In April of the third year of Hongwu (1370), Xu Da, who had already dealt with the mess in Shaanxi and was full of passion and motivation, led his troops into Gansu.

This time Zhu Yuanzhang, who knew he was facing a tough fight, was indeed not stingy. He gave Xu Da 400,000 troops.

Knowing that Wang Baobao, a bastard, was someone who was not easy to mess with, Xu Da also seemed to know that Lanzhou was a trap, a pit of fire waiting for him to jump into and make him doomed, so he was wise enough not to take a trip into this muddy water.

Before entering Gansu, he seemed to have already set a course of action and selected the venue for the finals.

The name of this place is: Shen'eryu (in Dingxi).

Xu Da thinks that Wang Baobao is a bastard who cares about eating rather than fighting.

You can play the same gameplay on him several times.

As the saying goes, isn't it good?

Again and again, not again and again.

I don't believe this evil.

I'm going to play this again and again and see how Wang Baobao responds.

Therefore, Xu Da did not directly lead his troops to rescue Lanzhou, but instead led his troops to surround Dingxi.

The method was roughly the same as the last battle with Wang Baobao in Shanxi.

Didn't you want to attack my Dadu last time? Then I will go towards your retreat and attack your Taiyuan.

This time his gameplay is still the same.

Since you attacked my Lanzhou, I will attack your hometown Dingxi.

It depends on how you resist.

With the experience and lessons from Taiyuan last time, Wang Baobao also learned well. This time in Dingxi, which was his strategic base, Wang Baobao did not pull out all his troops to besiege Lanzhou.

Instead, a large number of troops were left to garrison here.

When he heard from his men that a group of bright troops had surrounded his base area, Wang Baobao, who was recruiting flies and mosquitoes outside Lanzhou, first panicked.

He knew it was Xu Da who was coming.

This team led by Xu Da will always come.

What he didn't expect was that the trap he carefully designed had no effect and turned into a useless decoration.

Looking at the trap he designed with great concentration, Wang Baobao could only sigh sadly.

Xu Da is indeed an expert!

What a great opportunity here in Lanzhou was thrown away like this.

It’s a pity, it’s really a pity!

Looking at the city wall of Lanzhou not far away, Wang Baobao felt unwilling.

Since you won't make it easy for me, I will never let you losers live a comfortable life.

His approach was to leave a group of troops to continue the siege of Lanzhou, while he dispatched some troops to rush to Dingxi to help.

When Wang Baobao arrived at Caixian, the two armies met for the first time.

When two friends who haven't seen each other for a long time suddenly meet, they must be polite to each other.

So the two parties first had a brief chat in the lane.

In the end, both sides suffered losses, and Wang Baobao temporarily retreated to Shen'eryu.

Shen'eryu, the specific location of this address is no longer known. From historical records, we only know that it is probably in Dingxi, but the specific address cannot be found.

We can only rely on guessing.

That is, Meng.

If I get it right, I'm lucky. If I get it wrong, don't hit me.

Although I am shameless, I am afraid of pain.

Judging from the literal meaning, Shen'eryu should be a deep depression, with only one road available in front, and there should be mountains behind and on all sides. This is undoubtedly a powerful terrain.

Wang Baobao, who has been in Gansu for several years and has already conducted in-depth analysis of Gansu's terrain, must have studied the terrain before coming here.

So he chose Shen'eryu as his temporary settlement.

Logically speaking, this place is really good. There is no need to fortify the left and right sides. You only need to keep an eye on the road ahead. You don't need to be afraid of enemies on the left and right stabbing knives in your hinterland.

Wang Baobao seems to have chosen this place because of this.

But he misjudged Xu Da's ability.

He didn't know that Xu Da also had his eye on this place, and what he was looking for happened to be Shen'eryu, a terrain like a gourd with only one exit.

When Wang Baobao was stationed at Shen'er Valley, what surprised him was that Xu Da's troops were also stationed not far from Shen'er Valley. There was only a ditch between the two armies.

Xu Da, who was stationed here, seemed to be in no hurry to fight with Wang Baobao.

Instead, they started to make fires, cook, and set up camp in preparation for long-term garrisoning.

Not only that, Xu Da also did something.

Cut down trees, cut down trees.

Since being stationed in Shen'eryu, Xu Da began his civil construction engineering career and launched his almost legendary construction engineering internship career.

At his request, the Ming army did nothing but dig holes for cooking, and that was making fences.

Make lots and lots of wooden fences.

A wooden fence over one meter high was produced.

At this time, Wang Baobao, who was completely unaware of Xu Da's political opponent's true intentions, was the first to be deceived.

He didn't know what the other party was going to do, but Wang Baobao knew that Xu Da, who was full of bad intentions, must not be holding anything back.

What kind of plane are you doing?

What kind of bad shit is Xu Da, the bastard Ya San, holding back?

He wanted to ask Xu Da about these questions from a distance, but no one gave him an answer.

After Xu Da worked for several days and it was fully formed and basically in line with his original military settings, Xu Da gradually stopped the work of the soldiers.

Xu Da, who had basically completed preparations, started his layout.

He first divided his troops into three waves.

A group of people take a rest.

A group of people work.

Another group of people dispatched small groups of troops to conduct small-scale harassment of the enemy.

The task for this group of people is not very big, their main job is to set up fences.

At Xu Da's request, a fence was set up at a certain distance.

The tasks of both sides require tacit cooperation. After the first wave of people harass the enemy, the enemy will definitely withdraw their troops. At this time, it is time for the second wave of fences to be put up.

You take the opportunity to occupy their territory, set up fences, and secure them.

Then gradually move forward.

When one group of people is tired from working, they will first take a rest, and then change to the third group of people who are sleeping to continue working.

Distribution takes turns, no one is partial.

No one is idle.

At this time, Wang Baobao, who was stationed in Shen'eryu, finally understood.

It turns out that you, Xu Da, have been holding it in for a long time and made such a loud fart. You are really poisonous.

It’s also lacking enough.

What you do is equivalent to gradually shrinking my scope of action and suppressing my activity area.

My territory is getting narrower and smaller as your fence gradually advances.

And more importantly, your fence is set so high that my cavalry will have no effect at all.

My war horses can jump high, but after all, they are war horses, not rabbits. If you set up so many fences, you have to have them, beasts like them, be able to jump over!

This move of yours is really cruel.

My trump card is the cavalry. If the cavalry doesn't work, then it's useless!

You pinched seven inches of my body with just one move.

Just when Wang Baobao didn't know how to deal with it, his opponent Xu Da also found that his civil engineering work was almost enough for his own use, and after the progress of parallel advancement slowed down significantly, he stopped his progress.

At this time, Xu Da did not leave the soldiers idle.

But a new way of playing.

This kind of gameplay seems to be inherited from Zhu Yuanzhang, because many years ago in Waliang Base, Mr. Zhu played the same trick, but at that time Zhu Yuanzhang called a group of women's soldiers, a group of eloquent people who danced with eyebrows and winked without thinking about it.

The result of the woman's choice of behavior is completely a shrew.

When Zhu Yuanzhang told Xu Da this extremely simple but very effective gameplay, Xu Da, as a general who was familiar with soldiers and horses, absorbed this strategic experience.
Chapter completed!