Chapter 308

Under Changde City, the left army failed to break the city for two days, but suffered heavy casualties. The main general red flag was also surprised and angry.

When the attack was retreated again, we had to order a temporary withdrawal because the casualties had reached the limit.

"Do you know who the leader of the thief army guarding the city is?"

"General Hui is said to be the second adopted son of the eight kings. He should not be over twenty."

"Damn it!"

The red flag looked at the tower in the distance and scolded, but he was extremely depressed.

A child who didn't have a long hair not only blocked the two-day fierce attack of his 20000 army, but also was able to do it with ease. He was really angry.

At the top of the city, seeing that the left army finally retreated, Li Dingguo was also relieved, while others cheered.

Thirty thousand young men and women in the city are all recruits coerced by Li Dingguo in the past month, except that five hundred are Li Dingguo's personal guards.

In order to make these people work hard, Li Dingguo also made great efforts. On the one hand, he threatened that once the left army broke the city, not only their heads would be beheaded, but also their wives and daughters would be humiliated and ravaged. On the other hand, he promised that after defeating the left army, he would give them all the paddy fields near Changde to plant.

This made 30000 young men and women fight to the death, and tens of thousands of strong women are also willing to help defend the city. Don't underestimate that this threatening promise is just a few empty words, but it made nearly 200000 people in the city united.

Although the thief army burned down their houses and robbed all their food, so that they had to eat from the thief, they also had food for every meal, and their families were not hurt. Therefore, the more than 300000 people coerced did not have much hatred for the thief army in their hearts.

Obviously, now the eight kings are gradually changing from the roving bandits who only knew the destruction at the beginning, and they also begin to have rules.

"Second general, it seems that the left thief should not attack again today."

"Well, tell my brothers, eat meat tonight to celebrate, but no one is allowed to drink or sleep with women. Whoever violates the order will be beheaded!

As long as we stick to it for three days, the left thief will be defeated. At that time, our general will keep his promise and distribute all the land to them. Even if someone dies or is disabled, his family can still share the land and compensate a sum of silver. "

Li Dingguo nodded and said.

"Yes, second general!"

Several old thieves quickly went down to give orders.

Before long, the smell of meat wafted in the city.

At dusk, Zuo Liangyu finally arrived with the army. Looking at the overwhelming left army outside the city, Li Dingguo's face became more dignified than ever before.

Because he knew that there must be a terrible war.

It is true that Dongting Lake is in the northeast of Changde, the army of the eight kings is coming over in the north, Yiyang in the East is occupied by sun hope, and mountainous areas are in the West and south.

Plus, there was no way to raise food and grass within a hundred miles, which made the left army, which was about to run out of food and grass, the only way to survive was to capture Changde City.

Of course, Zuo Liangyu can also give up the army and only take the elite. He takes all the food and grass in the general and makes a detour back to Changsha.

However, even if there is enough food and grass, the army can't cross mountains, so there are only 10000 or 20000 people at most.

As for robbing the mountain people's food in the mountains, it is tantamount to seeking death. There are a large number of chieftains in both Western Hunan and southern Hunan.

If the army wants to cross the border, it's easy to say that the well water can't invade the river, but if it wants to grab food or stay, it's definitely a fish dead and a net broken.

It is precisely because the ethnic minorities in the mountains are too fierce that the eight kings are unwilling to drill into the mountains, because they can't develop at all in the mountainous areas of the south.

At the moment, Zuo Liangyu's face was hard to see in the camp outside the city.

"Red flag, why hasn't Changde City been broken after two days? Is your military order to be a handsome child's play? "

"The great commander's forgiveness is not that the brothers don't work hard, but that the thief army in the city is unusually tenacious in resistance, and the troops are not under us. The art of war says that ten encircles and five attacks..."

"Enough!"

Seeing that it was time for Zuo Liangyu to pull these things, he suddenly burst into a drink and hammered the crime.

The generals in the general's account, frightened as static as cicadas, lowered their heads together.

But they were all angry. After all, if Zuo Menggeng had not lost Yiyang, how could they fall into such a passive field of food shortage?

Marshal Zuo may also understand this. He also has some lack of confidence in his heart, so after venting for a while, he waved his hand and said, "we'll talk about other things later, but we must take changdecheng tomorrow, otherwise there will be no consequences. I think I don't have to explain it?"

"Yes!"

All the generals answered with fists. They knew that they would not work hard tomorrow, because the army would be out of food the day after tomorrow.

The next day, early in the morning, Zuo Liangyu personally supervised the war. First, the veterans drove the recruits to attack on all sides, killing whoever retreated. In the afternoon, after the mutiny of the recruits, the veterans were forced to go up by their servants.

Throughout the day, wave after wave, the cries of killing from the four walls almost never stopped. The pile of corpses under the wall has almost become a slope.

By dusk, the left army had killed more than 30000 people, and the morale had fallen to the bottom, but commander Zuo still didn't blink.

Not only did he not plan to withdraw troops, he was also ready to burn the midnight oil.

Because he can't break Changde City today, he can't take all the 90000 troops away. It's better to fight to the death than eight kings who are cheap at that time.

The result was that when it was dark, when groups of defeated soldiers were killed by their servants, tens of thousands of troops finally collapsed. They killed themselves with blood red eyes, and Changde City became a hell on earth.

Zuo dashai seemed to have expected this situation for a long time. After the army began to collapse, he did not stop it. Instead, he and his generals tied more than 10000 elite servants, packed all the food and grass left in the camp and went south overnight.

Obviously, Zuo Liangyu had already made two preparations and was used to losing the war.

"Marshal, I didn't expect our 100000 army to be defeated in such a mess..."

Thirty Li later, the second childe of Wu murmured absently.

His face was full of despair. Obviously, he still couldn't accept it. They had a hundred thousand troops and didn't fight a decent battle. In this way, they defeated themselves.

"Brother Wu Xiandi, come here. First drink wine to calm down. Victory or defeat is a common thing for soldiers. It's no big deal. This time it's just my carelessness. That's what the eighth king said. However, I still have a lot of money, grain and materials in Changsha. As long as I take these more than 10000 elite back safely, I can pull out 100000 troops again in March, At that time, we must count the old and new hatred with the eight kings! "

While eating the big cake, Zuo Dashuai handed over the wine bag and patted him on the shoulder.

Obviously, I really value Mr. Wu's second son very much. I'm afraid he'll leave me. If it weren't for a son, I really want to recruit him as a son-in-law.

"The commander-in-chief is right. We still have a chance to turn things around. Now it's troubled times. The commander-in-chief still has 10000 soldiers in his hands. As long as he returns to Changsha, he still has great prospects..."

Sure enough, the second childe of Wu listened to Zuo Dashuai's words. He perked up, took a mouthful of wine and said.

"Ha ha, is that right? A good man should be able to take it and put it down. One or two defeats count as an egg. When I was in Shanxi, I was surrounded by anti thieves. There were only a few hundred people left around me. In the end, I didn't kill them?"

Zuo Liangyu smiled and took a mouthful of the sprinkled bag.