When everyone heard this, they all looked at Yan Yinshan.

Yan Yinshan's eyes stared at the tug-of-war between the two sides under the city tower, and said, "What are the characteristics of those soldiers who are besieging the city?"

Yifeng looked over again, and after a moment, he frowned and said, "Most of the siege soldiers are wounded. ”

"Yes. Yan Yin said in a deep voice: "After a soldier is injured, he should recuperate from his injuries and recover his combat strength, which is the key to providing the legion with continuous war strength. Unless, they don't want to fight a protracted war, but want to launch a general attack, first let these wounded do a tentative siege of the city, drag down the combat strength of the Sangha in the city, and then the large army will attack with all their might. ”

Yan Yinshan pointed to his hand and continued: "You see, except for a small part of their real main force to fight the fire, most of them are sorting out their armaments, just to prepare for the next general attack. ”

"However, it stands to reason that they will deliberately stop for a while, creating the illusion of recuperation, and when we think that the next attack will be delayed, they will also take a break from the attack, and if we panic, they will have a chance. ”

Yifeng pondered for a moment, looked at the sky, and said, "It's getting late, I'm afraid they will attack soon after nightfall." ”

At this time, Juechen nodded appreciatively and said, "You have really seen the big scene, and you can predict the enemy's movements. Indeed, I have actually received news from the spies that they will gather their forces to launch the biggest and probably the last attack of the round. The question is, how do we respond?"

Yan Yinshan said: "They should be Emperor Wu who is very dissatisfied with their long-term inability to attack the Yunzhou Sangha, and then is eager to win." When they are mentally unstable, we have a chance. ”

Yifeng thought for a moment and asked, "How did the two major armies on the opposite side move, did they command their own actions, or did someone plan it in unison?"

Yan Yinshan said: "Yifeng, you don't usually have much contact with the local government, and you don't know their operating procedures. In the state borders, the imperial court will send state ministers to administer the various state borders, all political, economic, and military tactics. ”

"In addition to acting in accordance with the most basic laws of the Great Wu Kingdom and the latest will of Emperor Wu, the state pastor is managed by the state pastor at other times, and correspondingly, the county guards below the state level are also managed by the state pastor. ”

"Each county guard is also in charge of the local commerce, trade, politics, and military, and the county orders of the town and county government are also under the management of the county guard when they are in charge of all aspects of the affairs of the town and county. It can be said that the power of the state pastor in the state is very large.

In order to limit their power, the imperial court would also send inspection ministers on time to inspect the administrative ability of the governor and his subordinates, and the achievements of the people. ”

"And at this time, although the Yulin Legion is a legion personally commanded by Emperor Wu of Junzhou, but after entering Yunzhou, they only assist the Yunzhou Legion in combat, and according to the regulations, all the operational command is still under the command of the state pastor. Their current command leader should be none other than Yunzhou Mu. ”

Yifeng couldn't help but nod and continued to ask, "Elder Juechen, do you know who Yunzhou Mu is?"

Juechen thought for a while and said, "Yunzhou's pastoral name is Shanggu, we have not had direct contact, and the temple where we were in contact with it the most before was the county guard. However, the county guards have a lot of complaints about Yunzhou Mu, saying that he is extremely arrogant and self-serving, but he is good at dancing in interpersonal contacts, and he has some reputation in the court. ”

Yan Yinshan said: "In the process of fighting with him during this time, have you discovered any characteristics of him?"

Juechen shook his head and said, "Before we gathered in Qingping Town, we were all scattered by the guerrillas from various counties, and they were chased and beaten by them, and they had no power to resist at all. ”

"It wasn't until we came to Qingping Town, and after urgent deliberations, that we officially reorganized our Sangha and formed a simple military system for command and coordination, and fortunately we were able to unite as one to defend this place. ”

"It's not easy. Yan Yinshan couldn't help but sigh, since he came to Qingping Town, he found that although these Buddhist monks only knew how to practice Buddha and participate in Buddhism before, they really took action, but they had amazing comprehension and action.

They were able to govern Qingping Town in an orderly manner, even if there was a foreshadowing of the reform of Buddhist temples in the early Qingning period, but it also showed that most of them were a group of people who rooted the concept of Buddhism in their hearts.

Such a group of people, fighting only for their own survival, with simple and pure ideals, was a distant dream state of the peasant uprising corps he led before.

Before capturing Anming County, he also dreamed that this would be the case, and after satisfying the survival desire of the victims who were begging along the road due to the famine, and dying of disease and starvation, the situation would enter an ideal state of living and working in peace and contentment.

But I didn't expect that the desire made people swell, and as soon as they entered the county, they became demons who burned, killed and looted, compared to the inaction of the imperial court and the cruel exploitation of the Buddhist temple, their face at that time was as good as that.

It is difficult for those who really hold power not to be polluted by it, but at least now these Buddhist monks have defended against the invasion of desire, perhaps this is the biggest advantage of Buddhist cultivators in this war.

Yan Yinshan sighed for a while, then continued to ask, "In Qingping Town, have you ever tried to go out of the city to fight against him?"

Juechen said: "Only once. That time, we tried to organize the combat force to rush out, but we didn't expect that the soldiers of the Yunzhou Legion were extremely rigorously organized, and the combat weapons such as artillery, crossbow arrows, and war halberds were arranged in an orderly manner. ”

"Seeing that the battle group was hopeless, we were forced to mobilize all the strong men of the Mahayana realm to take the lead in forcibly advancing forward, but we were besieged and killed by the high-ranking generals on the opposite side. Their cultivation strength is extremely strong, and the generals of the Yunzhou Legion led by Lu Tiesheng are slightly weaker, but the generals led by Hu Ling, the deputy general of the Yulin Legion, are extremely fierce. ”

"They rushed into the flock like a pack of hungry wolves, killing and wounding us, we were defeated and retreated, that is, this time, we killed and injured more than 10,000 Buddhist monks, from then on, we knew that we could no longer rush hard, so we had to hold on to the city. ”

Yifeng and Yan Yinshan glanced at each other, and they both saw the powerlessness in each other's eyes.

Such a powerful legion, whether it is military combat or cultivation of fighting methods, will not have the upper hand, if it is really forcibly attacked by hundreds of thousands of legion soldiers, under the attrition of the Sangha for so many consecutive days, I am afraid it will be difficult to hold it as before.

"That's right!" an old monk next to Juechen shouted, with some excitement in his eyes, and said, "Even the last time we went to battle, there was also a clash of words. I heard one of them scold and scold, then the Yunzhou herdsmen only know to let them rush and kill, let them get out of the army under their command, and who will defend the rear and so on, I don't know if these words are useless?"

"It's useful!" Yan Yinshan and Yifeng said almost in unison, Yan Yinshan's eyes blinked quickly, and Yifeng also pondered.

After a while, Yan Yinshan said: "Elder Juechen, I think we have to prepare for them to launch a general attack tonight, which is divided into several aspects, first, hold the city gate, don't attack rashly, because they are desperately charging, once the city gate is opened, I am afraid it will be difficult to close." As long as they enter the city, there is a great disparity in combat power, and we will surely be slain by them in the city. This requires us to quickly re-prepare the weapons and equipment to defend the city, and also allocate the most powerful forces to defend it.

"Second, when they were attacking the city with all their might, we dispatched the Buddhist monks of the combat regiment to attract their high-ranking generals to fight while ensuring the defense. This task is very arduous, because we have to assign some cultivation powerhouses to garrison the city wall, and the number of all combat groups will be much smaller than the number of their senior generals. But this fight is necessary because it is bait for catching big fish.

"Thirdly, and most importantly, we need to send a contingent of monks and soldiers to bypass the warring cities and attack them from behind, disturbing them as much as possible and causing them to panic from the enemy. In this kind of fierce battle, the greatest combat power comes from courage, and once their panic spreads and their courage retreats, there is a danger of rout, at this time, we can reverse the camera and kill.

"However, this task is very dangerous, because it is likely that some extremely powerful high-ranking generals will stay behind the rear of the legion, and Lu Tiesheng, Hu Ling and others may sit in the rear to supervise the battle. Once they are discovered and surrounded, it will be difficult to escape, and they can only have a chance to help them escape after the front army is defeated and we cover up in turn. ”

"Of course, this task is mine!" Yifeng said with a firm look in his eyes.