"General Wei, why did you suddenly decide to go out of the city to meet Chen's army? You know, they are hoping that we will abandon the city and fight a decisive battle with our army, and now that they have those firearms to help, how can we fight against us! If it's to save Qin County, then you can't go out of the city to fight! I hope the general thinks twice! Wang Lin persuaded earnestly.

"General Wang's kindness, Ben Shuai knows, but this attack is not only to rescue Qin County, but also to save ourselves! And, of course, you and your old subordinates who have just come to Xuyi to join you! Wei Pohu said coldly.

"What do you mean, General Wei?" Wang Lin didn't understand the meaning of Wei Pohu for a while.

"Xuyi has 30,000 of our elite soldiers, and now the Chen army that is attacking only has 40,000 horses! Why do we have to hide in the city and not go out to fight? If just because Chen Jun has those powerful killing weapons, we are greedy for life and afraid of death, and we are afraid to move forward, then can we still be considered a soldier? Are you still worthy of the emperor's trust in us? "Yu Pohu is righteous and awe-inspiring.

"Then you can't go out of the city to meet the battle so suddenly, now Wu Mingche personally led the main force of the Chen army to the north, just to fight a decisive battle with us, for this they must have been fully prepared, if we attack easily, we will be ambushed by them, isn't that just to let the soldiers go to death in vain?"

"Then Qin County, should the brothers in Liyang and Liyang be sent to death in vain?" The eldest grandson on the side said excitedly, he was the first general to rush to Xuyi to reinforce the Jiangbei defenders, and many of the defenders of Qin County were his old subordinates, so he has always supported going out of the city to meet the battle, reinforce Qin County, and rescue his brother!

"I didn't mean that, but this matter should be considered in the long term and acted cautiously!" Wang Lin couldn't refute it for a while.

"We all understand what General Wang means, and we also know that this attack is in the hands of the Chen army, but we can't help but take a risk! If we stick to Xuyi, as General Wang suggested, can we hold it? They have the kind of weapon that makes it easy to break through the gates! When the time comes, 40,000 Chen troops will break through the city and the two sides will fight, won't there be more soldiers sacrificed? Wei Pohu asked rhetorically.

"Now that we suddenly took the initiative and caught them off guard, the odds of winning are even greater! Because we didn't know that they would use that kind of killing weapon before, and suffered a big loss, but now we have found out that the Chen army only has only one infantry battalion, and there are not many of them, if we attack with the whole army and force a breakthrough with a numerical advantage, we will definitely be able to break through this defense line! You must know that except for this infantry battalion, the Chen army is all ordinary infantry, and there are even fewer cavalry, so our heroic Great Qi soldiers will definitely be able to defeat them! Wei Pohu said firmly.

"There is another reason, and the most important reason, that is, now that Qin County and Liyang have not been broken by the Chen army, we do not go to the rescue on the grounds of maintaining our strength, and let them fend for themselves, which makes the soldiers not feel cold! How will your brothers be willing to work for you again in the future? General Du Wang is a loyal and righteous person, respects talents, and cares for his subordinates! If it were your subordinates who were besieged this time, would you be desperate to save them? Wei Pohu looked at Wang Lin and asked sharply.

Wang Lin was really speechless when asked, because he also understood that if his subordinates asked for help but didn't go to the rescue, it would indeed make those brothers who followed him with all their hearts chill! Moreover, it is true that the people who are besieged on the Qin County side are not their subordinates, if they still adhere to the strategy of defending the city in this situation, it will definitely make them suspect that they will only feel sorry for their direct subordinates, and they will not be careless about the subordinates of other generals, which will definitely not be conducive to everyone uniting to resist the Chen army!

So Wang Lin was silent for a while, sighed and said, "Two generals, I'm sorry!" It is true that Wang Mou owes it, I only think about how to preserve my strength to resist the Chen army, but I ignore that there are still tens of thousands of Great Qi soldiers in Liyang and Qin County who are desperately resisting! Wang is willing to go out of the city with the two generals and fight to the death with the Chen army! ”

"Good! General Wang is a veteran of a hundred battles, and with your help, we will be more confident in repelling Chen's army! Please General Wang go back and get ready, and we will leave early tomorrow morning!" Yu Pohu said overjoyed. Because he was worried that Wang Lin would not go to war with him, you must know that if he led a large army to fight, then Xuyi would become an empty city, if Wang Lin still stayed here, with his reputation in Huainan, wouldn't it be equivalent to giving Xuyi to him as a base.

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On 24 April, when the sun was shining brightly and the temperature at noon in summer had risen sharply, a 5,000-strong army was resting in the woods by the river more than 40 miles outside Xuyi City.

If you look closely, it seems that you can still find a few blood stains on the wide road, and there are even a few objects similar to human tissue in the mud by the river, which are emitting a strong stench!

This is the place where the vanguard battalion ambushed the vanguard of Changsun Hongluo's cavalry! It's just that what is stationed here now is not the forward battalion, but the ordinary infantry battalion led by Zhou Luo, another general of the Chen army.

"Tell General Zhou, news has come from Xuyi, this morning the Qi army has been dispatched, and the deputy commander Wei Pohu personally led an army of 30,000 to the south, ready to fight to the death with us! Now their army is forty miles from us, and their vanguard is less than twenty miles from us! The scout reported to Zhou Luo.

"Coming? How many people are in their vanguard? Zhou Luo asked excitedly.

"About 3,000 people! Among them were only five hundred hussars, the rest were infantry! It's that they seem to be waiting for something, and they have been lingering for twenty miles! The scout said.

"Haha! Lingering because this is their sad place! Here they were blocked twice by the vanguard battalion, and they were all scared! There are only 500 light cavalry, and they dare not go out for fear that the heavy armored cavalry will be wiped out again? Ha ha! But their army has finally come out! I thought they would ignore the life or death of the defenders of Qin County, and keep cowering in Xuyi! In the end, I can't help but come out and fight us! You immediately rush to Shiliang City to report to the Governor! Others, pass my orders and act according to the plan! Get ready for battle! Zhou Luo ordered loudly.

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"General Changsun, in the woods in front, Chen Jun's troops have been discovered! There were at least 5,000 of them, but we didn't find the firearm-wielding force that ambushed us before! There are no more iron pillars on the road! The Qi army scouts who were exploring the way ahead were also reporting to Changsun Hongluo.

"Isn't it the infantry battalion led by Huang Maozi named Xiao Yao who is stationed there this time? I'm still going to wait for the army to arrive, and then rush through together! That's good! Since it's not the infantry battalion that's guarding there now, we have nothing to worry about! What about their 5,000 men, even if there are no heavy cavalry this time, our 3,000 Rao vanguard can still rush over! ”

Hearing that it was not the infantry battalion that was in front of him like a hell messenger harvesting people's heads, Changsun Hongluo really came to confidence: because this forest is the existence of the Qi army like a nightmare, through this forest, you can go directly to Shiliang City, which is not far from Qin County! But here he was twice blocked by the infantry battalion, losing a total of almost 3,000 soldiers and horses, and he was so beaten that he fled into the wilderness!

In this battle, the eldest grandson Hongluo also secretly swore that he must break through this forest! Therefore, when the vanguard led by him came to this forest, he stopped, and then waited for the army to arrive, ready to use the tactics of the sea of people, tens of thousands of people to force through the pass together, and then even if a few thousand more people died, the most important thing was to let the rest of the people pass through this trench!

Now it was only the ordinary Chen State army guarding the opposite side, so the self-confident Changsun Hongluo immediately picked up his gun and mounted his horse, and shouted loudly to all the soldiers: "Brothers, the forest in front of you is a shame for our Daqi soldiers!" We were once hit hard by Chen's army there, and thousands of brothers died there! Now we have come to this place again, but we must not be afraid, because only by rushing over can we reach Qin County to rescue the brothers over there! This time, even the master is on our side, and now it is no longer the previous infantry battalion guarding the opposite side, so now is a good opportunity for us to break through! For the brothers who died before, rush! ”