Chapter 289: Temptation
Tai Shici and others in the military tent asked Zhao Yi to fight, "My lord, now our department has besieged the Goguryeo tribe in the city, although there are nearly 80,000 Goguryeo tribes in the city, but most of them are old and weak women and children, and they have no strength to fight with the official army. Tai Shici, who was dressed in military uniform, bowed down to fight.
Li Wang and several other county guards also asked Zhao Yi to fight, they were not confident in the 10,000 elite soldiers to break through the city, the reason why they asked to go to war was to quickly take the city, because these people had a county in their hands, if something happened to the county town, then as the county guard, they couldn't get rid of the involvement, and they were afraid that the people of the county town would be displaced, so it would be too troublesome.
So they wanted to use crowd tactics to quickly take down the city, and then go back to clean up the people of the county.
Zhao Yi took in the face of the general in the tent: "It's good that the general can have this belief in victory, I already have an idea in my heart about this matter, generals, please don't worry." Saying that, Zhao Yi greeted Tai Shici and Dian Wei, "The two generals, please go with me to investigate the situation in the city." ”
Zhao Yi, dressed in black casual clothes, accompanied by Tai Shici and Dian Wei, came to the city wall, although Zhao Yi could only see the general outline of the city clearly in the dark night, but only from this thick outline, it can be seen that the city wall is extremely thick. And the moonlight shines on the city gate, and it will also reflect the light of metal, seeing this, Zhao Yi squinted his eyes, it seems that this city really has some doorways, and even the city gate has been manipulated.
There are iron tools on the city gate, which means that Zhao Yi can't use the original method to deal with the Mubai tribes in the city, originally Zhao Yi wanted to repeat the old trick, burn down the city gate, and then let the soldiers charge without hindrance. In that case, even if all the Goguryeo troops in the city were soldiers, they would not be the opponents of the hundreds of thousands of Youzhou officials and soldiers.
But after a thousand calculations, Zhao Yi didn't expect the Goguryeo tribe to be so cautious, the metal city gate, coupled with the wall about three zhang high, is like a turtle shell. Zhao Yi sighed secretly and raised his eyes to look at the Goguryeo guards on the city wall.
Except for a few who wore combat uniforms, most of the rest wore the clothes of the people, including many old people, children, and even women.
"Mu Bai is really mad and dragged women and children into the war." Tai Shi Ci stared at the guards on the city wall, and scolded fiercely, in Tai Shi Ci's opinion, marching and fighting is only a man's business, and has nothing to do with women and children, Tai Shi Ci asked himself if he encountered such an opponent during the siege of the city, it is not yet known whether he will attack.
Zhao Yi didn't say that Mu Bai was mad, because now Mu Bai has been forced into a Jedi by himself, if he doesn't unite his troops to defend the city, he will only rely on the thousands of soldiers under Mu Bai to confront the hundreds of thousands of troops of the official army, but I am afraid that he will not be able to support it for long and will be killed by the official army. It is not so much that Mu Bai is mad, but that Mu Bai is fighting to the death.
The siege battle is a war of attrition, and it depends on which of the two of them, Mu Bai and Zhao Yi, can consume it. "Will the general test the reflexes of the Goguryeo guards?" Zhao Yi greeted Tai Shici.
Tai Shi Ci nodded, took out a crossbow arrow, aimed it at a Goguryeo tribesman on the city wall, and shot an arrow. The soldier fell to the ground with a scream.
As soon as this sudden situation happened, it immediately caused a shock among the soldiers of the city wall, and in the darkness of the night, they could not identify the target, especially the women and children, and the arrows flew everywhere.
Even if there were those who shot at Zhao Yi and their side, because the range of the feather arrow was not enough to fall halfway, after this temptation, Tai Shici and Dian Wei's faces both showed expressions of relief: "My lord, the Goguryeo tribes are so chaotic, even if they take advantage of the city, they can't stop our official army's iron cavalry." ”
The Goguryeo tribes in front of them did not have a unified command at all, and their actions were chaotic, much like a market. This made Tai Shici and Dian Wei very happy in their hearts.
But compared with the relieved expressions on the faces of Tai Shi Ci and Dian Wei, Zhao Yi's face looked a little dignified, in the eyes of Tai Shi Ci and Dian Wei, the Goguryeo tribes and soldiers were chaotic, but in Zhao Yi's view, this chaos was the most difficult thing to deal with.
If the Goguryeo troops were at a loss and didn't know how to attack when they attacked just now, Zhao Yi could be regarded as relieved, but if the troops were in chaos, they would still have great lethality to the siege troops. If a siege battle is launched, the land under the city will definitely be crowded with officers and soldiers, and in that case, even the most well-trained soldiers will not have time to aim at one person to activate the bow and arrow, it is like chaos, as long as the feather arrow in his hand is stimulated.
At this point, the Goguryeo tribes did an excellent job, and the battle to defend the city was different from the battlefield rush, and the soldiers defending the city only needed to throw down all the rolling wood and thunder stones, and shoot all the feather arrows in their hands.
Zhao Yi sighed secretly, and said in his heart that this siege was only a little difficult. Just when Zhao Yi was sighing secretly in his heart, the torches on the city wall shook, and surrounded by the Goguryeo tribesmen, Mu Bai, who heard the sound of chaos, hurriedly climbed the city wall.
At a glance, he saw that his subordinates were constantly shooting arrows in the hollow and void in front of him, and when he saw the body of a soldier lying on the ground, he immediately waved his hand to stop it: "Everyone stop, this is just a temptation of the officers and soldiers, everyone must not be fooled and waste feather arrows." ”
When the people who bent their bows and arrows heard their leader's words, they put down their movements and stared nervously at the black wilderness in front of them.
Seeing this reaction of his subordinates, Mu Bai was both relieved and felt very helpless, relieved that his subordinates did not need to give their own orders, and they knew how to resist quickly in case of emergencies, but they were helpless that their subordinates did not know the intentions of the officers and soldiers, and only one soldier died on his side, and his subordinates sent out at least thousands of feather arrows. Moreover, there was no response from the officials and soldiers in the city, which was obviously a test of the reaction ability of the officers and soldiers of their own troops.
Of course, it was too late to train these subordinates now, Mu Bai simply encouraged his subordinates twice, and said a few words that they had done well, and that the battle to defend the city should be done like this. After complimenting him twice, he immediately changed his voice and said again, but in this situation of not understanding the situation of the officers and soldiers, he must know how to judge the intentions of the officers and soldiers, and he can't just attack blindly.
Mu Bai educated these soldiers in two sentences, turned his head to look at the wilderness that went to nothingness, his face did not change, but his heart was full of wry smiles, and secretly said that Zhao Yi acted ruthlessly and forced himself, the leader of the tribe, to this point, which really made Mu Bai feel a little remorseful, if he knew that things would be like this, it was better to merge the tribe into the Fuyu tribe.
And at this time, a sharp sound of breaking the air sounded, Mu Bai was too familiar with this sound, this was the sound of an arrow cutting through the sky, Mu Bai subconsciously turned his head slightly, and saw a black arrow flying by his side, and then Mu Bai felt that his neck lit up, and the sharp tip of the arrow had cut through the skin of Ke Mubai's neck.
Mu Bai was so frightened that cold sweat suddenly soaked his clothes, and he paused in a hurry, and just as Mu Bai just squatted down, the soldier behind him let out a miserable scream and fell to the ground. Mu Bai turned his head to take a look, and found that the soldier had a black crossbow bolt stuck in his neck.
The reaction of the Goguryeo tribe was very quick to see this situation, and they quickly activated the feather arrows. Mu Bai secretly said in his heart that if he hadn't reacted quickly just now, that arrow might have killed him. Mu Bai didn't dare to raise his head all the way, and left here with his head down.
Tai Shici, who was holding a crossbow arrow under the city, saw this situation and sighed hatefully: "Count Mu Bai Mingda!" "After the temptation just now, Zhao Yi and Tai Shici were just about to leave, when they saw Mu Bai coming to the city wall.
The archer Tai Shici's eyes turned, wanting to take advantage of this opportunity to kill Mu Bai, as long as Mu Bai was killed, then the city without a leader of the dragons might be able to break itself. For this reason, Tai Shici waited for a while, and when he saw Mu Bai facing him head-on, it was an opportunity to start, but he didn't expect that Mu Bai's life should not be extinguished.
Tai Shi Ci did not shoot Mu Bai down the city with two arrows in a row, to be honest, Zhao Yi was also a little disappointed in his heart, not disappointed in Tai Shi Ci's archery skills, just now it was a good opportunity, but Mu Bai dodged it, and after this time, I am afraid that Mu Bai will not dare to go to the city wall easily, even if he arrives at the city wall in the future, there will definitely be heavy protection, and the chance to win with one blow like just now is just afraid that there will be no more.
Zhao Yi spit out the turbidity in his heart, comforted Tai Shici for a few words, and then stared at the city with flashing eyes: "Even if the sky does not destroy Mu Bai, I will destroy him." ”
Zhao Yi and Tai Shici walked around the city several times, and drew out the guards of each city gate in detail, I have to say that Mu Bai really has some doorways, the arrangement of the guards is very particular, and the deployment of troops and combat effectiveness between the four city gates is almost the same. Which city gate to attack first seemed to be the same for the officers and soldiers.
"General, there are only 20,000 Goguryeo soldiers guarding the city, and there are only 5,000 people at each city gate, as long as we mobilize heavy troops to storm one city wall, and then feint the other three city walls with our troops, and contain the forces of the other city gates, so that in just a few days, the army will definitely be able to break through the city." Tai Shi Ci told the situation, and asked Ying to lead the Youzhou soldiers and horses to attack the south gate.
Hearing this, Zhang Fei also took the initiative to ask for help. Liu Bei wanted to hold Zhang Fei, but he didn't stop him, this main attack on the city is a good achievement, but as a general, he is destined to take the lead, Liu Bei is afraid that Zhang Fei will have something wrong.
Zhao Yi looked at Zhang Fei and Tai Shici, both of whom were tiger generals in the world, and Zhao Yi didn't want these two people to take on this kind of task. Because of keeping these two people, Zhao Yi is of great use.
The siege strategy that Tai Shici said is a conventional siege battle, attacking this kind of strong city wall fortifications, that is, one direction is the main attack, and the rest of the directions are used as assists.
"General Tai Shici, don't worry, you are strong-blooded, and you will have the opportunity to make contributions in the future. Wait for the official to think of a foolproof plan. ”