The rainy season in the south is not surprising that even the next ten days and a half moon, when the rain is small but not only, the rain is dripping and dripping, which is very meaningful for the literati and ink writers, but for the marching soldiers, they just want to scold their mother.

More than 1,000 foot soldiers led by Lu Daqi and Xu Hongji camped next to a small hill thirty miles away from Wuhu to repair, and the wind and rain were heavy at night, and they built sheds in the forest to avoid the rain, and the hardships can be imagined, and ordinary soldiers can still grit their teeth and persevere, but how can several lords who are well-dressed and well-fed on weekdays have suffered this kind of crime, and they keep complaining, and Lu Daqi can't persuade them again and again for fear of affecting morale.

The lone army went deep into the wild forest at night, Lu Daqi did not dare to be careless, and sent several patrols to take turns to guard, and there were scouts to go south to reconnoiter in-depth intelligence, and reported at dawn: The thieves on the Wuhu side besieged the city, and sent thousands of soldiers and horses to the north to intercept the officers and soldiers to reinforce and kill the officers and soldiers scouts, which was only more than ten miles away from them.

This made several people worried, after all, there were only more than a thousand tired soldiers in hand, how to deal with it?

At this time, Chang Yu's military order in the rear arrived, and he was ordered to repair on the spot and wait for the order, and a few people fell to the ground with a stone in their hearts, especially when they heard that Chang Yanling's main force had arrived at Dangtu, they were even more relieved, and let the soldiers manage this small hill according to local conditions, so that they could repair the troops and resist the enemy.

Tang Hu was a thief leader under Wang Zamao's men, brave and resourceful, he was ordered to lead 500 thieves and 2,000 cannon fodder to the north at dawn to block the reinforcements of the officers and soldiers and prevent him from approaching Wuhu City, so he led the troops to drive the displaced people to the north for 20 miles and camped in a village next to a small lake, while inspecting the terrain while sending scouts to hunt and kill officers and soldiers, scouts and reconnaissance intelligence.

The reason why he was so cautious was entirely because his little friend Chen Dafa was also like him, leading 500 elite soldiers and 2,000 cannon fodder, drinking wine and singing songs, going to Dangtu, and then like a mud cow into the sea, no one died, no corpse was seen!

Naturally, he didn't want to follow in his footsteps.

Being able to swallow Chen Dafa in one bite shows that the officers and soldiers are definitely not small, which makes Tang Hu vigilant and becomes cautious, first find out the bottom of the other party, know himself, and know that the other side can be invincible. Soon the spies came to report: a large number of scouts and small groups of soldiers and horses frantically blocked their infiltration to the north a few miles to the north, but even so, there were officers and soldiers stationed on a small hill more than ten miles to the north, and the strength of the troops was not clear.

"What about the wings?" Tang Hu asked cautiously, and the spy replied: "There is no trace of the enemy from the Yangtze River in the west to the Qingshan River in the east" Tang Hu breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and asked the spies to continue to feel how many troops the officers and soldiers had, and then ordered the thieves under his command to rest for a long time, as long as the officers and soldiers did not attack, they would be left to them.

The reason why this is so is because Wang Zamao's order to him is to block the officers and soldiers from reinforcing the army within twenty miles of Wuhu, and he did not let him take the initiative to attack, and Tang Hu himself did not want to take the initiative to attack.

But Wang Zamao outside Wuhu City had no patience, he just wanted to immediately enter the city and chop those officers and soldiers into mashed meat to take back his belongings. He only slept for a while at dawn and got up before midday, and when he saw that the sky was just dripping, he was overjoyed, and immediately gave the order to prepare for the siege of the city, and even went to inspect the city without taking care of eating and rolling a piece of oil cake.

The city is muddy everywhere, and there are still a lot of corpses lying scattered, these are all shot by officers and soldiers in the cannon fodder attack last night, and the corpses washed away by the rain overnight turned blue and turned white, looking particularly terrible, but Wang Zamao saw more and didn't feel it at all, looking at the city, a few officers and soldiers walked back and forth on it, the corners of his mouth curled up and snorted coldly, just a little bit of people to see how you guard.

Wang Zamao originally had two or three thousand elite soldiers and nearly 10,000 cannon fodder, after Chen Dafa's whole army was annihilated, plus let Tang Hu divide his troops to block the enemy, the head can be used to attack the city with more than 1,000 elite soldiers and 6,000 cannon fodder, if you want to besiege on all sides, there is no way to catch it, and there are rivers outside the east and north of the city, so after going around the city, he decided to attack from the southwest two gates.

Eight thousand against one thousand, the odds are still very big.

The stone throwers on the riverside have all been transported to the bottom of the city, lined up quite imposingly, the cannon fodder built more than 30 ladders overnight, plus the original total of nearly 50, and two siege vehicles, these guys can cope with a small county like Wuhu is enough.

Wang Zamao is now more and more confident that he can break the city in one fell swoop, and now he only needs to boost the morale of the general, and he can push the mountains and the sea.

The morale of the thief army is nothing less than extremely low, the wind and rain on the riverside have been punished, and the city has changed hands, less food and drink, and there is no place to sleep peacefully, not to mention how bad it is, and those who are attached to the thief army are even more miserable, the only remaining food outside the city is not their turn to eat, and they are hungry and drenched in the rain and stay up all night to make siege equipment, and now they have long been tired into dogs and pigs and are hungry and grunting, at this time expect them to work hard to attack the city?

Apparently not dripping.

However, Wang Zamao has a way, this method is actually very simple, and Chang Yu often uses it, which is to draw a big cake with a little favor: "Our grain, grass, gold and silver are all obtained by officers and soldiers in the city, and if you don't have it, you will have no way to live......."

This is not alarmist, and immediately exploded in the homeless people, these homeless people were originally coerced by the thief army and later attached to the thief army, after all, their homeland has been destroyed and they are starving to death, they can only follow the thief army to burn, kill, plunder, eat, drink and mix the days, but now the grain and grass are thrown in the city for the officers and soldiers to occupy, this rainy day without food or drink, it will take three days for someone to starve to death, freeze to death or die of disease.

Looking back, the home has been destroyed, and there is no place to rob even if you want to, and the thief army crossing the border is not a single grass, you can grab a wool!

"There is only one way, to help the rebels break through the city and get back our own food and silver! Otherwise, everyone will starve to death! Wang Zamao ascended and shouted: "Ben will swear here, after the city is broken, the money and food will be divided!" The already tired and exhausted homeless people immediately stirred, what he didn't have to rebel against, life was the most important thing!

Later, Wang Zamao took out all the remaining grain, boiled porridge and ate it, and gave the order to attack the city at noon.

"See, if you don't kill them, they will attack and kill your parents, take your wife and children, and take your food!" Jin Shenghuan in the city shouted loudly to the recruited villagers: "Either they die or you die!" ”

The thief army outside the city is about to move, and the head of the city and Jin Shenghuan dare not slack off and take the opportunity to boost morale, and they must let the people in the city and them know that once the thief army enters the city, the chicken and dog will not stay! In this way, their blood and fighting spirit can be stimulated.

In this way, the people inside and outside the city quickly became the thorn in the side of the other party!

One party wants to kill them for their lives, and the other party wants to kill them back in order to protect their families!

In the face of the menacing thief army, Guo Ren had already put away his contempt and frowned after going around the city: "The thief army is less than 10,000 troops, and it may not be big to attack the city in all directions, and there is water outside the northeast city, which is very likely to choose the southwest and the southwest to attack, in order to disperse our forces, we do not rule out sending small forces of troops and horses to attack from the northeast and the north."

"This thief general is not stupid by anger, the thief army is exhausted after a night of wind and rain, he is in a hurry to attack the city, it is difficult to know that the army is not available!" Jin Shenghuan looked at the thief army in the distance who were sharing food and repairing in the southwest corner, and couldn't help but snort.

"Although the thief army is tired and has fire in his heart, the thief general just wants to use this fire to break the city, not to be underestimated!" Guo Ren looked at it for a while: "The thief army will attack the city soon, let's deal with it in advance, and transfer the main battle forces to the two cities in the southwest."

"It's not a secret, although I have been in the army for many years, I mostly suppress bandits everywhere and have no experience in defending the city. Jin Shenghuan is a very smart guy, firstly, he is telling the truth, and secondly, if it is not good for him to defend the city, he does not have to take the main responsibility.

Guo Ren didn't think so much, and nodded: "Although I haven't eaten much pork, I have seen a lot of pigs walking with Lord Duke, General Jin can trust me so much, then I'm not welcome, from now on, the soldiers and horses in the city will obey the order with me."

Jin Shenghuan hurriedly arched his hand and said: "But by drive!" ”

Guo Ren looked left and right, pulled Jin Shenghuan aside and said in a low voice: "What I am worried about is that the soldiers and horses under the general army of Jin are unusable" Hearing this, Jin Shenghuan couldn't help but sigh secretly, the cavalry he took over was also exhausted from Nanjing, in addition to exhaustion, combat power and combat spirit and combat experience are insufficient, to put it bluntly, there is not much difference from those rural warriors who recruited to the city, and it may even be very inferior, after all, the villagers protect their homeland and will do their best to retreat.

"Besides, is your lord going to transfer your brother to the city? But the city gate is also very important and cannot be lost," Jin Shenghuan frowned and said: "If you change your defense, you will be taken advantage of...... The consequences are terrible! ”

Guo Ren thought for a while: "How about sealing all the four gates, leaving ten guards under the command of the chief soldier of each city gate and two under my command to supervise, and the rest are transferred to the city to supervise the four cities?" Jin Shenghuan nodded after pondering: "This is good, the soldiers and horses in Nanjing are not usable, but the subordinates of the adults are all fierce soldiers who can attack and defend, and there will be no big basket with them to supervise the battle."

"Mr. Jin, don't always wear high hats for us!" Guo Ren laughed, and then ordered to enter a state of preparation.