Seeing that it is going to winter, Xuzhou City lacks soldiers and food, and winter clothes and quilts are also extremely lacking, originally Xuzhou Taishou Min Shaoqing is still counting on the truce to rest until the spring of the next year, and the battle will not be so hard when the spring flowers bloom, but I didn't expect that the Huai army would start the siege war again so soon.

King Huai proclaimed himself the Son of Heaven on the first day of the first month of winter, established himself as the emperor in Huaidi, and changed the name of the country to Longyuan, which means the first year of Changlong. At the same time, many officials in Huaidi were promoted, and the original Huai Prime Minister Meng Chuliang became the Minister of State. Then King Huai, in the name of the Son of Heaven, issued the second text "Shun Tian's Mandate Edict", calling the new emperor Su Yan a puppet emperor and sending troops to fight.

With the military action, King Ding and other other vassal kings also responded, all of whom were regarded as the lord of the world by King Huai, and were willing to send troops to help the monarch pacify the world, King Ding claimed to send 300,000 troops, King Jing claimed to send 200,000 troops, and King Shu claimed to send 150,000 troops.

Although the shouting is fierce, but the discerning people also know that the lords of the various feudal clans are only doing superficial work, and the symbolism of the military move is greater, and whether the Huai King can win the world depends on the result of the confrontation between the Huai army and the imperial army.

Immediately afterwards, the battle of Xuzhou began again.

The previous withdrawal of the Huai army did not hand over the original occupied city, and the imperial court could not complete the reception of the lost city, so this time the Huai army sent troops out of Jiangbei, and the siege of the city was almost completed in one afternoon. When the news of Xuzhou being trapped reached the new emperor, Min Shaoqing thought that the new emperor would be shocked and immediately summoned his relatives to slip away, but he didn't expect the new emperor to wipe the snot that flowed out of the wind and cold, and said: "Come on." In short, General Liu did not return. I'm not going anywhere! ”

Min Shaoqing was stunned again. This court from the new emperor to the bottom, all of them are freaks, now Xuzhou City is trapped, and the city is only broken in the evening, how can this new emperor have such confidence and fearlessness?

Min Shaoqing hurriedly reminded: "Your Majesty, that's the main force of the Huai Army!" ”

"I know that that is the main force of the Huai army, are we not the same as the main force? Main force against main force, and there are so many soldiers. It should be no problem to defend a city. General Liu said that to capture a large city like Xuzhou City, at least 350,000 troops were needed, and it was necessary to have sufficient baggage and insufficient preparation of the defenders. We're well prepared. ”

Min Shaoqing sighed secretly in his heart, this new emperor is really "approachable", and he talks about "we" when he speaks, and he doesn't see anything outside. It seems that the new emperor is quite confident in the defenders and the city defense, but he also knows that the new emperor has not been in the palace since he entered Xuzhou City, and this confidence comes completely from the report of the stupid Chai Jin and the monkey spirit Qu Zhu.

Blind self-confidence!

Faint!

Although Min Shaoqing sighed in his heart, he also felt that this faint gentleman was a little cute. At least it is what the military and civilians of Xuzhou City like to see.

Under such circumstances, Min Shaoqing was embarrassed to say that in fact, there were more than 350,000 Huai troops attacking the city. It's more than ten times that of the defenders, and I'm embarrassed to say that in fact, there is a lack of everything in the city, and even your majesty still lacks your heart, and you don't know what to do if you were deceived by the general Liu you trusted. He knew that the new emperor's stay in Xuzhou City was actually a blessing for Xuzhou City, and it was also a misfortune for the Dashun court.

Originally, Min Shaoqing thought that the new emperor would convene a military meeting, but the new emperor just sighed helplessly and said: "Huainan's is not as good as Huaibei's." ”

Min Shaoqing was stunned for a moment, could it be that the new emperor's words were hinting at something? Huainan is not as good as Huaibei, this means that King Huai's army will be defeated after the most defeat!? It seems that the new emperor has an unexpected wisdom while being blindly confident.

It was a long time before Min Shaoqing learned that in fact, what the emperor said on this day was that the crickets in Huainan were not as aggressive as those in Huaibei.

The Huai army is in the city, as the Xuzhou Taishou who is fully responsible for the city defense, and now he has to run around to ask the opinions of these bigwigs, from the palace, he went to ask to see the generalissimo Chai Jin, and at this time Chai Jin was unhurriedly playing chess with himself, after listening to Min Shaoqing's report, Chai Jin rubbed his nose after thinking for a long time and said: "It's cold." ”

This Chai Jin is more than the new emperor, Min Shaoqing felt upset when he saw this Chai Jin, and he didn't do anything serious at all, saying that he was pragmatic at most and only presided over the repair of the city wall, and he didn't see him do it, he moved his mouth, and the west city wall was still useless. Everyone knows that the west of Xuzhou is the rear of the imperial court, and the Huai army cannot risk being outflanked from the west to attack.

"General Chai should also pay more attention to his body." Min Shaoqing also muttered when he heard Chai Jin speak, thinking that most of them were also cold, so he habitually greeted.

"Brother Min is still careful, I know what to do." Chai Jin rarely showed a smile on his face, Min Shaoqing couldn't remember seeing him smile since he saw Chai Jin, this smile made him feel a little hairy in his heart.

Sneer?!

In fact, Chai Jin only smiled at the person he thought he was familiar with, Min Shaoqing said with concern, and he smiled with gratitude.

"Brother Min, is there anything else?"

Min Shaoqing smiled bitterly in his heart, is this to drive away guests? Outside, the Huai army has already surrounded Xuzhou City, why don't you see this rebellious generalissimo reacting nervously? Does he have to pay attention to the day when Xuzhou City is broken?

"General Chai, the Huai army is besieged on all sides, and there will be a general attack of magic weapons tonight!" Min Shaoqing really wanted to lift the table and smash the chair, how could he not make sense with such a stupid person, but he was still his boss, the generalissimo awarded by the new emperor himself!

Chai Jin looked at the chessboard, lowered his head and said, "The Huai army will not attack, not in the past two days." ”

Min Shaoqing was stunned for a moment, if the new emperor's self-confidence comes from ignorance, then where does the self-confidence of this rebellious generalissimo come from?

"General Chai, how did you know that the Huai army would not attack the city immediately?"

Chai Jin opened his mouth, and he didn't say a reason for a long time, but he was "because" at that point, and there was no follow-up. Min Shaoqing couldn't help but add for him: "It can't be what you guessed, right?" ”

Chai Jin nodded happily and said, "That's right...... Brother Min still understands it. ”

With a general who relies on guessing to fight, Min Shaoqing feels that there is really a lack of common language. Min Shaoqing had no choice but to say goodbye, and went directly to see Yuan Bolang, although this right minister also looked a little abnormal, but at least he was thinking about it for the imperial court, and asked the right minister's opinion on the defense of Xuzhou City, which involved military affairs, although it was not quite in line with the rules of not involving martial arts, but the court was still understandable, who called the new emperor and the generalissimo who did not pay attention to this!

"Don't ask the old man! Go and ask the guy surnamed Liu, isn't he very capable? That bastard boy, the old man had to peel him when he saw him! The old man had already negotiated an armistice agreement with King Huai, but he ruined it! ”

When Yuan Bolang saw Min Shaoqing, he scolded him angrily, Min Shaoqing knew that Yuan Bolang was not scolding him, but it still didn't taste right.

Does that mean, he doesn't care?

Next, Yuan Bolang directly kicked him out of the hotel. Min Shaoqing, who had an inexplicable look on his face, walked out of the hotel, feeling like a clown, in front of several pillars of the imperial court, he was not even a fart! People didn't take him seriously at all.

Patting his head, Min Shaoqing said angrily: "You don't care, what am I anxious about?" ”

Although he could also stand by and watch, he knew that if he didn't care about the entire Xuzhou City, it would be over. In order to prevent the Huai army's night sneak attack, Min Shaoqing also specially asked the defenders to set up sentry posts everywhere to spread the news with fireworks as a signal.

The defenders of the entire Xuzhou City spent the first two days of the siege in anxiety, and Min Shaoqing really didn't dare to close his eyes for a moment, for fear that if he fell asleep, the Huai army would come to attack the city soon. But until the third day, that is, the morning of the fifth day of the winter month, there was still no movement on the Huai army's side.

Min Shaoqing had just slept for an hour, and Ma Feng scolded and entered the temporary command post established under the city wall and woke Min Shaoqing up.

"His mother's, this is to besiege the city for reinforcements!?"

Min Shaoqing rubbed his sleepy eyes, his head ached for a while, and asked, "What did you say?" ”

"I mean, why aren't those turtle sons attacking the city yet?"

Min Shaoqing got up and looked outside, it was already dawn, it was the third day, and as Chai Jin said, the Huai army did not attack the city at the first time. Bai asked him to stay under the city wall day and night for the past few days.

Ma Feng said: "Min Taishou, you go back to rest first, accompany your sister-in-law, the Huai army will not come to attack at night, and most of the time it will not come during the day." ”

"This side of the wall."

"Don't worry, as soon as there is news, the lower officials will immediately find someone to go to the house to inform you."

Min Taishou came out of the temporary command post, with a puzzled face, how could the Huai army besiege the city without attacking it?

When Min Shaoqing climbed the city tower and looked at it, he realized that the Huai army was building a defense line outside, and the defense line had begun to take shape in the past three days, not only with trenches and garrisons in Taiwan, but also set up sentry posts, making it clear that he was preparing for a long-term battle.

"The new emperor is in the city, and the soldiers and civilians in the city are not as scattered as they were at the beginning, and there are additional forces in defense, no wonder the Huai army does not attack the city immediately!" Min Shaoqing said to himself, "The new emperor is the ultimate goal of the Huai army, this battle of Xuzhou is not only the first battle, but also the Huai army hopes to be the last battle!" ”

As long as the new emperor is captured or killed, then the world will definitely be the king of Huai. The prince of Chang'an City who has the ability has either lost his position, or has returned to heaven early, and the Huai army does not attack the fortifications, but is afraid that it will spend a lot of effort to conquer Xuzhou City, but the new emperor will flee and fall short. As long as the new emperor is trapped in Xuzhou City, so that the news inside cannot be transmitted, and the news from the outside cannot be transmitted, then this is a dead city, and sooner or later it will run out of ammunition and food until the day the city is broken, and the entire defense line will be like a mass of scattered sand without the order of the Son of Heaven outside the city, and it will not form a threat.

The two-pronged move of the commander of the Huai army is much more effective than rash siege.

Min Shaoqing couldn't help but admire the stupid Chai Jin a little, he was able to grasp the movements of the Huai Army in advance. This is something that only a man of great wisdom can realize. But on the other hand, who knows if the elm pimple is right or guessed right? (To be continued......)