Liu Hongru said: "What General Gao said is wrong. As the saying goes, an emaciated camel is bigger than a horse. Cao Wenzhao's 5,000 cavalry, although most of them are newcomers, the skeleton of his Guanning iron cavalry is still there, and its combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated. My Pingliang city defense has been completed, and it is better to tighten the defense. ”

Liu Fangliang also advocated attacking: "We must take the initiative to attack in order to grasp the initiative on the battlefield. ”

Red Army friends also supported Gao Yigong: "I am willing to lead the Second Cavalry Team to cooperate with General Gao and fight Cao Wenzhao." As long as Cao Wenzhao is defeated, the other two official armies will retreat without a fight. ”

Tian Wenju analyzed: "At present, only our army is in Pingliang, and there are no reinforcements to look forward to. If you rashly attack and are divided and surrounded by officials and soldiers, the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

Everyone's eyes all looked at Gao Junshan, the meaning was obvious, and they were all waiting for him to make a decision.

Gao Junshan had a plan in his heart, but he just wanted to hear more about everyone's thoughts. Perseverance is the last word, and blindly attacking will inevitably cause casualties. Don't look at the fact that there are only more than 20,000 people who have come to besiege the city now, as long as Cao Wenzhao is willing, he can completely recruit 100,000 and 200,000 troops.

The more you kill him, the more troops he will muster. He, Cao Wenzhao, would never watch Gao Junshan occupy Pingliang and ignore it.

Procrastination. Only by slowly wasting time with Cao Wenzhao, within two years, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's teams will definitely come over. Because Gao Junshan is a traverser, he will have a rough judgment on the direction of the entire battle, after all, he knows the direction of history.

Gao Junshan believes that it is no problem to hold on here for two or three years, and the grain reserves are enough to support three years. The water source has also been solved, even if Cao Wenzhao barrages the river outside the city and cuts off the water, there is no need to worry.

Gao Junshan saw that everyone was looking at him with blank eyes, he didn't have any extra nonsense, and directly issued a combat mission to these generals: "I order, Ma Zhi'an's third cavalry team, immediately withdraw into the city and garrison the north city gate; Gao Yigong's First Cavalry Brigade was stationed at the East City Gate; The 2nd Cavalry Brigade of the Red Army Friends was stationed at the South City Gate, and the 2nd Infantry Brigade of Li Busi was stationed at the West City Gate; Liu Fangliang's 1st Infantry Brigade was the reserve; Cai Zhishan is the chief military officer of the city defense. ”

The venue was silent, and no one dared to disobey Gao Junshan's orders.

Immediately afterwards, Gao Junshan ordered the strategist on the left: "Sun Yuanhua is the division of the city defense army, and together with Cai Zhishan, he is responsible for the deployment of various weapons of the direct team; Tian Wenju followed the first cavalry team of Gao Yigong and served as the military division of the North City Gate; Bailisha accompanied the Second Cavalry Brigade of the Red Army Friends and served as the military division of the South City Gate; Liu Hongru followed the Second Infantry Brigade of Li Busi and served as the military division of the West City Gate; Zhao Shichun accompanied Ma Zhi'an's Third Cavalry Corps and served as the military advisor of the North City Gate. ”

Zhao Shichun heard that he still had his own business, so he hurriedly stood up and explained: "King Qin, I don't have any military experience, and I want to serve as the military advisor of the North City Gate, for fear of missing the fighter." ”

Gao Junshan waved his hand and motioned for Zhao Shichun to sit down: "You only need to deal with the official documents at the north gate, and you don't have to participate in military affairs." ”

Zhao Shichun sat down with peace of mind, Gao Junshan ordered the whole city to be under martial law, the people were only allowed to enter the city, not to leave the city, and the security in the city was taken care of by Cai Zhishan's cavalry.

The generals and advisers did as ordered, and that night the four gates were heavily guarded, and the planks laid on the moats had been removed.

Gao Junshan ordered Zhang Cong and Zhuang Youfu to lead their own guards to guard several water sources in the city to prevent them from being destroyed by gangsters.

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On the eighth day of the fourth month, under the gray sky, Cao Wenzhao's 5,000 cavalry arrived outside Pingliang City, and he set up camp in Majiazhuang, which was five miles away from the east city gate.

Cao Wenzhao had already inquired clearly, the thief who occupied Pingliang was his rival Gao Junshan, he had fought with Gao Junshan twice, and he had learned the power of Gao Junshan, this time he had great confidence in leveling Pingliang.

Cao Wenzhao's 3,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry, after two years of hard fighting, especially when they encountered the nemesis Gao Junshan, suffered heavy losses, and had to re-recruit thousands of new soldiers and forcibly train troops in Luohe, Henan Province for three months.

After settling down in the camp, Cao Wenzhao stood in front of the dirt slope outside the camp tent and said to his nephew Cao Bianjiao: "I heard that in order to prevent our army from attacking the city, the thieves built a protective trench at the gate of the city. ”

Cao Bianjiao arched his hand and said: "Obey!" ”

Cao Wenzhao said to Feng Ju again: "You send someone to contact Yang Jiamo and He Huchen to see where they are." ”

Feng Ju said: "Back to Lord Cao, just now I visited the Malay newspaper, Yang Jiamo and Wang Xingshan are stationed in Gaozhuang, He Huchen and Yang Qi are on our left flank, thirty miles away from me, and are approaching us. ”

At this time, there was a light rain in the sky, and Cao Wenzhao spat at the ground viciously: "Grandma is a bear, immediately order Yang Jiamo to assemble in Majiazhuang!" ”

Feng Ju wiped the rain from his face: "Honorable Order!" ”

The raindrops gradually became heavier, hitting Cao Wenzhao's face, and the rain blurred his vision. Liu Chenggong ran out of the tent with an umbrella and said to Cao Wenzhao: "Master Cao, let's go back to the tent first." ”

Cao Wenzhao turned around in the rain with his hands behind his back, and did not pay attention to Liu Chenggong, Liu Chenggong had to follow Cao Wenzhao closely and hold an umbrella for him.

"Bingran," Cao Wenzhao suddenly pointed to the village in front of him and asked Liu Chenggong, "Why don't you see a single villager in the village?" ”

"This, this, I'll send someone to inquire immediately."

Cao Wenzhao turned around and walked towards the camp: "Grandma, a bear!" Go into the village for Lao Tzu to search, as long as there is a panting, bring it to Lao Tzu. ”

On April 12, the Ming Dynasty Third Route Army was assembled in Majiazhuang, with more than 20,000 people and more than ten miles of camp. Although the men and horses had arrived, the siege battle could not be carried out, because the heavy rain had not stopped, and there was mud everywhere, which was not conducive to the deployment of the siege troops.

Cao Wenzhao was anxious, according to Cao Bianjiao's inquiry, outside Pingliang City, several protective walls were built, which was very unfavorable to the attack of the cavalry, and now it was rainy and rainy, and the mood of the soldiers was like this ghost weather, and they couldn't beat their spirits.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Cao Wenzhao was furious, accusing Yang Jiamo and He Huchen, obviously they were here to attack the city, but they did not prepare any siege equipment, did they want him Cao Wenzhao to ride a war horse to set up a ladder?

Yang Jiamo and He Huchen are also difficult to distinguish, since the suppression of the Kou, they have not tried to prepare siege equipment, and they will start fighting every time they go to open a formation, and they can't imagine that these mud legs in front of them still know how to stick to the city.

Cao Wenzhao couldn't listen to the explanations of these people, and strictly ordered them to build siege equipment such as city storming vehicles and stone throwers within ten days, not to mention rain, even if it was a knife, and early on the morning of the 22nd, they began to attack the city.

Ten days later, the sky cleared. Cao Wenzhao's iron cavalry drove outside the north city gate, and Yang Jiamo and He Huchen's troops behind also followed with newly built siege equipment. When he arrived at the field, Cao Wenzhao found a problem, the newly built stone thrower had no "bullets" available, because there was not a single stone nearby.

The city chariot and ladder are also not used, because they can't get under the city wall, these things have become decorations, and the first obstacle in front of Cao Wenzhao is the moat.

Because the ditch was full of water, it was impossible to see how deep the ditch was, and a man had to be sent down to test the water.

Cao Wenzhao looked at the head of the city, there was no figure, the whole city was as silent as death, not the big banner with the word "Chuang" in black characters on a yellow background floating on the head of the city, and it was impossible to see that the city had buried thousands of troops and horses.

There were a total of five people who went down to test the water, all of them were nine-foot men, they held hands, and slowly stepped into the water, the water flooded their necks, the five people raised their heads, and carefully took two steps forward, and one on the very edge stepped on the air, and suddenly sank, and the others took great difficulty to pull the person out.

At this moment, a row of human heads suddenly appeared on the earthen wall opposite, "Whoosh! Sou! Sou! Dozens of carved arrows were shot from the ground, and several blood bubbles suddenly appeared on the water surface, and the blood bubbles spread on the water surface, dyed red, and the five tested the water sank to the bottom.

Cao Wenzhao ordered to return fire with bows and arrows, and a thousand archers blindly shot at the opposite side, because the people on the opposite side had long since disappeared.

Cao Wenzhao, who was furious, ordered the drums to attack and ordered the cavalry to wade through.

When the horses came to the trench, they were driven into the water, and because there were traps under the water, several horses fell into the water and could not get up again. And the horses that had trampled past were not able to jump ashore, and the soldiers on horseback had to abandon their horses and go ashore.

As soon as these soldiers landed on the shore, they heard a trumpet, and countless stones suddenly flew out of the city tower and smashed directly near the trench, causing countless columns of water to splash on the water, and only nine of the first cavalry to go into the water climbed back to the shore.

"Grandma's bear!" Cao Wenzhao scolded viciously, "Mingjin withdraws his troops." ”

In Cao Wenzhao's big tent of the Chinese army, one by one was dejected, and Cao Wenzhao glanced indifferently at the generals sitting there: "It seems that you all have no good siege strategy?" ”

Yang Qi, the general soldier of Guyuan, stood up and said: "Lord Cao, we can use the strategy of soil filling to break the enemy. ”

"What is the 'soil filling strategy'?" Cao Wenzhao asked.

Yang Qi explained: "It is to fill the pit with soil. ”

"Grandma is a bear, don't you hurry up and fill it in when you know it?"

The next day, Yang Qi led 3,000 Guyuan soldiers and began the operation of digging and filling the pit, and Cao Wenzhao led 5,000 cavalry, waiting on both sides, ready to attack Pingliang City at any time.

Because the archers of Gao Junshan kept firing arrows at the Guyuan soldiers who filled the pit, and the archers on Cao Wenzhao's side had no effect, the filling operation was very slow. Yang Qi transferred two storming vehicles, because the storming vehicles had a thick roof, and a few shield armor soldiers went up in front of the storming vehicles, so that they could resist the bows and arrows shot from the opposite side, and the work of transporting soil was done by the two storming vehicles.

In the afternoon, at the cost of losing 134 men, the Guyuan soldiers finally filled in a section of the road for Cao Wenzhao to attack.

Cao Wenzhao gave the order, and his cavalry formed five columns and killed the moat of the high mountain, because only five columns were allowed to pass through the road ahead.