Although Wang Wu and Wang Liu were quite dissatisfied with Yin Hao's military command ability, they were in a much better mood under Yin Hao's praise, and immediately said that they would follow Yin Hao to attack Lanling City again.

It didn't take long for the 10,000 troops originally stationed at the west gate of Lanling City to return more than 8,000 soldiers and horses, and the rest of the soldiers and horses were scattered except for the dead.

In this way, Yin Hao gathered a powerful force of nearly 50,000 troops, forming a huge military threat to Lanling City, which was dozens of miles away.

Yin Hao's army set up a large camp dozens of miles south of Lanling City, and gathered the scattered men and horses, which was obviously to re-attack Lanling City, and such a large-scale army naturally could not escape the eyes of Li Ben's scouts, and was quickly recognized by Li Ben's attempt.

Li Ben, who was stationed in Lanling City, was a brave general with a long-term strategic vision and experienced countless bloody battles, so he naturally would not let Yin Hao capture Lanling City, but he had too few soldiers and horses to form an advantage over Yin Hao's army.

And this time, Yin Hao has learned from the past, but I am afraid that it will not be so easy to defeat Yin Hao's army of 50,000.

Li Ben thought about it again and again, and decided to make every effort to build city defense facilities before Yin Hao's army launched an attack, and sent his henchmen and lieutenants to Dingtao, Changyi and other places to seek help from reinforcements.

You must know that in Dingtao, Changyi and other places, there are many generals of the former Wei State who have ceded their land and are unwilling to obey Yin Hao's leadership, so they can ask these people for help.

When the henchmen and lieutenants went to ask for reinforcements. In order to build Lanling City as strong as possible, Li Ben personally led his soldiers to carry rolling wood and stones, arrange horses outside the city, thicken the female wall, and take his own actions. Drive the soldiers under his command to speed up the construction of city defenses.

Under the personal leadership of Li Ben, the small Lanling City was built extremely strong, enough to withstand the attack of tens of thousands of troops.

In order to be able to capture Lanling City, Yin Hao asked the soldiers of each army to conduct siege training, and asked the baggage soldiers to prepare a large number of materials to prepare a large number of materials to prepare after arriving in Lanling City. Build a large number of siege engines to break down the strong defenses of Li Ben's legion.

Three days later, the nearly 50,000 troops under Yin Hao's command were ready, and Li Ben's army was also ready to resist the attack of Yin Hao's army, and the battle between the two sides was about to break out.

In the camp of Yin Hao's army, a general looked at Yin Hao, hugged his fists and said, "General, the whole army and horses are ready." At this time, if you don't attack Lanling City, wait for when. ”

"General. Our army of 10,000 is willing to be the vanguard. "Wang Wuwu pleaded for his life and asked to be the vanguard of the army.

"General, the last general is willing to fight." Immediately after that, the ministries expressed their determination.

Yin Hao nodded with satisfaction and ordered: "The most important purpose of this operation is to capture Lanling City. It didn't matter how many enemy troops were annihilated, so Ben decided to attack the city on three sides, leaving only the north gate in the direction so that the enemy could easily escape. This way, the siege will be easier. ”

"How is the general going to set it up?" A subordinate general hurriedly asked.

Yin Hao thought about it for a while, and said: "General Wang Wu attacked the direction of the West Gate, General Wang Liu attacked the direction of the East Gate, and the rest of the men and horses followed the south gate of the Jin army, and then the army set off, and after arriving at Lanling City, they set up camp first, and then launched a large-scale attack after the siege equipment was completed." ”

"Yes, General." All the ministers will be commanded at the same time.

Subsequently, Yin Hao and his nearly 50,000 horses marched to Lanling City, dozens of miles away, again, and were ready to break the city in one fell swoop.

After Yin Hao experienced a failure to attack Lanling City, he thought that although the soldiers and horses of Li Ben's army were relatively small, it was still difficult to break through in a short period of time by virtue of the solid defense of Lanling City, and if it was besieged on three sides, leaving only the direction of the north gate, it was a strategy to use Sun Tzu's art of war to besiege the division, and it was very likely to force the Li Ben army in the city to escape from Lanling City, and once this happened, Yin Hao's army could be stationed in Lanling City, so that they could boast to the Great Jin Dynasty that they had recovered a city, in order to save some face and win the full power of the government.

Yin Hao's army marched towards Lanling City, and arrived outside Lanling City in the evening of the same day, among them, Wang Wu's 10,000 troops were stationed outside the west gate, Wang Liu's army of 10,000 troops was stationed outside the east gate, and Yin Hao and his nearly 30,000 horses were stationed outside the south gate.

The three armies set up camp respectively, and prepared to guard against the surprise attack of Li Ben's army in the city, they had to besiege Lanling City for several days, until the heavy soldiers built siege equipment, and then launched a large-scale attack on Lanling City.

Yin Hao's army surrounded Lanling City on three sides, leaving only the gap in the direction of the north gate, how could such an obvious plan to encircle the division be overcome, how could it hide from Li Ben, who had been on the battlefield for a long time.

Li Ben saw through Yin Hao's strategic intentions at a glance, and immediately ordered the five hundred defenders in the direction of the north gate to make every effort to close the north gate, without his order, no one was allowed to leave the north gate at will, and at the same time, ordered his soldiers to continue to strengthen the city defense to meet the next fierce attack of Yin Hao's army.

Of course, in order to better deal with the large-scale attack of Yin Hao's army, Li Ben sent scouts to go deep into the surroundings of Yin Hao's camp to carefully probe and check the preparations of Yin Hao's army for siege.

After some scouting, Li Ben learned that Yin Hao's army was building siege equipment on a large scale, and it included a lot of powerful heavy equipment, once these siege equipment were built, it would greatly improve the siege ability of Yin Hao's army, and would cause great pressure on Li Ben's defenders.

Li Ben had experienced many vicious battles to defend the city, so he naturally understood the threat of these heavy siege equipment, so on the one hand, he explored the situation of the reinforcements, and on the other hand, he thought about how to destroy the heavy siege equipment that the Jin army was building.

Soon, good news came back from the direction of Dingtao and Changyi City, and the former Wei generals Wei Tong and Le Hong both agreed to Li Ben's request for help, and joined forces with 30,000 troops to reinforce in the direction of Lanling City.

Li Ben was very happy to learn that the reinforcements would arrive in a few days, but according to the speed at which Yin Hao's army was building heavy siege equipment, he was afraid that he would attack Lanling City before the reinforcements arrived.

In order to destroy the heavy siege equipment that Yin Hao's army was building with all his might, Li Ben can be said to have racked his brains, after all, last time, his bold raid had already startled the snake, this time, the vigilance level of Yin Hao's army was obviously much higher, and if he wanted to lead three thousand men and horses to raid again, I am afraid it would be difficult to achieve the last effect.

But the heavy siege equipment that was being built at an accelerated pace outside the city was a real threat, so no matter how difficult and dangerous the situation was, Li Ben had to find a way to destroy it.

In the east, west and south directions, the threat outside the south gate is the greatest, not only gathered nearly sixty percent of the soldiers and horses under the command of Yin Hao, but also almost all the heavy siege equipment is built here, among the two wings of Wang Wu and Wang VI legions, only a limited number of medium-sized siege equipment have been built, and the threat to Lanling City is not too great, which is enough to show that Yin Hao's main attack direction is the south gate, and the army outside the east gate and the west gate is just responsible for containing it in the flank direction, for this reason, Li Ben's main goal, Li Ben believed that as long as the heavy siege equipment outside the south gate was destroyed, Yin Hao's army's plan to break through Lanling City would be a complete failure, and he had to withdraw his troops to the south under the pressure of Wei Tong and Le Hong.

In order to destroy the siege equipment outside the south gate, Li Ben sent scouts on the one hand to learn more about the layout of Yin Hao's main camp, especially the exact location of the siege equipment, and on the other hand, he summoned his subordinates to study countermeasures day and night, and finally determined the basic idea of attacking the east and the west and taking it by surprise.

After Li Ben and his subordinates discussed, they decided to still carry out the operation at night, first sending 2,000 men and horses out of the city to attack the right side of Yin Hao's main army, so as to attract thousands of Jin soldiers from the vigilance camp, and then, Li Ben personally led two hundred of the most elite soldiers, wearing black cloth clothes, quietly approached the left side of Yin Hao's camp, and went straight to the location where the siege equipment was built, and burned the siege equipment that the Jin army was building as quickly as possible.

Then, the two teams of men and horses quickly withdrew, using their familiarity with the nearby terrain, they detoured back to the direction of the north gate from the east and west, and then quietly entered the city from the north gate, and when Li Ben and some of his men and horses went out of the city to carry out the operation, all the defenders in the city were urgently deployed to prevent the Jin army from taking the opportunity to attack the city.

For this action, Li Ben is careful and thoughtful, and with his subordinates as if studying and discussing, for fear of any accidents, after all, Yin Hao's soldiers and horses are ten times as many as Li Ben, taking such an action, the risk taken is conceivable, once there is an accident, the consequences of the consequences are also conceivable.

Li Ben was about to take such a bold action, which naturally Yin Hao could not predict, but Yin Hao was worried that Li Ben would raid the camp at night, so in the direction of the main camp, three thousand guards were deployed at night to ensure the safety of the main army.

The 3,000 vigilant men and horses deployed by Yin Hao, although the strength is not completely comparable to the 5,000 men and horses of Li Ben's army, but it is more than enough to defend the safety of the direction of the camp, after all, Li Ben's army is facing threats from three sides, and it is impossible to concentrate all the soldiers and horses to attack Yin Hao's main army camp. (To be continued......)