At noon, the Ming army came, and Han Wenjing led his troops to station the South Gate. He did not act as the main attack, but only acted as a constraining force. Shi Kefa led his troops to station the North Gate, which was similar to the Korean realm. What's more, he knew his own affairs, and his Huai'an troops could not be fought at all, and he was completely a fancy.

Turning his head and looking towards the east gate, Shi Kefa sighed secretly, and the memorial presented to the court was full of lies. From his original heart, he didn't want to do this. Unfortunately, he made a mistake in one step, and he deceived Chongzhen from the beginning. How could he get rid of himself?

He secretly hated that he had not sacrificed his life to the country under Gaoyou City that day, and also hated Li Xinhua's sweet words, which lured him into a trap. But he hated even more, civil officials, generals and eunuch Zhang in Huai'an. If these people had not been to do business and could not do the job, they would have made money more casually than the other. How could the war in Huai'an collapse?

Recalling the decree that Chongzhen gave him, Shi Kefa was extremely ashamed of the resentment in the writing. Now he could only hope to break Gaoyou in one fell swoop, tie Li Xin, and offer him a prisoner.

Because the west of the city was a canal, the revolutionary army's warships were arranged in the canal, and there were elusive wooden box thunder as a helper. During this attack, the Ming army gave up its plan to march from the canal, and Huang Degong and Zhu Dadian held troops at the east gate of Gaoyou.

All troops camped according to designated places, set up nests, set up tents, camps near the city gate, and digged trenches to prevent the Revolutionary Army from leaving the city at night to attack and harass.

Because the official army had to prepare for the siege, the surroundings of the city were almost calm and there was only a few shots occasionally to break through the special silence in tension. Of course, the main function of shooting artillery is to position each other, and mark the landing points of the shells and the positions of the artillery to ensure that one shot hits during formal war.

After explaining the matter, Huang Degong and Zhu Dadian rode out of the camp, intending to patrol from the east gate to the south gate and the north gate to observe the siege deployment, and also look at the defensive situation on the city. In order to guard against artillery on the city, they could only walk two miles away from the city.

Those who inspected with him were Shi Kefa, Eunuch Zhang, Xu Shao and Han Wenjing.

Huang Degong has a purple face, a short figure, and obvious scars on his face, staring at the top of the city.

There were many cannons and fire mills on the top of the city that exposed the battlements, and flags of different colors fluttered. The soldiers guarding the city exposed their heads from the battlements gaps. Huang Degong frowned. It was obvious that the city guarding the city had sufficient troops and many cannons. Judging from the flags, the revolutionary army was neat and was definitely not a mob that gathered temporarily.

"Huang Zhentai, don't you know if you have any ideas?"

Eunuch Zhang asked.

"snort!"

Huang Degong snorted: "If Huaian had not lost money and food, he could have dug a long moat outside the city and trapped Gaoyou to death. At most, there would be civil strife. At that time, the inside and the outside world would not be difficult to break the city."

Shi Kefa and others were all blushing. The whole army's food and grass could only last for half a month at most. However, Yangzhou and Nanjing did not store any grain, because Huai'an stored the grain of Jianjiang. The grain of Nanjing and Yangzhou was not stored locally, but was stored in the Xuzhou to Shandong area. This spring, Hong Chengchou had to go out to rescue Jinzhou again, and the court could no longer allocate money and grain.

The current problem is that if you cannot defeat Gaoyou within half a month and have to return without success, Chongzhen will inevitably be furious, and no one knows what the consequences will be.

"Huang Zhentai is a famous general of the world, and there must be a wonderful method."

Shi Kefa said shamelessly.

Huang Degong looked at Shi Kefa, but he couldn't say much, so he could only suppress his dissatisfaction and said slowly: "The thieves are on high alert. They can no longer rely on the surprise attack, nor can they expect the soldiers to climb up the city with ladders. Therefore, they can only dig the city under the cover of artillery fire, dig a few large holes in the city wall, fill in gunpowder, blow up the city wall, go, let's go somewhere else to take a look."

Because Huang De's reputation is famous, although Shi Kefa is the governor of the grain transportation industry, he cannot provide food and grass, which means that someone comes to help you work. If you don't give money or food, you can't stand up straight. Therefore, the one who really controls the entire army is still Huang Degong.

As everyone walked, Huang Degong pointed out the terrain and asked the personal soldiers behind him to record what is the best place for digging holes and where cannons are suitable for placing them. His calm expression and slow reins make people unable to help but feel confident, especially Eunuch Zhang, whose fat hands were trembling slightly, and looking at the small green bean eyes on the city, a light of extreme resentment flashed.

But suddenly, hatred went up the next step and saw Li Xin appearing on the top of the city wall with a group of people!

Huang Degong also noticed it, took the initiative to approach the city wall, stared carefully for a while, and asked, "Is that person Li Xin?"

"Yes, that's exactly this...he!"

Eunuch Zhang nodded violently, and originally wanted to say that it was this thief, but in the end he changed his words.

Huang Degong looked at Eunuch Zhang strangely and stopped talking.

Li Xin was also staring at the city. Because the distance was not far, he quickly identified Shi Kefa, Eunuch Zhang and Xu Shao, and then through the stand between the crowd, he concluded that the military general in the middle was Huang Degong, and the chubby civil servant in Huang Degong's left head was obviously Zhu Dadian.

Gao Yigong and others also followed Li Xin to the city. Huiying muttered: "If it were me, I would send troops out from the north gate of the south gate at night to defeat Han Wenjing and Shi Kefa. Huang Degong and Zhu Dadian would definitely divide their troops to siege the city, so the attack of the government troops would not be enough to worry."

Li Xin glanced at Huiying with the idiot's eyes.

"Mr. Li, what do you mean?"

Huiying said unhappy.

“Ha~~”

Li Xin smiled and continued to look down at the city.

The Hongniang shook her head and explained: "Miss Huiying, Han Wenjing and Shi Kefa's army themselves have no combat power. Whether to kill or defeat him or not, they will not threaten Gaoyou. Of course, your proposal has some truth, but you don't know the inside story. Because the grain in Huai'an was robbed by Mr. Li, Huang Degong was insufficient in food and grass, so he killed Han Wenjing and Shi Kefa. However, the main force of the official army may not be damaged, but saved food for him. Besides, if Huang Degong had been prepared, we would go out of the city to attack, and he would attack from the side, which would become very dangerous."

Huiying curled her lips and showed a embarrassed look.

The Hongmao smiled and saw Huang Degong and others still waiting and watching, so she said, "Mr. Li, why not take this opportunity to fire and kill Huang Degong and his gang?"

Li Xin said: "Our cannons were not aimed, they were close to the city. When the gun was moved, they would scatter and escape. It was useless to fire the cannons, and instead alarm the snake. Ignore him. See how he peeks out, and you can speculate on how to attack the city tonight or tomorrow."

Everyone admired Li Xin's sophistication after hearing this, but after a while, Li Xin suddenly felt that the opportunity had come. He turned around and ordered his guards to rush to the corner of the city wall to prepare three or four cannons, aiming the gun at the corner outside the city on the way. When Huang Degong and his men arrived at the corner to watch, the cannons suddenly fired.

"A clever plan!"

Everyone praised it.

Huang Degong and others continued to ride their horses forward.

They also thought that there was a possibility of firing cannons at the top of the city, so they ordered their personal soldiers to pay close attention to the movement of the muzzle on the city, and not be careless. They should go to the corner of the city wall. Huang Degong saw four cannons from afar facing the main road at the corner, and immediately smiled coldly: "No need to move forward anymore, go back to the camp to discuss matters."

The group changed direction and left, Erju couldn't help but cursed: "Cunning thief, you shouldn't die!"

Li Xin smiled slightly and didn't care much. In fact, he had the idea of ​​subduing Huang Degong. Just as he had a good impression of Chen Yongfu, Huang Degong was shot into an arrow in the throat and committed suicide while fighting against the Qing army. Liu Liangzuo surrendered to the Qing army and lived until the Kangxi period. Therefore, if Li Xin had the chance, he would never show mercy to Liu Liangzuo.
Chapter completed!