Zhang Jin said that he used the burning camp as a bait to lure the Sui army north, and he led 15,000 troops to ambush on both sides of the official road, patiently waiting for the Sui army to ambush.

Zhang Jin said that he was not worried that the Sui army would not be deceived, even if the Sui army found out that there was an ambush in front of it and turned around and retreated south, it would also be intercepted by the 3,000 troops he sent.

In this game of chess laid out by Zhang Jincheng, the key is to cut off the 3,000 troops that will immediately retreat, as long as these 3,000 troops are in place, the Sui army will not be able to escape.

At the same time, Zhang Jin said that he also saw through Zhang Xuan's weakness, that is, Zhang Xuan would not sit idly by and watch him leave Qinghe County and go north, he must find a way to drag himself down.

And Yang Ji used fake surrender to trick Zhang Xuan, Zhang Jin said that he didn't care, he knew that no matter whether Yang Ji's strategy was or not, the Sui army would definitely send troops.

Compared with Zhang Jincheng's strategy, Zhang Xuan's strategy is much more sophisticated, it can be said that Zhang Xuan is walking a tightrope, and he also grasped Zhang Jincheng's weakness, that is, there is a shortage of food, as long as he destroys Zhang Jincheng's grain and grass baggage, Zhang Jincheng will be gone.

In Zhang Xuan's chess game, his main force is virtual and bait, and Pei Xingyan's 1,000 troops are the actual attack, which is the ultimate goal of Zhang Xuan's game of chess.

In the contest of two chess games, the scout contest between the two armies is the key to determining the outcome of the two chess games, especially the accuracy and timeliness of intelligence, which has a crucial impact on the final outcome of the war.

Zhang Jin said that he was still waiting for the news of his southward army, and as long as the 3,000 troops southward were deployed, he would immediately send troops to kill the Sui army.

In the night, an uneasy mood quietly spread in Zhang Jincheng's heart, he felt that something was not right, Zhang Xuan walked too slowly, not like he was in a hurry to take advantage of the fire and rob, did he have other intentions?

Zhang Jin said that he suddenly became a little irritable, he couldn't wait any longer, he couldn't lose this opportunity.

"All the troops are attacking!"

Zhang Jin said that he gave the order to attack. The drums sounded, and the 15,000 soldiers who were lying in ambush on both sides of the official road came out and began to kill the Sui army seven or eight miles to the south.

But at this moment, someone behind him suddenly shouted: "Great King." Look! ”

Zhang Jincheng turned his head suddenly, only to see the fire in the woods in the northwest corner of the camp, and the flames rose up, as if the entire forest was on fire.

Zhang Jin said that his eyes widened and he screamed. Shocked, he suddenly reacted that it was his grain and grass that had been ignited.

"Give me back, go put out the fire!"

At this moment, the Sui army is no longer important, what matters is his food, his baggage, Zhang Jin said that he took the lead, and 15,000 thieves ran to the north in a hurry.

But it was too late, when Zhang Jincheng ran to the woods. The whole forest was engulfed in flames, and they couldn't rush in to save the food.

Zhang Jincheng stared blankly at the fire demon raging, he only felt a sweetness in his throat, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and he immediately fainted and fell off the horse.

"King! King! "All the generals are in a mess,

Zhang Jin said that the crisis he faced was imminent, that he no longer had a single grain in his hands, and hundreds of mules and horses were nowhere to be found, of course. He also has more than a hundred war horses, but once he kills war horses for food, the army's morale will be completely shaken.

If you don't kill the horses, you can only plunder. But Qinghe County is thousands of miles away, there is not a single family within a radius of 100 miles, and the nearest Zaoqiang County is also 200 miles away, and it will take at least two days to arrive, but even if it is rushed to Zaoqiang County, how can the hundreds of families in the county support an army of 20,000.

As a matter of fact. Zhang Jin said that he had no choice but to attack Wucheng County again, there were 100,000 stone of grain in Wucheng County, forty miles away, as long as he could capture Wucheng County, his crisis would be solved.

The sky was bright, and the hungry and cold thief army appeared outside Wucheng County again.

At this time, the heart of the thief army has been shaken, almost all the soldiers know that they have run out of food, countless soldiers began to flee in the night, when the thief soldiers killed in Wucheng County, the army only had more than 13,000 people left, and the morale was very low.

"I simply tell you that we have run out of food, and some soldiers may still have some dry food, but I don't even have a bucket of wheat in my hand."

Zhang Jincheng stood on a big rock, glared at all the generals viciously, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Either eat the corpses all over the ground, or take Wucheng County for me, there is no third way to go!" ”

"King, what if there is no siege ladder?" A senior general asked tremblingly.

"If you don't have a siege ladder, cut down a tree for me! You must build a siege ladder for me within an hour, and give me Wucheng County before noon today, if you can't capture it, everyone won't want to live. ”

Zhang Jin said that he also let go, he ordered all the horses except for himself and the main general's mounts to be slaughtered, and ordered the general Wei Yong to lead 5,000 men to the forest to cut down trees and build siege ladders.

At this time, the battlefield outside the southern city had been cleaned, and tens of thousands of corpses of the thieves had also been burned and buried by the Sui army.

In the forest, 5,000 thieves and soldiers were cutting down trees in groups of three or five, and the soldiers were dizzy with hunger and weak limbs, and soldiers continued to take the opportunity to flee into the forest.

"Bastard, don't be lazy!"

General Wei Yong rode a horse to patrol the forest, constantly whipping the soldiers with a leather whip, "Hurry up and cut down the trees, you can't complete the task in an hour, you don't want to live!" ”

The soldiers dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, and many people secretly shouted at his back, "Bah! He spat on the ground.

At this time, a personal soldier came to report, "General, more than a dozen deserters have been caught!" ”

"Good! Gather everyone together, and I'm going to make an example! ”

In a clearing in the forest, more than a dozen deserters were captured and ready to be beheaded, Wei Yong ordered all the soldiers to come and watch, he wanted to kill the chickens and monkeys, and let all the soldiers know the consequences of being deserters.

More than a dozen deserters knelt on the ground with their hands tied behind their backs, and Wei Yong stood on a tree stump, pointing at the deserters and shouting to thousands of soldiers: "Everyone has their eyes wide open, and if you dare to run away, this is the end!" ”

All the soldiers stared at the scene in front of them with anger in their eyes, many clenched their fists, and the atmosphere of anger began to spread rapidly.

Shang Yong also felt the dissatisfaction of the soldiers, and he became more and more annoyed, shouting loudly: "Give me a behead!" ”

The war knife was cut down, and more than a dozen human heads fell to the ground, and at this moment, I don't know who shouted, "Fight with him!" ”

Thousands of soldiers roared and rushed towards Wei Yong, Wei Yong turned around and ran in fright, but there was nowhere to escape, surrounded by angry soldiers, and in an instant, the soldiers hacked him to death with knives, and dozens of Wei Yong's own soldiers were all killed.

"Don't give your life to Demon King Zhang, let's go!"

The soldiers shouted loudly, took off their armor and fled into the woods, and in a few moments, the five thousand soldiers who participated in the logging had fled cleanly.

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The cold wind whistled from the northern forest, rolling up a snow foam, and the sky also turned foggy, and in the cold wind, more than 8,000 thieves and soldiers were shivering from the cold, tired and hungry waiting for the order to attack the city.

They stared blankly at the tall city wall two miles away, and the dense Sui soldiers on the city wall, one after another trebuchets stood on the city wall like giants, pressing heavily in their hearts.

They were still waiting for the siege ladder to arrive, but they didn't know that there had been a mutiny in the forest, the general Wei Yong had been hacked to death with a knife, and thousands of thieves had fled.

At this time, there was a slight commotion in the northeast corner, dozens of soldiers fought for a few pieces of dry food, and a few screams were faintly heard, and two soldiers lay in a pool of blood.

The thieves had long been accustomed to this kind of infighting for interests, and everyone was numb, but another news began to spread rapidly among the soldiers, 'All the 5,000 soldiers who went to the forest to cut wood have fled', and this news made everyone's hearts begin to panic.

This is also the thing Zhang Jin said he was most afraid of, he already knew that something was going on in the forest, but he ordered the news to be blocked and no one was allowed to leak it, but there is no impermeable wall in the world, and this matter still spread rapidly among the soldiers.

"King, I'm afraid it's too late to build a siege ladder, let's attack with a battering ram first!" A confidant general hurriedly suggested to Zhang Jincheng.

Zhang Jincheng looked back at the hundreds of thick trees, which were just dragged from the forest, dozens of them were particularly stout, with cone-shaped heads, just enough to be used as battering rams.

What's more, Zhang Jin said that he also knew that the situation was critical, and if he didn't go to war, the morale of the army would collapse, and he must go to war immediately to boost morale with a bloody war. ”

'Boom! Boom! Boom! The drums of war sounded outside the city, and the four thousand soldiers of the thief army, driven away by the axe men, rushed to the city wall with twenty huge trees screaming wildly.

The battering ram is also a siege weapon, but it is the least efficient, the least powerful, and the most vulnerable of all siege methods.

Although there have been countless battles in history in which battering rams have been used to knock down walls, those battering rams are often a kind of behemoth controlled by thousands of men, and each blow is more powerful than just a few trees.

At the same time, Zhang Jin said that he ordered his soldiers to rush to the siege ladder to prepare for the second wave of attacks.

At the head of the city, Zhang Xuan snorted coldly, since the other party wanted to kill himself, he had no choice, Zhang Xuan turned around and shouted: "Trebuchet ready!" ”

'Squeak quack! Hundreds of trebuchets slowly pulled away, and a cold boulder was aimed at the rushing thief soldiers......

[Today and tomorrow are two shifts, Lao Gao should take some time to accompany his children and family] (to be continued.) )