"Wai Huang Ling is going to resist to the end."

Seeing that the people sent by the two or five hundred lord Yang Xiong to shout and persuade him to surrender were shot back by a burst of arrows under the city, Heifu shook his head and said to a few chiefs beside him.

They arrived in Waihuang County yesterday evening, which was originally a city of the Song Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period, and returned to the Wei State during the Warring States Period. The size of this county is about the same as that of Anlu County, because it is located in the hinterland of Wei State, it rarely encounters wars, and the defense ability of Waihuang is far inferior to Chenliu, and the wall is only three zhang high.

When the people heard this, they were not sad but rejoiced, for if the city was surrendered without attacking, they would not have gained merit.

"Looking at the preparation of the city, the morale of Waihuang is not low, this may be our first hard battle."

With that, Hefu looked back at his own camp, and when they arrived yesterday, in addition to a thousand soldiers, they were joined by a thousand prisoners who had come from the side of the Great Beam, a total of two thousand men. Then, on the orders of Yang Xiong, he dug up the soil and cut down trees, and hurriedly built a camp for the soldiers to settle down.

After gaining a foothold and the enemy city refused to surrender, fighting became the only option, and soon, a herald came to find Heifu, and asked him to go to the big tent with the other tun chiefs and hundred generals to listen to the order......

This kind of large tent with a rate of 1,000 people is actually a little wider than an ordinary camp tent, with two or five hundred lords, also known as the "rate chief", Yang Xiong, sitting in the middle, and two five hundred lords on his left and right hands, Zhang Qi (yǐ) from Wancheng in Nanyang, and Cheng Wuwu from Yidao, Nanjun.

More than a dozen hundred generals and tun chiefs sat at the bottom, and Heifu's position was far away from the main seat, but very close to the tent door, which showed that his status in this army was not high.

Although Yang Xiong is a child of the clan and likes to pay attention to clothing and accessories, he didn't talk much nonsense, and soon asked: "This rate is ordered by the middle to collect the outer Huang in the north, but the outer Huang Ling does not know the general trend, and he actually commands the soldiers in the city to resist stubbornly. Therefore, the crowd has gathered and dispersed, and the soldiers have gone out and not returned in vain, and this city will be pulled out! Can the second and third sons have a strategy to break the city? ”

Wancheng Lieutenant Shi Zhang Qi has always been scheming, so he arched his hand and said: "The method of using soldiers, ten are to surround it, and five are to attack it, but now our army has only more than 2,000 people, and there are thousands of Ding Zhuang in the outer Yellow City, after scouts went around the city to investigate, they said that on each city wall in the southeast and northwest, there are soldiers in armor, there are guests with swords, and there are people in the market with farm tools, at least 500 people. Taken together, the enemy and our forces are equal, and the general method of besieging and besieging the city may not be effective. “

Yang Xiong said: "Oh, what do the five hundred lords think, how should they attack the city?" “

"The art of war is cloudy, you don't have to win a battle, you can't talk about war, you don't have to pull out an attack, you can't talk about attacking." According to the subordinates, it is better to ...... Lure the enemy out of the city! ”

Heifu listened below, shaking his head secretly.

This Zhang Qi was born in the school and learned a lot of laws and the art of war, but he didn't fight a few actual battles, and he was quite a bit according to the map.

Previously, he had proposed to march all night and launch a night attack on Wai Huang, and Yang Xiong also adopted his suggestion. But when Heifu and the others put on armor and trotted thirty miles out of breath to reach Waihuang, they found that Waihuang Ling in the city was not stupid, he was very vigilant, and he had already detected that the Qin army was approaching, the city gate was closed, the torches at the head of the city were bright, and the Qingxia county guards patrolled overnight, waiting for them!

At this time, Zhang Qi was still excitedly saying: "We pretended to be tired of traveling, and let the prisoners and soldiers disperse to challenge the city, while the elite soldiers hid in the camp. Ding Zhuang, soldiers, and doormen in the city are equivalent to our army, and Huang Ling sees that our army is tired and scattered, or will go out of the city to face the battle. You can first let the soldiers defeat them, induce them to chase them, and then set up an ambush to attack them. After annihilating this group of enemies out of the city, storm the county seat. In this way, the remnants of the enemy in the city are already frightened and demoralized, and it is easy to take the outside yellow! ”

He was happy in his mind, but Heifu thought it was funny, since the commanders in the city were not stupid, it was undoubtedly a fool's dream to rely on poor acting skills to lure the enemy into deceiving them out of the field.

Besides, if you can defend the city, why risk going out of the city to fight?

In the Spring and Autumn Period, the nobles paid attention to dignified battles, and everyone put on a posture in the field, and won and lost in one day. Even the epoch-making Art of War, because of the limitations of the times, rarely talks about siege, and also says that siege is the bottom.

But when it came to the Warring States, the siege of the city was already a thing that the soldiers had to face.

During the Warring States period, the population density and the degree of land development were very low compared with the era after the unification of the Han Dynasty. Low population density means that major populations and resources are concentrated in the vicinity of major cities; The low degree of land development means that the transportation conditions are limited, and before the Qin State engaged in large-scale transportation construction, even in the Central Plains, the main roads were very limited, and there was often only one post road between the counties.

The above two points determine the style of war attack in the Warring States Period, which can only be based on pulling points and pushing flat, that is, conquering one city by one along the post road, and at most adding a little bit of encirclement and blocking the trick.

Because, the concentration of population and resources determines that the attacker must capture the stronghold of the city, and it is pointless to occupy an undeveloped land where birds don't; However, the limited road traffic has caused great restrictions on the advance of the army and the transportation of logistics supplies, and it is doomed that it is impossible for the attacker to bypass the enemy's frontline cities and play frog jumping battles.

As a result, the attacker's offensive route is basically determined, and the defender only needs to concentrate the main forces on a certain major city on the enemy's offensive route and defend it to the death. Even in the Battle of Yanying, the Qin army had already occupied a great advantage, but it was still unable to bypass Yancheng and attack the hinterland of Chu, so Bai Qi had to pull out the city with difficulty.

Therefore, at the strategic level, the battlefield environment of the Warring States period was indeed favorable to the defender.

In terms of tactics, in the era of cold weapons, the siege of the city, the defender of the city has a great advantage, and thousands of people are guarded, and tens of thousands of male soldiers can often be blocked, unless there are really a few people who are not afraid of death to open the city gate.

That Waihuang Ling Zhang Er is obviously not this kind of person, and he is also afraid that the Qin army outside the city is only the forward, and there are large troops behind.

Heifu thought so in his heart, but he was not stupid enough to refute his boss's proposal in public, and could only hope that the main general Yang Xiong would reject this plan.

However, what is surprising is that Yang Xiong adopted it again, and asked everyone to go down immediately to prepare, or be responsible for luring the enemy, or hide in the camp as an ambush.

"What does this captain want to do?" Heifu was a little puzzled, judging from his words, Yang Xiong was not a stupid person who didn't know how to fight.

Sure enough, as Heifu expected, after letting the prisoners and soldiers go out of the camp casually and pretending to challenge for a day, Wai Huang Ling still had a closed door, and Wai Huang Ling had no desire to attack at all. That county man Zhang knew very well what he wanted, so he could run away after holding it for three or five days, repelling an attack, and proving that he had not failed the Wei State.

Seeing that his strategy had failed again, Zhang Qi's face was a little ugly, but at this time, he still led Yang Xiong to comfort him and put forward a real battle plan.

"It seems that this outer yellow has to be attacked!"

Looking at Yang Xiong's smiling face, the black man under the tent can be figured out.

Yang Xiong, the leader of the clan, seems to have no opinions, and he summons everyone to ask for advice every time he fights, but in fact, he is a very scheming person. He always seems to want to deliberately let Zhang Qi, who likes to give advice and steal the limelight, put forward some ineffective strategies, and after Zhang Qi was slapped in the face, Yang Xiong stood up again and put forward what he thought.

In this way, he can be praised for being a good listener to his subordinates, and on the other hand, he is able to turn the wrong strategy around every time it is crucial.

Sure enough, after Yang expressed his true thoughts, he immediately attracted a burst of admiration from everyone in the tent.

"In the past two days, although I seem to have sent people to lure the enemy into attacking, in fact, this is only a trick. The real purpose is to let the craftsmen build siege equipment, and now the siege equipment is ready, and the morale of the enemy army in the first few days has also slackened, from tomorrow, the second and third sons should go all out to attack the city! ”

In the end, Yang Xiong concluded with a sentence from "Wei Xuanzi", indicating his determination to go to the outside of the yellow.

"The art of war is cloudy, some soldiers are better than the court, some are better than the wilderness, and some are better than the market. Dare to fight to win, give in and retreat will lose! The second and third sons, dare to ask tomorrow to pull out the city, who wants to be the first? ”

While speaking, Yang Xiong set his eyes on Heifu's side!