Two days later, Gou Chun, the governor of Qingzhou, received the bad news that Peng Yan, the left Sima of Qingzhou, had died in battle outside Yidu City, and his troops were dispersed.
Peng Yan, the Zuo Sima of Qingzhou, was ordered by Gou Chun to defend the strategic area of Yidu. He encountered Liu Yu and fought at the crossing of the Juyang River.
According to the description of the soldiers who escaped back: At that time, Peng Yan led tens of thousands of troops to the ferry, preparing to counterattack the Donglai bandits who raided the ferry. The two sides encountered each other halfway. The outpost soldiers on both sides could see the flag generals of the other side. Peng Yan led his soldiers Stand in front of the formation and look at the array of thieves from afar.
At this time, more than 20 cavalrymen from Donglai bandits, led by a fierce thief Liu Yu, suddenly made a sudden attack on horseback and came towards Peng Yan's flag.
Zuo Sima Peng Yan did not expect that the enemy, who was outnumbered and outnumbered, dared to take the initiative to attack. The entire front army lost ground. In the blink of an eye, Zuo Sima Peng Yan was stabbed directly in front of the army by Liu Yu, the leader of the thieves. Liu Yu's troops beheaded Peng Yan and his troops. First, the sudden death of the general caused the remaining sergeants to flee after a brief resistance. The five thousand men suffered heavy losses.
After hearing these words, Gou Chun was furious and immediately imprisoned all the soldiers who had escaped.
This kind of thing, taking the heads of enemy generals directly among thousands of troops, is too shocking.
Gou Chun didn't believe it at all. He thought that the reason why Zuo Sima Peng Yan was killed was probably because he underestimated the enemy and rushed in or for other reasons.
It is absolutely impossible for the two armies to form such a formation and be assassinated by the enemy in full view of the public.
Although Gou Chun didn't believe that Liu Yu had such courage as Guan and Zhang.
However, a few days later, more than a dozen cities in Qi and Le'an betrayed and surrendered to Liu Yu.
Nuo is a large Qingzhou. After the Yidu Battle, most of the powerful families in the two counties looked down upon Liu Yu, the Donglai thief.
Gouchun has only one isolated city in Linzi left.
The Donglai bandit army under banner hunting has expanded to nearly 100,000 people.
After destroying the two small towns outside Linzi City, Liu Yu led his army to arrive outside Linzi City.
Linzi, an isolated city, was surrounded.
Qingzhou, Linzi.
On the mighty Linzi city wall, Gou Chun, the governor of Qingzhou, touched the city wall with his hands and looked worriedly at the continuous enemy troops outside the city.
A general next to Gou Chun looked at the enemy camp that stretched for several miles outside the city and unconsciously let out a low exclamation.
"There must be a hundred thousand Donglai thieves outside the city!"
Gou Chun, who had a gloomy expression, glanced at him and said nothing.
Nowadays, the powerful families in Qi State and Le'an County have basically abandoned the Gou brothers and joined Liu Yu. It is not difficult to raise an army of 100,000 people.
However, Gou Chun predicted that although these powerful troops were numerous, they would probably not be able to handle such a tough battle as attacking a fortified city. They were all wandering and noisy characters. If they really wanted to attack the city, they would all be cowards.
Gou Chun thought bitterly, how could the Donglai thief Liu Yu dare to show off his power here if his brother Gou Xi hadn't led the main force to rescue Yanzhou.
Of course, there is no point in saying more.
Gou Chun's current goal is to rely on Linzi's solid city wall to hold on.
According to Gou Xi's discussion before leaving for Yanzhou, as long as Gou Chun could hold Linzi for half a month, Gou Xi could come from Yanzhou to support the defenders of Linzi.
Linzi's city walls were wide and thick, and no special siege equipment was built. It was simply impossible to attack the city simply by filling trenches with human lives and by attacking the city with ants.
Gou Chun estimated that if the Donglai army outside the city wanted to attack the city, it would take ten and a half days to cut down trees and make siege equipment. By then Gou Xi, who was far away in Yanzhou, could usually rush to Linzi to aid.
Of course, the strongest fortresses in the world are often breached from within.
In order to prevent the powerful families in Linzi City from secretly rebelling, Gou Chun summoned the nephews and nephews of each powerful family to his military camp and took them into custody as hostages to prevent the powerful families in Linzi from taking risks.
Although he was shocked by the number of enemy troops outside the city, Gou Chun, as the general, still pretended to be calm.
"The thieves must be tired after traveling a long way, and they have to build siege equipment. There must be nothing to do today. Just be on guard and guard."
Gou Chun wanted to let the defenders wait for work and recharge their batteries. When the rebels attacked the city, they would be able to weaken the vigor of the rebels.
"Yes, although there are many thieves, if there are no tools, there is no way to climb up Linzi City."
The general said with considerable knowledge.
Gou Chun looked from a distance and saw that the Donglai bandit camp that stretched for several miles had been set up. However, looking from a distance, these camps were quite crude and rough, and they did not have the posture of a long-term siege.
From this point of view, these Donglai thieves seemed to think that they would be able to break through Linzi City very quickly, so that they did not need to spend more time and energy building temporary military camps.
Gou Chun sneered at this. Although Liu Bogen had occupied Linzi before, it was just that the general at that time lost all his strength in the field and Linzi mutinied and surrendered.
This time, after the Gou brothers' operations in Qingzhou, although most of the powerful local families hated the Gou brothers, they were very supported by some of their soldiers.
Therefore, Gou Chun felt that eight points of Linzi City's defensive power were already his.
