Although Pang He's strategy was to successfully drive away the incoming Guan Sheng, it was not a long-term plan after all. On the one hand, Lingchuan County does not have many troops, and those who just went out were just some old and weak soldiers who bluffed. If Guan Sheng is fully prepared again, it will not be difficult to attack Lingchuan County. In this regard, Pang He and Lin Chong, Hu Sanniang, Qiong Ying, Dong Cheng, Shen Ji, and Geng Gong discussed countermeasures together. Pang He was also the first to put forward his own idea, that is, to give up Lingchuan County and give Lingchuan County to Song Jiang. For this proposal, Dong Cheng, Shen Ji, and Geng Gong were all puzzled, and expressed doubts about why they sent the city to Song Jiang in vain.

Qiong Ying said: "Don't get excited, let's hear why General Pang chose to abandon Lingchuan County." ”

Dong Cheng, Shen Ji, and Geng Gong agreed, and Pang He slowly explained: "I think you, you should also know your strength, if Song Jiang's whole army is closer, what are your chances of victory, I think, not at all, not only the whole army is annihilated, under his 100,000 army, we have no room to resist at all." You may say, then we can defend the city, and we must also know that the city of Lingchuan County cannot be defended no matter what, it is just a county seat, so what does it matter if it is given to Song Jiang? Song Jiang has already suffered two defeats with me, and he must have an estimate in his heart, at this time, we need to give him a chance to relax, and give him a chance to take it lightly. Let's assume that if we are Song Jiang, and in this case, the other party gives us a city, what will we think. Do you think that we will not be able to defend it, so we will abandon it? In addition, Guan Shengdu has already been defeated, what will Song Jiang think if he sees an empty city? Let's talk about our losses, what can we lose, it is just an empty city. ”

Qiong Ying said: "General Pang's thinking is really a little different, and what he said is also very reasonable, if we defend Lingchuan County, we will make some unnecessary sacrifices." ”

Pang He said: "Well, thank you General Qiu for your understanding. How many counties do we occupy now, and how are the forces dispersed, if we don't give up some, then we will wait to be broken by Song Jiang. Why don't we twist into a rope and defeat Song Jiang, then our city still belongs to us?"

Dong Cheng thought for a while and said, "It can be, but I'm afraid that His Highness won't agree, and then it will be troublesome!"

Pang He said: "There will be no acceptance of the foreign monarch's order, and His Highness sees the result, not the process." If we resist desperately and finally lose the city, what will Your Highness think? If we take back the lost city, what will Your Highness think? Which do you think is more important, or which one do you think you accept more? ”

Shen Ji said: "Forget it, just listen to your opinion, let's abandon the city, but where are we going?"

Pang He said: "If you want to defend the city, you must have soldiers and food, and Gaizhou is a very good choice." We can go to Gaizhou and wait for the arrival of Song Jiang's army in Gaizhou. ”

Huang Cheng hesitated: "Gaizhou is guarded by Niu Wenzhong, and the four generals under his command are Fang Qiong, An Shirong, Chu Heng, and Xiong Wei. They are not easy to talk to, especially the privy envoy Niu Wenzhong, who is good at using three-pointed and two-edged swords, has strong martial arts, is born in the green forest, and has never looked down on people. Therefore, Gaizhou is not an ideal place. ”

Pang He asked, "Do you know how many soldiers and horses there are in Gaizhou?"

Huang Cheng said: "There are about 30,000!"

Pang He said with certainty: "Then we will go to Gaizhou, and we will meet this Niu Wenzhong for a while." His 30,000 soldiers and horses, plus our almost 20,000 or so soldiers and horses here, were enough to resist Song Jiang's 100,000 troops. ”

Huang Cheng and Shen Ji and the other three saw that Pang He said so firmly, so they had no choice but to agree. And the reason why Pang He went was not just to help Tian Hu defend Gaizhou, the plan in his heart was slowly calculating, calculating an opportunity, and Niu Wenzhong may be a good point of help.

After making a plan, Pang He led all the remaining men and horses towards Gaizhou, which was guarded by Niu Wenzhong, and when he arrived at the city gate, Pang He asked Huang Cheng to go up and report, saying that Lingchuan County was lost, and Niu Wenzhong didn't think too much about it, so he put Pang He and others into the city.

Niu Wenzhong Pang He: "You still have so many soldiers and horses, how did you lose them?"

Pang He said sadly: "Don't hide it from the privy envoy, in fact, we abandoned the city." ”

Niu Wenzhong said angrily: "What, you actually abandoned the city?"

Pang He said helplessly: "We have fought with Song Jiang twice, although we won a small victory, but Song Jiang has 100,000 horses, we guard a small county town, how can we resist." So, I thought that if we gather our soldiers and horses, and under the command of you, the privy envoy, Lord Niu, we will definitely be able to defeat Song Jiang's 100,000 soldiers and horses. ”

Niu Wenzhong said: "Song Jiang has 100,000 soldiers and horses, and it is indeed difficult to defend. You are also excusable, then you can settle down for the time being, and when Song Jiang arrives, we will come again to let him taste our strength!"

Pang He patted his ass and said: "Well, what Lord Niu said is that I have heard for a long time that Lord Niu has a three-pointed and two-edged knife that makes him superb, and no one dares to make a mistake in Gaizhou, this time Song Jiang came to make him come and go." Moreover, the Privy Counsellor can also use this to make a name for himself!"

Niu Wenzhong laughed after hearing this: "Yes, yes, you are right, you can catch Song Jiang, my Niu Wenzhong's name will definitely be famous all over the world!"

After a simple exchange, Pang He knew that Niu Wenzhong was just a martial artist, brave and unscrupulous, no wonder he couldn't defend Gaizhou, just by virtue of him, he could defend Gaizhou, it would definitely be impossible. Seeing his confidence swelling, Pang He felt a little funny, since you want to fight, I will leave it to you, my task as a pioneer can almost be completed, and when the fall of Gaizhou will not matter to me Pang He. It is precisely because of this that Pang He chose to settle in Gaizhou.

Two days later, Song Jiang really took about 100,000 soldiers and horses to Gaizhou, and the soldiers came to the city, Niu Wenzhong stood on the city wall and faced Song Jiang: "Song Jiang Xiaoer, why don't you bring more people, it's just so much, do you know, this little person is not enough for me to stuff my teeth?"

Song Jiang sneered: "It's up to you, you don't look at yourself, what kind of ability do you have, even Pang He knows that it is not my opponent, and he abandoned the city and left, you are still a little interested in talking big here." Wait until the day the city is broken, I'll see if you'll be able to laugh!"

After speaking, Song Jiang ordered the siege of the city, and a contest between the siege and the defense of the city began.