Liu Xingming was very excited.

The Son of Heaven is heavy, this is the weight of the Son of Heaven!

"Although Your Majesty orders, the ministers will definitely go to the soup and fire, and they will not give up!"

Liu Xingming patted his chest and showed his loyalty. This attitude is still very good.

Zhu Youlang was very satisfied.

The children can be taught.

"Yiling is an important town, and there must be heavy guards in the city. Although I led a large army to fight in person, I did not want the soldiers to have too many senseless sacrifices. That's why I hope to be able to do a beheading operation. ”

"Decapitation?"

Liu Xingming was stunned when he heard this, obviously not understanding the meaning of this term.

"Ahem, the so-called decapitation operation means that the thief captures the king first."

Zhu Youlang explained: "As long as the enemy generals can be killed, there will be chaos in Yiling City, and our army will be able to easily break the city." ”

There is another reason why Zhu Youlang wants to be tricky.

He wanted to use the batch of guns and ammunition refreshed by the museum to fight a big city like Wuchang.

It is still used to kill chickens with knives.

What's more, how to explain these guns and ammunition for some reason? You have to find the right time.

"But Yiling City is very strong, and the enemy generals must be hiding in the city, so it is not easy to kill."

"That's why we need a hot air balloon."

Zhu Youlang said in a harmonious voice: "The enemy army has never seen this hot air balloon, so it must be defenseless." If you can float above the enemy general, drop another earthen grenade..."

Compared with guns and ammunition, the Ming army wanted as many grenades. Zhu Youlang is not distressed at all when he uses it.

Throwing a grenade at a high altitude can also increase the range and increase the power, which can be said to be perfect.

Before Zhu Youlang finished speaking, the generals understood the intention of the Son of Heaven.

"Your Majesty is really a god."

"If the thieves are leaderless, they can be defeated with one blow."

"This hot air balloon should work wonders!"

In the face of the compliments of the generals, Zhu Youlang pressed down with both hands and said: "You must be strictly conservative in this matter, and you are not allowed to disclose half a word to the outside world!" ”

"Yes!"

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In the Yiling General Soldier's Mansion, Zhou Fan's brows were tightly locked.

According to the sentinel's report, traces of a large number of Ming troops were found outside the city.

Judging from the preliminary inference, the Ming army should have dispatched tens of thousands of people, and maybe more!

Zhou Fan's pressure increased sharply for a while.

He originally thought that the thieves in Kuidong were just here to fight the autumn wind. Who would have thought that the other party would come to the real thing!

What's even more terrifying is that the Ming thief actually abandoned the ship and took the land route, so that Zhou Fan would face the impact of the Ming army.

Now there are only 5,000 soldiers in the city, and it is still possible to defend it.

But in this way, the pressure was very great, and Zhou Fan felt that it was necessary to ask for help from Wuchang in Jingzhou, and asked the governor to quickly allocate troops to support.

He won't be out of town during this time.

As for the fort strongholds on the periphery, Zhou Fan planned to give them all up.

As long as Yiling is kept from being lost, it will be a great achievement.

It's that Liu Xianling was a little breathless, and when he heard that the army was pressing, he hurriedly came to find Zhou Fan, and arranged the aftermath and explained his last words.

Zhou Fan's bad luck.

The good and tired of seeking death is simply a little daughter.

At this point, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty are the same bird.

In fact, Zhou Fan also knows why Liu County's order is so declining.

After all, the enemy army is several times larger than its own. 117

In addition, the responsibilities of civil officials and military generals are different.

If the city is broken, the civil officials will definitely die if they lose their land. Military generals may also be guilty of meritorious service.

So fundamentally speaking, civil officials and military generals are not grasshoppers on the same line.

But Zhou Fan still had to pinch his nose and cooperate with Liu Xianling, at least the relationship could be maintained.

Zhou Fan, who was listening to music idlely, couldn't sit still now, so he ordered his own soldiers to put on armor for him and personally went to the city to check the deployment situation.

Now the soldiers in the city, except for a few hundred personal soldiers, all climbed to the head of the city to garrison.

According to the four gates of each of the 1,000 men garrisoned, although the number of troops seems to be a little small, but it is barely enough.

"Bring up all the rolling logs and stones, and don't pile them on the edge of the tower, but on the edge of the battlements."

"Is tung oil ready? Covered with felt cloth, can't this thing encounter an open flame and die? ”

"Yaksha is fucking rusty, and I don't know how to clean it up, did Lao Tzu raise you to eat dry rice?"

Zhou Fan was furious after inspecting it.

These soldiers are really used to living a good life, and all of a sudden the enemy is not able to keep up.

In this way, the Ming army really attacked the city on a large scale, and Zhou Fan was really a little weak.

"Fucking cheer me up. The thieves may attack the city at any time, and if you don't want the city to be ruined and your head cut off, just give me a stretch! ”

"Lord Commander, now that the thief has not come, it is better for you to go and rest first. It's not a problem to spend all the time in the city. ”

Seeing that Zhou Fan was in a hurry, the soldiers comforted him with kind words.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Fan glared at him fiercely and said, "Rest a fart." The enemy is currently in the spot, where does Lao Tzu have the heart to rest. ”

"Then you can't keep consuming it, where can your body eat like this. Why don't you take a rest in the castle tower first, and if there is a situation, the small one will tell you in time? ”

Zhou Fan said in his heart that this was about the same, and nodded reluctantly.

"Report the situation immediately!"

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According to the established plan, Zhu Youlang led the army to arrive outside Yiling City.

In fact, he didn't know much about the common siege methods of this era. The last time I took Chongqing, it was also a strategy.

It was Zhu Youlang who handed over the command of the siege to Li Dingguo.

Anyway, the layout of the frontal battlefield is based on the premise of not sacrificing too many soldiers.

Li Dingguo formulated the strategy of attacking the cave, instead of choosing the ants with a high casualty rate to attack the city.

Zhu Youlang thought that the acupoint attack was digging a tunnel, how long would it take to dig the heart road, how could it take ten days and half a month, right?

Li Dingguo explained that it was only necessary to dig up the foundation.

Zhu Youlang still felt that this was too inefficient, so he suggested using a coffin with explosives to blow up the city.

Gunpowder was ready-made, but coffins were not, so they had to be cut down wood to make it.

Although Li Dingguo didn't know what His Majesty's actions meant, judging from His Majesty's previous actions, the results were very good.

He had no reason to refuse.

According to Zhu Youlang's request, the Ming army began to dig tunnels not far from Yiling City.

This distance was very clever, and the archers who had just left the city were within range.

Therefore, even if the Qing army found out that the Ming army began to dig tunnels, the little daughter-in-law was in a hurry to get on the sedan chair.

Usually the tunnels need to be dug very deep.

But Zhu Youlang demanded that as long as he dug the foundation of the wall. As for the width, it doesn't need to be too wide, and it can fit the next coffin.

Even the Ming army felt inexplicable, and the Qing army at the head of the city was even more foggy.

The soldiers truthfully reported what they had seen to Zhou Fan, and Zhou Fan was suspicious.

The Ming army wants to dig tunnels into the city? So blatant?

"I'm going to see for myself!"

Zhou Fan still felt a little unsure, and strode out of the city tower with a knife.

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