And these defeated troops who escaped not only embarrassed General Wang, but more importantly, Lu's policy of not killing the bandits and surrendering really broke the morale of the large army as An Ran thought.

You must know that the rebels in the past all killed prisoners, and some of the methods were particularly cruel. Therefore, the soldiers from all walks of life fought bravely to kill the enemy. After all, if they failed, the court would pursue them, and they would be dead.

But now, since the enemy does not kill prisoners, then naturally everyone does not need to fight so hard to avoid losing their lives.

Everyone thought so. Dong Hanzhang soon realized that the situation was not right, so he strictly prohibited discussion of the matter. At the same time, he put all the defeated soldiers who spread the enemy's no-kill policy into custody and told them not to talk nonsense outside.

It's a pity that he did it too late. This kind of thing would have been spread by people, and everyone knew about it.

Seeing such a situation, Dong Hanzhang couldn't help but look ugly. At the same time, he was very dissatisfied with General Wang. After all, this man just didn't reach Liuye Fort, and he was still holding back like this. How could Dong Hanzhang look good?

If it weren't for the current war, it would be hard to blame him, otherwise Dong Hanzhang would send a memorial, take away General Wang's position, and let him go home to sell sweet potatoes.

Although he did not do this, General Wang was not stupid. Dong Hanzhang must have had opinions about him when he was defeated so badly this time, so he was very honest and did not dare to hang around Dong Hanzhang again, fearing that he would

Scolded by Dong Hanzhang.

However, General Wang's defeat and return was also beneficial to Dong Hanzhang's command of the new army that did not belong to his own. Because General Wang returned with a defeat, the others who had just come to see Dong Hanzhang were besieged and did not dare to attack An Ran for a sneak attack. They were quite dissatisfied with Dong Hanzhang.

The general is now finally honest and no longer questions his decision. After all, he has been attacked by Lu bandits so many times along the way, and the soldiers still have the morale to besiege the city. In contrast, General Wang's soldiers have not yet reached the location.

It was so rare to be dispersed, which made other generals put aside their contempt for Dong Hanzhang.

You must know that before they saw Dong Hanzhang being beaten so timidly by An Ran, they thought that Dong Hanzhang was a bit exaggerated and was just blown out. Now looking at General Wang's performance, no one dared to think so. They didn't know Dong Hanzhang. After all, the other party had previously

They have been fighting in the south of the Yangtze River and have never dealt with them, but they know General Wang who is stationed near them. He is a general with about the same ability as them. They don't dare to think that they can compare with him after he fights like that.

Well done.

Although there are advantages in this aspect, the disadvantages are also obvious - Dong Hanzhang originally expected others to attack Liuye Fort. If Liuye Fort could be destroyed, he would have an excuse to leave this ghost place and lead others to fight against other good enemies.

The fort was defeated, but as a result, General Wang was scattered by others without even touching the Willow Leaf Fort. Seeing such a result, even if his Dong family army was much stronger than General Wang's men, he would still be afraid.

Go on the road and find other forts to attack?

It's useless to be afraid of the enemy and force people to go on the road. On the contrary, now the army is coming continuously, and there are more and more people on the siege line. Although the enemy sneak attacks are still there, because there are more people, the casualties are higher.

Being dispersed, in this way, naturally fewer of our own people will die. With fewer deaths, everyone wants to hold on to the siege here even more, and they all want to go on the road without taking such a big risk and trap the enemy here.

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Thinking of this, Dong Hanzhang couldn't help but feel very worried, because he was not sure about the siege of Maple Leaf Castle. The reason why he did this was just to force the Lu family to send people to attack and give everyone a chance for direct contact, but the other party was not convinced by him.

He moved, still cowering, and sent only a few people to harass, so that he could not find anyone to fight, but he could not afford to lose hundreds of people a day. Thinking of this, could Dong Hanzhang not worry?

But he kept besieging him like this, but there was no movement. He thought that the court would soon rush him.

He was not mistaken. The imperial court came to urge him very quickly. The reason was very simple. The Lu bandits were fighting with them here, and in other directions, they were still seizing the time to build fortresses.

There were four provinces where the rebels rebelled before. Although Fang Guozheng defeated Li Xiu and other rebels also failed due to the encirclement and suppression by others, due to the short time, these four provinces were still in chaos for the time being, with stragglers and refugees.

, there are still a lot of defeated rebels, bandits, etc., so when officials are sent to these provinces, they usually have to bring a large army. Otherwise, if they are purely civilian officials, they will not be able to take office at all.

The imperial court also cleaned one place before moving to the next place, but Lu took advantage of this time lag and kept building fortresses.

They now have more people and are building forts faster - at the beginning, they would only have one more bastion every two months. Now, they often mobilize all their men and advance the bastion in all directions.

, and because the autumn harvest is coming to an end recently, they can free up manpower to do these things, and the construction will be faster. Often after two or three months, they will have a bunch of bastions popping up.

Seeing that Dong Hanzhang was sent to attack the Lu family, not only did they fail to defeat them, but their territory was still growing, which made the court uncomfortable, so they naturally sent people to urge Dong Hanzhang to launch an attack quickly and not to besiege them again.

When Dong Hanzhang received the news, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. Naturally, he couldn't use his direct line to attack Anran, a fortress armed to the teeth. He immediately said that the enemy's artillery was strong and asked the court to send more artillery battalions and recruit more artillery battalions.

Many foreign gun teams attack.

The foreign gun team was not directly related to him, and he would not feel bad even if he died, so he asked the court to recruit more foreign gun teams.

At the same time, he sent letters to the embassies of various countries, saying that the Lu family was powerful and had many foreign guns and artillery. The Huang Dynasty was afraid that it would not be able to defend it. He asked the embassies and embassies whether they felt that it was not good to cooperate with the Huang Dynasty and planned to replace them.

Will you cooperate? If not, please prohibit the sale of firearms to the Lu family. In addition, if you still want to continue to cooperate with the Huang Dynasty, it is best to send troops to intervene, lest the Huang Dynasty is not protected.

He just wants to use the help of foreigners to get rid of An Ran.

He had no choice but to try his best to get rid of it, so he had no choice but to turn to foreigners for help.

He believed that based on the friendly and cooperative attitude of the Huang Dynasty and the major powers, he believed that the major powers were willing to protect the Huang Dynasty from falling. After all, only if the Huang Dynasty did not fall, could they obtain more benefits from the Huang Dynasty and obtain colonies.

They could garrison troops in the Huang Dynasty and dump foreign goods and even drugs to obtain gold and silver. What could they get from the Lu family? He had heard that the Lu family banned drugs and sold drugs, and anyone caught with drugs would be put to death. He had always relied on

The great powers that are selling drugs and making a lot of money in this dynasty probably don't want to see the rise of the Lu family. After all, the rise of the Lu family will cost them countless losses.Chapter completed!