The sky is gloomy, and slight raindrops are coming, with refreshing and spring.

Xu Ping rode on the horse, lowering his head to think about his worries. Tan Hu was guarding him with his own soldiers in front, back and forth, so he didn't have to worry about riding into the ditch.

From Taiping County, whenever Xu Ping arrived at a place, he immediately rectified the gathered rural soldiers and rushed to Liangzhou without delaying for a moment. Unfortunately, these places were pacified two years ago, and the sugar sugar service had just been established and there was not much manpower to be drawn out. Except for those who have been building bridges and roads in these places, the other rural soldiers who were actually drawn out were only two or three thousand, which was a drop in the bucket.

On the sixth day of the third month, Xu Ping rushed forward and finally left Menzhou and entered Liangzhou Prefecture.

Calculate the days, Li Fengxiao's Jiaozhi army may have arrived in the past two days, and I don't know how Sang Yi will respond or prepare. The closer he gets, the heavier Xu Ping's mood is.

As soon as I entered Liangzhou, I felt a tense atmosphere. There were only a few old and weak women on both sides of the road. I could only see a young and strong man, and I thought that they were all transferred to the front line by Sang Yi.

Although the fortifications set up by Xu Ping in Liangzhou are powerful, they have advantages and disadvantages, which are that they require too many personnel. They cannot be controlled by the majestic gates of the valley. Even if there are only a few hundred people, they can hold on for a while.

There is no best in both worlds. Xu Ping only thought about causing heavy damage to Jiaozhi, so that they would never dare to commit crimes again. However, he did not expect that they would hurt them too deeply. This time he sacrificed his life to play.

Bypassing Beiliangzhou City, Xu Ping went directly outside Nanliangzhou City.

At this time, the city gate had already been martial law, and everyone entering and leaving had to check in detail. However, Xu Ping, as the highest local commander, still entered the city smoothly.

As soon as he entered the city, soldiers rushed to inform Sang Yi, and he was facing Xu Ping early at the yamen.

After the reception, Sang Yi breathed a sigh of relief and said to Xu Ping: "You are here to attack Jiaozhi this time. The one who led the troops was a famous general. I feel that I can't hold on."

"This time is indeed different from the past. I have been to Yongzhou for six years. I have never encountered such a strict moment. I am not careless at all. Let's go in and talk, tell me about the recent situation in the state."

Xu Ping said as he entered the yamen with Sang Yi.

When he arrived at the official hall, the soldiers served tea, and Sang Yi talked about the general situation now.

Li Fengxiao's troops arrived yesterday. As soon as he arrived outside the valley, he launched an attack on the right slope. With Chen Changji's lesson last time, Li Fengxiao was much more cautious and sent out not many people. The attack surface he chose was even narrower and there were some simple siege equipment. Although he was easily repelled by the commander of Sang Yi, he did not cause any major damage to the Jiaozhi army.

After the test, Li Fengxiao led his men to camp at the entrance of the valley. At first, the camp was too close to the valley, but was hit hard by Sang Yi's command of the stone cannon, so he led his troops to retreat two miles.

After hearing this, Xu Ping asked: "You guess how many troops are there in the Jiaozhi people now?"

"About 10,000 people, I can still deal with it now. But the subsequent army has been endless. In less than three days, the 20,000 people from their front team will definitely arrive. It will be difficult to deal with it at that time."

Xu Ping nodded. He used 6,000 to 20,000 to defend and attack, but there was no shortage of troops. The problem was that Xu Ping had arranged too much fortifications before using too much manpower, and before a large number of civilians arrived, the power of the fortifications could not be exerted. If the wing army was asked to operate various city-defense equipment, there would be no reserve team, and there would be no ability to respond without the reserve team, and the situation would be even more dangerous.

After drinking tea, Xu Ping said to Sang Yi: "Let's go out of the city together and go and see what the Jiaozhi people are doing."

The drizzle kept floating, and the misty rain had a sense of ink and water in the south of the Yangtze River. But Xu Ping stood on the top of the hill and looked at the Jiaozhi Military Camp that could not see the edge of the rain in front of it. But he felt heavy in his heart.

Li Fengxiao's arrangement is much more organized than Chen Changji. The barracks are very compact and there are no particularly conspicuous protrusions as weaknesses. The middle is slightly protruding towards the valley, and the two wings are dragged back, which is obviously considering the Song army stone cannon behind the mountain, avoiding the farthest range.

The eyesight is not as far away in the mist and rain. I can only look at it. But it is this, the strict arrangement of the military camp also made Xu Ping feel the pressure. This time the Jiaozhi army did not have the troops, and the front of the valley entrance was full of elite guardians, showing a different temperament from the last time in all aspects.

Xu Ping looked at it for a while and asked Sang Yi beside him: "This time, all the elite soldiers came to Jiaozhi, but the troops were not in the critical moment. They asked people to fill the trenches, and they also used these elite soldiers to fill it."

"The local soldiers were still brought, but they have not come to the valley entrance yet. According to the spy, the local soldiers in Jiaozhi were led by one or two thousand soldiers to collect grain from the surrounding prefectures and counties. This time, tens of thousands of people in Jiaozhi suddenly attacked, and even the food was not available, so they had to collect them everywhere. I don't know how long I could last like this."

"So that's it," Xu Ping nodded, "Forcibly collecting grain in his own territory or forcibly collecting grain in places where local officials are everywhere. This is a loss-making approach. Regardless of the outcome of the war, the reputation of the Jiaozhi people in Liangzhou is over."

As Xu Ping said, he set up a shed with his hand to cover the drizzle and looked ahead. After looking for a while, he said to Sang Yi: "By the way, why did the Jiaozhi people in front have been building the earthen wall and drizzle all the time today? They still keep going for a while, it must be extremely important."

Sang Yi said: "Since they tried to attack once yesterday, they retreated and set up camp, and then they kept building this earthen wall in front of the military camp, and I don't know what to do. I also thought that it was to prevent us from rushing straight down from the mountain and stealing their camp. With this earthen wall blocking it, it would be much safer."

"No, I always think it's not the case. If we want to stop us from rushing to the camp, we should dig trenches and stand up and resist horses. Building a wall will not be half the result with twice the effort."

Xu Ping said, while observing carefully, he looked for a while, suddenly remembered something, and said to Sang Yi: "You order the soldiers behind the mountain to shoot two rounds of stone cannons to see."

Sang Yi was a little embarrassed: "Now there is insufficient manpower and the stone cannon is slowly loading, I'm afraid."

"No matter which ones, the cannon and the medium cannon will each be fired for two rounds. There is no need to shoot them all, just a few of them will be fine."

Sang Yi didn't know what Xu Ping meant, and saw that he was speaking seriously, he had to go aside and give orders.

In the rainy day, even the drums were not crisp, and only a few dull sounds were heard. A squeaking sound came from behind the mountain. Dozens of stone bullets, with the sound of wind, shattered the rain curtain in the sky and roared towards the bottom of the mountain.

Xu Ping was quietly watching the stone bullets cut through the dense raindrops and landed on the ground. His face turned as gloomy as the weather.

Sang Yi said strangely: "Yunxing, what have you discovered?"

Xu Ping sighed: "I know why the Jiaozhi people built a wall. They wanted to block the stone bullets and make our stone cannon useless."

Now the earth wall has just begun to be built, and it is only as high as the waist of a person. However, judging from the trajectory of the stone bullet, as long as the earth wall is built to a height of ten feet, it will block the ballistics of the stone cannon and will not threaten the Jiaozhi military camp.

The method is not afraid of simplicity or stupidity. As long as it is useful, it is the best way. Obviously, the Jiaozhi Lord on the opposite side roughly estimated the ballistics based on the launch of the stone cannon yesterday and began to take targeted measures.

In the war in Liangzhou, the Jiaozhi people attacked and the Song army and civilians defended. But specifically on the stone cannon, the Song army attacked and the Jiaozhi people defended. The transition between offense and defense was changed, and the battlefield was changing rapidly.

Xu Ping suddenly turned his head and said to Sang Yi: "Transfer our military order. The cavalry troops of the village soldiers must come here in the shortest time. If you dare to delay, the military law is to defend the death. The enemy we face this time is no longer something we can deal with."

A friend talked about speeding up the progress, and it really came to the point. In fact, not only readers, but I have reached the exhaustion of writing. I spent a lot of energy, but it was not as interesting as before. The progress of this last battle is probably going to be accelerated. Of course, I will not directly pull the progress bar, but I just streamlined some details and entered the next big plot as soon as possible. Now I feel that it is difficult to write, and I still feel that I can't write anything, which is quite painful. I have agreed to have a main update on the book, but it still has not been fulfilled today. I am very ashamed. I hope I can get back my status as soon as possible and fulfill my promise. I am forgiven by readers. To be continued.

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