An Lushan, who grew up on the grassland, has a bit of the taste of a master's beast, and his vigilance surname is very high, and the ability of a small group of troops to fight, pursue, attack and kill is particularly prominent, so when Yang Ping'an marches, he likes to let An Lushan lead the cavalry to explore the road in front of the head.

Facts have also proved that if he encounters a small group of enemy outposts, An Lushan can successfully complete the task and annihilate the opponent, so as to ensure that the news of his army will not be leaked.

When Tianchang was diverted through Changfeng Valley, it was because of An Lushan that the Zhou army, who feinted to attack Tianchang, was unable to discover them in time.

This time he returned to Yangzhou with a shot, Yang Ping'an wanted the effect of a surprise attack, the Changwai Zhou army was strong, if the other party had been prepared, with the 20,000 people under his command, if it was not possible to sneak attack, it would all be folded in.

This is the soldiers and horses that he easily pulled up, the most rare thing is that these soldiers and horses believe in him like gods, he doesn't dare to say who these soldiers will listen to when Yang Rui's imperial order is contrary to his orders, but he is sure that except for Yang Rui, no one's orders are easy to use here, even Guo Ziyi, who is known as the god of the Tang Dynasty, is no exception.

But today, An Lushan actually missed, allowing the other party's outpost to escape back to a team, so that the word "strange" is still invalid, let alone "attack".

Seeing An Lushan's face full of guilt, Yang Ping'an smiled and patted him on the shoulder twice and said, "Fatty, there is no need to do this, you can't be blamed for this, you have done a good job." ”

This time you really can't blame An Lushan, and you can't count him as missing, who would have thought that there would be as many as three outposts in the Zhou army at the same time, An Lushan, you can lead people to annihilate two at the first time, it's already very good, at least Chu Pei and Kong Haoxia think that they are not as good as An Lushan, if they are replaced, it will be good to be able to completely annihilate one of the other party's outposts.

"Give the order to go down, and the army will camp in place."

Yang Ping'an stopped the march, not only because his movements were known to the Zhou army outside Yangzhou, but also because he felt that there was something strange in it.

The purpose of the outpost is to find out the enemy's situation, according to common sense, a team of sentinels is responsible for a direction, and each team of sentinels keeps in touch with each other, but An Lushan actually encountered three sentinels at the same time, which is not so simple.

After thinking for a while, Yang Ping'an concluded that the Zhou army outside Yangzhou City had long known about the existence of his Tang army, and also judged that he led his troops to Yangzhou to attack them secretly, so he sent such a high-density sentinel in this direction, in order to prevent being attacked by himself.

It seems that I have thought things simple, there is Tian Cewei going around to scout intelligence, how could Zhou Jun not know, saying that Zhou Jun must have prepared a trap, just waiting for him to jump into it.

The sudden accident added variables and disrupted Yang Ping'an's plan, and he had to think carefully and reformulate his strategy.

When An Lushan led several teams of cavalry sentinels to investigate the movements of the Zhou army outside Yangzhou City, and reported it to Yang Ping'an, he only formulated a new strategy.

Yangzhou must be saved, not to mention that Xue Yufeng and Yang Yuhuan are in Yangzhou, only that he rushed back to Yangzhou this time, and ordered the soldiers to travel lightly, and the grain and grass in the army could not support it for too long, so he had to kill back to Yangzhou as soon as possible.

After summoning An, Yang, and Kong to his side, revealing his judgment and telling the plan he had made from the beginning, the faces of the three changed greatly.

"Big brother, this plan is too dangerous, if you are not careful, you may be in danger of your life, you can't do this."

"Big brother, why don't I replace big brother, just like I did when I was [***]."

"My lord, although this plan is strange, but it is dangerous and abnormal, even if the benefits are great after success, but the risk is too high, please think twice."

Yang Ping'an didn't know that his reformulated plan was too dangerous, according to his plan, he sent An Lushan to lead 10,000 troops to march according to the original route, and after encountering the Zhou army, he made a slight resistance and then deceived the defeat of the whole army, attracting the Zhou army to chase and dispel the Zhou army's vigilance.

This step is the same as attracting the Zhou army in [***], but the next step is completely changed, Yang Ping'an does not plan to ambush the Zhou army that is chasing out, but intends to personally lead the remaining 10,000 soldiers and horses to support the Zhou army camp.

Murder and fire attack the camp.

In this way, the Zhou army will be in chaos, if Xue Yufeng in Yangzhou City can find the abnormality, so as to lead the troops out of the city, taking advantage of the chaos of the Zhou army's military camp, and Yang Ping'an's internal and external combination, the Zhou army's camp is difficult to protect.

This kind of harvest is extremely difficult and rare, but in order to succeed, it is also an extraordinary danger.

An Lushan led 10,000 soldiers and horses to lure out and ambush the enemy, although this task was arduous, it was not very difficult for An Lushan, especially since he had experience in this area.

But Yang Ping'an led 10,000 soldiers and horses directly into the Zhou army camp, the danger in the middle can be said to be nine deaths, compared to Yang Ping'an, this Zhou army's soldiers and horses are too strong, in the face of strong strength, the conspiracy is just a small road, it is very difficult to succeed.

However, from the intelligence brought back by An Lushan, Yang Ping'an found the only opportunity, and the Zhou army camp outside the city was actually divided into two military camps.

Kou Xiong and Ning Zhenmo each led an army that did not belong to each other, although the relationship was close and tacit, but they were still camped separately, and the connection between the two military camps was logically the safest place, because they had to face the attack of the two Zhou armies, but in the eyes of Yang Ping'an, it was the weakest place.

The truth of the two monks carrying water to eat has been confirmed countless times in the long history, and Yang Ping'an firmly believes that this time will be no exception.

"My attention has been set, and you need not worry about me." Yang Ping'an's tone was firm and unquestionable, "Pass the order, the three armies will rest in place, send troops when Shen Shi, the fat man, you must lure the ambushed Zhou army away within an hour, Guozhong, you are responsible for cooperating with the fat man."

Haoxia, you follow me, wait until the fat man leads away the Zhou army, let's directly enter the Zhou army camp, and then divide the troops into two ways to disrupt the Zhou camp, you remember, killing the enemy is secondary, our main purpose is to burn the military materials such as grain, grass tents and equipment.

Do you understand that guerrilla attacks are the right way to not get entangled with the enemy and to achieve the greatest results at the lowest cost? ”

Seeing that he had made up his mind, the three of them no longer persuaded him, but just reminded him to be careful, and Yang Guozhong and An Lushan even found Kong Haoxia in private and told him to protect Yang Ping'an.

In Yangzhou City, the defenders in the city who had been fighting for almost a day were exhausted, and Xu Yuan's old wounds had not healed, and several heartaches had been added, and his clothes were stained with blood, and even the long hair under his chin was coagulated with blood.

Xue Yufeng is okay, she was not injured in the repeated battles, but she was too tired, Xu Yuan was a civil official after all, and she was also responsible for the dispatch in the city, so she had to shoulder more responsibilities for the fight at the head of the city.

Another wave of siege by the Zhou army was repulsed, and it was temporarily in a state of rest, and the Tang army at the head of the city also welcomed a rare rest.

With the support of his subordinates, Xu Yuan came to Xue Yufeng's side, sat down slowly against the city wall, took a deep breath, and said, "General Xue, have you noticed that the siege of the Zhou army today is different from the past. ”

"What's the difference." Xue Yufeng only knew how to kill the enemy, and rarely thought about anything else, "Even if there is, what can it be, after all, he wants to break through Yangzhou, and we just want to defend Yangzhou." ”

Xu Yuan shook his head: "The general is reasonable, but I always feel that the Zhou army has changed a little bit in attacking the city today, and it is much more violent than before, as if it wants to break through Yangzhou today." ”

Siege warfare is not as simple as breaking through, of course, if there are too few defenders in the city or someone secretly opens the city gate, it is another matter.

The general attack and defense of the city will go through several days, months, or even years of fighting, which will wear down the strength of the city little by little, and on the other hand, it will also wear down the fighting spirit and confidence of the soldiers and civilians in the city.

Sometimes it is not necessary to kill all the defenders in the city, as long as the mentality of the soldiers and civilians in the city collapses, the city will be lost.

Although the defenders of Yangzhou are only about half of the Zhou army outside the city, they occupy a favorable position, if the Zhou army wants to break through Yangzhou, it will normally take a lot of time, at least the defenders in the city must first consume more than half, before they can start a tragic siege for the purpose of breaking through the city.

But now, although the defenders of the city suffered casualties, they were not broken, and the people in the city firmly believed that the city could be defended, and the Zhou army had no chance to break the city by trickery.

Then why is the Zhou army so violent like taking spring and medicine, unless......

"General Xue, do you think the colt will be like last time?"

"You mean...... Xue Yufeng's eyes lit up, and he suddenly came to his senses, "Why does Lord Xu think it's that bastard." ”

Xu Yuan has been an official for many years, he is used to seeing all kinds of things, and he has developed a pair of old and spicy poisonous eyes, and he has long seen that the relationship between Xue Yufeng and Yang Ping'an is no longer clear to the point where etiquette is intolerable.

However, he is not the kind of rigid reader, he knows what things he can manage and what he can't, as long as he does not violate his principles of life, there are some things he can turn a blind eye to.

Because of this, he knew very well that Xue Yufeng kept cursing Yang Ping'an, but he had another idea in his heart: "It is only possible that the horse, although the official does not know why the horse rebelled and put Yangzhou in danger, but he believes that the horse is a person, he must have been in trouble, so he let go of Kou Xiong's soldiers and horses, and when his trouble is solved, he will definitely return to Yangzhou, because there are people in the city who are difficult for him to give up." ”

"I know, isn't it Yang Yuhuan's vixen?"

"It's not just Miss Yang, there are also others in the city who make it difficult for him to give up, General Xue should know, so I believe that the horse will definitely come back to help, and the change in the Zhou army today is likely to be caused by him......"

It turned out that he had already seen it, and Xue Yufeng, who was said to be out of his mind, had a little heat on his face, and muttered: "So what, whether he returns to help or escapes, what does it have to do with me, what does Lord Xu mean by telling me this." ”

Xu Yuan stroked his beard lightly and sighed: "I just want to know what the horse can do to solve the dilemma of Yangzhou with the little strength under his command." ”

Thinking of the more than 10,000 peasant soldiers under Yang Ping'an, the hope that had just risen in Xue Yufeng's heart was immediately shattered: "Lord Xu, I advise you not to pin your hopes on him, this time it is not as good as last time, his troops are okay to scare ordinary people, and those Zhou troops outside the city are well-trained and experienced, how can he covet them." ”

While the two were talking, the Zhou army attacked the city again, and the two no longer said that they were organizing soldiers to resist the siege of the Zhou army, and after a while, they suddenly found that the rear camp of the Zhou army raised a large puff of smoke and dust, and it seemed that there were soldiers and horses attacking from behind the Zhou army.