The art of war is cloudy, and the siege of the city requires three times the strength of the other party, that is to say, the Zhao family army and the Lu family army must have a huge difference in numbers to take it, but now it is not the case, the number of people on the two sides is not much different, Lu Yi has a city defense to rely on, and Zhao Ling is much worse, all relying on the Su zhì of his own soldiers to make up for it.

This is a city wall alone that is so hard, and the other aspects are even more in a stalemate, both sides have their own family foundations, the Zhao family is almost out of the nest, and the same is true of the Lu Yi department, this battle is related to the life and death of the two families. Nanjing City is very lively on three sides, only the side of the river is quiet, where Lu Yi has built a lot of forts that form horns with each other, maybe the forts can still fight against Zhao Jiajun on land, but in the face of the ships in the water, they are the killers of the destruction of miè. As long as a cannonball hits, the ship will be destroyed and people will die, and all the people in the boat will die in the belly of the fish. The few generals guarding there are the least, and the most relaxed, these days there is not even a piece of wood on the Huai River, and the surrounding fishermen also know that they are going to fight, and they do not come out to fish, for fear of being regarded as an enemy army or a fine work, so the river is quiet, and there is no one. The soldiers stationed on the city wall looked in the other three directions, listening to the sound of artillery fire and fighting, and their hearts itched to see it, and they wanted to make a war feat or something, but at the same time they were glad that they were lucky, at least it was safe. Perhaps this is the contradictory human nature.

Lu Yi is not afraid of the so-called wheel war of attrition, and now the reserves in Nanjing City are enough to last for three or five years, but I am afraid that if it doesn't last for two months, the Zhao family's army will have to decline, and the supply of soldiers, horses, grain and grass will not be available. I have said a lot for two months, and then it will be time for Lu Yi to attack, and the army will be in chaos when the army has no food. A soldier who surrenders without a fight. And he is not inferior to the Zhao family in terms of numbers, and now with the help of the city wall, Lu Yi is not afraid, no matter how this battle is fought in the end.

It's just that these two months have been equally difficult for Lu Yi, although the Zhao family army has been contained, but the crisis in Shandong has not been solved. The soldiers and horses of the imperial court are approaching Shandong day by day, and they can only hope that their father Lu Bing will ask for more blessings.

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Xu Yangbu of the Lu family army in Taiyuan also discovered the movements of the imperial court recently, and knew that he was confused by the imperial court's strategy to point out the east and west. Now I want to rescue Shandong, after all, Shandong is the place of foundation, if the foundation is gone, I am afraid that the soldiers will not follow for a long time. But Qi Jingtong seemed to have a good understanding with Yu Dayou and the soldiers and horses of Shuntianfu who came from the capital, and he cooperated very well with Yu Dayou's actions. bit Xu Yangbu to death. Even if there are heavy casualties, he will never retreat, that is, he will not let Xu Yang rush back to the rescue.

This is either a trap carefully laid by the imperial court a long time ago, or Qi Jingtong is so conscious that he would rather sacrifice himself and his political future than defeat Lu Jiajun and help his teammates achieve a decisive victory. As a warrior, having the courage to bear the name of a defeated general is sometimes greater than the courage to die. After all, this is a life without dignity, silently paying for merit.

Xu Yang issued a death order to break out of the encirclement. With the help of advanced weapons, it did cause a lot of damage to Qi Jingtong's department, Qi Jingtong couldn't resist even how brave he was, he went to the battlefield in person as a soldier, and he was also injured in order to block the retreat of Xu Yang's army of the Lu family. But after all, Xu Yangbu was like a sharp knife, cutting through the encirclement carefully arranged by Qi Jingtong, although the court had a large number of people, but the casualty ratio was still far superior to the Lu family, but this breakthrough Lu family army also paid a very heavy price, killing 5,000 people and wounding 20,000 people, it must be a big war. It is also a rare defeat for the Lu family, Xu Yang almost vomited blood again, although he thinks that the other party is also a human, and there will definitely be casualties in a death battle, but the soldiers of the Lu family army are all baby bumps, especially the team of people under his command is the elite of the Lu family. Many people had died in Zhongfu before, but now that they were damaged again, Xu Yang's careful liver really couldn't afford to hurt.

Xu Yang marched quickly in the direction of Shandong, although the front troops were very mobile, but the transportation of baggage and ordnance was relatively slow, which was relied on by the strong combat effectiveness of the Lu army. Xu Yang was reluctant to leave these to Qi Jingtong, in the previous ambush battle, Qi Jingtong got some of the ordnance and was already like a tiger, if these were left behind and returned to Shandong to guard, Qi Jingtong got all these and then returned to attack Shandong, it would be a devastating blow to the Lu family's army.

But if he didn't leave it behind, the Lu family's army would not march extremely fast, although it seemed fast enough to ordinary troops, but Qi Jingtong was not slow, he could now be regarded as risking his face and risking his life, and as long as he caught up, he would start fighting regardless of the outnumbered, and the casualties would not be counted at all, as long as he could drag Xu Yang, it would be a victory. Even so, the soldiers under his command are becoming more and more courageous, and the generals no longer have dissenting people, Qi Jingtong's brainwashing ability and personal charm are really good.

Xu Yang thought of a plan to divide the troops, and first sent a part of the soldiers and horses back to Shandong to help, and he took the other part to stay behind to block the enemy. But Qi Jingtong has now taken out a desperate posture, and although more than half of the imperial court soldiers and horses were killed and wounded in the previous breakthrough, the number of soldiers and horses was still superior, and the Lu family army also suffered a lot of losses. Qi Jingtong is already crazy, he doesn't pay attention to the art of war strategy at all, and he fights to the death in four words. Xu Yang was in a hurry, and he couldn't use his strength, and he felt like he was the master by punching him to death, and he was the master.

Just when Xu Yang was at a loss, he received a secret report and suddenly became relaxed. Once his heart calmed down, he thought about it, and immediately recruited the middle and high-ranking members of the army to arrange troops to prepare for Qi Jingtong, who came in a hurry, to get into the big net, so that he could also try the taste of being ambushed.

Qi Jingtongbu really didn't know, but found that the traces of Xu Yangbu were decreasing, and the number of cooking stoves was also decreasing. Some people said happily that Xu Yang was really confused, and he actually used the strategy of dividing the troops, and Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, was defeated in the plan of dividing the troops, this Xu Yang was too self-conscious.

Qi Jingtong shook his head and said that there were too many cases of reducing the number of people to confuse the opponent and causing the illusion of a decrease in the number of people, so he had to guard against it.

Everyone was anxious and asked if it was true. Qi Jingtong didn't want to give up a great opportunity. Lu Jiajun, especially Xu Yang, has always been cunning and changeable, liking truth and falsehood, both fake and true, just like their father-in-law. It is a trick to open and close the wisdom and foolishness, which is likely to be obviously done for the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, deliberately not to make a fake stove, so that they can find the problem, but they dare not chase it if they are worried about it.

Qi Jingtong actually moved his mind, but he was worried about the anti-China scheme, so he didn't dare to catch up. Someone Jianyì sent scouts to explore the way. Qi Jingtong immediately agreed, and sent a huge team of one hundred scouts and five hundred sentry horsemen to spy on it. At the same time, Qi Jingtong also issued an incredible order to dig up the enemy's dung pit.

Traces of the march on the stove can be faked. But there is no one in the manure pit to fake. If you think that tens of thousands of soldiers have to excrete after eating and drinking, this excrement naturally cannot be discharged everywhere, so you must dig some ditches. When you go, bury it every few days and change it to a new pit, first, it is really foul smell, it is easy to attract mosquitoes and insects after a long time, and it is easier to cause people to get sick. There is also the meaning of hiding whereabouts. Otherwise, the enemy doesn't have to be tracked at all, just smell it and find it.

Qi Jingtong is a general, there is no need to look for it at all, how to set up camp with soldiers has about the same opinion, and found a place with low terrain and less hidden air circulation, if Qi Jingtong is camped here, the dung pit must be here. Sure enough, Qi Jingtong and Xu Yang had the same idea. The dung pit was here, so Qi Jingtong sent the military to dig up the soil on the ground. and let those reluctant soldiers take out all the manure tanks, and it was stinking in an instant.

Everyone thought that Qi Jingtong was crazy, but Qi Jingtong laughed and said: "Divide the troops, they did divide the troops." ”

Some generals suddenly realized, but some looked at Qi Jingtong inexplicably, Qi Jingtong explained with a smile: "The difference between the excretion of these tens of thousands of people and thousands of people is too great, you see that these feces are indeed very feces." This is a fraud method that they will never think of, no one will dig a dung pit if they take care of their face, this is too biased. But we are people who travel in the army, and what face we want, victory is the biggest face. Let's immediately raise troops to chase after the rebel Xu Yangbu, and strive to take it in one fell swoop, the slow ones are all good things, and the heavy grain and grass weapons are waiting for us. ”

The whole army was very excited, and everyone knew that the Lu Jiajun had good rations and equipment, and if they got these things, it would be equivalent to making a windfall.

Immediately Qi Jingtong ordered to pull out, his subordinates were so excited that they chased wildly, chased for a day, someone came to report that all the scouts sent next year were killed, Qi Jingtong laughed instead of anger after hearing this, and claimed: "That's right, Xu Yang and they must have used the division of troops." If the scouts find that there are only a few thousand marching men, then I may have to think about it for a while to see if this is all a ploy. But the fact that the scouts were killed at this time shows that they are thieves. If it's a plan, it's clear that they can play more realistically, everything is so ready in front, how can there be a business trip here in the scout, it must be because the soldiers are worried that we will chase after us, so they killed the scout and didn't let them return. In this way, we will think that what is ahead of us is a stratagem, and the scouts found out that they are still tens of thousands of troops, and they are killed because they are exposed. Based on the previous evidence, Xu Yang has been in chaos, although we are not as tough as them, but we are still the strongest, the stronger than them, there are many of us. Of course, this may also be a big picture, but wealth and wealth are in danger, and what is a big deal to look forward to and after, and now the other party is weak, and it is the time to catch it all. Seize their equipment, counterattack the Shandong thieves' den, eliminate the violence and peace, and beg the thieves! ”

The soldiers pursued again, the sky was getting late, day and night, Qi Jingtong chased but found that a trace of qiē was too obvious, some of the meaning of wanting to cover up, and these so-called obvious traces were deliberately concealed, but they could be found by careful people. A sense of crisis came to Qi Jingtong's heart, these clues were not to deceive people, but to deliberately deceive generals and smart people, this seems to be a strategy to deal with Qi Jingtong's taste, so is it really a plan?

All generals have always had a very keen premonition, and Qi Jingtong is no exception. Qi Jingtong ordered the march to stop, and at this moment, he only heard the sound of artillery fire, and the whistling sound of falling shells followed in an instant. Qi Jingtong was shocked, goodbye was the troops in his rear and the troops in the middle section who were hit. If the retreat loss is greater at this time, it will be doused by the enemy's artillery fire, and it seems that he has not guessed all wrong, Xu Yang is a desperate ambush, not a big trap.

Since the number of enemies is not large, the scope of the ambush must not be large, even if you are ambushed, you don't have to be afraid. Qi Jingtong immediately ordered a rapid advance, preparing to advance rapidly to reduce the losses of Zhongfu. (To be continued......)