It may be affected by the cold air of Siberia, the weather in Xuzhou City has also become a little gloomy, and the sky is dripping with light rain, which does not bring any inconvenience to people, but it is always inevitable to be wet.

Zhao Fan led the army stationed at the position of twenty miles of Xuzhou City, looking at Xuzhou City from a distance, his eyes were full of solemnity.

Xuzhou, also known as Pengcheng in history, is one of the earliest capitals of the Yellow Emperor, the ancestor of Chinese civilization, and has always been a battleground for soldiers.

Although Xuzhou City is not as majestic as Chang'an City, it is also a big city, with towering city walls, thick city gates, and backed by the Yellow River, plus 50,000 well-nourished Zhu Wen soldiers in the city, it is as difficult as a hedgehog.

Not only that, Xuzhou City has a total of four gates, and each city gate is equipped with an urn city, in order to strengthen the defense, the urn city is not directly opposite the city gate, which further increases the difficulty of attacking.

After Zhu Wen took this city, as an important barrier to defend against Zhao Fan, Xuzhou City was expanded and strengthened several times, and after many repairs, the entire Xuzhou City was also doubly solid.

"Your Majesty, it's raining, you can go back and rest first."

Xu Wen took an oil-paper umbrella and slowly stretched it out to the top of Zhao Fan's head, which could cover Zhao Fan from being short-sighted, but he himself stood in the rain and was drenched.

Zhao Fan looked at Xu Wen, who was a little embarrassed by the drizzle, a trace of emotion flashed in his eyes, but he remembered in his heart that in his previous life, those officials who showed off everywhere with umbrellas and had to wear shoe covers in the next place, couldn't help but laugh a little dumbly.

"It's okay, this little rain can't help me." Zhao Fan smiled, pushed away the umbrella Xu Wen was holding, and said slowly, "Don't give me an umbrella, the soldiers are still standing in the rain, if I am alone with an umbrella, what will it look like." ”

Xu Wen was stunned for a moment, then touched his head and smiled a little embarrassedly, slowly put away the umbrella, and appeared behind Zhao Fan fixedly.

The other soldiers standing guard threw moved and admiring glances at Zhao Fan, with such a commander, even if they were killed on the battlefield immediately, they were willing.

Zhao Fan didn't think about it so much, he just didn't like bureaucracy purely, but he never thought that his two fluttering words would make his image magnify again in the hearts of the soldiers.

"General Xu, what do you think, how are we going to take this Xuzhou City?"

"This... Your Majesty, the last general is just your personal guard, this march and war, the last general is not very good at it, Your Majesty is better to ask Lord Zhang about them. Xu Wen didn't have a city wall, but said very honestly.

When Zhao Fan heard this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, his generals were scrambling one by one, as if they were afraid that the main task of the main attack would be snatched away by others.

But this matter is not so simple, what Zhao Fan wants is to take Shaanzhou City with the fastest speed and the smallest casualties, instead of being hard-headed, this battle will take a long time, and he does not have the capital to fight a war of attrition.

"It would be great if the artillery was developed." Zhao Fan looked at the raindrops that kept falling from the sky and muttered to himself.

In the past few years, Zhao Fan has not relaxed about the research and development of muskets and artillery, but the current level of Datang's science and technology tree is too low, and if he wants to complete this goal in a short time, I am afraid there is little hope.

"Let's go, go back to the tent."

"Yes!"

……

Zhao Fan outside the city was full of sorrow, and the two brothers Zhang Guihou and Zhang Guiba in the city were not much better. There are 300,000 troops stationed outside the city, and the entire city of Xuzhou is so impenetrable that even a fly can't fly out.

"Big brother, now that we are surrounded to death, we have nowhere to run, what should we do?" Zhang Guiba scratched his head a little irritably and said gloomily.

"What else can I do, the emperor handed over this Xuzhou City to our two brothers, if it is lost, he will not cut off the heads of you and me?" Zhang Guihou patted Zhang Guiba's head and said helplessly.

"Don't worry, in our Xuzhou City, all kinds of materials are abundantly stored, and there are 50,000 elite soldiers, as long as we are careful, there is always no problem in defending for a year and a half, and by that time, the emperor has already beaten Li Keyong to the ground, and the enemy outside the city will be self-defeating."

Zhang Guiba nodded, and said with some concern, "But big brother, what is outside this city is the Heavenly Mandate Army, and others say that the people of this Heavenly Mandate Army are all equipped with unique skills, invulnerable, and there are two or three people who stand up and are extremely powerful, can we really hold this Xuzhou City?" ”

"You bastard!" Zhang Guihou slapped Zhang Guiba's head a little speechlessly, and said in a deep voice, "You don't want to confuse the people and disturb the morale of the army here!" ”

"Isn't this person of the Mandate of Heaven a human being? They also grew up eating, and they were also born by their parents and their parents, so why are they invulnerable? And where did you hear that they were all incredibly tall and powerful? ”

Zhang Guiba touched his head with some grievances, and said softly, "Big brother, why did you beat me?" These are all said by the storyteller under the bridge, this kind of thing is almost known to everyone, can there be a fake? ”

"You idiot, if the enemy really had the ability you say, would you still stay outside the city so honestly? Why don't you just use your pig brain to think about it? Zhang Guihou glared at Zhang Guiba with hatred, and said a little crazy.

"If you let the soldiers hear these words, how will they feel? Do we have to fight this battle? If you say such stupid things again next time, Lao Tzu will cut you with a knife! ”

"What the eldest brother said also has some truth, the younger brother knows, and he will definitely never talk nonsense in the future." Zhang Guiba looked at Zhang Guihou, who was a little angry, shrunk his neck and said.

Zhang Guihou looked at the somewhat honest brother in front of him, shook his head helplessly, and wanted to say something to discipline him, but looking at the grievances on his face, he couldn't bear to say it again.

"Big brother, my brother knows that he is wrong, don't be angry anymore, blame those storytellers for talking nonsense and deceiving me, when I have time, I must clean them up!" Zhang Guiba looked at Zhang Guihou and said with a flattering face.

Zhang Guihou also had no choice but to nod lightly with his younger brother, which was regarded as a perfunctory past.

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