After listening to Wu Huan's words, the noses of the generals below were almost twisted with anger. Is this what the commander-in-chief of an army should say? The general is outside, and your life will be compromised! If you didn't even have this courage, why did you surrender in the first place?
What kind of army?
But Wu Huan was the commander-in-chief and he did not agree to go to war, and the soldiers below had no choice.
On the other side, the commander of the Shiwanning Army stationed in Fengcheng is Lieutenant General Yan Cui. Yan Cui also received the same royal order as Wu Huan. He was stationed in Fengcheng and was not allowed to go out. However, he was much more courageous than Wu Huan, and he
He and Yan Chu are still relatives, so even if they disobey, they have nothing to fear. I heard that a hundred thousand Feng troops passed between Xiaoxia and Fengcheng. Yan Zong jumped up with joy. He was worried that there was no battle to fight. Feng Cheng
The army came to the door on its own initiative, and he immediately sent an order to go out of the city to meet the Feng army.
Although Yan Zui was hot-headed and a little forgetful, his deputy general was unusual. His name was Wang Yi, and he was a veteran general who had been on the battlefield for a long time. He dissuaded Yan Zui and said: "General, the Feng Army has come unexpectedly. If
If the Feng army really wants to sneak attack Hedong, it is impossible to send only 100,000 people here, nor can it advance slowly, nor can it march with great fanfare between our two cities with heavy troops. Judging from the future, ten of them will be dead.
It’s a scam. The Feng army may have deliberately lured our army out of the city to attack. General, please don’t be fooled by the Feng thief!”
Ah! Hearing this, Yan Zhi took a breath and calmed down immediately. His ability to achieve the title of lieutenant general was not entirely due to his relationship with Yan Chu's clan. He himself also had some abilities, and now he was taken over by Wang Yi.
After being reminded like this, he nodded secretly, it made sense, this wind army really came from a strange place!
He asked: "Old General Wang, what do you think?"
Wang Yi said sternly: "Our army will not be able to move out, and we will wait and see what happens. In addition, the general should immediately send a letter to the king and wait for the king's order to be carried out."
"Yes, yes, yes! What the old general said makes sense!" Yan Zui nodded repeatedly. Then he suddenly remembered something and hurriedly called a subordinate and said, "Go immediately and send a message to General Wu in Xiaoxia, asking him to stick to Xiaoxia.
, don’t attack easily.”
Before the man could agree, Wang Yi laughed, waved his hand and said, "No need."
"What?" Yan Zheng looked at him in confusion.
Wang Yi smiled and said: "General Wu has always been cautious. If he attacks, he will definitely report it to the general in advance and ask the general to join him in attacking the Feng army. But until now, General Wu's message has not arrived, which means that he has given up attacking Feng Army."
The army's plan." Wang Yi knew Wu Huan too well, saying he was cautious was a compliment, but in fact he was very timid. Even if he borrowed ten of his courage, Wu Huan would not dare to fight Feng Jun alone.
After listening to Wang Yi's words, Yan Zhi also smiled, nodded, waved to the subordinate he had just called over, and said: "You can go down! By the way, I'm giving an order to our army officers and soldiers to hold on to the city and beware of sneak attacks by the wind army. Without me,
Generals who dare to go into battle rashly will be dealt with according to military law!"
"Yes! General!" The general stepped in and saluted, then hurried away.
Tang Yin resorted to the strategy of luring the snake out of its cave. Wu Huan, the commander-in-chief of the Ning Army in Xiaoxia, did not dare to disobey the emperor's order and did not leave the city. However, the commander-in-chief of the Ning Army in Fengcheng severely blamed him for being dissuaded by his deputy general Wang Yi and did not send troops to attack. The result was a failure.
Tang Yin didn't care. Seeing that Ning Jun was not fooled, he commanded the direct army and left Tongmen. At the same time, Pingyuan Army and Sanshui Army headed towards Xiaoxia and Fengcheng respectively.
After the Pingyuan Army arrived in Xiaoxia, they immediately set up camp. Xiao Muqing and Wu Guang went up to the tower in person and looked up at the situation in Xiaoxia City. Xiaoxia City only has a small letter in its name, but in fact it is not small at all. It can store ten
Tens of thousands of troops showed how vast the city was.
Behind the high wall of Xiaoxia City, the Ning army on the city had bright armor and a forest of soldiers, standing there like a steel city wall. After looking at it, Xiao Muqing secretly grinned, this battle is not easy to fight! Thinking about it, he asked
Wu Guangdao next to him: "General Wu, how do you think our army should respond to this battle?"
Wu Guang is one of the four fierce generals of the Feng Kingdom, but he is not a simple-minded person with strong limbs. He pondered for a moment and said: "Xiaoxia City is strong and guarded by a hundred thousand Ning Army, and the Ning Army has an arrow formation."
It is easy to defend but difficult to attack as a support. If our army forces an attack on the city, I am afraid that not only will it be difficult to defeat Xiaoxia, but it will also lose troops and generals, which will demoralize itself!"
Xiao Muqing nodded, what Wu Guang said was exactly what he was worried about. Seeing that he didn't answer, Wu Guang said again: "I have a plan, I don't know if it is feasible!"
"Oh?" Xiao Muqing knew that Wu Guang was very smart. After hearing this, his eyes suddenly lit up and he hurriedly asked: "What is General Wu's plan? But it doesn't matter."
Wu Guang did not speak immediately, but turned around and walked towards the bottom of the tower. Xiao Muqing followed him curiously and also went down the tower.
When he reached the ground, Wu Guang raised his foot and stomped the ground hard. Two footprints were immediately left on the ground. Wu Guang smiled at Xiao Muqing, then looked down and said, "General, please take a look."
Xiao Muqing lowered his head and looked at the two footprints on the ground. He was wondering, what is so interesting about the footprints, and what does it have to do with his own broken city? He asked in confusion: "What did General Wu want me to see?"
Wu Guang explained: "The land in Hedong area is fertile and mostly soft soil. If our army cannot attack openly, we can attack secretly." As he said, he raised his eyes to look in the direction of Xiaoxia and said: "Our camp is two miles away from Xiaoxia.
Given the soft soil in the Hedong area, it only takes ten days to dig a tunnel from the camp to Xiaoxia City. As long as our army can successfully enter the city, the Ning Army, which is good at shooting with arrows, will be vulnerable."
After hearing this, Xiao Muqing took a breath. He squatted down thoughtfully, looked at the footprints made by Wu Guang, then poked the soil on the ground with his fingers, and nodded slowly. There are many mountains in the Feng Kingdom.
The ground is full of rocks, and it is simply unrealistic to dig tunnels to attack the city. But the Hedong area is different. The soil here is fertile, warm, humid, and rainy, and the soil is extremely soft. As Wu Guang said, with the manpower of one hundred thousand troops, we can dig out
A tunnel that is more than two miles long will not take more than a few days. Ten days is just too much.
He rolled his eyes, stood up slowly, and said with a smile: "We can use trebuchets, city-breaking crossbows, and army-breaking crossbows to harass the Ning army in the city day and night, distracting their energy, and at the same time, it is also for us in the camp.
Dig a tunnel secretly as a cover. By the time the tunnel is dug through, the Ning army will definitely be exhausted. By then, we will attack the Ning army from both inside and outside..."
Wu Guang looked up and smiled, then said: "In this way, our army can easily defeat Xiaoxia!"
"Ha ha--"
After speaking, Xiao Muqing and Wu Guang laughed on their faces.
That day, Xiao Muqing did not take any rest, and immediately sent an order to launch an attack on Xiaoxia City with trebuchets, city-breaking crossbows, and army-breaking crossbows. On the other hand, he also sent people to cut down trees in the nearby forest, firstly to build a city-breaking city.
Crossbow arrows, and more importantly, making wooden stakes to support the tunnel.
Because the land in the Hedong area is too soft, the tunnel they dug cannot be too deep. If there is no support, it may collapse at any time.
The Pingyuan Army used trebuchets, city-breaking crossbows, and army-breaking crossbows to kill and injure the enemy, while also secretly digging tunnels inside the camp. Of course, the tunnels could not be dug outside, but they chose to hide them inside the camp.
For fear of arousing Ning Jun's suspicion, the excavated soil could not be tilted outward immediately. Instead, it was scattered in various tents. When it got dark, it was all pulled outside the camp by horse-drawn carriages for disposal.
The officers and soldiers of the Pingyuan Army did not attack the city directly. The harassment of the trebuchet, city-breaking crossbow, and army-breaking crossbow was enough to torment the Ning army defending the city. The trebuchet and city-breaking crossbow can be regarded as the best combination.
When the machine hurled a boulder, Ning Jun on the top of the city would subconsciously hide behind the arrow stack, but at this time the lethality of the city-breaking crossbow came into play. When Xuanwang developed the city-breaking crossbow, its purpose was to kill and injure those behind the arrow stack.
The enemy is doing well now. The large number of Ning troops on the city wall all squeezed behind the arrow stack. As a result, they were stabbed by the city-breaking crossbow and fled. In just a moment, Xiaoxia's screams were heard on the city wall.
, the officers and soldiers of the Ning Army had never seen such a domineering weapon, which could penetrate even the arrow stacks. People retreated continuously out of instinctive reaction to avoid the arrow stacks. As a result, overwhelming boulders fell on their backs.
The Ning army did not understand the weapons currently used by the Feng army and suffered heavy losses at the beginning of the battle. More than a thousand soldiers were lost. Its commander Wu Huan was also frightened by the combination of trebuchets and city-breaking crossbows.
Not daring to show his head, he grabbed a general next to him and shouted repeatedly: "Quick! Ask the king for help, ask Fengcheng for help, it is said that the main force of the Feng Army has come to attack Xiaoxia!"
The general looked at Wu Huan, whose face turned pale with fright. He sighed secretly and said, "Don't worry, general. The urgent documents have been sent out. In addition, Feng Jun is only conducting tentative harassment and has not officially attacked."
City, General, there is no need to worry!"
"The Feng Army is powerful. If no one comes to rescue us, you and I will die without a burial place!" Before the formal confrontation with the Feng Army, Wu Huan began to take the initiative to recite the funeral sutra. With such a commander-in-chief, the following soldiers
How high can your morale be?
Soon, the Ning army also realized that the Feng army was only using trebuchets and crossbows as a test, and had no intention of attacking. The Ning generals dispatched their soldiers under the city wall to reduce unnecessary casualties.
Leave a small force to defend on the city wall. When the wind army begins to charge, it will not be too late to mobilize the troops below the city to participate in the city defense.
General Ning has also thought about it. The stones and crossbows in your army will eventually run out. How long can you keep shooting?
Sure enough, after the Pingyuan Army smashed and fired, the battlefield returned to calm. Seeing this, the Ning generals knew from experience that the soldiers of the Feng Army were about to launch a charge to attack the city, so they hurriedly dispatched all the Ning soldiers hiding under the city wall.
Come up, get ready, and prepare to defend yourself against the enemy.
Unexpectedly, after waiting for a long time, there was no movement in the Feng Army camp. Just when Ning Bingning and General Ning were puzzled, the trebuchets, city-breaking crossbows, and city-breaking crossbows in front of the Pingyuan Army were activated again. This time everyone
The Ning soldiers cursed and ran down the city wall to hide below.