Chapter 80 is carefully planned
On the night of the third day, Du Hongcheng ordered the third echelon to be on standby at any time and carefully guard against the enemy from robbing the camp.
This time, Du Hongcheng was obviously overly worried and spent the night peacefully.
Early in the morning of the fourth day, Du Hongcheng raised his account.
"Where is the grain officer?"
A person stood up in the account, clasped his hands into fists and said, "General, our army's food and grass are now enough to support half a month." ”
"Okay" Du Hongcheng waved his hand expressionlessly and motioned for him to sit down.
"Generals, after yesterday's battle, what is the best plan for attacking the city?"
Everyone under Du Hongcheng looked at each other, and no one spoke for a while.
Seeing this scene, Du Hongcheng's gaze swept over the faces of everyone in the tent. It's just that everyone didn't dare to look at him, retracted their gaze as if they were electrocuted, lowered their heads, and waited for Du Hongcheng to reprimand.
"Alas. Du Hongcheng sighed lightly
Is this really the case? Du Hongcheng secretly thought in his heart that in this small world, everything can only be relied on himself.
The so-called your adjutants, generals, etc., all your subordinates can only act according to their own strategies, and have almost no autonomy, thinking about this, Du Hongcheng can only smile bitterly twice and let everyone in the tent leave.
Staying alone in the tent, Du Hongcheng's eyebrows were almost twisted together, and the battle situation was still not very optimistic.
He roughly calculated the losses of the enemy and the enemy, and the losses of our army were about 700 men, and the enemy's losses would not exceed 1,000.
Although it seems that our army won a small victory, it did not gain an inch of land, but consumed its combat power in vain, and what is even more desperate is that even if it is converted according to this ratio, the result obtained is that Du Hongcheng's army is the first to run out.
Such an offensive could not be continued, and Du Hongcheng first determined this policy.
You can't attack by force, you can only outwit it, but there has been no news from the Tanma sent by Du Hongcheng for two days. This made Du Hongcheng have to wonder if they had been captured by the enemy.
Surprise attacks aside, Du Hongcheng still needs to prepare other siege methods and dig tunnels? This is a good choice, but it takes too long, and Du Hongcheng's troops only have fifteen days left with food and grass, and it is too difficult to dig through.
Feints and sneak attacks? Unrealistic. The risk of the whole army attacking the cracks in the city wall is too great.
Du Hongcheng scratched his head, no matter how he designed, there seemed to be all kinds of obstacles in front of him.
"Someone, prepare the horse!" Du Hongcheng ordered.
Not long after, a sergeant brought a horse, and Du Hongcheng turned over his horse and left the camp.
He went out of the camp in civilian clothes this time and went to the city to carefully investigate, there were high mountains on both sides of the city, Du Hongcheng looked up at the mountain peak thoughtfully.
He turned his horse's head and ran up the hill. The mountain road was rugged, and the horses were not good, so Du Hongcheng dismounted and tied the horses to the trees in the mountains, and continued on foot. He drew the sword he was carrying, cut through the thorns, and moved forward.
After walking for about ten minutes, Du Hongcheng came to a mountain pass, standing at the mountain pass, he looked down, and the mountain just overlooked the city. Du Hongcheng continued to walk forward, behind the city was a canyon, continuous mountains, the army could not pass, and if you wanted to go down the mountain, you need to find another way.
This also cut off Du Hongcheng's idea of preparing for a group of troops to attack from the rear of the city. However, this city is built on the mountain, and there are Jedi on both sides of the city, but in this Jedi, Du Hongcheng found a way to live, such a mountain pass does not know whether it exists on the opposite mountain, if you can attack the city from between the two mountains, it will be absolutely devastating!
Du Hongcheng thought about it while leading his horse down the mountain, preparing to go to another mountain to find out, but the difficulty of climbing the other mountain that gave him a headache was actually more difficult than the previous one!
Du Hongcheng didn't go up after wasting his strength, he fortunately gave up, people can't be too greedy, and it's already very good to find a place. Thinking of this, Du Hongcheng was relieved for a while, there is no endless road!
He rode quickly back to the camp, and just as he was able to report that they had found a pass on the other side of the mountain, but it was too rough for the horse to fall to his death, and it took three days in a row. Du Hongcheng was very satisfied and motioned for them to go down and rest. But as soon as he turned his face, he ordered his guards to kill all the six soldiers who had gone out to explore the road in the past three days.
It may be true that he didn't return for three days, because of the loss of the war horse, but Du Hongcheng didn't want to believe it, and he couldn't believe it, he didn't want to take this risk!
"Someone. Du Hongcheng's deep voice sounded in the tent.
A short time later, the leader of the guards walked in.
"Are all the people done?" Du Hongcheng asked.
"Yes, sir. Not a single live mouth. ”
"Well done, take people to the place they say they say and find out if there is a place. ”
"Commanded. The chief withdrew.
"Order!" the guard outside the door walked in, kneeling on one knee and waiting for Du Hongcheng's next step.
"Order all armies to prepare all torches, dry firewood, and dry oil within three days, and there shall be no mistake. ”
"No!"
The soldiers outside the gate quickly ran to the camps and began to convey Du Hongcheng's orders.
Du Hongcheng began to plan an attack.
According to his plan, he first sent two hundred men to the mountains to prepare, ready to throw torches or wood into the city. After that, large forces pressed in, attacked the city, and attracted the attention of the enemy army. The third step is to take advantage of the civil strife in the city and rush into the city!
This is the outline of Du Hongcheng's plan. In real implementation, there are still many details to deal with.
On the fifth day, Du Hongcheng's entire army was preparing dry firewood, torches, and dry oil. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Du Hongcheng inspected the entire unit. I have to say that the master of this small world is still a conscience, and the army assigned to Du Hongcheng is finally a mighty division, although the soldiers can't be one for a hundred, but it is still possible to exert the strength of one block and two in a desperate situation.
On the sixth day, the leader of the guards returned, and he brought back the news that Du Hongcheng was looking forward to, and there was also a mountain pass on the opposite mountain road, but it was not easy to go up the mountain. Although it was not easy to climb the mountain, as long as there was a mountain pass, this news made Du Hongcheng very excited, and he immediately changed the plan to send two hundred additional soldiers to climb the mountain.
On the seventh and eighth days, Du Hongcheng reorganized the army, and first divided 400 soldiers to carry out the mountaineering strategy. The two pairs of soldiers were divided into a special group. After that, the remaining three thousand nine hundred sergeants were divided into four groups, three groups of one thousand, and one group of nine hundred. After the army is put in order. Du Hongcheng began to prepare for a detailed and careful plan. And the army has also carried out repeated drills.
The ninth day also passed relatively uneventfully, and these days the army has been reorganizing armaments and inspecting ordnance. Du Hongcheng also personally participated in it, for fear that the army would have a slight mistake in the preparation.
After the tenth day, the horses were no longer well supplied due to the gradual reduction of grain and grass.
On the 11th day, more than 10 horses were slaughtered in the army, on the one hand, to relieve the shortage of food and grass in the army, and on the other hand, to improve the food for the soldiers, after all, it is very necessary to boost the morale of the soldiers in the current war.
On the twelfth day, except for the necessary soldiers on duty, the army rested collectively in order to be better prepared for the big battle.
On the fourteenth day, the whole army carried out its final armament rearmament.
On the night of the fifteenth day, Du Hongcheng set up a high platform in the camp, and he addressed the whole army: "Brothers, soldiers, tonight we will fight the enemy to the death! We have run out of food and grass, and if we want to get up tomorrow morning and have something to eat, we must go into the city, and we have no way out! For the sake of a better tomorrow! Let us kill tonight!! and go into the city with me!"
"Kill!" responded to Du Hongcheng with the same tone from more than 4,000 soldiers!
It was about early in the morning, Du Hongcheng looked at the moon, which was already a little declining, and behind him, 3,900 soldiers were quietly moving towards the city not far away.
"Stop!" Du Hongcheng snorted.
The soldier behind him stopped. Soon a group of soldiers, 900 men, stepped forward. Behind the formation, five catapults and boulders were slowly pushed over, and the boulders were being quickly assembled.
Du Hongcheng's party had reached a distance of less than five hundred steps from the city at this moment, and he looked anxiously at the top of the mountain on both sides of the city, unable to take his eyes off it.
Why hasn't the fire been lit yet? Could it be that something has gone wrong? Several thoughts flowed through Du Hongcheng's mind at once: Could it be that his plan had been revealed? Could it be that the sergeant had mutinied? Could it be that there was a mistake in climbing the mountain at night? Could it be that the mountain pass was too high and the torches were not easy to ignite!?
Damn! Du Hongcheng was upset, he felt that everything was out of his control!
This feeling made him angry, but also doubly helpless, without his divine sense, he was no different from a mortal, and he really couldn't clearly grasp every bit of movement on the battlefield.
Wait, Du Hongcheng comforted himself, maybe it's just that the soldiers of the army have encountered some minor troubles, just wait for a while.
In the entanglement of Du Hongcheng's contradictions, the fire has not been lit as promised, and Du Hongcheng's heart has become more and more anxious. The position of the moon has changed and changed, Du Hongcheng secretly estimated, about an hour has passed, and the soldiers who climbed the mountain have appeared a lot earlier than them, according to the time, they have already been in place at this moment, why haven't they responded so far!
Du Hongcheng thought about it secretly, after about an hour, if there was still no response, he ordered an attack, and took advantage of the time when the army attacked, and went to the Ziyun Cave to ask Yao Bin to help destroy this small world!
Although Du Hongcheng was unwilling, but the matter had come to this point, he had tried his best, and there was really no other way to break through the city.
Time passed minute by minute, and on this cold night, Du Hongcheng's forehead was actually sweating.
As he waited, his gaze almost pierced through the rocks of the two mountains.
Suddenly, a tiny red dot appeared in Du Hongcheng's line of sight. Soon this red dot became the only one in Du Hongcheng's eyes.
His voice that had been suppressed for a long time was already a little hoarse.
"Attack !!" As he spoke, five boulders were thrown from the trebuchet into the city.
Airplanes!!!
The bell rang quickly in the city.
"Enemy Attack !!"
As the boulder fell, the first group of soldiers rushed up and rushed towards the city, and the torches that fell from the sky quickly burned the city into a fireball.
Du Hongcheng stood in place and looked at this scene, smiling slightly, the big thing has been done!!