The army rested in Jiaxing City for a few days, and Zhuge Liang ordered the army to pull out and go straight to Jiankang.

With the defeat of the Jinshui Army, the whole south suddenly became full of rumors, and many wealthy merchants, families and officials fled and transferred away before the cadres arrived, for fear of falling into the chaos of war and being robbed by the chaotic army.

Everywhere the army went, there were loyal people who resisted desperately, but it was only a mantis arm as a car.

The vanguard army soon arrived near Jiankang, and Zhuge Liang of the Chinese army rode on the Qixiang car, looking at the information that Tianwang had just handed over, he couldn't help laughing, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "This Dali Dynasty is really an emperor or an emperor, a minister is not a minister, and it is not to blame for today's disaster." ”

Zhou Tai rode the thunderbolt lizard and walked next to the Qixiang car, looking at Zhuge Liang who was laughing, he couldn't help but be a little curious, what kind of information is this, it is so funny, and asked: "Dudu, what are you laughing at?" ”

Zhuge Liang handed the information to Zhou Tai and said, "See for yourself!" ”

Zhou Tai took the note, looked down, and wrote: On May 18, Emperor Yanjing left the imperial garden with the national teacher to teach immortal arts, the crown prince Huo Yi, the second prince Huo Xian, and more than 100 internal guards assassinated the king, and were killed.

The emperor was seriously injured, but he was lucky not to die, but he was fortunately saved by the national teacher. Emperor Li was furious and ordered the black-clothed guard to investigate the matter thoroughly, and all those involved in it were all razed by the three clans, involving about 20,000 people in the imperial court.

Tong Mao, the prefect of Jiankang, Cheng Yi, the protector of the country, and other officials, summoned the rich merchants, big families and big households in the city to raise 60,000 taels of silver, 8,000 stones of grain and grass, a number of horses, and 5,000 strong people in the Hongyan Tower in the city.

He also levied violently in the city, collected 200,000 taels of silver, and forcibly levied 30,000 people to defend the city of Jiankang.

The government officials and officials took the opportunity to rob the people's daughters and occupy the courtyard, which led to complaints in Jiankang City.

Zhou Tai shook his head and sighed: "These people really want money and don't want to die, my army is close at hand, these people are still fighting for power and profit, embezzling and taking bribes, they really don't know whether they live or die." ”

Zhuge Liang laughed and said, "It is precisely with this group of people that I can be invincible in this world." ”

Zhou Tai thought about it when he heard this, it was precisely because of so many officials who were greedy for life and afraid of death that they could arrive in Jiankang so smoothly.

After another three days, the army finally arrived at Jiankang City, according to the military order, the army surrounded the three missing one camp and surrounded the Jiankang regiment, and the group climbed the high platform built by Zhang Xiu to watch the city defense of Jiankang City.

Looking at the city wall as high as ten zhang, the head of the city is towering, the beds and crossbows are piled up, and there are countless rolling stones and sassholes.

Zhuge Liang shook his fan and sighed: "The walls of this Jiankang City are tall, the equipment for defending the city is sufficient, and the grain and grass are abundant. ”

"The governor is wrong to say this." In Zhao Yun's opinion, it was what Zhuge Liang said, and the strength of Jiankang City alone was not enough to resist the Daqian army, and he smiled slowly: "Even if they have a few more generals, it is useless, the two armies are fighting with logistics equipment, the strength of the generals and other factors, with the strength of our army, it is enough to crush the Dali Dynasty."

The governor has forgotten that my big dry flying boat, as well as all kinds of big arrays, have not been used, as long as a little bit of big dry background is used, you can easily break through Jiankang City. ”

Zhuge Liang was slightly stunned, then laughed, and said in his heart: "I have lived in Dahan for many years, and I still can't forget the previous way of thinking about war, so I should pay more attention to it in the future." ”

Zhuge Liang breathed a long sigh of relief and said: "What General Zilong said is extremely true, it is really that the great cadres are changing too quickly, and Kong Ming sometimes fails to react in time. ”

After a change of voice, he asked, "I don't know which general is willing to go and test the defense of Jiankang City?" ”

When Zhou Tai heard this, he hurriedly stepped forward, hugged his fists and said, "The last general is willing to go." ”

Zhuge Liang turned his head and glanced at Zhou Tai, although he was ready to choose one of the four people from Zhang Xiu, Jiang Qin, Lin Chong, and Gao Lan to test the level of the defenders of Jiankang City, but Zhou Tai had already asked for his life at the moment, but he couldn't thin his face, and advised: "I hope General Zhou Tai will act carefully." ”

Zhou Tai ordered 5,000 soldiers and horses and went straight to Jiankang City, less than 400 steps away from Jiankang City, and shouted at the city tower: "I am Zhou Tai, who dares to come to fight with a certain battle?" ”

I heard a sharp-beaked monkey-cheeked general on the tower of the city shouting: "You are just a group of rebels and thieves, how can I wait for these gods who protect the family and defend the country to go out of the city to fight with you, it is really insulting to our prestige."

If you want to compete with this general, even if you come to attack the city, as long as you can climb the city wall, this general will fight you to the death. ”

Zhou Tai's eyes were slightly cold, if he wanted to say that he was not afraid of anyone in the battlefield, but he was slightly stronger than Guan Yu, and he was not the opponent of such flatterers, and mocked: "You are just sharp-toothed people, what else can you do besides being able to play tricks?" No matter how much you talk about it, you can't hide the fact that you are greedy for life and afraid of death. ”

Without waiting for the city tower to reply, the long knife pointed and said, "Brothers, attack the city." ”

"Kill!" Roaring in unison, carrying sandbags, ladders, and shields, they rushed to the city wall.

As soon as the city tower saw that the Qianjun army began to attack the city, he panicked, and hurriedly commanded: "Counterattack, hurry up and counterattack, you must not let them get close to the city wall." ”

Suddenly, the people, who had just become soldiers, began to counterattack according to the orders of the generals, shooting indiscriminately, rolling stones, sasswood, and hot oil all at the city.

Zhou Tai was stunned to see a series of actions of the city defenders on the city tower, his own pawn was still more than two hundred steps away from the city wall, and even the moat had not begun to be filled, and the opposite side actually threw down the rolling stones, sassal wood, and hot oil, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "This is a group of fools guarding the city, it seems that God hopes that I can win this first achievement,"

"Bell bell" A gong sounded behind him, Zhou Tai originally had the intention of attacking the city, but when he heard the gong of withdrawing troops, he could only reluctantly retreat.

Zhou Tai returned to the camp and couldn't suppress the anger in his heart anymore, found Zhuge Liang who was sitting in the handsome camp, and said with a gloomy face: "Governor, what's going on with you?" With the stupidity of the castle tower guard, this general is absolutely sure to climb to the top of the city, why did you suddenly give the order to retreat? ”

Zhao Yun was afraid that the two would have a conflict, so he hurriedly persuaded: "Zhou Tai, don't worry, Kong Ming will explain it to you clearly." ”

Zhuge Liang got up and bowed to Zhou Tai with his fists, and said, "Kong Ming apologizes to General Zhou here, and I hope General Zhou will forgive me." ”

Zhou Tai's face was much better, but he was still a little stiff, and said: "Kong Ming, if you don't give a certain explanation today, Hugh blames General Ben for participating in you." ”

"General Zhou, please sit down, Kong Ming will immediately solve your doubts." Zhuge Liang made a gesture of please and said. "Dare to ask the general, if Kong Ming had not given the order to retreat, that is, if he had climbed the city wall, how many people would have died in the army?"

Although Zhou Tai was unhappy in his heart, he still said honestly: "At least three thousand people are sacrificed, Jiankang City is tall and has sufficient equipment to defend the city, and it will not be able to attack the city for a while and a half." ”

Zhuge Liang nodded and said: "What the general said is extremely true, presumably the general also found that the person defending the city was just a fool, so Liang decided to use this as a breakthrough and implement a plan to be arrogant." ”

"Would you like to hear about it?" Zhao Yun saw that Zhou Tai didn't answer, so he took over the conversation with a smile and asked.

Then Zhuge Liang told the two of them in detail how to implement the strategy of arrogance.

As soon as Zhou Tai heard this, he immediately understood that Zhuge Liang's plan was indeed very likely to succeed, and it was less than the sacrifice of the attack, so he bowed down and said: "Zhou Tai is rude to Zhou Tai, and I hope the governor will forgive me." ”

Zhuge Liang helped Zhou Tai up and said with a smile: "This matter is not right, General Zhou is not to blame." ”

The two glanced at each other, and the three of them immediately burst out laughing, and Fang Cai's misunderstanding was resolved. Baidu: Read the latest chapter of "Wanjie Yunjie Literature" for free for the first time.