Chapter 810 Southern Muscles
Outside Guangling City, a long wall built with civil engineering surrounded the city, completely cutting it off from the wilderness outside the city. Nanliang sergeants patrolled outside Changwei day and night. When they saw signs of attempts to break out and attack in the city, they immediately blew horns to warn.
The entire long siege only opened a few limited gaps for the Nanliang troops from outside to enter and exit the city. Apart from this, Guangling City had no other channels for communication with the outside world.
However, Guangling City, as the core of the military and political affairs in the region, has always been a key gathering place for personnel and materials. Although it has experienced a siege that lasted for several months, it still remained unmoving, and it took a lot of willpower to fight against the attacking soldiers outside the city. .
After directing the siege for a day, Chen Baxian led his troops back to the camp outside Changwei and asked tiredly: "Has Haixi been conquered?"
Guangling City is an important town in the north of the Yangtze River. In addition to the city itself, there are also a series of smaller cities such as Ouyang, Jiangdu, Gaoyou, Haixi, etc., including Jingzhou, Shiliang City, etc., which together form a complete offensive and defensive system. system.
As the attack on Guangling lasted for several months, all the nearby city strongholds were captured one by one. In the north of Haixi, Wu Mingche, a strong man from Jiangbei who had just been recruited by Chen Baxian, led his troops to attack.
Because Haixi is located to the north of Guangling, once it is captured, it will be able to effectively contain and interfere with the incoming troops from Huaibei. This will undoubtedly have a huge psychological impact on the soldiers defending the city. This was also the turning point that Chen Baxian imagined after being unable to attack Guangling City for a long time and seeing that the soldiers were exhausted.
After all, it is too difficult to capture a big city like Guangling with external force alone, so we can only try from all aspects. I believe that Li Boshan of the Western Wei Dynasty who attacked Hefei City should be the same, and he is still waging a long siege and hard struggle against Hefei City.
When he saw the generals shaking their heads to express that they had not yet, Chen Baxian couldn't help but look a little sad, but he quickly cheered up and said to the depressed generals with a smile: "But at least we can continue to attack without any distractions. Go down, General Li of Mianbei is really brave. He defeated thousands of troops not long after the expedition. There should be no more enemy reinforcements coming from the south to disturb me in a short time. As long as we continue to fight hard, it will only be a matter of time before we capture this city. The problem!"
However, the next development seemed to be deliberately against him. Soon, news of the successive defeats of Xuyi and Jingzhou came one after another, and Duan Shao of the Northern Qi Dynasty, who had won consecutive battles, was also leading his army to Guangling. The Nanliang soldiers outside Guangling City were frightened.
"It's not that Li Boshan of Wei State has defeated the Qi army. Why is there another enemy army coming south, and the momentum is so fast?"
Soon there were questions in the army, and such questions were quite polite. Some generals who knew the inside story of their cooperation cursed angrily: "The Qiang people are treacherous and cunning and cannot be trusted. Please tell me before." The alliance has hidden evil plans, and it is even more malicious to lie about military information, just to deceive our army to stay here and fight to the death with the Qi people! "
In their panic, they did not bother to distinguish that the message they received before was not sent by someone sent by Li Tai, but came from friendly forces in Jingzhou. And they are currently panicked and have no intention of reasoning. They are just subconsciously blaming others to vent their anger.
Because the military situation was urgent, and it was reported that the Northern Qi troops were coming here non-stop and were not far away, the officers and soldiers in the camp became even more panicked and did not bother to complain. Soon, the general Chen Baxian’s tent was filled with generals. .
"You and everyone else abandoned their business and gathered here. Could it be that Li Ben was reborn, or Hou Jing returned? Otherwise, there would be some bad news from a powerful enemy, and the powerful army worthy of my continuous victory would change its color in a panic!"
Chen Baxian naturally learned the news immediately. He stood in the tent holding his sword and looked at the generals in the tent and said in a deep voice.
"Chen Sikong, the Qi people have arrived with reinforcements! They have been defeated by all the troops in a row..."
"Yes, the Qiang thieves deceived us. They have never defeated the Qi people and intend to frame our army to death!"
Everyone started shouting, and some even noticed Li Zhen, the envoy from Mianbei, who was standing not far from Chen Baxian. He drew a knife in his hand and said fiercely: "I will kill this traitor for your lord first, and then wait for my army." I'll take revenge for this fraud after I get out of the siege!"
Li Zhen had also heard the whispers and accusations of the lieutenants and soldiers, and he was also very angry. After hearing this, he immediately drew his saber, pointed at the man and said angrily: "Rat gall raccoon thief, the enemy has not arrived yet. Be afraid first! My general is so powerful that there is no need to bluster and deceive. Besides, the tens of thousands of soldiers under Qi Qi Khan Sa's army are nearly defeated, which is conclusive evidence!
Today, only a small brigade of troops came to harass you. Your army is cowardly and self-defeating, but you are falsely accusing my general of being deceitful. Such treacherous words, if I don’t kill you, the alliance will be destroyed! Rats are always in trouble, but my general's reputation cannot be blasphemed! "
Both sides were very excited, each holding a knife in their hands, and it seemed as if they were going to fight each other immediately.
When Chen Baxian saw this, his face turned livid, he kicked over the desk in front of him, stamped his feet and shouted angrily: "Everyone, shut up! If you mess with our military discipline again, you will be killed without mercy!"
After hearing this, the generals who were still noisily arguing fell silent and did not dare to speak out again.
Only Li Zhen was still full of anger, and his angry eyes flashed across the faces of the generals one by one. Then he turned around, abandoned his sword on the ground, clasped his fists towards Chen Baxian and said: "Guangling is thousands of miles away from Mianbei. Yao, what Sikong gains can't increase me, and what he loses can't diminish me. Sikong asked himself, why would my general use this plan? If these generals come to doubt me before examining the enemy's situation, can the alliance be successful?
Why should we be afraid of thieves? Our Mianbei elite soldiers were defeated like slaughtering chickens and dogs! Now that I have all my swords and armors, how can I cry and beg for mercy like a woman and a child? Li Zhen is not talented, and he has defeated the enemy many times from my uncle for a long time. Now that the thief has arrived, your southern soldiers are desperate for their lives and want to escape. I can lead my troops to suppress the rear. I only ask Sikong. If I am lucky enough to survive, I need to seize the thief's head and donate it to him. General, let me tell you why things were ruined! "
As he spoke, he turned back and glared at General Liang, who had repeatedly said that he had been deceived and wanted to kill him with a knife.
After hearing this, some of the generals in the tent couldn't help but look ashamed, while others were even more angry. The general who was glared at was a little embarrassed and a little angry, so he said angrily: " Qiang thieves really want to harm people..."
"shut up!"
Chen Baxian yelled angrily again, then walked up to Li Zhen, cupped his fists and saluted Li Zhen and said: "Captain Li, please be patient and calm. This guy has always been vulgar and reckless, and even I am often offended. I have pity on him since he was young. He has fought bravely for a long time, so he has tolerated it until now. Please allow me to apologize to the governor for offending him today."
Li Zhen turned his head and looked at him, not looking at Chen Baxian who was saluting him and apologizing. He said coldly: "There is no difference between dying here and dying in the formation! Mianbei can win tens of thousands of armors, which is definitely not for the sake of greatness." It’s caused by being offended!”
After hearing this, Chen Baxian's eyes suddenly turned cold. He looked at Li Zhen with an evil look in his eyes, but soon these subtle changes disappeared, and he turned to look at the general who was already begging in a panic. He said in a deep voice: "Your wife, I will take care of her, go away."
"Lord, please..."
After hearing this, the general immediately begged loudly for mercy. However, before he could finish his words, Chen Baxian's soldiers behind him covered his mouth and escorted him out of the tent.
At this moment, the faces of everyone in the tent became even tighter, and Chen Baxian picked up the saber that Li Zhen had dropped on the ground and stuffed it back into his hand, and then said: "The color changed after hearing the enemy's news, which made Governor Li laugh. Guangling is our river defense barrier. If the Liang people don't try to restore it, it would be a shame to die! General Li is willing to help me and share the enemy's strength. This kindness is engraved in my heart and I will not forget it.
I have sworn before that if Guangling is not conquered and overpowers me, I would like to return home first, please ask the governor to kill me and report to General Li. I repeat this oath today. If the thief comes, we will fight and we will never retreat. I will be in charge of the front line, and I will ask the Commander-in-Chief to hold the sword for me and supervise the battle. If I move the formation and retreat, the Commander-in-Chief may kill me without retaliation! Although the Liang people's muscles and bones were temporarily broken by civil strife, they were born this way, and they were definitely not bent down to achieve great results! "
After Li Zhen heard Chen Baxian's words, he was overwhelmed by his momentum for a moment. After taking back his saber, he bowed deeply to Chen Baxian and said: "After this battle, I will report this heroic voice to my uncle. In addition, the preface is too extreme. Hope Sikong Forgive me."
Chen Baxian opened his mouth after hearing this, but didn't say anything more. He just raised his hand and patted Li Zhen on the shoulder, then turned around and returned to the case to start arranging to respond to the enemy.