When Lu Xiangsheng heard the scout's report, he couldn't help but sneer. These bandits are really naive. Even though he knew that there were 200,000 or 300,000 people waiting for him in Yicheng, would he still silly dive into it? Pingyang Mansion is not the top of Mount Hua, and there are only one road to enter. There are too many roads to enter Pingyang Mansion. It is the most difficult road to cross the vast mountains and enter the Yicheng realm. Why should he give up the easy and seek difficulties?

It will take at least five or six days to cross mountains and ridges to reach Yicheng from Yangcheng to the north, and it will take only five or six days to rush from Yangcheng to the north to Fenzhou. Lingshi City is the last stronghold of the imperial court in Pingyang Prefecture. Lu Xiangsheng originally planned to enter Pingyang Prefecture from Fenzhou, and first go to Lingshi City to rest and then fight the thieves. At that time, there were still 10,000 or 20,000 bandits in Huozhou south of Lingshi City. Now the main force has all gone to Yicheng, and it would be good to leave thousands of people to guard it. When will it take until now?

Lu Xiangsheng studied on the map for a while and then had an idea. He ordered Deputy General Zhang Hongye to lead the 10,000 soldiers injured in the attack camp to stay in Wang Jiayin's camp to make a bluff, but he took 90,000 main forces to detour Lu'an Prefecture to Fenzhou.

The army hid in the morning and walked at night all the way. Five days later, the army arrived in Fenzhou. Lu Xiangsheng did not immediately enter the territory of Pingyang Prefecture, but sent people to Lingshi City to learn about the situation.

The bandits really thought he would directly attack Yicheng in the southwest direction, and all the main forces ran there, and only two or three thousand troops were left to guard Huozhou and Fenxi near Lingshi City.

Such a good opportunity cannot be missed. Lu Xiangsheng immediately led a large army to secretly move to a valley more than ten miles north of Lingshi City to hide it, and then secretly ordered the prefect of Pingyang to do this...

The next day, a strange scene appeared in Lingshi City. The prefect Pingyang didn't know what was going crazy, so he sent out only 5,000 defenders, 2,000 to Fenxi City at the southwest gate, and 2,000 to Huozhou City directly south. He camped less than 200 steps below the city and built siege equipment!

Send two thousand people to attack the city guarded by more than two thousand people. Is this a psychopath? You think that more than two thousand thieves in the city are made of paper!

"The Art of War" says: When using troops, you must surround them if you want to ten times, attack them if you want to attack them if you want to double them, and divide them if you want to fight them if you want to escape them if you want to attack the city. If you want to attack the city, you must have at least five times the strength, which is less than the enemy's strength. If you run to attack the city, you will be looking for death. I am afraid that all the people who have not yet attacked the city wall will die!

The defenders of Pingyang City seemed to have taken the wrong medicine. They did not care about military tactics and were working hard to build siege equipment. Moreover, the siege equipment they built was very monotonous, namely cloud ladders and well railings. The cloud ladders were nothing but two pillars and some cross-bursts, and no one could make mistakes. The well railings were a bit strange. The city wall was only two people high, but they built three people high, and they did not carry wheels. They stood there in rows. I wonder if they really couldn't build them or they calculated the height of the city walls incorrectly.

The bandits on the city wall were almost sucking crazy. From time to time, the bandits jumped onto the bushels and stood on them and mocked them hard. For a while, they kept talking nonsense. What:

"Hey, from the other side, are you brain-related? Do you know if you need wheels on the well railing?"

"Oh, I'm so scared. You're building so many wheelless well railings that don't want to laugh at us, right?"

"You are bluffing like this, don't you want to lead us out of the city to beat you? Are we as stupid as you?"

"Hey, it's time to eat, your mother has asked you to go back for dinner, hahahaha."

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The Pingyang defenders seemed to be possessed by demons. No matter how the bandits on the city wall mocked each other, they would even make the ladders that were enough for tens of thousands of people to use. They would still make the ladders that were almost as wide as the city wall. They would still make the ladders.

On the afternoon of the fifth day, they finally stopped. At this time, the well railings were as wide as the city wall opposite, and the ladders were placed all over the ground, probably enough for 20,000 to 30,000 people. They threw the well railings and ladders made from things there, but the people went back to the camp to rest.

The bandits in the city are not fools. With the advantage of the city wall, they can completely crush the government army on the opposite side, but if they rush down and fight them on the plains, they may not be able to beat them even if they come twice as many people. These bandits are not as stubborn as Wang Jiayin's subordinates. They are just farmers who have just put down their hoes. They have such a brute force, but they may still have more powerful rocks and wood than the government army. They can even pull the bow and shoot archers. Anyway, they are just guarding the city, just pull the bow and shoot down. A rain of arrows can always hit dozens or hundreds of people. But if they fight with real swords and guns, they probably can't beat an official army.

The bandits on the city wall did not come down, and the officers and soldiers under the city wall did not attack, and they spent the night in peace.

Early on the sixth day, the bandits on the city wall looked down and were so scared that they almost fell from the city wall.

There were countless officers and soldiers under the city walls, and they couldn't count them clearly. Those who were carrying muskets were climbing up the well railings, while those swords, shields, spears, and halberds were standing in rows of ladders. This posture was probably to cover the ladders throughout the city wall.

Of course, the army under Lu Xiangsheng came. He left 10,000 transport troops to guard the camp, and the remaining 80,000 troops personally led 40,000 to attack Huozhou City, and Cao Wenzhao took another 40,000 to attack Fenxi City.

At this time, under the city of Huozhou, 40,000 troops gathered, and Lu Xiangsheng stood in front of the ladder in the middle, waiting quietly.

In fact, it does not take 40,000 people to attack a small city with only two or three thousand people to guard. The reason why Lu Xiangsheng arranged this way was that this time he used a brand new tactic, which was to use a flintlock rifle to suppress fire. No one had done this before, and it is unknown how the specific effect is, so naturally he had to prepare more people.

Then, time waited for no one, and he had to fight quickly and defeat Huozhou and Fenxi in one fell swoop. Although Yicheng was in the southwest corner of Pingyang, it was actually only more than 200 miles away from Huozhou. It was a day after a quick horse. This was the reason why he asked the prefect of Pingyang to build siege equipment first.

If he had led the army from the beginning, the matter might not be that simple. The bandits in Huozhou and Fenxi City would definitely notify the 36th Battalion of Yicheng quickly. If there was a reaction there and sent all cavalry to aid, it would take only two days to go and come.

Even if his 90,000 troops are all here, he must build siege equipment. It is impossible for people to climb the city wall out of thin air. Moreover, no matter how many people are, it will take one or two days to build siege equipment. By then, the cavalry of the thirty-sixth battalion will arrive before the siege will arrive. The 36th battalion's cavalry will be 50,000 or 60,000 will attack the city guarded by 50,000 or 60,000 people will not be able to get out of the city for ten days or half a month. However, the infantry of the thiege will have arrived a long time ago. At that time, let alone siege, it is a question whether his 90,000 troops can escape unscathed.

So he asked the magistrate of Pingyang to send two thousand men to build siege equipment first. In this way, the thieves in the city would only be crazy about the magistrate of Pingyang. Even if they sent people to notify the thieves in Yicheng, the thieves would not care much. Once the siege equipment was built, as long as there were enough people, it would take only one or two hours to break the city. By then, the thieves would be powerless to turn the world back.

Finally, there is another very important reason, that is, he doesn't want to cause too many casualties. After all, he only has 90,000 people in total, and there are more than 200,000 bandits. If there are too many casualties in the siege battle, he will be in a difficult position when facing the main force of the bandits.
Chapter completed!