The fifth thousand three hundred and ninety-seventh chapters defend the city
On the way back, Lin Haoming did not hesitate to explain how he would fight.
Hong Chenyi is indeed an open-minded person. After listening to Lin Haoming's explanation of the process, he couldn't help but ask halfway through: "General Mian, I understand that you didn't continue to plunder food and grass before and instead looted those big households. After all, they would be burned down."
The other party's food and grass made it difficult for the other party and caused difficulties for the people, but why didn't you continue to do it later?"
"General Hong, after all, the Western God Kingdom is big. We burned some of the bankers, which only caused the other party to need to transport food and grass over long distances, which brought some difficulties and some unstable factors. But after all, the enemy is strong and we are weak. The enemy still has a large rear area, and we
The fields burned were all from wealthy families. These families were powerful in the local area, and now most of their foundations were destroyed in one go. What would happen if you were one of these people?" Lin Haoming asked.
"this?"
"If I'm not wrong, I'm afraid my own land will be destroyed and the fields of ordinary people will be robbed." Hu Sheng added.
"Yes, that's it. As long as we stay until winter, Mo Yiqi will be in chaos behind him." Lin Haoming affirmed.
"Then why not just burn it a little more?" Hong Chenyi asked.
"If even those ordinary people's properties are burned, they will hate us. If there is no land, the men who burn more will choose to serve as soldiers to feed themselves. I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with the hatred towards us. If I were Mo Yiqi, I would directly
Recruit tens of thousands of troops locally and train them to be almost ready for use by winter," Lin Haoming said.
"Then, although I mainly hide soldiers this time, harassing and looting is just a cover-up, but I will not be merciless when looting." Hong Chenyi said distressedly.
"General Hong, it's only right that you clean up the area. After all, this place is too close to Tianzhu City. It only takes less than half a day to go and clean it up. This is because the people of the Western God Kingdom are really careless. Behind them
They actually didn't build some military forts just in case." Lin Haoming said.
"Sure enough, the art of war is for those who are dead but for those who are alive, I have learned it." Hong Chenyi admired Lin Haoming even more at this time.
The army triumphantly returned, and after reporting the news early in the morning, Yang Xicheng also took the initiative to greet Lin Haoming and others at the city gate. This time he went out with 2,000 men, but in the end only 500 were lost, which can be said to be a complete victory.
Yang Xicheng wanted to report to the court, but some of his subordinates who followed Lin Haoming had already received rewards. Niu Dazhuang became a centurion. Mian Lifeng, who had previously become a centurion on official duty, was promoted to a thousand-centurion. The two of them were also responsible.
Managed a slave camp with 2,000 people who were originally slaves.
In the Three Kingdoms of Dongzhou, each battalion consists of a thousand men, with a battalion commander who is also a commander of thousands, and Lin Haoming is currently the general manager of these two battalions.
Next, after waiting for less than a month, Lin Haoming was finally promoted to partial general according to His Majesty's decree. At the same time, Mo Yiqi also led a mighty army of 300,000 people to come over.
Some previous harassments did hinder Mo Yiqi's preparations, but Mo Yiqi knew better that the more the enemy acted like this, the faster he had to move. In fact, he led most of the troops to kill them before waiting for some more troops to arrive.
Already.
Some of the fortifications here have not been completely completed, and the wall of Wengcheng is only a little over ten feet high, which is barely the same as an ordinary county town.
When the war was about to begin, the inner city wall was still being reinforced and constructed.
Lin Haoming was appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief of Chengmen at this time, but in fact he was responsible for the specific operations, and the commander-in-chief was Hong Chenyi.
After the two settled their differences, Hong Chenyi consulted Lin Haoming a lot these days, which made Hong Chenyi respect Lin Haoming even more, even though he was still a few years older.
On the ground outside the city, many iron nails and barbs were thrown away in many places. At the beginning of the first battle, when these things were cleared away, thousands of corpses were left behind.
But there was nothing that could be done about it. Early the next morning, Mo Yiqi understood that the army would continue to attack the city. After all, this low city wall allowed martial soul warriors with slightly higher cultivation levels to directly climb up the city wall, even with ladders.
No need to stand up.
When the opponent was about to attack, Lin Haoming ordered people to light some fires at the top of the city. Suddenly, with the strong wind, thick smoke blew toward the enemy. The fires were obviously poisonous, and the army that was ready to go could not stand.
Open your eyes, let alone siege the city.
When the enemy discovered that there was a problem, Lin Haoming immediately opened the city and fought out. The army arrayed to attack the city was immediately defeated. Fortunately, there were still rear troops to suppress the formation, but Lin Haoming also immediately ordered those who had been killed to come back, without greed for credit.
After suffering a big loss, Mo Yiqi did not immediately order an attack this time. Instead, he spent some time allowing the soldiers to recover. He also listened to the military doctor's advice and wrapped a wet cloth around his mouth and nose to prevent further inhalation of poisonous smoke.
However, the moves that Lin Haoming used will not be used again. In the third siege, Lin Haoming poured oil on one side of the city wall in advance, causing those who wanted to climb up the city wall to slip directly, and finally had to wait for ladders and other
Here comes the siege equipment.
But as a result, there was a volley of fire from above, which also killed and injured many people, which greatly damaged the morale of the attacking party.
The morale of one side was damaged, and the morale of the other side was strong, so they fought hard. Although the city's advantage was actually not great, it was not defeated.
Although he was not defeated, Mo Yiqi felt a lot more at ease. Today's fight showed that the opponent's methods were almost used, and he would definitely be able to capture Wengcheng in the next two days.
On the second day, they were ready to go again. The army rushed up again early in the morning. This time, they were fully prepared and did not play any tricks. They relied entirely on the number of people and siege equipment to attack. In the end, the city gate was still a little weak and was directly knocked open under repeated attacks.
, so a large number of troops went straight in.
Mo Yiqi, who was watching the battle from a distance, was also very excited, but after watching for a while, he suddenly felt that something was wrong. The city gates had been breached, so why was the fighting on top of the city so fierce? There was no intention of retreating to the inner city.
mean?
Just when he was doubtful, he suddenly saw a big takraw ball dropped above the city gate, and then a fire was lit, and the city gate suddenly burst into flames.
"Not good!" Mo Yiqi realized something immediately, but it was already over.
At this time, there were two to three thousand people who rushed into the Wengcheng. The Wengcheng was not big, and at this moment, the people on the wall suddenly dropped jars full of kerosene downwards.
"Not good." Upon discovering this, the army that rushed into the city also realized something. However, as the torches were thrown down and a lot of hay was deliberately placed in the city, a fire suddenly broke out in the city.
Two to three thousand people were engulfed by the flames. Some people under the city wall were better off, but the people on the top of the city didn't give them a chance at all, and they might have been hit by stones and arrows.
When the army finally retreated, Mo Yiqi looked at the dejected look on his face and ordered with a particularly ugly look on his face: "The whole army will be repaired for two days."