On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 233 Seizing Chuzhou
Chuzhou, under the jurisdiction of Kuocang, Songyang, Yongjia, and Linhai counties, the state government is not Yongjia County (now Wenzhou, Zhejiang) where Gao Zhihui retreated, but Kuocang County (now southeast of Lishui, Zhejiang).

Gao Zhizhi's general Shen Xiaoche is guarding this place.

Cui Che led the army to the south, and the whole journey was like a broken bamboo, with little resistance, until they reached the foot of Kuocang City.

Shen Xiaoche sticks to the city, while Cui Che rushes to Yongjia to attack Gao Zhihui with Laihuer Hailu at the appointed time, so he doesn't attack Chuzhou and Zhouzhi. After he captured Yongjia, he turned around and attacked the city.

At this time, Gao Zhihui was licking his wounds in Yongjia City, and when he heard that the Sui army was marching southward, they were coming straight towards him, and he felt panicked.

Under the advice of the generals, Gao Zhizhi was preparing for the war while preparing the army. If the battle was unfavorable, he would retreat to Fujian and defend Quanzhou (now Fuzhou, Fujian).

On March 26, 5 Sui troops arrived outside Yongjia.

Some generals persuaded Gao Zhihui to go out of the city to fight with the Sui army, taking advantage of the unstable foothold and exhaustion from the distance, but was ignored by Gao Zhihui.

Although he is mediocre in intelligence, he also knows that with the huge disparity in combat power between the two sides, if he really wants to go out to fight in the city, he has no chance of winning.

After all, in the battle of Wuxi, the Sui army didn't shoot a single arrow, but Shen Xuan's troops were caught in Cui Che's offensive plan and killed each other. The news of the 5 dead had already spread all over the south of the Yangtze River.

Not only Gao Zhizhi, but even his subordinates are afraid of Cui Che, a scheming devil.

It is said that Cui Che's name has already reached the effect of Zhang Liao's superpower shaking Xiaoyaojin, and can stop Jiangdong children from crying at night.

Cui Che was not in a hurry to attack the city, but retreated ten li to set up camp and ordered his soldiers to build siege equipment.

Even an ambush was prepared that night to prevent Gao Zhizhi from attacking at night.

Using oneself to judge others, Cui Che felt that if he was highly intelligent, he would definitely not stick to it, so he had to think of a way.

Unexpectedly, Gao Zhizhi didn't move at all, which made Cui Che squat for nothing.

He had no choice but to send sentry cavalry to closely monitor Yongjia City before withdrawing the ambush and letting the soldiers rest well.

On March 27, the Sui army still did not attack the city and continued to make siege equipment, and the rebels did not have the courage to go out of the city to fight.

The next day, early in the morning, the Sui army finally formed an array in the west of the city. Gao Zhizhi thought that Cui Che was going to concentrate on attacking the western section of the city wall, so he also concentrated his forces there.

With the sound of the horn, the Sui army pushed the simple siege equipment and approached the city wall in a mighty manner, but was easily repelled by the defenders many times.

Cui Che from behind said helplessly:

"I'm afraid Gao Ni won't be able to hide such clumsy acting skills."

But Gao Zhihui didn't become suspicious. It was also his first time defending the city. Some senior generals could easily see the flaws, but Gao Zhihui didn't know anything about it. He thought it was the defenders who repeatedly defeated the Sui army's charge. .

It's just that Cui Che didn't know it, he strictly ordered the generals not to be perfunctory, even if it was acting, it had to be realistic.

As the Sui army intensified its attack on the city, the pressure on the defenders doubled. Fortunately, relying on the city wall, the Sui army was repeatedly repelled.

The battle continued intermittently until sunset. Seeing the withdrawal of the Sui army, everyone from high-level intelligence to ordinary soldiers breathed a sigh of relief.

It's just that after supper, the Sui army gathered outside the city at night, as if planning to storm Yongjia City day and night.

Just as the defenders were concentrating on preparing to meet the Sui army's offensive in the west of the city, there was a sudden shout of killing in the east of Yongjia City, and the ignited flames lit up the night sky.

It was Lai Huer who came by sea. According to the plan, he took advantage of the night to attack the water village outside the city and burned all the rebel ships.

Then he turned around and headed straight for the east gate.

Seeing the fire in the east of the city, Cui Che hurriedly dispatched Yu Juluo to lead an army of [-] to go around the east city to support Lai'er.

He also ordered the soldiers under his command to take advantage of the panic of the defenders to attack the western city wall so that they had no time to spare and could not return to help.

And Gao Zhihui on the Ximen Tower has learned that the water fortress has been lost and the ship has been destroyed.

If you don't leave at this time and you are trapped to death in Yongjia, then you really can't leave.

At the critical moment of life and death, he didn't care about his family, took his cronies, rode on the horses that had been specially assembled before, and headed for the south gate in an attempt to escape to Quanzhou.

It was only when he rushed out of Yongjia City that he heard a sharp bang, and then there were shouts of killing, and the momentum of galloping horseshoes resounded through the night sky. Come.

The west of the city is where the Sui army lined up, the east of the city is the vast ocean, and the north is a deadly place. Cui Che had expected that Gao Zhizhi would flee south, so he specially transferred all the cavalry in the army to Zhang Wu's command, so that he could intercept Gao Zhihui. wisdom.

Cui Che would not dismount the cavalry to attack the city.

The southerners are good at boats, while the northerners are good at riding. How can the hundreds of cavalry and infantry under Gao Zhizhi's command be against Zhang Wu's eight thousand fine cavalry?

In just an instant, he was swallowed up, and Gao Zhizhi himself was captured alive by Zhang Wu.

However, the battle was not over. Although Gao Zhizhi abandoned the city, the defenders in the city resisted tenaciously.

They all knew that once the city was broken, what awaited them would be death, so how could they give up so easily, and not everyone knew the news of Gao Zhizhi's escape.

It wasn't until Cui Che ordered the cavalry to hold up torches and bring Gao Zhizhi to the city to show the public that the morale of the defenders in the city collapsed.

The east gate of Yongjia was breached first, and countless rebels rushed out from the north and south gates, and fled towards the mountains and forests in the dark. At this time, even they could not care about their wives, children, and children in the city.

The wives and daughters were captured and still alive, but these rebels were sure to die.

The Sui army pursued for a while, but in the end they had to give up because it was too dark to pursue deep into the dense forest.

That night, Cui Che led the army to Yongjia and hunted down the family members of the rebels wantonly. These were the trophies of the soldiers and the source of motivation for them to fight.

In the battle of Yongjia, Cui Che took the lead in capturing the highly intelligent Zhang Wu alive.

Zhang Wu captured Shen Xuanyu and Gao Zhizhi one after another. Although there was an element of luck, it was also inseparable from Cui Che's deliberate care. For example, tonight, no matter who is sent to the south of the city, Gao Zhihui can basically be captured. The difference is that it is death. It's just living.

After entering Yongjia, Cui Che did not summon Gao Zhihui, he was too lazy to waste his saliva with a man who was destined to die, he just sent [-] cavalry to escort Gao Zhihui to Kuocang County, and showed it to the public outside the city.

The next day, Cui Che led [-] soldiers with a wheat iron stick, and captured Songyang County (now Lishui, Zhejiang Province) west of Kuocang County.

He also ordered Yu Juluo to lead three thousand troops to attack Linhai County (now Linhai City, Zhejiang Province).

This was also Mai Tiezhang's first time leading the army, so Cui Che specially sent Zhao Wen as his deputy to accompany him.

Zhao Wen followed Cui Che to fight in the north and south. He had never eaten pork, and he had seen pigs run away.

There were not many defenders in the two counties, and Mai Tiezhang and Yu Juluo easily succeeded.

At the same time, when Gao Zhihui was tied up and appeared outside Kuocang City, the morale of the defenders dropped instantly.

Under the persuasion of the Sui envoy, Shen Xiaoche, the guard of Kuocang, asked to surrender. Because he offered the city on his own initiative, he and his soldiers were saved from death.

Since then, in Changping, Su, Hu, Hangzhou, Yue and other places, Chuzhou has also declared its recovery.

　I brought it in Chapter 4, but it's gone today.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)