When Xian Yuyin received Li Ru's notice, although he didn't know the specific meaning of the sixteen characters engraved on the wooden boat, he had a hunch that it was time to launch a final blow against Xiangping's Gongsun Du, so he did not hesitate to bring back the five thousand infantry originally stationed in Anshi back to Xinchang.

After a period of governance by Guoyuan, the situation in Anshi has stabilized, and the people who originally fled from the two cities of Wenxian and Pingguo have also returned to the township. The people around Anshi and Wenxian now only recognize the decrees issued by the county government, and no longer obey and abide by the system of decrees that Gongsun Du created in Liaodong.

After Li Ru saw Xian Yuyin, he said his analysis, Xian Yuyin agreed very much when he heard it, and he said to Li Ru with admiration: "It is really amazing that Xu Gongming can come up with the trick of passing the book on a wooden boat. However, the military advisor can guess the answer to the riddle overnight, which is even more admirable! ”

"Xu Gongming was also forced to make this strange move, if he sent someone to make a detour to deliver the news from the sea, not only would it be easy to be intercepted by Gongsun Du's sailors, but it would also delay time, but it would be better to use this seemingly ridiculous, but in fact it is the most convenient way to inform us of the military situation."

"However, how did Xu Gongming know that we would definitely find these small wooden boats, and we would be able to decipher his intentions from these sixteen characters? Wouldn't it be self-defeating if we didn't find out about it, or if there were capable people in the enemy camp who deciphered the meaning of this clear phrase? ”

"As far as I can see, Xu Gongming has already thought of these situations. This time, we found more than a dozen small wooden boats with the same shape on the seashore at the same time, which means that Xu Gongming asked his subordinates to make many such wooden boats. He was using the huge numerical advantage to compensate for the uncertainty of the wooden boats drifting at sea. As for whether such a transmission method will be cracked by Gongsun Du's subordinates, as far as I can see, as long as Xu Gongming can hide from the world, then even if Gongsun Du knew that this was a way to contact us on the Western Front, he would never have thought that the main force of the Western Front would go straight to Xiangping from Xuansu County. ”

"Hey, Xu Gongming wants to deceive the tens of thousands of enemy troops along the Great Liaoshui River and quietly enter Xuanwu County, it's really not easy to get it......" Xian Yuyin pinched his teeth and was a little worried.

Li Ru suggested: "In order to cover the true intentions of the main forces on the Western Front, I propose to immediately launch a feint attack on Xiangping and draw Gongsun Du's attention to our side." ”

"The military advisor is reasonable, I'll go and arrange it!"

Xian Yuyin and Li Ru agreed. He immediately sent troops from Xinchang. Three days later, the Liao army arrived twenty miles outside the south gate of Xiangping.

Gongsun Du received the news of the Liao army's dispatch a day ago, but he did not send troops out of the city to meet the attack, because he felt that the strength of the Liao army was limited, as long as he relied on Xiangping City to defend it to the death. Then Xian Yuyin had no chance to attack the city at all.

Looking at the tall and sturdy Xiangping city wall. Xian Yuyin, who had already calculated, glared at him. With a wave of his hand, hundreds of catapults were pushed out by the soldiers.

As a large siege machine, catapults have the biggest drawbacks of slow movement and inconvenient transportation. But because of its huge long-range kill advantage, it is also a weapon for siege. The boats of the Liao army were limited, and they did not carry too many catapults and bed crossbows when they landed on the coast of the Liao army, but the hundreds of catapults that appeared outside Xiangping were built in more than half a year after Xian Yuyin led the army to capture Xinchang. The Liaodong Peninsula is mountainous, and there are many trees in the mountains, so as long as the labor is sufficient, it is not difficult to catch up with hundreds of catapults.

In addition to making catapults, Xian Yuyin also drove thousands of captured Goguryeo barbarians into the mountains to quarry stones and make large and small stone bullets for catapults to fire. Over the course of several months, hundreds of Goguryeo captives who quarried in the mountains were killed, and the tens of thousands of stone bullets they had painstakingly mined and polished were finally put to use. These Goguryeo people were originally introduced by Gongsun Du to deal with the Du Liao army, but now they are making stone bullets for the Du Liao army to attack the city.

Because of the full preparation, when Xian Yuyin gave the order to attack, more than 300 catapults were lined up outside Xiangping City in three columns, and then began to project in turns day and night.

"Whoosh...... a huge boulder the size of a millstone smashed into the pillar of the watchtower at the head of the city, and instantly broke the pillar from it.

"Whoosh...... several stone bullets the size of a human head flew out of the leather pocket of the same launch vehicle, and then dispersed in the air, some smashed at the soldiers at the head of the city, and some fell into the city, causing a large number of exclamations and panic.

"Whoosh!" Another bucket-sized boulder flew over the city and smashed into a roof ridge in the Liaodong Hou Mansion, and the huge inertia smashed through the roof in an instant, and then the entire roof fell down with a clatter.

Outside the city, catapults towered like a forest, stone bullets whistled like rain in the sky, and the soldiers and civilians in the city were panicked like fryers......

More than 300 catapults only need less than 2,000 soldiers to operate, and in order to ensure the continuity of the attack, the projection time for each column of hundreds of catapults is four hours, so that the three catapults can work in shifts in one day, which will not affect the effect of the attack and will not make the soldiers feel tired.

When Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou, he used the method of concentrating a salvo of hundreds of thunderbolts, and as a result, even Tancheng, the seat of Xuzhou, was almost captured. Xiangping, as the old nest of Gongsun Du, although it was built tall and strong, it was only so compared with Tancheng, but the catapult used by the Liao army besieging Xiangping was more powerful than the thunderbolt used by Cao Cao, so Gongsun Du and his men who were hiding in Xiangping City were frightened and hid in the tunnel under the continuous bombardment of "boulder rain" for several days and nights.

"General, quickly send troops out of the city to destroy the enemy's catapults, otherwise Xiangping City will be smashed into ruins!" A frightened person made a crying proposal to Gongsun Du.

Fortunately, although this product was timid, he only proposed that Gongsun Du send troops out of the city, but did not propose that Gongsun Du open the city and surrender, so after being beaten by Gongsun Du with twenty military sticks, it was forgotten.

"General, although the enemy's catapult is powerful, but the consumption of stone bullets is very huge, it will not last, and the general is invited to go to the city to reward the soldiers and appease the army, then the peace will be safe!" A bold aide proposed to Gongsun Du.

"General, it's better to push Wang Lie and Guan Ning to the top of the city together, the enemy army will definitely not dare to destroy the city with a boulder when they see it!" Engaged in yang yi made a suggestion of yin damage.

Gongsun Du, who was forced to be anxious, finally became ruthless, he asked his soldiers to "invite" Wang Lie and Guan Ning to his mansion, and then threatened the families of the two famous men, and let Wang Lie and Guan Ning accompany him to the south gate.

Outside the big tent of the Chinese army outside the city, Xian Yuyin was holding a clairvoyant mirror to observe the enemy situation at the head of the city, and suddenly two familiar faces suddenly came into his eyes.

"Holy! Gongsun Du, the turtle grandson, actually pulled Wang Yanfang and Guan Youan to the head of the city to block the stone bullets! ”

Xian Yuyin had been helped by Wang Lie when he first came to Liaodong, so he was very impressed by Wang Lie's appearance, although he had never seen Guan Ning, but he had now seen three of the four soldiers who avoided Liaodong, so it was easy to think that the one next to Wang Lie was Guan Ning.

In the clairvoyant mirror, Xian Yuyin clearly saw Wang Lie and Guan Ning with melancholy on their faces, but they were not afraid, and they were worthy of being famous people in the world.

Because he was worried about hurting Wang Lie and Guan Ning, Xian Yuyin hurriedly ordered the catapult to stop firing.

"Strategist, what should we do now?" Xian Yuyin asked Li Ru with a depressed face.

"Now we are just feintting, and Gongsun Du is so scared that he carries Wang Yanfang and Guan Youan out, which is a good thing." Li Ru looked determined, and he didn't take it seriously at all.

"However, Gongsun Du has discovered this weakness of ours, and when the army is attacking the city with all its might, he will definitely repeat his old tricks, how should we deal with it then?"

"When the time comes, we will talk about it when the time comes. For the time being, let the catapult stop projecting, and send a team of soldiers to fight outside the city every day, constantly insulting and harassing Gongsun Du, so that he can't be at peace! ”

"What if Gongsun Du can't stand the humiliation and sends troops out of the city to fight?"

"If he really dares to send troops to fight, then we will pretend to do it and fight him in a decisive battle!"

Li Ru made some suggestions, and Xian Yuyin was no longer irritable in his heart, so he continued to feint to attack Xiangping, only waiting for the army led by Xu Huang to arrive in Xiangping on time.

The catapult outside Xiangping City stopped firing, and the defenders in the city could finally breathe a sigh of relief, but the roots of Gongsun Du's ears were difficult to clean, because the soldiers of the Duliao Army outside the city were "greeting" the eighteenth generation of the ancestors of the Gongsun family with their throats!

Gongsun Du was angry in his heart, but he didn't dare to send troops out of the city to fight, but strictly ordered his soldiers to defend the city. The soldiers and civilians in the city first saw Gongsun Du coercing the famous soldiers Wang Lie and Guan Ning to go to the city to block stone bullets, and then saw that Gongsun Du would rather be scolded by the Du Liao army outside the city than go to war, so they felt that Gongsun Du was timid and afraid of death, and there were more and more suspicions and suspicions about him, and the undercurrent was surging for a while.

On the northern wasteland, Xu Huang, who led the army north, went out day and night, and after seven days of marching, finally approached the vicinity of Gaoxian.

Adjutant General Zhang Kai asked: "General Xu, from here twenty miles to the east, it is the Great Liao River, when will we cross the river?" ”

Xu Huang replied: "Let the troops camp on the spot first, and when they cross the river, they must receive news from Gao Xian's side before they can act!" ”

In Gaoxian City, the prince of Fuyu Kingdom looked at Zhang Jun with some puzzlement and said, "My people have already seen the outpost of the Han cavalry on the other side of the river, why don't you send someone to contact you immediately?" ”

Zhang Jun explained: "At this time, if we lead the main force of our army across the river, we will definitely be detected by the spies left by Gongsun Du, so wouldn't the efforts we made before be wasted?" ”

"So what now?"

Zhang Jun said in a deep voice: "It's very easy to do, you now send someone to solve all the details and spies that Gongsun Du left in Xuanwu County, naturally no one will go to report to Gongsun Du!" ”

Prince Fuyu's heart tightened, knowing that this time the matter might not be able to be prevaricated. (To be continued......)