Chapter 539
After hearing what Wu Huan said, the noses of the generals below almost turned out of anger. Is this what the commander of an army should say? You will be outside, and your fate will be compromised. The latest chapter! If you didn't even have this courage, why did you vote for the army in the first place?
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 Ke. Yan Ke 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 kin, so even if he disobeys his orders, he has nothing to fear. Hearing that a hundred thousand Fengjun passed between Xiaoxia and Fengcheng, Yanzhuo jumped for joy. He was worried that there would be no battle to fight, but the Fengjun took the initiative to send them to his door. He immediately sent an order. Go out of the city to meet the wind army.
Although Yan Cui was hot-headed and a little forgetful, his lieutenant was unusual. His name was Wang Yi, and he was a veteran with extensive battlefield experience. He dissuaded and reprimanded: "General, the Feng Army came out of nowhere. If the Feng Army really wanted to sneak attack Hedong, it would be impossible to send only 100,000 people here, it would be impossible to advance slowly, and it would be impossible for the Feng Army to hoard weapons from our two buildings with great fanfare. Walking in the middle of a heavily-armed city, from the general's perspective, ten of them are deceitful. The Feng army may have deliberately lured our troops 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 also had some abilities. Now that Wang Yi reminded him, he nodded secretly. It makes sense. This wind army is here. Strange indeed!
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 one of his subordinates 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 Zuo 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. However, until now, General Wu's message has not arrived, which means that he has also given up attacking the Feng army." "Wang Yi knew Wu Huan too well. It was a compliment to say that he was cautious. In fact, he was very timid. Even if he had ten more courages, Wu Huan would not dare to fight against 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 go down! By the way, I am ordering our army officers and soldiers to hold fast 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 to salute and hurried away.
Tang Yin resorted to the strategy of luring the snake out of its hole. 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. The commander-in-chief of the Ning Army in Fengcheng was severely blamed because he was 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 troops directly under his command 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 just has a small letter in its name, but in fact it is not small at all. It can store a hundred thousand troops, which shows how wide the city is.
Behind the high wall of Xiaoxia City, the Ning army on the city has bright helmets and a forest of soldiers, standing there like a steel city wall. After watching it, Xiao Muqing grinned secretly, this battle will not be easy! 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 well-developed 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 array." It is easy to defend but difficult to attack as a support. If our army forces an attack on the city, it will not only 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 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 stamped the ground hard, leaving two footprints on the ground immediately. 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, wondering in his heart. 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, Ning's 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 stone, 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 does not take more than a few days. Ten days is 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 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.
On 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. One was to build a city-breaking city. crossbow bolts and, more importantly, making wooden stakes to support the tunnels.
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 tents. 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 would be 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. Just the harassment of trebuchets, city-breaking crossbows, and army-breaking crossbows tormented the Ning army defending the city. The trebuchet and the city-breaking crossbow can be regarded as the best combination. When the trebuchet throws the huge boulder, Ning Jun on the top of the city will subconsciously hide behind the arrow stack, but at this time the lethality of the city-breaking crossbow comes into play. When Xuanwang developed the city-breaking crossbow, its purpose was to kill the enemy behind the arrow stack. But now, the large number of Ning troops on the city top all squeezed behind the arrow stack. As a result, people fled after being stabbed by the city-breaking crossbow. In an instant, there were screams on the top of Xiaoxia's city. The officers and soldiers of the Ning army had never seen such a domineering weapon. It could even penetrate the arrow stack. People retreated and avoided out of instinctive reaction. There was a stack of arrows, but another overwhelming boulder fell on his back.
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, how high can the morale of the soldiers below be?
Soon, the Ning army also saw 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 Feng 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. Upon seeing this, the Ning generals knew from experience that the soldiers of the Feng army were about to charge and attack the city. They hurriedly dispatched all the Ning soldiers hiding under the city wall, and set up their posture to prepare to defend 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 army-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.