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The next morning, Wang Yuan led everyone to climb the city wall to watch the situation of the enemy army camp outside the city. From a distance, the enemy barracks were busy, and the movement of soldiers and horses was endless. Although last night's raid killed and wounded thousands of rebels, it is clear that the rebels were not crushed by last night's raid, and it is clear that they are preparing to start a siege battle.

Wang Yuan understood the psychology of the other party, although he caused them huge damage last night, but the other party still had 17,000 or 8,000 soldiers and horses, so it was impossible to be defeated by a surprise attack, which was also expected. In the face of the siege battle that the other party was actively preparing for, Wang Yuan issued an order to reorganize the cavalry and prepare for a surprise attack.

This order made Yan Zhenqing very stunned, the other party wants to attack the city, shouldn't it be the best policy to refuse to defend the city? Wang Xiangguo wants to take the initiative, isn't this asking for trouble?

When he raised this question, Wang Yuan smiled and said to Yan Zhenqing: "Yan Taishou, fighting a war is like a game, when to be active and when to be passive, you need to judge the situation. It was the right decision for you to defend before, because you are at an absolute disadvantage when you take the initiative. Defending a city is to take advantage of the strong and tall walls to compete with the enemy, which is called learning from each other's strengths. And my men are more than 2,000 elite cavalry, but the advantage of cavalry is field warfare, you want us elite cavalry to defend the city, isn't it a move to promote shortcomings and avoid strengths. Cavalry is used to trample the opponent and charge into battle. ”

"However, they have so many soldiers and horses, and Xiangguo only has more than 2,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, if he fights hard, wouldn't it be ......?"

Wang Yuan laughed and said, "It seems that you still don't know how strong the combat power of the more than 2,000 people under my command is. These are the people who broke through the three cities in one day, and you don't know how difficult it is. Today I will open your eyes and see how my cavalry fights. ”

Under Wang Yuan's order, more than 2,300 personal guard cavalry quickly assembled in the West City Gate. After making preparations, Wang Yuan gave an order, and the west gate of Pingyuan City slowly opened, and the drawbridge was quickly lowered. Wang Yuan rushed out of the city gate first, and the cavalry behind him poured out of the city gate like a tide, without making any stops, and directly copied the rebel soldiers and horses who were preparing to attack the city two miles away.

The opponent did not expect the opponent to dare to take the initiative to attack, and reacted quickly in a hurry, and the archers immediately began to release arrows. However, the cavalry of the Shence Army had an iron shield in their hands, and their bodies were lying on the back of their horses, and they used iron shields to protect the flanks of their horses. The sound of bows and arrows hitting these iron shields, accompanied by the thunderous sound of horses' hooves, was like the thrill of an attack.

After paying dozens of casualties and within thirty paces, the knights on horseback raised their high spears, fixed the end of their spears in the leather pockets around their waists, and in the blink of an eye, they rushed into the formation of the thieves. Thousands of spears pierced the bodies of the opposing soldiers with the force of impact, and some of the spears even had the bodies of two or three thieves strung on them. This spear charge alone took the lives of more than a thousand enemy soldiers.

Next, the spears were discarded, and the knights drew their long-handled knives and began to slash. The Mo knife is the standard configuration of the cavalry of the Shence Army, although this thing is very valuable, but Wang Yuan still likes the sharpness and practicality of the Mo knife. The Mo knife has a double-edged pointed end, and the blade is several feet long, taking into account the functions of chopping, stabbing and striking, and it is extremely practical to use as a cavalry charge weapon. It's just that because the traditional Mo knife is too heavy, the Mo knife in Wang Yuan's army has been slightly improved, and the length and weight have been adjusted to make it more convenient for the cavalry to carry and chop. Of course, it was also because the traditional Mo knife was too expensive to build and the amount of steel was too large, so Wang Yuan had to make some sacrifices in order to popularize the Mo knife among the cavalry.

But even so, the power of the Mo Dao is still fully reflected in this kind of charging battle. Taking advantage of the forward rush of the war horse, ordinary soldiers will directly split the opponent's armor in half with a swing of the Mo sword. And for an ordinary sword to do this, it requires both great strength and extremely fast speed, but Mo Dao has done this with his sharpness.

Under the witness of thousands of soldiers and civilians at the head of the plain city, Wang Yuan led the cavalry to rush into the enemy formation, killing the heads of the people and bleeding like a river. Before the rebels flanked the horses, the cavalry made a large bend diagonally, rushed out from the flank, turned their horses' heads and galloped back, rushing back into the city like a gust of wind.

The rebel soldiers couldn't catch up at all, and when they chased down the city, they didn't dare to approach with the fire of arrows at the head of the city, so they could only watch the last of the other party's horses enter the city, and watch the city gate close and the drawbridge pulled up.

The whole battle lasted only half an hour, like a storm that came from the head and covered the face, coming fiercely and urgently, and leaving without a trace. Not only the soldiers and horses of the rebels are still in the dark, but the soldiers and civilians of the plains at the head of the city are also in a dream. After a long time, the soldiers and civilians at the head of the city shouted with admiration from the bottom of their hearts.

Yan Zhenqing hurriedly went down to the city square in the city, Wang Yuanzheng jumped off his horse, took off his helmet and held it in his hand, and ordered the wounded soldiers and horses to bandage and count the casualties. Let the soldiers go and feed the horses and drink and rest.

"Eye-opening, eye-opening, Wang Xiangguo, you are simply like a divine soldier descending from heaven, as if entering a no-man's land. Admiration, it is really admiration of the five-body casting. Yan has never seen such a brave army. No wonder Wang Xiangguo was able to turn the tide and defeat the enemy attacking Shu, with such soldiers and horses in hand, why should the rebels not be destroyed? Yan Zhenqing laughed and hurriedly came over, and said loudly.

Wang Yuan was wiping the blood on his face with the cloth towel handed over by Ah Luo, which was the blood splattered on his body by the enemy. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "Yan Taishou, don't praise us too much." We also suffered more than 100 casualties, but it was not a miracle soldier. Will there be any casualties among the Divine Soldiers? ”

Yan Zhenqing shook his head and said: "Rushing into the enemy army only suffered more than 100 casualties, what are you not satisfied with?" The other side suffered heavy casualties and had begun to shrink back to the camp and give up the siege. I made a rough estimate that the other side had at least thousands of casualties in this charge just now. It's already a complete victory. ”

Wang Yuan laughed and said: "I crushed their three thousand people, I think they should have two thousand people if they were not killed or wounded." Well, since they have collected their troops and returned to the camp, we don't need to provoke them. Yan Taishou, you should also go to the city to organize the people to hurry up and prepare to leave the city. ”

Yan Zhenqing hurriedly said: "Xiaguan will go and prepare." ”

Yan Zhenqing left quickly with a smile on his face, and Wang Yuan ordered the soldiers and horses to return to the camp to rest. Don't look at the charge of more than half an hour, although the time is short, it is extremely energy-consuming. The soldiers and horses were tired enough, and they were all out of breath. Wang Yuan understood that although the battle just now was extremely beautiful on the outside, it was actually extremely dangerous. If the enemy's troops on both flanks are a little faster and react faster, they will inflict more casualties on their side. This time, in order to kill and wound more enemies, the retreat was slightly delayed. This must not be the case next time, Wang Yuan doesn't want to make a mistake and let his side suffer heavy losses. Killing and wounding more than 100 guards is already the limit of Wang Yuan's psychology. Since the dispatch of the army, the three thousand guards cavalry have killed and injured more than 300 people, these are the elite of his own elite, and the loss of them makes Wang Yuan quite painful.

At noon, under the leadership of Yan Zhenqing, the people of Pingyuan City began to prepare for evacuation. Once evacuated, it is necessary to move quickly to the south without delay.

In order to achieve the purpose of rapid action, Yan Zhenqing divided the people of the city into three categories, one is those who can act on their own, the other is the old, weak, sick and disabled who cannot act quickly, and the other is those who have the spare strength to help others. The first type of people don't have to worry, but the old, weak, sick and disabled people need to have tools for transportation. Therefore, dozens of carts were collected in the city as substitute vehicles for these people's movements, but dozens of carts were too few, so they began to order the people to temporarily build simple carts for the old and weak to ride. However, because there were no livestock to pull carts, they had to organize the young and the old and the infirm, and use the young and middle-aged to push the carts to help the old and weak to go together.

Tens of thousands of people must be strictly organized, and it is not possible to think about chaos. Many people were still reluctant to leave Pingyuan City, and Yan Zhenqing had to persuade them patiently. There are also people who are still thinking about their belongings, and they also plan to carry some things that they don't need at all into the car and leave with them, which of course is absolutely not allowed, so something noisy happened. All in all, there was a lot of commotion in the city, and it was thanks to Yan Zhenqing's patience that he was able to solve these things one by one and calm down some of the noise.

Wang Yuan turned a deaf ear to the affairs of the city, and he was bent on dealing with the rebels outside the city. After two heavy losses, the rebels suffered four or five thousand casualties, but they still insisted on besieging the city and not retreating. Wang Yuan knew that he had to defeat them as soon as possible. But Wang Yuan couldn't be in a hurry, and could only bite his opponent to death one bite at a time through this sudden attack. But this kind of attack needs to find a time, after the two surprise attacks, it is obvious that the enemy's defenses are already very strict, Wang Yuan does not want to risk the opponent's prepared arrow defense line to rush forward, in that case the casualties will be extremely heavy.

However, unlimited opportunities are never possible. First, Wang Yuan was 100% convinced that enemy reinforcements were coming, and they might arrive in four or five days. Before that, he had to evacuate with the soldiers and civilians of Plains City. In other words, before that, the besieging soldiers and horses under the city must be defeated. Second, in the rear, Li Xin'er, Qing Yun'er, Zi Yun'er and others were rushing to Pingyuan City with many people. It is also possible to arrive here in two or three days. If he couldn't defeat the soldiers under the city before that, wouldn't he have to let Li Xin'er and many people send them to the door by themselves.

Therefore, the time left for Wang Yuan is actually only two days. Within two days, it was necessary to defeat the remaining more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in the city, and at the same time, the plain city was ready to evacuate, and after Li Xin'er and others arrived, they immediately evacuated here. Wang Yuan, who seems to be calm, is actually impatient in his heart, everything must not go wrong in order to have a perfect ending for this rescue. But he couldn't show his impatience, he didn't want the people of Plains City to panic any more.

The day passed quickly, and the rebels outside the city had obviously learned their lesson, so they concentrated their troops and horses in the camp west of the city and abandoned the method of beholding the four cities. Although in this way, it seems that they can evacuate from other directions at will, but Wang Yuan, Yan Zhenqing and others are very clear that if they don't defeat or drive away this group of soldiers and horses, they will follow the evacuated team with a ghost. And once they leave Plains City, tens of thousands of people will not be able to get the slightest life support, and once the other party launches an attack, it will definitely not be able to protect the people with a limited number of soldiers and horses.

However, the other party hugged each other, and things became tricky. After all, it is an enemy soldier of nearly 15,000 soldiers and horses, and it is still very simple to hold up the regiment and not seek to attack but to prevent the opponent's surprise attack.

In the middle of the night, Wang Yuan got up several times and climbed to the top of the city to spy on the movements in the enemy camp. However, he saw that the enemy camp was brightly lit and noisy, and it was obvious that he was ready to prevent a night attack. Therefore, Wang Yuan didn't get any chance this night, so he could only sigh with hope.

Early in the morning, after Wang Yuan had breakfast, he wandered alone in the courtyard of his residence, and he thought of a solution. There is not much time left for me, there is no achievement today, and tomorrow evening is the limit. If you can't really defeat the enemy army, you can only force the attack tomorrow, otherwise you will be dragged until the enemy reinforcements arrive, and you will be trapped in this city like Yan Zhenqing.

While Wang Yuan was pacing and thinking, Gongsun Lan came to the door from the small courtyard next door. Seeing that Wang Yuan was concentrating on thinking, Gongsun Lan didn't disturb him, just stood quietly in the shade of the tree in the courtyard and looked at Wang Yuan. After a while, Wang Yuan looked up, only to find Gongsun Lan in the courtyard, and hurriedly smiled: "Why don't you squeak when you come?" ”

Gongsun Lan smiled: "Seeing that you were thinking in a daze, I didn't disturb you." What about Sister Arlo? ”

Wang Yuan said: "I went to the city wall early in the morning, saying that I wanted to watch the movements of the thieves for me, but I asked her not to go, but she refused." ”

Gongsun Lan said angrily: "You tossed all night last night and ran to the city several times, and no one knows that you are anxious." Sister Aluo is very smart, of course she knows the troubles in your heart, and she just wants to help you solve your worries. ”

Wang Yuan smiled and said, "I understand." ”

The two of them sat down on a stone in the shade of a tree, which was not too hot in the morning, and very cool under the shade. The sunlight is also not very harsh. Looking at the blue sky above the patio, the white clouds are long, and it is very pleasing to the eye.

"You're worried that you won't be able to defeat the enemy outside the city, so you're delaying your trip, aren't you?" Gongsun Lan twisted a piece of grass in her hand and asked in a low voice.

Wang Yuan nodded and said, "Yes." I don't want to attack rashly, but time is of the essence. Tomorrow before sunset, we must crush the enemy forces, otherwise not only will we not be able to evacuate safely, but Xin'er and the others will not be able to join us. It's really tricky. ”

Gongsun Lan said: "Now the thieves are huddled in the camp, looking like they are waiting for help, which is really tricky. I don't think it's possible to wait for them to make mistakes, and in my humble opinion, I should find a way to make them show their flaws. ”

Wang Yuan said: "I'm also thinking about this. I wanted to use the evacuation of the people from the eastern city to make them think that we were evacuating the city en masse, so as to lure the snake out of the hole and create an opportunity for the cavalry to attack. But then I think about it, this method is not feasible. ”

"Are you worried about the casualties of the people?" Gongsun Lan said softly.

Wang Yuan nodded and said, "Yes, I'm afraid that they will hurt the people." To make a show, a large number of people must really evacuate in order to attract them to attack. Once the fighting starts, the people will suffer a large number of casualties. I can't take the people as bait, but I can't keep them safe. Although it is the best choice for me to do this for the sake of the big picture, in that case, I am afraid that I will lose my reputation. ”

Gongsun Lan nodded and said: "You can't do that, the people's heart is the most difficult thing to accumulate, but it is the fastest thing to disappear." Sometimes it takes a lot of effort to build up the hearts and minds of the people, but it can ruin all your previous efforts because of one thing. People's hearts are both precious and fragile. I still say that if you want to make a difference, you must win the hearts of the people from now on. ”

Wang Yuan looked at Gongsun Lan in a daze for a moment, then nodded lightly and said, "You're right, but what to do now?" I can't take my 2,000-odd cavalry and force an attack on the opponent's well-guarded camp. There's almost no chance of winning that. Even if they can win, more than 2,000 people will probably die. ”

Gongsun Lan nodded and said, "I understand." If you can't use the people as bait, and you can't fight hard, then there is actually only one way to go. ”

Wang Yuan was stunned and said, "What way?" ”

Gongsun Lan smiled: "Why did you forget the old method you are used to? The enemy camp is now like a city, and the only way to break through it is to go deep into its interior and blossom inside. You've done this many times, but you forgot about it this time. ”

Wang Yuan raised his forehead and said: "Oh, I was really confused, why didn't I think of this idea?" But...... This time is different from the previous infiltration, this time it is a dense enemy camp, once inside, you may not be able to get out. ”

Gongsun Lan smiled: "I didn't expect you to be afraid of death sometimes." ”

Wang Yuan smiled: "I have always been a person who is afraid of death, and when I die, everything is empty, of course I don't want to die." If there is no way out, who doesn't want to live a comfortable life with his wife and children, but he has to fight and kill all day long? Isn't that cheap? ”

Gongsun Lan said: "I see that you are a cheap person, I have never seen a time when you don't cause trouble." It's all your own initiative. ”

Wang Yuan said with a smile: "Today's danger is for the comfort of his day, which is called bitter first and then sweet." Besides, if I hadn't worked hard, how would I be in a high position today? Today's situation? You know, I've always wanted to be in control of my own destiny and not put my life and death in the hands of others. ”

Gongsun Lan sighed and said, "Of course I know what kind of person you are. So I'm sure you're going to agree to go with me into the enemy camp and turn the world upside down, right? ”

Wang Yuan reached out and put his arm around Gongsun Lan's neck, kissed her on the red lips, and said with a smile: "Of course, if I don't go, you will go, so of course I want to go with you." By the way, and Ah Luo, she will definitely go too. But everything that involves danger, we always have to be together, and if we want to die, we will die together, right? ”

Gongsun Lan stretched out her hand and pushed away Wang Yuan's beard and prickly lips, and whispered: "In broad daylight, you don't destroy your image." I don't want to die. As soon as we die, Ping'er will not become a fatherless and motherless person. ”

Wang Yuan smiled silently, and after a while, he put away his smile and whispered: "If we want to go deep into the enemy camp, we must prepare and plan. I need to develop a strategy to ensure that the operation is successful. My cousin would be willing to take a look at the terrain around the enemy camp and figure out the way and direction to make sure nothing goes wrong. ”

Gongsun Lan Yanran smiled and said, "But what you invited, I got all my wishes." ”

Wang Yuan smiled shyly: "Is it really all as you wish?" So after the rebellion is settled, how about my cousin giving birth to a big fat boy for my Wang family? ”

Gongsun Lan's face was slightly red, and she glanced at Wang Yuan and said, "I don't want to deal with you." ”

Then he turned around and left.

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On a sweltering night, the rebel camp beneath the city was sweltering hot. More than 15,000 people gathered in the barracks, which was less than two miles away, and the crowding was evident. When all the soldiers and horses gathered in a military camp, the already poor health conditions in the camp worsened. There was a strange smell in the air, the smell of feces and urine and the smell of sweat on people.

This year's drought has dried up the nearby lakes and rivers, and the rebels only have a supply of drinking water, and bathing and cleaning are just luxuries. And they have been besieging the city for more than half a year, and many people have not even bathed a few times in eight or nine months here, and the old mud on their bodies will cost several pounds. One can imagine what kind of smell it is like in such a camp of more than 10,000 people crowded into a two-mile radius of the camp. But strangely, there was not a single complaint in the barracks.

Actually, it was said that they had trapped Yan Zhenqing and them in Plains City for several months, but in fact, they also seemed to be trapped here. It's just that one side is trapped in the city, and the other side is trapped outside the city. Their leading general, Kang Wuyebo, is a stubborn guy, and the fact that he didn't take Plains City has become a thorn in his heart, so he has to be trapped in Plains City to the death, and he must break this city, otherwise he will not give up.

In this way, it is these soldiers who have to work hard here. After countless siege battles, these soldiers became accustomed to it. Now, if one day is not attacked, the soldiers seem to have done one less thing. Although every siege resulted in death, these soldiers had become numb to the commonplace. However, the numbness of the soldiers disappeared completely in the past two days. He went from numbness to sensitivity. In the past, there were ten, eight, or hundreds of deaths every day in the siege of the city, and the reason why they didn't exist was that the proportion of tens of thousands of people who died was actually too small, and the soldiers were confident that they would not become one of those unlucky guys. The so-called numbness is actually because the threat is not big enough, so we ignore those deaths. But last night and morning, two cavalry charges, like a storm, took the lives of more than 4,000 soldiers at once, and more than 1,000 were seriously wounded.

When the threat of death was in front of them, the soldiers would obviously wake up from the false numbness, become sensitive and panicked, and cheer up one by one. This is also the reason why Kang Bunobo ordered the whole army to be stationed in a centralized manner, and quickly built fortifications around it to prevent the enemy's cavalry from attacking suddenly, and all the soldiers immediately started without complaint. This is also the reason why they are able to endure it without any complaints, even though they live in such a foul-smelling and stuffy place.