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Luo Shixin's worries are not unreasonable, and now he and Wang Shichong are allies, but it is nothing. But Yuming wants to dominate the world, unless Wang Shichong surrenders honestly in the future, otherwise it will be inevitable to fight. At that time, the enemy used a self-designed ladder to attack the city of the Great Zhou, wouldn't it be a sesame seed inspection and a watermelon?

However, Hu Sizheng retorted: "General Luo, although your worries are somewhat reasonable, they are actually overly worried!" The situation is not as complicated and difficult as you think! Our army has already had a way to counteract this ladder! ”

"Oh? Is there a countermeasure to deal with such a siege ladder? Luo Shixin was also surprised and delighted when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "Hu Junshi, what is the method?" Luo is willing to hear about it! ”

Hu Sizheng listened, but smiled slightly: "General Luo, do you remember?" Before dispatching the giant siege ladder, our army used trebuchets to shoot at the enemy, and only after completely destroying the enemy's trebuchets did they attack. It was to prevent the enemy from throwing fire oil canisters with trebuchets in order to burn our ladders...... Therefore, the method of breaking the cloud ladder is actually not worth it, which is to create a large number of trebuchets and burn them by throwing the things that ignite them. ”

Luo Shixin suddenly realized.

"Moreover, at the foot of the Jindi Pass that day, so many people saw the shape of the giant siege ladder, and I believe that it will not be long before all the candidates will start to study it...... This is not some difficult siege machine. As long as it is a qualified craftsman, it should be able to imitate it. Even if we keep the manufacturing drawings in our hands, it won't help, and after a year and a half, everyone else will be equipped with this kind of ladder. Hu Sizheng reminded.

Listening to Hu Sizheng's words, the generals of the Zhou army, including Yu Ming, couldn't help but nod. From this point of view, it is indeed not of great significance to keep the design drawings of the giant siege ladder, it is better to use it to sell it to Wang Shichong and relieve the current military pressure on his side.

"Good! The matter of sending Wang Shichong to Wang Shichong will be personally run by Hu Junshi! Yu Ming waved his hand.

Hu Sizheng nodded slightly, and he accepted it.

A moment later, Yu Ming ordered Zhang Zhongjian to hang a huge map on the wall, and then pointed to the blue arrow on it, and said, "Now Li Mi's 100,000 army has left the tiger prison and has arrived near Zhongmu. It is less than two miles away from Jindi Pass. Do you have confidence in fighting Li Mi head-on? ”

"Have faith!" Naturally, the generals agreed without hesitation.

"Good! This king has announced his battle plan! Yu Ming got up at this time and said, "Our army will divide the troops." The 20,000-strong Northern Army, led by Luo Shixin, went north to attack Liyangcang through the Yellow River crossing. Open up the road from Hebei to Xingyang to facilitate the support of our army's follow-up troops in the future! ”

"The last will obey! If you don't take down Liyang Cang, you will come to see His Royal Highness King Zhou! Luo Shixinxiong said angrily. Previously, the Zhou army had learned from the captured defenders of Jindi Pass that Liyangcang was only guarded by 6,000 Wei troops, and most of these Wei troops were old and weak. Yuming asked him to lead an army of 10,000 to attack, but he couldn't take it, but he was really embarrassed.

Yu Ming nodded with satisfaction, and then turned his gaze to Qin Qiong and said, "General Qin, this king's southern army has 10,000 people, so you will be the main general to attack Li Mi's old nest Xingyang, do you have confidence?" ”

"My subordinates will do their best! Strive to take Xingyang within ten days! Qin Qiong also got up and took a step forward and took the arrow.

Although the Wei army in Xingyang was larger, it only had 10,000 people, which was comparable to Qin Qiong's strength. But the elite Cheng is far inferior. Moreover, Qin Qiong's army was equipped with giant siege ladders and well railings. Xingyang's defense is not as good as Jindi Pass, and with Qin Qiong's command ability and army strength, it is not difficult to conquer Xingyang.

"Hmm!" Yu Ming said in a deep voice at this time: "And this king led the remaining 100,000 soldiers to go out of Jindi Pass to meet Li Mi head-on!" ”

"Ahh Your Highness, you only use 100,000 men to fight Li Mi's 100,000 men? And still outside the city? The generals were stunned when they heard this. Didn't King Zhou ask everyone not to underestimate the enemy before the meeting? Why did he himself take such an arrogant act?

"Hehe, everyone can rest assured! Naturally, I will not be complacent and despise the enemy, but will have another arrangement! Yu Ming smiled, this battle plan was formulated after he and Hu Sizheng carefully studied it for a long time. It's enough to make Li Mi make a big heel.

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After rectifying the panic caused by the loss of Jindi Pass, Li Mi personally led the army towards Yuming's Zhou army. He commanded an army of 100,000 men, more than half of whom were veterans who had been with him for more than a year, and the other half were recruits who volunteered to join his ranks for food. Most of these recruits were hungry and landless peasants, and a small number were county soldiers who surrendered. So the combat effectiveness is much worse than those veterans.

On this day, Li Mi led his army to camp by the small river fifty miles west of Jindi Pass, where Wang Bodang had been defeated a few days earlier. Although it is a little unlucky, in terms of location and water source, it is best to be here for dozens of miles nearby. Therefore, Li Mi did not shy away from it, and still insisted on camping here.

Of course, he was much more cautious than Wang Bodang, and sent many scouts to explore the surroundings, especially a few hills and woods, and carefully inspected them several times to confirm that there was no enemy ambush before relieving himself.

Soon after setting up the camp, Li Mi summoned a cadre of his generals to his big tent to discuss how to defeat Yuming.

Although Yuming only has 150,000 horses and horses, only half of him, he is all elite soldiers. Coupled with the strong Xiongguan of Jindi Pass as a barrier, it was not easy for the Wei army to win.

It's just that even if this battle is difficult to fight now, Li Mi must fight it hard, and he must win it. Otherwise, his prestige will be lost. The previously occupied territory of Huaibei will also become Yuming's territory, and there is no possibility of recovering it.

Now, he has Wang Shichong in the west, an old enemy who has been fighting and stopping since the beginning of the Sui Dynasty; To the north, there is Yuming, the rising star who poses the greatest threat to him, who occupies his territory in Huaibei; To the south is Xiao Mill, the former Liang royal family of the Southern Dynasty, who occupies Jingxiang and is eyeing the Central Plains, and to the east is Du Fuwei, who has seized Jianghuai and is now attacking Jiangdong with all his might...... It can be said that there are enemies on all sides, and no opponent is easy to mess with. He didn't want to find a way to turn the situation around, and everyone else had developed, so he could only be trapped and die in this small piece of territory east of Luoyang.

"Brothers, now that our army has arrived at Jindi Pass, do you have any good suggestions on how to defeat the Zhou army?" Li Mi asked in a deep voice at this time.

Wang Bodang immediately said: "In the past, our army failed because the strength was inferior to others, but now that the main force of our army has arrived, it is not a problem to defeat the enemy army." In this attack on Jindi Pass, the last general is willing to be the vanguard! ”

"Humph! Let you command the army, only to be afraid of another big defeat! After hearing this, Shan Xiongxin said with some disdain.

"Shan Xiongxin, it's too much for you to say that! Everyone is the general of King Wei, and at present, the enemy should be the same enemy! Instead of tearing each other down! Xu Shiji couldn't stand it anymore, and stopped him.

When Shan Xiongxin was about to say anything more, there was a sharp sound of horses' hooves outside the camp tent, and a personal soldier rushed in, bowed and saluted: "Qiqi King Wei: There is a change in the Zhou army in Jindi Guancheng. ”

Li Mi frowned, and asked in a deep voice, "What's the change?" ”

The soldier knelt down on one knee and said: "Report to King Wei, half an hour ago, Yuming suddenly sent the Wan Zhou army to leave Jindi Pass, dig a ditch around the nearby Beibi Town, and build watchtowers, fences and various fortifications, as if to build a camp here, and put on the appearance of being a rough angle with Jindi Pass and holding it for a long time!" ”

"Long-term perseverance? What good will it do Yu Ming to confront us in this Jindi Pass area? Could it be that reinforcements have also arrived? Shan Xiongxin couldn't help but ask suspiciously.

"King Wei, why don't you go and attack those Zhou troops in Beibi Town now! Now they have only started to dig, and they have not yet built a camp! Our troops are charged with iron cavalry, and it only takes two charges to completely destroy their unbuilt fortifications! Wang Bodang was anxious to save his face, and said earnestly.

Li Mi was slightly moved, and just when his thoughts turned, there was another horse's hooves outside the camp, and another personal soldier came.

Although the battle did not begin, Li Mi also knew the importance of intelligence information during the battle, whether it was the crossing of the Yellow River or the Jindi Pass, he had already arranged to pay attention to all kinds of suspicious signs, and now he heard that his own soldiers had come to report it, and he couldn't help but be secretly frightened.

"Report to King Wei, the Zhou army in Jindiguan has sent troops!" The herald bowed and saluted.

"Where are the soldiers? How many are there? Li Mi asked in a deep voice.

"After sending troops from the west gate of Jindi Guanxi, the troops were divided into two, one went north to the Baima ferry of the Yellow River, which seemed to have the intention of attacking Liyangcang, and the other was to march south to Xingyang, the momentum was very huge, and the king of Wei was asked to make a decision quickly!"

Li Mi frowned slightly and said, "Who is leading the army in the past two weeks?" Did you find out? ”

The soldier stood up and said, "The scout captain said that he hasn't found it yet, but he just came to report the military situation first, and the detailed information should arrive later." ”

"Then he'll go and find out again." Li Mi commanded.

After the soldiers retreated, he frowned and said: "Yuming suddenly sent troops, the momentum is violent, we must not back down, when the head is blown, frustrate its spirit, otherwise he will be cultivated by the climate, and the people in Henan and Huaibei will be afraid that it will be difficult to return to our army." Our Wagang army has defeated the Sui army many times in the past five years, and it will be able to continue its previous glory at Jindi Pass! ”

Shan Xiongxin and Wang Bodang glanced at each other, but they were a little disapproving. Yu Ming is one of the world's famous generals, formerly known as the Great Sui Shuangbi. Even Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty failed to defeat Goryeo when he gathered troops from all over the country, but he was destroyed by Yuming with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

Moreover, Yuming not only destroyed Goryeo, but also led the sheep to destroy Silla and Ji, such a great achievement, I am afraid that no famous general in the history of the Great Sui can compare. How could Yu Ming be at the same level as those Sui generals that Li Mi had defeated before?

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