The governor personally visited Hecheng County to boost the spirit of the military and civilians of Hecheng, and his low morale rose. Everyone had an inexplicable trust in the governor. The originally dull air began to become relaxed, and laughter began to flutter in the night wind.

Jiang Anyi inspected the fortifications accompanied by Fan Shiben and others. Feng Dingzhong introduced the situation of the loss of Jingmen Pass. When he heard that the number of Rong Mi light cavalry was about 40,000, and the flags of the four personal soldiers of Flying Tiger, Flying Biao, Flying Lion, and Flying Eagle Rong Mi all appeared, Jiang Anyi looked solemn and had a huge difference in strength. The troops from Hecheng County alone could not only support the arrival of Guan Pingzhong's reinforcements.

Rong Miren did not arrive unexpectedly, giving Hecheng County a glimmer of hope. Seeing that it was almost midnight, Jiang Anyi asked everyone to go back to the city to rest and accumulate enough energy to deal with tomorrow's battle. In the lobby of Hecheng County, Jiang Anyi and Jiang Anyong, Siyu, Fan Shiben, Feng Dingzhong and others discussed how to fight the enemy.

Feng Dingzhong took the lead and said: "Master Jiang, the enemy is large and we are few, and our army lacks bows and arrows, so it is difficult to resist Rong Mi's army. It is better to let the Tun Ding and the people retreat first, leaving only the Qing cavalry to stay here. Once the city is broken, the Qing cavalry can escape quickly, and Tun Ding and the people will inevitably be harmed."

Jiang Anyi fought with Juxu and Weiche's army in Shasu. When fighting Juxu's army, he relied on his difficult surprise attacks, but when he broke into the Weiche camp, he relied on luck. If the arrows were not injured by the general Weiche, he would have to reverse the victory or defeat. The battlefield changed rapidly, and with the current personnel, Jiang Anyi would not dare to say that he could defeat Rong Mi's army no matter how brave he was.

The military commander himself was a county magistrate, so he naturally thought more about the people under his rule. Hearing this, "When the two armies were fighting, the ordinary people would not have much help. Otherwise, they would let them leave the city overnight now, so as not to be surrounded and unable to leave even if they wanted to."

Park Tianhao accompanied Jiang Anyi to Shasu, and made suggestions with Juxu, Weiche and later Rong Miren in the battle, gradually building up confidence. He adjusted his positioning around Jiang Anyi from the head of the guard to the minister. The battle with the enemy was when he showed his talent, Park Tianhao did not want to miss the opportunity.

He thought to himself that Hecheng County was more than 300 miles apart from Huiye Mansion. The news of the loss of Jingmen Pass should be spread to Huiye Mansion tonight. Guan Pingzhong sent troops tomorrow morning. The 300-mile light cavalry can arrive within a day and one night, but it will take three days for the infantry. Guan Pingzhong has 15,000 garrisons under him. In addition to the thousand light cavalry of Jiang Anyong's troops, there are 2,000 light cavalry, and they can reach the battlefield as soon as possible. There are 3,000 light cavalry, who cooperates with 10,000 garrisons, and can barely fight against Rong Mi people. If more than 10,000 people from Guan Pingzhong can be dragged into the battlefield, the hope of Rong Mi people's advance east will be almost shattered. Even if they can defeat the Hecheng defenders, it will take a few days to plunder the grain in the military farming yamen. When the time comes, the reinforcements from the Anxi Protectorate's Office should be almost here.

The court has always been generous in rewarding military merits, and has used the power of a county to block Rong Mi's invasion army from the east. This contribution is enough to raise everyone present to a few levels. Park Tianhao's eyes showed hope. As long as the command is properly, Lord Jiang will never hide his merits. Perhaps this time he can be promoted from Renyong to Xuanjie, and even Yizhi's lieutenant.

Take a deep breath, Park Tianhao lets his passionate thoughts cool down. Everyone wants the credit. The greater the credit means facing it.

The greater the risk, the key to this battle is time, the most important thing is the first three days, and the most difficult thing for Hecheng County is tomorrow. Feng Dingzhong digs trenches, traps horse pits, and digs a road very smart, and can delay Rong Mi for two to three hours, but after Rong Mi people pave the road, Hecheng County is in danger.

Jiang Anyi pondered for a moment and said, "The two armies are fighting, the people are He Gu, Brother Fan, you ask someone to notify the people in the city to retreat, and then send someone to inform the nearby counties to dig out roads like Hecheng County, dig out trenches and trapped horse pits."

Thinking of the way I passed by Shihe Town when I first entered Huazhou, the road leading to the town was covered with fences, sand bags, digging trenches, and using wooden boards to build roads for easy access. Once I encountered the enemy, I could stop the enemy. This method was good. When Jiang Anyi talked about this method, everyone praised it. In this way, the light cavalry, who came and went like the wind, was restricted by countless trenches and was difficult to spread in Huazhou. The Zheng army could pass through the wooden boards on the trenches quickly, and it was almost impossible to affect the speed of reinforcements.

"To use the river," Park Tianhao said with a clever idea: "If there is a river along the way, you might as well bring the river water into the trenches to form mud ditches, so that the horses of Rong Mi will be even more difficult to pass."

Fan Shiben clapped his hands and praised: "This method is wonderful. The Bishe River is five miles northwest of Hecheng County. I will let someone lead the water of the Bishe River into the trenches. Tomorrow, Rong Mi people will definitely be helpless when they see mud outside Hecheng County."

At dawn, Cleda led 15,000 Rong Mi troops from Jingmen Pass to Hecheng County. Half an hour later, Hecheng County appeared in front of Rong Mi Army. Although Cleda was a hunter, he was thick on the outside but thin on the inside. He followed King Rong Mi, Hu Dan, and said less and watched more. He was very happy. The tiger dared to go to war. The tiger dared to show his skills and attracted the attention of Hu Dan, and let him command the battle. He made many achievements. Hu Dan saw that Cleda was not only a brave general but also brave and resourceful, but also had his own wise eyes to recognize people. Under the expectation of King Rong Mi, Cleda made many military achievements and became one of the top ten generals in less than twenty years.

From Hunting to General Jinhu, Cleda was loyal to Hu Dan. Seeing that the king was heartbroken and fell ill after the prince was heartbroken, Cleda was as heartbroken as a knife. He didn't read much, and he didn't know what the king said that the minister was humiliating and his ministers died, but his mind was the same.

The scout cavalry in front rushed over and reported: "General, there is muddy outside Hecheng County, with a five-mile trenches covered with trenches. Please decide." Zele Damer kept urging his horse to move forward. Sure enough, the big and small trenches were covered with horse pits in front of Hecheng County. River water was introduced into the trenches, and the ditches were turbid and unknown depth.

"Muh, Gari, each of you led 3,000 people to the nearby village to capture the Zheng people, and asked them to demolish the houses and transport wood and stones to come." Zeleda ordered expressionlessly.

When the war began, Fan Shiben had already sent yamen runners to four villages and eight townships to inform the people to avoid disaster, but some people were unable to leave their hometowns, and hid in the mountains with money, food and food, and were caught by Rong Mi people. When the sun was rising, Rong Mi's army successively captured nearly a thousand Zheng people, dragging more than a hundred armies carrying wooden boards and stones arrived.

Zhu Leda waved his hand, Rong Mijun forced the Zheng people caught to fill the trench, and some people fell down. Rong Mi people stepped forward and killed them with a knife. The body was thrown into the trench, and blood mixed together.

The mud and water became more and more dirty. As more and more Zheng people were arrested, the speed of filling the ditches became faster and faster. It seemed that the trenches and horse pits outside the west gate of Hecheng would be filled without noon.

Jiang Anyi stood above the west city and looked at the crying people not far away, feeling powerless. It was not that he didn't want to rescue him, but that the people in his hands were surrounded when they left the city. He already knew that no matter how high his martial arts skills were, the final result would be a death.

Jiang Anyong said on the side: "Brother, when the trench is filled, I will lead the light cavalry to rush for a while to slam Rong Mi's spirit."

Jiang Anyi glared at him and cursed: "The courage of every man, thousands of light cavalry rushed to tens of thousands of Rong Mi's army. Do you think Rong Mi's army is made of mud?"

Park Tianhao's head was thinking about a strategy to defend against the enemy. He thought that the trench after adding water could delay Rong Mi's army until evening. As long as the sun sets, the Rong Mi's army will be unlikely to attack the city at night and will survive this day. Maybe in the middle of the night, the two thousand light cavalry of the Ye Mansion will arrive. However, Rong Mi's army broke the house and filled the ditch, and even killed the Zheng people and threw them into the ditch, which accelerated the progress of filling the ditch. Seeing that the trench filling team was close to two miles outside the city, the trench could be filled at noon.

Jiang Anyi frowned and was thinking about a plan to retreat to the enemy. His eyes suddenly lit up. He really thought of a solution. There are records in the history of the Warring States Period, "......... I collected more than a thousand cows in the city, tied up weapons at its horns, poured fat and tied reeds at its tail, and burned the ends. The cows were urged at night, and the ox tail was hot, and they moved forward with an angry slogan, and then followed the heroes to attack them. The enemy was defeated." Jiang Anyi knew that there were thousands of cows transporting food and grass in Hecheng County. Although it was daytime now, it seemed that a fire bull strategy could be used.

One person had a short plan, Jiang Anyi summoned Feng Dingzhong, Fan Shiben and others, and said that he wanted to use a bull to rush Rong Mi's army to break the formation and take the opportunity to rush for a while. Fan Shiben had obviously read this record and smiled and said, "Miscellaneous, the ancients used fire bulls to defeat the enemy, and Anyi did not let the ancients be beautiful in front of him. How wonderful."

Park Tianhao was so impressed that he was worthy of being the lord. He had no choice but to get inspiration from the book, but the lord was able to come up with tricks. It seems that he had to read more if he became a famous general.

Jiang Anyong said in a little embarrassedly: "Where to find reeds in Hecheng County?"

Siyu slapped Jiang Anyong's head in anger and cursed: "Your Yulin head has no reeds. There are not many wheat poles in the fields, and you are afraid that you can't find anything that can cause fire."

"There are firecrackers," Park Tianhao added: "I heard from the Magistrate Fan that firecrackers were set off that day and shocked Rong Mi people's war horses. It can be seen that Rong Mi people's war horses were afraid of the explosion of firecrackers. They might as well wrap more firecrackers on the cow, which might have a miraculous effect."

The Shangyuan Festival is coming soon, and after the Shangyuan Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming. Many shops in Hecheng County bought firecrackers and fireworks, and the people have sent them away. The soldier asked the yamen runners to go in from the shop and compensate them after the losses were withdrawn.

The Rong Mi people outside the city stepped up their filling of ditches, and everyone in the city began to dress up cows, with sharp blades tied on their horns, wheat poles soaked in soybean oil and tied to the ox tail, and then firecrackers were hung on the ox, waiting for the Rong Mi people to attack the city.
Chapter completed!