Only the cannons temporarily erected on the city played a certain role, and after the boulders fell, they caused some damage to the bridge builders and destroyed some small boats, but on the whole did not stop the pontoon erection of Gao Huaiyuan's army. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Soon a large group of soldiers, holding a loudspeaker, stood outside the city and shouted, with the loudspeaker in their hands, these people let go of their throats and shouted loudly to the rebels in the city: "Listen to the brothers above, we are all Song people, and you and others were forced by the officials to make such a rebellion, and now our general remembers that you and others are forced by others to rebel and not voluntarily, and hereby order us to inform the brothers that as long as you lay down your arms and do not resist the attack of our army, you will not be punished after the city is broken. And the people of the city have also heard, you are being coerced by the rebels, and the blame is not on you, and the general will not blame you!

As long as you don't participate in the resistance, we will ensure that you are not guilty of any offence after entering the city, and anyone who defects and kills the leader of the rebel army will be rewarded by the imperial court! Anyone who opens the door to the city will be promoted to three levels, and civilians can enter the official position with this! ……”

When they heard these shouts ringing around outside the city, there was a commotion on the city, because this time they supported King Ji to ascend the throne, and most of the soldiers were bewitched and coerced by Shangfeng to do it, but this does not mean that these people are willing to work for King Ji, because for a long time, everyone has long been accustomed to regard the Lin'an court as orthodox, and King Ji has made such a trick in a yellow robe in this small Huzhou city, which obviously looks very shabby.

Not to mention the civil and military officials, King Ji doesn't even have a decent palace, he can only use the yamen of Huzhou City's state capital as his palace, so that people can't see him as orthodox in their hearts, at the beginning, I thought that after they got up, King Ji ascended and raised his arms, and the surrounding officials and people should respond to the call, and the Quartet will definitely send reinforcements like a tide, but since they announced the start of the army the day before the Yuan Festival, it has been many days now, and what is waiting for is not to support the reinforcements of King Ji, However, it was a counterinsurgency army sent by the Lin'an Imperial Court, but the reinforcements who supported King Ji did not even see a shadow, at most, a few people came to join the army, which was very different from their original idea.

Coupled with the soldiers and horses led by Liu Bao sent by Li Quan, they were wiped out by the army of the Lin'an Imperial Court after going out to face each other, which made many people's hearts begin to rise to a total and begin to re-examine whether their actions this time were appropriate.

If King Ji is really the rightful heir as they preach, then why don't these surrounding states and armies come here to complement each other?

Now listening to the shouts of the counterinsurgency army under the city, some of the soldiers who were firing arrows began to stop, and even those who were operating the cannon couldn't help but stop pulling the ropes and began to lie on the city wall and listen.

These shouting people did not stop for a while at the beginning of the night, and took turns to fight, holding loudspeakers and shouting non-stop, to Huzhou City to publicize the personnel they were targeting this time, and repeatedly told the soldiers and civilians in the city that as long as they laid down their weapons, they would not be blamed for the past......

As a result, the morale of the army, which was not very united in the city, became even more demoralized.

"Lord Xiao! It's not a way to go on like this, and if the enemy shouts like this, I'm afraid my men will stop doing it! Huzhou City is so big, we don't have enough armor here, and the grain is only enough to eat for ten days, if no one responds and leads the army to support, I'm afraid we won't be able to support it for a few days. Bao Zaitong listened to the shouts of the Lin'an army outside the city, and began to panic a little, and said to Xiao Liang.

Xiao Liang was also frightened at this time, although he thought that there was nothing wrong with King Ji announcing his ascension to the throne in Huzhou this time, but he also knew that it was impossible for a country to have two emperors in charge, after King Ji did this, either King Ji would kill Lin'an City and get rid of Zhao Yun in Lin'an City, or Zhao Yun would kill King Ji.

And now, he also knows that his side is completely at a disadvantage, and the expected soldiers and horses stationed in Jiankang's guard Ma Junsi have not been seen for a long time, and even the Suzhou prefect who had promised to support King Ji has also not moved, but the Changzhou prefect announced that he would obey the order of the Lin'an court and send troops into Taihu Lake to prepare to exterminate the rebels who supported King Ji in Taihu Lake.

And now he wants to lead the troops to resist the army of the Lin'an court, with his ability, he himself is not confident that he can withstand a few days, and now this psychological offensive taken by the other party has caused a certain degree of unease in the city, seeing that there are people on the other side of the moat outside the city who are busy building pontoon bridges, but after he ordered the arrows to be released, there are basically not many people who are executing his orders now.

Xiao Liang gritted his teeth and said: "Bao Commandery, at the moment we have no way to retreat, only hold on here, waiting for the soldiers and horses who support King Ji to come to help, if we can't control the soldiers and horses to stick to the city, then we will be the first evil, it will be difficult to escape death, if your soldiers can't obey the order now, then this battle will not be able to fight, and I hope that the Bao Commander can come forward to suppress it, so that the soldiers will quickly stop the enemy from erecting pontoon bridges, at least we have to find a way to delay them!" ”

Bao Zaitong had no choice at this time, he listened to the encouragement of the Pan brothers, thinking that as long as King Ji announced his accession to the throne, he announced that the emperor of Lin'an in the world was a fake emperor who came to power, and it would definitely cause a large number of soldiers and civilians to serve King Ji in the Great Song Dynasty, but he didn't expect that things were far from what they expected, and now there are very few people who really announce their support for King Ji, and there is no way to talk about reinforcements, so that Huzhou City has become a lonely city.

And as the commander of the left army in front of the palace, he led the troops to support King Ji's ascension to the throne, and has undoubtedly become one of the first offenders involved in the rebellion, others can be exempted as long as they surrender, but even if he ties up King Ji to surrender now, I'm afraid that Lin'an will not be able to spare him, it can be said that this time his speculation has already lost a lot of money, so now he has no choice but to run to the black, after listening to Xiao Liang's words, he sighed, nodded, led some personal soldiers, and began to patrol the city on the city wall, He urged his soldiers to step up the action of blocking the outside of the city, but his order was very ineffective, and when the soldier saw him, he casually released a few arrows, and as soon as he walked on the front foot, the back foot of the soldier stopped firing arrows, and became a passive sabotage.

In order to conquer Huzhou City as soon as possible and seize the people of Jiwang, Gao Huaiyuan did not dare to slack off, and after arranging the affairs of the army, he personally led people to supervise the erection of the pontoon bridge outside the city, and transported all kinds of siege equipment to the city to be erected under the army.

The night was said to be camping and resting, but the generals in the army did not feel sleepy at all at this time, and they all listened to the order and hurriedly arranged the siege of the city.

Listening to the sound of people outside the city shouting and neighing, Zhao Hong, the king of Ji, sat in the yamen of the state capital, and also stayed awake all night, asking people about the movements outside the city from time to time, and recruited Xie Zhouqing, the Pan brothers and others to the state government to discuss countermeasures.

"Xie Zhouqing, you said a few days ago that you had sent someone to Jiankang, and asked the Jiankang garrison army and the guards to come to help? Why haven't you seen a single figure until now? Moreover, the Jiankang garrison has a large number of naval warships, and with the speed of their ships, it is long overdue to take the waterway to Huzhou? King Ji sat behind the big case and asked Xie Zhouqing impatiently.

Xie Zhouqing also sweated on his forehead at this time, he did send someone to Jiankang, persuaded Jiankang's troops to serve King Ji, and even sent people to Zhenjiang, trying to call the Zhenjiang Navy over to help King Ji get up, but the people sent out were like a stone sinking into the sea, without a trace of echo, if Jiankang garrisoned the army or the guard pro-army Ma Junsi promised to send troops to help, it should also be in Huzhou at this time, but at the moment, there is not even a single warship in Taihu Lake, doesn't this just show, Have their lobbying efforts failed?

Thinking that if the Song army of the Jiankang garrison and the Zhenjiang camp refused to support them, then their actions would undoubtedly be dangerous this time, even if the surrounding people listened to their greetings and supported King Ji, without the support of the army, their actions would not be successful.

The court on the Lin'an side has more resources than them, even the armies of Jiankang and Zhenjiang also do not support the Lin'an court, and the strength of the Lin'an court is much stronger than them, at least they have the strength to send troops to attack them, but they don't have the strength to send troops to attack Lin'an, and finally squeezed out Li Quan's soldiers and horses to go to Hongjie Mountain to block the Lin'an army, but he was wiped out, and now he has no good ideas.

So he stammered and explained: "Don't worry, the Holy Lord, we started suddenly, although we have sent people to contact the soldiers and horses from all over the country, but if you want them to immediately raise troops to help, I'm afraid it will take some time!" Although the Lin'an army has arrived in Huzhou, the city walls of Huzhou are tall and strong, the moat is wide and deep, we still have tens of thousands of defenders, and the enemy army has nothing to do with us! ”

At this time, Pan Ren, who was the instigator of this matter, came out and spoke: "Please don't worry about the saint, with me waiting here, I will ensure that the saint is worry-free, the people of Taihu Lake all regard the saint as the master, and the soldiers and people of Huzhou are now the same enemy, and they will never let the enemy army enter the city for half a step."

As long as we hold on here for a period of time, the officials and people from all over the country will definitely come to respond, and when the time comes, we will definitely protect the Holy One to return to Lin'an and take charge of the Great Song Dynasty! ”