And the officers in the city and the officials of the government were also surprised to see that it was only a little more than half a day, Jiang Fang suddenly seemed to be a different person, and the arrangements began to be organized, and after a little thought, he knew that it seemed that the newly arrived Daye County Lieutenant Gao Huaiyuan was really not simple, so they no longer underestimated this Gao County Lieutenant, and they all went out to receive orders and began to prepare separately according to Jiang Fang's arrangement.

After assigning the soldiers and horses in the city, Gao Huaiyuan also asked Jiang Fang to appoint a special person to be responsible for each city wall, and all the soldiers were divided into two groups and took turns to garrison the city, ready to meet the attack of the Jin army at any time.

Originally, he wanted to be in charge of the imperial guard of the eastern city wall, but Jiang Fang said that he would not agree to anything, and he had to ask Gao Huaiyuan to stay by his side and give advice for him.

After these orders were issued overnight, the entire city of Huangzhou took full action, and Jiang Fang personally led the officials of the government to mobilize from house to house, ordering the men in the city to leave their homes to assist the officials and soldiers in guarding the city, and at the same time posted a notice in the city, indicating that the government would lead the soldiers and civilians in the city to coexist and die with the city!

And this attitude also made the people in the city begin to stabilize, and they went out of their homes one after another to join the ranks of assisting in the defense, which suddenly made more than 3,000 people strong in the city, and greatly enriched the garrison force of Huangzhou City.

Don't look at Jiang Fang is not good at commanding the army, but when it comes to civil affairs, he is a good hand, he is very good at encouraging the people, and constantly preaching to the gathered people outside the government, which has played a very good role in inspiring people, which has played a very good role in inspiring people, which has played a very good role in the imperial guard of Huangzhou City, and Gao Huaiyuan finally does not have to worry about this matter anymore.

From the beginning of Gao Huaiyuan's entry into Huangzhou City, for two days, basically did not even blink a glance, kept accompanying Jiang Fang in the city to inspect, checking the deployment of the city walls everywhere, two days down, I was tired and a little dizzy, but the efforts were not in vain, and the deployment of Huangzhou City was finally introduced into the track, and then in a wing room of the government office, I found a bed and took a nap for a while.

But before he could sleep for long, Gao Huaiyuan was woken up again, and after opening his eyes in a daze, he saw Jiang Fang's anxious face, yelling at him.

"County Lieutenant Gao, wake up, Jin Bing has already arrived outside the city!" Jiang Fang pushed Gao Huaiyuan's shoulder nervously at this time and shouted at Gao Huaiyuan.

Gao Huaiyuan got up from the bed in a hurry, and the heart said that the golden soldiers were coming so fast, it seems that this time it is really going to start! So he didn't dare to slack off, immediately tidied up the armor on his body, followed Jiang Fang out of the mansion immediately, got on his horse and ran to the north gate.

When they climbed the tower, they raised their eyes and saw a large black army on the road in the north of the city, killing in the direction of Huangzhou.

"Shut up the city gates! Tear down the drawbridge! Get ready for the Omamori! Gao Huaiyuan didn't even think about it, so he said to Jiang Fang, and at this time, it seemed that Gao Huaiyuan had become the commander of the defenders of Huangzhou City!

And Jiang Fang didn't care about Gao Huaiyuan's tone at this time, and immediately shouted to the soldiers and civilians in the city like a herald, conveyed Gao Huaiyuan's instructions, and repeatedly shouted not to panic, but at this moment, he seemed to be more nervous than anyone else!

"Don't be too nervous, the Jin army has just arrived, and it has not yet set up a position, and it will not immediately attack the city before it is ready, we still have time to prepare, if Jiang Chan can trust Gao, Gao is willing to command the imperial guard on behalf of Jiang Chen!" Gao Huaiyuan saw Jiang Fang's expression so nervous, so he hurriedly comforted him, and couldn't help but propose to him that he wanted to command the imperial guard for him.

Jiang Fang looked at Gao Huaiyuan's calmness, and suddenly felt ashamed in his heart, and after taking a deep breath, he stabilized his nervousness a little, and said embarrassedly: "It seems that Gao County Lieutenant is really a person who has been in battle for a long time, and he actually doesn't feel nervous at all at this moment. This official also knows that he is not good at this, since this is the case, then there are many county lieutenants of Laogao! ”

In this way, Gao Huaiyuan actually took over the command of Huangzhou from Jiang Fang, at this time he was also helpless, if once the war started, Jiang Fang's command was not right, then Huangzhou may fall into a situation of no return, he did not dare to take such a risk, so he made a move to take over the command of Huangzhou's defensive battle.

In the past two days, Gao Huaiyuan's ability has basically been recognized by the defenders of Huangzhou, and most of them feel that Gao Huaiyuan is calm and has a unique vision, and he is indeed a capable person, so he did not raise any objections to Gao Huaiyuan taking over the command from Jiang Fang, so Gao Huaiyuan took over the command relatively smoothly, and there was no commotion.

Although Jiang Fang was still nominally under the jurisdiction of soldiers and horses, he entered the city and was only responsible for commanding the people in the city to cooperate with the imperial guards, and no longer cared about the affairs on the city wall, which reduced a lot of trouble for Gao Huaiyuan.

Standing on the tower at the north gate of Huangzhou, Gao Huaiyuan took the monocular from Li Ruohu and raised it to look at the Jin army that was gradually arriving outside the city.

When he saw a group of soldiers and horses of the Jin army with a clean appearance began to stop outside the city, he sighed secretly in his heart, Fusan An Zhen is really a famous general of the Jin country, the army under his command is quite strong, and the overall advance is very rapid, and with the order to arrange the formation, the queue advances and retreats to a certain extent, compared with the Jin army he met in Zaoyang two years ago, the quality is obviously higher.

What surprised Gao Huaiyuan even more was that among the Jin army, there was actually a team composed of Song troops, at least a thousand people, and they actually stopped outside the city with the Jin army.

"Why are there Song soldiers and horses in the Jin army outside the city?" Gao Huaiyuan immediately put down the monocular in his hand and asked a Song Jundu who was standing not far from him.

The head of the capital had already seen the Song army soldiers and horses in the array of golden soldiers outside the city, so he immediately showed an angry face and said, "This is not strange! According to the rout soldiers who fled into Huangzhou a few days ago, this time the Jin army master will scatter Anzhen after every victory, he never kills the captured Song army warriors, and always releases or treats them favorably, so that after some people in the Song army are captured, they fall to the Jin army and help the Jin army attack our Song people, which is really damned! If this were not the case, Macheng would not have fallen to the hands of the Jin Army in just a few days! ”

Gao Huaiyuan felt horrified in his heart, he only knew that the servant An Zhen was a famous general of the Jin State, but he didn't expect that this person would still know how to win the hearts of the army so well, and would actually release the prisoners of war of the Song army, so as to gain the support of the Song people, and also recruit a group of Song people to serve him, so the next words, the battle of Huangzhou seems to be really difficult to fight!

Just when Gao Huaiyuan was still busy commanding and dispatching the defenders to go to the city to defend the city, the vanguard of the Jin army had already set up a formation outside the city, and when he looked up, the number of people was at least seven or eight thousand, which had completely exceeded the number of the defenders of Huangzhou.

Looking at the Song army on the city wall, many people had a frightened look on their faces, and they were so frightened that they were a little colorless, even Gao Huaiyuan himself felt a little uneasy, from the first time he fought with the army, until now, it can be said that except for the battle of Tiger Cliff, he has never encountered such a tense situation, this time he can lead the army to block the Jin soldiers in Huangzhou, he really doesn't have much confidence to ask himself.

But at this point, he had no way out, and had no choice but to fight hard, so he immediately ordered the drums to be beaten, and the drums were used to boost the morale of the defenders in the city, otherwise this coercive momentum alone would be enough to make the morale of the defenders fall to the bottom.

So under his order, the war drums on the city tower were beaten, and the war drums made a dull and thick sound under the beating of the sergeants, as if they were beating on the hearts of the people, and the rumbling drums rolled away and spread throughout the city of Huangzhou.

In the sound of war drums, Gao Huaiyuan suddenly pulled out his waist knife, raised his arms, and shouted: "God bless the Great Song!" Our army will win! ”

Maybe it was inspired by the sound of war drums, or maybe it was a new understanding of life and death, when Gao Huaiyuan was shouting loudly God bless the Great Song Dynasty, our army will win, those defenders in the city gradually began to calm down, some of them listened to Gao Huaiyuan's shouts, and also learned Gao Huaiyuan's appearance, raised his arms and shouted, "God bless the Great Song, our army will win!" ”

This kind of call gradually resonated with more people, so even the people in the city, more people began to join in this call, and gradually this slogan sounded all over Huangzhou City, and the morale was also boosted, and the tension when I first saw the Jin army gradually calmed down.

This is what Gao Huaiyuan learned from several battle formations, the first thing to encourage morale in battle, only when the morale is sufficient, the army can play its due combat effectiveness, this time he successfully used this law again, and mobilized the morale of the defenders in the city.

"Song Jun's sons and daughters have listened! Outside the city is the thief army of the Kingdom of Jin! Behind us is the surging river, we have no way to retreat, only here in the Jin army to fight to the death can we have a way to live! Now the Song army from all walks of life is rushing towards Huangzhou, as long as we block the Jin army for a few days, the Jin army will naturally retreat with its tail between its legs! This official is confident that he will be able to block the Jin soldiers here, so that he will not be able to cross the thunder pool, can you have the confidence to fight to the death with the Jin army? Gao Huaiyuan waited until the call gradually calmed down, and once again stepped forward and shouted at the soldiers at the head of the city.

"We are willing to follow the Lord to join the Golden Army!" The Song Jun who answered Gao Huaiyuan's words just now immediately raised his arms and shouted.

So another round of shouting resounded over Huangzhou City again.

After hearing the shouts of the soldiers and civilians in Huangzhou City, the Jin soldiers in the distance outside the city looked sideways, but they did not take any action, but with the swing of the flags, they gradually began to develop towards both sides of Huangzhou, and gradually formed a situation of encirclement of Huangzhou.

Gao Huaiyuan looked at the actions of the Jin army outside the city, and sighed secretly, but it is a pity that the strength at hand is really limited, if he has an elite army to deploy at this time, as long as he opens the west gate and storms the right wing of the Jin army from the flank, he will definitely be able to disrupt the Jin army's position, so that it cannot form an encirclement of Huangzhou, but now he can only watch the Jin soldiers like this, and surround Huangzhou City step by step, leaving only the south of the city near the river is still open.

The Jin soldiers seemed to have known that the garrison of Huangzhou City was empty, so after marching outside Huangzhou City, they did not immediately launch an attack on the city, but gradually waited until the soldiers and horses behind arrived and set up a large camp five miles outside Huangzhou City, and closely monitored Huangzhou City.

During this period, Gao Huaiyuan had been closely monitoring the movements of the Jin soldiers in the city, and he couldn't see what they were planning to do, nor could he see the direction of their main attack, so he could only respond to changes with no change.

With the arrival of the Jin army in the city, the preparations for war were in full swing, because it was only at this time that people really felt the threat of death, so the people in the city who were requisitioned also worked harder.

Seeing that it was getting late, Gao Huaiyuan ordered the soldiers on each city wall to rotate as usual, rest when they should rest, and guard on duty, in order to prevent excessive consumption of the physical strength of the generals in advance, and ordered the defenders of each city wall to closely monitor the movements of the Jin army, and then strode down the city wall, and requisitioned a mansion in the north gate as a temporary headquarters, which became his temporary station.

Before dark, there were gold soldiers outside the city who continued to arrive, joined the siege ranks, and gradually surrounded Huangzhou City on three sides, east and west, north and west, as if there was a posture of not giving up if Huangzhou City was not taken in one fell swoop, and the morale that was finally mobilized during the day began to panic again after the soldiers and civilians in the city saw so many gold soldiers.

Gao Huaiyuan immediately summoned the officers in charge of each city wall to the temporary headquarters of the North Gate and held a very brief mobilization meeting.

"Brothers, everyone has already seen the strength of Jin Bing, and today I invite everyone to come here to discuss matters, Gao is obviously a little overstepping! I wonder if you have any objections to Gao's acting command? If there is, just mention it to Gao immediately, so as not to mention it after the war and disturb the morale of the army! As long as everyone puts it forward, Gao is definitely willing to give it up! After Gao Huaiyuan first inspected everyone's faces, he suddenly opened his mouth and asked the generals.

The reason why he brought up this matter first was because he had been here for a short time, so he replaced Jiang Fang and gave orders to these officers in the Huangzhou garrison, for fear of arousing their dissatisfaction, and once the war started, it would be very harmful!

After he said this, the officers of the defending army did not answer immediately, but made eye contact with each other, as if they wanted to see from the eyes of the others whether they were convinced or not.

Gao was not in a hurry, just quietly waiting for everyone's reply, and in the end, in addition to Zhou Hao and a few other people brought by Gao Huaiyuan, the rest of the people all looked at a battalion commander surnamed Zheng, who was originally the general of the Huangzhou garrison, but because there were fewer Huangzhou garrison troops, there were only two battalions of soldiers and horses, and the number was not more than a thousand, so the officer surnamed Zheng who stayed here was just a battalion commander, nominally a commander, and most of the rest were just a head. They all have to obey the orders of Jiang Fang, so they are the second person in the Huangzhou Army besides Jiang Fang.

However, although this Zheng Ti is a battalion commander, he is a petty officer without grade at all, and can only be regarded as a low-level officer, and his status is really not as big as Gao Huaiyuan, the county lieutenant who is suspended, not to mention that Gao Huaiyuan is still a nine-grade Baoyilang, so after Gao Huaiyuan arrived in Huangzhou, his grade has surpassed this Zheng Tizhi, and although Zheng Tizhi has been an official in the army for many years, he has basically not participated in the big war, so Jiang Fang will entrust Gao Huaiyuan, a newcomer, with important responsibilities.

And this Zheng Tizhi saw that everyone was looking at him, and he also knew his own ability, so he hurriedly stood up and replied: "The difference between Lord Gao's words, since Lord Gao arrived in Huangzhou, everything he has done has been watched by everyone, how can anyone disobey the dispatch of the adult, Zheng is not talented, and he is willing to look forward to the head of the tall adult!" ”

With this Zheng Tizhi's statement, the rest of the officers had nothing to hesitate, so they nodded their heads to show their obedience to Gao Huaiyuan's deployment.

"Thank you for lifting up Gao, since this is the case, then Gao is not welcome, today the Jin soldiers have arrived, it can be said that the big war is coming, we must first work together, in order to be able to resist the enemy under the city, so that it can not capture Huangzhou City! That's why I asked!

Everyone has also seen that the Jin army is strong, the strength is far more than our army, and we have no room to retreat except for the city, only to stick to Huangzhou, waiting for the army to come to support, is our only way out, after the official looked at the situation of the Jin army today, I feel that the Jin soldiers will probably not attack the city immediately tonight, but tomorrow will be a big attack, so I will recruit you here, there is nothing else, is to hope to unify your opinions! In case there is a battle formation, the general of the army will be taboo! It seems that Gao is too worried!

There is only one night left for us to prepare, and whether we can win the first battle tomorrow depends on your preparation tonight! In order not to affect the mental and physical strength of the soldiers after the war tomorrow, so after you go back tonight, you must check the situation of the defense everywhere as soon as possible, prepare all kinds of defense equipment properly, and face the battle chaos, and at the same time urge the soldiers to take turns to rest, as for the materials, you can rest assured, after a while, the official will ask Jiang Zhan to personally supervise this matter to ensure that there will be no shortage of materials everywhere!

And Gao also wants to say that the situation is not to the point of no return, although the Jin army is menacing, but it can not cut off the foreign aid of Huangzhou City, at least the Linjiang wharf has always been a section that they cannot control, as long as we stick to this place, we will continue to obtain all kinds of materials and support from the direction of Ezhou, and the Jin army does not have this convenience, which is the biggest advantage of our army!

As the saying goes, raising troops for a thousand days and using troops for a while, this place is the last line of defense in the north of the Great Song River, we can only hold on and not retreat, otherwise even if we return to Jiangnan alive, we will not be able to see the Jiangdong fathers! Soldiers will inevitably die before the battle, and we, as the people of the Great Song Dynasty, are even more food kings, and we should serve the country at this time of national disaster!

As long as we dare to use our lives, we will be able to make the Jin army sink in the sand under the city of Huangzhou, even if we die on the battlefield, we are worthy of heaven and earth! I also hope that you can fight the enemy army here with this officer, thank you very much! ”