Chapter 178: Retreat
For two days in a row, his army vomited up and down, and Gřidoro had a headache, although he still used the earth fort to shoot at Gongsun Du every day, but the intensity of the attack was greatly reduced, and he put more attention on the camp.
This move is undoubtedly correct, because if nothing else is said, if it continues like this, it will definitely affect the morale of the army, produce fear, perhaps, more seriously, and even dare not eat anything casually.
Don't eat and have the strength to fight?
Gřidoro knew that Gongsun Du did it, but what could he do, could it be difficult to make Gongsun Du stop, obviously only a fool would think like this. Therefore, he could only personally take the guards to patrol back and forth in the camp in an attempt to find the people sent by Gongsun Du.
A day later, Xu Rong led his army to arrive and went down to the village fifty miles away in the southwest corner of Houcheng.
Although Gřidoro was not afraid of the only 5,000 troops, more than half of which were infantry troops, he still raised his vigilance, and would release the scouts before setting out every day, and would only march after receiving news that there were no ambushes.
All of this fell in the eyes of the second team of the Netherworld, Gongsun Du was very satisfied after getting the news, he knew very well, not to mention that there was Ge Ri Doro, even if he didn't, if he was the commander of any Xianbei marshal, the 80,000 army was not comparable to more than 10,000 people in his mere 10,000 people, and it was the same with Xu Rong.
The best result is to be able to contain some of the energy, and the rest is-
Await!
Two days passed, and Gongsun Du's waiting was with a hint of sweetness and joy, not only because Gezhidoro had once again reduced the intensity of his attack in the past two days, but also because another 10,000 reinforcements had arrived, which made him not worry that Xu Rong would suddenly be besieged by Gezhidoro, forcing him to go out of the city to rescue.
At that time, there was no hope of victory.
Fortunately, Geridoro, who was waiting for Gongsun Du, was in pain.
For three days in a row, I couldn't find the person sent by Gongsun Du, but the number of soldiers who had problems every day did not decrease, and it remained at about 20,000, which made Geridoro not suffer.
Gřidoro had the idea of directly storming the city, but in the end he gave up his thoughts. He didn't know how many Gongsun Du's people were secretly there, if there were a few dozen or so, it would be counted, if there could be hundreds or thousands, judging from the movements caused in the past few days, once the army left the camp, leaving only the subordinates who had been stretched to the limbs weak, they would definitely die no longer.
Gzhidoro was ruthless and brutal, but it was against the enemy, and he really couldn't do it to his own people, especially the elite of his own men.
"Dashuai, since there is no problem with eating, is there a problem with drinking?"
Although Suri was very dissatisfied with the loss of more than 3,000 of his subordinates, he couldn't help but remind him when he saw that he was worried about it every day.
Gřidoro was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized, but the way he looked at Sully there was a sense of uncertainty.
Resisting the urge to flee, Sully turned his head away, pretending not to see.
Seeing this, Gřidoro closed his gaze, nodded calmly, and then waved his hand at Suli.
Su Li's head shrank and immediately retreated.
Gřidoro was very unhappy when he looked at the back of Su Li's departure, and felt that this person was very sinister. It's not that he is not grateful, but since Su Li turned his head and he didn't speak, why could he see him waving and then immediately run away?
After that, for nearly half a month, in addition to shooting with Gongsun Du every day without pain as usual, Ge Ridora arranged for people to catch people at the water source.
At first, Gřidoro was only skeptical, but after two days of extensive ambush at the water source, he found that the sick soldier had improved.
This has to mention the problem of fresh food.
Their food can run on their own, and they don't have to worry about the problem of baggage at all; The water source is also guaranteed, the food is automatically carried, the milk is delicious, and only when it is insufficient, the water will be used (the above is purely ...... Fake and shoddy, don't take it seriously). Those who are sick naturally belong to the inferior people, and they can only use water, and naturally they cannot be better.
At the same time, Gřidoro was overjoyed, but he did not get carried away, but more thought of Su Li, who was so quick and wise, and it was not simple. And then there is only relief, but it does not catch people, so naturally it cannot be relaxed.
Of course, it was more about the meaning of Tanshi Huai, and he finally understood it, and began to focus on containment. Especially in this half month, Gongsun Du has reinforcements arriving, so that there are 30,000 to 50,000 horses in Houcheng here, combined with the last year, absolutely most of the military strength is involved here.
Looking at it this way, could it be that he marched from Changli and attacked the rear of Gongsun Du?
Gřidoro had the heart to ask about the sandalwood locust, but because he hadn't understood the meaning of the sandalwood locust before, he was a little embarrassed to open this mouth.
Gongsun Du also felt this problem, because in this half month, only 5,000 reinforcements actually arrived again, that is, there were a total of 17,000 people in Houcheng, and after more than 20 days of "hard fighting", there were more than 11,000 people left, and nearly 6,000 people were killed in the battle; In addition, Xu Rong led 20,000 horses to go down to the village fifty miles southwest of the city, echoing the waiting city.
Originally, there would be 20,000 troops arriving to start a decisive battle with Ge Ri Doro, but after perceiving Ge Ri Doro, or Tan Shi Huai's thoughts, although Gongsun Du scolded Tan Shi Huai for being "treacherous", he could only order to suspend support and strengthen the defense of the Liao team and Liaoyang, so as to avoid being caught off guard by Changli's Xianbei army, resulting in a big defeat.
This is the conspiracy of Tanshi Huai.
The reason why Yang Mou is Yang Mou is because even if you know it's a trap, you still have to jump.
In fact, there are two choices here, one is to continue to increase the number of troops, and then find the opportunity to defeat Gzhidoro as soon as possible, however, obviously, this time is not easy to find, it may take a lot of time, and the news that Changli was occupied by Xianbei has been transmitted back more than ten days ago, so he can't afford not to pay attention to it.
The other is the current choice, stop the increase of troops, although the possibility of defeating Gzhidoro is therefore minimized, but at least the Liao team, or Liaoyang, will not be used as a breakthrough by Tanshi Huai, even if it is attacked, it can rely on sufficient troops to hold on for a long time.
Subsequently, he was entangled with Gezhidoro for more than ten days, and the morale of the army had dropped greatly, and Gongsun Du was already in a hurry, but the time still did not appear, and the only good news was that as long as Gezhidoro made a little big move, he would be noticed by the second team of the Netherworld, and report it to Gongsun Du in time to respond.
This is also no way, Gřidoro has never lowered his vigilance on the water source, and it is difficult for the second team of the Netherworld to have a chance to start, once took a risk, and after almost being exposed, he never dared to do it again, and under the order of Gongsun Du, it turned to surveillance, which played another role.
On this day, Gongsun Du was still struggling with how to boost his morale, and suddenly the news that shocked him came back from the Netherworld, and Xu Rong also rushed to Houcheng.
"My subordinates meet my lord."
After Xu Rong saw the salute, he didn't stop at all and asked, "Lord, what should I do now?" Pursuit? ”
Gongsun Du shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Chasing? What to chase? Just a few thousand of our cavalry? That's definitely a meat bun beating a dog, and there is no return! ”
Meat buns?
Xu Rong was a little surprised, he didn't understand what this meant, but he also understood what Gongsun Du meant, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
When Gongsun Du saw Xu Rong's appearance, he didn't understand why he wanted to ask for his life to pursue, obviously because he was worried that he would make an irrational move.
Shaking his head and throwing away this idea, Gongsun Du said again: "Now I am afraid that there are many cities that have been taken from the Great Han Border County, otherwise Tanshi Huai will definitely not withdraw this group of people." ”
Yes, Gerzhidoro withdrew, and with a swagger. It seems that he has no fear of being pursued.
Of course, there really is no need to worry.