The army returned to the camp again, Meng Buge was very aggrieved in his heart, he didn't expect that the siege of the Zhenglan Banner soldiers would fail in such a way again today.

In yesterday's battle, they lost nearly 3,000 people, and today they lost more than 3,000 in the first battle, and they lost nearly 7,000 Beirong Erlang together in the past two days, which made his heart bleed.

Meng Buge was very angry, and when he returned to the barracks, he sulked in the big tent of the Chinese army.

Because he really couldn't figure it out, the Beirong cavalry had been fighting for many years, and the soldiers were warriors tempered from blood and fire, how could they be so vulnerable when they encountered the fire attack of the Caozhou defenders today? There have even been cases of stagnation. And he saw the fire attack of the Caozhou defenders this time, which shocked him, a person is on fire, no matter how he fights it, it will be useless, and he will be burned.

Meng Buge sulked while thinking about yesterday's and today's siege battles, and after thinking about it for a long time, he still couldn't figure it out, but he felt that the two sieges were repelled by the Yan army defending the city, and it was not enough to give the Yan soldiers who defended the city enough oppression, so that they defended the city too calmly.

But how can you give the Yan army defending the city a sense of oppression? He couldn't think of a reason, so he could only drink alone. Is it possible to use the last method again? Didn't you use this method to break through the gate of Yanmen Pass last time? But he shook his head slightly, noncommittal, for he did not know whether the solution would still work, and he hesitated about it.

Thinking like this, he saw the curtain of the big tent open, and his younger brother Haksu walked into the big tent. Seeing that his brother was sad and was drinking, Haksu smiled and said, "Why did Brother Eleven drink alone?" ”

"The two of them lost nearly 7,000 people, but we haven't even touched the walls of Caozhou City, my heart is a little anxious!" For his younger brother Haksu, Meng Buge said bluntly.

Ashina? Nohachi had twelve sons, but only the eleventh son, Munbukor, and the twelfth, Haksu, were siblings. Therefore, the two are very united, and Haksu, who is known as the Beirong Demon Fox, is Meng Buge's right-hand man and military advisor, but Meng Buge is the first to look forward.

With the support of his younger brother Hakesu, Zhengbai and Zhenghuang Banner united, and the strength of the two was very strong, which enabled Meng Buge to lead the army to the Great Yan by overwhelming the brothers, and to lead the 200,000 troops of the Seven Banners except for the Yellow Banner.

"Brother Eleven, what are you anxious about, it's only been a few days?" Ha Kesu still smiled and said, "But it won't be long waited, Caozhou City is about to be broken." ”

"Huh? What does the twelfth brother mean? Meng Buge asked in surprise, his side had lost 7,000 people and didn't even touch the walls of Caozhou City, how could he dare to say that the city was about to be broken?

"Has Brother Eleven noticed the situation of the Yan Army defending the city?" Haksu asked.

"Twelfth brother, just say it quickly! This is going to kill your eleventh brother in a hurry! Meng Buge said excitedly when he saw that his younger brother seemed to have a way to break the city.

"On the first day, we attacked the defenders of Caozhou City and defended them with bows and arrows and stones, and when we attacked Caozhou City today, they used a kind of burning oil in addition to bows and arrows and stones." Ha Kesu analyzed, "It only took us two days to test the true strength of the Yan army defending Caozhou City, forcing them to expose a defensive secret weapon like fire oil, which shows that their defense has reached the end of a strong crossbow." At this time, if we use the method of attacking Yanmen Pass again, we will definitely be able to shake the military spirit of the defenders of Caozhou and capture Caozhou City in one fell swoop. ”

"Hearing what the twelfth brother said, I think there is such a point, the Yan army in Caozhou City is only defended with sharp weapons, and it seems that the combat effectiveness of their soldiers guarding the city is not very good!" With Hakesu's explanation, Meng Buge's heart suddenly brightened, and he analyzed on his own, "In this case, we can indeed shake their military morale by attacking Yanmen Pass, and then attack the city desperately, maybe we can really capture Caozhou City." ”

Haksu didn't say anything more, just accompanied Meng Buge on the side, he knew that his brother was arrogant, so he just stopped and didn't steal the limelight from Meng Buge.

"Come on, gather all the flags to the big tent to deliberate." Meng Buge ordered.

"Yes." The guards outside the tent were ordered.

The horn of the gathering general sounded.

In a moment, in addition to the deputy capital Tuobani of the yellow flag who died in battle, the deputy generals of the five flags of the white flag, the yellow flag, the blue flag, the blue flag and the white flag arrived in the big tent. Only the two cavalry of the red flag and the red flag were missing. However, Meng Buge didn't ask, and the commanders and deputy commanders of the other banners didn't say anything even if they were clear in their hearts.

"General, in the past two days of siege, our Blue Banner has suffered too much loss, and I ask the general to replace the soldiers who are besieging the city." Zhenglan Banner Dutong Tuba was the first to say. It is true that he is the leader of the positive blue flag, but the owner of the positive blue flag is Nuhachi's son Bazhuo, who is the second brother of Meng Buge. Now it has lost 7,000, plus more than 2,000 people lost in the first battle of Yanmen Pass, he has lost nearly 10,000 in this banner, and there are only 30,000 people in the Zhenglan Banner, which has lost one-third, and it is indeed broken, if it is not for the Beirong cavalry to fight bravely, like the general army loses one-third of the men and horses, it will definitely be demoralized to the point of losing combat effectiveness.

"Tuba, this time your Zhenglan Banner has indeed contributed a lot, and when Caozhou City is captured, this general will share one-third of the money of Caozhou City of your Zhenglan Banner to make up for your losses in this attack on Caozhou City, is this okay? Will you be able to explain to your second brother after you go back? Meng Buge said with a smile because he thought of the way to siege the city, and he was in a good mood.

"General Xie, the next time you attack the city, the Zhenglan Banner will be the only one who will make the flag the first to look forward." Batu said happily. This winter, their Beirong was covered by heavy snow, cattle and sheep froze to death, and the clansmen of Zhenglanqi were hungry and crazy, and this time they were able to get one-third of the wealth of Caozhou City, which was enough to let their clansmen survive this cold winter, how could Tuba not work hard.

"And General Ben has decided to continue the siege tomorrow, and tomorrow more cavalry will be needed to change the foot, which of you wants to be the vanguard!" Meng Buge said with a smile, "If Caozhou City is captured, General Ben will divide one-third of his Caozhou City's money." ”

Just now, Tuba got Meng Buge's promise, and he was envious of the other flags, and now Meng Buge has promised such a big benefit, in addition to the blue flag, the white flag, the yellow flag, the blue flag and the white flag are all vying for merit, saying that their own banner men and horses are willing to change the cavalry to attack Caozhou City.

Tomorrow's battle is related to the life-and-death battle of whether to capture Caozhou City. Meng Buge and Haksu did not dare to slack off, so they selected 40,000 white-flaged cavalry to be the vanguard of the siege.

In this way, Meng Buge determined the number of soldiers and horses to attack the city the next day, 20,000 soldiers under the blue flag, plus 40,000 soldiers with the white flag, a total of 60,000 troops.

The 60,000 fierce Beirong soldiers attacked and concentrated their forces to attack Caozhou City, which was a serious test for Ji Qingchen and the defenders of Caozhou.

And in the study of Ji Qingchen in Caozhou City, Xu Zizhang and Xu Dachun, Xiang Ziyu and Meng Li, and Fang Wanqi all gathered together to discuss the military situation.

"The chief manager said that there are only five banners of Beirong Iron Cavalry in the Beirong camp, and the other two flags are not in the camp?" Fang Wanqi asked in shock.

"Yes!" Ji Qingchen nodded and said, "Otherwise, Meng Buge has an army of more than 200,000 people, how can he waste grain and grass under Caozhou City and not take action?" ”

Seeing the doubts on everyone's faces, Ji Qingchen said with a smile, "Meng Buge said that the purpose of hoarding troops under Caozhou City is to wait for this king, whether you believe it or not, this king does not believe it." ”

"Well, Boss, what are we going to do?" Xiang Ziyu asked with a solemn face, if there is really a shortage of soldiers and horses in the Beirong camp, and they don't know where to go, it will be difficult to do.

"This king has other arrangements for this problem, you don't have to worry about it, now this king is worried about tomorrow's defense of the city." Ji Qingchen frowned, and his voice was very deep, "In the past two days, Beirong has lost nearly seven thousand in the siege of the city, but we also used fire oil when defending the city today, this is our pressure box thing." If Beirong Meng Buge knew that we all used the oil at the bottom of the box to defend Caozhou City, we would think that our defense had reached the end of the crossbow. At this time, he will not hesitate to order tens of thousands of Beirong soldiers to attack the city, I am afraid that our pressure is very great, with the combat effectiveness of the soldiers defending the city now, this Caozhou City may not be able to hold it! ”

"Yes! What the chief manager said was that our defenders in Caozhou City were indeed too weak. Xu Zizhang echoed.

"If you can't keep it, you have to keep it! Caozhou is the last barrier to prevent Beirong from going south, if Beirong breaks through the Caozhou defense line, they can enter the northern capital to the west, Hangzhou to the south, and Shangzhou and Xingzhou to the southeast. Dayan's hinterland was really exposed under their iron horse. Xiang Ziyu said in a heavy tone. Xiang Ziyu, who is known as the Great Yan Divine Bow, always felt that it was his shame to lose Yanmen Pass, and he had to retreat to Caozhou, but now he didn't want to take a step back when he arrived in Caozhou, and he had the mind to live and die with Caozhou City.

Also with Xiang Ziyu has such thoughts, there is also Meng Li, don't look at Meng Li's red armor and dress himself up very gorgeously, but he is also a ruthless character, a fierce general who kills people without blinking, but he is usually a little extravagant, likes food and gorgeous clothes, which hides his bravery.

"Yes, General Xiang is right, we can't retreat any further, take another step back, hand over Caozhou City to Beirong, and expose the hinterland of Dayan to Beirong's 200,000 iron hooves, and we will become the sinners of Dayan." Ji Qingchen said bitterly, "So we must fight, and we must win a battle." ”

"Don't worry, Xu Dachun is the name of the chief manager, and he will definitely look forward to the head of the chief manager, and live and die with Caozhou City." Xu Dachun nakedly expressed his loyalty and determination.

"We will take the lead of the chief steward and live and die with Caozhou City." Xiang Ziyu, Xu Zizhang, Fang Wanqi, and Meng Li also made a decision and said.

"You can have such a decision, this king is very happy, sit down!" Ji Qingchen said, "Since you all want to live and die with Caozhou City, this king will talk about his deployment, according to this king's guess, the east gate of the north gate of the Beirong cavalry camp is the direction of Meng Buge's main attack, and Meng Buge has been attacking the north gate for the past two days, and has not taken any offensive against the east gate." The king thought that tomorrow Meng Buke might continue to attack the north gate, but he would focus on the east gate and take us by surprise. ”

"So the king's deployment is that the north gate will be defended by General Xiang and General Xu, and in addition to the defenders in the city, the king will transfer another 8,000 foot soldiers to you. Fang Wanqi, Meng Li, and Xu Dachun, the three of you went to the east gate to take charge of the defense task, and mobilized all the remaining foot soldiers to the east gate. This king will let Li Changzheng and the 800 cavalry battalion supervise the defense, and a little defender of the city will be in a cowardly situation, and he must correct the law on the spot. When Ji Qingchen said this, he moved his gaze to the people in the study and asked, "What do you think?" ”

"The last general will be in the name of the chief manager!" Xiang Ziyu and the others said in unison.

"Well, then tomorrow there will be a battle, and this king will ask you!" Ji Qingchen sighed lightly, in fact, the defense of Caozhou City put a lot of pressure on him, everyone saw that he seemed to be living a very relaxed and freehand life, and when the Beirong army attacked the city, he was still writing and practicing calligraphy in the study, but in fact, the pressure in his heart was very great, and his pressure was only known to him.