"General Shi, if you look carefully, the Mongolian army on this one seems to be dialing one after another, but in fact, the meridians are distinct." Wang Laohu said.

General Shi looked at the Mongolian army on the battlefield outside the city and said, "The Mongolian army is not afraid of trouble, and uses the formation of the usual training on the battlefield. ”

"If you think it's a formation in training just to look good, you're wrong." Wang Laohu corrected.

"Wrong? What's the use of such a well-defined formation, just look at it, what is the use in actual combat? ”

"General Shi, look this way." Wang Laohu pointed to an area, "There are thousands of soldiers from our Ming Dynasty here. And the Mongolian army has a large number, such an obvious intention, General Shi still doesn't understand? ”

"You're saying the Mongols want to devour us piece by piece?"

"I think that's what they're trying to do."

"It's so insidious." General Shi said, "I thought they were putting on a show, but I didn't expect them to have such intentions." ”

"This trick is called silkworm eating leaves, devouring piece by piece, so that you will die invisibly."

"General Wang, what do you say we should do?" General Shi asked.

"The Mongol army has not yet been assembled, and the combat effectiveness of the heavy cavalry behind will be even more powerful, so it is the best strategy to concentrate forces to destroy the Mongols in front of you. But now General Ma has been wantonly invaded by the Mongol army into several pieces, and if it goes forward, General Ma's vital force will be severely damaged. Wang Laohu said.

"You mean, let General Ma evacuate them."

"Yes." Wang Laohu said, "Let General Ma retreat immediately." ”

The retreat call of Xiyang City sounded.

General Ma, who was fighting vigorously on the battlefield, heard the call to return to the city and led the remnants to retreat to the city.

General Ma, who had a dusty face, returned to the city, and the first thing he said when he saw General Shi was: "I was fighting hard, why did I suddenly return to the city?" ”

"General Ma, I'm saving you." General Shi said.

"Help me?" General Ma's face was confused, and when he saw Wang Laohu, he said with some surprise, "Wang Gongzi, you are not in Vazhou, why did you get to Xiyang?" ”

"It was the emperor who asked me to help Xiyang."

"General Ma, General Wang is now General Xiyang."

"General Xiyang?" Of course, General Ma didn't understand that Wang Laohu was only a dart master in the rivers and lakes, and a businessman in the rivers and lakes, how could the emperor make him a general.

"This is true, he has the emperor's holy decree." General Shi continued.

"General Ma, the emperor knows that Xiyang is in danger, so he specially ordered me to help General Ma and General Shi. Wang Laohu said.

General Ma also had to admit it, so he had to say, "General Wang." However, he was still puzzled by the urgent summoning of him back to the city, "You said just now that you were saving me, what is the matter?" ”

"The Mongolian army has just divided General Ma's men and horses, I wonder if General Ma is aware of it?" Wang Laohu asked.

"How many are it divided into? What does this have to do with this battle? General Ma seemed to be confused.

"The meaning of the Mongolian army's doing this is obvious, using the force to divide General Ma's men and horses into several parts, just like cutting tofu, dividing the men and horses into several pieces, and then picking the weakest area to concentrate on eliminating until all the men and horses are wiped out." Wang Laohu said.

"But my people are not vegetarians, they will divide into regions, and we will also pick their weaknesses." General Ma said.

"Judging from the battlefield just now, General Ma's men are already in a very passive situation. So it's better to retreat for now. Wang Laohu said.

"Now that I have withdrawn from the battle, I have nothing to say, and then, let's discuss how to repel the Mongol army?" General Ma said.

The emperor's intention is very clear, let Xiyang City hold on for ten days, waiting for reinforcements from Xiamu, but how to hold on to these ten days still requires a certain strategy. "The Mongolian army is claimed to be 100,000, but the Mongolian army outside Xiyang City is far from this number, where did the other Mongolian army go?" Wang Laohu asked.

"General Huiwang, we are also scouting the whereabouts of the Mongol army." General Shi said.

"Part of the Mongolian army has been discovered not far from Vazhou City, so General Yu's men and horses in Vazhou City can't take care of it for the time being, and we have to rely on ourselves here."

"General Wang has made it very clear, and we also understand that General Shi and I have also expressed our attitude, we are here, and Xiyang City is here." General Ma said.

"We don't have to be pessimistic, we still have a chance of winning until the 100,000 Mongol army is assembled. It won't be long before the defenders of Shimogi will come to reinforce Xiyang City. ”

"Shimogi?" General Shi said, "If you come from Xiamu to Xiyang, you can't reach it in a few days." ”

"So for the next few days, it's all on our own." Wang Laohu said, "However, if the Mongol soldiers around Vazhou disappear, maybe Vazhou will also send reinforcements." Wang Laohu said this, but he knew that there was little hope of sending troops from Vazhou.

"General Wang, we understand. The Mongol army was on the sidelines, so we took advantage of their brigade of men and swords before they arrived, so we gave them a big battle. General Ma said.

"We did the same thing, but it doesn't seem to work very well." Wang Laohu said.

General Shi looked at Wang Laohu in the room and said, "I wonder if General Wang has any good plans?" ”

"I can't say a good plan, but for the Mongols who are skillful in using soldiers, we can't be as brutal as we did just now, and we can't afford to rely on fighting people."

"Report to the general." There was a soldier outside the door to report, "General Shi, a large number of troops have been found not far outside Xiyang City. ”

A large army?

Wang Laohu looked at General Shi and said, "Let's go, let's go up to the city wall to have a look." ”

Several generals went up to the city wall, and sure enough, they saw a group of troops coming towards Xiyang City, but he was going in the direction of the Mongol army, and judging from the speed of this march, the speed was slow.

"It's the heavy cavalry of the Mongol army, and the trebuchet that besieges the city." Wang Laohu read.

The Mongolian heavy cavalry has arrived, which is bad news for Xiyang City.

"General Wang, it seems that we have lost our best fighter." General Shi said.

The fighter plane was only in an instant, and the Mongol army was not far apart from each other in terms of march, so it would not take more than a few hours for the heavy cavalry to arrive.

"The Mongol army's light cavalry and heavy cavalry are extremely capable of fighting together, and we need to renegotiate the method of fighting the Mongol army." Wang Laohu said.

"I don't think something is right. There are not 100,000 Mongol troops here, where are the rest of the people? General Ma said.

"There really aren't 100,000 people here." Wang Laohu was also puzzled.

There are some Mongolian soldiers around Vazhou, could it be that the real purpose of the Mongolian soldiers this time will be Vazhou?

And Xiyang City is just their bait.

Thinking of this, Wang Laohu couldn't help but worry about the emperor.

Regardless of the purpose of the Mongol army, the most important thing is to solve the current crisis in Xiyang City.

"Let's discuss it first and then make a decision." Wang Laohu said.

Several generals returned to the city.

"The Mongol army has arrived with light cavalry, heavy cavalry, and siege weapons, and it seems that it is only a matter of time before they launch an attack on Xiyang City." General Shi said.

"It seems that a big war is inevitable. Judging by the speed of the previous Mongol attack, they will soon attack Xiyang. General Ma said.

Wang Laohu asked, "If you were a Mongol army, and now you are in the city, what will you do?" ”

"Attack right away, of course." General Ma said.

"Why?" Wang Laohu continued to ask.

"All the men and horses have been assembled, and the longer it drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for Mongolia, after all, they have been marching for so many days, and finally there is a city, and they don't hurry up to defeat it." General Ma said.

"I think so too, the Mongol army is known for its fast march, and judging from their combat style in the early stage, speed is one of their characteristics, so I also think that they will attack Xiyang soon."

"Since everyone thought that the Mongol army would attack the city immediately, how should we respond?"

"Now the form on the field is that the enemy is strong and I am weak, and we could have taken advantage of the fact that before their backup arrived, we could have given a surprise attack to eliminate some of their living forces, but now that their iron cavalry has arrived, we may suffer a loss if we rush out." General Shi said.

"Then according to General Shi's meaning, are we waiting in the city for them to attack the city?" Wang Laohu asked.

"Sometimes it's a good idea to work at ease." General Shi said.

"General Ma, what do you think?"

"General Wang, the Mongolian army is in front of us, we are waiting for them to come, Xiyang City is impregnable, we will consume them first, and when they are tired, we will attack."