They are ready to stick to the second city of Xiangfan for a long time. They are all ready, even how to get rid of excrement such as shit and pee.
There are even people in Xiangyang City and Fancheng who tear down houses and open up farmland to prepare the city to plant some vegetables and fruits for the city’s Song Jun top management and officials to enjoy.
Finally, dozens of messengers were sent to Lin ‘an imperial court and Chengdu to go out for help with letters of help. After that, they stopped going out and patrolling the city day and night, waiting for the peasant army and the army to arrive.
They are ready to fight here for three years, and they are determined to stick to it for three years and win a three-year respite for the Southern Song Dynasty court.
If we want them to nail the troops here, we can’t rest assured that the Nanjing Lake Theater has not been lost, and even if the surrounding areas are captured by the army, the barrier of the Beijing Lake Theater will continue to be maintained.
Wang Yan is ready to fight to the death and will never back down in Xiangfan.
After Zhao Yucheng led the main force of the peasant army to win successively, he personally led the first division and Xu Tong led the second division Jingmen to meet. After the two armies joined forces, 40,000 troops launched the Northern Expedition and finally arrived in Yicheng along the Hanshui Road.
However, they didn’t find Song Jun moving around Yicheng, and there were piles of exhausted and miserable people starving to death, the old, the weak and the sick.
Faced with such a situation, Zhao Yucheng and Xu Tong immediately arranged for troops to restore order and commissary porridge to help these old, weak and sick people, and then asked them what had happened.
After some inquiries, Zhao Yucheng and Xu Tong finally knew what had happened.
Then their fists hardened, their blood pressure increased, and the degree of tooth wear increased
It turns out that this is also part of Song Jun’s action of strengthening the wall and clearing the field
Not long ago, the Song Army of Xiangyang City sent out the whole surrounding area of Xiangfan to fight hard and clear the field, but their hard and clear the field was worse and they didn’t take away everyone, but they took away the young and strong men and women and all the materials, leaving them alone, dependent on the old, the weak and the sick.
Not only that, but they also drove out Xiangyang and Fancheng, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, making them lose everything to wander around in despair and wait for death.
Without food, these people will starve to death within a short distance, and these people who are starving but not starving will become a huge burden for the peasant army and the army
This is relative to the abundant grain and manpower of Xiangyang City and Fancheng Department, which will give Xiangyang City and Fancheng extremely high defense and endurance.
Zhao Yucheng is angry and Xu Tong is also angry.
And Xu Tong is found.
He has been longing for a powerful enemy, and the elite general finally appeared.
According to the original residents of Xiangyang city, the person who ordered this is Xiangyang magistrate Wang Yan, and the names Zhao Yucheng and Xu Tong are not unfamiliar.
After the fall of Yao Zhong, the three great generals in the Sichuan-Sichuan war zone in the Southern Song Dynasty, the Xiangyang magistrate and Xiangyang army all took over the post of the Southern Song Dynasty star.
They can get rid of Xiangyang before Wang Yan arrives, but now it seems that Wang Yan is faster than they thought and has already taken action.
"Can quickly take Xiangyang now seems to be dying. Wang Yan has come and tossed out a fortified field … this is our specialty. Let them not only fortify the field, but also leave no difficulties for themselves."
Zhao Yucheng gnashed his teeth angrily and said, "This man is sinister and will be killed!"
"I hate enemy heroes, but these people obviously don’t belong to their own category. It is estimated that some officials in the Southern Song Dynasty will think he is a hero."
Xu Tong sighed and whispered, "The main situation is already very obvious. It is impossible for us to win quickly. Xiangyang and Fancheng are tough. We also know something about it. Forty thousand defenders can’t get Xiangyang and Fancheng by our own estimation."
Zhao Yucheng nai nodded his head and approved Xu Tong’s statement.
"The walls of these two cities are tall, the moat is wide and deep, and it is extremely dangerous to really fight. Without 100 thousand troops, it should be very difficult to rely on ourselves. It is absolutely impossible to see when the Henan Corps will come."
Xu Tong turned to look to the north.
"Have we sent the information?"
"That’s natural. The Henan Corps has set up a forward base in Biyang and Rang City. It is said that it is necessary to wait for Zhongdu to send a magic camp in place before attacking Xiangyang, but I don’t know when to attack."
Zhao Yucheng said, "On the whole, let’s just go and find out if they are fighting hard. Anyway, we have 40,000 troops at the bottom, even if we confront each other head-on, what do you think?"
Xu Tong nodded his head.
"Of course, but before that, we need to settle down the old and weak here, otherwise we can’t leave and they can’t live."
Chapter 142 The army is out
Zhao Yucheng nodded and approved Xu Tong’s suggestion, and then held a military meeting of the former enemy to inform his decision.
After that, he began to settle down the livelihood of the elderly, the sick and the disabled.
Song Jun can’t be a human being, but the peasant army can’t
The peasant army is the foundation of the people, and the justice of the army cannot be stripped off.
Anyway, the overall situation has been stabilized, and Zhao Yucheng took over the army boat and arranged for these old and weak people to be sent to Ezhou in batches along the Hanshui River, so they were sent back to the liberated area of Jiangnan West Road and handed over to Lu Chengren for proper settlement.
Zhao Yucheng mobilized himself to command the twenty thousand peasant army of the first division to handle this matter and had to stay in the middle to coordinate.
So the North arrived in Xiangyang and Fancheng for investigation and war preparation, which could be handed over to Xu Tong and his second division.
Xu Tongsui led the second division to continue north, and on the way north, people who were killed by Song Jun and had no way out were flocking to the south to seek a way out. He could arrange some people to escort these people to Yicheng and hand them over to Zhao Yucheng for arrangement.
Seeing the more people like this, Xu Tong felt that Wang Yan was sinister. This situation is not only a waste of manpower for the peasant army, but also more important. In order to prepare food for the army for a long battle, a large part must be taken out to resettle the refugees.
The peasant army is a peasant army and a common people’s army. Faced with such a situation, they are duty-bound and cannot shirk it, otherwise the fundamental attribute of the army will be shaken, which is unacceptable to everyone.
Faced with this situation, Xu Tong is also quite resistant and hates Wang Yan more and more. He hates these bastards who are short of talent and do everything they can.
Finally, the second division, led by Xu Tong, arrived in the new city. After some investigation, it was found that Song Jun really achieved a relatively thorough defense and made perfect preparations.
Not only has the second city of Xiangfan been militarized, but also many military camps with strong defense have been established around the second city of Xiangfan
These military camps often have a large scale and are quite solid in guarding the passages everywhere.
Or protect waterways or live in hilly highlands. Thick wooden boards are in the stone defense department, with towers, watchtowers, watchtowers and a large number of defenders.
The whole city of Xiangfan is surrounded by military camps, defenses and death.
Xu Tong swallowed in the face of such a situation and immediately realized that he had less than 20 thousand troops, even if the whole four divisions of the peasant army were pulled to face this level of defense, it would be run.
At present, the peasant army is still better at defense and field work, but lacks some experience in tackling key problems
Not to mention Wang Yan, a good defensive general, tossing out absolute defense.
This kind of hierarchical defense means that there is no shortcut, and it is necessary to pull out the military camps outside the city a little bit, attack and destroy the military facilities around the second city of Xiangfan, and then we can get close to the defense of the second city of Xiangfan.
However, the defensive body of Xiangfan Second City is almost the difference between Tyrannosaurus Rex and old hen compared with the peripheral military strongholds.
Because of the great military value of Xiangyang and Fancheng after crossing the south, since Yuefei was guarding Xiangfan, the Southern Song Dynasty imperial court has been building Xiangfan city wall, heightening and thickening it, strengthening its defense and providing food.
When Xu Tong saw the scale of Xiangyang and Fancheng city defense, he wisely chose the garrison station in the new city, and made the decision that Henan Corps would not take the initiative to launch an offensive war in the south, but instead helped the local refugees to transfer to the rear of the peasant army.
This matter is equally important.
Of course, Xu Tong, a military general, still wants to make meritorious deeds. He really wants to try to capture the second city of Xiangfan. He really wants to think of some good ways to quickly break through the second city of Xiangfan and end the Jinghu area in the Southern Song Dynasty.
But he thought about it for a long time and couldn’t think of a way to break through Xiangfan City quickly.
If you want to attack the second city, you must break through the military strongholds around the second city. If you want to break through the military strongholds, you must attack one by one and take the flesh and blood of the soldiers to attack and grind them.
These military camps set up waterside or hills, and some two military camps are closer to each other than setting directions, which can also support each other.
Attacking a military camp may face three military camps at the same time. Long-range fire attack is simply purgatory-level difficulty for the attacker.
During this period, I don’t know how many soldiers’ lives will be lost, and finally I have to face the more terrible Xiangfan City.
I’m afraid this war will take two or three years to end, if we go like this.
There is no way to reason about it. Xu Tong feels inexplicable frustration. He finally realizes how many lives a strong and perfect defense body needs to fill before it can be broken.
After all, the Southern Song Dynasty still had strength. It was because he met too many cheating goods that he gradually realized that the Southern Song Dynasty was easy to deal with. Otherwise, he didn’t meet the military forces of the Southern Song Dynasty that were really strong and good at fighting.
The hill overlooks the powerful and perfect Xiangfan defense body. Xu Tong sighed and clenched his fist. His heart was full of unwillingness.
At the same time, Wang Yanzheng looked south at Xiangyang Chengtou.
"If the thief army wants to attack Xiangfan, it must first break through the peripheral military camp. If it wants to break through the peripheral military camp, it must first clean up those old, sick and disabled people outside and face more difficult grain transshipment. These are their problems, but our army can wait and wait."
Wang Yan is very satisfied with the perfection of Xiangfan’s defense system, and feels that his theory can be supported by this defense system for at least three years. What will happen in three years?
He felt that he had given the Southern Song Dynasty court enough strategy to send troops from other places to support Xiangfan. In this case, if the court still can’t complete the battle he expected, there is really no need to fight.
But before that, it is necessary for him to perform his duties.