Ye Ling hurriedly helped Chao Gai up, soothing with kind words, he understood Chao Gai, knew that he was just unwilling to be lonely, and wanted to prove his strength, and he didn't have any bad intentions, after all, he was still a big brother when he first followed him, but he followed himself without regrets and never caused anything.

After all, when the cottage was first rising, there was a shortage of soldiers and major generals, no money and no food, and every bit of strength was very important.

Seeing that Ye Ling didn't care about Chao Gai's faults, all the leaders were also very moved, many of them were very humble before they were developed, sharing weal and woe with their subordinates, pushing a car, sleeping in a bed, and calling everyone brothers; But once it is developed, he thinks about putting up the shelf, and even cleaning up the old brothers, but Ye Ling does not forget his original intention.

This battle can be described as extremely tragic, both sides have lost a lot, but later because Ye Ling brought a fresh force to come, it was completely crushed, without waiting for Ye Ling to call, the soldiers below had already automatically cleaned up the battlefield and buried the bodies of the soldiers killed on both sides, An Daoquan was also busy leading a group of Lang Zhong to treat the wounded.

Where have Shi Jin and the others suffered such a defeat and this kind of blow, at this time, seeing Ye Ling coming, as if they had found the backbone of the backbone at once, they shouted that they wanted to break Gaotang Prefecture and take down the head of Gao Lian's dog thief to pay tribute to the brothers who died in battle.

But Ye Ling waved his hand and refused, he knew that today's battle was to win in chaos, Gao Lian and the others did not expect that they would come to help, coupled with Dongping, Dongchang Erfu's fear of Dong Ping and Zhang Qing had such brilliant results, and although Gao Lian was shot, the strength of Gaotang Mansion did not lose much.

In addition, now that you have to face three cities, if you would rather attack Gaotang Mansion, you will be harassed by Dongping and Dongchang behind you, and you will be annoyed by the enemy at that time, so it is foolproof to break the enemy's iron triangle formation first.

This is exactly where Ye Ling is far farther than Chao Gai and other generals, he is by no means desperate to rampage with just a courage or morale, but to plan and then act, with the lowest cost, the greatest certainty, to obtain the highest benefits.

Shi Jin shouted unwillingly: "Brother, did you let Gao Lian go for nothing?" ”

Ye Ling smiled: "That's naturally impossible, I just said that I won't fight Gaotang Prefecture now, but I didn't say that I won't fight Gaotang Prefecture, before that, we must first pull out the two nails behind us." ”

Gongsun Sheng was the first to understand - Ye Ling knew that Gao Lian also knew some Taoist skills, so he directly brought out the Yunlong for the sake of safety, as for the other two mages, Qiao Daoqing and Fan Rui, whether they would be able to defeat Gao Lian, he didn't know the bottom in his heart.

Gongsun Sheng said with a smile: "Poor Dao understands what my brother meant, didn't he first take the Dongchang and Dongping Second Mansions, and then slowly dispose of this Gao Tang?" ”

Ye Ling patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "What the Dao Chief said is very true, as long as these two nails are pulled out first, Gao Tang will be a tiger without minions, and it will be easy to deal with it." ”

Everyone suddenly realized, and couldn't help but praise Ye Ling's foresight, especially those who covered them, it was strange to say, in fact, the outcome was not clear at this time, but as long as they saw Ye Ling present, they felt full of confidence.

The next thing is to transfer troops and send generals, this is actually nothing to say, naturally Dong Ping went to take his original hometown Dongchang Mansion, and Ye Ling asked Shi Jin and Zhu Tong to help him; Zhang Qing went to fight his old club Dongping Mansion, and Ye Ling also asked Luan Tingyu and Sun Li to be his deputies.

Dong Ping and Zhang Qing both nodded their heads to receive the order, and then directly led their men and horses to set out after a full meal, while Ye Ling led the rest of the soldiers to advance more than 20 miles, and then camped two or three miles in front of the city wall of Gaotang Prefecture.

This made the officers and soldiers of Gaotang Prefecture extremely nervous, and now their Taishou Gao Lian was injured by an arrow and was recuperating, and the rest of the officers hurriedly guarded the city wall, not daring to be careless, for fear that the Liangshan soldiers would take the opportunity to attack the city.

But in fact, this is exactly what Ye Ling needs, he is not going to attack the city at this time, but to give enough pressure to the other party, so that they dare not move, let alone to help Dongping and Dongchang.

In this way, thousands of officers and soldiers up and down Gaotang Prefecture are Alexander, Ye Ling's side does not let his subordinates attack the city, but maintains an attack posture at any time, and the distance of more than a thousand meters is not even the giant crossbow on the city tower can not reach, but if you start to attack, it will not take a moment to come to the city.

So the people on the city tower don't dare to relax at all, but they can't stand it if they have been consumed like this, after all, people are not beaten by iron, only a thousand days to catch thieves, where is there a thousand days to prevent thieves, if it takes another three or five days without sleep, they don't need Liangshan to attack, and they themselves are afraid that they will collapse first.

Because Gao Lian was still recuperating from his injuries, several generals under his command could only take turns on duty in three shifts after discussing for a while, and the rest went to rest, and if there was an emergency, they would immediately call the whole team with a trumpet gun.

The generals of Liangshan saw that Ye Ling only used such a small means to toss the other party so embarrassed, and they were all admiring and throwing themselves to the ground, and now they are all eating and drinking under the city, recuperating, and some naughty and mischievous soldiers also deliberately ate and drank while saying cool things to the officers and soldiers in the city, and even sneering, which made the officers and soldiers of Gaotang Prefecture half angry, but they were helpless.

In fact, this is not to say that Ye Ling's tactics are flawless, there is no such thing in this world that only has interests and no disadvantages, their army is directly stationed under the city, it is convenient to attack the city, but it is also difficult to defend, if the officers and soldiers dare to directly open the city and charge, they will definitely take advantage of it.

It's just that they have already been frightened, plus they are too cheap to fight, where do they dare to take such a risk?

For several days, Liangshan was just bluffing, and the officers and soldiers of Gaotang Prefecture were relieved, thinking that they had a plan, and Gao Lian's injuries were finally healed.

Just when they were full of confidence and ready to contact Dongping and Dongchang to counterattack, they received news that the two cities had fallen one after another.

It turned out that the people of these two cities fled in the desert before, and they were still in panic, but they soon saw Dong Ping and Zhang Qing coming again with a large group of elite men, and they were dumbfounded at the moment, and they just put down their arms and surrendered after a little resistance, and in this way, Liangshan captured two more cities without much effort.

This news stunned Gao Lian, even the old injuries almost recurred, this Gao Tang Prefecture has really become a lonely city now, and they can only rely on their own strength to repel the enemy from Liangshan.