Section 156 Heavy siege of the city
Shen Mu's remarks made Miao Bokang a little incredulous! This is obviously blowing a north wind, how can it turn to a south wind? This god is not your family, you can blow it as you say!
Yin Yue saw Shen Mu's promise, and couldn't help but doubt: "Shen Mu, you have thought clearly, you can't joke in the barracks." ”
Shen Mu said: "When did I joke! I will do it if I can trust it, but if I believe it, you can continue to consume it like this!"
Yin Yue turned to Miao Bokang and bowed: "General Miao, Shen Mu is resourceful and can often surprise him. Now that the war is in a stalemate, if this kind of fight continues before it reaches Ninghai City, the casualties will be unbearable. You might as well arrange for someone to do it according to Shen Mu's words first. When the southeast wind doesn't blow, it's just a matter of doing a little more sideshow. In case the wind does ......"
Miao Bo pondered for a moment, what Yin Yue said was not unreasonable, tens of thousands of troops were blocked here and there was nothing to do anyway. It's better to believe in him once, and there is nothing to lose. Then he said: "Okay, Ben Shuai is thinking of his aunt's affection, so I will arrange for people to act according to the plan!" After a pause, he said: "Shen Mu, if you don't get up tonight, don't blame Ben Shuai for turning his face and being ruthless!"
Shen Mu was calm: "But with the handsomeness!"
Immediately, Miao Bokang arranged for 3,000 people to collect dry firewood, and asked people to prepare saltpeter, just waiting for the south wind to attack Murong's camp immediately.
It was night, and the north wind that had been blowing all night came to an abrupt end. There was not even a trace of wind around the entire Grandma Ridge.
Shen Mu stood indifferently in front of the camp, grabbed a handful of dust in his hand, shook it off gently, and went straight down.
"Shen Mu, could it be that you miscalculated, there won't be wind today?" Yin Yue was slightly anxious. If the south wind can't afford it, he still has to save Shen Mu's life. It's just that from then on, where Nansang Miao Bo resisted, there was no domineering day.
Shen Mu smiled confidently: "Will come......"
At the time of the second watch, I saw the handsome flag gently unfurled, and after moving twice, the wind and the flag fluttered, giving birth to the sound of "bang, bang, bang".
"The wind is blowing!" someone in the crowd couldn't help but shout with joy.
Miao Bokang looked at the big flag fluttering in the wind in a daze, his eyebrows condensed into a big meat ball, and said secretly: It's surprising, it's really blowing the southeast wind. Yun Zhaoguo is really talented......
Miao Bo couldn't resist thinking about it, and hurriedly ordered the army to prepare.
When Yin Yue saw the wind rising, she couldn't help but admire, and said, "Shen Mu, how are you sure that this south wind will definitely come?"
Shen Mudao: "This ......" He wanted to talk about the geography class he learned in high school, which explained the change of seasons, the climate brought about by the ocean currents, wind and rain, etc. Suddenly, he said this, and Yin Yue and the others couldn't understand it. He paused, pretending to be mysterious: "Shen watched the stars at night and saw that the southeast stars were dim, so he knew that there was an evil wind engulfing him, so he expected that there would be a south wind in the past few days." Today's weather is extraordinary, the clouds are as light as feathers, and it is a sign of the south wind, so I dare to bet on this life and gamble. ”
Zheng Huan is busy here, the fire in the Murong military camp opposite the trench is bright, and the shadows in the military tent seem to be preparing to rest!
Miao Bokang was secretly happy in his heart, Yun Zhaojun had resisted for half a day, and he should have been exhausted, and this was a good opportunity to attack with a strategy.
Seeing that the army was ready, he immediately shouted, "Attack!"
In an instant, nearly 10,000 soldiers rushed to the edge of the trench with thatch and dry firewood, and threw the stacks of flammable materials towards the Murong army camp. At the same time, the bows and crossbows were fired in unison, and the sky was full of rockets, like a meteor shower, smashing into the Murong Army's camp.
The wind helps the fire, the fire rides the wind, Murong Jun's big tent is mostly made of cow and sheep skin, which is very easy to deflagrate, and in the blink of an eye, the entire camp is a sea of fire.
The fire lit up the night sky.
Miao Bo was proud of the time. With such a fire, Murong Jun must have been burned into charcoals!
Shen Mu was very strange, and reminded beside him: "General, don't you think it's suspicious?"
When Miao Bokang was excited, he suddenly heard Shen Mu say this, and said unhappily in his heart: "What's suspicious?"
Shen Mu said: "The grass people only heard the howling of wind and fire, but they did not hear the screams of people...... Isn't that...... Isn't it surprising!"
As soon as Shen Mu said this, all the leaders of the generals in Sanzhai after Miao Bokang reacted......
In the midst of the loud fire, I faintly heard someone shouting. Miao Bokang stopped the crowd's uproar, but he heard a team of people shouting: "Aunt Yingyue, Aunt Yinyue, Murong Huan has withdrawn......
Yingyue listened carefully and knew that it was a dozen or so Tsing Yi people led by Yingyue. Since they were defeated by Yan Shun, they have been lying in ambush behind the Murong army's camp in order to respond.
Hearing the shouting at this time, Yingyue hurriedly said: "It's not good, teach Murong Jun to take the opportunity to retreat!"
When Miao Bo heard this, he hurriedly chased after him.
But as soon as the army reached the trench, they were persuaded to retreat by the heat that came over them. In order to be able to burn Murong Jun into charcoal, Sergeant Nansang desperately threw a mountain of dry firewood into it, and at this time, the fire was ignited, how could it be burned clean for a while!
Miao Bokang ordered everyone to get water to extinguish the fire as soon as possible. This scene can't help but make the people of the righteous gas gate and the brotherhood alliance laugh.
Set your own fire, put it out with your own life!
Miao Bokang scolded Murong Huan for being an old fox, and he would take this opportunity to retreat...... And the fire he set became the best cover for Murong Jun when he retreated.
It's a pity that he can't blame Shen Mu for his bad idea, but admires Shen Mu a lot. After all, Shen Mu couldn't calculate that Murong Huan would retreat, and it was unbelievable that Shen Mu could calculate that there would be a south wind today.
After half an hour of "hard work", the fire was extinguished.
Miao Bokang was worried that Murong Huan would flee back to Ninghai for fortification, and without waiting for the road to be cleared, he ordered a general to lead 3,000 people to catch up with Murong Huan as soon as possible.
The general's name was Ge Peng, and he ordered 3,000 people, crossed the still burning Murong army camp, and quickly chased after him.
As soon as I got out of the intersection, someone from Tsing Yi Fang jumped out to lead the way.
The three thousand people marched in a hurry, and because the Nansang horses had not yet come out of the swamp, the three thousand people were stunned and broke their legs and did not see Murong Jun's figure.
When they were about to reach the two mountain passes, they suddenly heard a cannon shot, and a group of men and horses rushed out from the left and right sides of the oblique stab. On the left, Yan Shun led a thousand feudal town troops, and on the right, Yang Huang led a thousand central troops, and they came out together!
It turned out that in the evening, Yan Shun led the army to inspect the defense, and suddenly a feathered arrow was impartial and shot at the ground under his feet.
The army hurriedly took up their shields to defend themselves, but no more bows and arrows were fired. Yan Shun saw that the arrow was wrapped around a cloth belt, and there seemed to be handwriting on the cloth belt. At that moment, he pulled out the arrow and missed, took off the strip of cloth and took a look, and the words on the strip of cloth surprised Yan Shun.
Although Yan Shun didn't know whether what was said on this cloth was true or false, he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately presented it to Murong Huan.
Murong Huan read the words, handed the strip of cloth to Sun Yike, and asked, "Look at this handwriting, you can recognize it." ”
Sun Yike took the strip of cloth and just took a look. Immediately exclaimed: "This is Mr. Shen's words!"
Murong Huan let out an "um", pondered for a moment, and then asked, "You Yu Shen Mu, who has better resourcefulness?"
Sun Yike held the strip of cloth in his hand and said respectfully: "Sun is planning a strategy, and Mr. Shen is planning a situation!
Murong Huan thought for a moment, and immediately ordered the whole army to prepare, and when the south wind rose, withdraw immediately. If the south wind can't blow, everything will be business as usual! Don't let Nansang see the flaws.
Although the army was scratching their heads, they would not hesitate at all about the old prince's orders.
In the middle of the night, the south wind really rose, and the Murong army died down, and the people and horses withdrew from the camp in an orderly manner.
The army retreated here, and Murong Huan saw that these two mountain passes were the only way to Ninghai Mansion, so he ordered Yan Shun and Yang Huang to set up an ambush here and wait for the pursuing soldiers. And said that if you don't see the chasing army for three moments, you must choose a small road to return to Ninghai.
Murong Huan expected that the commander of the Nansang Army would definitely not be able to wait to gather the army to catch up again, and if the duck flew to the beak, everyone would be in a hurry.
Sure enough, not long after the two generals were ambushed, they saw thousands of Nansang's men and horses rushing forward, and immediately led the troops to kill the generals.
Seeing that there was an ambush, Ge Peng hurriedly commanded the sergeants to resist, but as soon as he shouted, he was shot in the back by a stray arrow and died on the spot!
The Nansang chasing army lost its main general, and due to the rapid march, its physical strength was exhausted. As soon as they made contact, they were defeated.
Yan Shun and Yang Huang all surrendered their pawns, and they didn't care about cleaning up the battlefield, so they immediately led their troops to choose a way to retreat.
The fire was extinguished, and Miao Bo was ready to fight the whole army, and suddenly the Nansang army that ran back came to report, saying that Yunzhao had been ambushed, and General Ge and others had all been killed.
After asking the reason, Miao Bokang was shocked, he never thought that this Murong Huan would be able to set up an ambush when he retreated. Immediately ordered the army to immediately pull out the village and chase after it!
Shen Mu stopped: "Marshal Miao, from the perspective of the grass people, there is still no need to chase, Murong Huan, this old horseman, I am afraid that he is about to arrive at Ninghai City!
Miao Bo resisted what he said, and suddenly felt reasonable. After tossing for most of the night, he failed to kill Murong Huan, but the tens of thousands of soldiers on his side were tired enough.
And since Ge Peng's pursuers have been wiped out, it is simply wishful thinking to catch up with Murong Huan. It is better to order the sergeant to rest and recuperate, and after recovering his morale, he will take Ninghai with one more bang and take Ninghai.
In April of the forty-sixth year of Yongning, the spring flowers bloomed, and the 100,000 troops of Nansang broke through the two lines of defense set up by Murong Huan and marched under the city of Ninghai.
Murong Huan transferred a total of 15,000 troops and horses to defend Ninghai City, while there were still 5,000 central troops temporarily deployed by himself, plus more than 1,000 government troops in Ninghai. At this time, there were about 23,000 defenders in Ninghai City.
Outside the city, there were nearly 100,000 people in the Nansang army. Ten miles away from Ninghai Mansion, there were five large camps. It was divided into one battalion in the east, west, south and north, and another battalion was set up in the northeast corner of Ninghai to prevent Yunzhao reinforcements from surrounding Ninghai.
The deadline is approaching, and Guo Tianxu is very busy.
First, a curfew was ordered, and then people were led to collect war supplies from various households in the city.
The Nansang army came suddenly, and although there were grain, grass and weapons in the treasury, there was nothing to defend the city.
Murong Huan made a list, and he must collect all the needs within half a day, which made Guo Tianxu anxious. I can't take care of food, I can't go back to my family, and I lead officials of all sizes to collect the materials on the list from door to door.