It is time to take a look at the situation of the soldiers of the Xike County. I entrusted Zhang Zhi to release the family members of the Wulian County from the city to the city. On the afternoon of the day when I arrived outside the city of Wulian, Xue Rang, the wise Minister of the Xike County, had already collected a lot of useful information related to the Wulian Han army through these families. I knew that the Wulian Han army had expanded the army to a considerable scale, and also knew that the three major surnames of Wulian were quickly pacified by Zhang Zhi. I also knew that among the new recruits of the Wulian Han army, many of them were Tian Nu from the three major surnames of Wulian.

In the evening, after the camp was basically completed, Xue Rang summarized these situations and reported them to Su Ding. As a result, Su Ding, who was still savoring the delicious instant noodles, was immediately furious and roared: "The three surnames of Wu Lian are all idiots? Why don't you wait for us to do it again? If they calmly wait for us to come, how much trouble can we save us?"

"If nothing unexpected happens, the three surnames of Wu Lian should be trying to grab both merit and money and grain. They want to take down Wu Lian and seek credit from our prefect, so that they can plunder the city with justification."

Xue Rang analyzed calmly and said with regret: "It's a pity that these ordinary men did not take advantage of it. Instead, they gave Zhang Zhi a lot of precious population for free, allowing Zhang Zhi to expand a large number of troops in such a short time, which increased the difficulty for us to take down the enemy."

"Zhang Zhi rebels, how many soldiers are there in his hands now?" Su Ding asked in a big way.

"It's not clear about the specificity." Xue Rang replied: "The people are basically old, weak, women and children. They don't know that the number of troops is counted through the flag. They only know that there must be more than a thousand. Fortunately, their equipment is very poor, and I heard that many weapons were stolen from the three surnames of Wu Lian."

"Even there are not enough weapons." Su Ding snorted coldly: "A group of mobs, even if there are more than a thousand people, we can easily deal with them as long as we dispatch five garrison troops."

"General, please don't underestimate the enemy." Xue Rang reminded with kindness: "If you are fighting in the field, the Zhang Zhi rebels, which are almost all new recruits, are indeed vulnerable, but if the Zhang Zhi rebels cannot defend their troops and fight against our army with the advantage of city defense, we have to pay a considerable price to win Wuzong."

Su Ding snorted and asked, "Then what's your idea?"

"I think three strategies should be adopted." Xue Rang replied: "First, tomorrow we will start to cut down a large amount of bamboo and wood, build enough stairs, hit the city car, trench and ladder car, and then start a siege at the city with ease."

"Secondly, I will send an edict to Wujiao all towns and villages, contact the powerful households in Wujiao, and exchange them for repaying money and grain after breaking the city, and advise them to organize people to help us, and lend us some food so that we can confront Zhang Zhi's rebels for a long time. This will not only solve our food and grass supply problem, but also give us enough manpower to fill the moat, open the road to allow ladder trucks to reach Wujiao City, so that we can be more confident in taking Wujiao City in one fell swoop."

"Third, try to find the two powerful men who were forced to flee to Wuzhi and Lu Ji, and use their influence among the three major tribes of Wuzhi, encourage Tian Nu's family who were forced to join the Zhang Zhi rebels to go to Wuzhi City to persuade them to surrender, disperse and shake the morale of Zhang Zhi rebels, reduce the determination of Zhang Zhi rebels' resistance, and also increase the number of our personnel."

"Okay, that's it." Su Ding said in a big way: "I'm responsible for arranging soldiers to go up the mountain to cut down bamboo and wood. You'll be responsible for the remaining two things."

Xue Rang, who was ordered to assist Su Ding, agreed immediately, and then Xue Rang reminded him with concern: "General Su, then we have agreed to prepare enough siege weapons and fill the moat before siegeing the city. Don't be too eager to achieve success. Before sharpening the knife, you can hit Wulian City. This will not only have a very small chance of success, but it will also be destined to increase our casualties. Our soldiers are all people with wives, children, and young people."

"Talk." Su Ding said impatiently: "Mr. Xue, are you fighting more battles, or do I fight more? Do you still need to hand over these?"

Xue Rang was silent and replied in his heart: "Yes, you fought a lot of wars, but in that war, did you forcefully exchange the lives and blood of our soldiers for you? It was because you knew your character, so I couldn't help but remind you."

According to this agreement, the next morning, Su Ding and Xue Rang immediately separated. Su Ding arranged for people to go up the mountain to cut down wood and Wu Lian's abundant bamboo, and asked experienced veterans to build various siege weapons. Xue Rang sent people to carry the proclamation to Wu Lian's townships, and used the temptation to repay the money and grain after breaking the city, and persuaded the powerful households in Wu Lian's townships to send grain and help the county soldiers. At the same time, they arranged for special personnel to rush to the Mawei area to find Mo Zhu and Lu Ji, the great tyrants who had disappeared in the war, and started the siege preparations in an orderly manner.

However, what Xue Rang never dreamed was that the development of the situation quickly exceeded his expectations. After the Shenshi period in the afternoon, the patrol sentry of Wulian County soldiers suddenly came to a young man, saying that he was found on the mountain road leading to Wulian North Gate. He also said that the young man claimed to have a very important secret letter and would submit it to Su Ding, the general of the Central Army of the Ke, in person.

The situation was reported to Su Ding. Out of curiosity, Su Ding of course ordered the summoning of the young man as soon as possible. Xue Rang and Wu Ma were also right next to Su Ding and accompanied him to meet the messenger. As a result, the messenger, who was dressed the same as that of ordinary people, was taken to Su Ding, and immediately knelt down on his knees and said, "Young Master Zhu under General Wu Lianqu, has seen General Su. General Su, do you still remember the villain's boss Zhu Xiang?"

"Zhao Zhu?" Su Ding recalled in surprise and said, "This name seems a bit familiar."

"General Su, General Zhu said." Zhu Shao hurriedly reminded: "More than a year ago, he followed General You to Tanzhi to quell the rebellion of the Yi people. He met with General You many times."

"I remembered it!" Su Ding slapped his thigh and said happily: "I remember it, it's good. In the winter of the previous year, I was ordered to call the bandits to suppress the bandits. There was a trench leader named Zhu Xiang under his command, who was from Wu Lian, who seemed to behave well."

"Thank you, General Zhu, for remembering us General Zhu." Zhu Shao smiled apologized and said, "We General Zhu have always been thinking about General Su, saying that General Su, you are a relative of Yan Yu, the former right general, and regretted not seizing the opportunity to get your appreciation from General, otherwise he would not have to be a garrison leader in a ghost place like Wulian, which is not enough to lay eggs."

Su Ding laughed and asked hurriedly: "What are you doing when Zhu Xiangsang sent you?"

"General, there is a letter in the villain's arms." Zhu Shao, whose hands were copied behind his back, replied: "It is General Zhu's handwritten letter to you. It is very important. Please check it out."

Su Ding whispered, and his personal soldiers understood and immediately stepped forward to take out a letter written on cloth from Zhu Shao’s arms and forwarded it to Su Ding. Su Ding quickly took it and looked at it carefully. Before he finished reading all the letters, Su Ding laughed wildly, "Hahahahaha! God helps me! It's really God helps me! This time I took down Wulian County and captured Zhang Zhi's son alive, it's easy!"

"General Su, what is written in the letter?" Xue Rang asked quickly.

"General Zhu Xiang, General Zhu, took the initiative to surrender!" Su Ding replied with a smile: "As soon as we launch an attack on the city, he immediately brought his confidants to attack the city, raided the city gate and opened the city gate to welcome us into the city, and presented the Wulian County Town to us!"

"Is there such a good thing?"

Xue Rangni and Wu Ma looked at each other. Seeing that Wu Ma was also suspicious, Xue Rang hurriedly begged to let him read the letter. Su Ding did not hesitate and immediately handed the letter to Xue Rang. After Xue Rang took it, Wu Ma hurriedly came over to read it together.

Zhu Xiang's letter of surrender was very long. He first expressed his loyalty to his old boss Su Ding, saying that he had always remembered the days when he followed Su Ding to fight. Unfortunately, he did not get Su Ding's appreciation at that time and missed the opportunity to become successful. He also said that he was forced to follow Zhang Zhi to rebel. He also knew that Zhang Zhi's rebellion was just a mantis chariot, a mantis shaking a tree, and would die without a burial place. He had long wanted to leave Zhang Zhi's rebel army and throw himself into the warm and broad embrace of the Great Wei court. However, he had never had a chance, so he endured it until now.

Then of course he begged for surrender. In addition to begging Su Ding to accept his surrender, Zhu Xiang told Su Ding that Zhang Zhi did not trust him very much. Every time he fought in the city, he would hand over the four gates of Wu Lian to his confidants Zhao Quan and Fu Gong to control him, so he led the reserve team to respond in the city. Therefore, Zhu Xiang decided that he could only suddenly attack when the county soldiers launched an attack on the city. Taking advantage of the opportunity that Zhang Zhi's best friends such as Zhao Quan and Fu Gong had no time to take care of him, he would take some of his confidants to raid the south gate of Wu Lian and open the city gate to welcome Su Ding to lead his army into the city.

In addition, Zhu Xiang also told Su Ding an important situation - it was said that Zhang Zhi didn't know that the instant noodles he got from there were not many, but in order to stabilize the morale of the army and the people, Zhang Zhi bit the bullet and distributed instant noodles to Wulian Han army and the people in the city every day, which probably wouldn't be supported.

After reading Zhu Xiang's letter, let alone the wise general Xue Rang believed in doubt, even the standard soldier Wu Ma was a little suspicious and said to Su Ding: "General, it is important, so please be careful."

"What else should I do with caution?" Su Ding said angrily: "General Zhu agreed to take action when we attacked the city. Could it be that he was lying to us to go into a trap and take risks? You are so suspicious?"

When Xue Rang was calculating, Wu Ma, who was thick on the outside and thin on the inside, suddenly discovered a detail. He suddenly took a few steps forward, grabbed Zhu Xinzhi's right hand, looked at his palm and said, "You said you are Zhu Xiang's personal soldier, so why doesn't the calluses on your tiger's mouth seem to be sharpened by holding a knife? Instead, it seems to be sharpened by doing farm work all year round?"

"The general has good eyesight." Zhu Shao replied with a dry smile: "The villain was indeed a soldier who was only half a month ago. He used to do farm work at home."

"I was the soldier who was just a soldier half a month ago, so I gave Zhu Yu's personal soldiers?" Wu Ma asked.

"Because the veterans around General Zhu have basically been promoted." Zhu Shao, who had received guidance from Zhang Zhi, quickly replied: "Wu Lian's army expanded a large number of troops, and the new soldiers must be led by veterans, so Wu Lian's veterans have basically been promoted, and the youngest one is also a leader, so General Zhu can only select some new recruits to add to his personal army. There are only three or four veterans in his personal army team."

Wu Ma grabbed the collar and lifted Zhu Shao, stared at Zhu Shao's eyes and asked, "With such an important letter, how can Zhu Xiang be assured to let you send it with a recruit?"

After all, he had no experience, and a hint of panic flashed in Zhu Shao's eyes, but he still answered according to Zhang Zhi's instructions: "General, because the villain and General Zhu are relatives of the same clan, in terms of seniority, the young man had to call General Zhu an uncle. Therefore, after the villain joined the army, he was arranged by General Zhu into his personal army, so he dared to let the young man come to send such an important letter."

Wu Ma didn't say anything, but just stared at Zhu Shao's eyes. Zhu Shao was panicked and said hurriedly: "General, you have to believe in the little one, the little one dare not say a lie."

"Okay, Wu Ma, let him go." Su Ding said impatiently: "Zhu Xiang asked his relatives of his tribe to send a letter. What's there to doubt? Zhu Xiang doesn't believe in his family. Do you want to trust outsiders?"

Without finding any flaws, Su Ding gave another order. Wu Ma had no choice but to let go of Zhu Shao, who was the same surname as Zhu. Xue Rangze also said: "General Wu, don't be too suspicious. Anyway, Wu Liancheng will be fought sooner or later. It is of course the best for General Zhu Xiang to surrender. Even if he is a fraudulent surrender, we will still fight."

Wu Ma thought about it, so he finally put away some suspicion. Zhu Shaoze took the initiative to say, "General, the letter has been delivered, and the villain can't go back to the city. General Zhu let the villain listen to your defeat."

"Go down and rest. When this general breaks the city, I will give you a reward." Su Ding waved his hand and said, "Take it down and give it some food, so that he can live with his family for the time being."

Mr. Zhu quickly thanked him. Seeing that he did not ask for a return to the city, Xue Rang and Wu Ma couldn't help but believe it three more points in their hearts, and said in their hearts: "Okay, since the messenger has not made an excuse to ask for a return to the city, it seems that it shouldn't be fake."

Xue Rang and Wu Ma's secret joy was quickly replaced by shock. After a moment of calculation, Su Ding actually ordered: "Send the order to the rear camp to stop building ladder trucks and city-slamming cars, use bamboo to build flying ladders, let our soldiers have a full meal tonight and launch a siege tomorrow!"

"What?" Xue Rang and Wu Ma were stunned, and they all shouted and asked, "General, will we launch an attack tomorrow?"

"Is it too late?" Su Ding asked back, saying: "It is easy and easy to build flying ladders with bamboo. It is easy to build dozens of ladders a day, and equipped with a few blocks of wood, which is enough to launch a siege."

"But general, if we only use the ladder and hit the wood to attack the city, it will not only be difficult for us to succeed, but we will also have heavy casualties." Wu Ma quickly reminded.

"Have you forgotten that Zhu Xiang, the old subordinate of this general, helped?" Su Ding lit up Zhu Xiang's letter of surrender and said proudly: "As long as we launch an attack on the city and restrain Zhang Zhi's son's best friends, Zhu Xiang can lead his men to raid the city gate. Then, once the city gate is opened, will Wu Lian City be ours?"

"General, what if General Zhu fails to succeed?" Xue Rang also said quickly.

"How could he not get the hand?" Su Ding asked back and said, "Zhu Xiang is Wu Lian's old governor. He has rich combat experience. Zhang Zhi's rebels and many of his old subordinates are not too many. As long as he leads thirty or fifty people to raid, he will definitely be able to take down the city gate and open the city gate to welcome us into the city."

"General, can you think about it?" Wu Ma said in a deep voice: "If we don't fill the moat and don't prepare enough siege weapons, let our soldiers attack the city with a few bumper wood and dozens of flying ladders. That's a joke to use our soldiers' lives!"

"Fart!" Su Ding was furious and roared: "With this general's old subordinate as an insider, how can he play?"

"General Su calms down his anger, General Wu Qu is also in good intentions." Xue Rang quickly persuaded and said, "But General Su, we should just use an internal support to attack the city with too simple siege weapons. According to the following opinions, we should prepare enough siege weapons according to the original plan, gather people to fill the moat, and then launch an siege, so that we can be more confident in taking down Wulian County."

"You are missing the military opportunity!" Su Ding refuted: "Time has been delayed. What if Zhu Xiang was discovered by Zhang Zhi'er? If Zhu Xiang was killed by Zhang Zhi'er first and no one was in the city to pick us up, then wouldn't the casualties we paid when we attacked the city?"

"And!" Su Ding said his heart and scolded: "I didn't see Zhu Xiang's report, saying that those instant noodles are not too much? If time has been delayed and those instant noodles are eaten up by Zhang Zhi's rebels, then will we fight Wu Liancheng in vain? There is so much salt in the instant noodles, and we are short of salt. You don't feel sorry for the soldiers, I feel sorry for me! I want the soldiers under my command to eat a bite of salt!"

Xue Rang and Wu Ma suddenly realized it together, and cursed in their hearts: "Don't you, your mother's fart! How good are you? You can seize those instant noodles after breaking the city. It's better if you can let each of our soldiers eat a pack! Can the rest be put into your pocket?!"

It was useless to understand Su Ding's real intention. Su Ding was the head coach. No matter how Wu Ma and Xue Rang opposed it, it was useless. According to Su Ding's order, the soldiers of the Ke County still stopped building ladder vehicles that pose greater threat to the Wu Lian Han army, such as siege weapons, and instead tried their best to build lightweight ladders with simple craftsmanship. Sure enough, they used Wu Lian's abundant bamboo to build more than 80 lightweight ladders, and several wood-bumping ladders were prepared.

Then, on the second day, after a rough breakfast, Su Ding couldn't wait to lead the troops of the seven garrison teams to the north, and rushed towards the south gate of Wulian, who was the easiest to attack but even the moat was intact, and vowed to take down Wulian within one day and grab all the precious instant noodles in the city! Then...

Then, the soldiers of the Kōko County naturally fell into the vast ocean of Wulian military and civilian war.

"The county soldiers are here! We finally come to attack the city! We can eat two more packs of instant noodles at noon today!"

This was the excited roar of the soldiers of the Wulian Han army! At the same time, from Zhao Quan, Zhu Xiang and Fu Gong and other generals to the generals of the Wulian Han army, none of them were determined, energetic, and ready to wait for the troops of the Jiuke County to launch an attack.

"The county soldiers are here to attack the city! Go and help our army. Today we can get an extra pack of instant noodles!"
Chapter completed!