Chapter 288: The Turtle in the Urn
Zhao Yi's idea is good, and with Zhao Yi's ability and Youzhou's current strength, the establishment of a village can be completed in less than three or five months. But the most important thing now is that the remnants of the Mubai army that are defending the city have not yet been resolved.
If you don't solve the remnants of Mu Bai's army in the city, Zhao Yi's ideas are just a fantasy, if Mu Bai leads the soldiers to destroy the village when building the village, then the efforts of the officials and troops in Youzhou for a few days are very likely to be in vain.
And in Liu Bei's view, although the current Zhao Yi looks infinitely beautiful, he broke the Goguryeo tribe apart, and captured 80,000 Goguryeo tribesmen, which seems to have an advantage, but he is also in a dilemma, although Zhao Yi's Youzhou officials and troops are numerous, but this union can not last, because the soldiers and horses of several counties have been transferred out by Zhao Yi, if something happens in Youzhou during this period, then Zhao Yi, who is the pastor of Youzhou, will not be able to escape the involvement.
And the situation at this time was not the same as the battle of Guangning at that time, Qiangqu was because there was no food in the city, so he repeatedly assaulted the official army formation, and wanted to rush out to find food, so the officers and troops could consume the strength of Qiangqu step by step. But the current situation is very different, the Goguryeo tribes in the city are not short of food, and in the face of the powerful Youzhou official army, Mu Bai will not take the initiative to attack, but will lead his troops and people to hold the city.
This city has been built by several generations of Goguryeo chieftains, Liu Bei just went to the outside of the city to take a look, and found that the Goguryeo tribe city is extremely strong, and its solidity is no less than that of Youzhou City. This kind of strong fortification is not something that can be broken by idleness.
Moreover, there is no skill in the siege battle, so you can only rely on the soldiers to fight to the death, kill 1,000 enemies, and lose 800 yourself. According to Liu Bei's estimates, if Mu Bai swore to defend the city, the official army wanted to capture the city, it would take several months, to say the least.
At that time, the official army must have suffered serious losses, and if there was a major event in Youzhou at this time, Zhao Yi would not be able to draw troops. So in Liu Bei's opinion, don't look at Zhao Yi winning the battle, but it's not comfortable.
Zhao Yi turned his head and glanced at Liu Bei: "Brother Xuande, what do you think our ministry should do now?" ”
"The Goguryeo tribe city is strong, and it can be broken without leisure." When he said this, Liu Bei raised his eyes and glanced at Zhao Yi, and saw that Zhao Yi's face had not changed, so he said what he thought in his heart, "According to the opinion of the lower officials, it is better for our officers and troops to withdraw immediately." ”
What Liu Bei said has some truth, if you don't have the ability to break through the city wall in a short time, you can only withdraw the army first, and then you are thinking of a way.
"Brother Xuande's plan is good, but if our troops withdraw, Mu Bai will definitely take the remnants of the tribe to join the Fuyu tribe. The land under your feet and I also belong to the Fuyu tribe, and if my Youzhou army only brings back 80,000 prisoners in the first action, it will not be ridiculed. Zhao Yi snorted lightly, "This official has decided to break through the city and take the Goguryeo tribe for his own use. ”
"Don't act recklessly, according to the report of the Tanma just now, the number of Goguryeo troops in the city is almost the same as the number of troops captured by our army, and if you attack rashly, you will definitely suffer heavy losses. Please think twice. Liu Bei once again persuaded Zhao Yi that the siege battle was no better than the battle in the wilderness, and the advantages of the Youzhou official army could not be played at all. Because the stone smashed by a child on the city wall is the same as the stone dropped by an adult, the lethality of the Youzhou officials and soldiers is the same, that is to say, there are more than 80,000 soldiers in the city to defend the city, and their hundreds of thousands of soldiers will definitely not get any benefit from attacking the city.
In this battle, the elite of Youzhou may be lost, if this is the case, it is better to bring back the Youzhou official army. Although it is a little difficult to get over in terms of face, it is better than the elite of the Youzhou official army.
"Brother Xuande, don't worry, I have already considered this matter in my heart." Zhao Yi explained simply, and then instructed Tai Shici, "The general immediately went down to order the soldiers to attack the city tomorrow." ”
Tai Shi Ci bowed down and went down to prepare for the siege battle. Liu Bei saw Zhao Yi's confident look, as if he already had a way to break the city, so he didn't say anything more, nor did he ask Zhao Yi about the way to break the city, but also bowed down and prepared to attack the city.
The situation of Mu Bai in the city is very bad, although nearly half of the troops fled into the city with Mu Bai, but there are less than 5,000 soldiers left in Mu Bai's hands, and the other 7,000 soldiers died in the hands of the official army, most of them were killed by the official army to cover the entry of the people into the city.
The mood of the Goguryeo tribes in the city is not high, and the faces of the tribes are not surprised or happy, seeing this situation, Mu Bai's heart continues to sink, and the tribes of Mu Ne seem to be very well managed, but Mu Bai knows that most of the people with this expression are desperate.
Such subordinates will only accept the strong enemy, and completely lose the courage to resist. From this, we can see how much the events of last night hit the Goguryeo tribes.
Mu Bai came to the city wall to watch the actions of the Youzhou official army, and several capable generals under Mu Bai died in the breakthrough last night, and now Mu Bai can only go into battle in person.
Glancing at the corpse of his own tribe's soldiers lying in front of him, Mu Bai's face changed greatly, and the resentment towards Zhao Yi in his heart had reached the point where it was difficult to recover. Especially after seeing Zhao Yi let go of the captured subordinates, Mu Bai hated it even more in his heart. In fact, as the leader of the Goguryeo tribe, he was naturally overjoyed to see that his subordinates were safe. But in the current situation, the more tolerant Zhao Yi is with his subordinates, the more he will cause luck among the people in the city, and he will not be able to fight the official army to the death.
This is not conducive to his own troops to defend the city, Mu Bai is very worried in his heart, when he withdrew the army yesterday, Mu Bai had already sent tribal soldiers to contact the Fuyu tribe, wanting the Fuyu tribe to send troops to rescue. And promised Wei Qiutai, if he is willing to send troops to help, Mu Bai is willing to lead all the Goguryeo tribes to merge into the Fuyu tribe, although he knows that the possibility of Wei Qiutai sending troops is not high, but now it is a life-threatening time, as long as there is a little hope, Mu Bai will make a hundred times the effort.
While contacting the Fuyu tribe, Mu Bai also contacted some other tribes, just because the official army in Youzhou is strong now, and a single Fuyu tribe is not necessarily the opponent of the official army.
Mu Baikai's conditions are very attractive, now that all the Youzhou officials and troops are in the Liaodong region, if several soldiers can unite and kill all the hundreds of thousands of Youzhou officers and soldiers, then Youzhou will become his own bag.
"Chief, the soldiers have now entered the designated place." Tanma reported the soldiers' movements.
"Okay." Mu Bai nodded, and when the soldiers arrived at the designated place, Mu Bai exhaled deeply, "You can select some people from the people to help us defend the city." ”
For Mu Bai, the 5,000 soldiers defending the city are too few, if the Youzhou officials and soldiers are out to attack the city, these 5,000 soldiers will be under the impact of more than 100,000 Youzhou troops, I am afraid that it will not last long and the whole army will be wiped out, and if it is too late to recruit and mobilize the troops to defend the city at that time. Because the subordinates did not have the strength to fight with the officers and soldiers, even though they were on the fortified city walls, their courage was not a little weaker than that of the officers and soldiers. When people are afraid, their reaction speed is very different from that of normal days, and if they do, they may be crushed at the touch of a confrontation with the officers and soldiers.
Therefore, Mu Bai must let his subordinates and soldiers fight together now, otherwise he is afraid that he will not be able to support it for a few days in the attack of the official army.
"Chief, the official army of Youzhou has abnormal behavior!" Another scout reported the movements of the Youzhou officers and troops. "The officers and soldiers who originally besieged my tribe have now been quickly assembled."
Hearing this, Mu Bai looked outside the city and found that there was indeed a large-scale transfer of the Youzhou official army, and now Zhao Yi has captured nearly eighty percent of the land of his tribe, and has captured 80,000 troops of the Goguryeo tribe, forcing himself to take refuge in the city, which can be described as infinitely beautiful. According to Zhao Yi's style of acting, he will definitely not let himself go, and the soldiers must be assembled to attack the city, not to withdraw the army.
"yes, I see. The official army's move is to attack the city, Zhao Yi will not attack the city today, let the soldiers rest and rest first, so as to deal with the siege of the official army tomorrow. Mu Bai commanded, staring at the large area of Youzhou officials and soldiers outside the city, his face full of sorrow.
"Zhao Yi, I still underestimate you." Mu Bai didn't expect Zhao Yi to dare to attack his own tribe at all, just because Zhao Yi's troops were mixed, if it was difficult to capture his own tribe for a while, it would be a great threat to Youzhou.
But Mu Bai didn't expect that Zhao Yi really had the courage, and he also used such an ingenious strategy, in just one night, he would collapse his tribe and greatly reduce his morale.
In Mu Bai's opinion, his current situation is not as good as Qiangqu in Guangning County in the past, although there was no food in Guangning County at that time, but Qiangqu had 50,000 officers and soldiers in his hands, and he still had the ability to fight to the death with Zhao Yi's official army.
However, today's Goguryeo tribes, although they don't have to worry about simple things such as food in the city, but sufficient food preparation has also worn out the courage of the tribal soldiers to fight to the death, and the soldiers and subordinates have a kind of thinking of getting by.
Thinking of this, Mu Bai's heart was a little empty, and now Mu Bai only hopes that some Yi tribes can seize this opportunity to invade Youzhou, in that case, Zhao Yi's officers and soldiers can only be transferred out. Zhao Yi dispatched 10,000 soldiers, so Mu Bai would be able to reduce some of the pressure.
Of course, the most ideal thing is that the Nanlou tribe in the north of Youzhou will launch an attack on Youzhou, because now the Yi tribe outside Youzhou only has 60,000 cavalry in the Nanlou department, and only Nanlou has the ability to pry the situation in Youzhou, so Zhao Yi has to lead his troops to help.
But Mu Bai knows that all this is just his own fantasy, the Nanlou tribe has a lot of relationship with the official army, when he invaded Youzhou in the past, the Nanlou tribe had stopped the Goguryeo soldiers, and now the situation is not conducive to Youzhou, Nanlou will only help Zhao Yi to guard the Xianbei tribe in the north, and will definitely not invade Youzhou.
Just when Mu Bai was secretly sad, Zhao Yi's army camp was very lively.