In Hezhou Prefecture, 13,000 Chuzhou soldiers were stationed outside.

I asked clearly before the departure that Hexian County, where Hezhou Prefecture is located, claimed to have 5,000 defenders, but in fact it was not full, and the number was only 4,000.

Deng Jian led 7,000 troops and began to surround Hezhou on August 28th.

On August 29th, Tang Guang led 3,000 people from Hanshan County to.

On August 30, Du Laoba led 3,000 people from Jiangpu County.

So far, Hezhou City has been surrounded for five days.

Tang Guang attacked Hanshan County and Du Laoba attacked Jiangpu, both of which were won within three days.

Even if Huo Wu attacks Wujiang, it will be within three days.

After receiving the Wujiang Warehouse News, Deng Jian became more and more gloomy and looked at the city wall in the distance and was lucky.

Everyone handed him the most glorious battle, but he was not outstanding.

There is a crossbow cart in Hezhou!

There are also crossbows guarding the city in Chuzhou.

It's just that they are all old objects from more than ten or twenty years ago, and they have long been rusted.

In ten platforms, less than half of them can shoot archery.

The senior executives of Chuzhou did not take the crossbow that guarded the city seriously.

Unexpectedly, when I came to Hezhou, I suffered a huge loss.

On the first day Deng Jian arrived in Hezhou, Tang Guang and Du Laoba had not arrived yet.

As early as the army arrived at Hezhou Prefecture, Deng Jian sent five hundred people into the city one after another, hoping to cooperate with the army outside the city to seize the city gate.

As a result, the stones sank to the sea and there was no news.

When seven thousand troops arrived at the city, after a long time, there was no movement in the city walls and gates.

Deng Jian tentatively attacked the city, sending half of it out of seven thousand troops.

As a result, hundreds of casualties.

The steel-headed crossbow arrow is 95% new!

There are hundreds of crossbow trucks driving on the Hezhou city wall!

The powerful crossbow is a hundred feet away, but the catapults that attack the city are far from reaching this distance.

Deng Jian was anxious, but he would not fight with the flesh and blood of soldiers.

While he asked people to cut wood, make Lu Gongbu, and the Xianren Bridge to block the siege equipment, he asked soldiers to hide under the chariot and dig tunnels under the city wall.

In recent days, we have successively waited for the Tang Guang tribe and Du Lao Ba tribe to join forces.

...

At present, Tang Guang and Du Laoba were at a loss when they looked at the city wall with crossbows on display.

"Damn it! Isn't this the Hezhou Commander a playboy? What about the relatives of the Minister of War? How can the city be so tightly guarded!"

Tang Guang was puzzled.

Du Laoba touched his belly and said, "What else? I'm afraid of death!"

The more noble a person is, the more he cherishes his life. Huainan has been in chaos for half a year. If he doesn’t run away, he will definitely have a way to protect himself.

Long before attacking the four counties of Hezhou, Chuzhou sent people to find out the situation in the four counties.

How many soldiers are there in each county and who are the generals?

Unexpectedly, there was such a big accident in Hezhou.

Five hundred people went in and disappeared silently. Looking at this, it would be a lot of danger.

In addition, more than 300 people were killed or injured during the first siege.

Before the official siege of the city was officially destroyed, Deng Jian lost more than 10% of his troops.

Deng Jian felt depressed, remembered something, and asked Tang Guang, Du Laoba: "Did Xiaohe bring the bandits who were surrendered in the mountains?"

Tang Guang shook his head: "I never, but I am not obedient. I am afraid that they will make trouble. I will send the Binjiang camp together with hundreds of county soldiers who surrendered in Hanshan."

Du Laoba said: "Old Deng, do you want to use those kids to attack the city? If you don't get it, you will be cowards without eggs!"

Deng Jian did not respond, and looked at the city wall in the distance, thinking about something.

Tang Guang's heart moved and guessed Deng Jian's intention.

Deng Jian wants those who use those people as cannon fodder to attack the city!

Tang Guang couldn't help but feel a little glad.

Fortunately, the person was sent back to Binjiang, otherwise Deng Jian would use it to stop him or not?

Stop him and offend Deng Jian.

It's too evil to not stop him.

However, since Deng Jian had this idea, it was difficult to eliminate it and could not say that he could not think about the people of Hezhou.

Tang Guang hoped that Huo Wu would arrive soon.

Du Laobaze said: "It's been half a month since Brother Qi walked, it's time to return! Hangzhou sauce duck is delicious, I don't know if Brother Qi can bring it back!"

Tang Guang glanced at Du Laoba's belly and kindly advised: "Brother Du... you have added two inches of your belt... No matter how delicious it is, you have to take a little more leisurely."

Du Laoba laughed and said, "In life, the word "eating and drinking" is a matter of imprisonment!"

Tang Guang was so amused that he envied Du Laoba's heartless nature.

Deng Jian was beside him, looking up at the sky.

It was cloudy for several days, and the sky was foggy.

Tang Guang also looked up: "This day is just a matter of meaning, I can't get out of here for a while. Wu Ye and the others don't know where they are!"

It is fifty miles away from Wujiang County to Hezhou. If you set out early, you will be able to arrive in the afternoon.

Deng Jian didn't answer the conversation and got up and walked out of the camp.

He closed his eyes and thought for no reason, then looked at the farmland in the distance.

The millet and sorghum have been harvested, and the piles of crop poles have not yet been harvested.

The army was invaded, and the farmers who had harvested autumn were too fast to avoid it. How could they come out to harvest the crop poles?

Deng Jian narrowed his eyes and called out the messenger: "Take a thousand people down and transport all these crop poles back!"

The messenger responded.

Tang Guang and Du Laoba looked at each other when they heard the movement.

Tang Guang hesitated and said, "Mr. Deng wants to try the fire attack?"

Du Laoba shook his head and said, "With that layer of crossbow, it is not easy to go under the city wall to light the fire."

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In the past morning, a thousand soldiers sent down to collect all the crop poles within a radius of several miles.

Occasionally, a few disobedient naughty boys picked up crops, and were frightened by the soldiers as if they were quails, and their legs were so weak that they dared not run away.

No one paid attention to them, just loaded the crop poles, carriages or trolleys and left.

It was not until the soldiers walked far away that the children calmed down and ran to the village.

I quickly told the adults to go, the Buddhist army is here.

The Buddhist army was wearing white clothes and did not beat and scold people, but picked up all the crop poles.

...

It's noon.

Outside the Chuzhou barracks, there are crop poles like small hills.

...

On the city wall.

The Hezhou Commander stood and looked at the Chuzhou camp. He was more worried than the proud look of defending the city.

The Hezhou Prefecture judge was also on the city wall and advised him when he saw this: "Don't worry, the newly repaired city wall this spring is not easy to attack!"

The commander smiled bitterly: "Sir, why am I worried about fire attack?"

The court is still there, but Huainan Road seems to have been abandoned by the court.

Hezhou is so close to Yangzhou, but the prefectures of the state have been besieged for several days, but there are no movements in reinforcements.

With Bozhou and Chuzhou in front of the example, how could the Duwei dare to expect the Huainan Road defenders to come to aid?

"The white-clothed thieves surrounded him and did not attack, so they should have waited for the follow-up troops to come... They had two teams in succession, and with this one, I'm afraid they were divided into other three counties before..."
To be continued...