After Xiao Tianjian annihilated Wan Yuanji and Huang Degong's troops in the south of Luzhou, he spent two days cleaning up the battlefield and sending the captured prisoners to Fengyang Mansion and Suzhou for training or disbandment and resettlement, and then rushed to the city of Luzhou.

Luzhou Mansion was already a mess at this time, Wan Yuan Ji and Huang Degong defeated the news they have received, now sitting in Luzhou Mansion only Lu Prefecture Governor Wu Dapu is in charge, and the remaining officers and soldiers are only more than 3,000 old and weak soldiers, so when they learned that Wan Yuan Ji and Huang Degong were almost wiped out, Luzhou Mansion was suddenly in mourning, almost half of the people thought that Luzhou was over, and there were even more gentry in the city who dragged their families and began to flee out of the city to Nanjing City or Chuzhou for refuge.

But the prefect Wu Dapu is still calm, although he knows that Luzhou is probably very dangerous this time, but he does not want to give up, after all, Luzhou Mansion is an important town in Nanzhili, known as a solid reputation, the city is in the area of Nanzhili, and it is tall and strong.

Luzhou City in the Jiajing years because of the collapse of the city in many places, a large-scale renovation was carried out, after the renovation of Luzhou City around nearly 26 miles; The west and southwest walls are hills, and the walls are two and a half feet high; The eastern, southern, and northern three city walls are flat ground, and the city walls are three zhang high; The bottom width is nearly five zhang. There are nearly 5,000 battlements and 28 watchtowers. The moat in the east of the city is two zhang deep, and the width has reached forty zhang; The moat in the west of the city is two and a half zhang deep and thirty zhang wide; The moat in the south of the city is two zhang deep and 30 zhang wide; The moat in the north of the city is one zhang deep and 35 zhang wide. The river flows around the city. The whole city has seven gates and two water gates. The second gate in the east, the left is called the mighty gate, the right is called the Yongmen, and there is a stone platform on the top of the moon city. The second gate of the west, the left is called the Xiping gate, the right is the west gate of the water, and the top of the moon city is a stone platform. The second gate in the south, the left is called the South Xun Gate, and the right is called the Desheng Gate. The north gate is called the arch gate.

Such a big city in the Ming Dynasty, is also a number of strong cities, so although there are not many Luzhou soldiers, but according to such a strong city, there is still a battle force, and after the defeat of Wan Yuan Ji and Huang Degong, there are about 3,000 routs finally broke out and fled back to Luzhou Mansion, if it was before, these routs Wu Dapu would not let them enter the city, but now he is in a hurry to use troops, and in desperation he sent people out of the city to collect these routs, brought them into the city and reorganized them into the soldiers and horses defending the city. In this way, the number of defenders has reached more than 6,000 people, and there are many strong people in the city, and it is not a problem to pull out a few thousand people with a casual stroke, so it is not much of a problem to raise 10,000 defenders.

After having soldiers, it is a matter of weapons and food, Luzhou City, as an important town in Jianghuai, was originally a place where heavy soldiers were stationed, and the rebel army has been around like stars over the years, and Luzhou Mansion is preparing all the time! Therefore, there are a lot of weapons and food in the city of Luzhou, and there are hundreds of artillery pieces of all kinds, so the armament is quite good.

With soldiers and weapons, as well as quite abundant food, this city can be defended, and they can hold Luzhou City for a period of time, waiting for Ding Qirui to send troops to aid Luzhou, and the worst can drag the Xingtian Army here for a long time, and win a period of time for Ding Qirui to arrange the defense of Nanjing, even if he dies, it can be regarded as killing a benevolent!

However, although Luzhou City is impregnable, but it is not unbroken in history, at least in the original history Zhang Xianzhong has fought Luzhou City twice, the first time was in Chongzhen eight years, Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers besieged Luzhou City, but even attacked for several days, but it was a loss of troops and a big defeat, and finally had to withdraw the troops, and later in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong attacked Luzhou City again, this time it was to break through Luzhou City, but Zhang Xianzhong did not rely on the strong attack to take the Luzhou City, Instead, after making the deceitful people disguise themselves and blend into Luzhou City, they suddenly burst out and seized the city gate, and finally took down Luzhou City.

But now Zhang Xianzhong is impossible to fight Luzhou City again, history has been changed by Xiao Tianjian, Zhang Xianzhong and his family are now under the management of Xiao Tianjian in Jiezhou City, enjoying his small life, but his righteous son Li Dingguo and others are now serving under Xiao Tianjian and coming to Luzhou City.

Wu Dapu this time wants to follow the example of Chongzhen in the eighth year to resist Zhang Xianzhong, to withstand the attack of the Xingtian Army, in his opinion, this is a place with the reputation of the iron Luzhou City, although the Xingtian Army is strong, but it is not easy to conquer Luzhou City, even if the current city is empty, he feels that he also hopes to block the attack of the Xingtian Army.

So after listening to Wu Dapu's agitation, the officials in the city calmed down a little, and began to organize the defense according to Wu Dapu's arrangement.

With their troops, going out of the city and fighting against the Xingtian Army is looking for death, which Wu Dapu knows very well, so he will not waste his troops, gather all the soldiers and horses that can be summoned around him, and bring them into the city to assist in defending the city.

In terms of defending the city, Wu Dapu was still relatively experienced, he personally dispatched troops, and even assigned the responsibility of each battlement to the designated person, and at the same time opened the arsenal, moved out a large number of arrows, rockets and other things in the warehouse, and transported them to the bottom of the city walls, ready to be transported to the city wall at any time.

At the same time, Wu Dapu ordered that after gathering his troops and withdrawing into the city, he closed all the city gates, including the two water gates, and no one was allowed to enter or leave the city.

Therefore, after Xiao Tianjian led the troops to Luzhou City, Luzhou City had already been closed by the city gate and the suspension bridge was suspended, cutting off all connections inside and outside the city.

After Xiao Tianjian led the troops to Luzhou City, he spent a whole day taking his generals and staff officers around Luzhou City.

When they hit Xiangyang, it was very similar to Luzhou City, they were all strong cities, with wide city river protection, and the city wall here was much stronger and thicker than Xiangyang, relying on heavy artillery alone, if you want to be like fighting Xiangyang, it is very difficult to collapse a corner of Luzhou City, if it is a strong attack, as long as there are certain troops stationed in the city, and have the will to fight like Xiangyang at the beginning, this battle will definitely be a vicious battle or even a protracted war.

But it is not possible to attack Luzhou, Luzhou City is a necessary place on the road for them to attack Nanjing City, it is an important node, if you don't fight here, it will cause great trouble for the future attack on Nanjing City, the number of officers and troops entrenched here does not need to be large, you can easily threaten the logistics supply line of the Xingtian Army, which is very dependent on logistics and supplies, it is a very dangerous thing.

Therefore, if you want to take Nanjing, then Luzhou City must be taken, which Xiao Tianjian and Li Xin have quite the same opinion, including the generals under their command also agree with their view.

After looking at the situation in Luzhou City, Xiao Tianjian and the generals did not find a relative weak point in Luzhou City for them to easily break through the city defenses, so this battle was destined to become a very difficult attack battle.

And Xiao Tianjian is still facing a problem, that is, to attack such a strong city, his troops are not enough, although this time the soldiers and horses he mobilized are elite, and the number is close to more than 30,000 people, but if these 30,000 people want to completely block such a large city, and conquer it, it is still slightly insufficient, so it is impossible for them to completely surround Luzhou City, they can only choose to focus on attacking, and they also need to mobilize some troops and people to help the battle come here to assist in the siege. It will take some time.

So Xiao Tianjian after looking at the city defense of Luzhou City, he chose Dashu Mountain in the west of the city as the place to camp troops, and arranged the military camp of the army in the area of Dashu Mountain, and Dashu Mountain is relatively high, you can overlook the situation of Luzhou City from afar, and there are many woods to facilitate camping and local materials to build siege equipment.

And after Xiao Tianjian saw the situation of Dashu Mountain, he temporarily arranged his command post near Kaifu Temple at the southern foot of Dashu Mountain.

The difference between the Xingtian Army and other rebels is that Xiao Tianjian has long had the ambition to win the world, so he knows the truth that those who win the hearts of the people win the world, and he has always controlled the troops very strictly, and the Xingtian Army is not allowed to harm the people, which is also something that other rebels could not do before, so it has also created his current achievements, and he has laid down such a large territory relatively easily, and the name of benevolence and righteousness of the Xingtian Army has long been widely known in the world, even the people in the Nanzhili area have already heard of it, so some people are looking forward to the arrival of the Xingtian Army.

Therefore, when the Xingtian Army marched to Luzhou City, although the surrounding people did not have any welcome scenes, they did not immediately run away and hide as soon as they saw the army appear as before, but stopped from a distance to watch the military appearance of the Xingtian Army, and curiously pointed at each other's discussions with each other.

However, there are also some people who take the initiative to ask for the Xingtian Army to join the army or help the war, and help the Xingtian Army lead the way to inform the situation of the officials and soldiers in the city.

Under the constraints of the generals, the Xingtian army members who went to Luzhou also faithfully fulfilled their military discipline, and basically did not commit any crimes against the local people in the autumn, neither did they commit adultery and plunder, nor forcibly coerced the people to help the army fight, and even on the way to the march, they also tried to avoid the farmland where the grain was grown, and they were not allowed to enter the village when they were temporarily resting, but chose an empty place to rest and cook.

When they saw the performance of the Xingtian Army, the people were completely relieved, they had never seen such an army that cherished the people, so they were even more hostile to the Xingtian Army, and began to come out one after another to contact the Xingtian Army, asking if it was true that the legendary Xingtian Army would reduce the amount of land for the people, and when they got a positive answer, the people were completely happy, and they began to take the initiative to help the Xingtian Army.

(Chapter 3 is here, please stop scolding, brothers!) Hehe! ）