Gao Yihuan was preparing for another three days, waiting for a batch of instruments to be manufactured.

The Hongyi cannon is indeed a sharp weapon for demolition, and Wengcheng in the north of Shouzhou is about to collapse under the bombardment of several days.

Although the Hongyi cannon is very damaging to the wall, the damage of the solid bullet to the soldiers is very limited.

Liu Liangzuo has 6,000 soldiers in the city, and there are still young people in the city, and the defensive strength can be said to be sufficient.

Although in the past few days, Gao Yihuan drove the new attached battalion to attack Shouzhou and exhausted the defenders, but if he could not inflict huge damage on the defenders, Shouzhou would definitely be difficult to break.

After the equipment was produced, Gao Yihuan prepared to officially attack the city, but before the attack, a letter of surrender that broke the fighting spirit of the defenders was indispensable.

Under the city, nearly 10,000 people, overnight erected eighteen high two zhang soil slopes, one broken one is oblique, just facing the city wall, the other side is cut straight into a straight line, behind a huge thing about two zhang high, it is a stone throwing machine.

The defenders of the city were puzzled by the sudden appearance of more than a dozen mounds outside the city, so far away, they didn't know what to do.

The defenders fired several shots and hit the slope, and the shells were either bounced up by the slope or smashed into a pit of earth.

At this time, dozens of stone throwers were pulled to the back of the slope, and the defenders immediately reacted, which was not a new thing.

The artillery in the city fired a few shots, but it had no effect, and the gunners felt bored, fearing that they would attract a counterattack from the Hongyi artillery outside the city, so they stopped.

At this time, Gao Yihuan, Liu Heizi and others stood behind the stone throwing machine, watching several soldiers wrap the letters of surrender one by one around a small stone with a thin rope, and then put them in the leather pocket on the throwing pole.

Liu Heizi looked at it, "Brother Gao, isn't it just a letter of surrender?" Wouldn't it be enough to find a few people to shoot into the city, and you can use more than a dozen special stone throwers? ”

Gao Yihuan smiled and said in his heart, "You know a fart!" ”

At this time, eighteen stone throwers were fired at the same time, and the artillery stones ejected, drawing an arc and smashing towards Shouzhou City.

The cannon fell to the ground, the string was broken, and the head of the city and the inside of the city were immediately covered with white paper.

The soldiers who defended the city picked it up and watched it, and those who could read read it.

At this moment, a general rushed up with a hideous face and roared loudly, "Hand over the pieces of paper, and the private collector will die!" ”

In the past few days, the artillery of the Gao-Liu coalition army bombarded the city, and the soldiers attacked the city, which made Liu Liangzuo very tired and did not sleep well for more than ten consecutive days.

On December 8, last night was disturbed by the allied forces for another night, so that Liu Liangzuo did not sleep all night, and finally could not resist, so he handed over the defense to his son Liu Zehan and nephew Liu Zehong early in the morning, and then returned to the Shuaifu to rest.

As soon as he closed his eyes, he was dim when he heard a voice outside the room: "Father? Father? ”

The soldiers pressed the city, Liu Liangzuo's heart has always been tense with a string, he has been extremely sensitive recently, as soon as he heard the sound, he immediately sat up from the bed, touched the big knife hanging on the wall, jumped up, and exclaimed: "Who is it?" ”

"Father, I, Zehan!" A voice came from outside the room.

After hearing clearly, Liu Liangzuo relaxed, sat back, pressed his head with his hand, and put the knife aside, "What's the matter?" Come in! ”

Liu Zehan pushed the door in, directly handed a piece of paper to Liu Liangzuo, and said urgently: "Father, the thief is starting to attack his heart." ”

"Heart-attacking?" Liu Liangzuo was in good spirits and hurriedly took it over to watch.

This is a letter written by Gao Yihuan to the soldiers and people in the city, the content is very simple, and you can understand it if you can read and write.

He claimed that he had no enmity with the soldiers and people in the city, and the reason why he fought Shouzhou was because Liu Liangzuo colluded with the Tartars, and he couldn't bear to see the lives in the city ruined, so he persuaded the defenders in the city to open the city and surrender.

For this reason, Gao Yihuan made a promise, as long as the city was opened, he promised not to kill, the first person to sacrifice the city, to give a reward of gold and silver, and the capture of Liu Liangzuo, a heavy reward of 500 gold.

Liu Liangzuo was furious when he saw it, and his hand quickly crumpled the piece of paper into a ball.

"The high thief doesn't even surrender to the commander, it's unreasonable!"

Liu Zehan gritted his teeth and said: "Father, this is a thief who knows that his father is iron-clad, and he hates his father for cutting off his wealth, so he doesn't give us a way to live." ”

Liu Liangzuo was angry, "How many people read this letter?" Is there anything else? ”

Liu Zehan said: "The third brother is collecting it in the city, and it has been collected all of them."

Liu Liangzuo grabbed the letter paper in his hand, thought for a while with a calm face, and then spoke: "Zehan, the high thief used a feint attack to exhaust us for more than ten days, and now he has begun to shake our military morale, I expect that he will definitely attack the city in the near future." Ma Shiying and Huang Chuangzi, haven't you moved yet? ”

Gao Yihuan's troops were not enough to besiege the city, so he could only send a small number of men and horses to monitor outside the city, and the connection between Shouzhou and the outside world was not cut off.

"Father, they all sent three groups of people out of the city, and as soon as they heard that it was a war with high thieves, they all coaxed. Ma Shiying gave an order to let the various departments help us break the siege, but he shrank in Fengyang by himself, and the others naturally won't move. Huang Degong sent 2,000 soldiers and horses to Hefei, but there was no movement. The gang in Xuzhou, not to mention. Now the whole Nanzhi people have spread, saying that the thieves who killed the Tartars in Shandong said that the father was handsome and had fornicated with the Tartars, so they wanted to start a war with us, and they didn't want to wade into this troubled water! ”

Liu Liangzuo's face was a little stunned, he knew that his character was not very good, but after all, he was an official of the Ming Dynasty, and no one around him saved him, which was too much of a failure.

"The Ming official army is over!" Liu Liangzuo was heartbroken, "A Gao Yihuan scared them like this, is the reputation of a high thief so loud?" ”

"Father, Gao Yihuan has been flying fast recently, and it is said that Zuo Liangyu in Xiangyang was beaten away by him." Liu Zehan said: "I think Huang Chuangzi and Ma Shiying are not afraid of Gao Yihuan, they just don't want to cause trouble for us." They can't come now, first, because of the Shandong incident. The high thief killed 2,000 Tartars in one battle, and beheaded Li Shutai and Biertahar, and his combat power was naturally not weak. Second, now that I heard that he defeated Zuo Liangyu and captured Xiangyang, and also fought a battle with the lieutenant Chi under the Western Thief, I know that the high thief is not easy to mess with. The third is that the high thieves have not yet begun to officially attack the city, and we have not contributed to the consumption of the high thieves, and the others are naturally waiting and watching, unwilling to fight hard for us and Gao Yihuan. ”

These reasons make sense, in the final analysis, his character is too bad, he always rubs off on other people's achievements, and fights with others.

This time, where would others come to save him from the beginning, he didn't let go, fought with Gao Yihuan for a while, and consumed Gao Yihuan almost the same, surrounded by the lord who could nest in Xuzhou for half a year, all of them were human sperm, and most of them didn't have eggs to come.

Thinking of this, Liu Liangzuo's expression became serious, and he put one hand on Liu Zehan's shoulder, "Zehan, are you afraid?" ”

"Father, Gao Yihuan wants to kill us, and my son is afraid that he will have to do it!"

Liu Liangzuo patted Liu Zehan on the shoulder and said, "Zehan, don't worry, how many years of fighting for my father have eaten, and I have eaten more salt than the thief." The high thief wants to fight with me, but he is still a little tender, and this time his father will definitely let him hit his head and break the blood. ”

After this stubble, Liu Liangzuo also lost his sleepiness, "Let's go, while the thieves haven't attacked the city yet, let's go to the city to arrange defense matters." ”

Before the two of them left the Shuaifu, a soldier informed them that the thieves outside the city were gathering, seemingly preparing to attack the city.

Liu Liangzuo hurriedly came to the city and led a group of generals to check the enemy's situation.

(End of chapter)