"General, Vice General Wang is dead!" A general came over with a bloody sword to give a report, and he was followed by several soldiers carrying the body of Adjutant General Wang.

Su Ji's face changed, he slowly walked to the corpse, his eyes showed sadness, he had seen too many deaths, countless soldiers who had fought with him over the years had died on the battlefield, he was already a person who would not grieve and grieve easily, this Vice General Wang had been his deputy general for many years, these two got along very well, they had never fought for power and profit, and they had never been unhappy.

In the battle and peacetime, he and Vice General Wang already have an extremely deep brotherhood, which is even closer than brothers.

"It was the guard general Chen Xian who killed him!"

After hearing this, Su Ji clenched his fists and roared: "Chen Xian, I don't kill you, I swear not to be a person!" ”

Chen Xian's voice came from the city wall: "Who are you?" ”

"Jizhou Su Halberd!"

"As long as General Su can enter the city, Chen should be the head!"

Su Ji gritted his teeth, turned his head and shouted at his generals: "Withdraw!" ”

Halfway back to the camp, Su Ji suddenly stopped, and ordered his subordinates: "Five, six, seven, eighty, ninety, five thousand troops withdraw to the camp to rest and sleep, and the four thousand teams of one, two, three, four stay and continue to fight with me!" The fifth thousandth commander, go back and tell the men to prepare supper and breakfast, and send the supper after the hour, and prepare some sumptuous ones! ”

"The last general obeys!"

Half of the men returned to the camp under the command of the generals, and the remaining half remained.

Su Ji rode on horseback and shouted to the officers and soldiers of the association: "All the soldiers, although you have only been serving my cadres for a short time, my cadres from the emperor to the army commander have never regarded you as outsiders, your military salary and other treatment are the same as those of the cadres, and the compensation for the dead is also the same. ”

"This time the enemy defender Chen Xian is indeed a ruthless character, this will have to admit that the city he is defending is difficult to fight, but no matter how difficult it is, we must take it down! The general's idea is this, we still have more than 10,000 people, and the defenders are less than 2,000, we are five times their strength in strength, they can't fight us, our siege equipment has been burned most of the way, now you can only use a ladder to climb the city wall, if you want to siege the city wall, the siege wall is bigger, this general can only use the advantage of the number of troops to attack them day and night! ”

"The advantage of this is that we can take turns to rest, and they can't rest because of their small forces, if they keep attacking day and night, they can't hold on for a few days, at most three or five days, the defenders will collapse, and even if they don't collapse, they will die of fatigue!"

"The general hereby swears and promises: from now on, the first commander who leads the army to break through the city will be promoted to one rank, rewarded with one hundred gold, one hundred horses of silk, and a thousand heads of cattle and sheep, and the officers of the following generals and colonels will be promoted to one rank, and the ordinary soldiers will be rewarded with one gold each; Those who kill Chen Xian or Ye Tongzhang will be promoted to one level if they are generals or above, with a reward of 100 gold, 100 horses of silk, a mansion, and 10 servants; Those who hold official positions below the general level will be promoted to three levels in a row, and other rewards will be the same as the above! ”

Heavy reward, this is a real heavy reward, and it is also the greatest authority that Su Ji can be the master reward!

The promulgation of this reward is not only for generals and officers, but also for all generals, if the city is broken, the thousand-strong team that breaks through the city has collective combat merits, everyone has a reward, and the officer can be promoted; If it is to kill the guards Chen Xian or Ye Tongzhang, it is unlikely that they will be killed alone, it must be a collective merit, and the reward can be divided equally.

The hearts of all the co-subordinate soldiers and generals were on fire, and some shouted: "I am willing to die for the general!" ”

In fact, what soldiers are most afraid of is not death, especially the leader of the army, but they are afraid that there will be no war, and only by fighting can they prove their worth.

"General, how to fight?"

"Please give the order of the general!"

All the soldiers shouted: "I will swear to obey the general's orders!" ”

Su Ji immediately ordered: "Okay, the 1,000-man team will return the same way to attack the south gate; The 2,000-man regiment went to attack the north gate; The third team went to attack Simon; The 4,000-strong team goes to attack the east gate, you have to divide your men and horses into several echelons to attack in turn, and the echelons that do not attack will rest on the spot and recuperate, and your task is to fight until dawn, and wait for the men and horses who have returned from the camp to take over and continue the siege, understand? ”

Su Ji's tactics are very simple and rude, that is, wheel warfare and fatigue warfare. The co-conservators are numerous and can take turns to rest and eat, while the defenders have to defend four gates at the same time, and the troops are relatively scattered, if the co-consignees do not stop attacking, the defenders will not be able to rest, and they will not even have time to eat, drink, and pee.

"Understood!" The commanders agreed in unison.

Su Ji immediately waved his hand: "Okay, all parts scatter!" ”

So each commander took his men and horses and a part of the siege ladder to their own direction of attack, and Su Ji took his guard and fifty cavalry to follow the 1,000 people to the south gate.

At this time, Chen Xian arranged for people to clean the battlefield on the city wall, and was about to leave with the inspection team, he was going to inspect several other city walls, but he heard footsteps outside the city again.

"The enemy is here again!" The sentry was the first to spot the returning co-operative army, and immediately sounded the alarm: "Dangdangdang······"

Chen Xian's face was solemn, "Then is Su Ji crazy?" Don't let the soldiers sleep? Tell everyone to get ready for battle! ”

The assistant army of the 1,000-man team stopped a stone's throw outside the city, and Su Ji rode on horseback and quietly watched the city tower.

"General, how to fight?" The first commander asked.

Su Ji was surprised: "General Ben is just here to inspect, you are the one who leads the troops to fight, you are the commander, you ask General Ben how to fight?" Do you want General Ben to call someone else to take your place? ”

"Don't be wrong, the last general is wrong!" The commander of the first thousand hurriedly smiled, and he immediately turned around and shouted, "All the generals are here!" ”

The three generals ran over.

The commander of the 1,000 made arrangements: "First of all, divide the archers in each of your buildings separately and use them in a centralized manner, and the commander of the thousand will appoint one person to command; The first building is the first to attack, the pace of the attack should not be too fast, and not too urgent, we use the ladder, which is a little worse in terms of projecting troops, so the main purpose of this siege is not to kill and injure a large number of defenders, but to consume them and drag them down! Therefore, the first thing our soldiers should do when attacking the city is to protect themselves from injury, not to fall off the ladder, to fight steadily, understand? ”

The first general clasped his fists and said: "The last general understands!" ”

The commander looked at the other two generals, and they also clenched their fists and replied, "The last general understands!" ”

"Okay, let's get ready!"

The three generals immediately ran back and pulled out all the archers in their ranks and handed them to the commander, who selected one of the three archers and appointed him as the commander of the archers, responsible for leading the archers to support the siege troops at a distance.

The formation of the team has been lined up, and the first building will send someone to report: "General Qiyu, commander of a thousand soldiers, my building is ready, and we can start attacking the city at any time!" ”

The commander looked at Su Ji, Su Ji didn't make a sound, and the commander immediately waved his hand: "Attack!" ”

The order was passed to the first general, and the first general drew his sword and waved forward: "Cloud echelon, rush-"

The soldiers carrying the ladder strode towards the city wall, shouting as they ran: "Rush—"

Then, the first general yelled, "Brothers, follow me—"

The soldiers, with shields in their left hands and swords in their right hands, rushed to the city wall with the generals.

Seeing this, the commander of the 1,000th commander ordered the commander of the archery team: "The archery team presses up, pins down the enemy at the head of the city, and once the enemy army shows up, open the bow and release arrows, and try to cover the infantry climbing the ladder!" ”

"No!" The archer commander agreed, waving to his men: "Soldiers, forward—"

The archers marched in a neat line, armed with bows and crossbows, in the direction of the city walls.

Su Ji saw that the cloud echelons and siege officers and soldiers who rushed to the city wall were exposed under the fire outside the field, and were shot by the enemy archers like live targets, and the defenders were stoned, and he said to the 1,000th commander: "Those fires have exposed our soldiers!" ”

The first commander was reminded by Su Ji and ordered a soldier next to him: "Go and ask the second building to send some people to extinguish the fire!" ”

Even if there is no fire outside the city and there are lights on the city wall, the attacking soldiers under the city wall can clearly see the friendly troops in front of them and the defenders on the city wall, but if the fire outside the city is extinguished, the defenders on the city wall will not be able to see the besieging soldiers under the city clearly.

Sure enough, as soon as the fire was extinguished, the defenders were a little blind, and could only look down against the wall, and when they saw someone on the ladder, they would release arrows and smash stones, and at this time the boiling water had just begun to burn, and there was no boiling water to show, so they could only use bows, arrows and stones to hurt the enemy.

At this time, the archers of the Cadre Army Association near the city wall began to shoot arrows freely under the orders of their commanders, providing cover for the soldiers besieging the city, and the defenders at the head of the city suffered casualties, and people were constantly killed by arrows.

"General, it's too passive, we can't see the enemy archers, but they can see us, and they can unscrupulously fire arrows at us, it's too embarrassing!" The guard held the shield and the sword on his head and said loudly to Chen Xian.

Chen Xian said: "There is no way, I am in the open, the enemy is in the dark, we can only be beaten passively, let the archers retreat, let the spearmen carry the planks and sword and shield soldiers in front first, and the archers will provide support at any time in the back!" ”

This was the only way to do it, and the guard agreed, and immediately gave the order.

Even with planks and shields to protect them, arrows from outside the city kept coming, and someone was always accidentally shot at the weak point of protection.

The first building fought for an hour and then retreated, and then the second one took over and continued the attack, and the defenders did not have time to catch their breath, and before they could rest, the second one rushed over.

The defenders scolded one by one: "What's the matter, don't let people live?" These turtle sons are really shameless, they want to consume us with wheel warfare! ”