Chapter 896: Mobilizing Reinforcements
Wang Ran's words left Kong Xin dumbfounded. Although he had not experienced many battles, his understanding of the war was much better after his job transfer. The reason why he kept asking and urging before was because caring led to chaos. Now after Wang Ran The reminder also responded.
Seeing that Kong Xin finally calmed down, the others were relieved. Kong Xin had an unusual relationship with Huangfu Chaobo. If he was determined to send troops, few people could stop him.
Zuo Chengzu was silent when he saw the army, and said: "Has General Wang sent the Lord's order to Yingchuan and the generals in the Yuzhou Army War Camp?"
Wang Ran nodded: "After receiving the military order from the lord, I have already asked the Shadow Guard to send it out, but I have not received a reply from Yingchuan yet."
Just as he was talking, the guard outside the side hall reported: "General, there is news from the shadows. The reply from Yingchuan's Governor Kong has arrived."
"Come in quickly."
Soon, a young man with an average appearance came in. He was the person in charge of the Shadow Guard who stayed in Geyang. Seeing everyone there, he quickly said: "I have seen all the generals! The reply from Governor Kong has arrived!"
With that said, he handed the pigeon letter to Wang Ran and then exited the meeting hall.
Wang Ran opened the dove letter and couldn't help but be overjoyed and said: "President Kong has replied and the army will be arranged as soon as possible. He plans to send 60,000 garrison troops directly from the three counties and cities together with the soldiers from each county's military camp to come to the news first. , and then he mobilized soldiers from various cities in Yuzhou to reorganize and train in the county. "
After listening to Wang Ran's words, Zuo Chengzu raised his palm and praised: "This is a wonderful move. It can save a lot of time, but I don't know how the county's defense is."
"Don't worry, Governor Zuo," Kong Xin said with a smile on his face: "Yuzhou already has sufficient troops. There are more than 30,000 garrison troops in the three counties and cities. Removing 20,000 troops from each will not affect the defense. That's why the troops were not reduced to The level of the remaining cities of the Andong Army is based on the loss of troops during training. "
Zuo Chengzu nodded and said: "My lord and several military advisors are indeed far-sighted!"
Zhou Tai also said: "In this way, we can indeed save a lot of time. In terms of distance, it only takes about ten days from Yangzhai, the farthest place, to Xinxi, and it only takes six or seven days for the soldiers and horses from Chen County to come over." In the next day, there will be enough troops to support the lord's navy."
"Yes," Han Xian said: "With the abilities of the Lord, the two military advisors, and Generals Huang and Zhang, there should be no problem in defending for twenty days to a month against the opponent's attack of more than 100,000 troops. That is Don’t you know if the army has enough food and grass?”
Wang Ran said: "My Anton Army usually carries provisions for fifteen to twenty days when it goes into battle. When the army went out on the 11th, it had already carried one hundred thousand stones of provisions. Three days later, someone considered leaving Anfeng." Geyang is relatively far away, so we sent an escort with 100,000 stones of food and grass. They should have arrived at the camp, so there should be no problem with the food and grass."
At this time, Wang Ran couldn't help but secretly rejoice that he suddenly had the idea to send 100,000 shi of food and grass to the camp on the third day after dispatching the army. As a result, the army received nearly 200,000 shi of food and grass, although it had been used on the way. It will take some, but it should be enough to sustain the army for more than a month.
When everyone heard this, they secretly breathed a sigh of relief. With 60,000 defenders and about 30,000 soldiers, they are enough to send troops to support the lord's army. If possible, they can even annihilate Yuan Shu's army of more than 100,000 in one fell swoop. You know, field battles and sieges are completely different. .
In the end, everyone unanimously agreed that the only solution now was to wait and see what happens, while guarding the cities in Huainan while sending cavalry to find out the news. The most important thing is that the cities in Huainan cannot be lost, otherwise all efforts will be wasted. In Wang Ran's words, if a 120,000-strong army attacks a city, it may suffer relatively heavy losses, but if it is a field battle with Yuan Shu's army, there is still no problem in dealing with Yuan Shu's 100,000-strong army.
If something were to happen, it would not be difficult to escort the generals away with the strength of the Guards, not to mention the five thousand cavalry inside. Waiting for the Yuzhou army to arrive,
How could Yuan Shu's army, which was able to successfully cross the Huai River but lost 100,000 elite troops, resist its own army?
Just as they expected, although the battle a few days later was brutal, the two sides were evenly matched. Even in the previous day's battle, Ji Ling's army suffered far more losses than Anton's army due to the effect of the village wall. However, these were necessary losses, and Ji Ling's army was tens of thousands more than Anton's army, so neither Ji Ling nor the other generals of Yuan Shu's army cared much about it.
After spending a day and losing thousands of civilians and soldiers, Ji Lingjun finally filled in the trenches of the Andong Army camp.
Early on the morning of the 22nd, Ji Ling began to lead troops to attack the Anton Army camp. Today will be the beginning of a tragic battle. Today will start a close-quarters battle. However, since it is the first day of close-quarters battles, Ji Ling is prepared to send out the most elite imperial guards and heavy infantry. Instead, he sends out 10,000 defenders.
In the camp, Huang Zhong also had similar thoughts. Defensive warfare is the best place to train troops. The battle losses are small, the soldiers can adapt to the war quickly, and their abilities can be improved quickly. It is the Yuzhou Army that It was a good period for military training, but he had different ideas from Ji Ling. He planned to send each unit to the stronghold wall in turn, so that everyone could get used to it.
As the war drums and horns of Ji Ling's army sounded, a new day of fighting began.
This time, Ji Ling's army had more equipment. There was no other way. One side was defending and the other side was attacking. The attacking side would definitely have an advantage in material collection. The war had already started yesterday, so the Anton army could not go out of the camp to collect wood. However, Ji Ling's army was different. In addition to the civilians who filled the trenches, Ji Ling also recruited thousands of civilian craftsmen from the surrounding areas to be responsible for cutting down trees, and then sent them to his camp to arrange for craftsmen to make various equipment.
Facing the attack of the almost doubled wells of Ji Ling's army, the defending soldiers suffered a lot. Fortunately, once the two sides engaged in battle, Ji Ling's wells would stop attacking, but Ji Ling's siege hammers began to approach the camp again. Huang Zhong immediately ordered the catapults and crossbows that had been prepared to fire stone bullets and crossbows in the direction of the siege hammer. The camp was not like a city wall, and the damage to the city wall caused by the siege hammer was far less than that of the camp, so Huang Zhong had made preparations in this regard when he started preparing.
When the war at the main camp officially began, in Yulou City, dozens of miles away, after a few days, the city had basically returned to peace. Every day at noon, the south city gate would open for about an hour to facilitate the people in the city to go out of the city to bring back some firewood and other items, and vegetables outside the city could also be transported into the city.