For a while, everyone in the tent was helpless, and the atmosphere was suddenly silent.

Lu Zhuo thought for a while and said, "Even if you want to fight a protracted war, you must cut off the connection between Shouchun and the outside, if you can't even seal the city, how can this battle be fought?" ”

At the beginning, Yuan Shu chose to be the emperor in Shouchun, it was because of the superior geographical location of Shouchun, in addition to the high and dangerous city, the south is the mountain, the north is the water, whether it is a dry road, or a waterway, all of the energy is constantly transported to the city to supplies, plus the city is too big, there are not enough troops, it is impossible to surround the whole city.

Zhang He pondered for a moment and said, "What Wen Yuan said just now is good, we are not strong enough, as long as the south gate and the north gate are blocked, the east gate and the west gate can be set up outside the city to ambush soldiers, although the south gate is a dangerous mountain, the terrain is not good for us, but it is not difficult for us, the key is the north gate, outside the north gate is a big river, there is no water army around us, there is no brute force, there is no way to exert it." ”

Xu Shu also frowned, at a loss, he took people to the north gate outside to survey the terrain, although the north gate is close to the river, but, there is a small mountain, the mountain is full of shadows, faintly there are people shaking, the mountain is like a temporary transit point, it can also be said to be a stronghold.

It is also appropriate to say that it is a terminal for cargo transit.

Any city close to the river, there will be such a transit place outside the city, usually responsible for the transportation of goods, once a war, this is a stronghold, because this hill is on the opposite bank, what is the specific situation there, Xu Shu is not clear, so he has to come back to report to Lu Zhuo.

Xu Shu said, "If we want to block the north gate, we must control that hill in our hands, the key is that we don't have a water army, but I'm afraid it's not easy." ”

Lu Zhuo suddenly laughed, "Who said we don't have a water army?" ”

Everyone was stunned, and they all looked at Lu Zhuo suspiciously, and Lu Zhuo explained, "There is no water army that can fight in water, but there are many people who can fight in water, and there are many in my Flying Tiger Battalion." ”

Because the Flying Tiger Battalion usually trains very harshly, crossing mountains and rivers, climbing and jumping, setting traps, riding horses and rushing to kill... There is almost nothing that cannot be involved, they are not a single branch of the army, these people can be used as cavalry when they get on their horses, and they can be used as infantry envoys when they get off their horses.

Although the training conditions were much worse than those in later generations, and the equipment was very simple, at that time, the Flying Tiger Battalion was definitely an all-round combat elite that had never been seen before.

Even when he was fighting with Yuan Shao in Qingzhou, Lu Zhuo also let his subordinates learn to ski for a while, but unfortunately, those brothers back then, except for Ma Long and Ma Hu, were all killed.

Lu Zhuo said, "In this case, the mountain has been handed over to me, and you each prepare, no matter what, Shouchun must be besieged to death first." ”

Zhang Liao led his troops to the south gate, Zhang He was on the east side of the north gate, and the hill on the west side was handed over to Lu Zhuo, and Gao Shun and Guan Yu set up ambushes outside the east gate and the west gate respectively.

Zhang Liao acted quickly, the first to guard the south gate, and the others were also very smooth, the key was Lu Zhuo, he decided to take someone to touch the situation first, Lu Zhuo first went down the river, went downstream, and then got a small boat to go to the opposite bank, and then quietly approached the mountain outside the north gate.

Although the mountain is not big, but the terrain is very steep, it is closer, Lu Zhuo found that there are many Jingzhou soldiers under the mountain, and there are many people from the Jinfan Battalion, and the soldiers of the Jinfan Battalion are not wearing armor, they are all tight and neat short clothes.

Because they are all good hands who are proficient in water, once they put on the armor, they lose the advantage of water warfare.

"Huh?"

Suddenly, Lu Zhuo saw an elderly old man on the shore on the back side of the mountain, the back side was relatively desolate and remote, there was no one except the old man, the old man was fishing, Lu Zhuo thought for a while, and thought about it.

He didn't bother the old man, but left for a while with Ma Long, and when they came back, each of them had a few more games in their hands.

Lu Zhuo and the three of them came to the old man's side, because they were all ordinary people's clothes, and the old man was not suspicious, he glanced at the three of them, and nodded with a smile.

Lu Zhuo looked familiar, smiled and said hello, "Uncle, what about fishing?" ”

"Ah, yes, sit!"

The old man was very polite, pointed to a big bluestone beside him and said.

"How? How much were you fished? ”

Lu Zhuo nodded to Wukui Zhou Zhi, and sat down next to the old man, the old man was bored fishing alone, and it was rare to meet someone to talk to him, so he simply put the fishing rod aside and opened the chatterbox, "I was lucky today, I caught more than 20 catties." ”

"Oh? So much? Lu Zhuo was a little surprised.

The old man was very happy, "Yes, it's all in the fish basket, you see for yourself, I didn't lie to you." ”

Lu Zhuo approached the fish basket and looked inside, "Huh... It's a lot, uncle, you're so good, what kind of fish are these? ”

"It's all stonefish, this fish tastes very fresh, and I won't tell you, I also made a small fortune from it."

The old man likes to talk to people very much, and without waiting for Lu Zhuo to ask, he told the story again, "I used to live on this mountain, my ancestors have lived for decades, and when I am old, we can't do anything else, so I will fish, there is a general surnamed Gan in this city, the official is very big, but there is no shelf for our people, once I went into the city to sell fish, he saw it, he liked to eat stone fish, and saw that the fish I caught were big and fat, so he bought them all, and gave me a lot of money at once, good people!" ”

As soon as Lu Zhuo heard it, he guessed that it must be Gan Ning.

Thinking of the old man living in the mountains before, Lu Zhuo's heart lit up, Lu Zhuo pointed to the pheasant and hare in his hand, and took out a wine gourd containing wine from his waist, "Uncle, how is it?" Take a sip, I won't tell you, the three of us are also nearby hunters, and we happen to be hungry, let's go together, it's rare for us to fall in love like this. ”

The old man is good, he usually likes to drink something when he has nothing to do, Lu Zhuo opened the lid of the wine gourd, and a smell of wine suddenly floated out, and the old man raised his nose and smelled it, and he was very happy.

Lu Zhuo hurriedly glanced at Zhou Zhiwukui, and the two hurriedly prepared, killed two hares, disemboweled, and then cleaned up, got two pheasants, and then set up a fire and roasted them.

The old man was not stingy, and took out two fish from the fish basket, "Roast these two fish too, you can't just let you break the bank." ”

The four of them sat on the ground, eating game, chatting from all over the world, chatting for a while, Lu Zhuo took the old man's words from time to time, and inquired about the situation on the mountain.

I learned that this mountain is called Beishan, there is a village on the mountain, the old man used to live on the mountain, because there was a war, Kuailiang sent people to move the villagers into the city, and now there are a lot of Jingzhou soldiers stationed on the mountain, and the guard is very strict.