Obviously, there were more Muzhou troops, but the other side gave full play to their advantages, formed a situation of fighting more and less, and won the first victory.

General Xi's eyes were solemn, the opponent's naval army was no longer well-trained, it could be called elite, and its combat effectiveness and tactics were stronger than he imagined.

However, he had already seen the flaws in the opponent's tactics, and sent an order to his subordinates, asking his big ships to move closer and advance in parallel, so that they could quickly support each other, and the enemy could not form a local superior force.

The flag-bearer soon gave the command in the language of the flag, and the other large ships began to gather when they received the order.

The tactics were very effective, the enemy ships began to retreat in panic, and the large ships counterattacked and pursued closely, but General Xi did not realize that his own fleet was moving against the wind at this moment.

Suddenly, the small boats in front of them scattered to both sides, and the soldiers on the boat retreated while attacking the big ship with rockets, although the soldiers on the big ship shot arrows and returned fire, but because the big ships gathered together, they were more likely to be shot, and it was a headwind, and it didn't take long for the big ships to be ignited by the rockets.

The fire was carried by the wind, and the fire on the ship was not large enough to be extinguished, but it quickly swept through the whole ship under the action of the wind.

Not only that, but because the big ship was so close, the fire spread to other ships in a terrifying way.

By the time General Xi realized that something was wrong and ordered the ships to separate, the Muzhou Army fleet had already suffered a devastating blow, and nearly half of the ships had been burned.

A cold sweat broke out on General Xi's forehead, the situation changed too quickly, although he had reacted as quickly as possible, but his own troops still lost more than half of their troops, and at this moment, the enemy army surrounded him with wolf pack tactics.

Seeing that the defeat was decided, he said to Fang Ying in a hoarse voice: "My lord, we are defeated, order the withdrawal of the army!" ”

Fang Ying froze in place, looking at the enemy fleet, it was really unbelievable that he had lost like this.

"My lord, if you don't withdraw, it's too late." General Xi persuaded.

"I see, let's withdraw." Fang Ying said coldly.

General Xi felt the dissatisfaction of the assassin Shi with him, but this was a critical moment, he did not have time to defend himself, and hurriedly ordered the retreat.

During the retreat, the Muzhou army lost some soldiers, but the enemy did not chase too closely, General Xi successfully returned to Muzhou City with about 2,000 soldiers, and Fang Ying ordered to hold the city.

In a temporary water camp outside Muzhou City, Xiao Shilang found Yu Xun in the wounded barracks and asked, "General, why did you let them go back to the city when you could completely annihilate the enemy army today?" He also ordered a retreat of thirty miles. ”

Yu Xun was bandaging the wound of a wounded soldier, and he didn't speak after hearing this, and Xiao Shilang didn't urge, quietly waiting for Yu Xun's explanation.

When Yu Xun carefully bandaged the wound, he patted the soldier's shoulder and said with a smile: "Have a good rest." Then he got out of the sick and wounded camp.

As soon as Xiao Shilang came out, he heard Yu Xun ask, "Do you know how many brothers we have suffered this time?" ”

"Eighty-five people were killed, one hundred and thirty-two wounded, and six hundred and seventy-nine prisoners were captured, which was a great victory." Xiao Shilang said like a few treasures.

"Not bad." Yu Xun praised and said: "Although we can easily conquer Muzhou City now, but then we have to face Wu Yueguo's 50,000 Yijin army, maybe there will be a forbidden army, this is the real problem, the reason why I let them go back today is to solve this problem." ”

Xiao Shilang was slightly taken aback, he didn't expect Yu Xun to think about it so far, he didn't ask immediately, after turning his head a few times, he really couldn't think of a reason, so he asked: "Does letting them go back has anything to do with dealing with Yi Jinjun?" ”

"If we take Muzhou City now, how will the Wuyue Imperial Court react?" Yu Xun asked rhetorically.

"Naturally, we will send troops to attack."

"And now?"

"Now that they have not lost Muzhou, they will naturally not send troops to attack."

Yu Xun nodded and said, "That's my purpose." ”

"But sooner or later, we will have to conquer Muzhou City, and then Wu Yueguo will also send people to attack, what difference does it make if it is later and earlier?" Xiao Shilang was even more puzzled.

"Of course it's different, you'll know when the time comes." Yu Xun looked at the sky and said lightly.

"And what did you order to withdraw?" Xiao Shilang asked again.

Yu Xun smiled slightly: "I guess Wu Yue's Assassin Mansion must be arguing about whether to ask the imperial court for help now, and the final decision of the Assassin Mansion will be not to ask for help." ”

"Why didn't he call for help?"

"Naturally, it is for his official position of assassination, he must be lucky at the moment, thinking that I may withdraw from the army, so that he will say to the court that it is he who repels me, and his official position of assassination can be kept."

"But if we attack, he will still ask the Wuyue court for help, and then we may not even be able to defeat Muzhou City!" Xiao Shilang said in a deep voice.

"Yes, as long as we attack, he will call for help, so the timing of his call for help will be up to me." Yu Xun smiled.

"Do you want to surround the dots and send reinforcements? But the enemy's reinforcements must have come from Hangzhou via the Fuchun River, and with the city of Muzhou in the way, we could not ambush them at all. Xiao Shilang reacted quickly.

"When the time comes, just take Muzhou City." Yu Xun said with a smile, listening to his tone, the target was indeed reinforcements, and it seemed to him that he could take Muzhou City at any time.

"So what are we waiting for now?" Xiao Shilang asked one last question.

"Wait for a decisive wind."

After that, Xiao Shilang didn't ask again, Yu Xun didn't take the initiative to explain anything, the soldiers trained in the temporary water village all day, and two days later, the giant ship Haiyu arrived, and Yu Xun still did not give the order to attack.

Three days passed like this, and in the early morning, Xiao Shilang saw Yu Xun standing on the wide deck of the sea falcon ship, smiling with his eyes closed, and he stepped forward and asked, "General, what's wrong?" ”

"Captain Xiao, how long do you think the southwest wind will blow today?" Yu Xun asked.

"I can't see it." Xiao Shilang looked up at the sky and shook his head.

"It's going to be scraped for at least seven days." Yu Xun replied confidently.

"How do you see that?"

"The birds told me." Yu Xun smiled and said, "Order, march to Muzhou City!" ”

Xiao Shilang suddenly realized that it was this southwest wind that Yu Xun was waiting for.

It didn't take long for the army to besiege the city of Muzhou, but it did not attack immediately.

Inside the city of Muzhou.

General Xi hurriedly rushed to the Thorn Shi Mansion, found Thorn Shi Fangying in the study, and said hurriedly: "My lord, they are here, and they have surrounded Muzhou City!" ”

Fang Ying smiled bitterly: "It seems that the main battle faction over there in Hui'an Mansion has won." He always believed that Yu Xun's retreat from the army for thirty miles was because there were opposition voices within Hui'an Mansion.

Now, he no longer has any luck, and said in a deep voice: "Ask the court for help, send a few more people to prevent being robbed by the other party, we are equal to them in number at the moment, you should be able to hold on before the arrival of the imperial court reinforcements, right?" ”

"Don't worry, my lord, the last general has the confidence to hold on!" General Xi assured.

"That's good."

At this moment, a herald rushed to the scene and shouted, "Lord Assassin, General, the city wall has been missed!" ”

"What?" Fang Ying was stunned and sat on the chair.

"Nonsense, even if they are ten times more numerous, they will never be so fast!" General Xi said hysterically.

"General, it's true, they suddenly appeared out of nowhere, the ship drove directly to the city wall near the Xin'an River, the power of the siege crossbow on the ship was very terrifying, the brothers on the city wall were completely invincible, and then they climbed the city wall directly from the boat with a short ladder.

General Xi clenched his fists tightly and roared angrily: "Then let the rest of the people fight with me in the streets, and let them see the backbone of our Muzhou soldiers!" ”

However, because of the previous defeat and the instant capture of the city wall, the morale of the Muzhou army was extremely low, and the street battle was easily defeated, nearly half of the soldiers surrendered, and General Xi and Fang Thorn Shi were captured alive.

Standing on the wall of Muzhou City, Xiao Shilang was a little incredulous, he didn't expect it to be so easy to take down a city, but he knew very well in his heart that it was all because of Yu Xun's strategy, if he let him come by himself, he might be able to fight it, but it would probably be a hard battle.

At this moment, he had already understood the reason why Yu Xun had let the Muzhou army return to the city before, and his purpose was to let the Muzhou Assassin ask for help at the time he wanted, and then go to ambush the reinforcements.

In the eyes of the reinforcements, Muzhou City has not been lost yet, so they will never guard against their ambushes, and the southwest wind that Yu Xun has been waiting for is likely to be related to the next ambush battle.

What a terrible person, Xiao Shilang couldn't help but sigh, he decided to try his best to follow Yu Xun in the future and learn more from him.

Hangzhou.

When Qian Hongyu, the king of Wuyue, learned that Hui'an Mansion was attacking his Muzhou, his first thought was that Hui'an Mansion learned that he wanted to seize it, so he took refuge in the Tang Army!

"Dai Tongjun, it was you who proposed to capture Hui'an Mansion at the beginning, and now Hui'an Mansion may have taken refuge in the Tang Kingdom and invaded our territory, so what can I do?" Qian Hongyu looked at Dai Mu, the envoy of the Inner Army, and said lightly.

The internal government commander is equivalent to the leader of the Wu Yue State Forbidden Army, and the original commander of the army, Hu Jinsi, is old and has resigned from his post, and is currently replaced by Dai Mu.

Dai Mu smiled and said: "Your Majesty, in this way, our military division is famous, and it is just right to take Hui'an Mansion." ”