"General Baoying Chen Leng is holding on to the city and fighting a bloody battle with the Huai army. However, the Huai army has sharp weapons and sharp soldiers. They have attacked the city three times in a row. So General Chen Leng reported urgently and asked the prince to send a general to support!"
He Chou frowned as he listened.
Baoying City, which he personally supervised, was very confident in the defense of the city wall, and all the tools for defending the city were fully prepared. In addition, there were 100,000 defenders in the city.
Under normal circumstances, a hundred thousand defenders plus a fortified city would be enough to withstand the siege of hundreds of thousands of troops.
Back then, Wei Xiaokuan was able to withstand the siege of Gao Huan's 2 to 300,000 troops with only a few thousand troops, and was able to kill tens of thousands, causing Gao Huan to be angered to death.
He Chou didn't expect Chen Leng and Shen Guang to have Wei Xiaokuan's ability.
But wouldn't it be easy for a hundred thousand troops to defend a fortified city and hold off the enemy for a month or two? And now, how long has it been since Baoying was attacked?
It only takes a few days.
Unable to hold on for even a few days, Chen Leng and Shen Guang were considered useless.
He Chou thought so in his heart, but he didn't say much on his face, but continued to listen to the messenger's report.
When Yang Shuang heard the news about Baoying's request for help, he remained calm and asked the messenger some specific information about Baoying's defense of the city, such as which general of the Huai army was attacking the city, and what weapons the Huai army used when attacking the city... …
After a while.
Yang Shuang stopped and asked another messenger to report.
The news coming from the Sanxing Island Water Village in Gaoyou Lake also asked Gaoyou and Yangzhou for help. General Qian Shixiong said frankly in the letter that the Huai army's offensive was extremely fast and fierce. Every time he attacked Shuizhai, there were fierce generals as the vanguard.
He continued to send troops to resist, but they were all easily crushed by the Huai army generals like throwing eggs against rocks.
"You guys stand down first!"
After the two messengers finished reporting, Yang Shuang stood up, waved the messenger to leave, and then turned to look at an enlarged topographic map hanging behind him.
The topographic map includes mountains, rivers and rivers in Baoying, Gaoyou Lake, Xinghua and other places, as well as dangerous places suitable for defense.
When Yang Shuang was looking at the map.
Only then did He Chou recover from the shock.
It dawned on him just now when he heard that Qian Shixiong of Gaoyou Lake also sent someone to ask for help.
It turned out that it was not Chen Leng and Shen Guang who were useless, but that the Huai Army was really so powerful. In just a few days, it pushed several generals of the Sui Army into a panic.
"Your Majesty, both Chen Leng and Qian Shixiong have sent people to ask for help. How should we respond? Should we mobilize some troops from Gaoyou for support?"
"I heard that His Majesty has recruited 300,000 Xiaoguo troops in Yangzhou. These troops can be supplemented to the Gaoyou camp..."
He Chou pondered for a moment and said.
Yang Shuang drew a few times on the map with his finger, and calculated the next situation in his mind. After a while, he turned around and sat down.
He stretched out his hand and asked He Chou to sit down and talk.
"Brother Guilin, do you think Baoying and Sanxing Island are short of troops? Baoying has a hundred thousand troops, and Sanxing Island Water Village also has tens of thousands of naval troops... These troops are more than enough to deal with the Huai army!"
"The soldiers of Huai Army are indeed good at fighting, but they cannot directly destroy the strong city and tens of thousands of naval troops... Chen Leng and Qian Shixiong asked for help because they wanted me to send generals, especially fierce generals. What they need is generals, and Not soldiers!"
When Yang Shuang said this, he shook his head slightly.
He Chou thought about it and was a little dumbfounded. He also knew that the Sui army was currently strong in strength, but the available generals in the army were very few.
There was no other way. Except for Han Qinhu, the famous founding ministers and generals of the Sui Dynasty, who died well, He Ruobi, Shi Wansui, Yang Su, Gao Ying and others were all demoted and killed.
Among the famous generals in Yang Guang's hands, there is almost no one famous in history.
And generals like Yu Wenshu who were fairly capable had already parted ways with the Sui Dynasty.
The civil and military background of the Sui Dynasty may appear to be rich, but in fact it is very weak. Gu Gen
If Yang Jian comes, with the name of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, he can recruit famous ministers and generals from other dynasties to supplement the talent gap of the Sui army.
But it's a pity.
Yang Guang was currently in charge of the overall situation of the Sui army. Regardless of whether future generations deliberately smeared and ruined his reputation.
In all dynasties after the Sui Dynasty, in the minds of all civil servants and generals, Yang Guang was a faint king.
Coming to China mainland gave me the opportunity to make a new choice.
Then they will only go to those wise kings who have been tested by history, such as Liu Yu, Sun Quan, etc. If not, they can go to Chen Baxian, Xiao Daocheng, Qian Miao.
But absolutely no one will take the initiative to defect to Yang Guang.
If there is, he is also an ambitious person who wants to rely on the Sui army to carry out his own career.
Therefore, the Sui Dynasty, a seemingly unified dynasty, had worse generals than the Huai Army. This was one of the main reasons why the Sui army was unable to sweep across Huaidong.
The Qin Dynasty also died in its second generation, but the Qin Dynasty still had hundreds of years of history before it unified the world, which was different from the Sui Dynasty.
"Send the generals to support... Now the Lieutenant General, Yang Yichen and Laihu'er, are leading their troops back. If they withdraw their troops, it will be easier!"
He Chou said with a sigh.
"I hope so!" Yang Shuang said lightly.
Yang Yichen and Lai Huer are indeed good generals.
But their ability and reputation cannot be compared with the generals of the Huai Army.
The spies sent by Yang Shuang collected information about the generals of the Huai Army.
At this time, he already knew the names of the chief general of the Huai Army's Shanyang Camp and the general of Jinhu.
Li Kaifang's reputation is not that great, but his generals Yang Kan and Yang Shuang are no strangers.
There is also General Fu Youde from Jinhu... I heard that this man was the founding general of the Ming Army in Jinling!
Yang Shuang considers himself to be quite capable.
But he felt that with his own ability, he could only deal with one enemy at most. Unless all the famous founding generals such as He Ruobi, Han Qinhu, and Shi Wansui arrived at this time, the Sui army would have the possibility to defeat the enemy.
"Guilin, how is the construction of the defensive mountain fort north of Gaoyou City? When will it be completed?"
Yang Shuang asked.
He Chou quickly reported: "The construction of Jieshou and Ziying ditch has been completed. With this defense line, even hundreds of thousands of troops will have difficulty breaking through... There are also a large number of sentries and forts set up in the swamps east of Jieshou. !”
While talking back.
He Chou had a clear understanding in his heart. Jieshou City is located between Gaoyou and Baoying, especially Ziyinggou. This large ditch connects Gaoyou Lake and Sheyang Lake.
Although there is river water in the ravine, it cannot accommodate the passage of warships. There are also a large number of rocks and thorns, making it extremely dangerous.
King Wei built a defense line here.
It can be seen that he does not have much confidence in Baoying City's defense. Baoying City is just used to delay time so that the defense line behind can be completed.
Yang Shuang nodded slightly, quite satisfied with this.
He read the letter on the desk and said: "Gaoyou Lake Water Village is related to the safety of our army in the west. We have to save it. Come here!"
"Please invite generals Zhou Fashang and Zhou Faming!"
Baoying can act as an outcast.
But the sailors in Gaoyou Lake must not make any mistakes!
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