Zhao Gou set the plan for the march and deployment of the siege of the city, and knew that the fierce generals in the Fang La army were like clouds, and they could not be hard-hit, and the casualties of the strong attack must be heavy.

"Marshal, our army has marched south to conquer Fangla, and has fought several battles in succession, killing and wounding many brothers. If we attack strongly, we will inevitably increase our casualties, and our army is stronger than the thief army, and we must not do so. ”

Zhao Gou sighed and said: "I don't know how not to attack, only outwitting." Right now, I don't know if the military division has a good way to break the enemy? ”

Wu calmed down and said eloquently: "The marshal's marching deployment has been done, so I don't know what the marshal thinks?" ”

Zhao Gou saw that Wu Yong was selling Guanzi, and said: "The military advisor should not sell Guanzi, if you have something to say, you can say it directly!" ”

Wu Yong said with a smile: "Since the marshal has deployed the combat forces and direction, the North Pass Gate is the gate of Hangzhou, and the marshal will personally go to attack, and the deployment of troops there is bound to be extraordinary." In this way, the marshal can make a feint, and it is not necessary to really attack, but to wait for the other vanguards to attack. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"Other vanguard armies attack the various city gates, Qi Qi attack will inevitably cause Fang La's vigilance, will definitely send troops out to meet the enemy, but our army does not confront it head-on, feign defeat and defeat, lure the enemy out of the city, away from Hangzhou City, at that time, as long as it is successfully drawn out, it can be artillery, formal counterattack, go hand in hand, as long as there is a vanguard army into the city, you can set fire to the signal, at that time the thieves want to go back to the city to respond, it is too late!"

Zhao Gou praised: "This plan is wonderful! ”

So, all the generals nodded their heads and agreed, and acted according to the plan.

At the same time, an emergency meeting was held in Hangzhou to discuss countermeasures. The main force of the Song army all came, and the army had already gathered in one place, but he didn't know what measures Zhao Gou would take to attack, and he was worried.

Fang La said in a deep voice: "Today, the Song army came to attack, attacked the four gates respectively, caught our army off guard, and folded a tiger general, and then the Song army will inevitably choose to break through each and have to defend!" ”

"Spread my will, all generals must guard the city gates, and never allow the Song army to enter the city for half a step."

"Yes!"

Fang La nodded, and after ordering everyone to go down, he said again: "The prince stays, I have something to discuss with you!" ”

Fang Tianding looked back at his father and emperor curiously, and he didn't know what to leave behind him. However, Fang La's order had to be obeyed. As for what they said, no one knew at all, only their father and son knew it in their hearts, and it was not until the next day that the Song army attacked and appeared in everyone's sight.

The next day, Zhao Gou took the lead in ordering Guan Sheng to lead some military horses to go to the city of Beiguanmen to call for battle; The drums of war were beaten in the city, and Shi Bao led the army out of the city and clashed with Guan Sheng again. It's just that the two fought for only ten rounds, Guan Sheng was defeated, and hurriedly led the troops to flee, Shi Bao saw that Guan Sheng was not his opponent, and confidently led the army to chase away.

When Guan Sheng saw Shi Bao leading the army to pursue him, he was overjoyed and immediately ran faster. Shi Bao was even more happy to see Guan Sheng being defeated by himself with his tail between his legs, and directly lit the cannon to celebrate, but he didn't want to be in Guan Sheng's arms, he knew that the strategy of the military advisor Wu was successful, so he stayed outside the city and stopped attacking.

Shi Bao unknowingly lit the cannon, but told Song Jiang that he could attack, which also made the army attack the city one after another.

Let's say that Lu Junyi, the deputy vanguard, led the army to attack the Houchao Gate, and the army had already arrived at the city, but when he saw that the city gate was not closed, and even the drawbridge was lowered, he couldn't help frowning and pondering: "Why is the city gate not closed?" Or is there something that can't be done? ”

Lu Junyi was suspicious, he felt that things were not so simple, but Liu Tang stood up and asked: "Lu Xianxian, the last general is willing to come in person to find out!" ”

Lu Junyi shook his head and said, "Brother Liu Tang, I'm afraid there is fraud, don't go deep!" ”

Liu Tang was originally assigned to Huarong to attack the Jiangen Mountain Gate, but he didn't want Yan Qing to go happily, so Zhao Gou agreed to the personnel transfer and transferred Yue Fei to his side, Liu Tang followed Lu Junyi's side to attack Chaomen, and he continued: "Lu Xianxian, if you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger!" ”

Lu Junyi saw that Liu Tang was so determined that he had to go, so he agreed to go alone. So, Liu Tang rode a war horse alone and carried a big knife into the city. It turns out that the city of Hangzhou is the capital built by King Qian, and there are three gates: a heavy gate outside the gate, two iron leaf gates in the middle, and a layer of gate inside.

Although Liu Tang was brave and invincible, he was the first to enter the city, how could he be able to defeat thousands of troops and horses, and when he walked into the city, the gate was lowered and Liu Tang's retreat was directly blocked. Hearing the sound of the gate being lowered, Lu Junyi knew that Liu Tang had fallen into a trick and strayed into the camp, so he hurried to see Liu Tang alone facing the thief soldiers and witnessing the process of his killing.

Lu Junyi saw that Liu Tang died tragically on the spot, and he couldn't rescue him in time, so he had to order the soldiers to temporarily retreat, stay outside the city, and not enter the city at will. At the same time, the news of Liu Tang's death also reached Zhao Gou's office, and after hearing about it, Black Whirlwind Li Kui roared angrily: "This guy should be damned, my brother who plotted against me will definitely kill him!" ”

Zhao Gou was sad, and gathered his mind, and ordered to attack the Beiguan Gate, and the army came to the Beiguan Gate, beating drums and waving flags to fight. However, there was no figure of Fang La on the city wall, only the figure of the enemy general, and I couldn't help but have some doubts: "Could it be that Fang La's turtle is cowering in the city of Hangzhou and does not dare to come out?" ”

Li Kui hurriedly came to the miscellaneous land, raised his double axe, stood in front of the horse, and also beat drums and waved flags. This time, he wanted to avenge his brother, and went directly to Guan Sheng to replace him and become the main general who attacked Shi Bao. Guan Sheng told Li Kui, and then led the army and horses to attack the city elsewhere.

I saw the drums and gongs sounding in the city, Shi Bao rode a melon and yellow horse, held a wind splitting knife, led two generals, and went out of the city to meet the enemy. There were three generals in Fang Lajun's army who came out of the city, Li Kui didn't care at all, he was a real person who was not afraid of heaven and earth, and he roared and was stunned to do it with the three of them.

When Shi Bao and the other three saw Li Kui killing alone, they looked at him with a sneer, thinking that he was looking for death. Since Li Kui was interested in thinking, how could Shi Bao and the others not help him. So, the three of them directly confronted Li Kui. Shi Bao raised the wind splitting knife and attacked Li Kui, not wanting him to underestimate Li Kui carelessly, but was cut off by Li Kui's horse foot with an axe and fell directly to the ground.

Then, Li Kui cut off the legs of Lian Ming and Wu Zhi's war horses and fell straight to the ground. At this time, Li Kui was like a god of war, with inexhaustible strength, and abandoned Shi Bao aside, but instead slashed at Lian Ming with an axe, unable to dodge, and the corpse was on the spot.

Shi Bao and Wu Zhi saw that Li Kui was so powerful, and killed Lian Ming with one move, and they were really frightened, and the two of them ran away immediately without thinking about it, and fled back to the camp in a hurry, not daring to come out easily. Li Kui immediately caught up, but when he arrived at the city, he found that there were pieces of wood and cannon stones thrown from the city, and he had no choice but to retreat and dare not confront him.

For a while, the whole battle situation became a stalemate, Song Jiang couldn't attack it, and Fang La's army couldn't attack it, so the two armies confronted each other. Zhao Gou looked at the thick city wall and the enemy soldiers, and was worried, if there was no gain, and the brothers would continue to die in battle, he, the marshal, had an unshirkable responsibility.

At the right time, Xie Zhen excitedly reported the good news to Zhao Gou, and said: "The younger brother and Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen and others went to attack the city, and walked all the way to more than 20 miles outside the south gate, the place name Fan Village, and I saw dozens of boats moored by the river. When General Lin went down to ask, it turned out to be the grain ship of Yuan Pingshi in Fuyang County. ”

The younger brother wanted to kill him directly, but he didn't think that he said that he was a good citizen of the Great Song Dynasty, and he was forced by Fang La, so he only obeyed orders, and if he didn't obey, he would be killed, so he obeyed the dispatch in order to save his life. The younger brother felt that he was also excusable and let him go, but he didn't expect him to repay the favor and tell the younger brother Yu a great piece of good news. ”

Zhao Gou hurriedly asked, "What is the good news?" ”

"That guy was ordered by Fang Tian to go down to the counties to scrub the villages and collect 50,000 stones of white grain. The old man was the head, and he collected 5,000 stones, and he paid it first. It's just that our army besieged the city of Hangzhou and didn't dare to go, so we could only dock the ships here. Xie Zhen said excitedly, "I'm here to tell the marshal, what should I do?" ”

"This is providential, and it is really good news!" Wu Yongyan said excitedly.

Zhao Gou was puzzled: "What does the military advisor mean by this?" ”

Wu Yong said: "Marshal Hui, if our army wants to break through Hangzhou City, the only way to rely on these grain ships is to rely on them. As long as he pretends to be a captain or a wife, enters the city with the ship, and then waits for the opportunity to move and kill him by surprise. As long as we enter the city and open the city gates, we can let our army enter it and use it as an opportunity to break the city. ”

It was only at this time that Zhao Gou understood where the joy came from, and it was really a great thing, and laughed: "It's really 'good news'!" ”