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Su Jin said hurriedly: "King Qin took his guards to disguise himself a little, just cover up and hide, King Qin, Chebai is coming to An, and it will be too late if you don't leave, please set off immediately." ”

Qin Mu said unmoved: "Are you all fools when everyone else? Now the outside of the city must have been covered with the eyes of the Qing army, not to mention that the king returned to Jinling with hundreds of personal guards, even if a fly flies out, I am afraid that he will not be able to escape the eyes of the Qing army. ”

"King Qin is the body of ten thousand gold, and it is related to the safety of my Great Qin"

"Su Jin!"

"The minister is here."

"When we only have 2,000 people, we dare to take the initiative to attack Zhang Xianzhong's hundreds of thousands of troops, when we are in Wuchang, we dare to fight hard Azig without frowning, and now we have laid down half of the country, but I am afraid that tens of thousands of lonely troops from Duoduo will come, damn it, have you all become soft-footed shrimp?"

"Minister"

"Don't talk nonsense, immediately arrange according to the plan, this time the king wants to let Duoduo come and go."

"Whoa!"

Su Jin didn't dare to say more, so he had no choice but to leave in a hurry.

Duoduo hurriedly went south, too late to bring artillery and other siege weapons, at present, Chuzhou has more than 10,000 horses, and also made a series of arrangements in advance, with Duoduo 40,000 cavalry want to capture Chuzhou, only afraid of breaking his teeth.

The city wall of Chuzhou is two feet high and seven feet high, the circumference of the city is about 10 miles, and there are 6 gates: the big east gate is called the Huari gate, the small east gate is called the Huanyi gate, the big west gate is called the Yongfeng gate, the small west gate is called the Guande gate, the south gate is called the Jianghuai gate, and the north gate is called the arch gate.

In the seventeenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the city of each gate was rebuilt, 12 nest shops were added, 3,549 battlements, 4 corner towers, the water of the west stream was introduced into the city, and the water pass was built. There are 3 holes in the arch circle, half of the city wall and half of the bridge, and there are feasible people on it.

The most worth mentioning is that the moat around Chuzhou City is more than 50 steps wide, two people are deep over the top, in fact, it is to lead the clear river around the city, and there are river bridges outside each city gate to communicate inside and outside the city.

As long as the defenders in the city hold the bridge, the moat that is more than 50 steps wide alone makes the attacking side sigh. This is also one of the reasons why Qin Mu dared to stay in Chuzhou as a bait.

There is the Lai'an River near Lai'an, which flows from northeast to southwest, and joins the Qingliu River fifty miles south of Chuzhou, and then zigzags eastward into the Yangtze River. Give the west side of the Lai'an River time to fight for the clear field of the fortified wall.

Although the Lai'an River is only ten zhang wide and the water depth is less than one zhang, even if the Tartars are cold-resistant, they dare not wade through the water in this cold winter.

There was Su Jin on the west bank of the river to block the attack. It is difficult to build a bridge, and it is impossible to cross the river for a while. He was so anxious that he was impetuous. Fortunately, there were constantly meticulous efforts to reciprocate, and it was determined that Qin Mu was still in Chuzhou City and did not escape, so that he felt a little comforted;

Chebai was a man with a strong enterprising spirit, and he was not discouraged by the temporary hindrance, believing that he would find an opportunity to cross the river at night.

The army originally stationed at Qingliu Pass by the Red Lady was left with 1,500 people to defend the pass. Most of them were withdrawn to the city of Chuzhou.

She was dressed in a military uniform, wearing a red cloak on the outside, and carried a horsewhip into Qin Mu's residence on the east side of the state government, and saw that he was thinking about something alone in front of the sand table.

The hall was quiet. The red charcoal fire made the hall warm, and the red lady walked up to Qin Mu and asked, "What are you thinking?"

"You're back?" Qin Mu answered the question, his eyes were staring at the sand table, but his hands grabbed the red lady's hands very naturally and covered them in his palms.

The red lady who had just galloped into the city was so cold that her hands were cold, and her mouth was spraying hot air when she spoke, she subconsciously wanted to break with Qin Mu's hands, but she didn't know what to do, so she didn't make any effort, so she let him cover it.

"I ask you what you're thinking? Are you trying to play some tricks again? ”

Qin Mu turned his head and took a few hot breaths at her frozen red hands before he said, "Ying'er, look, what is this?" ”

Qin Mu's subtle movements, natural care, made the red lady's heartbeat inexplicably accelerated, and there was a feeling of heat on her body, she glanced at the sand table along Qin Mu's hand and said, "Isn't this Xianghe?" ”

"That's right, it's Xianghe, so what about here?"

"Lai'an River."

"Did Ying'er see what's coming?"

"What do you want to do?"

"These two inconspicuous rivers, although they are no more than ten feet wide, have given me new ideas. Ying'er, let's have a big game this time. ”

The red lady asked curiously, "What do you want to do?" ”

"I plan to wait for Duoduo to arrive, and let Su Jin's 6,000 cavalry withdraw to the east bank of the Anhe River, and not return to Chuzhou."

"Nope." The red lady said categorically, "I don't care what tricks you have, now there are only 8,000 people in Chuzhou City, if you let Su Jin's 6,000 men and horses withdraw to the east bank of the Hui'an River, who will guard Chuzhou?" ”

"Ying'er, don't get excited, as the saying goes, husband and wife are concentric, and their strength is broken, you and I will take 8,000 people to guard Chuzhou, it's enough!"

The red lady couldn't care about him anymore, and continued to object: "Don't mess around, Chuzhou will be trapped at that time, and there are so few defenders in the city, if the ministers of the court and the central government mess up, it will be over." ”

Qin Mu said with a smile: "Don't worry, it's not messy." When I was lifting the water, it was much more dangerous than this time, and I didn't see the chaos in Wuchang. Ying'er, you see, there is the Xiang River in Quanjiao County in the west, and the Lai'an River in Lai'an County in the east, these two inconspicuous small rivers meet at the mouth of the Sanchao River in the south of Chuzhou, and the Qingliuguan Mountains in the north bloom a triangle with a radius of dozens of miles.

If Duoduo wants to attack Chuzhou, tens of thousands of troops will have to enter this triangle, and at that time, as long as our army holds the west bank of the Xianghe River and the east bank of the Lai'an River, Duoduo will become a turtle in the urn. ”

"You think beautifully, this river is not wide, how can tens of thousands of troops be so easy to trap?"

"It's because they're not wide, they're inconspicuous, and it's easy for the enemy to fall into the trap, as for whether they can trap Duoduo or not, it's up to us, I believe that there are our husbands and wives in the city, since Duoduo is here, he will never give up until the last time, and when he realizes that Chuzhou can't be captured, he is already a veteran of the division, and when the time comes, these two small rivers will be enough to kill them."

"But we only have 8,000 men."

"Eight thousand against forty thousand, and a moat fifty steps wide, tens of thousands of young people can be organized in the city to defend the city together, if you can't keep it, I, Qin Mu, take a rope by myself, find a crooked neck tree, stretch my neck, and kick my feet."

"What nonsense are you talking about!" The red lady hurriedly interrupted him.

Originally, Qin Mu's plan was to lure Duoduo to Chuzhou, and then concentrate the troops on the eastern front, go north along the Yellow River, and quickly capture Suqian and Xuzhou. If it goes well, then attack Fengyang with a land and water army to the west.

It's just that once the army attacks Fengyang, Duoduo's back road is threatened, and he is likely to retreat quickly, and the most ideal result of this plan is only to capture Xuzhou, and Duoduo's overall strength will not be greatly reduced.

If it is changed according to the current plan, then it is to concentrate troops to besiege Duoduo's 40,000 horses, and once successful, the blow to the Manchus will be greater than the capture of ten Xuzhou.

Qin Mu immediately made a decision, and issued several wills in succession, asking all parties to immediately adjust their plans and prepare to catch turtles in the urn.

Then he inspected the four cities with the red lady, Han Gang and Niu Wanchuan and other generals have arranged the Chuzhou city defense like an iron bucket, and Shi Qing is responsible for organizing the young and strong in the city, patrolling the city strictly, and pulling the city to help defend it if necessary.

After the last day, Qin Mu went to see the grain, grass and weapon reserves in Chengzhong, and after making sure that it would not be a problem to support it for 50 days, he suddenly found that there was nothing to do.

Duoduo, you should hurry up, I don't know if waiting is the hardest part?

At dusk, when he returned to his residence on the east side of the yamen, Qin Mu asked people to boil two pots of good wine, and drank with the red lady under the window, the north wind howled outside the window, and the window was as warm as spring.

The red lady drank some wine, the heroism on her face decreased a little, her eyes became a little hazy, and she was invisibly a little more feminine.

She was twenty-four or five years old, like a ripe apple, with an enticing fragrance.

When the two of them were drinking, they said very little, Qin Mu's eyes said that it was frank or unscrupulous, anyway, he never dodged when he looked at her.

The red lady pretended to have nothing to do on the surface, but after all, she was a woman, and it was inevitable that she would be a little uncomfortable to be looked at by a man like this.

"Ying'er."

"What?"

"Here, another drink."

"Drink it, drink it, what do you tell me to do!"

"Hehe" In fact, Qin Mu could feel that she was a little nervous, with her martial arts, in fact, there was no need to be nervous at all, but she was indeed a little nervous, which was a good thing for Qin Mu, "Ying'er, can you sit here?" ”

"Humph!" The red lady snorted disdainfully and pinned her head to the side.

If the mountain doesn't come, I'll go to the mountain.

Qin Mu has always been a proactive person

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