After Wang Meng and Xie Ai discussed, they decided to cut off their wings first and then smash their hearts, send half of the soldiers and horses to annihilate the Daiguo army behind them one by one, remove the threat from the back, and then concentrate the main force to attack Shengle City, so that they can definitely deal a severe blow to the arrogance of the Daiguo army that suddenly rose.

In order to annihilate the soldiers and horses of the Daiguo gradually gathered around him, Wang Meng and Xie Ai discussed it and decided that the main cavalry of Wang Meng's army would be responsible for clearing the reinforcements of the Daiguo, while the soldiers and horses of Xie Ai's army would continue to besiege Shengle City with all their might.

In the Daiguo army around Shengle City, except for a Qinwang army reinforced from the north, the remaining soldiers and horses were all soldiers and horses scattered from the direction of Jinchang City, therefore, the combat effectiveness is generally not high, for Wang Meng, it is extremely easy to defeat these teams.

Wang Meng first attacked the Qinwang men and horses who had been reinforced from the north, and quickly defeated the men and horses, forcing them to retreat northward, and then, Wang Meng's army launched an attack on the rest of the Daiguo soldiers and horses with the momentum of victory.

When Wang Meng's army went all out to attack the Dai Guo army around Shengle City, Xie Ai's army also adjusted its thinking and decided to abandon the strategy of attacking and take outwitted actions.

In order to capture Shengle City smoothly, Xie Ai and his subordinates had an in-depth discussion in the Chinese army's tent and were determined to find a better way to attack the city.

Xie Ai looked at his subordinate generals and said loudly: "Generals, Shengle City is extremely easy to defend and difficult to attack, and our army's several attacks have been repelled by the Daiguo army. Generals have a better way to deal with it. ”

When Zhang Hao heard this, he said loudly: "General, the east and north sides of Shengle City are desperate, and the west gate is not conducive to the deployment of the army. ”

"General, after several days of fierce fighting, all the strategies that our army can use have been used, digging tunnels and building ladders. Bomb the city gates, thunderbolt attacks. It seems that there is no better way. Zhao Wu said helplessly, obviously, he couldn't think of a better way.

Yang An looked at Xie Ai. Loud voice: "General." Outside the East Gate and North Gate. Although it is a desperate situation, the defense of the army of the country must be extremely lax, if it is a different way. Finding a breakthrough from the east and north gates may be of an unexpected role. ”

"Outside the east gate is full of swamps, people and horses enter it, they will be swallowed by the mire, there is no way to attack, the north gate is built by the water, the water surface is up to 20 zhang wide, it takes half an hour to just erect a pontoon bridge, how can the raid be successful, or from the south gate is the most appropriate." Zhang Hao objected loudly, he always believed that only by attacking from the south gate could Shengle City be breached.

"The army of Daiguo is extremely well defended at the south gate, and the casualties of our army's assault are too great, so we should still think about the idea of the east gate and the north gate." Yang An thinks that it is not necessary to always put all his energy in the direction of the south gate.

Zhang Hao disagreed, and retorted loudly: "Our army has attacked several times, and it is true that the casualties are very large, but the casualties of the Daiguo army are not small, besides, the city wall in the direction of the south gate has been destroyed a lot by our army, as long as we attack a few more times, we will definitely be able to take Shengle City." ”

"Okay, don't argue with the two generals, the general planned to send scouts to the east gate and the north gate to investigate the situation, as long as there is the slightest opportunity, our army should not let it go." Xie Ai Zhengse said.

"Yes, General." Seeing that Xie Ai had made up his mind, all the generals nodded in agreement.

Subsequently, Xie Ai sent two scouts to the east gate and the north gate of Shengle City respectively to conduct a careful investigation, and Xie Ai gave them the order to investigate the situation outside the east gate and the north gate as clearly as possible, and no details could be let go.

The two scouts left the camp in the direction of the south gate, went to the east gate and the north gate respectively, and began to explore carefully.

In the direction of the east gate, there is a large swamp, and a large area of reeds grows on the top of the swamp, and if you are not careful, you may unknowingly fall into the swamp completely, and thus be swallowed by the swamp.

The direction of the east gate of Shengle City can be said to be a dead land, which is very conducive to defense, but since a city gate has been opened in this direction, it is enough to show that there is a hidden road leading to the east gate, perhaps for the evacuation of the army in the city in an emergency! It's just that there are swamps everywhere, and weeds and reeds are overgrown on it, so it's hard for outsiders to find out where the road is.

In order to find this hidden road, several Jin scouts who were in charge of probing the road at the east gate risked being swallowed up by the swamp at any time, testing the swamp one foot deep and one foot shallow, and marking the place where they had traveled with broken reeds.

The swamp is very ruthless, just a moment, there is a Jin army scout, because of carelessness, was swallowed by the swamp, lost his young life, however, this will not stop the remaining scouts, the courage to explore the road, they only glanced at the comrades who were swallowed by the swamp, and then, continued to look for a way to walk in the direction of the east gate of Shengle City, of course, soon, several more Jin army scouts were swallowed by the swamp.

Although it was broad daylight at the moment, the reeds in the swamp were much higher than people, and they were relatively dense, so a small number of Jin army scouts would not be discovered by the soldiers on the city wall at all.

After some careful attempts, one of the last surviving Jin scouts finally discovered this secret road leading to the east gate of Shengle City, and immediately followed the marked path to return to the camp outside the south gate.

In the direction of the north gate of Shengle City, several Jin army scouts observed for a while on the bank of the river, and suddenly felt that if the army crossed the river from the downstream first, and then built a pontoon bridge from the opposite bank of the north gate of Shengle City to launch a crossing, it would definitely be a great waste of time, and thus lose the effect of the raid, and the results would not be very good, but if the effect of the raid was to be maintained, it was necessary to launch a sudden attack, so that the army defending the city would not have time to reinforce.

Several scouts analyzed together for a long time, and finally felt that only by swimming directly from the downstream river to the north gate of Shengle City could they suddenly launch an attack without realizing it.

But soon, these scouts found that the speed of the river in front of them was not very fast, and the water surface was very calm, if a group of men and horses were swimming on the river, it would be easy to be discovered by the soldiers of the country on the wall of the north gate, and they would be attacked by a dense rain of arrows.

However, one of the scouts looked at the reeds on the bank of the river and quickly came up with a solution, thinking that the soldiers, each with a hollow reed in their mouths, would keep the soldiers breathing, and then let the soldiers go underwater and quietly march towards the north gate of Shengle City.

Of course, in order for the soldiers to be able to pass down the surface of the water, in addition to having hollow reeds, it is necessary to meet the silt at the bottom of the river and the flow rate of the water.

For this reason, several scouts personally jumped into the river, and with hollow reeds in their mouths, under the surface of the water, quietly walked towards the north gate of Shengle City, because there were only a few scouts, along the way, they arrived at the north gate of Shengle City, and safely returned to the shore of departure, on the way was not discovered by the soldiers on the city wall, which can be described as extremely smooth.

After an experience, several Jin army scouts agreed that the river outside the north gate of Shengle City was very suitable for diving, there was very little sediment at the bottom of the river, and the water flow was very slow, but if a team of thousands of people and horses dived from the bottom of the river, it would definitely not work in broad daylight, and they had to wait until the night when the moon was dark and the wind was high, so that they could arrive outside the north gate of Shengle City unexpectedly, and then launch a surprise attack on the north gate.

The scouts of the two Jin armies all completed their tasks excellently, and returned to the Chinese army's tent outside the south gate as quickly as possible, reporting the specific situation to Xie Ai.

Seeing that both groups of people had found opportunities that could be exploited, Xie Ai was very happy, and immediately summoned his generals and began to arrange combat missions.

In order to be able to complete the battle, Xie Ai decided to launch an attack at the same time from the four gates of Shengle City in the middle of the night to distract the attention of the army defending the city, among them, Xie Ai will personally lead the main army to launch a large-scale feint attack outside the south gate of Shengle City, in addition, the division outside the west gate will also launch the most fierce feint, the main attack direction is the east gate and the north gate where the defense of the army is the weakest.

In order for the two armies at the east gate and the north gate to achieve victory, Xie Ai selected the most elite 2,000 warriors from the whole army and formed two siege death squads, each with a full 1,000 men.

Among them, the death squads outside the north gate will be equipped with the most sophisticated weapons and the strongest armor, and equip them with thirty ladders, while the one thousand warriors outside the east gate will only be equipped with sophisticated weapons and thirty ladders, and the armor will be completely removed.

The reason why the two roads are different in equipment is because the soldiers outside the north gate need to dive from the bottom of the river, the river has a certain buoyancy, and the silt at the bottom of the river is insignificant at all, and it doesn't matter if the armor is heavier, and the situation outside the east gate is different, outside the east gate is a large swamp, although there is a secret path, but this path is also buried in the silt, if the soldier's equipment is too heavy, it is difficult to walk in the swamp, for this reason, all soldiers only have weapons, and are not equipped with any armor, Only some of the soldiers were armed with wooden shields to protect the entire group.

Xie Ai's siege plan was seamless, and after hearing the order, all the generals vigorously agreed with it, and immediately went to prepare separately.

At nightfall, Xie Ai's four men and horses had all been prepared, and immediately rushed towards their respective assembly pairs.

Xie Ai's order to the other three men was to attack immediately in the middle of the night when they heard a battle outside the south gate, and after waiting for a moment. (To be continued......)