War has always been a siege of cities since ancient times.

In terms of military strength, although Mao Zhengliang led a total of three times more troops than Gao Yishou, if Gao Yishou hid in the turtle shell that he must pass south, even if he had an army of 90,000, it would still make Mao Zhengliang feel a headache.

"There are many mountains and lakes in Shouzhang, and they have always been easy to defend and difficult to attack. Gao Yishou's 30,000 troops are blocked here. If he cannot lead him out of the city to fight with us, then even if we have a powerful weapon like a bird gun, it will never be easy to conquer such a strong city.

At this time, we didn’t have any extra time to waste with Gao Yishou. Just now, the old thief Tian Feng might have had a confrontation with Marshal Wang and the others.

Therefore, we must also rush to drive Shouzhang City south in front of the old thief Tian Feng, and then go south along the canal to capture Rencheng, so as to win this war."

But at this moment, Mao Zhengliang still put all his hopes on himself.

As for the good thing like "Wang Shicheng turned the tables in adversity, defeated Tian Feng with less and defeated him with more than he could" Mao Zhengliang really didn't even dare to think about it.

Therefore, after he said this, he looked at Chen Qitou and Xu Jizu under the tent, and could not help but say firmly: "The brave will win when we meet on a narrow road.

This time I went south to Shouzhang, Gu hoped that all the lords would have the determination to become a good person if they failed. And when they conquered Shouzhang, Gu Ding would not be stingy with rewards for you."

Although they had conquered several cities along the way, to be honest, they did not get much spoils.

Most of the money, grain and materials on Dongchang Road were packed and taken away by the Tian army when they evacuated. What was left for the Mao army behind was nothing but some leftovers.

Therefore, in order to mobilize morale, Mao Zhengliang also said this, "No matter how many spoils there are in Shouzhang City, I will not take any money. Those who beheaded and made meritorious contributions will be rewarded with both."

Double reward means double reward.

In the past, I was beheaded and rewarded with 5,000 yuan. Now, I am beheaded and rewarded with 10,000 yuan.

Such rewards are definitely extremely generous nowadays.

After all, based on today's prices, an adult goat costs only more than a thousand yuan, and a scalper that can plow the land costs only five thousand yuan. The reward of this ten thousand yuan is enough to buy two plowing oxen or a horse.

Therefore, after Mao Zhengliang conveyed such an order, the morale in the army immediately increased.

Because at present, these soldiers in the army who didn't even know a big word had no faith.

Unlike later generations, soldiers regard defending their country as their duty and are proud of being a soldier.

Nowadays, with the harsh criticism of the soldiers of the Song and Yuan dynasties (the Yuan dynasty was extremely harsh against the Han army, and for a long time, they even refused to allow the soldiers of the Han army to hold weapons during normal times), it was generally good men who did not serve in the army.

In these two dynasties, soldiers who defended their country were completely at the bottom of society and were even tattooed on their faces, like criminals.

Therefore, speaking big truths and empty talk obviously has no effect on mobilizing the morale and the enthusiasm of the soldiers in the army. Only by seeing and tangling the substantial benefits can these soldiers have the courage to fight.

The soldiers had the courage to see and touch the rewards, so Mao Zhengliang, as the leader, naturally led the soldiers to the south while the iron was hot.

Then, riding on the war horse, he turned around and looked back at the army behind him, and he couldn't help but make a secret decision: "In one month, I will definitely conquer Shouzhang."

At that time, I see what else you, Tian Feng, fight me with!’

Thinking of this in his heart, the young Mao Zhengliang urged the horse under his crotch, and surrounded by hundreds of knights, he rushed to the south with golden drums.

...

Shouzhang, whether in the past or later, is not a famous place. Therefore, few people know that the 800-mile waters of Liangshan in "Water Margin" are now in Shouzhang.

However, the 'eight hundred miles of water' is more of the exaggerated words of the novelist. Although there are Liangshan in Shouzhang, the water of Dongping Lake is only a radius of 100 miles.

As for Liangshan, it is located thirty miles south of the county town, close to Dongping Lake and the canal. It is also a place surrounded by many waters.

Therefore, in addition to the fact that Song Jiang, who was indeed a man, had occupied Liangshan and made the famous Hobao Yi. During the long period of Yuan and Mongolia ruled the Central Plains, many heroes who occupied the mountains and became kings and plundered the canal transportation were also produced.

But these people are bandits who occupy the mountains and become kings. They are not as good as the weather and do not have that long-term vision, so most of them cannot escape the flash-shot ending.

Therefore, since Tian Feng occupied Dongchang Road, in order to ensure the smooth flow of the canals in his territory, Tian Feng cleaned up these those who occupied the mountains and became kings by recruiting surrenders and encirclement.

However, in order to control the water of the canal and prevent the thieves from resurrecting the thieves, Tian Feng did not burn the camps built by the Anshan bandits fifteen miles east of the county.

Instead, he regarded it as his own outpost, and a thousand navy troops were stationed on it.

Then, it was such an outpost that had now coincidentally become the biggest reliance for Marshal Tian Jun Gao Yishou to resist Mao Zhengliang.

Because Anshan is like Liangshan, it is a place surrounded by lakes that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Therefore, as early as Mao Zhengliang led his troops to occupy Chi, Gao Yishou had arranged 10,000 troops early in the Anshan outpost, occupying all the favorable terrain of the Anshan peaks.

Therefore, after Mao Zhengliang's army entered Dongping Road, we often saw the Tian Jun navy stationed in Anshan observe the movements of Mao's army from Dongping Lake.

However, because of the large number of Mao soldiers, these navy troops only dared to watch from afar and did not dare to attack the shore.

But even so, the feeling of being under the noses is always made Mao Zhengliang very annoyed.

"Be sure to swat these damn flys to death!"

Seeing that the Tian army navy had been following them dozens of miles on the lake, Mao Zhengliang could not bear it anymore. After cursing like this, he asked the marshal under the tent to continue to collect ships and expel the Tian army's spies.

But what is depressing is that Gao Yishou took away the ships he could collect in Dongping, and the ones he could not take were burned on the spot.

After walking along the canal for a day, he only found seven or eight small fishing boats, which were useless.

Even though I had enough troops, I couldn't do anything to these Tianjun.

The occurrence of this incident also made Mao Zhengliang frown. Obviously, the lack of boats in this battle has become his biggest shortcoming. If this shortcoming cannot be erased, he may be passive in the next battle.
Chapter completed!