A week later, Yi Xingchen personally led a large army to Xilin City in the east to support. In order to rush to the battlefield, the Xinghua army advanced at full speed, almost non-stop all the way, and soon passed through the dark forest.

At this speed, it will not be long before you reach Xilin City. Seeing this, Yi Xingchen ordered the whole army to suspend the march, and the whole army camped on a small hillside for a short rest. At the same time, Yi Xingchen summoned the officers of the Xinghua Legion to discuss the matter together in the big tent to further confirm the strategic layout of the legion.

"According to the information provided by the Intelligence Bureau, Xilin City is now surrounded by water, and the people of Xilin City are not comfortable. ”

"We still have time, and it's best to wait for the enemy's momentum to weaken before attacking him unprepared to achieve maximum effect. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that he should take the opportunity to occupy Nantucheng and besiege Wei to save Zhao. Lure the enemy to attack, and then another army that will be ready to fight and attack their rescue, slowly depleting its vital forces. ”

The officers had different opinions and were instructed to put forward their own proposals. When Yi Xingchen heard this, he said, "Let me think about it for a moment!"

The words of the people ceased for a moment, and they waited for the king's command.

Yi Xingchen understood the thoughts of all the officers, in fact, each of them was not wrong in their thoughts, they were all for the same result. It's just that the means are different.

Yi Xingchen was silent, thinking carefully about everyone's suggestions, and he needed to choose the best solution from them.

Yi Xingchen knew that judging from the current situation of the armies of Xinghua and Dongli, the army of Xinghua might not have an absolute advantage. The 100,000 troops who left the country in the east were all soldiers who had experienced a hundred battles, and they had just come down from the battlefield of Great Xia. That win. Let them be in full swing. Such an army. Not easy to be defeated.

Therefore, if Yi Xingchen directly led the army to rush forward and confront the army of the Dongli Kingdom, unless it was to ensure that they could be defeated at once, otherwise, if they were surrounded and entangled with superior forces, the army of the Xinghua Kingdom might not be able to take advantage of anything.

"We decide on the battlefield. It's better than the enemy deciding the battlefield. It was decided, encircled the point and sent reinforcements! Changed the route, and within three days, it was hit to the foot of Nantu City. Finally, after pondering for a long time, Yi Xingchen opened his mouth to announce his tactics.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" replied the officers.

Because the officer mentioned Nantu City, Yi Xingchen deliberately walked to the map and carefully checked the terrain around Nantu City.

In a place that is closer to Nantu Castle. Find a small hillside, point to it, and say, "We can set up a camp on it." Then. Attack Nantu City, wait for Nantu City to send people for help, we are capturing Nantu City, and we will take a scrape. Then, wait for work, ambush reinforcements, and then turn around and destroy the Dongli army besieging Xilin City, and the battle will be over. ”

The king determined the strategy, and the people studied the tactics, and soon developed effective tactics for the journey.

Cheng Yingjun, the city lord of Nantucheng, stood on the city wall, looking at the north from afar, very worried in his heart. In fact, he was very optimistic about this campaign against Xilin.

However, Cheng Yingjun was in the court, and his words were slight, and he could not participate in decision-making. As the lord of the city, what they need to do is to cooperate with the dispatch of troops. Otherwise, it will not be good to arouse the suspicion of the new king.

It's just that the generals are the ones who know the situation best on the battlefield.

Cheng Yingjun sighed, the last time Xinghua Guo's strange soldiers attacked Wangdong City and captured Lao Wang, and then, not long after the new king of Dongli Kingdom ascended the throne, Xinghua Kingdom put back Lao Wang, and almost the contradiction between the old and new in Dongli was stimulated. Fortunately, Lao Wang understood the righteousness and announced his abdication edict to the world, which avoided the occurrence of the civil war in the east.

However, this does not mean that the contradiction of leaving the country has disappeared, but that the contradiction has been suppressed for the time being. Dongli Taishang Wang has been staying in Beisha City and not looking back at Dongcheng, which is the best proof.

Therefore, Cheng Yingjun hopes that the new king of Dongli can uphold the principle that the outside must first be at home, first eradicate the internal contradictions in essence, and then crusade against Xinghua openly and honestly.

It's a pity that in order to establish prestige and consolidate his authority, the new king of Dongli insisted on transferring back the Dongli army of the Great Xia Kingdom. Cheng Yingjun also had to dispatch 5,000 city guards in Nantucheng to assemble and cooperate with the Xinghua army to attack the Xilin area.

"City Lord, it's windy here, let's go down. A personal guard carefully persuaded Cheng Yingjun to pull him back from his troubled thoughts.

Cheng Yingjun smiled slightly, he ignored the guard's words. At this moment, for Cheng Yingjun, the only thing that gave him the most headache was the battle situation, and other things would not affect him at all. After thinking about it, he turned to face the city gate official and said, "The city defense of Nantu City must be strengthened! ”

"Lord of the City, please rest assured, we have prepared a large amount of fire oil and bows and arrows. After the city gate official finished speaking, he said happily: "I think that the small country in the Western Regions is definitely not the opponent of our army of the Eastern Departure Country, and sooner or later it will only be defeated in the hands of our army!"

Cheng Yingjun shook his head and said, "If it's so simple, how can our vine armor army be defeated." ”

Cheng Yingjun's words suddenly made the people present speechless, and the city gate official seemed to be choked, and his smile suddenly froze on his face.

It was a piece of news they didn't expect, but they will never forget.

A few months ago, the Vine Armor Army rushed to the aid of Xilin City. Just when everyone was full of thought that the vine armor army could win the battle in one fell swoop and relieve the predicament of Xilin City, they didn't think that before they got close to the border city of Xilin City, they had already been ambushed, and even ended up with the annihilation of the whole army.

When the news came back to Nantucheng, everyone was shocked.

The expressions on everyone's faces revealed the thoughts in their hearts, but isn't this also the bitterness in Cheng Yingjun's heart? With a wry smile, Cheng Yingjun remembered the expression of King Dongli.

In fact, with his status as the lord of a city, he should have played a pivotal role in the court. But now, he Cheng Yingjun ended up so weak in front of King Dongli, precisely because of the sudden incident that the Tengjia Army encountered a surprise attack and the entire army was annihilated. Although it was not unheard of when it was attacked by the enemy, it was completely annihilated, which undoubtedly reflected the fragility and incompetence of the vine armor army. Because of this, Cheng Yingjun inevitably became the laughing stock of other city lords.

Although he has not been ridiculed head-on so far, the mockery in the eyes of his colleagues, the distrust in the eyes of the new lord of Dongli Country, Cheng Yingjun understands that he must rein in his edge and be cautious in his words and deeds, because he has more or less lost the right to speak. If there is any carelessness, it is not impossible to lose the position of city lord in minutes. (To be continued......)