Pirate Song

And the military officers in the city and the government officials were also surprised to see that Jiang Fang suddenly seemed to be a different person in just over half a day, and the things he arranged began to be organized. After a little thought They knew that Gao Huaiyuan, the new captain of Daye County, was really not simple, so they no longer underestimated this county captain, and they all came out to receive orders, and began to go down and prepare separately according to Jiang Fang's arrangement. stand up.

After distributing the soldiers and horses in the city, Gao Huaiyuan also asked Jiang Fang to designate a special person to be responsible for all the walls. All the soldiers were divided into two groups, and they took turns to garrison the city, ready to meet the Jin army's attack at any time.

Originally, he wanted to be in charge of guarding the eastern city wall, but Jiang Fang refused to agree to anything, insisting that Gao Huaiyuan stay by his side and advise him. This matter was handed over to Zhou Hao.

After these orders were issued overnight, the entire Huangzhou City took full action. Jiang Fang personally led the government officials to mobilize from house to house, ordering the men in the city to leave their homes to help the officers and soldiers guard the city. The notice shows that the government will lead the soldiers and civilians in the city to live and die with the city!

And this kind of attitude also made the people in the city begin to stabilize, and they went out of their homes one after another to join the ranks of assisting in the defense. All of a sudden, there were more than 3000 people in the city, which greatly enriched the defense force of Huangzhou City.

Although Jiang Fang is not good at commanding the army, he is a good hand in civil affairs. He is very good at motivating the hearts of the people, and he keeps preaching to the gathered people outside the government office, which has played a very good role in inspiring people. However, this point was of great help to the defense of Huangzhou City, and Gao Huaiyuan finally didn't have to worry about this matter anymore.

From Gao Huaiyuan's entry into Huangzhou City, for two days in a row, he basically didn't even blink a glance, and kept patrolling the city with Jiang Fang, checking the defenses of the walls everywhere. After two days, he was tired and dizzy. However, the hard work was not in vain, and the defense of Huangzhou City was finally brought into orbit. Then, in a wing room of the government office, he found a bed and took a nap for a while.

But before he slept for a long time, Gao Huaiyuan was woken up again, and after opening his eyes in a daze, he saw Jiang Fang's anxious face, yelling at him.

"Lieutenant Gao County, wake up, Jin Bing has already arrived outside the city!" Jiang Fang pushed Gao Huaiyuan's shoulder nervously and yelled at Gao Huaiyuan.

Gao Huaiyuan quickly got up from the bed, Xindao Jinbing came really fast, this time it seems that the fight is really going to start!So he didn't dare to be negligent, and immediately adjusted the armor on his body, followed Jiang Fang out of the mansion immediately, got on his horse and rushed to the north gate.

When they boarded the tower, they looked up and saw a large black army appearing on the road north of the city, heading towards Huangzhou.

"Block the city gate! Destroy the suspension bridge! Get ready to guard!" Gao Huaiyuan said to Jiang Fang without even thinking about it. At this time, it seemed that Gao Huaiyuan had become the commander of the defenders of Huangzhou City!

And Jiang Fang didn't care about Gao Huaiyuan's tone at this moment, and immediately shouted to the soldiers and civilians on the top of the city like a messenger, conveyed Gao Huaiyuan's instructions, and repeatedly shouted not to panic, but this time From the looks of it, he was more nervous than anyone else!

"Jiang Qianju should not be too nervous. The Jin army has just arrived and has not yet established its position. We will not attack the city immediately before we are ready. We still have time to prepare. If Jiang Qianju trusts Gao, Gao is willing to be here. Take charge of Jiang Qian's command of Yushou!" Gao Huaiyuan saw Jiang Fang's nervous expression, so he quickly comforted him, and couldn't help but suggested to him that he wanted to command Yushou for him.

Jiang Fang looked at Gao Huaiyuan's calmness, and felt ashamed in his heart. After taking a deep breath, he calmed down his nervousness a little bit, and said awkwardly: "It seems that Lieutenant Gao is really a battle-hardened man. , At this moment, I don’t feel nervous at all. If you really have the style of a general, it’s this officer who made Gao County Lieutenant laugh! This officer also knows that I’m not good at this.

In this way, Gao Huaiyuan essentially took over the command of Huangzhou from Jiang Fang. At this time, he had no choice but to act. If Jiang Fang did not command properly once the war broke out, then Huangzhou might fall into a doomed situation. He didn't dare to take such a risk because of the situation, so he made a move to take over the command of Huangzhou's defensive battle.

In the past two days or so, Gao Huaiyuan's ability has basically been recognized by the Huangzhou defenders. Most of them think that Gao Huaiyuan is calm and has a unique vision. When Fang took over the command, he didn't raise any objections, so Gao Huaiyuan took over the command smoothly without any commotion.

Although Jiang Fang was still under the jurisdiction of soldiers and horses in name, he entered the city and was only responsible for commanding the people in the city to coordinate the defense, and no longer interfered with the affairs of the city wall, which saved Gao Huaiyuan a lot of trouble.

Standing on the tower of the north gate of Huangzhou, Gao Huaiyuan took the binoculars from Li Ruohu, raised it up and looked at the Jin army gradually arriving outside the city.

When he saw a group of soldiers and horses of the Golden Army with a clean and tidy appearance starting to line up outside the city, he secretly sighed in his heart. Pu San Anzhen is really a famous general of the Kingdom of Jin. Moreover, following the orders, the formations were arranged and the formations advanced and retreated at a certain pace. Compared with the Jinjun he encountered in Zaoyang two years ago, his quality was obviously higher.

What surprised Gao Huaiyuan even more was that among the Jin army, there actually appeared a team composed of the Song army, at least a thousand people, and it actually stopped outside the city with the Jin army.

"Why are there soldiers from the Song army among the Jin army outside the city?" Gao Huaiyuan immediately put down the binoculars in his hand, and asked a Song army standing not far from him.

The capital had already seen the Song army in the formation of the Jin soldiers outside the city, so he immediately showed an angry look on his face and said: "This is not surprising! After the Jin army went south from Xizhou this time, they repeatedly defeated the Song army. The rout soldiers who fled to Huangzhou for a few days said that this time, San Anzhen, the main general of the Jin army, never killed the captured Song army soldiers after winning every battle, and always released or treated them favorably, so that after some Song soldiers were captured, So he fell to the Jin army and helped the Jin army attack us Song people, what a damn thing! If not, Macheng would not have fallen into the hands of the Jin army in just a few days!"

Gao Huaiyuan felt terrified in his heart, he only knew that his servant Anzhen was a famous general of the Kingdom of Jin, but he never imagined that this person would know how to win the hearts of the soldiers, and would release the prisoners of the Song army in order to gain the support of the Song people and win over the soldiers. After recruiting a group of Song people to serve him, then the battle of Huangzhou seems to be really difficult to fight next!

While Gao Huaiyuan was still busy commanding and dispatching the defenders to ascend the city, the vanguard of the Jin Army had already set up a formation outside the city. Looking up, it was dark and dense, with at least 8000 to [-] people , has completely surpassed the number of Huangzhou defenders in terms of numbers.

Looking at the Song soldiers on the city wall, many of them had expressions of horror on their faces, and their faces turned pale from fright. Even Gao Huaiyuan felt a little uneasy in his heart. From the first time he fought with the army until now, It can be said that apart from the battle at Tiger Cliff, he had never encountered such a tense situation. Whether he could lead the army to stop the golden soldiers in Huangzhou this time, he really didn't have much confidence in himself.

But the matter has come to this point, and he has no way out. He has no choice but to fight hard, so he immediately sends an order to beat the drums, and use the drums to boost the morale of the defenders in the city. This kind of coercive momentum is enough to make the morale of the defenders fall to the bottom.

So under his order, the war drums on the city tower were beaten. Under the beating of the sergeants, the war drums made a dull and deep sound, as if they were beating on people's hearts. The rumbling drums rolled Then, it spread throughout Huangzhou City.

Amid the sound of war drums, Gao Huaiyuan suddenly pulled out his waist knife, raised his arms, and shouted: "God bless Song Dynasty! Our army will surely win!"

Maybe it was inspired by the sound of war drums, or maybe it was a new understanding of life and death. When Gao Huaiyuan shouted God bless the Song Dynasty and our army will win, the defenders on the city gradually panicked. They began to calm down, and after hearing Gao Huaiyuan's shout, some of them followed Gao Huaiyuan's example and raised their arms and shouted, "God bless Song Dynasty, our army will surely win!"

This kind of call gradually aroused the resonance of more people, so even the people in the city, more people began to join in this kind of call, and gradually this slogan resounded all over Huangzhou City, and morale also became one of them. Zhen, the nervousness when I first saw Jin Jun gradually calmed down.

This is what Gao Huaiyuan has learned from several battles. Before the battle, first boost the morale. Only when the morale is high can the army display its due combat effectiveness. Morale was mobilized.

"The sons of the Song Army have listened! Outside the city is the bandit army of the Kingdom of Jin! Behind us is the surging river. We have no choice of retreat. The only way to survive is to fight to the death with the Jin army! Now Song armies from all walks of life are rushing towards Huangzhou. As long as we block the Jin army for a few days, the Jin army will naturally retreat with its tail between its legs! I am confident that I will block the Jin army here so that it cannot cross the thunder pool. Do you have the confidence to follow me and fight to the death with the Jin army?" Gao Huaiyuan waited until the shouts gradually subsided, stepped forward again, and shouted loudly at the soldiers at the top of the city.

"I'm willing to follow my lord to defend the Jin army!" The Song army who had just answered Gao Huaiyuan's words immediately raised his arms and shouted.

So another round of loud shouts resounded over Huangzhou City.

The golden soldiers in the distance outside the city looked sideways after hearing the shouts of the soldiers and civilians in Huangzhou City, but they did not take any action. They just gradually began to spread towards the sides of Huangzhou with the swing of the flags and flags, gradually Formed a siege of Huangzhou.

Looking at the actions of the Jin army outside the city, Gao Huaiyuan sighed secretly. It's a pity that he has very limited troops now. If he had an elite army at his disposal at this time, he only needs to open the west gate and attack the right flank of the Jin army from the flank. The army's formation was disrupted, making it impossible to encircle Huangzhou, but right now he could only watch the golden soldiers encircle Huangzhou city step by step, leaving only the south of the city facing the river open.

The Jin soldiers seemed to have already known the emptiness of Huangzhou City's defenses, so after marching outside Huangzhou City, they did not attack the city immediately, but gradually waited until the soldiers and horses behind arrived, and set up their camp five miles outside Huangzhou City. Huangzhou City was closely monitored.

During this period, Gao Huaiyuan has been closely monitoring Jin Bing's actions in the city. He can't see what their plan is, nor can he see the direction of their main attack.

After the arrival of the Jin army in the city, various preparations for the war were carried out in full swing, because until this time, people really felt the threat of death, so the ordinary people in the city who were recruited also worked harder. .

Seeing that the sky was getting late, Gao Huaiyuan ordered the soldiers on all sides of the city walls to rotate as usual, rest those who should rest, and those who should be on duty to prevent the soldiers from excessively consuming their physical strength in advance, and ordered the defenders on all sides of the city walls to closely monitor Following the movement of the Jin army, he strode down the city wall and took a house in the north gate as a temporary headquarters, which became his temporary residence.

Before dark, golden soldiers continued to arrive outside the city, joined the ranks of the siege, and gradually surrounded the east, west, and north sides of Huangzhou City in layers, as if there was a posture that they would not stop until they took Huangzhou City in one fell swoop, and they finally mobilized during the day The morale was raised, and after seeing so many golden soldiers in the city, the soldiers and civilians began to panic again.

Gao Huaiyuan immediately summoned the officers in charge of the various city walls to the North Gate Temporary Headquarters and held a very brief mobilization meeting.

"Brothers, everyone has already seen the strength of Jin Bing. It is obvious that Mr. Gao has overstepped the point of calling everyone here to discuss matters today! I don't know if you have any objections to Mr. Gao's commanding on behalf of Mr. Gao? If so, please immediately Bring it up to Gao, so as not to mention it after the start of the war and disturb the morale of the army! As long as everyone raises it, Gao will definitely give it up!" Gao Huaiyuan first inspected the faces of everyone, and then suddenly asked the generals.

The reason why he brought up this matter first was because he had been here for a short time, so he replaced Jiang Fang and gave orders to the officers among the Huangzhou defenders, fearing that they would be dissatisfied. Sometimes, if you become stiff, it will cause great harm!

After he said these words, the guarding officers did not answer immediately, but exchanged eye contact with each other, as if they wanted to see from the eyes of others whether they would accept Gao Huaiyuan or not.

Gao Huanyuan was not in a hurry, and just waited quietly for everyone's reply. In the end, except for Zhou Hao and a few people brought by Gao Huaiyuan, the rest of the people set their eyes on a camp surnamed Zheng. On the body of the commander, this person was originally the guard of the Huangzhou garrison army, but because the Huangzhou garrison army was small, there were only two battalions of soldiers and horses, and the number was less than a thousand, so the officer surnamed Zheng who stayed here was only one The battalion commander is just a superintendent in name, and most of the rest are just heads. They all have to obey Jiang Fang's jurisdiction, so they can be regarded as the second person in the Huangzhou Army besides Jiang Fang.

However, although this official Zheng Ti is a battalion commander, he is a low-ranking officer at all, and can only be regarded as a low-level officer. Yilang, therefore, after Gao Huaiyuan arrived in Huangzhou, he had surpassed Zheng Tihat in terms of rank, and although Zheng Tihat had been an official in the army for many years, he had basically never participated in serious battles. Gao Huaiyuan, a newcomer, will be entrusted with a heavy responsibility.

And this Zheng Tixia saw that everyone was looking at him, and knew his own ability, so he hurriedly stood up and replied: "Mr. Gao's words are different. Since Mr. Gao arrived in Huangzhou, everyone has seen what he has done. Now, how can anyone refuse to accept the master's order, Zheng is not talented, and I hope to follow the example of the master!"

After Zheng Tiju's statement, the rest of the officers had nothing to hesitate, so they all nodded to express their obedience to Gao Huaiyuan's deployment.

"Thank you for your praise of Gao. Since this is the case, then Gao is welcome. The golden soldiers have arrived today. It can be said that the war is coming. We must first work together to defend against the enemy and prevent them from capturing Huangzhou City. That's why there is such a question!

Everyone has also seen that the Jin army is powerful and has far more troops than our army, and we have no room to retreat except to stick to the city. This is our only way out. After seeing the situation of the Jin army today, I feel that the Jin army will probably not immediately attack the city tonight, but they will definitely attack the city tomorrow. Therefore, I have recruited you here for nothing but hope. Unify your opinions!In case there is a battle formation, the lieutenant general will make no sense of the big taboo!It seems that Gao Mou is worrying too much!

There is only one night left for us to prepare. Whether we can win the battle tomorrow depends on everyone's preparations tonight!In order not to affect the mental and physical strength of the soldiers after the battle tomorrow, after you go back tonight, you must check the situation of the defenses everywhere as soon as possible, and prepare all kinds of defensive equipment properly. The guards take turns to rest. As for the supplies, you can rest assured that the officer will ask Jiang Qianzhi to supervise this matter in person to ensure that there will be no shortage of supplies everywhere!

And what Gao wants to say is that the situation has not reached an irreversible point. Although the Jin army is coming aggressively, it cannot cut off the foreign aid from Huangzhou City. At least the Linjiang Wharf is always out of their control. We just need to stick to this place , so that they can continuously obtain various materials and backup from the direction of Ezhou, but the Jin Army does not have this kind of convenience. This is the biggest advantage of our army!

As the saying goes, raising soldiers for a thousand days and using them for a while, this place is our last line of defense in the north of the Song Dynasty. We can only hold on and not retreat, otherwise, even if we return to Jiangnan alive, we will have no face to see Jiangdong's elders!Soldiers will inevitably die before the battle. As the people of the Song Dynasty, we eat the emperor's salary, and we should serve the country at this time of national calamity!

It is up to the people to make things happen, as long as we dare to use our lives, we will definitely be able to smash the golden army into the sand under the city of Huangzhou. Even if we die in battle, we will be worthy of the heaven and the earth!I also hope that you can join me to fight against the enemy here, thank you Gao Mou! "