No, don't underestimate Lin Xu, he is not as simple as you think. ”

Just as Gao Yunce and An Moran were talking, Zhu Lihua, who had been frowning and contemplating, interrupted the conversation between the two.

After saying this, not only Gao Yunce and An Moran looked at their own commanders, but also the generals at the head of the city also looked at the Rong army that was gradually approaching the city in the distance.

"In my opinion, they will not storm the high ground, and the 20,000 soldiers and horses they have divided will only besiege the eight high ground to the death.

And it is also very likely that they will only cut off the water supply, destroy the road down the mountain, and stay high underground, and will not go to attack the soldiers on the high ground.

Because they just want the defenders on the hill to not come down.

And their real purpose is actually to attack the city, and concentrate all their efforts to conquer Huangyin in one fell swoop! ”

"What!"

"This is going to be a siege?"

The generals were obviously a little surprised when they heard Lu Lihua's analysis, although they had waited for nearly a year, and now they were looking forward to the Rong army coming to attack the city as soon as possible, so as to compete with them.

But the generals always thought in their hearts that a big battle of this magnitude would not start until a few days later.

Not to mention anything else, let's just say that this siege ladder can't be done in two or three days. What's more, except for a few highlands outside Huangyin City, nearly ten miles of grass and trees have long been cut down by the people guarding the city and transported back to the city.

Therefore, if the Rong army wants to use wood to make a ladder, they have to go further away to cut down trees.

The generals speculated about the origin of the general's speculation, but no one had the slightest concern about the siege of the eight heights.

Among all the people, only Gao Yunce and Liang Qingshu and a few others only understood the meaning of Zhu Lihua in an instant, and after they looked at the main general with happy eyes, Liang Qingshu asked softly: "What does the greater person Zuo mean, is there ...... General Wei there?"

Before he finished speaking, Liang Qingshu saw that Yu Lihua nodded slightly, and said in a heavy voice: "If you guess correctly, General Wei must have robbed the Rong army's grain and grass, and the amount of this batch of grain and grass is quite large, which affects the overall safety of the Rong army."

Therefore, Lin Xu wanted to make a desperate bet, hoping to quickly conquer Huangyin.

If not, if General Wei is allowed to harass the grain road for a long time, it will not be half a year, let alone capture the cities of Huangyin and Yaoping, which are still in our hands, and they will not even be able to occupy the five counties of Xieyudong. ”

After Zhu Lihua finished speaking, although the generals who listened carefully to the coach's analysis did not interject, they were all happy.

At this moment, Liang Qingshu also interjected at the right time: "By the way, General, I just got the news from Yaoping City, saying that Gu Zaizun has purchased a large amount of grain and grass from there. Because he was afraid that the news would leak and let the Rong army know about it, Lord Zaizuka was trying to find a way to smuggle that batch of grain back.

It is said that they used the merchants of the Chu State. ”

As soon as Liang Qingshu said this, Zhu Lihua immediately raised his hand to interrupt his words. The two nodded with a tacit understanding, knowing that the information that should be revealed could only reveal so much.

Sure enough, after Liang Qingshu finished speaking, the faces of the generals who listened carefully to the two of them became even more joyful. For them, under the siege of the Rong army, I am afraid that the only thing that worries people is water and food.

Although the grain and grass in the city are enough to supply the army for a year, who knows when the Rong people will be able to retreat, so when they heard that Yaoping has a large amount of grain and grass reserves, the generals' hearts are much more steady.

Although how to transport grain and grass to Huangyin is a new problem, it is obvious that the generals will not worry about things that will be considered in a year in advance.

"Everyone, get ready, it is estimated that they will attack the city early tomorrow morning."

Zhu Lihua's voice gently buckled on the hearts of the generals, but everyone's hearts were heavy, and this sentence was actually telling everyone.

Tomorrow, everyone will face death. This year-long war is finally about to begin.

.........

"The left is bigger, the Rong people have surrounded the three gates of the southwest and north, only the east gate has not yet found the Rong army's soldiers and horses, and their main force is currently gathering at the north gate, as if they are preparing to attack the city."

"It's so fast!"

After the herald soldiers hurriedly finished reporting, Zhu Lihua nodded in surprise to indicate that he already knew, and then he arranged for Gao Yunce to continue to observe the movements of the Rong army at the west gate, and he led the rest of the generals to the north gate.

Not far from the north gate is the plain area where the rolling yellow water hits out, the terrain is open and the view is excellent, and it is also suitable for the assembly and battle of the large army. Therefore, it is also an excellent choice for the main force of the Rong army to choose to camp here to prepare for battle.

Because the advantage of the Rong army is cavalry field warfare, those warriors from the steppe are not very willing to abandon their horses to attack the hard and towering city.

Therefore, Lin Xu arranged almost all the Rong people outside the north gate, and these people and horses were led and commanded by Bei Muer, waiting to start a field battle with the soldiers and horses in Huangyin City at any time.

Nearly 40,000 cavalry had been assembled, and they were lined up in a neat line, sharpening their swords and facing the head of Huangyin City, staring at the closed gate with a majestic and cold gaze.

"Want to go field? Are we stupid? You are willing to stand in the snow and ice, but I don't. ”

Zhu Lihua sneered, and then stopped paying attention to the seemingly mighty Rong army outside the city.

"Let's go, let's go back to the county government to bake the fire first."

Zhu Lihua said with a smile while clapping his hands, and then all the generals beside him laughed and followed his boss down the city.

"Newspaper, marshal. Commander Bemur sent a message, saying that in the past half a day, there were no soldiers and horses in Huangyin City going out of the city to meet the battle. Commander Bemur wanted to ask the marshal to allow the cavalry to return to the camp to rest. ”

Located in the center of the Rong army camp in the west of Huangyin City, on a flagpole that soars into the sky, a red sun flag is flying against the new north wind.

In addition to a round of Chiyang on that banner, there is another word "Xia" written next to Chiyang.

Under this banner was an extremely large tent, and Lin Xu, who was sitting in the tent, touched his black hair, which was less than a foot long, and said after a period of contemplation:

"No, pass the order, let Captain Bemur and Captain Ahuanu each lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to call for battle in turn, and they will not stop for a moment.

Do they think that they are here to scatter their hearts and herd horses? ”

After saying that, watching the herald soldier leave, Lin Xu called his own soldiers and asked, "What is going on with this Wang Kun and Lu Jin?" It's been half a day, why haven't they come to report yet?

You go to the two of them to take a closer look, and then ask the two of them if they can fight, if they have been frightened by the Qin army on Muyin City, then immediately go back and change to someone else. ”

"Yes."

The herald soldier immediately turned around and left the big tent with Lin Xu's words. Regarding Lin Xu's anxiety and anger, he did not hesitate at all as if he had long been accustomed to his own general's style of acting.

In fact, Lin Xu was indeed a little anxious, and his heart was full of anger.

When the divisive plan originally designed to be used during the siege of the city had just been arranged, and before it had time to use it, it was found that Niu Yong and Huang Yunhe, who had worked hard to do a lot of tricks, would be sent by Zhu Lihua to Muyang and Muyin. And they both perished and died under the two cities.

Originally, he thought that no one in the world would be the opponent of the Kunpeng Army except for Zhezhe's 20,000 elite soldiers, but under Muyin City, he witnessed with his own eyes what the strongest army in the world should look like.

The 3,000 tired army dragged his 20,000 horses for half a day, and his Kunpeng army wiped out all the 3,000 men with a battle loss ratio of 4 to 1.

This made Lin Xu have a trace of doubts about this attack on the battle of Huangyin for the first time.

Originally, he had only heard of the trickery of Lihua, but Na Lihua's achievements had never been limited to major battles of less than 100,000 horses, and there were only a few battles, so for Lin Xu, who defeated Fang Yuanheng and successively captured Qinlan, Yuanzhou, Shubei, and Xiazhong Counties, although he still attached some importance to Lihua, it was just an excellent young aristocratic general.

But this first battle made Lin Xu suffer a lot of dark losses, and what was even more fatal was that the strategy of arranging Wei Mu to enter Lishan could be said to be a direct attack on Lin Xu, which made him have to attack Huang Yin immediately.

As expected by Zhu Lihua, the Rong army occupied the homeland of the original Qin State in just five or six years, but the consequence of this was that the Qin State was plagued by continuous military disasters in various parts of the country, and the land was seriously barren, and the young and strong people who could engage in labor were either killed in the war or were killed or injured under the civil unrest.

Therefore, Lin Xu has been waiting for a year, and only after the domestic grain harvest can he raise a batch of military food for the war.

But despite this, Wei Mu's cavalry still robbed some of them, which made Lin Xu ready to make a desperate bet and immediately attack Huang Yin.

However, Lin Xu, who is dumb and knows that he is suffering from eating Huanglian, is not completely passive, just the 120,000 soldiers and horses under his command are twice as many as the Huangyin defenders, and these 120,000 soldiers and horses are the elite of the Rong army, so Lin Xu is still quite confident in capturing Huangyin City.

Unlike most generals who will adopt an overnight tactic when attacking the city, Lin Xu himself is a wise general, so he is so valued by Xiao Jinxing, and he spared no effort to give the commander of the Rong army to this young man who has not been in the army for a long time.

And Lin Xu did not live up to Xiao Jinxing's expectations, so after he came to Huangyin, he did not plan to send troops to storm Huangyin City, but sent Bei Muer to the north gate of Huangyin to attract the Qin army in the city to go out of the city for a field battle.

And he sent his generals Wang Kun and Lu Jin to lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to dig the ground and take soil, preparing to build a soil slope outside Huangyin City.

Because when Lin Xu saw that there were horse traps all over the outside of Huangyin City, the trees within a radius of more than ten miles had been cut down, and the moat of Huangyin City was no less wide and deep than the yellow water not far away, he immediately thought of a more secure idea of building an earthen slope.