Seeing that the new Red Army suffered heavy casualties in the siege, and the corpses under the city wall were piled up almost a meter high, Lin Haotian said lightly: "It's better to collect the troops first, and after our side has rested, it's not too late to attack again!"

Song Hao shook his head and said, "Brother Lin's concerns are not unreasonable, wait for the whole army to rest and recuperate before attacking, and the victory will be nine out of ten." However, our top priority is to capture Huaiyang before the Yan and Chi armies, and we should not delay too long here in Huaning, so if we want to rest, we will wait until we have captured Huaiyang, and then we will have time. ”

Speaking of which, he still wants to attack with all his troops now. Lin Haotian smiled bitterly, if he blocked it again, it would be too domineering and too undesirable.

He no longer objected, smiled indifferently, shrugged his shoulders and said: "Since you think that the whole army should fight now, then continue to fight, however, there is one thing I must also remind Brother Song, even if we can defeat Huaning this time, our own casualties will not be small." ”

Song Hao and his generals glanced at each other and said, "If you start a war, there will inevitably be casualties." ”

Lin Haotian looked at her deeply, nodded, and stopped talking.

At Song Hao's insistence, Xinchi began to change to a full-army onslaught.

As soon as the New Red Army launched a siege on all sides, the defenders of Huaning immediately showed the disadvantage of insufficient troops and overstretched.

Seeing that the all-out onslaught of the New Red Army was as fierce as a beast, and Huaning's city defense became precarious, at the critical moment, Li Ning showed a decisive and calm side, and he urgently recruited all the people in Huaning City to participate in the city defense and resist the New Red Army.

At this time, Li Ning's prestige in Youguo was reflected, and all the men, women and children in the city responded. All those who can fight go to the city wall to assist the You army to resist the new Red Army, and those who cannot fight are transported arrows, rolling logs, stones and other things for the soldiers of the You army on the city wall.

There are hundreds of thousands of people in Huaning City, and they are especially fierce, and all the people are soldiers, even if the people go to the battlefield, they are not unfamiliar, and they are not afraid. It is basically the same as the soldiers of the You Army.

Song Hao originally thought that his million-strong army besieging Huaning would inevitably break the city easily, but in fact it was the opposite, due to the full defense of the people in the city, the soldiers of the New Red Army could not attack for a long time, and the corps in front was exhausted, and the corps behind immediately took over and fought in turn, but even so. Still unable to break through Huaning's city defenses.

The battle continued endlessly, and the New Red Army had already fought from the all-army onslaught launched at noon until nearly evening, and the million-strong army did not tear a gap in Huaning's city defense.

At this time, Song Hao also secretly inhaled in his heart, he couldn't imagine that the soldiers and civilians in Huaning were so tenacious and so strong, completely different from the city they had attacked before.

Seeing that it was getting darker and darker, it was necessary to light the torches to continue the battle. He couldn't help but start thinking about whether to continue this battle, and at this moment. The unfinished camp in the rear of the New Red Army suddenly became chaotic.

A You army that appeared out of nowhere suddenly came out of the rear of the New Red Army camp and broke directly into the New Red Army camp with lightning speed.

This change came too suddenly, not to mention that the New Red Army was unprepared, and even if the enemy situation was discovered first, it would not be able to prevent it.

First, the camp has not yet been set up, and the outer wall is full of holes, where can it defend against the enemy's charge. Moreover, the main strength of the New Red Army was invested in siege warfare, and the number of soldiers left to camp was small, and they were all old, weak, sick and disabled, how could they be the opponents of the You Army?

This You army does not have many troops. At best, there were only about 5,000 people, but breaking into the camp of the New Red Army was like entering a no-man's land.

You Jun did not give up, and while chasing and killing, he lit fires everywhere. The New Red Army camp was stockpiled with military tents, grain and grass, and baggage, which were sticky to the fire, and the fire spread very quickly in the blink of an eye, and the flames in the camp were several meters high.

Since the camp was on the west side of Huaning, close to the New Red Army, it was these two armies who first discovered that their camp was on fire. When the soldiers below reported to Song Hao, the latter was still a little unconvinced, and when he turned his head to look, his face suddenly changed greatly, and his own camp was actually on fire under his nose, what was going on?

Before Song Hao could figure out what was going on, the soldiers who had escaped from the camp had already run to their side and reported to him that the camp had been attacked by the You army, and the enemy had now begun to set fire to the camp.

When Song Hao heard this, his head buzzed, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Where did this You army come from? Why didn't you hear any wind from your side? Song Hao screamed fiercely, grabbed the deserter by the collar, and asked angrily: "How many enemy troops are there?" There is an enemy attack, why don't you report it quickly?"

The deserter was so frightened that his legs were weak, and he couldn't stand steadily, so he waved his hand again and again, "God...... It's too dark, when ...... When we found You Jun, they had already touched the front and didn't have time to report it...... You Jun has a lot of troops, and it is estimated that ...... It is estimated that tens of thousands of people ......"

Damn it! Song Hao pushed the deserter away, and tens of thousands of You soldiers unknowingly touched into his camp, which was a great shame! He turned his head to look at his generals who were also panicked, and asked, "What should I do now?"

"There's no way...... a general muttered with a big grin: "King, hurry up and Mingjin withdraw the troops and go all out to rescue the camp!"

"Alas!" Song Hao stomped his feet vigorously and yelled at everyone on the left and right: "What are you still standing here stupidly for?

The people around him woke up like a dream, shouted and agreed, and began to sing gold.

As soon as the sound of gold sounded on their side, the soldiers besieging the city did not know why, and quickly withdrew from the battlefield like the tide of the ebbing tide.

Soon, the soldiers sent by Song Hao to report the news rushed to the Jin Army and the You Army respectively, and told Lin Haotian and 'Chen Bo' about the attack on their camp.

After hearing this, their hearts trembled, the camp was attacked, this is not a trivial matter, once the grain, grass and materials are damaged, it will directly affect the future battle situation.

At this time, even if people didn't want to go back to help, it wouldn't work, so the rear team of Jin and You changed to the front team and rushed back to the camp together.

The armies of the Three Kingdoms attacking Huaning were all withdrawn, and by this time, the You army that had invaded the camp had already fled without a trace. Only the camp was left with a raging fire.

The officers and men of the New Red Army could no longer care about chasing the enemy, so they all put out fires and rescued grain, grass and supplies.

It was not until late at night that the New Red Army finally extinguished all the fires in the camp. It was a mess, and the grain, grass and supplies that had been burned in the smoke were everywhere.

The losses caused by this fire to the New Red Army were not small, among them, the heaviest loss was grain and grass, and it was hastily estimated that the damaged grain and grass was at least tens of thousands of stones, and the camp tents that were burned and burned were at least tens of thousands, and there were also many military uniforms and weapons destroyed.

This situation made the soldiers of the New Red Army dumbfounded, and they didn't know what to do.

looked at several generals with gloomy faces and silent voices. Kong Qing coughed low and said: "Huaning belongs to the Huaiyang Acropolis, and the people have always been loyal to the imperial court, even if the current king is a faint king, the people are still loyal to him, so it is not as easy as imagined to fight Huaning." In addition, Li Ning's use of soldiers has always been strange and cunning. And our army is not familiar with the terrain in this area of Huaning, so it is easy to suffer. So...... It is really unwise for our army to rush to attack Huaning when it has not gained a firm foothold, and it also gives the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of!"

His remarks were ostensibly analytical, but in fact he complained that Song Hao's decision was wrong.

Song Hao is not a fool, of course he can hear his words. His face became more and more ugly. He snorted heavily and said coldly: "Why didn't you talk about it at the beginning? What's the use of talking about it now? At the moment, let's think about what we should do next!"

There are too many damaged materials this time, and if they cannot be replenished in time, the new Red Army will not be able to move an inch. At the end of the day, they could only be forced to retreat. The stakes are very high, as a general, Kong Qing didn't dare to say much, and hung his head silently.

Song Hao didn't expect him to come up with any good solution at all, he turned his head to look at Lin Haotian, rubbed his hands embarrassedly and asked with a dry smile, "Brother Lin, what do you think?"

Song Hao didn't listen to Lin Haotian's persuasion, and insisted on attacking Huaning, and now he suffered such a big loss, he couldn't raise his head in front of Lin Haotian, and he also felt a loss in his heart.

What should I do? Lin Haotian also wanted to know what Lu Dao should do now, he pondered for a while, and said: "First count the specific losses, make sure that you know what to do, and then think of countermeasures!"

"Yes, yes, yes! Brother Lin is reasonable!" Song Hao nodded again and again, and then shouted to the generals of the Huan army behind him: "Why don't you hurry up and do it?"

The New Red Army moved up and down and began to make detailed statistics on its own losses.

There were 12,000 damaged tents, of which about 10,000 were completely scrapped, that is to say, in the next campaign, at least 200,000 to 300,000 soldiers of the New Red Army had no tents to live in and had to sleep in the open air. A total of 60,000 stone of grain and grass were damaged, which was more than half of the total grain and grass of the New Red Army, and there were more than 300 large weapons such as stone throwers, rushing carts, and arrow towers that were damaged, and there were countless military uniforms and weapons.

In addition, on the day when the New Red Army stormed Huaning, the total number of casualties was 70,000 or 80,000. After only one day of fierce fighting, the losses on the side of the New Red Army can be described as heavy.

Listening to the general's report, Lin Haotian felt a headache, and now the question facing the new Red Army is not whether it can take Huaning as soon as possible, but whether it can continue to fight.

The shortage of camp tents will only lead to a part of the soldiers not getting enough rest, and the shortage of food and grass will determine the life and death of the officers and men of the whole army.

He pondered for a moment and asked Song Hao, "When will the next batch of grain and grass from our army be delivered?"

Song Hao replied in a low voice: "I have to wait for half a month at the earliest." ”

"It will take so long to ......" Lin Haotian frowned even tighter, judging from the grain and grass left in the army at present, even if he was frugal and frugal, he would hold on for ten days at most, and if he wanted not to be forced to retreat, there were only two ways, either to take Huaning quickly, or to attack Huaiyang directly.

He looked at Ding Feng and Jin Cheng and said, "Our army gave up attacking Huaning and Tongcheng and went directly to fight Huaiyang, what do you two think?"

Jin Cheng said worriedly: "Abandoning Huaning and Tongcheng will lead to hidden dangers in the rear of our army, one is that the supply line is cut off, and second, when our army attacks Huaiyang with all its might, the You army in Huaning and Tongcheng will definitely come to attack the rear of our army, and if one is not good, our army will be defeated." ”

"Our army's logistics can no longer be counted on!" Lin Haotian said with a straight face: "The grain and grass will be delivered in half a month, and with the grain and grass left by our army at present, it can only last for ten days at most." If we do not want to withdraw our troops, our army must do something within ten days. But you have all seen today's battle, it is too difficult to defeat Huaning in a short period of time, and it is basically impossible. That's why I proposed to take Huaiyang directly and use our usual tactics to break the enemy!"

Ding Feng's eyes suddenly lit up, and he blurted out: "Encircle the point to send reinforcements?"

"That's right!" Lin Haotian said: "Feint to attack Huaiyang, and lead the garrisons of Huaning and Tongcheng out of the city to help!"

After listening to Lin Haotian's strategy of encircling the point to send reinforcements, Ding Feng pondered for a long time. said: "Although the adult's method is good, but the enemy troops in Huaning and Tongcheng are also quite a lot, a total of more than 300,000 troops plus the 400,000 You Central Army in Huaiyang City, if they cooperate, they will fight at the same time, and attack our army before and after, and they will become the enemy on their backs to the enemy!"

Lin Haotian nodded secretly, Ding Feng's concerns were not unreasonable.

The prerequisite for encirclement and reinforcement is that the reinforcements are not strong, and they can win easily before they can be implemented. However, Huaning and Tongcheng have 300,000 You troops, and if they join forces to attack, their strength should not be underestimated.

He muttered: "If Huaning and Tongcheng don't join forces when they come to help, our army can be broken individually." ”

Of course, this is also unlikely, with Li Ning's mind and talent, how can he give his own side a chance to break through?

Ding Feng and Jin Cheng glanced at each other. didn't answer, they thought the same as Lin Haotian. I don't think it's realistic.

At this moment, Kong Qing suddenly spoke: "The master of Tongcheng is Guan Zhan, this person is brave and has no strategy, only knows force, not strategy, but he has a deep friendship with Li Ning. The cooperation between the two must be very tacit, and it is indeed difficult to break through each one, but if Li Ning can be recalled to Huaiyang by the imperial court and replaced with a general who is not in harmony with Guan Zhan. Then, General Lin's plan of 'encircling points and sending reinforcements' is a feasible strategy!"

"Oh?" Lin Haotian's eyes lit up suddenly, and he asked, "General Kong, what method can be used to get the Imperial Court of You to recall Li Ning and send a chief general who is not at odds with Guan Zhan?"

"This ......" Kong Qing said embarrassedly: "Although the new Red Army can't say that the troops are coming to the city, it has approached the capital, and what the faint monarch is most afraid of now is the disloyalty of his subordinates, but if we spread the suspicion that Li Ning and the new Red Army are having an affair, the faint monarch may not believe it, but if there are close ministers blowing gold in the ears of the faint monarch, the effect will be different." ”

"En!" Lin Haotian nodded as he listened, his eyes were deep and thoughtful, and when Kong Qing was finished, he raised his head and said, "Keep talking!"

"Many ministers loyal to the prince are close ministers around the faint king, as long as the prince expresses his position, these close ministers can unite and jointly impeach Li Ning, at that time, the faint monarch will agree nine times out of ten, but he wants to convince the prince that this is ...... Not so easy. ”

Kong Qing still knows Nie Dan very well, his temperament is docile and benevolent, and he attaches great importance to filial piety, so that the prince will fornicate with the New Red Army and bring down his father Nie Lin, which is probably more difficult than ascending to the sky.

He thought it was unlikely, but Lin Haotian felt it was an opportunity. If you can really convince Nie Dan and let him find a way to get rid of Li Ning, how much less blood will you have to shed and how many soldiers will be killed in battle? The key question is, how can you convince Nie Dan?

Thinking of this, he paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, and his brain was also spinning rapidly.

I don't know how long it took, Lin Haotian suddenly stopped, narrowed his eyes, turned his head to Kong Qing and said, "I plan to ...... Go to Huaiyang in person and meet Nie Dan!"

As soon as these words came out, the jaws of everyone present almost fell. Lin Haotian is going to Huaiyang, or is he going to see the prince of the enemy country, isn't that going to throw himself into the net?

Song Hao and Lin Haotian, the generals of the Jin Army on the side, could no longer remain silent, and said in unison: "Brother Lin (adult) must not!"

Lin Haotian smiled slightly, and said to them: "Don't forget, our purpose is to 'help Nie Dan sit on the throne' Now it is only natural for him to help us do something in turn!"

The rhetoric of letting Nie Dan replace Nie Lin as the king of You was used by them to fool You Jun, in fact, the New Red Army led by Yan Guo wanted to carve up You Guo.

Now, Lin Haotian wants to use this set of arguments to persuade Nie Dan in Huaiyang, it is too risky, in the eyes of Song Hao and others, not only will it not succeed, but it may even take Lin Haotian's life.

"Brother Lin, the stakes are very high, you have to think twice!" Song Hao frowned and persuaded meaningfully.

Lin Haotian said with a straight face: "Convincing Nie Dan is not only beneficial to our smooth defeat of Huaning and Tongcheng, even if we attack Huaiyang in the future, with Nie Dan's internal response, it will also make me twice the military effort with half the effort, so I think this risk is worth taking, not to mention, there is You Jun's brother who is willing to help me!" As he spoke, he looked at Kong Qing.

Kong Qing's body was shocked, and he hurriedly arched his hand and said: "If General Lin really wants to enter the capital to meet the prince, he will find a way to help the general enter the city, and he will also help the general contact the prince." ”

Anyway, Kong Qing is also a dignified lieutenant general in You Guo, a high-ranking general, he naturally has his connections, even if he can't be compared with Chen Bo, but it is not far behind.

Hearing that Kong Qingken was helping, Lin Haotian's face smiled even more, looked at Ding Fengren, and said, "With General Kong's help, you can always rest assured, right?"

On the contrary, Ding Feng, Jin Cheng, and others were even more uneasy! Although Kong Qing had turned against himself, he was a special person after all, and he was the lieutenant general of You Guo, and he went to Huaiyang with him.

Once Lin Haotian is captured by You Guo, Nie Lin can take advantage of this to force the Jin army to obey You Guo's orders, and when the Vayou Alliance collapses, the New Red Army will have to face the military strength of the two powerful countries, Jin and You, and the battle situation will fall into an uncontrollable situation.

No matter how they thought about it, they all felt that the gold risk was too big, which was not only related to Lin Haotian's life and death, but also related to the success or failure of this battle of Vayou. (To be continued......)