After understanding Su He's combat intentions, Ma Li said: "If you fight according to your ideas, then the plan to enter the city from the secret passage tonight cannot be carried out, we must keep Marcus in the city, and use them as bait to achieve the purpose of annihilating the reinforcements from other towns one by one, it seems that what Lord Su He learned from the young master has not been learned in vain, and it will be used so quickly."

Many people know this trick called encirclement point reinforcement, but in this era, especially in Europe in this era, there are almost no people who know how to use this strategy, except for Qin Dong, the reason why Su He will use this strategy is also because there is nothing to do in the territory in the past few months from the end of last year to the beginning of this year, Qin Dong has set up a military cram school, serving as an instructor and teaching some commonly used strategies and art of war to his officers.

"Hahaha" Su He laughed, very proud of his ability to skillfully use this trick to encircle the point to send reinforcements, nodded and said: "Yes, we can't attack Marcus in the city through the secret road for the time being, this guy still has use value, we have to keep him to lure reinforcements from other towns to come to the rescue, and then finally kill the reinforcements from other towns one by one, but in this way, we must draw most of our troops to intercept and kill the reinforcements, and only a few troops remain here to besiege the city, If Marcus in the city finds out, I'm afraid it will be very bad for us! ”

One of the advantages of using the strategy of encirclement and reinforcement is that it can eliminate Marcus's living forces to the greatest extent, and in addition, it can also eliminate the need to attack other towns one by one, which saves a lot of trouble. It also saves a lot of time, and it can also reduce casualties, after all, the casualties of ambush operations are definitely much smaller than the casualties of sieges. This is also the reason why Su He immediately decided to let them go when he saw that someone wanted to break through the siege and go out of the city to move reinforcements, and used the trick of encircling the point to send reinforcements.

After listening to Su He's worries, Ma Li was not worried at all, he smiled and said: "Don't worry, my lord, we will quietly withdraw our troops tonight, but we will not remove the tents and stoves, as long as we can hide from Marcus for a day, we will succeed." Tomorrow we will be joined by the young men who have just been drafted and the surrendered soldiers, but during this time we must not let the stoves where we make fires and cook them rest, and they must be fired on time. So as not to let Marcus find a flaw! ”

Su Yiyi listened, and nodded involuntarily, in his opinion, Ma Li's construction was very good, "Not bad." Only in this way can Marcus be hidden. Okay, just do what you just said, cancel the plan to enter the city from the secret passage tonight, and instead transfer troops to the southwest and quietly advance, and deploy the troops in the area of Zhirenzi, which support is closest to Chusten, we will fight which support soldier, and urge Neves's polyphony. Hurry up and send the soldiers and young men over anyway, and. Ma Li, you take 500 men to stay here, and I will lead the troops to ambush Marcus's reinforcements, you must be careful not to let Marcus find out that our camp is empty! ”

Ma Li promised: "Yes, don't worry, my lord, I will definitely be careful!" ”

"One more thing!" Su He suddenly remembered the Alans of Sogas, and he said: "I will give him the reward you promised, but I can't let him leave, forbid him to wander around the camp, and can't let him leave before we have entered the city, so as not to leak the news!" ”

Ma Li nodded: "Understood!" ”

That night, Su Heliu Mali led 500 people to guard the camp, and he himself took advantage of the night to take 1,400 infantry and 300 cavalry to quietly set off from the camp to Rilunqi to hide, this process was carried out in secret, even many soldiers who promised to stay in the camp did not know that most of the troops were missing in the camp, in order to prevent leakage of news, Ma Li also ordered that the soldiers who stayed in the camp were strictly forbidden to discuss this matter with each other, and as usual, they would practice early in the camp the next morning, in order to cover up the fact that the number of troops was much smaller, Ma Li also had the cavalry run around the camp, causing smoke and dust to fill the air.

This situation almost made Marcus in Chusten City think that Ma Li outside the city was about to prepare to attack the city, and finally found that not long after, there was no movement in the enemy camp outside the city, and he realized that the other party was just a drill, so he was relieved.

"Let's go, go back to eat, damn Suhe, I didn't wake up so early in the morning, go back to eat something and continue to sleep, it seems that they will not come to attack the city for a while" On the city wall, Marcus waved his hand, held the hilt of his sword, turned around and walked down the city.

Marcus is a strong man with a short stature, about thirty-seven or eighteen years old, don't look at him not tall, but the body shape is unambiguous, others are tall upwards, and he is tall to the side, so although this guy is not tall, the whole person's body looks like a door panel, horizontally long.

A centurion of the same age as Marcus next to him wondered, "Don't you think it's a little abnormal, my lord?" ”

"Abnormal? What's out of the ordinary? I think it's normal! Marcus said impatiently as he walked.

The centurion said: "My lord, Su He's forward army arrived yesterday afternoon, and Su He's main force also came quickly in the evening, and they all rested for the night, it stands to reason that they should start attacking the city now, why did they just make a fuss and then there was no movement, don't you think it's a little abnormal?" ”

Marcus said: "This is not strange, the siege is not so simple, they have captured several of our towns in a row, all of them were successful in the way of rapid attack, but when it came to Chusten, it was not possible, we found and closed the city gate in time, their army advanced too fast, so that the siege equipment has not yet arrived, plus they have been fighting for several days, their soldiers are also very tired, and their combat effectiveness has decreased, so they need to rest, just made such a fuss just now that they deliberately wanted to scare us, Don't let us have a good rest! ”

The centurion said, "So they want us not to have a good rest and deliberately make a scene, and they themselves have already started to rest at this time?" If that's the case, my lord, we might as well put our horses out of the city and kill them by surprise! ”

Marcus glanced back at the centurion, "What if this is a trap deliberately set by Su He, just to lure us out of the city to attack?" And then he suddenly came with a counter-raid, so wouldn't we have suffered heavy losses? ”

"Uh, my lord, my subordinates are not thoughtful!" The centurion hurriedly admitted his mistake.

Marcus waved his hand: "Forget it, forget it!" ”

In the morning, not long after the sun rose, a scout horse galloped into a forest near Zhilunqi, where Su He's main force was hidden, and the soldiers were eating the dry food they had brought.

"My lord, the three hundred cavalry reinforcements from Upper Blaise are less than thirty miles away from this time!" The detective reported to Su He.

Oberbreth was the closest town to the city of Chusten, and after the more than 50 cavalry who had broken through and asked for help last night had gone out for more than 20 horsemen, Oberbreth was the first to get the news that Chusten had been besieged, so after a night of preparation, all 300 cavalry men were sent to Chusten early this morning.

In the current era and in this area, the normal marching speed of the cavalry will be reduced, but the distance of thirty miles will be completed in less than half an hour.

After Su He heard that the first wave of reinforcements had 300 cavalry, he immediately began to arrange an ambush circle, fortunately, the terrain in this southwest region is very unfavorable for cavalry operations, the road is also rugged and difficult, and the sides are basically either dense forests or small hills or hills, which are very suitable for infantry ambushes.

Zhirenzi is only a small village, there are not many people in the village, but there is a long slope on the road to the south of it, the slope is flanked by thorny forests, it is only February at this time, the cold winter has not passed, the road and the dense forest are covered with a layer of snow, Su He divided the ambushed army into three parts, one part is arranged on both sides of the lowest point of the slope, this part is not many people, their task is once the reinforcements pass, they are responsible for blocking the retreat of the reinforcements, the second part is ambushed in the dense forest on both sides of the slope, This part was the most numerous, and the third part was ambushed on the back of the slope, and their task was to hold the top of the slope and prevent reinforcements from escaping the encirclement with all their might.

Before half an hour came, the three hundred horsemen from Hautbre appeared, and in a short time they were at the bottom of the slope, and after half of the three hundred horsemen had run up the slope, the leader at the front noticed that something was wrong, for he found that there were many footprints and horseshoe prints on the snow on the slope road, and he immediately reined in his horse and shouted: "Stop!" ”

The three hundred cavalry stopped, but it was too late at this time, all the three hundred cavalry went up the slope, and the soldiers who were lying in ambush on the slope all rushed out with spears and shields in hand, and after a few breaths of work, they formed a neat phalanx at the bottom of the slope, and the spears were obliquely upward, and the tips of the spears shone with cold light.

And at the top of the slope, suddenly many soldiers armed with spears and shields also appeared, and they lined up in a phalanx at the top of the slope, and the direction of the attack was facing the three hundred cavalry on the slope.

"Break through to both sides!" The leader saw that there were ambushes in front and behind, his face suddenly changed, and he immediately ordered the cavalry to break through from the dense forest on both sides, he had to do this, in this kind of terrain, the cavalry's mobility was limited to the greatest extent, and the combat effectiveness was not as good as the infantry.

Just as the cavalry was breaking through the dense forest on both sides, a shout suddenly came from the dense forest on the left: "All archers scatter freely!" “

"Whoosh...... a large number of arrows shot out from the dense forest on both sides, there is deep snow under the feet of the horses, and the speed of the horses is limited to the most, not much faster than people, at this speed the cavalry can only be used as a live target by the archers in the dense forest.

"Ahh (To be continued......)