Chapter 488: Siege of the City (5)

Wang Qinian opened his lips, as if he had something to say, and finally asked: "I'll dare to ask for a word? Is the King of Wu going to fight with Lu Fang this time or just want to occupy the territory of one or two states?"

Tao Ya raised her slender eyebrows slightly and smiled, "Xuan, Run, Chang's soldiers all out. The people in Guangling led by the King of Wu thought that the money for pickles in the back town was more than 100,000 yuan per month. Such a large-scale military use naturally requires drinking horses in Zhejiang and capturing Lu Fang alive!"

"Since that's the case, I thought we should continue to surround Huizhou Prefecture City and lure reinforcements from Zhenhai to attack." Wang Qinian walked to the map and pointed to the location of Huizhou Prefecture City on the map and said: "This Huizhou terrain is rugged, known as the 'eight mountains, one water and one field'. It has little population and food, just like a stone prison. It is easy to advance but difficult to exit. It is precisely because of this reason that Lu Fang left only a few troops in Huizhou to defend, and the reinforcements sent were very limited. Obviously, this is because the terrain of Huizhou determines that it is difficult to enter the army and cannot cause a fatal blow to him. Therefore, Lu Fang concentrated his main force on Hangzhou Jiahu, which is relatively convenient for supply and transportation, and is relatively convenient for transportation.

On the plain, we used the maneuverability of the inside to repel our army's invasion from all directions one after another. Since this is the case, even if our army defeated the reinforcements of Zhenhai Army and completely occupied Huizhou, Lu Fang's losses were very limited. His main force was still intact, and he could still use the dominant position of the inside to choose a favorable opportunity for combat. Then why did we come here with great difficulty? But if we continue to surround the city, or even surround without attacking, the reinforcements of Zhenhai Army will ask Lu Fang for reinforcements, which means that he must weaken the mobile forces in his hands and weaken the defensive forces on the front, which is very beneficial to the entire battle situation."

The generals in the tent made a wave of dissatisfaction complaints. Obviously they did not agree with Wang Qinian's opinion. This would make them a partial division that would be responsible for the deputy attack mission. What could be worse than this? Tao Ya reached out and suppressed the dissatisfaction and asked: "Your idea is good, but why did Lu Fang obey your orders? If he did not send reinforcements, he would instead withdraw the existing reinforcements? After all, from the current situation, he knew that the biggest threat to him was the army led by your father. Judging from the past battle examples, Lu Fang was an extremely calm person and would not be deceived by your tricks!"

"Lu Fang has no choice!" Wang Qinian's eyes radiated with confidence: "If he withdraws reinforcements, it means that he has given up Huizhou without fighting. After all, there is still half of Huizhou under his control. The strong enemy is approaching, but our side retreats without fighting. Rumors will exaggerate our victory by a hundred times. In this way, what will the prefectures and counties adjacent to Huizhou think? What will the jackals around? Lu Fang cannot afford this price. If this happens, our army will have no losses. Wouldn't it be great to take Huizhou without fighting?"

Tao Ya frowned her beautiful brows, and subconsciously stroked the long whiskers under her chin with her right hand. Anyone who knows him knows that this is his performance of weighing the two. Suddenly, his right hand tightened his long whiskers and said in a deep voice: "Send military orders to order the troops to retreat to the camp and send out more sentries and detectives, and do not let any remaining enemies in the city leave!"

Time passed quickly, and twenty days passed in a flash. The rain in the sky kept falling. Cold raindrops fell on the ground, splashing so high water. The entire city had already turned into a big quagmire, and the temperature of the air had dropped a lot, as if it was late autumn. Who would have thought that more than a month ago, the hot autumn tiger was still here?

"Governor, you haven't eaten for two days, take a bite!"

Lu Xiong opened his eyes. After these days, he had already lost his body and looked scary. When he looked up, Tu Wu stood in front of him, wearing a torn straw raincoat and holding a wooden bowl in his hand. He didn't know what was inside. An old face with wrinkles was full of care.

Lu Xiong reached out to take the wooden bowl and asked, "Didn't the food be cut off the day before yesterday? Where can I eat? Did the soldiers eat it?"

"Everyone has a bowl, and as long as you can breathe, you will have a portion!" Tu Wu replied: "I have had a plague these days and more than a hundred people have died. Otherwise, the food would have been eaten up long ago. I don't know what the end of this day!"

Lu Xiong did not answer. He took a sip of the soup and his whole body suddenly became hot, which made him feel much better. After taking a few more bites, he found that there were a few very tough things in the soup. He took a few bites and felt a little astringent. He didn't know what it was. He swallowed a piece of it with difficulty and asked, "What's the thing in the soup? Is it horse meat? But there are no horses in this city long ago?"

"It's beef tendon and cowhide, both of which are made from armor, shields and bowstrings. In this kind of weather, bows and crossbows are not used, and the brothers have long lost the strength to wear armor and pull the bow. They cook together, and they can save some food and last for ten days." Tu Wu's face looked very calm, like a veteran who has experienced many battles.

"Ten days?" Lu Xiong smiled miserably. Obviously, this number touched a certain nerve in his mind. According to calculations, the reinforcements of Zhenhai Army should have arrived long ago. It only means that something else has happened.

Seeing this, Tu Wu also guessed some of Lu Xiong's thoughts and comforted him: "Governor, don't worry, you are the one who is waiting for the blessing, and you will definitely be able to survive the day when reinforcements arrive."

Hearing Tu Wu's clumsy comfort, Lu Xiong laughed: "Fu Zhiren? Haha! Tu Wu, what did you do before joining the army?"

"My subordinates are very miserable. Their parents die early and their elder brother is not in shelter. They go to the mountains to burn charcoal to make a living!"

Lu Xiong smiled bitterly on his face and asked, "Then guess what I did before joining the army!"

Tu Wu smiled and said, "I don't know, but I must be the son of the general." Lu Xiong suddenly burst into laughter, and the wooden bowl in his hand fell to the ground, and the soup splashed all over the ground. Tu Wu looked at Lu Xiong in surprise, wondering what he said wrong, which led to the leader losing his composure. After a while, Lu Xiong's laughter gradually calmed down. He stretched out his finger and pointed at himself, "I am Tian Ke of the Lu family, my father is, and my grandfather is, and I don't know about it, I think so.

It seems that my origin is not as good as you. At least your father is a good citizen who has his own land, unlike my father who is a foodie and a human being." Speaking of this, Lu Xiong saw the unbelievable and surprised expression on Tu Wu's face, and suddenly felt a prank urge. He stood up, walked to Tu Wu's side, and lowered his voice: "Don't talk about me, even the king was also a land guest of the Lu family. At that time, he and I were digging soil in the field and fighting on the formation, just like you and me now."

When Tu Wu heard such amazing news, he sat there, stunned and could not digest it for a while. Although Lu Fang was not afraid of the fact that he was humble and had been a human being, as his status grew and his reputation grew, his attitude towards him changed day by day. After arriving in Jiangnan, few local soldiers knew that he was born in the past. For reasons of being taboo by the venerable, they naturally would not say about Lu Fang's origin. How could Tu Wu, who had just joined the Zhenhai Army know that Lu Xiong would not say about these things if he was not in this lonely city.

Lu Xiong looked at the Huainan military camp in the rain and fog, with a strict atmosphere. He couldn't help but sigh, suddenly turned around, and said to Tu Wu: "When I was a local soldier in the Lu family, the king taught me step by step how to train soldiers, how to march, and how to camp. Without the king, I, Lu Xiong, are not today. If you and I can go out alive this time, how will the king treat me in the past, and how will I treat you?"

Tu Wu, who was sitting on the ground, heard this, turned over and threw himself to the ground and kowtowed repeatedly. When he raised his head, he was already full of tears.

In the Huainan camp, the front supervisor. Wang Qinian sat in front of several cases, holding more than a dozen calculating pieces in his hand, muttering to himself, as if he was counting some accounting books.

"Seventeen, nineteen, twenty-one, eighteen, nineteen, thirty, totaling one hundred and four." Wang Qinian worked hard to get the result. Obviously, he was not good at this. He recorded the results solemnly on paper. After his success, he did not show a relief expression on his face. Instead, he sighed and said, "Without a war, half of the command of the Zuoying Camp had lost one-sixth of its troops. The situation was really bad!"

"This is not the worst! There is something worse!" The curtain of the tent was suddenly lifted open, and a cold and wet breath rushed in with a person.

"Zhiti, what's the situation in the right camp? It won't be so bad, right?" Wang Qinian stood up, and the man who came in took off his raincoat, his face was blue and black, and his head was wearing a Confucian scarf. It was Wei Zhiti, the military officer in Wang Qinian's record room.

"It's so bad." Qi Zhiti wiped the rain on his head and lowered his voice: "Almost every soldier is sick. The sick soldiers turned black, had a fever, were unconscious, had a lot of diarrhea, and were bedridden in a few days. The few were five or six people, and the more were thirty or forty. Faced with so many patients, those doctors were helpless."

Hearing Qi Zhiti's statement, Wang Qinian's face became more and more gloomy. Two or three days ago, someone reported that the soldiers who were infected in the army had a disease. He didn't care about it. He just ordered the sick soldiers to isolate them and treat them well. However, he did not expect that the disease would appear like mushrooms after the rain. News of the sick soldiers were constantly reported in each battalion. The symptoms were similar. They all had black faces, fever, coma, and a lot of diarrhea, followed by a large number of deaths. As a junior of the general who fought in the army in his youth, he knew very well that the epidemic was
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