After Ma Cheng arranged for Mr. Yue, he did not rest, but instead found his confidant Wang Xian and Chen Zilong to discuss what to do.

After Ma Cheng finished talking about the cause and effect of the matter, he asked: "What do you think of it? Can this matter be true?"

Because Chen Zilong divided Wang Xian's power, Wang Xian was very jealous of Chen Zilong. Now when he heard Ma Cheng's question, Wang Xian said first: "Mr. Marquis, you should ask Brother Renzhong about this. After all, Brother Renzhong has worked under King Lu and is very familiar with King Lu!"

Wang Xian said this very badly. Although he was kind, he secretly accused Chen Zilong of being a two-member minister.

Although Chen Zilong disdains to engage in these conspiracies, it does not mean that Wang Xian has no objection to being ridden on his neck to shit. Chen Zilong laughed and said, "Wang Xian, you, a scholar, don't seem to be qualified to comment on yourself!"

Wang Xian was polite to Chen Zilong on the surface, but Chen Zilong was rude to Wang Xian at all. Not only did he call him his name, but he also said what qualifications are you a scholar to comment on me? Chen Zilong is above Wang Xian regardless of age, fame and official position, so Wang Xian was scolded and could only be angry secretly and dare not say anything refuted.

Ma Cheng saw two confidant dogs biting the dog, but he did not stop him. In recent years, Ma Cheng had not learned anything else with Ma Shiying, but he learned 100% of how to control his subordinates. Ma Shiying has many confidants, and the struggle between the lackeys is no less than that in the court. This is also one of the means for superiors to control their subordinates. In order to safeguard their status and rights and prevent their subordinates from becoming bigger.

Although Ma Cheng's methods are not as experienced as Ma Shiying, he has learned the essence after following Ma Shiying, but his temperature is still a bit immature and requires time to experience.

"Mr. Chen, Mr. Wang is outspoken, please don't take it to heart!" Ma Cheng casually explained to Wang Xian, and then asked: "Mr. Chen, do you think King Lu's real or fake surrender this time?"

When Chen Zilong heard Ma Cheng’s explanation for Wang Xian, he was not good at saying anything. He glared at Wang Xian and said, “Grandmaster, Lu Wang is a man with great ambitions and talent. The lower officials probably want to open the city and surrender this time!”

Ma Cheng nodded, what Chen Zilong said was similar to what he expected. Among the emperors of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Ma Cheng only had an impression of the first Zhu Yousong and the last Zhu Youlang. He did not remember the other prisoners who proclaimed emperors at all, and probably did not play any good role in history. Zhu Changqing had never heard of this, and his ability was probably more limited than Zhu Yousong.

"Since that's the case, let's wait three days to see what Lu Wang can do. We will make a decision at that time!" Ma Cheng said to Wang Xian: "But we can't put all our hopes on Lu Wang. We still have to be prepared to attack the city. This requires Mr. Wang to prepare!"

The logistics was under Wang Xian's control, and all the manufacturing of siege equipment was under him. When Wang Xian heard Ma Cheng's words, he quickly stood up and bowed and said, "Please rest assured, the marquis have ordered the craftsmen to start working!" Wang Xian is the chief minister of the Marquis of Zhenguo, and is considered a subordinate of Ma Cheng, and his name is somewhat different from Chen Zilong. Chen Zilong is a marching senator in Ma Cheng's army, so he should be called Ma Cheng's official position.

Since he had decided to wait for King Lu to open the door, tomorrow's siege would stop. Ma Cheng asked his personal soldiers to notify his generals that the siege would be suspended tomorrow morning, and then waved his hand to let King Chen and the others go down.

Ma Cheng doesn't attack the city,

It is to give Fang Guoan some preparation time in the city, but because the strength inside and outside the city is too great, Fang Guoan's efforts are of no use.

Three days later, Lu Wang Zhu Changqing changed into casual clothes in the mansion. Tonight was he and Ma Cheng outside the city to make an appointment with him to open the city. For safety, he would take his confidant to the Genshan Gate. After all, the safest is to have the protection of the army.

When Zhu Changqing arrived at the Genshan Gate, it was brightly lit and there were more soldiers guarding the gate than usual. When the Genshan Gate general standing at the door saw King Lu coming, he hurried over and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, I don't know why, Genshan Gate led a large group of troops to take over the defense of Genshan Gate in the evening. The last general has now been removed from command by Genshan Gate!"

Zhu Changqing was originally timid, but now when he heard that Fang Guoan was coming, he must have known his arrangements. Thinking of how dare Zhu Changqing stay, he would take his people back to the palace in the city. However, his large group of people had already attracted Fang Guoan's attention on the city wall. Fang Guoan sent someone to ask who the more than 200 people came in the city, and then he realized that the emperor had arrived in person.

When Fang Guoan learned that the emperor was coming, he quickly came down from the city wall. Although Fang Guoan was very domineering and liked to rob soldiers when he was a soldier in Xuzhou, Fang Guoan was very grateful to the emperor Zhu Changqing.

Zhu Changqing is similar to his cousin Zhu Yousong. Although he is not capable, he is lenient. When Fang Guoan fled to Hangzhou, he was appointed by Zhu Changqing to be promoted to the general of Hangzhou and is now promoted to the Grand Governor and Jiaxing Bo. Fang Guoan remembers this kind of kindness of knowing the favor of Fang Guoan.

Fang Guoan came to Zhu Changqing's horse and quickly knelt down on his knees and asked, "Your Majesty, the army of the Zhou dynasty outside the city can attack the city at any time. Please go back to the royal palace to wait for good news!"

Zhu Changqing saw that Fang Guoan was not like his little secret, so he said with confidence: "Aiqing Fang, I have nothing to do, I will just go around it, I will do it!"

Zhu Changqing's idea was to take Fang Guoan away and then see the opportunity to open the city gate. However, Zhu Changqing didn't know that Fang Guoan had regarded the Genshan Gate as the main battlefield, so where could he leave easily? There was also the emperor Zhu Changqing here, so Fang Guoan, as a minister, could he leave without authorization? So Fang Guoan smiled and said, "Thank you for your compassion for your soldiers. I just happened to have nothing to do, so I will accompany Your Majesty to take a look!"

Seeing this, Zhu Changqing had no choice but to follow Fang Guoan to the top of the city. It was midnight now, and the entire Hangzhou city wall was brightly lit, and a large fire was placed under the city every 100 steps to prevent the army outside the city from sieging the city in the dark. However, one mile away from the city wall was absolutely dark, and the black holes made it impossible to see what was happening opposite.

Fang Guoan pointed outside the city and explained to Zhu Changqing: "Your Majesty, I decided to regard this place as the main battlefield to resist Zhou Ni. The Wulin Gate in the north city is the canal water gate, and the river channels are dense, so I guess Zhou Ni will never attack from anywhere! On the other hand, the terrain here in Genshan Gate is flat, and the outside of the city is still a fish market, which is convenient for the army to unfold, so this is the main battlefield for Zhou Ni's attack!"

Fang Guoan has two good things. There are ten city gates in Hangzhou City. The north gate is Wulin Gate. There are dense houses and dense water networks here, which is really not a good place to attack.

Qiantang Gate, Yongkin Gate, and Qingbo Gate to the west are just by the West Lake. There is water outside the city, which is not suitable for military deployment. Hangzhou City Base Area

It is built with momentum, with an inverted triangle shape wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. The bottom south gate is Fengshan Gate, which is the southern gate of Hangzhou. Fengshan Gate was called Zhengyang Gate in the Southern Song Dynasty. It was the gate of the emperor and had the most complete defense facilities, so it was not a good place for attack.

Therefore, Fang Guoan's estimated attack locations were Genshan Gate in the northeast and Qingchun Gate, Qingtai Gate, Wangjiang Gate, and Houchao Gate in the east. Wangjiang Gate and Houchao Gate were named on the Qiantang River, so there were only three city gates left for the attack, among which Genshan Gate, which is closest to Ma Cheng, became the focus of defense.

Zhu Changqing was relieved when he heard Fang Guoan say this. It turned out that it was not because of his own leaks, but because of the Genshan Gate that Fang Guoan chose. Zhu Changqing, who was relieved, did not care whether he understood military affairs or not, and began to highly praise Fang Guoan's command ability.

The emperor's praise made Fang Guoan blush and even opened up the conversation about his experience of suppressing rebellion in Henan. Now from midnight to dawn, Zhu Changqing yawned repeatedly.

As the sky turned bright, the fire outside the city wall slowly went out, and the scenery outside the city could be seen clearly. The soldiers at the city were standing all night and were very sleepy. One of the hundred households was yawning, and suddenly something was wrong outside the city. They rubbed their eyes and looked carefully. Now there were a group of black shadows standing two miles outside the city.

At this time, it was just dawn and it was still a little unclear. After waiting for a quarter of an hour, it was already bright enough to see things. The soldiers on the city saw what the group of black shadows were. It turned out that there were thousands of soldiers in black standing two miles outside the city with swords and guns in their hands, motionless like stone statues.

There were ambushes outside the city, and the soldiers on the city wall were completely trapped. They immediately rang the gong to warn. Fang Guoan stopped bragging and came to the city wall to watch.

It turned out that the thousand people outside the city were elite leaders led by Ma Cheng. They were going to rush into the city tonight while the night was dark, but Ma Cheng was very prepared, but unexpectedly, Zhu Changqing released the pigeons.

Ma Cheng and a thousand people sneaked into the city outside Hangzhou last night and waited all night. August in Nanzhili was already very cold. Ma Cheng and these unlucky guys were lying outside the city for a night without news. The anger in his heart can be imagined.

Seeing the dawn, Ma Cheng cursed: "This bastard Zhu Changqing dares to fool me. When I enter the city, I will kill him!"

Ma Cheng was furious and didn't care much about it. He immediately ordered his subordinates to raise the banner and change the order of sneak attack to a strong attack. In order to attack the city, Ma Cheng prepared the most elite 20,000 new troops two days ago, and now he was ambushing five miles outside the city. Now he heard the command of the coach and began to prepare for a strong attack.

Fang Guoan on the wall of Hangzhou didn't know that Ma Cheng was lying outside the city all night, but when he saw the banner outside the city, he was shocked. When he was in Suzhou, Fang Guoan was defeated by Ma Cheng. However, Fang Guoan blamed Qi Biaojia for the failure of Suzhou. After all, Fang Guoan led a group of defeated soldiers at that time. But now it is different. After more than three months of preparation, Fang Guoan's morale is strong and may be able to block Ma Cheng's first wave of attacks.
Chapter completed!