Li Chaozhi said in a low voice for a while: "In this battle, our army was ambushed by the Jin army, and our seventh corps was the main force of the Jin army, and more than 5,000 brothers were killed!"

"Powerful enemy?" Ren Tianxing raised his eyebrows and asked, "Then why did the general of the You Army say that your Seventh Corps ran away when they saw the Jin Army?"

"Oh...... This ......" Li Chao's old face turned red when he was questioned, speechless, and speechless.

Seeing his appearance, Ren Tianxing immediately understood that the accusations of the generals were not unforgiving, and Li Chao was indeed suspected of cowardice. He bent down and stared at Li Chao with his eyes, and suddenly, he slapped the table and asked angrily, "Li Chao, are you guilty?"

Li Chao, who was kneeling on the ground, trembled and hung his head silently.

Ren Tianxing said: "There are two sins against you! First, Ben Shuai left your Seventh Corps with General Liu to let you protect General Liu, but you failed to fulfill your duties at all, and you were negligent, so that the commander of the whole army was assassinated among the ten thousand troops, and you not only lost the face of the Seventh Corps, but you even lost the face of my Yan Army!"

When Li Chao heard this, he hurriedly raised his head and said, "General Liu was assassinated, and the last general is responsible, but ...... But this matter can't be blamed entirely on the general, but the assassin of the gold thief is too weird, and it is said that it is still a demon ......."

Ren Tianxing didn't bother to listen to his explanation, and before Li Chao finished speaking, he said loudly: "Second, your Seventh Corps is the head army, and when you saw the enemy army leaving the city, instead of commanding your subordinates to meet the enemy, you took the lead in leaving the battle and escaping, the Seventh Corps suffered heavy losses, and the whole army fell into passivity, and you are completely to blame for the defeat of this battle!"

As he spoke, Ren Tianxing looked left and right, and shouted: "The two crimes are punished together, how can I keep you? Behead the public and show the power of the army!"

The guards on both sides stepped forward, one of them grabbed one of Li Chao's arms, lifted him and walked out.

"The general spares his life, the general spares his life......"

At the critical moment, Ren Tianxing's usual appearance of hip-hop and hip-hop was swept away. With a grim face and a majestic expression, Si Swenwen's white face was tense at this time, naturally exuding a sense of oppression, not angry but mighty, even the generals of the You army were taken aback, including Chu Chen.

Seeing that Ren Tianxing really wanted to kill Li Chao, not to scare him, the Yan generals knelt down and pleaded for mercy. said in unison: "General, for the sake of General Li's love for many years, let's spare him this time!"

"Yes, General, when the two armies are fighting, if our army beheads its own general, I am afraid that it will affect morale!"

Even Jin Zhuo gave Ren Tianxing a look and signaled that he couldn't do this.

The Central Army of the Yan State. The top ten corps are the favorite corps of Yan Wang Yin Ji, and their status in the Yan country is very high. is similar to the monarch's personal guards, and the person who can be the commander of these ten corps may not be the highest, but he is definitely Yin Ji's favorite general.

In Jin Zhuo's opinion, even if Li Chao is wrong, he should die a hundred times. He should also be handed over to the king after returning to his homeland, and now he only needs to be removed from his position and detained in the army.

However, Ren Tianxing turned a blind eye to the pleas of Jin Zhuo and the generals of the camp, and he pointed to Li Chao, who had been dragged to the door of the tent, and said, "If I don't kill Li Chao today, I can't strictly enforce military discipline." In the future, won't all the officers and men of our army flee from the battlefield on the battlefield? Where is the military prestige of our Yan army? Where is the military discipline?"

Listening to Ren Tianxing's questioning, people lowered their heads one after another.

Ren Tianxing said in a deep voice: "If anyone dares to intercede for Li Chao again, he will be punished with him!" As he spoke, he looked at the two guards standing at the door, waved his hand, and said, "Drag it out and cut it!"

The two guards came back to their senses and hurriedly dragged Li Chao, who was already crying with snot and tears on his face, out of the Zhongjun tent, and then not long after, a Yan soldier guard approached with a tray in his hand, and it was Li Chao's bloody severed head placed on it.

Ren Tianxing just glanced at it, then slowly waved his hand and said, "Funeral it up and transport it back to the mainland." After speaking, he also let out a long sigh in his heart, how could he be willing to do this if he killed his own generals? But he could not strictly enforce military discipline, the harm was too great, and it would affect the whole army, and he could not afford to let Tianxing bear such a big responsibility.

Li Chao, the commander of the Seventh Corps of Yanguo, did not die in front of the two armies, but died in his own barracks, and he was even infamous as a criminal general.

The defeat in the first battle also made Ren Tianxing understand that the outer city of Jiangyang would do more harm than benefit to his own siege, and he must not be allowed to survive again.

After beheading Li Chao, Ren Tianxing immediately ordered the mobilization of the whole army's stone throwing machines, ignoring the inner city of Jiangyang, and smashing all the outer city areas first.

As soon as he gave the order, the whole army moved, and one by one the stone throwers were pushed out of the barracks by the soldiers of You Yan and the two armies, the position was measured, the base was fixed, and hundreds of stone throwers were started in unison, hitting the houses in the outer city of Jiangyang with stone bullets.

The power of the heavy-duty stone throwing machine is certainly great, but the area of the outer city of Jiangyang is not small, there are thousands of large and small houses, and it is also a huge project to smash so many houses, at least in a short period of time.

During this time, the urgent letters sent by the three cities of Songqiu, Ningding, and Taifeng were responded, and the counties to which the three cities belonged gathered a considerable number of local armies and militia groups, and the three cities provided assistance.

On the other side, there was a crisis in the logistics and supply of the Youyan coalition army.

First of all, Pingxiang, located in the territory of the Red Kingdom, was attacked by the First and Second Army Corps.

Pingxiang is located in the north of the Red Kingdom, is not a large town, You Yan and the two countries through negotiations with the Red Kingdom, this place is leased, specifically for the purpose of hoarding You Yan coalition army materials, grain and grass. In addition, there is also a corps of Yan Army and a corps of You Army, and there are as many as 30,000 or 40,000 reserve troops of the two countries, and more than 20,000 wounded soldiers of the You Yan coalition army also live here.

It can be said that Pingxiang is the logistics location of the Youyan coalition army, and the materials, grain, grass, and soldiers of the two countries are continuously transported to Pingxiang, and then Pingxiang is transferred to the front line.

The reason why You Yan and the two countries chose Pingxiang as their supply point was also useful.

First of all, the geographical location of Pingxiang is good, it is on the only way from Chiguo to Jinguo, the transportation is convenient, you can go to the official road when you get out of the town, and go straight to Jinguo. Second, and most importantly, the Huwei Army camp of the Red Kingdom is located near Pingxiang.

The Huwei Battalion was the elite legion of the Red Kingdom, and it was also a pure cavalry corps that was extremely rare among the countries at that time, and it was known for its rapid march and momentum like a tiger.

Because Pingxiang is close to the Huwei camp, with the speed of the Huwei army, it will not take half an hour to rush from the barracks to Pingxiang, which is a natural guarantee in the eyes of You Yan and the two countries, if the Jin army wants to sneak attack their own logistics and attack Pingxiang, the Huwei army will never sit idly by, after all, Pingxiang is the town of the red country, and the people of the red country live in it.

It is precisely because of this reason that Ren Tianxing and Chu Chen dare to rest assured and boldly leave only 20,000 people to garrison Pingxiang, and they have no fear.

After the You Yan coalition army broke through Shuangfeng City and entered the territory of the Jin Kingdom, the First and Second Legions did not immediately return to China to rescue, but went to Pingxiang.

This was the idea of Emperor Fude, a strategist under Bi Wu.

The enemy is weak, the enemy is outnumbered, even if the first army and the second army return to the country to rescue, they do not have the strength to confront the You Yan coalition army head-on, at most they can play a role in containment, but then their own situation is still passive. If you want to turn reactive into proactive, you have to win. Huang Fude's strange move was to sneak attack Pingxiang and completely destroy the logistics stronghold of the You Yan coalition army.

For this strategy, Ding Feng and Bi Wu have not thought about it, but they feel that the risk is too great.

They are not worried that it will be difficult to fight in Pingxiang, but they are worried about the tiger army of the Red Country. Even if the Red Kingdom lent Pingxiang to You Yan and the two countries, but after all, Pingxiang still belonged to the Red Country, and if they went to attack, might the Huwei army that was close at hand turn a blind eye?

Once the Huwei army comes to reinforce and fights the opponent's pure cavalry with its own pure infantry, it is to find its own death. Moreover, the battle between the two armies is likely to force the Red Kingdom into the Cutting Gold Alliance, and now that the Jin Kingdom has enough enemies, and there are more Red Kingdoms, it will be even worse and at stake.

Therefore, although Ding Feng and Bi Wu both felt that the idea of sneaking up on Pingxiang was indeed very good, they couldn't do that.

But after they finished telling Huang Fude in detail about the concerns in their hearts, the latter smiled slightly and said confidently: "Before attacking Pingxiang, I will personally go to the military camp of the Huwei Army." (To be continued......)