In Jixian County, Gao Sheng heard that Li Yi's army under the city was beating the drum again, and he also took his subordinates and hurried towards the East City Gatehouse.

According to Li Yijun's practice in recent days, beating the drum of the generals means that the city is about to launch a siege.

Gao Sheng took a large group of his subordinates to climb the city tower, looking at Li Yi's army outside the city, and he was puzzled.

Although in the past few days, Li Yi's army under the city has attacked the city with great momentum every time, but the number of people who attack each time is not large, that is, one or two thousand. However, today is obviously different, and judging by the situation, the size of the troops that Li Yijun is preparing to launch the first attack is no less than 2,000 people, and the follow-up troops must be the largest.

"Could it be that Li Yi learned that the army led by Yan Zheng was about to arrive at the battlefield and couldn't wait to launch a general attack?" Gao Sheng said suspiciously.

"Don't worry, my lord, with a mere 20,000 or 30,000 people of Li Thief, how can he have the Xiongcheng under our feet?" One of his subordinates shouted disapprovingly.

"Brother Zhao is right, the city under our feet is not ordinary, at the beginning, the lord and Zhang Bao and others led more than 100,000 troops, surrounded the city on all sides, and there were only two or three thousand Han troops in the city, and the lord and Zhang Bao and others paid a great price to take the city. Now that the lord has an army of 100,000, how can the 20,000 or 30,000 horses of the Li thief be able to capture it! ”

"It must be that Li Thief heard that General Yan Zheng's army came back to help, and he was scared, so he just made a desperate bet, so there is no need to worry."

"Haha, I hope that the Li thief will launch a fierce attack, which will only create an opportunity for us to kill and injure his soldiers!"

Everyone was talking about it, and Gao Sheng's doubts gradually disappeared. He turned his head and looked around at the generals behind him, slightly drunk, there are so many talents under his command, and all the hundreds of millions of money collected by Zhang Bao all the way north belong to him, and it is a troubled time, this is a good opportunity to do a great job!

Just as he was thinking of the place of pride, he saw that one of the staff members frowned deeply, looking worried.

Gao Sheng was shocked at the moment, if it was someone else, he might not be moved, but this person was the resourceful Zhu Liang Zhu Zhongming who made up his mind to rush back to Jixian County to clean up the mess a few days ago!

This Zhu Liang Zhu Zhongming is different from other staff, he is one of the first celebrities who took refuge in Gao Sheng when he attacked Shanggu.

Yes, a real Baume & Mercier, albeit a little down.

After his defection, Gao Sheng has always regarded him as a military advisor.

And this Zhu Liang did not live up to his trust, and gave him a lot of strength in the process of attacking Shanggu County and Dai County.

Gao Sheng asked nervously, "What did Mr. Zhu see?" Li thief has another cunning plan? ”

Zhu Liang gave up his hand and said in a deep tone: "I can't talk about what I have seen, but Zhu does have doubts in his heart." ”

"Why don't you speak out, sir?" Gao Sheng said.

Zhu Liang did not shirk, pointed to Li Yi's army outside the city and asked: "Lord, gentlemen, I don't know if you have found out, every time Li Thief launched an attack on the city, it was earth-shattering, but he did not launch any effective attacks, and after making some noise, he retreated." Don't you think this kind of behavior is suspicious? ”

"Huh? Brother Zhu didn't say it, I really didn't notice that although the Li thief had to attack the city every day, he only sent one or two thousand people every time, and his will to attack the city was not resolute at all. ”

"There's something else in this?"

"Could it be...... Is it a plan to repair the plank road and secretly cross Chen Cang? ”

Gao Sheng is a person with ideals, so his attitude towards the Haoqiang clan is different from that of other Yellow Turban Army. The vast majority of the generals of the Yellow Turban Army, for the people of the Haoqiang clan who were caught, they caught one and killed one by one, but Gao Sheng, the general of the Yellow Turban Army with different ambitions, beat a group of people from the Haoqiang clan who were caught by him.

Not all of the people who are strong and powerful in the noble clan are willing to die unyieldingly. Especially some people who are not mixed well, they are already full of resentment towards the court and those who are ambitious. Now that there is such a person as Gao Sheng, who specializes in opposing the imperial court and the heroes of the Dezhi clan, and is willing to take them in, he will naturally go down the slope and join him.

Through this method, in the process of attacking Shanggu County and Dai County, he really attracted a lot of celebrities like Zhu Liang.

Such a group of people, although they are either down-and-out or have poor character, are all people with some knowledge, they didn't think much about it before, but after being reminded by Zhu Liang at this time, they quickly came to a similar conclusion.

Gao Sheng's reaction was not so fast, before following Zhang Jiaoqi, he was just an illiterate peasant. After following Zhang Jiao, although he has seen a lot of scenes, when it comes to resourcefulness, it is still his shortcoming, and he immediately asked puzzledly: "Ming Xiu plank road secretly crosses Chen Cang?" What is light and what is dark? ”

"The army is attacking the city in the light, and it is both true and false; Cave attack sneak attack in the dark, nine times out of ten! Zhu Liang said a word.

"Cave attack? Are they digging tunnels? So what to do? When Gao Sheng heard this, he was immediately anxious.

"Don't worry, my lord, although I couldn't see through the cunning of the Li thief in the first time, but I haven't waited in vain for the past few days, and the arrangements that should be done have been done. Lord, please see, that canal is specially placed for breaking holes. ”

"The method of attacking the acupoint is mainly to attack it unprepared, Jixian County is located on the bank of Luoshui, there is no shortage of water, only need to lead water into the city, after finding the exit of the tunnel, directly lead the water to irrigate, discipline Li thief has no return."

There are many down-and-out celebrities in Upper Valley County and Dai County, but no one is designated to be in charge. It's not that Gao Sheng doesn't want to, it's just that the reputation of these people is about the same, and it's hard to distinguish between the superior and the inferior, and if you just promote one person, it will chill the hearts of others.

This is also a kind of happy trouble, and there are too many celebrities and celebrities.

So far, this trend has also reflected benefits.

The arrangement of the city guard, the crowd of people working together, no matter how big or small, are all in order. When there are difficult problems, everyone works together to pick up each other's shortcomings, and perfect the strategy and tactics. Coupled with the sense of competition, it drives everyone to spare no effort.

There are so many benefits, so why change?

However, Gao Sheng still pays attention to it, and he has offered suggestions many times, and every time he talks about Zhu Liang at the juncture, he attaches great importance to it.

Gao Sheng nodded, in response to everyone's relief, and then asked Zhu Liang, "Mr. Zhu, you still seem to have doubts?" ”

"Don't hide it from the lord, Liang does have doubts." Zhu Liang raised his finger and pointed at Li Yijun, who had already assembled outside the city, and said in a deep voice, "It is reported that when Li Thief attacked Yongnu, he also used the method of acupoint attack, but he was diverted by the defenders in the city and poured water, and returned in vain. Liang thought that they would have something to rely on when they mobilized the people, and the key was in this method of attacking! ”

When Guan Yu and Zhang Fei led the army to feign attacking Yongnu City, in order to exert enough pressure on Zhang Qun in the city and reduce their own casualties, the two did take many methods, and the cave attack was also among them. After Yongnu City was breached, there were also defeated soldiers who fled back to Jixian County, so it was not surprising that Gao Shengjun got the news in this regard.

Gao Sheng asked, "What is the specific method?" ”

"Ryo doesn't know." Zhu Liang shook his head.

Gao Sheng asked again: "Then, in the opinion of Mr., how should it be broken?" ”

Zhu Liang didn't answer, he muttered for a long time, and suddenly raised his head, his eyes flashed, and said, "Send troops!" Directly engage the Li thief under the city, so that the Li thief's siege plan cannot be implemented! ”

The city fell into a deathly silence all of a sudden, and the next moment, all the staff shook their heads and sighed in unison, and retorted.

"Sending troops? Is it just for Brother Zhu's imagination? ”

"Who can guarantee that the Li thief is not engaged in these mysteries, not to lead our army to dispatch, set a trap, and take the opportunity to counterattack and seize the city? You must know that the Li thief is not ordinary, Cheng Yuanzhi, Zhang Qun and Zhang Bao are all folded in the hands of this wingman, although our army is strong, there is no certainty of victory. This is a big mistake. ”

"There must be a limit to being different, there is a strong city to defend, but you have to go out of the city to fight, isn't this a joke about everyone's safety? Brother Zhu, although the lord trusts you, you don't have to be arrogant and make plans! ”

"If it weren't for the fact that we and Brother Zhu were old acquaintances, I'm afraid we would have to wonder if Brother Zhu was a spy sent by Thief Li."

"Yes, yes! Brother Zhu's proposal is too outrageous to be feasible! ”

;