For a time, the Xuanjia Army was as powerful as a rainbow, but Qiao Rui had no intention of fighting anymore, so Qiao Rui planned to pay the money and withdraw his troops.
But how could Jiang Siming let go of such a good opportunity? He immediately ordered the army to kill him.
For a time, there were corpses everywhere under the Yuzhang City Tower. Qiao Rui was afraid that Jiang Siming would break through the city, so he had to leave a large number of soldiers as a cover and fled into the city to close the city gate.
Even so, thousands of his soldiers were killed by Xuanjia Army and Cao Cao's Qingzhou Army.
Unfortunately, the city gate was tightly closed, and the archers on the city tower began to cover up their fire. For a while, the army had to withdraw.
"My dear brother, Yuzhang City has high walls and thick walls, so it is not easy to attack. Why don't we withdraw our troops and consider the long term?" Cao Cao said.
Although Jiang Siming wanted to go over and cut off the city gate with a sword, he promised that he would not do it openly unless he had to.
Otherwise it would be too boring.
There was no good solution for the time being, so Jiang Siming sent an order to temporarily retreat and set up camp.
In the central military camp, Jiang Siming sat down. Cao Cao, Liu Guan, and Zhang were there, as well as Guo Jiaxunyu.
Since it is a real war, how can it be without a military adviser to make suggestions?
Otherwise, why would he bring military advisors here? Of course, they would play their role.
"Wen Ruo, Feng Xiao, do you have any idea?" Jiang Siming passed the question to Guo Jia and Xun Yu.
Xun Yu looked at Guo Jia and said with a smile: "My lord, I already have a good strategy for being filial, so you might as well let him speak."
After hearing this, Guo Jia complained: "Wen Ruo, you have obviously thought of it. You said it is the same as me, so you should say it."
This was a great opportunity to make meritorious deeds, but the two of them pushed it to each other. If they didn't have a particularly good relationship, they would never have done such a thing.
Jiang Siming chose one at random: "Then let's say it as a filial piety."
Guo Jia had no choice but to agree, and stood up and pointed to the Yuzhang City Road on the map: "My lord, the Jiangnan area of Yuzhang is rainy and the soil is soft. It rained for several days in Yuzhang recently, and the soil is very easy to be dug.
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"Our army only needs to pretend to attack to attract the enemy's attention, and then send a team to dig tunnels into the city."
"Once the tunnel is opened, my lord can send a group of elite soldiers to sneak into Yuzhang City, attack the city gate at night, and open the city gate wide. Then our army will arrive immediately and the city will be destroyed!"
"Good idea!" Jiang Siming nodded and praised.
Sure enough, there are specialties in the arts, but planning and fighting must still be left to professionals.
If it were Jiang Siming, he had no experience in this area and would definitely not know what to do. In the end, he might have no choice but to do it himself or use the human sea tactic.
Guo Jia's method took advantage of the weather. Knowing that it had been raining here a few days ago and that it was in the south of the Yangtze River and the soil was soft, he came up with a way to dig a tunnel.
Cao Cao and Liu Bei also applauded loudly after hearing this, and they were even more eager for counselors like Guo Jia.
Cao Cao thought that he must find a way to poach Guo Jia.
Liu Bei didn't dare to have such a plan, but he wanted to say hello to Guo Jia first and sell a wave of characters.
What if Guo Jia no longer works with Jiang Siming in the future, wouldn't he have a chance?
Guo Jia didn't know what they were thinking. If he knew, he would probably laugh at them for overestimating their abilities.
Just because they want to replace the lord in his heart? Bah!
Now that he had thought up the strategy, Jiang Siming ordered it to be implemented immediately.
For five whole days, Jiang Siming led his troops to shout for war on the tower every day, and even made a feint attack, which scared Qiao Rui so much that he did not dare to leave the tower every day.
On the other side, there was a tunnel that kept extending. After five days, the tunnel was finally dug.
Jiang Siming knew that Yuzhang City was right in front of him.
At night...
An elite Xuanjia army quietly sneaked into Yuzhang City, led by Wei Yan.
This Xuanjia army quietly came to the bottom of the city tower, and while the soldiers who were guarding the city were tired and sleeping, they killed them to pieces!
"Open the city gate!" Wei Yan shouted while killing the enemy.
Immediately, the soldiers of the Xuanjia Army fought their way to the city gate, opened the city gate, and lit a fire as a signal!
As soon as the fire lit up, Jiang Siming's army came to kill them. Tens of thousands of soldiers rushed into the tower like hungry wolves, joined forces with Wei Yanli, and quickly occupied the tower.
Qiao Rui was awakened from his sleep, only to realize that it was too late. He didn't even have time to put on his armor, so he led his army to escape from Yuzhang overnight.
Qiao Rui's escape was expected by Xun Yu and Guo Jia. The ambushing Xuanjia Army and Qingzhou Army killed Qiao Rui's army and routed it to a complete defeat.
The battle lasted all night, and when Qiao Rui finally escaped, he had less than 10,000 troops.
The rest were either killed or captured. It can be said that this battle was as ugly as losing, and a rich city of Yuzhang was also given as a gift.
When Yuan Shu found out, he was so angry that his lungs almost exploded. He quickly added 30,000 troops to reinforce Nanyang City.
With Yuzhang gone, Jiang Siming will definitely attack the next city, and the next city is Nanyang.
After a night of great victory, Jiang Siming asked the army to temporarily rest in Yuzhang City to celebrate.
This is the first battle. If you win the first battle, you should celebrate it no matter what.
"My lord, I have something to report." Xun Yu came to Jiang Siming.
"What's the matter, Wen Ruo?"
"My lord, after our army occupied Yuzhang, we strictly implemented your lord's orders and did not harm the people. They were not allowed to burn, kill or loot, but..."
"but what?"
"But Cao Cao's Qingzhou Army was born as a bandit in the Black Mountains, and its thieving nature is hard to change. Our army found that many Qingzhou Army were searching for money in the city, and they also raped several women."
After hearing this, Jiang Siming's eyes became unkind.
"Take me there." Jiang Siming originally planned to go to the city lord's mansion to rest and log off. After hearing this, he immediately gave up his plan to log off.
Jiang Siming followed Xun Yu to a B&B street, where he saw that it was surrounded by Jiang Siming's Xuanjia Army. Several soldiers wearing Qingzhou Army uniforms were tied there, and there were several disheveled, desperate and painful people beside them.
woman.
"The Prime Minister is here!"
Jiang Siming strode over, glanced at the Qingzhou Army, and then at the victimized women.
"What a coward!" Jiang Siming shouted angrily, and all the soldiers in the army couldn't help but tremble on their backs.
The Prime Minister was angry. This was the first time they had seen him. His aura was so scary...
The legs and feet of those Qingzhou soldiers were trembling.
"Where is Cao Cao!" Jiang Siming asked.
"My lord, Cao Cao is on his way." Not long after Xun Yu finished speaking, Cao Cao came.
He already knew what happened on the way, so he apologized to Jiang Siming as soon as he came over.
"My dear brother, it's all my fault, Cao Mengde, for not taking good care of my subordinates. I feel ashamed and ashamed."
"Then what are you going to do with these soldiers and this captain?" Jiang Siming asked him without changing his expression.
Cao Cao said without thinking: "Let the prime minister do whatever he wants!"
In fact, Cao Cao originally wanted to keep the captain. This captain was very capable and talented.
But as soon as he came and saw Jiang Siming's expression, he knew that he couldn't stay and had to reluctantly give up this subordinate.
[Author's digression]: This is the third update. Guess if there will be an additional update today~ Hehe, please vote more, thanks in advance for the sake. (To be continued)