When Guo Shao woke up, a noisy noise came from his ears. With a "wow", the curtain hanging at the door was suddenly lifted open, and his eyes were shook by the bright light. Luo Mengzi's voice said: "Brother, the sun is clear!"

After a while, Guo Shao realized, and hurriedly got up in his clothes and walked out of the tent, he saw a crowd of people moving around, and a sun hanging in the east in the air. Not only that, he saw the sky blue and the sky was clear. Yesterday's low and depressing gray clouds had long disappeared. There was a rainbow arc hanging on the blue sky, and the orange streaming light was very beautiful in the air.

"So beautiful!" Guo Shao's face showed a smile.

Jing Niang came over and said happily, "I'm not right, I'll be clear if I wait."

"What did you say about that word? Thank you Queen Mother, thank you God..." Guo Shao laughed loudly. Jing Niang was speechless, her eyes were raised and she rolled her eyes.

When the generals saw Guo Shao standing at the door, they gathered here one after another.

At this moment, a voice outside the fence shouted: "Report! Good news!" A messenger hurriedly ran over in the undried mud, handed over a report, and shouted: "Dong Qianfeng reported that the navy broke through the Qu Gate and defeated the navy that blocked the river from the Shu army. Dozens of warships from our troops have entered the open water."

"Haha..." Guo Shao raised his head and laughed. Looking back at the left and right, he said, "The whole game of chess is alive. No need to talk nonsense, and order the entire army to set off immediately and head straight to the city of Kuizhou!"

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At the headquarters of the central army in Kuizhou, dozens of civil and military personnel gathered in the lobby. Wang Zhaoyuan was walking back and forth quickly, and his actions made everyone feel nervous.

"Waste! Waste..." Wang Zhaoyuan was so angry that he pointed at all the brinks and cursed, "How could the Zhou army naval army break through the Qu Gate? Where is the naval general? Have you been persuaded to surrender and help them to tug the boat before letting them go?"

A general said with a sad and angry look: "Wang Jianjun, my navy general commanded the twenty-two people above, and eighteen people died in battle, just because everyone knew that Qumen was related to the safety of Dashu, and they all fought to the death! If you suffer such casualties, you cannot slander them like this even if you are defeated!"

"You still know that Qu's army is related to the safety of Dashu?" Wang Zhaoyuan's face turned pale and said, "Q's army is easy to defend but difficult to attack. There are warships on both sides of the straits stationed day and night. How can you let the Zhou army warships come? What ships can pass through the torrents?"

The general said: "The Zhou army's dead soldiers ignored their lives. In the middle of the night before yesterday, they walked barefoot in the rain... The small path that the boatman had drawn on the stone wall attacked our water camp and was wiped out by our navy. In the early morning, another group came up and burned our water camp, causing a large number of warships to be washed downstream by the river. Only a few ships of the Zhou army's navy were towed upstream. My reinforcements besieged them, but they could not capture them for a long time and delayed the fighter planes..."

At this moment, Gao Yanqi advised: "It's over, it's too late to regret it... Besides, the sky is clear, even if the water is not broken through, the Zhou army will be at the city. Wang Jianjun ordered all his troops to shrink the city and defend the city to the death."

"If the Yangtze River waterway, if all land falls into the hands of the Zhou army, what's the use of our army defending the lonely city?" Wang Zhaoyuan walked back and forth without stopping, his face was no longer bloody. How could he have the demeanor of commanding the situation?

Gao Yanqiu said: "Now, the troops in Kuizhou are no less than 20,000. It is still very useful to place them in this critical place. Kuizhou is an important town on the East Road of Dashu. It has stored up no less than 300,000 hu of grain and grass. We can eat for two years. There are city fortresses and sufficient grain, and we cannot win the field battle. Why not defend the city?"

Wang Zhaoyuan said: "If you can defend it by fortifications, the Zhou army should be blocked in Wu Gorge now! How was Wu Gorge Fortress broken? Zhou army had explosives..."

After hearing this, everyone was talking and suddenly panicked. Everyone asked about the power and usage of the explosives, but no one could explain them clearly in detail. It was just that it was the gunpowder used by Taoists to refine alchemy. According to the records in ancient books, it recorded that the alchemy had blown up the roof and burned it. It was probably that thing... But in the Battle of Shouzhou, Huainan, the senior officials of Shu Kingdom heard about it and knew that the thing could blow up the city wall.

What's more, I tasted it once in Wuxia Shu Army not long ago, and now I have a deep belief in the existence of this thing in the world that can break fortifications.

Seeing everyone's reaction, Wang Zhaoyuan asked Gao Yanqi coldly: "Gao Jieshuai still wants to defend the city?"

Gao Yanqiu said: "A thing in this world is to bring down something, as long as we are prepared for it early... Besides, there is no other way except to defend the city."

Wang Zhaoyuan disagreed and said, "The Zhou army came from afar, and has been traveling on the Shu road for nearly a month, and then walked on the mountain road. The troops and horses must be exhausted; while the Great Shu army was waiting for labor in Kuizhou City. To support the army that was not stable in the footsteps of the Zhou army and the troops were trapped, the victory or defeat was unknown!"

"Wang Jianjun still wants to attack the Zhou army, is there a chance of winning?" Gao Yanqi was shocked and hurriedly persuaded him.

Wang Zhaoyuan said coldly: "If we are trapped in the lonely city according to Gao Jieshuai, we will be defeated! Now we seize the opportunity to decide the best and the worst, and there is still a chance. Everyone, the military strategy means to die and live. Should we sit and wait for death or take a try?"

Gao Yanqi first tried to persuade Wang Zhaoyuan. Seeing his determination, Gao Yanqi was also annoyed: "Wang Jianjun is going, you go, I can't afford to lose that person."

"The tall and handsome guards the city and act as a turtle in the city. Watch me, how I fight with the dragon!" Wang Zhao said in a long time.

...There were a large number of scouts on both sides, and the Zhou army was approaching, and the movements between each other were obvious.

"Wang Zhaoyuan is going to go out of the city to fight?" Guo Shao was very surprised when he heard this news. He then went to the scouts who had seen him in front of him to ask in detail about the movement of the Shu army. At this time, Li Gu also arrived in the army and spoke: "The Shu army may think that our army was in full swing, and there is an opportunity to take advantage of it."

At this time, the Zhou army had already advanced southwest along the Yangtze River to Kuizhou. Some generals suggested that they be stationed and rest for two or three days before the decisive battle.

Guo Shao said, "Everyone knows that there is an advantage in waiting for the work side, but following the rules dullly may make mistakes in the fight. If Wang Zhaoyuan figured it out, he would have to defend the city to death... it would be more difficult to attack the city, at least it would take more time and kill more people."

In order not to affect the confidence of the soldiers, he did not mention the shortcomings of the gunpowder bombing the city... Let the soldiers maintain confidence, which is more beneficial to the morale of the army. However, bombing the city is not that easy. First of all, we must look at the soil and groundwater conditions of Kuizhou. Not all places can successfully bury gunpowder under the city wall; even if it is successfully blasted, the power of black gunpowder is limited, and only one gap can be exploded. As long as the defenders are well prepared, the explosion of the gap may not necessarily lead to the city... Even in the era of artillery, it is not easy to attack the city. It is not impossible to attack with gunpowder.

"Tomorrow morning, we will go on a decisive battle by forcing Wang Zhaoyuan's troops!" Guo Shao said immediately.

The generals clasped their fists and replied, "Here."

"After an hour, we will summon the commander and above generals to the Central Army tent to discuss matters overnight and deploy tomorrow's military affairs." Guo Shao said again, and waved his hand, "It's gone, everyone will have dinner first."

Guo Shao didn't spend time eating, so he took two wheat cakes and asked someone to serve a bowl of soup while reviewing the terrain around Kuizhou. He also ordered that all the scouts who returned today be called to the Central Army tent to speak... He ordered that the matter be discussed after an hour, and that he wanted to prepare a strategy for himself.

I didn't expect that Wang Zhaoyuan would rush to go out for field battles in advance, and because he had just arrived near Kuizhou, he was indeed a little inadequate. Fortunately, Kuizhou is an important place. When the army was still in Jingzhou, spies came here to inquire about information, so he drew several pictures and was still prepared for the general situation.

The main force of the Zhou army's route to Kuizhou was a little bit surround, but it was flattering and spacious. After coming from the mountain road, they crossed the Qingxi River (Meixi River), they went south along the river beach of the Qingxi River and converged with the Yangtze River. Then they turned and continued to attack Kuizhou southwest along the north bank of the Yangtze River. The terrain on the riverside was slightly flat and wide; further north, far from the Yangtze River was full of rocks. Although this mountain was not too high, it could not stand all of them, and there were only sheep intestine paths.

Probably, Guo Shao understood the terrain after reading the old newspapers in the past, but now he needs to understand the more detailed situation of the battlefield. He can only use the oral description of the scouts and have no time to observe it in advance.

"There is a village there?" Guo Shao took a sip of the soup, put down the wheat cake, and asked the scout, "How many houses are there and how many people are there?"

The scout frowned and recalled: "There are only six or seven buildings, with tiled houses and thatched houses, not many people. There is a spacious dirt road to the south."

Guo Shao raised his pen and wrote and painted, and asked, "Who has been to this village before?"

Another man stepped forward and clasped his fists and said, "There is a low mountain that stretches northward, high in the north and low in the south. The hillside on the south is relatively gentle. In addition to a few wheat fields, there are shrubs and weeds, and relatively barren sandy land. There are also some single-family houses at the foot of the mountain. You can see the Kuizhou City Tower by the way, you can also meet a farmer, caught it and asked, and he said that the mountain is called 'Sanma Mountain'."

Guo Shao was very interested in this Sanma Mountain. He asked the other two people and muttered: "If I were Wang Zhaoyuan, I would choose the battlefield on this hillside, which was spacious and spread out, and occupying the favorable terrain in advance."

The terrain on the riverside east of Kuizhou is only a few miles wide and about ten miles long, but Guo Shao drew several pictures and recorded a lot of news in his booklets in a grassy way. It is impossible for scouts to write articles of experience, but they can still tell them what they see and hear clearly.

The camp gradually lit up bonfires, and night fell, and the stars were everywhere. But before the day was over, the drums of the central army were beating, and many generals came one after another. Everyone untied their swords and placed them on the wooden rack at the door of the tent, and entered them back and forth.

The tent was not spacious, and dozens of people were squeezed out at once and gradually became crowded.

There were many lights hanging on both sides, and a picture in front was hung up. Guo Shao quickly walked into the tent and heard Shi Yanchao anxiously: "Guo Du checked, I can finally kill you so hard, let me play the striker!"

Guo Shao said directly: "I have more important credit for you, and the forward will let Yang Biao go."

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Chapter completed!