"The officers and soldiers are gone!"

"The officers and soldiers are gone!"

"The officers and soldiers are gone!"

……

Pingliang City cheered, and the army and the people celebrated together. The news of the withdrawal of Cao Wenzhao's besieging officers and troops spread far and wide, and everyone poured into the streets, creating a sea of joy.

Gao Junshan's brows finally stretched, Pingliang City was trapped for sixty-three days, in these sixty-three days and nights, Gao Junshan always frowned, and it was indeed a great risk to defend a lonely city with no foreign reinforcements, and Gao Junshan did not have any practical experience in defending the city, and all he had came from textbooks.

The fatalities of the defenders were zero, and only forty-three people were wounded. In addition to being well-trained, disciplined, and well-equipped, such a good record, Gao Junshan's pre-war mobilization was also an important factor.

Before Cao Wenzhao evacuated, Gao Junshan had already received information from Sun Kewang, Sun Kewang spent a lot of money to bribe the eunuch Sun Maolin, he and Sun Maolin are the same clan, Sun Maolin is a villain who sees money, and after receiving Sun Kewang's money, he promised to urge Cao Wenzhao to withdraw from the army, but put forward two conditions, one is that he cannot pursue when he retreats; The second is not to kill the king of Han.

King Han is still in Pingliang, it was Sun Kewang who told Sun Maolin, and after Sun Maolin confirmed, he came up with a plan to withdraw the troops, and gave Cao Wenzhao a reason to withdraw the troops for the sake of King Han.

Sun Maolin went to Cao Wenzhao's camp in the middle of the night, that is, to tell Cao Wenzhao that Gao Junshan had the king of Han in his hand, and he could use the king of Han and falsely claim that Gao Junshan used the king of Han as a hostage, so after the two of them secreted, Cao Wenzhao gave Zhu Youzhen a "thief takes the king of Han as a hostage, do not attack in a hurry", Sun Maolin relied on his three-inch incorruptible tongue to persuade Zhu Youzhen to withdraw the holy decree to take Pingliang on the tenth day, transfer Cao Wenzhao to Datong, Shanxi, and give Hong Chengchou the matter of wiping his buttocks.

Gao Junshan sneered in his heart, this Sun Maolin he had read in the history books:

In March of the 11th year of Chongzhen, the Qing soldiers went deep into the Guannei, besieged Beijing, burned, killed and looted. When he was ready to return with a full load, Zhu Youzhen sent Sun Maolin to intercept him, he led his men and horses, arranged them at the pass of the Great Wall, and waited for the Qing soldiers who retreated northward. At that time, the Qing soldiers plundered in the Central Plains for several months, and returned with a full load, and they were not ready to fight, and they had "no need to die", and each person paid five taels of silver, which was trivial. So, Sun Maolin actually succeeded.

Such a eunuch who lost his conscience for money, later, Gao Junshan sentenced him to car splitting.

At this time, Gao Junshan was standing on the tower of the north city gate, watching the rebels clear the blocked trenches and smooth the road that had been dug by the officials and soldiers. Cai Zhishan also climbed the city tower to pay homage to Gao Junshan.

"King Qin," Cai Zhishan and Gao Jun Mountain stood side by side, looking in the same direction, "Cao Wenzhao's camp has nothing useful left. ”

Gao Junshan nodded, still looking into the distance: "I expected it." They retreated calmly! Bolan, look over there," Gao Jun Mountain pointed to the endless distance, and at this time, just as the sun was setting, the remnant sun reflected the red sky, and a line of geese was flying to the south, and he exclaimed, "What a beautiful scenery of the border fortress! ”

Cai Zhishan was not in the mood to see any scenery, he regretted: "Pingliang was not the boundary of the border in the prosperous era of the Han and Tang dynasties, but the Ming Dynasty abandoned Daning and migrated to Dongsheng during the Yongle period, and moved to Kaiping and Dushi during the Xuande period, and abandoned Hami and Hetao during the Jiajing period, and a large area of land outside Jiayuguan was lost, and the territory was declining. Speaking of this, he couldn't help but chant a few verses of his predecessors, "The spring is depressed and the sun is slanting, and the northwest is cool and the end of the world is seen." However, Sun Lu, the king of green grass, does not belong to the family of Emperor Zhumen. ”

Gao Junshan, who has great ambitions, borrowed a few sentences from Yue Fei's "Man Jianghong": "The banner crosses Helan Mountain, the ambition is hungry for Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for the blood of the Huns, and vowing not to return it until Loulan!" ”

Cai Zhishan stroked his palms and said: "It's a good one, and I don't swear to return it if I don't get Loulan!" ”

……

In October, Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, led the general soldiers Yang Jiamo, He Huchen, Yang Qi, Ai Wannian, He Renlong, and Wang Xingshan, Li Bei, Hu Dawei, Hou Shilu and other partial generals, 70,000 horses, six people, and then surrounded Pingliang.

Gao Junshan has long been prepared.

In the three months of seven, eight and nine, he exchanged the neutrino rice-vegetable exchange instrument for more than 10,000 bags of rice, increasing the inventory of Gao Junshan;

During these three months, he improved the three earthen walls outside the city, and organized manpower to lay bricks, bury earth and build stones. In the blink of an eye, it became a solid stone wall. In this way, a hundred and ten stone walls were connected, leaving an opening in the middle, and three blocking belts were built outside the whole city.

It was also during these three months, Pingliang did not have a single grain of rain, and the water in the ditch outside the city had long since dried up, and Gao Junshan ordered to set a trap in the ditch again.

For the arrival of the next battle, Gao Junshan organized the first and second cavalry teams of Gao Yigong and the Red Army allies, with a total of 12,000 cavalry, into the Tiger and Leopard Army, Tian Wenju and Bailisha as the main and deputy divisions of the Tiger and Leopard Army, and the Tiger and Leopard Army went to the Kelan Mountain, 70 miles away in the southwest, and set up a secret camp in the Kelan Mountain.

Its strategic policy is as follows: first, use the speed of tigers and leopards to ride without a trace, and use the Blue Mountains as a natural barrier to contain the enemy who attacks and harasses the besieging city; Second, establish contact with the intelligence network of Sun Kewang and Feng Shuangli, and as soon as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's teams appear, they will immediately go to contact and cooperate with reinforcements to fight.

The troops defending the city, Gao Junshan, were also adjusted: Liu Fangliang and Zhao Shichun led the first infantry team to take over the city defense in the southeast; Li Busi and Liu Hongru led the Second Infantry Team to take over the city defense in the northwest direction; Cai Zhishan and Sun Yuanhua's direct teams were responsible for the defense of the whole city; Ma Zhi'an's 3rd Cavalry was in reserve.

On October 16, Hong Chengchou's 70,000 men and horses encircled Pingliang like an iron barrel and launched an offensive at the four city gates at the same time.

Liu Fangliang commanded his troops in Xicheng. The first team of his infantry has two battalions of men and horses, the battalion is the general, the general is the outpost, and then there are hundreds, she, and soldiers. Each battalion has 4,000 men, divided into 4,000 generals, each thousand has two sentinels, and one sentinel has 500 men, led by the sentinel president, and below the sentinel is a hundred households. Liu Fangliang released a battalion of men and horses at the east and south gates.

"General, the official army has begun to attack the city." A personal soldier pointed to the Ming army outside the trench and reported to Liu Fangliang.

Liu Fangliang looked indifferent: "I know." He was looking at the Ming army that was about to move, and of course he knew that they were attacking.

However, what is strange is that the Ming army did not rush over with knives and guns, but took tools to shovel soil and dug not far from the trench.

The rebels, who were on the first line of defense closest to the enemy, inflicted heavy long-range strikes on the enemy, and the enemy's digging was proceeding rather slowly, and people were constantly falling into the mud pits they had dug up.

Liu Fangliang looked condescendingly for a long time, and then understood the intention of the Ming army to dig the soil, it turned out that their real purpose was to dig out the soil and pile it up on the side of the trench to form a highland built with earth.

As the heights increased, the long-range strikes of the rebels' first line of defense gradually lost their effectiveness, as the enemy also had a protective belt.

Liu Fangliang saw that the enemy was setting up a stone-throwing machine, he immediately made a decision, pulled out the sword in his hand, and ordered the chess officer beside him: "Tell the brothers outside the city to withdraw to the tunnel, we are going to launch the stone-throwing machine." ”

Gao Junshan's group of flag speakers trained in his army is now coming in handy.

The flag-bearers on the castle tower gave the order, and the flag-bearers outside the city responded simply. Liu Fangliang raised his sword and ordered the stone thrower to strike at the stone thrower that the Ming army was erecting.

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

The stone throwing machine threw the stones on the head of the Ming army like raindrops, these stone throwing machines were specially designed by Sun Yuanhua to defend the city, although they did not go far, but the amount of fire was amazing, the Ming army was hit by this round of stones falling from the sky, and the six stone throwing machines that had just been built were also destroyed.

Liu Fangliang smiled happily at the embarrassed enemy, he shook off the dust on his body, which was falling from the stones flying overhead, ordered the stone thrower to stop firing, and then retracted the saber into its scabbard.

One of his own soldiers told him, "Your Excellency, my husband has brought dinner here." ”

In fact, he could already smell the fragrant braised pork.

"No wonder I smell the smell of braised pork." Liu Fangliang laughed, "Send the order down, tell the brothers, pick up your guys who are eating, knock them up with chopsticks, and tell the officers and soldiers in the city that we have dinner, and if you want to eat braised pork, come up, and we will reward him with a piece." ”

The Ming army besieging the city was also hungry at this time, and when they heard that the thieves at the head of the city had opened their meals, and there were braised pork to eat, they were all drooling. Fortunately, they also withdrew their troops at this time, and they all rushed back to the camp.

Gao Junshan sat alone in the council hall motionless, today was the first day of Ming Ting's visit, he had stayed here for a whole day, and he hadn't gone anywhere.

The council hall became his operational command room, and in the middle of the hall was placed a huge sand table, which was made according to a radius of thirty miles from Pingliang, and his watch could detect creatures within ten kilometers, so he could clearly mark the movement of enemy soldiers within twenty miles on the sand table.

The hands of Gao Junshan's watch had already pointed to four o'clock in the afternoon, and Bai Wenxuan came in to ask Gao Junshan whether to continue to eat in the council hall for dinner, or to go back to the letter hall to eat with his family.

Gao Junshan received reports from the defenders from all walks of life that the Ming army had collected their troops and returned to the camp, and he concluded that there would be no more fighting today, so he decided to have dinner with his family tonight.

Cunxin Hall is his home, Han Yuyan, Ji Ya, Gemma Suena live here, the restaurant is very gorgeous, but the table is very ordinary dishes, the family is happy, the two sons are one year old and four months old, lively and cute. What's even more gratifying is that Han Yuyan is pregnant again, but fortunately, Jiya has been able to share most of the family's affairs.

And Gemma has been trained by Gao Junshan to be able to speak a few words of Chinese, although she came into the Gao family as a maid, but the identity of the two female slaves is completely different. As soon as Gemma entered the door of Gao's house, she was treated as a VIP and did not ask her to do anything unworthy of her status as a princess.

After Gao Junshan had dinner, he went back to his bedroom and asked Gemma to come and loosen his bones. Under the dim oil lamp, after Gemma changed her clothes and bathed, she came to Gao Junshan's bed, and Gao Junshan, who was lying on the bed, smelled a fragrant fragrance that soothed his bones.

Gemma's fingers gently pressed on Gao Junshan's smooth back, when the fingertips moved down from the spine little by little, Gao Junshan suddenly felt a bad omen, he straightened up suddenly, his head just touched Gemma's jaw, Gao Junshan didn't have time to reassure Gemma, he quickly looked at his watch.

Sure enough, there was an anomaly on the dial.