Such a Song army, in his impression has never been seen, even if they have been fighting against the Jin army for many years before, even the flower hat army under the command of Anzhen, who beat them down, has never had such a military appearance, after seeing it, Liu Qingfu suddenly felt a little cold, and then turned his head to look at the group of northern troops under his command wearing various colors, if the Song army is a regular army, then this group of soldiers under his command can only be regarded as a rabble. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Don't see that the Song army outside the city is only about a few thousand, but he thinks that even if he goes out of the city with more than 10,000 defenders in the city to fight against him, he will never be the opponent of the Song army outside the city, and it can only be his northern army that will collapse in the end, so he strengthened his determination not to fight, and strictly ordered that no one should incite to go out of the city to fight against the Song army, and those who violate it will be killed immediately.

After Li Xiaotian arrived outside Baoying County, he lined up to fight, and at the same time boarded an earthen platform to watch the imperial guard of Baoying County, and couldn't help frowning slightly.

Looking from outside the city, he saw that the generals of the northern army defending the city had been prepared to defend the city, and it seemed that they had no intention of separating themselves from their Song army in the field, which was obviously different from their original plan, and the enemy army had used the resources at hand to strengthen the city defense of Baoying County as much as possible, and all kinds of imperial defense facilities could be said to be basically complete.

So he ordered his subordinates to immediately and constantly beg the enemy outside the city, wanting to provoke the defenders in the city to go out of the city to fight, but they scolded from morning to dusk, in addition to causing the defenders in the city to scold back for a long time, an enemy army did not go out of the city to fight, so he could only choose to camp outside the city, waiting for Gao Huaiyuan to lead the army to arrive.

Gao Huaiyuan led the main army to the outside of Baoying City the next day, and after listening to Li Xiaotian's report, he couldn't help but scratch his head a little, which was a little different from their original plan, originally they didn't plan to fight a tough battle in Baoying County, but they didn't think that Li Quanjun had just experienced a defeat, so he became cautious, and actually defended the city, and didn't dare to come out to confront them head-on.

As a result, he had to adjust his plans and consider how to deal with the current situation.

So Gao Huaiyuan led his subordinates to walk around Baoying County, and found that there was a flat river outside the city, and there were ravines and streams, and there were basically not many geographical advantages that could be used.

Have you found out, who are the enemy guards in the city? What is the reaction of the other party to the scolding today? As soon as he returned to the camp, Gao Huaiyuan immediately asked Li Xiaotian.

Li Xiaotian hurriedly replied: "Enlightened handsome! This time Li Quan sent to guard the county seat of Baoying is his general Liu Qingfu, after arriving here a few days ago, he captured all the people within 20 miles outside the city into the city, assisted in the defense of Baoying County, and built various defense facilities for days to prepare for the defense of our army to attack the city, so there are only some old and weak people left nearby, even if we are attacking the city, it is difficult to recruit people on the spot to cooperate with our army to attack the city.

This Liu Qingfu was very cunning, and even all the large and small boats on the nearby river were captured, so that our army could not find many ships that could build pontoon bridges last night and night, so we could only wait until the marshal led the army to rush here!

Gao Huaiyuan frowned and thought about it, Liu Qingfu is also a thunderous person, since he coveted Li Quan, he ordered Jia Qi to start collecting information about the main general of Li Quan's army, Liu Qingfu is of course the most noteworthy person, the Chuzhou Mutiny was committed by this person, he can be regarded as a thief leader, and Gao Huaiyuan still knows a lot about his temperament.

But this time Liu Qingfu's performance was obviously beyond his expectations, I don't know when Liu Qingfu actually became so cautious, so that Baoying County is really not easy to do.

Gao Huaiyuan immediately ordered the account to be raised, and summoned the generals in the camp to the tent to discuss countermeasures, and everyone decided together how to deal with the problem of Baoying County.

Marshal, in the humble opinion, since Liu Qingfu closed the city gate and refused to fight, then simply we left an army, stared at Baoying County, and the main force bypassed this place and attacked Chuzhou directly, once we solved Chuzhou, Liu Qingfu would be alone even if he turned this place into an iron bucket! After Zhao Futang pondered for a while, he proposed to Gao Huaiyuan.

But as soon as his words landed, Hua Yue immediately shook his head and said: It's not proper! Although it is true that this will speed up our army's capture of Chuzhou, it is equivalent to burying a hidden danger behind us, Liu Qingfu now has more than 10,000 northern troops under his command, and the number of soldiers and horses is already about the same as the number of our main force of soldiers and horses, although he does not dare to meet our army this time, but it is not necessarily that Liu Qingfu is a timid and afraid person, once our army passes here, Liu Qingfu is likely to cut off our retreat, once the front battle is unfavorable, Liu Qingfu inserts a knife in the back of our army, then our army will be in a very dangerous situation, Therefore, Baoying County cannot but take it!

After hearing this, the generals nodded yes, the location of Baoying County is indeed very critical, and although it is light to bypass this place, it is too risky to do so.

Gao Huaiyuan and Hua Yue also had similar opinions, and after pondering for a while, they nodded and said: "Yes, Baoying County is indeed not to be taken, it seems that our plan is going to be adjusted, before taking Chuzhou, let's take Baoying County here to practice!" If we can't even capture Baoying County, then Chuzhou doesn't have to go anymore, it is now the base camp of Li Quan's army, and the defense will be tighter than here, so that we have the right to Baoying County as the first place we want to take by force, and eating Liu Qingfu's troops and horses will also be a big blow to Li Quanjun!

Seeing that Gao Huaiyuan's mind had been decided, the generals asked to attack Baoying County first and open the county city wall for the army, and Gao Huaiyuan immediately shook his head and said: No need, let's not rush to do it now, Baoying County is not as easy to capture as everyone thinks, or wait for General Luo to transport the heavy siege equipment before launching a strong attack, otherwise, our army's morale will drop if it can't be attacked for a long time!

If we don't fight, we won't fight, if we fight, we must take this place in one go, and now we will first besiege Baoying County to death, and then say, no one can let them enter and leave this place!

So on the same day, the Song army surrounded Baoying County, completely cutting off the connection between Baoying County and Chuzhou, and the northern army in the city saw more Song troops coming like a tide, and surrounded Baoying County into an iron bucket, and suddenly panicked.

Baoying County is indeed not big, even if it has been promoted to the army by the Southern Song Dynasty in recent years, but it is still a county seat after all, the residents in the city are only thousands, and their northern army is stationed here, plus the original two thousand defenders left here and the people who have been forcibly recruited from outside the city these days, even the women and children in the city are only more than 30,000 people, which is indeed not enough to last, and the military food that Liu Qingfu carried when he came was not much, plus the military food reserved in the city, at most it was only enough for the people in the city to eat for about a month. If the Song army gave them a long-term siege, they would run out of food in a month!

After Liu Qingfu looked at the Song troops outside the city, he was even more secretly surprised, the elite of the vanguard army of the Song army had already made him feel frightened, and the Song army that rushed here next was even stronger, and what was even more terrifying was that this Song army was strictly disciplined, without any arrogant atmosphere, and reacted quickly to the execution of military orders, without any signs of exaggeration.

This is not the same as the Song army in his previous impression, after inquiring, I learned that this Song army was a large army transferred from the Beijing Division of the Southern Song Dynasty, not several garrison troops in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the Southern Song Dynasty, Liu Qingfu only then understood that this time he met the descendants of the soldiers and horses surnamed Gao, and it can be seen from the quality of this army that the surname Gao is by no means a general person, otherwise, it is absolutely impossible to bring out such soldiers and horses, Liu Qingfu knows that he is in big trouble this time.

So he didn't dare to slack off, divided the soldiers in the city and the forcibly recruited people into several waves, and took turns under the leadership of his leaders, ascended the city to defend it, and waited for the Song army to attack the city.

Some of his subordinates were a little nervous, so they asked Liu Qingfu to make a suggestion, asking Liu Qingfu to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Song army, attack the whole army, break through and withdraw to Chuzhou to be safer.

But the person who proposed it immediately slapped Liu Qingfu in a big mouth, and Liu Qingfu scolded: Bastard, don't you see that the leader of the Song army outside the city is the most elite soldiers and horses in the Song army? If I wait to break through the city now, won't I be in their arms? Isn't your suggestion to send us to death? Darn! If you dare to go out of the city again, see if I don't cut off your head, get out of here, and honestly guard the city gates! Get lost!

As a result, the guy who made the suggestion rolled back to the city gate and stayed.

After the Song army surrounded Baoying County, it did not immediately launch an attack on the city, but sent the Guardian Army to the north of the city on the road leading to Chuzhou, set up a camp there, and prepared to deal with the reinforcements sent by Chuzhou to support Liu Qingfu's army, strictly prevent the arrival of Li Quan's reinforcements from Chuzhou, and completely turned Baoying County into an isolated city.

And after Luo Zhuo got the order, he didn't dare to slack off, and personally escorted the team, escorting a large number of siege equipment and all kinds of heavy things needed for siege to Baoying County.

Three days later, Luo Zhuo ordered a large number of siege equipment to be sent to the middle camp of Gao Huaiyuan's army and delivered to Gao Huaiyuan.

This time Gao Huaiyuan came to attack Li Quan, it can be said that he has made full preparations, he has already prepared all kinds of siege equipment in advance, including all kinds of siege ladders, as well as pointed wooden donkeys and carts used near the city wall, and there are also trench bridges and folding bridge vehicles used to cross the moat moat and other obstacles, and crash cars used to break through the city gate, etc., among which the largest number is all kinds of artillery trucks, and there are no less than hundreds of large vehicles used for siege.

Gao Huaiyuan was very satisfied with Luo Zhuo's cooperation, greatly praised Luo Zhuo a few words, and also gave Luo Zhuo a chance, so that he was responsible for leading his soldiers and horses to attack Baoying City together, Luo Zhuo was overjoyed when he heard this, originally he thought that this time he could only give Gao Huaiyuan and the troops under his command to fight the army, but he didn't expect that this time he just came over, and he got the general order to let him cooperate with the siege of the city.

Luo Zhuo suddenly became excited, and immediately led his troops to the west of the city after leaving the tent, and set up a siege posture.