Five miles outside the city of Haozhou, a piece of camp tents is scattered, faintly connected by a formation. In the tent, from time to time, one or two flying horses shuttled, rushing to all directions, giving orders and delivering news. At the outermost, every 50 meters, there are small buildings more than three meters high, with archers inside, which serve as watchtowers. It is surrounded by infantry detachments of about 100 people, armed with shields, swords and spears, and from time to time sends three or five people in turn, with cavalry, to patrol back and forth in the area.

If you look forward from these watchtowers, you can see that on the colorful and scarred stone walls, piles of bonfires have risen, and pairs of red-turbaned sergeants, dressed in dirty and smelly single clothes, are surrounded by trembling, but their palms are tightly clutched in their hands, and from time to time they aim in the direction of the Yuan army camp in front of them. Several wounded rebel generals, with a team of murderous sergeants, climbed the north tower and walked slowly from east to west. Everywhere they passed, the red turban sergeants stood up straight. A young soldier walking in the middle, with messy hair and copper whiskers curled upside down from his already slightly upturned chin, looked a little funny at first glance, but on closer inspection, it added a bit of murderous energy.

The general, dressed in a sauce-colored robe, a sword at his waist, and a pair of yellow arhat cloth shoes commonly used by temple monks, walked calmly in front of a twelve or thirteen-year-old baby soldier, patted his shoulder vigorously, and asked in a humming voice, "Can you eat your body bones?" The baby soldier straightened his chest and replied in a slightly sharp voice, "General Zhu, eat well!" This young general called General Zhu is Zhu Yuanzhang, that is, Wuxu's fellow disciple and brother in the Hualien Miaofa Sect. Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the childish little boy, nodded, glanced around, and said loudly, "Thief mother, these ruthless Yuan army, in the past few months, have taken advantage of the winter and injured many of our brothers! General Zhu, please rest assured, I have survived for a few months, and now that spring has begun, the brothers are still afraid of a bird. Let's raise the fire and burn it high, and when the time comes, one will kill one and two on the dog's day, and we will give it a mandarin duck barbecue!" Suddenly, there was laughter on the city tower. Zhu Yuanzhang also laughed with the soldiers around him, and hugged his fists around, "Although the moon is bright tonight, you can see the bottom clearly, and the brothers must arrange good manpower and take turns to be on duty, don't be careless." The surrounding red scarf soldiers also hugged their fists one after another and responded one after another.

Zhu Yuanzhang then turned around and said to several generals, "Tonight, it seems that the Yuan army will not attack at night." However, I would like to ask you to go to the east, west and south to inspect and advise. Below, he is still on duty in the North Building tonight. The generals responded casually, and then took a few personal soldiers and went away from the north building.

Zhu Yuanzhang led the group to turn around the north building twice, standing on the main gate of Haozhou, pressing the sword with one hand, slapping the cold wall with the other, pursing his lips, staring at the Yuan military camp tent that stretched for miles in front of him. Half a ring, when there were no idlers around, Fang Cai asked in a low voice, "Into the sea, has the fat man recruited by Wang?" A young man behind him replied with a fist, "It has been recruited, and with a few brothers, Cheng Chun took a few brothers and found twenty pairs of armor, a number of swords, and thirty catties of good salt from the underground secret passage of his house." It is now secretly hidden in an abandoned bookstore storehouse, and is guarded day and night by a few trusted old brothers. Zhu Yuanzhang turned around and squinted his eyes, "Is the owner of the book club still in the city?" Jiang entered the sea, paused for a moment, and replied, "The master of the book club has long fled from the city with his family, and now there is still an old servant who is hanging and toothless living in the firewood room behind the book club. Zhu Yuanzhang turned around, looked into the distance again, and said, "Those who do great things must not save the kindness of a woman." I thought that at the beginning, you and I were pitiful and let the grocery store owner go, but he reported the news, attracting dozens of yuan dogs to come to surround and suppress, and you and I were almost in different places. A few days ago, Na Jialu deceived and withdrew the Yuan army in the south, if I hadn't asked for the commander's order, I fought the risk of the rebel brothers turning their faces, and cut off dozens of heads on the spot, I am afraid that this Haozhou City has been lost, you and I will be like lost dogs, running around, and there will be no place to stand!" A sentence, in the cold night, the river into the sea full of cold sweat, the mouth again and again said yes.

It turned out that Jia Lu, the imperial historian who had supervised the river work at the outlet of the Yellow River, was ordered by the Yuan Xiang to get rid of it, and led the army to kill Benhao Prefecture a few months ago. At the beginning, tens of thousands of troops surrounded Haozhou City and attacked in turn. After no result, he adopted the strategy of encircling three and leaving one, and withdrew the Yuan army at the southern gate of the city in full view of the righteous army during the day. The marshal of the seventh road in the city of Haozhou, Guo Zixing, Sun Deya, Peng Da, Zhao Junyong, etc., each has his own subordinates, although after some discussion, Zhu Yuanzhang was elected as the general of the city guard, unified dispatch, assigned tasks, in fact, they still have their own subordinates, which can be described as "one brand, two sets of teams".

Guarding the south gate is Sun Deya's subordinate Tang Baitian, waiting for this Fang Yuan army to withdraw for a few days, seeing that the Yuan army only gathered the main force to attack the north building, and the remaining troops attacked the east and west sides, then Tang Baitian said, "This is a plan to encircle three tendencies into one, we just will plan and take the opportunity to go out of the city to find something for the winter." Fortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang learned the news in time, led the team around him, played the banners of the marshals, and slashed dozens of people with the momentum of thunder, before he suppressed the position and drank out of the city team, and then the people who flocked and followed also dispersed. Tang Baitian was afraid of Zhu Yuanzhang's power for a while, and led the team to retreat, but he sued Sun Deya and other marshals, accusing him of using his power and killing innocents indiscriminately. Several handsomes quarreled for several days.

Fortunately, Tang Baitian endured it for two days, couldn't help it, and led a sergeant under his command to find out while it was dark, but unexpectedly, there were soldiers and horses waiting for an ambush in advance, and after a cover-up, most of the thousands of soldiers were broken, and Fang retreated to the city in embarrassment. It turned out that Jia Lu secretly contacted some nearby squire soldiers, deployed some ordnance, and specially guarded ten miles to the south, just waiting for the Red Turban Army to go out of the city and throw themselves into the net. When the news came, it was considered to have relieved Guo Zixing, Zhu Yuanzhang and others. Only then did the marshals reiterate Zhu Yuanzhang's right to defend the city, and agreed that no matter which direction the Yuan army attacked the city from, the rest of the rebels everywhere would obey the dispatch of the general defending the city, but there was a delay, and they could not be forgiven.

Zhu Yuanzhang secretly sent the soldiers to confiscate all the furniture of the big households in the city, all of which were made of wood, and sent them to the battalions, stating that the marshals took out the furniture in the house and burned the fire for the soldiers to avoid the cold. He also ordered the outlying elements of the White Lotus Sect who were not in the army to spy around, but those who secretly hid grain, quilts, and other things were locked up on the spot at their residence, tortured and tortured, and sent to the top of the city tower when they learned of it. He also led Jiang into the sea, Jiang into the spring and others, in the main gate tower and everywhere, day and night, to kill the enemy first. In this way, the army's heart gradually calmed down, and it was unable to hold on to the Yuan army outside the city.

However, it is said that in the camp of the Yuan army outside the city, there is a place with quite high ground, on which the flags are dense, the swords are numerous, and among the layers of armored guards, there is a tent shaped like a hill bag. In the meantime, the lights were bright, and there was an old Han man with a sickly face, sitting in front of the large table full of Shushu inscriptions and seals, leaning on the soft leather cushion back, gasping slightly, glancing at the generals under the tent, and asked lightly, "Everyone, do you have any objections?" The first six-foot-tall general with a round face and a wide mouth at the bottom left walked out and hugged his fists. Lord Jia, the lower officials thought that our army would besiege Haozhou for several months, and the grain, grass, and ordnance in the city would be exhausted. As soon as these words came out, some of the generals in the tent nodded their heads one after another, and their intentions were moved.

Jia Lu looked at the middle-aged general who had spoken out, paused, and said, "Timur, our army has besieged Haozhou for several months, repeatedly attacked the city, and been blocked one after another, but why?" The general named Timur blushed and replied expectantly, "The thieves are all outlaws, and it is difficult to conquer them for a while. Jia Lu was about to speak, suddenly his face flushed, and the military doctor next to him stepped forward, stroked Jia Lu's back with his palm, and after half a sound, Jia Lu coughed a few times, spit out a mouthful of turbid phlegm, drank a sip of milk tea, and propped his hands on the desk, his eyes glared, and said, "Your ancestors have all been favored by the emperor, and they are in public service in the army, and they should have fought bravely to kill the enemy and reimburse the court, but are you still afraid of a group of rabble people in thin clothes and holding wooden sticks?"

The generals below secretly slandered themselves, "This White Lotus Sect bandit deliberately started an incident and occupied Haozhou City, and all of them are real swords*." Where are the countrymen who were powerless in the past?" But these words did not dare to be used to confront Lord Jialu in person. Speaking of which, it is still due to the timidity of their respective deployments. On weekdays, he trained, rode and walked, and looked decent, and when he was waiting for the siege of the city, many of them had not yet climbed to the top of the city tower, and they were so frightened that they fought in two groups, and fell down from the ladder, and their liver and brain were smeared.

Seeing that the generals bowed their heads and were silent, Jia Lu inspected each other, snorted, picked up a letter from the desk, raised it, and said, "Don't think that you can use those squire soldiers to attack the city and defeat the enemy! Now that it is the beginning of spring, these villagers are thinking about going home to plough the fields and plant seedlings for the coming year. Letters have come in now?"

The generals in the tent suddenly looked like ants on a hot pot, and they all hammered their palms and said, "Dashuai, these 5,000 village soldiers are familiar with the terrain and people's conditions here, and they are really a sharp weapon to contain the enemy army and win by surprise, and they must not be allowed to leave." "I can't help it!" "Retreat from the battle, how can this battle be fought?"

Seeing that the time had come, Jia Lu ignored the disturbances of the generals, stood up, patted the case, and said loudly, "I have replied to the letter, and agreed with him that tomorrow night, you will gather at the north gate of Haozhou and attack the city at night! Timur, tomorrow he will collect and count the catapults of the whole army, and then tomorrow night, after the repair is completed, he will have more large stones and firearms, and send a group of sergeants to secretly assemble them in the woods on the east side of the north of the city. The rest of the departments will take turns to rest tomorrow, and when they arrive, they will listen to the orders of the commander and conquer this Haozhou City in one fell swoop!"

All the soldiers clasped their fists one after another, screamed, and received their orders with a bang.

That's right

Carrying a sword on his waist, he was also strong and strong.

The enemy lights are looking high, and the night is vast and the city wall is beaten.