Boom" followed by a loud cannon shot, and after a few moments, a solid bullet slammed into the battlements.

The prince Zhu Gaochi was about one hundred and fifty steps away from the city gate, and there was a tower here to avoid artillery, and he and some important civil officials hid here.

Every time a cannon sounds, Zhu Gaochi can't help but tremble all over his body, and then the fat on his body will tremble, and it looks quite rhythmic.

Zhu Gaochi was indeed very scared, very scared.

But compared to fear, he was actually more angry and humiliated in his heart.

Because he now knows that the third brother Zhu Gaosui was also taken out of Beiping City by his father.

The second brother Zhu Gaoxu is brave and can fight, and it is okay to lead the troops out, why was even the third brother taken away?

Father, what does this mean?

Whenever Zhu Gaochi looked through the battlements in front of him and looked at the ants outside the city, the boundless Southern Army, he felt deeply afraid and helpless, and then there was endless hatred.

The southern army under the city has been besieging the city for more than half a month, and the city of Beiping is defending with all its might, and has successively mobilized all the defenders and the families of military households to participate.

Princess Yan Xu visited the city many times to cheer up the soldiers, and recruited strong men and women to do logistics work in Beiping City, such as boiling water, burning oil, lifting wood, etc.

However, because there are too many southern troops, the continuous siege of the city has consumed a lot of materials in Beiping City, and until now, many people's homes have been used as rolling stones.

Fortunately, there was a veteran Gu Cheng in the city to assist him, and Gu Cheng probably knew that he had surrendered once, and he couldn't surrender a second time, so he tried his best to help Zhu Gaochi.

He invaded Sichuan with Fu Youde, and defended in Sichuan for many years, Sichuan is full of stone cities, his defensive experience is very rich, under his overall planning, and the support of Qiu Fu, Tang Yuan, Zhang Xin, Chen Gui and other generals, but it has not been broken for the time being.

But this is only temporary, the southern army has 500,000 horses, continuous turns, if it goes on for a long time, Beiping City will definitely not be able to hold, now it depends on when King Yan can bring troops back.

There are a total of nine gates in Beiping City, and there are three city gates in the main south, namely Lizheng Gate, Shuncheng Gate, and Wenming Gate, and these three city gates are also the first key areas for the Southern Army to attack, because only these three city gates in Beiping Nine Gates are without urn city.

Now Beiping City is responsible for guarding these three city gates, namely Qiu Fu, Tang Yuan, and Zhu Di's other son-in-law, Li Rang, the guest of honor of Yongping County, all of whom are Zhu Di's confidants and his own people.

"Whoa." Just as Zhu Gaochi was thinking about it, suddenly there were cheers outside.

Then Fang Sheng hurriedly ran in from the outside, there were a lot of arrow wounds on the armor on his body, which looked extremely scary, but it was as if nothing happened, there should be armor in the armor, and there was a broken arrow on the back that had not been removed, and it was inserted on it, which made Zhu Gaochi's eyelids jump.

"Your Royal Highness, the Southern Army has retreated." Fang Sheng said with a smile.

Zhu Gaochi breathed a long sigh of relief, and looked back, the eunuchs Guanzhong, Yu Ping, civil officials Jin Zhong and Yuan Hui hurried over, and the two eunuchs helped the prince Zhu Gaochi, and several people walked out of the tower.

There was cheering everywhere at the head of the city, but there was a shouting of scolding from the bottom of the city.

The southern army was slowly retreating, and some were still carrying the wounded below, and the Yan army at the head of the city saw that some deliberately pulled their bows to shoot, and then caused a scolding from below.

The Yan army at the head of the city immediately scolded back, and both sides were greeting each other's immediate families, which seemed to be a long-standing tradition in China for thousands of years.

Zhu Gaochi frowned when he heard this, and felt that these big soldiers had no quality, and they were similar to the second brother Zhu Gaoxu.

He stood at the head of the city with the support of everyone, he couldn't remember that today was the first day of the siege, but he knew that a large number of Yan army casualties were carried down every day.

And the southern army under the city seems to be boundless, and the same number of people will appear every day, and it seems that the fight will not be finished.

"It's still early today, why did the Southern Army retreat so early?" Jin Zhong asked strangely at this time.

Fang Sheng said with a smile: "The weather is cold, it gets dark quickly, and I watch the Southern Army, and I have a lot of clothes

It's thin, as long as we hold on to it any longer, it won't be long before they can retreat without a fight."

Several people around Zhu Gaochi nodded their heads and said yes, after entering October, the temperature in Beiping became lower and lower, especially at night, it was even colder, which was indeed a problem for the southern army, because the southern army did not bring winter supplies to the north at all.

Think about how terrible it is for the imperial court to raise 500,000 troops to march north, but the logistics can't keep up.

But Li Jinglong below the city didn't think so.

In his opinion, it is only a matter of time before Beiping City is breached, as long as King Yan does not come back, he is very confident that he will take Beiping.

Li Jinglong doesn't know how to learn, and he likes to be self-righteous.

In order to show that he was different from Geng Bingwen and Wu Gao, he did not even repair the fortifications of the 500,000-strong army, or repaired less.

It is said that after the army was stationed in Beiping and encircled, each battalion should build its own fortifications, first, to prevent the soldiers and horses in the city from rushing into battle, and to attack at night, and second, to harass the Yan army on the periphery.

Li Jinglong sent Chen Hui to lead 15,000 horsemen to roam outside, and felt that there was no threat to the outer perimeter, and the fortifications on the periphery could no longer be built, and then he decided to attack the city without even repairing the fortifications facing Beiping City.

He probably thought that the southern army had an army of 500,000 troops, and the Yan army did not dare to attack the city.

Of course, in fact, he was not wrong, since the siege of the city, the Yan army really does not dare to go out of the city.

Li Jinglong's camp was set up on the line of Zhengcunba in the northeast of Beiping, and on the side of the Grand Canal, nine camps were established, which could just block the route of the Yan army back to Beiping.

The Yuan Dynasty dug the dam river and the Tonghui River in Zhengcunba, which are the two major tributaries of the North Canal, and also an important transportation route from the capital of the Yuan Dynasty to Tongzhou.

The Ba River starts from the north moat, passes through Hepingli, Jiuxian Bridge, Xiba Village, and Dongba Village to join the Wenyu River, and there are seven dams along the way, hence the name. During the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty transported more than 1 million stones every year, more than 1,300 boatmen, and more than 8,000 dam drivers, day and night.

After the death of the Yuan, due to the lack of management and the shallowness of the Ba River, now the Ba River has dried up and annihilated, and the Ming Dynasty has no plans to rebuild it for the time being.

At this time, Li Jinglong, the Duke of Cao Guo, was also watching Beiping City under the city.

Although the siege of the city was still lost today, Li Jinglong took the initiative to Mingjin to withdraw his troops in advance, because he had just received a report from the fast cavalry army in front, and he didn't care about attacking Beiping City first, so he immediately collected his troops in Mingjin, and then waited for the future meeting.

He didn't have the ability, but he was similar to some officials in later generations, and he liked to hold meetings very much.

But he didn't think about how difficult it would be for him to give an order casually, and the guards responsible for the siege of all parties would run over.

The total length of Beiping City is more than 20 miles, and many guards are about to run over from more than 10 miles, and everyone rushes to the scene, just to listen to a moment of nonsense, tired and angry, but dare not speak angrily.

"Marshal, all the generals are here." At this time, Tao Ming stepped forward to report.

"Yes." Li Jinglong responded very majestically, but still didn't move.

As the commander of the first army, of course, I can't be in a hurry, I have to be calm, otherwise everyone will think I am panicking.

Li Jinglong was not in a hurry, and chatted with Tao Ming in the same place for a while, and after setting up a full shelf, he slowly returned to his camp.

The generals of all parties in the big tent were there, and many of the generals had not taken off their armor, some still had blood stains on their bodies, and some had arrow wounds, but everyone had to bow respectfully: "I have seen the big handsome."

"Cao Guogong."

"General."

Anyway, there are all kinds of names, messy, Li Jinglong was secretly angry when he heard it, especially for those who called him Cao Guogong and Cao Gong, he had to take a small book and remember it carefully.

Before Li Jinglong could walk back to his position, a Ming general with no hat came forward and asked urgently, "The last general is brave, Cao Gong, why did you order the troops to be withdrawn so early today?"

Li Jinglong looked up, it turned out to be the deputy general Yu Tongyuan, Yu Tongyuan was after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, he used to be Qu Neng's subordinate, he was originally the commander of a guard post in Sichuan, he led the Sichuan military guard post to reinforce, and was assigned to Qu Neng, after all, he was a subordinate.

Li Jinglong was immediately

Hold a grudge against Qu Neng.

Cao Gong Cao Gong, Cao your mother's father, sounds like a eunuch.

Qu Neng definitely didn't expect that just because Yu Tongyuan called Cao Gong, Li Jinglong would be jealous with him.

Yu Tongyuan is only a commander, and among the commanders and governors of the battalion, the rank is relatively small, Li Jinglong didn't want to deal with him at all, and immediately said in a deep voice: "This commander just received a military report——"

It turned out that after the defeat of the Ming army at Songting Pass, there were already fast horses fleeing to this side, telling Li Jinglong's people that Chen Heng had rebelled, and if nothing happened, King Yan should be able to do his best to protect the soldiers and horses of Daning.

The camp was shocked at this time, and the faces of all the generals changed greatly.

Sheng Yong and Qu Neng, as well as Ping An and Guo Ying, looked at Li Jinglong incredulously.

The two armies are fighting against each other, can you report this kind of military situation? This is not to increase the prestige of others and destroy one's own morale.

Sure enough, when Li Jinglong's words came out, the generals around him exchanged heads and talked about each other, and many people had fear on their faces.

The people who came didn't know if King Yan had taken Daning, but if the whole army of Songting Pass was lost, it would not be a big problem for King Yan to take Daning, and King Yan might have more than 200,000 troops in his hands, and it was the most elite border army of the Ming Dynasty.

This battle will not be easy to fight.

Li Jinglong didn't feel that he had said anything wrong, so he still didn't care, and said loudly: "If Ben Shuai didn't guess wrong, at most half a month, Yan Yi would have to return to Beiping, so Ben Shuai gave you ten days, and within ten days, you must break Beiping."

"There are nine gates in Beiping, and whoever can break the first gate will definitely report to the saint for the first credit."

Li Jinglong will also use a little caution, and deliberately use military skills to encourage everyone.

What he thought in his heart was Meizizi, as long as he broke any gate in Beiping, the army would be able to rush in, and then capture alive the top and bottom of the Yan Wangfu, and the families of all the generals of the Yan army, you Yan Wang has an army of 300,000, 500,000, and he still doesn't surrender?

But the generals don't think so, you Li Jinglong can get the news, and it won't be long before the city of Beiping will also get the news, and then the defenders won't be desperately defending like chickens?

Ten days to conquer, how easy is it to say?

(End of chapter)