The night was dark and dark, and there was not a single bright color in the sky. Zhu Biao, who had read through the "Gan Shi Xing Jing" and bought a new "Tianguan Shu" to study, smiled. He felt that he was right. The sky changed at night, and there were no stars and moon.
The sky is dark and the earth is dark.
The city top of the south gate of Beiling was completely dark. Uwetuo, who was galloping nearby, could vaguely see hundreds of black shadows gathered on the city wall instead of the city head.
"Deploy troops——"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
One of the guards turned his horse and ran towards Hu Camp at the south gate. Uweituo looked at the Dharma King Zeng beside him, "Dharma King, you may be able to see clearly the top of the city..."
As for the distance of two miles, the King of Growth shook his head. He himself was not an infrared scanner.
Then, silence returned again. Only the occasional snort of horses could not be heard by the Han army at the city head two miles away.
Time passed little by little.
Dozens of ropes were lowered from the top of the city, and then the black ropes slowly and silently slid down the city wall along the hanging ropes. On the top of the city, there were longing figures, and there were no one knows how many people there were.
Uwetuo immediately concluded that Zhu Biao sent his troops to make a sneak attack, and immediately ordered them to catch up quietly. Tens of thousands of cavalrymen with horse-wrapped hooves in their mouths galloped forward, arrows raining down like rain.
Tens of thousands of cavalrymen were tens of thousands of archers, galloping on horseback. They arrived within two miles of the city in an instant and fired arrows at the top of the city. In an instant, thousands of arrows were fired from the city.
The sudden sound of horse hoofs panicked the Han army at the top of the city, and the rain of arrows caused heavy losses to the Han army. Uwetuo could clearly hear the bursts of screams and roars coming from below the city.
More than a dozen rounds of rapid fire covered every inch of space on the southern wall of Beiling. Hundreds of thousands of sharp arrows were shot out, resulting in a deathly silence. There was no sound coming from the southern wall.
After squatting under the city for two moments, Uwetuo and Ana Qiongqi looked at each other and smiled before leading their troops back to their camps.
However, less than an hour later, Uweituo was awakened again and found Han troops moving on the north wall opposite his camp...
Half an hour later, the scene on the south city wall seemed to be repeating itself. Under the salvo of more than 20,000 random horsemen and arrows, bursts of screams changed from high to low.
The broken northern city wall was transformed into a hedgehog by arrows!
It goes round and round, and it goes round and round. That night, from Uwe Tuo to Hu Qizhong, hundreds of thousands of people couldn't sleep peacefully. First came the South Gate, then the North Gate, then the West Gate, and finally arrived.
East Gate, Hu Qi was in shock all night.
Hundreds of thousands of arrows were fired. If it could really kill thousands of Han troops, Uwetuo would be happy even though he was exhausted and dying. But what was depressing was that when it got daylight, the news he got was--
A scarecrow who shot himself all night long.
It was daybreak. Hu Qi's soldiers who were on guard below the city discovered that the four walls of Beiling City were covered with scarecrows, which were densely filled with arrows.
Zhu Biao even went so far as to let the Han army defenders in the city shout: Thank you King Youxian for sending arrows, thank you King Youxian for sending arrows. The angry people are like a roaring fire! But the soldiers and civilians in Beiling City were very excited.
morale.
Although there is some suspicion of "plagiarism", Zhu Biao doesn't do it once or twice now. Can the ancient sages on earth still come here to ask him for an explanation?
Uwetuo worked hard all night, but failed to accomplish anything. Instead, he sent hundreds of thousands of sharp arrows to the Han army. He was already angry. Now he was humiliated in this way. It was really a shame and humiliation. How could he swallow it?
How can I be so willing to take such a breath!
However, after this night of busy work, hundreds of thousands of Huqi did not have any rest. It was already dawn, and most of them were listless. They were physically exhausted and mentally severely hit. The combination of the two meant that the morale of the army was high after being teased.
Shai. Uwetuo wanted to immediately launch a fierce attack to retaliate. Seeing the situation in the camp, he had to hold back temporarily.
That night Zhu Biao repeated his old tricks, but the effect was not great. Hu Qi was on guard, both up and down. Seeing the black shadow falling from the top of the city, the night-watching eagle hurriedly reported to the camp behind him.
Instead, he would step forward to see what happened!
The consequence of this is that the fighting between the masters on both sides became fierce again.
Zhu Biao ordered his soldiers to hang a straw man every night. From time to time, he would open the city gate and rush out of a group of brave hussars, wielding swords at each other, killing the Hu cavalry, shooting eagles, and the guards at night.
But during the day, the ones who were beaten were the Han troops. The Pili chariots threw stones and bombs at Beiling City desperately, while the Hu cavalry stopped fighting the siege and only stoned people!
Therefore, in Uwetuo's eyes, the small fights at night were a sign of Zhu Biaoqian's incompetence. For five or six days in a row, February 18th was approaching. Not only did Uwetuo take it for granted, but even the Dharma King Zeng and others
, and Hu Qi Shang Xia, who was guarding the city at night, gradually adapted to this little move.
On the night of February 16th, there will be another God-given opportunity.
The red sunset fell into the horizon of the western sky, and the earth fell into darkness for another day. Zhu Biao looked through the telescope at the Huqi camp looming in the distance, and a look of ridicule appeared on his face that had been solemn for many days. For this moment
He has been making arrangements these days, and he is worthy of Uwe Tuo's name.
When the time comes, I will give you a hard blow to see if you retreat on February 18th! With a flash of light in his eyes, Zhu Biao slapped his palm on the battlement.
"General Xie, General Li, whether our assault force can successfully achieve its goal in tonight's battle does not depend on whether our assault is successful, but whether the two generals can hold the retreat." Zhu Biao's eyes fell on Xie Shuyan and Li Yan.
On both of them.
Tonight, all the light cavalry forces of the Han army in Beiling City will be devoted to tonight's assault, but it is easy to go out and difficult to come back, so it all depends on the Jia Infantry and Huben Camp.
Xie Shuyan looked solemn and said, "Please rest assured, General. Even if Shuyan is killed on the battlefield, he will never take a step back before the army returns to the city."
The most direct purpose of tonight's raid is to tire out the enemy, but the assault force only has 256,000 troops. How can it be possible to defeat all the Hu cavalry in one blow? After being harassed for the past few days, Uwetuo has already captured the Anaqiongqi troops at the south gate.
The Beicheng Camp, the east and west gates also adjusted their troop strength. There are at least 100,000 riders in the main camp!
If a quarter of the military strength were to attack in a blind attack, of course the two sides could defeat them in one fell swoop, but now the military forces on both sides already knew it well, and Hu Qi was not a vulnerable bandit. Even if they were attacked, they would have the confidence to persevere to the end.
He Bingqi. Therefore, tonight's assault battle will be very profitable in the early stage, and it is not impossible to kill Uweituo's king's tent. But that is only as far as Uweituo's king's tent. His pro-army Golden Wolf Army,
Zhu Biao was not even remotely sure of a quick victory.
What followed was a brief stalemate, followed immediately by Hu Qi's counterattack. The most ideal strategy for the Han army was to start retreating at the moment when the attack turned into a stalemate.
Zhu Biao also thought so and was prepared to do so. But whether the plan can be successfully realized on the battlefield is a big problem. In case the raiding force is bitten by the Golden Wolf Army, Hu Qidou from the East Gate and West Gate
Cutting off the road, Zhu Biao could only rely on Xie Shuyan's Bu Jia and Li Yan's Tiger Ben.
He patted Xie Shuyan on the shoulder with emotion. He didn't have too much selfishness or too many distracting thoughts. He didn't do well in leading troops in battles, but he had a serious personality. Li Huizu really left him a good helper!
Zhu Biao suppressed the emotion in his heart, looked around at the generals behind him, and said, "Why are we fighting tonight? Why are we fighting?"
"That's so that two days later, we can force Uwe Tuo to retreat without a fight. Because none of us can trust the 200,000 troops that the imperial court raised in the winter. But these 200,000 troops have already been raised and equipped.
We are up and have arrived on the battlefield, so we must try our best to keep these 200,000 new troops."
"This is my big man's expectation and hope for the future."
"If Uwetuo doesn't retreat in two days and starts a big fight, what will happen to us? It's more likely that we will lose both sides than to defeat Hu Qi, right? In that case, my last bit of strength will be lost.
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"So this battle must be fought, and it must be won. If we win, Uwetuo will be hit hard. In two days, he will most likely not choose to fight. Our army can survive, and our 200,000 new troops can survive. We can survive."
The great man can live; but if we do not win, who can predict the fate of my great man in the future?"
"The rise and fall of a country depends on this, and our soldiers must work hard——"
Zhu Biao rarely gave such long speeches before the war, especially when he mentioned the rise and fall of the country in every sentence. Therefore, the generals behind him, and even the generals' personal guards, all listened with enthusiasm and fighting spirit. Zhu Biao's own eyes were filled with excitement.
He was also radiant with energy, and his face was full of evil aura. When the last words fell, his whole person suddenly revealed a domineering aura that made people afraid to look directly at him.
The intense desire in his heart to survive and win filled Zhu Biao with an uncontrollable fighting spirit.
Regardless of his inner feelings or the consideration of the system concept [his own life], he wants to hold on to the banner of Beihan!
If even these 200,000 new troops are lost, then the military strength of the Northern Han Dynasty will be far behind that of the Zhongshan Kingdom. If the national strength is greatly reduced, the whole army will fall into a situation where the fighting becomes worse and worse! Just like the Ming army
, the elite soldiers have been defeated, the new army is poorly trained, and the soldiers have little food and pay, the country's situation is really ruined and irreversible!
I don’t know what the situation was that made the King of Han so eager to send troops northward. Beiling City can still be defended, and there are still two months of food and grass in the city. It’s really not possible, the horses are useless, and the horse feed can satisfy the hunger. It will last until summer.
No problem!
But in the summer, Zhu Biao was no longer so worried about the combat strength of the 200,000 new troops.
An abandoned village more than thirty miles south of Beiling City.
A bonfire was burning without any cover. On the side, Song Yingzhu, whose face was covered by a mask, was lowering his head and meditating on something, with a sharp sword lying across his knees.
At the entrance of the village, a group of shooting eagles lay dead on the ground. Six or seven horses lingered in nostalgia, and from time to time they touched their long-dead masters with their heads.
