The sky was already bright.

Cao Erman knelt on one knee and asked loudly: "Tai Lieutenant, the last general is willing to attack the city!" ”

His chest fell together, his eyes were wide and bloodshot, and his face was black with anger.

Although Cao Erman stood far back, he really couldn't see what tricks were played in Yongzhou City, but there were many sharp-eyed people in the Jiaozhi army, and they soon saw the flaws in the "big baskets" on the city wall.

——One by one, the outside of the bamboo baskets was covered with yellow sand.

Rockets are indeed not afraid of water, but if they can shoot into the mud and sand, how can they still burn?

Cao Erman couldn't help but think of the fine sand he saw when he led his troops to see the dry riverbed of the Zuojiang River outside the city.

The Zuojiang River is the same as the Li River, and there is a lot of sand and mud in the river.

The water source outside the city was cut off, and although it was a clever move, it also exposed the sand in the river.

Jin people...... It's so treacherous!

For two consecutive days, he was played by the defenders of Yongzhou City as a monkey, he was the commander of the general, but he was led by the opposite side as a donkey, even if he could swallow this breath, for the sake of the prestige of the soldiers, he couldn't act as if nothing had happened.

If the Yongzhou defenders are allowed to trample their face, how will he lead the troops in the future?

Cao Erman couldn't bear it for a moment, and tried his best to ask Li Fuzai for orders to attack the city.

Lee didn't answer immediately.

Cao Erman said again: "Taiwei, it has been raining for days, and the city of Yongzhou is damp, and yesterday the divine arm bow was not used, and the wooden shield can block it, which is a good opportunity to attack the city!" ”

Li Fuzai did not answer, but ordered to summon Xu Mao and Zheng Wenxiang, the Jin people who defected to Jiaozhi.

Zheng Wenxiang saluted, and couldn't wait to say: "Taiwei, the night envoy in Yongzhou City is Li Daitao's plan!" The big basket was put down in the city to deceive our army with arrows! Please also ask the captain not to fall for the traitor's scheme, depending on how he moves at night, he is not strange, and his blame is self-defeating! The Jin people only have a few thousand troops, so how dare they attack at night? If it is really a night attack, it is just the result of the annihilation of the whole army! Our army has set up sentry posts at the city gates on all sides, as long as the opportunity is wrong, and then warn, I am not afraid of them at all! ”

He also said: "The Jin people defend the city with all kinds of tricks, don't pay attention to them, we have cut off the water source, there are only seven wells in the city, hundreds of thousands of people used to drink the water of the Zuojiang River, even the well master can not find a one, will not dig water for a while and a half, as long as the siege is long, thirst will also be thirsty to death for them, then come to attack the city, is to conquer everything!" ”

Li Fuzai heard him say this, and only turned his head to look at Xu Mao on the side.

Xu Mao only said: "Although there are not many soldiers in Yongzhou City, if there are really reinforcements in Guangzhou and Guizhou, it will take a lot of effort to make peace with the inside and outside of the city. ”

He also said: "Taiwei took the ladder truck in Qinzhou and other places to attack Hao Dongzi, there are these two powerful things, if you want to attack the city, as long as you can rush up, but it is not difficult, the villain thinks that it is better to stay up for two more days, and take advantage of the sunny weather to attack the city again." ”

When Zheng Wenxiang heard Xu Mao's words, he hated it so much.

The two of them voted for each other together, and they both served under Li Fuzai, but no matter compared to the experience of marching, or compared to the understanding of the Guangxin Army, the Jin people's ordnance and other things, Zheng Wenxiang is a scholar, and he may not even be able to talk about soldiers on paper, and how can he be able to defeat Xu Mao, who has been in the army for a year or two.

What's more, Xu Mao is a chicken thief, very good at getting along with people, the same is being guarded in the Jiaozhi camp, Xu Mao has worked hard for just a few months, and he is actually mixed with the Jiaozhi soldiers who guard him, and he is also involved with many Jiaozhi soldiers, this guy is a stranger, and now he can understand most of the Jiaozhi words.

However, Zheng Wenxiang is proud of his status as a literati and has to be self-conscious, so he can't pull down his face to deal with Jiaozhi people, obviously he speaks Jiaozhi fluently, but now in the army, he is really not very popular.

He glanced at Xu Mao and wanted to say a few words, but he didn't know what to say for a while.

Lee Fu-jae didn't have time to deal with the two of them in private.

For him, whether the Jin people who were cast can be used or not, if they are brought in the army, they can disgust the Jin court, and secondly, they can also glorify the prestige of Dayue Guo, and with Xu Mao, what he said can really be of some use, but it is unexpected.

Jiaozhi has never been good at attacking cities, nor is he good at defending cities, many times, Xu Mao just told him what he saw and heard in the Guangxin army, which can make Li Fuzai take fewer detours.

Compared with Zheng Wenxiang, who can only brag about it next to him, it is indeed much more necessary.

However, Zheng Wenxiang is not useless, although he said that his mouth is flowery and his stomach is empty, but literati often plan poison, and the proposal to cut off the Zuojiang water from outside Yongzhou City into the city was put forward by him.

After getting this plan, Li Fuzai praised him verbally and promised to return to Jiaozhi, and he would inevitably ask the Son of Heaven to reward him with an official and give him gold and silver, while sighing secretly in his heart, if he really wants to fight the Jin people, he still has to rely on the Jin people.

He brought hundreds of thousands of soldiers to attack the city, even if the city was broken, he could slaughter seventy or eighty thousand at most, and there would always be fish that slipped through the net, but according to Zheng Wenxiang's approach, if there is no water in the city, the people in the city will not survive.

Li Fuzai finally ordered to return to the camp, did not let Cao Erman attack the city, only told the generals to only besiege but not attack, and it would take a few more days.

Cao Er is full of his henchmen, and when attacking the city at this time, it is inevitable that there will be great losses and injuries - the people who died a while ago were all people from the rest of the factions in the court, and they died in vain, but now it is his turn to protect his own people, but he began to protect carefully.

***

That night, when the Yongzhou city was restored and the basket was hung from the city wall of the West Gate, the Jiaozhi army no longer shot arrows, and only a thousand soldiers were separated by 300 paces, guarding the movement.

It seemed that seeing that the Jiaozhi soldiers would no longer take the bait, the defenders on the Yongzhou city wall would hang the bamboo basket again after an hour or two.

Li Fuzai stood behind and watched, laughing, and the generals gathered around, laughing at the wasted efforts in Yongzhou City.

Everyone waited for half the night, and saw that the city wall was quiet, as if they had accepted their fate, and no longer messed with the moths, so they returned to the camp and praised Li Fuzai all the way.

Tan Zong always felt that there was something wrong with it.

Because he saw that the Jiaozhi army was no longer fooled, from this day on, Yongzhou City hung baskets from the four city gates at night, wanting to cheat bows and arrows again.

Jiaozhi has suffered a big loss, how can he continue to be fooled, he turns a blind eye, and the Yongzhou defenders themselves toss on the city wall, just as a play.

At first, Li Fuzai also took the generals to wait for the battle, and after staying up for two or three days, he no longer had that energy, and saw that the city only knew the bluff, and there was no movement, so he allocated 500 soldiers to guard each of the city gates, and after another four or five days, he simply withdrew the 500 soldiers, leaving only the prison guards.