I'm a marquis in Datang

At this time, soldiers sent a letter saying that Li Shimin's army was about to arrive in Zhangye.

After Liu Hongcheng learned about it, he went to the gate of the city to meet him in person.

After Liu Hongcheng, Guo Zhao and his party arrived, they waited quietly. After waiting for about two quarters of an hour, they saw Li Shimin leading thousands of remnant soldiers arriving.Liu Hongcheng stepped forward quickly, saluted and said, "My subject, Liu Hongcheng, pay my respects to Your Majesty."

Li Shimin is still a bit embarrassed now, and the soldiers under his command are also quite tired.After all, after entering the territory of Ganzhou, although they replenished a small amount of food in the town, they never lost time or changed their clothes, so all the people looked exhausted and decadent.

Li Shimin nodded and said: "Liu Qing, I only need to replenish food and equipment, and I don't need the rest. You provide half a month's food and grass, and I will rest here for half an hour before leaving directly."

Liu Hongcheng said: "I obey the order!"

He immediately arranged for people to transfer food and equipment from the granary in the city, and replenish the food and weapons to Li Shimin. In fact, it took more than half an hour just to move the food and equipment, which was still helped by Li Shimin's soldiers.When everything was arranged, an hour had passed, so Li Shimin said he took a rest for half an hour, but in fact he took a rest.

It was only after an hour that they set off to leave.

After Li Shimin left, Liu Hongcheng began to recruit soldiers and at the same time strengthened the guard in Ganzhou.

After Liu Hongcheng started to guard, specific news of Li Shimin's defeat began to spread in Ganzhou. The news was that Li Shimin had lost tens of thousands of troops, and there were many wars in the Tang Dynasty.

When the news came out, the county town, which was originally a bit jittery, became even more turbulent.

For a time, public opinion began to fly.

cause panic.

After Liu Hongcheng got the news, he sighed in his heart, because this is exactly what happened.Liu Hongcheng couldn't refute the rumors. The only thing he could do was to continue to recruit soldiers, strengthen the defense in Ganzhou, and at the same time arrange sentries to inquire about the news from the front line, and be ready to fight at any time.

In fact, even so, Liu Hongcheng felt uneasy.

The situation is too bad.

Although Xia Guo suffered a huge loss, Du Qi's strength was there, especially Du Qi's consecutive victories, and his influence was growing.As long as Du Qi's army

Come, then Ganzhou must be precarious.Even in the various places under Du Qi's rule, the people lived well and their families were well-off, and they were no different from Du Qi, so many people would be tempted and easily bewitched.

These are what Liu Hongcheng has to deal with.

As a result, he is now so busy that he does not touch the ground, going all out to prepare for the resistance.

It's just that no matter how prepared Liu Hongcheng was, bad public opinion dominated the scene, and countless people were not optimistic about Liu Hongcheng.Even many officials in the government privately commented that Ganzhou could not be defended.and there are some

The businessman, after meeting Liu Hongcheng, vaguely mentioned the matter of losing to Du Qi, and persuaded Liu Hongcheng to simply surrender.

Liu Hongcheng refused one by one.

It is impossible for him to submit to Du Qi.

He and Du Qi discussed it carefully, and there was hatred.Because his elder brother Liu Hongji died at the hands of Du Qi.Liu Hongcheng could not choose to surrender because of emotion and reason, public and private.

His choice is to fight to the death.

Chapter 1173 Attack

进击

Braun City is the base camp of Kasde, and the city is fortified.The [-] troops led by Custer retreated hastily after being defeated in Dole Jiancheng. Fortunately, he gathered some troops along the way so that there were no soldiers when he came back.

Because of the loss of too many troops, after Cusd returned to Braun City,

, then quickly recruited troops and replenished their troops again to ensure that their strength can be restored and the situation can be stabilized at the same time.

However, Kasde also arranged for people to pay close attention to the news of Dole's construction of the city.

He first attacked Xia Guo's side.

Now that Xia Guo has won, Kasde is quite worried, so he has been keeping an eye on Dole's actions to build the city.

At the end of July, Kasde got the news that Xia Guo had entered the army.

Xia Guo's army, more than [-], accompanied by some elephant soldiers, was quickly entering the area of ​​Braun City.At that time, Custer discussed the countermeasures with Waldo, and the final decision was to disregard Xia's military strength, fully shrink its strength, and gather the troops to Braun City, so as to resist with all its strength.After all, it is not easy to resist by dividing troops.

In August, Braun City, where Cusd is located, is already under martial law, and even the inside and outside of the city are painted with cement, and cement roads are paved around the ground outside the city to ensure that the ground will not be bombed at will, and even the city walls are once again. Reinforced, so that once it is bombarded, it will not be blown up directly.

On this day, in the city lord's mansion.

When Custer was arranging the training of the army, it was Waldo who hurried in.

Waldo stood below and waited.

After finishing the arrangement, Custer asked everyone to retreat. He looked at Waldo and asked, "Sir, do you have the latest news about Xia Guo's army?"

Waldo said: "City Master, there is indeed the latest news. Xia Guo's army has entered the territory of Braun City. It will take one day at most to arrive in Braun City."

A gleam flashed in Custer's eyes, and he said, "It's finally coming."

His eyes are extremely sharp.

When he was in Xia Kingdom before, his [-] people were defeated, and Kasde was extremely angry.This time Xia Guo's army went deep into the hinterland to fight, it was tantamount to taking the initiative to send it to the door. Kasde was preparing to fight a war of annihilation here in Braun City, to completely wipe out Xia Guo's army.

At that time, he can enter Xia Kingdom.

Take a share in Xia Guo.

Custer said in a deep voice: "Mr. Waldo, get ready to fight. This time, we will teach the Xia army a good lesson here in Braun City. Not everyone can bully me in Braun City."

Waldo said: "What the city lord said is true, we are now here to teach Xia's army a lesson. And as long as we defeat Xia's army

team, we can capture their weapons.As long as we have their weapons, the combat effectiveness of our army can be greatly improved. "

Custer said: "Sir, what you said is true."

He was extremely greedy for Xia Guo's weapons, and countless casualties were caused by the bombardment.If he had mastered such a weapon, it would be easy for him to return to the country.

Both of them are already well-arranged now, so they just need to wait

Wait.

One day is fleeting.

The next day, just after noon, Kasde got the news that Xia Guo's army had arrived and was already approaching the city.So Custer immediately took Waldo to the west side of Braun City and waited.However, due to the long-range bombing capability of Xia Guo's weapons, the group of people hid and were never directly above the tower to avoid being bombed.

Not long after, a large number of troops had already appeared outside Braun City.

The army led by Ma Yuan and Lai Ji has arrived.

Ma Yuan led an army of more than 5 people in this campaign, all of whom were the elites of the army, and this time he dispatched troops, the weapons and equipment in his army were also fully prepared and brought enough weapons.

The army arrived and stationed outside the city.