Sima Changren gave up Jian'an and Hengyang, which were closest to Muguo, and instead drove straight into Liaodong, which could be said to be the expectation of the Great Jin Army, including Lin Haotian.

Sima Changren's tactics also made Zhou Fang, who was traveling with him, incomprehensible and incredible.

If you don't attack Jian'an and Hengyang first, the army of 150,000 will take Liaodong directly, even if you can successfully defeat it, your own army will have to be trapped in the hinterland of the Jin country.

Zhou Fang was strongly opposed to Sima Changren's tactic, but Sima Changren also had his ideas.

First, Liaodong is the central hinterland of Changyu and Shangpu counties, and its geographical location is too important. Second, Sima Changren had already found out that the Jin army's city defenses in Jian'an and Hengyang were very strong, and he was not willing to fight a difficult battle, and his own 50,000 cavalry was even more unsuitable for a tough battle, so he threatened Liaodong and led the Jin army to the rescue, so that he could fight head-to-head with the Jin army on flat ground, and the power of the cavalry could also be maximized.

This is Sima Changren's strategic thinking, and he scoffs at Zhou Fang's concerns and dismisses them at all.

He didn't explain, where did Zhou Fang understand his tactics, and the contradictions and analysis between the two deepened.

Liaodong is a big city, the city defense is strong and abnormal, not only the city is high and the wall is thick, and it is divided into two walls inside and outside, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the Jin army's garrison in Liaodong only has about 20,000 Jin troops, only this little people. It is impossible to resist an army of 150,000 and hold the huge county town.

However, after Sima Changren led the army to Liaodong, he besieged but did not attack, trapped but did not take, and confronted the Jin army inside the city outside the city.

His intentions were clear. I will trap your vital point first, you must come to the rescue, and I want to occupy Liaodong, I can win at any time.

His tactics were too powerful, and when he heard that Liaodong was threatened by the army of Muguo, the Jin army's garrisons in Xiaopei and Yucheng each sent 10,000 troops, and the troops were divided into two routes to reinforce Liaodong.

However, Sima Changren had already calculated the movements of the Jin army, and he set up an ambush of 30,000 infantry on the official road between Liaodong and Xiaopei. In addition, 50,000 cavalry were arranged between Liaodong and Yucheng.

As a result, the two reinforcements of the Jin army encountered the ambush of the wooden army, and were beaten and lost, and most of them were lost, leaving only more than 1,000 remnants of the defeated army to retreat to Xiaopei, while the reinforcements on the other side were even more miserable, and the 50,000 wooden cavalry met squarely.

The cavalry of the Wood Kingdom were all wearing refined steel helmets and steel armor, and were armed with extremely sharp steel knives and steel spears. The combat effectiveness has been invisibly improved by several steps. In addition, the cavalry of the Wood Country was not only fast. And everyone is good at riding and shooting, good at throwing knives, the cavalry charges, the horse does not arrive, the arrow arrives first, the arrow array just passes, and the knife array arrives again. By the time the sword formation had passed, the cavalry had rushed closer.

When the 10,000 Jin army encountered the cavalry of the Wood Kingdom, as soon as the battle began, they were dazzled by the cavalry's arrow array, and finally blocked the cavalry's arrow array. The throwing knives thrown by the other party arrived again, and many Jin soldiers didn't even see what was going on clearly, and their heads were cut off by the scimitars that were flying in front of them.

The 10,000 Jin army was scattered by the 50,000-strong Mu State cavalry in a single charge, and in this plain near Liaodong, once defeated, there was no place to run, there was no place to hide, not to mention how could the two legs of the infantry be faster than the four hooves of the war horse?

The two cities reinforced Liaodong, the reinforcements of the two cities were both blocked, and the loss of nearly 20,000 soldiers was lost.

After receiving the news that Xiao Pei and Yucheng failed to reinforce Liaodong, Lin Haotian immediately reacted that Sima Changren's tactic was to deliberately trap Liaodong and encircle the point to send reinforcements.

He immediately sent people back to the second city of the letter, and could no longer continue to reinforce Liaodong, and sent people to send the battle report to Ding Feng and Lu Kai who were stationed in Jian'an, and invited them to come and discuss with them how to deal with the enemy.

Ding Feng, Lu Kai and others were also taken aback by Sima Changren's tactics of directly attacking the key points and encircling the point to send reinforcements, and they looked at the map and were speechless for a long time.

Lin Haotian was waiting for them to come up with advice, and seeing that the two of them hadn't said a word for a long time, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "How do you think our army should break the enemy now?"

At this time, Lu Kai gasped and said: "There are only 20,000 defenders in Liaodong City, and Sima Changren only needs to give an order to break the city with a single blow with the 150,000 army under his command, but he besieges but does not attack, which is to show his attitude to lead the main force of our army to come, so as to have a frontal decisive battle with our army, which shows that he is confident that he will defeat our army in a frontal decisive battle." ”

Lin Haotian sighed impatiently, what Lu Kai analyzed was what he also understood, what he wanted to hear was not this, but the method of breaking the enemy.

Seeing Lin Haotian showing impatience, Ling Wuya on the side hurriedly bowed his hand and said: "My lord, the last general doesn't know anything about the enemy's combat power and characteristics, so he doesn't dare to say anything, but Liaodong City is very important to our army, once it falls into the hands of the enemy, the two cities of Jian'an and Hengyang will lose their backup and logistical supplies, and become precarious, and the situation of our army's 150,000 soldiers stationed in the two cities will also be extremely unoptimistic." ”

This is a fact, Liaodong City must be saved, the key is how to save?

Lin Haotian said faintly: "Since Sima Changren wants to fight a head-on decisive battle with our army, our army will accompany me, I will immediately gather the first army and the second army to fight to the death with the wooden army!"

Ling Wuya shivered, waved his hand again and again, and said, "No, my lord, since Sima Changren wants to fight a decisive battle with our army, he must already be completely sure, if my lord joins forces to meet the battle, wouldn't it be in line with the enemy's wishes?"

Hearing this, Lin Haotian raised his eyebrows, stared at Ling Wuya, and asked with a sneer: "Wuya, do you think that the 150,000 brothers of our army can't beat Sima Changren's 150,000 horses?"

Ling Wuya thought so, but he couldn't say that.

He said: "My lord, our army has been fighting for several months, the whole army is exhausted, and the enemy army is just coming, morale is strong, fighting spirit is strong, do a head-to-head confrontation, our army suffers, in addition, 150,000 to 150,000 frontal decisive battle, even if our army can win in the end, casualties will be heavy, the enemy has lost 1,000, I have lost 800, this is a battle of bravery, please know it!"

Being like this by Ling Wuya, no matter how insistent Lin Haotian is, he will become a puppet, he frowned and glanced at Ling Wuya deeply, and muttered dissatisfiedly: "This doesn't work, that doesn't work, you tell me, what should our army do?"

"This person, at the end of this time, has been studying the topography of Changyu and Shangpu two counties, and found that there is a place that is extremely suitable for ambush. As he spoke, Ling Wuya pointed to an area on the map and said: "This is the place! The ditch here is embedded vertically and horizontally, even if there are 100,000 or 200,000 people in ambush in it, there is no clue from the appearance alone, and this place is only more than 100 miles away from Liaodong, if our army can lead the enemy here, not only can the cavalry of the Mu Kingdom become useless, but also take the Mu army by surprise." ”

"Oh?" Lin Haotian lowered his head and carefully looked at the place where Ling Wuya pointed his finger, judging from the map, this place is indeed not far from Liaodong, but it is not like Ling Wuya said that the ditches are vertical and horizontal, and it cannot be seen from the map.

After watching for a long time, Lin Haotian frowned and asked, "Wuya, even if this place is really as you said, it is very easy to set up an ambush, but after all, it is more than 100 miles away from Liaodong, how can we attract the Mu Army here?"

The corners of Ling Wuya's mouth moved, and his face was embarrassed and stopped.

Lin Haotian suddenly felt impatient and urged: "You have something to say!"

Ling Wuya took a deep breath and said, "It's not impossible to attract the enemy army here, the key is to see if the bait to attract the wooden army is tempting enough. ”

Lin Haotian blinked his eyes and asked, "Wuya, in your opinion, who is the best bait?"

Ling Wuya lowered his head and groaned, and after a long time, he knelt on his knees, and at the same time kowtowed: "Your Excellency is the best choice!" (to be continued......)