The reinforcements tore open the enemy's blockade from the north, seized two battalions in a row in night battle, and forced the enemy to voluntarily abandon the three battalions in the north of the city. Anyone could see that there was hope of breaking through.

Xu Huai, Xiao Yanhan, Qian Zerui accompanied Qiao Jien, Gu Ji'an and others into the city. Xu Wei and Wen Hengyue also organized some military and civilians to greet each other. These military and civilians also had a lot of gratitude in their eyes, but their tragic situation made Xu Huai unbearable to witness it.

To be precise, ordinary people in Taiyuan City had no food six months ago. At first, the city was lush in spring and summer, and people could still pick grass stems and leaves to satisfy their hunger. However, after autumn, they could not even find a green leaf in the city. They were too hungry to bear it. They just ate the tree core. Hundreds or even hundreds of people died of starvation every day.

Xu Wei first sent people to collect and starve the people to death. In the end, there were too many people who starved to death, and the generals became increasingly weak. After the weather became cold, they allowed the bodies to stay in the house.

However, Xu Wei still has statistics on the starvation in the city, the generals died in battle, the injuries and illnesses that were not cured.

Before the war, Taiyuan City, including the Tianxiong Army's family members, had a total of 180,000 soldiers and civilians. They fought for one year and died of the city walls, were injured and lacking medical treatment, died of hunger and illness, and even the latter, with more than 80,000 people.

There are a little more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians left in the city now.

The situation of the defenders is also very poor.

Although after the people were out of food for half a year, a small amount of stored grain was concentrated for the defenders to eat, the standard was reduced to only one-quarter of the normal, or even lower. In the end, the leather armor and the leather made of armor were boiled to satisfy hunger, which is definitely not a normal consumption.

In addition to the weakness caused by long-term hunger, most guards now have many serious diseases, such as abnormal swelling of hands and feet, dry hair and hair, joint pain, etc.

These cannot be relieved or cured in just a meal of three or five.

After seeing these real situations, Qiao Jien and Gu Ji'an had to admit that it was unrealistic to take away more than 90,000 Taiyuan soldiers and civilians safely.

"Before the enemy's aid has not arrived, we should organize the military and civilians to evacuate from the west of the Han army camp in Yunzhou as much as possible!" Everyone's doors and windows were almost demolished, and the stone foundations were all moved to the Taiyuan Prefecture Office where the city walls were all moved, Gu Ji'an said bluntly.

As the magistrate of the prefecture and prefecture, he has always been the main person in charge of contacting the Hedong Road Department for financial, food, fodder, and prison matters.

In the past year, although Gu did not dare to send troops openly to harass Lanzhou and other places, he has always been paying attention to the war in Taiyuan.

Xu Wei, Wen Hengyue and the rebels of Luliangshan also sent people to contact the prefectures many times.

Gu Ji'an is quite familiar with the situation in Taiyuan City.

In the current situation, he advocated evacuation directly, as much as he could.

They are not worried about how much help the main force of the Chihu Army going south will return, but are worried that Yan Muchi will be able to mobilize a large number of cavalry to go south to reinforce in a short period of time in the Huihe Valley (Yunshuoying and other prefectures), the eastern foot of Yinshan Mountain, and the Hunhe (Cangtou River) valley in the northern part of Shuozhou.

Gu Ji'an did not feel that the forces of the Prefecture and Chushan Cavalry could withstand the enemy's attack from the flanks and protect the Taiyuan soldiers and civilians to retreat westward; he thought the only chance was to withdraw before Yan Muchi gathered the cavalry.

"I can only rely on you for many military and civilians to be removed. General Wen and I decided to stay in the palace and should be able to hold up some of the enemy troops," said Xu Wei. "When the enemy's aid goes from Hui Henan, you should not think about us anymore!"

"How can this work? I promised in front of the hall that I must bring Xu Fujun and General Wen back to Luoyang safely!" Qiao Jien said.

"No matter how many people volunteered to the palace behind the city, they were left behind because of me and Xu Fujun. How could we bear to leave them? And there must be someone who stayed behind. No one except me and Xu Fujun can handle this matter." Wen Hengyue said resolutely.

"Tomorrow night, I will lead my troops to fight at night to capture the Han army camp in Yunzhou. If I can trap it, Yin Chao will never dare to act rashly. In the end, one or two thousand people in the back of the palace are enough; if I can't trap it, I can only ask Xu Fujun and General Wen to stay and cut off the back!" Xu Huai said resolutely.

"Everything depends on the military marquis!" Xu Wei and Wen Hengyue bowed to Xu Huai.

At this time, there were 6,000 defenders and tens of thousands of hard labor in the Han army camp in Yunzhou. It was hard for everyone to imagine how difficult it would be to capture it overnight.

However, if we can really capture the Han army camp in Yunzhou overnight, we can completely open the passage to retreat north to Tianmen Mountain.

The Taiyuan military and civilians are so weak that it will be extremely difficult to walk through the low-ridge area west of the Han army camp in Yunzhou. If the Han army camp in Yunzhou is captured, the Taiyuan military and civilians can retreat north along the post road.

Especially for the Taiyuan people who have not experienced formation training, the difficulty level is completely different.

In addition, the Han army camp in Yunzhou reserved a large amount of supplies, including food, fodder, clothing, etc.; it was completely fine to support the consumption of Taiyuan military and civilians for one or two months with grain and fodder alone.

As long as the Taiyuan military and civilians can seize this batch of materials, as long as they can escape into Lingjinggou Canyon in time, even if the passage in Lanzhou is captured by large soldiers, they still have the opportunity to cross the mountains and ridges on the western foot of Luliang Mountain and enter the territory of the prefecture.

Of course, whether we can conquer the Han army camp in Yunzhou at night will be the key to further deterring the enemy troops near Taiyuan.

Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Taiyuan will retreat northward, and even if they are carried out in batches, the team will be greatly expanded.

Xu Huai had only such elite troops in his hands, and it was difficult to protect him. The scale of the enemy troops near Taiyuan was several times larger than theirs. At this time, even if they were attacked by the division of shares, they might easily disrupt the withdrawn soldiers and civilians in the north.

Of course, for all this, Xu Huai not only had to capture the Han army camp in Yunzhou, but also had to capture it in a very short time, and even delay it for more than three or five days.

The military and civilians in Taiyuan were extremely weak as a whole, and they could not recover by eating enough for a few meals.

However, in addition to the 20,000 to 30,000 people who died in battle as they climbed the city wall and were unable to receive treatment after being injured, the main people who died of hunger and illness were the elderly, weak women and children with poor physical fitness.

Almost half of the 100,000 soldiers and civilians left in Taiyuan are all males ranging from ten to thirty or forty years old.

In addition to the stronger physical fitness of middle-aged men, there is another very important reason, that is, after falling into a severe famine, every household basically gives the few remaining food to young men. On the one hand, it is traditionally used, young men will receive more care, and a family also needs young men to ensure a certain amount of physical strength to go out to find food.

It is not even ruled out that there are many people who can eat in secret.

With such a large base, three or four thousand soldiers who can participate in combat power can still be drawn in Taiyuan City.

Otherwise, Taiyuan would have been captured before the main force of the Chihu West Route Army headed south.

Xu Huai's attack on the Han Army camp in Yunzhou the next night was not earlier. It mainly took time to transfer Taiyuan's war-capable troops and combat equipment to the battlefield south of the Han Army camp in Yunzhou, and the mobilization at night was more concealed.

The time for attacking the Han army camp in Yunzhou cannot be even later.

Xu Huai mainly considered that he could not let Li Chulin, Yin Chao and other enemy generals grasp the detailed information on their side. Only when the enemy was in shock and panic, they did not dare to act rashly could they have the best environment to attack the Han army camp in Yunzhou.

If it is delayed, it will become more difficult to contact the Qing Shun Army and the Zhennanzong Palace to find out their reality.

At least they dare not transfer all the troops who can fight from Taiyuan City, and they must be wary of Yin Chao's possibility of facing Taiyuan City from the south.

In addition to the disadvantages in military strength and the hasty time, the Chushan cavalry and Taiyuan soldiers and horses are not without other advantages.

In addition to the ten catapults seized from the front battalion, among the camps they captured and the three camps that the enemy abandoned, there were a large number of combat equipment from the enemy to attack Taiyuan City from the north - the attack on Taiyuan City from the north was originally the main attack direction of the enemy.

These combat equipment include more than a hundred shield cars, side vans, iron pulleys, and rushing cars, as well as dozens of tower cars, city-mounted cars and dozens of three-bow bed crossbows.

There are also a group of three-bow bed crossbows in Taiyuan City. In the past year-long battle to defend the city, these bed crossbows were unable to be used due to damage to the bow strings and other accessories. At this time, the crossbows, crossbow arms and other accessories can be replaced, and eight bed crossbows can be put into use.

On the night when he decided to attack the Han Army Camp in Yunzhou, twelve tower cars, more than five or six meters high, were deployed to the south of the Han Army Camp in Yunzhou. Each tower car and the city car were deployed two three-bow crossbows, and launched an orderly offensive on the Han Army Camp in Yunzhou early the next morning.

At that time, the world's catapults are all towing type. Each medium-sized catapult requires thirty or fifty people to pull at the same time to knock the stone bullets and mud bullets into the enemy camp or enemy positions. The space required is very large. Only eight can be deployed south of the Han army camp in Yunzhou, and irregular bricks are thrown directly to the enemy camp in an orderly manner.

The bricks are irregular and there is no time to grind into a spherical shape. If you throw them out with a trench machine, don't expect any accuracy.

The walls of the Han Army camp in Yunzhou were only more than ten feet high. In comparison, the tower car and the city car had the advantage of being condescending. At this time, several people needed to lift the tail of the crossbow to fire, and of course there was not much accuracy.

However, in the enemy camp that was 700 steps away, there were nearly 20,000 defenders and hard laborers, which was quite high in density.

At the same time, the enemy did not expect that the Taiyuan defenders would be able to break through their second layer of defense.

Therefore, the roofs of the Han Army camp in Yunzhou were not specially reinforced with tied logs. They were mainly covered with wooden frames, and the stone walls were also very thin. The hard labor was even squeezed into a ragged tent, and the ability to withstand the bombardment of stone bombs was very weak. Even the giant arrows shot from the crossbow could be easily penetrated, and two or three hundred people were killed or injured in a day.

This is already a very terrifying number. Even if it is far from being called a collapse of the defenders, it is enough to make them stay in the camp and feel panic.
Chapter completed!