Zhou Fei looked at the tall city in front of him, and also had a lot of psychological pressure, and asked, "What are your plans for attacking the city?" ”

Xu Huang frowned and said, "Junhou, there is no other way but to attack by force!" ”

This is the last thing Zhou Fei and everyone wants to see, there are too many casualties if they attack.

After the winter solstice, the north wind howled, the weather became colder, the dripping water turned into ice, and even the soil froze into a whole; In such cold weather, a minor injury would mean death, which would greatly aggravate the casualties of the besieging side.

The others had no good way for the time being, so Zhou Fei and the others had to go back to the barracks first.

Back in the barracks, Zhou Fei has been thinking about the method of attacking the city, but he has no clue.

The next day, Zhou Fei ordered people to post a notice in the barracks, and if anyone could come up with a way to attack the city, they would be rewarded with a thousand catties of gold.

The officers and soldiers in the barracks immediately boiled, all kinds of strange ideas were thought up, and they were reported, Zhou Fei and the scribes carefully reviewed them one by one, but he was very disappointed.

In the evening, the military officials were also actively discussing with each other, hoping to brainstorm and come up with a reasonable solution, and never let outsiders come out on top.

"The weather is so cold that the dripping water turns into ice, and I can't even take soil."

"It's okay to take a small amount of soil, but if you have more, there is no way, the soil is frozen."

"Since the dripping water turns into ice, why not use ice to build a high platform?"

"Haha, ice is hard to take."

"Ice is not simple, you can make ice by splashing water on the ground."

"Where do you get water?"

"The Qingshui River is close at hand!"

"The river is frozen!"

"You can dig ice for water!"

"Yes, dig ice for water!"

......

Everyone discussed in the middle of the night, and finally perfected the plan, and everyone was overjoyed, and the credit was not obtained by outsiders, otherwise they would be disgraced and thrown home.

Early the next morning, Zhou Fei saw this method and felt that it was feasible, chiseled ice to get water, watered it as a platform, and condescended to conquer the enemy city.

Busy looking for Guan Yu, Xu Huang and others to come to the big tent to discuss matters.

Everyone was overjoyed and felt that it was feasible, so they continued to improve on the basis of this method.

Guan Yu hoped to block the four gates of Gaonu City first to prevent the Qiang people from escaping, or to affect the construction of the platform, and Zhou Fei adopted this suggestion.

On the basis of digging ice and water, Xu Huang proposed to dig ice and sand to mix, and the high platform was made more solid, and the site of the construction of the high platform was set in the southwest of Gaonu City, close to the river, which could reduce the distance of transporting water.

Song Xian proposed that using wooden planks to block sand and water, increase the freezing time, and fill the ice with tree branches and weeds, etc., can not only speed up but also increase strength.

Qingshui, later called Yanshui River, flows from the south under the city of Gaonu to the northeast.

We have continuously improved the siege method in the subtleties to make it more perfect and feasible.

Zhou Fei immediately fulfilled his promise, and more than a dozen scribes shared thousands of catties of gold.

The next thing is simple, the division of tasks, someone is responsible for making wooden planks, someone is responsible for digging ice, someone is responsible for fetching water, someone is responsible for transporting water, someone is responsible for monitoring the movement of the enemy in the city, and each official has a clear division of labor, and each performs its own duties.

The hard work of fetching and transporting water was handled by the Wuhuan cavalry and the Hun cavalry; Although they had some complaints, they were able to eat enough and there was no danger to their lives, so they still carried out the order happily.

The Han cavalry was mainly responsible for monitoring the movements of the Qiang people in the city, preparing for battle, and preventing them from breaking through or going out of the city to raid the people who built the platform.

The Qiang people in the city saw that the Han army had not attacked the city for several days, and they were secretly happy in their hearts, their method was really feasible, but the Han army was just like that.

On the fifth day, the Han army piled up many obstacles outside the four gates of the city, blocking the way for the Qiang cavalry in the city to go out of the city, and built a small but thick wall far away from the city gate, besieging the Gaonu City.

The Qiang people didn't care about this, and didn't send troops to stop it in time, they felt that in such weather, the Han army would not be able to hold on for a long time, otherwise the logistics would definitely not be able to keep up, and a large number of Han troops would freeze to death and starve to death, and even horse material would be difficult to supply.

Three days later, when the Han army began to build a high platform, the Qiang people in the city laughed, the ground was frozen and the weather was cold, how to get the soil? It is estimated that it will be difficult to build it by next spring.

The ice on the Qingshui River was nearly one meter thick, and it took nearly half a day for the soldiers to dig the ice cave, and in order to ensure that the water surface did not freeze, there were a tun of cavalry on duty in turn, specially responsible for stirring the water surface, and cleaning the surrounding area of the ice cave from time to time, and taking away the newly formed Xiaoice Ling.

Although the pace of construction of the platform is slow, it is steadily increasing every day.

Zhou Fei felt that the speed was too slow, and decided to use the special function of the space ring to secretly assist the officers and soldiers to speed up the construction.

At night, after dark, he first asked a team of junior cavalry to take over the grain warehouse, temporarily release the grain in the system space, and empty the space ring; Then lead the remaining guards and take over the ice cave and the high platform construction site.

When no outsiders were present, he used the space ring to fetch water, and then poured it on the high platform.

125 cubic meters of water is taken each time, which is much faster than manpower, but the speed of releasing water is controlled, so that the water can freeze as soon as possible after being released, and will not flow away and be wasted.

In one night, he took water 12 times and used the space ring continuously, which was very sad, he was not as perverted as Gao Shun, and the tired Zhou Fei was dizzy, but the results were very obvious.

Before dawn, Zhou Fei hurriedly returned to the barracks, took back the food and other food to the space ring, and then began to rest, and Guan Yu and Xu Huang were in charge of things during the day.

In the morning, the officers and men saw that the high platform had increased a lot, and shouted for the help of the gods.

In the following nights, Zhou Fei was still like this, but the number of times he used the space ring to get water was reduced to 10 times, so that his body was not as tired as the first night.

The high platform is increasing every day, and the Qiang people in the city are not calm, if it is at the current speed, it will not take ten days to be higher than the city wall.

So someone came up with an idea to ask the Han people to withdraw their troops, otherwise all the Han slaves in the city would be killed, and it would be a big deal to die with the Han army.

The patriarchs of several major tribes had no better way but to adopt this suggestion and immediately send people out of the city to negotiate with the Han army.

As for the envoys sent by the Qiang people, Zhou Fei decided to meet them to see how they were dying and struggling.

The attitude of the Qiang envoy was very arrogant, and after seeing Zhou Fei, he said: "Envoy, we have coexisted peacefully with the Han Dynasty for nearly a hundred years, why bother to force each other to death?" ”

Zhou Fei felt that the Qiang people were strong on the outside, and they must not fall into the prestige of the Han Dynasty, so he sneered and said: "Hmph, Shangjun is the territory of my Han Dynasty, which is forcibly occupied by you, and you do not change your thief nature, slaughtering our officials and enslaving our people, is it tolerable or unbearable?" Now is the time to settle accounts with you. ”

Seeing that Zhou Fei was so tough, the Qiang envoy was unmoved, so he threatened: "Envoy, peace is beneficial to both sides, our king can say, if the Han army does not retreat, it will kill tens of thousands of Han people in the city, and then fight with you to break the net." ”

When the envoy said this, Zhou Fei knew in his heart that the Qiang people had reached the point where their skills were poor, otherwise they would not have come to threaten so naively, so he smiled and said: "Haha, there are thousands of people in the big man, and tens of thousands of people have been killed, why worry about it?" However, if you people in the city want to escape any of them, you must all be buried with the Han people. ”

The Qiang envoys were shocked, this was different from the Han people they knew, the Han officials they had contacted before, when they encountered this situation, they would definitely find a way to save their compatriots, and they would never watch their compatriots being killed, and they would definitely tell a great truth, and they would never be so cold-blooded; Zhou Fei's words made him very disappointed, and he didn't think about how to deal with it, but thinking of the tens of thousands of Qiang people in the city being killed, he was very frightened, and in his eagerness, he forgot the etiquette that the envoy should have, pointed at Zhou Fei and shouted: "Cold-blooded, devil!" ”

Zhou Fei knew it in his heart, and he was overjoyed, and instructed the guards around him: "Send him back!" ”

Song Xian interjected: "Prince, no! ”

Zhou Fei asked, "What does Zizhong have to say?" ”

Song Xian said: "Junhou, I could have allowed him to go back safely, but I didn't expect him to dare to threaten the Han and insult the Junhou, the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped." As he spoke, he stepped forward and kicked down the Qiang messenger, and said to the guard, "Tie up!" ”

Zhou Fei looked at Song Xian's next move with a smile.

The Qiang envoy was shocked, and hurriedly lay on the ground and begged for mercy: "The two countries are at war, don't kill them!" ”

Song Xian smiled: "Which country are you counting?" At most, you are a group of rogues, you are a fart messenger, dare to insult our prince, how can you go around you? ”

Guan Yu hurriedly asked, "What does Zizhong want?" ”

Song Xian explained: "Haha, you must let him go back to report the news, you can't kill him, but you must give him a profound lesson." Then he said to the guards, "Cut off his ears and nose, gouge out his left eye, and send him out of the camp." ”

The guard looked at Zhou Fei, who nodded to the guard and approved Song Xian's order.