Chapter 233: Hiding from the Sky and Crossing the Sea
"Is Li Moran crazy? He was completely using crowd tactics, intending to use corpses to build a way up the city. Xie Chen frowned and said.
Li Guanqi's brows also furrowed, he didn't expect Li Moran to be so disregarding the life and death of his subordinates, and frantically attack a city that was not suitable for hard attack at all.
Eventually, rebel soldiers began to storm the walls, and a scuffle began. The result of the melee was to wipe out the Jiannan army's superiority in the number of archers, and both sides had to engage in brutal meat grinding.
The rebel soldiers rushed to the top of the city at the risk of death, but the great cadres quickly stifled their attack and drove them off the city wall again, but before they could catch their breath, the second group of rebels swarmed again, and then there was another rain of blood.
The frantic and irrational siege lasted for more than three hours, and both sides were exhausted. The Jiannan army, which had the advantage in numbers, took advantage of the rotation of the siege troops and at least had lunch, while the big cadres at the head of the city did not even have time to drink a sip of water.
Finally, the gong of the retreating troops sounded in the Jiannan army. Li Guanqi swung his sword and slashed down a rebel soldier who was about to retreat, and sat down against the cold city wall tiredly, although the Jiannan army left nearly 10,000 corpses in this long-term battle, but his own losses were close to 2,000. He had never suffered such a tragic attrition since the outbreak of the war, which made him feel extremely heartbroken.
How much he hoped that the army led by Zhu Yi could suddenly appear behind the enemy, now both the offensive and defensive sides were extremely tired, and it was a good opportunity for a sneak attack.
"A good chance for a sneak attack?" Li Guanqi suddenly stood up, and his eyes shone warmly.
"Your Majesty, but what clever plan has come up with again?" Several generals were accustomed to Li Guanqi's whimsy.
"Not bad! I just thought of a good way to break out! Li Guanqi nodded with a smile and said, "Hurry up and rest." After nightfall, I have a mission for you! ”
Li Moran's brows have wrinkled into a big Sichuan character. He was very impulsive, and he did not expect that this impulse would be the price of more than 10,000 lives. The heavy losses made his anxious brain begin to calm down a little, and he also began to think about the main force of the infantry of the Great Cadre Army. Although Li Guanqi was surrounded by him, he was only a cavalry unit. There are still 100,000 foot soldiers, I don't know where they are, which can't help but make Li Moran scruples.
"Treat the soldiers well and fight again tomorrow." Li Moran coldly passed the order, turned around and entered the tent, the north wind blew like a knife, it was more comfortable in the tent.
After nightfall, Li Moran was woken up by a commotion as soon as he fell asleep, and he hurriedly got up. Walking out of the tent, he asked the herald who was hurrying over, "Is it the cadres who are trying to break through at night?" ”
"Go back to China! Precisely! ”
Li Moran nodded, and walked back to the tent. He is also a battle-hardened person, although he is not a famous general, but he can naturally pay attention to the things that should be paid attention to. As early as before dark, he had already instructed the generals of all armies not to slack off for a moment at night to prevent Li Guanqi from leading the army to break through.
Li Moran poured himself a glass of wine. Slowly drank it, and after a while. The herald came in and reported: "The troops who are trying to break through have been repulsed!" ”
Li Moran nodded, waved his hand and said, "Go down!" Inform the generals to continue to be on standby, Li Guanqi is scheming to prevent him from breaking through again! ”
Sure enough, it was expected by Li Moran that half a time later. The Great Cadre Army really launched a breakthrough offensive again, but because the Jiannan Army was well prepared, it was still repulsed.
After listening to the report, Li Moran showed a long-lost smile, and he finally thought of Li Guanqi's front: Want to break through? It's not that easy!
But. Just when Li Moran was just lying down and about to sleep for a while, there was a fierce shouting outside.
Although Li Moran had already given the order not to slack off, in the silent night, the shouting of killing was particularly harsh, the more he wanted to listen to it, the more the sound ran to his ears, and after tossing and turning on the bed for a long time, he still turned over and sat up......
Throughout the night, the great cadres in the city persevered to break through the siege every half an hour, but they only stopped at a superficial level, and as soon as they encountered resistance, they retreated back into the city.
After such a night of tossing, although Li Guanqi and the others did not succeed in breaking through, the Jiannan army had panda eyes all over the country - they had no peace this night, and their energy consumption was really terrible.
After dawn, Li Moran walked out of the tent with red eyes, originally planning to organize men and horses to continue the siege, but looking at the state of the soldiers, he dispelled the idea of attacking the city - everyone looked like they had not woken up, and 20,000 dead people might not be able to attack the city wall.
Li Moran didn't attack the city, and Li Guanqi was also happy to be idle, so he naturally wouldn't choose to break through in broad daylight, the price he paid would be too great.
At night, the Great Cadre Army once again began an endless breakout. When Li Moran heard about the repulsion of the breakthrough troops of the Great Cadre Army four times in a row, he suddenly came to his senses and asked: "After so many battles, what are the casualties on both sides?" ”
"Returning to China, there are no casualties!" The herald replied respectfully.
"No casualties? The shouting of killing is so harsh, so there will be no casualties? Li Moran felt very strange.
The herald said: "Those shouts of killing are all made by the big cadres, but although they shout, they are not really fighting, as soon as the two sides come into contact, they will retreat to the city!" ”
Why is that? Where is there a breakthrough but not fighting? Li Moran rubbed his sore temples and said to himself, suddenly patted his thigh and said angrily, "Fall for that kid again, he is not breaking through at all, he is just sending a small force to harass our army!" The order was given, except for the necessary sentry at night, the others slept in peace and did not need to pay attention to the noise outside. ”
The time can be passed by the third watch, at the gate of the ice city, Li Guanqi rode on a horse and looked at the direction of the camp of the Jiannan Army, where the lights had been extinguished for more than two hours.
The sound of horses' hooves sounded, and Xie Chen rushed back with a hundred horsemen!
"How?" Li Guanqi asked anxiously.
"As your Majesty expected!" Xie Chen said happily on the horse, "The rebels finally found out that we were deliberately harassing them, and now they don't care about our fake breakthrough, and no one has come out to meet them in the last two harassments!" ”
"Good!" Li Guanqi's eyes flashed out in an instant, and a compelling murderous aura surged from his body, "Order, the whole army breaks through!" (To be continued......)