Under the heavy reward, you can attract brave men, and naturally you can also attract strategists.

After Sun Ning's decree was promulgated in the army, many soldiers offered suggestions one after another, either to divert water to irrigate the city, or to attack with fire, or even start from the north, intending to rebel against the soldiers and horses in the city......

All kinds of tactics are reliable or unreliable, but many of them have really been adopted by various armies, thus changing the tough siege techniques that have been used before.

However, after a few days, none of these methods really succeeded.

The defender of Jinguan City is obviously also an experienced person, and he has a clearer understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of his own city, and has long prevented all kinds of difficulties that may be encountered.

When the official army spent several days constantly attacking the city with new tactics, the other side also calmly responded one by one, disintegrating all these frontal and flank offensives, and also causing the morale of the army outside the city to drop again.

This is the case in the offensive and defensive wars, under the passion at the beginning, after the three armies are killed, as the war drags on, there will naturally be slackness, and even fear of death.

Especially when today's official army is formed by the union of various tribes in Sichuan and Shu, such slackness is becoming more and more serious.

If it weren't for the fate of the Long clan in front of us, and the logistics support was sufficient, I am afraid that there would be a certain amount of chaos inside.

This naturally gave Sun Ning a big headache, so he could only continue to come forward to encourage the morale of the army, and at the same time look for other better ways to break the city.

I thought that Jinguancheng would inevitably be captured today, but unexpectedly, this has become the most difficult stone to gnaw in the entire Sichuan and Shu.

But if you think about it carefully, in fact, this is also expected, after all, the barbarians of Sichuan and Shu are really not good at siege warfare, and most of the cities that have been successfully won before have relied on other means, rather than frontal attacks.

Even Shunzhou, which is far lower than the Jinguan City wall, smaller city, and fewer troops, was finally surrendered by people who saw that it was irretrievable, and this Jinguan City was naturally even more difficult to take.

In order to find an opportunity, today Sun Ning disregarded his own safety, personally led a team of people, walked around the city with great fanfare, and in full view of the defenders at the head of the city, they all played out the banner of their Son of Heaven.

On the one hand, this is to take a closer look at the four directions of Jinguan City and look for breakthroughs that may have been missed. But the real intention is to use this to lure the defenders into battle, so as to enter the city in one fell swoop.

But as a result, Sun Ning spent half a day outside the city, but half of the people failed to lure it out, and only caused a few bursts of random arrows to be released from the city.

Obviously, they didn't even have such a big bait, they just made a heart, and they planned to defend it to the end.

In desperation, Sun Ning finally had to go back to the camp in a huff, it was already evening, and the barracks were full of smoke, which meant that another day had passed.

It's been half a month since the army besieged the city, but there is still no way to take this fortified city.

Back in his tent, his own soldiers brought the food to Sun Ning.

As an emperor, he didn't eat better than ordinary soldiers, just one = bowl of dough, a plate of pickles, and a small bowl of soup.

Eating this simple food, Sun Ning's heart moved again: "By the way, how much food is there in our army now?" Can the follow-up food supply be sustained? ”

Yang Xuan, who was guarding in front of the tent, was stunned by this question, he was only responsible for the emperor's safety, and he really didn't know much about other things, and after a while, he said, "Minister...... The minister went and asked......"

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister has just transported a new batch of grain here, which should be enough for the whole army to eat for a month, and logistics supply is not a problem."

As soon as Yang Xuan's voice fell, before he turned around to leave, one person turned around from the front of the tent, and while replying, he had already bowed down and saluted, "Shen Zhou sees Your Majesty'......"

"Shen Zhou, why are you here?" Sun Ning was stunned for a moment, then he happily stepped forward quickly and helped the person up, "You have been outside the tent all along, why don't you come to see me immediately?" ”

"Your Majesty is working hard in the military, and I just returned to the camp, so I should take a break, and it's okay to wait a minute." Shen Zhou smiled and took advantage of the situation.

Previously, he had been in charge of the overall situation in the rear, providing an endless supply of food and grass for the front-line army, but it was not until today that he officially joined the army.

"Come, sit down and talk." Sun Ning didn't care about continuing to eat, but looked each other up and down, "You look a lot thinner than before, but it's too hard?" ”

"With Your Majesty's concern, the ministers can't compare to the hard work of Your Majesty and the soldiers who are fighting abroad."

Sun Ning smiled heartily: "You are still like this, you have a ...... responsibility" Speaking of this, he suddenly thought of something, "You came suddenly this time, but did you have any ideas?" ”

He didn't order Shen Zhou to be transferred over, and as the logistics manager, he had a heavy responsibility, so it was indeed a bit strange to suddenly come to the front line at this time.

Shen Zhou smiled again: "Your Majesty is really as wise as a torch, and the minister is a little careful, and you can easily see through it."

"The minister came to the front line this time, first to see His Majesty, after all, the minister has not seen His Majesty for many days. Second, there is an extremely important matter to face Your Majesty, and the Yunnan Mu clan has sent people to come and want to reclaim his vassal status to the imperial court! ”

"Oh?" Sun Ning's spirit suddenly lifted, this is the best news he has received in these days.

The three southwestern provinces are one, after taking Sichuan and Shu, he will next target southern Yunnan and Qianzhou, but he didn't expect that the matter of Sichuan and Shu was not over, and southern Yunnan had the intention of surrendering first.

However, he was not happy for too long, and Shen Zhou said solemnly: "But this matter may also be repeated in the minister's opinion." The envoy obviously knew that the imperial court was about to unify Sichuan and Shu, so he would surrender for self-preservation. But right now, our army is blocked in Jinguan City, and when the news comes back, I'm afraid that the southern Yunnan side will ......."

Sun Ning's smile immediately froze, and his brows furrowed deeply: "So the key has to fall on Jinguan City?" ”

"Yes, if we can't break the city as soon as possible and let the southern Yunnan side have other ideas, I'm afraid there will be a lot of trouble in the future. Your Majesty, if you can take this opportunity to bring Sichuan and Southern Yunnan back to the imperial court in one fell swoop, then Qianzhou, which is in the middle, will definitely have no other choice.

"At that time, the southwest will be in the hands of my imperial court, and the east will be out of the Central Plains!"

Sun Ning exhaled: "But this Jinguan City ...... They're really determined to defend to the end. To tell you the truth, our army has been attacking for half a month, and we still can't find any breakthrough, but we have lost our troops and lost our generals......"

In front of his real cronies, Sun Ning no longer held on and said all his concerns.

Shen Zhou also nodded approvingly: "The minister has actually been paying attention to the offensive and defensive battle of Fanjin Guancheng. However, I think that it is not completely impossible to do it, at least there is a strategy, we have not used it, or we can try it! ”

As he explained his strategy, Sun Ning's eyes suddenly lit up......