The night before yesterday, Gao Yue proposed to raid Shangtai. Yang Jiantou was a little surprised, although Yang Jiantou was brave and fearless, but after all, he was not a brainless person, and immediately said that now Xinxing City is full of only 7,000 soldiers and horses, no matter where Gao Yue goes, at least 2,000 people must be left to guard the east gate of the Longxi army. Then, with a force of 5,000 people, it should be difficult to attack the tall and thick Shangqi City, which is the foundation of Sima Bao.

Gao Yue said, although the strength of 5,000 people is small, but you know it, but Sima Bao doesn't know. I can bluff, tie branches behind the horse's tail to raise dust, and raise more flags, so that the enemy will not be confused. Moreover, this sudden attack on Shangqi can also turn the situation on the Nan'an side around. Now that Han Yong has waved his army several times, although Hu Song is not able to hold it, he can still support it, thus forming a confrontation. Now that I have attacked Tai, at least one point, I heard that he was attacked at all, Hu Song would never be indifferent and react at all, as long as he was chaotic, then Han Yong would definitely seize the opportunity immediately.

In the end, Gao Yue bluntly told him that this attack was not intended to be hit with one blow. But he can always find out the dynamics of the enemy's military forces, the defense of the city, the terrain on the left and near, etc., and he himself will hide his traces and observe silently in the dark, as a test of the bottom, which is no better. If it is still obviously difficult to succeed in the all-out attack, he will retreat immediately, but at least it can also make Sima Bao break out in a cold sweat, and understand that Shangtai is no longer a restless heart.

So Yang Jiantou had no objection. Gao Yue immediately wrote a book, recruited Gu Siduo to Xinxing, temporarily appointed as a guard, and without waiting for Gu Siduo to come, Gao Yue took Yang Jian's head and traveled concurrently, and went straight to Shangqi with great momentum.

So the Longxi army, with Yang Jiantou as the main general and 1,000 soldiers as the vanguard, began to fight to attack the city. Gao Yue calmly stood under the banner of the general, commanded immediately, and did not bet the whole army at one time, but went to attack the head of Shangqi City in batches, resulting in a steady stream of follow-up and endless feelings, so that the soldiers defending the city always had an extremely nervous sense of oppression, and used this to carefully monitor the defensive strength of Shangqi at this time, whether there were any weaknesses.

When the horn of the Longxi Army's attack sounded for the first time, Sima Bao's face was colorless in horror. Although there was no place in the world at that time that was not full of flames, Sima Bao really never experienced the cruel war since he was young. His father, Sima Mo, the old king of Nanyang, sent him to Shangqi in the rear when he was guarding Chang'an, and Sima Bao has never moved his nest since then. As for the details of how his father was defeated, captured, and killed, he only received bad news, but did not see it with his own eyes.

Right now, he saw the countless soldiers under the city, roaring in unison and rushing madly like a wave, followed by the sword light and sword shadow blood splashing everywhere, and all kinds of terrible wounds that made people's scalp tingle straight into his eyes, this kind of shocking feeling made him simply creepy.

In addition, at present, there are indeed not too many troops in Shangtai City to counterattack. Sima Bao originally had more than 50,000 elite divisions under his command, and the earlier failures of Yang Tao and Ren Hua in Yinping County lost thousands of soldiers, not to mention, Chen An ran away to avoid trouble, but took away 5,000 people, which made him heartbroken, the key is that Zhang Chun directly lost more than 20,000 soldiers in the Xiangwu offensive and defensive battle, which is simply a loser, and he squandered his old bottom. Among the remaining 20,000 people, he had allocated tens of thousands of troops to Hu Song before, so at the moment, Sima Bao saw that the enemy army was huge, and there seemed to be tens of thousands of people, so he was in chaos.

Sima Bao also wanted to stand at the head of the city, loudly boost morale, and show the bearing of the king Taishan who collapsed in front of him and talked and laughed freely. But as a black overwhelmed crossbow arrow came, a guard hurriedly raised a shield to cover him, and when the screams around him were repeated, Sima Bao immediately couldn't stand. He was fat, and he was slow to move between the battlements, for fear of being shot by a stray arrow that did not have long eyes. So after a few words, he hurriedly went down the city tower, and with the support of the two guards, he walked all the way to the palace with a trot, and before he entered the gate, he began to shout orders, so that people immediately went to Nan'an to summon Hu Song back.

Some people who understood a little couldn't help but hesitate and admonished: "King, although the enemy army is fierce, they don't know their true combat power. There are also more than 10,000 soldiers in my city, which is enough to keep the throne alive. General Hu is in Nan'an, it is said that he finally gained a firm foothold and summoned him back, Pu Hong will definitely lose, and the situation will be even more unfavorable! ”

"Didn't you see, this time the Longxi army is coming straight to my henchmen, and they will go all out, how can they bluff, can they let the lonely king put himself in such a dangerous situation! Besides, now that I have no time to take care of myself, where can I still have the strength to take care of him Pu Hong," Sima Bao's face turned red, and he kept waving his hand, urging the messenger to go quickly, "Quick!" Go and tell Hu Song to come back and save me no matter what! ”

Let's not mention this side of the attack and defense. Chen An of Longcheng also immediately received an edict from Sima Bao and asked him to lead troops to rescue. But at this time, Chen An is no longer the Chen An who was weak and helpless to look up to others. Although he also wished to get rid of Gao Yue's forces earlier, after asking the envoy about the situation, he actually had the idea of benefiting the fisherman, and wanted Sima Bao and Gao Yue to fight until they were both defeated, so that they could have a chance to clean up the mess. So he said to the envoy that he had just been defeated not long ago, and he really had more than enough strength to do so, and he had no ability to rescue Shangqi for the time being, so he could only defend Longcheng Yunyun for the king.

Besides, in the main tent of the Nan'an Jin Army, the footsteps coming and going are non-stop, and it is a serious and busy scene. Hu Song seemed to be deaf, bending over, staring intently at a simple sand table, secretly deducing and calculating. At this moment, a personal soldier hurried straight to him.

"General, this is the king's urgent edict, and it has just been delivered."

"Oh? Bring it to me. ”

Hu Song shook off the notepad, looked at the ten lines at a glance, and his complexion changed greatly, his eyebrows were tightly wrinkled, his eyes were closed, and his breathing gradually became heavy. The generals and lieutenants of the counselors around them didn't know what was going on, so they all stopped their movements and looked over uneasily.

Suddenly, Hu Song's eyes widened sharply, but he stretched out his hand and turned the sand table that marked the city, distance, distribution of troops in various places, and other things beyond recognition in just a few clicks, and he could no longer see the original appearance clearly.

This sand table, although simple, is also a large number of counselors, based on the detailed information of countless scouts after many days of detection, and even exchanged their lives, and laboriously rushed out. Once destroyed, it will be difficult to replicate in a short period of time, and all the corresponding military work will no longer be able to continue.

Seeing Hu Song's unbelievable move, everyone in the tent was shocked, and they all rushed over: "General! So, why is that? ”

Hu Song's face turned blue, and he said with difficulty after a while: "A few days ago, Shangtai was attacked by the Longxi army. The king has an order and orders us to immediately pull out and return to the division to rescue - this sand table has no meaning to exist. ”

Everyone was immediately dumbfounded, and there was silence in the tent for a while. After a long time, all kinds of voices of discussion sounded: "Here, our army has spent a lot of effort to maintain the current situation in Nan'an, and if we withdraw now, this battle situation will be ...... immediately."

"But if the foundation is attacked, how can you not save it?"

"The city of Shangtai is very strong, and there is plenty of food and grass in the city, and there are more than 10,000 brothers stationed there, and I am afraid that he will come from there. Why did we just have to go back to the division when we were attacked by the enemy! ”

"The foundation is attacked, it is not trivial, no matter what, we must keep Shangqi."

“……”

Hu Song's eyes slowly swept over the generals, so all the voices slowly stopped. After all, the way the army advances and retreats, it is still up to the main general to decide.

"Han Yong came to attack several times, although we were temporarily unable to fight back, but we also firmly blocked the enemy army outside Dingxi City, so that it could not exceed half a step. Now that our army has taken the initiative to withdraw, Nan'an will definitely be gained by Han Yong, and Puhong's Luoyang will also be in jeopardy. ”

Hu Song sighed indulgently, and became depressed: "But the king has an order, and he can't disobey it...... The whole army was ordered to immediately return to the division to rescue Shangqi. ”

It is so that it is useless for the people to say more. With the sigh and hurried pace, the generals at all levels moved when they heard the wind and began to arrange the withdrawal of troops. Hu Song was alone, standing in front of the destroyed sand table and thinking, the situation has been repeatedly corrupted, and the road ahead is stormy, where will he go? He was contemplative, and he was so stupid that he was silent for a long time.