Chapter 320 Encircle Hangzhou City

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, he is also very depressed. There is another person: Zhu Yuanzhang.

After capturing the collection, a large area of land on the south bank of the Yangtze River has been seen by him. He originally thought that his career would be greatly developed.

The soldiers and horses of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province mobilized a lot to encircle Zhang Shicheng. Unexpectedly, they still had the strength to besiege themselves.

In the east, Yuan Jiang Ding Ding guarded Zhenjiang and blocked his eastward road. In the south, the Yuan general Ba Sier was stationed in Huizhou, and another army was stationed in Ningguo; in the west, Chizhou was already the seat of Xu Zhenyi; in the southeast, the Yuan general Shi Moyi and Sun guarded Chuzhou, Shi Mohou Sun guarded Wuzhou, and Song Boyan did not guard Quzhou. At the beginning, he tried his best to resist the public discussion and marched into the south of the Yangtze River. Unexpectedly, the situation was not created, but the situation was attacked on all sides.

After the collection, if the tars attack again before they react, they should be able to fight more places. Unexpectedly, there are undisciplined troops in the city. With such a delay, time will be wasted.

More soldiers and horses were transferred from nowhere in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province to surround themselves and could not develop for the time being.

At this time, he also knew that Zhang Shicheng in Jiangbei had also gone south.

Compared with himself, although Zhang Shicheng's firearms are sharp, the number of people is not very large, and at best it is only 30,000 to 40,000 soldiers.

However, this little soldier and horse surprised him. The other party adopted such a decisive and brave tactic: within a few days, he went down Changzhou and Pingjiang.

Changzhou and Pingjiang are all rich places. Unexpectedly, they were occupied by Zhang Shicheng first.

I knew that I should have made more deals with Zhang Shicheng at the beginning. If I got some of his fire, I would have such a strong combat effectiveness.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the map. If he were Zhang Shicheng, he would definitely continue to go south and occupy Hangzhou.

After all, the new attached army is limited. There are officers and soldiers everywhere, indicating that the troops in other places are empty. If not expected, Hangzhou may already be an empty city.

Thinking that his southwardly attracted the officers and soldiers and acted as cannon fodder, but created an opportunity for Zhang Shicheng, Zhu Yuanzhang was a little unwilling. If he had known it, he would go south later and let Zhang Shicheng take the lead first.

However, I hope to take this opportunity to support Hangzhou, so that I can show my ambitions.

Zhu Yuanzhang is waiting for the opportunity.

However, Zhang Shicheng didn't give him a chance.

As soon as the messenger sent by Dazhi Tiemuer left the city, he met the striker sent by Zhang Yang.

The striker is Zhang Yang's most elite cavalry. Moreover, he imitated the practice of the Mongols and equipped each of the striker with two horses. Their purpose is to reach Hangzhou as soon as possible and block the road. No matter how stupid the tars are, when they take down Wucheng, they should know that their target must be Hangzhou.

Hangzhou is the capital of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province. The tars will definitely call for reinforcements. In order to reduce their troubles, they can only kill all the messengers before that.

After capturing the Pingjiang River, this small task force has set off quickly, two days ahead of the large force, and reached all roads outside Hangzhou.

If you meet a large army, their small army is not enough for the tars to plug their teeth. However, they don't have to appear at all. They just hide by the roadside and shoot a few cold shots when they see anyone wearing official uniforms and military uniforms.

Therefore, although Dashi Tiemu, after learning that the rebels had captured Wucheng, he began to immediately order the troops to return to help quickly, but the order could never be passed on.

Sometimes, pigeons flying in the sky are also useful.

Zhang Yang's army finally arrived in Hangzhou. At this moment, it has entered December, less than 20 days before the 14th year.

This year's Spring Festival will be spent in Hangzhou!

The weather in the south of the Yangtze River is actually relatively cold. Although there is no cold wind in the north, it is a gloomy and cold feeling.

The rebels wore clothes made of cotton. Between the two layers of clothes, there was a layer of cotton. Although they were not as warm as sheepskin coats, their warm surnames were also very good.

Thanks to Mrs. Huang. At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Mrs. Huang brought advanced textile technology to the Central Plains and was respected as the ancestor of the cloth industry.

In Gaoyou Mansion, a large group of female workers organized by Liu Ruohan undertook the task of making military uniforms for the army, all of which were made by them.

And stuffing the two layers of cotton between the cotton cloth greatly improves the warmth effect. This is also an innovation. The rebels wear it on their bodies, which is extremely warm.

They are even sweating on the galloping horse's back. This kind of clothes was prepared by Zhang Yang for the northward advance. Now, it seems that it is too thick to be sent to the soldiers in advance.

The tall city wall finally appeared in front of people's eyes, and Hangzhou City finally arrived.

Hangzhou City was built in the Sui Dynasty and has a history of thousands of years. It was once the capital of Wuyue. The Leifeng Tower and the Gem Tower were built during the Wuyue period. In 1138, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty was Hangzhou, and Hangzhou became the political, economic and cultural center of the country and the largest state in the country. After the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty, Hangzhou encountered the fire of war, but it was soon repaired.

Hangzhou City is not only twice as big as the Pingjiang River. There are as many as ten gates in Hangzhou City, four of which are water gates.

Here, after all, was once the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty. The significance of occupying here is very huge.

To be fair, Zhang Yang really wants to liberate this place peacefully, but he knows that this is absolutely impossible, because this is still the capital of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province.

Let all the officials of a province surrender to themselves? It's a little unrealistic. I'm afraid it's better to solve the problem by fighting.

If he really wanted to fight, Zhang Yang suddenly felt that the strength in his hand was a little less.

The first battalion has been stationed in Pingjiang, Changzhou and Wucheng, each leaving a thousand-person team. Now, there are two thousand-person teams of the third battalion, the base camp and the eighth battalion. A total of 10,000 horses, plus 5,000 sailors.

Facing the big city of Hangzhou, there is not only the main city, but also Wengcheng outside the city, which echoes each other. This kind of wall is made of clay and made of grass, wood ash, glutinous rice juice, etc., which is particularly strong.

To attack this big city, you must make careful deployment. Although your artillery is powerful, if you really enter the city and fall into a street battle, it will be extremely unfavorable to your army.

Therefore, Zhang Yang can only wait for the arrival of the 6th and 7th Battalions.

If Chang Yuchun is there, even if he takes 500 cavalry, he dares to break into Hangzhou City. However, Chang Yuchun has been driven back by Zhang Yang to train recruits.

I don't know how much the recruits have been trained? Zhang Yang felt that if the new recruits could participate in the war, he would be more confident.

For a long time, Zhang Yang has been taking the route of elite soldiers, and the number of people is not very large. Now, after occupying such a vast land, the crisis of insufficient troops is becoming more and more obvious, which is also the reason for several recruitments.

When these areas have stabilized, Zhang Yang must still need to recruit again. He feels that he needs 100,000 troops to maintain a mobile force at any time and be ready to fight at any time.

In the past few days of waiting, let's see how the defenders in the city deal with it. If the other party dares to go out of the city to fight with themselves, the scattered fireworks will definitely make them die ugly.

In Hangzhou, it is already the sound of wind and cranes.

After getting the news that the anti-thieves have surrounded Hangzhou, the first reaction is that it is impossible, and the second reaction is still impossible!

Are they flying over?

These days, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province seems to have encountered a storm from the sea. The speed is so fast that it is unbelievable.

This rebel army, with strong combat effectiveness and strong mobility, can fight from the north bank of the Yangtze River to Hangzhou in a month! Along the way, they have to attack the city and land. Changzhou, Pingjiang and Wucheng have all been taken by them.

"Although they seem to be very majestic all the way, their combat effectiveness must have been weakened. The enemy is new and everything is unstable. At this time, we will beat them out of the city, and we will definitely be able to relieve this siege. At the same time, we will get rid of the evil spirit of the imperial master!" The general of the main war faction, said. Please allow me to lead the army to fight!"

"No, the enemy's soldiers are strong. If we go out rashly like this, we will be ambushed by the other party. We still wait for the reinforcements here and attack inside and outside to relieve the siege. Even the millions of troops of the imperial division can't do anything about Zhang Shicheng's army. We'd better be careful." Li Yuan, a stable politician, said.

In the face of the siege of the city, Hangzhou is also divided into two factions. One is a few Mongolian generals who want to make achievements and advocate a decisive battle with the enemy.

It will be exciting to think about it. Even the imperial division has been defeated. If you go out and catch the rebel back, how shocked the court will be, and you will rise step by step in the future.

And many people are also full of fear. Do you think there is a flock of sheep outside? They are more ruthless than the fiercest jackals. Fight out of the city? I'm afraid that it's a living person who goes out, and it's a corpse that comes back. It's better to stick to the help.

Two armies have been mobilized to come here. Only when the army arrives and the attack inside and outside can they be sure of victory. At the beginning, the image of Hangzhou City being breached by the Red Turban Army was still lingering. The army in the city could not be buried innocently.

As the highest official position here, the burden on his shoulders is very heavy, war, or wait?

Hangzhou City has a solid city. On the head of the city, crossbows are everywhere. In the city, there are countless back cannons waiting to project stones at the enemy attacking the city. Defending Hangzhou City should be a relatively correct choice. If the other party comes to attack the city, it will definitely be hit with bloodshed.

"Don't quarrel," Da Shi Tie Mu'er finally made up his mind: "I've decided to stay and wait for help."

Dashi Tiemu didn't know that his reinforcements would not come at all, and the reason why Zhang Shicheng did not attack the city immediately was that he was waiting for his reinforcements.

Moreover, Zhang Shicheng's troops are not afraid of his crossbow machine and return gun at all.

(to be continued)