Chapter 638: The People's Will

For the siege battle, it is the first time that the Xuan army has come into contact, and even the entire Bailuan Continent has heard of this tactic for the first time, there is no precedent!

However, with the current Die Hard Army, siege warfare is the best tactic, because it is not far from their main camp, which is very suitable for encircling and blockading Cheongju City!

Everyone was lost in thought, weighing the pros and cons of this tactic. The biggest drawback of this siege is that it will take a long time, with the current situation of troops, the siege may take three or four days at most to break the city, but it is likely to pay a great price!

And the siege battle is estimated to take a month, or even longer!But this is not a problem for the Die Hard Army at all, even if they officially join the Xuan Army, Xiaobao will let them continue to garrison in the Domain Saint Pass, so let alone a month, even if they besiege Qingzhou for a year, it will not be a problem!

The grain and grass of the Tiger Courage Army can be supplied from Fuhugang, and the Xuanjun Army sent people to take over Fuhugang, leaving a small number of garrisons, and the army can continue to go north from Fuhugang!

In this way, for the Tiger Courage Army, it is a process of recuperation, and if it is surrounded without fighting, it will not consume troops, and for Cheongju City, it will be a disaster!

As long as they are alive, they need to open their mouths to eat, and tens of thousands of garrisons and hundreds of thousands of people are together, and the grain and grass will decrease day by day! Soon there will not be enough grain and grass in the city, and then Langtu and Yu Chengze will implement grain control, and then it will become a forced requisition of grain!

The older and less the food, Langtu will definitely choose to protect the soldiers and not the people, in that case, the tactics of all the people that he and Yu Chengze have worked hard to build will collapse, and when they are hungry, it can happen at any time, and it is strange that the people of Qingzhou do not grab food!

If the Die Hard Army wants to wait for work, the people of Cheongju will naturally help him open the city gate and flee outside the city!

If the Die Hard Army wants to end the battle early, then take advantage of the chaos in the city to attack the city, and it doesn't take much effort to plant the Die Hard flag on the gate tower of Cheongju City!

"Okay! Then surround it and don't fight! I'll surround Qingzhou City into an iron bucket, and not a single fly will let it fly out!" Mo Zhan clenched his fists and said through gritted teeth. Today's battle has become a great shame for him, and if he doesn't take revenge, it is estimated that even he himself will not be able to raise his head in front of his brothers!

Yum shook his head and said, "No, no, no! You don't need to be surrounded on all sides, you can surround three sides!"

Mo Zhan was stunned for a moment, and let go of one side on three sides, wouldn't it be easy for the people inside to sneak out?

Seeing the doubts on everyone's faces, Bai Shengzhi smiled faintly and said to everyone: "The siege on all sides gives the people of Qingzhou despair, and the siege will drag on for too long! And leaving one side is also leaving a hope, prompting them to escape from the city as soon as possible! We are breaking the city, not slaughtering the city, and if the people want to escape, then let them come out! Only give, do not enter, the city defense will be broken!"

"But in this case, what if the city defenders escaped pretending to be civilians?" Bu Ying looked at Bai Yuzhi with some strange eyes.

When leaving a city gate and giving hope to the people, it is also equivalent to giving hope to the city defenders, and when the hungry city guards take off their military uniforms and escape from the people, who can see it?

Without Bai Shengzhi's answer, Xianyang had already said the answer: "Then let them escape! You occupy the city, not to kill everyone! As long as you capture the city guard general and the prefect, those soldiers don't need to be wiped out! We have gone north, and those soldiers have nowhere to go, either they will join your Tiger Courage Army, or they will return to their hometowns to farm, with their numbers, if there is no city to defend, they will not be able to raise too many storms!"

Mo Zhan and Bu Ying glanced at each other, and both nodded slightly. The thinking of the Xuanjun is different for them, and they are very clear about the purpose of the war and the concept of the enemy. That's why people have developed to the point where they are today in such a short period of time!

On the other hand, the 300,000 Tigers of Courage may have been on the frontier for too long, dealing with Hu Xiao too much, and they have become indifferent and bloodthirsty in their hearts.

Xiaobao looked at Mo Zhan and Bu Ying, and said to them with a solemn face: "Two generals, what have you understood from this battle?"

Mo Zhan's face turned red, and he nodded with a wry smile: "After all, the Die Hard Army is still an ordinary person, not much more powerful than others, before, we were really too proud!"

Bu Ying also nodded on the side and sighed deeply. They have always believed that the Tiger Courage Army is the elite unit of the Yin Army, and they look down on the troops of Tiger and Tiger Spirit, thinking that their combat effectiveness is low, and they will have no general power and no soldiers!

But in today's battle, those people who usually make them look down on them slapped them in the face! Even if your Die Hard Army used to deal with Hu Xiao's people and was not good at attacking cities, it can only show that your Die Hard Army is nothing remarkable, and it is not a victorious army!

Shi Wuce said sharply on the side: "The two generals are wrong! You did lose this battle, but not because you lost in pride, not because you underestimated the enemy, but because you lost in the hearts of the people!"

Mo Zhan and Bu Ying looked at each other, and they didn't understand the meaning of Shi Wuce's words for a while, but looking at the expressions of Xuanbao and Xianyang and others, they had to say that this sentence of the Xuanjun military advisor was indeed to the point!

Seeing the blank looks on the faces of Mo Zhan and Bu Ying, Shi Wuce sighed and shook his head and said, "Maybe even the king of Shujing has never told you that fighting a war has always been to win the hearts of the people, right?

Faced with such a question, Mo Zhan and Bu Ying looked suddenly and lowered their heads in shame. The Die Hard are indeed brave and fearless, which is their most obvious advantage, but the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, arrogance and ruthlessness!

They did abide by military discipline and never harassed the people, but they also went too far, and they had no contact with the people, even if they had family members living in Cheongju City, they rarely went home to visit!

Such soldiers and civilians have no feelings, and the people of Cheongju are also unfamiliar with the Die Hard, in comparison, it is those city defenders who really defend them, not the Die Hard!

Therefore, they firmly believe that once the Die Hard or the Xuan Army break through the city, they will rob them of their food and property and kill them all! In their eyes, whether it is Hu Xiaoren, or the Tiger Courage, or the Xuan Army, they are all the same, they are all cruel, and only the defenders of the city are the ones they are most worthy of their reliance!

If the relationship between the Die Hard and the people of Cheongju was slightly better than it is now, this battle would not have allowed the Die Hard to have such casualties!

Mo Zhan and Bu Ying are not fools, they can become the right-hand men of the King of Shujing, and it is not by luck, but the previous combat concepts and habits make them accustomed to hard-hitting fights, and they are unwilling to use their brains, at this moment, hearing Shi Wuce's analysis, they also understood the meaning, sighed, and nodded.

It's not early, Mo Zhan and Bu Ying got up to say goodbye, Xiaobao and the others didn't stay too much, after all, they were really tired after a day's battle.

Mo Zhan bowed his hand to Xiaobao and the others, and said with a sincere face: "Thanks to your sincere teachings tonight, Mo has really benefited a lot! This battle was defeated well, so that the whole army of the Die Hard Army knows that there are people outside the people, and there is a sky outside the sky! Marshal, since the old marshal gave you the talisman, now you are the generalissimo of the Tiger Courage Army, tomorrow I will gather the whole army outside the south city gate, please take command!"

"No!" Xiao Bao shook his head resolutely and said to Mo Zhan: "I never thought of being the generalissimo of the Die Hard Army!

Mo Zhan and Bu Ying looked at Xiaobao in surprise and said, "Will the old marshal come back?"

Xianyang laughed and said, "When he unties the knot, he will return to the Tiger Courage! This time will not be very long, you just wait!"

The two generals, who had been depressed for a day, were in a better mood when they heard the news! The Die Hard Army was in Mo Li's hands, and the Die Hard Army could be regarded as the real Tiger Courage Army! And although Xuan Bao was resourceful, such a character did not need to lead the troops himself, he was a king, not a general!

Mo Zhan arched his hand and said to Xiaobao: "Since this is the case, then I will divide 100,000 Tiger Courage Army, supply the Xuan Army, and go north with the Xuan Army! 150,000 Tiger Courage Army is enough to besiege the city!"

Xiaobao still wanted to excuse himself, but Bu Ying next to him said to him: "The generalissimo handed over the talisman to Lord Xuanzun, and he already said that the Die Hard Army has joined the Xuan Army, and it is also our obligation to send troops to participate in the war!

At this point, Xiaobao no longer shirked, nodded and said to the two: "Okay, on behalf of Xuanjun, I welcome the Die Hard brothers to join!"

Fuhugang wants to leave at least 20,000 defenders, and for the wealthy Yin army, 20,000 people is nothing, it is like a drop in the bucket! However, for the Xuan army, 20,000 people are not a minority, and if they can replenish 100,000, it will undoubtedly be a relief in the snow!

The people put the gate reserved for the siege at the east gate of Cheongju City. This place is close to Fuhugang, which allows Cheongju City to see what kind of life the people of Fuhugang occupied by the Xuan Army live, and it is also a promotion for them to go out of the city!

Everyone sent Mo Zhan and Bu Ying out of the camp, watched them disappear into the night, and was about to turn back, but saw a Xuan soldier running over, kneeling on one knee and saying: "Emperor Qi, there are brothers on the second street who broke into the house, and now the people and the brothers have quarreled!"

"Bastard!" The fairy sheep who have always had a good temper scolded angrily, this is a death order not to enter the house, and someone dares to ignore the military order, it seems that this guy is tired of life!

The second street was not far in front of the garrison camp, and Xiaobao didn't speak, but walked forward with his legs raised. All the generals also followed behind, feeling uneasy, not knowing that the guy who didn't have long eyes was the soldier of the legion!

If Emperor Zun scolded a few times, the matter would be easy to solve. If he doesn't say a word like now, it means that this matter will be investigated to the end, and even these generals can't be exempted from responsibility!