Chapter 203 Solid

After Xiao Tianjian annihilated the headquarters of Ten thousand yuan and Huang Degong in the south of Luzhou, he spent two days cleaning the battlefield and sent the captured prisoners to Fengyang Prefecture and Suzhou for editing or dissolving the resettlement, and then rushed to the city of Luzhou.

Luzhou Prefecture has already been in chaos at this time. They have received the news of the defeat of 10,000 yuan Ji and Huang Degong. Now only the governor of Luzhou, Wu Dapu, is in charge of Luzhou Prefecture. In addition, the remaining officers and soldiers are only more than 3,000 old and weak soldiers, so I learned that the news that 10,000 Ji and Huang Degong were almost completely destroyed. After that, the Luzhou government suddenly felt sad. Almost half of the people thought that Luzhou was over, and there were gentry in the city who took their families and began to flee to Nanjing or Chuzhou to take refuge.

However, the governor Wu Dapu is still calm. Although he knows that Luzhou is probably very dangerous this time, he does not want to give up. After all, Luzhou Prefecture is an important town in Nanzhili, which is known as solid as a golden soup. The city is in the area of Nanzhili, which is tall and strong.

During the Jiajing period, Luzhou City underwent a large-scale renovation due to the collapse of many parts of the city. After the renovation, Luzhou City is nearly 26 miles long; the west and southwest wall is Gangdi, and the wall is two and a half feet high; outside the east, south and north walls are flat, and the wall is three feet high; the bottom is nearly five feet wide. There are nearly 5,000 city stacks and 28 towers. The trench in the east of the city is two feet deep and 40 feet wide; the trench in the west of the city is two and a half feet deep and 30 feet wide; the trench in the south of the city is two feet deep and 30 feet wide; the trench in the north of the city is one foot deep and 35 feet wide. The river flows around the city. There are seven gates and two water gates in the whole city. The east two gates, the left is called Weiwumen, the right is called Shiyongmen, and there is a stone platform on the top of the moon city. The west two gates, the left is called Xipingmen, the right is called Shuiximen, and the top of the moon city is a stone platform. South Second Gate, the left is called Nanxun Gate, and the right is Desheng Gate. The north gate is called the Arch Gate.

Such a big city in Daming is also one of the best strong cities. Therefore, although there are not many soldiers in Luzhou, there is still a fighting force to defend such a strong city. Moreover, after the defeat of 10,000 Ji and Huang Degong, about 3,000 defeated soldiers finally came out and fled back to Luzhou Prefecture. If it was before, Wu Dapu, these defeated soldiers, will not let them enter the city, but now he is eager to use troops. He has no choice but to send people out of the city to collect these defeated soldiers and bring them into the city and re-introduced them into the soldiers and horses guarding the city. In this way, the number of defenders has reached more than 6,000. In addition, there are many Ding Zhuang in the city, which can be casually pulled. It's not a problem to pull out thousands of people. In this way, it's not a big problem to gather tens of thousands of defenders.

After having soldiers, it is a problem of weapons and food. Luzhou City, as an important town in Jianghuai, is originally a place where heavy soldiers are stationed. Over the years, the rebels have been around, and Luzhou Prefecture has been preparing all the time! Therefore, there are a lot of weapons and food in Luzhou City, as well as hundreds of all kinds of artillery, so the military equipment is quite good.

With soldiers, weapons, and quite abundant food, this city can be defended. They can stick to Luzhou City for a period of time and wait for Ding Qirui to send troops to help Luzhou. At the worst, they can drag the Xing Tianjun here for a long time and get a period of time for Ding Qirui to arrange the Nanjing defense, even if he dies. It's a kind of benevolence!

However, although Luzhou City is solid, it has not been broken in history. At least in the original history, Zhang Xianzhong has fought against Luzhou City twice. The first time was in the eighth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong's troops besieged Luzhou City, but it lasted for several days. On the contrary, he lost the soldiers and lost. In the end, he had to withdraw his troops. Later, in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong attacked Luzhou City again. This time, he broke through Luzhou City. However, Zhang Xianzhong did not rely on the strong capture of Luzhou City, but made the fraud people disguise into Luzhou City, and suddenly seized the city gate, and finally The removed Luzhou City.

But now it is impossible for Zhang Xianzhong to fight Luzhou City again. History has been changed by Xiao Tianjian. Zhang Xianzhong and his family are currently under the control of Xiao Tianjian in Xiezhou City and enjoying his little life. However, his adopted son Li Dingguo and others are now working under Xiao Tianjian's command and coming to Luzhou City.

This time, Wu Dapu wanted to imitate Chongzhen's eight years to resist the attack of the Xingtian army like Zhang Xianzhong. In his opinion, this is a place with the reputation of the iron city of Luzhou. Although the soldiers of the Xingtian army are strong, it is not easy to conquer Luzhou City, even if the army is empty in the city. Xu, he felt that he also hoped to block the siege of the Xing Tianjun.

So after listening to Wu Dapu's encouragement, the officials in the city calmed down a little. Even if they began to organize the defense according to Wu Dapu's arrangement.

With their strength, Wu Dapu is very clear about this, so he will not waste his troops. He will gather all the soldiers and horses that can be gathered around him and bring them into the city to help defend the city.

In terms of defending the city, Wu Dapu is still relatively experienced. He personally dispatched troops and even took responsibility for each tread to the designated person. At the same time, he opened the arsenal, removed a large number of arrows, rockets and other things from the warehouse, transported them to all sides of the walls, and was ready to be transported to the wall at any time.

At the same time, Wu Dapu ordered that after collecting troops to withdraw into the city, he would close all the gates, including the two water gates, and no longer allowed anyone to enter or leave the city. Except for sending people to Nanjing for help, no one was allowed to enter Luzhou City to prevent them from getting mixed into the detailed work of the Xingtian Army.

Therefore, after Xiao Tianjian led his troops to Luzhou City, Luzhou City had already been a high suspension bridge with closed gates, cutting off all contacts inside and outside the city.

After Xiao Tianjian arrived in Luzhou City, he spent the whole day with his generals and staff officers around Luzhou City. After looking at Luzhou City, everyone couldn't help but feel a little headache.

When they attacked Xiangyang, they were a little similar to Luzhou City. They were all strong cities and protected by wide rivers, and the walls here were much stronger than Xiangyang. They rely on heavy cannons alone. If they want to collapse the corner of Luzhou City like fighting Xiangyang, it is very difficult. If it is a strong attack, the city is only If you have a certain force to garrison and have the will to fight like Xiangyang at the beginning, this battle will definitely be a fierce battle or even a protracted battle.

But it doesn't work if they don't attack Luzhou. Luzhou City is a must-pass on the road to attack Nanjing City. It is an important node. If they don't fight here, it will cause great trouble to attack Nanjing City in the future. The number of officers and soldiers stationed here does not need to be large, and it can easily threaten the logistics of Xing Tianjun. The supply line is a very dangerous thing for Xing Tianjun, who relies heavily on logistics supplies.

So if you want to take Nanjing, then Luzhou City must be taken. Xiao Tianjian and Li Xin's opinions on this point are quite consistent, and the generals under his command also agree with their view.

After looking at the situation in Luzhou City, Xiao Tianjian and the generals did not find a relative weakness in Luzhou City for them to easily break through the city defense, so this battle is destined to become a very difficult attack.

And Xiao Tianjian is still facing a problem, that is, his troops are not enough to attack such a strong city. Although the soldiers and horses he mobilized this time are all elite, and the number is close to more than 30,000 people, if these 30,000 people want to completely block such a large city and conquer it, it is still slightly It is not enough, so it is impossible for them to completely surround Luzhou City. They can only choose to focus on the attack. In addition, they need to mobilize some troops and help the people to come here to assist in the siege, which will take some time.

So after looking at the city defense of Luzhou City, Xiao Tianjian chose Dashu Mountain in the west of the city as a place to station troops, and arranged the army's barracks in the area of Dashu Mountain, while Dashu Mountain is high, which can overlook the situation of Luzhou City from afar. In addition, many trees are convenient for camping and local materials to build siege equipment.

After looking at the situation of Dashu Mountain, Xiao Tianjian temporarily arranged his command post near Kaifu Temple at the southern foot of Dashu Mountain.

The difference between Xing Tianjun and other Rebels is that Xiao Tianjian has long had the ambition to win the world, so he knows the truth that those who win the hearts of the people get the world. He has always been very strict in controlling the army and does not allow the Xingtian army department to harm the people. This is also something that other rebels could not do before, so it has also created his current achievements, which is relatively easy to fight. With such a large territory, the name of Xing Tianjun's benevolence and righteousness has long been widely spread all over the world. Even the people in the Nanzhili area have heard about it for a long time, so some people have been looking forward to the arrival of Xing Tianjun.

Therefore, when the Xingtian Army's army went to Luzhou City, although the surrounding people did not have any welcome scene of plugs, they did not run away and hide as soon as they saw the army as before. Instead, they stopped from afar to watch the military appearance of the Xing Tianjun and curiously pointed to each other. Discussion between.

However, there are also some people who take the initiative to ask Xing Tianjun to join the army or help the war, and help Xing Tianjun guide the way to report the situation of the officers and soldiers in the city. It can be seen that the detailed work sent by the Xing Tianjun in the early stage has done a lot of publicity work by the people here.

Under the constraints of the generals, the Xingtian military troops who went to Luzhou also faithfully fulfilled their military discipline. They basically did nothing against the local people. They neither plunder nor forcibly wrapped the people to join the army to help the war. Even on the way to march, they tried to avoid planting. For grain farmland, you are not allowed to enter the village when you have a temporary rest, but choose an empty place to rest and cook.

When they saw the performance of Xing Tianjun, the people were completely relieved. They had never seen such an army that cherished the people in the world, so they were even less hostile to Xing Tianjun. They began to come out and contact with Xing Tianjun and asked the legend that Xing Tianjun would reduce the people. Is Fu Fentian true? After getting an affirmative answer, the people were completely happy and began to take the initiative to help Xing Tianjun.

(Chapter 3 is here, please don't scold me! Ha ha!)