Originally, most of them were peasants, but now they are equipped with small sapper shovels and small pickaxes, and they are even more powerful, and overnight, they connected the dots into a line, dug a shallow trench on the periphery of the officers and troops, and dug pits in many places, and hid some secret posts, so as to form a closer surveillance of the official army camp.

After Huang Shengqiang got the order, he immediately moved forward with Li Dingguo, and began to stop two miles away from the official army camp, digging a trench for Li Dingguo's infantry troops, while their artillery was responsible for building an artillery array, pulling one cannon after another into the position and setting up the cannons.

In the second half of the night, Huang Shengqiang began to order a few eight-pounder guns brought by the army to fire at the official army camp, although the effective shooting distance of the eight-pounder cannon was only six or seven hundred steps away, but in fact, the farthest range could be hit three miles away, but the accuracy was basically gone, and the power was also very small, but Huang Shengqiang didn't care about these, as long as he could hit the official army camp, anyway, what Xiao Tianjian asked them to do was to attack and disturb the war, not accurate shooting, but almost every once in the second half of the night, a cannon would sound, The cannonballs whizzed into the camp and immediately caused an exclamation that did not stop for a night.

For Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui and many officers and soldiers, this night can be said to be very difficult, in Sun Chuanting's army, there is also a debate, Wu Sangui after stabilizing the defense line, he began to move his mind, the main force is to break through at night, withdraw to Shunde Mansion and Ma Ke convergence, but Sun Chuanting did not agree to break through.

In Sun Chuanting's view, he finally gathered more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and the army's heart had already been shaken by the battle during the day, and the establishment was also chaotic. Wu Sangui still has some strength, there are more cavalry under his command, and the chance of breaking out is relatively large, but if he runs away, the possibility of the remaining officers and soldiers escaping is very slim, and he will not last long, and he will be annihilated by the Xingtian Army in this area, so he broke through overnight, that is to kill himself, Sun Chuanting was ordered to go south this time, he didn't win a battle, and he suffered such a big defeat, if these soldiers and horses are lost again, then what face does he have to face the court!

Therefore, Sun Chuanting thinks that with their current materials and troops, although they may not be able to defeat the Xingtian thieves, but there is no problem in guarding here for a period of time, Sun Chuanting still pinned his hopes on Ma Ke, thinking that he had sent someone to break through the siege in advance, and went to Shunde Mansion to order Ma Ke to immediately lead his troops to help, and when Ma Ke led his troops to come, they could defeat the Xingtian Army inside and outside, at least they could rescue these soldiers and horses, so he insisted that Wu Sangui was not allowed to lead his troops to break through.

Wu Sangui can't help it, after all, Sun Chuanting is the superintendent, he is only the chief military officer, he has to obey Sun Chuanting's orders, and once Sun Chuanting does not cooperate with him to break through, he will lead the troops to break through alone, and if he is not careful, he may not be able to break through, but will be blocked and killed by the Xingtian Army.

So Wu Sangui finally hesitated in the middle of the night, but he still didn't dare to secretly lead his troops to break through and escape, but stayed on the bank of the Jindi River, waiting for Ma Ke's rescue.

Sun Chuanting's decision also completely buried the future of him and Wu Sangui, because he didn't know what kind of person Ma Ke was, and at the same time, he once again overestimated the combat strength of Ma Ke and their Guanning army, so he also lost the possibility of their final breakthrough.

One night, the Xingtian Army and the official army constantly bombarded each other with artillery back and forth, although they did not cause any damage to the other party, but they also hoped that the other party could not rest, but relatively speaking, the official army suffered more on this side, their camp was concentrated, and it was a dead target, plus the artillery training of the Xingtian Army was sufficient, although long-distance shooting could not guarantee accuracy, but still the artillery could hit the official barracks, either overturning a tent, or killing a few horses, or knocking out a few unlucky ghosts, The officers and soldiers can be said to have spent the whole night in fear, on the other hand, the Xingtian army was scattered around, and most of them extinguished the torches in the middle of the night and were in the dark, so that the officers and soldiers could not aim at them carefully, and the distance was too far, so they were not affected too much, and after leaving the people on duty, many soldiers and generals crowded together and fell asleep.

After dawn, Xiao Tianjian climbed on a temporary simple arrow tower, carefully observed the large camp of the officers and soldiers in the distance, and saw that the officers and soldiers were really not idle this night, driving the soldiers, building a camp fence around the camp, and forming a circle with large carts, strengthening their defense, and making a posture of holding their heads and being beaten.

So Xiao Tianjian laughed, and the generals also came to Xiao Tianjian again at this time to ask for battle, but after Xiao Tianjian got off the watchtower, he shook his head and said, "Don't worry!" No hurry! Let's take a break! Spread the order to the surrounding people, and call more people who help the war to come over to help, and the officers and soldiers are not in a hurry to break through the siege, so we don't have to worry! Dig a ditch! Dig a trench around them on the spot! Circle them here! See how long they last! Ha ha! ”

The crowd will be made lose temper by him, but they also understand what Xiao Tianjian thinks, and now the official army can be said to have become a turtle in an urn, and there is no place to run, so Xiao Tianjian doesn't want to consume too many troops, pay too many casualties, and it is reasonable to trap them, so he has to give up.

So in the past two days, the Xingtian Army did not launch a decent offensive against Sun Chuanting's group of officers and soldiers at all, but only occasionally sent troops to tease and tease the officers and soldiers, so that after they went out to fight, they beat them up and drove them back to the camp and pulled them down.

However, after the surrounding people heard the news, they all rushed over here with their guys, and at this time, the reputation of the Xingtian Army was already known to the world, and the common people wished that the Xingtian Army would quickly overturn this damn court and save them from the fire and water! Therefore, as soon as they heard that the Xingtian Army had surrounded a large number of officers and troops in the area of the Jindi River and asked them to go to help in the war, they all flocked to it, and in just two days, 30,000 or 40,000 people gathered from the surrounding counties.

Under the assignment of the soldiers and generals of the Xingtian Army, the soldiers and civilians turned to the earthwork, and began to dig trenches and build pass walls outside the official army camp, and on the third day, the outer periphery of the official army camp was already full of ravines, and a series of pass walls were built, completely surrounding the officers and troops on the banks of the Jindi River.

Sun Chuanting looked at the actions of the Xingtian Army outside, and now he began to regret it, he didn't expect that the Xingtian Army would use this stupid method to deal with them, originally the Xingtian Army had already taken the advantage, in his opinion, they should take a hard attack to solve them as soon as possible, so that they could rely on the big camp and back to the Jindi River, they could give full play to their combat effectiveness, and fight to the death with the Xingtian Army waiting for reinforcements to arrive, but they didn't think that the Xingtian thieves gave up this quick and quick way to fight, but adopted the method of siege, It was clear that he was not afraid of their reinforcements, so he waited here for Ma Ke to lead his troops to come.

When it came to the third day, looking at the walls and the ever-expanding trenches, Sun Chuanting knew that it was over! At the very least, those cavalry under Wu Sangui are completely finished! If it is placed on the plain of Pingchuan, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry is still considerable, but the Xingtian Army does this, but it is equivalent to directly abolishing the cavalry of the official army, even if they break through in the future, the cavalry will not be able to play a role.

Wu Sangui regretted that his intestines were green, and he regretted that he shouldn't have listened to Sun Chuanting's words, but now even if he wants to break through, he can't run, there are ditches and pass walls everywhere, his cavalry is useless, even if he rushes out on two legs, without a war horse, the cavalry of the Xingtian thieves can chase them and slash them casually, so at this point, it is impossible to break through, he can only pin all his hopes on Ma Ke, who is also a general outside the Guan, hoping that Ma Ke can lead his troops to rush over and break through the encirclement of the Xingtian Army. Rescued them.

As the encirclement became denser and denser, the morale of the officers and soldiers also fell more and more day by day, in the first two days, the Xingtian army sent troops to attack them, and they dared to send troops out to fight with the Xingtian army and repel the Xingtian army, but on the third day, Sun Chuanting no longer dared to send troops out of the camp to continue to fight with the Xingtian army, and could only rely on the camp fence and cart of the camp to block the Xingtian army, and completely became a trapped beast.

In the past few days, Huang Shengqiang has really become proud, and with the extension of the trench, he also continued to move the artillery array forward, until the artillery array was moved to a distance of about one mile from the official army camp, and then stopped, and began to continuously aim at the official army camp and bombard it with the method of accurate shooting.

At this distance, whether it is the six-pounder cannon or the eight-pounder cannon or even the heavier twelve-pounder cannon of the Xingtian Army, it has entered the effective firing range, and every shell that has been bombarded can almost overturn or shatter a large car in the fence of the official barracks. So they can only lie on their stomachs honestly, lying on the ground with their buttocks to dodge the cannon.

Sun Chuanting was really helpless, so he had to govern his people in the way of others, and also sent troops to dig ditches and build walls outside the official army camp, and as a result, the two sides laughed at a ditch digging contest in this area, and after eating enough, they all dug ditches and built pass walls, and gradually and completely changed the terrain in this area, at least there were not a few years after the war, and the large-scale mobilization of the people to level these ditches was carried out, and dozens of square miles of land here could not be cultivated.