Shouzhou City is a thousand-year-old city, it is close to the Huai River, and the city does not look very big. I saw obvious or faint horizontal traces on the city wall, as if something had dried up on the city wall. At this time, Xu Kaiwen had already gone to the city to contact, and Wei Ze had no way to ask.

Looking at Shouzhou City carefully, the generals who came out together were a little stunned. Ke Gongyu, the commander of the first division, and Lei Hu, the commander of the fifth division, were all the people who followed Wei Ze all the way from Changsha to Tianjing, and everyone broke through more than ten cities along the way, and everyone was quite amazed when they saw the city wall of Shouzhou City. The thirteen miles of the city wall of Shouzhou are strange, not big or small. However, with a city wall of two feet high and five feet high and two feet wide, the city wall of this scale, in the impression of the generals, only a few cities can be stronger than the city wall of Shouzhou.

"Can Xu Kaiwen be trusted?" Lei Hu showed timidity as soon as he opened his mouth. It sounded like he was questioning Xu Kaiwen's credibility, but what Lei Hu revealed was his fear that Xu Kaiwen would not be credible.

Ke Gongyu is a fierce general, although he is not as clear as Lei Hu, he also said slowly: "It is indeed not easy to attack this city. ”

The two division commanders were a little worried, and Wei Ze could only cheer everyone up, "What our army is good at is field warfare, and if the Qing demon comes out, it will die." If the Qing demon only dares to defend inside the city, and we wait outside the city, it will be anti-guest-oriented. ”

Listening to Wei Ze's confident words, Lei Hu smiled: "If we are just outside the city, where can we have the kung fu to besiege Shouzhou all the time?" I think the prime minister really wants to build this city. ”

Weeser really wanted to take the city. Shouzhou was called Shouchun in ancient times, and it was a famous city from the Warring States Period. Needless to say, in the game "Three Kingdoms", Shouchun City appears in almost every generation. This is one of Yuan Shu's bases. Although the strategic position of Shouchun continued to decline with the opening of southern China, Shouzhou was naturally an important stronghold of the front line for the strategy of "defending the river and guarding the Huai" determined by Wei Ze. The thousand-year-old city on the banks of the Huai River, with its seemingly strong walls, was able to form a mobile armed force on the road and on the water, and Wei Ze was sure that he would be able to strike a very effective blow against the Qing army.

Ke Gongyu also asked: "Prime Minister, if we take this city, won't we leave?" ”

Wei Ze frowned slightly, "Why do you think so?" ”

Ke Gongyu sighed, "I feel like I need to defend everything now!" "After Wei Ze conquered the county seat of Dingyuan, the front-line military meeting felt that if you wanted to hold the north of Luzhou, you had to hold Dingyuan. After another trek, the troops arrived at the Huai River, and Ke Gongyu felt that he had somewhat understood the correctness of guarding the river and guarding the Huai.

In the vast area between the Huai River and the Yangtze River, there are too many plains, lakes, and rivers. Everyone came out of the impoverished Guangxi, and the land of Anhui is already a real land of fish and rice for Ke Gongyu. After coming out of the mountainous area along the river, seeing such a vast plain area, Ke Gongyu didn't want to go.

Wei Ze can actually feel this mood, Anqing is the capital of Anhui Province, but Anqing is not a grain-producing area, compared with the large plain between Hefei and Shouzhou, Anqing seems very barren. So Wei Ze said: "If we want to gain a foothold in such a big place, we can only kill all the demons in this place." This is not enough, it also needs to make it impossible for the Qing Demon to enter this place in the future. ”

"That's what the prime minister said!" What Lei Hu thinks and feels is actually no different from Ke Gongyu and Wei Ze. There were so many fields along the way that you could imagine how much grain you could get if you had a good harvest on the plains.

When the generals of the Taiping Army under the city of Shouzhou couldn't help but have their own imagination of the beautiful situation after occupying Shouzhou, the Qing army in Shouzhou, which had long been strictly guarding against the Taiping Army, had closed the four gates and was strictly guarding the city.

If the battle is also regarded as a kind of friendship, the Qing army at the head of Shouzhou City and Wei Ze's troops also have some friendship. When Wei Ze went down the river and went straight to Tianjing, it was the Shouzhou Qing army that was in charge of defense in Anqing. The Manchu Qing Dynasty set up the Shouzhou Town Green Battalion in Shouzhou, and the commander was the Shouzhou Town General Soldier.

During the defense of Anqing, Wei Ze had just arrived at the city, and the Shouzhou soldiers dispersed in a hurry, which directly led to the collapse of the Manchu defense in Anqing. Looking at the panicked appearance of the Qing army in the city, Wei Ze suddenly had an impulse. If he attacks now, can he make the Qing army in Shouzhou City scatter like Anqing.

After having this thought, Wei Ze took a look at the two-foot-and-five-foot-high city wall in Shouzhou, and he still had to choose to wait. Two feet and five feet is about five meters and five meters high, Wei Ze only brought 4,000 people to this Shouzhou city, no matter what tactics he adopted, it was impossible for him to capture Shouzhou lightly in a short period of time. But now for Weese, the most lacking thing is time. Even if Wei Ze can afford to spend it in Shouzhou, there are three people behind him, Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang, and Ji Wenyuan, who are anxious to go north. They weren't going to let Weese keep waiting.

In the middle of the night, Xu Kaiwen returned to the Taiping Army camp. At this time, the Taiping army had completely surrounded Shouzhou, and Xu Kaiwen said excitedly: "Prime Minister, the green camp in Shouzhou City is willing to throw a few ropes for us in Xicheng. But they want the prime minister to save their lives. ”

Wei Ze nodded slightly, "This is natural, but Brother Xu, I have already told you that I will wait until tomorrow at most, and then I will go north." If you can get them to do it tonight, then we'll do it. If you can't get them to help, then you'll have to wait until I come back from Fengyang. ”

Xu Kaiwen said a little embarrassed: "Prime Minister, if you can give them another five taels of gold, I can try again." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Lei Hu was unhappy, he shouted: "Okay is good, no good is not good!" What do you think about trying again and again? ”

Xu Kaiwen lowered his head, looking a little like he wanted to speak and stopped.

"Brother Xu, people want others to rush to the front and pick fruits after them. If I were to replace you, I would naturally hope that our Taiping army would storm Shouzhou City. When the battle is almost over, and the defenders in the city want to surrender, you can lead them to surrender to us, and it looks like you are still the credit for opening the city. This is the icing on the cake, everyone wants to do it. Although Wei Ze said calmly, the ruthlessness in his tone made Xu Kaiwen shudder.

Wei Ze continued: "Brother Xu, I'll tell you this. It's not that we can't afford to give five taels of gold to the people who throw the rope, it's just that your idea can't be realized, they can throw the rope to us now, they can not throw the rope to us, and they can collect five taels of gold. Then they feel that if they delay any longer, they are afraid that they will be able to squeeze ten taels of gold per person from us. It's not like I can't do this kind of thing. If you want to do it, then you can pay for it yourself. ”

Xu Kaiwen originally lowered his head, but after listening to Wei Ze's calm words, he raised his head and looked at Wei Ze for a moment before he said: "Prime Minister, it's not impossible to attack the city tonight, but I can only let them throw a few ropes from the city." The rest has to rely on the prime minister to show his might. ”

Wei Ze replied calmly: "If you can throw a few ropes, we just need this." ”

After an hour of contact, Xu Kaiwen hurriedly left Wei Ze's tent outside the city wall south of the West Gate.

Lei Hu asked, "What does Xu Kaiwen think?" Could it be that he sent people from the Manchus to deceive us? ”

Ke Gongyu shook his head, "If the Manchu Qing sent someone to deceive us, then it would be impossible to deceive us to fight Shouzhou." We don't necessarily have to fight Shouzhou, we come to Shouzhou more just to grab the ferry and the boat to cross the river. Now we have it during the day, and the pontoon bridge is starting to be built. After sending Lin Fengxiang and others across the Huai River, there is no need for us to rush from Shouzhou to Luzhou. It's useless to trick us. ”

"That means Xu Kaiwen is afraid?" Lei Hu asked.

"Rebellion is a head-killing business, who do you say is not afraid of doing this kind of head-killing business?" Ke Gongyu said.

"I wasn't scared back then!" Lei Hu strongly argued that he was a member of the Wuzhou Heaven and Earth Society, and he had the intention of rebelling early on.

Ke Gongyu laughed a little disdainfully, "If you had known that you would have to walk so much, fight so many battles, and endure so many hardships before you defected to the prime minister, are you afraid?" Can you really just walk away like when you don't know anything? ”

Lei Hu originally thought that Ke Gongyu was going to say that he was afraid of not being afraid of death, but of course Lei Hu was not afraid of death. At least he felt that after joining Wei Ze's team, he could naturally be called not afraid of death. But I didn't expect Ke Gongyu not to say that he was afraid of death, but he talked about whether he was afraid of hardship. These words suddenly said in Lei Hu's heart, and there was really no need to be afraid of death with Wei Ze. The same big slogan was hung at the various training grounds of Weese's troops, "Sweat more in peacetime, shed less blood in wartime!" ”

With enough training, with scientific training. The combat effectiveness of the troops has increased rapidly, and the stronger the combat effectiveness, the fewer casualties there will be. Now Mo said that it is a general like Lei Hu, even a recruit with some experience knows it. Fear of death and immortality are two different things, in Wei Ze's troops, as long as the enemy can be destroyed first on the battlefield, his own mortality rate can be greatly reduced. If you want to destroy the enemy first, you need to train hard.

When it comes to enduring hardship, Lei Hu suddenly feels that compared with this kind of continuous suffering, death may not be such a terrible thing.

Ke Gongyu, as the commander of the teaching brigade, how could he not understand this feeling. Seeing that Lei Hu was speechless, Ke Gongyu smiled, "We are still like this ourselves, we might as well be a little more tolerant of others." If it's pressed, I'm worried that Xu Kaiwen won't dare to do it because he is afraid. ”

Wei Ze smiled: "It doesn't matter if he dares or not, send a hundred brothers to climb the wall tonight, who thinks his subordinates can do it?" If Xu Kaiwen can do it, how can they enter the city. If Xu Kaiwen can't do it, what should we do. ”

Lei Hu and Ke Gongyu glanced at each other, and replied in unison: "I think my subordinates can do it!" ”

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