Chapter 232 Han Sui Withdrew His Troops

In September of the fourth year of Zhongping, Chen Cangcheng.

As the strong city of Fufeng County and an important town in Kansai, Chencang City's walls are tall and deep, and the city has a rich store of rolling wood and rocks, so Liu Ye's battle to defend the city can be described as impenetrable.

During the two months, Han Sui repeatedly attacked the city, but Liu Ye stopped them with ample means, and both Han Sui's army and Liu Ye's army suffered heavy losses. Han Sui's original army of 100,000 was less than 60,000. low.

In the middle of the night, Han Sui tossed and turned on the couch, unable to fall asleep, only feeling that his head was in chaos.

Han Sui suddenly jumped up from the couch, put a layer of brocade robes on his body, and went out to patrol the camp with an ax in hand. The camps of nearly 60,000 troops were piled on top of each other, and it could be said that they were heavily guarded. The icy air made him sober up a lot.

"Huh?" Han Sui frowned suddenly, and when he heard a singing, he immediately clenched his axe with five fingers, and walked towards the direction of the singing, but he didn't show up.

Dozens of Qiang people gathered around a bonfire, singing the tune of the Qiang song in a low voice, the tune was low and sad.

"I haven't been back to my hometown for a long time. I don't know how my little sister is doing?" A tall and strong Qiang man raised his head to the sky and couldn't help lamenting.

"Brother Yao, if you can go back this trip, how about marrying your little sister to my younger brother?" A Qiang man next to him joked.

"Dream, little girl, those are my eyeballs, can I give them to you easily?" the Qiang man laughed and cursed, and dozens of Qiang people around him laughed together, but as the laughter gradually died down, a group of people couldn't help continuing Singing the tune of Qiang songs, I am eager to return home.

Han Sui on the side was furious at first, but then gradually calmed down, and walked back to the tent with an ax in hand.

"Tell Yan Xing to come see me."

Half a quarter of an hour later, a general broke into the tent with a gust of cold wind, his face still slightly sleepy.

"Father-in-law, what's the point of calling me in the middle of the night? Could it be that you want to attack the city at night?" Yan Xing asked.

"Yanming, just now someone was patrolling the camp with an axe. Guess what he saw?" Han Sui said slowly.

"Could it be that someone wants to escape? Somebody will lead someone to arrest them!" Yan Xing said coldly. Recently, there were indeed a few Qiang soldiers who were homesick, so they fled in private.

"No, there are dozens of soldiers gathered in one place, singing in the middle of the night."

Han Sui and Yan Xing fell silent together.

"Father-in-law." Yan Xing's tone suddenly became sincere: "Instead of wasting soldiers under the city of Chencang, it would be better for us to return to Jincheng County. You can completely dominate the Western Regions, so why bother to occupy Liangzhou?"

Han Sui was silent for a while when he heard Yan Xing's words, and nodded.

Yan Xing was overjoyed: "Young son-in-law, go down and tell the generals to pack up and prepare to return home."

"No!" Han Sui shook his head.

Yan Xing was taken aback for a moment, is it possible that his father-in-law is going to back out again?

"Liu Ye is very good at using troops. If our army retreats suddenly, Liu Ye will definitely chase after him. When there will be chaos, half of our army can withdraw to Jincheng County." Han Sui had a scheming expression on his face.

Yan Xing showed a puzzled expression: "What does father-in-law mean?"

Han Sui said firmly, "Order the army to step up the attack from tomorrow. We must not show the illusion that our army is retreating. After three days of fierce attack, we will retreat overnight, and we will use the method of hanging sheep and beating drums to confuse the enemy."

"Here!"

On the second day, Han Sui's army behaved uncharacteristically. The Qiang soldiers seemed to have gone crazy and launched a suicide charge against Chencang City. Thousands of corpses were piled up under Chencang City.

Another wound was added to Pound's body, which was just left to him after Yan Xing went to the city recently after fighting with him.

"General, is it possible that Han Sui brought reinforcements from Jincheng County?" Pang De said to Liu Ye who was beside him.

Liu Ye shook his head and said with a smile, "No, I think Han Sui wants to retreat."

Pang De was stunned: "Han Sui attacked the city so violently, it seems that he wanted to take down Chencang City with his life, how could he retreat on his own initiative?"

Liu Ye laughed and said, "Lingming, the enemy soldiers are exhausted. It's not that the Han bandits are ignorant of the art of war, but they still order their soldiers to risk their lives to attack the city. Can't you figure out why?"

Pang De wondered: "Could it be that Han Sui deliberately made a gesture to confuse our army, but in fact it was to paralyze our army so that we can retreat more easily?"

Liu Ye nodded with a smile, reached out and patted Pang De's shoulder: "Ling Ming, study hard in the art of war in the future, so that I can be the only general in the future."

Pound nodded and said excitedly: "The general understands, but since the enemy wants to retreat, the general must have a way to deal with it?"

Liu Ye nodded, and said self-consciously: "Zuo Cheqi has officially returned. He rushed to Meiyang Camp a few days ago and sent 20,000 soldiers from Zhang Wen. It is not far from Chencang City now."

"Very good! In this way, our army can attack from inside and outside, and the bandit army will be defeated."

In the following three days, Han Sui ordered his generals to attack the city with all their might. The battle between the two armies reached a fever pitch, and countless corpses were piled up under the city of Chencang. However, the more fierce Han Sui's attack was, the more Liu Ye believed in Han Sui. News of the imminent withdrawal.

On September 17th, Han Sui was in the army.

"My lord, all the officers and men in the army are ready." Yan Xing clasped his fists and clasped his helmet on top of his armor.

"Beat the drum with hanging sheep, and order the whole army to retreat."

All of a sudden, the battle drums in Han Sui's army were loud, as if ordering the whole army to attack the city at night. In fact, more than 50,000 troops came out of the barracks. Han Sui was worried that Liu Ye would see the retreat, so he ordered the lieutenant soldiers not to light torches. Under the cover of the dark night, the tens of thousands of troops headed west. Back off slowly.

Since there were no torches, the retreat speed of Han Sui's army was limited, and they had just withdrawn less than ten miles.

"My lord, it's too slow to retreat without torches. How about our army lighting torches?" Yan Xing suggested to Han Sui.

Han Sui shook his head: "No, if the torches are lit, Liu Ye knows that our army is retreating, so he must send his troops to pursue and retreat first. If the enemy does not pursue, our army will light the torches again."

Therefore, even when Han Suijun marched in the dark, he did not light the torches. The group of people marched only in the dark, and the distance of visibility was very vague.

And at this moment, a large black shadow suddenly approached behind him, also without lighting a torch, and rushed towards Han Suijun.

"Light the torch!"

All of a sudden, behind Han Sui's army formation, a torch was lit, and a large banner with the word "Huangfu" inscribed on it was very conspicuous in the firelight.

The general in the middle has white beard and hair, but his spirit is shining.

"A certain man is riding Huangfusong on the left chariot, and was ordered to destroy the thief."