Shi Kefa nodded in approval after listening to Wang Lanping's strategy, and when Wang Lanping finished speaking, he saw Shi Kefa leaning his hand back, laughing, not throwing a word, striding away, calmly walked out of the hall, and saw that the officials around him were unknown.

Wang Lanping didn't explain much to the officials, and he also walked out of the hall with his hands bowed to the people, and this scene made the officials of Yangzhou City even more puzzled, what did Dingnanhou say to Inspector Shi? Why Shi Kefa was still convinced just now, and when he turned his face, he had a calm and calm expression, which was really incredible.

The pattern of Yangzhou City is divided into the old city and the new city, most of the old city is the home of ordinary people and small wealth, and the new city is basically Yangzhou salt merchants and giant rooms live, Wang Lanping climbed the Yangzhou city tower, looked at it from afar, and it was already clear in his heart, all the artillery of Gao Jiejun was almost all aimed at the gate of the new city without exception.

If Gao Jie is to deter Shi Kefa, it must be to raise the prestige of the army, tightly surround the four gates, and make a noise for a while, so that the city can donate some money and food, but now he is only eyeing the city gate of the new city, which fully shows that Gao Jie really wants to fight, and he will not hesitate to break Yangzhou in order to rob the money and grain, and he will hurt the rich merchants and giants in the world.

Wang Lanping looked at this article and concluded that Gao Jie was a villain with a simple mind and developed limbs, that the salt merchants could never rob or kill, that salt was a necessity for the people's lives, and that the Yangzhou salt merchants had almost monopolized the official salt market in the whole world, and that if they were in chaos, the entire salt market in the south of the Yangtze River would be in chaos, and the price of salt would soar and the people's anger would be unstoppable.

Looking at the morale of Gao Jie's army again, it is better to say that it is morale than to say that it is banditry, outside the gate of the new city, in the one-zhang wide moat, thousands of bare-ass Gao Jie soldiers are bathing in it to cool off, and they don't take the ground army on the city wall close at hand at all, and the tents of the marching army are almost all set up under the city wall, and there are bursts of gambling and drinking sounds from time to time.

There are also many people who the guys in their hands as they like, standing by the moat and waving knives and scolding, what a really ugly scolding, and some even take off their pants in front of the defenders and pee on them to make fun of them.

said that they were the Ming army, Wang Lanping didn't believe it at all, it was better to call the bandits under the banner of the Ming army.

If this kind of troops enter the city, what the consequences will be, you can imagine without guessing.

Yangzhou city is only ten miles in radius, there are a total of five city gates, respectively, Haining Gate in the east, Yongsi Gate in the west, Anjiang Gate in the south, and Zhenhuai Gate in the north.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, it disturbed the coast due to the Japanese invaders, often hundreds of miles deep inland and rushed to the state to hit the government, so, Yangzhou City added a small east gate in the east city wall section, and added the urn city in the east and north two gates, with the arrow tower as a strong city defense system, the moat outside the city was about one zhang deep around the city wall, and it was already full of water at this time.

The city wall is three zhang high (about 9 meters), two zhang thick (about 6 meters), the four corners are built with tall corner towers, which are full of archers and spearmen, such a wall, not to mention the artillery of the modern era, even if today's howitzers are not more than ten cannons and even smash in a bullet hole are difficult to destroy the city wall.

Such a scale of the city defense system, compared to the Huaining City guarded by Wang Lanping that day, is definitely a solid military fortress, compared to Nanjing City can be said to be not inferior, the only thing that is not as good as Nanjing City may be that the four gates of Nanjing City are built with double urn cities.

Shi Kefa followed Wang Lanping's side, the two walked along the city wall and talked, discussing, about an hour later, the two of them stepped down the city wall, and walked straight to the new city where Gao Jie's department gathered, along the city wall of the inner urn city, the two came to the city tower and looked down.

The arrogance and sloppiness of Gao Jiejun outside the city was still the same, Wang Lanping glanced at Shi Kefa, Shi Kefa nodded, signaling that it was time to start.

Wang Lanping shouted at the soldiers who were bathing in the moat below, "Who is Gao Jie, call to answer!" ”

Everyone raised their eyes upwards and saw the flag of the Governor flying on the head of the city, and immediately someone went to Gao Jie's camp to spread the word.

After a while, a shirtless man with an upper body, about thirty-five or sixteen years old, came to the drawbridge surrounded by a group of soldiers, and he looked like a talent, he touched a sweat and said, "Master Shi, but I have figured it out, open the city gate, my patience is limited, if I don't open the city gate again, don't blame my subordinates for having no eyes for knives and guns."

Scofaud smiled, he saw himself as fearless, and replied with a smile, "General Gao, wait a minute, do you know this person?" With that, he showed Wang Lanping with his hand.

Wang Lanping nodded and smiled at Gao Jie.

Gao Jie put his hand on the pergola, squinted a few times, and waved his hand impatiently, "I don't know, I don't know, open the city gate quickly, my soldiers will be out of food for two days, in case of mutiny, I can't control them."

Wang Lanping waved his hand, signaling his own banner to cool out, the ancient military flag is divided into five colors, corresponding to the five elements of feng shui, red blue, black, white and yellow, yellow in the middle of the five elements, for the handsome flag, at this time, the handsome flag with the word "king" on the book rises impressively on the city tower, waving in the wind under the scorching sun.

Gao Jie was stunned for a moment, and then the expression on his face gradually solidified, and he couldn't help but take a closer look at the young general who was smiling at the head of the city, and said secretly in his heart: Isn't this person Wang Lanping who killed Liu Zeqing, Wang Dushuai?

Gao Jie turned around in place a few times, secretly belly, and there was a report that Wang Lanping didn't go back to Nanjing? Why did you come to Yangzhou? What is he doing here? After solving Liu Zeqing, he came to me again? Damn it, you're here after all, it's just right today, Lao Tzu wants to avenge General Liu.

Gao Jie's heart suddenly became murderous, Wang Lanping entered the city, but the spies outside the city did not find it at all, that can only show that there are not many soldiers and horses who entered Yangzhou City with Wang Lanping, Yangzhou City is only a few thousand soldiers to defend, and most of them are old and weak brought by Shi Kefa from Nanjing, and it is not difficult to attack Yangzhou City for Gao Jiewei.

"Could it be that the Marquis of Dingnan is here?" Gao Jie shouted.

Wang Lanping smiled and arched his hand, "Exactly, General Gao is so heroic, and I am deeply honored."

When Gao Jie heard that it was really this living king of Yama, he was furious in his heart, and raised his whip, "Okay, you Wang Lanping, you declare personal vendettas, frame Liu Zeqing's general soldiers, and in Xiangshan, you fabricate reasons to kill Li Zhi, the old general of the Three Dynasties, today, I Gao Jie want to get back justice for them, come here, pass on my general's order, and prepare to attack the city."

Under an order, the city is in a commotion, these soldiers are full of desire and strong expectations for the defeat of Yangzhou, Yangzhou City is a golden mountain, and there is no need to fight as a soldier in this life.

Wang Lanping stretched out his hand and shouted, "General Gao, take your time, don't worry, can I ask you a question?" ”

Gao Jie, who was about to fight his horse back to arrange the siege, turned his head and said angrily, "What? It's not like you want to open the door to ask for sin, okay, for the sake of your knowledge of current affairs, Lao Tzu will leave you a whole corpse."

Gao Jie really didn't mean to be like this, he really dared to do it, he followed Li Zicheng to rebel, but he coveted Li Zicheng's concubine, and robbed Li Zicheng's woman not count, but also took tens of thousands of 'breaking' troops to join the Ming army, this person is a reckless man, dare to think and dare to do, absolutely do not consider the consequences, except for dying in this life, he may have nothing else to fear.

Wang Lanping waved his hand and said, "The general has a deep prejudice against me, but today I came to Yangzhou, but I came for you, the general, I heard that the general's food was broken, and Shi Inspector refused the general's prestige, for fear that the general's tiger and wolf army would disturb the people of Yangzhou, and he didn't dare to invite the general to enter the city to rest, so I worked hard to be a peacemaker for the two."

Gao Jie smiled coldly, "Really? How come I didn't see it."

Wang Lanping said, "General, I'm young, and my reputation is not as good as you and Shi Inspector, so let's let Shi Inspector personally say it to you, Shi Inspector, please" Wang Lanping nodded at Shi Kefa.

Shi Kefa said, "General Gao, what Nanhou said is true, my Shi Kefa is not only not broad-minded enough, but also afraid of the general's soldiers, and actually rejected the Ming Dynasty from the outside of the city, which is really Shi Kefa's crime, the general is cold, now, I have packed up a thousand houses in the city, prepared 50,000 stones of military rations, 10,000 catties of forage, and 1,000 jars of wine, welcome the general into the city, come, open the city gate"

Gao Jie looked at the squeaky and slowly opened city gate, it was the gate he dreamed of walking into, it was inhabited by rich salt merchants, and it was enough for the whole army to eat for a few months, but now that the city gate was wide open, he was stunned.

Although Gao Jie is a brave and unscrupulous person, he is not stupid, after a few days of siege, Shi Kefa just didn't open the city gate, why did Wang Lanping open it as soon as he appeared, will there be anything greasy in this? There is an ambush? If you rush in like this, grab it and run, and the division will be nameless.

Gao Jie looked at the generals around him, stretched out his hand to beckon Xu Dingguo, the general of the department, to come closer and whispered, "Tell me, to enter or not to enter?" ”

Xu Dingguo, a native of Henan, more than 50 years old, has the courage of 10,000 people, can lift a thousand catties of bells, and the army calls him 'Xu Qianjin', when he was a partial general of Gao Jie's army, commanding 10,000 troops, and being a skilled general of Gao Jie, he is a seasoned man.

Xu Dingguo thought for a moment and said, "The general should not be gullible, be careful of deceit, Wang Lanping is scheming, first seized the power of the Beijing Camp Army, and then surrendered to the Huai'an Army, this person's ambition is not small, the general must not be despised , in my opinion, it is better to find a reason, kill into the city, and then report to the court that Wang Lanping rebelled, intended to Yangzhou, our department was in a hurry, and had to be cut first and then played, and when he died, there was no proof of death"

If it is really according to what Xu Dingguo said, then Wang Lanping is really afraid that he will not be able to get out of Yangzhou City, but Gao Jie is not Xu Dingguo, how life-sparing and greedy for temporary joy can betray his brother for the sake of a woman, he is not a master with a long-term plan at all, it is too easy to be satisfied with the immediate benefits, Wang Lanping expects that Gao Jie will not attack the city, and can walk in openly, why fight with such a big risk.

Gao Jie listened and nodded, he didn't approve of Xu Dingguo's first cut and then play, but he was sure that there was a little bit of cattiness in this city, and he couldn't risk his life lightly.

Gao Jie shouted at the city tower, "Master Shi, what's the matter, you want to play the empty city plan?" You're not Kong Ming, and I'm not Sima Yi."

Shi Kefa and Wang Lanping glanced at each other, and Shi Kefa said secretly: Wang Dushuai, as you expected, he is in a dilemma.

"I don't dare to take General Gao's words, how can I compare with Kong Ming, this is not an empty city plan, I sincerely invite the general to enter the city to rest, or I will personally go out of the city to meet the general?" Shi Kefa said.

Gao Jie was really entangled, and finally ruthless, and finally came up with a plan that he thought was the best of both worlds, he beckoned Xu Dingguo over again, and instructed, "General Xu, you bring 5,000 troops into the city, I will lead a large army to be stationed outside the city, echoing inside and outside, and they don't dare to do anything to us, after finding out the truth in the city, I will lead the army into the city."

Xu Dingguo secretly complained, what is this called, it sounds good, the situation in this city is unknown, if the other party wants to harm me, you are outside the city, echo a fart, far water can not solve the near fire, but the Lord will have an order, Xu Dingguo has to follow the order.

In fact, Gao Jie's plans are all expected by Wang Lanping, this person's recklessness is his specialty, when this kind of person faces a conspiracy that is almost obvious, he only has one thought in his consciousness, that is, death will not be fooled by you.

However, this is exactly what Wang Lanping wants.

Gao Jie's army retreated five miles and set up camp outside the city, Xu Dingguo led five thousand soldiers into Yangzhou City nervously, Shi Kefa and Wang Lanping looked at each other and smiled.