On the first day of the lunar month, Caozhou City ushered in a rare heavy snowfall. Goose feather-like snowflakes flew all over the sky, and in an instant, the entire Caozhou City was decorated into a white and silver world.

And on this day, the good days of Caozhou City also came to an end, because the siege equipment catapults and ladders that Hakesu was responsible for were completed.

In fact, there is a forest outside Caozhou City, and it is easy to cut down trees, and as long as Hakesu dispatches 5,000 people to build a general siege machine, it will not take so long at all, but the key problem here is that craftsmen are difficult to find, so Hakesu sent people to rummage through some towns in Liaozhou, Shangzhou and Yunzhou occupied by them, and it was only then that they found eight craftsmen. Moreover, the families of these eight craftsmen were threatened by Haksu, so they were forced to agree to build catapults and ladders for Haksu, but in this way, they hated Haksu and the Beirong cavalry even more, and used various excuses to delay the completion of the catapult and ladder when they were in charge of building the catapult and ladder, which was eight days later than Haksu expected, which led to the construction of Haksu's catapult and ladder when the first snow fell in Yunzhou.

However, when Haksu saw that the siege equipment had been built late, he was in a good mood, but he was not angry that the time had not been what he expected.

For just yesterday the messenger sent by the royal court had arrived at the camp.

When the messenger arrived at the camp, he conveyed the order of Mo Dahan, the king of Beirong Khan, to Hakesu and Meng Buge, the main content of which was that he did not punish or reprimand Meng Buge for Meng Buge and Hakesu's attack on Caozhou City, but Mo Dahan comforted the two as brothers, and ordered the two to capture Caozhou at the best, if they could not capture Caozhou, they would retreat to Liaozhou, and wait until the spring of the next year, Mo Dahan would prepare to recruit the Beirong tribe to recruit 100,000 young and strong troops to go south.

Meng Buge and Hakesu were very satisfied with this result, but the two of them felt a little strange, the army lost nearly 80,000 horses in less than two months after arriving in Caozhou City, but the royal court had no intention of punishing them at all, which was not in line with the style of his brothers!

So let the messenger leave the big tent, Haksu and Meng Bugo, whose condition has improved but is still very weak, came up with such an answer, it is already winter, if the army wants to go south, not to mention the difficulty of marching, even the transportation of grain and grass and baggage has also become a big problem, the soldiers and horses have not moved the grain and grass first, this is the common sense of the soldiers, now there is a problem with the supply of grain and grass, who dares to lead the army south? Besides, it is already winter, when the weather is the coldest, continue to attack Dayan at this time, if Dayan can't rely on the city to defend it, let the army and the army be in the winter snow, it will affect morale, and when the battle falls, it will be even more impossible to capture a city. When the two brothers speculated for these two reasons, Wang Ting continued their brothers to continue to command the army at the same time at this time, which may be an expedient measure that no one was willing to accept the position of commander of the army at this time, which was more than worth the loss.

Since it was an expedient measure, the two brothers estimated that it might be past this winter, and that the royal court would find an excuse to remove their brother from the power to lead the army next spring.

That is to say, the decision now is to let the two brothers temporarily lead the army.

Even with such a result, the two were still overjoyed. Because the siege equipment has been built, and the first snow has just fallen in Yunzhou, there are still three or five days before the continuous snowfall, as long as these three or five days can be used to capture Caozhou City, the two brothers will have the opportunity to make Wang Ting change his mind and continue to let the two of them command the army before the spring begins tomorrow.

After discussing it and coming up with the answer of attacking the city immediately, Meng Buge suddenly felt a lot more energetic, and he decided to gather the commanders and deputy commanders of each banner to the big tent of the Chinese army, and it was time to do the pre-war mobilization work.

The order is delivered!

At the time of half a pillar of incense, the big tent of the Chinese army in the Beirong camp Inner Mongolia Buge had recovered his former spirit, and he was sitting in the position of the main general, looking at the banners and deputy commanders in the big tent.

Because since the last battle of Qingfeng Canyon, he was defeated again in the hands of Ji Qingchen's 100,000 army, and lost nearly 40,000 horses in the first battle, which made the entire camp fall into a shadow, the morale of the army was low, and the fighting spirit was defeated, and he was so angry with Ji Qingchen that he couldn't afford to get sick, and he almost sent his life to Caozhou City.

But now it's different, not only did the royal court not punish his own strength, but also let him continue to command the troops, and the siege equipment that had begun to be built half a month ago had been completed, and his side had this batch of siege equipment, and it was just around the corner to break through Caozhou City.

So the gloom that had been clouding Meng Bugo's heart was swept away, and his face was full of longing for victory.

The commanders and deputy commanders in the big tent already knew the orders conveyed by the royal court's messenger to Meng Buge and Hakesu, and seeing that the royal court did not punish the two, they naturally did not dare to disobey the two anymore.

It must be that the siege equipment has been built, and the siege will start tomorrow.

However, they did not agree with Hakesu because during the heavy army of Meng Buge, Hakesu commanded the army and prevented them from attacking Caozhou City, and now Meng Buge finally ordered to attack Caozhou City, they were naturally willing to accept Meng Buge's order, and their faces showed a faint joy, because as long as Caozhou City was broken, there would be food, gold, silver and money.

Seeing that winter is coming, food and heating things have become a big problem, if you capture Caozhou City, won't you have everything?

Therefore, everyone is talking about something in a whisper, talking about which banner the siege foot soldiers should be tomorrow.

Haksu, who was also sitting down in the lower position of Meng Buge, also showed a faint smile on his face, because the siege equipment was successfully completed, the pressure on his heart was reduced a lot, which made him feel relieved, plus the right to command the army was not withdrawn, and their brothers still had a chance to make a comeback, so he talked to Meng Buge in a low voice, as if exchanging opinions on tomorrow's battle.

Suddenly, at this moment, everyone in the big tent of Meng Buke had already arrived, so he stopped talking to Hakesu, he coughed softly and said, "Everyone, a few days ago, although we did not break through Caozhou City, we still achieved good results, so that the Caozhou defenders who also defended the city suffered heavy losses. Now that we have siege equipment, and the breakthrough of the city is just around the corner, do you have confidence? ”

"Yes," the deputy commander in the big tent said in unison, with high fighting spirit.

"That's good, since you are so confident, then this siege, we must break through Caozhou City at all costs, because in addition to tomorrow's battle is related to whether we can continue to go south to the hinterland of Yunzhou in the future, we will have catapults and ladders to attack the city tomorrow, with these two siege weapons, if we can't take Caozhou City, we will have no face to go back to see our people." Meng Bugo said loudly.

"Break through Caozhou City-" The deputy commanders in the big tent shouted in unison, "Break through Caozhou City-"

Meng Buge and Haksu were very satisfied when they saw everyone's realization, and couldn't help but smile at each other. When the generals left, there were only two people left in the tent, Haksu and Meng Buge!

"Twelfth brother, tomorrow, with the cooperation of catapults and ladders, can we really capture Caozhou City in one fell swoop?" Meng Buge asked very seriously. Just now, in order to boost morale, he confidently said to everyone that he could capture Caozhou City in one fell swoop after having these two siege equipment, but in fact, he had no confidence in whether he would be able to capture Caozhou City after having these two siege equipment. After all, this is related to the issue of military power in the hands of their brothers, and he does not dare to be careless.

"Brother Eleven, please rest assured, if you cooperate tacitly, it will be no problem!" Haksu wanted to answer in the affirmative, but thinking that the soldiers on his side had not used this thing, and they were ready to attack the city if they were familiar with one or two people, and they were far from reaching the realm of free retraction, which would affect the combat effectiveness and progress during the siege, he did not answer in the affirmative, but answered Meng Buge ambiguously.

In fact, since the cavalry was changed into foot soldiers to fight for Caozhou City with the defenders of Caozhou City, Hakesu gradually understood what it meant to promote his strengths and avoid weaknesses, and understood what Ji Qingchen's intention was, that is, to avoid the strengths of the 200,000 cavalry on his side, lead the army to Caozhou City, and let his cavalry act as infantry to attack the city. And the purpose of this is obvious, that is, the cavalry should be the infantry to attack the city The disadvantage is very prominent, and it is not good at siege warfare, and the casualties during the siege are very large. And the defenders of Caozhou City can rely on the tall and strong city walls to wait for work.

So when the two of them were together just now, when Meng Buge asked him if he could really capture Liangzhou City, he would be unconfident.

However, this is not to say that he has no confidence, but he knows that stability is the most important thing for the current Beirong, because with the plundered Liaozhou, Shangzhou and Yunzhou's property, the problem of hunger of the clansmen has been solved, and now there is no need to be as anxious as before, and there is no need to be too anxious to cause too much loss to the army.

However, their brother was also forced to do so, and there was no way to do it.

"Well, then tomorrow's siege battle, Brother Eleven will depend on your performance!" Meng Bugo said. His body does not allow him to command a large army to storm the city tomorrow. In addition, he was not familiar with the siege equipment, which made him know that if he commanded the army to siege the city tomorrow, the effect would definitely not be as good as that of his younger brother Haksu, so he took the initiative to give up the command.

"Brother Eleven, don't worry, I will definitely do my best!" Haksu replied that tomorrow was a crucial battle, and he didn't want to keep a low profile at this time.

"Yes! Brother Eleven believes in you, capture Caozhou City, and we will raise troops to the south again. Meng Buge said confidently.