Chapter 444: Chen Cang's recovery

Having been at war with the Yuan people all year round, Xu Feng knew that it was not difficult to attract the attention of the Yuan people, but the difficult thing was to continue to attract their attention while ensuring that he was not entangled and annihilated. ｗｗ?ｗ?．?

There was no better way, Xu Feng had to send a total of eighty people to reconnoiter in sixteen directions, five people in each direction, and the search range reached a radius of one hundred and fifty miles. In this way, Xu Feng's team had enough time to adjust the strategy of attracting the Yuan people to pursue the troops, and enough time to organize a retreat, and everything was secure.

Wang Lixin arrived in Hanzhong, and the Hanzhong guards also treated him politely when he saw that it was Wang Lixin, but he was obviously coping. Wang Lixin wanted to try to rely on his own prestige to borrow troops, so he didn't take out Shi Bin's handwritten letter at the beginning. It's a pity that he was so good at talking that he drank three pots of water, but the Hanzhong guard only said that he didn't dare to borrow troops without the order to transfer troops.

Knowing that he couldn't do things on his own, Wang Lixin had no choice but to take out Shi Bin's handwritten letter. Seeing Shi Bin's handwritten letter, the Hanzhong guard immediately stopped dealing with it and immediately issued a military order to mobilize 5,000 elites.

Perhaps because he was worried that his master would get into trouble, the guards of the Hanzhong guard repeatedly hinted that it was not possible, but they were slapped by the guard and dizzy.

Seeing such a huge contrast, Wang Lixin immediately became depressed. The transfer of troops by himself has to go through the emperor and the Privy Council, and Shi Bin's transfer of troops only requires a handwritten letter, secretly sighing that people are more popular than people.

It was useless to lament, and it was impossible to quarrel with the Hanzhong guard, Wang Lixin just took the military order and left the guard's office quickly. Then he took 5,000 soldiers and horses and two months' grain and grass back to the meeting place that he had agreed with Shi Bin before and waited for him.

Shi Bin met Wang San who was waiting for him there in Guangyuan. I haven't seen each other for many days, the two brothers have a lot of words, and the matter is not very urgent, so Shi Bin decided to rest and rest. After resting, discuss the plan with his first think tank and then go to capture Chen Cang.

After two days of rest.

"Brother Xian, what do you think of the plan I discussed with Wang Lixin and Xu Feng?" Shi Bin asked.

"Big brother, this plan is very good, it is very suitable to send one hundred and twenty cities, and it is also very good to pretend to be disabled, it would be better if there were some others." Wang San said with a smile.

"Something else?" After hearing this, Shi Bin immediately understood that Wang San had bad water in his stomach. But he liked this bad water, so he immediately asked.

"Big brother, it's better to send some croton, oleander or something, and open foreign meat for those Yuan people." Wang San said with a smile.

It turned out to be to send laxatives and poisons to the Yuan people, and a smile immediately appeared on Shi Bin's face, and he said that he wanted Wang San to prepare immediately. But he didn't expect Wang San to just smile and shout, 'Bring it in'. Two baskets of croton and half a basket of oleander branches and leaves were placed in front of him.

"Big brother plans to fight with Yuan people outside the city with Wang Lixin?"

"Yes, what I want most is to attract some of the defenders in Chencang City. If we can't attract them, we must also make sure that the pursuers outside the city can no longer pose a threat to me, and it would be good to let them retreat north or retreat to Chencang. Shi Bin said.

"It's to knock down the Yuan people outside the city, and I'm afraid it won't be to retreat north, because Chen Cang has been threatened. The most correct should be to retreat to Chencang and hold Chencang with the defenders and wait for reinforcements. Wang San said.

"Tell me how to beat the Yuan army lying outside the city?"

"The younger brother thinks that we must use ambush soldiers, and it is better to drive them into Chencang and let them hide in the city instead of wandering outside the city." Wang San said with great certainty.

"It makes sense, then use Xu Feng as bait, the 10,000 horses you brought are responsible for cutting off the way for the Yuan people to retreat north and attacking their left flank, Wang Lixin's ability to almost hold the south is good."

"Understood. Big brother, recently Xie Qiangbing came up with a good way to attack the city. Wang San said with a smile.

Xie Qiangbing came up with it? He's a weapon maker, and the seizures he came up with must have something to do with weapons. Shi Bin was naturally very excited, and motioned for Wang San to speak up immediately.

"It is to use a trebuchet to drop the explosives package to the city gate, and then use a rocket to ignite it, and it will not be long before the city gate will be blown up or burned, and then throw some big stones and it will be much easier for our people to enter the city."

"Okay, let's take Chen Cang for this experiment." Shi Bin was very happy that Xie Qiangbing could come up with this method, although it was not difficult to think about it, he also had to use some brains.

After the handover, Wang San returned to Sichuan, and Shi Bin went north with 10,000 cavalry and three months' rations. Three days later, Shi Bin and Wang Lixin met two hundred miles west of Chencang.

They didn't think that the Yuan people would be deaf enough that the 15,000 Song soldiers outside the city didn't know about it, so Shi Bin and Wang Lixin were always vigilant to prevent the Yuan people from sneaking up.

Soon he gave Xu Feng an order: lead the Yuan people to thirty miles west of Chencang.

Maybe it was because Xu Feng, a cunning fox, lost his temper, and the Yuan people's pursuers were no longer so active, and they had a bit of a taste of waiting for the rabbit. Just wait for Xu Feng's mind to faint.

In this way, Xu Feng was a little anxious, unable to lead the Yuan people into the encirclement, and the Yuan people in Chen Cang City were already vigilant, if they couldn't end the battle as soon as possible, once they were stuck by the Yuan people, they would probably be ruthlessly reorganized by Li Zong.

I wanted to stimulate the Yuan people and let them take the initiative to pursue, but the nearly five hundred people in his hands were all the elite of the elite, and Xu Feng was a little reluctant to use these people as cannon fodder, so he was stuck here. Seeing that Xu Feng was slow to move, Shi Bin was a little angry, and came with a hundred guards to inquire in person.

As soon as he heard Xu Feng's words, Shi Bin felt that Xu Feng had been wronged, but he still had some temper, because this almost ruined the overall situation. Of course, you can't lose a big one because of a small one, Shi Bin was ruthless, and ordered these four hundred and eighty people to attack the Yuan people's pursuers with all their might, and to attract at least two pursuers Xu Feng before he could retreat. 、

The duty of a soldier is to obey orders, Xu Feng has disobeyed orders before, and now of course he does not dare to disobey orders anymore, so he can only make every effort to attract the Yuan people to chase into the encirclement and make the merit worth.

Fortunately, he had always been safe, but with the loss of one hundred and fifty men, nearly six thousand pursuers were all attracted to a place fifty miles west of Chencang City. There are more than 9,000 Yuan people outside the city, and there are only more than 15,000 Song troops outside the city.

How the combat effectiveness of the army can be seen at a glance, when the Yuan people were chasing Xu Feng, they saw some stragglers who fled in a hurry, and after entering Shi Bin's encirclement, although the stragglers were still not well dressed, their spirit suddenly became better, their morale was high, and they were full of murderous spirit.

This let the Yuan people outside the city know that most of them had been tricked, but because of the strong city in the future, they were not panicked, and they set up a formation to break through the encirclement of the Song army, and then break through each of them.

Now that you have entered the encirclement, where is there any reason to let the Yuan people run away again? If you want to run, you can only escape into Chen Cang as a shrunken turtle, waiting for a spoonful of stew.

Therefore, Shi Bin used all the bad tricks he could think of, trapping horse pits, tripping horses, winding horse nets, rejecting horses, soybeans, and using small trebuchets to throw out lime bags that would break when they were touched. Next is the Shi Bin gun, the wooden handle of the earth-shaking thunder and the tiger squat cannon waiting.

This made the Yuanren cavalry rush seventeen or eighteen times and did not break through Shi Bin's encirclement, but were pressed towards Chen Cang behind him step by step.

No matter how stupid they are, the Yuan people also know what the intentions of the Song people are, but they are still somewhat sure of sticking to the strong city. So since the field battle couldn't be fought, he simply shrank into the city and became a turtle with a shrunken head. I just ask Xi'an to send troops to help.

Looking at the less than 4,000 yuan cavalry that had retreated into Chencang, Shi Bin and Wang Lixin were very happy. Especially Wang Lixin, for two consecutive days, he was happy and smiled when he saw people.

Since one hundred and twenty people had been ambushed in the city, two baskets of croton and half a basket of oleanders were sent in before the battle began. Therefore, it didn't take long for the number of people with bad stomach and food poisoning in the city to suddenly increase a lot, and most of the key was the soldiers of the Yuan people.

It didn't take long for nearly three hundred people to lose their combat effectiveness, and five hundred people began to look wrong, which made the commander anxious.

When enough gunpowder was brought in and hundreds of explosives were made, Shi Bin ordered an attack.

The Yuan people on the tower of the city saw that there were only a few small trebuchets and all laughed at the stupidity of the Song army, and tried in vain to use trebuchets that were difficult for people to smash down the solid city wall.

The operation of the trebuchet is very simple, as is the operation of igniting the explosive bag thrown under the city gate. In the continuous sound of explosions, the gate of Chen Cangcheng was cracked a little bit, and it was destroyed in the fire and boulders in less than half an hour.

The city gate was destroyed, and in order to prevent the Song army from entering the city, it was natural that they could only fill it with human lives. What made the Yuan people a little more comfortable was that their fighting qualities were similar to or even stronger than those of the elite of the Song army, and they actually took advantage of the battle in such a narrow passage. Care needs to be taken to prevent night raids.

The defenders of Chen Cang and the Yuanren generals who pursued Shi Bin and others were all battlefield generals, so they naturally understood the reason, and sent 1,000 people to garrison the West Gate, and the other three gates also had 500 people stationed at each gate.

Thousands of calculations are one step less, but they don't count that Chen Cang has infiltrated more than a hundred elites of the Song army, ready to stab them in the back at any time.

Hoping to end the war as soon as possible and return to the Henan battlefield as soon as possible, Wang Lixin proposed to start a sneak attack that night.

Since the Yuan people were still strong and the soldiers were not tired, Shi Bin did not approve of the suggestion to use the Song army in the city that night, but said that it would be at least three days later. He also stressed that even if Xi'an could send 5,000 reinforcements within 10 days, it would take three days, because it would be absolutely safe within 5 days, and we should not rush into it and cause excessive losses.

I wanted to fight with Shi Bin, after all, the sooner the battle ended, the safer it was. But looking at the strange performance on Shi Bin's face, Wang Lixin suddenly remembered that almost all of these fifteen thousand people were his elite, and no one would like to use the elite as cannon fodder. In order not to cause misunderstanding, Wang Lixin chose to keep his mouth shut.

Since Wang Lixin knew Shi Bin was also very happy, he said that he would share the credit with him equally. How dare Wang Lixin accept this? It means that a maximum of one-third will be accepted, and two percent is actually enough. After thinking about it, Shi Bin said that according to Wang Lixin, he, Wang Lixin and Xu Feng each accounted for one-third of the credit.

On the night of the fifth day, a fire broke out in the southern city of Chencang, and the city gate was occupied in less than a quarter of an hour, and the Song army drove more than 6,000 yuan troops out of Chencang within an hour, and nearly 5,000 people were exterminated outside the city. As a result, less than 2,000 Yuan people escaped safely, and Chen Cang was recovered.