Chapter 445: Capture the thief and capture the king

"The wind breaks the banner and the main culprit, this is a great omen, this battle is not good for our army, and it should not go forward," a veteran in the team sighed when he saw this vision, and with many years of experience

Everyone has the psychology of good things, and the words of the veteran spread quickly in the army, causing everyone to complain

Kang Huaizhen was furious when he heard this, and ordered the soldiers to behead the veteran for the crime of disturbing the morale of the army, saying: "The army should work together, and if there are any more fallacies to confuse the public, this person will be your fate."

Under the coercion of Kang Huaizhen, the army braved the wind and sand and gradually approached the city of Weizhou

After the Liang army after a big victory, Zhu Wen was ready to write a new victory, and went south, so that Kang Huaizhen led tens of thousands of troops to begin to pull out the camp forward, but the big army did not expect that the situation would suddenly reverse, and the lack of food and grass led to a very slow march, and the 30,000 Khitan army behind saw that the Liang army was so slow, and it was even more slow, falling far away from the village, and burning and looting, and then the Khitan army was followed by Zhu Wen himself, Zhu Wen was ready to show his strength this time, but his army was not much, except for the 50,000 horses of the main general Kang Huaizhen, he only had less than 30,000 in his hands, so Zhu Wen expanded the army in large numbers along the way, and when he met the fleeing people, he pulled into the team, and expanded to in just one monthThere are 100,000 people, where can the people in this fight are just a weapon, fortunately, the Tang army was defeated before, and tens of thousands of weapons were captured, so that there would not be a situation where wooden sticks were used as weapons, that is, the military rations could not keep up, and the three meals a day could only be reduced to one meal a day, of course, this refers to the tens of thousands of elites under the command of those refugee soldiers, but the food and clothing were not short at all

Weizhou used to be a feudal town, the commander of the festival marshal was named Wei Bo Jiedu envoy, under the governance of several Jiedu envoys, and after more than half a year of development, although it is not impregnable, it is definitely as solid as a rock, all kinds of weapons to defend the city exude cold light at the head of the city, which is daunting

The Liang army marched very slowly, so Xu Wen and the others arrived one step earlier than Kang Huaizhen, when they arrived, it was so dangerous that there was no scene of the Liang army besieging the city, Weizhou was mainly defended by the Liang State, and it didn't take long for Xu Wen to get the news

"General Xu Zhu Wen dared to come out and lead an army of 180,000 to come, he was really impatient, wasn't he afraid that Li Cunqing, the king of Hedong Jin, would send troops to copy his back road," Ge Congzhou said to Xu Wen

"This is also what I don't understand, if Zhu Wen is so hasty for his own ambitions, it is understandable, but Kang Huaizhen can't be unaware of the danger of doing this, just with his more than 10,000 soldiers in Yanggu Pass, he wants to block the offensive of Hedong army and horses, this is simply impossible, once Yanggu Pass is broken by Li Cunqing, then Zhenzhou will definitely not be protected, Zhu Wen will be a lost dog, there is no place to live," Xu Wen frowned

"It may be that Zhu Wen is dizzy, General Xu, Zhu Wen is coming to attack the news, do you want to report it to the imperial court," asked Fang Wenchong, the envoy of the Songzhou Festival behind him

Xu Wen nodded and said: "Of course, this matter must be reported to Your Majesty, otherwise you and I will leave Your Majesty in a position, but General Fang doesn't have to worry too much, he has already sent the military information to Luoyang a month ago, and a military information will be sent every three days to ensure that Your Majesty can accurately judge the specific changes in the situation ahead."

"General Xu is really a great talent" The marshals of all parts of the seat are headed by Xu Wen at this moment, and the current generals are completely convinced, Xu Wen is brave and brave, Xu Wen is not as good as Wang Yanzhang, and he is not as good as his son Xu Jing on military training, Xu Wen is not as good as Shang Rang, and he is not as good as Fang Wen in terms of arranging troops, but Xu Wen is best at analyzing the situation, commanding and dispatching, and more importantly, this old man's strength is to defend the city, thinking about how Tian Lingzi was in Shouchun City, how to fight in the wild, and Xu Wen couldn't gnaw Xu Wen, this hard bone, and later Yang Xingmi was suspicious of Xu Wen, which made Shouchun City beaten down by Duan Mingyu

After a pause, Xu Wen continued: "In the past two days, we have to send scouts to investigate the movements of Zhu Wenjun, according to the news from the details, Kang Huaizhen led 50,000 pioneers out of Liang State three days ago, and we must know their movements."

"General Xu, don't worry, the scouts have already been sent out, and I will report back as soon as there is news, but today's wind and sand are very strong, which is not conducive to the march of the army, I think Kang Huaizhen's army may not be able to indicate where to camp," Shang Rang said with a smile

"It's better to pay more attention, it's better to spend a little more effort to ensure absolute safety, let's not talk about the wind and sand today, from tomorrow onwards, the entry and exit of Weizhou City will be doubled, and the enemy spies will be strictly prevented from sneaking in to defend Weizhou City, since it is on my shoulders, I must be careful to be worthy of the people of Weizhou," Xu Wen said in a deep voice

"General Xu is really a competent general, and the last general will go down and arrange it," Shang Rang said with admiration

At the same time, five miles away from Weizhou City, Kang Huaizhen led people to brave the wind and sand, and finally rushed to the outside of the city, found a leeward place, and set up camp

Looking at the city from afar, I saw the figures on the city flickering constantly, obviously not slacking off because of the strong wind and sand

Watching for a long time, Kang Huaizhen frowned and said: "Xu Wen is really extraordinary, the army is quite rigorous, we don't have any opportunity to take advantage of it, if we want to win this battle, we must use tricks to do it, and if we want to break through the city, it is difficult and difficult to ......."

"I don't know if my father has a plan," Kang Sheng asked

Kang Huaizhen shook his head when he heard this, and the word "Chuan" wrinkled between his eyebrows

At this moment, a farmer drove a large flock of sheep in the distance, and a dozen sheep ran around, but the farmer only pulled one of the rams with his hands, and all the sheep followed closely behind the farmer

Seeing the situation in front of him, Kang Huaizhen's eyes began to shrink for a while, and he seemed to realize in his heart that the ram was obviously the leader of the flock, as long as the farmer enslaved it, all the sheep were safe and obedient, if Weizhou City was compared to a flock of sheep, then Xu Wen was the leader of Weizhou, as long as he died, Weizhou was bound to be in chaos, and his side might be able to take Weizhou City without much effort

"Capture the thief first, capture the king first," Kang Huaizhen narrowed his eyes and muttered in a low voice, and then his eyes opened suddenly, as if he had made up his mind in his heart, and returned to the camp one after another with everyone

"Sheng Er, as a father, has already thought of a plan to break the city," after returning to the camp, Kang Huaizhen stroked his beard with his right hand and said

"I don't know what my father has planned," Kang Sheng asked with a puzzled expression