"Now Han Chongyun is attacking Tongguan. There are many vassal states in Guanzhong, and it will be difficult to get out of the east for a while."

Pan Chongche shook his head and rejected the proposal.

"Cabinets can be used-" Liu Guangyi narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Although Xiangzhou City is strong, it has 50,000 troops and horses. Most of the troops are with the people, and it will inevitably require a large amount of food and grass. Therefore, we can use cavalry to cut off its grain transport team, so that Xiangzhou City will naturally be destroyed without attacking."

"That's right!" Cao Bin quickly agreed. The two of them personally trained 20,000 cavalry, and spent two years to understand their strength: "The cavalry in the Imperial Camp should be better than to directly cut off the surrounding area of ​​Xiangzhou City, break off contact and become an isolated city."

"The 20,000 cavalry in the Imperial Camp is indeed here with me."

Pan Chongche nodded and said, "There are nearly 10,000 cavalrymen in Xiangzhou. I heard that it was the Longjie Army of the Song Dynasty. I heard that the general was Hu Yanzan and a cavalry general. I should not be underestimated. There are very few cavalry generals under my command and have been taken many advantages."

"If we don't dislike the deployment, we are willing to assist the cavalry and besiege Xiangzhou."

Cao Bin and Liu Guangyi were moved and said quickly.

"Okay!" Pan Chongche laughed and said, "Who are there? Why worry about not breaking this Xiangzhou city?"

After a happy holiday, the banquet dispersed.

On the way back, Liu Guangyi realized it later. He pulled Cao Bin's arm and said, "Are we both going to the trap?"

"You only know?" Cao Bin said helplessly: "This banquet is not so delicious."

Upon hearing this, Wang Quanbin chuckled and said, "You two have always been familiar with Pan Mei. Hu Yanzan is a junior of the Imperial Army. We are also familiar with Long Jie Army. Pan has a plan for deployment."

"Yes!" Liu Guangyi shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it's not our formation of a new army, but his arrangement. First, it is to replenish troops, and second, it is to let us deal with the Xiangzhou imperial guards."

Cao Bin and Wang Quanbin were helpless when they heard this.

Several people repaired the camp for a few days, and five thousand soldiers from Yuezhou also came to provide assistance. In other words, 70,000 people gathered in Jiangling City this time.

However, Jiangling City, which is 200,000 to 300,000, has become a military city.

Although the plum rain has come, if Pan Chongche does not delay, he will all set up 70,000 troops and drive straight to Xiangzhou.

Although plum rain is an obstacle to the Tang army, it is even more harmful to the Song army. How could the northern Han Dynasty adapt to the rainy weather?

Shi Shouxin and Pan Mei stood side by side, looking at the endless Tang army outside the city and the slowly erected military camp, with a solemn expression.

"It seems that the matter in Guanzhong has spread to the southern country." Shi Shouxin said in a deep voice.

"It should be like this!" Pan Mei nodded, with a respectful tone: "I heard that his archery sound department has a strong ability, and his money is clearing the way, and everything goes wrong."

"I don't know how many tricks we have in Xiangzhou City are so disgusting."

Shi Shouxin's voice was low: "Xiangzhou City has been a strong city since ancient times, and too many defenders of the city have collapsed from the inside. Therefore, for Xiangzhou, we must be strict and tight, and we must never relax. I do not allow us to learn the news that the city gate is wide open while sleeping."

"Yes!" Pan Mei lowered her head and responded.

Xiangzhou was called Xiangyang in ancient times and was located in the Yang of Mianshui, so it is also called Xiangyang. However, today's Xiangzhou is different from the late Southern Song Dynasty. It is not made of bricks and stones, but rammed earth. When it was against Mongolia in the Southern Song Dynasty, some places were replaced with bricks and stones to wrap corners.

In order to prevent water invasion and landslides, this kind of city needs to be continuously reinforced and raised. Therefore, the height of Xiangzhou city reached four zhang and the thickness reached three zhang, which is to prevent the backflow of Mian River.

Moreover, the circumference of Xiangyang City is only nine miles long. If it is replaced by a square, it means that a wall is about two miles away. If it spreads out, thousands of people can be filled.

The city is strong, small, and there are many soldiers. This is a situation that Pan Chongche needs to face.

To attack the city, he had to remove the military camps under the city before he could attack the city unscrupulously. Therefore, after a day of repair, he repaired tens of thousands of troops and headed straight for the Song army camp.

Shi Shouxin was even more afraid and did not stick to it, because he knew that the Tang army had a catapult, and the military camp was definitely a target, and defending to the death was equivalent to waiting for death.

Therefore, he also sent 30,000 to 40,000 people to fight the Tang army outside the city.

At this time, Pan Chongche was unhappy. If he had suffered a fatal injury and injuries, he would have fewer superior troops and would naturally become more and more difficult to attack the city. How could he be satisfied?

So the army retreated and sent 20,000 cavalry to charge and attack the food route. The Song army also sent cavalry to attack the food route of the Tang army, and then they met.

The Song army had only 10,000 cavalry, while the Tang army had 20,000, all of which were produced by one master.

In addition to having little experience, the Tang army had more armor and more troops. In addition, Liu and Cao knew the Song army well, which was aware of the Song army.

It was accustomed to the lack of cavalry in the Song army, and a large number of well-trained and even vaguely stronger cavalry emerged, which really caught people off guard.

What surprised the Song army even more was that their tactics were clearly understood by the enemy. Whether it was interspersed, encircled, or intercepted, the Tang people often responded in time, which caused the Song army to suffer a lot.

Within a few days, three or four thousand people were wiped out. In other words, nearly half of the cavalry had been lost.

Shi Shouxin was shocked when he heard this. Once upon a time, the Tang cavalry was so presumptuous?

"The Tang army cavalry is very skilled in tactics, no less than me. They are also very familiar with us. I doubt that there are our people among them."

Shi Shouxin asserted.

Without cavalry, the food road cannot be guaranteed. Without food and grass, how can Xiangzhou City be guarded?

"You mean, among the captured generals before, someone surrendered to Tangren?" Pan Mei frowned: "This is not good news."

"Can we get in touch and let it go anyway?" Pan Mei suggested that he guessed the candidate in her heart.

"How could anyone know that they would not be used by others and become a counter-espionage plan?" Shi Shouxin vetoed:

"Now the cavalry is seriously damaged. With the infantry alone, we are trying to overcome our strengths by asking for trouble. We still have to ask for help from the court and dispatch some cavalry to come."

"Or what if I lead the remaining cavalry and attack it at night?" Pan Mei said helplessly.

"Don't go, I've already investigated it. The Tang Army Camp is like a small city, with strict defenses and sneak attacks are ineffective."

Although Shi Shouxin has been having fun for many years, he has rich experience. When he sees the tight military camp of the Tang army, he knows that it is difficult to deal with, which is completely different from the soldiers and horses in Jiangnan before.

Its morale is higher and its troops are more abundant.

His troops may not be able to fight against each other head-on.

Guo Rong left only 120,000 elite imperial guards, and the remaining 80,000 imperial guards were basically ordinary soldiers, which were inseparable from the vassal states. The 20,000 imperial guards under his command were elite cavalry, but the infantry was just ordinary.

"I heard that this is just a local army of the Tang Kingdom. If it were its imperial camp, how powerful would it be?"
Chapter completed!