Zhu Gaoxu was riding a horse with Xu Xiang at the rear at this time, because he was going to attack the city, Zhu Gaoxu would definitely have to hide back, his henchmen and horses were all cavalry, and there was no reason to attack the city.

However, he was observing two people not far away.

A few days ago, King Yan passed through Linyi with a large army, Ji Gang of Su'an and his fellow villager Mu Su joined the army, Ji Gang risked his life to buckle the mount of King Yan, and asked to voluntarily follow King Yan to serve.

This Mu Su is not famous in history, but Ji Gang is too famous.

This Ji Gang has just joined the army, although he followed behind King Yan with low eyebrows, but his body is strong and his arms are thick, which does give people a feeling of strength and strength, and he claims to be skilled in bows and horses, which seems to be true.

This Ji Gang's reaction was very keen, and he swept his eyes, turned his head, and just saw Zhu Gaoxu observing him.

Ji Gang looked up, King Yan and a group of generals pointed at Jinan City, there were many people in front, he quickly turned his head and squeezed out a smile on his face, and quickly took a few steps forward.

"Little Ji Gang, meet the king of Gaoyang County."

"You're Ji Gang, okay, good." Zhu Gaoxu smiled and nodded.

Ji Gang didn't say much, and quickly returned to his original position.

That Mu Su was not so tactful, he stood in place, as if he didn't understand why Ji Gang wanted to say hello to Zhu Gaoxu.

"This Ji Gang is very opportunistic?" Xu Xiang laughed in a low voice.

"General Xu, you are honest and honest, Ji Gang is very sleek, this kind of person will easily soar in the future." Zhu Gaoxu said lightly.

Xu Xiang thought so.

He worked in the north until he was over sixty years old, and he was still a deputy thousand households, but fortunately, this time Fengtian was in trouble, and he was introduced by Sun Yan and followed King Gaoyang.

Now he has finally been promoted to commanding the officer.

This was unthinkable before.

But I heard Zhu Gaoxu say at this time: "General Xu thinks this Jinan City is easy to fight?" ”

The last time he hit Juyong Pass, it was the way Xu Xiang thought of, so Zhu Gaoxu immediately asked him.

Xu Xiang shook his head and said: "The circumference of Jinan City is only about twelve miles, but there are nearly 100,000 Southern troops in it. ”

"The southern army has filled the city wall, and there are more than 3,000 battlements with one person for each station, as long as there are more than 3,000 people."

"Even if you stand in ten rows, 30,000 people are enough to defend."

What Xu Xiang said is very simple, there are many soldiers in Jinan City, which is easy to defend and difficult to fight.

Think about the original son Zhu Gaochi guarding Beiping, Beiping City is more than 20 miles long, only 10,000 or 20,000 people, and they can defend it.

Now there are nearly 100,000 people on the other side, and they can take turns to defend the city, and it is really difficult to fight.

Zhu Gaoxu's experience in the offensive and defensive battles of the city was seen from movies before, and later experienced the offensive and defensive battles of Juyong Pass and Yongping, and then asked some guards, such as Guo Liang, who was very good at Yongping.

Usually it can be calculated simply by arithmetic problems, such as the circumference of Jinan City, calculated by 3,000 battlements, with an average of one person at the battlement, and at the same time at the head of the city, there are five rows of people to be considered a relatively strong defensive force.

More than 10,000 people are enough.

Of course, the more soldiers and horses defending the city, the better, and the more can be used as a reserve or in rotation.

Therefore, the southern army has 100,000 horses in the city, plus the defenders of the original Jinan City, it is really a difficult bone to gnaw.

As for the old, young, women and children defending the city, Beiping mobilized a large number of them, and these can be ignored, because when each city defends the city, it will mobilize to help.

Zhu Gaoxu listened to Xu Xiang's analysis, as if he couldn't overcome it, but in history, it seems that he was almost beaten down by Zhu Di.

Because the siege of the city cannot be calculated by the number of people in a simple way.

Yin enough, ruthless enough, Zhu Gaoxu thought secretly, after all, Zhu Di used a very yin and ruthless behavior.

Just when the two were communicating privately, Zhu Di, the king of Yan in front, also turned his horse's head: "Go, go back to the camp." ”

King Yan took the generals back to the big tent of the Chinese army.

Judging from his expression, Zhu Gaoxu didn't seem to see anything.

Under normal circumstances, it is difficult to see the joy and anger of King Yan.

But he is very good at demagoguery, and sometimes he is in a bad mood, and he can pretend to be happy to fool everyone.

The generals followed one after another to the big tent of the Chinese army.

The generals from all walks of life stood on both sides, and they were still very regular, the side of King Yan in the past, and the side that surrendered later.

But now there are more and more surrenders, and some low-level points will also stand on the left.

Zhu Gaoxu is now standing fourth on the left.

In front of him are Qiu Fu, Zhang Yu, and Zhu Neng.

The rest of Huo Zhen, Tan Yuan, Zhang Wu, Wang Cong and other cronies all stood behind.

Yan Wang and other people entered the camp, and then said, now Jinan City has been surrounded by our urn to catch turtles here, but the brothers have just hit all the way here from the Baigou River, people are sleepy and horses are lacking, the whole army will rest first, and we will persuade you to surrender tomorrow.

Then assign the task, each battalion must prepare to supervise the construction of siege equipment, once the persuasion of surrender fails, the battle will begin.

Although Zhu Gaoxu was all cavalry, he was also assigned a task, leading 5,000 elite cavalry to patrol the north of Jinan in case Xu Kai of Cangzhou came to help.

This task is relatively light, Xu Kai retreated to Cangzhou, Yan Jun didn't fight him, he was already Amitabha, where did he dare to come to the rescue of Jinan.

But Zhu Gaoxu listened to the whole meeting and was still very moved by King Yan's routine.

In fact, King Yan also knew that Jinan was a strong city and it was not easy to fight, so he deliberately said that he would rest first and persuade him to surrender first.

Zhu Gaoxu learned again that the same meaning, if you say it in different words, your morale will be different.

Early the next morning, King Yan sent someone to persuade the book to enter Jinan.

At this time, on the city of Jinan, there were three people, including Shandong Governor Tie Xuan, Counselor Gao Wei, and Governor Sheng Yong.

Gao Wei asked Emperor Jianwen last year to persuade King Yan to strike the army, wrote a lot of advice, all did not report, gloomy return to Beijing, on the way back, met the responsible for escorting grain and grass to participate in the politics of Tie Xuan, the two at the same time heard the news of the defeat ahead, watching a large number of defeated soldiers run south, Tie Xuan decided to return to Jinan, all the way to collect some remnants, back to Jinan City in time.

After Sheng Yong was defeated from the Baigou River, he immediately retreated to Texas with his troops and horses, and he kept an eye on it in the middle, did not take the Yueyang Bridge, went around in a big circle, and walked a little far.

Although he also encountered a small group of Yan troops on the way, they were all repelled by him, and finally retreated to Texas and then to Jinan.

Not long after, Li Jinglong was defeated, and the three people who could speak in Jinan City were Tie Xuan, Gao Wei and Sheng Yong.

After Tie Xuan got the letter of persuasion, he glanced at Sheng Yong and Gao Wei, and said deliberately: "The Yan army is strong, and our city is full of newly defeated troops, I don't know if we can fight?" ”

Sheng Yong immediately said: "Although the last general is not talented, but the Lu of the king eats the king, and he needs to be loyal to the king, and he is willing to be a saint-" hugged his fists to the south: "Fight to the death, and swear to live and die with Jinan." ”

"Okay." Gao Wei said excitedly: "The old man is willing to live and die with the two of them to repay the emperor's kindness." ”

Tie Xuan was overjoyed, and immediately introduced Sheng Yong as a confidant, and the three of them also made a blood alliance and made a big oath.

At this time, Sheng Yong secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart was also surprised, happy and frightened.

In fact, Li Jinglong was defeated outside Jinan and fled before, Sheng Yong also had a chance to escape, but he thought about it and finally decided not to run and defend Jinan.

As soon as Li Jinglong ran, many generals followed, and at this time, he was the largest in the army, and without Li Jinglong's constraints, he became the speaker of 100,000 remnants.

This is an opportunity, a chance to make a name for yourself.

He didn't need to defeat King Yan's soldiers and horses, as long as he held Jinan, Sheng Yong knew that he would make a great contribution.

Because he knew that he was not born in the Xungui family like Li Jinglong, so no matter how strong his ability to command troops was, it was impossible for him to lead an army of 600,000 to attack Yan, but Li Jinglong was defeated again this time, and he would not have a chance to turn over.

Therefore, Sheng Yong is now seeking wealth and danger, and he must seize this opportunity.

And Tie Xuan got Sheng Yong's assurance and loyalty, and he felt more confident that he could hold Jinan.

However, Sheng Yong immediately said that now that their army has been defeated in a row, they need time to rest, restore their morale, and at the same time make good arrangements for city defense.

Tie Xuan asked someone for advice, and Gao Xianning, a Confucian scholar in Jiyang, offered a plan and wrote a 'Theory of Zhou Gong Assisting the King', saying that King Yan was the Duke of Zhou, and persuaded him to stop his troops and enter Beijing to assist the emperor.

After reading it, King Yan knew that Sheng Yong and Tie Xuan refused to surrender, but he felt that this article was written very interestingly, because it was necessary to build siege equipment and slow down the attack, and both sides were secretly preparing.

Not long after, the Yan army transferred all the artillery collected by Baigou River, and made siege equipment such as ladders and rushing vehicles, and on the 20th, the tragic siege battle officially began.

This fight lasted for a month or two.

June 12.

"Boom, boom, boom-"

The intermittent artillery above and below the city bombarded each other, and from time to time there were various sounds of firecrackers, as well as bursts of bows and arrows.

Zhu Gaoxu stuffed cotton cloth in his ears, frowned and looked into the distance, with some unbearable look in his eyes.

For the first time since he came to this world, he had seen a large-scale infantry siege.

During the Battle of Zhending, the southern army was under the city, and they attacked it directly.

When saving Yongping, he attacked Wu Gao at night, the Baigou River was all field battles, Daning was not attacked, and the rest of the small cities were thousands of people, or even hundreds of people were directly taken.

And the picture in front of you, how to say? It's like the World War Z he had seen in his previous life.

The boundless Yan army rushed to Jinan City like ants, and then fell under the city in batches.

The soldiers were like puppets, and there was no way back except to attack.

No matter how many people die in front of them, everyone has to rush forward.

It has been nearly two months since the Yan army attacked the city of Jinan, and both sides have exhausted all means.

Sheng Yong also went out of the city to attack, and the Yan army also dug tunnels, and even dug river embankments and released water to irrigate the city, but in addition to adding countless corpses to the city, both sides did not work.

These days, King Yan is getting more and more anxious, and Zhu Gaoxu can feel his father's anxiety.

The location of Jinan is particularly important, not only to rush from north to south, but also the barrier of the Beijing division, it has always been a place where soldiers must fight, and there are 100,000 remnants of the southern army in the city, if you break through Jinan and destroy the last 100,000 soldiers and horses of the imperial court, the imperial court will be hit hard.

But after nearly two months of strong attack, the Yan army was a little unable to support it.

If I have the opportunity in the future, I must train my own soldiers and horses who are good at attacking cities, Zhu Gaoxu thought secretly in his heart at this time.

In his mind, he was already slowly thinking about his training style.

"King Gaoyang, King Gaoyang."

At that moment, he vaguely heard someone calling for him.

Zhu Gaoxu turned his head, and then removed the cotton cloth from his ears.

(End of chapter)