Chapter 621

In a battle between two armies, if one side chooses a location for a sneak attack and fails, then if the side continues to use sneak attack tactics next time, it will never choose this place again. This is the way normal people think. Read the full text. Tang Yin uses reverse thinking. The more you think something is impossible, the more I have to do it. He also wants to get up wherever he falls.

Of course, Tang Yin also had his reasons for making this decision. After hearing the words, all the generals fell silent and thought about Tang Yin's strategy. After a while, everyone looked at each other and nodded, thinking that the king's strategy was feasible. People praised in unison: "Your Majesty is wise! Today Ningguo sent envoys to negotiate peace. They never expected that they would attack tonight, and they would attack from the place where they were defeated last time. This plan is very clever!"

Tang Yin smiled proudly, his thoughts moved, and he said: "Ten percent of the people in our army are spies. Don't reveal anything about tonight's battle. Don't do anything when it's time to launch the attack in the evening." "Explain, take all the soldiers and leave without giving the spies a chance to inform you." As he spoke, his eyes slowly swept over everyone's faces. If the sneak attack tonight is not successful and is still discovered by Ning Jun, it can only mean that Miss Linglong is not among the ordinary soldiers below, but is among the generals in front of her. This kind of result is what Tang Yin least wants to see. He doesn't want to suspect his brothers one by one.

"Yes! Your Majesty!" The generals did not understand the other meaning of Tang Yin, so they all simply responded.

Tang Yin asked: "How many rafts are left in our army?"

The generals looked at each other with bitter expressions on their faces. Liang Qi said: "Your Majesty, in the last battle, we lost almost all the rafts our army built. Although some were recovered later, the total number will not exceed five hundred."

"So few..." There are only 500 rafts. Even if there are no enemy troops, just transporting more than 100,000 of our own troops across the river will be a problem. He thought for a moment and said: "When night falls, pull all the ships docked on the shore ashore and let the soldiers march against the ships."

This time he made a desperate move. He would either succeed or lose all his family wealth. If he lost this battle again, the Feng Army would completely lose the tool to cross the river.

The generals felt Tang Yin's determination, their spirits were shaken, and they shouted in unison: "Yes!"

Tang Yin was ready to fight late at night and cross the Zhang River from the place where he was defeated last time. However, little did he know that his actions had already been clearly planned by Changsun Yuanhong on the other side. As early as when Shi and Qin had just left the Ningjun camp, the eldest son Yuanhong, who pretended to be critically ill, turned over and sat up from the bed. When Wei Zheng came back, he immediately said to Wei Zheng: "General Wei, hurry up and get rid of the enemy." Our soldiers are hiding in Huya Forest again!"

Huya Forest is the dense forest on the other side of the river where Tang Yin secretly crossed the river last time. After hearing what Chang Sun Yuanhong said, Wei Zheng was startled and asked subconsciously: "General Yuanhong, why do our troops want to bury themselves in Huya Forest again?"

Changsun Yuanhong sneered and said: "For the important matter of peace negotiation, the imperial court actually sent only two third-rank Hongcheng. Shi Tinghan and Tan Yi, two scholars who have never seen the world, how can they be Tang Yin's opponents? I am critically ill. Tang Yin will definitely be tricked. With Tang Yin's character, he will definitely not miss this excellent opportunity. Looking at the Zhang River and Hepan, the only place suitable for stowaways within a hundred miles is Huya Forest, and the other places suitable for stowaways are all in. A hundred miles away, Feng Jun would not run that far. In addition, Tang Yin was cunning and cunning. Feng Jun was defeated there last time. He most likely thought that our army would not set up an ambush here again and would take the risk. Yes, Tang Yin has a strong sense of revenge. Since he led the Feng Army into Ning to fight, he has won consecutive battles. The only battle he lost was in Huya Forest. If he wants to regain this face, even if there are other places that are more suitable for stowaway, he will Choose here!”

After a pause, Changsun Yuanhong took a deep breath and said quietly: "Tang Yin will definitely sneak across again. If nothing else happens, it will be tonight!"

Wei Zheng was also skeptical about Changsun Yuanhong's vows, but he had also experienced Changsun Yuanhong's magical calculations. When Feng Jun crossed over illegally for the first time, Ning Jun first set up an ambush in Huya Forest on the other side. Tang Yin thought that a spy had leaked the news. His guess was not wrong. Someone did leak the news to Ning Jun. However, before leaking the news, Chang Sun Yuan Hong had already ambushed his troops there. The Zhang River is so long, so instead of ambush his heavy troops elsewhere, he chose Huya Forest. As a result, he was right. It was from here that the Feng army started to sneak across, and they happened to hit the Ning army's knife edge.

With the last success, Wei Zheng was much more confident this time. According to Changsun Yuanhong's wishes, he brought out the main force of the Ning army early and lurked in the Tiger Tooth Forest.

That night, the Feng army had a war meal, and then began to collect their own ships and rafts. The whole army started, quietly left the camp, and headed south at full speed. The twenty-mile journey was coming in a blink of an eye. Looking at the dark and silent opposite bank, Letian and Ai Jia found Tang Yin and asked, "Your Majesty, our army does not need to send spies to the other bank to conduct reconnaissance first!"

Without even thinking about it, Tang Yin waved his hand and said: "No need to conduct reconnaissance, just cross the river!" He suffered a big loss in reconnaissance last time. This time Tang Yin made up his mind to cross the Zhanghe River at lightning speed. Even if Miss Linglong really mingled with our own army, she would not be allowed to take advantage of it.

It was undoubtedly extremely risky for him to do this, but in Tang Yin's view, it was worth taking such a risk, and the hope of success was also high.

The boats and rafts brought by the Feng army could only carry 20,000 people across the river at a time. Tang Yin did not show any mercy and directly ordered his most elite Pingyuan army to cross the river first. In addition, Jiang Fan and Zhan Hu were also assigned to lead the charge. As long as they could cross the Zhang River, with the skills of Jiang Fan and Zhan Hu, plus the 20,000 brave and combative Pingyuan soldiers, they could stand firm even if there were enemies on the other side, and buy time for their entire army to cross the river.

Tang Yin's wishful thinking was very good, but this time, before the 20,000 Pingyuan soldiers led by Jiang Fan and Zhan Hu approached the other side of the river, the Ning army ambushed in the Tiger Fang Forest rushed out. Like last time, they still released rockets, but this time the Ning army had two more terrible weapons, two large weapons that were originally unique to Feng State, the city-breaking crossbow and the army-breaking crossbow.

For ships, the destructive power of these two crossbows is much greater than that of rockets. Once a crossbow is fired, the crossbow arrows enter from the bow and often pass through the stern, directly penetrating the hull and shooting out two large round holes. Then the river water begins to pour into the ship.

The Pingyuan Army is brave and invincible in attacking cities and strongholds, but the premise is that they must be on land. Now on the water, the Pingyuan Army cannot display their skills. Facing the rockets that rain down like raindrops in front of them, people immediately put up shields to block the sharpness of the Ning Army's arrow formation, but they have no way to deal with the Ning Army's city-breaking crossbows and army-breaking crossbows.

How could human power resist these two types of crossbows? The thick and sharp wooden stakes shot into the shield array, smashing the shields and people. They shot into the hull, sinking the boat. They shot into the raft, breaking the raft. In a moment, the 20,000 wind troops, more than a thousand boats, and 500 rafts became ants on a hot pot, unable to advance or retreat. They kept spinning on the river. The sound of wind troops falling into the water and screaming came one after another, and it was impossible to tell the number.

Jiang Fan and Zhan Hu stamped their feet in the boat anxiously, but there was nothing they could do. They couldn't get ashore. No matter how powerful they were, they couldn't do anything to the enemy. In the end, they were forced to order a withdrawal. As for how many people could be evacuated at this time, they didn't care so much. They would withdraw as many as they could!

The 20,000 Pingyuan Army soldiers suffered countless casualties under the coordinated attack of the Ning Army's arrow formation and the city-breaking crossbows and army-breaking crossbows. The surface of the Zhang River was covered with floating corpses of the Feng Army, and the water of the Zhang River was once again dyed red with the blood of the Feng Army soldiers.

The second secret crossing of the Zhang River by the Feng Army ended in failure. The Feng Army lost 30,000 people last time. This time, they were stronger. They went out 20,000 and returned 5,000, with a loss of more than 10,000. However, in terms of the loss to the Feng Army, this time was much greater than the last time. The 30,000 people who died in the last battle were used as cannon fodder, but the 15,000 soldiers who died this time were the most elite Pingyuan Army in the Feng Army. The loss of manpower and combat power was a small matter. This battle was a huge blow to the overall morale of the Feng Army, and the soldiers began to fear war.

The soldiers of Feng Army were not afraid of fighting or dying on the battlefield, but even if they had to die in battle, they had to die in a blazing battle, fighting the enemy to the death. But now the battle was too fierce. After two battles across the river, the loss of soldiers was almost 50,000, but they didn't even touch the enemy. So many soldiers were buried at the bottom of the river. Who would be willing to fight such a battle?

In the same place, different days but the same time, Feng Army was ambushed twice and defeated twice. Tang Yin and his generals were dumbfounded. People couldn't figure out that their actions were so fast, how did Ning Army get the wind and set up an ambush, and how did the spies hidden in their own army pass the news?

Until this time, Tang Yin still thought that Miss Linglong secretly reported his actions to Ning Army, but he didn't expect that he had been tricked by Changsun Yuanhong from the moment he decided to send troops.

Looking at the defeated Pingyuan Army soldiers, Tang Yin was not as furious as last time. Instead, he shook his head and laughed.

The battle was so tragic, but the king was laughing. Everyone around couldn't help wondering if Tang Yin was overstimulated and went crazy.

Just as everyone wanted to persuade him, Tang Yin looked up and said slowly: "As a king of a country, you were tripped by the same stone twice in a row. How can you save your face?!" As he spoke, he separated the people around him and went to meet the defeated soldiers.

Seeing the king coming, everyone was ashamed and hung their heads, not daring to look at Tang Yin. The latter stood in front of the soldiers. Without any warning, he suddenly raised his hands and bowed deeply to everyone, saying at the same time: "It is my incompetence and improper use of troops that have implicated my brothers. I apologize to my brothers!"