Chapter 290: The Calm Before the Storm

"This black-clothed thief is very powerful, the level of elite is far beyond his previous imagination, and at this time, his side has no chance of winning in a decisive battle with them. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" More than an hour after the end of the war, Badulu, who was sitting alone in the big tent of the Chinese army, thought so in his heart, and then he looked at the map on the table, and couldn't help but sigh and rub his eyebrows.

But at this moment, a guard opened the curtain and walked in. "Dashuai, Mr. Song asks to see him outside the tent." The guards saluted.

"Oh. In that case, let Mr. Song come in. Hearing this, Badulu frowned and thought for a while, nodded and said.

Hearing the words of Badulu, the guard said "obey", and put Song Yanjie into the camp.

"Subordinate Song Yanjie, meet the marshal." After striding into the big tent of the Chinese army where Badulu was, looking at Badulu who was frowning and thinking, Song Yanjie couldn't help but salute like this.

Seeing him like this, after Song Yanjie sat down without courtesy, he couldn't help but look at him and said, "Mr. Song came here at this time, but he has a plan to help our army turn defeat into victory." ”

"Let the marshal down, turn defeat into victory, and his subordinates have no plan. The subordinates are here this time just to help the marshal make up your mind. ”

"Help me make up my mind, so to speak, Yanjie, you know my doubts." Looking at Song Yanjie, Badulu raised his eyebrows, and couldn't help but say so.

"The subordinates don't dare to speculate on your mind marshal, but the subordinates came here at this time to say goodbye to the marshal. At this moment, our army has only one battle, and unless reinforcements from the land of Xiangjing arrive, no matter what, we must not take half a step back. Looking at the loss of Badulu, Song Yanjie's tone was extremely firm.

When Badulu himself heard this, he raised his eyebrows, glanced at Song Yanjie with a little surprise, and couldn't help but smile and said: "Hehe, I thought Yanjie you were here to persuade me to withdraw my troops, but I really didn't expect you to say this." After all, in the beginning, you didn't approve of us fighting the Black Thieves. Why, have you changed your mind now? ”

"No, marshal, I have never changed my mind. Especially after we just experienced another defeat. ”

"Hmph, so to speak, you didn't look favorably on our army from beginning to end. Why, then, do you speak now, to strengthen my fighting spirit, and to make me fight a war that you think you will lose? As he spoke, he lost Badulu's tone with a little dissatisfaction.

However, in this regard, after Song Yanjie hugged the lost Badulu with the same face, he couldn't help but say loudly: "This time, that time." Before the start of the war, although the vanguard of our army was heavily damaged by thieves, the main force of our army was unscathed. ”

"Under such circumstances, the black-clad thieves, who are far inferior to me, will surely be afraid of our army. After all, a small victory that killed and injured more than a thousand people, and the nonsense of a lost dog could not let them know the details of our army. If you don't know the details, the fear in your heart will not be removed. ”

"So at that time, if my army led the army to retreat south to Xinye, and the thieves sought stability, they would definitely not rashly launch a pursuit. At that time, the 20,000 righteous troops guarding Jingmen went north to return to the division with the main force of our army. With the absolute superiority of troops, the initiative in the war is in the hands of our army. ”

"At that time, no matter how powerful our army is, the certainty of victory can at least be increased to seventy percent. But what worked then is not feasible now, when the situation has changed. ”

"In that battle, marshal, you let the young marshal lead the army into battle. Therefore, as long as the thief knows the relationship between the young marshal and the marshal, he must be able to guess the talented soldiers and horses, which must be the most elite soldiers and horses in our army. And such the most elite soldiers and horses were defeated by them, and in such a situation, the fear in their hearts naturally did not exist. ”

"Therefore, if I am a thief in black, as long as our army chooses to withdraw at this time, then I, who am eager to survive, will definitely lead all my soldiers and horses to carry out the pursuit. And under this chase and escape, the morale of our army will inevitably drop again and again. ”

"After all, the two armies are fighting, and Bo is that breath. If we lose even the last courage, then our army will really be defeated. ”

"So, Lord Marshal, at this point in the war, our army has no way to retreat. At this moment, defending and leading the attack, sitting and waiting for reinforcements, is the only chance for our army to win. After saying this, Song Yanjie stood up from his seat, couldn't help but bow deeply to the answer to Badulu again.

Seeing this, Badulu finally couldn't help but get up from his seat.

"Mr. is talented, Badu Lu regrets not listening to Mr. From today on, sir, you will be the military division of our army, and everything in the army will be entrusted to Mr. Saying this, Badulu couldn't help but look at Song Yanjie deeply.

And Song Yanjie saw that he was like this, so he hurriedly shook himself to the ground again, and said: "The marshal is serious, since he is the marshal's staff and is supported by the marshal's grace, he should serve the marshal." This is just a certain internal matter, how can a certain virtue be, I don't dare to take the position of military advisor! ”

"Eh, don't excuse me, sir. Ten months ago, I entered Xiangjing alone to quell the rebellion, and the situation was critical, and it was only thanks to my husband's advice that I could quell the rebellion in Xiangjing. Today, sir, you have spoken out to save me from danger, and I will not repay you for such a great kindness, sir. Saying this, Badulu couldn't help but bow to Song Yanjie again.

And Song Yanjie saw his sincerity, and after knowing that he couldn't resign, he couldn't help but take over the post of military advisor with a fist.

At this point, Song Yanjie was also completely imprisoned and lost the status of the mastermind of Badulu.

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The next day, early in the morning. After two big victories in a row, the confident side of the black-clothed army was not as Song Yanjie expected. The whole army assembled, took the initiative to kill outside the camp of officers and soldiers, and launched a challenge to the side that had lost Badulu.

As for the challenge of the black-clothed army, he suffered two big losses in a row, and with Song Yanjie as the mastermind of the army, Badulu naturally would not be fooled. So even if the black-clothed soldiers were scolding outside, he still didn't pay attention to Badulu.

So much so that in the end, Zhang Shihua, who was angry and scolding everyone, couldn't help but give the order to attack the camp of Badulu.

However, such an attack was of little avail. The officers and soldiers relied on horses, fences and trenches, so that Zhang Shihua had to recall his soldiers and horses after suffering two or three hundred casualties in vain.

Although it is said that the battle losses of the Badulu side have reached 30%, they are no longer the opponents of the black-clothed sergeants in the dignified field battle.

But no matter what you say, in terms of strength, this group of officers and soldiers is still twice as large as Zhang Shihua and them. With such a huge disparity in strength, there are more than 7,000 officers and soldiers among them. Therefore, if you attack strongly, with the more than 11,000 soldiers and horses in Zhang Shihua's hands, the price is still too great. is so big that a person like Zhang Shihua who takes the elite route can't bear it at all.

So in such a situation, Zhang Shihua, who obviously had the upper hand, couldn't help but feel a feeling of "a dog bites a hedgehog - there is no way to get out of his mouth".

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After harassing him for a day to no avail, Zhang Shihua was sitting in the camp of the Chinese army, and Zhang Shihua and the generals under his tent couldn't help but discuss the method of breaking the enemy.

"Gentlemen, you all know that at this time, the sooner we win, the smaller the risks and losses will be. However, after suffering two big losses in a row, Badulu has now become a shrunken turtle, and he won't give us any chance to start at all. So I don't know if you have any clever plans to break the enemy at this time? ”

Zhang Shihua looked at the generals under his tent, and after smiling bitterly, he couldn't help asking.

And after hearing his question, after the generals and officials looked at each other, Zhao Ziyu, who was Zhang Shihua's mastermind, couldn't help but say: "General, although we are far superior to them in terms of combat strength, but in terms of military strength, we are far inferior to Badulu. ”

"So in such a situation, it will be very difficult for us to break the situation by one effort. But General, don't we still have these eight artillery pieces in Nanyang Mansion City? I think that with these eight artillery pieces, plus the help of moats, wooden curtains, nest carts, trebuchets, etc., it should not be too difficult to break through this group of officers and soldiers in one fell swoop. ”

"Artillery...... Shihui, you have an artillery under your account, so based on your experience, it will take a few days for these eight guns to arrive at the earliest? ”

"If you go back to the eldest brother, if you take the official road, it will take four days at the earliest to transport the artillery. After all, that thing is too heavy. Hearing Zhang Shihua's question, Zhang Shihui thought about it and couldn't help replying.

Hearing his words, Zhang Shihua was silent for a moment, and then couldn't help nodding and said: "That being the case, then we will make use of all the four days and mobilize all the craftsmen in the barracks to build moats, wooden curtains, and nest carts." After four days, the artillery arrived, and we launched a general attack. ”

"I'll do as I was told!" Hearing Zhang Shihua's words, the generals under his account couldn't help but sing a promise for the first time.

When Zhang Shihua saw this, he couldn't help waving his hand and asked the generals to retreat.

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Time flies, another night passes, and when the sun rises again in the east. The officers and soldiers who were nervously worried that the black-clothed army would attack them again couldn't help but find that a few miles away from the opposite side, the originally quiet and solemn black-clothed military barracks suddenly couldn't help but become noisy.

Hundreds of black-clad soldiers, armed with axes and hammers that can be used as weapons and tools, under the leadership of a famous officer or craftsman, are in full swing to cut down the surrounding trees and build all kinds of wooden instruments.

The wooden apparatus was no stranger to all the soldiers, even from a distance of several miles, and the officers and soldiers knew that the enemy on the opposite side had built siege equipment such as trenches, wooden curtains, and nest carts.

Therefore, after discovering this, the Badulu side couldn't help but give an order, and let his own soldiers build a new fortification as if they were in competition.

For example, digging the trench deeper and wider, burying spikes and spears at the bottom of the trench; sharpen the horses and inlay nails on the wooden ones; Build more turrets and make the outer wooden walls taller and stronger. In short, to sum all this into one sentence, the officers and soldiers want to build their camp into a fortress that cannot be splashed by water, a fortress that can crush the teeth of the black-clothed army.

Therefore, under such circumstances, the black-clothed army and the official army have entered a strange stage of peace and cold war. Although as soon as the sun sets, both armies will have the idea that "even if the night attack is unsuccessful, it will scare you so that you can't sleep", and send elite night guards to harass you.

However, compared with the huge battle of tens of thousands of people in the past few days, this night attack and harassment of 20 or 30 or 30 people killed and wounded every night was nothing more than a boring little fight between the two armies.

And just like that, in the strange Cold War situation where the two armies had their own thoughts, four days passed in the blink of an eye.

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"Marshal, the Jingmen Rebels have sent the latest information. They said, 'At this time they have arrived at Xiangyang City, and in three days at most, the vanguard of the army will cross Xinye and come here.' And this means that we only need to hold on for another three days before we can turn the defense into an offensive and completely exterminate these black-clothed thieves. In the early morning of the calm fifth day, Polo Timur, as a son, came to the Chinese army's tent with the latest secret report in his hand to see his father, and he couldn't help but say this to Badulu with such joy.

When Badulu heard this, he couldn't help but show a cheerful smile when he wanted to show his skills on the battlefield and make the family more glorious. So after waving his hand to let his son sit down, Badulu looked at Song Yanjie who was sitting on his right hand, and couldn't help laughing: "Yanjie, did you hear that." In three days at most, we won't have to suffer such a bird anger, and we won't dare to go out in the camp all day long. ”

"Yes, in another three years, the overall situation will be in our hands. But marshal, there is a way that those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety, and the more we get to this time, the more we can't relax. After all, I don't know much about the black-clothed thieves, and it's not good for this group of thieves in the province to take out any hole cards and turn the tables over. ”

"Haha, Yanjie is right. Timur, you gave me an order to put the whole army on combat readiness and martial law, and not relax for a moment, understand? ”

"The child understood. Then the boy went down and sent his life. ”

"Yes, go ahead." After seeing that his son was frustrated, he became much more mature. Answering Badulu smiled happily, and couldn't help but nod.