The ice rain stopped in early spring, and the troops of the Han King's Central Army set off. When they arrived in Guizhou City, it was the Lantern Festival. Everyone finished the "Fuyuanzi" made of glutinous rice, and the New Year Festival was over.

There were large forests on all sides of Guizhou City. So Zhu Gaoxu ordered some of the troops to hide in the mountains and forests everywhere, so that the enemy could not understand how many troops he had to siege the city; then mobilized Zuoye and Youye armies to advance eastward with great fanfare and approached Liu Ying's troops.

After the deployment was made, only the generals of the Han King's Central Army were clear that Liu Ying's troops would have more than 40,000 troops; while there were more than 80,000 troops around Guizhou City.

...It was only the third day after the army arrived in Guizhou City, but the fortifications on all sides had begun to take shape.

The circumference of the Guizhou city wall is about eight or nine miles, but the siege fortifications are 700 steps away from the city wall, so it is more than ten miles long.

The fortification structure is not complicated. A trench and rammed earth form a waist wall. Now people are building fences and building them with bamboo and wood on the wall of the earth; every 100 steps, camp gates, arrow towers and watchtowers are also built.

In the military camp in the distance, craftsmen who assembled Huihuans and casting cars were busy, and the progress of logging and building cloud ladders was also underway.

Before coming to Guizhou, Zhu Gaoxu knew that he wanted to attack the city. The attack required a large number of arrows, ammunition and tools, so he was unable to bring heavy artillery to avoid storming the speed of the march. After a while, Qu Neng would transport heavy artillery from Chongqing Prefecture.

"Boom!" A huge cannon sound came from a distance, and some soldiers straightened their waists and turned their heads to look into the distance. Soon, the general's screams and scolding came: "Hurry up and work!"

While running, Zhu Gaoxu also looked at the direction of the sound of cannons. There was white smoke in one place on the city wall, which should be the place where the cannons were fired. However, it had no effect. Even the Hongwu cannon with the farthest range could not pose much threat to targets a mile and a half away.

The fortifications of the Han Wangjun were filled with dust. In a trance, Zhu Gaoxu felt that people were building river dams or building the foundation of a palace city. The sporadic cannons did not add much of the atmosphere of the battlefield. After all, in Zhu Gaoxu's experience, construction sites would also fire firecrackers and explode mountains.

When Zhu Gaoxu grabbed the horse and withdrew his gaze, he saw many soldiers nearby looking at him; with the supervision of the generals, the brothers did not stop their work.

However, there was also a man looking at a wooden stake in front of him very attentively and did not notice Zhu Gaoxu at all. "Huh..." The man opened his mouth and shouted, waved the hammer, and smashed it on the wooden stake with a "clang". People who do such work would scream, which is said to be able to alleviate internal injuries caused by some huge vibrations.

It was chilly during the cold spring season, but the man's shirt was open, and sweat flowed on his black and yellow chest muscles, and was shining with water in the bright sunshine.

Zhu Gaoxu looked over his faces and thought that many of them would die in the next few days. While he was thinking about who would die, he felt a little uncomfortable. The ancients said that Ci did not take charge of soldiers, which was probably the reason.

He not only had to consider how many people would die in siege, but also thought about how much time could Liu Ying and Sheng Yong delay on their respective battlefields! On the battlefield, whether time is important or human life is important is a difficult problem.

Zhu Gaoxu raised his head again, squinted his eyes and looked at the dazzling sun on his head.

A little bird flew towards Guizhou City in the sky. The gray-blue sky is too broad and its eyes are too eye-catching. If you are not careful, the bird will be hard to see.

At this moment, a horse scream came from "neck..." with the sound of horse hooves, a knight strangled his mount and turned it down from the horse's back. He stepped forward and clasped his fists and said, "Report to the prince, people have sent people to see the trestle within twenty miles, and almost all the enemy soldiers have retreated!"

Zhu Gaoxu nodded slightly and thought to himself: The defenders in Guizhou City are insufficient, and they are shrinking their defense line as much as possible.

The knight said again: "But only Qingyantun in the south has not been withdrawn, and he sets up defenses behind closed doors and shoots arrows at our scouts."

"I understand." Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand.

The knight bowed and returned to his mount.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the almost invisible bird above the city, and his imagination was stimulated: Maybe the bird was a pigeon raised in Guizhou City; the news outside was sent to Qingyantun, and the news was then tied to the pigeon's legs and let it go. The pigeon would automatically return to Guizhou City as if it had set up a program.

This is not surprising. Even people are instilled in the procedures of loyalty, filial piety, morality, and superiority. Therefore, as long as people in the Qingqing have a little way out, even if they are forced to escape into the mountains and forests and become savages, they are rarely willing to be righteous.

Zhu Gaoxu immediately turned his head and saw Zhao Ping riding a horse behind him. He said, "Zhao Ping, you can transfer the troops from our headquarters to pull out Qingyantun!"

Zhao Ping did not ask the reason at all, and clasped his fists and said, "The last general is in charge!"

He had been promoted to the left deputy general of the Han Wangjun. This young man who failed the imperial examination and was originally a horseman who was a horseman, had a very fast status. However, even the officials of Liu Ying, who was captured in the "Jingnan Campaign", could be the governor, and the groomman could be the deputy general.

Zhu Gaoxu thought of Zhao Ping's background and current official position, and couldn't help but say again: "By the way, I'll tell you to destroy Qingyantun, because Qingyantun is probably the stronghold for the enemy to convey information. There are so many trunks within a radius of twenty miles, but it may not be accidental to leave Qingyantun."

Zhao Ping bowed seriously, made a sound, turned his horse's head and left.

The city walls in the distance are flying flags and swords and guns. Zhu Gaoxu estimated that there were only 20,000 to 30,000 defenders, which was not obvious... There are quotas for military households in the Guizhou Dusi. Apart from Gu Cheng's troops besieging Kunming, the number of defenders can be roughly estimated.

...Gu Cheng, a marquis of Zhenyuan in his seventies, had a total of eight sons. When Gu Cheng surrendered to the Yan Palace in Peiping, Emperor Jianwen killed four of his sons, including the eldest son. The remaining four sons were all officials in the Dusi of Guizhou. After Jianwen's court punished him, he didn't care about the people so far away and survived.

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu speculated that the chief general of the defender in Guizhou City might be Gu Yong, the second son of Gu Cheng.

Zhu Gaoxu knew nothing about Gu Cheng's son, and he couldn't even know whether Gu Yong was the governor of Guizhou.

Gu Cheng had been guarding Guizhou for many years before the "Jingnan Campaign", and Yonglechu continued to preside over the military and political affairs of Guizhou Dusi. Such nobles who have been serving as chief officials in the same place can easily become personal dependent on him. Therefore, before Gao Chi ascended the throne last year, Gu Cheng dared to openly intercept the guards of the Han Palace.

Even if the Han Prince's Mansion has to pass through Guizhou, I am extremely careful and if I can do it, I will do it.

So Zhu Gaoxu had no idea in advance and found an insider in Guizhou City; he didn't even have much information about Guizhou. There were no more people like Huayang County Prince and Wan Quan in Guizhou City... Some strategies were indeed hard to come by, and they could only be done by chance, and they had little to do with the commander's wisdom.

How to attack Guizhou City now? Zhu Gaoxu was planning for a long time and he had thought of many ways.

The city gate is a relatively easy place to break, but the Guizhou defenders are clearly defending the city gate, and the city gate may be blocked by stones. Even if the Yuecheng Gate is broken, it will not be easy for the army to cross the stones. They will also become a turtle in the jar in Yuecheng and besieged by the enemy on all four walls.

Zhu Gaoxu also considered digging tunnels to seal the gunpowder inside and smashing the city walls. However, was the foundation of Guizhou City soil or rock? He didn't know. Even if it was soil, it would take a long time to dig the tunnels.

The city wall was blown up, and the black fire was not explosives after all. The countless stones wrapped at the bottom of the Guizhou city wall would definitely pile up in the gap. The Ming army, who had long been used to gunpowder, also knew what was going on, and then both sides would continue to consume their troops in the difficult gap... If the defenders of Guizhou City were not 20,000 to 30,000, but 200,000 to 300,000, Zhu Gaoxu might try to blow up the city wall.

The important city of the Ming Dynasty, the rammed earth city wall, was usually as thick as twenty meters at the bottom. What can I do with black fire | medicine and weapons?

The solution Zhu Gaoxu can think of at present is to waste the defenders to death!

It’s not that he is not in a hurry, but that he only thinks of this method, which makes him feel more conscious of the times.

Zhu Gaoxu thought it was an unwise method to climb on the siege as soon as he came up. Good luck might work, but most of the time it was a waste of troops.

Zhu Gaoxu could easily think: when he started fighting, the defenders had sufficient organizational, physical strength and weapon preparation; and the defenders had a city wall of more than two meters high, and there would be no danger of field queue collapse.

However, any solid fortification must be defended by people; otherwise, the city walls above two feet high cannot be stopped at all. Even if they are twenty feet high, there is a way to climb up!

I'm afraid that only when the defenders are exhausted, have insufficient troops, and have low morale, will they be the time to launch a fatal strong attack!

The circumference of Guizhou City Wall is about eight or nine miles, or about four thousand meters.

On average, at a distance of every five meters on the city wall, if one enemy army can be killed in a day or one enemy army loses its combat effectiveness, it can consume about one thousand defenders every day.

If this effect can be achieved, ten days later, nearly half of the troops of 20,000 to 30,000 defenders will be consumed and they will be exhausted. At this time, the possibility of weak omissions in a certain place on the nearly ten miles of city defense front increased. The Han Wangjun seized the fighter jet and ants to attack the city, and it was very likely that he would find a breakthrough.

The key point is what method to consume? How many lives are used to exchange the enemy's troops! It also includes the consumption of morale and confidence between both sides.

...But Gu Cheng, who is under Kunming City, will face the same problem now, and the opponent who will be exhausted is Sheng Yong.
Chapter completed!