Yanjing, September 9th, on the Double Ninth Festival, officials and tyrants from the two provinces of Beiping and Hebei were invited by the King of Qin to gather in Yanjing and took over Youzhou for a while. The Qin vassal's control over Youzhou was also rising day by day, and everything was in order. In front of the Qin army, and under the generous conditions of the Qin vassal, the great tyrants in the former Lulong Town were also convinced.

After this period of development, the Qin army's control over Youzhou became stronger, winning over some, suppressing some, and promoting some. Youzhou, the new center of the Qin vassal state, finally stabilized.

In recent days, Li Jing's days have been very satisfied. He took over Youzhou and successfully dismantled the anti-Li alliance. Lulong Town was destroyed, Yiwu Town was destroyed, Yanmen Town was also severely damaged, and Chengde Town suffered a considerable loss. Although the Qin army did not have much military action after taking over Youzhou, Li Jing refused to keep the army in the west, and refused to keep the three gates in the south, and Yiwu Town was completely dependent on the wings of the Qin army. The Qin army was ready to prepare for a new round of action.

This time, Li Jing convened the great tyrants of Hebei and Beiping provinces in an attempt to further promote the improvement of the Qin vassal system and the equalization of fields. At this time, Li Jing received the latest battle report from Xuzhou.

The battle report from Xuzhou is a good news!

It has been siege of Xuzhou for several months. The troops of the Jianghuai Camp have been siegeing Xuzhou according to Li Jing's arrangement and implemented the siege tactics, and did not forcibly attack Xuzhou, an important city or an isolated city.

During this period, Li Jing lived in Youzhou, and the brothers Huo Cun, Zhang Guiba and Zhang Guihou in Xuzhou lived like their years, because the elite troops in his hands were almost completely lost. Xuzhou became an isolated city, surrounded by the Qin army, Yu Ju, Xin Xi and others. What made them most painful was that after the siege, the Qin army was not in a hurry to fight happily, but implemented the iron barrel siege tactic.

All contacts between Xuzhou and outside were cut off. Reinforcements were cut off and supplies were cut off.

The people in the city were panicked and lived like a year. Although the Qin army did not attack vigorously, after the siege, they carried out artillery and fire attacks on the city every few days. The Qin army in Jianghuai was mainly rural soldiers. This time, Zeng Yuanyu and Zhao Lu completely regarded the siege of Xuzhou as a training ground for the rotation training of various troops. In particular, the Firearms Department of the Ordnance Bureau directly sent a group to test their various firearms with Xuzhou City.

Every now and then, they bombarded various firearms, crossbows, and catapults.

Then the engineer troops also dug trenches and tunnels day and night under the city to conduct civil engineering training. Even the special operations brigade recruited a thousand members to Xuzhou for special training, taking Xuzhou as a special operations training battlefield, and they often carried out night attacks, infiltrating, assassination, etc.

The Qi army's Xuzhou soldiers and horses were in constant losses. Although this was not a large number of casualties in a short period of time, it was continuous blood loss. There was no reinforcements outside and no morale inside. Huo Cun and others could not do it even if they wanted to fight the Qin army to death. Huo Cun organized troops several times to try to go out of the city to counterattack at night, but outside Xuzhou City had already become a large construction site. There were thunder gorges, deer antlers, fences, arrow towers, and divine dou everywhere. As a result, every time the Xuzhou army left the city, they would be discovered immediately and then turned into the prey of the Qin army. They were beaten in a mess and suffered losses.

After several times, the Xuzhou soldiers finally did not dare to leave the city again. They sent more than a dozen dead soldiers to Luoyang for breaking through the siege and seeking help, but after several months, they did not see any soldiers or soldiers coming. In fact, Luoyang received the request for help from Xuzhou and sent reinforcements. The governor of Haozhou Ge Congzhou, the governor of Yingzhou Zhang Guimu, and the governor of Bianzhou Zhu Wen, sent troops to rescue him one after another, but he never arrived in Xuzhou. Every time he was intercepted halfway and returned without success.

After several consecutive rescues, Zhu Wen, Ge Congzhou and others finally discovered that the Qin army could not defeat Xuzhou, but the opposite was the same. The Qin army was fully capable of taking Xuzhou long ago, but it had been surrounding Xuzhou. This was obviously guiding the Qi army to rescue and want to siege the city and fight aid.

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

Whether from public or private, no one is willing to take this risk.

Therefore, in the end, Xuzhou was completely abandoned. Although Huang Chao, the Emperor of the Great Qi and Jintong in Chang'an, had always claimed to send troops to rescue Xuzhou, in fact, no matter in Chang'an or Luoyang, Qi troops in various places were sent to Xuzhou.

Xuzhou has become a piece of chicken rib, and it is a pity to eat it if you eat it.

Rescuing Xuzhou may only be a tactic of adding fuel to the oil. However, Huang Chao was reluctant to give up an important town like Xuzhou. Moreover, even if he wanted to give up Xuzhou at this time, the Qi army in Xuzhou City was surrounded like an iron barrel and could not be withdrawn at all.

Such a result has led to the current strange situation on the battlefield in Xuzhou.

The Qin army could clearly conquer Xuzhou as soon as possible, but it could only take some casualties, but the Qin army could not surround him for a long time. On the Qi army, a southeastern city like Xuzhou, the Qi army sat down and watched him be besieged, shouting fiercely, but in fact he did not send a single soldier.

Although Xuzhou was surrounded, the dead soldiers who sought help in Xuzhou City always broke through the siege. Although each time they sent 100, there may be only one or two who could escape by chance. It can be said that they are lucky once or twice, but this has always been the case. Zhu Wen from Bianzhou already understood that things are not that simple.

Zhu Wen's adviser Xie Tong once looked at the Xuzhou messenger who came to rescue the Eighteenth Battalion, shook his head and said to Zhu Wen, "Zeng Yuanyu is fishing, and wants to use Xuzhou to catch the troops near Luoyang to take the bait."

Zhu Wen sent troops three times, trying to go to Xuzhou to rescue. He sent troops three times, and once in Songzhou, he met Xin Xi and Yu Guan ambushing more than 3,000 people. After the latter two times, he even fought with Xin Xi, Kang Chenghui and Yu Guan, the three generals of Xin Xi, Kang Chenghui and Yu Guan. Although the losses were not large, they were blocked at home and unable to get out.

Since then, Zhu Wen has been constantly submitting memorials to Chang'an, saying that the Qin army is powerful and is preparing to counterattack Luoyang and request reinforcements.

In fact, Zhu Wen also knew that the emperor of Chang'an would not believe a word of his memorial. Li Jing clearly moved his center of gravity northward, otherwise he would not have surrounded Xuzhou without attacking him. However, the imperial edict issued was very encouraging, instructing Zhu Wen to think of good generals, so that he must curb the Qin army's offensive.

The Great Qi court pretended not to know Zhu Wen's false military information, which was also expected by Zhu Wen's staff. Now the situation in Jianghuai has completely collapsed. The Great Qi court could not send reinforcements to Henan at all, so it could only talk lies with its eyes open.

The Qi army in Xuzhou City had already been desperate. Reinforcements had not arrived for a long time. Although there was no shortage of food and grass in the city, the army was getting smaller and smaller, and morale fell to the bottom. What's more important is that the Qi army had not taken over Xuzhou for a long time. There were still 10,000 troops in the city's Invasion Army. The rich and wealthy people in the city were even more powerful in Xuzhou. Previously, Pu surrendered to Qi, Jianghuai area. Qi, Qin and Huai were intertwined, and the situation was unclear. The influence army and the local tyrants were not very sure about surrendering to Qi.

But now, as the siege of the city grew longer and longer, as the Huai army was defeated by Qin, the Qi army suffered successive defeats. Almost east of the canal was the Qin army. In this case, anyone could see that 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 were unstable, and there were even many influence officers secretly confronting and discussing with the Xuzhou rich people. But he had no choice. Although there were only less than 5,000 troops left in the influence army, the rich people in Xuzhou were very powerful. During the defense of Xinyue, Huo Cun also armed the servants of these people. Now the number of servants and the number of young and strong people in Xuzhou was as high as 30,000, which had exceeded the remaining 15,000 troops of the Qi army.

What's more, even Huo Cun and other crazy old thieves would not have thought that the influence army and the rich and powerful clan in Xuzhou City would have killed them all. Since many generals of the Qi army had killed people without blinking, they were still very smart. If they did not understand people's hearts at all, how could they develop to their current scale?

The so-called law does not blame the masses, let alone the current severe situation. Xuzhou City has completely become a large powder keg. Any slightly fierce action of the Qi army may trigger the explosion of this powder keg.

The Rebellion Army, who once surrendered to the Qi army, is now gradually rising again. During this period, there have been many battles between the Qi army and the Rebellion Army. If it were in the past, the Rebellion Army would not dare to speak out even if it was bullied by the Qi army, let alone openly fight with the Qi army. But now every time Huo Cun knows, he can only try his best to suppress both sides and not punish each other. Now Huo Cun no longer dares to punish the Rebellion Army.

However, Huo Cun's concessions did not improve things. On the contrary, when the influence army saw the Qi army retreat, it became increasingly believed that the Qi army would be defeated. The ship had leaked and was about to sink. At this time, most people would choose to dive early to escape the broken ship. If there was a ship next to it, it would naturally be better to change the ship as soon as possible.

Since Shi Pu surrendered to Qi, the army in Xuzhou was invited to Luoyang, the army in the city was mainly Liu Zhijun, the army in the city. Like Zhang Yun from Suzhou, Liu Zhijun was once Shi Pu's right-hand man and a staunch supporter. After Shi Pu became the leader of the Jieshou, the two were also able to take up important positions in the army as young generals. Since Xuzhou besieged, Zhang Yun has been secretly in contact with Liu Zhijun.

Liu Zhijun had seen the situation clearly and wanted to surrender to Qin. However, Huo Cun was not stupid either, and had been sending people to stare at Liu Zhijun and others.

It was not until several months later that Liu Zhijun finally had a chance. He secretly incited the influence of the soldiers and the rich servants to clash with the Qi army, leading to a fight. Huo Cun's concession made the rebellious army and the Xuzhou people who had been dissatisfied with the dissatisfied, and finally, under Liu Zhijun's instigation, the matter gradually escalated. Finally, on the evening of the first day of September, the influence of the reform of the army and the armed servants of Xuzhou and the assisted young and strong people suddenly broke out and attacked various military camps in the Qi army at night.

That night, a fire in Xuzhou City soared into the sky, shouting and killing to the ground.

However, the Xuzhou city gate has been closed, and a general proposed to take the opportunity to attack Xuzhou. Zeng Yuanyu glanced at Zhang Yun and smiled and said, "I ordered all troops to surround Xuzhou. Without this general's order, no one is allowed to attack the city without authorization."

All the generals were still a little surprised by this military order, but after dawn, the Xuzhou city gate that had been in chaos for a night finally opened.

After the city gate opened, what came out was not the Qi army who wanted to break through, but the bloody Xuzhou influence army, local tyrants and young and strong people.

After a night of melee, Liu Zhijun finally won the battle with the advantage of the number. Liu Zhijun is a talented and ambitious person. After launching an attack last night, he could immediately open the city gate and lead the Qin army into the city.

But he did not do so. After he sent people to seize the city gate, he defended the city gate, and then led his troops to encircle and kill the Qi soldiers. Until the Qi army was finally killed more than 12,000 people, and in the end, less than 3,000 wounded soldiers surrendered under Huo Cun's leadership.

Liu Zhijun's action had been revealed to Zhang Yun in advance that he was willing to choose the appropriate opportunity to counterattack and seize Xuzhou Xian 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. On the one hand, he wanted to borrow the title of Qi army as a letter of surrender, and on the other hand, he was still worried that after the Qin army entered the city, he would simply take the blame and take the Qi army. For this reason, he did not hesitate to take risks to deal with the Qi army alone, although the number of people was large, but obviously at a disadvantage in combat.

He won this battle, and he annihilated 12,000 Qi troops in one night, capturing three thousand prisoners including Huo Cun, Zhang Guiba and Zhang Guihou. However, the Xuzhou soldiers also suffered heavy losses, with less than two thousand remaining in the five thousand influence army, and nearly 20,000 servants and young men of 30,000 were killed in battle.

The general succeeded in the dying of bones. Liu Zhijun took an important step to join the Qin army with tens of thousands of blood.

After Zeng Yuanyu entered the city, he was moved after hearing the battlefield cleaning report. After that night, the city of Xuzhou was completely hell. The two armies fought in internal conflicts, killing more than 30,000 soldiers. More than one-third of the Xuzhou city was destroyed by war, and more than 30,000 people died in the war last night.

After dawn, the whole city of Xuzhou was full of Bai Su, and almost every family was filial.

Zhang Yun found Liu Zhijun and privately accused him of not doing this. If the Qin army was allowed to enter the city earlier, there would never be such tragic consequences. However, Liu Zhijun smiled, "Charity is not in charge of the troops, and benevolence is not in business." He is a general of the Invasion Army. He cannot guarantee that if the Qin army entered the city early last night, the Invasion Army would have annihilated the Invasion Army together. Moreover, although many people died last night, there were no one who could not die in war. Although the Invasion Army died 60% of the Invasion Army died, the remaining thousands of Invasion Army had definitely gained the trust of the Qin army. Even the other tyrants and people in Xuzhou City also used their actions to show their loyalty to King Li Jing of Qin. This is extremely important for Xuzhou, where the three forces meet.

Zeng Yuanyu soon learned about the conversation between the two. Although it was ridiculous about Liu Zhijun's idea of ​​judging a gentleman with a villain's heart, he did not punish or neglect 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 presented them to the important city of Xuzhou. With this battle, Liu Zhijun's right or wrong cannot be dealt with.
Chapter completed!