Hua Mulan clenched her fists and replied to Tuoba Tao's question: "Your Majesty, the attack on Huaishuo City is not the last general's initiative to ask for Ying, if you take the initiative to ask Ying to make a military order, it is understandable, if you can't win within the specified time, even if you come to see it, the last general will be ordered to attack the city, you can only ensure that you do your best, whether you can succeed is not something that the last general can control!" ”

When the ministers and generals heard this, they all said in their hearts that this Mulan is right, how many of the generals are victorious generals when they go out to fight, and there are few in history, right? Even military masters like Cao Cao have been defeated many times!

If every military general leads his troops to fight and fails to win a war, he will be punished, who will lead his troops to battle? Qiu Mu Lingshou is simply unreasonable!

Tuoba Tao asked Qiu Mu Lingshou, "Did you hear that?" Mulan's siege of the city is an order from me, even if it is not successful, I can't punish the crime, but you are different, you took the initiative to ask Ying and promised to quit drinking for a month if you don't win, I didn't force you to quit drinking for a month, right? ”

Qiu Mu Lingshou argued: "But who can guarantee that he will do his best? ”

Cui Hao next to him asked with a smile: "If you can win, it will naturally be a great credit, after the war, Your Majesty will be rewarded for meritorious deeds, who can put the credit aside and deliberately not exert all your strength?" Unless this person has a problem with his brain, does the prince have a problem with his brain? ”

"Fart, I'm sober!" Qiu Mu Lingshou said angrily.

Cui Hao spread his hands: "Isn't this over?" A bastard like Wang Ye would not deliberately fail to win a battle, and a person with a flexible mind like General Hua would not be so unwise! ”

Qiu Mu Lingshou's mouth moved, he couldn't speak, and he stepped aside stupidly.

Tuoba Tao looked at him, smiled, and said to Mulan: "Mulan, from now on, the guards and horses will be led by you, and I will order you to organize the siege of the city as soon as possible!" ”

"The last will obey!"

In the early morning of the next day, after breakfast, the Wei army once again assembled and set up a military formation outside Huaishuo City.

Hua Mulan was riding a horse at this time in front of the garrison formation, the garrison had more than 10,000 men and horses, yesterday the siege lost more than 1,700 people, this kind of casualties are terrifying enough, the defenders of the city are still Rouran people who will not defend the city, the city wall is not high, only about five meters, if the generals of Liu Song of the Southern Dynasty led the troops to defend the city, it is estimated that the casualties of the Wei army will be greater.

Hua Mulan shouted loudly: "The owners of all buildings have come to listen to the order!" ”

When the ten lords heard this, they all came to her and lined up in front of her.

Hua Mulan said with a solemn face: "This general is not your general, it is His Majesty who transferred you to the temporary command of this general, so whether you want to or not, you have to obey orders today, even if you let you go to death, you can't frown, otherwise this general will be executed for the crime of disobeying military orders, this death is not very glorious, are you willing to die in battle, or are you willing to be executed for disobeying military orders?" ”

The ten generals looked at each other, knowing that the person in front of them was not joking, they couldn't deliberately work against Mulan, and they couldn't work without contribution, otherwise they wouldn't be too good at what was waiting for them.

The generals stood up and clenched their fists: "General, the last general is willing to obey orders, and the general does not have to doubt our discipline!" ”

"That's good, take Huaishuo City, you all have credit, if you can't take Huaishuo City, the dead soldiers will die in vain, General Ben believes that you will calculate this account! Alright, now listen to the general's orders, and each of you will choose twenty strong men from under your command, whether they are ordinary soldiers or officers! ”

"Obey!"

The lords of each building immediately returned to their camp on horseback, and selected twenty strong soldiers to come and give orders.

Two hundred strong soldiers stood in ten rows, and Mulan rode up to these people and shouted, "Raise your hand, officer!" ”

Two of the two hundred people raised their hands, and Hua Mulan immediately pointed to a person with a dull face and ordered: "You people are temporarily organized into the team of overseers, you are the team leader, and the other team officer is the deputy team!" The two of you will lead the overseer team to follow behind the besiegers, and if anyone is afraid of the enemy and turns and flees during the siege, you will be in charge of slashing and killing, and if anyone flees and is afraid of the enemy, and if you turn a blind eye, the general will cut off the heads of both of you, understand? ”

The two clasped their fists and agreed: "Obey!" ”

Hua Mulan also instructed the ten generals: "Each building will select fifty more people with archery skills than other soldiers to assemble!" ”

The ten lords immediately returned to their camp and selected five soldiers with good archery skills to hand them over to Mulan, who asked them to line up in twenty rows, and jumped out of the officers with the highest official ranks, and let one of the team officers be the leader of the archery team, and the other two were the team deputies.

Next, Mulan asked people to carry two siege ladders, put them together, and ordered the soldiers to support them below.

"How do I climb a siege ladder? General Ben will show you once, and you are all optimistic! After saying that, Mulan took a knife from one of the soldiers.

She walked to the bottom of the siege ladder, put the knife in her mouth and bit it with her teeth, tied a small leather shield to her left arm, held her left arm to let the small round shield block the top of her head, and climbed the siege ladder with her right hand and feet, she climbed very fast, and soon climbed to the top of the siege ladder, and during the climbing, she also blocked the leather shield on the left or right side of her body from time to time to block the arrows that seemed to be about to be fired.

Hua Mulan got off the siege ladder and asked loudly, "Can you see it all clearly?" ”

The generals replied in unison: "See clearly!" ”

"Okay, now that we've seen it clearly, let's practice it before we start the siege! Come on, set up a siege ladder! Mulan shouted.

Some soldiers ran over with wooden ladders, and Mulan demonstrated to all the generals how to quickly and neatly put the siege ladder on the city wall, and the person in front of the ladder first put the head of the siege ladder on the ground, and turned around to use their feet to hold the lower end of the wooden ladder, and the soldiers in the middle and tail of the siege ladder immediately held the wooden ladder and pushed it forward and up, and the wooden ladder would be pushed up upright, and then fall to the city wall.

Hua Mulan used to lead and train cavalry, she didn't know how to siege and defend the city, but in order to meet Zhao Junsheng, she often ran to the baggage camp, and often saw Zhao Junsheng commanding the soldiers of the baggage battalion to conduct siege and defense drills.

In her opinion, with a wall like Huaishuo City, if Zhao Junsheng and his baggage battalion came to attack the city, I was afraid that the Rouran people defending the city would not be able to withstand a round and would be breached, where would it take a day?

It took an hour to conduct a simple siege training for the soldiers of the guards, and Mulan divided them into groups, and when the grouping was completed, she led them slowly close to the wall of Huaishuo Town.

Seeing that Mulan and the men and horses were moving, Tuoba Tao and the ministers and generals all diverted their attention.

Hedong Gonghe Doro was quite puzzled and said, "Hey, why didn't this Hua general order the soldiers to rush to the city wall, but slowly approached?" At their speed, when they got under the city wall, they were afraid that they would have been shot by the worms and killed and wounded, right? ”

Cui Hao smiled and said, "Hedong Gong doesn't have to worry, let's see!" ”

Under the watchful eyes of the generals on both sides, Mulan led the guards and horses to a place where there was still a stone's throw from the city wall and stopped.

Hua Mulan pulled out her sword and pointed at the city wall, shouting: "The siege wood echelon comes forward, carry the ladder and stand side by side, with an interval of two people between each ladder!" ”

A siege ladder was carried by three people, one each at the head, tail and in the middle, and under Mulan's order, these people stood at the front of the line with a siege ladder every three people, and the person in front of the ladder had a shield tied to his chest and back.

Hua Mulan ordered the soldiers of the first building and two teams to step forward and stand in a column formation between the siege ladders.

After the first wave of attack echelons was prepared, Mulan walked up to the siege ladder team and said loudly: "Your task is to carry the siege ladder over, erect it on the city wall and fix it, to ensure that it will not be pushed down by the defenders, do you remember?" ”

"Remember!"

Mulan walked to the side of the team and raised her sword and shouted in the direction of the city wall: "The first wave of attack echelons, rush over to Ben General!" ”

"Rush—" Whether it was carrying ladders or holding swords and shields, the Wei soldiers roared and rushed towards the city wall.

They were already within range of the defenders' bows and arrows from the beginning of their run, and a large number of arrows were immediately fired from the walls.

The soldiers raised their left arms and shielded them above their bodies, some of the arrows landed on the ground, some on their shields, and a few more at the charging besiegers.

Some of them fell from the arrow, and the people behind them continued to roar and rush forward.

One of the ministers and generals who was watching the battle in the rear said: "This Mulan really has a set, don't look at him lined up the siege men and horses so densely, but the soldiers all used shields to block their heads, most of the arrows were shot on the shields, but there were fewer arrows!" ”

"And ah, why did they stop there and then charge? Because it was a stone's throw from the city wall, it didn't take much time and physical strength to rush under the city wall; If you rush through the main formation, the distance will be more than doubled, and when you rush to the city wall, the soldiers are out of breath and their physical strength is almost exhausted, how can they climb the siege ladder? ”

Tuoba Tao looked at Qiu Mu Lingshou: "Shou, do you see it?" Do you hear that? Learn something! You can't fight a war by brute force alone! ”

Qiu Mu Lingshou's face was slightly red, and he bowed down and hugged his fists and agreed: "Remember Your Majesty's teachings!"

At this time, with a large number of arrows shooting down on the city wall, the first wave of siege teams that were rushing towards the city wall had already suffered many casualties, and the area that the leather shield could cover was too small after all.

Hua Mulan saw it clearly, and immediately waved her hand: "The archers are moving forward-"

Under the command of the team leader, the bow pair ran to the front of the second wave of attacking teams, and advanced twenty meters under the orders of Mulan.

"Bow and arrow ready, target the city head of the Rouran army, free to release arrows-"

With the order of the leader of the archery team, five hundred archers fought in a row and kept firing arrows at the city head, many of the Rouran defenders were caught off guard and died, the city head defenders were suppressed for a while, and the arrows fired at the first wave of attack teams were reduced by eighty percent, which made the first wave of attack teams rush to the city wall in one fell swoop with a small loss.

Taichangqing Cui Hao stroked his beard, and said with a smile on his face: "Your Majesty, this General Hua really has the ability, you see that he commands all the siege departments to attack the city in a disciplined manner, instead of letting the soldiers rush to the city wall in a mess!" Chen dared to assert that as long as this person has more experience, he will definitely become a famous general of my Great Wei in the future! ”