To the north of Xiongyue City, there are rolling hills. Apart from the post road built by the Ming Dynasty, there are no other serious roads to take.

But looking to the south, there is an open river valley plain. After getting off the post road, there is a wilderness. There are trees, weeds, and puddles on the wilderness. There is also a winding path leading to the Xiangshui River.

Zhang Chen, Hu Dabao, and Li Lu had just passed this winding trail with their troops when the troops were gathering outside the north gate in the early morning. It was a familiar road for them to return now.

Not long after everyone walked south, the team in front stopped. Soon Li Lu ran back and reported to Yang Zhen that the place where the trench was dug was arrived.

Yang Zhen ordered Zhang Chen, Hu Dabao and the others to continue moving towards the South Gate Pier, and asked them to send back the news from Shiqiaozi as soon as possible.

At the same time, Yang Zhen also asked Lu Pinqi to lead his troops to select the vanguard and return to the fleet berth with the captured loot, while he himself stayed at the same place with his personal entourage and Li Lu's grenadiers.

"Sir! We have dug trenches, leading directly to the base of the Tartar city wall! Tens of thousands of enemies have already been buried at the foot of the wall! Next, we will wait for your order, and we can blow up the Dog Tartar city wall!

"When the time comes, our brothers from the advance battalion will swarm forward. Xiongyue City will be ours! Why do you want to send everyone else away?! Once the city is blown up and we are short of manpower, wouldn't we miss the opportunity to destroy the city?

Good opportunity?!"

Yang Zhengang called over Pan Xi, who was staying in the trench here, and Pan Xi "questioned" Yang Zhen's intentions face to face. Yang Zhen's approach was a bit confusing to him.

"You kid knows nothing! How can you guess the adults' arrangements?! Just do whatever you are told to do, why do you ask so many questions?! Why do you not understand the rules so much?!"

Before Yang Zhen could speak, Li Lu scolded Pan Xi.

In fact, Li Lu himself had doubts in his heart, but he just didn't want to say it out loud. At this time, when he saw Pan Xi, the newly promoted CEO, he asked Yang Zhen when he saw him, and quickly scolded him for not knowing the rules.

Yang Zhen saw Li Lu scolding Pan Xi, but there was no blame on Li Lu's face. He knew that they all had this question in their minds, so he smiled and said:

"Now it seems that it won't be too difficult for us to blow up the city wall and rush in! The Tatar garrison with white flags in the city will not be too many. They have already lost more than half in the battle, so we have a chance to capture it directly.

Xiongyue Town!

"However, there is an advantage in keeping it for the time being! When it leads the two Tatars from Xu Guanbao's Tianzhu soldiers to our second ambush circle, we will have the final say in the Xiong Yue area!

"At that time, the small town of Xiongyue has no strong soldiers inside and no reinforcements outside, so it becomes an isolated city! For us, it is just a Chinese meal. We can eat how we want and when we want.

When to eat! Wouldn’t it be nice?!”

Having said this, Yang Zhen looked at Li Lu, Pan Xi, Ma Keqing and others who were following him, and said solemnly: "We are going deep into the enemy's rear. The focus is to kill the enemy's entrance and disrupt the rear.

Instead of destroying its city and seizing its land!

"In the future, when we kill all the effective forces of the Donglu and their lackeys, the city occupied by the Donglu Tatars will one day return to our hands!"

Pan Xi, who had been digging trenches and squatting in the trench under the west city wall for more than three hours, was gray-headed and covered in mud. After listening to Yang Zhen's words, he still seemed to understand, and then asked:

"Then - Sir! Should we blow up this section of the city wall?!"

"——Blow it up! Of course we have to blow it up! But—not now. As for when to blow it up, we have to wait for news from the south gate!"

Yang Zhen saw that Pan Xi was not the kind of person who could tell everything at once, so he didn't say any more.

He really wanted to train all of his junior officers into generals who could act independently, but now it seemed that it was not that easy to do this.

First of all, I don’t know much. Now I only rely on my vision and advantage of a little insight into historical trends to be able to make correct judgments and handle various complex situations.

However, it is difficult for people born and raised in this era to have such a vision and insight that far exceeds the era in which they live.

This makes true heart-to-heart communication impossible.

Let’s say that after hearing Yang Zhen’s words, Pan Xi felt a little stubborn and refused to give up. He murmured to himself and asked, “We have to wait for news from Nanmen?! What news should we wait for from Nanmen?”

After hearing this, Yang Zhen had no choice but to shake his head and smile bitterly. Pan Xi from the Grenadier Corps was very talented in designing and making various types of gunpowder bombs, but in terms of military strategy, he was completely clueless.

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At this moment, Li Lu suddenly said: "Sir! News from the South Gate has arrived!"

When Yang Zhen and Pan Xi heard the words, they immediately got up and took a look, and saw a figure crouching quickly through the grass and mounds, running from the south.

Yang Zhen took a closer look and saw that the person coming was none other than Zhang Chen's general, Li Shouzhong.

That Li Shouzhong was like a thin dog, thin and running very fast. In just a few ups and downs, he ran to the edge of the ditch where Yang Zhen and others were, jumped over a protruding grass, and jumped directly into the ditch.

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"Sir! Guard Zhang sent a young man to report the news from the South Gate! After we arrived, we asked all the people left behind on Rabbit Island! Since we set up a secret post outside the South Gate last night until now, no one has entered or left the South Gate! No!

Send one soldier across the river and go south!"

As soon as Li Shouzhong stood firm in the trench, when he saw Yang Zhen, he immediately poured beans out of a bamboo tube and told him the news Zhang Chen asked him to bring in a very neat manner.

After hearing what Li Shouzhong said, Yang Zhen turned to look at Pan Xi and said with a smile: "Xizi! This is the news from the South Gate we are waiting for! You can blow up the city now! But don't be anxious, blow up one first.

Give it a try and let’s see the results!”

"Okay! Sir, just look here and take a look!"

After hearing Yang Zhen's order, Pan Xi immediately beamed with joy, received the order, turned around and left.

At this time, Yang Zhen turned around and said to Li Shouzhong: "Go back now and tell Zhang Chen and Hu Dabao that after the city is bombed, the Tatars in the city may send people out of the city to ask for help! Let everyone outside the south gate hide.

Conceal, don’t expose!”

Li Shouzhong repeated Yang Zhen's words in front of Yang Zhen. Only when Yang Zhen nodded in approval did he retreat and soon disappeared into the meadow outside the trench.

As soon as Li Shouzhong received the order and left, Yang Zhen heard a burst of Tatar shouting coming from the top of the west city wall not far away. They were shouting incessantly, but it was hard to hear what they were shouting.

But Yang Zhen could hear the panic at a glance even though he was far away.

Yang Zhen knew that this was the chaos caused by the men arranged by Pan Xi who were quickly approaching the base of the west wall of Xiongyue City through the trench.

At that moment, he quickly bowed and led Li Lu and others along the ditch leading to the city wall.

After walking more than a hundred steps along the trench dug by Li Lu, Pan Xi, and An Qinghou's troops, I saw several veterans of the Grenadier Corps of the advance battalion squatting in a hollow in the wall of the trench.

Penetrate and look around.

When several veterans saw Yang Zhen coming in person, they quickly waved to stop them from moving forward. At this moment, three arrows shot from the city flew towards them with a "whoosh", "whoosh" and "whoosh", all of which were nailed to the

In front of Yang Zhen and others, Li Lu was so frightened that he pulled Yang Zhen back a few steps.

At the same time, Yang Zhen also heard several sounds of "dong", "dong", "dong" and "dong", which were obviously the sounds made by arrows shot from the city wall and nailed to the shield or door panel.

At this time, Li Lu said: "Sir! The arrows on the city can cover this place, we can't go any further!"

Speaking of this, Li Lu seemed to see the confusion on Yang Zhen's face, and then said: "When I took people to Yilipo early this morning, I told Pan Xi and others to send people back to the ship to demolish the deck for backup! It seems that they have already

Prepared!"

Sure enough, not long after Li Lu finished speaking, he heard Pan Xi's voice shouting: "Get out of here! Get out of there! Get out of there!"

At this moment, Yang Zhen saw Pan Xi in front and several other people behind, holding something like a door panel and running quickly in the direction of him from the end of the trench close to the city wall.

Seeing this, Yang Zhen was worried about blocking their path, so he quickly pulled Li Lu to his feet and backed away quickly. However, as soon as he stood up, he heard a loud "bang", and the ground under his feet trembled, and he immediately lost his footing.

Unsteady, he and Li Lu both fell to the ground.

At the moment he fell, Yang Zhen saw with his own eyes a large piece of green bricks and stones falling from the tall city wall not far ahead.
Chapter completed!