But the problem is that the rebels themselves didn't know. They always thought that the city was strong and the water fort was weak... Even Yang Yao himself, after being defeated by Yue Fei in Hubei, thought that the Monkey King was the most important.
This is really helpless.
Back to the present, on the fifth day after Yue Fei sent out his troops, not to mention the outer mopping-up work and the removal of water strongholds in Hunan area, Yang Yao and Zhong Xiang were surrounded in Yuanjiang County.
Half of the soldiers outside the city were imperial troops, and half were rebels who had just surrendered. Up to this point, Zhong Xiang and Yang Yao had no idea why they had suddenly ended up in this situation... Of course, His Royal Highness the King of Chu had always been an official match against the enemies on all sides, and I think the Monkey King knew that.
In the morning, Yue Fei politely declined all requests from the surrendered soldiers to fight and to serve as lobbyists, and only told them to watch the battle with peace of mind, citing the hardship of fighting for days. In the afternoon, the commander-in-chief sent out all his troops, equipped with extremely simple battering rams, ladders, ropes, and a few gunpowder bags wrapped in oilcloth, to launch a full-scale siege.
The rebels in the city were all cronies of "King of Chu" Zhong Xiang, and 80% of them had never been on the battlefield. The city walls, which were not very tall to begin with, had a lot of building materials dug away when Zhong Xiang was building the palace in the city.
Therefore, more than 10,000 soldiers in the front of the imperial camp rushed forward, carrying soil to fill the ditch, suppressing with bows and crossbows, climbing the wall first, and the Yuanjiang County City was almost captured in one go. The surrendered rebels watching around could only marvel at the strength of the government army and feel that they were lucky to have chosen to surrender.
After all, such a city was taken down in one fell swoop. How could their own shabby water fortress possibly withstand such a powerful government army?
The difference between strong and weak is clear at a glance.
PS: Huang Zuo should be the prototype of Wang Zuo in Yue Opera.
"It is difficult to defeat the pirates on the water with the royal army, but it is easy to defeat the pirates on the water with the pirates on the water" is the original words that Yue Fei used to explain to Zhang Jun in history.
Except for the flying stalk, most people think it is about Yang Yao on Dongting Lake. In fact, it is an allusion to the Wuling Rebellion and should have nothing to do with Yang Yao... But Yue Fei and many literati's notes mixed many allusions together, making it difficult to distinguish. In history, Yue Fei faced the Dongting Lake Volunteer Army that had been developing for six years, while in the book, it was less than a year, and they didn't even have time to build a large ship. The strength is completely different.
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