Early in the morning of 17 April, the Zhen family was arranged in three carriages, and under the escort of the junior cavalry of Yitun, they set off for Bingzhou. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The emotions of the Zhen family have stabilized, they know that Gao Shun will not harm them, but they don't know where Gao Shun is going to send them? With Zhen Yi's shrewdness, he can't guess Gao Shun's purpose at present, since he has confiscated all his family property, why not cut the grass and eradicate the roots? and provide them with a good diet; Just arranged a strong cavalry for them as an escort, and it was obvious that Gao Shun attached great importance to them.

The rest is handled by the local county magistrate. transfer a tun of sword and shield soldiers to garrison the Zhen family's compound and replace the cavalry; After the property statistics, the Zhen family's compound remained as it was, and a group of family members were selected by the Zhen family's old housekeeper and the big shopkeeper to maintain the continued operation of the Zhen family, and gradually Su Shuang took over all the businesses, shops, workshops and land of the Zhen family, which was Gao Shun's private property in the future; The rest of the family members were confiscated and served as auxiliaries.

For this reason, Gao Shun specially rewarded Su Shuangmei with a jar of wine, if he hadn't arranged secret agents in advance, he would not have this harvest, otherwise it would be more difficult to conquer Quyang City.

What's more, he has gained a lot in the Zhen family, and the property alone has been exchanged for nearly one billion points, not counting the land, mansions and shops; And keep the Zhen family in his hands to avoid his assistance to other princes in the future.

There is another important reason, Gao Shun found out his lack of understanding of scouts from this matter, and he relied too much on the system map in the past, so he must get rid of this shortcoming in the future.

At noon, Gao Shun ordered the troops to set off for Xiaquyang.

In the afternoon, Yan Liang, Guan Yu and others had arrived at the south of Xiaquyang City for 3 miles to set up camp, and Gao Shun led the troops to move in directly.

Gao Shun's system map can now show the situation within 16 kilometers of the surrounding area, as long as there are enemies, it will be displayed as a red dot; Therefore, a small number of vigilant troops were dispatched during the day, mainly to monitor things hundreds of miles away, and a large number of sentry posts were arranged at night; Now he attaches great importance to scouts and sentry.

Gao Shun first listened to the reports of Yan Liang and Guan Yu and others, and was very satisfied with the results obtained, and each person was rewarded with a jar of fine wine and an additional cavalry tun, and everyone was very happy; Gao Shun was also very happy, and he was able to satisfy the general with cheap wine, saving him a lot of money.

Xiaquyang City is a prosperous county seat, there are more than 800 meters in the east and west and north and south, and the west, north and east of the city are a wide river, which is used as a moat, but the water flow in this season is not big; Only open a gate in the south of the city, which is very easy to defend.

More than 100,000 people lived in the city, and it was so crowded that even the streets were full of people.

Zhang Bao secretly rejoiced that he was fortunate to have bought a batch of grain from the Zhen family, which allowed them to hold on for a while longer.

Gao Shun did not rush to attack, but in the evening of the same day, rode around the city, observed the terrain, and decided to use the method of "Xiapi Battle" that year to divert water to irrigate the city, and he had the help of the space ring, the effect should be better.

After thinking carefully, Gao Shun decided to take a two-step approach, first ordered the sergeants to dig a trench more than 2 meters deep and more than 10 meters wide one mile south of Xiaquyang City, and the excavated soil was piled up on the south side of the ditch to form a dike more than 4 meters high, and diverted river water to fill the trench to block the people in the city and prevent them from scattering and escaping on a large scale.

At this time, the Yellow Turban thieves in the city did not feel the danger coming, and even felt lucky, so that Gao Shun and the others would not be able to attack the city. As long as the food is exhausted, General Tiangong will come to their rescue.

When the embankment was built, the Yellow Turban thieves did not come out to make trouble, thousands of people worked together, and it took only 3 days to repair it, Gao Shun was secretly happy in his heart, and when all the embankments were repaired, the people in the city would not be so happy.

Subsequently, Gao Shun sat in the military camp and ordered Li Qiang to lead the baggage troops of the four tribes to the other side of the river, and build such embankments on the east, west and north sides of the city.

The loess on the plains is very easy to dam, and with the help of space rings, the movement is very fast. Each section was responsible for a section, with three Daodun Tun being responsible for digging, Li Qiang being responsible for transporting soil, sometimes Gao Shun also going to help, and the junior infantry being responsible for leveling and tamping the embankment.

This time, the method adopted was to excavate soil from both sides of the embankment at the same time, forming a shallow ditch with a depth of 1 meter and a width of 10 meters on the periphery of the embankment, and a deep ditch on the inner side of the embankment; In this way, the construction speed was faster, and it only took more than four days for the embankment to be repaired quickly.

Cheng Huan led the remaining infantry to continue to strengthen the embankment in the south of the city; Cavalry patrolled the surroundings non-stop.

On the evening of April 26, after making preparations, Gao Shun filled the ring with loess and prepared to build a barrage in the southeast of the city. Li Qiang led people to continue to raise and strengthen the embankment.

On the evening of 27 April, the water level of the river had leveled on the ground, and Gao Shun, who had been prepared for a long time, built a barrage in the west of the city, so that the embankment was closed and went around the city.

In the following period, Gao Shun and Li Qiang successively used the space ring to take water from the river and put it into the embankment, causing the water level in the embankment to rise and gradually exceed the height of the ground.

The water that cannot be taken out will overflow through the shallow ditch on the north side of the embankment and flow downstream of the river to ensure that the rest of the river is not flooded.

By April 29, the water inside the levee was more than a foot above the ground.

Although Zhang Bao ordered people to block the city gate with soil, he had no choice but to think about the well water and the river, the water level in the river rose, the well water overflowed the well platform, and the low-lying places also began to seep water, and the city had to be blocked everywhere, but the pit where the soil was taken would also seep water.

When the water level outside the city continued to rise, it could no longer be stopped, and the water seeping out of the city made the water level inside and outside the city basically the same. More than 100,000 people live in the water, which is okay for a short time, but no one can stand it for a long time.

Zhang Bao knew some medical skills, and ordered people to raise the well platform, and he could only drink well water when he drank water; The old and weak were sent to the city walls for meditation, and the food was moved to higher places.

But for so many people, eating is a big problem, and there is not so much fuel.

Another problem is that so many people live in a small county, and the amount of excrement every day is very high, and in just two days, the city is already stinking.

What made Zhang Bao even more uncomfortable was that the dead bodies in the city could not be disposed of; In such a bad environment, many infirm people could not hold on, a large number of people died every day, and they could not go out of the city to bury, and the city could not be buried, and after a long time, the plague would inevitably epidemic, and everyone in the city would die without a fight.

On the third day of the first month of May, the water level outside the city is more than one meter high, and there is little difference between the city and the outside of the city, and the water level is higher than the bed.

All the houses in the city were demolished, wood was used for cooking, and bricks and stones were used to fill in the ground.

Living in the water or in a humid environment for long periods of time, the number of deaths is increasing day by day, and the corpses can only be thrown into the water outside the city.

On the seventh day of the fifth month, there were no materials for cooking in the city, even all the furniture was burned out, all the people could only eat raw rice and drink raw water, there were more sick people, the number of dead people increased rapidly, and there were no doctors or medicine in the city, Zhang Bao was also at a loss for this.

At the beginning, Zhou Cang and others also asked Zhang Bao for instructions and were willing to lead the troops to rush out; However, the water level gradually rose, and there was no possibility of rushing out, otherwise the embankment outside the city would have been shot dead in the water by the defenders on the embankment before it could be climbed; Besides, these people are all northerners, there are few swimmers themselves, and they have a natural fear of water, and there are so many defenders outside the city that they rush out and die faster.

The smell of death permeated the entire county, and morale was low; All of them are either sitting in silence or weeping for their deceased loved ones.

All hopes are pinned on General Tiangong's reinforcements, but the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, and so far there has been no shadow of reinforcements.

Even Zhang Bao felt hopeless.

And Gao Shun found that when besieging the city, if there were dead people in the city, the system would also reward the synthetic quota, which strengthened his siege strategy.