As expected by the top brass of both sides.

When the good news of the two battles in Nanshan Town came, and today Xue Li led the army to kill two enemy generals and killed more than 2,000 enemies, and the morale of the two armies on both sides has changed significantly.

On the one hand, it is low, and on the other hand, it is completely two extremes.

There is no doubt that the overall strength of Lan Yuguo's side is stronger, but Yumen Pass is blocked by the city wall, and the morale is like a rainbow, if it is hard to fight, it will be an unacceptable result for both sides.

Chen Bao has decided to give up attacking Yumen Pass!

There are two reasons, one is that it is very difficult to attack the Yumen Pass, which is beyond doubt.

Bai Qi's name has begun to spread in a small area in Lan Yuguo, Chen Ying is his younger brother, after the people who followed Chen Ying came back before, Chen Ying's old department told him all the whole process of the original World War, and he was able to defend the Yumen Pass under the circumstances at that time, Bai Qi's ability was undoubted.

Second, even if the Yumen Pass is finally defeated, the casualties of the own side will not be low, and it is conservatively estimated that at least more than 30,000 people will die, and it will be a profit or a loss to use 30,000 people to attack the Yumen Pass?

For Lan Yuguo as a whole, it must be profitable, after all, Lan Yuguo is too poor, if he really loots in Xizhou, this will definitely be a big profit.

But for Chen Bao personally, the benefits are extremely limited, because all the dead are his soldiers!

Lanyu is different from the four great powers, the army of Lanyu is almost all personal private army, they nominally obey the king of Lanyu, but in fact they are all types of kings, just like the relationship between the four great powers and the Wu Dynasty.

It is true that after looting the Jade Gate Pass, he can get countless benefits, even if some of them are handed over to Lan Yuguo, he can also leave a large part of the benefits.

However, if your own casualties are too large, then it is debatable whether you can hold on to this advantage.

If his opponents are willing to give him time to develop slowly, and when he turns all these benefits into combat power, then he will definitely earn it.

But will those people get his wish?

Chen Bao used his knees to think about what the result would be.

When he came this time, he actually had no intention of completely breaking through the Yumen Pass, but just took advantage of the reason why Chen Ying was killed, and in the name of revenge, he led the army to gain benefits.

Of course, if he could break through the Yumen Pass with a small loss, then he would definitely be willing.

But now, before the official start of the battle, he has lost nearly one percent of his troops, and he has also killed two generals under his command, and now there are only two generals left at the peak of the spiritual realm under his hands.

Bai Qi's ability to command the army is not bad, he has also seen Xue Li's combat power, and there is also Luo Cheng who led Yanyun's eighteen cavalry, no matter how you count it, this battle should not be fought.

But he was not reconciled!!

has lost so much, not to mention that he still has an advantage in terms of strength now, it is really a loss to go back like this!

"Pass my general order, feign attack Yumen Pass tomorrow, and try the truth."

In any case, the appearance still has to be done, the morale is already very low, if it is affected again, it will be difficult to make an attack at Yumen Pass.

The next day, under the personal leadership of Chen Bao, Lan Yuguo dispatched 30,000 horses and horses, and pressed the formation with 5,000 heavy cavalry, a total of 35,000 people approached Yumen Pass.

The Yumen Pass side is naturally like a great enemy, Chu Yuqing, Bai Qi, Xue Li and others have climbed to the top of the city early, and Bai Qi is constantly sending out instructions one after another, prepare to defend the city, this will be a tough battle!

Of course, this is their idea, after all, they don't know what Chen Bao has in mind.

But as soon as the battle began, Bai Qi frowned, a little more relaxed than expected......

"Something is wrong!"

Xue Li also saw it.

Chu Yuqing glanced at him and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Xue Li pointed to the battlefield below and said: "From the beginning of the battle to the present, Chen Bao has been holding his troops, this is not like an all-out siege at all, but like a feint, half an hour has passed, and the casualties on both sides of us have combined are less than a thousand, how is this possible?" ”

Siege warfare is the heaviest momentum!

Because of the obstruction of the city wall, the besieging side must work hard, otherwise it will be difficult to continue.

First of all, it is necessary to consume the items such as rolling logs, stones, boiling water, and fire oil prepared by the defenders, after all, the space on the city wall is limited, and when these items are consumed, it is time to attack with all their might, and then the battle will enter the white heat.

If the defenders of the city are not caught, then the besieging side can quickly climb to the top of the city and start a close-range white-knuckle battle, at this time there are many things for the two sides to compete, such as the morale of the soldiers, skills, equipment, whether they are well-trained, how the generals command, etc.

There are many ways to affect the outcome of a war, but a battle similar to a siege war, that is, there is almost no conspiracy to speak of, and no matter how powerful the strategists in the world are, there is no way to take a city on the frontal battlefield without blood.

Because this requires soldiers and generals to fight with their lives!

Of course, the kind of defenders who take the initiative to open the city gate and surrender is not counted, it is not called "frontal hard fighting".

"When you say that, it seems to be true." Chu Yuqing nodded thoughtfully.

In the previous bloody battle with Chen Ying's 30,000 people, he had experienced two tragic siege battles, and the casualties on both sides were very large.

Although the current Yumen Pass garrison is no longer comparable to the original, this situation is indeed too weird, and it shouldn't be so plain anyway.

His intuition told him that there was a conspiracy, and Chen Bao must be playing some kind of ghost idea, but he was not so smart that he couldn't guess the other party's thoughts, and he was simply confused.

"What the hell is it?"

Chu Yuqing glanced back at Bai Qi and asked him, "Do you know what Chen Bao's plans are?" ”

Bai Qi shook his head: "I don't know for the time being, but we can't take it lightly." ”

No matter what Chen Bao planned, the more than 30,000 people outside the city were not decorations, if his side was lax, the feint attack would immediately turn into a fierce attack, and Bai Qi would naturally not make such a low-level mistake.

On the other hand, Chen Bao's side, he is not in a hurry, he is waiting!

He was waiting for the information from Nanshan Town to come back.

The battle has been going on, and through today's feint, Chen Bao can also see that Bai Qi is indeed not easy to match, and he didn't leave him a chance at all.

Not only did he not give him a chance, but even created a lot of trouble for him, Bai Qi deliberately exposed his flaws several times, and as a result, he lost more than a thousand people, but fortunately, he reacted quickly enough and stopped the loss in time, otherwise I am afraid that there will be more than this casualty.

"Report!"

In the afternoon, near the end of the evening, a light horse quickly rushed into the formation of Lan Yuguo's army, came to Chen Bao, and brought him the news he wanted.

"General Qiyu, General Zhang and others have successfully killed Yanyun's eighteen cavalry, the enemy general Luo Cheng fled alone, in order to prevent changes, he did not dare to affect the general's plan, General Zhang has led the army back to the camp, waiting for the general's next instructions!"

Chen Bao smiled "haha" and said, "Good job!" ”

Then, there was another attack, and then Chen Bao ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

After the first battle, from almost noon to evening, there were less than 5,000 soldiers killed on both sides, of which nearly 4,000 died on the Lanyuguo side, and more than 1,000 on the Yumen Pass side.

Chu Yuqing originally thought it was very good, no matter what, the casualties of the other party were more than his own side, and after a few more times, no matter how many troops on the Lan Yujun side were, he couldn't withstand the consumption, but the next news he got made him dumbfounded.

"What?"

Chu Yuqing looked at the soldier who came back in front of him in surprise.

"You said that Yanyun's eighteen horsemen were all wiped out, and Luo Cheng was chased and fled, and there is no trace so far??"

[PS: Interested friends may wish to guess how Chen Bao killed Yanyun's eighteen rides (manual funny). 】