Chapter 110: Young Meng Tian
In the blink of an eye, another half a month passed, and the god-killing army led by Bai Yifei captured the Fangling, Boyang, two major cities and more than a dozen small and medium-sized cities south of Zhangshui, and the speed shocked the main army of the entire Qin State.
Even the vanguard army in the middle lane Wang Jian is inferior to him, and Bai Yifei's behavior is the most stimulated by the old general Huan Qi.
Daqin has now emerged one after another with new generals with extraordinary abilities, and the representative figures who can sit on an equal footing with Huan Qi are Wang Jian and Huo Quzhi, both of whom are now in the rank of general and officer, and they are the same as Huan Qi.
Slightly inferior to the two of them are Li Xin, Meng Tian, Yang Duanhe, Ma Xing, etc., the successive outpouring of these people not only puts a lot of pressure on these veterans, but also brings a strong sense of crisis.
Huan Qi's lifelong wish is to hope that he can be a marquis in his lifetime, to protect future generations, now he is very old, in a few years may not even be able to ride a horse, for the heart of the marquis is more anxious.
Especially the appearance of the demonic Bai Yifei, which was so stimulated that he lost his usual stability, and only had military merit in his heart. Not to mention, the main army, the right wing of his road is the slowest progress, and now he has only conquered a dozen small and medium-sized cities, not even a single big city.
Outside the Yellow Ruins City, the right wing of 45,000 troops surrounded the Yellow Ruins City for five days, the Yellow Ruins City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Huan Qi launched five attacks, all of which were defeated, losing thousands of soldiers, and now the stalemate.
The right wing battalion, the main general is in the big tent!
Huan Qi was in the main position, and Meng Tian, Li Xin and other generals sat in two columns.
The atmosphere in the big tent was not very good, and the generals were also full of sadness, Huan Qi said: "The general decided to bypass the Yellow Ruins City, leaving 10,000 soldiers behind, so that the defenders in the city did not dare to move, what do you think?"
"Please think twice, if you want to bypass Huangxu City, you have to take a detour from east to north, that road is dense with mountains, and the enemy army can easily set up an ambush, our army really can't take such a risk. Li Xin stood up and analyzed.
Meng Tian also said: "General, what Captain Li said is reasonable, the route of our army's right flank is the border of Zhao Yan, and the commander of the Zhangshui garrison is the former famous general of Yan State, Le Yi, although Zhao Guo gave up the city south of Zhangshui and focused on defense, no one knows whether Le Yi will do the opposite and use this illusion to ambush our army." Moreover, he is familiar with the terrain of Yan and Zhao, and our army is attacking the city, and the geographical location and people are not on our army's side. The last general already has a strategy to break the city, and he also asked the general to let the last general lead the troops to attack the city. ”
Huan Qi listened to Meng Tian's words, and his face was unhappy.
"You mean to say that the old man is not as happy as him. ”
Huan Qi was already on fire, and when he heard Meng Tian's words, how could he bear it, and asked angrily. As for the strategy to break the city later, I didn't listen to it at all.
Meng Tian hurriedly arched his hand and said, "The last general will not dare." ”
Huan Qi snorted coldly and said: "The general has made up his mind, so he ordered Meng Tian to lead an army of 10,000 and stay in Huangxu to continue the siege, and this general will lead 35,000 people to bypass Huangxu City and continue to go north." ”
After speaking, he snorted coldly, got up and left, the generals in the tent shook their heads helplessly, and they all left one after another, only Li Xin stayed.
Li Xin sighed and said: "How can a general be so anxious for quick success and leave the orders of the commander and the king behind, it is really unwise." ”
Meng Tian smiled bitterly, as subordinates, they should have been persuaded, and the Lord will insist on this, what can they do?
Said: "I hope you and I think too much, although Le Yi is a famous general, but he is also a strong fighter in the grassland flats, Zhao Guo is mountainous, he is not good at it, he should not be so risky." ”
Li Xin said: "I hope so. ”
In fact, both of them know very well in their hearts that the reason why famous generals are famous generals, in addition to their brilliant records, is that they have extraordinary judgment and control ability over the battle situation, which is where famous generals are really powerful.
Could it be that Le Yi doesn't know that mountain warfare is his shortcoming, there is a saying that attacking the shortcomings of the other with his own strengths, but in the eyes of famous generals, his shortcomings will also be their strengths. It is only in the eyes of opponents who are evenly matched that it is a shortcoming.
On the second day, Huan Tian took an army of 35,000 to make a detour from east to north, leaving Meng Tian with 10,000 soldiers to shock the Yellow Ruins City, Meng Tian had a siege strategy, and asked to see Huan Qi again last night, Huan Qi was gone, and now there are only 10,000 troops left, but his strategy is useless.
Huangxu City, both sides are mountain peaks vertical and horizontal, and Huangxu City is just blocked between the peaks, the road leading to Huangxu City is too narrow, only three ladder cars side by side, and the city wall is thick, Qin guards the city soldiers and the people are united as one, a total of 20,000 people defend the city, it must be known that the besieging side wants to capture a city, it must be three times the strength of the defending side, and it will also suffer heavy losses.
And to this kind of easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack checkpoint city, the besieging side needs more troops, which is why Huan Qi is reluctant to continue to attack the city.
You have to outwit it, not attack hard.
Meng Tian rode out of the camp alone and came to Huangxu City a hundred miles away, he heard the cheerful shouts in the city, and it seemed that he knew that Huan Qi led the army to leave. Perhaps it is thought that more than 40,000 troops will not be able to capture Huangxu City, and 10,000 troops will be even more impossible.
Meng Tian knew that Huangxu City was a checkpoint city, and the city wall had two roads, divided into inner walls and outer walls, so he had to give up the idea of directly attacking the city. But how to take Huangxu City is another problem he has to face.
The general who defended the city at the checkpoint was still a steady person, which was what Meng Tian was most distressed about, otherwise he would have several ways to transfer the defenders out.
Meng Tian looked at the defenders patrolling the Yellow Ruins and fell into deep thought: how would they be willing to leave the city?
Meng Tian paced back and forth, what did Huangxu City need most, naturally he hoped that the Qin army would give up the siege, but now that he still had 10,000 troops left here, the enemy would not leave the city, but even if he retreated, the enemy might not leave the city.
The sun was already hanging overhead, and a personal guard rode to Meng Tian's side, dismounted and reported: "General, it's noon, I don't know if the general will go back to the camp for dinner or send someone to send it?"
Meng Tian was dressed in black iron armor, with a Chinese face, his face was a little dark, and he was only eighteen years old, his eyes were like fire, showing his true colors as a man.
Hearing the words of the guard, it suddenly dawned in his heart that food, what the Zhao people lacked was food, thought of this, he immediately laughed, walked over and patted the guard's shoulder, and said with a smile: "You came at a good time." "It's an old look.
When the guards saw that their generals were like this, they were naturally not stupid, how could he not know why his generals were worried, and now with a smile on his face, he naturally had a way to attack the city.
Said happily: "Congratulations to the general for his good thinking." ”。
Meng Tian turned over and said, "Let's go, go back to the camp." ”
When the guards saw Meng Tian, who was as tall as a pine and slowly moving away, they admired it in their hearts, and they also turned over and drove the horse to follow.