In the Ganzhou Prefecture Ya, several party generals sat around a pile of fire and sat with their heads bored. There was meat and wine in front of him, and the atmosphere was dull.

Gule Cunzhong drank a bowl of wine and said, "The Song army has arrived at the city of Ganzhou, and it is about to attack the city." We don't have many soldiers and horses in the city, how can we support it? sent people to Liangzhou to ask for reinforcements, and said that there were no soldiers and horses sent. ”

Mustang Yuanchang said: "Tai Lieutenant, the Song army is attacking in two ways, where are there reinforcements to send?" I heard that there are 300,000 Song troops in Tiandu Mountain, and there are no boundaries, and the surrounding soldiers and horses have been transferred there. ”

Le Luoying sighed: "The most hateful thing is that the people under his rule do not listen to the collection, and the number of troops is less than half. As a result, it was impossible to go out of the city to face the battle, there was no one to carry food and grass, and the army could not go far. ”

Gu Le Cunzhong said: "You still want to go out of the city to fight? Not to mention that our troops are less than half of the Song army, that is, the two formations are opposite, they use guns, we use swords and guns, how to fight? Don't you know that Hue crossed the first battle? The 60,000 army was annihilated by the Song army of 30,000! ”

Hearing this, the other two sighed. Du Zhongxiao fought a war three years ago, beat the party to the cold, and almost obeyed everything in the Song Dynasty. In the past few years, the party has poured all the strength of the whole country into making artillery, and can only arm a few cities such as Lingzhou and Xingqingfu. A place like Ganzhou is a remote place for the party, and I have never even seen the shadow of a cannon.

After drinking for a while, Mustang Yuanchang said: "Captain, the Song army has arrived at the city, and it will definitely attack the city within three or two days." What are we going to do? ”

Gu Le Cunzhong said: "What else can I do? Organize the army and defend the city. It has begun to snow today, and I am only looking forward to the heavy snow for three days and three nights in a row, so that the Song army will retreat. ”

When Mustang Yuanchang heard this, he couldn't help but shake his head again and again. Ganzhou, located in the northwest, does not have much rain and snow a year, and relies on the Heishui River outside the city, which is a typical irrigated agriculture. Three days and three nights of heavy snow, Mustang Yuanchang has lived for fifty years and has not seen it.

In a head-on battle with the Song army, the party did not have the courage, and neither could Gu Le Cunzhong, who had always been known as a strong general. In the past, the generals were brave and could charge the enemy in person. The Song army used guns and cannons, and they didn't engage with their own short-handed soldiers, so what was the use of being brave? No matter how high the ability is, one shot will fall.

Han Qi and Zhao Zi stood on the bank of the black water, looking at Ganzhou City opposite, and were silent for a long time. He led his troops to fight here, and Di Qing of Tiandu Mountain didn't know what to do. Nearly two months have passed since the war started in September, and I heard that it has not yet left Tiandu Mountain, which makes Han Qi puzzled. He has an army of 300,000, and there is no strong enemy on the opposite side, so he should quickly sweep Tiandu Mountain and go straight to Lingzhou.

The original plan was that when Di Qing led the army to attack Lingzhou, Han Qi led his troops to sweep Hexi and force Xingqing Mansion from the west of the Yellow River. Now Di Qing has been delayed from leaving Tiandu Mountain, which makes Han Qi feel a little difficult. If he takes Liangzhou, Di Qing has not captured Mingsha, and the army is out of Tiandu Mountain, and the things that follow will make people confused.

Zhao Zi arrived at the Heishui River, stomped on the ice, and came back and said, "Captain, the ice on the river is extremely strong, and the artillery carriage can pass over." Three days later, the siege began! ”

Han Qi looked at the tall city wall of Ganzhou and said in a deep voice: "The ancients said that the siege of the city should be surrounded by three ques and one to leave a way for them to survive. It is better to wait for two days, and when all the cavalry arrives, we will leave the city gate to the east, and it will not be too late to attack. The party members went out of the city, and the cavalry chased and killed. ”

Zhao Zi said: "It's okay." It's just that the people in the vicinity of twenty miles have been captured by the party members and brought into the city, and there is no supply. If you wait a few more days, you will have to waste the grain that will be brought from the rear. ”

Han Qi smiled when he heard this: "General, look at the city wall of Ganzhou, it is very tall, how can it be so easy to attack?" Wait two more days, not necessarily two days later if the city is broken. Ganzhou is 500 miles away from Liangzhou, and as long as the party members go out of the city, they will certainly not be able to escape. ”

On the second day, Le Luoying hurriedly arrived at the Shuai's mansion and said to Gu Le Cunzhong: "Captain, the Song Army Brigade has arrived, and it is setting up artillery outside!" ”

Hearing this, Gule Cunzhong suddenly stood up from his seat and said, "Take me to see!" This time to defend the city, what I am most afraid of is the artillery of the Song army, but I don't know how sharp it is. Last year, when I went to Xingqing Mansion, I saw the cannon cast by this dynasty, which was extremely heavy, and I heard that it should be easy to carry, it must be a small cannon, and the power was much smaller, and it was not very powerful. It's just that Song Jun is different, how it is, I haven't seen it with my own eyes. ”

The two of them left the marshal's mansion, arrived at the city tower, and looked out of the city. I saw that the Song army crossed the black water along the ice and set up a formation in the south and north of the city, which was extremely huge. In the military formation, there were many horses dragging artillery wagons and arranging gun emplacements.

The artillery position of the Song army was not far from the city, and the artillery could be seen clearly from the city tower. Compared with the party artillery, the artillery of the Song army was significantly lighter, but it was not known how powerful it was. Since the Song army placed the cannon there, it was thought that it could hit the city wall.

Le Luoying said: "There are clouds in the book of soldiers, and the battle should be half crossed." Tai Lieutenant, did you take advantage of the unstable arrangement of the Song army to send troops out of the city to fight? ”

Gule Cunzhong looked at the neat lineup of the Song army outside the city, all holding muskets loaded with bayonets, and waited for battle. Shaking his head: "Have you heard of the Hue War?" The White Horse Supervisor Army Division attacked the Song army that was lined up and buried all the elites, which had no effect. You see the Song army outside the city, the artillery is under the protection of the infantry, what's the use of sending troops out of the city? Order the soldiers, stay ready, and don't go out of the city! ”

Le Luoying said: "You can't go out of the city to harass, so you have to wait for the Song army to set up a position and attack the city with artillery." How can this kind of battle be fought? ”

Gu Le Cunzhong shook his head and did not speak. The devil knows how to fight such a battle. The firearms of the Song army, in fact, against the Shanglen weapons army, as long as they do not make mistakes, will basically not suffer losses in field battles. Han Qi's 30,000 troops happened to be all the way, and they were Zhao Zi's veterans, which was completely different from the situation of Di Qing's company. Zhao Zi's army has everything in the army, Han Qi has not made changes, and it is not something that the party can deal with in Hexi. As long as it is steady and steady, the party really has no choice but to stand here and be beaten passively.

Everything was in order, and it was obviously trained. The gun emplacements are set up, calculated by their own artillery, and in accordance with the commander's orders, facing several important points. At this time, the Heihe River froze, and there was a smooth road outside Ganzhou City, and everything was in order.

Gu Le Cunzhong looked at it for a long time and said: "The Song army is attacking from the north to the south, not to mention the black water in the west of the city, and the east of the city is also set aside. ”

Le Luoying said: "The cavalry of the Song army is very powerful, as long as you go out of the city, you will inevitably be able to escape its poisonous hands. Knowing this, what's the use of staying at the East City Gate! ”

Gu Le Cunzhong sighed: "General, there are some things that you know you can't do, but you have to do them. As long as the Song army attacked the city fiercely enough, even if we knew that it was not good to go out of the city, we could only go out of the city. ”

From Xingxing Gorge to here, Han Qi has advanced more than a thousand miles in more than a month, and has fought with the party several times, how can Gu Le Cunzhong not know that the cavalry of the Song army is powerful? But so what? When the city can't be defended, you still have to lead the troops out of the city to escape, even if you know that you can't escape.

Combat is like that, it's not always a conspiracy. Most of the time, when the two soldiers are really facing each other, it depends on who can fight to the end. The party has no artillery to defend the city, and the city wall is afraid that it will not be able to stay. If you can't hold the city wall, how can you hold Ganzhou City?

As a guard, Gu Le Cunzhong already knew that he was bound to fail, but he didn't know how long he could defend it.