"I passed on my oral instructions that Liu Xiu, Ding Hui, and Kang Huaiying led their troops to the boundary of Shaanxi Province, and the Shaanxi-Guo Army was close to Guanlong. If Liang State sends troops to support me, I will not only dispatch troops to support me, but also transport them to the Shaanxi-Guo Army to jointly attack the city and plunder the land."

On the side of Bianjing, Li Tianqu immediately made a resolution. Although according to the previous idea, the Shaanxi-Guo army would eventually take it and planned to rest for a while. However, the strategic situation changed rapidly. Since the Liang Kingdom had sent troops to invade Heyang first, Liu Wen and Ding Hui's two armies were defeated by Li Si'an and were about to turn defense into offense, it would be better to take the opportunity to test Zhu Wen's reaction.

Because Li Tianqu thought that the Heyang Army was somewhat similar to the Shaanxi-Guo Army under the command of Zhu Wen, and was close to each other's countries, it was not impossible for other main troops of Liang to retreat west of Tongguan to defend to the death.

The whole body was moved by one move. Even if the scale of the war was still going to be big, the Bianjing and the Shaanxi-Guo Army were both in the territory of Henan Province in later generations, and they were not far apart. Although they could dispatch troops to support them, Li Keyong, the King of Jin who was staring at Zhu Wen in the north, would have taken advantage of the Liang Kingdom to disperse their troops to defend the Shaanxi-Guo Army and intend to launch troops to move south again... Even if the soldiers of his own forces would be exhausted, Zhu Wen was even more exhausted. If this battle was going to be even more fierce, he would not be able to afford it.

Of course, Zhu Wen saw that the situation in Xuanwu, Heyang and other places was not successful, and he might also shrink his military strength. He still had to rely on Hezhong and Tongguan was dangerous to protect himself. Zhu Youqian, the governor of Shaanxi Guo Army, survived by himself. It would be best if you could defend your territory. If you really couldn't defend it, it would be even less worth reinforcements and troops, and it would be useless to consume military strength.

If that is the case, then take the Shaanxi-Guo Army and expand its territory to the geographical location of the Three Qins, which is near Tongguan, the gateway to the eastern side of Guanzhong. However, if you want to fight to the west, it will probably be quite difficult... However, as time goes on, the chance of chaos in Liang will become higher and higher, and at that time there will be no opportunity to take advantage of it.

Considering the historical deeds of Zhu Youqian, the governor of Shaanxi Guo, and pondering the choices he might make when he was under severe military threats... Li Tianqu made a fuss and immediately told the officials who were waiting to listen to the order:

"If Liu Xiu and Ding Hui marched smoothly, he would kill the city of Shanxian County, the capital of Shanzhou. Whether the Liang State sent reinforcements or not, even though he ordered Liu Xiu to attack the city with all his might, it was necessary to cut off the key roads in various places. Even if the defense of Shanxian County was strong, it would be difficult to conquer it in the short term...

When the Liang army reinforcements came, the troops of the front office of the Jingji Hall would also be in Heyang, ready to fight another battle at any time; and the Liang State did not send reinforcements. When Zhu Youqian realized that he was isolated and had no help, I sent another envoy to Shan County, let's see what Zhu Youqian would think about it at that time."

...Liu Hui was approved by Li Tianqu, and no longer had any scruples. He led his troops into the boundary of Shaanxi and Guo troops. As the name suggests, the Shaanxi and Guo prefectures under the jurisdiction of Shaanxi and Guo were not much larger than the Yicheng army, which also occupied only two states. Without strategic depth, it was easy to be killed by the enemy to the center of the capital.

As for the defeated army of less than 10,000 people under Li Si'an's troops, the arrogant they came at that time, and how embarrassed they were in the situation of defeat and fleeing. After all, there was a natural danger in Tongguan in the west, and Li Si'an did not intend to stop rectifying the Shaanxi Guo army, so he continued to flee, intending to enter the territory under the jurisdiction of the Xibian Zhenguo Army as soon as possible.

According to previous estimates, the Shaanxi-Guo army under Zhu Youqian should have only about 25,000 troops. When the army was approaching, he had to divide his troops to defend Shaanxi. The cities under the rule of the two states of Guo did not dare to go out to fight.

Therefore, Liu Hui carefully arranged it, first cut off two more easily breached counties and yards outside Shan County, blocked the key roads, and then gradually advanced towards Shan County. Until the army easily arrived at the city, it was not easy to see the situation, and the military escorted by the Bianjing Palace Front Office, many huge heavy siege equipment had arrived in the camp one after another. When the front line of Shan County was arranged, it immediately launched a fierce attack on the city wall...

The stone bombs shot out by the catapult were flying, as well as the bed crossbows, hard bows, and arrows sent by the crossbows were like rain. On the other side, people gathered like ants, making loud shouts of killing sounds constantly climbing above the city head. Even though the defenders fought back with crossbows, rolling wood, and pounding stones, relying on the almost strong city defense to defend, they were under tremendous pressure from the beginning of the battle.

Zhi General Liu Xiu attacked the city walls frequently, bombarded the city walls, dug tunnels, and used the cloud ladders to try to seize the city gates. In short, there are any methods to siege the city to make it fun.

This undoubtedly made Zhu Youqian, who was in charge of the city guards, exhausted him to deal with it. He also knew very well that the Shaanxi-Guo Army is now extremely dangerous. After all, it is close to the towns of Heyang, Xuanwu and other towns, and the subsequent supplies, food and fodder of the siege army can also be continuously transported here.

The only reliance now is that the Liang Kingdom can send troops to help. Otherwise, even if it can hold on until the food and fodder in the city is gone, the situation will continue... I am afraid that there will be only bark, leather, and even feeding on people.

In just a few days, there were already blood corpses on the city gate of Shanxian County, with many arrows inserted around the walls. The walls of many areas were full of holes, and the civilians behind needed to repair them day and night. However, the end of the day's tragic war, tomorrow will be a new beginning...

Liu Xiu acted as if he had to seize Shan County, the capital of Shanzhou, at all costs. At the same time, Ding Hui and Kang Huaiying sent some troops to station at the surrounding passes to guard against the Liang army that could rush to support at any time west of Tongguan. Several armies in the Jingji Hall-Faizhou dispatched by Li Tianqu advanced eastward and had already deployed troops to the area adjacent to the Shaanxi-Guo army to the east of Mianchi County. As long as the Liang army rescuers dared to come, the scale of the battle surrounding Shaanxi-Guozhou and the two states would become larger and larger.

What we need to be especially careful about is of course Yang Shihou, the general of Liang's army who was in charge of the vassal states in the west and also in charge of Tongguan's defense.

However, the moonlight has passed again, and neither Yang Shihou, who is in Tongguan or Zhu Wen, who is located in Chang'an, there is no movement. It seems that the prefecture, which is now under the full attack of Li Tianqu, is not the territory under the rule of Liang State.

Li Tianqu was waiting for the battle report of whether Liang State would send troops to rescue the Shaanxi-Guo Army, but there was no news, and he was probably sure:

Zhu Wen did not expect that Li Si'an's troops who were trying to disrupt the situation in the Central Plains would be easily defeated. If he regained some vitality, he would first come out of the hole like a poisonous snake and take a bite while you were unprepared. However, as soon as he found that the situation was not good, Zhu Wen would be the turtle again, and the Liang State had to concentrate its military forces to take a defensive position.

As for the Shaanxi-Guo Army territory located in Hezhong and outside the Tongguan defense line, Zhu Wen also made the plan to cut off his arm and did not intend to send reinforcements, just like he fled from Bianliang in a panic and left his eldest son Zhu Youyu to defend the enemy with all his strength.

But Zhu Youyu is your eldest son of Zhu Wen, and he is determined to die and fight until the city breaks... and Zhu Youqian is your adopted son, and he has not been able to bear him for a long time. What would he think if Zhu Youqian realized that he would be treated as an abandoned son?

Li Tianqu thoughtfully instructed Liu Xiu to launch a full-scale attack from the beginning, so that Zhu Youqian would never give up until the attack was achieved. However, he was beaten so painful and scared that he also made Zhu Youqian realize that there was no help from outside, so he should have a good talk with him.

After all, in the late Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties, during the bloody season, except for Huang Chao, Qin Zongquan, Sun Ru and others who slaughtered the people as military rations. Other large-scale cannibalism incidents were caused by fighting in the city. For example, when Li Maozhen held Emperor Zhaozong of Tang to resist Zhu Wen's army hostage, Fengxiang Mansion was at the point where the human meat in the city was worth hundreds of coins and the dog meat was worth five hundred coins;

Yang Xingmi briefly occupied Yangzhou, but was forced by Sun Ru to the extent that the hungry people in the city killed each other and filled each other's hunger;

According to historical trajectory, when fighting in Yan, a special agency such as slaughtering people would be set up to serve as military rations for slaughtering... Li Tianqu said that he had already made his attitude, but he didn't want to do things too much, otherwise, the people would suffer in the end.

But in theory, given Zhu Youqian's current state of mind... I wouldn't hold on anymore if I give him a chance...
Chapter completed!