Jiujiang County governs Fanyang City.
At this moment, most of the defenders in the city have left the city and rushed to Pengdi, which is a full 100 miles away from Fanyang. There, they formed a resistance army with troops from other counties, with a total of 100,000 people, to resist the Chu army. The first line of defense going south.
This time when the Chu army went south, they did not directly cross the Yangtze River south to Wujun Danyang and other places. This is not realistic.
Let’s not talk about whether Wu County has so many ferries for the Chu army to land. Let’s say that Wu County is the hinterland of the Yue Kingdom and has a heavy garrison.
In addition, the people in the county are very interested in the Yue Kingdom. The Yue Kingdom has many eyes and ears here. In addition, there are some suitable ferries and some soldiers and horses are stationed in the capital. They are setting up some obstacles. It is really difficult to land here. sky.
On the contrary, it is different in Lujiang County.
Lujiang County has been the place where the land of Wu and Yue and the land of Chu have fought for supremacy since ancient times. It has been a battlefield for countless years.
Naturally, in this place, people from Wu and Yue and people from Chu have penetrated into each other, and they live among each other, making it difficult to distinguish each other.
However, most of the time, Chu State still has the advantage. Many places in Lujiang County, more than 2/3, are Chu State's territory.
Therefore, this is also the reason why the Chu State's resistance to the rebels here was able to persist for so long.
If the rebels hadn't suddenly moved south and concentrated all their forces to the south of the Yangtze River, the rebel forces in Lujiang County would have suddenly expanded several times. The Chu defenders who had been struggling to support them were suddenly wiped out, and Lujiang was reduced to a rebel force. Under the rule of the army.
However, now that the Chu army is moving south, 200,000 troops have crossed the Yangtze River and once again entered the Lujiang River, the hometown of Chu. In contrast, the Vietnamese army is retreating steadily and is struggling to hold on.
This kind of good news suddenly cheered up the people who were interested in Chu State, and many undercurrents were surging under Lujiang County.
For example, in Fanyang City today.
All the 50,000 garrison troops in the city had been transferred to the front line by the local garrison generals of the Yue Kingdom, in the Peng Dina area. Taking advantage of the mountainous situation there and the fact that Lujiang River is an important transportation road connecting many counties and counties, we can guard the pass here and stop the Chu army.
After this round of deployment, there were only 3,000 defenders left in the city, who could barely maintain law and order in the city and frighten the towns within thirty miles outside the city.
However, the majesty maintained by such strength could not deter most people after all. Instead, it made them see through the weakness of the Vietnamese army even more, and their thoughts couldn't help but tumble even more.
Late at night, Fanyang City is now facing a war and has already implemented a curfew. On the street, groups of soldiers wearing armor patrolled the surroundings in an orderly manner, criss-crossing each other from time to time, and patrolling back and forth in a very tight manner.
In the houses just next to the street, the lights had already been extinguished, and it was pitch dark and no one could be seen.
However, in this darkness, bright eyes were staring closely at the Yue soldiers on the street outside, their eyes full of murderous intent.
Counting carefully, there are actually several or ten pairs of eyes staring at the troops on the street in the rooms on the entire street. There are also faint lights of swords flashing in the rooms. Under the illumination of the moonlight, Clear and bright.
A whoosh.
This sharp and loud sound suddenly sounded in the city. This sound seemed to be a signal. In an instant, the originally silent city was ignited and turned into a noisy market.
Bang bang crackle!
There were countless messy sounds, but the sounds were caused by touching furniture in the room and breaking open the door.
"Kill! Kill all these Yue dogs, kill all these rebels, and welcome back the king's master!"
"Kill! Kill all these foreign mud legs and take back the dignity of us Lujiang people!"
I saw countless passionate voices ringing out, and in an instant, countless people responded, resounding throughout the city.
As a result, countless soldiers, either with hatred or with other purposes, rushed out of the room with a roar, and pounced on the astonished faces of the soldiers outside with ferocious expressions.
A few puffs.
It was the sword piercing the body, the sharp weapon intersecting with flesh and blood, and the dull sound caused by it was heard one after another at this moment.
Hua Hua Hua.
Throughout the city, on the streets, and in the rooms, countless torches were suddenly lit, and the transparent firelight illuminated the entire city as brightly as day.
Countless crisp metal collisions, roaring shouts, or other chaotic sounds filled the entire city.
The street, which was originally sparsely populated with only some soldiers patrolling, is now full of people. Countless people are rushing out of rooms, making the already crowded street even more congested.
Emperor Yuan seven years, August.
It had been one month since the Chu army marched south, and the defenders at Pengdi in Lujiang County of the Yue State fought. The battle was so intense that the two sides had contacts with each other, and the outcome was difficult to determine.
The pace of the 200,000-strong army was blocked, causing the Chu army's originally sharp and unstoppable offensive to stagnate and decline.
However, later, the remaining 300,000 Chu troops crossed the river behind Fanpengdi, that is, to the north of Fanyang City, and overwhelmed Fanyang City.
For a moment, the whole city of Fanyang was in panic. The defenders in the city became more and more heavily guarded, and an undercurrent surged in the city.
Three days later, when 300,000 Chu troops had pressed thirty miles north of Fanyang City, a mutiny broke out in the city at night.
Many local aristocratic families in Lujiang County, or the nobles who had been attacked, united one after another and mobilized many people to form a rebel army and raise their troops to resist the brutal rule of the Yue Kingdom.
He also drove out and killed the defenders in the city that night, regained control of Fanyang City, and sent envoys overnight to the Chu army camp to surrender to the commander-in-chief of the Chu army, and hoped that Chu Jun would forgive them for their inability to defend the city. Guilt.
The Chu army was overjoyed to receive the news. Early the next morning, they sent three thousand war cavalry and rushed to Fanyang City to prepare to take over the city defense and test whether the surrender was true.
Mid-August.
Fanyang City has completely fallen into the hands of 300,000 Chu troops, and the 100,000 Yue troops in Pengdi have completely fallen into a trap. Facing the power of a pincer attack by 300,000 Chu troops and the 200,000 Chu troops on the opposite side, it seems that at any time Destroy.
In the second half of the year, 100,000 Yue troops were annihilated by the Chu army, and 50,000 of them were beheaded. More than 20,000 of the remaining troops fled and hid in the mountains. After several months, very few survived. The remaining 30,000 people surrendered and were turned into slaves by the King of Chu. They all rushed to Jiangling and other places to rebuild the ancestral tombs for the Chu Kingdom. Under the heavy labor, only a few hundred people survived in the end.
Early September.
It is the autumn harvest season, but there are not many farmers harvesting in the fields that are already full of rice. The good fields are deserted, and the millet is rotting in the fields. I don’t know how many farmers who depend on the fields for a living are heartbroken.
At the same time, 500,000 Chu troops pressed the Yue Kingdom's Wu County, causing the Yue Kingdom to be in turmoil and threatening to collapse.
(End of chapter)