Qu Yongjie led nearly 100,000 troops to retreat to Fancheng, which is surrounded by mountains on three sides.

The small county town has a flat terrain of several square kilometers in the middle. It is where Fancheng's county town is located. It is said to be a mountain, but it is actually not high, with an altitude of only a few dozen meters to about one hundred meters. After retreating to Fancheng, Qu Yongjie set up a camp on the Sansing Mountain to protect Fancheng. However, nearly 100,000 soldiers were compressed to this small place with a radius of less than ten square kilometers, but in fact he had lost all the tactical marching space and was completely passively beaten.

What is even more worrying is where the food and grass of nearly 100,000 troops came from? Although the army was still carrying some of them when they retreated, it couldn't last long. Fancheng is a small city, and the food and grass that can be raised is extremely high. Even if the land was three feet long, this small county town only allowed Qu's grain to be more than 500,000 kilograms. For this little grain, the people living in Fancheng were searched and could no longer find a grain of rice in their homes. [..com]

The numb people of Fancheng looked at these Luoyang soldiers who were desperate with hatred. The hatred hidden in their eyes shocked Qu Yongjie, and the crying of women, children and young children made his heart twitch. Qu Yongjie was not from a wealthy family, but from a poor family. He was hungry, persecution, and embarrassment were different from his childhood. Seeing all this, he couldn't help but recall his youth.

He ordered the expulsion of all the residents of Fancheng.

Standing on the not-high wall of Fancheng, watching tens of thousands of people being driven away by big knives, spears, and whips, being driven out of their homes, where they had nothing, looking back step by step, slowly walking out of the city, crying and cursing came from the crowd.

Qu Yongjie lowered his head with a wry smile, expelling them and leaving them away from this small town where the war is about to take place is the only thing he can do for them. Staying here, they will only become victims of this war. In the war, the life of these villains will not be the least concerned.

To drive them away, I believe that the current Dingzhou army will resettle them. After all, the victors will not only need people's hearts, but also people who can create wealth for them in the future.

Unfortunately, the people who were being driven away at the city did not seem to understand his painstaking efforts. They would only see that it was Qu Yongjie who broke their peaceful life, snatched away their last grain of food, and drove them away from their home on which they depended for survival.

"The city walls of the city are not enough to defend and demolish houses and build barricades. Let us fight a street battle with the Dingzhou army, and let us end our last mission in the intersecting hand and blades!" Qu Yongjie whispered.

Two days later, the troops who failed to attack Dingjunshan rushed to Fancheng. Qu Yongjie learned that the following horse friends and hundreds of officers from the school lieutenants and above were killed. This was just a matter of time. It was his turn.

Three days later, the coalition forces of Zhang Aimin and Chen Zeyue reached about ten miles outside Fancheng, and then Qianduote of the Tiger Camp in Dingjun Mountain also arrived in Fancheng.

Five days later, the two armies of Lu Dalin, Tian Feng and Guan Xinglong arrived in Fancheng. Around the small Fancheng, they gathered about 300,000 Dingzhou troops to surround Fancheng one by one.

Being in Fancheng, you can also hear the cheers of the Dingzhou Army's victory because of several large armies. These cheers also mean that the countdown to its own death has begun, and the countdown to the Dachu has also begun.

Luoyang has no reinforcements. Even if there are, it is impossible for them to come out at this time. The result will be that the Dingzhou army will eat one by one. At this time, we can only gather all the troops we have mastered and trap Luoyang, but how long can we defend?

For hundreds or thousands of years, Luoyang has never been broken from the outside by the enemy. Is there an exception this time? Qu Yongjie sat in the county government office serving as a temporary guide to the exploration department and thought in a daze.

I guess it would be the most massive siege battle in history. Who can dominate the ups and downs of spears and strong shields? Unfortunately, I can't see it.

Although it had been surrounded, the Dingzhou army did not seem to be in a hurry to attack. Instead, it slowly dug up trenches outside Fancheng and built a chest wall, looking like it was going to be surrounded for a long time.

As an excellent general, Qu Yongjie admired his opponent's commanding general. He was not blinded by the victory scroll at all, but adopted the most prudent approach. You should know that although the Luoyang soldiers are desperate, they still have another emotion, that is, tragic. The energy that a group of mourning soldiers can burst out in despair is amazing. If the Dingzhou Army is eager to attack at this time, even if they win, the price they have to pay will be amazing. Obviously, the opponent's generals also deeply understand this. They tightened the encirclement slowly, lured themselves to take the initiative, and then ate their last troops little by little to exchange for the greatest victory at the smallest price.

Appreciating the opponent is just an extra emotion, but the smarter the opponent is, the more tragedy it is for Qu Yongjie now, which is slowly destroying his only little fire of hope.

Qu Yongjie had no doubt that after the seemingly loose opponent's defense line, his hungry mouths were wide open, revealing the sharp teeth inside, waiting for him to pounce on him, and then chewed himself in the belt and flesh until he didn't even have a little residue left.

Food and grass are the biggest problem now. Now the entire army can only have a dry meal for soldiers who are preparing to fight on the same day, while the rotational soldiers can only live with a bowl of porridge. Even so, the entire army can support up to 10 or 20 days of work. This has to be included in all the war horses, pack horses, mules and donkeys in the entire army. After that, the entire army will lose food.

Qu Yongjie did not mean to send troops out to fight. Sending troops out of the city to fight means consuming more food and not allowing soldiers to go to fight if they are full. Soldiers without strength can only commit suicide. If the opponent does not take the initiative to attack, Qu Yongjie would be happy to delay for a few more days, even if the entire army starves to death in the end, as long as they can fight for Luoyang's defense for a while.

Lu Dalin did not rush to attack this time. In Pingzhou City, Zhou Tong's desperate counterattack sounded the alarm for him. Even if you are sure of winning, don't underestimate your opponent. Even if you are a tiger, the opponent is a little white rabbit, it is not ruled out that this little white rabbit bites you in one bite before dying.

The bombing of more than 30 magic cannons made Lu Dalin feel distressed to his bones.

Qu Yongjie's army was besieged in such a small place, and basically couldn't play any tricks. Moreover, their fatal weakness was food. If possible, Lu Dalin wouldn't mind having fun after his opponents were hungry and lying down.

The four generals Lu Dalin, Tian Feng, Guan Xinglong and Chen Zeyue gathered in Fancheng. In terms of qualifications and age, Lu Dalin was respected. Therefore, the commander-in-chief of this battle was unswervingly appointed by Lu Dalin.

"The lord has decided to visit the final battle of Luoyang in person, and the decisive battle is scheduled for September, and it is still May. We have plenty of time to deal with Qu Yongjie and then come to Luoyang City." Lu Dalin said: "The lord is expected to set off from Dingzhou in July, arrive at Luoyang City at the end of August, and start attacking in September. The lord said that he will spend this year's Spring Festival in Luoyang City."

Lu Dalin's words made the generals in the tent laugh.

"General Yang Yidao's 100,000 troops are approaching the gateway of Luoyang, but now we don't need so many people here, so what I mean is to transfer our troops mainly cavalry and a group of advances to Luoyang. First, it can form support for General Yang Yidao, and it is also to shock Luoyang and some forces that are still waiting and watching. We have begun to form an encirclement of Luoyang."

"General Lu is right. In fact, in Fancheng, the cavalry is not very useful, Qu Yongjie cannot break out, so a large number of cavalry here is indeed empty and food." Chen Zeyue said.

"Since that's the case, we will send the cavalry of Changsheng Camp, Yizhou Camp and Feiling Camp to Luoyang." Guan Xingyue pondered.

Lu Dabing jumped up suddenly, "Why are there no one in our Red Cavalry?"

Lu Dalin glared at him fiercely, "What are you clamoring for? General Guan's arrangement is excellent. You have been commanding the Red Army cavalry for so many years, but some of the disadvantages of the Red Army cavalry have not been changed. If you are allowed to go out to a wealthy place like the suburbs of Beijing, I wonder what they will do? You must know that now we are not only going to defeat our opponents and occupy Luoyang, but we also want to win the hearts of the people. Do you understand?"

Lu Dabing sat down angrily, "What do you don't know? Some time ago, I spent so much money to settle the lives of the people in Fancheng. Isn't it just to win the hearts of the people!"

Tian Feng laughed and tried to smooth things over, "Soldiers should not be impatient. It is impossible to transfer all cavalry. We must also leave cavalry here. The Red Cavalry you lead is an old strong army of our Dingzhou Army. We cannot transfer all the elite troops, right?"

Lu Dabing nodded and felt a little better.

"General Lu, according to our estimates, the food and grass of Qu Yongjie's troops should be able to last for ten to twenty days. Now ten days have passed. Should we put some pressure on us?" Chen Zeyue's eyes turned to Lu Dalin and said.

"I'm just thinking that way," said Lu Dalin. "We can start some light and intense attacks against Qu Yongjie's peripheral positions. It doesn't matter if we can attack or not. The key is to get our soldiers back up and warm up the attack on Luoyang."

Qu Yongjie climbed onto Quanjialing on the left side of Fancheng with difficulty. Since May, the Dingzhou soldiers suddenly began to attack the peripheral positions. From the extent of the Dingzhou soldiers' attack, it seemed that there was no goal-free style of playing. East-hammer-walking, with a stick in the west, today to Quanjialing, tomorrow's focus suddenly changed in one direction, and to Tanziling on the right.

A haggard general came up on the Quanjialing position, and most of the soldiers sat or lay on the position in numbness. When they saw Qu Yongjie coming up, they just turned their eyes and looked at him. They were basically covered with vegetables. They were hungry. The food and grass are getting more and more nervous now. Many troops have begun to peel the bark, find wild vegetables, and dig for gophers.

"What else?" Qu Yongjie asked.
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