Hu Yangeng smiled, but did not answer, only asked: "Tomorrow to attack the city, can the horse defense envoy have a plan?" ”

Outside the city of Taiyuan, several horses came back. The guards opened the city gate, and they rushed all the way into the Shuai's mansion without stopping, and told Yan Yinshuke: "The Song army arrived in Xinzhou the night before and began to attack the city yesterday. The Song army personally supervised the battle, and the offensive was very fierce, and Wan Yanhu came to the city tower in person, which could withstand it. ”

"Really start the siege?"

The villain waited outside Xinzhou City, witnessing the battle between the two sides, and the battle was fierce. The defense of the Song army made Ma Kuo personally command to build a rushing car tour, and the tour stone was like rain. Xuan Feng was draped in heavy armor, with a sharp blade, and approached the city head three times. The defenders in the city of Xinzhou resisted desperately, poured the city with ice water, made the boiling oil and fire attack, the sassal wood, the nail board were on the same page, the strong crossbow, the stone was like rain, the fierce battle was all day, and the casualties on both sides were hundreds. It was not until nightfall that the Song army returned to the camp. ”

Wanyan Yinshu was shocked, and he thought to himself, "How can this be true! No, this must be a deception by the Song army, showing me the illusion of attacking Xinzhou, and then taking advantage of my carelessness, his sneaking foot soldiers suddenly killed and attacked my city. He asked, "Where are the Song soldiers from the north?" Among them, how many people are there, are you clear? ”

"The foot soldiers of the Song army marched day and night, and the precautions along the road were extremely tight, and many of the sentry spies of our army were killed by him, and those who were lucky not to be discovered could not approach at all. However, please don't worry, our army scouts report three times a day, and they can always find out. One of the staff members looked at the sky outside the hall and said, "Look at the hour, the next group of scouts should also come back." ”

Tanma from the direction of Xinzhou said: "So that the adults will know that they met a messenger sent by Wanyan Hu on the way, and there is a letter to the adults." ”

After finishing the silver technique, you can take it and open it to take a closer look. Both of them are Jurchens, and the Jurchen characters they write are zigzag and twisty, like earthworms crawling. The letter was earnest, first of all, it specifically analyzed the reasons for Huyan Geng's attack on Xinzhou, and further pointed out his strategy of "easy first and then difficult"; Then he briefly introduced the impression of Hu Yangeng's observation, and did not use a brush at the end, changed the blood book, I don't know what kind of animal blood was stained, and the smell of fish was tangy.

It reads:

"The Song army broke Xinzhou, and the soldiers pointed out, and the next one was set to be Taiyuan, and then Taiyuan. This is a plan to concentrate forces and break through each other. Yes, if you save Xinzhou, you will save Taiyuan. After the adults save Yan Hu, they are saving themselves.

"The adults don't need to come to the army much, lift 5,000 people, go to attack the Song army's northern camp, attract its attention, and force it to be powerless, then the lowly rank poured out of the city, and broke through its other two camps outside the city gate in turn, and then joined the army in one place, and the adults flanked back and forth, and the defeat of the Song army was also within a snap of a finger.

"The lowly rank with more than 10,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of people is looking forward to it, hoping that the reinforcements will come as soon as possible."

Wan Yanhu's letter could not have written so many sentences of Wen Zou Zou. After the staff had written it, they transcribed it in Jurchen script and sent it again.

After Yan Yinshu, he lost the letter, wandered around the case, and his head was confused. What is the intention of Huyan Geng? Is his attack on Xinzhou a real attack or a fake attack? He said, "Wait, wait." Rong Benguan thought about it carefully, and when he went to Fenzhou to scout and came back, it was not too late to make plans. ”

Xinzhou's letters for help came one after another.

Another one came that evening, and the next morning, two in succession. From a part of the blood book to all the blood books, from the blood of livestock to the blood of people, from the blood of others to the blood of Yan Hu. The writing is getting shorter and shorter, and the handwriting is getting more and more sloppy, and it can be seen that Wan Yanhu is in a hurry.

And the scouts in Fenzhou have not been able to find out the details of the Song army's foot soldiers.

At noon the next day, Wan Yanhu's fifth blood letter was delivered.

The messenger who sent the letter was covered with blood, and when he saw Yan Yinshu, he fell to the ground, howling and crying, and shouted: "Xinzhou City is in danger! My lord, the siege of the Song army is getting tighter, and if Taiyuan does not send troops to rescue him, the city will not be able to hold it. "The so-called request for help has to be alarmist and emotional.

He didn't put his head on the head, he slammed it to the ground fiercely, and there were blood stains coming out, he couldn't cry silently, and said: "Our army is newly defeated, the morale of the army is unstable, and the Song army is attacking the city with all its might, day and night. The north wall outside the city was damaged in many places, and he almost burned the city gate by a sneak attack last night! The reinforcements from Lou Fu and the Jin soldiers who rushed to help around were all defeated by his ambushes.

"He has come up with all kinds of schemes, since last night, from time to time smuggling soil out of the camp, my family judged that he was digging tunnels in the camp! My lord, there are many Song soldiers, and they can be dug on all sides, if our army can't find the exit of the tunnel, if he digs the tunnel under the city wall, as soon as the city wall collapses, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians will die in the hands of adults! ”

Wanyan Yinshu can be reprimanded: "How did you die at the hands of this official!" Babbling, stand back. ”

The guards dragged the messenger out, and the messenger struggled so hard that he kept pounding his head on the ground and screaming. Listening to the sound of the cry gradually fading away, Wanyan Yinshu was distraught, drew his sword, and withdrew the scabbard with his hand.

Wanyan Yinshu was originally a famous general of the Jin soldiers, and when he raised troops against Liao and went south to attack the Song Dynasty, he was decisive in killing and using soldiers like gods, so he should not have this doubt. But in the past few years, his rich and comfortable life has made him slack off as a whole, and his judgment of military intelligence is not so keen.

He couldn't figure it out, so he left and right his staff: "What do you think?" ”

No one in the staff spoke.

It's so weird. If you want to say that Huyan Geng is pretending to attack Xinzhou, the messenger sent by Wanyan Hu will not tell lies. If you want to say that Huyan Geng really attacked Xinzhou, the scouts who found the Song army going south would not tell lies. A staff member hesitated, and he said uncertainly: "Could it be that it is true that the Song army is attacking Xinzhou and Taiyuan, and he wants to attack both ways?" ”

Someone shook his head and rejected his opinion, saying, "The Song army has only tens of thousands of horses, and it does not have the ability to attack two cities at the same time. On the Xinzhou side, listening to the messenger's critical situation, the truth is not certain. Isn't there a reward for the horses in our army? It is true that the city wall is broken, but it was hit by a trebuchet and dropped a few pieces of masonry, which did not damage the defense. ”

Speaking of this, he hesitated for a moment and said: "It's just burning the city gate and digging the tunnel at night, and it's just a matter of burning the city gate, and digging the tunnel is not a day or two." From this point of view, it seems that the Song army does have the intention of opening up the posture and besieging and attacking for a long time.

Someone agreed, saying, "Didn't the messenger say that Lou Fu's reinforcements had been repelled by him?" If he hadn't planned to lengthen the village, he wouldn't have been so well prepared. ”

He was also puzzled, and said, "However, according to the spies, Huyan Geng only brought a few thousand people to Hedong, and the rest were soldiers borrowed from Ma Kuo. Ma Kuo's armor guards are all armor guards, so he is not afraid that if he can't attack for a long time, everything will be inked? ”