Chen Cui sent someone to inquire about the whereabouts of the keys to the fortress, and the old man replied: "The keys to all the fortresses here are in the hands of Shi Ti. "Shi Ti Shi, oh, is about the Shi Xingfang who is responsible for building the defense line of the Daimyo's Mansion.

"Where is Shi Tihar now?"

"It must be in the city."

Chen Cui looked at the Daimyo city wall a mile away, and then at the soldiers who hadn't slept for two days and one night, and sighed: "Smash open the gate of the fortress and enter the fortress to rest." ”

The soldiers cheered, forced their eyes open, smashed the door lock with a hammer, and rushed in.

Chen Cui also entered the fortress, and it was pitch black in front of him, without a trace of light. "Looks like I'm too sleepy." Chen Cui thought, as soon as he fell, he fell asleep.

I don't know how long it took, Chen Cui suddenly woke up, a glimmer of light came through the door of the fortress, and there was a sound of talking at the door, Chen Cui was shocked, and rushed out with his weapon.

As soon as he went out, he found that it was already dusk, and he saw the person at the door wearing the official uniform of a civil official.

Chen Cui hurriedly bowed down.

Du Chong severely rebuked him and said: "More than 10,000 of you, just fall asleep in the trench, and there is not a single sentry, if the gold thief attacks, won't the whole army be wiped out?" ”

Chen Cui was ashamed and accused again and again.

Du Chong waved his hand generously: "It's okay." You've worked really hard, so let's arrange the sentry after the sons and daughters are rested. Today's events are not an example. ”

Chen Cui was grateful to Du Chong for his generosity, and returned to his fortress first, but it was dark in front of him, and there was not even a trace of light. Chen Cui didn't have time to think about it, and yelled: "I've slept enough, get up and let Lao Tzu go out to the whole team." ”

The soldiers woke up, panicked, you stepped on my hand, I kicked your ass. After a period of noisy and hectic shouting, more than 10,000 people finally arrived outside the fortress.

Chen Cui used to be just a soldier and horse prisoner, but Yang Weizhong died in battle, senior officers died and fled, and some of their whereabouts are unknown.

Chen Cui shouted: "Find an envoy who is familiar with each other, arrange the city command, and each commander claims a fortress and the surrounding ditch. Chen Cui turned his head to look at Du Chong not far away, and plucked up the courage to say: "Du Anfu will replenish the ordnance, grain and grass for everyone, and food will be delivered in a while. ”

After he finished these things, Du Chong nodded at him approvingly.

At this time, one of Chen Cui's personal soldiers walked up to him and reported softly: "General, something is not right, there are no holes in the fortress. ”

What the? Chen Cui was shocked, there was no hole in the fortress, so wouldn't it be that he could only be blocked inside. He hurriedly lit a torch and went to his fortress to take a look, but he really couldn't find the hole. Chen Cui still didn't give up, and went to the outside of the fortress to observe the outer wall, he found the perforation on the outer wall, and used a knife to poke inward.

At a depth of about a foot, the knife was blocked, a false perforation. Chen Cui panicked, he hurriedly tried several other perforations, and found that they were all blocked.

"Maybe it's just this one fortress that was never finished." With a glimmer of hope, Chen Cui ordered Junhan to observe the perforations of all the forts.

The result was depressing, the perforations on all the fortresses were fake. The forty fortresses surrounding the daimyo, all the holes were fake, and they were not dug through

"No, Shi family, the founding honor, for a whole year, what's the use of him digging some fake perforations." Chen Cui has been in the army for a long time, and after careful observation, he found the answer.

These forts were earthen ramparts, not made of stone or iron, and at most supported by a few wooden pillars. If there are too many firing holes dug in the earthen wall, there is a high chance that the hanging clods will collapse.

Chen Cui immediately thought of something even more terrifying, a fortress made of pure earth, the inside was hollow, if the gold thief hit it with a seven-pronged cannon, or hit it with a rushing car, a pile of hollow sand...... Wouldn't that be to bury all the people in the fortress alive?

Chen Cui was angry and anxious, and hurriedly reported to Du Chong: "This Shi Xingfang, why do you want to hold the key in your own hands, it's just that the soldiers who are afraid of inspection will find out the clues." Appeased, where is Shi Xingfang, the last general will confront him. ”

"Shi Tisha has already returned to Bianliang. Wait for the old man to write to the court, and punish him severely. Du Chong replied, but he was complaining in his heart that Chen Cui was troublesome. If you don't find the key, you will end up in a hurry, and then the responsibility will naturally fall on the old man who received you.

You have to smash the door and go in to sleep, and you find the greasy dirt barrier, isn't this embarrassing to the founding father's family?

Du Chong's face changed at this time, and his voice was fierce: "Chen Cui, you didn't get a military order, smashed the door without authorization, and destroyed the fortifications, what is your intention, come, take it with me, and take it to the pacification envoy to discuss the crime." ”

Chen Cui is still to be distinguished, and he has been tied up by five flowers. Several of Du Chong's personal soldiers carried Chen Cui and followed Du Chong back to the city. And the more than 10,000 people brought back by Chen Cui, no one cared about them eating and drinking, let alone arranging strategies and tactics for them, so they were hung out of the city.

Du Chong returned to the yamen to pacify the envoy and ordered his entourage to pack up, he wanted to escape from the daimyo overnight, and returned to Bianliang to sue the emperor: "I, Du Chong, was ordered to stay for the daimyo, and I had the heart of death to repay the emperor's kindness. Even if I die, there is no point, so I will stay useful and return to Bianliang to escort me. ”

He escorted Chen Cui to leave, and Guo Yong rushed to stop him when he heard the news.

"The Jin people entered the Kou, appeased the daimyo who sat in the town, gathered all the military horses, and repelled the gold thieves. How can you abandon this? If the appeasement goes, the people's hearts will be scattered, won't Hebei West Road be abandoned to the gold thief in vain? If the West Road is lost, the East Hebei Road cannot be guaranteed, so the overall situation is dangerous and unimaginable. And begged to appease the resident here, and tried their best to relieve the country's difficulties. ”

In front of Guo Yong, Du Chong couldn't say Chen Cui's guilt for the time being, so he had to perfunctory: "The Jin army has entered the Kou, the situation has changed, and the envoy should take into account the overall situation. The matter here will be handed over to you Guo Zhuan and Wen Zhan to block. You have a duty to defend the land, and you must not be negligent. After the envoy arrived in Beijing to perform, he sent all the military horses to respond on the same day, and there was nothing to worry about. ”

Guo Yong knew that he was talking nonsense, and saw Chen Cui who was tied to the side at a glance: "This is not under the command of Taiwei Yang, how can he be tied here." ”

Chen Cui shouted: "Cao Si save me." The end will be wronged. The defense line of the Daimyo Mansion made by the stone line is completely unusable. Chen Cui's life was at stake, and his speech was a little incoherent, but Guo Yong had already understood.

"What's going on with the Daimyo's Mansion defense line being completely unavailable?"

Du Chongxin said, you can come to offend the powerful, so he said about the fortress: "More than 40 fortresses are all made of soil, and the stone cannons will collapse with one blow. ”

Guo Yong was shocked and personally inquired with Chen Cui, but Du Chong was impatient and wanted to go out of the city on his own.

Guo Yong has already asked the reason, and it is not urgent to pursue Shi Xingfang at the moment. He said to Du Chong: "Since the defense line is useless, Chen Cui's troops are useless outside the city, so it is better for Chen Cui to take them to Weizhou." Weizhou is Yang Weizhong's station, and there is still some grain and grass, Chen Cui rested in Weizhou and then came to the war. ”

Chen Cui commanded.

Guo Yong said to Du Chong again: "Chen Cui's prestige is not enough, please appease him and press him down." In addition, there are too many Jin soldiers in Hebei, and Wenda's department is no longer enough, please appease Wang Yanyue Fei from Hedong and transfer it back. ”

Du Chong rushed back to Bianliang, if Guo Yong handed over a bullet stamp, it is not known how Uncle Zhang left the post and left the post at night. So Du Chong accepted Guo Yongde's suggestion and took Chen Cui to Weizhou to recuperate, and at the same time recalled Wang Yanyue Fei back to Hebei.

When Chen Cui came to the outside of the city, the Song army under his command was already in chaos. Chen Cui brought a dinner, which temporarily stabilized the morale of the army.

The next day, Du Chong opened up, and he said to Guo Yong: "Heiye, the Daimyo Defense, will be handed over to you." ”

Guo Yong said indifferently: "When you live and die with the city." ”

Du Chong left, Guo Yongquan stayed at his post and took care of the name in an orderly manner. The forty fortresses outside the city were no longer available, and Guo Yong asked Wenda to make good use of the trenches outside the city.

On September 11, the Jin soldiers captured Wei County, and on September 12, the Jin soldiers arrived at the foot of the Daimyo.

The siege of the Daimyo by the Jin soldiers began with a series of skirmishes. Suo Chao led his cavalry to command, fought and retreated, and after the Jin soldiers set up camp, they also continued to harass. It took three days for the Jin soldiers to set up the camp.

With the advantage of troops, the Jin soldiers set up a joint camp and surrounded the daimyo.

It is not true to say that it is besieged. The Daimyo's Mansion was on the north bank of the Yellow River, and the Yellow River flowed from the west, and at the Daimyo's bend to the north, about one-third of the Daimyo's castle walls were enclosed by the Yellow River. Therefore, the waterways of the daimyo have always been open to the outside world.

The daimyo is the hub of Hebei, if the daimyo is taken, the Hebei West Road falls into the hands of the Jin soldiers, and from the daimyo starts, you can take Jingdong in the east, Bianliang in the south, and Taihang in the west. The entire plastered land of North China fell into the attack range of the Jin soldiers.

In Cangzhou, Hu Yangeng was sleeping soundly, and suddenly someone knocked on the door. Hu Yangeng woke up in shock, glanced at Zhang Chan, who was sleeping soundly beside him, he crept out of bed, opened the door gently, and came out of the crack in the door sideways: "What's the matter." ”

"Taiwei Yang was martyred, and the daimyo was besieged."

Oh. Hu Yangeng was not surprised that the daimyo was besieged, but he did not expect that Yang Weizhong had been martyred. He remembered a sentence in the history books of another time and space: Yang Weizhong was sixty-six years old and paid Yue Fei with his army.

Hu Yangeng is not familiar with Yang Weizhong, but the rest of Yang Weizhong's troops are Yue Fei's starting troops. "Then who's leading the Yang Department now?"

"Little ones don't know."

"Okay, good job, hard work, you go and rest, there will be a reward tomorrow."

At dawn the next day, Hu Yangeng went to visit Zheyue Lan: "I will go to save the Daimyo, and I will ask the three ladies to help me with something." ”

"General, please."

"The actual administration of my crossing the sea is all in the responsibility of women. But not long after the trial of Luan Pavilion, Neiko was pregnant, and asked the third lady to bother to help Hu Yangeng take care of the foundation of Henghai. "Luan Ge, that is, the All-China Women's Federation has been replaced by a title that can be accepted by the people of the Song Dynasty.

"The general just goes, Hugh has to worry about Cangzhou."

With Zhiyuelan's words, Hu Yangeng was relieved. Henghai's government affairs are presided over by Zhang Yanju, and Zhi Yuelan has watched the entire secretary team, so there is no big problem.