Book 51 Chapter 8 – Visitors fro (1/2)
Book 51 Chapter 8 – Visitors fro
Translator: Foxs' Wuxia
Zuo Xiaoyou led hisdid not raise any suspicion, but because the navy was nearly wiped out, the darave, he put the blaeneral] to a rievances for the unjust treat evendivided his arhai and Liangdu
Theon forty warshi+ps via the sea sailing directly toward Jiangdu, under the leadershi+p of Xuan Yong, Chen Changlin, Gao Zhandao, Niu Fengyi, Zha Jie, and so on
The other army was further split into two units, from the canal they set off via both the water and land routes to go down south Thethe flywheel boats, which hadthe news, Li Zitong was aghast and was greatly shaken, he led this twenty-thousand-du Zhongli was still defended by Zuo Xiaoyou, while Gaoyou was presided over by another great general Qin Chaowen The redu to deal with Shao Shuai Navy cohai
Actually, by this tili and Gaoyou still must not be underesti ith each other, they had enough power to hold back and block Kou Zhong frodu In ter as he could break down Shao Shuai Navy’s expeditionary forces coo up north to ’s ht that Zuo Xiaoyou opened his city to welco? It scared Gaoyou’s Qin Chaowen that he closed the city gates and did not dare to go out to fight, which gave free passage to the twenty-four flywheel boats under Kou Zhong, Xu Ziling, Bu Tianzhi and Chen Lao the Huai River and passing through the canal heading for Jiangdu, so that together with the Shaoshuai Navy co attack to the Jiangdu navy They inflicted heavy defeat to Li Zitong at thehis barely reth of the [State of] Wu Ar, was still ’s Kou Zhong was not greedy for ’sthe canal toward Gaoyou, passing through Jiangdu but did not attack Qin Chaowen knew the greatconducting hiht and his skill in the art of war, he offered the city and surrendered
Up until now, Zhongli and Gaoyou, these two Wu Ar with more than a dozen county towns in the vicinity, have all fallen into Kou Zhong’s hands Shao Shuai Arrew to fifty-thousand
Kou Zhong accepted Xu Xingzhi’s proposal He had Qin Chaowen and half thewith their fahai County, and appointed Xuan Yong with five thousand Shao Shuai troops to defend Gaoyou, equipped with Bu Tianzhi’s flywheel boats, putting the canal and the Huai River, two main watercourses, under his control
The two vacancies aarrison] Great Generals were filled by Yang Gongqing and Zuo Xiaoyou And then he added Qin Chaowen and Luo Qifei, two garrisons [see above, sa Generals The rank was as follow: Yang Gongqing was at the top of the list, followed by Xuan Yong, Bu Tianzhi, Gao Zhandao, Chen Changlin, Bai Wenyuan, Jiao Hongjin, Zuo Xiaoyou, Qin Chaowen, and lastly Luo Qifei
As for Niu Fengyi and Zha Jie, due to their outstanding performance, the former was promoted to be the Supervisor of the Ministry of War’s Six Departments Superintendent, while Zha Jie was appointed as the Supervisor of the Ministry of Justice, sharing the burden of Xu Xingzhi, as originally holding several positions at once
Xu Xingzhi, in addition to be in charge of the Ministry of Appointments and the Ministry of Justice, two depart promoted to be the Chief of Military Counselors of the Shao Shuai Arn
Because he had shown outstanding talent in e, everybody submitted cheerfully to this appointment
Ren Meie of the Internal Affairs and Work, two anization was growing tighter and tighter The lower-ranked officers and soldiers also enjoyed proreatly aroused theiralso adopted Xu Xingzhi’s proposal to bestoards based on h fund in the treasury, everybody, fro everything, Kou Zhong led the troops back to Liangdu The news of Hulao’s fall ca-in-confidence and cowardly wang Xuanying retreated without a fight, so that Hulao was offered with both hands to Li shi+ji, while he hi knew the affairs of his own household, once Luoyang fell, Li shi+ Li shi+enerals as nu Ars of attack, the allotted share of the Shao Shuai Arreatly flourishi+ng – would only be taking a beating, they definitely would not last until the war year
The only redeedu, so that if necessary, they could retreat to the south As long as they could steadily defend Zhongli and Gaoyou, two garrisons, they could defend Jiangdu without any worry
Therefore, as on one side he ordered Xuan Yong and Zuo Xiaoyou to reinforce Gaoyou and Zhongli city defense, by building fortress on strategically situated and easy to defend places along the river course, as well as putting in human resources to build navy vessels, to increase the number of flywheel boats, and to improve the combat effectiveness of the navy, on the other side, with secret gongs and tightened drudu
The e noas different fro finally persuaded the other leaders of the Zhu Hua Bang to give their full support to the Shao Shuai Arrew to reach the eastern section of the Yangtze River and various regions of Jiangnan
One particular day Kou Zhong, Xu Ziling, along with Xu Xingzhi, Luo Qifei, Gao Zhandao, Chen Laojin, inside the Shao Shuai Mansion’s conference roodu
Even after talking about it over and over, no one could offer any solution with co’s Wu Arone Currently only about a dozen left, which appeared to be ed to civilians ere pressed into service and refitted to be military vessels at the last moment With our flywheel boats, we could easily blockade the Great River, and , two cities difficult to correspond with each other If we attack Yanling and blockade the ay, Jiangdu will be isolated and without help, and could only let thehed and said, “If there was no Li shi+du would surrender to us; however, since Li Zitong knew that one day Li shi+o down south to attack our Shao Shuai Ar on Jiangdu’s strong city and thick walls, as well as adequate provisions Holding out for a year or a half should not be any problem Furthermore, because the officers and soldiers inside the city has Li shi+enerals are of one mind, it won’t be easy to sway theives up Yanling and concentrates all du, our situation will be even more unbearable Naturally we cannot have the whole nest codu, but even if we exhaust our entire arth is no h to subdue the forty-thousand Wu Ar recalled the battle to attack and defend Liyang At that tiy brilliant, histhe city, yet he still suffered grave dadu would already entail strenuous effort, and coer, plus the defenders inside the city would be ten-thousandar, they were only asking for trouble
The biggest problem was that Shao Shuai Are nuth left to withstand Li shi+du, they must have a 100 confidence, any loss could not be tolerated
ThisXuanshu of Luoyang was asking for an audience Kou Zhong was greatly astonished Acco, they went to the outer hall to see wang Xuanshu, wang shi+chong’s second son
wang Xuanshu was full of windblown dust, his face carried a beaten expression, unlike in the forht appearance Seeing Kou Zhong, the two boys, he was like seeing his close relatives; hot tears gushi+ng out of his pair of eyes, unexpectedly he went down on his knees in front of Kou Zhong and cried mournfully, “Shaoshuai, please save rabbed him and helped him up; he had him settled down and seated properly first, until he cal Xuanshu said, “Hulao is lost, wang Xiong [brother king; his fa), but I don’t think he called his own brother ‘Brother wang’] retreated back to Luoyang, Li shi+ Palace in the Eastern Capital’s Jin Yuan [forbidden park], cutting off the ay at the confluence of the Gu River and Luo River, while also pressing on towards Luoyang Fuhuang knew the situation is desperate, he took chances to coht the Tang Areneral under his co to lead five thousand troops to cross the river and attack While the ene to concede, Li shi+min led his main forces to help Moreover, Li shi+enerals, as well as several dozens personal guards, elite cavalry to crisscross and charge the battlefield, straight to the rear of our troop disposition, sweeping everything before them, our deaths and injured were very heavy The enemy and us, two arain, repeatedly exchanging blades After three sichen of battle, our troops finally could not match them and retreated, Li shi+min seized the opportunity to send his troops to chase and kill, all the way to the wall of the capital city, they captured and beheaded our troops ed our capital city Now Li shi+ our capital city day and night, non-stop”
Just by looking at wang Xuanshu’s appearance and expression, they could iine the desperate hand-to-hand battle until the sun and the ht at that time, with dead bodies strewn all other the field, blood flowed to beco Xuanshu spoke in distress, “Fuhuang regrets endlessly that he did not listen to Shaoshuai’s loyal words He often said that if he did not withdraw the troops frojun and Shaoshuai to defend Hulao to the death, the situation would not develop rapidly after abrupt turn [idio as we could hold out until the severe winter, the Tang Are will be relieved”