After a long time, the noise in the tent disappeared for a while, and Li Yan made a summary: "Although we have besieged the city at the moment, there is an extreme shortage of besieging guys, siege ladders, stone throwers, door crashing cars, etc., we will have to step up tomorrow, although we don't have heavy artillery in our hands, but the power of concentrating the dozens of tiger squat cannons and the general of Zhankou in one place is not small, at least it can suppress the firepower on the city to cover the city."

"In fact, attacking this kind of big city, even with the blessing of artillery, it is inevitable to storm and fill it with human lives" Huang Degong said the truth: "We have many soldiers and generals, and each chooses one place to attack, and how about replacing others on top if there is no success in one day?" ”

Generals, you look at me, I look at you, and then their eyes fall on Li Yan.

"That being the case, with the intention of General Huang, how about starting the siege of the city in three days?" Li Yan swept around and asked softly.

"Is there a rush in the third day?" Liu Zeqing questioned: "The army needs to repair and recover its strength when it comes from afar, and it also needs to rush to make siege equipment and mobilize morale, and the most important time is that the logistics and supplies have not yet arrived, and it is only disadvantageous to start the war in a hurry!" ”

"Don't think that Lao Tzu doesn't know what he thinks in his heart, it's nothing more than selfishness" Just when everyone listened to Liu Zeqing's words and hesitated slightly, Huang Degong opened his mouth and came with a full face of ridicule, but Liu Zeqing was angered: "Huang Chuangzi, what selfishness do you have for me?" ”

"You each led 3,000 cavalry as the vanguard, and a few battles will count your biggest losses, and you can use no more than a thousand people at hand at this time, the reason why you don't want to start a war in three days is because your rear infantry can't arrive in time, so you can't fight for merit!"

Huang Degong said a word, and did not forget to look at Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo provocatively: "Yes, the harrier who turned over the mountain, the flower horse Liu"

Huama Liu and Liu Zeqing glanced at each other, their faces were slightly embarrassed, what Huang Degong said was the truth, the three of them originally led their troops to pursue Li Zicheng, and then in Puzhou, Shanxi, they were ordered to lead 3,000 cavalry to the north to go north to Gyeonggi to help, and when they left, the main force under his command went back with a full harvest.

Then the three of them went to the capital for a walk around and then were ordered to go south, almost without a pause to go to the south of the Yangtze River, but the main force under their command were infantry and carried heavy baggage, the journey was not fast, and when they sent the spoils of war to Jinan and Xuzhou, they were already one step slower than Li Yan's army when they went south, and it would take at least five or six days to travel.

"Huang Chuangzi, don't scream nonsense" Gao Jie was immediately angry when he heard Huang Degong tell him to go over the mountain harrier, this is the bandit number when he was a thief!

"What's the drop, Lao Tzu called you Nai Lao Tzu p" Huang Degong stood up, seeing that the two were about to do it if they didn't agree on a word, Li Yan hurriedly got up to persuade him, and Wei Shichun and several bigwigs also hurriedly dragged the two away with good words to appease, but Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo just sneered and didn't make any moves.

"Even if I have this mind, is there anything wrong, who of you who is not here to make meritorious contributions?" Liu Zeqing spread his hands and looked at Huang Degong and snorted coldly: "Besides, don't talk about this, isn't it too hasty to attack the city in three days?" ”

"It's my lack of consideration, three days is indeed too rushed, when I give the soldiers time to recover" Li Yan took the responsibility: "Then make preparations for the siege first, and at the same time urge the supply of grain and grass in the rear, and wait for the three general soldiers to arrive and we will discuss the siege of the city?" ”

Hearing him say this, Huang Degong snorted coldly, Gao Jie and the three nodded in agreement, and Wei Shichun, Zhang Qingzhen and Liu Wenbing also agreed.

As soon as the sky was bright, Cheng Niandong went to the city and his face was no longer as relaxed as a few days ago, and his subordinates reported early in the morning that the camp of officers and soldiers outside the city had become larger, and reinforcements came last night.

Cheng Niandong raised the clairvoyant mirror and looked to the northeast and saw that the camp on the shore of Linghu Lake was in the sky, not to mention that there were 30,000 or 40,000 troops, and it seemed that the officers and soldiers increased by at least tens of thousands last night, and this formation was ...... It's a little familiar, in previous years, every time Zuo Liangyu sent troops to encircle and suppress them, it was such a large-scale, but ......

Cheng Niandong put down the clairvoyant mirror, put his hand on the red-clothed cannon next to him, and rubbed the corner of his mouth with a sneer, and a subordinate next to him seemed to understand something: "General, our cannon can hit eight miles, and the officer and soldier camp should be in the firing range, why don't you bombard a few fucking cannons?" ”

"Waste, save some shells to fight a tough battle" Cheng Niandong shook his head lightly, his sudden eyes stared at the officers and soldiers outside the city, and a cavalry raised a clairvoyant mirror to look over, only to see dozens of horsemen rushing out of the officer and soldier camp to look around the city, and the first few people looked very imposing, isn't it Gao Jie and others?

"Pick a few sharpshooters over, as long as they are close to find an opportunity to shoot" Cheng Niandong had some small expectations, shooting the enemy in front of the battle can not only boost the morale of his own side, but also hit the morale of the other party, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Cheng Niandong guessed right, there was indeed Gao Jie in the group of people in the city, but there was also Li Yan, the commander of the West Road, who he didn't know, Li Yan got up early late last night to observe around the city, but he didn't know that he had been targeted by the enemy's main general.

However, they are all battle-hardened veterans who are close to reconnaissance and can't defend against cold arrows in the city, so the group wears armor and helmets and tries to circumvent the range of bows and arrows.

A group of people rode slowly from the edge of Linghu Lake to the west, raising their eyes to look at the crowds in the city, Li Yan was secretly shocked: "I don't know how many thieves are in the city?" ”

"The day before yesterday, the thief army went out of the city to intercept us, and its strength was four or five thousand, considering that it would stay in the city, it was estimated that it would be at least five or six thousand, but it would definitely not be tens of thousands," Liu Zeqing raised his eyebrows and said.

"Definitely not only five or six thousand, but also ten thousand" Gao Jie snorted coldly: "Do you distinguish between thieves and people? The people who said this smiled bitterly and were speechless, just imagine that when the officers and soldiers defend the city, they have to recruit young and strong people to go to the city, and the thief army still needs to ask, everywhere you go are thieves, even if the people in the city are not thieves, you will not want to be a thief and eventually be coerced to help the thief, that is to say, the officers and soldiers are now facing tens of thousands of thieves in the city!

"This city should be up and down three zhang and five" Li Yan began to look at the city wall, Gao Jie hummed: "The highest place should be about four zhang, in addition to the wall high and the city is thick, there are urn cities on the east and west sides, you see there are at least four cannons, General Li, where do you say we should start this battle."

Li Yan smiled bitterly: "Yesterday, General Huang also said that this kind of siege war has no other way than hard fighting, not to mention that we don't have artillery ......" As he spoke, a few sharp arrows swooped and inserted them on the ground not far away, so that everyone knew that they were targeted by the thieves in the city, so they beat their horses and stayed away, Liu Liangzuo scolded with a smile: "Let's go farther, don't thieves suddenly bombard, we will all be finished."

Of course, this is a joke, the red-coated cannon weighs more than one time, and it is inconvenient to turn the muzzle, not to mention that it is only suitable to shoot from a distance against the heel of the city.

However, these words reminded Li Yan: "Let's also try the guys from the Shenji Camp."

Wu Weiying was ordered to transfer troops to the other side to send reinforcements, and left Gao Jie with 50 tiger squat cannons and 20 Zhankou general cannons before leaving, the tiger squat cannon is a pure field artillery, which injures the enemy with scattered bullets, and has no effect on the siege and its range is only 500 meters, so it is far away and cannot be hit, and it is close and covered by enemy firepower, and it is used to attack the city more than chicken ribs.

But the general cannon is slightly different, although it is also a field platoon but belongs to the heavy field artillery, it sounds like the same as those bowl guns, in fact, it is not, in ancient times, all those who can be called general guns are heavy firearms, although this general cannon is not as powerful as the red-coated cannon, but it is much stronger than the tiger squat cannon, and more importantly, he fired not scattered bullets but solid bullets, which are still effective in bombing the city, and its range can reach nearly two miles.

With a few loud bangs, Cheng Niandong on the head of the city was frightened, and hurriedly held up the clairvoyant mirror to look, and saw that there was a panic in the east city, and he looked at the camp of the officers and soldiers, and suddenly his face turned pale, and the officers and soldiers actually had heavy artillery!

This discovery made him fall into an ice cave!