The winter in Guilin is dry and cold, and a gust of wind blows through the city walls, biting.

From the sweet water well in the alley under the city to the city wall, the young and strong people lined up in a line can not see the head and tail at a glance, they carry their shoulders and hands, run in small steps, and carry the full buckets along the horse road to the city head, on the city wall, behind the female wall, there is a row of simple and practical stoves, the firewood below is burned red, the big iron pot above is steaming, the water is rolling, and when they see where the soldiers of the Western Army are attacking, the soldiers of the Longwu Army will use the iron pot, pour the boiling water into the huge bamboo water tank, and fall down the city head.

The siege of Guilin has been fought for two months, and there is no sign of any end in sight, the materials in the city are gradually scarce, although the hot oil makes the western army frightened, but the stock in the warehouse is not much, and the western army is not too urgent to attack the city with boiling water.

With the clattering sound of the clavicle blades of the armor, a team of armored soldiers climbed to the top of the city, and in front of the team was a yellow dragon flag, and Emperor Longwu, who was wearing military uniform, came to the female wall, holding the battlement and looking at the city, with a slightly sick look on his face.

In the past few months, Emperor Longwu has been exhausted.

Seeing the emperor coming to the front line in person, the soldiers and soldiers at the head of the city shouted long live, one by one, their faces were happy, their morale was uplifted, Emperor Longwu waved his hand around, with a kind and calm smile, and when he turned his face and looked at the western military camp under the city, his expression became extremely solemn.

The western military camp is continuous, with several trenches and walls to form a defensive line, and the depth of the encirclement is more than five miles, revealing a sense of slaughter in the winter mist. In the south of the city, the sound of war drums fighting was heard continuously, and the Western Army chose it as the main direction of attack today. The West Gate was relatively calm, and the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs agreed to Emperor Longwu to inspect the city. Although there was no battle for the time being, the traces of various fierce battles above and below the city were clearly visible. The traces of blood that have not yet been annihilated, the broken bricks on the city walls, and the dense arrow shafts in the fields all fully show how fierce the battle was at the most dangerous time the day before yesterday.

The Western Army is too capable of fighting!

Emperor Longwu invested in the training of the new army, the weapons and equipment and soldiers are the best, the method of training the army is also copied from the Chu army, a little small when the professional military personnel have been invited to see, the combat effectiveness of this new army far exceeds the general Ming official army, who knows the real sword and real gun against the Western Army. It's still a clear difference.

After two months of siege, the western army attacked the city many times, and twice dug a large gap in the city wall...... Guilin's city walls are quite strong, but after all, they are not as strong as Wuchang and Hangzhou, and the defensive facilities on the city walls are relatively simple, as long as the western army aims at a point and launches a fierce attack, seven times out of ten can attack the city. It was only because the follow-up troops couldn't keep up that they were driven down by the Longwu army again and again.

With only a few pots of boiling water, he wanted to block the continuous attacks, and he couldn't help but look at the Great Western Army that dominated the world too simply. If it continues like this. If the protection is not well maintained, or the reaction is a little slow, it will immediately be the end of the city's defeat and defeat. For the dangers in this. There were many people of insight in the imperial court who saw it very clearly, and on the one hand, they withstood the continuous onslaught of the Western army. Gather forces out of the city and launch a counterattack in an attempt to recapture several key outlying strongholds. Open a hole in the encirclement of the Western Army to improve the shape of Guilin's city defense, but in the field battle, the Longwu Army was obviously inferior, and was defeated by the Western Army several times in a row, but lost its troops and generals, and now it can only barely maintain the city without losing its strength, and there is no ability to launch a counterattack, and there is no way to talk about Guilin breaking the siege.

The Longwu Army has never been on the battlefield, and even if it is trained to the extreme, it is not as good as the battle-hardened Western Army.

If you want to relieve the siege of Guilin, you can only hope for foreign aid.

But foreign aid has been delayed.

The available troops of Liangguang, Jiangxi and Guizhou have long been transferred to Guangxi, either lost in the battle of Liuzhou, or held in the city of Guilin, with the Western Army launched an attack on Guilin, the Longwu Imperial Court did not hesitate to draw troops from the front line of Fujian's Eastern Expedition to help, but the army traveled three thousand miles and returned, it had already become the end of the strong crossbow, Liu Wenxiu only divided three or five thousand Western soldiers and horses, and blocked the Qinwang army from Fujian in the east of Guilin, and the Qinwang army was defeated three times in a row, and had to retreat one hundred and fifty miles to avoid the danger of being completely defeated.

Thirty miles is one round, and one hundred and fifty miles is considered "five rounds", which is two more than retreating three rounds.

The headquarters of Tan Xiao and Zhou Guodong of the Chu army were stationed at the junction of Hunan and Guizhou in southwest Hunan Province, less than 200 miles away from Guilin, but they had been holding their troops still, and the Longwu Imperial Court had no other way but to abandon the near and far, and urgently transferred the Sichuan official army back to Guilin. Although these two troops are semi-independent warlords, Jie Chongxi was originally a Sichuan governor with a bare pole commander, and there were not many descendant troops under him, so it was already his greatest sincerity to send Hao Shaoqi and Liu Fangliang to Guangxi, and it took a lot of real money and favors to save face.

Sick and rushed to the doctor, the Longwu court was in danger, and he didn't care about Hao Shaoqi and Liu Fangliang's background, as long as he could drive the Western Army away, Emperor Longwu personally sent a messenger to Hao Liu's army, promising a rich reward, encouraging the two generals to make meritorious contributions, Hao Liu and the two generals were generous to the order, Hao Shaoqi was even more slashed palm, blood swear, originally for the Longwu court to go to the soup and fire, will fight to the death with Liu Wenxiu...... There are more than 30,000 horses under the command of Hao Liu Er, all of whom are from the elite of the Dashun army, which is enough to match the Western Army, after Emperor Longwu received the report, he was full of expectations for Hao Liu Er, and was determined to continue to hold Guilin, but he waited for Hao to wave the flag and did not come, and waited for Liu Fangliang to not arrive, Liu Wenxiu's offensive outside the city did not decrease, and it seemed that he was not disturbed at all, and finally the scout sent the news, when Hao Liu Erjiang went to Guizhou, he was intercepted by the soldiers and horses sent by Sun Kewang, Hao Liu Erjiang lost the battle, and in the face of the famous Sun Kewang, he did not dare to directly sweep his front, With the troops to the east, he avoided and entered the territory of Huguang.

Is this a detour to Guilin?

Well, hold on a little longer, and wait.

During this time, Liu Wenxiu continued to attack the city and constantly maintain pressure on the Longwu army, while he began to build an earthen city outside the city wall, although the earthen city was a stupid method, requiring a lot of manpower, material resources and time, but it was very effective. Once the earthen city next to the city wall is piled up, once it is higher than the city wall of Guilin, the western army can jump on the top of the city as if it were walking on the ground, and it can no longer be stopped.

Seeing that the earth city was rising little by little, Emperor Longwu was helpless. (To be continued......)