When Guo Shao woke up, there was a noisy noise in his ears, and with a "bang", the curtain hanging at the door was suddenly lifted, and his eyes were flickered by the bright light. Luo Mengzi's voice said: "Big brother, the sun is clear!" ”

After a while, Guo Shao reacted, got up in his clothes, and when he walked out of the tent, he saw a crowd of people and horses moving around, and a round of sun hanging in the east in the sky. Not only that, but I saw that the sky was blue, the sky and the earth were clear, and the gray clouds that were low and oppressive yesterday were long gone. There was a rainbow arc hanging on the blue sky, and the orange streamer was very beautiful in the sky.

"It's beautiful!" A smile appeared on Guo Shao's face.

Jing Niang walked over and said with joy on her face: "I'm not wrong, wait for the sky to be clear." ”

"How do you say that, thank you to the Queen Mother, thank you to the ......," Guo Shao laughed. Jing Niang was speechless, her eyes lifted up, and she rolled her eyes.

Seeing Guo Shao standing at the door, the generals gathered here one after another.

At this moment, a voice outside the fence shouted, "Report! Good news! A herald hurriedly ran over in the undried mud, handed over a report, and said loudly: "Dong Qianfeng reports that the navy has broken through Qumen and defeated the Shu army's naval division blocking the river, and dozens of warships of our department have entered the open water. ”

"Haha......" Guo Shao raised his head and laughed, looking back at the left and right to see that all the generals were emotional, he said, "The whole game of chess is alive." Don't talk nonsense, send an order to the whole army, and the army will set off immediately and approach the city of Kuizhou! ”

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The Chinese army in Kuizhou marched, and dozens of civil and military officers gathered in the lobby. Wang Zhaoyuan was walking back and forth briskly, and his movements made everyone nervous.

"Rubbish! Waste ......" Wang Zhaoyuan was so angry that he pointed at all the breaches and scolded, "How can the Zhou army and the sailors break through the Qumen?" Where is the general of the sailor, has he been persuaded to surrender and helped them tug the boat to let him go? ”

A military general said with a sad and indignant face: "Wang Jian Jun, the general of my navy commanded the above twenty-two people, and eighteen people died in battle, just because everyone knows that Qumen is related to the safety of Dashu, and they all fight to the death!" With such casualties, even if you are defeated, you can't slander them like this! ”

"Do you still know that Qumen is a matter of safety in Dashu?" Wang Zhaoyuan's face was blue and white for a while, "Qumen is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there are warships stationed on both sides of the strait day and night, how can you let the Zhou army warships come over?" What boat can pass through the rapids? ”

The military general said: "The dead soldiers of the Zhou army did not care for their lives, and in the middle of the night before, they walked barefoot in the rain and walked on the fiber road...... The slender man made a small path on the stone wall, sneaked up on my water village, and was besieged by our water army and annihilated; In the early morning, another batch came up and burned down our water village, causing a large number of warships to be washed downstream by the river. Only a few ships of the Zhou army's naval division were towed upstream, and the naval troops reinforced by me besieged it, but they could not attack it for a long time and delayed the fighters......"

At this moment, Gao Yanyu persuaded: "The matter has come to this point, it's too late to regret it...... Besides, the sky is also clear, even if the water is not broken through, the Zhou army will come to the city. The time has come for the king to supervise the army and order all his troops to shrink into the city and defend the city. ”

"If the waterways and land routes of the Yangtze River all fall into the hands of the Zhou army, what is the use of our army sticking to the lonely city?" Wang Zhaoyuan kept walking back and forth, his face was no longer bloodless, where was the bearing of the original command?

Gao Yanyu said: "Now that we have gathered our troops, the number of troops in Kuizhou is not less than 20,000, and it is still very useful to put it in this critical place." Kuizhou is an important town on Dashu East Road, and the hoarding of grain and grass is no less than 300,000 Hu, and we can eat it for two years. There are fortresses and fortresses, there are enough food, and you can't win a field battle, so why don't you defend the city? ”

Wang Zhaoyuan said: "If you can hold it by relying on the fortifications, the Zhou army should be blocked in Wuxia now!" How was Wuxia Fort breached, the Zhou army had **......"

Everyone listened to the discussion, and suddenly people were panicked. Everyone asked about the power and usage of the **, but no one could explain it in detail. It's just that the Taoist alchemy used the volt**, according to the records in the ancient books, it is recorded that the alchemy blew up the roof and burned it, probably that thing...... But in the battle of Shouzhou in Huainan, the high-level officials of Shu have heard about it and know that it can blow up the city wall.

What's more, not long ago, the Shu army in Wuxia also tasted it, and now they are convinced that there is such a thing in the world that can break through the fortifications.

Wang Zhaoyuan saw everyone's reaction, so he asked Gao Yanyan coldly: "Gao Jieshuai still wants to defend the city?" ”

Gao Yanyu said: "In this world, one thing descends another, as long as we take precautions in advance...... Besides, there is no other way but to defend the city. ”

Wang Zhaoyuan said disapprovingly: "The Zhou army came from afar, and has been trekking on the Shu Road for nearly a month, and has come by mountain road, and must be exhausted; And the Great Shu army waited for work in Kuizhou City. With the army of recuperation, taking advantage of the unstable foothold of the Zhou division and the difficulty of the soldiers and horses, the exhausted army is defeated, and the victory or defeat is unknown! ”

"Wang Jianjun still wants to attack the Zhou army, has a chance of winning?" Gao Yanyu was shocked and hurriedly dissuaded.

Wang Zhaoyuan said coldly: "If we follow Gao Jieshuai's meaning, we are trapped in the lonely city, and we will be defeated!" Seize the opportunity to compete today, there is still a chance. Ladies and gentlemen, the art of war says that you will die and then come to life, do you sit back and wait for death, or do you fight? ”

Gao Yanyan persuaded Wang Zhaoyuan with good words at first, but seeing his determination, Gao Yanyan was also annoyed: "Wang Jianjun wants to go, you go, I can't afford to lose that person." ”

"That high-ranking handsome guards the city, and is a shrinking turtle in the city, and looks at how I fight in Wolong!" Wang Zhao said from afar.

…… A large number of scouts were dispersed on both sides, and the Zhou army was already approaching, so the movements of each other were clear at a glance.

"Wang Zhaoyuan wants to go out of the city for a decisive battle?" Guo Shao was very surprised to hear the news, and then found the scouts who he saw in front of him to ask in detail about the movements of the Shu army. At this time, Li Gu also arrived in the army and said: "The Shu army may think that our army is attacking from afar, and there is an opportunity to take advantage of it. ”

At this time, the Zhou army had already marched southwest along the Yangtze River to Kuizhou, and some generals suggested that they should be stationed and rest for two or three days before a decisive battle.

Guo Shao said: "Everyone knows that there is an advantage in waiting for work, but if you follow the rules stubbornly, you may miss the fighter." In case Wang Zhaoyuan figured it out, he would defend the city to the death...... Storming a city is harder, and at least it takes more time and kills more people. ”

In order not to affect the confidence of the soldiers, he did not say anything about the shortcomings of the bombing of the city...... It is more beneficial for the morale of the soldiers to keep their confidence in the soldiers. However, it is not so easy to bomb the city, first of all, it depends on the soil and groundwater conditions under Kuizhou, not all places can successfully bury ** under the city wall; Even if it is successfully blasted, the power of the black is limited, and it can only blow up a gap. As long as the defenders are well prepared, blowing up the gap may not necessarily lead to the capture of the city...... Even in the era of artillery, it is not easy to attack the city, and it is not possible to conquer everything with **.

"Tomorrow morning, we will not stop and enter Wang Zhao's far side, and we will be able to fight a decisive battle!" Guo Shao said immediately.

The generals clasped their fists and replied, "Oh." ”

"An hour later, summon the commanders and generals above to the Chinese army's big tent overnight to discuss and deploy tomorrow's military affairs." Guo Shao said again, waved his hand and said, "Disperse, you guys have dinner first." ”

Guo Shao didn't take the time to eat, so he took two wheat cakes and asked someone to serve a bowl of soup while reviewing the terrain around Kuizhou. He also ordered that all the scouts who had returned today be called to the big tent of the Chinese army to speak...... He ordered the discussion to be held in an hour, just because he wanted to prepare his own strategy first.

I really didn't expect Wang Zhaoyuan to be in a hurry to come out for a field battle, and because he had just arrived near Kuizhou, he was indeed a little unprepared. Fortunately, Kuizhou is an important place, and when the army was still in Jingzhou, there were spies here to inquire about intelligence, so several maps were drawn, and I was still prepared for the general situation.

The route of the main force of the Zhou army to Kuizhou was slightly detouring, but it was flatter and more spacious. They came from the mountain road, and after crossing the Meixi River, they went south along the banks of the Yingxi River and joined the Yangtze River; Then turn around, along the north bank of the Yangtze River, and continue to attack Kuizhou in the southwest. The terrain along the river is slightly flat and open; The place far north away from the Yangtze River is full of mountains and rocks, although the mountains in this area are not too high, but they can't stand all the mountains, only the sheep intestine trail.

Probably Guo Shao understood the terrain by reading the old newspapers before, but now he wants to understand the situation of the battlefield in more detail. It was only through the dictation of the scouts, and there was no time to observe it in person.

"There's a village there?" Guo Shao took a sip of the soup, put down the wheat cake, and asked the scout, "How many houses and how many people?" ”

The scout frowned and recalled, "Ten buildings...... Or there are only six or seven, there are tiled houses and grass houses, and there are not many people. There is a wide dirt road to the south. ”

Guo Shao picked up the pen and wrote and painted, and asked, "Who has been to this village to the west?" ”

Another man stepped forward and clenched his fists and said, "Over there is a low mountain, stretching to the north, high in the north and low in the south. The southern slope is gentler, with shrubs and weeds on the slope except for a few wheat fields, relatively barren sandy land, and some single-family houses at the bottom of the hill. If you climb to the top of the ridge, you can see the Kuizhou City Tower...... By the way, I also met a farmer and asked him, and he said that the mountain was called 'Sanma Mountain'. ”

Guo Shao was very interested in this Sanma Mountain, asked the other two people, and immediately muttered: "If I were Wang Zhaoyuan, I would choose the battlefield on this hillside, which is spacious and open, and occupies a high place in advance and has favorable terrain." ”

The riverside terrain to the east of Kuizhou is only a few miles wide and ten miles long, but Guo Shao drew several pictures and hastily recorded a lot of news in his pamphlet. It is impossible for the scouts to write articles about what they have seen and heard, but it is still clear to ask them to tell them what they have seen and heard.

Bonfires lit up in the barracks, night fell, and the sky was full of stars. But before the end of the day, the drums of the Chinese army were beating, and many military forces came one after another. Everyone unsheathed their swords and put them on the wooden shelves at the door of the tent, and entered them back and forth.

The tent was not spacious, and it was crowded with dozens of people at once, and gradually became crowded.

There are a lot of lights hung on both sides, and a picture in front of them is hung. Guo Shao soon walked into the big tent, and he heard Shi Yanchao impatiently say: "Guo Du checked, I can finally kill a game, let me play as a striker!" ”

Guo Shao said bluntly: "I have more important credit for you, the striker let Yang Biao go." ”

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(The 1 yuan green apple, the number of monthly tickets has a limit every day, updated at 0:00 in the morning; The number of monthly passes is capped, and it will no longer be released. So when I tried it during the day, I found that I couldn't get a monthly pass because it was blown up. ）