As winter approaches, Xuzhou City is short of soldiers and food, and there is also a very shortage of clothes and quilts for winter. Originally, Xuzhou Prefect Min Shaoqing was still counting on the truce to stop the spring of the coming year. When the spring is warm and flowers bloom, the battle will not be so difficult, but unexpectedly, the Huai Army will start the siege again so soon.

On the first day of the winter month, the King of Huai proclaimed himself the emperor, and established himself as emperor in Huai, changing the country's name to Longyuan, meaning the first year of Changlong. At the same time, many officials in Huai were promoted, and the original Huai Prime Minister Meng Chuliang became the prime minister. Then, in the name of the emperor, the King of Huai issued a second manifesto "According to the Decree of Heaven", calling the new emperor Su Yan the pseudo emperor and sent troops to attack.

In cooperation with the military operations, King Ding and other vassal kings also responded, and they all regarded King Huai as the master of the world and were willing to send troops to help the monarch pacify the world. King Ding claimed to send 300,000 troops, King Jing claimed to send 200,000 troops, and King Shu said to send 150,000 troops. In addition to these three major vassal kings, other vassal kings and vassal lords also sent troops, ranging in size from thousands to tens of thousands.

Although the shouting is fierce, people with discerning eyes also know that the vassal lords of various families are just doing superficial work and making military moves more symbolic. Whether the Huai King can win the world depends on the confrontation between the Huai Army and the imperial army.

Immediately afterwards, the battle in Xuzhou began again.

The Huai Army's previous withdrawal did not hand over the city it occupied, and the court could not complete the acceptance of the lost city. Therefore, this time the Huai Army sent troops out of Jiangbei, and the trapped city was almost completed in an afternoon. When the news of Xuzhou was trapped to the Xinhuang, Min Shaoqing thought the Xinhuang would be shocked and immediately summoned the new emperor to accompany him. Unexpectedly, the new emperor wiped the snot flowing out of the wind and cold, and hesitated: "Come on. In short, General Liu has not come back. I will not go anywhere!"

Min Shaoqing was shocked again. From the new emperor to the lower court, they were all freaks. Now Xuzhou City is trapped and the city is broken in a short while. Where did the new emperor have such confidence?

Min Shaoqing hurriedly reminded: "Your Majesty, that's the main force of the Huai Army!"

"I know that it is the main force of the Huai Army. Are we also the main force? The main force is the main force, and there are so many soldiers. It should be fine to defend a city. General Liu said that to capture a big city like Xuzhou City, at least 30,000 to 50,000 troops, and when the baggage and the defenses are not prepared enough, we are very prepared."

Min Shaoqing sighed in his heart that the new emperor was really "appropriate". He spoke "we" and he was completely unfamiliar. It seemed that the new emperor was quite confident in the defenders and city defense, but he also knew that the new emperor had never been out of the palace since he entered Xuzhou City. This confidence came entirely from the report of the stupid Chai Jin and Qu Zhu like the monkey spirit.

Blind self-confidence!

A foolish lord!

Although Min Shaoqing sighed in his heart, he also felt that this foolish monarch was a little cute. At least it was something that the military and civilians in Xuzhou City liked to hear about.

In this case, Min Shaoqing was embarrassed to say that the Huai Army that had sieged the city was more than 30,000 to 50,000, which was more than ten times that of the defenders. I was embarrassed to say that there was actually nothing in the city. Even Your Majesty, you are still in a scrupulous manner. I didn’t know that General Liu, who was deceived by you, knew that it was actually a blessing for the new emperor to stay in Xuzhou City, and it was also a misfortune of the Dashun court.

Originally, Min Shaoqing thought that the New Emperor's Association convened a military meeting, but in the end, the New Emperor just sighed helplessly: "The Huainan is not as good as the Huainan."

Min Shaoqing was stunned. Is the New Emperor's words implying something? Huainan is not as good as Huainbei. This means that the King of Huainan's army will eventually be defeated! It seems that the New Emperor has an unexpected wisdom while blindly confident.

It took Min Shaoqing a long time to learn that the emperor actually said that the crickets in Huainan were not as aggressive as those in Huainan.

The Huai Army was at the city. As the prefect of Xuzhou who was fully responsible for the city defense, he had to run around to ask the opinions of these bigwigs. After coming out of the palace, he went to see the Grand Marshal Chai Jin. At this time, Chai Jin was playing chess with him calmly. After listening to Min Shaoqing's report, Chai Jin thought for a while and rubbed his nose and said, "It's cold."

Chai Jin is even two more than the new emperor. Min Shaoqing felt upset when he saw Chai Jin and did not do anything at all. He said that he was pragmatic at most, he was just in charge of repairing the city wall. He didn't see him taking action. He talked and repaired the useless western city wall. Everyone knows that the west side of Xuzhou is the rear of the imperial court, and the Huai Army should not take the risk of being surrounded by the rear route from the west.

"General Chai should also pay more attention to his body." Min Shaoqing muttered when he heard Chai Jin's speech, thinking that it was probably because of the cold wind, so he greeted him habitually.

"Brother Min is careful, I understand." Chai Jin rarely smiled on his face. Min Shaoqing had never remembered seeing him laugh since he saw him. This smile made him feel a little embarrassed.

Smile?!

In fact, Chai Jin only smiled at the people he thought was familiar with. Min Shaoqing said with concern, and he laughed with gratitude.

"Brother Min, is there anything else?"

Min Shaoqing smiled bitterly in his heart. Is he going to drive the passengers? The Huai army outside had already surrounded Xuzhou City, so why didn't the Grand Marshal's rebellion react nervously? Could it be that he would pay attention to it on the day when Xuzhou City was broken?

"General Chai, the Huai Army is trapped in the city on all sides, and you will have a general attack on magic weapons tonight!" Min Shaoqing was so angry that he really wanted to overturn the table and smash the chair. Why can't it make sense to such a stupid person? But he was still his boss, the Grand Marshal who was personally awarded the title of the new emperor!

Chai Jin looked at the chessboard and lowered his head and said, "The Huai Army will not come to attack, we will not do this these two days."

Min Shaoqing was stunned. If the confidence of the new emperor comes from ignorance, then where does the confidence of the Grand Marshal who tried to rebel come from?

"General Chai, how did you know that the Huai Army will not attack the city immediately?"

Chai Jin opened his mouth and stammered for a long time without saying anything. He just kept "because" and lost his words. Min Shaoqing couldn't help but add to him: "You can't guess it, right?"

Chai Jin nodded happily and said, "That's exactly what... Brother Min still understands it."

Min Shaoqing felt that he really lacked common language when he was fighting a general who had to guess. Min Shaoqing had no choice but to say goodbye and went directly to see Yuan Bolang. Although this right prime minister seemed a bit abnormal, at least he was considering the court. He asked the right prime minister about the defense of Xuzhou City, which involves military and national affairs. Although it was not in line with the rules of civil and military affairs, the court could still understand that the new emperor and the Grand Marshal of the Rebellion did not pay any attention to this!

"Don't ask me! Go and ask the person surnamed Liu, isn't he very good? That bastard, I must peel him off when I see him! I have already negotiated a ceasefire agreement with King Huai, but he has ruined it!"

When Yuan Bolang saw Min Shaoqing, he cursed angrily. Min Shaoqing knew that Yuan Bolang was not scolding him, but it was still not right after hearing it.

This means, he doesn't care?

Next, Yuan Bolang drove him out of the tent. Min Shaoqing, who had an inexplicable expression, walked out of the tent, feeling like a clown. He couldn't even be considered a nonsense in front of several pillars of the court! He didn't take him seriously at all.

Slapping his forehead, Min Shaoqing said angrily: "Don't worry, why are you in a hurry?"

Although he could stand by, he knew that if he didn't care about the entire Xuzhou City, it would be over. Going back to Ma Feng and others to implement the defense matter, it was basically the defense of the last time the Huai Army siege. In order to prevent the Huai Army's sneak attack at night, Min Shaoqing also specially asked the defenders to set up sentinels everywhere, using fireworks as signals to transmit messages.

The defenders of Xuzhou City spent the two days before the siege in anxiety. Min Shaoqing really didn't dare to close his eyes for a moment, for fear that he would fall asleep, so the Huai Army would come to attack the city soon. But until the third day, the morning of the fifth day of the winter moon, there was still no movement on the Huai Army.

After Min Shaoqing had just slept for an hour, Ma Feng cursed and entered the temporary command post established under the city wall, waking Min Shaoqing.

"My mother, is he going to be besiege the city and fight for help!?"

Min Shaoqing rubbed his sleepy eyes, his head hurt and asked, "What did you say?"

"I mean, why haven't those turtle sons attacked the city?"

Min Shaoqing stood up and looked outside. It was already dawn. It was already the third day. As Chai Jin said, the Huai Army did not attack the city as soon as possible. Bai asked him to guard the city wall day and night these days.

Ma Feng said: "Prefect Min, please go back and rest first and accompany your sister-in-law. If the Huai Army does not come to attack at night, it will most likely not come during the day."

"That side of the city wall."

"Don't worry, whenever there is any news, the official immediately asked someone to go to the mansion to inform you."

Prefect Min came out of the temporary command post, looking puzzled. How could the Huai Army surround the city without attacking?

When Min Shaoqing climbed the city tower and looked at it, he realized that the Huai Army was building a defense line outside. In the past three days, the defense line has begun to take shape. Not only have trenches and stationed in Taiwan, but also set up posts, which clearly made preparations for long-term combat.

"The new emperor is in the city, and the military and civilians in the city are not as scattered as they were before, and there are additional defenses. No wonder the Huai army did not attack the city immediately!" Min Shaoqing said to himself, "The new emperor is the ultimate goal of the Huai army. The battle in Xuzhou is not only the first battle, but also the Huai army hopes to be the last battle!"

As long as the new emperor is captured or killed, the world will definitely be the King of Huai. The capable prince in Chang'an City will either lose his power or return to heaven early. The Huai army does not attack and build fortifications, because it is afraid that it will spend a lot of effort to conquer Xuzhou City and make the new emperor run away and fail. As long as the new emperor is trapped in Xuzhou City, the news inside cannot be spread and the news outside cannot be spread. Then this is a dead city. Sooner or later, the ammunition and food will be exhausted until the day the city is broken. If the emperor does not get the order from the emperor outside the city, the entire defense line will be like a ball of loose sand and will not be a threat.

The Huai Army commander's two-pronged approach is much more effective than rash siege.
Chapter completed!