Now it is impossible to rob the craftsmen. The north is in chaos. When the refugees see them, they run far away and cannot be caught. Others are in Tang Anran's bastion and cannot be caught either.

In this case, where can we find craftsmen? We can only look at these good things in the Central Plains and think that we will no longer be able to enjoy them in the future, and our living standards will drop, which is a pity.

Some people may ask, if they don’t have craftsmen, where do the things they enjoy now come from?

This is very simple. It is said to be shipped from the south, but in fact it basically comes from the Enron base. It was resold through an intermediary, and the other party claimed that it was obtained from Jiangnan, and no one doubted it.

This is what the Xihu people did when they first came to the Central Plains and Enron wanted to grow up. They never said that the items they sold were from their own base, and only let the intermediaries say that they were from Jiangnan, thus covering up the existence of Enron's base.

Therefore, much of the wealth stolen by the Xihu people returned to Enron's hands through the purchase of luxury goods. This is one of the reasons why Enron is getting richer and richer.

In this way, both sides made preparations for a year, and Enron began to close the net.

The first target should not be too small, as it would not attract attention; it should not be too big, after all, it is an experiment. If it is too big, it will be difficult to deal with, or even the war will fail, which will easily damage morale, so Enron chose a target away from home.

The capital city is hundreds of miles away and can be considered an important city, so it launched its own actions.

At that moment, Anron sent out almost 100,000 troops to surround the city.

The reason why so many people were sent to besiege is because Chongcheng is a large city and cannot be surrounded without a small number of people.

Such a heavy city has more troops, and at the same time, there are more Xihu people in the city. Because it is a heavy city, it is naturally a more famous city in the past. Xihu people generally like to stay in such big cities because they are more prosperous.

, of course, the main reason is that because they have more troops, they have more family members and servants, resulting in a lot of people in the city.

Once such a city with a large population is besieged, it can only rely on its own food reserves, and something will happen soon.

If nothing else, within ten days, there will be no vegetables left to eat.

Then the food cannot be controlled for long, because An Ran came to attack before the autumn harvest. The new food has not been harvested yet, and the city is full of old food, and there will not be much old food.

But Anron is different. There are her bastions everywhere nearby. She doesn't have to worry about food and grass. The nearby bastions can provide them at any time.

Don’t worry about the nearby bastion not being enough, because food and grass will be supplied from other places at any time.

Therefore, even if Enron dispatched 100,000 troops, since the bastion is nearby, the supply of food and grass will not be a problem at all.

The guard of that important city saw that An Ran had sent troops to surround his city, so he naturally sent people to the royal court for help.

An Ran did not block it and went with them to ask for help, because she was about to let people know that she could not only defend the city, but also fight in the field.

At the same time, she also had the idea of ​​​​surrounding the area for help, so naturally she would not stop people in the city from going to the capital for help.

When Wang Ting heard that the important city hundreds of miles away was besieged by An Ran's 100,000 troops, he was naturally anxious. After all, this was an important city, and there were many Xihu people inside, so he couldn't afford to make any mistakes. He immediately sent troops to relieve the siege.<

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At this time, they also thought the same as the Southern Dynasty. They felt that An Ran's defense of the city was powerful, but the field battle was not necessarily powerful.

As a result, they had cavalry, and Anron also had cavalry - Anron had begun building horse farms as early as when he was building the bastion. He used modern breeding methods to breed many good horses and formed his own cavalry; they had armor and iron swords, and Anron

There is also armor, and it is also a steel sword.

A war that is not at the same level of technology is unwinnable. After all, An Ran's soldiers can cut through the opponent, but the opponent's sword is not hard enough to cut through the armor of An Ran's soldiers. How can we fight this battle?

What's more, the enemy also has a lot of bows and arrows. When encountering these reinforcements, a burst of rapid fire can cause many casualties to the rescuers.

If the Xihu people hadn't had much more battlefield experience than Anron's people, the casualties would have been even greater.

But even so, many people died.

What’s even more frightening is that at the beginning, An Ran’s men were only armed to the teeth, had little battlefield experience, and were a little bit frightened. Sometimes when they saw the enemy coming, they felt that the Xihu people were skilled in bows and horses and were very powerful. They were scared and thought they couldn’t defeat them, so they just

According to what An Ran said before, avoid it first - An Ran is afraid that the cavalry is no match and will demoralize the soldiers, so they don't have to fight head-on and waste them. Anyway, they have enough food and grass here. The enemy has traveled a long distance and the food and grass supply cannot keep up.

, it will become anxious after a long time.

But after fighting for a few times, we found that the enemy's swords and armor were not as good as our own. When cutting against each other, we could hurt the opponent, but the opponent might not be able to hurt us. Everyone became bolder and would not avoid the enemy.

, and even dared to ride forward to chase the enemy.

Of course, these are ordinary cavalry, as well as special forces who have fought against the Xihu people before. They are already proficient in bows and horses, so they will never avoid the Xihu reinforcements when they encounter them, and they can fight if they go up.

In this way, the reinforcements soon suffered too many casualties, and with the lack of food and grass, they were afraid that all the troops would be lost here, so they had no choice but to retreat.

It was also at this moment that Xihu's senior management realized that they were naive and that Tang Anran's field combat skills were also not low.

The people of Xihu tried their best to rescue them, but An Ran surrounded them and tried to rescue them.

Seeing that there were countless casualties among their own people, the people of Xihu could no longer save them, so they had no choice but to reluctantly give up the rescue. After all, they could not save more people in this city.

And without the royal court's rescue, how long can the people of this city hold on?

You may be able to hold on at first, but when you run out of food, you can no longer hold on. The people in the city then sent people to negotiate with An Ran. The content of the negotiation was also very simple: as long as An Ran promised not to kill them, they would

Surrender.

An Ran said that as long as they left, she would not kill them and there was no need to surrender because she did not intend to accept them.

Originally, these people had killed a lot of people from the Central Plains before, so she just wanted to drive them away, not take them in, raise them, and let them live a good life like other people under her rule in the future.

The people of Xihu didn't know, but they were very happy when they heard that they didn't have to be prisoners and let them go.

Although I was worried that An Ran would renege on his promise, there was no food in the city now, and all the horses were killed and eaten, and people started to eat people, so they had no choice but to open the door and surrender.

If you don’t surrender, you will starve to death. If you surrender, you still have a chance to survive.

An Ran naturally kept her word and told them that she would not kill anyone, but she would not keep her word and let them out. If they wanted to cause trouble, she would not be polite.

How dare the Xihu people cause trouble? They all saw the failure of Wang Ting's rescue before. They had food, drink, and strong soldiers and horses, but they couldn't beat them. Now they don't even have horses, and they are starving to death.

,How to beat others?
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