Bright Spring

Geng Hao turned his head and saw Wu Gao, his face immediately turned pale with fright, and he clasped his fists and bowed deeply: "My son-in-law pays homage to my father-in-law. My son-in-law is able to serve under the command of my father-in-law who is wise, martial, and capable of fighting, so I dare not be dissatisfied in the slightest." ! My son-in-law just thought of this so far, and is planning to make contributions and live up to the high expectations of his father-in-law."

"Take your time, don't rush." ​​Wu Gao glanced at him, "Although you are the Empress of Changxing, you have never fought a war, you need to practice more."

Geng Hao said: "I would like to follow the teachings of my father-in-law."

Wu Gao said again: "There is no son-in-law in the army!"

Geng Hao clasped his fists obediently and said, "Yes, Commander."

Wu Gao climbed up the hillside and ignored Geng Hao. He raised his head to face the wind and watched the scene to the west.

The name of this place is Maoyunba, and it is about two to five to sixty thousand away from Guizhou City, and the other says one hundred thousand!As they said, the banners cover Taoists and horses like a long dragon, and you can't see the beginning and the end! "

"Blindness!" Wu Gao scolded, "I think the soldiers and horses of the King of Han going south are more than [-] at most. Where did the [-] reinforcements come from? Then send someone to investigate!"

"Decree!" The general bowed.

The right deputy general, Liu Sheng, was much more stable than Chen Mao. He didn't say a word before, and then he said: "Wu Gong, is the main force of the King of Han's army in Guizhou City, or is it Maoyunba?"

"General Liu asked a good question. This matter is the most important thing in this battle!" Wu Gao said, "No matter what, the King of Han can never divide the two forces equally, regardless of the importance. There is no reason to use troops like this."

Wu Gao pondered for a moment, and then said in official dialect with a Liaodong accent: "At this time, it is time to strengthen the fortifications and put the whole army on alert; and explore the surrounding trails to prevent enemy attacks. We must first understand the main force of the rebel army of the King of Han, what is going on! "

Liu Sheng cupped his fists and said, "What Wu Gong said is very true."

Wu Gao's eyes were still focused on the distant mountains and forests, and he pointed to the front and said, "Continue to send scouts into the mountains to investigate."

Perhaps Wu Gao also knew that there were enemy soldiers inside such a big mountain, and it was difficult for the scouts to find out the situation, so he said: "There is another way, to find out how many rebels there are under the city of Guizhou, and then we can deduce the truth."

Chen Maodao: "Guizhou City has something else to say, just nodded slightly. He raised his head and glanced again, thinking: If there is no purpose in deceitful defeat, then the enemy general is not doing this foolishly?"

"Report!" A cavalry rushed from the camp, "Commander, the scouts found enemy cavalry in the valley to the south!"

Wu Gao hurriedly said: "Order the whole army to return to the camp and stick to it according to the established policy!"

Chapter 427 The Siege

On the big hillside of Taniguchi, a tree was cut down.Standing here, Liu Ying's eyes widened.In the vast white mist, many black figures in the enemy's formation are moving to the east.

Liu Ying watched for a while, looked around, and sighed with some disappointment: "The Marquis of Jiangyin is indeed very calm, if he comes into the valley, there will be good fruits for him to eat!"

As soon as this remark came out, several guard commanders immediately looked sideways, looking at Liu Ying with strange eyes.But those generals didn't talk much, just kept silent.

The generals in the army knew the inside story, and Liu Ying didn't have many ambush soldiers in the forests on both sides.This morning, the formation must be strong, and most of the soldiers and horses are in the formation!But Liu Ying even lied to his own people, maybe even he himself believed the lie.

Liu Ying felt the gazes of the generals, looking around, everyone bent down one after another, and someone said: "Captain Liu is wise."

But just now Liu Ying was so scared to death!He was timid in the first place, but when he thought that if Wu Gao didn't fall for the trick and the army came over to cover him up, the fraudulent defeat would really turn into a big defeat...

This morning, when he knew that the enemy army was about to attack with a large formation, Liu Ying finally overcame his fear, bit the bullet and pulled the only tens of thousands of people up to support the scene!Because he has understood a truth since he was a child: the more you show weakness, the more others will bully you!

Liu Ying has done this kind of thing countless times, and sometimes he failed. When he met a really ruthless person, he had to find an opportunity to give in; but most of the time it worked.

Today was just a repeat of the old tricks, Liu Ying even dispatched the only cavalry to bypass the enemy's rear flank, pretending to threaten to kill the opponent in a battle... a little accident, the consequences were a bit serious, and now he can still hear His chest was pounding like a drum.

He dared to make such a decisive decision before because he had thought about it before.The key point of delaying Wu Gao's army this time is that Wu Gao cannot be allowed to find out his details, otherwise the enemy will be outnumbered and it will be more difficult to stop him.

Liu Ying stood on the hillside for a long time, it seems that he has not recovered his soul yet.He was in a complicated mood, but he was not at all happy when his trick succeeded.There was a long sigh of relief in his heart, but he hated such things very much; because he deeply felt the malicious temptation, as if danger had just brushed his cheek.

... At the end of the first lunar month, the city of Guizhou was smoggy and full of voices.

After spending several days in the loud noise, Zhu Gaoxu felt a little dizzy early in the morning.Sitting in the fort that served as the shaft of the Chinese army, he rubbed his forehead vigorously with his hands, and let out a long breath.

At this time Miao Jin came in, she took a look at Zhu Gaoxu, then silently went to fetch water and burn it on the table stove.

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly said: "People have two very strong inability. One is to live, and the other is to want to live better. However, the war is the opposite, and it has not stopped for thousands of years."

Miao Jin turned around and said, "Maybe it's because he wanted to live that he wanted others to die. Isn't that the case with the King of Han?"

"It makes sense." Zhu Gaoxu said thoughtfully.

At this moment, most of the deputy generals Zhao Ping came in. Because of Zhao Ping's identity and the fact that this place was the lobby of the Chinese Army, he walked straight to Zhu Gaoxu, bowed his head and whispered for a while.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't say a word.Zhao Ping breathed out, bowed and said: "Fortunately, Wu Gao was fooled. If the enemy army is determined to compete with Liu Ying, Liu Ying's troops will be wiped out within a day! Liu Dudu has always been a bit aggressive."

Zhu Gaoxu pondered and said: "Liu Ying has his own considerations, the king only cares about the results." He then asked, "Is there any news from Yunnan in the past few days?"

Zhao Ping shook his head, then suddenly said: "Yesterday evening, Qingyan Tunnel was breached by our troops, and the brothers found this thing..." After he finished speaking, he took out a piece of paper from his pocket.

Zhu Gaoxu held it in front of his eyes for a while, and it was stamped with the seal of the capital of Guizhou, signed by Gu Cheng!The content reads that if the city of Guizhou is besieged, the military generals in Qingyantun will immediately send someone to report to the commander of the reinforcements after finding out the military situation.

Zhao Ping said in a deep voice: "Why don't you send a spy to meet Wu Gao with this military order and report false news to him!"

Zhu Gaoxu immediately used his imagination and thought of various situations. After a while, he shook his head and said, "Liu Ying is dealing with Wu Gao. Send the military order to Liu Ying's camp and let him deal with it according to his discretion. It's best not to interfere too much, so as not to add to the liking, but to trap him."

Zhao Ping clasped his fists and said, "The final general obeys orders."

Zhu Gaoxu was going to inspect the battlefield ahead immediately, but when he saw that Miaojin had boiled water, he was supposed to make tea for him, so he sat in the room for a while, and waited until he drank the strong tea made by Miaojin. go out.

... On the vast battlefield, it looks a bit messy, but the distance is very layered.If you look closely, you can see the structure of the siege army.

With the city of Guizhou as the center, seven hundred steps away from the city is the siege fortification of the Han Dynasty army. The long earthen walls and fences are like a long fence.There are many bamboo and wooden arrow towers, and countless camp gates are like classical archways.

Nearly two hundred steps away, thick smoke billowed everywhere.The branches of the burning firewood were covered with wet leaves and thatch, and the charred plant ash flew all over the sky along with the rising smoke.

Countless return guns hidden in the depths of the thick smoke made a loud sound, "Crack!"

After those return guns are installed, it is difficult to move the place.However, the range of the enemy's heavy artillery is farther than that of the return artillery. In order to avoid being destroyed by the artillery, the smoke is the cover.

Both sides fired guns, and neither could aim accurately; the method was to observe where the shells landed, and then adjust the direction a second time.However, the return artillery positions of the King of Han Army were covered by smoke, so the enemy could not know whether the heavy artillery shells hit or not.

At this time, on the city wall two or three hundred steps away, there was a "bang" in the air, and a cloud of white smoke remained in the air in the distance.Zhu Gaoxu glanced at it, and thought to himself: The lead wire of the pig iron mine fired by the return gun has to be lengthened, and when the mine exploded, it was also tested...

At a distance of fifty or sixty steps, there are many sacks filled with soil stacked on the two trenches ten steps apart. There are gaps between adjacent sacks, just like the wall stacks of a city wall.Countless bow|crossbowmen stood in chest-high trenches, shooting arrows at the city wall from time to time.Cannons such as bowl-mouth guns were also fired one after another, and gunpowder smoke filled the ditch.

In the past, some generals believed that the enemy army was condescending on the city wall, and it was useless for the brothers to hide in the ditch.But Zhu Gaoxu thinks it is useful.

At that time, he drew a long flat triangle on the ground as a demonstration of his ideas.

The long bottom line of the triangle is the distance from the city wall to the moat, which is more than fifty steps; the city wall is more than two feet high, maybe five steps high.The ratio of ten to one is such a shape.

The hypotenuse is the direct shot trajectory of the bow|crossbow, so it is impossible to hit the sergeant in the ditch; unless the arrow is thrown into the air and the arrow falls from the head, then it can only rely on luck...

Near the trench, there were many soldiers pushing wheelbarrows, transporting soil to the side of the moat.

The convoy avoided the bombardment of the artillery in an extremely sparse formation, and occasionally some people were unlucky and were hit by the shells; although there were wooden shields on the earth truck, the arrows thrown by the defenders would cause casualties to the soldiers from time to time.

"Boom boom boom..." The sound of the large and small artillery on the city wall was like thunder.When the return gun here was fired, the oiled wood still rubbed|rubbed and made a sour sound, and the moment the shell was projected, the sound was even more deafening.