Li Sheng recruited 30,000 troops in just five days, Li Sheng did not use the militia soldiers in the Bashu prefectures, he knew very well where to recruit the soldiers he wanted, recruited from the Central Plains and Guanzhong to the displaced people in Bashu, they were eager to go home, willing to fight for home, and more importantly, the harsh living conditions made them not have high requirements for military personnel, as long as they could eat enough and give them money every month to support their families, they were willing to join the army.

Li Sheng soon recruited 30,000 strong soldiers from hundreds of thousands of displaced people, most of whom had military experience and could easily be trained into elite troops.

After a month of training, Li Sheng led this army southward, leaving Sichuan from Xiazhou to Shannan Dongdao.

By the end of August, the wheat fields had gradually begun to turn yellow.

Hexi Dadou pulled out of the valley, a 50,000-strong Hexi army is mightily through the canyon, marching towards Hehuang, Guo Song personally led this army, most of the soldiers of this army are refugees who fled to Hexi from Longyou, there are recruits who joined the Hexi Army the year before last, and there are soldiers who have just turned from the regimental training army, after two years of military training, this time they have experienced more than two months of intensive training, they have gradually been built into an elite army.

It's just that they still lack actual combat experience, and every soldier is full of energy, they have enough qualifications, but their military merits are insufficient, so every soldier is looking forward to this battle, and after this battle, they can be promoted to second-class soldiers, and they will be able to accumulate land every month like first-class soldiers.

This army was led by Guo Song himself, and it was about to be the time to harvest wheat, once the wheat was harvested, Zhu Jun would take away half of their wheat, how could Guo Song agree to this kind of thing?

At this time, Guo Song saw that it was not early, and they happened to be walking in a spacious place, so he ordered: "Camp on the spot!" ”

The soldiers turned over and dismounted, fed the horses with water, took care of the horses, and then sat down to rest, drinking water and eating dry food, while chatting with their companions.

More than a dozen major generals also gathered in Guo Song's marching tent to discuss the strategy of attacking Longyou.

"The information sent by the scouts, the Longyou Army is mainly concentrated in Shanzhou City, there are 10,000 garrisons, and the other 10,000 troops are stationed in various dangerous places, it can be seen that this Longyou Army is still very defensive against Tubo, here I want to make it clear to you, whether it is the Zhu Jun army or other armies, they are essentially different from the Tubo army, the Hui army, the Shatuo army and the Qarlu army, their soldiers are actually ordinary people, my attitude is to try not to kill if I can, of course, the premise is to win, You must not delay the fighter plane in order not to kill, let alone too much of a woman's kindness. ”

"So how do you strike a balance between this?" Liang Wu couldn't help but ask.

Guo Song saw that everyone's eyes were very focused, and obviously they also wanted to know the answer, so Guo Song smiled and continued: "Whether you choose siege warfare or choose to fight the enemy head-on, these don't take into account the enemy's casualties, let's put it this way!" When I say not to kill, I just mean that after defeating the enemy, whether to accept the surrender of the other party, or to kill the other party, the answer is, of course, to accept the surrender of the other party, and secondly, to treat prisoners of war, I am not saying that prisoners of war should be treated preferentially, but at least do not abuse, let alone kill, and let them return to their hometowns after the war, everyone understands! ”

Everyone nodded, Guo Song asked the soldiers to hang up a map, he pointed to a huge city on the map and said: "This is Shanzhou City, we have captured it at the beginning, and now we are facing this city again, but we need to tell you a good news, after we took this city, the marching Sima once conducted a detailed survey of it, so that we know its weaknesses well." ”

After a pause, Guo Song said: "In the ninth year of Tianbao, Shanzhou City was demolished and rebuilt, at that time, because the allocated money for building the city was insufficient, it retained the seemingly relatively solid north city wall, but decades have passed, and the north city wall has also begun to decay, especially at the interface between the north city wall and the east city wall, the crack is very large, and children often get into it to play, from the outside, the crack is only arm thick, but the crack inside is two feet wide, the scout went to check a few days ago, and found that the Longyou army did not repair it, and the crack is still there. ”

"Is the envoy planning to blow up the city wall directly with iron fire and thunder?" Commander Li Bing asked.

Guo Song shook his head, "I plan to salute first and then soldier, and give Zhang Feng a chance to surrender." ”

.......

Before dawn the next day, the Hexi army set off again, all the 50,000 troops were riding war horses, followed by 10,000 camels loaded with various supplies, at noon, the team went out of the big bucket and pulled the valley, entered the Hehuang, the army crossed the Haomen River, and headed for Shanzhou City, a hundred miles away.

After another day, the next morning, the 50,000 Hexi Army arrived at Shanzhou City.

Seeing that it is time to harvest the wheat, the officials in Hexi should have come to discuss the wheat harvest with him, but there is no news so far, don't they want wheat? Of course it can't be, so why not come?

There is only one reason, that is, the Hexi officials don't want to talk to themselves, and if they don't come to the letter, they must come to the military.

He felt that with Guo Song's strength, it was unlikely that he would agree to Zhu Zhu's conditions, but Hexi really gave Zhu Zhu 200,000 sheepskins and 25,000 war horses, so he was a little confused, why did Guo Song show weakness?

It's just that Zhang Feng never dreamed that the Hexi officials were just compromising in the name of Guo Song, and Guo Song was not in Hexi at all, and led a large army to the west to conquer Gelulu.

'When! While! While! ’

As soon as Zhang Feng came out of the official office, he heard the urgent alarm bell from the city wall.

Zhang Feng was stunned and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Returning to the general, I don't know what's going on, there should be an enemy."

'Hostile? Zhang Feng was taken aback, he suddenly remembered Guo Song, could it be Guo Song's army!

He immediately turned on his horse and urged it to run towards the city.

The Longyou Army also has a lot of military forts in the south of the Dadou Tu Valley, but Zhang Feng did not take advantage of it, once the Longyou army is insufficient, he can no longer disperse the troops, and secondly, he feels that it is not necessary, Guo Song really wants to kill from the Da Dou Tu Valley, several military forts can not be stopped, not to mention that the Hexi Army killed from Lanzhou, there is not much resistance.

Zhang Feng turned over and dismounted by the city wall, and walked quickly onto the west city wall, only to see a mighty army in the distance coming to this side, and in front of it was a black dragon flag with a red background, which was the military flag of the Hexi Army.

Zhang Feng sighed secretly, he still guessed by himself, Guo Song will not come to negotiate, he must be able to solve the wheat harvest problem by force, I am afraid that now it is not only the wheat harvest problem, but also the life and death of the Longyou Army.

........

The Hexi army began to set up a large camp about five miles away from Xicheng, and three thousand big tents appeared in the wilderness one after another, and the Hexi army once stationed a large camp here, and the trenches dug back then were still there, so the Hexi army was saved and then continued to dig trenches.

After a short time, a scout cavalry of the Hexi Army galloped forward, stretched his bow and arrows a hundred paces away from the city wall, and shot a letter into the city with an arrow, and the messenger turned around and beat his horse away.

A soldier picked up the letter and rushed to send it to Zhang Feng, Zhang Feng took the letter, only to see that it read: 'Yuanzhou soldiers and horses make Zhang Feng personally enlightened', and the payment was made to the king of Zhangye County, the capital of Anxi, and the envoy of Hexi Jiedu Guo Song.

"General, he's not mistaken, how can he be the Yuanzhou soldier and horse envoy, shouldn't it be the envoy of Longyoujie?" A subordinate general next to him said strangely.

Zhang Feng smiled bitterly, "He's not mistaken, it's just that he doesn't recognize the title given to me by Zhu Jun, and he still treats me as a soldier and horse envoy in Yuanzhou." ”

Zhang Feng opened the letter, and sure enough, it was Guo Song's handwritten letter, in which he persuaded himself to surrender, and he promised to make himself the prince of Xiping County, the governor of Longyou Jiedu and the history of Shanzhou, and at the same time ensure that his wife, children and mother were safely evacuated from Chang'an.

Like all the generals stationed abroad, Zhang Feng's family also stayed in Chang'an as hostages, he has a son and a daughter, as well as a wife and mother, Guo Song even thought of this, which shows that he does have a heart.

Zhang Feng's current official position is the Duke of Longguo, the champion general, and the envoy of the Longyou Festival, and Guo Song has demoted his official title by one level, which makes Zhang Feng feel a little uncomfortable in his heart, besides, Guo Song can represent the Southern Tang Dynasty? What if Li Shi doesn't accept Guo Song's promise?

But what if you don't say yes? The other party is an army of 50,000, with bright armor and murderous spirit, at first glance it is an elite army, where can his 10,000 troops resist?

Zhang Feng's heart was in turmoil, he continued to read the letter, and the last of the letter was to reply to him before noon tomorrow, otherwise the soldiers would meet each other.

Zhang Feng let out a long sigh and went to the dungeon worriedly with his hands behind his back.