Crowned the New Han Dynasty

Chapter 1211 The ultimate siege
Wang Dun struggled with his troops. His original intention was to concentrate his strength and fight against Chen Zhi's Xuanjia Army. It could be said that it was a last-ditch battle. However, the expected decisive battle did not happen at all. Instead, the surrounding counties were defeated. Once removed.

This is like a person closing his fists and planning to attack with all his strength. However, when he has just gathered his strength, he looks up and realizes that there is no one on the other side, but the opponent is leading a group of people further away to surround him. .

This feeling of being empty-handed is really too uncomfortable, and it also brings a series of serious consequences.

Everyone in the world was captured by Xuan Jia. Not only was Wang Dun frightened by this situation, but all of his subordinates were also panicked and had no idea what to do.

Even those aristocratic families and Jiangzuo court forces who had been coerced into bowing their heads realized that something was wrong one by one, and there was an indescribable sense of urgency——

Because they suddenly realized that if the situation remained as usual, like in the past, and Jiangzuo was controlled under the name of the Han family, then if the Chen family wanted to attack the land in the south, there would first be one of the most difficult problems that they could not overcome -

name.

Perhaps a forced attack, with the Xuanjia Army's combat power, is also invincible, and it will definitely defeat Jiangnan, but if the name is not correct, the words will not be fulfilled. In the end, the hearts of the people here are different, and they will be governed in the future Many questions arise out of thin air.

As a result, now that Wang Dun is making such a fuss, theoretically the land in the south of the Yangtze River is already in disorder, so Xuanjia has also found a reasonable excuse to march, either to calm the chaos or to suppress the city.

Those cities either did not dare to fight against the Xuanjia Army, or they simply surrendered. The guards of many cities and their aristocratic families had secretly communicated with the north a few years ago. When the opportunity came, it was often Xuanjia. Before Army A came over, I had already changed my flag and stood at the top of the city to greet them.

As a result, in just over two months, the situation in the entire south took on a completely new look.

As the cities changed their flags one after another, the Jiangzuo court, or Wang Dun's soldiers and horses, had fewer and fewer resources to control and utilize. Even many problems that he had not discovered and paid attention to originally emerged one by one, becoming people's thoughts. Here comes the headache.

One of the key points is that it has lost the support of surrounding counties and counties. Many functions and functions of Jiankang as the capital have gradually been limited to paralysis——

You must know that in this era, the population that the land can support is actually not that large. Jiankang, as the capital, has been developed for decades. Before Xuanwu's Northern Expedition, it had been fully constructed as the capital.

After Xuanwu moved the capital, the importance of Jiangzuo Jiankang has decreased, but compared to other cities, it is still given priority. In the final analysis, it has the roots of the New Han Dynasty.

As a result, it has developed to this day, and the permanent population of this city far exceeds that of other cities. The population of a city is often directly proportional to its influence.

In such a city, all the major families in Jiangzuo naturally have their own tentacles or strongholds of power arranged in it. After several generations of management, many families have gradually turned this place into one of their base camps.

On weekdays, to support such a huge population, plus the garrisons inside and outside the city, it is simply not enough to rely solely on the surrounding land. We also have to rely on the transportation of grain and grass from counties and towns across the Yangtze River to support it.

The water system in the south of the Yangtze River is developed and backed by large rivers. The transportation costs are relatively small, so it can support a population that exceeds the original city capacity.

But now the situation is completely different. With the Xuanjia Army occupying towns in other places, even if they cannot implement effective jurisdiction, they can at least cut off the support of Jiankang in these towns.

In the end, panic gradually broke out in Jiankang City, because with this huge population, even if the city's grain reserves were used, it was simply not enough.

The point is that Wang Dun gathered most of his troops for a decisive battle before.

This number of soldiers and horses is a fighting force in wartime, but they are simply crowded into a city, and people eat horses and chew them, which is consumed all the time.

With a population that has exceeded the city's capacity, plus a large number of soldiers and horses, the area is surrounded and supplies are cut off. The most direct reaction is that everyone is desperately trying to survive.Eating, no matter whether you are a noble family or a commoner, whether you are a nobleman or a soldier, you cannot avoid it.

And as the days go by, the time when the grain and grass are exhausted is definitely getting closer and closer. Although Wang Dun is unwilling to announce the total grain and grass reserves, many people in the city, as bureaucrats, still have access to some inside information. In addition, some people deliberately spread the news, so soon the news spread in the city that the food supply was less than one month.

As if the news had grown legs, it spread quickly, and soon everyone in the city knew about it.

"Arrest people for me immediately! Don't worry about their identities, but anyone who spreads news will be arrested and no one will be spared!"

After Wang Dun learned the news, he was relatively calm and did not fall into chaos. Instead, he issued a clear order. However, judging from the content of the order, some of his staff had realized that his lord might have reached the point of desperation and did not care about it at all. Nothing more.

Sure enough, the next development confirmed this guess.

The spread of the news could not be controlled at all. The more people were arrested, it caused greater panic. However, if no people were arrested, the situation would become increasingly difficult to deal with.

At the end of the fight, even the arresting soldiers had many complaints.

The news was fed back to Wang Dun's desk, but he became distracted and finally let out a long sigh.

"After all, I was tricked," Wang Dun sat down weakly. "In this situation, I am basically defeated and unable to win. I can't even fight. In the end, I will be trapped here to death. He, Chen, doesn't know how to do it." Whatever needs to be done, as long as this situation is maintained, it will take less than a month. Looking at the situation in the city, I am afraid that Jiankang will be in chaos in just a few days."

The current deadlock cannot be overcome by resourcefulness at all, because it is the absolute strength of the Xuanjia Army that created all this.

"But even so, if you want me to surrender, don't even think about it!"

Just as Wang Dun was thinking this, several messages suddenly came over——

"Chen's troops have begun to approach Jiankang!"

This sudden news surprised Wang Dun. He didn't understand what Chen Zhi meant by this move when he was clearly sure of victory.

But before he could think about it, another piece of news made him unable to sit still——

"There is chaos in the palace, and it seems that someone is planning to harm the Holy One!"

After getting the news, Wang Dun ignored the analysis and immediately sent people to investigate the news in the palace. In the end, he felt uneasy and simply led his men to chase after him.

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