That night, Xiao Wang set up camp ten miles outside the city of Xiangzhou.

He did not choose to attack at night, because from his observation during the day, he had already found that Xiangzhou not only had perfect city defense, but also the deployment of troops to defend the city was also the essence of the art of war.

On the morning of the next day, after a round of bombardment by the catapult, Xiao Wang began a tentative attack on Xiangzhou City.

In this siege, Xiao Wang sent 20,000 troops, and his intention was not to break through Xiangzhou, but to have the idea of 'a mule or a horse to come out for a walk'. He wanted to study the enemy's defensive state from this tentative attack.

"Mr. Liu Yuan, that person should be Zuo Shuang, you see, although he has not made any drastic movements, but every time he walks behind the Jin army guarding the city, those soldiers, as if they have changed a person, have desperately resisted, not afraid of death!" Xiao Wang, who was watching the battle from the rear, pointed to Zuo Shuang, who was commanding at the head of the city, and said.

Liu Yuan, who was standing beside him, also nodded when he heard this, and said, "This person is a good general who guards the city!" With him, Xiangzhou is not easy to take......"

Hearing this, Xiao Wang subconsciously asked, "What is Mr. Liu Yuan's clever plan?" ”

Liu Yuan smiled and said: "According to General Tang Man's intelligence, Fang Jun, the head of Nanyang County, actually has the intention of surrendering, but now Zuo Shuang leads the army to garrison, so he has no choice but to be the enemy of our side, if we want to break through Xiangzhou, we can start from this aspect." ”

"Mr. means ......"

"Discord Meter." Liu Yuan said unhurriedly: "The general personally wrote a secret letter and handed it to Fang Jun, but on the way to deliver the letter, he was accidentally intercepted by Zuo Shuang. ”

Yo! Hearing this, Xiao Wang's eyes couldn't help but light up, but soon, he said again: "Although this plan is wonderful, but Zuo Shuang is not a mediocre talent, if it is just a matter of secret letters, I am afraid it will be difficult to let him be fooled, and he needs some assistance......"

"The general means ......"

"Attack the city for the bottom, attack the heart for the top!" Xiao Wang said with a smile, and then, with a wave of his hand, he shouted at the herald: "Mingjin, collect the troops!" ”

On the first day of the siege, under Xiao Wang's orders, the Feng army only made a tentative attack and hastily withdrew.

The next day, the Feng army directly gave up the siege, and the whole army was huddled in a camp ten miles away.

On the third day, it was still the same, and there was no siege movement in sight, as if the wind army was not here to capture Nanyang, but more like a tourist.

This delay was three days, and by the fourth day, the Xiangzhou side was completely confused, why did the opposite side fight a small-scale siege battle, and there was no movement.

It must be known that you are stationed at the city pass, and there is a large amount of grain and grass hoarded in the city, even if you guard it for a hundred days, it will not hurt. But on the side of the Feng Army, Guanshan County, where the soldiers came out, is more than 200 miles away from here! If you delay for one more day, you will consume one more day of grain and grass, and if you transport grain from Guanshan to this point, I don't know if there will be any accidents!

The lieutenant general of the left double immediately suggested to him:

"General, our army has 150,000 people, and the enemy army only has 100,000, presumably, after the last battle, the other party must have seen that Xiangzhou was difficult to capture, and if he went back like this, he couldn't explain to Lu Chen, so he deliberately delayed time outside the city, and it was not retreat, nor was it advanced. The last general suggested that our army should take this opportunity to kill in one fell swoop and catch the opponent off guard! And the enemy army would never have thought that we would suddenly kill out of the city......"

Before he finished speaking, Zuo Shuang had already shook his head and said, "No! After three days, Xiao Wang only carried out a tentative attack, which was too weird! And this person is scheming, presumably, he must be planning something, we must not be careless! ”

He always felt that Xiao Wang was secretly planning some kind of conspiracy, and the longer the time dragged on, the tighter his nerves collapsed.

On the fifth day, in the city of Xiangzhou, rumors suddenly spread, saying that it was nothing more than Ding Rui killing the monarch and usurping the country, changing the name of the country of Gale, the so-called new kingdom of Jin, in fact, turned the country of wind into a vassal state of Zhang, and Ding Rui was a puppet supported by Zhangguo. Now the army of the general of Zhenbei is pressing the border, crusading against the traitors, and all the people of the great wind should echo each other from afar, share the same hatred of the enemy, and should not become a slave of the Zhang country......

Ding Rui is absurd and unscrupulous, tyrannical and tyrannical in the world, and the people of the Wind Country already hate him to the bone, and they are not willing to fall into the Jin Dynasty, within their jurisdiction, they are just afraid of power and dare not resist. At this moment, the wind army was pressing the city, and there was such a rampant rumor, and in Xiangzhou City, the people were panicked for a while, and the military spirit also began to turmoil.

It turned out that he wanted to attack the heart first, and then attack the city! What a sinister and cunning Xiao Wang! Zuo Shuang, who received the news, secretly gritted his teeth, and immediately began to rectify the morale of the army, and his adjutant general once again suggested to him to suppress the rumors in the city by force, and anyone who dared to speak nonsense would be sent to death row!

However, his suggestion was rejected again by Zuo Shuang! Zuo Shuang knows very well that this kind of rumor must be caused by Xiao Wang's meticulous work, and once he adopts military means to suppress the people, it is undoubtedly equivalent to falling into Xiao Wang's tricks, he doesn't have to think about it, once he acts like this, the rumors in the city will not only not be stopped, I am afraid that it will become more and more troublesome!

At this time, on the side of the Feng Army, Liu Yuan also thought that the time had come, and it was time for Zuo Shuang to intercept his secret letter. He proposed to Xiao Wang:

"General Xiao, now in Xiangzhou City, rumors are spreading, and the defenders are in turmoil, and at this time, Fang Jun, the head of his county, has secretly contacted us, and he just happened to say that in the past, if the secret letter is released at this time, after being intercepted by Zuo Shuang, these two will definitely turn against each other."

However, Xiao Wang still shook his head and said: "According to the brother report of the military aircraft battalion, Zuo Shuang did not take force against the rumors among the people in Xiangzhou City, but just blindly rectified the morale of the defenders. ”

As he spoke, he glanced at Liu Yuan again, and then said: "Mr. Liu Yuan, if the secret letter is released at this time, I expect that Zuo Shuangxuan will not be fooled, but will fall short!" Instead of betting, it's better to wait until the time is right! ”

At this moment, a secret agent of the military aircraft battalion stepped into the tent, and as soon as he came in, he knelt on one knee and intervened and said: "General, the brothers in the city have sent back news, saying that they have contacted Ye Cheng according to the general's instructions, and now they need some gold and silver support......

"Good! All the expenses you need, you will send someone to send them! Xiao Wangxi said with a smile.

"No!"

After the spy from the military aircraft battalion left, Liu Yuan couldn't help but ask:

"General Xiao, this Ye Cheng is ......"

"This person is a partial general under the left double account......"

Xiao Wang's use of soldiers is like playing chess, he never fights uncertain battles, if he can't eat the opponent's piece, he will definitely not take that move rashly.

(End of chapter)