Liu Cun listened to Guan Hai's emotion and knew what he was thinking, so he raised his hand and patted Guan Hai's arm, and encouraged with a smile:

"From the very beginning, I firmly believed that the Qingzhou Army, composed of Yellow Turban soldiers who had survived a hundred battles, after strict and standardized military training, strict discipline and advanced equipment, would sooner or later become an iron-blooded strong army that would crown the world, and become the mainstay of millions of people in Qingzhou and even the Han Dynasty!"

"I have always been relieved to you, today I heard your words, and then saw the excellent performance of the soldiers under your command, I am deeply satisfied, but don't be proud, continue to work hard, although your fourth division has been formed, but there is still a lot of distance from the real strong army, step by step."

"Understood!"

Guan Hai nodded heavily, his eyes full of respect.

Yang Biao, who carefully looked down on the entire military formation, quickly leaned over, pointed to the soldiers and auxiliaries who were sitting neatly in front of the high platform to rest, and asked Liu Cun:

"Zijian, this is planning to besiege the city for a long time and force Li Le, who has lost foreign aid, to surrender?"

Cui Yan and the others heard the prestige, and Liu Cun replied truthfully: "Since ancient times, the only thing that has been the most tragic and the greatest loss in war is siege warfare. ”

"Don't look at the Shaanxi County in front of you is just a small city with a circumference of about five miles, there is no complete moat, but the walls of more than three zhang high are built with huge stones, and the bricks on both sides are quite solid, and the enemies in the city are not less than 5,000 people, all of them are the elite of the Baibo army, if this barbaric and fierce enemy army demolishes the houses in the city, and coerces 8,000 civilians in the city to carry bricks and stone giant trees, and fights to the death, our army will still be difficult to capture for a while......"

"Even if it is barely defeated in the end, at least it will cost thousands of dead and wounded soldiers. I'm afraid that the people in the city will also be killed and wounded. ”

Everyone nodded frequently. Savor the true thoughts in Liu Cun's heart. Seeing that Liu Cun still had something to say, he immediately closed his mouth and listened carefully, Guan Hai and several captains around him also realized that this was a rare learning opportunity, and they moved their feet to surround them.

Liu Cun continued: "Thanks to our army's careful planning and swift action, the unsuspecting enemy in the city has lost its sharpness, and the city gate was closed at the beginning, waiting for reinforcements, and Li Le and his more than 5,000 cavalry also lost the opportunity to retreat. ”

"If Li Le is at the time of our cavalry's raid on the ferry. Decisively lead his troops out of the city to meet the battle, even if he can't fight in the end, he can completely flee to the west, break through the blockage of Yang Fengsuo's department in the west, and cross the river to the north, it is estimated that it will not be too difficult, and at worst he can lead most of the soldiers and horses to escape, and a series of plans that our army has worked hard to formulate will also be invalid. ”

"That's true!" Yang Biao and the others nodded frequently, and many people even made a judgment in their hearts, if Li Le abandoned the city and fled west in time, Yang Feng in the west might not be able to stop him. Or in order to preserve strength or miss old feelings, it is possible to simply get out of the way.

Liu Cun didn't break it. Calmly said the current situation of the enemy and us: "Now that the fortifications built by our army have been completed, it is impossible for Li Le to go out of the city to fight again, the initiative on the battlefield has been firmly in the hands of our army, and his only hope can only be that tens of thousands of Han Xian's main forces in Hebei cross the river to help." ”

"However, our army occupies the ferry several miles north of the city and builds blocking fortifications, and the ferry wharf is only two miles long, even if tens of thousands of troops of the Baibo Army pour in, they cannot attack and seize the wharf in groups, at most they can only dispatch more than ten troop transport ships carrying more than 3,000 soldiers to force the wharf at a time, but under the attack of our tens of thousands of soldiers relying on favorable fortifications, how can the enemy's thousands of soldiers succeed?"

"If the enemy insists on going his own way and forcibly launches rounds of landing charges, it will become a stupid tactic to add fuel to the fire, and can only allow our officers and men, armed with a large number of strong crossbows and large ballistas, to calmly shoot round after round. Therefore, you don't have to worry about the enemy in the city escaping, let alone the main force of the White Wave Army successfully landing across the river. ”

Everyone nodded frequently, and the young and old cavalry lieutenant under Guan Hai couldn't help but ask: "Lord, if the main force of the Baibo Army chooses to land at a ferry more than ten miles upstream, how should we deal with it?" ”

Liu Cun smiled slightly, Yang Biao and the others also smiled, and Cui Yan, who was in charge of the external liaison of this battle, stepped forward half a step forward and told with a smile: "The upstream ferry is only a few miles away from Hangu Pass, and it has been controlled by General Yang Feng before, and General Yang Feng has reached an alliance with our side and sent nearly 10,000 soldiers to guard the ferry, so no matter what General Yang Feng thought before, he will not allow the hostile Bai Bo army to cross the river to land, so you can rest assured." ”

The young cavalry lieutenant hurriedly thanked him, retreated behind Guan Hai with a red face, and completely relieved himself after a little weighing, he knew that the terrain between the upstream and downstream river sections for dozens of miles was complicated, especially on the south bank, with long mountains and dense jungles, and it was impossible to carry out a large-scale landing at all, and only the ferry port north of the city here was available to the enemy army, so that the tens of thousands of brothers in the headquarters who were waiting for the battle did not have any worries.

The people on the stage discussed for a while, and under the guidance of Guan Hai, they walked off the high platform and went to the main position of the ferry in the north of the city, before getting on the horse, Liu Cun pulled Guan Hai and asked in a low voice the name of the cautious cavalry captain just now, and learned that this person turned out to be Zhang Qian, the righteous son of the dead Yellow Turban leader Zhang Liang, Liu Cun was very surprised, and without thinking too much, he ordered Guan Hai to reuse it, and this heavy trust suddenly made Guan Hai's heart warm.

A quarter of an hour later, Liu Cun and his entourage, accompanied by Guan Hai, went to the north of the city where two blocking fortifications had been built, and after inspecting it, Liu Cun turned to Liu Pi, the deputy general who had been following him after coming to report, and praised loudly: "Good job, you are the first to make the most of this battle." ”

Liu Pi was very excited, his eyes were shining, and his waist was straight: "Thank you, lord!" His subordinates and all his soldiers will never let an enemy reinforcement ashore! ”

Liu Cun nodded with a smile, and was just about to remind Liu Pi of some details of the preparations for the war, when he heard a soldier not far away exclaiming: "Look, wolf smoke is rising in the city!" ”

Everyone turned their heads to look at it together, only to see three puffs of black smoke swaying and rising in the middle of the city, and immediately realized that this was the enemy in the city and the main force of the Baibo Army on the north bank of the river, Liu Cun glanced at it and immediately turned to the wide and calm river.

Cui Yan, who joined the army, quickly walked to Liu Cun's side: "My lord, I'm afraid that the enemy army on the north bank should only be able to reinforce at noon, but I don't know how many will come." ”

"According to intelligence, the enemy on the north bank has about 220 large and small ships, of which only 30 large ships can transport more than 300 soldiers to cross the river at a time, and the rest are small ships and small cargo ships that are less than five zhang long. Liu Cun smiled confidently.

Cui Yan rolled his eyes, smiled, and said in a low voice: "You can't beat the enemy who comes to help too badly, the best way is to press and contain the enemy's gaze step by step, otherwise the subordinates are afraid that they will be scared and dare not continue to come, making it difficult for General Xu Sheng to fight." ”

Liu Cun thought for a while and asked, "Could it be that we are too cautious and overestimate Han Xian and his tens of thousands of horses?" ”

Cui Yan laughed, and the surrounding generals also laughed.

This situation fell into the eyes of Yang Biao and the others, and they were suddenly surprised, and after thinking about it, they took it for granted.

In the memory of Yang Biao and others, Liu Cun's Langya army and Qingzhou have never lost a battle, and the only thing they are worried about is whether the more than 20,000 elites of the Qingzhou army secretly assembled at the Mengjin ferry at this moment have begun to cross the river to the north, and will they encounter the enemy's sentry posts or scouts and cause changes? (To be continued......)