Chapter 25 Wu Yue wins Suzhou City
As a result, Yang Xingmi began to look at Xu Wen differently, and Xu Wen naturally became Yang Xingmi's confidant. When Yang Xingmi was in danger, Xu Wen decisively supported Yang Wo as the lord of Huainan and began his hegemony. Yang Wo acted misfortune and was incompetent, so Xu Wen joined forces with Zhang Hao to exterminate him, and the two of them controlled the military and political power at the same time.
When Zhang Hao planned to monopolize the power after Yang Wo was killed and threatened Xu Wen's life, Xu Wen took action again, joined forces with Yan Keqiu to kill Zhang Hao, and successfully monopolize the power of Huainan. Under Xu Wen's management, Huainan began another round of territory expansion. When Qian Liu started to make plans for Huainan's territory again, Xu Wen decided to take the lead and attack Wu Yue and Liangzhe.
In September of the second year of Kaiping, the Huainan Group sent Zhou Ben, the commander of the infantry, and the commander of the south commander Lu Shizao, to lead troops to besiege Suzhou. Since September of the first year of Guanghua, Gu Quanwu recovered Suzhou, Qian Li secretly made up his mind to protect Suzhou City at all costs. Suzhou City was headed by Cao Gui, the general of the Wuyue Group, who was defending the city, and Qian Li was much more at ease. In order to alleviate the pressure of defending Suzhou, Qian Li decided to indirectly attack and attack Dongzhou to attract the attention of Zhou Ben and others.
Qian Liu's general Zhang Renbao led his troops to attack Dongzhou, defeated the Huainan army, and captured Dongzhou. Xu Wen asked Zhou Ben and Lu Shizao to continue to siege Suzhou City and deal with Zhang Renbao. Xu Wen had other arrangements. Chen Zhang had once been forgotten by Huainan since fled from Quzhou and defected to Huainan. However, Xu Wen knew very well that Chen Zhang's use value. If Chen Zhang was used to deal with his former colleagues, it would be said that it would be very useful.
Of course, Chen Zhang was once a defeated general under Qian Liu, and there would inevitably be psychological shadows against the Wu Yue army, so Xu Wen also sent his general Chai Zaiyong to fight with him. Under Chen Zhang's leadership, of course, it was mainly Chai Zaiyong's command. The Huainan army defeated Zhang Renbao in Yudang and took advantage of the opportunity to retake Dongzhou. Qian Liu's indirect plan failed.
Zhou Ben is very familiar with Suzhou City. Ten years ago, Zhou Ben was ordered to lead troops to rescue Suzhou City, but was defeated by Gu Quanwu at Suzhou City and fled in a panic. The shame and shame once made Zhou Ben feel depressed and depressed.
Ten years passed in a flash, and Zhou Ben once again came to Suzhou, a sad place. However, Zhou Ben seemed full of confidence at this time. After all, Gu Quanwu was already in the past. The tiger generals under Qian Liu were also close to retirement, and Wu Yue was short of talents.
Since Gu Quanwu led his troops to fight Tao Ya in the second year of Tianyou, the top general of Wu Yue mysteriously disappeared and never appeared in the battlefield filled with smoke. Perhaps Qian Liu was more concerned about this top general. In the subsequent wars, Gu Quanwu never appeared again and died of illness a few years later.
In addition to Gu Quanwu, the other three tiger generals are rarely outstanding!
Chengji is already old. Since he was released by Yang Xingmi, he has been in a retirement state with many titles of Taiwei, Taishi, Shizhong, and Jiedu. Qian Liu is not relieved to expect an old man in his sixties to fight on the battlefield. Du Su's situation is somewhat similar to Cheng Su. Both are over 60 years old. After many years of war, Du Su decided to make room for young people to perform and perform. His fourth son Du Jianhui has already inherited his mantle very successfully, so for Du Su, there is no need to fight on the battlefield again.
Ma Chuo's age is the same as Qian Li, which is at the peak of his career, but Ma Chuo chose to retreat behind the scenes. The reason may be somewhat similar to Gu Quanwu. Ma Chuo has inadvertently become an absolute relative of Qian Li. Qian Li's sister married Ma Chuo, and Ma Chuo's daughter married Qian Chuanjin, and Ma Chuo's relationship with Qian Li has become a family and wife, uncle and brother-in-law. With such a close family relationship, Ma Chuo naturally does not need to fight in the battlefield in person. He also has many titles such as the governor, the marching Sima, the governor, and the Grand Marshal. Ma Chuo's main job is to retreat behind the scenes to handle political affairs!
This is the case with the generals of Wu Yue, so Zhou Ben has great hope for capturing Suzhou. Unfortunately, Suzhou will still be Zhou Ben's eternal sad place because someone intends to pierce Zhou Ben's bubble-filled balloon of hope. Cao Gui, the master of the defensive city defense city, has been stationed in Suzhou for a full ten years. Although Suzhou City has not suffered from the war in this ten years, Cao Gui did not relax his vigilance at all.
After all, he was a person who had seen big scenes. Faced with Zhou Ben's army, Cao Gui was as calm as he was in Jiaxing ten years ago, and still led his old partner Shi Lu to patrol and command the city tower calmly. However, compared with Jiaxing City ten years ago, Suzhou City is still somewhat changed. Cao Gui has an important assistant, Yama General Sun Yan.
Sun Yan is from Linhai, known for his bravery and wisdom, and is known as "Sun Baiji". At this time, his position was Suzhou Chengyao General. Although his popularity at this time was not as good as Cao Gui, Sun Yan will play an extremely important role in this battle to defend Suzhou.
In order to capture Suzhou City, Zhou Ben and Lu Shizao made sufficient preparations in advance and planned nearly a hundred siege plans. Faced with Zhou Ben's fierce attack on Suzhou City, Cao Gui and Sun Yan made moves. No matter what kind of siege tools Zhou Ben uses, such as cloud ladders, overpasses, throwing stones, crossing chasing, rushing cars, and sieges, or using various siege methods such as building mountains and attacking, hook ladders climbing cities, filling city ditches, flooding the city, digging tunnels, breaking through secret doors, intensively climbing cities, and tunnel sieges, Cao Gui and Sun Yan can find strategies to defeat the enemy and resolve them one by one.
Faced with the city of Suzhou, which was as difficult as a wall of iron, Zhou Ben's crazy attack for several months and the rotation of dozens of plans was in exchange for the loss of troops and generals, but Suzhou was not damaged at all and remained unmoved. Zhou Ben was unwilling to accept the lesson of failure and decided to use the last siege plan, using the ace siege tool of the Huainan Army.
Facing Zhou Ben's grandly launched ace siege weapon cave house, Sun Yan was not panicked. The way he used was very simple and practical. Zhou Ben's ace siege weapons had been used up, but Suzhou City was still safe and sound. Zhou Ben was completely helpless and could only adopt the strategy of siege but not attacking. At the critical moment, Cao Gui and his old partner Shi Lu were preparing to put salt on Zhou Ben's wounds and completely disintegrate the morale of the Huainan Army.
One night in the first month of the third year of Kaiyun, Cao Gui and Shi Fu held a banquet on the city tower in Suzhou, making the lights bright. Of course, the lights were just to create the atmosphere. Cao Gui's main purpose was to release all the Huainan army prisoners captured in the war and let them leave the city and return to the military camp.
As far as the war reaches this point, the Huainan army has no longer had hope for breaking Suzhou City. Some Huainan army soldiers have long heard of the reputation of Cao Gui, and now there is another Sun Baiji in the city. This kind of siege battle has long been won.
Forget it, the morale of the entire army fell for it!
Although there are defensive masters Cao Gui and Sun Baiji in Suzhou City, Qian Liu obviously does not want to lose Suzhou City again, so the rescue work for Suzhou City has been in full swing. His younger brother Yan Nei commander Qian Biao, deputy commander Hu Zi Du Jianhui, Jianghai Youyidu Yuhou He Feng, Sima Fu and others are responsible for leading troops to rescue Suzhou City.
In April of the third year of Kaiyun, Qianbiao, Du Jianhui and others led their troops outside Suzhou City, but encountered a relatively difficult problem. Zhou Ben was not disappointed as an outstanding general in Huainan. Although he failed repeatedly in the siege, he besieged the entire Suzhou. Suzhou City has been struggling to support it, and even no news about the aids outside the city could be known. If both sides cannot communicate and contact, the rescue of Suzhou City will become the biggest problem.
At the critical moment, Sima Fu, the Duyu Hou, volunteered to sneak into Suzhou City alone. He had the confidence and confidence to sneak into Suzhou City. First of all, Sima Fu is a native of Suzhou and is very familiar with the terrain of Suzhou City. Secondly, Sima Fu has lived in Suzhou, a water town in Jiangnan with dense rivers since childhood. He is deeply involved in water. If he wants to enter the siege of Suzhou City, entering from Suzhou waterways is the only feasible solution.
Sima Fu, who was ordered to dive from the river outside Suzhou City to the vicinity of the city gate, but encountered new difficulties. Zhou Ben was prepared for this and set up fishing nets at several water city gates in Suzhou. These fishing nets were all hung with bells and all sank to the bottom of the river. Even if those crab soldiers, shrimps, fish, turtles, snakes, passing by, the bells on the fishing nets would ring continuously, not even a living person. Therefore, it is indeed a difficult problem to pass the fishing nets smoothly.
Of course, Sima Fu would not give up. He had his own clever way to deal with the police-type fishing net. Sima Fu held a long bamboo pole in his hand, and then used the bamboo pole to constantly touch the fishing net. The Huainan soldiers guarding near the water city gate saw the bell ringing underwater and would naturally pull up the fishing net to check the situation. Sima Fu took advantage of this moment and quickly dived through the fishing net from the bottom of the river.
In this way, Sima Fu turned around and turned in the river network waterway in Suzhou City, and finally entered Suzhou City safely within three days. He met Cao Gui, Sun Yan and other guards, and agreed on a plan to work inside and outside to defeat the enemy.
It was already a life-and-death death to sneak into Suzhou City, but in order to ensure the victory of internal and external cooperation, Sima Fu once again used his original method to sneak out of Suzhou City. It was a brave man. Sima Fu's successful contact ensured the communication and smooth communication of information inside and outside the city. On the day when the two sides agreed to send troops, Qian Biao and Du Jianhui led their troops to launch a fierce attack on the Huainan Army, and Cao Gui and Sun Yan in the city also took the opportunity to go out of the city to launch an attack.
Under the attack of the Wu Yue army, the Huainan Army, which had already been depressed, could not organize resistance, and almost failed to defeat the army. In this situation where it was out of control, the famous general Zhou Ben had no choice. The sad place in Suzhou had completely made him unable to afford to hurt him again, and he had no choice but to retreat with his partner Lu Shizao. However, as soon as he retreated near Huang Tiandang, he was intercepted by the Wu Yue army and was defeated in a mess and almost became a prisoner of the Wu Yue army.
The battle of resolution of Suzhou City ended with the complete victory of Wu and Yue. In this battle, the Wu Yue army captured more than 3,000 generals of the Huainan Army, including He Lang, Lu Qiu Zhi, and more than 200 warships, with a brilliant result.
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Chapter completed!