After the enemy rescued the wounded, the whole army retreated one mile to treat the wounded, reorganize the army, and think hard of a solution.

"General, it hasn't rained in Liangshan for almost a month, if you attack the city with fire, you will definitely be able to snatch Liangshan back." Full of confidence, he was defeated and retreated twice in a row, the commander was restless, and his subordinates saw it in their eyes and hurriedly took the opportunity to offer a plan.

"Stupid! Liangshan City is the frontier town of the Song Kingdom, we want to take it back completely, what is the use of snatching back a burned empty city. "The commander was in a bad mood and reprimanded mercilessly.

The subordinates' complexion changed slightly, and he asked: "General, if we don't use fire, with the solidity of Liangshan City, the cunning of the enemy, and the conventional methods, it will be difficult for us to win in a short time, and the water in Liangshan City is imported from the big river in the south of the city, so it is better for us to poison the river and poison the enemy troops in the city in one fell swoop, so that we can recapture an intact Liangshan City." ”

"Don't want the 30,000 people in the city? The people along the lower reaches of the river were also killed? Ridiculous! The water is flowing, where do you find so many poisons, which can be sprinkled in a river more than ten feet wide for several days in a row? Think of a way to fight a war, and don't think about such unreliable ideas. This obviously unfeasible proposal made the already irritable enemy commander-in-chief even more unhappy.

While the enemy army was discussing how to break the city, Yang Congyi in the Liangshan Mansion was also solving his doubts with the generals.

"When to kill enemy personnel and when to wound but not kill, we need to consider comprehensively according to the environment and the different situations we are facing, and I will talk to you in detail when I have time later. Now let's talk about today. As we all know, Liangshan City is strong, and there are a lot of grain and grass and military materials stored in the city, which is enough for us to hold on for three or five months, while the enemy's grain and grass and military materials have to be transported from the south of Daliangshan, one or two hundred miles away, and the logistics supply is difficult, so relative to them, grain and grass military resources are our advantage, but this is their weak point. Offensive and defensive support, a fight for troops, two fight for logistics supply, the strength is naturally they have an absolute advantage, logistics supply they are also endless, but the speed is slow, is waiting for the state of rice under the pot, in this case, the more people waiting for dinner, the greater the pressure on logistics supply, in this case, we have to give full play to the advantage, confront them, can not fight without fighting, fight is the consumption of materials, whoever can't hold on first will lose, they supply difficulties, one more bite to eat, the odds of winning will be one less point, Therefore, we should try to keep the population they want to eat, and once the fight starts, we will not kill them if we can, and let them eat themselves. Of course, their food supply is difficult, it is impossible to consume with us, they will definitely keep attacking, vainly trying to win a quick battle, take Liangshan, we can't be in a hurry at this time, as long as we can do two things, victory will belong to us, one is to be able to hold the city in the situation of less killing and wounding the enemy, and the other is to find some trouble for them through the wounded soldiers, which talks about why let them save the wounded soldiers. ”

Seeing that everyone had realized something and listened carefully, Yang Congyi continued: "What is the role of wounded soldiers on the battlefield? Does it increase hatred and motivate morale? In the case of full food and clothing, it can indeed play a beneficial role for oneself, but in the case of lack of food and drink, it will be reversed. If you want them to survive and recover as soon as possible, the limited food and drink must be tilted towards the wounded soldiers to ensure their ration supply, and the wounded soldiers will eat more, and the other populations will naturally become less, and the wounded soldiers will eat well, and there will be people to take care of them, and the others will not have enough to eat and go to war. What happens if we give them a chance to save the wounded and they choose not to? The soldiers must be sad, they dare not fight hard when they charge, their combat effectiveness is reduced, the city cannot be attacked for a long time, and finally they become a stalemate, fighting for material consumption, they have more than 100,000 people to eat and drink, who wins and who loses, at a glance! Therefore, as long as we fight with more than 100,000 people, we must win in the end, and the more people they have, the greater the drag, and the faster we will win this battle. Do you get it? ”

All the generals were promoted from ordinary soldiers, they hadn't read any books, and they couldn't understand or understand the truth of the bends, Yang Congyi tried his best to make it easy to understand, to eliminate the doubts in their hearts, and hoped that in the future defense of the city, they would not question the orders he gave again.

After listening to the generals and pondering carefully, Yao Chang suddenly said: "Prison army, can we understand it like this, anyway, we will not break out of the city, whether it is 10,000 people besieging the city or 100,000 besieging the city, the threat to us is not much different, whether those people outside the city are killed or not has little to do with our current situation, in general, it is better for us not to kill than to kill, and it is more beneficial for us to save them if they are injured, right?" ”

Yang Congyi nodded and said, "That's right, is there anyone else who doesn't understand?" ”

The others either nodded or were silent, after all, if they kill the enemy, they can get the merit of war, and let the enemy go, in real terms, it is to release the enemy privately, which is a big crime, but the enemy is outside the city, not in their hands, let it go, but call the enemy to save their wounded soldiers back, they have never encountered this kind of thing, and they have never heard of it, but they know that in addition to winning and losing, there are also rights and wrongs in war, if they do wrong, even if they win the battle, the result may not be good.

The generals are actually very entangled, they have been in the army for a lot longer than the supervising army, and they have seen a lot of strange things, for Shangguan, many times whether they can win the battle or not is not important, whether they can do it right or not is the most important thing.

Now guarding Liangshan City, isolated, you can survive if you win, and if you lose, the whole army will be annihilated, instead of focusing on right or wrong, it is better to pay attention to winning or losing, and winning will have the opportunity to consider right and wrong, and if you lose, everything has nothing to do with them.

"What the prison army said is reasonable, we were stationed in Liangshan to force Li Yue's army back, win a big victory, end the war, as long as we can win, we can drive them back to the south of Daliang Mountain, but we listen to the orders of the prison army!" Yao Chang has a flexible mind and a quick mind, and he knows more or less what other people think.

Su Zhong echoed loudly: "I don't understand so many twists and turns, we will listen to the prison army, no matter how we fight, as long as we can win this battle and drive Li Yueren back to Daliang Mountain." Overseer, just say it, what do we do next? ”

Seeing this, the others also pressed their worries and replied one after another: "We will do what the prison army says, and everything depends on the prison army." ”

Yang Congyi said with a smile: "Guarding Liangshan City is the business of the entire Xuanwei Army, and it is the business of all of us. Since everyone agrees, then when defending the city in the future, if they can be wounded, as long as they have an attack interval, let them rescue the wounded soldiers, they have enough troops, if they take turns to attack without stopping, the soldiers will inevitably be exhausted, so we can also take advantage of the time when they rescue the wounded soldiers to rest and recuperate, so that their strength advantage will be greatly reduced. ”

After a pause, after everyone had digested it and had no objections, he continued: "The combat strength of more than 10,000 enemy troops outside the city is average, and it is no longer a matter of concern to attack twice and return without success. The retreat of Fusui and the hundreds of thousands of Li Yue's troops, including 50,000 elites, should have almost reached the vicinity of Yulin, we should focus on them, their combat effectiveness is stronger than the enemy army outside the city, if they continue to attack, how can we stop them? ”

Everyone didn't reply, what an army of 100,000 looks like, someone has seen it when fighting against the Jin people in the north, that team like a torrent is enough to destroy any county town in one go, Liangshan City is not very tall, more than ordinary county towns is a moat three zhang wide, and a slightly stronger city wall, there are no other advantages. Whether they can hold Liangshan City or not, they really don't dare to guarantee, but the prison army is full of spirit and confidence, and they have to believe it.

"Commander Yuan, you have also fought, what should you do if the enemy army takes turns and continues to attack the city?" Yang Congyi directly named him.

Yuan Hua coughed dryly, thought for a while, and said: "We occupy the city, stay in the necessary forces to guard the granary, ordnance and camp, and all the rest of the Xuanwei army and Qingzhuang will all go to the city, and suppress them with bows and arrows in the city, no need to shoot far, as long as we ensure that the arrows are as dense as rain within the distance of 20 zhang to 30 zhang, and do not let the enemy army approach within 20 zhang smoothly, if we can't get close to the city, we can't do anything." So my suggestion is to mobilize all your forces and hold off the enemy with bows and arrows. ”

Yang Congyi was noncommittal, but asked the others: "What do you think?" ”

Zhang Dai said: "The enemy army will not be so simple, we have bows and arrows, they also have them, if they destroy the planks on our heads with rockets first, we will not be able to stand on the city, we should first think about how to strengthen the defense on the head, there is no worries, in order to block the enemy army besieging the city with all our might." ”

"Brother Zhang is right, although the wooden plank is powerful in defending the local arrow array, but the flaws are also obvious, as long as the enemy launches a rocket, sooner or later the wooden board will be burned through, adding a layer of defense to the wooden board, such as covering a layer of sand and soil, isolating the fire, you can break the rocket threat." Liu Shi said approvingly.

Yao Chang said: "The wooden board should indeed be covered with something to prevent fire, but the sand is not good, the wind is strong at the head of the city, and the sand is easy to be blown away by the wind, and when the wind is strong, even the wooden board will be blown off." If we glue three inches of thin mud on top of the plank, we can not only defend against enemy rockets, but also do not have to worry about the wind blowing the plank away. ”

Seeing that the others nodded in approval, Yang Congyi also praised: "Okay, the city should indeed strengthen its defenses, the idea of sticking mud on the wooden planks is very good, I will find someone to do it at this time." In addition, from today onwards, the Xuanwei Army and the young men guarding the four gates will eat and live in the city, and the food of the young and strong will also be provided by the Xuanwei Army, and they will not be allowed to go down to the city at will. ”

"Yes." Everyone responded in unison.