex system of soldiers and horses in Eastern Hubei and the fact that the command might not be able to coordinate - in Ye Ji Luorong's view, as long as he took Jingzhou City first, he would naturally seize the absolute initiative in the Jingxiang war; If the Huaidong Army was asked to pierce the Eastern Hubei defense line first, the Northern Yan would fall into passivity.

There was no time to drive the people to take mounds of earth to build a siege city, press the soldiers and horses up, and first seize the port outside the southern city.

Walk five miles south from the Nanji Gate of Nancheng to Jingzhou Port, from Jingzhou Port to Nancheng, that is, the river port outside Jingzhou City, and those people who work at the wharf live among the shacks. In order to keep the communication between Jingzhou City and the outside world, the defenders must keep the port south of the city from being occupied by Yanhu soldiers and horses.

Although Hu Wenmu built a fortification outside the southern city, it was much simpler than Jingzhou City, and in the face of the fierce attack of the new annexed army, the defenders of the port of Nancheng could not support it and retreated to Jingzhou City after holding on for two days.

Zhou Fan set fire to the shacks in Chengnanbu Port, which seemed to be quite prosperous in the past, and burned to the ground in just one night.

Zhou Fan built a camp in the southeast and southwest corners of Jingzhou City, in case reinforcements came from the Yangtze River to enter Jingzhou, and the focus of the attack on Jingzhou City was still placed in the east and north cities, which had not been repaired for many years.

The mistake made by the defenders of Jingzhou was exactly the same as that of Sun Ji's constant defense of Huangpi, that is, to concentrate all the soldiers and horses in the city. Although there are six gates in Jingzhou, after all six gates are blocked by Yanhu, they can only trap the city and lose the initiative to go out of the city to counterattack.

Although the counterweight and torsion catapults used in Huaidong played a great threat, neither the luxury family nor Yanhu could capture the real thing from the Huaidong army on the battlefield, so the craftsmen under the jurisdiction of the original Zhejiang-Fujian army and the Northern Yan could only make traditional manpower catapults.

Although the manpower catapult is cumbersome, and when used, it requires dozens or even hundreds of people, and even the mules and horses with considerable drag force are tied to the tip of the catapult that is seen and dragged to exert force, but Yanhu plundered the population from around Jingzhou, but there is no lack of manpower, and more than 20 stone-throwing crossbows were erected outside the north city of Jingzhou in early October, which caused a great threat to Jingzhou City.

Hu Wenmu also built a stone-throwing crossbow in Jingzhou City to confront Yanhu soldiers and horses, but because he could only build this kind of cumbersome catapult in the city, and the space in the city was narrower, which was not conducive to use, so in the bombardment of the stone-throwing crossbow, the Jingzhou defenders were at a disadvantage.

Especially the kind of boulder that wants to throw more than 100 catties out, it takes one or two hundred people to work together, and the force rope is two or three hundred meters long, and the houses on the inner side of the city wall are in pieces, and it is difficult to have such an open space.

The stone-throwing crossbow bombarded endlessly, and Zhou Fan made the supervising team pull out the swords and axes, forcibly coerced the people from the periphery of Jingzhou, braved the arrows and stones to fill the moat, fill in the passage to the city, and ordered the soldiers of Nanzhang, Zhongyi, Jingmen, Dangyang, Changlin and other cities to hide under the half-cut boats and cave houses, approach the city, and dig the foot of the city wall with shovels and shovels.

The density and frequency of Yan Hu's catapult fires could not be compared with the Huaidong Army that organized the siege.

Hu Wenmu used thick wood to build war sheds and troubled buildings at the head of the city, as long as he did not directly hit the stone bullets weighing more than 100 catties, he could also make the guards hide under them to block the attacks of small and medium-sized stone bullets.

Yan Hu drove the people and surrendered to the city, and the defenders came out of the war tent and the string of buildings, walked to the battlement wall and shot arrows, threw down the bricks and stones from the demolition of the houses and the sawn wood, and poured the boiling dung water......

Those who carried earth to fill the trenches under the city had the least cover, and under the rain of locusts and arrows, they were killed by arrows; Although the pawn has a half-cut boat and a cave house car to cover the top of the head, the half-cut boat and the cave house car are covered with cooked cowhide, which has a better effect of shielding against arrow rain and hot oil, and the anti-masonry is also good, but the long short wood is smashed on the zhang, and if it is smashed once or twice, it will fall apart, and the pawn in the middle will lose its protection and will be shot directly by the arrow rain......

The overseers of the newly annexed army were behind the battle with swords and axes, and the people and the soldiers flinched slightly, that is, the swords and axes were added, and the bows and crossbows were shot at them, without mercy; Further back, the battalions of the newly annexed army are also in good gear and ready to destroy the rebels and deserters at any time.

Compared with the consumption of soldiers and horses, even if nearly 20,000 soldiers are consumed in the city, Zhou Fan will not have the slightest reluctance and heartache, and it will not damage the morale of the new annexed army. The generals of the newly attached Han army also knew in their hearts that letting the soldiers and the captured villagers consume the attack power of the defenders at the head of the city would reduce their casualties in the next siege, which was also their usual tactic.

For those soldiers who were forced to attack the city, at this time they may understand that the previous surrender was a mistake, but it was too late, and the slightest retreat was death, and they could only rush down the city numbly, only hoping that the half-cut boat and the cave house car would be stronger, and that the stones and trees smashed down at the head of the city would have longer eyes, and that Qi Pan could quickly dig a big hole at the foot of the city wall, so that he could hide in it and continue digging.

Jingzhou East City, North City, rammed the old earthen wall, rammed earth soft, the pawn risked death to dig the foundation of the earth wall, and there are a large number of stone-throwing crossbows from the front to smash, to the fourth day of the official siege of the city, the east city collapsed in two places.

The city wall collapsed, and the defenders of the city could not avoid it, and went down with the masonry, and there were also soldiers and civilians who dug the wall under the city to avoid it, and they were buried under the masonry together.

The wall collapsed to form a gap, and Zhou Fan sent his descendants to attack from the collapsed gap; Hu Wenmu also made preparations in the city, on the one hand, he used a wooden fence to plug the gap, and on the other hand, he asked the defenders at the head of the city to take soil to fill the gap from both sides......

The order to slaughter the city has been issued, and the defenders have been defending the city for three days, and it is difficult to escape the slaughter if they surrender, so that the defenders are also strong-willed and no longer think about surrendering. In addition, the defenders were told that the battles between the Huaidong Army and Chizhou in Huangpi, Hanjin, and Qichunbei were going well, as long as the Huaidong Army took Huangpi and Hanjin and advanced to Hanshui from the flank, the siege of Jingzhou would be solved without a fight, and it would be difficult to hold Jingzhou for more than ten days?

Where there is hope for victory, there will be the will to hold on - this also applies to the defenders of Jingzhou.

Although Yan Hu gathered 100,000 troops and horses under the city of Jingzhou, while the defenders only had 30,000, the brutal siege battles filled the entire middle and early part of October.

By the middle of the month, almost all of the 20,000 soldiers and 40,000 or 50,000 people who had been wrapped in Yanhu to besiege the city were killed under Jingzhou as consumables, and a few of them were mutilated and could not be treated at all. By this time, the cumulative casualties of Zhou Fan's new Han army had become more than 10,000, and Jingzhou City had not been captured.

However, by the 15th, the east and north cities of Jingzhou City had collapsed almost entirely, and a complete section of the city wall could no longer be seen. Although Hu Wenmu replaced the original rammed earth wall with a wooden fence wall from the inside of the city, it was only weaker and shorter than the previous rammed earth walled city.

The collapsed bricks and stones formed a slope in front of the wooden fence wall, and after being solidified, they became a convenient passage for Yanhu soldiers and horses to attack the city.

The defenders could not stand at the head of the city to defend, so they could only wait for Yanhu's soldiers and horses to break through the gap in the wooden fence wall and attack in, and carry out a white-knuckle counterattack, which made the casualties of the defenders skyrocket, and by the 15th they had accumulated more than 10,000 casualties.

Due to the collapse of the city wall, the role of the people who helped defend the city before was greatly reduced, and if they were to fill in the defensive formation, except for a few brave and bloody young men who could fight together with guns, most of the people would only bring more panic.

At this point in the war, the defenders of Jingzhou became more difficult to defend the city, and the battle became more bloody.

At this time, Ye Ji Luorong ordered Tian Chang and Han Li to lead their troops to attack the eastern city of Jingzhou, while Zhou Fan was only responsible for attacking the northern city, which also gave Zhou Fan's troops a chance to breathe and recuperate. At the same time, according to the experience of attacking Nanyang, Ye Ji Luorong transferred all the warriors who were good at foot combat in the pro-army and gathered three battalions of top soldiers for the final attack on Jingzhou City.

There were 30,000 defenders in Jingzhou, accumulating more than 10,000 casualties without collapsing, but it was only because they saw that the offensive of the Huaidong Army in Huangpi lasted for more than ten days and was fierce.

At present, Haowenzhuang can still support it in eastern Hubei, although there is no way to curb the offensive of the Huaidong army to hit the morale of the defenders of Jingzhou, but in Ye Ji Luorong's opinion, if you fight and fill Jingzhou with 10,000 elites, I don't believe that Hu Wenmu can still hold Jingzhou City?

Ye Ji Luorong ordered Zhou Fan and Tian Chang to stab the soldiers and horses into Jingzhou City, that is, they must not retreat, and they must no longer use the tactics of repeated see-sawing to consume the strength and fighting spirit of the defenders of Jingzhou.

Zhou Fan thought that the capture of Jingzhou was just around the corner, and his troops had paid more than 10,000 casualties in the early stage, and it was not easy to fight like this, but he had to let Dongcheng out and ask Tian Chang to go up, and he was somewhat disappointed to pick peaches for Tian Chang. It is precisely because of this that Zhou Fan does not want to let Tian Chang share the merit of finally capturing Jingzhou City.

Seeing that the day of the capture of Jingzhou City is just around the corner, after the capture of Jingzhou City, the main force of the Northern Yan soldiers and horses will be able to get out of the west bank of the Han River and strengthen the eastern part of Hubei, and the victory of the Battle of Jingxiang will be locked, Tian Chang naturally knows that it is no longer the time to be stingy with the troops, otherwise how can they, the newly attached Han generals, compete with the generals Zhou Fan, Yuan Lishan, and Chen Zhihu?