Before Li Chongjin left Shouzhou, a general came to the front of the formation to find Guo Shao and said: Huainan City deployed General Li to invite General Guo to meet at the Hujie Army's right camp.
After hearing this, all the generals around looked at each other and remained silent. Everyone knew that Shangfeng was determined to attack the city, and Guo Shao's sudden stop to attack the city would arouse dissatisfaction from the upper class.
Guo Shao looked back and forth, and generals such as Li Chuyun just bowed their heads and said nothing, and no one could do it.
Guo Shao said: I'm going to order all the troops to rest for a while, and I'll go and see General Li again.
Li Chuyun said: I will go with my lord.
A group of people asked the generals who were sent to lead the way and rode their horses to the central camp of the Hujie Army's right wing.
On the other side near the Huai River, there was a large area of military camp tents, at least for several miles, all of which were the right garrison of the Hujie Army. The people there had never come to Shouzhou City.
They are all from the Hujie Army, so Guo Shao doesn't think there is any danger in this trip... He is mainly not familiar with Li Chongjin before, and there is no grudge at all.
When he reached the headquarters of the central army, he entered the large tent with wide flags and saw that the generals inside stood in two rows.
Lee Chongjin was sitting above, and the first person sitting on the left was Lee Jixun.
The person Guo Shao has met is a man in his forties.
Sure enough, Li Chongjin had no good expression and asked coldly: General Guo, why did he stop siege?
Guo Shao replied: I just took over the siege of the city, and I am not familiar with the terrain, army, and strategies. I want to take a few days off and discuss countermeasures with the generals first.
This kind of defense was thought by Guo Shao on the way. Li Chongjin could not refute it, but he was very unhappy and said in public: You are kind and ruthless, and you are polite and kind as a woman!The official family actually asked you to attack a strong city like Shouzhou, and I will definitely report it truthfully!
Guo Shao was scolded and said as if he was useless. He was also angry and said to himself: Do you think I want to come to attack Shouzhou?Do you do it, do you think I want this hard bone?
But Li Chongjin was appointed as the commander of the Cavalry and Craftsmanship, and no one in the personal guards' office was inferior to him. Moreover, he was deployed in Huainan Capital, and the emperor went to Chuzhou, and he had the right to control the troops and horses in the entire Huai River Basin.
It would be obviously extremely unwise to quarrel with him, so Guo Shao endured this tone.
Some people are so angry that they can't bear it.Guo Shao had no choice but to say: I have more will but less strength.
At this time, Li Jixun said calmly as if standing and talking without aches. The guardian of Shouzhou City is Liu Renzhan. It is rumored that this person can do something big and is highly valued by the ruler of the Southern Tang Kingdom. Shouzhou, a key place that guards the Huai River, is a must-have place for the Southern Tang Kingdom.As long as pressure is applied, reinforcements can be lured; although there are casualties in the siege, we can double down from the reinforcements.
Guo Shao thought to himself: You can do it!I asked me to rush forward to fill in the life, you can pick it up and pinch it, right?
Li Chongjinshen agreed and urged: It is best to be able to capture Shouzhou, and it is possible to truly tear open the gap in Huainan; if you can't catch it, you must put pressure on it! If Shouzhou is not even at all dangerous, what else can the Southern Tang army save it? General Guo, how much time do you need to discuss countermeasures? Is there any major strategy to stop siegeing and delay time?
After a few questions, Guo Shao couldn't answer one, so he had to say: The army needs to rest for three days, please allow General Li.
Three days, only three days!Li Chongjin said.
...Guo Shao returned to the city and ordered the troops to truce and summoned the generals to discuss.
Everyone was talking, but there was no good solution. Guo Shao sat in the upper seat and said nothing, leaving dozens of people to argue below.
What good way can I do?
Guo Shao was depressed and lost at first, remembering the queen's encouragement to him in the secret letter, asking him to perform satisfactorily in Huainan... But at the moment, he had no chance to perform.
How to chew high walls and thick soil?
However, Zhao Kuangyin's group of people fought happily in front of him, and even his brother Li Jixun was in Shouzhou, he had a better job.
Later he wondered what would happen if he was lazy?
In Guo Shao's heart, the emperor should have been very dissatisfied with himself; now the emperor is personally expeditioning, and if he performs poorly under his nose and is judged to be worthless... How would a person with the power of life and death treat a person who doesn't like him and has no value?
Guo Shao just felt sweaty in his palms.What I feel at this moment: There is a delicious carrot in front of me that I can’t see or eat it; there is a sword hanging on my head.
I promised to deploy General Li in Huainan Capital and only had three days off.Guo Shao spoke.Seeing that he had been silent for a long time, everyone suddenly wanted to speak, so they turned their heads to look at Guo Shao one after another.
He was stared at by many eyes again, and Guo Shao frowned and said: Continue to attack the city in three days. You will report their respective numbers and responsible siege areas to General Li Chuyun.The number of military supplies was also reported to Mr. Zuo.Guo Shao pointed at the two people around him.
All the generals took the order.
Guo Shao also said: The Southern Tang army used a lot of oil...hard tinder oil can easily burn the ladder, and the method of ants supporting the body is even worse in Shouzhou.While we are sieging the city, we should try other methods and dig tunnels.
A general said: General, the general guarding Shouzhou is Liu Renzhan. This person is a long-time general in the battle formation. He has seen everything. He found that we must be prepared for digging soil and it is difficult to work.
Guo Shao thought for a while and said: Now he built some earth mounds of towers on the edge of the city, and then built some houses to cover them; then dig pits and trenches.During the day, I dig tunnels in the house, put the soil in the pit first, and then transport the soil away quietly at night, and quietly walk out of the trench.
……
Three days later, the siege continued.Li Chongjin sent someone to find out that Guo Shao’s trick was to dig a tunnel, and immediately sent someone to Chuzhou to report to the emperor.
At this time, Zhao Kuangyin made new contributions.
Originally, Chai Rong wanted to send Han Lingkun to attack Yangzhou, but Han Lingkun's army was short and delayed on the road again; Zhao Kuangyin took the initiative to ask for the battle, Chai Rong agreed and ordered Zhao Kuangyin to lead the Iron Cavalry Army to attack quickly from Chuzhou.
Although Yangzhou was a very important center of the Southern Tang Kingdom, he did not expect that the Zhou army could attack the rear of Huainan so quickly, and was negligent in defense and had no soldiers.
Zhao Kuangyin soon defeated Yangzhou, the eastern capital of the Southern Tang Kingdom.
Zhao Kuangyin got a very beautiful woman, Yang.He heard that Chai Rong was in Chuzhou and treated Yang with courtesy, and then sent someone to give Yang to the emperor.
The emperor praised Zhao Kuangyin for his loyalty and sent Yang back to reward him.
Zhao Kuangyin said that such a beautiful woman was not afraid to stay, and he was unable to take in the woman with his troops outside, so he must offer it to the emperor... Yang was sent here and took the road between Chuzhou and Yangzhou three times, and was finally barely accepted by the Emperor of Great Zhou.
At this moment, Li Chongjin's men arrived in Chuzhou and explained the situation of Guo Shao's lazy battle.
Li Chongjin's general opened his mind in front of the emperor, saying that Guo Zhao was kind-hearted, ruthless in rewards and punishments, and had no choice but to do so.Not only did he not punish the deserter, he also gave rewards, making the soldiers at a loss, not knowing whether to escape or to rush forward; when he took office, the weather was clear, which was conducive to combat, but he had to wait for three days to deploy a magic plan, but he was the best way to do a magic plan. As a result, the magic plan was to dig the tunnel!
Unexpectedly, Chai Rong was not angry, but instead looked back with a smile on his face and said: A few months ago, Wang Pu said that Guo Shao was like a god and was good at observing warplanes; in a blink of an eye, he became a person with excessive rewards and punishments in Li Chong's import.Who is right?
When Wang Pu heard his name, he bent down and lowered his head.
Chai Rong turned his head to look at him and said: Prime Minister Wang, go to Shouzhou and come back to repay me if you understand.
Wang Pu hurriedly said: I will report the truth to you when I receive the order.
Wang Pu rushed to Shouzhou and did not go to the front line, so he saw Li Gu first.
Li Gu had worked as prime minister before and had a good relationship with Wang Pu. After hearing the situation in front of the emperor, he said: Li Chongjin had something that was right. Guo Duzhi was indeed a little merciful and ruthless. He had ordered the siege to stop the attack and said in public: 'If you fight like this, you will have no face to see the villagers when you go back, for fear that the soldiers' families would ask him for her husband and son.’War is going to kill people, and saying such words is really unfavorable to morale.
Li Gu thought about it and said: As for the lack of rewards and punishments, he is biased.The purpose of pardoning deserters was to let the deserters rush forward and die on the battlefield; but the deserters worked very hard, and a few of them climbed up the city wall without hesitation to die, with nearly half of the casualties without fear of death.Only then did Guo Dushi think that they could make up for their merits and forgive the crime of escape.It is said that it is excessive rewards and punishments, but it is a bit inverted.
When Wang Pu heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief and said: My mouth is on people, I really can’t believe everything!I think of those common people in the market. After the words were spread several times, they completely changed their flavor and became rumors.
Li Gu said: Prime Minister Wang knows the little things when he sees him.
The two of them said something, and then Wang Pu asked Li Gu to accompany him to the front line to see the situation with his own eyes.
The siege continued, and some houses and fortifications were built in the south of the city wall. Everything seemed normal, and it was almost the same as before. At first glance, he could not see any signs of slack fighting.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, I suddenly saw the soldiers of the Southern Tang Kingdom laughing and mocking him.Wang Pu looked back and heard a noise on the fortifications. He hurriedly rode over to see what was going on.
It turned out that a lot of water was pouring out of the house, flooding the trench. The people in the water shouted: There are still people inside!There is still someone inside...what to do?
Wang Pu shouted: What happened?
A general said with a sad face: We dug the tunnel and accidentally dug the water from the ground. The groundwater suddenly flooded, and many people who dug the soil drowned!
After hearing this, Wang Pu's face turned dark and saw that the Southern Tang army on the city wall was actually guarding the city and laughing as he looked at the water filled with ditches in the Zhou army's trenches. Wang Pu felt even more and more unhappy.
After hearing this, all the generals around looked at each other and remained silent. Everyone knew that Shangfeng was determined to attack the city, and Guo Shao's sudden stop to attack the city would arouse dissatisfaction from the upper class.
Guo Shao looked back and forth, and generals such as Li Chuyun just bowed their heads and said nothing, and no one could do it.
Guo Shao said: I'm going to order all the troops to rest for a while, and I'll go and see General Li again.
Li Chuyun said: I will go with my lord.
A group of people asked the generals who were sent to lead the way and rode their horses to the central camp of the Hujie Army's right wing.
On the other side near the Huai River, there was a large area of military camp tents, at least for several miles, all of which were the right garrison of the Hujie Army. The people there had never come to Shouzhou City.
They are all from the Hujie Army, so Guo Shao doesn't think there is any danger in this trip... He is mainly not familiar with Li Chongjin before, and there is no grudge at all.
When he reached the headquarters of the central army, he entered the large tent with wide flags and saw that the generals inside stood in two rows.
Lee Chongjin was sitting above, and the first person sitting on the left was Lee Jixun.
The person Guo Shao has met is a man in his forties.
Sure enough, Li Chongjin had no good expression and asked coldly: General Guo, why did he stop siege?
Guo Shao replied: I just took over the siege of the city, and I am not familiar with the terrain, army, and strategies. I want to take a few days off and discuss countermeasures with the generals first.
This kind of defense was thought by Guo Shao on the way. Li Chongjin could not refute it, but he was very unhappy and said in public: You are kind and ruthless, and you are polite and kind as a woman!The official family actually asked you to attack a strong city like Shouzhou, and I will definitely report it truthfully!
Guo Shao was scolded and said as if he was useless. He was also angry and said to himself: Do you think I want to come to attack Shouzhou?Do you do it, do you think I want this hard bone?
But Li Chongjin was appointed as the commander of the Cavalry and Craftsmanship, and no one in the personal guards' office was inferior to him. Moreover, he was deployed in Huainan Capital, and the emperor went to Chuzhou, and he had the right to control the troops and horses in the entire Huai River Basin.
It would be obviously extremely unwise to quarrel with him, so Guo Shao endured this tone.
Some people are so angry that they can't bear it.Guo Shao had no choice but to say: I have more will but less strength.
At this time, Li Jixun said calmly as if standing and talking without aches. The guardian of Shouzhou City is Liu Renzhan. It is rumored that this person can do something big and is highly valued by the ruler of the Southern Tang Kingdom. Shouzhou, a key place that guards the Huai River, is a must-have place for the Southern Tang Kingdom.As long as pressure is applied, reinforcements can be lured; although there are casualties in the siege, we can double down from the reinforcements.
Guo Shao thought to himself: You can do it!I asked me to rush forward to fill in the life, you can pick it up and pinch it, right?
Li Chongjinshen agreed and urged: It is best to be able to capture Shouzhou, and it is possible to truly tear open the gap in Huainan; if you can't catch it, you must put pressure on it! If Shouzhou is not even at all dangerous, what else can the Southern Tang army save it? General Guo, how much time do you need to discuss countermeasures? Is there any major strategy to stop siegeing and delay time?
After a few questions, Guo Shao couldn't answer one, so he had to say: The army needs to rest for three days, please allow General Li.
Three days, only three days!Li Chongjin said.
...Guo Shao returned to the city and ordered the troops to truce and summoned the generals to discuss.
Everyone was talking, but there was no good solution. Guo Shao sat in the upper seat and said nothing, leaving dozens of people to argue below.
What good way can I do?
Guo Shao was depressed and lost at first, remembering the queen's encouragement to him in the secret letter, asking him to perform satisfactorily in Huainan... But at the moment, he had no chance to perform.
How to chew high walls and thick soil?
However, Zhao Kuangyin's group of people fought happily in front of him, and even his brother Li Jixun was in Shouzhou, he had a better job.
Later he wondered what would happen if he was lazy?
In Guo Shao's heart, the emperor should have been very dissatisfied with himself; now the emperor is personally expeditioning, and if he performs poorly under his nose and is judged to be worthless... How would a person with the power of life and death treat a person who doesn't like him and has no value?
Guo Shao just felt sweaty in his palms.What I feel at this moment: There is a delicious carrot in front of me that I can’t see or eat it; there is a sword hanging on my head.
I promised to deploy General Li in Huainan Capital and only had three days off.Guo Shao spoke.Seeing that he had been silent for a long time, everyone suddenly wanted to speak, so they turned their heads to look at Guo Shao one after another.
He was stared at by many eyes again, and Guo Shao frowned and said: Continue to attack the city in three days. You will report their respective numbers and responsible siege areas to General Li Chuyun.The number of military supplies was also reported to Mr. Zuo.Guo Shao pointed at the two people around him.
All the generals took the order.
Guo Shao also said: The Southern Tang army used a lot of oil...hard tinder oil can easily burn the ladder, and the method of ants supporting the body is even worse in Shouzhou.While we are sieging the city, we should try other methods and dig tunnels.
A general said: General, the general guarding Shouzhou is Liu Renzhan. This person is a long-time general in the battle formation. He has seen everything. He found that we must be prepared for digging soil and it is difficult to work.
Guo Shao thought for a while and said: Now he built some earth mounds of towers on the edge of the city, and then built some houses to cover them; then dig pits and trenches.During the day, I dig tunnels in the house, put the soil in the pit first, and then transport the soil away quietly at night, and quietly walk out of the trench.
……
Three days later, the siege continued.Li Chongjin sent someone to find out that Guo Shao’s trick was to dig a tunnel, and immediately sent someone to Chuzhou to report to the emperor.
At this time, Zhao Kuangyin made new contributions.
Originally, Chai Rong wanted to send Han Lingkun to attack Yangzhou, but Han Lingkun's army was short and delayed on the road again; Zhao Kuangyin took the initiative to ask for the battle, Chai Rong agreed and ordered Zhao Kuangyin to lead the Iron Cavalry Army to attack quickly from Chuzhou.
Although Yangzhou was a very important center of the Southern Tang Kingdom, he did not expect that the Zhou army could attack the rear of Huainan so quickly, and was negligent in defense and had no soldiers.
Zhao Kuangyin soon defeated Yangzhou, the eastern capital of the Southern Tang Kingdom.
Zhao Kuangyin got a very beautiful woman, Yang.He heard that Chai Rong was in Chuzhou and treated Yang with courtesy, and then sent someone to give Yang to the emperor.
The emperor praised Zhao Kuangyin for his loyalty and sent Yang back to reward him.
Zhao Kuangyin said that such a beautiful woman was not afraid to stay, and he was unable to take in the woman with his troops outside, so he must offer it to the emperor... Yang was sent here and took the road between Chuzhou and Yangzhou three times, and was finally barely accepted by the Emperor of Great Zhou.
At this moment, Li Chongjin's men arrived in Chuzhou and explained the situation of Guo Shao's lazy battle.
Li Chongjin's general opened his mind in front of the emperor, saying that Guo Zhao was kind-hearted, ruthless in rewards and punishments, and had no choice but to do so.Not only did he not punish the deserter, he also gave rewards, making the soldiers at a loss, not knowing whether to escape or to rush forward; when he took office, the weather was clear, which was conducive to combat, but he had to wait for three days to deploy a magic plan, but he was the best way to do a magic plan. As a result, the magic plan was to dig the tunnel!
Unexpectedly, Chai Rong was not angry, but instead looked back with a smile on his face and said: A few months ago, Wang Pu said that Guo Shao was like a god and was good at observing warplanes; in a blink of an eye, he became a person with excessive rewards and punishments in Li Chong's import.Who is right?
When Wang Pu heard his name, he bent down and lowered his head.
Chai Rong turned his head to look at him and said: Prime Minister Wang, go to Shouzhou and come back to repay me if you understand.
Wang Pu hurriedly said: I will report the truth to you when I receive the order.
Wang Pu rushed to Shouzhou and did not go to the front line, so he saw Li Gu first.
Li Gu had worked as prime minister before and had a good relationship with Wang Pu. After hearing the situation in front of the emperor, he said: Li Chongjin had something that was right. Guo Duzhi was indeed a little merciful and ruthless. He had ordered the siege to stop the attack and said in public: 'If you fight like this, you will have no face to see the villagers when you go back, for fear that the soldiers' families would ask him for her husband and son.’War is going to kill people, and saying such words is really unfavorable to morale.
Li Gu thought about it and said: As for the lack of rewards and punishments, he is biased.The purpose of pardoning deserters was to let the deserters rush forward and die on the battlefield; but the deserters worked very hard, and a few of them climbed up the city wall without hesitation to die, with nearly half of the casualties without fear of death.Only then did Guo Dushi think that they could make up for their merits and forgive the crime of escape.It is said that it is excessive rewards and punishments, but it is a bit inverted.
When Wang Pu heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief and said: My mouth is on people, I really can’t believe everything!I think of those common people in the market. After the words were spread several times, they completely changed their flavor and became rumors.
Li Gu said: Prime Minister Wang knows the little things when he sees him.
The two of them said something, and then Wang Pu asked Li Gu to accompany him to the front line to see the situation with his own eyes.
The siege continued, and some houses and fortifications were built in the south of the city wall. Everything seemed normal, and it was almost the same as before. At first glance, he could not see any signs of slack fighting.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, I suddenly saw the soldiers of the Southern Tang Kingdom laughing and mocking him.Wang Pu looked back and heard a noise on the fortifications. He hurriedly rode over to see what was going on.
It turned out that a lot of water was pouring out of the house, flooding the trench. The people in the water shouted: There are still people inside!There is still someone inside...what to do?
Wang Pu shouted: What happened?
A general said with a sad face: We dug the tunnel and accidentally dug the water from the ground. The groundwater suddenly flooded, and many people who dug the soil drowned!
After hearing this, Wang Pu's face turned dark and saw that the Southern Tang army on the city wall was actually guarding the city and laughing as he looked at the water filled with ditches in the Zhou army's trenches. Wang Pu felt even more and more unhappy.
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