Zhen Lingdan smiled and didn't say anything after hearing Chao Xing's words, after all, there were too many people involved, and he didn't know what to say, so he coughed lightly and changed the topic and said, "Let's get back to the main topic, and try our best to capture the city in the end." ”

Chao Xing nodded and said: "The reason why they built the city, the first is the problem of changing customs I just mentioned, and the second is to prevent wind and sand, not really to defend against the enemy, so the city wall is not too strong, it can be destroyed without artillery trebuchet, and when there is an invasion of foreign enemies, they still go out of the city to meet the battle as a defense." ”

Yili put the conditions of Libivara and Tatar more severely, with more wind and sand and less grassland, so Chao Xing said that he could understand this, since this is the case, the number of cities is definitely not a few, because as long as the population gathering place must block the encroachment of wind and sand, so it is necessary to build a city to block the wind and sand, Zhen Lingdan put forward his own conjecture, Chao Xing gave a positive answer, and indeed Yili distributed the city densely, even if he has been to Yili, he can't say it clearly,

Zhen Lingdan suddenly laughed wickedly after learning about the situation, and then asked: "Brother Chao, you said that if you say that you are a member of Yili, I will only open artillery to surround but not attack, and open a gap in the encirclement, what will you do?" ”

"The enemy should be several times more with our army, and they should flee from it, and vice versa, if you are afraid of them now, where do you dare to confront us head-on, if there is a gap, you must flee in a hurry." Chao Xing said,

Zhen Lingdan nodded and said, "Then let me ask again, is there a particularly strong and large capital in Yili." Chao Xing seemed to understand, and replied with a smile: "Of course there is, Yili is what we named him after his capital, and the capital is Yili Li, which is a strong city." ”

Zhen Lingdan stood up and said to the map: "Tomorrow we will drive out of the city, there are a lot of Mongols in Yili, they are nomads, as long as they are in the prime of life, they can fight, even children can ride horses and take bows and arrows to kill my Ming warriors, so their soldiers are very easy to expand, and they can even go into battle without training, but even if they are fast, they will not be able to recruit a large army in a few days, bows, arrows, sabers, food and grass need to be prepared, okay, let's give them time to prepare, and break them one by one and force them to the capital, And then catch them all. ”

"I have two questions, first, after the division of troops, if the enemy's remaining forces find one of our teams to fight hard, I am afraid that after we divide the troops, we will not be able to carry out a large battle of the army, and the enemy's cavalry will suffer, and second, why don't we go straight to Huanglong and directly take the enemy's capital, so as to destroy the regime of Boyan Bell, wouldn't it be faster." Chao Xing asked,

Zhen Lingdan replied: "One, the enemy doesn't have the courage to do this now, you said it so well that you can go straight to Huanglong, we just want to give him a kind of pressure, send troops and horses to drag branches between the horse's tails, and spread the flag high to confuse the enemy, thinking that this is a large army directly approaching their capital, if nothing else, Boyan Bell will shrink his forces as soon as possible, and defend Kyoto, our advance troops will not attack the city after they arrive, and build a high village to consume with the enemy, and when the strategy around us is implemented, I have another clever plan, so because he shrinks his troops, Therefore, after we divide the troops, the troops and horses will be extremely relaxed, and I think as you said before, as long as you fire a cannon to break through the city wall, you can force them away. ”

"As for the second point, why don't you go straight to Huanglong now, what we want is to defeat Yili Jiangli, not to overthrow Boyan Bell's regime, defeating him personally is not the goal, conquering their entire nation is our foundation, only by sweeping them all in one net, can we completely let them die down and surrender to our Ming Dynasty, in short, in a word, either don't fight, if you want to fight, you will change them at one time." Zhen Lingdan waved her fist and said with a hint of wind,

Chao Xing said with a little doubt: "You have said it, if there is no accident, but what if there is an accident, we don't have many soldiers, and we can't withstand such a toss." Zhen Lingdan smiled and said: "The soldiers are dangerous, and the war will be taken by surprise, and there is a gamble, a gamble on the lives of the soldiers under him, if the bet is right, we will win a big victory, if the bet is wrong, it will be a big deal for me to die with the soldiers, it depends on whether Boyan Bell can guess my intentions, this is a contest about luck, and I have no regrets if I lose." ”

After thinking for a long time, Chao Xing nodded heavily, and said, "I'll play this game with you." The two men pointed to the map and began to construct a plan of attack until sunset,

After preparing for a day, on the third day, the Ming army went out of the city, the soldiers were divided into four routes, one way pretending to be a large army to approach the capital of Yili, and the other three roads were to distinguish those small cities to attack, the battle situation was very smooth as Zhen Lingdan predicted, and there was no decent resistance in the small city at all, often the Ming army had not killed before it had fled in a hurry, the Mongols, men, women and children almost all rode horses, and it was not ambiguous to escape, and the Ming army could enter the empty city to rest as long as they rushed to a city, because there were still people in the city, long gone,

Fifteen days later, the Ming army gathered all the troops to put the city down, the original army had built a good walled city, the Ming army calmly entered, and did not rush to attack the city, one is that Zhen Lingdan did not give an order, and the other is really unable to attack the city, because Yili put the capital of the city and also surrounded the residents of this country, they all shouted to enter the city for refuge, and even some people entered the city in the name of going to join the army.

But even so, no one could enter the city, and the gates were tightly closed, for three days before the capital had been overcrowded, and now it was even more impassable than it was outside.

Across the people in Yili, Zhen Lingdan looked up at the city and said with a smile: "I have traveled all over a country and finally met a decent city." ”

"Yes, if you want to attack it, I'm afraid it's a little difficult, not to mention that there are so many people in front of us, in case Boyan Bell gathers all these people together to deal with us, won't we fall into the net." Chao Xing looked worriedly at the people in the city who were several times larger than himself and said,

Zhen Lingdan shook his head and said: "That's why I want to take this strategy, if we first attacked the Yellow Dragon and attacked his capital, I am afraid that the capital will not be defeated, but will be surrounded by people on both sides of the enemy, now, we don't have any worries, we just need to be firmly surrounded, with the cooperation of firearms and crossbow trebuchets, do we still need to be afraid of these defenseless tartars, and the main force in Yili will not be able to get out of the city, they are also blocked in the city, the capital is strong, However, these people surrounding the city are our first wave of weapons, and it is likely that after a wave, we will be able to enter the capital without blood. ”

"We are enemies, we are clansmen in the city, and the first reaction of people in danger is to run to their relatives, do you want to" Chao Xing looked at Zhen Lingdan in surprise,

Zhen Lingdan nodded coldly: "If it's not my clan, why should I have good thoughts, Brother Chao wants to blame me, that's what I think." ”