Chapter 429: A Strange Way of Siege

In the desolate north wind, Zhezhi City is still depressed. Looking from the bottom of the city, there is not a single figure in sight, and the tattered flags are hunting in the wind, as if indictment of the cruelty of war.

Ning Yuan's iron cavalry came to the city ten days ago. Yi Wei was not afraid of the enemy attacking the city, but rather looked forward to it, and with the high city and the absolute superiority in troops, he was sure enough to defeat the visiting enemy and achieve his great reputation. However, the enemy did not do what he wanted, and for the past ten days he only rode under the city to 'shoot' and 'riot', and it seemed that he had come to demonstrate by force, and had no intention of attacking the city.

The news of Li Huaitang's 'desire' expedition to the west has already spread, and the enemy is terrifyingly strong, but Yi Wei has never thought of pinning all his hopes on the reinforcements of the Turgish. Regardless of whether there are reinforcements or not, Yi Wei has made sufficient preparations, and it is not his style to be captured. Yi Wei's self-confidence is based on 100,000 troops and 50,000 people, on the basis of the whole city's soldiers, 150,000 is his basic strength, as long as he wants, the whole city regardless of men', women', old and young, can go to the city to defend, such an iron city, even if it is as strong as the Tang army, there is no way, let alone the newly rising Ningyuan Iron Cavalry.

Yi Wei has never been a peaceful person, he is not willing to be beaten passively, so he designed an ambush in a thrilling way, trying to paralyze the opponent through continuous retreat without a fight, but for some reason the opponent 'hole' informed the plan, completely annihilated his only 3,000 cavalry, if he was not alert at that time, he immediately led tens of thousands of infantry troops to retreat when he saw the smoke, otherwise Zhezhi City would have been broken by the opponent in one fell swoop. After this battle, he hated and feared Li Huaitang, and even doubted whether the god of luck was favoring Li Huaitang.

Yi Wei was not discouraged, he still had more than 100,000 troops in his hands, and the field battle was insufficient, and there was more than enough to defend the city. He is a veteran of the battlefield and knows how to use his strengths to avoid weaknesses and use his strengths to defeat the enemy's weaknesses. Naturally, he chose to shrink back to meet the enemy.

The confrontation under Zhezhi City began, and for ten consecutive days, the daily routine of the attacking side was first to beat the horn and drum, and then to 'shoot' the huge cavalry around the city, and the endless arrows wiped out all the defenders who dared to 'show their faces' on the city, and gradually froze the morale of the defenders at the freezing point.

As always, Yi Wei was very patient, and every day he would go to the castle tower to watch the enemy's situation, although the enemy situation reported to him every day had made him tired of listening to it, just like the effect of listening to the same song every day for ten consecutive days, and he listened to it repeatedly, no way, the order was given by him, at least five times a day.

"It seems that there are fewer enemy horsemen today." Standing in the safety of the tower, Yi muttered to himself in confusion.

"Maybe there aren't enough arrows, right? Or maybe they're tired of it too. The soldiers around him replied, with a hint of laziness in their tones.

Yi Wei felt the same way. From ancient times to the present, I have not heard of any side breaking through the rain of arrows, no matter how many arrows can not withstand such a squander, there will always be a day when it is exhausted, and the defenders in addition to the first day because of inexperience in the death and wounding of thousands of people, the next nine days in total only a thousand casualties, according to this speed of development, the enemy cavalry will soon have nothing to do.

"Blow the trumpet and let them hear our fighting spirit!" Yi Wei smirked. The sound of the horn will definitely stab the enemy and make the rain of arrows more dense, but he doesn't mind that the enemy consumes more arrows, which is more beneficial to his defense in the future, and he doesn't care about the death and injury of a thousand people.

For the provocation of the defenders, Gongsun Wenyuan was angry, and he took the initiative to ask for battle: "General, let the strong crossbow array go on, and teach those Shiguo people a lesson!" ”

Li Huaitang stopped Gongsun Wenyuan's impulsiveness, and his expression was very calm. Like Yi Wei, he also led the Chinese army to fight outside the east 'gate' of Zhezhi City every day. The accompanying soldiers are more or less suspicious, although the outside of Zhezhi City is already their world, but it may be difficult to conquer Zhezhi City. Many believe that their general seems to want to trap the defenders of the city. Of course, the strength of Ningyuan's iron cavalry is far from enough to besiege the city, but the terrain of Zhezhi City is special, and the two direct current north and south traps that kill water for the 'medicine' are sandwiched, as long as the east side is blocked, and the remaining three sides will send rangers to patrol across the river, even if the defenders in the city can enter and exit, they will not be able to escape far.

In the eyes of Li Jingzhong, the superintendent of the army, Li Huaitang was obviously inaction, and such an offensive felt like a perfunctory thing no matter how you looked at it, perhaps a disguised protest against the Tang Dynasty's lack of troops and support.

Li Jingzhong's face began to become 'gloomy' cold, and the attack on Zhezhi City was so grinding, it was definitely hopeless to expect Li Huai Tang to recover Broken Leaf Town. At the beginning, the saint "wanted" to send people to Ningyuan City to supervise the army and inspect the specific situation in the Western Regions, as soon as the rumors came out, he recommended himself to Gaolishi "Mao", Ningyuan City in the palace "servants" seemed to be a barren place and a place of war and "chaos" to avoid, but Li Jingzhong did not see it that way, he was unknown in the palace, it is difficult to get ahead, rather than a bleak life, it is better to fight for meritorious service into the emperor's field of vision. Therefore, he had a good start, before leaving Chang'an, he was unprecedentedly named General Xuanwei, although he was a military officer, after all, the seeds of hope had already sprouted. However, now it seems that Li Huaitang is not as good as he wants, and his hope of returning to Tang with glory is not even as slim.

In the same row as Li Jingzhong was Mo He Tutun, the former monarch of Shi Kingdom, and it was uncomfortable to send people under the fence, which was also one of the reasons why he was anxious to regain power from Yi Wei, but because of his previous recklessness, he almost fell into an ambush, so that he didn't dare to say more, he really couldn't guess Li Huaitang's intentions, dispatched tens of thousands of people, and consumed a lot of food, was it just to show off his strength under the city of Zhezhicheng?

The two of them each had ghosts, and their eyes touched each other. Perhaps inspired by Mohe Tutun, Li Jingzhong suddenly drove his horse to Li Huaitang's side and expressed his dissatisfaction in his way: "If I'm not mistaken, the general seems to have said that he would take back Broken Leaf Town from the hands of the Turgish. ”

Li Jingzhong's words seemed to be incomprehensible, but Li Huaitang heard the implication aimed at him.

Li Huaitang seemed to be smiling, looked sideways at Li Jingzhong, and said lightly: "General Xuanwei's memory 'sex' is correct, I said so. ”

Li Jingzhong said: "Very good, then, how does the general think the people of Shiguo compare to the people of Tuqishi?" ”

"In terms of combat effectiveness, it is far inferior." Li Huaitang pretended not to know what he was referring to and replied honestly.

Li Jingzhong asked again: "Does the general think that this can convince the people of Shi Guo?" ”

"Hehe," Li Huaitang smiled at the provocation and said, "General Xuanwei can wait patiently, I will take Zhezhi City and Broken Leaf City." ”

"It's easy to say. The captives all said that there were 150,000 defenders in Zhezhi City, and I wonder how the general planned to defeat them? Wouldn't it just be a painless ride? Li Jingzhong gradually ripped his face, and there was sarcasm in his tone.

"General, we might as well ......" Mo He Tutun listened anxiously, and also came up to join in the fun.

"I have made up my mind, don't say much, in short, I will let you see the dawn of victory." Li Huaitang stretched out his hand to stop Mo He Tutun's suggestion, and his tone turned to tough and unreasonable.

"Humph!" Li Jingzhong responded with disdain and anger.

The crowd fell into an awkward silence.

In the silence, a scout rode from behind and galloped forward, bringing news to Li Huaitang. The scout whispered to Li Huaitang, and then Li Huaitang Mingjin withdrew his troops.

At the head of the city, Yi Wei was even more suspicious, and the sound of his horn did not summon more feathered arrows as expected, but instead frightened the enemy army. The enemy's collection was regarded by the defenders as the credit of the main general, and it was his divine clarion call that ordered the soldiers to retreat from the enemy without blood, and the defenders at the head of the city were jubilant, sweeping away the decadence of being beaten passively for several days.

"What's going on?" Ning Yuan Tieqi asked Yi Wei's heart up and down.

Li Huaitang did not give an answer. He gave another strange order, reduce the stove! That is, to reduce the number of campfires.

In the thick night 'color', standing at the head of the city, looking at the obviously reduced fires in the enemy camp, combined with the scene of Li Huaitang receiving the scout's report to collect troops during the day, Yi Wei couldn't suppress the surprise in his heart, and said to himself: "The Turks have really sent troops, and they are going to retreat!" ”

On a post more than ten miles on the other side of the Shiguo River, looking at the Ningyuan Iron Cavalry Barracks on the other side of the river, Kaser also muttered to himself: "The Great Khan is brave!" They have finally divided their forces and marched north to take the city of Chim! ”

Yi is wrong! Casure guessed right! Li Huaitang did divide his troops and go north to Sim City. Sim City is the second largest town in the Stone Kingdom, located more than 200 miles north of Zhezhi City, and is an important checkpoint to the territory of the Turgish in the northeast. The leader of the army to the north was Bai Xiaode and 5,000 tiger and leopard horsemen, as well as more than 1,000 knights of Mohe Tutun, the former monarch of Shi Kingdom. Perhaps this strength alone was not enough to break the city, Li Huaitang secretly arranged for them a surprise army, thirty wolf tooth warriors led by Tu Bulie. They are responsible for opening the gates of Chim!

In fact, Cassel was not quite right, and soon he found that thousands of enemy horsemen, guided by hounds, pounced on him. In the past few days, he has been attacked by the sweaty and bloody cavalry, and he can't cross the river to inspect the enemy's situation, and can only judge the 'fierceness' of the attack and defense of Zhezhi City through the faint sound of horns and drums, which can not help but remind Kaser of the tragic situation during the siege of the city in the past.

This time, the expulsion of the enemy cavalry was crazy, and unlike the previous days, it seemed that they were going to put them to death.

"Withdraw! Remove! Kaser ordered in a panic, and the horses under his seat were spurred on by him, and any delay in the pursuit of the sweaty horses would be fatal.

Casure almost died on the battlefield, the speed of the sweaty and bloody ride was not blown, and there were very few survivors of the hundred horses under his command.

"The enemy is moving!" Caster judged with certainty. He managed to avoid the hunt by hiding in a tree, and the enemy's attitude was obvious, they just didn't want him to bring the news back! The more this is the case, the more important the enemy's situation is 'sex', perhaps, this information is enough to make Sulu Khan determined to go south! Please keep in mind the URL, if you like "War Owl in Tang" written by the wolf under the moon