After entering May, the displaced soldiers divided their roads and spread out all over the land of Huaisi.

All the way, Ge Pingtian's army was the main army, stationed in Jining, to guard against the enemy in the north and northwest. There are the most soldiers and horses on this road, but there are few elite soldiers who can be used.

Liu An'er also has an elite army in Weishan County, north of Xuzhou, in case Ge Ping can't block the impact of the Liang family's soldiers and horses in the north. It is also necessary to guard against Cao Yiqu's sudden dispatch of troops along the river and Bian to attack their flanks.

All the way, Chen and Han were mainly stationed in the Fenghe Dazhai in the south of Yancheng County and Shuyang City, in addition to encircling the Shuyang defenders and cutting off the communication between Xu and Yi and the south, the main thing was to prepare for the enemy in Huaidong.

Liu An'er also deployed more than 30,000 troops in Hao and Si in Huaixi, and invited Gong Yu to cut into Shouchun to contain the enemies in Dongyang and Luzhou.

Liu An'er personally led the elite soldiers of the headquarters and the elite of his sister Liu Miaozhen, with a total of more than 100,000 people, to besiege Xuzhou.

Since Hongzepu raised his army, he has hundreds of thousands of people, turned to the world, and attacked cities and plundered no less than 100 places, which made the officials and guards in various places frightened. However, in the past two years, hundreds of thousands of soldiers have been hungry and thin, and the government has eased up a little, Liu An'er feels that he is restrained everywhere, and there are many soldiers and horses that cannot be used, and he has repeatedly worried about food and grass.

If you think about it, there is still no place to build a solid foundation.

Xuzhou was known as Pengcheng in ancient times, and it can resist the enemies of Henan and Shandong, and it is operated by controlling the fertile soil of Huaisi in the south, which is enough to raise hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

In addition to the landscape shape, Xuzhou also produces coal and iron. Coal mining and iron smelting can also strengthen the army.

Liu An'er was determined to lay Xuzhou as the foundation this time, and also promised the generals to lay down Xuzhou and divide the house and land.

In addition to Bianshui and Surabaya flowing through Xuzhou, Xuzhou belongs to the Huanghuai Plain, which is also an extension of Lunan Shannan.

The territory is undulating and surrounded by mountains.

There are Guangshan and Zifang Mountain in the east, Yunlong Mountain and Phoenix Mountain in the south, Luliang Mountain in the southeast, Quanshan Mountain in the southwest, Jiuli Mountain in the northwest, Tongshan, Jingshan and Guishan in the northeast.

Although these mountains are not high, between thirty or forty zhang and more than one hundred zhang, they stand on the Huanghuai Plain, but they are obviously very prominent, and they have become a natural barrier to guard Xuzhou.

The Liumin army besieged Xuzhou, first crossed Bianshui and Surabaya, and uprooted the outer cottage forts one by one.

When the Changhuai army was sealed in the city, the outer Gangling became a natural trench for the exile army to besiege Xuzhou.

On top of the Gangling, the Liumin Army drove tens of thousands of people to set up camp and erect fences between the Gangling, digging trenches and walls, forming layers of siege barriers, and a gap in the northeast of Xuzhou City came out.

Liu An'er is not playing the strategy of "encircling three and weakening the will of the defenders".

Since Yue Lengqiu led the Changhuai army to the north to suppress the bandits, although there was no great loss in the battle, but the small amount became a lot, and the soldiers and horses were also weakened a lot, and they had to divide the troops to defend Linyi and Shuyang, and finally retreated through the Changhuai soldiers in Xuzhou plus the local defenders in Xuzhou, a total of less than 20,000 people.

Liu An'er came with more than 100,000 elite soldiers, intending to annihilate the Changhuai army again. The Changhuai army is wiped out, and there will be no soldiers and horses between the Jianghuai and the Jianghuai who can compete with it. As long as the enemy from the north and northwest is blocked, he will have a few years to calmly manage Huaisi.

Liu An'er deliberately left a gap in the northeast of Xuzhou City, because in the northeast direction, where Surabaya flowed, there were rocks and waves, and the terrain swooped down to Xuzhou City. As long as the Yanshan embankment there is opened, Surabaya will be poured directly into Xuzhou City from the mouth between Jingshan Mountain and Guishan Mountain.

In addition to building barriers and releasing water to irrigate the city, Liu An'er also built a high platform on the slope between Nancheng and Phoenix Mountain.

The city of Xuzhou is four zhang high, more than four zhang thick, the stone foundation, rammed earth piece building, the outer city wall, built solid and abnormal. After filling in the moat and leading Surabaya to irrigate the city, for nearly a month, there was no possibility of the city wall collapsing.

Yue Lengqiu has no shortage of garrisons in the city, and it is useless for the homeless army to attach ladder ants to the city wall. Although it is time-consuming and labor-intensive, it is also simple and effective. Put the earth and stone under the root of the city wall, the same height as the city wall, or even higher than the city wall, and take the cloud bridge, then rush to the head of the city, which is much sharper than the ant attached from the city, and your own archers, catapults, and bed crossbows can also be placed on the high stones, suppressing the head of the city and the defenders of the city, and assisting in the siege of the city, all have miraculous effects.

If there is a disadvantage in the siege of the fortified civil platform, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it is not conducive to a quick attack.

Yue Lengqiu, as a civil servant, was known for his good defense.

Five years ago, after the defeat of the border army at Chentangyi, it was crushed for thousands of miles.

When the border army was defeated, he led more than 10,000 remnants to defend Heihe, and then retreated to Linyu to organize the Yanshan defense line.

Liu An'er led his troops to abscond back to Sizhou at that time, he was familiar with the Liang family's father and son, but he had never seen Yue Lengqiu, but in the past six months, he had fought with Yue Lengqiu on both sides of Yingshui for more than half a year, and he also figured out his habits, so he took water grinding to attack Xuzhou.

Liu An'er only lacks food in her hands, and there is no shortage of people.

In addition to 200,000 soldiers and horses, there are also hundreds of thousands of family members of the army, who can serve as a force and build a few high mountains close to the city wall from the east and south of Xuzhou City, which does not take much time.

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The wandering army built a high platform to attack the city, and the city was built with a high wall attached to the wall. The offensive and defensive changes at the head of the city have changed in recent months, but the exile army has not been allowed to attack the city.

The biggest headache for Yue Lengqiu was the heavy water that poured into the city from the northeast corner, submerging almost two-thirds of the city.

Now the northwest corner of the city is slightly higher and has not been flooded, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians mixed with refugees are crowded there, and even the people of the Chu Wangfu can only be crowded into a small courtyard the size of three entrances.

Yue Lengqiu's other servants built a causeway in the water, which was connected to the four cities as a military route for soldiers and horses to advance and retreat.

It was early June, and it was pouring rain from time to time, and although the heavy rain could force the exile army attacking the city to retreat temporarily, the city was flooded more, and the northwest slope of the city became more and more crowded.

Many civilians could not retreat to the north-western slope and climbed houses and trees in the flooded areas. There is nowhere to make a fire, so they chew raw rice, but the excrement is drained, and the bodies of those who die of starvation or drowning are floating on the water, and no one is buried.

The weather is hot, mosquitoes and flies breed, and there is an uncontrolled spread of labor diseases.

In the summer and autumn rainy season, the water potential will only be greater, not smaller, the city will not be flooded, and the city will not recede, without waiting for the food to run out or the bandits will invade the city, and let the epidemic spread, Xuzhou City will become a dead city by itself - with the current situation, Xuzhou will not be able to carry it for two months and wait for the water to recede.

Standing at the head of the city, the heavy rain was pouring down, and the rain could not stop the rain from pouring into the armor, looking at the camp tents stretching out of the bandits, he knew the habits of the Liang family's father and son, and he had earned enough capital to capture Jinan, and it was impossible to easily go south and carry it with Liu An'er.

Liu An'er went out of the army around him, and in two or three years, he accumulated merit as a general, in addition to being brave and daring to fight, he was also good at knowing military affairs, and he was valued by Liang Chengchong, Hou of Changxiang, and was the commander of the forward battalion of Liang Chengchong's department.

It can be used as the commander of the forward battalion, not a cronie, not a general who can fight.

The father and son of the Liang family were unable to fight in Jinan, and Yue Lengqiu suspected that they had a dirty affair with Liu An'er in secret.

It is no wonder that Yue Lengqiu has such suspicions: Xuzhou City is broken, the Changhuai army is destroyed, Jianghuai is lost, the luxury family enters northern Zhejiang, and Beijing cannot get enough food and salary from Jianghuai and Zhejiang, what to use to support the border army? If the border army is weakened again, it may be able to barely maintain the Yanbei defense line, but no one can control the Liang family from separating Shandong and Zhongzhou.

"Rebels and thieves, everyone will be punished!" Yue Lengqiu stood at the head of the city, hating and scolding in his heart, but he forgot that when he went north to King Qin, he also sat on the wall and watched, and let Lu Jingyan and Lu Wang Yuanjiancheng stay in Jinan until the city was broken.

Yue Lengqiu didn't think about breaking through, in addition to the opening from the northeast, there is also an opening in the southeast that has not been sealed, and if you protrude from there, you can go to Linyi.

But Yue Lengqiu knew that it was a tempting trap left by Liu An'er, and they couldn't see the situation behind Luliang Mountain in the southeast from the city, but he knew that as long as Liu An'er set up an ambush all the way behind Luliang Mountain, he would be able to strike a fatal blow when they broke through to the bank of the Surabaya River.

Even if he knew that Liu An'er had a trap, but it was death to be trapped in the city, and that gap became extra tempting.

Yue Lengqiu weighed the advantages in his heart, and when he broke through, he still had a few chances of winning by seizing the walled city of the bandits on Luliang Mountain.

Rebelling against the displaced people usually does not become a climate. But Liu An'er was well prepared, and he had been dormant for nearly two years, gathering 21 villages in Hongzepu, with 35,000 elites.

After the uprising, Liu An'er quickly occupied Sizhou, Shiliang, Wuhe and other cities west of Hongzepu, obtained sufficient supplies, expanded his army by tens of thousands, and confronted Zuo Shangrong who guarded Haozhou for half a year.

Chen Hansan defected, and Liu An'er quickly sent troops to attack Haozhou. At first glance, it seems that Chen Hansan's rebellion turned into the key to the defeat of Zuo Shangrong Haozhou, but in fact, it is not.

When Chen Hansan rebelled, he only had 2,000 elite soldiers in his hands, and he coerced three or four thousand people, and Zuo Shangrong had more than 20,000 capable soldiers in Haozhou.

As much as the Changhuai army was annihilated, Liu An'er's murderous reputation was one of them, and a large number of armor supplies were obtained, which made his troops more powerful.

Liu An'er abandoned Haozhou, entered the Huai Army, joined forces with Zhukou, and fought in Nanyang and Hanzhong, with more than 400,000 troops at its peak. It was unfavorable to move to Wuchuan and march into Qin and Shaanxi, retreat from Wuchuan to Hanzhong, then go down to Nanyang, transfer to Henan, and march to Huaisi.

The march into Qin and Shaanxi was unfavorable, and Liu An'er did not suffer any big losses, but the soldiers and horses were reduced to 200,000, which shows that he stayed in the Nanyang area for several months to reorganize the army.

If Lu Liangshan's mouth was a trap set by Liu An'er, according to the judgment of the bandits' strength, Yue Lengqiu really didn't have much confidence that he would storm Lu Liangshan when he broke through, unless Lin Lian led an elite group to appear on the back of Lu Liangshan at the right time to cooperate with this side to break through......

How can we get Lin Jian to send troops?

Yue Lengqiu racked his brains.