On the main road to the northeast, countless soldiers walked, and the people and horses did not see the head and the tail. Li Chongjin sat on the horse, turned his head and said to Li Jixun: "It's okay if I go to Haozhou, this Shouzhou matter has nothing to do with me, let's just wait and see how Guo Shao dies!" ”

Li Jixun was silent, remembering that the camp outside Shouzhou City was attacked, and he should also be responsible...... After all, Guo Shao came to beg for himself. Now that I think about it, I really underestimated Liu Renzhan; If you can expect it, of course you won't take military affairs as a child's play for personal prejudices, and you don't have much prejudice against Guo Shao, but you just look down on his ability, he is too young.

Li Jixun groaned: "Guo Du's opponent is Liu Renzhan, let him compete with Liu Renzhan, it is indeed a bit unusual, and he bullies the small with the big." Guo Du is also moldy enough. ”

He said in his heart: He is not Liu Renzhan's opponent. Although Liu Renzhan took advantage of defending the city, he had few soldiers, and the combat strength of the south was not good.

"Dig tunnels and build earth...... Hey, I dare to make a military order for a one-month period, and I don't know if I can give him a one-year deadline, it depends on how much grain there is in Shouzhou City. Li Chongjin sighed, "I really want to see how he dies, but we haven't reaped any benefits in Huaishui, Guo Shao can't force out the reinforcements of the Southern Tang Dynasty in Shouzhou, and he has to wait for a month!" Look at the ...... Yangzhou over there"

Speaking of which, Li Chongjin stopped, he didn't want to mention Zhang Yongde's name. Li Jixun and Zhao Kuangyin around him are said to be sworn brothers, and Zhao Kuangyin is Zhang Yongde's person...... Too lazy to mention. Zhao Kuangyin can be beautiful now, and it also depends on Zhang Yongde to ask for credit for him after the Battle of Gaoping, otherwise Zhao Kuangyin would not have had a chance to enter the eyes of the emperor; With the grace of this acquaintance, coupled with the relationship between his old subordinates, Zhao Kuangyin must have breathed out of the same nostril with Zhang Yongde.

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Yangzhou's Zhao Kuangyin did play very easily. He had a black face and a smile all the time, and sometimes his face was almost smiling. After entering Huainan, I don't know why it was so smooth, as if it was favored by God, it was very unrestrained and often could be played casually. For example, when he attacked Chuzhou, he tried his hand after some incitement, and shot down the main general of Nan** with a single horse, and he actually broke the city like this, which was like reaching into his pocket and digging out something. Of course, he didn't go to the city guarded by Liu Renzhan, it was a place for fools to fight.

Recently, a group of soldiers and horses originally crossed the river from the south bank of the Yangtze River to other places, and found that Yangzhou had fallen, and actually wanted to come over to attack Yangzhou.

Of course, Zhao Kuangyin did not let go of this kind of people and horses sent to the door, while sending people to ask for orders, and on the other hand, he led the iron cavalry out of the city to attack without waiting for a reply.

After a large-scale rectification, the Iron Cavalry eliminated nearly half of the people, and selected elite soldiers from all over the country to supplement the soldiers; There are as many as 30,000 iron cavalry troops, especially cavalry, and they are very good at war. Zhao Kuangyin led the Iron Cavalry Army to fight a little-known army in the south, without any tactics, the heavy cavalry was brainless in front of the attack, and the rear army swarmed to kill people. defeated 30,000 Tang soldiers and killed more than 10,000 people in one day...... Like chopping vegetables and melons, Nan** is simply the head of the person sent to the door. Another great achievement!

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But Guo Shao in Shouzhou is the complete opposite, he has done whatever it takes, and it is still very difficult.

"Are you sure the length of this rope has just reached the city wall?" Guo Shao cautiously asked a soldier.

The soldier replied, "That's right, the little one lay on the road for half the night, and in the early hours of the morning, when he saw the soldiers on the city wall dozing off, he climbed to the corner of the wall and pulled the rope." ”

Guo Shao asked again like a verbose woman: "Is the rope straightened?" The soldier replied, "Straight." ”

He lowered his head, and there was a black earth hole like a dry well beside him, and below it was a tunnel; However, the head of the tunnel is in the second line of defense behind, and it is difficult to find the direction of the tunnel in the city now.

Moreover, there are a total of eighteen tunnels around the city, scattered within twenty miles on the east, west, and south. After Li Chongjin left, Guo Shao ordered the siege to be stopped, and only used catapults to attack the city wall, and the most important thing for everyone to do all day was to dig tunnels and build soil.

Guo Shao looked up, and there was a fire at the foot of the city wall in the distance, and thick smoke was billowing out. Many sergeants with shovels were digging up the soil to extinguish the fire.

Two earthen ramparts are being built, but they are not going well. The city wall in front of Shouzhou City is stacked with earth, and it is obvious that both the enemy and I know what the Zhou army wants to do...... By piling up the earth next to the wall and making it a mountain, you can create a ramp next to the wall, which can be climbed without the help of any equipment. However, the generals did not think that this method would work. Braving arrows, stones, and fire, oil to pile up the earth at the foot of the city wall very slowly, you have to be attacked and disturbed by the people on the wall.

The method that Zhou Jun thought of was to dig a ditch under the city wall first, and then fix piles, wood panels, and earth rammed boards on the side of the ditch. After trying to repair a thick wall that was not strong, the planks were removed and the earthen wall was torn down. This is to avoid being attacked by arrows from the walls. However, just now, I used a rock-throwing truck to throw a lit fire oil jar down and burned the wooden board. Yesterday was even worse, unfortunately it was hit by a stone from a stone-throwing truck, which directly knocked over the earthen wall.

Even if this method of laying earth took a lot of effort to build and form a slope, the city wall was already well guarded in the narrow passages, and there were a hundred ways to block the Zhou army's attacking men and horses outside.

However, Guo Shao still ordered the army to build endless grounds, and eighteen tunnels were also secretly dug. Liu Renzhan must have guessed that Zhou Jun was digging tunnels, but it was difficult for him to find out where these tunnels were located, the city wall more than ten miles long, and it would take him a lot of time to figure out the location of each tunnel. Guo Shao estimated that Liu Renzhan was also digging a tunnel.

…… Is there anything missing? Guo Shao kept asking himself.

More than half a month has passed since the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15. Everything was ready, Guo Shao came to the warehouse in Xia Cai Town, and the twelve coffins were laid flat in one room. When he walked in, Guo Shao suddenly had the illusion of being miserable, as if the whole family was dead here. It's just some big boxes made of wood, but they can give people a sense of slaughter very intuitively.

Open the coffin, it is filled with ** bag, seal the cloth that has been soaked in tung oil repeatedly, then wrap it in a quilt, and then seal a layer of oil cloth, which is the cloth used for the marching tent. These ** are the limits of raw materials that Li Gu can raise within a month, mainly because a large amount of saltpeter cannot be obtained for a while.

"Is it powerful enough?" Guo Shao asked, but didn't know who to ask. Zuo You and the others next to him could not answer, and they were all silent.

An unprecedented attempt, with no precedent to follow. Unless you build a wall, lay a thick layer of stone on the foundation like the Shouzhou city wall, and then bury it to try...... The only way to estimate power in advance. But Guo Shao has no chance.

This time he attacked Shouzhou, and he only had one chance! The city wall can't be blown up, or it can't be attacked when it is blown up...... There's no time for a second preparation. Even if there is, Liu Renzhan will not give you a second chance to raid. The breach is not wide enough, and it is estimated that a large number of collapsed earth and rocks will block the road; As long as the city is properly prepared, there is every chance to react and block the entrance.

If you can't beat it, you have to return the military order, and there is no joke in the army, let alone to the emperor.

Guo Shao moved a bench and sat in front of the coffin in contemplation, as if he was mourning in silence in front of the deceased, and there was silence for a long time. The breath of death hangs over everywhere.

After thinking about it several times for more than half a month, plus what he was going to do before, he believes that success depends only on two things: first, whether the power of ** is effective. Second, did it paralyze Liu Renzhan and disrupt his vision?

If any one goes wrong, the all-out offensive plan will be in vain.

At this festive time, on the eve of the war, Guo Shao's mood was very sad. Originally, he came to make meritorious contributions, but it was very unfortunate to spend it in Shouzhou; Now I don't care about the benefits, but I have to worry about the head on my neck.

If it is clicked by Chai Rong, does a person still have a soul, and can he still return to his sister? Maybe he woke up suddenly, and when he opened his eyes, he could see his sister's familiar face, and he smiled and said: You have a nightmare.

Yes, I had a long, long nightmare.

And he was reluctant to wake up, the queen, and Yulian and a group of brothers. If you had to pick one of the queen and her sister, who would you choose to stay with you? Maybe you can't pick either and you'll lose everything......

Fu, I don't even know your name, maybe you don't have a name at all. There should be a nickname, right? But I don't know.

At this time, Guo Shao couldn't understand why he missed a woman who hadn't even met a few times, a woman who didn't belong to the same world, and so strongly.

However, she could have lived without me...... At least there will be officials to protect you and cherish you now.

Guo Shao didn't have such thoughts about any woman, thinking that everything could be rationally deduced. But at this time, Guo Shao felt that he was reluctant to ...... Fu The woman he loved the most. He can ignore right and wrong, regardless of the rules, even if there are 10,000 reasons why he shouldn't think wrongly, he can't control his feelings.

At this moment, he felt that he should thank the Fu family, without her existence, how desperate and terrifying he would be at this time! But the intensity of sadness and attachment at this time far outweighs the fear of death.

For no reason, for the first time, Brother Shao had an uncontrollable impulse, which was more than his own life.

If he loses the battle, he may be immediately arrested and captured in front of the emperor. After Guo Shao's thinking results were revealed, he had no chance. You have to tell Fu Shi and tell her what you think...... Guo Shao didn't want to bring these inner words into the coffin.

You should also write a letter to Yulian and explain it. All the property in Tokyo was at Yulian's disposal, and she divided it among several other people according to her own wishes. Yulian would have lived a hard life without support, but if she had enough wealth, she could change her fate.

Guo Shao stood up, intending to write a letter on two kinds of paper. One of them is a yellow piece of paper, you don't need to mention the surname, Jing Niang will understand. At this time, this risk is worth taking, and it is very likely to become the last word.