Immediately welcoming Yin Zuochan, Yang Kai shouted back to the scattered generals to make some changes to their previously established plans. After everyone listened and discussed, there were well-founded facts in front of them, and they had no reason to refuse, so naturally there was no objection.

They went back to prepare, and Yang Kai asked Shang Yu and the others to talk to Yin Zuochan to introduce the affairs of the army and the names of the generals, and he went straight to the place where Gao Yingen was.

In the evening of the same day, Gao Yingen ordered the four battalions to cross the river to prepare for the battle, and on the west and south sides, they prepared weapons and arranged troops with great fanfare, and guarded the two gates in the city, and sent a small group of men and horses to monitor from a distance to get a glimpse of the army. However, they have too few people and horses, and they see all over the wilderness and mountains, all of them are thieves with five-color banners, hunting and hunting in the bleak autumn wind, and they dare not provoke, they can only watch from afar.

Yang Kai ordered, after crossing the river, the generals wore armor and knives, and each person filled the sand and gravel with a sandbag, and the people and horses were not silent, led by Cao Mang and Han Bin, and the leader took the lead in coming to the southwest of Runing Mansion City, looking for a place to hide, and the position of the night rest should also consider the problem of the number of troops in the narrow road, and the army teams, from far to near, choose their own station, and when attacking the city, the waist can do the march in an orderly manner, and the time of the general attack is set at dawn the next day.

As soon as the hour came, the three directions launched an attack at the same time, outside the west and south city gates, Gao Yingen listened to Yang Kai's suggestion, and each arranged a battalion of soldiers to cooperate with the action of the east city gate with a real siege momentum. Another Liang Guang was sent to contract with Yang Kai to conspire in the war.

The so-called virtual is real, and the real is virtual. Up to now, the number of people in each battalion has exceeded 10,000, and a huge army has swarmed up, even if its purpose is not really to sacrifice their lives to attack the city, but the guards in the city, how can they clearly distinguish the virtual and real soldiers and horses from all walks of life?

In the land of war, to put it mildly, the victory or defeat of the war is related to the personal life of the guards, and to the big one, the line is broken, and the line is broken.

As soon as they make a mistake, the layout of the city's defense is completely destroyed, and they do not dare to take this dangerous situation, so as a famous general, wisdom, faith, benevolence, bravery, and strict five virtues, wisdom is ahead, and they can see the whole situation clearly and clearly, know themselves and know the enemy, and only then can they gain the initiative in the war.

The military situation of the west and south cities has done a lot of work, and the main generals of the guards can be complacent when they can think that the Liukou is attacking the side attack, and the current situation has verified their ideas, and they feel a little comforted in their hearts, but they have never thought that there will be surprise attacks in the middle of the surprise attack.

Therefore, Yang Kai and Liang Guangbu deliberately hid their whereabouts, did not use torches, and only sneaked all the way by the moonlight, but they did not cause any reaction in the city, and they arrived at the position of preparing for battle. Even in the east city gate, occasionally the horses opened the city, but they were also stopped by the crowd and hid in the mountains, and let go gently, but they could not get any useful information.

Finally, when the moon was in the middle of the sky, they each arrived at their assigned position, and Yang Kai tried his best to ask for most of the firearms in their team, including the two Buddha cannons dismantled from the city wall of Shangcai City, and handed them over to the Yanhou Department to control the attack.

Then, he ordered the soldiers around him to bring war drums According to Yin Zuochan, the generals built around the gentle slope were arranged into a formation, and the largest war drum stood in the center of the platform.

After waiting to see with his own eyes that the positions in the west and south directions were properly arranged, he hurriedly marched eastward, returned to the general's platform, and watched the positions of the various armies.

Discussion and Yin Zuochan were both standing beside Yang Kai, and the latter still had a calm face, only pointing around for Yang Kai and saying, "Little pioneer, please take a look." Zhongzhou is called Zhongzhou, according to the Yuan history, Yuzhou is the most central in the Quartet, and Runan is the most middle in Yuzhou. In the Yuan Dynasty, in order to achieve military and control purposes, the Mongols set up Yuzhou to be particularly large, and Runing was in the middle at that time.

The Jin Dynasty was destroyed by the Mongol and Song armies, and the Mongol army successively attacked the Song Dynasty in the 7th to 13th years of Ögedei Khan (1235-1241) and the 2nd to 9th years of the Mongol Khan (1252-1259), both of which ended in failure, and the Great Khan died of illness in the army.

It is precisely with such a painful lesson, they learned from the pain, repeatedly studied the terrain, the new Yuan Shizu is indeed a talent, after summing up the gains and losses of the predecessors in the Song Dynasty, they found that the strategy of taking a detour through Sichuan and Yunnan was far away, the cost of marching supplies was too high, the loss was too great, and the time was too long, in short, the effect was very poor, and it was decided to grasp one point and concentrate on breaking through.

Of course, they formulated the strategy of taking Xiangyang and Fujiang into the Han Dynasty first, and then directly taking Lin'an, the capital of the Song Dynasty, and the Runing Mansion was also in the thirtieth year of the Yuan Dynasty, which was regarded as ending the state of separation since the county system of the Qin and Han dynasties, and integrating it into a government, but it provided great convenience for the Mongolian Tatars to integrate armaments, grain and grass resources, and take the Southern Song Dynasty in one fell swoop.

Since the Ming Dynasty, although the position of Runing has been reduced, it still leads Ruyang, Zhenyang, Shangcai, Xincai, Xiping, Queshan, Suiping seven counties and Xinyang, Gwangju two large prefectures, located in front of us Runing Mansion, west of Tongbai Mountain, south of Dabie Mountain, Funiu Mountain remainder, east and north of the vast Huaibei Plain.

It deserves the name of 'mountains and rivers are dangerous, the fields are peaceful, the war is guarded, and the cultivation is sufficient', and it is precisely because of this that after the Chu State won this during the Warring States Period, it was able to have the opportunity to chase the Central Plains, and then talk about the rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, Huaixi Jiedu envoy took advantage of this to entrench for more than 40 years, and Qin Zongquan at the end of the Tang Dynasty also got this area as a station, and only then did he almost fight half the world with the Huangchao rebel army.

If our army wants to seek the grain and grass of Huguang and the equipment of the south Zhili, this place can be used as a gateway, this place is blocked by the Daba Mountain in the west, Tongbai Mountain and Dabie Mountain in the middle, the Yangtze River and the Huai River in the east, and it can naturally become Xiangyang, Runingfu, the middle and lower reaches of the Huai River Shouchun Zi Luzhou area of the three offensive and defensive nodes, but also the main road of the north and south, all dynasties, are the soldiers who go south to the north to attack the place. ”

As soon as these words came out, even the discussion had to be sideways. He has read poetry and books since he was a child, and his neighbors in distant villages are called talented children. So the family sold the land and the house for him to study, and he lived up to expectations, and won the first place in the hospital and township test, how could he try it, and learned that his parents were persecuted and died, and he was seriously ill, and he was disheartened and broke off the idea of the imperial examination, and he ended up here.

The discussion of the four books and five classics, which he boasted of being familiar with in his heart, was deeply shocked, and secretly thought in his heart, whether he practiced Buddhism or not, it turned out that he had not cut off the red dust.

Yin Zuochan this time from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the geography and humanities of the Qin and Han dynasties, the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, and the Yuan Dynasty, are so familiar that they can no longer be familiar.

He smiled lightly and asked, "Then according to what Mr. said, can our army go down to the city in a battle?" ”

"There is a condition for going down to the city in World War I." Probably seeing Yang Kai's worries, Yin Zuochan also chuckled and replied: "Sun Tzu said: Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed." If the east wind comes, this city can go down in a battle, and if the east wind does not come, it will also go down in three days. ”

As for what the east wind is, Yin Zuochan sold a pass, Yang Kai didn't do a deep study, and when he saw that the various departments were calm, Yang Kai also ordered everyone to go down first and seize the time to rest.

The dawn is near.

The remnants of the night sky covered a few cold stars, and the whole world, except for the city walls, was bright with firelight, and the surroundings were dim and dark.

The appointed time is approaching, all over the wilderness, you can see horses galloping people everywhere, guns galloping, no fire and no light, where the flag goes, sand and dust, Yang Kai, Shang Rong, Yin Zuochan three people return to Jiangtai.

Unexpectedly, on the platform, the first order received was Hu Shahu and Liang Daya, who asked people to come and report that they had formed a team of 1,000 people and wanted to be the vanguard of the siege.

Yang Kai was slightly startled, and did not agree immediately, only asked his own soldiers to praise him. The vanguard is the head of the army, by the way, the army is self-prestigious, and the whole army is frustrated, he is most trustworthy or Cao Mang, Han Bin, Zhao Hu and other old brothers, the key is that they are familiar with each other, and they dare not easily hand it over to others.

How could the city gate not be broken, the guards could not come out, and the cavalry was useless, so he chose Yanhou first, took the lead in entering the position, arranged the firearms and artillery first-class firearms, and then called Cai Qian, Yan Feng, and Wei Thirteen, and divided the troops into a tripartite siege.

Before the three armies set out, the torches were lit on the platform, like a little spark in the wilderness, Yang Kai waved the flag first, and the messenger quickly rode his horse and galloped away, and when he arrived in front of the Yanhou array, he pulled the reins of the horse, pressed down the tiger flag, and shouted the order:

"Try the gun!"

All of a sudden, the three-way artillery rang out, rolling like thunder, and the combo did not stop.

This attack kicked off the final prelude to the Battle of the Four Cities with the power of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger.

In the city, I didn't dare to sleep all night, until dawn, the generals who closed their eyes, woke up, condescendingly visible, near the city gate around the wide sister lanes, the generals came out, the torches were lit, the surroundings were as bright as day, in groups, flocked to the city gate, and returned to their respective positions to wait for the battle.

Outside the city, a round of firearms covered and fell, after adjustment, two more rounds, most of the shells can already hit the city wall, but the artillery fire outside the east city gate is particularly violent, the west and south gates, like shells, are not worth a penny.

On the other hand, only look at the old Huihui, break into the two camps outside the north gate of the city, the same heard the sound and moved, launched the siege on the first day, they suffered a lot of losses, the first day of the summary meeting, the old Hui Hui put forward the idea of dividing troops from the west gate to respond to the north gate to take Runing.

It just so happened that the two battalions of Zuo and Ge had also arrived, and they had enough manpower to divide their troops to fight under the condition of ensuring absolute strength, but he did not expect that before their plan could be implemented, he heard the report of his own soldiers, informing them that the sound of artillery fire sounded from the west, south, and east directions of Runing almost at the same time.

This situation is not going to be used at all, except for the long-delayed break-in, who else can there be? "That kid can really surprise people everywhere, all my military orders, and the whole army is arrayed." Lao Huihui laughed and shouted, and immediately ordered the whole army to assemble and move forward.

Outside the gate of the east city, after three rounds of cannons, it stopped very disciplinedly, and at the same time, Yan Feng's troops had quietly rushed out with black flags, unified with a small number, but all the armor-piercing and shield-raising people rushed ahead, the soldiers with swords and axes followed, the archers and those with spears followed behind, and the cavalry led by Cao Mang followed inside.

Immediately after, the artillery on the head of the city also began to aim, lighting torches to dazzle the city, and when it was over, they remembered that the enemy had just fired their cannons, and they patronized and hid, not knowing where the enemy was in any direction.

In the case of a military emergency, the new guards of the city can't take care of too much, don't care about the damn thing, and talk about a few cannons.

The artillery on the head of the city began to dream, and in the direction of the eastern city, because they were not in the key position of the city defense deployment, they arranged two artillery pieces, and the cannons roared, and the fire shells were fired, falling into the big river, and the newborn fish and river splashed together.

It was also three cannons in a row, and with the light of the fire brought by the cannonballs flying out, it became clear that the Liukou army had already come to the city, and the battle was suddenly in chaos.

In the distance, the guards could be heard shouting from the walls, telling the gunners to change their crosshairs and fight the enemy who did not know where.

Suddenly, I saw a big man in bearded official clothes rushing up to the city, and after hearing the guard's explanation, he immediately ordered:

"Throw torches!"

It was indeed a good strategy to throw the torch out and expand the illumination range of the torch to see the enemy's position, but unexpectedly, just as they could see the position of the besieging army under the city, the enemy's artillery fire roared again.

The guards patronized and dodged, not seeing the enemy's artillery position clearly, but Yan Hou saw their position clearly when they were blowing up the fish.

At that moment, he only ordered the gunner to adjust the position of several Franc cannons, fixed the position, and counterattacked four or five guns one after another. Only two shots were hit, and the firearms of this era, defending the city in the face of a group of attacking enemies, the effect was good, but its essence remained, that is, the lack of crosshairs.

After the shell flies out, the crosshair is lost, and the direction and position in which it falls depends on the mood of the shell.

If you are in a good mood, destroy the enemy's firepower, and if you are in a bad mood, it is not impossible to blow up the chamber, and it is already difficult to hit.

The guards were dizzy and dizzy after receiving two cannons, one of the guns lost its combat capability in a short period of time, and the remaining one, after adjustment, was finally aimed at the fierce Yan Fengbu thieves under the city.

"Don't you fire the cannon yet, wait for them to enter your mother?" The bearded man in the official clothes jumped to his feet, straightened his helmet first, and then shouted at the guard.

"Where are the archers? Shoot the arrows, release the arrows! A roar followed, followed by another.

In the midst of its hysterical roar, the guards finally found their way and organized the first round of counterattacks.

I saw that Yan Feng's troops were the first generals, and they all raised their hands to block, and the shields in their hands were mostly taken from the hands of the officers and soldiers, and ordinary arrows could not penetrate through, but they could not block the bombardment of cannonballs.

So, when the first cannonball from the top of the city fell into the army, five or six men with shields screamed and flew away.

"Beat the drum and help our army might!"

Yang Kai pressed another banner to command the Yanhou Department, and concentrated his firepower to destroy the remaining artillery.

Yan Hou didn't need Yang Kai to conduct at all, and he had already begun to adjust the direction of music. After the sound of the majestic war drums spread throughout the army, he went up in person, pushed away a gunner, loaded and filled the ammunition himself, and ignited the torch.

A shot was fired, slightly off, and the city wall was screamed.

"Grandma, this didn't hit. Everyone, aim in the direction pointed by Lao Tzu's cannon head and hit Lao Tzu hard! ”

Seeing that he was so enthusiastic, how dare he disobey, and shouted and followed suit.

After the war drums sounded, the war drums in the city also sounded, and the war drums of the two sides seemed to reflect the battlefield outside the city, vowing to divide the high and low.

Far and near the mountains and forests, the early birds, startled and frightened, and the sound of song.

When facing the enemy, the drum is the god of the three armies, striking it to suppress the enemy's heart and strengthen our army. After this period of training and marching, Yang Kai's army led by Yang Kai, although it is not reborn, at least in terms of courage is absolutely not bad, especially after Yang Kai's adjustment of the establishment, a group of warriors became the leaders of the army, which greatly changed the attributes of cowardice.

This battle is also the time to check them, close to the city of Yan Feng's department, by the city of a cannon, morale slightly weakened, but no one said a word to retreat, on the other hand, their own artillery array, in an instant, even more encouraged, and inspired by the sound of drums, all of them shouted hard, only three or five people said that the wounded dragged down, and the others went forward and followed, straight forward.

Before nightfall, Yang Kai ordered everyone to find a bag and fill a bag of sand and gravel on their bodies, and the cavalry army packed two more bags, and after approaching the city wall, they threw themselves into the moat outside the city.

They didn't need to fill in the entire moat, they only needed to fill in a wide road for them to pass, and thousands of people rushed forward, all of them throwing sandbags, and the depth of the moat was slowly decreasing visibly.

They did not have the first-class armament of the trench chariots, so they could only brave this simple and effective method, and after the sandbags carried by the first army were thrown, the water flow was no longer as smooth as it had been, and only one artillery was left on the head of the city, which was also destroyed by Yanhou, and only the impermeable arrows were rolled down.

Cao Mang received Yang Kai's military order again, without any nostalgia, pressed the flag and led the army to run towards the east city gate near the river, gave way to the main road, and gave the rear the thirteen Wei troops who carried the green flag and carried sandbags forward.

This time, with Wei Shisan, there was also a well-studied, archery camp led by Han Bin, and above the city, another armor-clad guard came up, took a look at the situation under the city, and shouted: "Who is the thief in the city, dare to come forward to talk?" ”