Guan Ning himself felt a little confused, was he really like this? Even when he walked out of the military camp, he still felt a little confused.
"General Guan, how are you when you are back?" Lin Haoming led many people to greet him at the city gate.
Looking at Lin Haoming and the others, he finally came to his senses, and then bowed and said: "The general has fulfilled his mission. General Xu agreed to lead his army back to the northwest to guard against possible invasion by Wei."
This result was just as Lin Haoming expected. Xu Feng could not help directly, but he was unwilling to continue fighting. Going back to the northwest was the best choice for him.
Early the next morning, Lin Haoming saw Xu Feng leading the army and starting to retreat. After the scouts confirmed that the army had indeed moved north, Lin Haoming soon led the army south.
Just when Lin Haoming was dealing with the northwest frontier army, Wang Jiangman's 80,000-strong army was being held back by Jiang Ziqi's 50,000-strong army. Zhu Feiling, leading an army of 120,000, faced Jiang Ziqi's force which was twice his own strength.
Blocked at Shimenpo more than three hundred miles outside the royal capital.
The two sides have already fought two fierce battles here. Jiang Ziqi's army has surrounded Zhu Feiling's troops. Zhu Feiling seems to have been prepared for it. Although they fought twice, they did not want to fight the other side. Jiang Ziqi divided his troops to hold back the north and south.
From another perspective, Lu Dajun was Zhu Feiling's main force who used 120,000 people to hold back the opponent.
The two armies have been in contact for a month. Although the encirclement is getting smaller and smaller, he also finds it more and more difficult to eat each other in one bite. Lin Haoming's North Route Army captured Changping County, which makes him even more worried. Knowing that
You won't have too much time.
Just when Jiang Ziqi was studying how to kill Zhu Feiling's army as soon as possible, his subordinate scouts suddenly came over to report. "Marshal, Lin Haoming's Northern Route Army has moved south."
"Going south, so fast? How many people, fifty thousand horses?" Jiang Ziqi was shocked when he heard this and immediately asked.
"The whole army is going south, a hundred thousand troops, and Zhou Guangyi and Che Ying's 20,000 vanguards. They will arrive in about five days at most."
Hearing this, Jiang Ziqi was shocked and said: "How is this possible? Xu Feng is a veteran who has been on the battlefield for a long time. How could he let the other party do this?"
"General Xu led the army to the north again. He said that Wei State was planning to invade and we must be on guard against Wei State sending troops."
Hearing this, Jiang Ziqi felt cold in his heart. He knew very well that Xu Feng did not intend to interfere, but if he did not intend to interfere, it would be equivalent to helping Lin Haoming, or he had agreed to join the other party in his heart, but there were some things that made him
There is no way to do it.
"Immediately send an order for the army to retreat and return to the royal capital."
"Marshal, even if Lin Haoming's army goes south, the vanguard still has five days to go. We might still be able to..."
"What else can we do? Do you think Zhu Feiling is a fool? This person has endured humiliation since he was a child. Maybe he is not the best at attacking, but in defensive battles, we have made several eastward marches, have we gained anything? Give me five days, maybe there will be more
The opportunity is only five days, so retreat and return to the capital. Relying on the strength of the capital city, you may be able to find opportunities for fighting. If that doesn't work, you can ask Wei and Chu to borrow troops."
Seeing Jiang Ziqi's decision, others were naturally unable to disobey and immediately implemented it.
At this time, Zhu Feiling, who was oppressed by the enemy and was out of breath, suddenly found that the enemy had retreated, which surprised him. It was not until he received a report from Lin Haoming that he knew the whole story, and he was immediately surprised. At the same time,
He also admired Jiang Ziqi's decisive retreat. If the other party made a final move and planned to take risks, he and Lin Haoming would probably be completely defeated by the cooperation between himself and Lin Haoming. In this way, if the two armies merged into one and then attacked the royal capital, the royal capital would not have much power.
Confronted.
When Lin Haoming's army went south and finally joined forces with Zhu Feiling's army to besiege the royal capital, he admired Jiang Ziqi's ability to retreat.
Although it doesn't sound good to retreat to the royal capital, to be honest, it is really impossible for the army to conquer it. And Zhang Xiao has been running the western part of Yue for many years and can still mobilize some troops. When the time comes, it will be difficult for these people to respond to the people of the royal capital.
Especially after being unable to attack for a long time, variables are prone to occur.
There is sufficient food and grass in the royal capital, and even if it is guarded for a year, there will be no problem. When Lin Haoming inspected the royal city outside the city, he couldn't help but recall the scene when he first entered this world.
By the time Lin Haoming returned from his inspection, the South Route Army led by Wang Jiangman had also come to join them. As a result, the three armies had gathered together. However, what troubled Lin Haoming was that although the 50,000 troops who blocked Wang Jiangman suffered losses of more than 10,000,
But they did not collapse, but retreated on their own initiative. In this way, it was equivalent to having a strong regular army roaming outside, which was a much greater threat than retreating into the city.
However, even Lin Haoming has no way to deal with such a large army. After all, if he divides his troops to encircle and suppress them, less will not work. If more Jiang Ziqi's army rushes out, there will be problems. Moreover, these people have to be on guard, so they must also send out a group of troops.
Of course, there is no need for the current three-pronged army to contain the siege. Lin Haoming means that the people in Jiangdong will send out another army. It does not need too many, 50,000 people are enough. In addition, the food road also needs to be guaranteed, so,
Lin Haoming had ordered Huang Zhan to go north again with 30,000 troops and lay down safe warehouses first, so that there would be no accidents with the support of food and grass.
It has been more than half a month, and it has entered the late spring season. The previous arrangements have achieved results, and now there is only one thing left, and that is how to conquer the royal capital.
In fact, the total strength of both sides is almost the same at the moment. There are a full 200,000 troops in the royal capital, and Lin Haoming has 300,000 troops. It is naturally impossible to attack by force with such troops. Therefore, after solving some troublesome matters, a group of generals
We sat down to discuss how to attack the royal capital. We discussed over and over again, but couldn't come up with any good ideas.
Lin Haoming knew that it was impossible to attack by force. There were only two ways to win at the moment. One was to besieged for a long time. This was what it meant to let Huang Zhan take Ping'an warehouse. When the time came, he would be isolated and helpless, and he would naturally break through without attacking. However, Lin Haoming was sure that if this was the case,
, I'm afraid that Zhang Xiao will ask for help from Wei and Chu, which will be even more troublesome. After all, if Zhang Xiao is in desperate situation, it is normal to make some demands.
Apart from this move, the only way to attack people's hearts is to attack people's hearts. Now that people are panicking, it's just an opportunity to win over people's hearts and form the White Dragon Guard. Many of them are members of the Black Dragon Guard. Over the years, even if Zhang Xiao's army invaded several times, Lin Haoming
Some people have not been used. Today, it is the turn to use the chess pieces. Lin Haoming himself does not know how many of those dormant people are willing to really come out, but he believes that there will definitely be chess pieces willing to stand up, so
What this battle requires is the arrangement I made ten years ago.