Chapter 0108: Counting in the Count

A cavalry of 5,000 men braved the pouring rain and galloped on horseback on the road. The splashes of the horses' hooves were mixed into the heavy rain, and they couldn't tell which was the rain, and which was the splash.

The place where the Xinyang army is stationed is less than forty miles away from the royal city, and it will not take half an hour to rush to the city of Wangcheng, although there is a heavy rain, but there is no problem in arriving within an hour!

Tonight, Si Boqian always had an ominous premonition haunting his heart, and he was uneasy in his heart, pacing back and forth in the room.

Just when Si Boqian was restless, Qin Hui suddenly visited.

Qin Hui, who was originally the commander of the Blue Dragon Pavilion, is now in charge of guarding the palace. His arrival made Si Boqian chuckle in his heart, "Uncle Qin, why are you here?"

"Shizi, the king has a secret decree for you!" Qin Hui got straight to the point and directly handed over a secret decree to Si Boqian.

Si Boqian opened it and looked at it, and there were two words written on it, "Night Attack!"

"Night raid?"

Si Boqian suddenly became enlightened, and finally figured out what had been making him uneasy tonight, looking at the powerful words "night attack" on the secret decree, the ink that had not dried was full of a strong murderous aura!

"The king has other instructions!" Si Boqian said, looking at the words on the secret decree.

"No!" Qin Hui thought about it seriously, and the king didn't say anything else from beginning to end.

"Hmm!"

Si Boqian understood that this was Xuanyuan Hengyi's absolute trust in himself, because of trust, there was no need to say more. This trust moved Si Boqian, and this trust made Si Boqian secretly vow to go all out.

Si Boqian sent Qin Hui away, and then asked Qin Hu and Qin Long; the two brothers respectively invited Wang Hai, Han Hongchuan, Xu Zengwei, and Wang Zilong to come and discuss countermeasures together! Now the four of them are guarding the east, west, north, and south gates of the royal city.

The four of them were all generals in the army, and when they received Si Boqian's order on this rainy night, they were not only surprised, but also realized something, so they did not dare to delay at all, and came in the rain! Several people were very familiar with each other, and they inevitably exchanged a few words of greetings when they met, and since Wang Hai was the last to receive the order, he was the last to come.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Si Boqian coughed lightly, and the few people who were chatting quietly also quieted down.

"Is there any change in the city gate tonight?" Si Boqian was the first to speak. ”

"No!" Han Hongchuan didn't understand why Si Boqian asked, "What's wrong?"

"The prince is worried that someone will not be able to attack the city?" Wang Hai smelled a hint of danger from Si Boqian's words.

Si Boqian did not answer Wang Hai's question directly, but instead asked them a question, "Now that the rain is pouring down, if you are the commander of the Xinyang Army, will you attack the royal city at night?"

"This..."

"Night Attack!"

"It's a good idea!" Han Hongchuan slapped his thigh in admiration, "It's a rainy night, it's pitch black outside, and there is occasional thunder, plus the guards on the city wall are very lax now!

"The prince of the world means, the Xinyang army will surprise the royal city!" Wang Hai frowned, and he didn't dare to breathe in shock.

"Well, there is this possibility! If I were the commander of the Xinyang Army, I would definitely seize this opportunity!" Si Boqian said truthfully.

"If that's the case, we have to prepare for it. Xu Zengwei already believed that the Xinyang Army was already on the way.

"That's why I invited the four of you to come over and discuss countermeasures together!" Si Boqian glanced at everyone.

Wang Hai and the others are all generals of the Tiger and Wolf Army, and they are no strangers to surprise attacks. Such a rainy night is really the best cover for a surprise attack. Now that you have realized that the other party is going to carry out a surprise attack, it is easier to defend. But now Wang Cheng is facing a problem, that is, the problem of manpower. The tiger and wolf army in the royal city is now less than 20,000, and excluding the soldiers who were injured in the palace last time, the guards of the palace, the soldiers who patrolled the city, and so on, there are only 12,000 tiger and wolf troops that can mobilize to defend the city! 12,000 people are stationed at the four gates of the royal city, and there are only 3,000 people on each side!

On such a rainy night, if you want to stop a cavalry sneak attack, you need a lot of manpower, but the problem now is that there are not enough manpower!

"Shizi, the enemy is in the dark, we are in the light! If we want to resist this surprise attack, we may not have enough manpower!" Wang Hai expressed his worries after analyzing the situation in the royal city.

"That's why I'm asking you to come over and discuss countermeasures!"

Wang Hai is Xiao Xiaofei's deputy general, and he has fought a lot of tough battles with Xiao Xiaofei before, and has also participated in the formulation of various military plans, so he is relatively familiar with it, so he took the lead in speaking.

"Shizi! Night attacks are all about speed and surprise, so they won't attack the city gates, and the only target of the attack is the city wall! We can arrange manpower on the city wall in advance, and when they attack the city wall, we will kill them by surprise!"

As soon as Wang Hai finished speaking, Han Hongchuan and the three of them also agreed!

"How do you allocate manpower?" asked Si Boqian.

"We don't know which gate they're going to attack, so the safest thing we can do is divide it evenly. ”

Si Boqian shook his head dissatisfied, Wang Hai's plan was not wrong, but it was too passive, and it would cause certain casualties to the Tiger Wolf Army, these were the last things Si Boqian wanted to see! Now every soldier of the Tiger Wolf Army is very precious!

"According to what you said, there are less than 3,000 tigers and wolves guarding the gates on each side. Si Boqian said this, his brows furrowed, and he continued, "In this way, the enemy will have a chance to attack the city wall!"

"Don't worry, even if they attack the city wall, we are confident that we will kill them again!" Han Hongchuan patted his chest confidently.

"No, the casualties will be too great!" Si Boqian immediately objected, and put forward his own opinion, "We must concentrate superior forces and annihilate them in one fell swoop!"

"How?"

"As long as we know they're going to attack the gates over there!"

"How do you know they're going to attack the gates over there?"

Si Boqian didn't answer their question, but asked them another question, "If it were you, would you choose to attack there?"

Han Hongchuan blurted out directly, "Of course it's the South City Gate!"

Wang Zilong had a different opinion, "The south city gate has just been attacked, although the city wall and the city gate have not been damaged to a certain extent, but the south city gate has the largest number of troops. If it were me, I would definitely not choose the South City Gate!"

"Then you chose to attack over there?" Han Hongchuan asked rhetorically with some unconvincedness.

"It's okay to go east and west, if I have to choose a side, I may attack the north gate!" Wang Zilong replied seriously.

Wang Hai and Xu Zengwei also agreed with Wang Zilong's idea and attacked the North City Gate.

Si Boqian said, "I also chose to attack the north gate! So we will station our troops at the north gate!"

"No!" This was Wang Hai's first reaction, and now these are just speculations, if the other party does not attack the northern city gate according to his expectations, the consequences will be unimaginable.

"General Wang, do you have concerns?" asked Si Boqian.

"Forgive me, with all due respect, although the enemy is most likely to attack the north gate, there is still the possibility of attacking the other gates. In this way, the other three gates are weakly defended, and once they are attacked, the consequences will be unimaginable!" Wang Hai said the worries in his heart.

"Then we'll let them attack the north gate!" Si Boqian said confidently.

"Please advise the prince!" Wang Hai saw that Si Boqian looked like he was in his chest, and he knew that he had a way to deal with it.

"If they want to attack the royal city, they must come on horseback. We sprinkled a thick layer of triangular nails at a distance of 100 paces from the east, west, and south gates, and arranged for archers on the city walls to shoot arrows downwards whenever they heard the sound of the horses' long roar! They don't know our defenses, and once they are attacked, they won't choose to attack, so there are only two options left for them, one is to abandon this night attack, and the second is to abandon the original plan and choose to attack other gates. Si Boqian said what he thought.

When others heard this, in addition to being shocked and admired, they really didn't know how to describe their mood at the moment.

"Admire, admire!"

"Awesome, awesome!"

“•••”

"In this way, if they attack the north gate directly, we will arrange a large number of superior forces on the city wall, and we will definitely be able to take them by surprise and make them have no return. If they attack the other three gates, we can directly scare them back with bows and crossbows!" Han Hongchuan muttered, "Shizi, let me guard the north city gate!"

"Hey, hey, what are you doing, Old Han, do you look down on me?" Wang Hai was not happy when he heard it.

"Hey, hey, hey..." Han Hongchuan scratched his head a little embarrassedly, "I'm not as good as you when it comes to advice, but guarding the city gate, I'm much better than the three of you!"

Han Hongchuan turned out to be the deputy general under Wu Ping, and he had always guarded the southern city gate, while Wang Hai, Xu Zengwei and Wang Zilong had followed Xiao Xiaofei out to fight more before, and the matter of defending the city had indeed not been done before!

"What do you think..."

“•••”

Wang Hai and the others are all military people, and their bones are full of the spirit of not admitting defeat, and for a while, the four of them quarreled.

"That's it!"

Si Boqian's face was gloomy, and he stopped their quarrel with a cheering voice, and several people didn't dare to make a mistake, "Although we put a large number of troops in the north city in this night attack, the other three gates are also very important, you must seize the opportunity to give the enemy a head-on blow, so as to create the illusion that there are a large number of troops on the city wall, so that they can give up the attack!"

"The last general understands!"

"You all have their own positions, leave a thousand crossbowmen at each of the east, west and south gates, and all the rest of the troops will be transferred to the north gate, understand!"

"Yes!"

"Let's all go and make our own arrangements!"