Chapter 313 Conquer Fenzhou

Any mistakes will be punished, and any merits will be rewarded. On March 26, Guo Rong began to reward the meritorious soldiers in the Battle of Gaoping, appointing Li Chongjin as the governor of Xuzhou, Xiang Xun as the governor of Yicheng Army, Zhang Yongde as the governor of Wuxin Army, and Shi Yanchao as the governor of Zhen**.

Except for the Wuxin Army Jiedushi, the other Jiedushi are all in real terms, which is a rare big deal. Guo Rong also used this to establish a preliminary prestige in the army. As long as you really kill the enemy, you can make achievements and get rewards.

Zhang Yongde praised Dong Zunhui for his wit and courage and solemnly recommended him to Guo Rong. Guo Rong did not promote Dong Zunhui's official rank, but appointed him to serve as the Yuhou, the governor of Yanzhou. The Yuhou, the governor of Yanzhou, both were from the fifth rank, and Dong Zunhui was already a fourth rank official at this time, but Dong Zunhui was still very satisfied with these two official positions. The Duhou of the Palace represents the emperor's trust, and the Xu Tie of the Yanzhou Governor said that he was no longer a simple warrior and could also become a minister in the future.

At the same time, Guo Rong passed the order to Huaizhou to release Zhao Chao (the commander of the former commander of Hedu, who was imprisoned for dissuading Guo Rong), and ordered him to atone for his merits. Zhao Chao was relieved of the prison and hurried to Luzhou to thank him for his gratitude. Soon after, he was restored to his post and continued to follow him.

On March 28, Guo Rong appointed Fu Yanqing as the Hedong camp and the Taiyuan Prefecture. He appointed Guo Chongwei as the deputy deployment, Xiang Xun as the chief supervisor, Li Chongjin as the machis and buzzer Yuhou, Dong Zunhui as the commander of the vanguard, Shi Yanchao as the deputy commander of the vanguard, and led 20,000 horse and infantry troops from Luzhou to attack the Northern Han. In addition, Guo Rong also ordered Wang Yanchao and Han Tong to start from Yindiguan to strive to meet with Fu Yanqing in Taiyuan. Guo Rong also appointed Liu Ci as the deployment, Bai Chongzan as the deputy deployment, followed the imperial camp and conquered the Northern Han.

At first, Guo Rong just wanted to lead his army north to shock the Northern Han and buy time for rest and recuperation after the Great Zhou Dynasty. However, unexpectedly, after the Later Zhou army entered the Northern Han Dynasty, the people of Northern Han who had been fed up with Liu Chong's exploitation came to join us. Even if everyone did not join the army, they would squeeze out food from their pitiful reserved grain to comfort the army, which touched Guo Rong very much.

So Guo Rong discussed with his ministers and wanted to destroy the Northern Han Dynasty. Everyone opposed it. Now that the army has insufficient food reserves. If they rashly go north and are entangled by the Northern Han army, the Later Zhou army, which has lost the supply of food and grass, will become fat on the chopping board and be slaughtered by others!

Seeing that everyone was unanimously opposed, Guo Rong was no longer stubborn, but he did not give up and was ready to make a decision after seeing the effectiveness of the campaign to attack Beihan.

Besides, Dong Zunhui was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the vanguard, and with the deputy commander Shi Yanchao, leading five thousand elite troops to open the way and soon arrived at the city of Fenzhou.

The march was smooth along the way. When the people of the Northern Han heard that the army of the Later Zhou was coming, they ignored the coercion and inducement of the local defense envoys. Not only did they not evacuate their villages, but instead came from all over the country to voluntarily work their troops and offer their only little food and firewood. The people were oppressed to the extreme by corrupt officials of the Northern Han, and the people everywhere lived in vain, hoping for the rescue of the Later Zhou army.

Dong Zunhui did not accept the food offered by these people. First, as the advance troops of the entire army, the supplies were relatively abundant, and the people were not easy, and they would lose their vitality after losing their food. Seeing them, they were not covered in clothes and food, Dong Zunhui sighed and ordered the entire army to exchange food for firewood. In just one day, they collected enough firewood for the army and enough hay for war horses to eat.

The people came home happily with the exchanged food, which would allow the hungry doll and the mother-in-law to have a good meal.

One by ten, ten by hundreds, and more and more people came to the Later Zhou military camp. Dong Zunhui did not stop them, but sent people to divide them into more than ten battalions and appointed soldiers as their leaders. Then Dong Zunhui used food as a reward to buy wood from these people and build siege equipment. Under the temptation of food, everyone was full of energy and the barracks became a big workshop!

Seeing the Later Zhou army establishing camps in front of the city and building siege equipment, Fenzhou defense envoy Dong Xiyan was very anxious. On the one hand, he inspected the city walls and strengthened the city defense fortifications, and on the other hand, he sent people to Jinyang to ask for help. As a result, before Jinyang's reinforcements had arrived, Dong Zunhui's envoy to surrender had already arrived in front of the city.

Dong Xiyan did not play any trick of shooting the envoys. Now that the Zhou Dynasty is in great power in the future, it is better to try not to anger them. If the Later Zhou comes to massacre the city, then his own defensive envoy will commit evil to Fenzhou! But Dong Xiyan is unwilling to surrender to the Later Zhou Dynasty. It is said that most of the prisoners in the Battle of Gaoping were sent to the front line of the Huaihe River, and it is difficult to return to their hometown if they have a lifetime. Dong Xiyan is unwilling to die in a foreign land in the future. He hopes that he can gain some benefits from his hometown.

If you want to stay in your hometown and still gain benefits, you have to show your strength and show your kindness to the Later Zhou Dynasty. So Dong Xiyan rejected Dong Zunhui's proposal to surrender and stepped up time to prepare for the war; while secretly sending people to Fu Yanqing's army to make some decisions, so as not to be angry in the future.

After hearing the news that the other party refused to surrender, Shi Yanchao frowned and said, "I heard that there are only more than 2,000 soldiers in Fenzhou City. How dare they refuse to surrender? Dong Xiyan is not a confused guy. What exactly does he want to do?"

Dong Zunhui smiled disdainfully: "What else can I do? I just want to buy myself a good price. In other people's eyes, we two chief and deputy vanguard officers have no weight at all. If we want to surrender, we have to surrender to the head coach!"

Shi Yanchao spat a sputum on the ground: "I want to be a bitch and a archway. How can there be such a good thing in the world? Since you and I have both been appointed as vanguard officials, and Fenzhou will not surrender to our Great Zhou, I think it's just a strong attack on Fenzhou!"

Dong Zunhui nodded slightly: "Brother Shi said it very well. Although our unit is not equipped with flying claws this time, it has built a lot of siege equipment in the past two days. As long as we concentrate our strength and fight bravely, we will definitely be able to take down the city of Fenzhou! I went to see the terrain this morning and found that the defense of the south gate and the west gate of Fenzhou is relatively weak, and the fortifications on the city wall have been disrepaired for a long time. Even the city gate tower is a bit crumbling. I suggest that we focus our attack on these two places! As for the north gate and the east gate, let's leave it to those who are not strong in will to escape!"

Shi Yanchao laughed: "My brother said it very well. It would be better for us to lead an army and attack each other, which would be considered a competition. Anyway, the large army can reach the city of Fenzhou within two or three days. Even if we dispersed the attack, the enemy would not dare to fight back with all our might!"

So the two of them slapped the high fives and decided to lead the siege. Dong Zunhui attacked the west gate and Shi Yanchao attacked the south gate. At the same time, in order to divert the enemy's attention, the two armies jointly selected 500 soldiers and handed them over to Liu Qingyi for command, and feinted the east gate.

In the afternoon of the same day, each division entered the designated location, and Liu Qingyi's troops also quietly ambushed outside the east gate. Soon, Dong Zunhui's troops took the lead in launching an attack. Two hundred archers approached the abandoned moat under the cover of more than a hundred shield soldiers and launched an attack on the enemy soldiers on the city wall.

Don’t think that the number of these 200 people is too small, and the power will be too small. In fact, these 200 archers are all famous archers in the army. With their presence, they can suppress the counterattack arrows on the city walls and create opportunities for archers and the troops who climb the city.

Sure enough, the focal shooting of these 200 people made all the soldiers of the Northern Han army on the city unable to raise their heads. Everyone could only watch quietly from the gap between the battlements and watch the army of Later Zhou approach the city wall.

At this time, Dong Xiyan, who received the report, rushed to the west city wall. He punched and stepped on the guards who were huddled on the ground, forcing them to come forward to fight. Many of them had just flashed from behind the battlements and were shot and injured by the archers under the city. Some of them successfully aimed at the soldiers of the Later Zhou Dynasty and nailed the arrows in their hands to the raised wooden shield.

Dong Xiyan showed her head carefully and glanced at the Later Zhou army under the city. She was very surprised: Didn’t the Later Zhou vanguard army have about 5,000 soldiers? Why did she send only more than 2,000 people at this western wall?!

Just as he was hesitating and thinking, his subordinates hurried over: "Sir, we have been fooled, we have been fooled! The south gate and west gate also found the ground traces, and there were at least two or three thousand people!"

What a plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain. Although there are many people here, they are just a force responsible for feint attacks. The real enemy is at the South Gate and the East Gate. Dong Xiyan said in his heart: If we consume too much energy here, wouldn’t we just send supplies to the enemy!”

Thinking of this, Dong Xiyan immediately ordered: "Draw all the reserve teams to the south gate and defend at the east gate. Never let the enemy attack into the city!"

Hearing his orders, the reserve soldiers in the city immediately began to act. Even the western city had many young soldiers who were eager to make meritorious contributions. They voluntarily withdrew from the current battle and headed to the south gate and the east gate to participate in the battle.

Since the siege troops from the south gate and the east gate were showing their power one after another, and there were sounds of killing on the city wall. Dong Zunhui smiled and ordered: "The whole army raided!"

Half an hour later, the city gate was broken, and Dong Xiyan, who was trying to put on makeup and leave the city, squatting on the ground in dejected manner, saying everything he knew!

That afternoon, Fu Yanqing's envoy came to Dong Zunhui's camp and said to him: "Today the general will definitely attack the city, but even if the enemy can make a move, we will definitely suffer significant losses. Instead of having many casualties, it is better to make him arrogant for a few days, and when he sees our large army in the future, he will definitely surrender to us!"

Ma Dehai, who was sitting next to Dong Zunhui, couldn't help laughing. Seeing Dong Zunhui signaling, he smiled and said, "The news obtained by the envoy is already a bit of a mistake. In the afternoon, we have already taken down the Fenzhou City, and the soldiers suffered minimal casualties!"

Now, Fu Yanqing's special envoy was stunned...

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