While looking up at the somewhat blurry face in the firelight above the city, Yuchijiong said loudly: "General Li, you have to think clearly about the meaning of a small tree shaking a tree! There is no need for you to make unnecessary resistance here, I am.
Do you want to hear the conditions?"
Xiao Shilian stretched out his hand and pressed it. Upon seeing this, Chen Zhishen and others hurriedly gestured to calm down the soldiers around him. Li Xingchen coughed lightly and looked at the old general in the firelight. He knew that Yuchi Jiong was also anxious at this moment.
However, Li Xingchen frowned deeply and did not speak in a hurry.
Xiao Shilian couldn't help but be startled. Li Xingchen's answer just now made his blood boil. Why is this guy silent now?
"Bo Qing, why do you think Yu Chijun suddenly wants to negotiate with us? Does he really think he can persuade us to get out of the way?" Li Xingchen gently rubbed his chin and began to doubt his initial speculation.
And Xiao Shilian also frowned: "Yes, it stands to reason that we have completely rejected him just now. It is good not to let go of arrows now. Why does he have to be here eagerly to tell us terms? What's more, as the commander of the army,
, risking your life like this just to negotiate with us? It’s a bit too much..."
Li Xingchen suddenly remembered something and took a deep breath. He stretched out his hand and patted the battlement: "This Yuchi Jiong is most likely acting, and as you said, apart from the over-acting, the rest is really hard to tell."
out!"
"What do you mean?!" Xiao Shilian suddenly looked towards the city in surprise and kept looking at Yuchi Jiong, "You mean this is fake?!"
The surrounding generals also widened their eyes, fake Yuchi Jiong?
Li Xingchen smiled bitterly: "You don't have to make wild guesses about this. It must be true. Otherwise, no one else would have had the courage to talk to us calmly in front of the arrows. If anyone in the entire Northern Zhou army were to be captured,
If he is such a person, then I don’t think we need to fight this battle. This person talks with a calm tone and can always grasp the key points. And if you look at the expressions of the Northern Zhou generals around him, they also have a lot of admiration for him. It may be fake.
Not big."
"Then why is the acting really real..." Xiao Shilian said doubtfully, and then he remembered something, "You mean he acted it for us to make us relax our vigilance?!"
Li Xingchen spread his hands: "Although this is just someone's guess, it is not impossible. Yuchi Jiong's purpose may be the same as ours. It is not to save time and really let us get out of the way, but to delay!"
"Then what does he want to do? Do you really think we will relax like this?" Xiao Shilian couldn't help scratching his head. He couldn't figure out such a convoluted logic, and Chen Zhishen and others around him simply looked at Li Xingchen,
Don't think about it.
"Surround the area for reinforcements!" Li Xingchen said in a deep voice, "This Yuchi Jiong wants to hold us back and ambush our reinforcements! No wonder he sent his scouts into Jingshan before, most likely because he wanted to deploy them to bypass Zhang.
The light soldiers of Shanjun explore the road."
Xiao Shilian suddenly opened his eyes in disbelief: "The road in Jingshan Mountain is rugged..."
"Our army is attacking Jiangling now. We will definitely not be able to draw out many troops. Moreover, Zhangshan County is not big and is right between Jingshan Mountain and Mianshui. Therefore, we only need to concentrate our forces to guard the northern city wall. In name, we are defending the city wall.
The city is actually guarding a pass," Li Xingchen said with worry in his voice, "so there is not much troops to fill in. With the character of General Zuowei, even if he is more worried about Zhangshan County, he will send at most
Five to six thousand people."
After a pause, Li Xingchen then said: "As long as there are five or six thousand light soldiers, equipped with enough bows and crossbows, without even bringing extra food and grass, and ambushing on both sides of the road by surprise, they can easily plot our reinforcements!"
The expressions of Xiao Shilian and others changed immediately. Zhangshan County is still in the hands of Nanchen, so the reinforcements coming from the north will definitely not think that there will be an enemy ambush on the road. They will just go all the way, and in order to hold on, they can
It is imagined that they must carry a lot of food, so as long as this Northern Zhou ambush army can destroy them, they don't even have to worry about food problems.
As for the mountain roads in Jingshan, there is no need to worry about cavalry and large baggage, but a light army carrying only short blades and crossbows can easily pass through. Therefore, the feasibility of this plan is very high.
What a plan, what a plan!
Such a plan could be thought of by Li Xingchen when he went to the battlefield for the second time. Yuchi Jiong, who had spent most of his life in fierce battles on the battlefield, would definitely be able to think of it even more. What's more, this strategy of multiple approaches, containing the main road, and detouring by the small road, but Yuchi Jiong
He has always been very good at it. When he entered Shu more than 20 years ago, he used such tactics to defeat the Southern Liang Dynasty. Xiao Ji could not find the Northern Liang Dynasty at all.
Now Yuchi Jiong is obviously repeating his old tricks.
"Without further delay, we must hurry up and warn the incoming reinforcements!" Xiao Shilian tried his best to lower his voice, but it was already difficult to conceal his panic.
He knew very well what reinforcements meant to Zhangshan County. Even Xiao Shilian, who had always been bold, did not naively think that Li Xingchen and he could hold Zhangshan County for a long time with less than 3,000 men. After all, the opponent was ten times his strength.
If you really have to fight hard, I'm afraid you can crush it in less than a day or two.
In the final analysis, no matter how hard an ant struggles and is tenacious, it is nothing more than an ant that can be stepped on with one foot when faced with the absolute strength of an elephant.
Therefore, what Xiao Shilian and the others need to do now is to grit their teeth and persist until the reinforcements arrive. As long as the reinforcements arrive, this crumbling Zhangshan County will naturally become impregnable.
Therefore, reinforcements were the greatest hope in the hearts of these soldiers. Xiao Shilian could not imagine how much perseverance these soldiers would have to persevere once they learned that the reinforcements had been defeated and there was a lack of food and arrows in the city.
Even Xiao Shilian felt frightened in front of the enemy's heavy formation, let alone these soldiers.
Li Xingchen frowned and said after careful consideration: "Boqing, this matter is of great importance. You and I can't worry about sending someone else there. Why don't you go there yourself. We still have more than 200 horses, and those horses were matched before.
, they are all elite scouts in the army, if you take them all out, you won’t have to take the infantry, which will be a drag."
"But..." Xiao Shilian subconsciously glanced at the fire under the city, "This will reduce the number of people guarding the city by more than two hundred, it is really..."
"As long as the reinforcements can arrive, there is no difference between two hundred fewer people or two hundred more people." Li Xingchen gritted his teeth and said, "Boqing, you have always dared to fight and charge. You are more suitable than someone else for this matter. The ten who led the army to come for reinforcements
You are also a Da Shi brother. Although Da Shi brother is alert, it is inevitable that he will relax his surrounding sentries due to the intense war, so you must find him no matter what!"
Xiao Shilian took a deep breath, nodded solemnly, and then asked in surprise: "What about Shizhong, you..."
Li Xingchen slowly turned his head and pursed his lips towards the city: "I will try my best to hold Yuchi Jiong here. No matter whether it is false or submissive, or whether I defend the city, I will definitely try to attract their attention. When they find us leaving the city at the south gate,
I’m afraid it’s too late!”
Xiao Shilian didn't say much, he just raised his hands to Li Xingchen and the other generals, then turned around and walked towards the city.