Chapter 360: Death siege, or not to save

In mid-July, the Huai Yang Army's Light Division advanced rapidly and launched a war with the Fifth Battalion of Ge Zuo in Yingshang City. The three teams of Ge Liyan, King of Troubled Times and King of Zuo Jin either attacked in turn or fought together, but were all defeated by the Huai Yang Army.

On the first day of the battle, the gates of Yingshang City were wide open. The Fifth Battalion of the Gezuo in the city no longer cared about the survival of the headquarters and fled in all directions.

But the official army did not pursue it. After confirming their safety, they began to move bamboo platoons from the ship and began to build low walls around the city wall. While the troops of the Fifth Battalion of the Gezuo were scattered and collapsed, several battalions of the Huai Yang Army had begun to disperse to various city gates and block the city gates.

The Fifth Battalion of Ge Zuo finally understood that in the field battle of the regular army, they had no way to deal with these official troops, and the firearms and spear formations were almost their nemesis.

What's more, according to what Liu Xiyao, the King of Zuo Jin, said, this group of officers and soldiers had powerful weapons such as general artillery and had not been used in battle yet, so I don't know why.

The defeated soldiers in groups of three or five will naturally avoid the formation of officers and soldiers, but the officers and soldiers ignore these soldiers. However, when a large number of soldiers want to escape from the city and flee north, they will be immediately hit by a head-on attack.

If Jiaozhou Camp first came after, the third battalion of the Fifth Battalion of the Gezuo, regardless of the supplies, food and grass in the city, or the collapse that might be caused by waterways, ran directly upstream, and might even run away, but there were too many more soldiers in the city than these officers and soldiers, and the Fifth Battalion of the Gezuo had never suffered any loss in fighting with the officers and soldiers.

Even Liu Xiyao, who had suffered losses, felt that using his troops reasonably, the advantage of the Fifth Battalion of the Left should be that he could eat it, and at least he could defeat the officers and soldiers outside.

But when I realized that I couldn't do it, it was too late to run away. The civil engineering work of the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers was extremely poor. Even if they were to build camps and camps and accommodations, they could use houses if they could use houses. If they couldn't use houses, they would conquer civil servants and village managers to handle it.

Half of the officers and soldiers under the city were guarding the front, while the other half were digging soil and building walls behind, and they were busy. They carried a large number of bamboo trays and wooden fences from the ships on the river, and directly surrounded the city.

The soldiers of Jiaozhou camp were veterans who received salary and silver. They were also new soldiers from Zhuang Ding. Their treatment was far greater than that of the Ming soldiers of the same era. They were trained every day and did not need to work hard for their livelihood. While they were treated with such high treatment, they also required the soldiers to have higher awareness.

They also regard civil engineering as part of their soldiers' responsibilities and do it for granted. There is no slackness or shirking responsibility.

The first few attacks were launched, He Yilong's frontal attack and the fire ships dispersed the forces of officers and soldiers. His own strategy of sneak attack failed, and the troops who could rush and fight suffered heavy losses. On the one hand, the morale was low. On the other hand, he had to rest and recover, and he could no longer take out the troops to fight in a hurry.

Moreover, except for facing Yingshui's east gate, the terrain in front of the other three gates was relatively wide and flat, and although there was a lot of room for movement. However, the officers and soldiers' firearms could fully exert their power. Each gate had two three-pound cannons and two battalions of musketeers.

As long as the fifth camp of the Le Zuo appeared, they were beaten back. Except for He Yilong, Liu Xiyao and Wei Xiaobei were still observing the city, and the rest of the soldiers were in the city and were afraid to fight.

The fifth camp of Gezuo was injured and killed, and it was scattered. The casualties were about 5,000, but there were already scattered 20,000 to 30,000. After leaving so many, it was said that it had damaged the vitality of the troops. However, inside and outside the city, it was also known that this was actually the backbone of strength.

The refugee army is generally a small number of backbone troops and a large number of dependent refugees. If they win one after another, they will have a good reputation. Then more and more troops gathered around them. If they are not lucky, it is the size of the backbone troops.

But with this backbone, as long as you have another chance, you can gather again and restore your strength and climate. The same is true for the Fifth Camp of the Gleath Zuo.

The people in the city were defeated, but they were not very scared because they knew that there were still core members and the officers and soldiers were not in a hurry to attack, so they simply defended the city first and waited for the opportunity.

However, the Huai Yang army officers and soldiers outside the city showed their jaw-dropping civil engineering skills in the city. The bamboo tray and wooden frames were used as bones to build a long circle around Yingshang City.

The sentry detectives who were in charge of looking out at the east gate of Yingshui these days, every time they saw a large number of ships coming downstream, unloading a large number of equipment and materials. Gradually, the low wall had already encircled the entire Yingshang City. Even if they were asking for help, they could not be sent out of the city.

The low hills and gullies on both sides of the east gate were filled with rest and rested as much as possible by the officers and soldiers. It was completely impossible to continue to send troops to attack such a geographical location.

When the low wall in the inner circle was built outside, the soldiers of the Huai Yang Army began to camp outside the low wall. A large number of civilians also took boats to the city of Yingshang City. Many of these civilians were defeated soldiers who had previously fled. In this chaotic era, a few scattered people walked in the wild, either starved to death and killed, or were captured as cows and horses.

The soldiers of the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo on the top of the city watched helplessly as the low wall in the inner circle was thickened and raised, but another wall was built outside, and two long walls inside and outside surrounded Yingshang City.

The Fifth Battalion of the Gezuo in the city was weakly organized several attacks to break through, all of which were beaten to pieces by the officers and soldiers who relied on fortifications. A large number of civilians were strong, sufficient materials, and the hard work of the Yang Army of the Jiaozhou Camp, Huai, the two long sieges outside were not slow to complete.

The thieves in the city simply stopped moving. Anyway, there are still reserves in the city, so we have to see who can stand there!

But it was almost the end of July, and it was said that the old Huihui and the redeemed kings near Yingzhou City had no news. The third battalion in the city was a little panicked and organized several listless breakthroughs, and the ending was naturally a waste of power.

The strongest force in the Fifth Battalion of the G Zuo is the military horses raised by Ma Shouying and Wang Lin, the reincarnated king of Hui. These two people from the border soldiers joined the battles, and they were relatively organized and brave and tenacious. The Fifth Battalion of the G Zuo competed for power and profit and was suspicious of each other. This was a problem that had existed since the beginning of the family.

But when facing the enemy, the Fifth Battalion of the G Zuo was unanimous to the outside world and never abandoned anyone. The hope in the city was that the two battalions of the Fifth Battalion of the G Zuo came to rescue, but who would have thought that there was no sound. This was strange and strange.

In fact, in what Ge Liyan and Zuo Jinwang thought, the time when Yingzhou should know the news, and the time when Ma Shouying and Lin Yangcheng really knew the news, that is, the expected time and the real time, were about eleven days apart, because the battlefield obscurity work was done well.

The provocateurs of the Huai Yang Army, the rich village heroes of Fengyang Mansion, and even some salt owls, were mobilized to completely isolate them and buy time for the Huai Yang Army to build fortifications.

Ma Shou, the old Hui Hui, was a middle-aged man in his early forties. His family was originally from Huayin County, Shaanxi Province. Later, he moved to Henan Prefecture in Henan Province. Because he was a guest, he had a hot temper since he was a child. When he was a teenager, he was recruited by officers and soldiers and joined the Shaanxi border soldiers. He fought with Taukou (Hetao Mongolian tribe) for more than ten years in the west. When he ran back home, he had no choice but to cause trouble and cause trouble.

He was able to fight, and his experience in the army made him unique, so the old Huihui part of the fifth camp of the Left is known as the strongest.

Ma Shouying and Lin Yangcheng captured Yingzhou City, plundered the whole city, recruited poor refugees to join by releasing grain, rested and rectified, and sent envoys to Henan to contact the Li and Luo coalition forces first.

Then what I did was wait for the third battalion to come up, but it did not take any action for a long time. The messengers who were constantly sending contact were like mud-crows entering the sea, with no news.

At present, Ma Shouying and Lin Yangcheng have gathered nearly 100,000 people. It is too much to go back, but at the end of July, I really couldn't wait any longer. When Ma Shouying decided to return to Yingshang, the news finally came, saying that the Fifth and Third Battalions of the Gleath Battalions were surrounded in Yingshang City and suffered heavy losses.

He was surrounded by officers and soldiers and could not get out of the city. At that time, Lao Huihui almost killed the person who reported the news, thinking that he should not talk nonsense. He always built civil engineering, digging trenches and walls when we besieged the official army. Why did the officers and soldiers do this?

Moreover, the two layers of inside and outside encircle, how did you run out? After careful interrogation, you will find out that it was He Yilong who first left the city to attack, and then many people who reported the news escaped from all directions, almost all died in the interception, that is, he and a few ran over.

Lao Huihui and the reincarnated king couldn't believe it, so they could only strengthen their vigilance. Spy arrived one after another on the second and third days, which was the confirmation of the news.
Chapter completed!