Siege the city and fight for help.

Surround the city of Gaoyou and help from Yangzhou.

When the Huai Army was weak, Lu Si believed that the wisest way was to actively mobilize the enemy and annihilate it in the movement.

As long as the Shidewei army can be wiped out in the wild, Yangzhou City is the only thing in the Huai Army.

A city without a defender is bigger, the easier it is to break.

According to Gaoyou City sent people to Yangzhou as early as the 13th, Gaoyou is about 150 miles away from Yangzhou City, so it can be judged that Yangzhou received the news on the 15th.

According to the instructions of Luo Jiying, the governor of the Shanyang County Magistrate, before the breaking of Huai'an City, Lu Zhenfei, the governor of the canal transportation, sent people to Yangzhou for help, and the target was Shi Dewei.

After combining the two, Lu Si concluded that Shi Dewei was either preparing to leave the city and heading north, or had already left Yangzhou and was on the way to Gaoyou.

Therefore, the tactic of besieging the city and fighting aid has actually been formed, or it is to wait for work, but it is still impossible to know exactly whether Shi Dewei's troops set out.

"The enemy is open and I am secret. This battle is not a battle of immortals, I can do it!"

Lu Si strongly advocated a battle.

The situation is undoubtedly beneficial to the Huai Army, because Shi Dewei did not know that Gaoyou City and Gaoyou Guard had asked the Huai Army to solve the problem. If its troops really only had two or three thousand people, then the Huai Army's troops in Gaoyou could have given the opponent a surprise attack without Shi Dewei's knowledge.

The unbearable performance of Gaoyouwei in Lingjiazhuang made Lu Si's confidence continue to rise, even though the performance of the Huai Army in this battle was also extremely bad.

Cheng Lin and Zuo Pan'an, who were brave enough to be brave, were also ready to win this battle as Brother Lu said, then Yangzhou City was within reach!

Zhan Zi Shen raised a doubt, that is, what if Shi Dewei did not have the idea of ​​going north to rescue him, but instead hurried in the city and didn't come out.

This question made Lu Si hesitate. The reason why he judged that Shi Dewei dared to leave the city was that Shi Dewei did not regard the Huai Army as a strong enemy, but only regarded it as a mob of temporary rebellion, and the request for help from the governor of the Caoyuan Court Lu Zhenfei.

But if Shi Dewei became cautious, did not underestimate the enemy, and even ignored the governor of the canal transportation request for help, the matter would be really difficult.

"this"

Zhao Wen, the magistrate of Gaoyou, actually helped the "thief" out of his mind. He coughed lightly and said, "If General Lu wants to call Shi Dewei out, the solution is actually very simple."

When Lu Si heard this, he immediately paid attention and hurriedly said, "What are the opinions of Punishment Zhao Tong? Please sit down and talk!" After that, he brought a chair for Zhao Wen himself.

"Don't dare, don't dare,"

Zhao Wen refused again and finally sat down. Perhaps he was "helping the thief", so he didn't have so much psychological burden and felt relieved.

After pondering for a while, Zhao Wen said: "General Lu doesn't know anything. Outside Yangzhou City, there are all large private houses and gardens of large salt merchants. There are many rich people and many officials. If the noble army appears outside the city, just a little robbery will be aroused. If Shi Dewei doesn't come out, the saliva in the city will be drowned."

"Um,"

Lu Si nodded: "That's how Yuan Chonghuan died back then."

After hearing this, Zhao Wen looked at Lu Si in surprise. In the eyes of the magistrate, the thief in front of him was too young after all, how could he know the old story of the capital more than ten years ago?

Yuan's death was related to the fact that the wealthy people outside the city, including the eunuch who was a private property of the land farm, was robbed by Jiannu. Those people had no choice but to use Jiannu, so they pointed their anger at Yuan Chonghuan, who were all people around the emperor. Yuan Zhi's ending can be imagined. Moreover, Yuan Chonghuan's many actions were too criticized, and Chongzhen's suspicion was not unreasonable.

Zuo Pan'an, Chen Darkness and the others were confused: Which Yuan Chonghuan?

However, Sun Wujin knew that Yuan Chonghuan was very famous outside the pass more than ten years ago.

“Then,”

Lu Si looked at Cheng Lin and the others: "Did you do it?"

"Do it!"

Cheng Lin nodded slightly, "Do work early and go to the city early."

After Zhao Wen retreated, Cheng Lin suddenly sneered: "These officials' ghosts are so stingy that they will try every means to pull others into the water when they fall into the water."

"What does it mean?" Zuo Pan'an looked puzzled. The official surnamed Zhao was quite good.

Cheng Lin said "Hehe": "It's not good for oneself."

"No, it's a harm to others and self-interest."

Lu Si smiled. If He Chuan is a good official in "practical affairs", Zhao Wen is a good official in "practical affairs".

In these days, talents like Zhao Wen lived for a long time and became bigger.

Because, he has no burden.

The thief comes to surrender the thief, and the Qing comes to surrender the Qing.

However, the issue of character has never been the first focus of Lu Si. No matter what purpose Zhao Wen wants to sell Yangzhou City, as long as this person can help him and the Huai Army at the moment, then Lu Si will definitely look up to him.

The mobilization order was quickly passed to the level of the leader. In addition to Fu'an Chen Dajiang who stayed in Gaoyou, the leaders of each family were also notified to be in place.

The successive victory of winning the treasure of Yingcheng, the second defeat of Gaoyouwei, and the third defeat of Gaoyouzhou made the leaders of each family and the heroes under their command full of morale and were extremely excited about the attack on Yangzhou.

The eldest son and grandson sent by officials and gentry in the city were arranged by Sun Wujin to take them to the canal outside the city. Lu Si did not take these young men to Yangzhou, but handed them over to the canal team that was rushing to break the ice.

It was cold and the canal was empty. A group of young men and young men were very cold, but no one dared to complain because the big sword in the Huai army who was monitoring them was very sharp.

In the crowd, a little girl of five or six years old was lying in the arms of a woman, looking at the adults around her in a daze and curious manner, not knowing that she was no longer a daughter of the Luo family, but a hostage used by "thieves" to coerce her father.

In the city of the state, Luo Yongnian brought his servants and his friends to the city gate with more than a dozen big carts. Seeing the young thief standing on the steps and looking at his young thief head, Luo Yongnian stepped forward nervously and said with a smile: "According to the general's orders, Caomin has bought all the cannon stores in the city."

Lu Si walked to the carriage behind Luo Yongnian and looked at it one by one. It was filled with firecrackers and fireworks, all of which were prepared for the firecracker shop in the city to sell for the New Year.

"Yes, thank you Lord Luo, thank you Master Luo, but I still have to ask Lord Luo to work harder."

Lu Si said and handed Luo Yongnian a list of materials, which were filled with various urgently needed supplies from the Huai Army, and even ordinary merchants could not get knives, spears, armor, bows, crossbows, arrows, etc., and even the last line contained several tiger squatting cannons.

"this"

Luo Yongnian felt bitter. He could get some things on this list, but he couldn't get some things. But when he saw the young thief's smile, he thought that his baby daughter was holding it in someone's hands, so he could only agree and look back to wonder if he wanted to go to Nanjing City in person. Some things were there except Nanjing, but there were some other places.

Lu Si asked Sun Wujin to send some people to replace Luo's guy to drive the car. When Sun Wujin saw that the car was full of firecrackers, he couldn't help but wonder: "What do Mr. Lu want these to do?"

Lu Si casually said: "Burn Shi Dewei."

"Um?"

Sun Wujin was thinking about something, and immediately thought of something, and hurriedly handed a stack of straw paper to Lu Si.

Lu Si was so happy when he saw the straw paper. He quickly put it in his arms. He always said he would make some straw paper for use in Huai'an, but he forgot every time.

When I went to the thatched cottage just now, I thought of this and quickly ordered Sun Wu to go in and do it.

In fact, after the Yuan and Ming dynasties, the cost of paper was extremely low. People above the medium and above generally used straw paper to wipe their butts. There was a public toilet in the commercial market behind the north gate of Gaoyou. Those who contracted this public toilet provided straw paper to convenient people, and charged a penny at a time. In addition, the manure in the public toilet was very good.

Of course, the straw paper used by the people is not as good as the palace. During the reign of Emperor Yingzong, the Baochao Department of the Palace stopped making treasure paper, and specialized in making straw paper. It made 720,000 pieces of straw paper every year, and was specially used for palace maids and eunuchs. The paper is smoother than the best Hangzhou straw paper.

The straw paper in Lu Si's hand was produced in a small workshop, and it definitely looked bad in quality, a bit like paper money burned to death.

Cousin Chen Dajiang and Fu'an Chen Dajiang went to the city gate to see him off for the main force, and prepared wine for the brothers who went south.

Lu Si doesn't like drinking, but he can't stand it, it's too cold, so he drank half a bowl.

When the warmth in his stomach rose, Lu Si walked out of Gaoyou City first. There was a carriage, but he didn't sit. He was used to walking on his legs.

"Brothers, you have attacked Yangzhou!"

Baoying Shen shouted, carrying the big knife on his shoulder and swayed out of the city.

Isn't Pan An, the big red coat, no longer a different outfit this time, but he got a bird official uniform that he had brought on him, which made He Chuan, the governor of Gaoyou who was forced to come to the city gate, leave in anger.

A Ming army is also marching urgently to the north for more than a hundred miles south.

The front of the team is the flag "Shi", but there are flags "Li" and "Hu" in the middle and behind the team respectively.

"Shi" was to assist the capital officer Shi Dewei, "Li" was the general of Gansu, and "Hu" was the deputy general of Sichuan Hu Shangyou.
Chapter completed!