Early the next morning, before dawn, the Kuizhou soldiers left Chongqing City as a whole army, and walked quietly, but left more than 100 people in the military camp in the city pretending to be pretending that the army had not left, and this was done because Chongqing Prefecture was newly occupied, the situation was unstable, and it was always good to have a large army stationed there.

Xu Tiezhu divided more than 100 soldiers into several teams, leaving one or two teams to patrol outside the camp, prohibiting anyone from approaching the barracks, there were wells in the camp, there was no need for water trucks to deliver water, and the daily food and meals were taken by the Huotou army in the barracks, and there was no need for people outside to transport them, so that even if there were spies who wanted to find out the news, they could not get close, and there was no excuse to sneak into the barracks.

The military camp was located in a secluded part of the city near the city walls, surrounded by thick wooden fences, and it was impossible to look out from the inside. Xu Tiezhu arranged for the sergeants to drag cypress branches to run on the loess school yard in the camp every day, and shouted loudly with a thin iron sheet rolled into a loudspeaker, camouflaging the dusty air of the army's drills. and then drive the horses to neigh, which is more realistic, so that the people in Chongqing can see the people in the barracks shouting horses and neighing all day long, and they can't help but smack their tongues: This Kuizhou soldier is fierce, look at the formation of other people's drills, it's so powerful.

Ma Xintian is much harder, he has to recruit new soldiers, choose the right one in Zeng Ying's army, and try to train a team that will not turn around and run away on the battlefield in just ten days, which makes him sad, Wang Huan also only left him more than 100 people, this person is enough as an instructor, the difficulty is that the time is too short.

But no matter how difficult it is, you have to grit your teeth, Wang Huan led three thousand elite Kuizhou soldiers and three thousand new soldiers recruited in Fengjie to meet Zeng Ying's tens of thousands of troops, if this side drags on, half a minute slower, there may be some consequences in half a month.

Xu Tiezhu and Ma Xintian in Chongqing City were busy with all their might, and Wang Huan was also busy with Kuizhou soldiers gritting their teeth.

They went out in the morning, and when it was dark in the evening, they arrived at Hezhou Diaoyu City.

Sichuan from the Southern Song Dynasty, in order to resist the invasion of the Mongol and Yuan Dynasty, under the auspices of Yu Jue, who served as the envoy of Sichuan during the period of Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty, along the two mountain ranges of Funiu Mountain and Huaying Mountain, built more than 70 mountain cities with two lines of defense, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, hundreds of years ago in the Southern Song Dynasty and the Mengyuan offensive and defensive war played a huge role, among which the Diaoyu City of Hezhou is even more famous in history, with a lonely city to resist the attack of the two Great Khans of Meng Ge and Kublai Khan, and also injured Meng Ge with artillery arrows, Meng Ge was seriously injured and died after a hundred days, leading Mongolia to fight for the Khan internal strife, The army returned to the north, and it was not until a few years later that Kublai Khan purged his political enemies and sat on the throne, so that the Southern Song Dynasty lasted for more than ten years, so Diaoyu City has the reputation of "God's whip".

Time is rising, time flies, hundreds of years have passed, many mountain cities and villages in the river have been dilapidated, but the Diaoyu City is built according to the mountain, the whole mountain is the city, but the damage is not big, the structure is there. The city walls are built on the cliff of Baizhang, there is only one path up the mountain, from the mountain can overlook the Yangtze River waterway, guarding the official road from Chongqing Mansion to Shunqing Mansion and other places in western Sichuan, only need to add one or two small cannons, and even trebuchets can cut off the waterway dry road.

"Sure enough, it is a dangerous place, Meng Ke Khan died unjustly, if you want to conquer this city, I am afraid you can only use tanks and howitzers." Wang Huan stood on the mossy Diaoyu City Protector Gate, touched the stone battlements and sighed.

At this moment, the sunset is shining, the blue water is long, and the beautiful scenery is infinite. Diaoyu City faces the water on three sides, one side leans against the mountain, standing on the top of the mountain, you can have a glimpse of the river breeze and pleasant scenery, the Hezhou Prefecture City at the confluence of the three rivers in the distance, it is clearly visible, the shadows of the trees on the mountain are swaying, the cool breeze is blowing, it is very comfortable, Wang Huan almost forgot the harsh bloody battle that he will face soon after,

Zu Bian was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "My lord, cousin?" Why were the cousins able to conquer this city? ”

Ma Wannian glanced at him and said with a smile: "You don't understand this sentence as a northerner, right?" Tangke in our Sichuan dialect is the meaning of wife, also has the meaning of women, adults this sentence is to say, if you want to conquer this city, nothing else, you must use a beauty trick, I heard that the Song Dynasty Mongols in Fujian 6 Xiufu holding the little emperor have been driven into the sea, this city has not been lost, before and after the lonely city guarded for more than 30 years Zhao Song Jiangshan, and finally had to use a woman called Mrs. Xiong Er, with beauty to lure the Diaoyu City guard, instigated him to surrender, the Yuan Dynasty was considered to unify China, otherwise Diaoyu City can hold on for decades. ”

Zu Bian suddenly realized, and said in surprise: "This city is so allusional, much stronger than our Daling City, Ma Gongzi is well-informed, and he can understand the metaphors that adults say." ”

Ma Wannian was proud, comfortably enjoying the praise of the ancestors.

Wang Huan looked at the two of them with tears and laughter, and he was also a talent who could misinterpret his words like this.

"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and drag the cannon up, it's here, from here you can block the river and the dry road at the same time, no matter how Zeng Ying goes, don't think about it." Wang Huan patted the battlement, trying not to let himself laugh, and said solemnly.

Zu Bian agreed, and hurriedly turned his head away.

After conquering Chongqing City, there was an unexpected gain, on the city wall of Chongqing and in the treasury, there were ten Furlong cannons.

The Furlong cannon is a Portuguese naval gun imitated by the Ming Dynasty, captured in the battle between the coastal and the first generation of Western colonists commonly known as the red-haired ghost, this kind of cannon has a short range, the shell is small, and the power is not great, but it is better than light and flexible, and the sub-mother barrel is used, it shoots very quickly, it is much more convenient than the red-coated cannon, it is relatively simple and easy to cast, and it is widely equipped in the Ming official army, there are many in Sun Chuanting's Qin Army Car Battalion and the Beijing Shenji Battalion, and other general soldiers are also equipped, but it is rare in the interior of Chongqing Prefecture, Most of them were brought by Zeng Ying from Huguang.

Diaoyu City is a high and dangerous mountain, the cliff under the city wall is almost straight up and down, 30 zhang away is the Yangtze River, the dry road is also within 50 zhang, the Furlong machine gun is enough to cover, a cannon bombardment, no one can pass.

With ten gun mounts, things are much easier.

Wang Huan looked at the bottom of the mountain from the mountain, swept from the river to the shore, and said to Ma Wannian: "You lead all the soldiers to repair the city wall from tomorrow, and then organize the people in Hezhou City to dig a trench one zhang deep and two zhang wide around Diaoyu Mountain, and sharp bamboo is planted all over the trench. ”

He thought for a while, and then said: "On the side of the mountain, the trench should be dug three times, each trench should be separated by three zhang away, and the soil dug out of the trench should be used to pile up a wall of soil on the inside of the trench on the spot, the wall is high to the chest of an adult, and the soil must be tamped, and it cannot be pushed down!" ”

Ma Wannian agreed and went in a hurry, so many things, I have to hurry up.

By Wang Huan's side, there are still Ma Long and Chen Xiang left, he naturally can't let them be idle, everyone is useful.

"Ma Long, you are responsible for leading people up the mountain to cut down wood and take stones, preparing to roll wood and stones, how much you can find, the more the merrier, Zeng Ying is here, so I will use these to entertain him."

"Chen Xiang, you take your people and go forward for thirty miles, and set up eyeliner by the Yangtze River and the official road to find out whether Zeng Ying is coming from the waterway or from the dry road, so that our army can prepare early."

Ma Long hugged his fists to receive the order, paused and said: "My lord, the last general hears that the art of war is cloudy, and the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road." It is better to take advantage of the enemy's long journey to take him by surprise, extinguish his prestige, and strengthen the prestige of our army. ”

Wang Huan smiled, patted the shoulder of this veteran in his thirties who was seriously inconsistent with his face and said: "Of course, I, Wang Huan, have never suffered losses, Zeng Ying wants to beat me, how can I not sit and wait for him to come." Don't worry, Shunqing Mansion is hundreds of miles away from here, and Zhang Xianzhong is dragging him, he can't come for more than ten days, and when we are ready, the time will come. ”