The Jin Army made a good start and their morale was greatly boosted. However, the Liberation Army suffered its first defeat since it sent out troops again, and its morale was frustrated.
So Zhao Kaishan suddenly felt that he had chosen the wrong person. He not only lost face, but also lost his reputation. The morale he had finally built up was once again dampened.
He was very angry when he saw the disgraced Zhao Yi and Zhao Yicheng who had escaped.
"You can't help me! You can't seize the opportunity given to you! A mere county can make you so embarrassed, let alone the capital city after that! How can I continue to fight this battle?"
Zhao Yi and Zhao Yicheng lowered their heads to accept Zhao Kaishan's reprimand, not daring to say a word, very afraid that Zhao Kaishan would deal with them further.
Fortunately, Zhao Kaishan still faces his own people.
He asked the two defeated generals to turn the left army into the rear army. They should not participate in frontline operations and go directly to the rear to ensure logistics transportation.
Then he prepared to go into battle himself and lead the main force of the Liberation Army to fight directly.
According to the reports of Zhao Yi and Zhao Yicheng, the Jin Army did not have many cavalry, and the main force that attacked them was the infantry. Zhao Kaishan felt relaxed about this and decisively ordered the entire army to advance to avenge the brothers who died in the battle.
This time he didn't waste any time, and directly put the most elite Beiwei Army at the front as the vanguard of the entire army, and let Li Xiao be in charge of the frontline battle.
He couldn't afford to lose anymore, he couldn't afford to lose, he had to use his trump card to confront the golden soldiers, and he couldn't let Zhao Kaihe torment Li Xiao at this time.
He gave Li Xiao sufficient command authority.
The Jin Army tried to repeat the previous ambush, but Li Xiao thought for a while and felt that the Jin Army might repeat its old tricks, so he remembered the Jin Army's Achilles' heel mentioned by Su Yonglin in his correspondence with Su Yonglin, and planned to use a trick.
He sent a force to advance first, and he hung far behind with a large force. Sure enough, the leading force was ambushed and immediately collapsed.
However, when the vanguard troops advanced, they brought a lot of goods with them and packed them in boxes and dragged them away on carts. When the Jin Army ambushed, the Guangfu Army abandoned the carts and fled for their lives. The goods on the carts were scattered all over the floor. The eyes of the Jin Army soldiers were red from the stimulation.
Okay, needless to say, who cares if this is a battlefield? Do you want to pursue the enemy?
Just grab it and that's it.
The whole army suddenly became a mess, everyone was vying to rob property, and the officers could not control it. Some officers even joined the looting team themselves, giving in to each other, and even drew their swords at each other.
It is true that people die for wealth and birds die for food. The Jin army ambushes in chaos. Everyone is fighting for more property for themselves. Who can care about fighting?
When Li Xiao learned of the situation, he immediately rushed with a thousand elite cavalry from the Beiwei Army, arrived at the battlefield at extremely fast speed, and slashed at the chaotic Jin Army soldiers.
In a hurry, the Jin army could not resist and was scattered by the Beiwei army's cavalry. They were massacred and suffered a huge defeat.
After the first battle, Beiwei's army killed more than 500 Jin soldiers and captured more than 2,000 people. They basically wiped out the Jin army's ambush and achieved great results.
Zhao Kaishan was overjoyed when he heard the news and personally commended Li Xiao.
Although I still don't trust him that much, at least he won the battle and restored the morale of the Liberation Army and his face as a leader, which deserves praise.
The morale of the Liberation Army was revitalized, and they marched toward Nanle County.
But things did not develop as smoothly as Zhao Kaishan imagined. Zhao Kaishan thought that Nanle County could be captured in an instant, and they could go directly to attack Daming Mansion. However, when they arrived at the bottom of Nanle City, they realized Something is wrong.
The Jin army used the same methods they had used before to deal with them.
Avoid fighting, fortify the walls and clear the fields, build military camps outside the city, and form a corner with the city to protect each other.
The city wall was heightened and widened, and the moat was also widened. There were horses, iron caltrops, and pits under the city. On the city were the Jin army in full formation, and there were a large number of defensive equipment, waiting for the liberation army to come.
The previous emotional victory did not shake the determination of the Jin Army to defend the city. The Jin Army has decided to defend Nanle County and fight a vigorous battle with the Liberation Army here. They will never allow the Liberation Army to smoothly move north and occupy the entire Daming Mansion.
When Zhao Kaishan sent out troops, he brought a full 100,000 soldiers with him. After dividing 20,000 troops with Zhao Zuoliang, he still had about 80,000 troops on hand. He had sufficient strength and was not afraid of fighting a tough battle.
But Zhao Kaishan is more looking forward to a quick victory and does not want to spend too much time on one city.
He will continue to go west and get involved in Guanzhong!
So Zhao Kaishan ordered the army to set up camp and prepare to attack the city, and at the same time sent people into the city to deliver a message to the Jin Army garrison, hoping that they would recognize the situation and simply surrender without delay. He promised to give the prisoners here generous treatment.
After Zhao Kaishan's envoy entered the city, he saw Pucha Sixiang, the Jin Army guard general and deputy commander of the army and horses at Damingfu Road.
Pucha Sixiang read Zhao Kaishan's letter of persuasion, sneered, and ordered his envoy to be pushed out and beheaded in front of Zhao Kaishan on the top of the city. Then he pushed the body down and told Zhao Kaishan that the Jin army here would definitely Will not surrender.
As the saying goes, two armies are fighting without killing the envoys. This is also an unspoken rule on the battlefield, but Pucha Sixiang destroyed this rule and expressed that he was incompatible with Zhao Kaishan.
Zhao Kaishan was furious when he saw his envoy being killed by Pucha Sixiang. He immediately ordered the city to be surrounded on all sides and attacked the city with all his strength. On the day the city was broken, all the chickens and dogs in the city were not left behind, and all of them were killed.
In order to boost morale, he also ordered that all property in the city, including the treasury property, belonged to the siege soldiers, and they could rob it at will without restriction.
As a result, the animal nature of the soldiers of the Liberation Army was also aroused, and they quickly implemented Zhao Kaishan's strategy of sieging the city on all sides, surrounded the city, cut off all traffic inside and outside the city, and prepared for a complete siege.
He ordered the south city to be handed over to Li Xiao for the main attack, the north city to be handed over to Zhao Xiang, the commander of the selected front army, the west city to be given to Zhao Xiong, the commander of the rear army, to be responsible for the main attack, and the east city was given to the commander of the right army Zhao He to be responsible for the main attack.
The entire army was divided into four parts, and they attacked non-stop every day. They could not stop attacking the city until the sun went down. He wanted Nanle County to turn into ashes.
Li Xiao felt uneasy about this and believed that this was not an appropriate tactic.
"Commander, since ancient times, generals who attack a city have been particular about surrounding three and missing one. The purpose is to give hope to the people in the city and reduce the intensity of their resistance so that they will not fight to the death.
The city wall of Nanle County is not short, and there are many troops defending the city. If our army attacks from all sides, I am afraid there will be great losses. There will be a stronger Damingfu City later. If our army loses too much here, the subsequent battles will be very difficult. How to fight? "
Li Xiao advised Zhao Kaishan, hoping that Zhao Kaishan could use the tactic of surrounding three and missing one, so that the people in the city would not become monolithic.
If the general wants to resist, the people below may not. By then the Liberation Army's attack will become fierce, and the soldiers in the city will inevitably not move. As time goes by, civil strife is very likely to occur.
But if the city is surrounded on all sides, there will really be no way for the people in the city to survive. The people in the city will inevitably become monolithic and resist desperately. No one wants to die.
That would do no good to the Liberation Army.
But Zhao Kaishan was so angry that he did not agree.
"I just want to let the gold thieves in this city know that now is not the time for them to have the final say. I want them to pay the price! If they dare to kill my envoy, I will let them all be buried with my envoy! "
He gritted his teeth and rejected Li Xiao's suggestion, requiring all armies to quickly enter combat status.
Then the 80,000 troops of the Liberation Army surrounded the city on all sides, and began the siege operation that afternoon.
They used all kinds of siege equipment, with a dazzling variety of weapons. Cold weapons and firearms were used one after another, causing an unprecedented and violent blow to Nanle County.
Eighty thousand people surrounded a city to fight, and the momentum of the fighting was really fierce and earth-shattering.
The Jin army in the city may not have felt this.
Facing the fierce offensive of the Liberation Army, of course they were also frightened.
But Pucha Sixiang did not waver. He became more determined to fight on, otherwise he would die.
For the Jin Kingdom, Daming Mansion is the same as Zhending Mansion and Hejian Mansion in Hebei. It is an important military pillar and a radiation center of dominance. Once it is lost, its deterrence to the Central Plains will be greatly reduced.
This is definitely not a good thing.
