Although he was a little angry at Duan Ruqi's swaggering departure, Su You still shouldn't take it lightly. om

In order to prevent Duan Ruqi from making a comeback, Su You still left sentries at the head of the city, and hundreds of people were also left at the city gate.

Su You got down from the city and immediately led the other soldiers to the north gate.

The battle at the North Gate was not too intense.

In fact, when Duan Ruqi saw that Lai Yanbei ordered someone to light the torch, he was bluffed.

In night battles, the first person to light the torch is either too stupid or has an extremely determined determination to win.

In the ambush battle at the south gate of Funing City, Su You also ordered someone to light the torch first, but if it wasn't for the retreat of his son Jiao Ziheng, he would have won very beautifully.

Obviously, Su You is not a stupid person.

Now the other party suddenly lit a torch, which obviously showed that they had no fear.

Judging from the number of torches, the number of opponents is not more than a thousand; The problem is that his own pontoon bridge is only halfway erected, and now it is obviously impossible to charge.

What's even more tragic is that he has no siege equipment at all, and the only way to enter the city at present is the crowd tactic.

But now

Before he gave the order to attack officially, the catapults at the head of the city had already begun to throw mud balls one after another, and the mud balls of hundreds of catapults smashed on the bamboo rafts floating on the water, and there was no need to think about it to know what the result would be.

After several failed bridges, Guozhao was finally discouraged by the hooligan attack that came to Yanbei.

When the half-built bamboo raft was smashed by the mud balls thrown from the city again and again, Zhang Long and Zhao Hu led the 1,000 soldiers who returned victoriously to the north gate.

In the eyes of Jian Guozhao, there seemed to be twice as many torches on the opposite city.

What does this mean?

It means that Duan Ruqi, who has an army of 50,000, has retreated, and it also means that Jian Guozhao, who has only more than 10,000 people, has no strength to defeat Lincang City at all.

Fu Guozhao can't even get close to the other party's city wall now, so how can he talk about taking Lincang City?

It is precisely because of the lack of decisiveness in the attack of Jiao Guozhao, so the casualties are not too large, if the torches in Yanbei are lit later, and the bamboo row of Jiao Guozhao can be built to Lincang City, then more than half of his soldiers must be able to rush to the range of Zhang Long, Zhao Hu and others' bows and arrows

That kind of result, thinking about it makes Jian Guozhao break out in a cold sweat

Seeing more and more torches lit up on the other side's city, Fu Guozhao decisively ordered, "Mingjin retreats!" ”

After the order of Jian Guozhao was passed down, the soldiers all secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and after half an hour of busyness, they could be regarded as recognizing the situation. ——Although the north gate of Lincang City is not as majestic and tall as the Mianning Pass, on the basis of the absence of warships and siege equipment, trying to open the other party's city gate is tantamount to a fool's dream.

The longer the battle drags on, the greater the casualties.

Lai Yanbei saw that the enemy on the opposite side had retreated, and she was immediately relieved, after all, this was the first time she commanded a battle.

Lai Yanbei didn't know that in the past half an hour, the catapult had killed more than 2,000 soldiers of Jian Guozhao, but she was still satisfied with her zero casualties.

Despite this, after coming to Yanbei to see Su You, he still said a little depressed, "It's a pity that the enemy didn't wait for the enemy to rush to the city wall and destroyed their attack, otherwise there would have been more enemies killed." ”

Su You immediately comforted, "Your goal is just to defend the city gate, and the current result is obviously what I want to see the most, my soldiers are more precious, and I will not change the ten elites of the country." ”

"It's just that this kind of battle is not a cure for the symptoms, if you kill some more of them, they won't dare to attack the city next time, but now" Lai Yanbei shook his head and put forward his own opinion.

Coming to Yanbei to see the longer-term impact of this battle, Su You still nodded with satisfaction, but said, "After all, you are still a little dissatisfied with my order to light the torch, right?" ”

Lai Yanbei was persuaded by Su You, and she was suddenly a little embarrassed, but Li Mi Dynasty Ma Han and others were on the side, and she couldn't admit it directly.

Su You shook his head and said, "In fact, Fu Guozhao no longer has the ability to attack the city again, they have no food and grass, and no siege equipment, isn't it a fool's dream to want to attack Lincang City?" If they want to attack the city again, it will take at least three or five days to prepare, but after three or five days, Wang Bodang will take Dali."

After listening to Su You's analysis, everyone suddenly realized, and Li Mi immediately smiled and said, "Ming Gong shocked him in momentum, did he want to recruit them?" ”

"It's an inevitable consequence of a two-way choice." Su You nodded, and then analyzed, "We need Fu Guozhao to deal with Duan Ruqi, but Fu Guozhao needs to survive under our protection; If he does not surrender, all that awaits him is the fate of extermination. Of course, Wang Bodang probably doesn't want to break the net with them, right? ”

"Also, at this time, if Guozhao returns to Dali, no matter who wins in Dongjiao and Xijiao, it will be the result of killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800. In the end, the Duan family was dominant. Li Mi listened to Su You's analysis, and also came to the final direction of the forces in the south and China.

Su You nodded, and said with some annoyance, "Although our weapons and armor are advanced, the problem is that the ironclad fort is not by the river, otherwise we can conquer them with artillery If it is a long journey, it is really worth the loss to attack them, but if you keep them for a long time, it will be a disaster after all." ”

Li Mi listened to Su You's troubles, and immediately asked, "Since Duke Ming has made up his mind, Li Mi is willing to go out of the city to recruit Guozhao." ”

Of course, Su You can also see Li Mi's determination, when he first attached himself to himself, he must have been forced to do so; Even if he had already succumbed to himself, he was confident that he could help him in strategy, but after three battles, Li Mi's confidence in his wisdom had completely disappeared.

Su You seems to have been born to fight, his combat quality is really not comparable to Yang Xuangan, Li Mi even feels that he can't help Su You in terms of tactical arrangements, but did he come to Su You to seek relief?

When Li Mi realized that his talent could not fill in the gaps for Su You, he repositioned himself.

Going out on an adventure and going out to bring down enemies seems to be a good way out.

Su You looked at Li Mi's burning eyes, nodded immediately, and said with a smile, "Then let the good news of Ji Guozhao be good news for one night, and you will go out of the city tomorrow!" ”

When tomorrow comes unhappily and slowly, it is already the seventh day that Fu Guozhao has come to Lincang.

The messenger sent by himself quickly whipped up to Dali and made a round trip for no more than six days, and it stands to reason that his messenger should have returned yesterday; As for the second batch of grain and grass that his son Ji Ziheng gave him, it should have arrived in the next day or two.

Thinking of Dali's son, Jian Guozhao felt a little uneasy.

With the relationship between Su You and Dong Jiao, he and Duan Ruqi attacked Lincang City, and Wang Bodang had no reason not to help Su You, but these days, Lincang City has persevered with his own ability.

Why didn't Wang Bodang come?

He only thought of one possibility, but he believed that the 20,000 soldiers who stayed in Dali could hold the army of Dongjiao, but it was not easy to transport food.

Even so, why didn't the Messenger reciprocate?

When Jian Guozhao was thinking wildly, a scout suddenly reported urgently, "General, there is a small boat coming out of the water gate of Lincang City, and there are only two people on it."

Jian Guozhao was obviously able to guess that what came out at this moment must be Su You's envoy, and immediately nodded and said, "What does Su You mean by sending someone at this time?" Let them in."

The scout took the order, and the other staggered in.

For this rude scout, Jian Guozhao was obviously a little familiar, and immediately asked in a deep voice, "Anxious like a lost dog, what's the matter?" ”

"The prince has sent news from Dali, and the messenger is tired." The scout struggled to stand up straight, and as he spoke, he pulled out the letter he had taken from the messenger.

After tearing open the envelope and reading the two lines, he looked up and commanded the scout, "Where is the messenger now?" Bring him in. ”

"He" scout was about to say a few kind words to the tired messenger, but when he looked at the gloomy face of Ji Guozhao, he quickly agreed, "The villain will bring him over immediately." ”

Jian Guozhao waved his hand, and after the scout went out, he rubbed his eyes and glanced at the letter that had been killed by the sweat in his palm, and couldn't help muttering, "It seems that I can only go back to Dali first, but these two or three thousand horses."

The letter in the hand of Fu Guozhao was written by his son Ji Ziheng two days ago, and Dali two days ago was about to be lost.

The fact that he was able to receive the letter sent by Dali two days ago also means that the messenger who returned to Dali seven days ago must have been captured by the scouts sent by Wang Bodang,—— Wang Bodang had already tried to cut off his contact with Dali.

Similarly, his letter was not delivered to Dali, and the follow-up grain and grass became a utopia.

After the scouts went down, they still couldn't wake up the tired letter with cold water, but Li Mi single-handedly followed the people of Fu Guozhao into his thatched hut.

After the grain, grass and baggage of Fu Guozhao were sunk and plundered by Su You's sailors, the standard of living returned to the Stone Age overnight, if it weren't for the sharpness of their weapons, maybe he wouldn't even be able to use a bowl now.

Li Milong walked into the thatched hut of Fu Guozhao, and when he looked at the latter's gloomy face and drank water from a bowl made of bamboo, he couldn't help but feel happy, but he didn't dare to show his pleasure.

He raised his head and looked at Li Mi, who also looked at him fearlessly and nodded.

When Jian Guozhao looked at Li Mi, he suddenly had the illusion of seeing Su You, in fact, Li Mi also represented Su You.

Although Guo Zhao hated Su You at this time, he couldn't vent the anger in his heart on the envoy, so he immediately waved his hand and said without any emotion, "Please take a seat." ”

"Thank you." Li Mi nodded to Jian Guozhao again and sat down calmly.

When Jian Guozhao looked at Li Mi carefully, he was extremely uncomfortable in his heart, he not only wanted to give face to Su You, the envoy of the Great Sui, but also to Su You's envoy, how far has he fallen?

After watching Li Mi take a sip, he slowly asked, "If you are not satisfied with this, do you have any advice?" ”

Li Mi put down the bowl made of bamboo, stared at Fu Guozhao and said, "I am on behalf of Su Yushi to persuade General Fu to surrender." ”

"What?" As if he hadn't heard what Li Mi said, he asked in disbelief.