Everyone dispersed, and Xu Wenzhong stayed.

Jiang Zhong smiled and said, "I know why, others led 20,000 troops to destroy the city in three days, but you can only lead 3,000 elite troops to destroy the city in two days?"

"You are the lord, the small Shouzhou City is not worth mentioning, and Xu can definitely take it down." Xu Wenzhong of course knew what his lord meant, which was to suppress the arrogant and domineering Jiedushi and let them know the power of the Shenwei Army.

"Don't attack forcefully, you must be smart. If you don't have the idea, discuss with military Gongsun Sheng. Now, you should quickly reorganize Yang Wen's army and start siege tonight. I hope you can hear the good news tomorrow." Jiang Zhong shook his head, and he said with a smile: "Warning does not require siege, nor does it require siege, and the final result can be entered. As for the method, it does not matter at all. Remember, I only look at the result, not the process."

At this time, Xu Wenzhong remembered Wu'an Jun Bai Qi. If you want to become an invincible general, you must use extraordinary techniques to win. As for how cruel the methods are, it doesn't matter anymore.

Jiang Zhong waved his hand and said nothing. He only cared about the result and the process. As for what method Xu Wenzhong used to take down Shouzhou City, it was not important at all. The most important thing was that this battle would be successful and the power of the Shenwei Army was to let the group of idiots in the imperial army see how the battle was fought.

More than ten days ago, Xu Wenzhong was planning how to take over Shouzhou City. The plan had already come up, just to end the battle with the least casualties. If the casualties were too large, it would be more than worth the loss.

After returning to the barracks, Xu Wenzhong asked his personal soldiers to invite Guan Sheng, Huang Xin, Zhang Qing, Gongsun Sheng and Shi Qian and others.

After everyone arrived, Xu Wenzhong said straight to the point: "I believe everyone knows the order of the lord, so I won't go into details here. How can we take down Shouzhou City with the least sacrifice? If you have good suggestions, just make it."

When they charged in battle, Lu Da and his men were unambiguous, but they had no choice but to attack cities and villages, these fierce generals had no choice. It was like a tiger eating a hedgehog and had nowhere to slap.

Gongsun Sheng knew that Xu Wenzhong was deliberately telling him. No matter how he said it from Liangshan, if he could not achieve success, the bandits would never be able to take off their hats. Not only would they not be reused, but they would also be wary of it.

After pondering for a while, Gongsun Sheng said: "In fact, it is not difficult to take down Shouzhou City. This city has a fatal disadvantage, that is, there is no arrow tower on the west wall and no moat below. As long as someone climbs up the city wall and opens the city gate, the key is that there is no urn city. Once you enter the city, the battle will basically end. After all, there are some old, weak, sick and disabled people in the city."

"Everyone seems to understand this principle, but why are there no generals of the imperial guards willing to take a risk?" Obviously, Xu Wenzhong was suspicious of this way of seizing the city. If the battle could be ended so easily, wouldn't it be a joke in the future?

"Because the patrol patrols at the gates of the city are almost constantly patrolling, and there is no way to rush up at all. Of course, the most important thing is that there are fewer people and no one can get up. If there are too many people, why can we go up without knowing it? You must know that once the soldiers guarding the city are discovered, then thousands of arrows will be fired at once, and one side of the attacking side will die, and it is impossible to break through the defense line."

Yes, it seems to be a simple problem, but in fact it becomes extremely complicated when fighting. Basically, the defensive side knows the offensive routine that the offensive side can think of. If it has made precise deployments long ago, how can the enemy succeed easily?

Seeing that Gongsun Sheng had the point, Xu Wenzhong knew that this bull-nosed old Taoist must have an idea. He smiled and said, "Military advisor, don't go around in circles. Let's talk about what to do quickly. You must know the delay time. Brothers will lose their heads."

Gongsun Sheng shook his head, and he said with a wry smile: "It's not easy to take down Shouzhou City in such a short time, otherwise Yang Wen wouldn't have resisted the order in front of the account. However, the lord has already made a plan, and he wants to give you this first skill and will definitely attack the city tonight. You must know that the Silver Sword Guard and the Flying Sword Guard are both in the city and have been prepared to seize the city. As long as someone can kill the West City Wall, everything else will come naturally. However, General Xu, you must remember that taking down Shouzhou City is not a problem. The key is to reorganize the imperial guards, which is the top priority. If the completion is not done well, you will lose your head."

Speaking of attacking the city wall, everyone's eyes were on Gu Shangshu Shiqian. The guy was a little embarrassed. He scratched his head and said, "I have no problem going up to the city wall, but if no one responds, I will be killed by the defenders soon."

"Our army has a special night battle unit called Yeyoushen. This is the lord's number. The food and training of this unit are different from other units. The entire training tutorial was written by the lord himself. This is not a problem." Xu Wenzhong knew that success or failure was in this way, so he did not hesitate. He said: "Yan Qing sent people to contact the Feijian Guards and Yinjian Guards in the city. Once Shi Qian went up to the city wall, you will be responsible for seizing the city gate. Guan Sheng and Huang Xin, you will lead a thousand Yeyoushen to ambush outside the city. As soon as the city gate opened, you rushed in immediately, occupied the city gate, and covered the army into the city."

Shi Qian, a guy born for the dark night, rushed to the city like a ghost of the dark night. He knew that the number of Silver Sword Guards would not be large, and once they occupied the city gate, they would last for a quarter of an hour. If the army could not enter the city smoothly, the Silver Sword Guards would even die in the city themselves.

While the defenders were patrolling and changing defenses, Shi Shang climbed up the city wall. Instead of rushing to go down the city wall, he chose a place that was easy to ignite and poured turmeric oil and ignited it at the third day.

The fires soared into the sky. On this dark night, it seemed like the sky was burning red. Countless defenders came to put out the fire, and even the defenders under the city rushed to the top of the city. It was at this time that Yan Qing led the flying sword guard to capture the city gate, and the Silver Sword Guard, with super strong combat power, was responsible for resisting the counterattack.

As the west city gate opened, Guan Sheng led Yeyoushen and rushed in and started a fierce battle for the city gate with the soldiers guarding the city.

Xu Wenzhong ordered heavy infantry to enter the city. The guys rushed in like tanks and launched a crushing killing at the defenders. The defenders who were killed immediately became defeated and fled in scattered.

The guard general Fang Shaowu died in the battle, and the governor Zhou Liang surrendered. When the sky was bright, the flag of the Shenwei Army fluttered at the top of the city.

Jiang Zhong led all the generals into the city, but he put all the troops outside the city.

The first thing he did when he entered the city was to give gifts. Jiang Zhong prepared countless generous gifts, gave Li Bangyan 50,000 taels of gold, gave Wang Daoqi 100,000 taels of silver, each of the four major military governors 50,000 taels of silver, each of the commander-in-chief, each of the commander-in-chief, each of the commander-in-chief, each of the commander-in-chief. He ignored the commander-in-chief.

The commander of the Xiang army was not ignored, but was killed by the Jin Jianwei.

The Jin Jianwei has always been a special force, and has been secretly trained by Wu Song. This team of 100 people is only loyal to Jiang Zhong. The combat power is extremely strong. When pulled out, they are blocked by one. This is a shadow unit that is willing to fight for the Lord and is willing to die for the Lord. It is not within the organization of the Shenwei Army. Each Jin Jianwei's monthly salary has exceeded 150 taels of silver, and the same level as the regiment training, and the treatment is far superior to the imperial guards.

After the commander of the wing army was killed, the reorganization of the army began. The imperial guards, Shenwei army and prisoners were reorganized into five wing army. Han Cunbao, the governor of Yanmen of Yunzhong, served as the commander of the first wing, commanding 20,000 infantry. As the front army, the deputy commander was Xu Wenzhong, and Li Congji, the governor of Hanyang of Longxi, served as the commander of the second wing, and Han Shizhong, the deputy commander, commanding 20,000 infantry. As the rear army, he was responsible for food, grass, baggage, and mainly for logistics support and defense. This is a fatal flaw. Xiang Yuanzhen, the governor of Pengcheng of Langya, and Jing Zhong, the governor of Tianshui of Qinghe, served as the commander of the third wing, fourth wing, responsible for the left army, right army, and deputy commander were Xu Wenzheng and Xu Wenzhong. Wang Daoqi served as the commander of the fifth wing, commanding 10,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry. The deputy commander of the cavalry was Guan Sheng, and the deputy commander of the infantry was Pang Wanchun, responsible for the central army.

The reorganization of the army was carried out under the leadership of the military supervisor Li Bangyan. On the surface, there was nothing to be seen, but in fact everyone present knew that the so-called commanders of the wings were empty and the real power was in the hands of the deputy commanders. The four major military governors had long passed the age of charging into battle, and they had no passion for being covered with iron horses and horses, and their greed for money and lust became their biggest hobby. Anyway, this army was not their own unit, and the reorganization had much to do with it. The 50,000 taels of white money was the bottom line. Why bother to care about those things that were empty? You must know that Yang Wen's head was still hanging outside the gate, and no one wanted to be Yang Wen's second.

Wang Daoqi was one hundred unhappy, and he kept reacting to Li Bangyan, but Hua Xiang didn't understand military affairs at all. The secret decree he received before coming was that if Jiang Zhong intends to rebel, he can take action first and then report others as long as he wins the battle, he must not command blindly.

Gao Qiu's defeat deeply stimulated Song Huizong Zhao Ji. He was afraid that Jiang Zhong would fail again this time, so he gave Li Bangyan a secret order. As long as Jiang Zhong did not rebel, he could win the battle. For other things, he would settle the old accounts after returning triumphantly.

50,000 taels of gold are converted according to the official price, which means 500,000 silver. If traded according to the black market, it can be exchanged for at least 700,000 silver. This generous gift still works at a critical moment. Li Bangyan also knew that Jiang Zhong was taking over power, but as the head coach, how could he fight if he had no military power. He knew what it meant behind Gao Qiu's fall, and who caused the fate of Xue Yongnian, the commander of the Imperial City Commander, was because of these things that he had to keep a low profile.

Jiang Zhong was kind to Li Bangyan. On the one hand, he showed weakness and did not want to be Di Qing's second place. He hoped that Hua Xiang would help him to be thorough. On the other hand, he suggested that there were a group of arrogant soldiers and bandits below, and that there might be trouble. I hope that the generals of the army would not be petty.

Li Bangyan was greedy for power and money, but he was greedy for power in the court. As for the army, he didn't care about it at all and looked down on the generals. This time he went to war, this guy had already planned to make money as much as possible. As for whoever decides the army, that was not a problem. Of course, he had to win this battle this time, and once he was defeated, the military supervisor would probably be punished.

Fifty thousand taels of gold were completely beyond Li Bangyan's expectations. He originally thought that when he returned home, it would be good to get 20,000 taels of gold. Unexpectedly, Jiang Zhong came up with 100,000 taels. This guy was very happy and didn't care about military affairs.

The 100,000 army did not continue to pursue Song Jiang, but set up camp outside Shouzhou City. However, the overnight conquering Shouzhou caused a great shock in Jiangnan. Both Song Jiang and Wang Qing knew that when the disaster came, this decisive battle would definitely be a life-and-death battle, a decisive battle that was related to fate.

Wang Qing's attitude was to defend his position and never take the initiative. He wanted to rely on a strong city to entangle with the official army. After all, he still had a strong navy, which could give the official army a fatal blow at critical moments. In order to prepare for war, Wang Qing issued an order to collect grain and recruit soldiers, with the goal of expanding the army to 500,000, as if only in this way can he fight against the official army.

Song Jiang concluded from the breaking of Shouzhou City that if the city was passively defended, it would definitely be defeated by the government troops. After all, the cities in Jiangnan are not as unbreakable as those in Bianliang, Taiyuan, and Zhending Mansion. They are all relatively small cities. Under strong military pressure, they are vulnerable and cannot defend at all. If it is said that the city that can resist the government troops will be only Xiangyang, the first city in Jiangnan, but in that case, it will become an isolated city, which is obviously not a good plan.

It would be better to take the initiative to attack because he was waiting for death. Song Jiang decided to hit the army and fight the decisive battle with the official army. Previously, Gao Qiu led 200,000 imperial guards, but he was defeated by himself. Now the enemy has only 100,000, so what's so scary?

Wu Yong did not expect that Song Jiang would be so absurd. He seemed to have 300,000 troops in his hand to fight against the official army. It was simply ridiculous in the world. You know, most of these 300,000 troops were mobs, and there were tens of thousands of prisoners of imperial guards. Once they fought, they would definitely turn against each other. The army had only tens of thousands of people, and this army had long surrendered to Jiang Zhong and was not under the command of Song Jiang at all.

In a helpless situation, Wu Yong asked the Shenxing Taibao Dai Zong to help him deliver a letter to his lord to see what his lord's intention was to fight.

After Jiang Zhong received Wu Yong's letter and read it, he said to Dai Zong: "How many generals are loyal to Song Jiang now and how many soldiers are there."

"There are 10,000 elite soldiers, and there are 30 generals, but they are also in harmony with each other. Most of us listen to military advisors, and only seven or eight of us obey Song Jiang's orders."

Dai Zong looked down on Song Jiang in his heart. He and Wu Yong were best friends, so of course he knew who was the real master. This guy had no ambitions and just had to be an official with real power, so he was very satisfied with Jiang Zhong's arrangement.

Jiang Zhong pondered for a moment and said, "I won't write a reply. Just one sentence, it's better to fight a war. It's not a good thing that Song Jiang has too many troops in his hands, so it's better to weaken it a little."
Chapter completed!