Chapter 258

From Xiangyang to Gucheng, there was only a hundred miles. Yang Guozhu took more than 20000 soldiers and horses from Xuanfu. After walking more than ten miles along the river, he stopped at the foot of Sirius mountain and began to build a stronghold and defend by relying on the mountains on the south bank and the Han River on the north bank.

Coincidentally, this was the place where Qin Huan took off the order and stopped sun Wang's pursuit.

Compared with Qin Huan who had to defend along the official path at the beginning, Yang Guozhu took Sirius mountain as the center and blocked the path from Gucheng to Nanzhang.

As for the rescue of Gucheng, he only sent two thousand soldiers and horses symbolically. Although Yang Butang didn't say it clearly before leaving, he still understood the hints inside and outside.

That is, rescuing the valley city is secondary. The main thing is to block the path from the valley city to Blackstone town and block the thief army near the valley city.

This is undoubtedly in line with Yang Guozhu's mind. He had a thorough understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army when he was in Shandong.

The enemy's troops besieged the valley city were more than 10000. Yesterday, more than 10000 troops arrived at the north bank. The terrain near the valley city was open. He drove over 20000 people. In the end, he was afraid that he would not only solve the danger of the Valley City, but also take it in himself, so it would be safer to stay here.

When the situation is bad, you can retreat to Xiangyang at any time. You don't have to be afraid of being cut off or surrounded by the other party. There are more than 20000 troops in Xiangyang. The thief army in Fancheng will never dare to cross the river to cut off his back.

Because of Qin Huan's trouble, the Tartars who entered the customs this time not only didn't grab any money, food and population, but also suffered heavy losses and fled in a hurry.

As a result, the original border troops such as Xuanfu in Datong, Shanxi Province were not transferred to Liaodong as in history, and finally Hong Chengchou was buried. After the Tartars retreated, they continued to follow Lu Xiangsheng south to suppress the thieves.

After all, compared with Tartars, there was a greater threat from various anti thieves in the Central Plains, especially the Chinese army. On the contrary, Huang Taiji did not dare to besiege Jinzhou after learning that the soldiers and horses entering the pass had suffered heavy losses.

Therefore, the Songshan war that broke out because Tartars besieged Jinzhou in history did not exist.

In addition, Chongzhen hated Qin Huan much more than Tartars and other anti thief leaders at this time, so Lu Xiangsheng wrote a letter to lead troops to the south to level the thieves. Chongzhen agreed without hesitation.

Zhang Yan burned herself to death in Xiangfu County, which was a great blow to Chongzhen. Although she didn't show it on the face, her temper became more and more angry, and Yu Fa was extreme.

But Chongzhen may not have thought that his beloved sister-in-law Huang was not dead. Instead, she was tortured on the thief's head's bed every night.

Yang Guozhu is busy strengthening the camp.

Qin Yong was busy crossing the river with his army.

"Qin Meng, you're a fucking pig. Why don't you send someone to occupy Sirius mountain in advance?"

"I don't want to put them near the county to clean up. Who would have thought that those turtle grandsons would not go after half of them."

In the face of Qin Yong's scolding, Qin Meng can only explain embarrassedly, but he also knows that he may have made a big mistake.

"Hum, be smart. Now Sirius mountain is occupied by the Ming army. In case of any accident, madam, they can't hold it, you'll be skinned by the king!"

Qin Yong snorted coldly and sat down in his position.

Qin Meng had a bad start and didn't have the confidence to care about who listened to whom. Seeing him say so, he was very anxious and asked, "don't scare me. Fu Da, they have 3000 people. Even if they can't defend the town and retreat to the stronghold, it's more than enough."

"Where do you think the 20000 Ming troops came from? I tell you, it's the border army transferred from Lu Xiangsheng of runing house. It's 50000. Therefore, the minimum number of troops attacking Blackstone town is more than 20000. Do you think I scared you?

You fool! I remember when you led the troops south, didn't the king tell you to keep the flow with Blackstone town at any time? "

"What, 50000?"

Qin Meng's face also changed greatly, and then he broke into a big curse: "it's not Niu Jinxing's dog day. Instead of blocking the reinforcements outside, it's better to let them come over, and then inform you to send a battalion of troops and horses to cross the generals secretly at night, cut off their way back, surround and annihilate them, and then attack the valley city.

I thought it was more than enough for our two towns to pick them up. Only then did I withdraw a thousand soldiers and horses originally stationed in Sirius mountain. This time, he was really going to kill them. "

"It's useless to say this now. I have to capture Gucheng as soon as possible and defeat the 20000 Ming army. This time, I have brought two red cannon and four Fran machine guns. I will attack Gucheng at any cost tomorrow morning." Qin Yong said unhappily.

"Great, where's the cannon? Hurry up and pull over. I'll organize troops to attack the city now. "

Qin Meng was overjoyed and couldn't care to settle accounts with Niu Jinxing.

"You're worried and useless. The cannon is still on the other side. I'm afraid it's too late to attack the city today."

Qin Yong waved his hand.

"You have a cannon, why don't you cross the river first? Isn't this a big delay for me? "

While Qin Meng was disappointed, he also scolded. At the moment, he was really worried. He wanted to break the valley city immediately and then run to Tianlang mountain.

Because no one knows the position of his wife in the king's heart better than them. In the past, no matter how hard and tired everyone was, no matter how tight food was, his wife and miss never had a meal less, and almost all of them, including the king, were hungry.

At this time, Niu Jinxing hid in the logistics camp to help. When he learned that the Ming army didn't go halfway, he knew that he might have a bad idea.

Although Qin Meng and Qin Yong were very anxious, there were still 2000 people in the logistics camp of the fourth town who had not crossed the river, so they had to keep urging. They finally crossed the Han River before dark and pulled the cannon under the city overnight.

The next day, almost just before dawn, six cannons blasted at the south city wall, all directly under the city wall, 100 meters away.

"Boom!"

Solid iron balls hit the city wall one by one. Bricks and earth flew across the wall, and the whole city wall trembled slightly.

The cannons of this era actually take a lot of trouble to collapse the city wall, and they can't be too far away, otherwise they won't collapse at all.

Because the quality of the walls of the Ming Dynasty is the highest in all dynasties, most of them are wrapped with green bricks and reinforced with glutinous rice juice, even after more than 200 years, they are still very strong, which is Lao Zhu's credit.

However, the role of artillery is far from as simple as crashing down the city wall, which is a greater psychological deterrent to the defenders.

At the moment, looking at the countless armies outside the city and the cloud ladders attacking the city, listening to the rumbling artillery, the two thousand Ming troops were pale and worried.

"Marshal, I'm afraid there were more than 10000 reinforcements for the thief army to cross the river yesterday. When will our reinforcements arrive?"

"If you don't come again, you really can't keep it!"

"Brothers, don't worry. The reinforcements will arrive today. It's also 20000 troops, so we just need to stick to it for another hour."

Fierce as a tiger, he hurried to fight. Although the thief army blocked the county, one or two people could touch it.

So the night before yesterday, he received a letter sent by the Ministry, stating that 20000 troops would come to reinforce them the next day.