Chapter 286

The Zhen Army urgently recruited the people in the city to participate in the defense. At this time, Zhao Huan's reputation in the Zhen Kingdom was reflected. He responded to his call. All the men, women, and children in the city who could fight pressed against the city wall to help the Zhen Army resist the coalition forces. Those who could not fight were placed on the city wall.

The Zhenjun soldiers transported arrows, rolling logs, rocks and other objects.

There are hundreds of thousands of civilians in Huaning City, and the Zhen people are tough, and all the people are soldiers. Even when the common people go to the battlefield, they don't seem unfamiliar, let alone fearful, and they are basically no different from the soldiers of the Zhen army.

Lingshuang, Yueze, and Li Xin thought that if their millions of troops besieged Huaning, they would easily break through the city, but in fact it was just the opposite. Due to the full defense of the people in the city, the coalition soldiers could not attack for a long time, and the regiments in front fought hard.

Exhausted, the regiments behind immediately stepped in to take over and fought in turns, but even so, they still could not break through Huaning's city defense.

The battle continued endlessly. The coalition forces launched a fierce attack at noon and continued until late in the evening. The millions of troops could not tear a gap in Huaning's city defense.

At this time, Lingshuang, Yueze, and Li Xin all secretly breathed in their hearts. They did not expect that Huaning's soldiers and civilians could be so tenacious and powerful, completely different from the cities they had attacked before.

Seeing that it was getting darker and darker, they had to light torches to continue fighting. They couldn't help but start to consider whether the battle should continue. But at this moment, the camp that had not yet been set up in the rear of the coalition suddenly fell into chaos.

A Zhen army appeared out of nowhere and suddenly broke out from the rear of the coalition camp and broke into the coalition camp with lightning speed.

This change happened so suddenly that even if the coalition forces were unprepared, even if they discovered the enemy's situation first, they would still be unable to prevent it.

First, the camp has not yet been set up, and the outer walls are full of holes. How can it defend against the enemy's charge? Secondly, the main force of the coalition forces has been devoted to the siege, and there are not many soldiers left to camp.

And they are all old, weak, sick and disabled, how can they be Zhenjun's opponents?

The strength of this Zhen army was not large, only five thousand at most. But when they broke into the coalition camp, it was like entering an uninhabited land. They cut down and killed everyone they saw, killing the coalition forces who were camping until they cried.

Shouting to the sky, they fled in all directions. The Zhen army refused to give up. While chasing and killing them, they lit fires everywhere. All the military tents, food, grass, and baggage were stored in the coalition camp. These things stuck to the fire, and with the wind at night, the fire was strong.

It spread extremely quickly, and in just the blink of an eye, the flames in the camp shot up to several meters high.

Since the camp is on the west side of Huaning, close to the An and Huan armies, it was these two armies that first discovered the fire in their own camp.

When the soldiers below reported to Yue Ze and Li Xin, they both didn't believe it. When they turned around, their expressions changed greatly. Their camp actually caught fire under their noses. What happened?

thing?

Before the two of them could figure out what was going on, the soldiers who had escaped from the camp had already rushed to their side and reported to Yue Ze and Li Xin that the camp had been attacked by the Zhen army. The enemy had now begun to set fire to the camp.

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When the two heard this, their heads buzzed, and they couldn't recover for a long time.

Did the Zhen army steal the camp? Where did the Zhen army come from? Why didn't we hear any news? Li Xin screamed fiercely, grabbed the deserter by the collar, and asked angrily: "How many people are there in the enemy army?"

?There is an enemy attack, why don’t you report it as soon as possible?”

The deserter was so frightened that his legs were weak and he could not stand firmly. He waved his hands repeatedly and said: "It's... it's too dark. When... when we found the Zhenjun, they were already close and we didn't have time to report...

…The Zhen army has a large number of troops, estimated to be tens of thousands of people…”

Damn it! Li Xin pushed the deserter away hard. Tens of thousands of Zhen soldiers actually entered his camp without anyone noticing. This was simply a shame and humiliation! He turned to look at Yue Ze who was also panicking.

, asked: "Brother Wang, what should we do now?"

"There is nothing we can do..." Yue Ze muttered with a big grin: "Hurry up and withdraw your troops and go back to rescue the camp with all your strength!"

"Alas!" Li Xin stamped his feet vigorously and shouted to everyone on the left and right: "Why are you still standing here stupidly? Go and claim gold!"

Everyone around them seemed to be waking up from a dream, shouting in agreement and starting to ring gold.

As soon as the golden sound sounded on their side, not only the Anhuan and Huan armies retreated, but also the Feng, Zhen, and Yu armies that were attacking the city on the other three sides were also affected by it. The soldiers who were attacking the city did not know why, and they quickly retreated like the ebbing tide.

Withdrew from the battlefield.

Soon, the soldiers sent by Yue Ze and Li Xin to report the news rushed to Feng Army, Zhen Army and Yu Army respectively, and informed Tang Yin, Ling Shuang and "Gu Anmin" about the attack on their camp.

After hearing this, their hearts trembled. The camp was attacked. This was no small matter. Once the food, grass and materials were damaged, it would directly affect the future war situation.

At this time, even if people didn't want to go back to rescue them, Feng, Zhen, and Yu's three armies changed from the rear to the front and rushed back to the camp together.

All the armies of the five countries that attacked Huaning withdrew. At this time, the Zhen army that invaded the camp had already fled without a trace, leaving only the camp full of blazing fires. The coalition officers and soldiers no longer bothered to pursue the enemy.

Fight fires and rescue food, grass and supplies.

It was not until late at night that the coalition forces finally put out all the fires in the camp. At this time, looking at the coalition camp, it was devastated and in a mess. Smoked and burned food, grass and supplies could be seen everywhere.

This fire caused considerable losses to the coalition forces.

Among them, the heaviest losses were grain and fodder. It is a rough estimate that the amount of grain and fodder that was destroyed was at least tens of thousands of stones. In addition, at least tens of thousands of tents were burned and damaged. Many military uniforms and weapons were also destroyed.

This situation made the coalition soldiers dumbfounded and they didn't know what to do.

Looking at the gloomy and silent monarchs, Kong Qing coughed and said: "Huaning belongs to the Xitang Acropolis, and the people have always been loyal to the court. Even if the current king is a fool, the people are still loyal to him, so we have to fight

Hua Ning is not as easy as imagined. In addition, Zhao Huan has always been very cunning in using troops, and our army is not familiar with the terrain in Hua Ning, so it is easy to suffer losses, so... our army is in a hurry before its foothold is stable.

Attacking Huaning is really unwise, and it also gives the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it!"

What he said was obviously for analysis, but in reality he was complaining about the wrong decisions made by Lingshuang, Yue Ze, and Li Xin. These three monarchs were not fools. Of course, they could hear the underlying meaning of his words, and their expressions also changed.

It's getting uglier.

Li Xin snorted heavily and said coldly: "Why didn't you say it before? Now let's talk about these things. How can we use computers? The most urgent thing is to think about what we should do next!"

Too much material was damaged this time. If it cannot be replenished in time, the coalition forces will be unable to move forward and will eventually be forced to retreat. The matter is so important that as a loyal general, Kong Qing did not dare to say anything and kept his head down.

Li Xin didn't expect him to come up with any good ideas at all. He turned to look at Tang Yin, rubbed his hands in embarrassment and asked with a dry smile: "Brother Wang, what do you think?"

At first, he, Yueze and Lingshuang ignored Tang Yin's dissuasion and insisted on attacking Huaning. Now that they had suffered such heavy losses, they couldn't hold their head high in front of Tang Yin and felt that they were wrong.

What should we do? Tang Yin also wanted to know what his side should do now. He pondered for a while and said: "First count the specific losses so that you have a clear idea, and then think of countermeasures!"

"Yes, yes, yes! Brother Wang is right!" Li Xin nodded repeatedly, and then shouted to the Huan Army generals behind him: "Why don't you do it quickly?"

The five-nation coalition forces moved together and began to make detailed statistics on their own losses. There were 12,000 damaged camps, of which about 10,000 were completely scrapped. In other words, in the next battle, the coalition forces would

At least 200,000 to 300,000 soldiers have no tents to live in and have to sleep in the open air. A total of 60,000 stones of food and grass were damaged, which is more than half of the total food and grass of the coalition forces. Large weapons such as trebuchets, rams, and arrow towers were damaged.

There are more than three hundred in total, and as for military uniforms, there are countless weapons.

In addition, the five-nation coalition forces suffered a total of 70,000 to 80,000 casualties on the day they stormed Huaning. After only one day of fierce fighting, the losses suffered by the coalition forces could be described as heavy.

Listening to the generals' reports, Tang Yin felt a headache. The problem facing the coalition forces now was not whether they could capture Huaning as soon as possible, but whether they could continue to fight.

Insufficient tents will only cause some soldiers to not get enough rest, while insufficient food and grass will determine the life and death of the entire army.

He thought for a moment and asked Yue Ze and Li Xin: "When will the next batch of food and grass for our army be delivered?"

Yue Ze replied in a low voice: "It will take half a month at the earliest."

It takes so long...

Tang Yin frowned even more tightly. Judging from the food and grass currently left in the army, even if he was frugal, he would only be able to hold on for ten days at most. If he wanted to avoid being forced to retreat, there were only two ways, either to capture Hua Ning as soon as possible, or to directly

Attacked Xitang.

He looked at Xiao Muqing and Ziying and said, "Our army gave up attacking Huaning and Tongcheng and went directly to attack Xitang. What do you two think?"

Now he no longer wants to ask Lingshuang, Yue Ze, and Li Xin for their opinions. None of these three monarchs know how to use soldiers to fight. Asking them would be better than asking his own generals!

Ziying said worriedly: "Abandoning the attack on Huaning and Tongcheng will always cause hidden dangers in the rear of our army. First, the supply line will be cut off. Second, when our army attacks Xitang with all its strength, Huaning and Tongcheng will

The Zhenjun from the two places will definitely attack our rear. If one of them fails, our army will be severely defeated."

"Our army's logistics can no longer be counted on." Tang Yin said sternly: "The food and grass will be delivered in half a month, and with the food and grass our army currently has left, it can only last for ten days at most. If we do not want to withdraw our troops, our army must be there

Something can be done within ten days. But as you all saw in today's battle, it is too difficult and basically impossible to capture Hua Ning in a short time. That's why I proposed to take Xitang directly and use our usual tactics.

Destroy the enemy!"

The usual tactic? Xiao Muqing's eyes suddenly lit up and he blurted out: "Surround the area for reinforcements?"

"That's right!" Tang Yin said: "Pretend to attack Xitang and draw the garrisons from Huaning and Tongcheng out of the city to help!"
Chapter completed!