"There are military villages at the four gates of Jinju City, and there are about 500 people in each village. ”

"The walls of the city are brightly lit, and there are many people standing in shadows, and everywhere we go, the sound of golden drums sounds, and the garrison can be called abundant. ”

"There was no one to stop me all the way, and there were no cold arrows. ”

......

The news of the investigation kept coming to Ma Qiang's side.

The right general of the Shence Army sat on the horse and listened to the reports of the people below. The cavalry behind him began to set up camp hastily, and some began to try to build a stove and prepare for a fire.

Lu Ping sat next to Ma Qiang, and just now Ma Qiang sent a messenger to the Taiyuan side, saying that Cui You and Li Yin of Jinzhou had turned their faces, and that he was going to wait here for the follow-up infantry to come over.

To be honest, Lupin was a little dissatisfied with Ma Qiang's twilight, but he didn't say too much.

Lu Ping was born in the Fanyang Lu family, and since the beginning of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the five surnames of Guandong, Cui, Li, Lu, Wang, and Zheng have married each other, and many of them have married princesses of the Northern Wei Dynasty, forming a group that is not close.

For a long time, these five surnames have intermarried with each other, and rarely have in-laws with other families, which is the current Dayu royal family, and they don't have a lot of colds.

This is not to say that they strictly abide by the traditions of the Chinese nobility, if it is to lead the way for the Hu people, these five surnames can be said to be ancestors. None of them had a close relationship with the Xianbei Tuoba clan, and they didn't care if they married the yellow-headed princess of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

The reason why the real reason for not being interested in the Dayu royal family is nothing more than an identity, when these five surnames entered and exited the court of the Northern Wei Dynasty and took charge of the center as the prime minister, the ancestors of the Dayu Emperor were still gnawing sand on behalf of the Beishu.

Of course, Da Yu recognized himself as the ancestor of the Li family in Houliang Longxi, who was a lonely minister loyal to the Great Jin Dynasty, but this is another story.

The five surnames of Kanto have developed to this day, although they are not as good as before, but the majesty is still there, Lu Ping estimates that even if Yu Fuguo is defeated and lost, he is caught by the imperial court, as long as his body is soft enough and he decisively repents, there will be no serious consequences, and he may be appointed as a small official.

This is all the kindness of our ancestors.

The guards around him raised the campfire, and the heat diffused, stretching the figures of the three of them very long.

"Attack the city for the bottom, attack the heart for the top. The army of Yugong Gong is going south, and Jinju City must be three times a day, they think that I am going to attack the city tonight, so I will not attack it, and I will pull these turtle grandchildren. When they are tired and collapsed, it is time to do it. Ma Qiang said, half of which he explained, and half of which he said to himself.

"Ben Shuai's cavalry is the elite of the Shence Army, and it is the winner and loser of the battle, and it must not be thrown lightly on such an earthen city. ”

"According to Ma Shuai's meaning, is this Jinzhou considered a garrison?"

It was the Taoist priest of Taiping Dao who spoke, and this one rarely spoke along the way.

"It can only be said that it is a script, and there is nothing new. Ma Qiang pointed to Jinju City and said slowly.

His words were not just to explain to the foreign aid of Taiping Dao, Ma Qiang was surrounded by a group of cronies and guards, and in time these people would become the backbone of the army, and some would even become the head of the army like him. Siege and defense are military experiences that cannot be bypassed, and Ma Qiang just used Jinju City as an example to tell the following people about the essentials here.

"You see, the first thing to do is to bulldoze the dwellings outside the city and set up a village outside the gate. Ma Qiang stood on the mound and explained: "If the dwellings are still there, we will have an extra layer of barrier when we attack the city, and we can also tear down the earth, stone and wood inside for siege purposes." ”

"Don't expose the gate directly to the enemy, if there is no outer layer of the army, let's go straight to the door, I don't say anything about the battering ram or anything like that, just pile some firewood, pour hot oil on the door, put a fire, and burn the door thoroughly. If a military fortress is set up, not only can it protect the city gates, but it can also use the bows and arrows on the wall to grind the brothers to death little by little, just like a stone mill. ”

"In that case, is this siege a dead end?" Ma Qiang slowly explained: "It is true that the defenders are waiting for work, but since we are attacking him, we can't carry one head on two shoulders and use all kinds of ordnance." ”

As he spoke, Ma Qiang picked up a thorn staff from the side and gestured on the ground.

He started by drawing a tower-like thing.

"This is a chariot, there are ladders inside to go up and down, built to the same height as the city wall, and then the outside is covered with cowhide to block the bow and crossbow oil, and the army can go up the chariot, and then it can take this section of the wall. ”

Then there was a two-wheeled cart with a cauldron of oil and a stack of firewood.

"The train, like the one they made the broken village, pushed the train directly over, there is a way that water and fire are ruthless, push it over and burn it directly fucking. It doesn't take half an hour to make a hole. ”

Ma Qiang drew a few more.

"Ballistas, flying guns, although the art of war is condescending and powerful. But standing on the walls is also a good target, just in time for this thing to cut their heads. ”

Ma Qiang said it humorously, and the officers listening below had smiles on their faces, and with the commander saying this, it seemed that besieging the city was a very simple matter.

"The most important thing is that there is one of the biggest advantages of the siege, that is, the initiative is in my hands. Ma Qiang said: "I precede him, have you all read Mozi?"

Shaking his head below, Ma Qiang shook his head with some hatred.

"During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the State of Chu punished the Song Dynasty, and Lu Ban gave the King of Chu as a master of worship, and there was a Mozi on the side of the Song State, and the two of them showed their magic powers in front of the King of Chu. ”

"That Mozi is very powerful. "The people below may not know Mozi, but they are very clear about the synonym of such a skilled craftsman as Lu Ban.

"It's a fart, but it's just on paper. I attack the enemy and defend, I take the lead step by step, they can only prepare in advance, only one thing they can't think of, that is, they are dead. So on the real battlefield, Mozi should defend first, and then Lu Ban will attack later, as long as Lu Ban can break through, then it will be fine. This is all because Lu Ban's disciples can't write books, so those corrupt Confucians take advantage of their tongues. ”

made a discussion for the ancients, and Ma Qiang, who consciously won back a city for Lu Ban, was satisfied with another comparison.

"Master Lu, is that Cui You inside, are you familiar with it?"

"Cui You is a scholar, and he studied with me in Yuelu Mountain, and he can be regarded as brave and strategic."

Ma Qiang sighed and continued to ask.

"What about Li Yin?"

"The royal family of the clan has changed from a county lieutenant to a military position, and has caught thieves, but the ability to fight is still lacking. Lupin recalled the archives he had seen.

"Then they're all chicks who haven't fought before. Ma Qiang laughed and made a comment.

"Send a dozen brothers to run around the place, put on a reconnaissance posture, and startle the fools in the city, and the rest will sleep in peace, and tomorrow will be tomorrow. ”

Just set up camp and rested? Lupin's unhappiness could no longer be hidden.

"Will Ma Shuai be a little underestimated, what if they come out in the middle of the night to rob the camp?"

"It's just a scholar who can only fight dumbly. Ma Qiang disagreed and said with a smile: "If these people dare to go out of the city to attack at night for the first time, they can still hide from my secret sentinel reconnaissance, such a natural general, the general of the bear and tiger, I am willing to lose." ”

Ma Qiang insisted so much, Lu Ping naturally couldn't say anything more, but the Taoist priest from Taiping Dao was thoughtful.

Sure enough, everything was as Ma Qiang expected, and on the second day, he slept until three poles in the morning, and the city of Jinju was very calm, not to mention robbing the camp, even if he didn't shoot an arrow or a stone.

"What's the matter, it's said that it's two nerds, now Lu Gongzi, you can rest assured. ”

It was also a saddle horse all the way, and Lupin didn't get up early the next day, and when he finished washing, the one from Taiping Road and Ma Qiang had already had breakfast and were waiting for him there.

Breakfast in the army was not very rich, a bowl of oily chicken soup, scavenged from a nearby village, and two roasted browned white flour buns. Lupin seems to think that such food is usually considered coarse, but now it tastes very sweet.

While eating, Ma Qiang was holding a letter and reading.

This is from Father-in-law's side. For Ma Qiang's relatively steady decision-making, Yu Fuguo agreed.

In the final analysis, Yu Fuguo's capital is too small, and he doesn't dare to take out all the cards in his hand to gamble.

Meridian Valley has always been only a Han general like Wei Yan, and a Han general like Zhuge Liang can't go.

In his letter to Ma Qiang, Yu Fuguo not only agreed with his decision, but Yu Fuguo also stated in the letter that he was ready to have a decisive strategic decisive battle with Li Xu near Jinju.

Compared with Hezhong Guanzhong, who knocked all the way to the city by city, Yu Fuguo was more inclined to completely solve Li Xu in a decisive battle that would decide everything.

Although the Uighurs in the north had swallowed the incense bait, and the feudal towns in the east had reached a compromise with them under pressure from the imperial court, Yufuguo was very worried that these people would jump out and bite if they were grinding all the way to the east of the river.

The head of Langdarma is the footnote of Li Xu's best record, and Yu Fuguo is still confident that he will defeat the young emperor.

Father-in-law Yu said in the letter that he had received information that the emperor was ready to use the elite advance as the vanguard, and Li Xu himself led the brigade with insufficient combat strength as the rear team.

In Yu Fuguo's opinion, this is a stupid thing that Li Xu did when he was young and ignorant. When the combat strength of the troops is equal, it is undoubtedly self-defeating, leaving room for each of the Yufu countries to break through.

Therefore, Yu Gonggong said that he had led the main force to the south under the starry night, and he would rush to Jinju City in a few days, and then take advantage of the fact that Li Xu's troops were divided into two parts, first take Jinzhou, destroy the elite of the imperial court and Li Xu's dead friends, and then break the rabble led by Li Xu.

In this way, Jinju City sent their first good news.

Unite as one, defeat the eunuch party and rebel against the clown Ma Qiang.

At the same time, the Dark Cloud Iron Guard and Na Luoyan led by Han Rui also rushed to the city of Jinju.