Family affairs, national affairs, world affairs, and everything is worried! As the situation continues to expand and the power continues to increase, the actual age of both lives is only over 20 years old. The young Xu Shiye needs to care about and consider more and more things, and even in his prime, the energetic Xu Shiye often misses one thing.

Although he is rationally clear about what he needs to do, emotionally, Xu Shiye inevitably feels difficult to let go.[]

The closer he is to face Dou Jiande, a hero who may become his father-in-law for the rest of his life, the more he is in his heart, the more he is interested in Dou Shiniang, who is lively and releasing, and is a little unruly. The entanglement, bitterness, and even nostalgia in his heart are coming. At the same time, it is also the pain that Dou Shiniang must be lingering in his heart at this moment, and the feelings of concern and pity are still rising...

At present, another northward army led by Li Jing, Dou Cong and Qiu Xiaogang has already suppressed Hengshan County, occupied by Xi Shiling, Wei Daoer and Zhao Wanhai, who were instigated by Dou Jiande. After Li Jing and others led their troops to capture Hengshan County, they turned the eastward Hejian County, which has now become the old nest of Dou Jiande's troops. Similarly, after Xu Shiye led his troops to capture Xindu County, they will continue to advance northward, forming a cross-border attack on Hejian County with Li Jing's troops.

In fact, there is no need to explore more horses. Just from the surrendered generals such as Su Dingfang, Xu Shiye has now learned that in fact, Dou Jiande and Xu Shiye's own arrangements are basically similar, but they only determine the geographical locations differently. After taking down Dou Jiande of Hejian County, he immediately determined Leshou County in Hejian County as the foundation for establishing a base and erecting a flag. In other words, the last nest of Dou Jiande's troops is Leshou in Hejian County.

The difference between Xu Shiye leading his troops to break through Xindu and then attack Leshou is that after Li Jing led his troops to capture Hengshan County, he still had to follow the trend to manage Boling, which is currently in Hebei, and is nominally the only surnamed "Sui". In addition, he must first capture the county town of Hejian County, and then cooperate with Xu Shiye's troops to the north to attack Leshou from the north to the south.

In doing so, Li Jing's troops can relieve their worries so as not to be attacked by Hejian and Leshou. Secondly, Li Jing's troops have blocked Dou Jiande's troops' northward journey in a timely manner, and basically can realize the initial design of Xu Shiye: Even if Dou Jiande's troops cannot be completely eliminated, Dou Jiande's troops must be forced to a corner of Bohai County and completely penetrate into the joint encirclement of Xu Shiye's troops, Li Jing's troops, and Yang Yuanhong's troops.

Initial expectations, because the generals Li Jing, Dou Cong and Qiu Xiaogang were originally officials of the Sui Ting (of course, Dou Cong was the one with the highest position), and the birthplace of Cui was also in Boling, so it would be no problem to include Boling within Xu Shiye's sphere of influence without bloodshed.

Xu Shiye was also a little negligent in the arrangement of this matter before, so on the way to Xindu, Xu Shiye sent a quick horse to send a letter to Li Jing. Based on the principle of "the orders of the king from outside will not be accepted", Xu Shiye only suggested that Li Jing could appropriately contact the Cui family in Boling after conquering Hengshan County and seek help from Cui. Of course, Xu Shiye also considered the difficulties in the winter battles of Li Jing's troops, and suggested that Li Jing could also ask Cui for help in heating supplies.

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In winter, the army was fighting outside. In all the conditions were extremely harsh, there were actually great difficulties in all aspects of the war. The Qinghe River was only more than 300 miles away, and the marching on the land of Hebei was basically flat. If it was a good natural climate, in fact, there were six days, the army could easily reach the suburbs of Xindu. However, in this winter with relatively harsh climate conditions, Xu Shiye's troops took eight days to reach the suburbs of Xindu.

Gradually approaching Xindu, the two sides frequently visited horses, and the scouts had already started to have occasional contact.

Winter battles are even more difficult for the attacking side. Therefore, without the occasional exception, under such natural conditions, defending the city with a relaxed and waiting time is undoubtedly the best choice. This is a common sense that generals have normally possessed by generals in the era of cold weapons. Therefore, until Xu Shiye led his troops to suppress the Xin Capital for two or thirty miles outside the Xin Capital, the Xin Capital was still closed with four gates and no sign of leaving the city and fighting.

At this time, Xu Shiye had heard from Tanma that the nearly 10,000 remnants led by Cao Dan had indeed retreated into Xindu City.

Basically, I understand that the chief generals of Dou Jiande's army in Xindu City, Gao Shixing, Cao Dan and others were preparing to adopt the tactic of "drag-oriented". Xu Shiye led his troops to camp two or thirty miles outside Xindu City. After getting up in the morning, he sent Yang Shanhui to lead thousands of troops to the capital to invite the battle, and sent Xiong Kuohai to lead a thousand iron cavalry to respond. Because it was estimated that the chief general of Dou Jiade's army who arrived in Xindu City was unlikely to leave the city to fight, Xu Shiye was a little excited and did not come to the front of the battle.

In fact, the invitation to fight really turned into a "doing a good look". Xindu City ignored the invitation to fight outside the city. It was still my suspension bridge was hanging high, the four gates were closed, and the soldiers on the city were on high alert, and they were on guard. No matter how they shouted outside the city, there was no sign of going out of the city to fight. Even if they sent people to answer, they were too lazy to send them to answer.

Xu Shiye, who heard the news, did not unexpectedly, immediately ordered the entire army to set up camps and camps, and the troops advanced to the north of Xindu City and set up camps.

After a while, time had actually passed half a day. After noon, Xu Shiye temporarily handed over the camp to Chai Xiaohe, and cooperated with Ling Jing and Su Dingfang. Under the escort of Xiong Kuohai, he went to investigate the situation on Xindu City and outside the city. On this trip, Xu Shiye mainly wanted to half a circle to explore the terrain outside Xindu City.

Judging from the state shown by the generals of Dou Jiande's subordinates in Xindu City, Xu Shiye estimated that they would generally adopt the tactic of shrinking and defending. Therefore, strong attacks were basically inevitable. In view of this, the purpose of Xu Shiye's trip was naturally to investigate and confirm whether the method proposed by Ling Jing was feasible. He brought Su Dingfang with him because Su Dingfang was originally under Dou Jiande and was also from Xindu's hometown, and he had a relatively good understanding of the situation inside and outside the Xindu City.

A hundred steps away from Xindu City began to investigate the city. Under the close attention of the soldiers who were tense and nervous and alert, Xu Shiye and others had already circled the city from east to north, and then to west. At this moment, a group of bright and bright generals surrounded by bright armor appeared. These generals seemed to be watching the excitement from a high place, accompanied by Xu Shiye and others driving horses around the city, moving simultaneously on the city...

"General! Sometimes the generals appear on the city. Let's go back soon! So don't the bastards want to get a bargain and go out of the city to attack." Xiong Kuohai, who was leading the iron cavalry to escort the horses, sat on the horse, staring at Xindu City, a hundred steps away, reminding Xu Shiye in an air.

"Ha, hehe! It's okay, it's okay! I don't know how Gao Shixing himself is, but Fat Cao (Cao Dan) who has dealt with him still has a little understanding of it! Be cautious, calm and courageous, and has a little bit of aura. He will definitely worry that we are using the "screw the enemy" and dare not send troops out of the city to fight..." Holding the magic weapon "Wulongpo" in his hand, sitting on the back of the BMW's "Green Ears", Xu Shiye chuckled and said.

Then, Xu Shiye turned around and looked beside the horse, and Su Dingfang, who had a serious face as usual, said:

"Actually, I've seen it roughly enough! General Su is right! The terrain outside Xindu City is high in the northwest direction. There is nothing to do! The terrain in the northwest direction is only a huge high slope within a hundred steps from the city.

If you want to take soil and build a platform a hundred steps away, it is within a depression with a distance of several miles, which is actually roughly the same as the labor required in other directions; it only eliminates the work of gradually extending within a hundred steps. If you want to use this rising slope, you must first protect the construction soldiers to prevent the condescending arrows in the city.

What a pity, what a pity! It's a pity that the range of the catapult is only seventy or eighty steps, which happens to be within the coverage of the arrow. The crossbow of the chariot is not afraid of Cheng Yuan, but it is just to harass the attack, and the cost is too huge but it is not worth the effort.

It seems that if the strategies of the wise and virtuous plan are accomplished, it will indeed take a lot of planning and labor-intensive work! If it is urgent, it is easy to be confused. It is better to try your best to reduce the damage to soldiers. If it costs more, it will cost more labor!"

Speaking of the end, Xu Shiye sat down and sighed without realizing it.

"The general's intention is..." Ling Jing, who was beside Xu Shiye, couldn't help but ask in confusion.

"Oh, after returning to the camp, we immediately started to build siege equipment. First, we must build wall trucks. After the wall trucks are built, we can use this high slope northwest of Qixin Capital. Push the wall truck from the back slope to the top of the slope to protect it, and then take soil to transport it to the top of the slope and unload it along the slope to build a platform! Haha! It is difficult to obtain soil, and it is easy to build a platform. This is 'it is difficult to achieve both things'?" After answering Ling Jing with a smile, Xu Shiye turned around and looked at Xiongkuohai and smiled:

"We should go back to the camp by horses! The generals and the generals in the city have been blown by the cold wind for a long time. Isn't it a shame if I don't thank you for such piety? Why don't Brother Hai go to the city to show off his power?"

"Okay!" He shouted Hao Kuohai with an incense sound, and immediately turned his head to order the iron cavalry he led like a big bell and said: "Split out a hundred cavalry and follow my commander to the city, and the other iron cavalry guarded the general back to the camp!..."

With the shouts and scoldings from Xiongkuohai from the direction of Xindu City behind him, Xu Shiye cooperated with Ling Jing, and Su Dingfang, surrounded by the Iron Cavalry, had already beaten horses back to the camp without looking back...


Chapter completed!