Seeing that all the generals in the tent were suspicious of attacking the North Gate, Hua An hesitated for a moment, and said: "Generals, although the North Gate direction is the most tightly defended, this general has already taken countermeasures, and our army's baggage battalion will build heavy siege equipment to offset the advantage of the Shu army's heavy weapons in defending the city, so you don't have to worry too much." ”

"Big brother, since you have decided, then our army will attack the north gate, isn't it! Ladies and gentlemen. Iron Bull said loudly.

"We will obey the order." The generals in the tent spoke in unison and decided to obey Hua'an's orders.

Hua An sighed and said softly: "Since this is the case, then, this matter is so decided, the generals hurry back to prepare, and early tomorrow morning, the whole army and horses will march to Chengdu." ”

"Yes, General." The generals in the tent answered, turned around and left the Chinese army's tent.

After the generals left, Hua An looked at the Chengdu city defense layout in front of him, and carefully calculated, according to the power of the Shu army's thirty thunderbolts and fifty giant crossbows, the Northern Expeditionary Army must build enough giant shields to resist the attack of the Shu army.

In order to destroy the Shu army's defending thunderbolts and giant ballistas, a large number of siege thunderbolts of the Northern Expeditionary Army must risk being attacked by the Shu army and approach the city wall as much as possible to launch a counterattack.

Despite the cover of the giant shields, there would still be many siege thunderbolts destroyed by the Shu army, so for the strength of the counterattack, the Northern Expeditionary Army had to prepare enough counterattack forces to ensure that an effective attack could be launched.

To this end, Hua'an calculated the maximum loss that the Northern Expeditionary Army's siege weapons could suffer in a certain period of time according to the number and attack power of the Shu army's long-range heavy weapons. Then it was calculated that the Northern Expeditionary Army must have at least 500 siege thunderbolts before it could launch a deadly counterattack against the Shu army defending the city.

In order to better destroy the Shu army's siege weapons, Hua'an decided to prepare more siege weapons, increasing the number of thunderbolts to 1,000, the number of giant shields is comparable, and the rest of the various siege equipment can be built as much as possible, and this qiē can only be launched after the Northern Expeditionary Army arrives in Chengdu.

This is naturally because of the long distance. It would be very difficult to transport such a large number of siege weapons. In order to build as many siege weapons as possible, Hua'an decided to let the baggage battalion, which was responsible for building siege equipment, allocate 1,000 men and horses to go to the vicinity of Chengdu first. Start building now. At the same time, five thousand cavalry of the thunderstorm were sent. Responsible for cover.

"Thunderstorm, Wang San, you stay." Seeing that the two were about to leave the Chinese army's tent. Hua An opened his mouth and stopped the two.

"Big brother, what's the matter?" Thunderstorm and Wang San hurriedly asked.

Hua An looked at the thunderstorm and said softly: "It is really time-consuming and laborious to build a large number of siege equipment, in order to complete the construction as soon as possible, the eldest brother decided to transfer a thousand men and horses from the baggage battalion, and immediately went to the vicinity of Chengdu to start construction." In order to ensure the safety of this thousand heavy battalions, thunderstorms, you work hard and lead 5,000 cavalry to go together. ”

"Yes, big brother, will you go now?" Thunderstorm hurriedly asked.

Hua An nodded, and said with a straight face: "That's right, the soldiers are fast, you immediately go back to the camp to prepare, and after half an hour, set off with a thousand men and horses from the baggage battalion." ”

"Yes, big brother, I'll go back and prepare." Thunderstorm shouted his order and turned to leave the Chinese army's tent.

After the thunderstorm left, Hua An looked at Wang San and said softly: "Wang San, you immediately go to the baggage camp, select the thousand soldiers who are best at building siege equipment, and let them immediately prepare a qiē preparation before departure, go to the south gate, and join the five thousand cavalry of the thunderstorm." ”

"Don't worry, big brother, it's all left to me." Wang San received the order with great emotion, turned around and left the big tent, and walked in the direction of the baggage camp.

In the big tent, Hua An looked at the layout of Chengdu's city defense for a while, then left the big tent, rode his horse to the direction of the south gate, he wanted to personally send the advance troops under his command, and finally gave a few words.

Half an hour later, 1,000 soldiers of the baggage battalion, carrying 500 baggage carts and a large number of supplies, arrived outside the south gate, and the 5,000 cavalry of the thunderstorm were already waiting here.

When Hua'an rode out of the south gate, the thunderstorm and his group of 6,000 people were about to set off, and when they saw Hua'an coming, they stopped temporarily.

"Big brother, our army has already prepared, what other instructions do you have?" Thunderstorm looked at Huaan and asked softly.

Hua An looked sideways at the people and horses around him, and said: "Thunderstorm, the Chengdu garrison has seven thousand people, although it is only two thousand more than your five thousand cavalry, but the strength should not be underestimated, you must be more vigilant, in case the Shu army goes out of the city to sneak attack, for the sake of safety, the location of the camp must be at least ten miles away from the north gate of Chengdu, and must not be too close." ”

"Big brother, don't worry! I'll be on my toes. Thunderstorm replied loudly.

Hua An nodded, and then advised: "Thunderstorm, the baggage battalion may not have enough manpower to build siege equipment, you have 5,000 men and horses under your command, after camping, you must take turns to send soldiers to help the baggage battalion cut down trees, so as to speed up the construction of siege equipment." ”

Thunderstorm nodded and said, "No problem, big brother don't worry." ”

Seeing that Thunderstorm agreed loudly, Hua An was a lot relieved, patted Thunderstorm's shoulder, and said softly: "Okay, it's not early, let's go quickly!" ”

"Yes, big brother." Thunderstorm answered loudly, turned around and shouted, "Soldiers, go." After speaking, clamp the horse's belly and head towards Chengdu.

5,000 cavalry in front, 1,000 soldiers in the baggage battalion, and 6,000 men and horses marched slowly along the road leading to Chengdu.

By the time the thunderstorm disappeared from Hua'an's sight, it was already late, and there was still half an hour at most, and it was going to be dark.

Hua An turned his horse's head and walked towards the city, and after entering the city, he couldn't help but be shocked when he saw a group of vendors walking out of the city with empty bamboo baskets.

In the morning, I was going to patrol the market, but because of the delay in arranging combat missions, now the vendors in the market have packed up and gone home, and there are probably not many people in the market, and the 'Miss Zhu' who likes to talk about the general trend of the world with him will probably not be on the street, Hua An's heart suddenly has an inexplicable sense of loss.

"Anyway, the tasks are all arranged, why don't you go to the market for a walk!" Hua An thought to himself, and then rode his horse to the market.

Along the way, Hua An kept thinking, if that Miss Zhu was really Zhuge Qi, the commander of the Wudang Flying Army, then what was the purpose of her infiltrating Luocheng?

What her intentions are to contact herself, what is her attitude towards the Jin army's attack on Shu, whether she is an enemy or a friend, this qiē, Hua'an is not very clear.

However, with her own intuition, Hua An felt that Zhuge Qi did not seem to be hostile to her, and it could be seen from her expression that Hua An trusted her own judgment.

In fact, at this time, Zhuge Qi was in the teahouse, drinking stuffy tea alone, she originally thought that Hua'an would come to patrol the market again, so she deliberately dressed up, and even the rouge that she had never liked very much was painted on her mouth, as for why she was dressing up, Zhuge Qi herself was inexplicable, maybe it was the nature of women!

However, after wandering around the market for a whole day, he never saw the figure of Hua'an patrolling the streets, watching the people shopping one after another scarce, and the vendors selling goods also closed their stalls and walked in, Zhuge Qi's heart had an inexplicable loss, the teahouse along the street had not yet closed, and the thirsty Zhuge Qi entered the teahouse and drank a cup of tea.

"The general always has military affairs to deal with, so he can't go to the market every day! Forget it, let's go back to the inn! Zhuge Qi muttered to himself, dropped a few copper coins on the table in the teahouse, got up and walked outside the store.

The sky outside was already a little dark, and several shops opposite were also closed, Zhuge Qi walked along the deserted street towards the inn where he lived.

"Driving ......and driving" Hua'an rode along the street, because most of the people who went shopping and the vendors who sold goods left, and the market seemed to be much wider.

Soon, in the center of the street ahead, a charming shadow came into Hua An's eyes, just from the back, Hua An felt that she was a girl with outstanding appearance, and her figure was similar to 'Miss Zhu'.

Hua An subconsciously slowed down and slowly walked forward, and Zhuge Qi in front of him naturally heard the sound of horses' hooves behind him, so he subconsciously turned around and looked back.

"General Hua." When Zhuge Qi saw that it was Hua'an, the corners of his mouth unconsciously showed a smile, and he hurriedly said hello.

"Miss Zhu, it's really you." Seeing the person in front of him, it was Zhuge Qi, Hua An'an couldn't help but be surprised and happy, and hurriedly reined in the horse and jumped off the horse.

After getting off the horse, Hua An looked at Zhuge Qi carefully, and suddenly found that Zhuge Qi was much more handsome than the previous two days, and there was also an intoxicating rouge fragrance on his body.

"I haven't seen her for a day, Miss Zhu seems to be much more handsome." Hua An praised truthfully.

When Zhuge Qi heard this, he smiled and said softly: "The general said that he was joking, the slave family just applied a little rouge, and the people are still like that." ”

"Oh, so the girl is wearing rouge." Hua An said and looked at Zhuge Qi's lips, and sure enough, Zhuge Qi's lips were coated with a red layer of rouge, and even the corners of his mouth were painted a little.

"The girl is already very beautiful, but after applying rouge, she is even more handsome." Hua An said, looking at Zhuge Qi blankly, without blinking his eyes.

Seeing Hua An looking at herself blankly, Zhuge Qi smiled at the corner of her mouth, and glanced at Hua An sideways, but she could see that her heart was extremely happy.

Girls are like this, they like to be appreciated by handsome men, even if the men seem a little abrupt and rude, they are angry on the surface, but they will still be happy in their hearts.

"Oh, by the way, why didn't General Hua come to patrol the streets today! Is there an important military matter to deal with? Zhuge Qi looked at Hua An and asked casually.

Hua An smiled slyly at the corner of his mouth, and asked rhetorically: "How does Miss Zhu know that Ben Jiang has not come to patrol the street all day, is it possible that the girl has been waiting on this street all day." (To be continued......)