Chapter 1066 Ultimate Goal
On November 15, tribes such as Yifu Xianbei, Zhejiu Xianbei and Wuwei Lushuihu from Xihai County took turns to attack, each tribe only once, and retreated after the attack, and replaced another tribe.
After such a round of battles, more than half of the defenders had lost their envoys to surrender.
Shao Shen was not willing to surrender, but Yang Jizhi repeatedly persuaded him and finally agreed to the remaining thousand defenders put down their equipment and lined down the mountain.
However, when they got off the mountain, Shao Shen immediately changed his face, and he wanted to kill Jiang Shao Xuan and was grabbed by someone.
However, death penalty can be avoided, and living crime cannot be escaped.
It was a wise man for all dynasties to send sinners to the border. The ultimate destination of these people was Hehui City, with a total of 1,000 families, all of which were distributed.
When Shao Shen planted the flag on the top of Xian Mountain, Xiangyang and Fancheng were shocked.
That night, another knight shot and persuaded surrender to enter the city, but there was no reaction for a while.
If you think about the guards carefully, there are more than 5,000 in Xiangyang City - if Deng Yue had not recruited wealthy servants or city residents, of course this would be unlikely.
The number of defenders in Fancheng is less than 4,000.
The overall situation is as dangerous as it is, and it looks like it is in turmoil.
On the 16th, after waiting for sufficient food and grass, Huang Biao led his army to the outside of Shicheng.
His troops along the way have been greatly reduced.
Luoyan Army and half of the Dai Kingdom cavalry have been transferred to the west and merged into the Western Route Army, and are under the command of Jiang Ke. The only ones left in Huang Biao's hands were the Right Jinwu Guard, the Heiqi Zuo Camp and more than 4,000 Tuoba Xianbei cavalry, with less than 15,000 combat soldiers, including about 29,000 auxiliary soldiers.
Obviously, Shao Shen adjusted his deployment, increased troops on the western front, directly attacked Jiangling, and the eastern front was in a state of "offensive defense".
However, Huang Biao was obviously not satisfied with defense.
When he learned that there was a Jin army water camp and two thousand army in Shicheng, he immediately ordered a fierce attack.
This city is near Zhongxiang in later generations.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan built a fort here and sent a member of Yamen to guard it, so it was called "Yamenshu".
Wei and Wu repeatedly tug-of-war. When he arrived in the Jin Dynasty, Yang Hu became the governor of Jingzhou and captured this place. He also chose a place with mountains and rivers on his back to build a stone city as a frontline fortress confronting Eastern Wu.
In the late Jin Dynasty, Du Tao was forced to rebel by Wang Cheng and Shicheng was trapped.
Tao Kan led his army to attack and was defeated by Du Zeng here.
Shicheng is actually the territory of Jingling County, but there are no people, and they don’t know if they have been moved or escaped.
Huang Biao didn't care where the people of Jingling were going. He just wanted to take down the city, so he went out to look forward as soon as possible.
"Dongdongdongdong..." While looking away, the sound of advancing drums sounded next to him.
The soldiers of Heiqiu Zuo Camp lined up in an orderly manner to attack the Jin army's water camp.
When the navy marched, there was also a resting point in the middle, which was the water camp.
Such a village is needed to repair ships, hoard supplies, place wounded and sick, and even serve as the starting point of the attack.
Huang Biao observed roughly that the city wall was built using natural terrain on the east, south and north sides of Shicheng. The west side was a cliff and the lower side was a Mianshui. In other words, the connection between the water village and the city can be cut off artificially.
Look, the cavalry of Tuoba Dai Kingdom only rushed back and lost a few manpower. They tried to find out where the soft river beach was and where the relatively solid ground was. Then they launched a resolute attack and tried to go to and from Yushicheng It is separated from the Jin army between the water village and cut into two sections.
The attack on the water camp has begun, and Shicheng ignored it and only sent the Right Jinwu Guard and Xianbei cavalry to monitor it. As soon as the enemy leaves the city, they will immediately fight with it.
And behind them, an even more amazing scene appeared: one thousand two hundred government soldiers led their troops, two thousand young and one thousand cavalrymen, carrying ox carts, donkeys and mules, heading south towards Jingling County City.
There were only a few thousand people, but only half of them could be fought, but they dared to carry only half a month of food and grass and went south bravely, and the momentum of advancing was very fierce.
"Send someone to inform Anlu and ask the people of Zuo Feilong Guard how long will it take to delay." Huang Biao called the messenger and ordered.
The messenger turned and left.
Huang Biao turned his head and looked at the water village.
The Jin navy guarding the camp was shooting at the wall with the Heiqiu Left Camp. Arrows and stones flew across the battlefield, and from the beginning, they entered a white heat.
Huang Biao remembered that a Xianbei general advised him yesterday that if the cities he encountered along the way could not be defeated at once, he would bypass them all and send people to monitor them. The main force went south in large numbers and drank horses and the Yangtze River.
Huang Biao was a little surprised by this. Do Xianbei people like to fight like this?
If the main force going south is a cavalry, you can indeed send some elite cavalry to monitor the defenders in the city, then pass around the city and go south in a large manner, but that is too great a hidden danger.
It is impossible to see when attacking, and when retreating, all the troops have no intention of fighting, so you will suffer - don't take it for granted, horses are more delicate than humans and more sensitive to the environment. When they get sick in the densely populated areas of the south At that time, you can feel the feeling of being chased by someone on both legs.
Huang Biao did not dare to let go of these cities along the way, and began to attack after he failed to persuade the surrender.
He dared not say when he could conquer Shicheng, but there were not many naval troops in the water village, and the camp was not strong, so it was not difficult to capture it.
There is already a Xiangyang encirclement in the north and no longer attacks. You won’t attack Shicheng, Jingling, and Yangkou in the south?
If you have no choice, you have to be cruel.
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In the Yangkou camp, Tao Kan was seeing Cai Mo off.
"Shiheng, I'm still a little uneasy." Cai Mo had already boarded the boat and looked at Tao Kan on the shore again, unable to help but say.
Tao Kan laughed and said, "It's time for this, regret is useless."
While the two were talking, the troops drawn from various places were boarding the ship in batches.
Tao Kan recently adjusted his deployment, drew troops from Wuchang and Xiakou, and gathered 15,000 infantry and more than 10,000 naval troops. This is the most powerful mobile corps in Jingzhou and the only mobile corps. The defenses in Jingling, Yangkou and nearby areas were basically entrusted to Cai Mo's ten thousand Jiangzhou water and land troops, and strictly ordered them not to fight in a wave, but they cooperated with water and land and held on.
The 20,000 or 30,000 people under his command can use Yangshui and Xiashui, which are not easy to go to, to reinforce the various places.
Four words: drag and wait for change.
The Liang army could not stand the casualties of the siege, the endless rivers and mud, and the frequent loss of food and grass supply. Even after the beginning of next spring, more and more northern soldiers were not in compliance with the land and land, and large numbers of war horses and livestock died. Forced to retreat.
Forced retreat and actively retreat are two different things.
He didn't believe that the Liang army could still escape unscathed by chasing them at that time. If it was not good, it was a great possibility that the big loss would be lost. At that time, not only would the siege of Jiangling be resolved, but Xiangyang might have to vomit it out.
The most regrettable thing in his heart was that the court was commanding randomly at the beginning, which forced him to lose more than 10,000 troops in the two places of Xiangfan.
If he could have more than 10,000 elite troops on hand at this time, so that the main force of the infantry with the ability to array field battles reached 27,000, he could even march to the north side of Jiangling to make a big detour, and completely cut off the Liang gathering in Jiangling. The main force of the army is behind.
But now there are only more than 15,000 soldiers, but they are taking more risks because the Liang army may have adjusted their deployment, and there is not enough attack on both sides.
But this can only be kept in my heart, and even Cai Mo couldn't say much.
No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!
You can't blame the emperor, the prime minister and the nobles of the court, right?
Cai Mo didn't know what Tao Kan was thinking. Seeing Tao Kan laughing, he said helplessly: "Shiheng!"
Tao Kan put away his smile, bowed to Cai Mo, and said, "If you have any intention, why don't you help me find some soldiers and horses. There is no need to be too powerful, just be able to defend the city. It's better to be the Xiangzhou soldiers, they are close to each other. . Don’t have the barbarians, they can’t defend the city well. If there are only barbarians, it’s best to defend the city after training. In this way, I can draw troops from Wuchang and Xiakou to gain a lot of control."
After saying that, he sighed again and said, "If it really doesn't work, the barbarians can do it. I just need to take them to fight."
"This..." Cai Mo thought for a while and said, "I will go back to Beijing now, and Shiheng can wait for the good news."
Tao Kan bowed and got on the boat.
In order to prevent Fang Zhen, the imperial court was really obsessed with it. It was time that it was still unwilling to hand over Xiangzhou to him.
Tao Kan's ship gradually faded away, and the sound of drums on the river surface was endless, and the masts and oars were like forests.
On the post road near the riverside, a large group of infantry soldiers were also rushing to Huarong, heading straight for Huarong.
A navy gathered in the south of Huarong City, which could take a boat to enter Yunmengze and then go to Jiangling via Xiashui.
Cai Mo couldn't understand these military deployments and mobilizations. He only knew that Tao Kan was trying hard to maintain the massive invasion of the "800,000" Liang army and was waiting for the time.
After shaking his head, he ordered the boat to start with concern.
It was very fast to go down the Yangtze River from Yangkou and then back to Jianye. He wanted to discuss with important officials in the court as soon as possible.
On the way before, I vaguely heard that the Liang army heading south to Huainan and besieged Hefei New City, but I didn't know what was going on.
Xuzhou should have taken action, right?
This full-scale invasion was so powerful that Shao Zhe would definitely not stop so easily. It depends on who can persist now.
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On November 20, Jiang Ke, the governor of the Western Route Army, was already in charge of Dangyang and began to mobilize troops frequently.
Dangyang is north and south, and there is no end to the carriage and horses along the way.
In the southern area, even in areas with well-developed water networks, rivers are one after another.
The baggage convoy often accumulates in front of the only few wooden bridges and waits in line.
What is even more helpless is that many bridges were destroyed, which greatly delayed the speed of advance.
Ding Zhuang and others were driven down the river and built temporary floating bridges. Sometimes they were so busy that they were sweating profusely, and sometimes their lips were purple and trembling.
A lot of people lay beside the carriage.
Some people are weak, some have severe fever, and some vomit and diarrhea.
The officers sent people to concentrate them in temporary camps.
The doctor will give a simple treatment. If it doesn’t work, then wait for death.
The soldiers who were eager to pass by were fighting for the road with the Ding Zhuang, and they cursed all day long, had constant disputes and were extremely chaotic.
I heard that a logistics army in the back was resting at night and was attacked by the Wu people who came ashore from the lake. The losses were quite heavy, and the flames reflected the red of half of the sky.
So, in the past few days, Dangyang sent a number of light cavalry to patrol the grain road along the way.
But they cannot eliminate this phenomenon, they can only reduce the frequency of its occurrence.
It was not until the 21st that the vanguards who were drawn from the Eastern Route Army and the Central Route Army arrived and were assigned to the logistics department, that this phenomenon approached nothing.
However, the Xianbei cavalry, who had just arrived, suffered a loss and was seized by someone, surrounded by water in a village surrounded by water, and lost more than a hundred cavalry.
Looking down from the air, from Jiangling to Xiangyang, there are many flags and cars and horses on the hundreds of miles of road.
All the troops were interspersed in it, as if all the men in the world gathered here.
At this moment, the center of the battlefield has been moved to Jiangling.
It was also at this moment that no matter how stupid people were, they knew that Xiangyang was just a cover, and Shao Zhe’s most important goal was Jiangling.
And Jiangling cannot cut off foreign aid unless no one comes to save him.
(This chapter ends)