"Military advisor, I don't see much wood and rolling stones on the city, as long as I fight once, I will definitely be able to capture the walled wall, and the last general is willing to go to the city first." At this time, Luo Cheng turned out from behind Qin Qiong and asked for battle in front of Xu Mao's stallion.

"Hmmm! Poor Dao also saw that the materials in the city had been exhausted, and it was the time to seize the city, Luo Gongzi, you have a noble status, I am afraid that you are not suitable for the battle, if you are injured, I will not be able to explain to King Yan where I am in the green forest. Xu Maogong also sensed that the wall was about to be taken down, and seeing that Luo Cheng wanted to steal the credit, it was not good for Qin Qiong to let him take the lead in terms of face, and he was also afraid that something would happen to him, and Qin Qiong would not be able to go to see his uncle Luo Yi.

"Cousin, don't be reckless, if you go behind your brother, this battle will give way to your brother." Qin Qiong saw Xu Maogong's concerns, but also knew that Luo Cheng would not give up, so he came up with this compromise and let his cousin follow him, and he should be fine.

When Luo Cheng saw what his cousin said, he had to agree. When the army was ready to stop, there was a drum in the array, and Qin Qiong and Luo Cheng led 5,000 men and horses to rush towards the Wagang wall.

Li Jing was observing from the city tower at this time, and he had already seen Qin Qiong personally leading the team to attack the city, and he couldn't help but be happy in his heart. I thought to myself, I was worried about how to choose the right time to withdraw my troops up the mountain, since Qin Qiong personally attacked the city, it was just a good excuse to retreat.

"Come on! Inform the two generals defending the city that when Qin Qiong and Luo Cheng are halfway through the city, all the troops will withdraw and go up the mountain and retreat to the second line of defense. Li Jing asked the herald to hurry up and give the order.

After receiving Li Jing's order to retreat, Liang Shitai was overjoyed and ordered: "Don't save it, throw down the sassa wood in your hand as soon as possible, and immediately withdraw the troops back to the mountain." ”

After only a moment, Qin Qiong and Luo Cheng began to climb the ladder with a large group of people. Liang Shitai looked carefully, and originally wanted to shoot Qin Qiong and Luo Cheng with a bow and arrows in person, but he remembered that the lord had said that he had to save the lives of these people, so he had to use arrows to shoot those minions who followed the city.

Seeing that Qin Qiong had already climbed half of the city wall, Liang Shitai shouted: "Oh no, there are no bows and arrows, and the wood is also used up, quickly withdraw, quickly!" ”

On the wall over there, after Wu Tianxi stabbed down a small leader of the minion soldiers who had already landed in the city with a gilt hammer, he was also busy shouting to his subordinate soldiers to withdraw his troops and go up the mountain. All the sergeants knew the plans of their respective generals, and they were all waiting for the order, and when they saw that the order had been given, they were not nostalgic for the city, so they turned around and quickly retreated to the city. Wu Tianxi and Liang Shitai broke off, blocking the green forest soldiers who had already landed in the city, and when Qin Qiong and Luo Cheng came to the city, the two had already retreated to the city, dragging their weapons upside down, and ran to the mountain with the army.

Seeing that all the troops retreated into the mountain gate, the guards hurriedly closed the mountain gate, on the plank road more than ten meters high on both sides, 500 archers had been ambushed respectively, and dozens of crossbowmen were also ambushed on the low city tower of the mountain gate, just waiting for the green forest army to attack on the climbing steps outside the mountain gate.

Outside the city, Xu Maogong, Wei Zheng and others saw with their own eyes that Qin Qiong, Luo Cheng and other troops had already landed in the city and repelled the defenders, and they all laughed.

Xu Maogong smiled and shook his feather fan and shouted to the army behind him: "The wall of the village under Wagang Mountain has been broken, and we will enter the city as soon as possible." With that, he urged his mount to rush forward, and the people followed him into the city of Wagang.

"Commander, the Wagang defenders have retreated up the mountain. The mountain has long been prepared, and it is not appropriate to attack it again at this time. Qin Qiong saw Xu Maogong enter the city, so he stepped forward and said.

Looking up at the foot of the mountain is different from watching from a distance, it seems that the mountain is more tall and steep when it is closer, not far away there is only a stone staircase less than two zhang wide winding upward, the surrounding strange rocks are craggy on both sides are cliffs and cannot climb the mountain, if you want to capture this last fortress there is only one way.

"Tell me to go down, and I will end here today, and after resting for a while, I will attack the mountain in one fell swoop tomorrow." Xu Maogong couldn't help but chuckle in his heart when he saw this terrain, and secretly complained, the difficulty of conquering this level on the mountain gate is no less than that of the wall, and it seems that the Wagang guards have already prepared. But I can't say it explicitly, for fear of hurting the morale that is booming now.

After lunch, several major generals gathered in the walled city buildings to discuss.

"Now, our army has captured the wall at the foot of Wagang Mountain, and most of it has succeeded. It's just that this mountain checkpoint is extremely unfavorable to attack with our army, and I'm afraid it won't be a day's work! Xu Maogong saw that the dozen or so people who entered the house to discuss were all good brothers, so he told the truth.

"Brother Dao Chang, with Bodang's strategy, it is still mainly to consume its garrison materials, lure it to shoot more arrows, and after its arrows are exhausted, we will wait for a blow, and the mountain level will be broken!" Wang Bodang waved his Xiao flute in his hand and whispered to everyone, and most of the people nodded in agreement.

"Brother Bodang, although this plan is good, it will inevitably be protracted, and our army's food is worried!" Qin Qiong stepped forward and said, time is the most critical thing for him, there is already a letter from Jeju, it is Fan Hu, a friend in the government office, who came to urge him to return to the yamen on duty, the original month holiday has been delayed for 3 days, Fan Hu is a little unable to hide for him in the mansion Yin, Qin Qiong is secretly anxious in her heart, but the friends have not finished helping yet, so it is not good to leave halfway.

"Strategist, at the end of tomorrow, I will lead the troops to attack once and try it, so as to explore the reality of the defenders." Luo Cheng knew his cousin's difficulties and was also in favor of a quick attack. Maybe you can get it in one fell swoop, but it's unknown.

"Hmmm! Luo Gongzi's words are reasonable, or so, tomorrow with Luo Gongzi as the main general, You Junda, Cheng Yanjin, Jia Yanfu and Liu Zhouchen as deputy generals to lead 2000 troops, try to attack first, if you can't attack, don't force it, you should test the truth and reality, you wait to prepare first! Xu Maogong didn't have a good plan, so he just waited for a test before making a decision as Luo Cheng said.

Seeing that the five people were ordered to prepare, Xu Maogong said to everyone again: "This Wagang Mountain is really difficult to fight, and it can be done in a day or two, and it needs to be considered in the long run." Where are Master Liang and Ding Tianqing? ”

"Strategist, my brother is here, what do you command?" Master Liang and Ding Tianqing heard the call and hurriedly went out to give a salute.

"The two of you are all the way, leading 500 soldiers and horses from the headquarters, and going to the direction of Weicheng in Jizhou to raise food, and if you can't raise 100,000 stones, you are not allowed to return, and you should be limited to ten days." Xu Maogong ordered the two.

"Yes, my two brothers will set out tonight, and they will raise enough food for the army of 100,000 stones."

"Huang Tianhu, Li Chenglong."

"Strategist, my brother is here!"

"There are not too many generals here, you two accompany all the way, lead 500 soldiers and horses, and go to Luokou to raise food, also limited to ten days, and ask the two of you to raise enough 100,000 stone military food to pay the order here, how about it?"

"Don't worry! Brother, the two of us will also leave tonight. ”

Seeing that all the things he wanted to think about were arranged, he told everyone to disperse to rest and recuperate, so as to prepare for the battle of attacking the mountain tomorrow.

Besides, Lu Zhao, Jiyuan Prefecture, Zezhou, is next to it.

There is good news that the people and horses sent by the two places have come, Hou Junji was originally a person in the rivers and lakes, a down-and-out scholar, with Wu Bao swept all the way over, and the direction of Luoyang Luokou would be Zhou, Chen, and Zeng's three major scholar clans were swept away, and the furniture was also confiscated, and the real estate was collected as their own, and the three big families helped the old and the young to go to Luoyang, and each of the three large manors left a strong flag officer with 300 soldiers to garrison, waiting for the subsequent Wu Yunzhao Department to come and receive. The small scholar manor in the vicinity was also wiped out as much as possible according to the marks on the map given by Lu Zhaolin, and the progress was extremely smooth. Jiao Fang and Wu Kui were originally Xiangma Congliang, and they were even more handy at robbing the rich squires, all the way to Shandong, sweeping away the five gentry surnamed Zheng, Wang, Sima, Zhen, and Liu, and doing the same thing as Hou Junji and Wu Bao, but it made people feel that this road was more like a bandit who occupied the mountain and plundered the mountain. Both of them deliberately avoided the "food-raising" people on the green forest road, so as not to be detected by them.

In the past few days, there has been an endless stream of looted grain that has been plundered and crossed the river overnight and is stored in the treasury of Jiyuan Prefecture.

"Inform the two men and horses to attack at night as much as possible according to the map and sweep the clans within a radius of 300 miles. When the task is completed, you must not reveal your whereabouts and be recognized. Lu Zhaolin couldn't help but be happy when he looked at the achievements created by the two people who fought the autumn wind in the present. It's just that Wu Yunzhao on the side was anxious, and it was not good to ask Lu Zhaolin.

"General Yunzhao, don't panic, there will be 2 more days at most, and it will be up to you. If you attack, not only do you have to take over the territory, but also take advantage of the situation to exterminate the green forest cottages in your jurisdiction, whether he is righteous or evil, if he is resisted, all of them will be strangled. Lu Zhaolin said lightly to the anxious Wu Yunzhao.

"Don't worry, my lord, Wu will act on his own in the future. It's just that the territory of the land is not large, how can the elite soldiers of my White Horse Battalion be scattered. Wu Yunzhao raised his incomprehension.

"General, don't worry, you are out of the White Horse Battalion, I have already prepared 5,000 soldiers from the Zezhou Prefecture and hundreds of government officials here. You take over a piece of land, and my people here will take over the management and will not disturb each other. Hehe! Lu Zhaolin had already arranged it, and said with a smile on his limited few locks of beard, looking like a miser.

In fact, the earliest Yang Er used Lu Zhaolin was to value his ruthlessness and unkindness.

But a messenger suddenly arrived, ruining Lu Zhaolin's good mood.

Even Yang Er had never thought of this news.

On the way to Donglai County, Li Taizhi handed an urgent secret letter he had just received into Yang Er's car.

"This matter is urgent, and the girl will quickly hand it over to the lord to read." Li Taizhi said anxiously outside the car, he knew that it was just after noon, Yang Er had the habit of taking a nap, and at this time there was a slight snoring sound in the car, so he knew that the lord was just taking a nap.

"Young master, young master, wake up, wake up!" Seeing that Li Taizhi was anxious, Abeyi knew that the matter was urgent, and hurriedly entered the car and shook Yang Er's arm and shouted eagerly.

"What's the alarm, did the tiger come down from the mountain?" Yang Er rubbed his eyes and said ignorantly.

"Brother Shi, wake up! Master Li was waiting outside in a hurry. Dusty said angrily.

"Oh! Good. With that, he sat up straight, and hurriedly opened the secret letter that Abey had handed him. This is a specially wrapped secret letter sent to the Luzhou camp, and the level of urgency and confidentiality is the highest, and Yang Er suddenly felt a little bad in his heart.

"MMP, sure enough, something happened. This dog RD Li Yuan, Lao Tzu beat wolves at the front door, and he didn't even prevent wild dogs from entering the backyard. Yang Er's foul language scolded Li Yuan with pleasure. The second girl in the car laughed out loud when she heard it, she had never heard such a cursing way.

"Lord Li, bring a letter back to Luzhou for this king, and say that Pei Sima will stay in the camp, and Yuwen Chengdu will guard Luzhou and not move. Pei Yun was ordered to hang the seal of commander, Xiong Kuohai was the main general, Wei Wentong was the deputy general, the general of the pioneer battalion and 50,000 military horses went north to defend against the enemy. In addition, Zhai Rang, Luo Song, and Ding Yanping will each guard the city and do not move, if the city is lost, the king will ask him to wait to see him. Yang Er ordered angrily.

"Yes, my lord, the lower official will go and deliver the decree." Li Taizhi knew what to do, and immediately started to handle it after listening to the instructions, not daring to delay in the slightest.

"I don't know what happened to Lu Zhaolin's income?" Yang Er couldn't help but think, that Li Yuanxuan in the north chose to provoke Hedong at this time, it must be because I, Hedong, was trying my best to deal with the attack of the green forest heroes, and I couldn't get out. It's a pity that now is not the time to tear up the face with Li Yuan's forces, alas! What a good opportunity for Li Yuan of the Northern Expedition to Jinyang! I don't know if there will be such a reason for war in the future. This Chai Shao is really a fuel-efficient lamp! Isn't it just that I was pitted! As for the vindictiveness, is it so strong?

Luzhou Daying, Hedong.

"Has the lord's reply arrived?" For two days in a row, Pei Shiju kept asking anxiously in front of the bureaucrats. It has been five days since the emergency return to the lord was delivered through the channels of the Military Intelligence Department, and he and everyone here have been anxious for the past few days. The rebels from Jinyang in the north have invaded several counties in the northeast of Hebei for several days, and Ding Yanping, who is stationed in Huo County, and Luo Song in Pu County, have urgent letters asking for help, which are sent to the Luzhou camp through Zhai Rang in Jiang County, and all kinds of losses are increasing day by day.

"My lord, here's the Lord's letter." At this moment, Liu Wenjing and Yu Wenhua appeared in the hall of the palace, Liu Wenjing held a bamboo tube in his hand, stepped forward and handed it to Pei Shiju. Because of the importance of the matter, the two went to the hall together to discuss.

"Huh! Okay, almost as I thought. The congregation will obey the order! After Pei Shiju opened the letter and read it, his heart calmed down and he shouted with a smile.

"The lord has an order: Pei Shiju guards the Luzhou camp, and General Yuwen Chengdu leads the troops and horses not to move; Pei Yun was ordered to hang the seal of the commander, Xiong Kuohai was the main general, Wei Wentong was the deputy general, the vanguard battalion generals and 50,000 military horses went north to resist the enemy. Zhai Rang, Luo Song, and Ding Yanping were all guarding the city and were not allowed to go out of the city without authorization to suppress the enemy. ”

"Yes, as the Lord commands." The crowd replied in unison. Afterwards, the generals went out to prepare, only to wait for the whole army to attack early tomorrow morning.

Several guards in the north did not dare to go out of the city without permission to kill the bandits, for fear that if they accidentally lost the city, the loss would be even greater. Every day, I watched people everywhere drag their families into the city for refuge. Among them, Puxian, where Luo Song was stationed, was under the greatest pressure.

"Damn! Wearing Turkic clothes, he can speak Chinese, what a fucking foolish boy! It's not his Li Yuan's Tang soldiers who are called ghosts. Dadao Luo Song stood at the head of the city and looked at the people who were constantly gathering into the city in the distance.

"Go and ask, if there is a letter from the Luzhou battalion, it really wants to suffocate people to death."

"General, I just went to see it, but no letter came. However, there was a message from the nearest General Huo Xianding, saying that these robbers who pretended to be Turks were only raiding in the countryside and would not attack the city. Let the general collect as many people as possible from all the towns into the city to take refuge for a while. The henchman behind him replied.

"This Ding Shuanggun, Lao Tzu is not stupid, and he can't see this way? He just wanted to remind me that Dadaoluo should not be lured out of the city. Luo Song said bluntly angrily.