The plan for attacking Fengzhou was quickly formulated, and Meng Bochang personally led the main force of the four battalions of the Yongfeng Tiande Right Army of 3,800 people, as well as the main force of the newly incorporated New Army of 2,500 people. The new army is Meng Bochang after subduing the ghost towns in the north and south of Yinshan, recruited ghost pawns, ninety percent of the ghost pawns were originally Tang soldiers, scattered in the border areas for many years, fighting with the sky and the earth, and fighting with people, all of them are brave soldiers who have been refined into steel, in addition to the soldier Meng Bochang also got four cadres from the ghost town: Park Enjun, Suo E, Li Changlin, Ma Heshang, the four are said to have the courage of ten thousand people, plus Meng Bochang's brother Meng Di is collectively known as the "Yongfeng Five Tigers".

Feng'an's main force was two battalions of the Right Army led by Li Tongqin and Yang Hao recruited 1,500 new soldiers with six boxes of treasures brought by Qing'er. In addition, Zhuang Yunqing selected 1,200 people from the Jiuniang Pass garrison to also go out with the army.

The real protagonist of the attack on Feng'an City was the thirteen allied forces in the central part of the Uighur Forest, which was personally supervised by Xiao Qijin. The greatest military advantage of the nomads over the agrarian peoples is not only their horses and swords, but also their unique mobilization system, in which almost all adult men are warriors, and their life skills are the skills of war, and archery is a skill that requires hard training for farmers to master, and for them it is a means of earning a living.

There are 100,000 people in the middle of the forest, and there are 20,000 soldiers who can go out to fight, among which the 6,000 "Iron Mask Jile" led by Xiao Qi Jin is the most elite, the word "Jile" is a transliteration of the Uighur dialect, the meaning of the horse, and the meaning of "Iron Mask Jile" is "a horse wearing an iron mask", and people who want to be righteous often mistakenly think that this is a cavalry unit with an iron mask on the face of a war horse, but the actual situation is that the iron mask is not worn on the face of the war horse, but on the face of the knight.

This is a heavily armored cavalry, the horses used are Hui Hui horses and Hexi horses crossed into Sanyang horses, this kind of horse has good endurance, can bear weight, easy to raise, the disadvantage is that the speed is not fast, not heat-resistant. But in the battle with the Tiande army in the land of Yinshan and Heshuo, the advantage of this horse is very obvious.

In this case, the speed of the horse is often not the main factor that determines the battlefield situation, but the horse's endurance and easy to raise are more important to the generals.

In addition to the 6,000 "iron-faced Jile", there were also 4,000 "slave bundles" under the tent of the Little Qi Dynasty, which is also a transliteration, and the Uighur language means "slave army", that is, an army composed of requisitioned Yongjian slaves, these slaves were Uighurs, Dangxiang, Khitans, Tibetans, Shatuos, and a few Tang people. "Bundled slaves" are used for infantry and cavalry, mainly infantry, and are good at siege.

At the beginning of August of the first year of Kaicheng, the three-way army approached the city of Fengzhou. At this time, the defenders of the city had less than 5,000 men.

Yang Hao, in accordance with the agreement with Meng Bochang in advance, besieged but did not attack, and let Xiao Qijin's Uighur army take the lead. Before the siege began, Meng Bochang held a joint meeting in the southern defense area of the city, and all the generals above the two deputy generals attended.

Yang Hao met Xiao Qijin here for the first time, he was one year younger than Meng Bochang, but with a frosty face, at first glance, it seemed that he was two years older than Meng Bochang. Yang Hao's imaginary Uighurs were disheveled and unkempt, dressed in armor sewn from animal skins, and spoke in a rough voice, bold and brutal. But the fact is that the little Qi Jin and several Uighur generals really did not see any difference from the Han Chinese, except for their hairstyles, armor styles, and weapons.

What surprised Yang Hao even more was that almost all the Uighur generals could speak a few words of Chinese and knew a lot about the etiquette and customs of the Han people. But the difference is also clear: the Uighurs have a distinctly different way of thinking than the Han Chinese.

In view of the high city walls of Fengzhou and the deep and wide moats outside the city, Yang Hao suggested that Xiao Qijin besiege Fengzhou for a period of time, exhaust the grain and grass in the city, and then attack the city after the internal strife in the city to survive. As soon as this proposal was made, the Uighur generals scoffed, for in their view, victory and glory should be fought face to face with the enemy on the battlefield, sword to spear, and intrigue to win, which was not the glory of a warrior.

The Uighur generals believed that the best strategy to break through Fengzhou was to lure the enemy into battle, and the battle would be decided; The middle strategy is to forcibly attack the city, break the city and kill the enemy; The next strategy is to trap the enemy army in high bases and deep ditches, so that they can surrender without a fight.

Of course, this does not mean that the Uighurs are just a tendon and do things without strategy, in fact, some of the strategies they put forward surprised Yang Hao greatly.

The commander of the "Slave Bondage Army", Mipo Tulei, suggested that a dam be built on the Jiaoshui in the northeast corner of Toyoshu, and then a ditch should be dug under the city of Toyoshu, creating the illusion that the city would be flooded, forcing the defenders to take the initiative to fight, and then gather outside the city to annihilate in a group. Yang Hao had to admit that this strategy of Mipu Tulei was very clever.

Although the walls of Toyosu are tall and strong, they are also earthen walls, and the earthen walls cannot withstand water immersion, which is a well-known truth. In addition, the Toyosu area has been dry since July, and the rammed earth of the city wall has long since dried up, and if it is soaked in the river, it is immediately in danger of collapsing. As soon as the city wall collapsed, Fengzhou was undoubtedly defeated without danger.

But the question is, how easy is it to build a barrage dam on the Cape Water? The area around Toyosu is full of sand, and in order to build a dam, it is necessary to put sand into straw bags, so where do so many straw bags come from? In addition, there is a stone beam between the Kakugawa River and Toyosu Castle, and it is not impossible to dig this stone beam to divert water to the castle, but it must be time-consuming and laborious. Mipu Tulei is playing a psychological war: if the dam is built, Fengzhou will be broken. No matter how much you don't believe I can build a dam, as soon as I drop the first sandbag on the Horn River, you'll have to go out of the city and fight me.

Meng Bochang was very supportive of this strategy, and he asked Yang Hao to allocate 500 sergeants to help build the dam. and requisitioned people from nearby villages to weave straw bags. The dam project was soon underway, and the battle was carried out day and night. The dam was built on the Kakugawa River, and at the same time, it was also built in the hearts of the people of Toyoshu, and rumors spread in the city, and the people rushed to flee. Xiao Qijin sent troops to block all the fleeing people, and threatened that if he did not surrender the city as soon as possible, no officials and civilians would be left behind.

The people of Toyosu were terrified and awaited the end of the world.

In order to add more pressure to the defenders of Toyoshu, at the same time as the dam was built. In addition to the forced requisition of the people from the surrounding villages, the secret Turley also had thousands of slave soldiers join in, and the speed of excavation was very astonishing.

Everything is going very well. The defenders of Toyoshu, shrouded in fear, began to sink and constantly sent scouts to the front line to reconnoitre, as if looking for a battlefield where they could fight a decisive battle. Xiao Zijin and Mipu Tulei's attitude towards this is that you can choose the battlefield, but you have to try to peek at the barrage project - there is no door!

Yang Hao set up the Chinese military camp on the Xue Wang Ridge in the east of the city, and he could overlook the east gate of Fengzhou and the lively Jiaohe construction site in the distance without climbing the height.

Didn't Meng Bochang say that there was a famous general Liu Wei who had experienced a hundred battles in Fengzhou City? Fengzhou is already facing a catastrophe, where is the famous general Liu Weiren?

The tunnels of Mipu Tuure continue to stretch towards Toyosu, and the barrage dam on the Kakugawa River seems to have a shadow. Liu Wei didn't show up, but Feng'an City suddenly quieted down, and he didn't send scouts out of the city to reconnoiter for a few days, is this the tranquility before the war? Mipu Tulei is full of ambition, and the opportunity to show his skills has finally come!

But Cip Turley ignores the common sense that opportunity always goes hand in hand with risk, and in some cases, the two are really just different names.

August 16, the twelfth day of the siege.

Mipu Tulei went to Xiao Qijin's tooth tent early in the morning to report the recent progress, and when he came back, he did not enter the military tent in China, but rushed directly to the front camp lookout, standing here can overlook half of Fengzhou City, but the distance is a little far, and people with bad weather or bad eyes can't actually see anything valuable. On the 16th of August, the weather was gloomy, and Mipo Tuure had not slept well last night because of his patrol, and his eyes were a little blurry.

Hundreds of men were lining up in the open space to the east of the camp, and the same number of soldiers were acting as overseers with leather whips. This is the rule set by Mipu Tulei, every day before the start of work, the people must assemble in this way, shout a slogan before starting work. The purpose was to make a little noise in order to put pressure on the defenders of Toyosu City.

Mipo Tuure was in a good mood today, and he decided to wait for the people to line up and give them a few words.

Suddenly, the gate of the northern city of Fengzhou suddenly opened, and an iron horse roared out and went straight to the front camp of the slave army.

This is a cavalry force of more than 300 people, according to the establishment of the Tiande Left Army, this is the strength of a regiment, and the leader should be a captain. The captain's military flag will be embroidered with his surname, "Shi", and the one who goes out of the city is a captain surnamed Shi. Before the siege, Meng Bochang informed Xiao Qijin of the names, military positions, and appearance characteristics of all officers above the rank of captain in Fengzhou City.

"This captain surnamed Shi should be ......" Mipu Tulei patted his head, and he really couldn't remember that the captain in the city was surnamed Shi. The Tang army out of the city quickly broke through the cordon set up by the slave army outside the city, and the horses' hooves rolled towards the front camp tent. The former battalion general Gelhebi, who accompanied the inspection, advised Mipu Tulei to avoid it for the time being, and Mipu Tulei shook his hand and smiled: "Nameless, don't be afraid of him. "Gelhebi didn't dare to persuade him again, after all, there were only three hundred horsemen coming to the enemy, and he was alone in the depths, if he panicked because of this, wouldn't he make the lord laugh at him?

The two hundred-man detachments of the slave army rushed out of the camp gate to meet the Tang army, and the battle of Fengzhou finally began.

A 100-man squad of the slave army had 125 soldiers, and two 100-man squad was 250 men, which was 50 or 60 fewer than the Tang army. However, their camp was set up on a dirt slope and attacked from a high position, which gave them a great advantage in the terrain, and the enemy army was alone in the depths, relying on a large army to fight, and they also had a psychological advantage. In contrast, it was the two hundred-man squads of the slave army who had the upper hand.

As soon as the north gate of Fengzhou opened, Yang Hao got a report. He climbed high and looked into the distance, and could see the dust flying outside the north gate and the long neighing of war horses.

"It's finally time to start ......fighting," Yang Hao sighed silently, and he immediately ordered all battalions to be on high alert, and at the same time sent scouts to Beicheng to spy on the battle situation. The scouts reported that the Tang army, which had only 300 men out of the city, had broken through the cordon and was engaged in a battle with the slave army.

Yang Hao was a little confused, what was the purpose of sending a cavalry of 300 people out of the city? To stop the slave armies from building a dam? It was a fool's dream, there were more than 4,000 slave soldiers, and 1,200 cavalry alone. What can be accomplished by just 300 people alone? Don't think about it, Liu Wei is dizzy, or is Feng'an City out of control? This sortie was just a rash act of a few lieutenants on their own initiative?

Yang Hao glanced at the gray Fengzhou City and couldn't find an answer.