Gao Huaiyuan knows that if he continues to fight like this, the morale of the Song army will slowly decline, and the Xiao soldiers are also likely to become tired, and the bigger problem is that their troops are not enough to completely block Chuzhou City, because if they divide their troops to block all of Chuzhou City, they will have to face the decision to divide the troops, and the troops everywhere will be relatively limited, and it is easy for Li Quan's army to take advantage of the loopholes, after all, the number of soldiers and horses under Li Quan's command in Chuzhou City is basically the same as that of the Song army, and it is still exceeded. If Li Quan was allowed to gather forces to assault one place, it was likely to defeat a Song army, resulting in a total defeat. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info.

Therefore, Gao Huaiyuan could not divide his troops excessively, and could only search the surroundings of Chuzhou City by rangers, which caused the result that they could not completely blockade Chuzhou City.

And Li Quan took advantage of this factor, always maintained contact with the outside of the city, and constantly sent people out of the city to harass the Song army, although Gao Huaiyuan had made arrangements in advance to monitor the movements of Li Quan's army in the city, but it still caused some losses, a batch of military rations transported from Yangzhou was ambushed and robbed by Li Quan's men, such a thing made Gao Huaiyuan very unhappy.

Although Gao Huaiyuan is calm and calm on the surface, but his heart has gradually become impatient, the solidity of Chuzhou City has exceeded his expectations, although the Song army has grasped the initiative of the battlefield since the beginning, concentrated a large number of various catapults, day and night to bombard Chuzhou City, but the city wall of Chuzhou City is indeed strong and abnormal, under the bombardment of such a large number of artillery, it is still majestic, often after the bombardment during the day, Li Quan drove a large number of people in the city to repair at night, and nearly ten days have passed. The city wall is still a city wall, except that it has become a little more broken than it began, but it has not caused fatal damage to the city wall of Chuzhou City.

Gao Huaiyuan stood outside the gate and stared at the city in front of him like a giant beast, secretly wondering whether it was time to change his play.

A pro-soldier suddenly ran out of the camp at this time and reported to Gao Huaiyuan.

Gao Huaiyuan was stunned for a moment, glanced at Chuzhou City again, then turned his head and walked into the camp, and soon returned to his handsome tent.

As soon as Gao Huaiyuan entered the tent, he asked Hua Yue, who was standing in the tent.

Hua Yue immediately saluted Gao Huaiyuan, and then said to Gao Huaiyuan with a worried face:

After Gao Huaiyuan heard Hua Yue's words, he was immediately startled and hurriedly asked:

Hua Yue said to Gao Huaiyuan worriedly: Luo Zhuo's attack on Yancheng this time was originally very smooth, and Li Quanjun in Yancheng did not expect that the adults would send someone to attack Yancheng suddenly, so as soon as Luo Zhuo arrived in Yancheng, he defeated Li Quanjun, and Li Quanjun in Yancheng had to retreat in the city to resist, and General Luo launched a fierce attack day and night.

Seeing that Yancheng was about to be captured by him, suddenly they encountered a surprise attack by the cavalry of Li Quan's army behind him, Liu Qingfu in the city also led the army out of the city at the same time, and defeated Luo Zhuo's soldiers and horses, now Luo Zhuo was seriously injured, and was rescued by his subordinates and retreated to Baiju Town, more than fifty miles west of Yancheng, and collected the soldiers and horses.

Therefore, Luo Zhuo sent someone to ask your lord for his guilt and asked him what he should do next!

After listening to Hua Yue's words, Gao Huaiyuan became angry, this Luo Zhuo is indeed a tiger general, which is also the reason why he cherishes him, this time he will send him to raid Yancheng, that is, after taking Yancheng, he wants to isolate Li Quan in Chuzhou, but this guy is so careless, not only did he not capture Yancheng, but was defeated by Li Quanjun, which once again disrupted his plan, so that Li Quanjun's morale will be greatly boosted, and the next siege operation will be even more difficult.

Gao Huaiyuan slapped his palm on the big case, and actually forgot that the wound on his hand had not yet healed, and suddenly affected the wound, and immediately it hurt again, and he was in a cold sweat, and he couldn't help moaning.

Hua Yue immediately persuaded Gao Huai to go far away.

After Gao Huaiyuan listened, he was a little angry, walked to the front of the map and looked at the situation around Yancheng, held back his anger, and began to think nervously, such a large-scale war is also the first time for him to command, and the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and he is still a little tender if he wants to be a winning general.

After looking at the map, Gao Huaiyuan asked Hua Yue:

Hua Yue nodded but shook his head again and said: There is also Zhao Shanxiang's side that can be regarded as cooperating, he has already entered Fengyang and Dingyuan with Xu Xiji respectively, and has fought a few battles with Li Quan's subordinates, and it can be regarded as having their own victories and defeats, and now they are also in a stalemate.

However, the Flying Tiger Army in the north is not bad, and it is actually very cooperative with our actions, one Flying Tiger Army stormed Shuyang, and the other Flying Tiger Army went out of Pizhou and approached Suqian, and now it has begun to attack Suqian! If it weren't for the Flying Tiger Army, Li Quan would probably have waited for reinforcements now! Whether this battle can be won or not, I'm afraid it's still between the two!

Gao Huaiyuan nodded and expressed his satisfaction, for the Flying Tiger Army, that was his private soldier, he dispatched them to be like an arm, how they want to fight, how they will fight, as for that Xia Quan, who has just surrendered to the imperial court, while not daring to disobey the military order, he is still reporting a wait-and-see attitude, this kind of person will not be able to keep him in the future, and sooner or later he will have to clean him up.

This time we also Li Quan, it seems that the mutiny we expected did not happen, it is estimated that Li Quan has been prepared, now they are not a way to fight like this, we must conquer Chuzhou City as soon as possible, otherwise, after Li Quan stabilizes, there will be a big trouble!

Do you have any ideas for the next siege? Gao Huaiyuan opened his mouth and said to Hua Yue.

After thinking for a while, Hua Yue said to Gao Huaiyuan: And our side might as well try a new tactic and find a way to capture Chuzhou as soon as possible, as long as we take Chuzhou City, even if Li Quan escapes, he will become a lost dog, either flee to Suqian, or he can only flee to Yancheng, and then we can gradually clean up the surrounding areas of his jurisdiction!

After hearing this, Gao Huaiyuan raised his spirit again.

Hua Yue walked up to Gao Huaiyuan and said to him.

Gao Huaiyuan patted his head, and said in his heart that he was really confused, he only thought about using a catapult, but he forgot that there was a way to dig a tunnel.

So he nodded and agreed:

Hua Yue shook his head and said:

Gao Huaiyuan immediately nodded:

The hard work pays off, and there are twenty or thirty thousand people in the Song army, it is really not difficult to find such a person, after Hua Yue's investigation, he really found dozens of soldiers who had worked as miners in the army, and the next morning, they were gathered together.

Gao Huaiyuan personally met with this group of people, one of them was still a head, Gao Huaiyuan asked his name and learned that this person's name was Niu Datong, so he asked him:

Niu Datong had been a coal miner in the local area before he became a soldier, and he was quite experienced in digging tunnels, and he was nicknamed the ground mouse, and then because something could not be done, he put himself into the army, after a few years, he mixed up with all the heads, this time with the army, he wanted to get some credit, and it was good to go back to the glory of the ancestors, this time when he heard Gao Huaiyuan ask him this question, he immediately came to the spirit, and quickly replied to Gao Huaiyuan boldly:

Niu Datong replied to Gao Huaiyuan excitedly.

After listening to Niu Datong's reply, Gao Huaiyuan was relieved, as long as he could dig tunnels here, it didn't matter if he was wide or not, anyway, he didn't plan to transport troops into the city through the tunnels, as long as the gunpowder was sent under the city wall!

Gao Huaiyuan was overjoyed after hearing this, Chuzhou City was expected to be conquered quickly, so he immediately instructed this Niu Datong:

This Niu Datong knew that his opportunity to show his face had come, so he knelt down to receive the order, and then began to work with this group of diggers.