With Chai Rong's order, the Hou Zhou army immediately began to act. The 2,000 trench fillers and 3,000 elite infantry soldiers who served as the feint attack took the lead in dispatching, and under the cover of the firepower of the "Shenji Army", they marched towards the Taiyuan City not far away, and the momentum was even more lively than the siege of 20,000 or 30,000 people.

Seeing that the direction of the attack of the Later Zhou army's firearms turned back to the city head from the city wall again, and the infantry of the Later Zhou army, which had not moved, also rushed towards him with a shout, located in the middle of the city wall on the west side, facing the observation post in the direction of the attack of the Hou Zhou army's feint attack troops, a commander of the Northern Han military camp who was responsible for this observation and vigilance and monitoring duties could no longer sit still, and hurriedly beckoned his heralds, intending to let him go to inform Yang Ye, the guard general who was waiting for news in the city, and the Taiyuan defense to deploy Xin Feiyu, and immediately take the main force to the city. Prepare to block the siege of the infantry of the Later Zhou army.

But without waiting for the herald to receive the order, a young officer next to the battalion commander who was also dressed in a commanding uniform had already stretched out his hand to stop him, and said in a calm but firm tone: "Commander Sun is slow to send people, Zhang feels that Zhou Jun's move is quite strange, I'm afraid something is wrong." ”

Although he was prevented from giving orders by his "colleagues" who were not higher in rank than him, this Commander Sun did not show any offend. Not only was he not annoyed, but while motioning for his herald to wait next to him for the time being, he asked with an extremely sincere attitude: "What is Commander Zhang's opinion, please give me advice?" ”

The commander Zhang also had no awareness of equal level consultation, and unceremoniously accepted Commander Sun's flattery, and said: "As far as Zhang knows, the Zhou army has always used the 'Shenji Army' firearms to blast through the city, and then the foot soldiers will attack the city from the collapsed city wall. But now that the Zhou army's firearms have failed to bombard the city, my Taiyuan City is still standing, but they are so anxious and start attacking the city with such fanfare, which is unreasonable. As the saying goes, 'things are abnormal, they must be demons', and there must be a conspiracy behind the Zhou Army's obvious violation of convention. Therefore, in Zhang's opinion, Commander Sun should hurry to General Liu now to report the news that the Zhou army has begun to send foot soldiers to attack the city, so it is better to wait a little longer, and wait for the Zhou army's foot soldiers to get closer, at least after starting to fill in the outer trenches, and then decide whether to report to General Liu under the city. ”

Regarding the analysis of the "colleagues", Commander Sun did not doubt it at all, and immediately said: "What Commander Zhang said is very true, it is Sun who is too reckless. In this way, according to what Commander Zhang said, let's see what the Zhou army does, and then decide whether to report to General Liu. ”

After speaking, this Commander Sun stood respectfully behind the side of Commander Zhang, and looked at the infantry of the Later Zhou Army who were waving flags and shouting all the way under the city through the observation port, and from time to time moved his envious gaze to the binoculars in the hands of his "colleagues" who were said to be able to see whether the faces of enemy soldiers four or five miles away were pockmarked or not, and fantasized that one day he could have such an "artifact" - but unfortunately, all this Commander Sun could do was fantasize. Because he said that he was a small battalion commander, even Liu Jiye and General Liu, the adopted sons of the dignified Emperor of the Han Dynasty and the first in the Han Dynasty, only had a monocular in their hands that was far less effective than the telescope in the hands of this commander Zhang.

Just as Commander Sun was daydreaming about the impossible to come true, the iron door behind the observation post rang, and a tall and burly man dressed in a headsuit broke in in a daze.

This person entered the observation post, and did not salute Commander Sun, who was higher than him, so he came directly to the side of Commander Zhang, and said angrily: "Deputy battalion commander, the attack of the Zhou army is really strange, and there must be articles in it according to his humble duties." ”

Commander Zhang, who was called the deputy battalion commander by the person who came, heard this, put down the binoculars in his hand, nodded and said: "What Brother Weng said is right, the Zhou army is only afraid that the siege of the city is fake, and it is true to lure the Han army to defend the city." ”…,

As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed at the Zhou army, who was filling the outer trench with great momentum but slow movement, and continued to analyze: "The Zhou army made such a big noise to attack the city, but the movements of those trench soldiers are even slower than those of the old women in their seventies and eighties, where is there a little bit of eagerness to attack the city. Moreover, if the Zhou army really wanted to send foot soldiers to attack the city, its 'Shenji Army' should continue to bombard the city head to cover the foot soldiers to fill the trenches and approach the city wall. According to the accuracy of the artillery, ballista and stone throwers of the 'Shenji Army', this kind of bombardment must continue at least until the Zhou army's foot soldiers are within 100 paces of the city wall, so as not to injure the besieging allies. However, the bombardment of the city head by the 'Shenji Army' was only slightly dense when the thousands of Zhou army's infantry soldiers left their own array, and when these infantry soldiers approached the outer trenches and needed artillery cover the most, they became sparse, and now they were completely stopped.

It should be known that although the outer trench is more than 200 steps away from the city, it is still within the range of our army's hard crossbows, and without the cover of the 'Shenji Army', these Zhou army trench soldiers who only have soil bags in their hands and no defensive equipment are the live targets of our army's crossbowmen. The Zhou army, from Chai Rong, the Son of Heaven, to all the generals under his command were able to fight through the battle and fight the old battles, how could they make such a mistake and let their soldiers be sent to death. Therefore, I thought that the Zhou army's siege of the city was fake, and it was true to feint to lure the enemy. Because only by stopping the fierce bombardment of the city as early as possible and selling a 'flaw' to make our army feel that there is a 'cheap' choice, can our army transfer the main force under the city to the city head in advance. In this way, they will be able to give full play to the advantages of their firearms, and at a very small cost, without accidentally injuring their own people, they will be able to take our main forces by surprise and deal heavy losses to the main forces of our army's defense in the upper city. ”

After listening to Commander Zhang's analysis, Commander Sun suddenly realized: "Yes, yes, that's exactly the truth." Commander Zhang is worthy of being the best of the young generation of generals of the 'Flying Dragon Army' in Beiping, and he saw through the conspiracy and tricks of the Zhou army at a glance, and he really admired it to the ground. ”

Hearing this, Commander Zhang waved his hand again and again: "Commander Sun praised it falsely. Zhang is just a small battalion commander in the 'Flying Dragon Army', at most he can be regarded as a captain, where can he dare to be called a general. Moreover, Zhang is just a middle-aged person among his colleagues, and this leader really doesn't dare to be, dare not be. ”

When Commander Sun heard this, he couldn't help shaking his head and said, "Commander Zhang is too modest. I once heard General Liu say that during the Battle of Youyun, Commander Zhang fought a bloody battle at Gubeikou Pass for two days and two nights with less than one battalion, and resisted the continuous attacks of more than 20,000 elite troops of the Khitan Army. In the end, he not only annihilated all the 20,000 Khitan elite soldiers with reinforcements, but also killed the younger brother of the Khitan Emperor. With such a record, how can you not be the best. ”

Although most of what Commander Sun said was true, but the other party counted the record of destroying more than 20,000 enemies in the first battle of Gubeikou on himself, and Commander Zhang was still a little unbearable, and hurriedly said: "Commander Sun has a good reputation. The first battle of Gubeikou was able to achieve such a record, one relied on the soldiers under his command to use their lives, the second relied on the timely arrival of reinforcements, and the third relied on the cavalry brigade led by the 35th master to copy the enemy's rear road. I, Zhang Zheng, just did my part, and the credit may be somewhat, but compared with those comrades-in-arms who spilled blood before the pass and even threw their lives there, Zhang's little credit is really not worth mentioning. Not to mention the side, just say that the brother Weng Zhong left more blood in Gubeikou Pass than so. ”

As he spoke, Zhang Zheng patted his good brother Weng Zhong on the shoulder. And Weng Zhong grinned and said, "Isn't the deputy battalion commander joking with me Weng Zhong?" Others don't know, you don't know what happened to the arrow in my arm in the first place. Deputy Battalion Commander of the First Battle of Gubeikou, your credit is really there, and no one can deny it. If you hadn't been at the forefront of the battle, the brothers would not have risked their lives to hold out until reinforcements arrived. Besides, if you don't have real merit, how can the above gentlemen give you a first-class merit, give you a second-class Baoding medal, and promote you to be the deputy battalion commander and company commander of our 'Wolf Tooth Battalion'. ”…,

Seeing that Weng Zhong was getting more and more excited the more he spoke, and there was a great deal of detail about his achievements in Gubeikou from beginning to end, Zhang Zheng hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Brother, now that the enemy is present, our first task is to defend Taiyuan City." As for my glorious deeds, brothers, I can wait until I have repelled the Zhou army before I slowly tell Commander Sun and the other brothers. ”

After listening to Zhang Zheng's reminder, Weng Zhong also realized that he was a little far from the topic, and immediately stopped publicizing his brother's brilliant achievements, and nodded: "What the deputy battalion commander said is that Weng Zhong is a little carried away. According to the deputy battalion commander, how should we deal with it, we can't just do it and watch Zhou Jun show off his might there, and there is no reaction at all, right? ”

Zhang Zheng shook his head when he heard this, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he said, "Of course we can't be indifferent. Since the monarchs and ministers of Zhou have generously sent these many live targets to our eyes, if we don't fulfill his 'good intentions', wouldn't it be too bad to give face to the monarchs and ministers of Zhou. Besides, if we remain unmoved, this feint attack force of the Zhou army is likely to pretend to be a real one, turn a feint attack into a real attack, and take advantage of our hesitation to transfer troops to the city to suddenly launch an attack on the city. When the time comes, there will only be more than 100 soldiers on our city, so how can we defend the walls of this several miles without losing them? ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Zheng looked at the size of the reinforced concrete observation post he was in, and then turned his head to the Commander Sun and said, "Commander Sun is tired to go down to the city and fetch a hundred hard crossbows. Sometime to see how many soldiers need to die, he Chai Rong will order the 'Shenji Army' to fire again and continue to bombard the head of Taiyuan City. ”