Chapter Seventy-One: A Strategy to Retreat from the Enemy

"Hurry up, hurry up, if you don't want to die, hurry up and push the ladder down for me with a push gun, move me quickly, don't be stunned in place, that kid, what are you waiting for, wait for the enemy to cut off your head!"

War is always the cruelest thing in the world, but it is also a thing that promotes the development of human beings, in the war, people's nature will be completely exposed, cowardice, bravery, madness, bloodthirsty, at the same time, war is also the most able to accelerate people's maturity of things, because, this is learning with life, if you can't learn, wait for you only death.

Standing at the head of the city, Shi Lei watched Fang Junchi and dozens of veterans constantly running among the soldiers at the head of the city, shouting, and even returning from time to time, walking to the battlements to give some recruits a demonstration and boost morale.

And those recruits who were anxious and hurried from the beginning, after slowly adapting to it, the victory finally tilted to Shi Lei's side.

With, after the first ladder was pushed down in the demonstration of several veterans, soon, the remaining more than ten ladders were also pushed to the ground by the defenders of the city, when the last ladder was knocked down, the city couldn't help but think of a burst of cheers.

"Damn, it's really a bunch of rice buckets, so many people can't even take a small Yulin City, come here, listen to my orders, everyone follows me, I don't believe it, a Yulin can be rare for me Hao Shaoqi."

Seeing the victory that was about to arrive, he flew away like this, Hao Shaoqi couldn't help but slash at the tree fiercely, and shouted through gritted teeth.

"Slow, general, wait, please listen to your subordinates." Just as Hao Shaoqi was about to go into battle in person, Mr. Tong, who had been standing next to him, hurriedly shouted.

"Sir, please." Hao Shaoqi nodded.

"General, according to his subordinates, the general should now withdraw his troops instead of continuing the attack." Mr. Tong said.

"Oh, why is that, do you think that General Ben can't even break through a small Yulin City?" Hao Shaoqi suddenly said with round eyes.

"No, no, please also ask the general to calm his anger, his subordinates said so, there must be a reason, the general should know, 'one drum, and then decline' The truth, originally, the soldiers were able to work so hard, because at the beginning, and we still have the advantage, thinking that we can break the city in one battle, and with the general's reward, we have the results just now.

But now, through the defeat of this round of attack, the soldiers who were originally hot-headed have now calmed down, and with the impact of the defeat just now, the morale of the army is definitely not as good as just now, and even if it is really attacked, it will not have much effect.

In the end, our army rushed all the way from Xi'an, although the march was slow, but after all, the soldiers were marching for days, and they were already physically and mentally exhausted, and after the battle just now, it was definitely impossible to capture Yulin City today, so please think twice about the general, we might as well collect the troops first, and wait for the soldiers to rest and recuperate in the battle, and then take Yulin City in one fell swoop, wouldn't it be wonderful! ”

Seeing Hao Shaoqi angry, Mr. Tong didn't care about it, and analyzed the pros and cons clearly.

After listening to Mr. Tong's words, Hao Shaoqi also slowly calmed down, if it was the original Hao Shaoqi, maybe he would have rushed up regardless of it, he didn't care about any miscellaneous reasons, but in the years when he was a cold bench in the army, Hao Shaoqi also slowly understood some things, otherwise, he would not have a relationship with Niu Jinxing.

For this hard-won opportunity, Hao Shaoqi will never give up, and similarly, he also feels that he will not allow himself to fail again and return to the army to be a puppet, and they all say 'no desire is rigid', another meaning of this sentence is that when people are thinking about one thing, they will also be very nervous.

"Okay, what Mr. Tong said is right, since this is the case, then Mingjin will collect the troops first, and then take Yulin City in one fell swoop another day." Hao Shaoqi finally gave in.

'Dangdang Dang Dang'

With the sound of Ming Jin, the Hao Ying men and horses who were attacking quickly retreated, and many of them ran faster than when they came, making the soldiers in Shi Lei's camp on the city tower suddenly cheer.

Seeing the cheering soldiers, whether it was Shi Lei or Fang Junchi, they did not stop them, but looked at them with a smile, because this is their victory, their glory, they should cheer and celebrate.

Similarly, with the joy of cheering and celebrating, there are some soldiers who are seriously injured or directly buried here, this battle, because Shi Lei's side occupies a favorable position, so the casualties are not large, more than 20 people died, and nearly 100 people were injured, fortunately, most of them were lightly injured, and there were not many seriously injured.

You must know that although the siege of the Hao camp did not cause many casualties among the soldiers, there were archers in the Hao camp, and many recruits at the head of the city died tragically under the arrows because they did not know how to avoid the bows and arrows fired from the city.

These casualties may not be anything compared to the Hao Battalion, which lost at least more than 300 people, but you must know that the Hao Battalion is only a battalion secretly established by Hao Shaoqi after all, not a regular army of the breaking army, these soldiers are formed by untrained recruits and a small number of veterans before Hao Shaoqi.

Late at night, in the Yulin County Ya, Shi Lei, who had just treated those seriously injured and hurried over, was listening to the reports of several people.

The first to speak was Fang Junchi, as the person in charge of the defense of Yulin Campaign, and the person whose status in Yulin County was second only to Shi Lei, it was best for him to introduce the situation.

"My lord, through today's battle, we can find that the enemy outside the city is not very strong, except for a slightly larger number, the rest has no merit, but it is a pity that our soldiers are just some newly recruited recruits, and now with the protection of the city wall, they can still hold on, but there is no way to fight the enemy hard, otherwise, as long as we have more than 5,000 elite soldiers, our subordinates will dare to bring people outside the city to fight a positional battle with them."

Speaking of this, Fang Junchi paused for a moment, and then continued, "Actually, there is nothing bad about this, if we defeat the enemy this time, then these soldiers will be considered to have seen blood, and after some common sense training, they will be an elite." ”

As soon as Fang Junchi's words were finished, Jia Hanqing continued: "My lord, that's what I said, but we can't always be so passive, you have all seen the battle during the day today, you know, today the enemy is just a newcomer, and he is despising us, but even then, the enemy almost attacked the city, if we don't want to retreat from the enemy, we will be trapped to death sooner or later." ”

"It's not too trapped, after all, the enemy is coming from a long journey this time, and the baggage will definitely not be able to bring much, so the next reason for us is how to hold the city and keep the enemy firmly out of the city, as long as we hold on, the enemy's baggage can't last a few days, so we can only retreat.

It's just that our soldiers are too few, more than 2,000 people, and today we have 100 casualties, and if the enemy is attacking for a few days, even if the soldiers can fight again, there will not be enough people to defend the city wall. "A county official said that this was originally a small official in the Yulin County government, Sun Shining, after the death of Wei Changqing, the affairs of Jia Hanqing County Yazhong could not be handled, so he was selected as an assistant, and Jia Hanqing brought him with him during this negotiation.

"My lord, there is a way for my subordinates, we are all horse troops, if the next time the enemy comes to attack the city, we go out from the north gate, sneak around their backs, give them a surprise raid, and strive to eliminate the general, when the time comes, without the main general, these rabble will definitely break themselves." Hearing Sun Shining's words, Chitu excitedly asked for battle.

"It's a good way, it's just that it's not the right time, besides, I really haven't looked at these people in my eyes, what I want to know is why the Chuang Army will send such a group of teams that look like bandits, instead of their elite, whether they still have some conspiracy, this is what I have been considering."

For what Shi Lei said, everyone present was a little incomprehensible, they didn't know why Shi Lei said that these people in front of him were not the elite of the army, after all, they had not really seen the situation of the army.

But only Shi Lei knew that according to the records of later generations, Li Zicheng had conquered Xiangyang, Luoyang, Kaifeng and several other big cities before entering Xi'an, including Beijing City later.

It is not said that Li Zicheng relied on human life to open these cities, so, when Shi Lei saw Hao Ying's men and horses on the city wall today, he was so hard against the rain of arrows, carrying a few simple ladders, and he didn't even have some decent siege tools, when he came to attack the city, he had some suspicions, this team in front of him was definitely not the elite of the army, at least Wu Sangui's 50,000 Guanning iron cavalry, which could be fought with tens of thousands of people in later generations, had to retreat, so as to turn to the Qing soldiers to help the army, it was definitely not this kind of undisciplined, When fighting, there is a swarm of bees, and there is no fighting quality of the army.

If Shi Lei knew that the reason why this situation occurred was because of Hao Shaoqi's selfishness, I don't know what he would think of himself.

Just in Yulin City, when Shi Lei and others were discussing the strategy of retreating from the enemy, inside the Hao army camp outside the city, Hao Shaoqi's big tent was also brightly lit, and several people inside were sitting on the ground, drinking wine and talking at the same time.

Collect, collect, collect