Chapter 370: Offensive and Defensive Strategies

She and Jin Xuance are complementary to each other in the same swordsmanship, and they have had a tacit understanding for many years. At the moment, each sword move is flowing yin and yang, and the rigidity and softness are intertwined, and the advance and retreat, offense and defense rely on each other, and it is so wonderful that it is indistinguishable from the flowing light and scattered snow between Qu Neng's long knife Huo Huo.

At this time, Qu Neng had two sons who also climbed the battlements in the back, and they had already climbed the city with the daring men of the southern army. In addition, Zhu Gaochi was shocked to hear that Zhangyemen was in danger, and hurriedly led the Yongyan soldiers to use weapons and blades to plug the gap. For a time, the battlements and towers and staircases were crowded one after another, and the soldiers of the two armies continued to die under the sword and their heads were different.

After a long stalemate, the elite soldiers of the southern army led by Qu Neng had gradually captured the head of Zhangye Gate, but they were intercepted by a detour when they rushed into the city due to lack of support. The Yan soldiers in the city flanked in all directions, and when they wanted to open the city gate first, they fell into chaos and besieged.

Qu Neng was defeated by Jin Xuance and Shui Xuanling, and it was already difficult to win for a while. With an anxious shout, he drew his sword and flicked his body, and turned around to make the soldiers around him raise the banner and wave it, and shouted to beckon the rest of the southern army to enter the city.

At this critical moment, the shouting and killing under the wall outside gradually subsided, and the sound of gold was heard from afar. A group of soldiers led by Qu Neng were shocked, and when they returned to the city, they saw that the officers and soldiers of Manye had collected their vehicles and weapons and retreated.

Another herald ordered the colonel to gallop over, stood outside the door and said in a loud voice: "Marshal Li has an order, today's army is wounded and tired, temporarily quit the army, repair for a long time, and then join forces to besiege and fight the next day, and it will be successful in one fell swoop!"

Qu Neng was indignant when he took the arrow, but he had no choice but to withdraw from Zhangyemen and lead the rest of the soldiers and horses back to the Chinese army camp.

It turned out that this Qu Neng was usually a general who was not used to seeing officialdom, and only knew that he was brave and good at fighting, but he rarely got close to his colleagues. Li Jinglong is a prince of the world, and his mind is full of energy, but Qu Neng knows that he has no talent, but he has to bear the shade.

This time in the Northern Expedition, Zhu Yunwen named Li Jinglong as handsome and favored, and Qu Neng was dissatisfied, and repeatedly ridiculed Li Jinglong in private for being immoral and incompetent. Li Jinglong heard about it from time to time, and secretly held a grudge but it was not easy to attack. Only then did he personally supervise the war during the siege of Beiping, but only Qu Neng was allowed to sit idle in the Chinese army, so that he could not build a large number of achievements.

Therefore, this Qu Neng's attack on Zhangyemen was really out of his hands, and Li Jinglong was afraid that he would win the merit and deliberately ordered him to withdraw from the army. When Qu Nengkong lost his soldiers, he was indignant and asked to understand, but Li Jinglong first accused him of driving the troops without military discipline, and Qu Neng had no choice but to sigh secretly if he couldn't refute it.

The next day, Li Jinglong personally supervised the soldiers and horses to take the city again, but Xuanqing, the wise man in the Five Elements Gate, was in the city, and he had already taken the lead in offering a strategy considering the danger. Zhu Gaochi then organized the army and civilians to come to the city wall with warm water, and the city wall was frozen overnight, and the city wall was so thick and cold that it was as smooth as a mirror, and there was no place to stand.

The southern soldiers were hindered by the military order to erect ladders to climb hard, and the guards of the city first shot with cannons and used Zhang Xu sticks to beat indiscriminately. The soldiers of the southern army will all stumble and fall, and the corpses of the dead and wounded will be stacked on an innumerable basis.

In this way, the heavy snow in Beiping City continued for a day, and the cold was better than a day, and the officers and soldiers drove to pile firewood and wanted to set fire to the ice, but they couldn't. Li Jinglong had nothing to do to recruit the generals to plan a livelihood, and ordered him to shoot cannon stones on the high fortress and secretly dig a crypt to sneak into the city.

But I think that Xuanqing has studied under Fang Tianlu since he was a child, and he has seen through the art of guarding the emperor. On the one hand, the Yan army built a tent to make the soldiers and people avoid under the city wall, and on the other hand, the city was dug and the long gully was dug and poured water into the trench. Outside the city, the southern army took great pains to dig the ambush road to the edge of the gully, but saw that the ice inside was as solid as iron, and there were swallow guards waiting for each other, so they knew that they could not do it, so they had to retreat.

Li Jinglong saw that the siege was not conducive to delaying the time, and he scolded the generals in anger but was helpless. On the other side, Zhu Di had already waved nearly 200,000 troops of the Fifth Army, and rushed all the way to take advantage of the freezing of the Beihe River to break through Li Jinglong's outer border camp and step on the snow, and came straight to the seven villages and nine bases of the official army besieging Beiping City