Chapter Fifty-Six: The Vanishing Army
Zheng Fan returned to the tent he was in, he really wanted to take a shower at this time, but the army really did not have such conditions, and now was not the time to be poor.
Siniang put Zheng Fan's head on her lap, helped with the massage, and did the envoy's business, the blind man had already said it.
For Siniang, as long as the person is not dead, there is no problem, anyway, how can everyone play is not fun?
Therefore, she did not cry like those traditional women and said that the Lord must not be in danger next time.
The temper of the lord, Siniang is clear, the nature of men is often revealed vividly when playing with needles.
She knew that if she had a choice, the Lord would not be inclined to take risks, and the Lord still spared his life, but there was really nothing he could do about the military order.
Liang Cheng came in, Zheng Fan was still lying on Siniang's lap, and Liang Cheng was already surprised by this scene.
"Lord."
Zheng Fan opened his eyes and asked:
"How's the siege equipment going?"
Liang Cheng shook his head and said: "It's just a day's work, even if the levy drives out a lot of cadres to do hard labor, but it also creates some ladders, and collects some weapons left by the previous cadres or something." ”
Siege is already a difficult task, and it is extremely important to prepare in advance, but at the moment, the time is too rushed, and there is no time to prepare for too many tools that can be used in siege warfare.
Similar to the rushing cart and the arrow tower, including the cannon cart, there is no sign of it.
The walls of Shangjing City are extremely high, and there are many guards inside, although the morale is low, but after all, the people are defending the city, and the psychological advantage is enough to soothe the original panic.
Zheng Fan sighed, perhaps, as Li Fusheng said before, he knew that there was no result, but he fought purely for the sake of fighting.
You can't look at such a slippery city wall, and then keep the same slippery city wall.
The dog ran to a strange place and knew how to pee and mark it.
"Okay, got it, you can go down and rest too." Zheng Fan said.
In the face of such a situation, the role that individuals or small groups can play is really not much.
Rao is Zheng Fan and the demon kings around him, in fact, all he can do is to stand by and watch, if he insists on doing one more thing, it is to pray that Li Fusheng will not take his men and horses over tomorrow as a vanguard army.
"Rest, Lord, for the day is getting bright." Siniang said.
Zheng Fan obediently closed his eyes.
At this moment, a group of cavalry rode from the west wind ferry and went straight into the barracks, waking up Li Fusheng, who planned to squint for a while to accumulate a little more vitality for the dawn siege.
In the Great Tent,
Faced with the letter that was delivered to him,
Li Fusheng scolded,
Then he smashed the table in the big tent with one palm.
Of course, Zheng Fan didn't know about this matter, when the horn sounded in the army, Zheng Fan hesitated between asking for sick leave, and then directly handed over the command of his men to Liang Cheng, and he went directly to the Chinese army to find Li Fusheng.
Since the impact of the turtle shrinking in the barracks is not very good, then simply stand by Li Fusheng's side, Li Fusheng's martial arts, Zheng Fan can probably guess some, it may not be the third grade, but the appearance of the fourth or fifth grade should be there, the key battlefield fighting, many times pay attention to an efficiency and adapt measures to local conditions, unlike the two sides in the ring, it is impossible to show what they have learned, so it is difficult to directly see what the other party is.
Even those veterans of the battlefield who did not enter the product, they may have killed many more people than the masters in the chaotic battle, and at the same time, they have a much more chance of surviving than those masters.
But no matter what, stay by Li Fusheng's side, at least don't be afraid that girl will come to you.
Regarding the matter of thyme, Li Fusheng also heard Zheng Fan say it yesterday, and when he saw that Zheng Fan came directly to him to report the military situation, Li Fusheng just smiled.
Yesterday, I let my family enter the city as a Yan envoy, and I almost died in the city, so it's impossible for people to take risks again today.
Moreover, Zheng Fan relied on the demon kings under his command to help cheat, and swiped a lot of impression points on Li Fusheng and the two marquises, and it should be protected.
It's just that Zheng Fan was a little surprised that when the Zhenbei Army set up a formation, Zheng Fan didn't see the difference between the front and rear armies, and even the big guys were riding on horses.
In this era, generally speaking, the quality of cavalry itself is higher than that of infantry, after all, the cost of training and cultivation is not the same.
The scene of the Zhenbei Army dismounting and foot fighting can still suppress the cadre army, and Zheng Fan has seen it many times all the way south.
Zheng Fan has been learning how to fight, so he really can't understand what kind of snake skin he is playing with now.
Siege armor is not allowed to rest at this time?
Everyone is riding on horses, this is determined that the city wall of the capital is a tofu scum project, so do you plan to ride a horse directly to knock the city gate open?
Li Fusheng turned his head, glanced at Zheng Fan, and bowed slightly.
"............" Zheng Fan.
Zheng Fan also immediately made a clear look.
Li Fusheng sighed and nodded again.
Zheng Fan also raised his head and let out a wrenched sigh, as if he felt the same way.
Actually, I didn't understand anything at all.
Liang Cheng was not around at this time, and no one could hand the cheat sheet.
And at this time, there were suddenly bursts of cheers from the walls of Shangjing, first one piece, and then one piece after another chanting in unison:
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"
Zheng Fan raised his head and looked up, and sure enough, a golden sword appeared on the city wall.
This means that the Emperor has come to the city wall in person.
The superior, or the emperor, personally appeared on the city wall, which was quite a huge morale boost for the cadres.
Especially at the moment, the only thing that the Yan army hopes for is not to kill all the cadres defending the city through siege warfare, but to make the cadres collapse by themselves through this pressure.
In any case, there are too many examples of self-collapse of the cadre army, and there is always a dream.
But the appearance of the Emperor can be said to have almost shattered this possibility.
Zheng Fan secretly turned his head to look at Li Fusheng, and found that Li Fusheng's face did not have any special emotional fluctuations, and Li Fusheng today was a little strange in his mood.
Less manic, less arrogant, too calm.
Zheng Fan had a pet in his previous life, and today Li Fusheng feels like he took the pet dog in the studio to cut off the eggs.
On the city walls,
Zhao Guanjia, who was dressed in a dragon robe, smiled as he walked forward, and at the same time stopped from time to time to greet some soldiers.
There is no possibility that the superior will not buy people's hearts and skills, it is just that they are too lazy to do it.
The soldiers and soldiers began to cheer one by one as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and they couldn't wait for the Yan people to attack the city immediately at this time, so that the officials could see their own martial arts!
Thyme Lan walked behind the Qianhuang, her gaze wandering in the phalanx of the Yan army under the city from time to time.
finally
Zhao Guan's family walked up to the city tower and sat down on the platform of the city tower, where the wine was already prepared.
These were all greeted in advance, and it was confirmed that the Yan people did not have a cannon cart before they dared to sit here in such a grand manner.
What made Zhao Guan's family slightly dissatisfied was that
Only tea was placed here, not a chessboard,
Just like an actor who has extremely high standards for his acting skills, even the slightest flaw makes him feel very unhappy.
The stage of both sides is set up,
The horns are also in place,
below
The gong that should be beaten, the drumming that should be beaten.
Li Fusheng waved his arm,
The flag men in the rear immediately reacted and conveyed the order of the commander-in-chief.
The next moment,
From both sides of the Yan army's formation, a large number of dry people were driven forward, they were holding swords and spears in their hands, and they were wearing their original clothes.
Zheng Fan pursed his lips, this situation, the blind man had already reminded himself, using the lives of the dry people to fill the moat to consume the dry people's defending materials is a common method on the battlefield.
The cadres on the city wall were in an uproar and began to scold the Yan people for being shameless.
Emperor Qian, who was sitting there watching the battle, immediately turned gloomy when he saw that it was actually his own people who were swarming in.
"Shoot the arrows!"
"Shoot the arrows!"
The defenders of the city did not have the mercy of a woman, and when they found that the people below were already erecting ladders, they immediately gave the order to attack.
For a moment, the arrows fell like locusts, and the people below suffered heavy casualties.
They instinctively wanted to retreat, but the Yan knights roaming around the periphery immediately drove them back.
Followed by
The second wave of the people of Gyeonggi who were used to fill the pit were driven up.
"Ahem........."
Zheng Fan couldn't help coughing twice, this scene was a bit too tragic, after all, he still couldn't stand it, but he was also trying his best to restrain his reaction.
The people who can live in the land of Gyeonggi must have a great relationship with this upper capital, and even many of the families of the defenders of the Qianguo country live outside the city, and for a while, the shouting and scolding on the city wall came and went, and many guards were shouting tears while shooting arrows downward.
Li Fusheng just closed his eyes slightly, his fingertips tapped lightly on the saddle, yes, he was enjoying the moment, he didn't have the slightest discomfort.
Although Zheng Fan knew that as a general, he had to be cold-blooded enough, but he still felt a little smacked when he saw Li Fusheng enjoying himself.
This chief military officer, who has long said that he will stop the killing in his heart when he needs to, is not bluffing.
The next group of Qianguo people who were driven forward didn't even have knives and guns, so they could only pick up the knives and guns around the dead people in front, and the ladder had already been destroyed.
On the city wall, Emperor Qianhuang had already gotten up and left, he came here to see his army fighting with the Yan people, but the scene in front of him made him, the emperor, very undignified.
Because the people under the city are also his people, this scene is tantamount to slapping him in the face.
When I saw Jin Wu Xuan leave from the city wall,
Li Fusheng smiled slightly,
It seems that he has just finished listening to a concert, and he was immersed in art before.
"Ah.........h
Li Fusheng yawned,
made a gesture of returning his hand,
The herald behind him quickly conveyed the order,
forthwith
The Yan army began to collect its troops.
From beginning to end, there was no one in the phalanx formed by the Yan people who tried to rush up to take the city, everyone watched from the sidelines, and then when they arrived at the point, they turned back to the camp together.
After returning to the camp, Li Fusheng went directly into his big tent, and at the same time ordered that unless there was a military situation in Qianguo, no one should be seen, and no one here, including Zheng Fan.
Zheng Shoubei returned to the camp where he was located, and the big guys were already cooking in the pot.
The demon kings sit together,
Xue San spoke first:
"Are you going to do it today?"
The blind man didn't answer, and Liang Cheng didn't answer either, because they didn't know either.
"He's temporarily changed." Zheng Fan said.
Li Fusheng, who swore last night that he would attack the city, and might even personally lead the vanguard army to storm the city wall, seemed extremely quiet and peaceful today.
There must be some factor that prompted Li Fusheng's transformation today.
The blind man finally spoke;
"Looks like we're going to withdraw our troops."
Liang Cheng shook his head and retorted:
"If the troops are to be withdrawn, a notice must have been issued at this time, but it is not yet, which proves that the army will continue to be stationed here tomorrow."
The dinner ended in this strange atmosphere, and in fact, there must be many people who were puzzled by what happened on the battlefield today.
Even the cadres and generals in the city will wonder what kind of Yan people are playing.
night
The blind man walked to the tent where Liang Cheng was, and at the same time, he was a little dissatisfied:
"I called you over, why did you want me to come?"
Liang Cheng said:
"Isn't that afraid that you'll be inconvenient there?"
The blind man and the little daughter-in-law now live in a tent.
"Huh."
The mind power lifted the curtain, revealing Ah Ming inside, and the blind man said:
"I'm also afraid that it will be inconvenient for the two of you."
Liang Cheng and Ah Ming live in a tent.
The blind man leaned over and entered the tent.
Liang Cheng picked up the water bladder and prepared to pour water for the blind man to drink.
The blind man hurriedly waved his hand and said:
"Don't, don't, I don't drink your water."
"It's water." Liang Cheng said.
"Don't drink, don't drink."
God knows what this bladder was in before.
"What's the matter?" Liang Cheng asked.
The blind man took out a letter from his bosom and said:
"This is a letter sent by Wen Sutong."
"He can actually give it away."
Now that the army is in chaos, I want to send a letter over, Nandou is not small.
"When I left, I left him with two clever men."
Since he is from Cuiliu Castle, even if he meets Yan Jun on the way to deliver the letter, there will be nothing wrong.
"However, if two people deliver a letter together, one folds."
The price of this letter is really large.
This is also a matter of no choice, at any time, the smooth flow of information channels is an extremely important thing, even if it is to sacrifice a few knights for this, the blind man feels that it is worth it.
"What does the letter say?" Liang Cheng asked.
"Talking about the situation in Chuzhou City, the basic situation is calm, according to what the Lord said, Emperor Qianhuang should indeed have issued a decree to prohibit the trilateral army from returning to help, so Chuzhou City is still in our hands, Wen Sutong and them, and they are still steadily doing the puppet army."
"Hmm."
"However, one thing that struck me as strange was that at the end of the letter, there was one more thing to add."
"Say."
"Wen Sutong has sent people to contact the surrounding areas to persuade the defenders of other cities in Chu County to surrender or something, but with little effect."
"Expected."
Although Chujun was trampled by the Yan army, it was still far from the rumor, after all, the soldiers and horses on the three sides of the Qianguo State had not returned, according to the original plan, as long as the soldiers and horses of the three sides of the Qianguo were eaten, then the officials in the north of the Qianren would be desperate, so except for a few staunch factions, the rest would either flee to the south or surrender directly to Dayan.
"Wen Sutong is an old fox, he didn't say it thoroughly, but I can see what he means."
"Needless to say, anyway, your grandfather, grandson and son-in-law are both foxes."
The blind man directly skipped Liang Cheng's ridicule,
Opening:
In the letter, he said that in addition to Chuzhou City, that is, the route where our troops and horses passed, there were also several towns in the west of Chujun County that had been attacked by our Yan army, and the Yan army continued to go south after supplying supplies, grain and grass here."
Hearing this, Liang Cheng's face suddenly became serious, obviously, he realized the information hidden here.
"That way, inferred from the direction of the march, it should be Li Bao's troops."
Liang Cheng nodded and said, "It's indeed them, so, here's the problem." ”
"Yes, here's the problem, Wen Sutong, as a descendant, didn't dare to blatantly ask about our military planning intentions, so he could only mention some vaguely in this way, but he did us a great favor."
"Yes, a reassuring pill."
Next to him, Ah Ming, who had been sitting in the tent and had been pretending to sleep, was a little dissatisfied and said:
"Hey, I'm just an outsider in the tent, what's the point of you talking and playing dumb riddles?"
Liang Cheng turned his head to look at Ah Ming, pointed to the letter in the blind man's hand, and said:
"The meaning is very simple, that is, the 200,000 main forces led by the Marquis of Zhenbei and the Jingnan Army are gone."
"Gone?" Ah Ming was a little puzzled, and subconsciously said, "It should be hidden, right?" ”
"Chujun is basically a plain, even mountains are rare, 200,000 troops, people plus horses, hundreds of thousands of living creatures, how can it be completely hidden.
Before, when we entered Chujun, Li Fusheng's team was separated from the main force, and then we also knew that another group was heading south like us, that is, Li Bao's team.
But the problem is that after leaving Chujun, these two teams are fighting each other, and the main force has not appeared. ”
"Hey, didn't you say before that you were hiding there and waiting for reinforcements?"
Liang Cheng shook his head and said:
"But there is a problem, you must know that the army of 200,000, plus so many war horses, people eat horses and chew, and the daily consumption of grain and grass is an astronomical amount.
Judging from Wen Sutong's letter, in the entire Chu County, except for us and Li Bao, the two soldiers and horses who broke through the town in order to obtain supplies, there was no such situation in other parts of Chu County. ”
Ah Ming was silent.
The blind man licked his lips and said, "Interesting, interesting." ”
"It's really interesting, Emperor Qianhuang saw through Great Yan's plan early on, so from the very beginning, he issued an order to the three sides to prohibit a single soldier from going south, intending to trap the cavalry group of Yan State in this way.
But in the end, from beginning to end, only Li Fusheng's half-town soldiers and horses plus Li Bao's half-town soldiers and horses, adding up, may only be 60,000 horses.
And the main force of 200,000 iron cavalry led by the Marquis of Zhenbei and the Marquis of Jingnan,
still
Disappeared ......"