() August 15, 174 in the imperial calendar, early in the morning.

On the way to the city wall, Vice General Wang's head was still groggy, everything was vague, and his mind was blank.

By the way, I was drinking with the four lords in the mansion last night, and everyone was having a good time, and then it seems that something happened......

It's "home"!

The word popped out of Vice General Wang's mind, and his hangover head suddenly sobered up a lot. It was only at this moment that he realized that he was not lying on the bed, but was being carried forward by a war horse, and the streets around him were full of panicked people.

"What's wrong? Did something happen?" Vice General Wang asked, referring to one of the soldiers who had just pulled him out of the bed.

Oh my God, is this my own commander? I had already reported it to him in the room, and now he was still asking me what had happened!

But how dare he, as a small soldier, say this kind of thing, so he had to repeat what he had said before.

"The troops of the 'Homeland' have already surrounded the city of Ignatius! How is it possible, who has surrounded us?" The adjutant general Wang was obviously stunned by what he had just said, and because of the hangover, his mind was obviously not completely restored.

With such a commander, we still have a fart fight, surrender as soon as possible, and save our lives. Thinking of the rumors circulating in the army, what 'homeland' is bandits, stragglers, now that I think about it, it is really ridiculous. It seems that it is obviously his own side that is more like a straggler, and the scene in the city just now is still lingering in his heart.

The besieging army of the "homeland" was neat and tidy, and the morale was like a rainbow, and the whole formation was even tighter. Unless they saw the opportunity early and sent scouts, the other two cities might not have received any news at all. The troops of the "homeland" surrounded the entire city of Ignatius like an iron barrel, and there was not a single crack at all. And what is even more incomprehensible is that those soldiers under the city are clearly Fengxiang's people, how can there be so many Fengxiang people obeying Li Yuxuan's orders and turning around to attack their own country.

Although the pro-soldier thought a lot in his head, he did not slack off in the slightest, and as soon as he heard the main general's question, he immediately replied: "It is the 'homeland' guard of the head of the family Li Yuxuan besieging the city, and the number of people is about four or five thousand. ”

"Four, five thousand!" Hearing that the other party's troops were twice as large as his own, the general, who had never really been on the battlefield, turned white with fright, and the little alcohol that was left was gone.

"Is there a place to break through?" Vice General Wang's words clearly revealed the horror in his heart.

Imagine a general, after hearing the news of the enemy's siege, not only did he not want to hold the city, but asked an ordinary soldier how to get out, how could such an army fight?

The soldier secretly suppressed the dissatisfaction with the commander in his heart, and his tone was light, and there was no reverence that the subordinates should have for their superiors.

"Let's ask the commander to go up to the castle tower himself and see if there is a way to retreat. ”

The lieutenant general didn't notice the contempt in his subordinate's tone at all, and now he was most concerned about his own life. And what other cities are defended, what are battles, and what countries are have long been thrown out of the clouds.

Vice General Wang hurriedly climbed the tower with a frightened face, and was dumbfounded when he saw the dense "homeland" soldiers outside the city.

A soldier in the captain's costume next to him saw the commander arrive, and hurriedly trotted all the way over, saluted him and said: "General, the enemy army has besieged the city of Ignatius, and there are a large number of enemy troops outside the four gates of the east, west, north and south, and the number is about five thousand. ”

"Besieged!" Vice General Wang, who was still stupid there just now, grabbed the captain's arm and shouted: "Does that mean that we can't escape, we are all going to be trapped here, and we will all be beheaded?"

The loud sound caused the Fengxiang soldiers on the city wall to turn their attention to this side, wondering in their hearts what was wrong with their general, whether they had drunk too much as before.

"We have walls to rely on, and our Fengxiang infantry are known for being good at defending the city. Our strength is also about 3,000, so we don't need to be afraid of each other at all!" the captain tried to comfort the commander, who looked a little crazy at the moment.

"You mean that we can break through with our troops, do you?" said Vice Admiral Wang's eyes flashed eagerly.

"Break through?" "I couldn't figure out why my commander thought of breaking through with a strong city left undefended, but he still told the truth, "Yes, we can break through the other party's encirclement with our troops, but the losses in the process of breaking through will be relatively large." ”

As soon as Vice General Wang heard that he could break through the siege, he didn't hear the words behind him at all, and immediately ordered: "Hurry up and order the concentration of troops, we are at the east gate, no, break through at the south gate!"

"What! Breakout?" the captain looked surprised, he couldn't be mistaken, the commander ordered the breakout, isn't it a joke!

"General, we can't break through!" exclaimed the captain.

"Didn't you say you could break through? As long as I can get out, I'll promote you to be my deputy, and I'll give you a lot of money. "Vice Admiral Wang obviously thought that the captain was trying to ask for money from him.

The captain shook his head in pain, and only now did he realize that the commander standing in front of him was trying to flee for his life, and the anger in his heart suddenly rushed up. But he can't really accompany him to break through like this, and the lives of the 3,000 soldiers in the city are all in his own words.

"General, if we break through the siege, we will be intercepted by the enemy, and there will be great losses, and no one knows how many people will be able to break through successfully, and it is not clear who will have a chance to leave the battlefield alive. The captain deliberately put the result in a harsh way. In fact, as a commander, under the protection of the soldiers, the probability of a successful breakthrough is quite large, after all, the comparison of forces between the two sides is not too great.

"That means we're going to die, we're going to be beheaded!" So what are we going to do?" Vice Admiral Wang began to circle around the tower.

Looking at the panicked commander in front of him, who was only thinking about how to escape for his life, and then looking at the neat enemy troops outside the city, he secretly cursed those useless nobles in his heart for sending them such a commander who could only have fun and was as timid as a mouse.

After a while, Vice Admiral Wang suddenly remembered something, rushed over and grabbed the captain's hand and said, "I have thought of a way! I have thought of a way! We will not be beheaded!" He was so excited that he didn't know that his saliva had sprayed the other party's face. The captain gave his commander a disgusted look, not wanting to bother with him at all.

"Open the city gates, open the city gates, we surrender, we surrender!" Vice General Wang shouted at the captain with an excited face.

There could be such a general in the world, and surrender seemed to him like pie in the sky, and it was a thing to be happy about. But on the other hand, with such a commander, no matter how many troops you have, sooner or later you will not be able to escape the fate of destruction. For the sake of the lives of those brothers, surrender may really be the best way now, at least not to sacrifice the lives of so many young people for the sake of those stupid nobles.

Hearing the report from his subordinates, Li Fang wondered if he was dreaming. After a full minute of stupefiing, he followed the guard out of the tent. Li Fang's camp tent was set up on a mound, so as soon as he got out of the camp, Li Fang saw the gate of Ignatius City in the distance wide open, and rows of Fengxiang soldiers came out of the city gate, and consciously stood aside after throwing away their weapons at the foot of the city wall, and the whole scene was neatly as if they were being reviewed. As the surrendered side, his subordinates still maintained the original position, everyone watched this scene with surprise on their faces, but no one stepped forward to deal with those weapons and surrendered soldiers, and the whole process was completely a one-man show staged by the surrendering side.

Is this war? It's like a kid playing a game.

Guarded by dozens of guards, Li rode his horse from the tent to the front of the battle, only to see a man who looked like an officer holding a white flag and asking his soldiers what to do. But the soldiers only opened their mouths and looked surprised, and everyone looked at him as if they had seen a monster.

As soon as the officer holding the white flag saw Li Fang on his horse, he immediately ran over, approached Li Fang's horse, and said with a greeting face:

"Are you the commander? I surrender, I surrender! You see, my troops have laid down their arms, can you let me live?"

It was only at this moment that Lee understood why the soldiers looked at him as if they were looking at a monster, because he was indeed a monster in the truest sense of the word.

"Report your position!" Li Fang's tone was cold, Li Fang didn't have a good impression of this kind of person. The existence of such a person is simply a shame for a soldier.

"Commander-in-Chief of the Fengxiang Border Guards. The officer said cautiously.

God, how could Feng Xiang send such an idiot as a commander, this is simply joking with the lives of those young soldiers.

"Take him down first, and make a decision after meeting the head of the family!" Li Fang ordered.

"General, you won't cut off my head, will you!" As soon as Vice General Wang heard that he was going to be locked up, he quickly begged for mercy.

"I don't think so, killing people like you is an insult to the 'homeland' and to the head of the family. ”

Half an hour later, Li Yuxuan, who received Li Fang's war report in the main revenue, wondered if he was dazzled, or he had taken the wrong medicine. It wasn't until he carefully read the war report three times and personally asked the scout who sent the war report that Li Yuxuan believed that Li Fang's war report was the truth.

He just wanted to besiege the city of Ignatius in order to attack the military strength of the other two castles, and then lead his troops to take the two castles first. As for Ignatius City, his original plan was to leave it until the end. But I didn't expect that without spending a single soldier, Ignatius City would fall into my hands inexplicably.

"Someone!" Li Yuxuan called several guards outside in.

"You!" Li Yuxuan pointed to the scout who had originally sent the battle report, "Go back and tell Major General Li, that Fengxiang's commander will stay first, and I will still have a place for him!"

"A few of you should quickly inform Major General Bai and Commander Li that if you encounter enemy reinforcements, don't attack, let them go! ”

All the scouts with orders left the tent, and Li Yuxuan let himself fall backwards on his seat. At this moment, you can relax as much as you want. Originally, the city of Ignatius was the most considered, and if it could not be captured quickly, it would become a hidden danger in the military operation of the "homeland". Although he could order his troops to bypass the city and enter Fengxiang's territory to join Tang Xu and Langzhong's cavalry units, his logistical supply lines would always be under threat from the enemy. Now that Ignatius City, which I can't rest assured in my heart, it fell into my control without a single knife or shot, so I definitely have the certainty of winning this game of chess.

Fengxiang border, left fort.

"Report to the General, a scout from Ignatius City has an urgent matter to see you!"

"Let him in. ”

Yao Qianshu, as the deputy commander of the Fengxiang Border Army, was sitting in the meeting hall of Zuobao at the moment. These days, he had a premonition of what was going to happen, but he never knew what was going to happen. In the early hours of last night, information was received from the city of Ignatius that the private forces of the four major families had withdrawn from the border in order to deal with the "homeland" rogues who had invaded their territory. After learning the news, he didn't close his eyes all night, thinking of the inexplicable retreat of the "homeland" troops thirty miles earlier, and he felt that there must be some connection between the two. Early this morning, he sent a scout to Ignatius City, hoping to know more about the specific situation. It was only about a quarter of an hour after his scouts departed, and there was an emergency military situation on the side of Ignatius City, and it seemed that things might change.

"General, the city of Ignatius is under siege by the superior forces of the 'homeland'!" one of the scouts panted.

"What, Ignatius City is besieged, tell me about the specific situation!" Although the incident happened suddenly, Yao Qianshu did not mess with himself, but asked the scout about the specific battle situation ahead. Years of battlefield experience told him that if he understands the situation a little more, he will have a better chance of winning on the battlefield and a better chance of survival.

"No one knows what is going on, but as soon as the morning dawns, an army of about 5,000 people appeared outside the city, surrounding the whole city, looking at their attire, it seems that they are all ironclad infantry, but their banner is the banner of 'homeland'. ”

"So how did you get out of the city, and how did you break through?"

"When I left the city, the encirclement had not yet been fully formed. ”

"Did they see you, did they go after you?"

"I think they should have seen me, I was sticking out of front of them. As for the pursuit, it seems that there is none. The scout replied to Yao's question as he reflected on the scene.

"Those who protruded from the front of the formation did not start a pursuit. Yao Qianshu fell into deep thought. Suddenly, he seemed to think of something crucial, and continued to ask, "Did they attack the city?"

"They hadn't started the siege when I came out, and I don't know what happened afterward. ”

"Then have you seen the siege equipment? If they are going to attack the city, and you have passed in front of them, you should have seen it clearly. ”

"By the way, I remembered when you said that. I said that when I passed in front of them, I always felt that something was wrong, but I couldn't remember for a while, it turned out to be a siege weapon. They don't have siege engines!" the scout said affirmatively.

"That's right, it turned out to be 'encirclement and reinforcement'. It's just that their movements are really fast enough, and as soon as the private forces of the four major families were withdrawn, they immediately killed them. From this point of view, the head of the family, Li Yuxuan, and the 'homeland' are really powerful. It is no wonder that General Zhuansun was also defeated by them that day. ”

Knowing the other party's strategic intentions and tactical methods, Yao Qianshu stood up and began to think about how to deal with it. In the end, Yao Qianshu made up his mind to fight.

"Since you want to 'surround the point and send reinforcements', then I will come to 'plan the plan', so that Li Yuxuan also knows that Feng Xiang is not all wine bags and rice bags. ”