Facts are better than words. When Min Shaoqing learned that the Huai Army launched an attack from the south of the city, he immediately thought that the stupid man named Chai was Hu Meng. But when the defenders moved the focus of the defense to the south of the city, the Huai Army suddenly launched a fierce attack from the west gate. Min Shaoqing suddenly realized that the siege in the south of the city was just a cover, and the west of the city was the real direction of the Huai Army's main attack.

"Retreat, withdraw quickly!"

The second round of the Huai Army's offensive was very fierce. If the city wall on the west side had not been repaired well, the defenders were well prepared, and the Imperial Army commander Qu Zhu led his troops to defend the city wall in time, the consequences would be unimaginable. If such an ordinary siege led to the fall of Xuzhou City, Min Shaoqing would have no face to see anyone again.

"Prefect Min, how could you easily transfer most of the defenders in the west of the city to the south of the city?"

After driving away from the Huai Army, Qu Zhu asked Min Shaoqing in a very unpolite tone.

Min Shaoqing felt ashamed. When he learned that the Huai Army had attacked the city from the south of the city, he conceited to transfer more defenders to the south of the city because he despised Chai Jin's strategic deployment. This was also to prove that the Grand Marshal was wrong to fight against the rebellion. Unexpectedly, the Huai Army almost took advantage of the loophole.

"The officials at the bottom of the country know that they are wrong."

Qu Zhu, who had experienced the war's dust on the front line, did not look at it carefully, and threw down a defense map and said: "This is the city defense deployment map arranged by this commander based on the city's Prince Chai. Prefect Min, please take a look. Chai's Prince Chai has an order. Before getting his latest order these days, the city's defense will be mainly the west of the city. Don't make such a mistake today!"

Min Shaoqing sent Qu Zhu away timidly, picked up the defense map and looked at it. It turned out that nearly half of the defenders and civilians had transferred to the west of the city, and was preparing to repair the city wall while defending. Min Shaoqing felt very different when holding the defense map in his hand.

Is Chai Jin stupid or Huai army stupid? The Huai army is on high alert in the west of your city and is still repairing the city wall. Will they attack next time? Now the Huai army has surrounded Xuzhou City. Who can predict the direction of the next attack of the Huai army?

"What does that fat man named Chai mean?"

After seeing the defense map, Ma Feng frowned. The defense map was obviously beyond his understanding. Even if both sides had a tacit understanding, everything would not be as expected by the Grand Marshal to challenge the rebellion.

Min Shaoqing sighed and said, "Who knows, why not call the generals to hold a meeting and invite General Chai to come and let him explain in detail to us."

"Just him?" Ma Feng looked disdainful. "Even speaking is not smooth, his face is bitter, it seems that someone owes him dozens of dollars. There is really no one in Xuzhou City now!"

Ma Feng means that now the only two of them are working hard on the city defense in the entire Xuzhou city. This time, there were many soldiers with the imperial carriage, but there were no generals at all. Except for Qu Zhu and Chai Jin, they were not the materials for leading troops to fight. After all, the local soldiers and generals in Xuzhou were still holding on to the battle. However, in some defense strategies, the Xuzhou official army was subject to the rebellion of the Grand Marshal Chai Jin.

Those who can't fight will become the Grand Marshal. This will make the entire army disobey.

Min Shaoqing said: "From the siege of the Huai Army these two times, the offensive was not as fierce as before. Just try it. It seems that the focus of the Huai Army is on the cities on the west and north sides of Xuzhou, and the city of Xuzhou should be isolated as much as possible outside the scope of the reinforcements that the court can rescue."

Ma Feng frowned again and said, "According to the prefect Min, the Huai Army attacked from the west of the city, and there was no trace of it."

Both of them thought about it carefully. If the Huai Army was temporarily trapped in the city and then built fortifications outside the city to isolate Xuzhou City, the next step must be to cut off the connection between Xuzhou City and other cities, otherwise the reinforcements from each city to serve the king would be enough for the Huai Army to drink a pot. On the one hand, the trap was trapped in the city, and on the other hand, the troops were sent northward. The Huai Army gradually eroded other cities close to Xuzhou City, which would completely put Xuzhou City in an isolated and helpless state.

The lonely city will sooner or later fall. As long as Xuzhou falls, the war will be over for the King of Huai. Who told the emperor who listened to the villain's slander to come to Xuzhou!

Although the Huai Army had nearly 100,000 troops at the beginning of the siege, after the military mobilization, the scale of the Huai Army besieged was almost half reduced, and the remaining half was cooperating with the Huai Army's lower army to conquer the city to the northwest. Under such circumstances, it was inevitable that the Huai Army would attack the city in the west, because the purpose of the Huai Army's siege was to restrict the dispatch of Xuzhou defenders, so as not to prevent the main force of the Huai Army from being attacked by the court army in the west of Xuzhou.

When Ma Feng expressed this idea in detail, Min Shaoqing remained silent. Ma Feng said: "Did you think that fat man named Chai think it out by himself, or is there any expert around you to give me some advice?"

Ma Feng and Min Shaoqing thought that with their wisdom and talent, they had only barely understood the situation of the war, but Chai Jin could make strategic arrangements in advance before the Huai Army besieged the city. This was incredible.

"The person who can be the Grand Marshal who is rebellious should not be just a fool!" Min Shaoqing couldn't figure it out, but just sighed.

Ma Feng said helplessly: "Even if he is a wise man, he should not use Xuzhou as an isolated city to guard it. We are like waiting for death. The food and grass in the city will definitely not last until the end of the year. If you spend two months like this, how can Xuzhou City not fall?"

"Look at one step."

The current situation in the entire Xuzhou city is waiting to die, and the court army cannot rescue it. Even though we know that the Huai army is advancing north, the boundary between the Xuzhou city and the imperial Huai army is getting farther and farther, there is no way. The Huai army attacked the city a day without picking other places, so we will attack the city west, and retreat when attacking, and attack again the next day. Ma Feng also wanted to suggest that we attack the Huai army off guard, but now there are few cavalry in the city and lack of cover from strong crossbows, which has failed to implement this plan.

Every day after the Huai Army attacked the city, Min Shaoqing would go to the palace to see the new emperor. Most of the time, the new emperor avoided it, and could only see it when he was lucky. The new emperor looked listless. He seemed to fall asleep at any time when he heard Min Shaoqing's report. He was so impatient that he coughed a few times and waved his hand to let Eunuch Wu see him off. The last time, the new emperor said unhappy: "Prefect Min, how many times have he said. If there is no news about General Liu, don't bother me, don't come again in the future!"

After being issued an expulsion order so clearly by the new emperor, Min Shaoqing was embarrassed to go to the palace again in the next few days.

"Why do you think the emperor is the one who is Liu Wenyan when he opens his mouth and shuts up?" In the temporary command post, Ma Feng seemed to be asking questions, and seemed to be talking to himself, and then looked at Min Shaoqing.

"It is reported that the emperor once worshipped Liu Wenyan as his teacher on the down-and-out streets of Chang'an City. After that, within a year, the emperor first went from a barracks to a prince to restore his status as a prince, and then from a county duke to King Yu, to ascend to the position of Dabao. The emperor trusted Liu Wenyan very much."

Ma Feng showed a look of disbelief on his face and said, "Where did these prefects Min learn about it?"

"You will know if you pay more attention. This is not a secret in Dashun Dynasty."

Ma Feng said angrily: "Even if Liu Wenyan is a god, he will be irresponsible to move the emperor to Xuzhou City. Unless he goes to move the border army, the Huai Army will be out of reach!"

Prefect Min thought about the possibility of this situation in his mind, and felt that it was very low. The Turks have been invading the territory every year over the years. If they easily mobilized the border army, it might no longer be an internal strife in the Dashun court, but an invasion of foreign races. Moreover, with Liu Wenyan's position in the army, how could the border army listen to his orders? (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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