Chapter 545: Strategies for Exhausting Soldiers

It is said that after Zhuge Liang, who was stationed in Wuzhang Plain, received Li Yunfei's news, he immediately began to divide his troops with Gao Shun, and Gao Shun led 100,000 troops to garrison in Wuzhang Plain.

Zhuge Liang himself took more than 100,000 elite soldiers, set off from Wuzhangyuan, and went all the way north to directly attack Liangzhou. Since Ma Teng and Ma Chao of Xiliang both participated in the alliance, Liangzhou is actually quite empty, and now Han Sui is in charge, and the number of troops is only fifty or sixty thousand, of course, he can't play Zhuge Liang, who is strong and strong.

Originally, that guy still wanted to hold on to the city, but Zhuge Liang played a series of offensive strategies, which led to a rebellion within the Xiliang army, which collapsed, and Han Sui was also captured alive.

After that guy was arrested, he didn't need to be persuaded to surrender, he surrendered first, in order to show his heart, he also became a very competent leader of the party, and he took the lead as a pioneer, of course, this is a gift to the new master, hoping to have a good background in the future.

Under the leadership of Han Sui, who knew the roots, he took the entire territory of Liangzhou in just half a month, and after successfully garrisoning the troops at Jiayuguan in Jiuquan County, he temporarily stopped the pace of continuing to advance westward. Instead, according to the strategy formulated by Li Yunfei at the beginning, he must first go east directly inside the country, to try to conquer those Nanhun tribes that have been basically sinicized, and completely eliminate all the security risks within the Great Wall......

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"Lord, I'm back again." There was a loud cry from Hu Yi outside the camp tent, and he was still very excited to return to the north again, bringing tens of thousands of troops.

"Why did you come back so soon, the war in the south is over?"

"Almost, Cao Cao is finished, that guy really took the lead and not only attacked Yuan Shao's three sons, but also Ma Teng and Gongsun Kang by the way, and now they are both defeated, and they don't need us to beat them at all."

"Isn't Cao Cao dead?"

"Not yet, but it's almost there, but the three sons of Ma Teng and Yuan Shao all died because of their injuries!"

“…… Why didn't Xu Shu take advantage of the situation to attack? It stands to reason that they took advantage of the situation to launch an attack after civil strife, and it should be easy to take it. ”

"That's what I asked at the time, but Lord Xu said that Liu Xie is still alive and still in Cao Cao's hands, and Lord Xu doesn't want the lord to have the notoriety of killing the monarch."

"No matter how big it is, anyone in the army can die."

"That's right, I said the same thing at the time, but Lord Xu said that he had watched the sky at night, and Cao Cao would not live for half a month at most, so it was better to wait."

"It's really good at, forget it, he's in charge of the battle."

"Lord, I heard that Zhuge kid has conquered Xiliang, and now he has begun to attack the southern Xiongnu tribes?" Hu Yi's age is actually twenty and the same age as Zhuge Liang, but he is the eldest of the seventy-two people that Li Yunfei focuses on cultivating, so seeing Zhuge Liang's rapid rise, of course, he is also a little anxious, he is the boss of the lord's own disciples, if he can't compare to Zhuge Liang's exploits, it won't be too embarrassing for the lord......

"Yes, you came back just in time, I asked you 60,000 elite soldiers to recover the state, and then prevent the Southern Xiongnu from entering the territory of the state to make trouble, can you be confident?"

If Zhuge Liang attacks from the west, those Xiongnu tribes, of course, can't stop it head-on, but the means of escape of the Hun cavalry are quite powerful, and it is their fine tradition to run if they can't beat it......

"No problem at all...... But can't I attack the Huns? ”

"Since you are the commander of an army, of course you can do this kind of thing by yourself, everything depends on the specific situation, if it is feasible, attack, if it is not feasible, defend, don't do things that you are not sure of."

"Understood, thank you for your trust." With Li Yunfei's permission, Hu Yi was relieved.

"Thank you, by the way, I heard that King Zuo Xian of the Southern Huns robbed Cai Yan, the talented daughter of our Han family, if you have the opportunity, you will rescue people." Since I remembered that there was such a thing, and the Xiongnu's Zuoxian King seemed to be close to the state, so I mentioned it by the way. Li Yunfei's words made Hu Yi stunned for a moment, but he immediately realized it.

“…… Understood, guaranteed to complete the task! ”

"Don't think crooked, you kid, you're really going to save people, don't say that you rob me of a woman, otherwise I won't be able to spare you!" Last time, it was this guy who owed, saying that he went to Yecheng to rob a woman for himself, which made everyone know, but he didn't grab it, but he was innocently saddled with a pervert name.

"Understand, understand, the last general must act in secret, and promise not to let others know!" Hu Yi promised very seriously, and hurriedly exited the room after speaking, and hurriedly led the troops to brush up the credit, thirty-six that kid became a general of the expedition all of a sudden, and now he is fully responsible for the expedition to Liaodong, and he is also a general of the expedition to the west.

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Lu Lingqi, who stayed in the barracks for a few days, and the foot trainer finally returned to the south satisfied, Lu Lingqi was excited to go back to recruit troops and prepare to go south to conquer Baiyue, and the foot trainer also happily went back and waited for the master to return triumphantly and accept himself.

Li Yunfei also began to look around the terrain to build engineering equipment, preparing to storm this Beiping City, since Zhuge Liang has completely done Xiliang, and now he is ready to get rid of those Southern Xiongnu tribes who have been initially sinicized, then he must finish Beiping City as soon as possible, and provide more troops to Huyi as soon as possible.

The 60,000 horses in the past with the tiger area, it is no problem to subdue and annex the state, but it is far from enough to put pressure on the Xiongnu, the southern Xiongnu tribe is divided into four kings, each with 70,000 or 80,000 cavalry. is extremely good at guerrilla warfare, so Huyi's tens of thousands of horses can defeat the Hun cavalry in the front, but they will never be annihilated.

According to the information that has been mastered so far, the food reserves in Beiping City are still quite sufficient, at least it can support more than half a year, and the most important thing is that the city has also imitated the bed crossbow, although the performance is not as good as the bed crossbow produced by itself, and the number is quite rare, but I saw with my own eyes that the arrows shot by the bed crossbow reached more than 600 meters away, so it is still quite a threat to the siege team, and it is really inappropriate if it drags on further.

A watchtower about 20 meters high was quickly built on a small hillside five miles outside the city of Beiping, of course, this thing was made to check the specific situation in the city of Beiping, and there were two telescopes sent over, both of which were monoculars, one was held and the other was a ten-fold telescope, and the other was a thirty-fold telescope placed on a tripod.

Li Yunfei used the thirty-fold telescope to carefully observe the specific defense situation on the city wall, and Xiao Qiao also took the ten-fold telescope to observe around, but looking at her, she should look fresh and lively.

There are a total of ten bed crossbows on the south city wall, and nearly thirty bed crossbows are also deployed on the one-kilometer-wide city wall, which are all wound with a winch, not a rocker, so the speed of winding will be much slower, and only one arrow can be fired in a minute, and those three bows are all formal loaded. I think I haven't figured out why the third bow is reversed, so the speed of the arrows fired by the counterfeit three-bow bed crossbow will be relatively slow and similar to ordinary arrows, but the arrows are heavier, and the distance at that time is definitely not more than a kilometer, and I think that more than 600 meters last time is already the limit distance.

Although it was besieged, the morale of the army did not seem to be bad, and there was no sign of collapse. However, one thing is certain, the discord plan should have worked, because there was no Yuan Jun on the city wall, and Zhang Liao had not been up to the city gate tower for several days......

"The general's telescope is really useful, and everyone in the city can see it clearly."

"Of course, this telescope is the equivalent of pulling things in 10 times, but you see something valuable?"

"Most of the Yuan army, most of the tens of thousands of Yuan troops have gathered together, and it seems that the Cao army has a disagreement, it seems that the general's discord plan has worked."

“…… Aren't you watching the hilarity? ”

"It's very lively, Beiping City, which has less than 30,000 households, is crammed into nearly 400,000 people, can it not be lively."

"Okay, then may I ask Xiao Qiao Genius, can you see how many people Yuan Jun and Cao Jun have?"

"Well, I can't see it, but I can guess that the Cao army should be more than thirty percent more than the Yuan army, and if the general attacks the city, then the Yuan army is very likely to surrender!"

"So, it's easy to storm up?"

"Of course, as long as the large burst arrow propelled by that gunpowder is used to blow up the city gate, everyone will rush up to defeat Cao's army."

"Well, what you said is simple and clear, but that thing is too poor, and it needs to be improved before it can be used, otherwise it will harm innocent people!"

It was very large and had a relatively long range, much farther than a bed crossbow, enough to fly two kilometers, but it was really not very accurate, and there was a difference of forty or fifty meters between the point of launching a bomb at a distance of one kilometer. And it's also under the invitation of my own calibration, if you let someone else go to order, God knows how it will fly there.

"If the general wants to attack the city, it is impossible to let the ordinary people in the city not be affected, as long as the general can do it without plundering after breaking the city." Xiao Qiao can see it, in her opinion, if she can end this troubled world as soon as possible and make the world peaceful as soon as possible, it is worth paying some price, otherwise it will only kill more people by fighting around.

Of course, Li Yunfei knows what Xiao Qiao said, as the saying goes, benevolence does not lead troops, and righteousness does not do Jia, so sometimes he can lead soldiers to fight, and he can really be ruthless, as a commander, what he can do is to avoid indiscriminate killing of innocents as much as possible, rectify military discipline as much as possible, and prevent his soldiers from looting, and eliminate those who take advantage of the fire as soon as possible after taking the city, which can be regarded as a teacher of benevolence and righteousness.

Of course, it would be best if you could persuade him to surrender, but this Cao Cao's base camp, then Xiahoudun is a dead brain, and a group of generals with him are also dead brains, full of sworn allegiance, and it is completely oil and salt that does not enter, and it is really impossible to persuade him, so he can only fight.

"The thirty-ninth order goes down, starting from today in the middle of every night, our army will be divided into four columns, feint in batches, and launch a tired strategy against that Beiping City, and launch a general attack in three days!"

"No!"

"Wait, let the soldiers and horses of the feint attack also prepare for the general attack, maybe the feint attack may turn into a general attack at any time!" Li Yunfei was really a little skeptical that there would be some unexpected gains in the city of his feint, because Yuan Jun and Cao Jun in the city were very jealous of each other.

"No!"