Zhu Dadian waited for a long time and saw that no one talked, and said, "What's wrong?" Don't you have anything you can do?

None of the generals below spoke. Among them, the generals of Liaoxi were just watching the excitement. Anyway, they came with cavalry, and it was impossible to use cavalry to attack the city, so they were the easiest. But the other generals were led by infantry. If it's a siege, they will definitely be on it. They don't want to lose their strength.

And even if they lead people to attack the city, it is unlikely to succeed. Because in terms of troops, they do not have an advantage at all. Sun Tzu has a saying in the Art of War: The method of using soldiers, ten is to encircle it, five is to attack it, and the enemy is able to fight, if it is less, it can be escaped, and if it is not, it can be avoided.

The principle of using troops means that if there are 10 times the enemy's strength, we will encircle the enemy, if we have five times the enemy's strength, we will try to disperse the enemy, if we have the same strength as the enemy, we must try to defeat the enemy, if we have less troops than the enemy, we must retreat, and if we are inferior to the enemy, we must avoid a decisive battle.

There is some truth to this. The defending side has walls and equipment, and occupies a great advantage. Attacking the city and rashly attacking the city will only cause heavy casualties! What's more, the current Ming army is only 10,000 more than the rebels.

So Liu Guozhu got up and said under the signal of everyone's eyes: "My lord, the number of our army is too small to attack!" If you forcibly attack the city, I am afraid that this battle will not be worth the loss! Think twice! ”

Zhu Dadian said: "This official naturally knows! But what the official wants to ask is, is there any other way to break through Dengzhou City? ”

Liu Guozhu glanced at the surrounding generals and saw that they all had embarrassed faces on their faces. He gritted his teeth and said simply: "My lord, I'm afraid there is nothing the end of the general can do." ”

Zhu Dadian couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Zhu Dadian has read a lot of military books, and although he has not personally commanded battles, he does know that there are only a few ways to siege the city. With the current strength of more than 40,000 people invested in the siege battle, I am afraid that it will be all wiped out in less than ten days! Maybe when the rebels send a counterattack, the results they have obtained will be gone!

But Zhu Dadian didn't give up, thought for a while and said, "How about attacking the city in the cave?" ”

Liu Guozhu shook his head and said

Said: "My lord, when the soldiers in the camp were digging wells, I saw that the water in the ground was too shallow, and I couldn't dig deep to see the water!" ”

This is true. The city itself is located by the sea, and the groundwater level is very high. It doesn't take much to dig deep and the water comes out! In this case, digging tunnels is tantamount to death.

Zhu Dadian said a few more methods, but all of them were vetoed. When Zhu Dadian heard this, it was not good to say any further, and he was suspected of persecuting the generals. In that way, it is easy to dislike the generals. Zhu Dadian had no choice but to say: "Everyone, discuss and discuss again, try to think of a way." ”

Everyone here is indeed racking their brains for the sake of war exploits. But the solutions they came up with were overturned. In the end, everyone came to a conclusion: it was a long-term siege.

Once the method is come up, things are simple, and specific methods are quickly formed. That is to dig a trench and erect a wall to seal the entire Dengzhou City.

Soon the plan was decided, and Zhu Dadian immediately began to recruit people in the surrounding areas. It's not that this is the delicacy of being a soldier, and it can't be used for menial work. Rather, when digging trenches and besieging them, they must guard against surprise attacks by the other side.

You know, when everyone is working, there is no formation at all. Once the cavalry in the city rushed out, they would inflict heavy casualties on those who did not even have weapons and armor. Therefore, all the armies had to put on their armor and go into battle to protect the people.

The soldiers in the army began to dig and build the wall that day. When the city was working in full swing, Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng and others on the city were cold in their hearts!

In Kong Youde's plan, he most hoped that the Ming army's proud and conceited ants would attack the city. At that time, he can use the city and equipment to kill and injure the Ming army in large numbers! When the momentum of the Ming army decreases and the morale of the army is unstable, he can attack and defeat the Ming army!

As long as this Ming army is defeated, the rebels will have plenty of time to regroup. Capture Laizhou, Pingdu and Jiaozhou again. Relying on the two rivers in the central part of Shandong to form a defensive line, the eastern part of Shandong was divided into a long-term confrontation with the imperial army.

But when he saw the trenches being dug outside the city, he knew that his plan had failed! And his own defeat is also a foregone conclusion!

Now there are more than 30,000 troops in Dengzhou City

team, plus the families of the army, there are almost 50,000 people. These 50,000 people are not the army stationed in Zhengzhou all year round. So their food is spent extraordinarily.

Although the rebels have collected as much food as they can, no matter how much they collect, it is meaningless in the face of a long siege. Sooner or later, one day they will be trapped and starved to death. When that time comes, they will either desperately storm the opponent's strong defenses. Or starve to death, there is no other way out!

Kong Youde carefully observed the formation of the Ming army for a long time, and found that the defense was indeed invulnerable. And the Ming army seemed to have guessed his thoughts, and divided the Guanning army into five teams and slowly swam along the location of the trench.

No matter which gate the cavalry in the city rushes out from, you can be sure that there are two pairs of cavalry from the Guanning Army who will flank them! As long as the cavalry of the Guanning army entangles with them for a moment, other cavalry and infantry will surround them to ensure that the cavalry in the city will not return!

What's more, there really aren't many cavalry in the city anymore. All the horses are only a few hundred horses when they are put together! Once the cavalry leaves the city, it will definitely be killed! Therefore, after carefully studying the formation of the Ming army, Kong Youde patted the city wall and said: "Collect all the food in the city and distribute it according to people from today!" ”

Faced with this situation, Li Jiucheng and others could only nod helplessly. As soon as they left the city, they began to gather food. However, the people in Dengzhou City had almost fled, and they could not collect much food at all.

After the efforts of tens of thousands of people, after ten days, the trench and the wall were completely completed! Dengzhou is surrounded by mountains on three sides, facing the sea in the north, in order to avoid being attacked by the enemy at night, the Ming army is to build a wall of 30 miles in a few days, which is as high as a city, and the east and west ends reach the sea. Chen Hongfan and Liu Zeqing led the infantry to defend the west wall, and Wu Xiang and Jin Guochen led the cavalry to respond; Liu Liangzuo, Deng Xi and others led the infantry to guard the south wall, and Jin Guoqi, Zu Dabi and others led the cavalry to respond; Mu Wenshou and others led the infantry to defend the east wall, and Zu Kuan, Zhang Tao and others led the cavalry to respond. Liu Pei is the Chinese army.

However, the wall did not completely enclose Dengzhou City, but built several gaps. The imperial army could enter the city walls at any time to fight. If the rebels fight back too hard, they can withdraw at any time and be reinforced with firearms on the wall.