ps: Once again, I fell asleep while thinking about the plot, and I hope that the book friends will spare me......

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In the city of Fenghao, the alarm bell is loud. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This change alarmed Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su who had just fallen asleep.

At first, he only felt that the city was too noisy, but when he listened carefully, he was almost scared into a cold sweat: enemy attack?!

Zhao Hongrun was stunned for a moment, completely unable to understand how the enemy entered the city.

At this time, the door creaked, and the finch walked in from outside, closed the door, and said to Zhao Hongrun with a calm expression: "Son, it was the cavalry of Weiyang Jun Yinghua who entered the city. ”

"Weiyang Jun Yinghua? Cavalry? ”

Zhao Hongrun's expression became very strange, although he also knew the tactics of cavalry siege, but the key to cavalry siege was to rely on fire arrows to burn down the buildings in the city, not really cavalry into the city.

The walls of the Qin State are generally a few zhang higher than those of the Central Plains, could it be that the cavalry of Weiyang Jun Yinghua flew in from outside the city with wings?

Thinking of this, Zhao Hongrun lifted the futon despite the cold.

Seeing this, the finch stepped forward and waited for Zhao Hongrun to put on his clothes.

After a while, Zhao Hongrun walked out of the bedroom with the birds, only to see that in the courtyard outside the house, the guards and dozens of Su Wangwei had already gotten up, and the Zongwei Changwei Wei Jiao was instructing the Su Wang Guards to consolidate the defense force of the city guard, until the Zongwei Lu Mu reminded Wei Jiaozheng that Zhao Hongrun was walking towards him.

"Your Highness!" Several Zong Wei and dozens of Su Wang Wei clasped their fists and shouted.

Zhao Hongrun waved his hand to signal everyone to get up, and then he asked Wei Jiao: "Wei Jiao, what is the situation in the city?" ”

Wei Jiao glanced at the finch beside Zhao Hongrun, and when he saw her nodding slightly, he knew that she had told her Royal Highness the general situation, so he said: "How Weiyang Jun Yinghua's cavalry team entered the city, this matter is not clear for the time being, but Gao Kuo has already gone to investigate in person. ”

This answer made Zhao Hongrun not very satisfied, he turned his head to look at the direction of the noisy voice, and saw the looming fire coming from there, his eyebrows couldn't help frowning, and he said in a deep voice: "Pass the order, and recapture the lost city gate first." ”

"Yes!" Wei Jiao responded with a fist.

In fact, it is not at all different from Zhao Hongrun's order, at this time in the city, the Shang Shui Army has already launched an operation to recapture the West City Gate, and their reaction speed is far beyond Weiyang Jun Yinghua's expectations.

After entering Feng Ho City, the 3,000 cavalry under the command of Weiyang Jun Yinghua were divided into three teams, and the two teams were respectively along the south and north directions, killing the north and south gates, and the rest of the teams were led by him and stationed at the west city gate.

Unexpectedly, the speed of the Shang Shui Army's response was far beyond his imagination, and when the bell of the early warning rang in the city, countless Shang Shui soldiers rushed out of the houses in the city, as if this army even slept in armor when they slew.

I have to say that when the cavalry pulls up the speed, the power is indeed great, but if the cavalry fights in the environment of the streets and alleys, the power of the cavalry is greatly reduced, because the soldiers of Shangshui are very good at this kind of street fighting, and they are very good at fighting the enemy in a long and narrow area.

Especially in the case of "one-on-one", even if the cavalry of the enemy country is on the opposite side, the infantry of the merchant army is sure to cut the opponent under the horse.

"Shoot the ——!"

"Puff puff!"

A team of Wei crossbowmen lay in ambush at the end of the alley and knocked the trigger of the crossbow at the passing Weiyang cavalry, only to hear the sound of the strings, and the Weiyang cavalry fell one after another.

The leader of this Weiyang cavalry suddenly found that even if they entered the city, in the narrow environment of the city, they had no way to counterattack the Wei army, and at best they forcibly broke through and ran to the next location to set fire.

"Whew-"

At the west city gate, a flat military horn sounded, reminding the Weiyang cavalry in the city: It's time to retreat.

After hearing this horn, the Weiyang cavalry in the city was shocked: Why so fast? They haven't done what they expected to cause chaos in the city!

Why so fast?

Because the soldiers of the Shang Shui Army were launching a fierce counterattack on the West City Gate, they relied on the combination of heavy infantry and crossbowmen to inflict huge casualties on the cavalry team under the command of Weiyang Jun Yinghua.

It's just a moment, right? The Wei army was able to form a counterattack of this scale, which was really ......

At the gate of the West City, Weiyang Jun Yinghua's expression changed again and again.

He had led his army to attack the garrison of Yiqu Qiangrong more than once, and most of them were able to defeat Yiqu Qiangrong, which was several times his own, but it was the first time he had encountered an army that reacted as quickly as the Shangshui Army.

What's more, the commanding generals of the Wei army were very calm, and the other party did not blindly let the infantry pursue the Weiyang cavalry running around in the city, but issued an order to recapture the west city gate.

And with the counterattack of the Shang Shui Army, the warriors of the Qi tribe in the city also launched a counterattack, which made the Weiyang cavalry, which had originally taken the lead, lose its advantage in a blink of an eye.

…… It's time to withdraw.

In the battle wielding the war spear, Weiyang Jun Yinghua glanced at the city regretfully, and immediately chose to retreat.

After about a moment or so, the sound of fighting in the city gradually subsided, and on the side of the west city gate, the merchant army also regained control of this place and was busy extinguishing the fire.

It turned out that before evacuating, Weiyang Jun Yinghua tried to burn the city gate with the straw bales brought by the cavalry, but because the counterattack of the Shang Shui Army was too fierce, Weiyang Jun Yinghua had to give up this plan and evacuate as soon as possible.

Just when the soldiers of the Shang Shui Army gathered the corpses at the West City Gate, Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, came here with a group of people.

"Your Highness has come down ......"

"His Royal Highness King Su has come down ......"

In the whispered discussion of the soldiers of the merchant and water army, Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, came to the gate of Xicheng and looked at the corpses of the Weiyang cavalry on the ground with a frown.

Mainly looking at the corpse of the horse, because he wondered how the war horse of the cavalry under the command of Yinghua of the Weiyang Army could gallop like a fly on the snow.

It wasn't until he saw that the four hooves of the Weiyang cavalry's war horse were tied with ropes that seemed to be a "hoof cover", that he suddenly realized.

This kind of hoof sleeve is visually made of fine hemp rope and hay, and when tied to this hoof sleeve, the friction of the horse's hooves on the snow is greatly increased, and it is no wonder that it can run on the snow.

Is this an invention of the Qin people?

Taking off a horseshoe cover, Zhao Hongrun looked at it carefully.

However, he guessed wrong, in fact, this was not the invention of the Qin people, but the invention of Yiqu Qiangrong, which was very suitable for fighting in the snow in winter, but Weiyang Jun Yinghua fought with Yiqu Qiangrong all year round and stole it.

"Your Highness......"

Just when Zhao Hongrun was carefully looking at the horseshoe set, Wu Ji, Nanmen Chi and many other generals of the merchant water army had gathered at his side at some point, and their faces were ashamed.

They should be ashamed, after all, his merchant army is also an elite division that has followed Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, to fight in the south and the north for five years, and has participated in countless wars.

Hearing the whisper from his side, Zhao Hongrun turned his head to look at the generals under his command.

At this moment, he had already learned the reason why Weiyang Jun Yinghua broke into the city, which made the anger in his heart fade a little.

Because he realized at that time: Weiyang Jun Yinghua is an opponent that should be dealt with by him.

"Why...... Never mind. ”

Looking at Nanmen Chi, Zhao Hongrun swallowed the next words back into his stomach as soon as he said two words.

He originally wanted to ask Nanmen Chi, why didn't he tell me about the exhaustion of the crossbow arrows in the general? , but after thinking about it, he felt that such a question would only hit the generals of the merchant army such as Nanmen Chi, and it was meaningless.

After all, two days ago, Zhao Hongrun had handed over Feng Hao's city defense to Wu Ji, Nanmen Chi and others, if Nanmen Chi and others still wanted to ask him about everything, what was the difference between this and before?

But tolerance is tolerance, some of the truths and strangeness, Zhao Hongrun still has to tell these generals: "...... Do you think that you have won a great victory in the past two days, so you are complacent? Haven't you noticed that almost all of the people who have died in the past two days are the black-faced army of the Qin State? Did the regular army under the command of Weiyang Jun Yinghua have any casualties? He is fighting a war of attrition, which not only consumes your physical strength and our army's crossbow arrows, but also reduces the food consumption of the Qin army in disguise...... I repeat again, the Qin State is the same as the Chu State, they can pull up a black-faced army of tens of thousands at any time, but they think that they will be complacent after a few victories. ”

"......" Although there are many soldiers of the Shangshui Army in this vicinity, no one interjected, from the generals to the soldiers, all of them lowered their heads and listened to Zhao Hongrun's lesson.

After reprimanding, Zhao Hongrun exhaled slightly, changed his tone and said: "But then again, this king is also blind, that Weiyang Jun Yinghua is not simple, not simple......"

Although he didn't know exactly who Weiyang Jun Yinghua was, Zhao Hongrun instinctively felt that it was definitely a Qin State warrior who would not be inferior to Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi, and this person was obviously different from Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi: he had a strong desire to attack!

In tonight's sneak attack, if it weren't for the soldiers of the Shangshui Army who collected the crossbow arrows outside the city, Weiyang Jun Yinghua's cavalry team would not have been able to enter the city at all.

So let's ask, is this the so-called blind cat encountering a dead mouse?

Zhao Hongrun doesn't see it that way.

He felt that the matter of the Shang Shui Army leaving the city in the middle of the night to recover the crossbow arrows was precisely what Weiyang Jun Yinghua expected, so the latter would come to sneak attack with cavalry.

The reason is very simple, from the perspective of Weiyang Jun Yinghua, he first estimated the number of Wei troops in Fenghao City - although Zhao Hongrun had nearly 100,000 Wei troops under his command, but because he had to divide troops to garrison the four cities of Fenghao, Lintong, Gaoling, and Xiaqi, he was evenly distributed, in fact, each county town only had about 20,000 Wei troops at best.

On the basis that there are only more than 20,000 Wei troops in Feng Ho City, it is not difficult for Weiyang Jun Yinghua to speculate on the fact that the Wei army's arrows and crossbow arrows are exhausted, after all, after the Wei army repelled his attack for two consecutive days, he knows that the crossbow arrows in Feng Hao City are exhausted.

Then, when the Wei army was not sure whether Weiyang Jun Yinghua would continue to attack the city fiercely on the third day, it was normal to take advantage of the midnight to recover the crossbow arrows in time.

Therefore, it may be that on the first day of Weiyang Jun Yinghua's attack on Feng Hao, he had already planned today's night attack in his heart, and perhaps, even planned a series of tactics.

This kind of warfare that attempts to dominate the trend of the battlefield is quite similar to Zhao Hongrun, to be honest. Even, Weiyang Jun Yinghua's courage is still above Zhao Hongrun, and he does not hesitate to use the sacrifice of more than 40,000 black-faced troops to achieve strategic goals.

I think his only miscalculation was to underestimate the Shang Shui Army's ability to respond to night attacks.

Heh, the Qin State is really full of talents...... Come and don't be rude, Weiyang Jun of Qin, your next strategy, I will fight you......

Thinking in his heart, Zhao Hongrun said secretly.