Standing on the mountain and looking at the slowly flat ground under his feet, although it was a little far away but the city that had already come into view, Zhao Wutang waved his hand, and the generals divided their troops, confirmed the target of the attack, and swept the counties of Yizhou County. After the counties are pacified, assemble in the ancient city adjacent to Yuewang County.

More than 6,000 soldiers were divided into three routes, with Mo Feng's forward battalion and Zhang Jian's 1,000 Zhuti County soldiers as one road; Zhao Wutang's own Chinese army was all the way, of course, the direct troops such as the pro-guard battalion and the scout battalion still acted with Zhao Wutang; The rest of Liao Yong's rear camp is the last road.

The two guides, Batu and Ushu, gave them a few days of pathing, and they parted ways with them. The next battle is not something they can participate in. Before leaving, they also got the reward that Zhao Wutang promised them, and these silver coins were enough for the two brothers to live for half their lives.

The three roads divided their troops at the foot of the mountain, and then began the journey of leveling Yizhou County. Mo Feng went straight to Dianchi County, the seat of Yizhou County.

Dianchi Lake was originally the seat of Yizhou County, and it was also the old nest of Meng Bao, which was garrisoned by heavy troops. However, in order to defeat Wei Kai in one fell swoop, the barbarian king took away most of the main force, and now there are only more than 1,000 people stationed in Dianchi.

Regarding the current situation in Dianchi County, Mo Feng also came to the conclusion that the number of troops defending the city was insufficient.

Yizhou County is the border of the empire, and most of the barbarians live here. The rebellion in Yizhou County was also dominated by barbarians, unlike the other two counties, which were all rebellions initiated by local tyrants.

The number of barbarians in the four counties of the southwest, Mo Feng had a general understanding of the local chronicles published in the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse. This local chronicle is a treatise dedicated to writing about the customs and customs of the barbarians in various places, and it is quite exquisitely written, and the situation of the barbarians in various places on the Canglan Continent is very clear, and the barbarians of the four southwestern counties are also listed in the local chronicles.

This barbarian has lived in the south for generations, and the barbarians in the four southwestern counties of Yizhou are only one of them, and the others are all in the territory of the Yucang Federation. The four counties in the southwest are mountainous and geographically harsh, so although the barbarians have developed for many generations, they have not exceeded the number of 40,000 or 50,000 people. Yizhou County is located on the edge, so it has the largest number of barbarians, about 30,000 people.

The local chronicle was written in the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, and it has not been a few years yet, and the population of the barbarians will not grow very quickly, so it is estimated that it is about 35,000. Meng Bao, the barbarian king of the Lushui front, brought 25,000 barbarian troops, so the barbarian soldiers remaining in Yizhou County did not exceed 10,000 at most. There are more than a dozen counties in Yizhou County, and each county needs to be garrisoned, and the barbarian soldiers stationed in Dianchi will not exceed two thousand.

It was precisely because of this calculation that Mo Feng had the courage to fight Dianchi with more than 1,500 people. Sure enough, the lack of troops in Dianchi was confirmed after Mo Feng and the others arrived in Dianchi.

After they arrived at Dianchi Lake, Mo Feng hid his soldiers and horses in the dense forest, and he took a few guards to disguise themselves as hunters and enter Dianchi Lake to investigate.

Dianchi County, built by the mountain, has only one city gate, which can be described as a natural military fortress. As soon as he entered the city, Mo Feng separated from his guards, and only took Dian Wei to explore everywhere.

After walking around the city and gathering the news found by several guards, Mo Feng finally confirmed that there were not even 1,500 soldiers and horses in the city, which was less than the number they expected.

After getting the news, Mo Feng and the others immediately sold the prey used as a cover at a low price, and then hurried out of the city.

After Mo Feng left the city, he called Zhang Jian, Xiao Si, Le Jin, and Luo Shixin and gave them a short briefing.

"Now that the enemy is weak and I am strong, it is better to build a cloud ladder to attack, I believe it will not take long for us to capture Dianchi." Zhang Jian said slowly.

Luo Shixin shook his head: "Duwei Zhang, this method will not work. If we were to attack only one city, I would have no problem with you doing that. But now we don't have much more troops than the defenders, and we still need to conquer other cities, if we attack them one by one, then in the end, if the cities are not captured, our men and horses will be lost.

Moreover, this Dianchi Lake was originally an important town in Yizhou County, whether it was the officials of the previous empire or the later Meng Bao, they all spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build this city, so as to create this fortified city today. ”

"Indeed, a strong attack will definitely not work." Le Jin echoed, "That can only be outwitted!" ”

"Outwit, how to outwit?" Zhang Jian asked puzzled.

They didn't have an answer to that question for a while. But there is no doubt that the road of assault will definitely not work.

Looking up at the sky, Mo Feng said something that had nothing to do with the siege: "Xiao Si, what time is it?" ”

"Back to the general, it's already time."

"It's time!" Mo Feng smiled, he had already thought of a way to attack the city.

"Brothers, eat some dry food first, and then put on the mats. Then divided into five teams, Zhang Duwei led a team, each of the four of us led a team, each team built a ladder, took turns to feint to attack Dianchi Lake, and then only waited for the smoke in the city together, then led the army to attack the city, so, Dianchi Lake can be down. ”

When everyone heard it, this was a tired enemy's plan, and it was really a good plan! Then I received the military order and went down to arrange it!

After half a pillar of incense, the war drums sounded, and Xiao Si led three hundred soldiers to carry the ladder and began to feint. Hearing the sound of war drums, the barbarian army on the city tower found that the officials and soldiers of the Tianxing Empire had arrived at their lair, and hurriedly pulled their bows and arrows, and still rolled wood and stones under the city tower, but unfortunately Xiao Si and they had not yet reached the killing range of the barbarian army, and the barbarian army had to lose some weapons to defend the city in vain.

Soon, Xiao Si withdrew and replaced him with Lejin. Similarly, Le Jin led his soldiers towards the city gate, and before they could reach the range of the barbarians' bows and arrows, the barbarians opened their bows and arrows.

Next is Zhang Jian, Luo Shixin and Mo Feng, five rounds of feints, the barbarian soldiers in the city are tired enough, and the soldiers under Mo Feng take turns to feint, one team will come down to repair after the attack, and the other team will go up, so the situation is far better than the barbarian army.

The city remembered the shouting again, but the barbarian army in the city no longer had the strength to deal with them anymore, but only released a few arrows symbolically, and did not make any counterattack.

Xiao Si retreated, and Le Jin was about to take people up, but was stopped by Mo Feng: "Wen Qian, don't go anymore, the barbarian army in the city is tired enough now, and I also know that we are a feint." Wait, wait for them to cook on the fire, and then the smoke will be together, and it will be the time for us to attack the city. ”

"No, the last general will obey!"

Soon, wisps of cooking smoke floated above the city tower, and seeing the cooking smoke rising, Mo Feng's heart was happy, and the time was up.

Mo Feng pulled out the sword at his waist, held it high in the sky, and shouted: "Soldiers, the city is only broken at this moment. After the slope of the city, the property in the government is divided equally, only one point, and it is not allowed to disturb the people and harm the people, and rob the people's property. ”

Hearing Mo Feng's order, more than 1,500 soldiers screamed, carrying ladders, swords and guns, and rushed towards the city gate.

Hearing the shouts of killing outside the city, the barbarians who were eating on the city tower didn't care about it, and cursed: "These bastards, they don't let people stop eating, and they don't let people eat anymore." ”

"Eat you, anyway, they're feints, let them make trouble." A small leader of the barbarian army said.

In this way, the soldiers under Mo Feng's command easily put the ladder on the city wall, and Le Jin and Luo Shixin were the first to enter the battle and take the lead in the city.

When they reached the top of the city, those barbarian troops realized that the army of the Celestial Star Empire was not a feint attack this time, but a real siege, and they took up arms and began to resist. However, because they reacted too late, when they took up their arms, Le Jin and Luo Shixin had already led the soldiers to kill them.

Le Jin cut down a barbarian army beside him, pointed his sword at the city gate, and shouted: "Kill the city gate, and take the brothers outside in." When Luo Shixin heard this, he only said: "I'll go!" So he took the soldiers who followed him and went to the city gate.

Seeing this, Le Jin scolded directly: "Luo Shixin, you are cheating, I will shout first." Not to be left behind, he led his soldiers to the city gate.

The barbarian army defending the city saw Luo Shixin and Le Jin rushing and beating with people, and no one could stop them all the way, so they ran away in fright, and even ignored the city gate.

Le Jin and Luo Shixin easily took the city gate, but the two of them were still chattering about who would take the city gate first until Mo Feng entered the city.

Seeing that the two of them were arguing with each other like shrews, Mo Feng also shook his head helplessly, and said to Dian Wei, who was already impatient behind: "Dian Wei, take the brothers to take down the mansion, and you can't let me go." ”

"No!" Dian Wei received the order, pulled out the war knife straddling his waist, and shouted: "Brothers, kill with me!" ”

Seeing Dian Wei holding a war knife that did not match his figure, Mo Feng also thought to himself: It seems that when the war is over, it is time to find a blacksmith for him to build a weapon at hand. Not only him, but Luo Shixin and Lejin are now just using standard weapons, and their weapons also have to be built.

Seeing Dian Wei rushing in with people, Le Jin and Luo Shi felt a chill in their confidence: yes, there is another one in the way. So he didn't care about quarreling, and led people to kill them.

It was only when they moved forward to kill that they found that Xiao Si and Zhang Jian had already led their troops to rush in front of them, and their hearts were cold again, obviously they attacked the city wall first and opened the city gate, why are they all rushing in front of them one by one now.

The generals worked together, and it didn't take long for the Dianchi Mansion to be breached, and the rebels entrenched in Dianchi were all cleaned up. Mo Feng kept his promise before the siege of the city, and divided the money and other things captured in Dianchi Lake equally among the soldiers under his command.

After receiving Mo Feng's reward, the soldiers were even happier and their morale was even stronger. When you are a soldier and fight, in addition to defending your family and the country, all that remains is fame and money.

A hundred people were left behind to guard the city in Dianchi, and the rest of the men and horses were constantly attacking the next city. It is as fast as the wind, which is the best portrayal of the army led by Mo Feng.

Ten days later, the entire county of Yiju was recovered. After leaving the guards in each city, the rest of the Guiyi soldiers and the soldiers of Zhuti County led by Zhang Jian gathered under the ancient city.

When the defenders of the ancient city saw that a large army was attacking behind them, they retreated without a fight and fled towards Meng Bao in the direction of Lushui. Zhao Wutang led a large army and captured the ancient city without spending a single soldier.