The wall outside the city is getting longer and longer day by day, but the messenger sent by Ge Wen to ask for help has not come back for a long time, and on the night when he found out that Baishui Zhu Ba planned to attack the city, Ge Wen sent a fast horse to Phoenix City (Yuncheng) to seek help, but after more than ten days, the shadow of the rescuers did not come.

"Phoenix City is only a hundred miles away from here, and there are no reinforcements in ten days, what is the reason?" Gwen lost his temper at the head of the city.

The left and right staff hurriedly persuaded: "Maybe reinforcements are on the way, and they are coming in a blink of an eye." ”

"A hundred miles of road, walking for ten days and still on the road, do you believe? Who would dare to believe it? Ge Wen is going crazy: "Look at the wall outside, it is getting longer and longer, and if it drags on for a few more days, the north side will be completely blocked by this long wall, our west is the Yellow River, and the south is also the Yellow River, damn the Yellow River actually turned around in my place, blocking both sides of the southwest of our Puzhou, if we let Zhu Ba's wall block the north and east again, we will become a turtle in the urn." ”

As soon as he analyzed it like this, he felt sweat dripping from his forehead: "Send a messenger quickly, and ask for reinforcements again." ”

Just shouting, the messenger sent to Phoenix City to ask for help came back, this messenger was simple, sweating profusely, and seemed to be very tired, and when he arrived in front of Ge Wen, he rolled his saddle and fell off his horse, and reported loudly: "Lord Zhizhou, I went to Phoenix to ask for help, but I didn't expect the local garrison to refuse to come...... Because Cao Ying's tens of thousands of troops were passing near Phoenix, they didn't dare to go out of the city, and they also said...... He also said that there were only seven or eight thousand thieves, and it was impossible to break through the state city, so let us defend it. The subordinates grinded hard bubbles, and they turned over their mouths there for several days, and they ignored them. ”

"What?" Gwen Khan.

After thinking about it carefully, he understood that the garrison of Phoenix was bent on guarding its own territory, and was not interested in saving others, because it was no good to save others, if he lost his own territory in order to save people, he would get a big sin, who would be full to help others?

"Bastard! It's all bastards! Ge Wen pointed in the direction of Northeast Phoenix City, jumping to his feet and scolding, he didn't expect that if Phoenix City was so bad that the thieves attacked him and asked him for help, he would not want to go. Selfish people only know how to criticize the evil deeds of others, but they don't know whether they would make the same judgment when they were in such a situation.

In fact, the officials sent by the Ming Dynasty to Shanxixi to be responsible for exterminating the 36th battalion were Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, Xu Dingchen, the governor, as well as Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, and Cao Wenzhao, the general soldier of Yansui.

This is also the strategy that Chaoyan must adopt when fighting against the Liukou, and it is impossible for the imperial court to let all the troops chase the ass of the Liukou, regardless of the cities in various places, right? Therefore, the imperial court must make an arrangement to divide troops to defend everywhere, and then send special personnel to pursue the rogues, if this arrangement is still acceptable for one or two streams of rogues, in the face of the rogues who are all over the world and divided into dozens of bands of rogues, Hong Chengchou and their limited number of people are really a little anxious. You went to kill that one again, and this one came out again.

Zhizhou like Ge Wen, who is dry and doesn't dare to move, is actually everywhere in the world, but he is not the only one.

"Lord Zhizhou, since the reinforcements are not coming, let's defend it!" The staff members said that after a few months, the governor and the governor would always send troops.

Of course, Ge Wen also knew that this was a more correct judgment, but he looked at the long wall outside the city, and his heart was not broken: "That wall is getting longer every day, if we cower in the city for a few months, won't the wall completely surround us?" ”

The staff were speechless for a while.

"Wai...... It doesn't matter if it's fenced, the city won't be broken anyway. A young staff member named Liu Xiudao was timid.

"Nonsense, if we are completely surrounded and killed, we will be completely cut off from the outside news......" Ge Wen scolded loudly: "We can't get out, even if reinforcements come, we can't get in, we can't transport food, and we can't send letters...... Oh, my God! For now, the only way to do this is to go out of the city to fight and prevent the thieves from building a wall! ”

"Lord Zhizhou, don't panic, you don't need to go out of the city to fight, just keep it, there is no problem with our food storage for a year, this is a state city, not a small county town......" Liu Xiudao hurriedly shouted: "If you keep it for half a year and a year, the governor and the governor of the three sides will definitely send troops to save you, don't mess up." ”

"You know!" Gwen kicked him to the side.

Liu Xiudao, the poor little staff, hurriedly turned his head to look at several Qianhu military attaches in the city, wanting them to come forward to speak, but those Qianhu, like Ge Wen, were full of stupidity, obviously falling into some abnormal mood.

"Alas! It's over! Liu Xiudao took two steps back, and muttered in hatred: "This group of big officials, all of them are useless, and when they encounter such a trivial matter, they actually mess up their own battles, but I hate me but I can't use my strength...... Alas......"

Disheartened, he took off the scarf from his head and threw it on the ground, and walked back to his home.

Ge Wen didn't even glance at Liu Xiudao's lost back, he shouted urgently: "Li Qianhu, Wang Qianhu, please prepare, take two thousand people out of the city to fight the thieves, and be sure to stop them from building a wall." ”――

Zhu Yuanzhang and a group of leaders were sitting on a small hill outside the wall, laughing and looking at the state city in the distance.

"Brother Zhu, we've been repairing the wall for ten days, when will this be the end?" Wang Er said depressedly.

"Hmm...... I don't know how long it will take! Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said: "It depends on whether the officials in the city are smart or stupid, if it is a smart person, let's build the wall around the city, so that we don't need to repair it anymore, if it is a stupid person...... Well...... In about two or three days, he will be moving. ”

"Those who can become court officials must be smart people, right?" Xue Hongqi interjected.

"Those who can become officials must have read a lot of books, but if they are smart, they may not be......" Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "Moreover, the bigger the official does, the less courage will be, the meaning of building this wall is to test whether the Zhizhou adults in the city are bold or timid." ”

"How's the Courage Assembly? What about the timid? Wang Erqi said.

"If you are bold, let us surround the city and ignore us. If you are timid, then send troops out to fight us and try to destroy this wall. Zhu Yuanzhang replied.

"Brother Zhu, you seem to have said the opposite, it should be bold to go out of the city to fight us, and cowardly to shrink in the city." Wang Er was puzzled.

"For a rectum like you, that's true." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "So you are not reading material." ”

As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang's words fell, he suddenly heard a drum in the state city, the tall and heavy city gate of Puzhou suddenly and slowly opened, and the suspension bridge on the moat was also slowly lowered...... The cannons at the head of the city turned nervously around the muzzles, and the archers were also engrossed in the wall, pointing at Zhu Yuanzhang's army from afar, seemingly covering the soldiers who had gone out of the city to line up.

"Look at ......" Zhu Yuanzhang stretched out his hand and pointed at the officers and soldiers from the city, and laughed: "It seems that Lord Zhizhou is a coward, and he really came out of the city." ”

The leaders looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, and their eyes shone with admiration, especially the few who were not easy to use, such as Wang Er, Miao Mei, and Xue Hongqi, all of whom were at a loss, and they really couldn't understand why the officers and soldiers would go out of the city and take the initiative to invite the battle, which was really unreasonable.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't bother to explain to them, in fact, the strategy he used was not a clever strategy, it could only be said to be the most basic strategy to attack the heart, and there were many people in the world who would use this trick, and many generals knew how to use this method to deal with the enemy.

For example, at the end of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the officers and soldiers of Liaodong would use this trick to build a wall, besieging the rebel Kong Youde in Dengzhou City, and the wall was built longer than Zhu Yuanzhang's wall, which took thirty miles. Kong Youde is still a genuine general of the Liaodong Border Army, much more powerful than Ge Wen's generation, but he also panicked when he saw the wall, and sent the general Li Jiucheng out of the city to fight to the death with the officers and soldiers, trying to break the wall, but Li Jiucheng was killed by the officers and soldiers. Kong Youde was so frightened that he abandoned the city and fled into the sea, fighting with the officers and soldiers' boats at sea...... In fact, it's just psychological warfare, taking advantage of the psychology of people in the city who don't want to be fenced, if you can succeed, you can do it, if you can't succeed, you should build a wall to play, and there is nothing to lose anyway.

The five hundred elite soldiers hurriedly stepped forward, and the thieves who built the wall threw away the mud and stones in their hands and reorganized the army as quickly as possible. Most of these are recruits, training and morale are not enough, panic when they go to the battlefield, and they usually practice well in the array, but at this time, they can't be put on a good position for half a day, and they don't look crooked.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw their lame appearance, and couldn't help laughing: "It's right to take them out to practice, our old first and second teams all started from the township warrior army as opponents, slowly exercised out, and finally became elite soldiers. But that's fine, the opponent is just a guard, not much difficult to deal with. ”

"That...... The first township warrior army that your old first team and second team dealt with seems to be the ...... I organized" Xu Renjie Great Khan.

"Hahaha!" Zhu Yuanzhang laughed: "It's exactly ......"

All the leaders laughed, only Xue Hongqi looked strange: "What? Your organization? ”

Ah...... didn't notice that Xue Hongqi was beside him, and said that he had leaked his mouth, Xu Renjie was startled, and quickly shut up and stopped talking nonsense.

"Oh, tell me, what the hell is going on? It's the most annoying to talk halfway through! Xue Hongqi was annoyed.

(To be continued)