To make a long story short, three days later, Yuan Cheng, the commander of the Red Army in Panling, suddenly received a report that the Jin army on the opposite side had retreated.

After Yuan Cheng heard this, he couldn't believe his ears, a few days ago, the Jin army had just laid down his fourth camp, which had caused heavy losses to his side, so why did he suddenly retreat? He didn't believe the reports of his subordinates, so he personally led people to the fifth camp, went up to the wall, and looked at the opposite side.

From afar, I saw that the wall of the fourth camp was still full of the battle flags of the Jin army, and the gate of the camp was also tightly closed, where there was any sign of retreat. After reading it, he was very annoyed in his heart, and asked the soldiers who 'falsely spread the war report' to be directly executed.

At this time, the commander of the fifth camp hurriedly stood up to stop him, and said to Yuan Cheng in a conclusive manner: "General, the Jin army has indeed withdrawn, and the last general has just sent someone to investigate, and the camp is now empty, and the Jin army is gone." ”

If the soldiers below dared to falsely spread the battle report, Yuan Cheng might still think it was possible, but the commander of the fifth battalion also said so, so he couldn't help but not believe it.

However, he still sent his guards to the fourth camp to see if the Jin army had really withdrawn.

Soon, the guards he sent returned, bringing back the same news that there was indeed no one in the fourth camp, and that it had become an empty camp.

After hearing this, Yuan Cheng was stunned on the spot, the Jin army really retreated, when did they retreat? And why did they retreat? Now, he couldn't tell whether he was worried or happy in his heart, and he was stunned for a while before he came back to his senses and shouted loudly to the generals around him: "What are you all doing here first? Send someone to inquire and see where the Jin army has withdrawn!"

"Yes, yes! General!" The generals rushed to the wall, and sent their most powerful subordinates out to inquire about the news of the Jin army.

Yuan Cheng, under the protection of many guards and soldiers, personally went to the fourth camp to check.

Don't look at the golden flags on the wall. In fact, the camp was empty, and the Jin army had taken everything they could, and it was clear that the Jin army's retreat was premeditated, not a hasty move.

Oops! Yuan Cheng secretly stomped his feet. I knew that the Jin army was going to retreat, and I should have led troops to chase and kill him, but this time I missed the great fighter! In any case, the Jin army withdrew, and he successfully kept Panling, even if he had committed the mistake of losing the county town before, this time he had finally made up for it.

Yuan Cheng breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart, the pressure of the past few days disappeared all at once, and the whole person was much more relaxed. It was as if he was several years younger in an instant.

In the afternoon of the same day, the spies of the Red Army returned one after another, and the news brought back was the same, the first army, the fourth army, the fifth army, and the seventh army corps of the Jin State had withdrawn from Zeping County and were changing direction and advancing towards Surabaya County. Changed to attack Surabaya.

As long as the Jin army doesn't fight Zeping, it's none of their business. However, Yuan Cheng still pretended to be very worried, and passed on the movements of the Jin army to Jiankang.

In the biography, he did not focus on describing how he led his troops to successfully resist the Jin army in a heroic battle, but only lightly talked about how he resisted the Jin army for more than a month, and the Jin army, which could not be attacked for a long time, could only be forced to give up and attack Surabaya instead. And please remind the Surabaya side to prepare for the battle as soon as possible.

It was able to hold back hundreds of thousands of Jin troops for more than a month, so that the Jin army had no choice but to retreat, which is a credit. It goes without saying.

Judging from the current battle situation, he really did the right thing when he deliberately let the Iron Lion Army enter the hinterland of Zeping County, and now the Iron Lion Army has become a turtle in an urn, trapped in Chengdu, and the whole army is annihilated, it is only a matter of time.

The battle situation is so rapidly changing, and it is also so incredible, Yuan Cheng, who thought that a catastrophe was coming, suddenly became a genius who 'strategized in the battle and won a victory thousands of miles away' with the retreat of the main force of the Jin army.

After Shi Huai received Yuan Cheng's battle report, he was also overjoyed, and praised Yuan Cheng for being far-sighted and a natural handsome talent. Lin Haotian thought that the Red Country was easy to bully, what about this time, he hit the south wall, and threw the hard-earned Youren Legion in the Red Country, which can be said to have lost his wife and broken his soldiers, which is very happy.

On the day he received Yuan Cheng's war report, the overjoyed Shi Huai rewarded Yuan Cheng, promoted his title by one level, gave him the title of earl, and named him the general of sweeping the north, the rank of general, and the grade was the first grade.

However, Yuan Cheng only defeated the Jin army in Zeping, and this battle between Chijin and Jin is far from over, and Yuan Cheng's intelligence is fundamentally that the Jin army is advancing to Surabaya and is going to attack Surabaya.

The ministers of the Red Kingdom told Shi Huai about the importance of Surabaya, once the Jin army was allowed to conquer Surabaya, not only did it lose its western gateway, but also opened the door for the new Red Army, so that the New Red Army could enter the Red Country, no matter what, Surabaya could not be lost.

Shi Huai agreed with the ministers' analysis, but now it seems a bit too late to send troops from Jiankang to reinforce Surabaya.

The ministers also think so, if they want to save Surabaya, they still rely on Zeping, after all, their own army of nearly one million is in Zeping, and Zeping is close to Surabaya, and it is most appropriate for Zeping to send troops.

"However, the army gathered in Zeping is to deal with the Iron Lion Army that has occupied Chengdu, and now the army is mobilized to Surabaya, what should the Iron Lion Army do?" Shi Huai frowned worriedly.

"Therefore, if you want to save Surabaya, you have to deal with the Iron Lion Army as soon as possible. Zhang Tao, the left minister, shook his head and said: "Now, our country's three-way army has trapped the Iron Lion Army in Chengdu, and your Excellency can also let General Yuan, who is stationed in Panling, lead his troops south, and join forces with the three-way army to besiege the Iron Lion Army.

Shi Huai nodded while listening, and before he could express his position, Taifu Zhang Rong also stood up and said: "What Zuo Xiang said is extremely true, one more person, one more force, not to mention that there are more than 200,000 soldiers under General Yuan, and our army can only solve the crisis in Surabaya if it is decided in Chengdu!"

General Yin Liang continued: "General Yuan's participation in the battle of Chengdu with the remnants of defeating the main force of the Jin Army will definitely boost the morale of our generals and annihilate the Iron Lion Army, just around the corner!"

The three important ministers of Zuo Xiang, Taifu, and General had the same caliber, and they all thought that it was most appropriate to send Yuan Cheng to participate in the siege and annihilation battle in Chengdu, Shi Huai no longer hesitated, and nodded in response: "According to the opinion of the three Aiqing, this commander will pass on the book to General Yuan!"

In fact. There is nothing wrong with Zhang Tao, Zhang Rong, and Yin Liang's proposal, since the main force of the Jin army has retreated and gone to attack Surabaya, it would be too wasteful to station more than 200,000 troops in Panling, and now Surabaya is in danger, and Zeping is in urgent need of a battle decision. It is also reasonable to transfer the garrison of Panling to participate in the battle against the Iron Lion Army. Who would have thought that the retreat of the Jin army was just a pretense, using the strategy of 'repairing the plank road and secretly crossing Chen Cang'?

Under Shi Huai's instructions, Jiankang gave Panling an order to besiege Chengdu.

After receiving the order, Yuan Cheng did not think much about it, and immediately ordered that 20,000 soldiers should be left to garrison Panling, and the main army would follow him south and return to attack Chengdu, but when he left Panling. Many soldiers, including Yuan Cheng, found several huge black eagles hovering overhead.

There were no eagles in this area of Panling, but now several black eagles suddenly appeared flying around in the air, and people were puzzled.

"Could this be some omen?" Yuan Cheng was also a very superstitious person, he looked up at the black eagle in the sky, and muttered solemnly.

Shen Yuan, the strategist on the side, had sharp ears, and when he heard Yuan Cheng's muttering, he sneered. He said happily: "General, even if this is an omen, it should be a good omen. ”

"Oh?" Yuan Cheng's heart moved. He smiled and asked, "What did Mr. Shen Yuan say about this?"

"The eagle strikes the sky!" Shen Yuan said: "This obviously indicates that our army will go south to fight, but it can break the enemy army and make miraculous achievements!"

"En!" After listening to Shen Yuan's words, Yuan Cheng's heart was not to mention how open it was, and his whole body was comfortable, and he looked up and smiled. nodded again and again: "Borrow your auspicious words!"

The four-way army of the Red Kingdom, with a total of more than 800,000 troops, surrounded Chengdu and surrounded Chengdu with three layers inside and three layers outside. The water is impassable. At this time, the Iron Lion Army had all retreated into the city, ready to defend the city.

In the battle of the fortification, the defenders already had the advantage of geographical advantages, and the people were good at fighting, more than 300,000 Iron Lion troops defended the lonely city, although the Red Army had many troops, but it was not so easy to forcibly attack it.

Before the arrival of Yuan Cheng and others, the Red Army had already done two strong attacks, but the results were all in the stubborn resistance of the Iron Lion Army, and the losses were a lot, and after Yuan Cheng arrived, the Red Army made another strong attack on the whole army, but in the end it still did not tear the defense line of the Iron Lion Army, and Chengdu was still firmly in the hands of the Iron Lion Army.

In these three large-scale sieges, the Iron Lion Army suffered many casualties, and the Red Army also suffered heavy casualties.

The commanders of the four armies gathered together to discuss countermeasures. Now, people have a consensus in their hearts that it is unrealistic to storm Chengdu, but what method can be used to break through the defense line of the Iron Lion Army?

At this time, Shen Yuan stood up and spoke again, he smiled slightly, and deliberately asked Yuan Cheng, "General, how long has the Iron Lion Army not accepted supplies?"

Yuan Cheng was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Since the Iron Lion Army crossed Panling, Panling has been under our control, and during this period of time, the Iron Lion Army has no logistical supplies. ”

"Yes, now it's been more than a month. For such a long time, the grain and grass brought by the Iron Lion Army should have been almost consumed, even if they plundered a batch of grain and grass when they occupied Chengdu, they could not afford to raise an army of hundreds of thousands. Judging by his subordinates, now that the Iron Lion Army has a serious shortage of food and grass, our army does not need to attack it, as long as it is trapped for another ten days and half a month, it can starve the enemy to death.

Hearing his words, the commanders of the other three armies all slapped their palms, and He Cong, the commander of the Tianyang Army, gave a thumbs up and praised: "Sir's clever plan! Although our army can't storm Chengdu, it's still no problem to trap the Jin army inside." ”

"That's right!" Yuan Cheng, who suddenly realized, also nodded his head and said with a smile: "Break the enemy for the sake of the enemy, and attack the heart for the sake of the Iron Lion Army's lack of food and grass, and after a long time, it will be self-defeating!"

At Shen Yuan's suggestion, the Red Army abandoned the strategy of continuous assault, changed from offensive to defensive, and prepared to trap the Iron Lion Army in Chengdu.

This strategy is also poisonous enough, if the army in Chengdu City is not the Iron Lion Army, but other Jin Army, I am afraid that it will really be more auspicious, but the Iron Lion Army is not a Jin man, but a special person, and the reason why they do not rely on logistics is also for a reason......

Let's talk about Panling.

As soon as the main force of the Red Army retreated south, the Fifth Army led by Lin Haotian received a report from its own side lurking in the mountains of Panling, but the Fifth Army did not rush to attack, but waited for Yuan Cheng to lead the army to Chengdu and confirmed that the main force of the Red Army could not return to Panling in a short time. Lin Haotian then gave the order to attack.

This night, the moon is dark and golden, and the mountains are golden, and the heat of the day is swept away, even if he is wearing military uniforms and armor. People can still feel the chilly cold.

After the Jin army withdrew from Panling, the Red Army naturally took over the lost fourth camp, and as for the first, second, and third camps, they had already been burned down when the first army attacked, and now they are in ruins.

Looking at the wall of the fourth camp, you can clearly see the Red soldiers on the night vigil one by one, draped in blankets, holding spears, and dozing listlessly.

According to the intelligence of their Red Army, the main force of the Jin Army has entered Surabaya County. It was impossible to appear in Zeping again, and the Red soldiers and soldiers also relaxed their vigilance, and the guards were lax.

Lin Haotian, Shao Lin and more than a dozen demonic underworld warriors were the first to approach the Red Army camp, and after checking for a while, Lin Haotian smiled secretly in his heart, he nodded to Shao Lin, and then ran out of the shadows and went straight to the Red Army camp.

He sprints extremely fast. And the figure is hidden from time to time, just in the blink of an eye. He reached the bottom of the wall, without pause, he flashed directly to the wall with a swift stride, and appeared beside a Red Sergeant.

The soldier was half-asleep when he suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing around him, and he subconsciously opened his eyes. Turning his head to look, he happened to see Lin Haotian who suddenly appeared.

The red soldier was stunned for a moment, and then, his eyes widened, and his mouth opened subconsciously. I was about to scream, but I didn't get a word out.

Lin Haotian's Xuantie Han Halberd had already pierced his throat first, a faint white mist was born from around him, and his eyes gradually lost their charm, and finally turned dead gray, and his body fell down softly.

Stretched out his hand to catch his corpse, and then Lin Haotian gently lowered it to the ground, but at this moment, a night patrol soldier happened to come from the steps, and when he saw Lin Haotian in black, he was taken aback, and subconsciously asked, "Who ......?"

Before his words fell, Lin Haotian had flashed in front of him like a ghost, and at the same time, the halberd body was deeply inserted into the other party's heart.

However, the low screams of the red soldier still woke up the dozing soldiers around them, and people opened their sleepy eyes one after another, but before they could see what was going on, Shao Lin and the demon warriors who followed him cut their throats one by one with lightning speed.

More than a dozen red soldiers were quietly and silently eliminated by Lin Haotian and others.

After inspecting the circle and confirming that there was no living mouth, Lin Haotian threw his head at Shao Lin and the others, flashed off the wall, and entered the camp.

Don't look at the fact that there are only a dozen of them, but they are all masters of the dark martial arts, the Jiachi army is poorly prepared, and the defense is lax, and they almost came to the gate of the camp unimpeded.

Seeing that the Red Army guarding the door was still sleeping with their heads covered, without Lin Haotian speaking, the Demon Warriors stepped forward one after another, holding the mouth of the Red Army Sergeant with one hand, and holding the knife in the other, cutting their throats like a flash of stone fire and lightning.

Pity these Red Army, many of them lost their lives in their sleep.

Cleaning up the Red Army who had arrived at the camp to guard the gate, the Demon Warrior rushed to the gate of the village, lifted the latch of the door together, and then opened the gate of the village.

Lin Haotian grabbed a torch erected on the side, walked out of the gate, and shook it outside. As he gave out the signal, the Jin army hiding outside the camp stood up from the ground in unison, and people rushed to the camp like a tide with shields and knives.

When a large number of Jin troops rushed into the camp, what happened next was a bloody massacre.

The Red Army in the fourth camp was only about 2,000 people, and most of them were sleeping soundly, and they never dreamed that the Jin Army would enter the camp unknowingly.

I saw groups of Jin troops rushing into the camp tent from time to time, there was no sound of fighting inside, only bursts of screams, scarlet blood splashed on the camp tent, dyeing the camp tent red into strips, piece by piece.

Many battered and bloodied Red soldiers struggled to crawl out of their tents, shouting for their comrades to help, but it was not the Red Army that pounced on them, but the more wolf-like Golden Army.

Under the flickering of the sword, the Red Army, who had escaped from the camp by luck, also became the ghost of the Jin soldiers, and they could not even keep a complete corpse.

This is a battle without suspense, Lin Haotian didn't even have the desire to participate in the battle, under the protection of many demon warriors and guards, he stood in the middle of the camp, shouting at the Jin soldiers who were scurrying around: "Burn! burn everything you can see!"

Lin Haotian made up his mind this time, after taking Panling, not a single camp here was left, and all of them were burned down, so that the Red Army would no longer have the possibility of defending this place in the future.

Under the command of Lin Haotian, the crazy Jin army quickly plunged the fourth camp into a sea of fire, the wall of the village became a wall of fire, the camp tent became a fire, and the wounded and captured Red soldiers were dragged alive by the Jin army and thrown into the burning camp tent, and the heart-rending screams turned the entire camp into a veritable slaughterhouse.

Exiting the camp, Lin Haotian immediately ordered to attack the fifth camp of the Red Army, and he and the Demon Warrior still took the lead.

The main force of the Red Army has been withdrawn, and there are only a handful of generals left, and they are all scattered in more than ten camps, which does not pose any threat to Lin Haotian and others at all.

Lin Haotian, Shao Lin and the demonic warriors were like no one in the red camp, and when they walked by, the red soldiers screamed and fell to the ground.

The Jin army had not yet completely captured the fifth camp, and the red-eyed Lin Haotian and Shao Lin had already gone to the sixth camp.

By the time the main force of the Jin army burned down the fifth camp and began to attack the sixth camp, Lin Haotian and others had already killed the seventh camp. Along the way, they were like bamboos, and no one could stop them, and they also messed up the defense of the Red Army, creating a lot of convenience for the main army behind them to break the camp.

It was only overnight that only one of the more than ten camps that the Red Army had painstakingly built in Panling was left, and the rest were all destroyed under the attack of the Jin Army.

In the end, the remnants of the Red Army who were defeated and defeated all fled to the last camp in the last place, and when they were added together, there were only about 10,000 people, and most of them were injured, all of them were disgraced, and they were not embarrassed.

Now, for Jin Jun, the victory is in hand.

Lin Haotian ordered the whole army to stop the attack and rest for a while, and at the same time ordered his own spies to send a message to his own army entering Surabaya, ordering it to retreat immediately and join him. (To be continued......)