Wen Yanbo had just become a privy deputy envoy, so he naturally had to behave well in front of the emperor, and as soon as the city gate was opened the next day, he rushed to Beizhou with his entourage. When he arrived at the Beizhou camp, he immediately went to see Ming Hao, and Ming Hao couldn't help but be shocked when he saw Wen Yanbo: "Where did the deputy come from?" ”

Wen Yanbo said: "Your Majesty has worked hard to study for a bachelor, so I want to invite the bachelor to return to Beijing to recuperate." ”

Ming Ho was so angry that his beard puffed up: "How can Your Majesty listen to the villain's slander, didn't Your Majesty see the old man's recital when the deputy cardinal went out of Beijing?" ”

Wen Yanbo said: "Your Majesty has also seen the recital of the bachelor. It's just that Beizhou is in chaos, and Hebei is shaking. Recently, there was information that the Liao people had assembled a large army, and His Majesty was very worried. He casually put the blame on the emperor.

It's all old foxes, and they don't need to be too clear. The intelligence shows that the old man has assembled a large army, so the matter in Beizhou will naturally be solved as quickly as possible, Li Buqi said that his method will work quickly, then the emperor will definitely use Li Buqi's method. Li Buqi wrote a letter to impeach Ming Ho, he must have had a falling out with Ming Ho, so how could the emperor still leave Ming Ho here?

Myeongho knew that the matter was irreparable and accepted the reality, so he could only hope that Li Buqi would not capture Beizhou too quickly, so that he would not have face at all.

Ming Ho ordered the drum to be raised, and when the generals arrived, Wen Yanbo read the holy decree, and Ming Ho handed over the big seal of the pacification envoy to Wen Yanbo, and immediately left the camp and returned to Beijing. Wen Yanbo led the generals to send Ming Ho out of the camp and then came back to sit in the handsome position, and then asked, "Deputy Envoy Li, how is your building car prepared?" ”

Li Buqi said: "Pacification, now there are three building cars that have been built high and level with the head of the city, but because Master Ming has not allocated wood, he has to stop building." ”

Wen Yanbo said: "Your Majesty saw your recital, and was very expectant of the method of this building car, from today on, you will be responsible for the deployment of materials and step up the construction of building cars, in order to quell the rebellion in Beizhou as soon as possible." ”

Li Buqi said: "Yes, the lower officials will do their best." ”

Wen Yanbo asked again: "So can the excavation of the tunnel be stopped?" ”

All the generals breathed a sigh of relief, but they didn't expect Li Buqi to say: "The tunnel must continue to be excavated." ”

"Why is that?" Wen Yanbo couldn't help but wonder: "Didn't you say that it takes too long to dig a tunnel, and it is easy to be discovered by the enemy?" ”

Li Buqi said: "Then I will talk about the overall plan of the lower officials, how about appeasing and helping me with the generals?" ”

Wen Yanbo nodded. Li Buqi walked to the shelf in the big tent where the map of Beizhou City was hung and said: "Although the building cart is a siege weapon, it is large in size, moves slowly, and is easy to destroy by artillery and fire, so when attacking the city, we should try to disperse the enemy's stone cannons and bed crossbows. In addition, even if the city is entered by a building car, if there are too many enemy troops, it may not be able to capture the city gate, so it is necessary to use strategies to induce the enemy army to disperse its forces. ”

"We are building a building car in the south of the city with great fanfare, if the thieves find out that we are digging tunnels in the south of the city, it is very likely that the thieves will think that we are doing a plan to attack the west, that is, we will not attack the south city, and the thieves may not dare not keep a large army in the south city for all safety. Since the tunnel has been dug for three days, don't waste it, and make a suspicious plan. ”

Wen Yanbo said: "This method is good. ”

Li Buqi said to Wang Xin: "Manager Wang, how to let the thieves find out about this tunnel, you will have to work." ”

Wang Xin hurriedly said: "Deputy envoy, don't worry, I will make the thieves think that we are going to attack the south of the city." ”

Li Buqi said: "There is one more thing. I have seen two sieges, and the organization of the official army can be further improved, and I have just written a list of key points for the siege organization. I would like to take advantage of these days to build a building car and tell the officers who may command the siege in the future. ”

Wen Yanbo said: "This matter is feasible, and Manager Wang must also handle this matter well." ”

Li Buqi turned to Wen Yanbo again: "Please also appease and help me ask for another batch of new strong crossbows made by the Ordnance Supervisor." Previously, Master Ming applied for 1,000 planes, but only 500 planes. If there are 500 more, I am afraid that the thieves on the city wall will not be able to stand. ”

Wen Yanbo smiled: "This matter is easy to say." Before this official left Beijing, Xia Shumi had already ordered another 500 crossbows of the kind you mentioned to be allocated here, and they would arrive in a few days. At that time, the official will see how you can take Beizhou in one go. ”

Wen Yanbo made up his mind to be the shopkeeper, not to say a word more every day, and let Li Buqi deal with anything else. At this time, Li Buqi was given a lot of autonomy, sending a group of soldiers to help the people transport timber, speeding up the construction progress of the building car, and at the same time letting the generals train their soldiers according to their own arrangements every day, and then repeatedly discussing the siege plan with several major generals plus Wen Yanbo.

More than half a month has passed in a blink of an eye, and the residents of Beizhou, who escaped from the city wall, reported that the city had noticed signs of digging tunnels, and the king of Dongping County had people dig pits and bury many large urns at the foot of the southern city to listen to the movement underground.

Now 14 building cars have been completed, as well as more than 200 ladders and bridges. Li Buqi saw that the time was almost up, and if it dragged on, it would be a southerly wind, so he ordered the whole army to attack the city on the 29th day of the first month.

The whole army was still out of the camp on the fifth watch, and the rebels in the city also noticed it, and immediately sounded the horn to sound the alarm, and the rebels in the city rushed up the city wall one by one, and large bundles of crossbow arrows and javelins were carried out of the arsenal and sent to the city. The young and strong inhabitants of the city were also driven up to the city walls, and the stones and bricks were neatly stacked under the tents, and the push rods were distributed, and the gold juice and grease were made on fires, ready to be beaten as the officers and soldiers had done on the previous two occasions.

Du Meng was originally a colonel in the Xuanyi Army, but after the mutiny, because the commanders who drank the blood of the soldiers were either cut off or locked in prison, but the troops needed someone to command, he was promoted to general by the king who had already called the emperor. At this moment, he stood on the north tower of the city and built a pergola with his hands to observe the officers and soldiers who had finished the formation.

As an old soldier, he immediately noticed that there was a slight difference between the formation of today's officers and soldiers and the past, and when he saw the strict appearance of the queue, it seemed that it was intentional, and he couldn't help but smile.

It is said that the emperor sent another senior official to command, and these civil officials liked to come up with flashy new tricks to show that they were different, regardless of whether they were of practical use or not. Before the incident, those civil officials who were stupid in reading and reading didn't pat their heads and come up with some stupid ideas to toss Xuan Yijun, but in the end they were all proved to be useless. It seems that the official sent by the emperor this time is also such a person.

Such a person is easy to deal with, fortunately, the stupid emperor did not let Li Buqi lead the troops, I heard that Li Buqi is a capable fighter.

Just when Du Meng was secretly glad in his heart, the official army brigade began to move. As usual, with the sound of drums, the brigade slowly pressed up like a mountain, giving people a feeling of extreme oppression. Du Meng licked his lips and ordered the soldiers and Minzhuang to prepare the bed crossbows and stone cannons, and then his eyes were still on the tall wooden buildings in the ranks of the officers and soldiers.

These wooden buildings have been placed outside the range of the bed crossbow for more than half a month, and they are getting taller every day, and now they seem to be a little higher than the head of the city, so both the emperor and the others think that these wooden buildings are extremely threatening and must be destroyed as much as possible. However, he didn't worry too much, after all, these things were made of wood, and with the experience of burning Qucheng last time, he believed that these things could be wiped out with just a fire. The only thing that doesn't go well is that this is Beicheng, which is in the wind today, and it is inconvenient to set fire.

There was a shout from below the horse road, and Du Meng asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Before the soldiers could run to look, they saw a group of people walking up to the city, led by Emperor Wulie of Anyang, Wang Zehe, Taiwei, the prime minister and others. The lieutenant saw Du Meng and asked, "General Du, can the enemy's wooden building be dispatched?" ”

Du Meng accompanied Wang Ze and the others to the female wall and said, "The enemy is pushing the wooden building over." It's slow to move though. ”

Wang Zeji looked at it for a while and said, "Although the enemy's wooden building is a big threat, I am afraid that it is even more of a trick. The tunnel dug in the south of the city suddenly stopped moving in the past two days, and I think it has been dug into the city, so we just wait for today to transfer all the troops to the north, east and west, and then the enemy army will rush out of the tunnel. ”

The lieutenant asked, "What do the officials want?" ”

The king said, "You are commanding the enemy here, and I will leave more grease here to burn down the enemy's wooden buildings." I personally led my troops to guard the south of the city to prevent the enemy from using the tunnels to sneak attack. ”