When Li Zheng and the mule came, they saw their eldest brother sitting in the living room with Shi to eat.

"Master Chu. ”

The two walked in and were about to salute, when they saw their eldest brother waving his hand and said, "Don't be polite, sit down!"

The two sat on the left and right of their eldest brother according to their words.

Zhang Chu held a steamed bun in his hand: "Have you finished counting the casualties......?" How many brothers are still alive. ”

In the previous siege battle, the city guards, the box army, and the people were almost exhausted, and Zhang Chu was reluctant, so he could only fill in the three thousand brothers that the Silian Gang had saved up with great difficulty.

At that time, he had no choice, no way.

When the mule and Li Zheng heard this, they all looked at Zhang Chu with worried eyes.

Zhang Chuguang looked at the hesitant appearance of the two of them, and felt that the steamed bun in his hand was hundreds of catties heavier.

"Say it!"

He took a deep breath and said softly, "I'm mentally prepared. ”

Mule and Li Zheng quickly exchanged a complicated look.

Helpless.

Apprehension.

I can't bear it.

But I have to say.

What kind of character his eldest brother is, no one in the Quadruple knows better than the two of them.

The casualties of the Quadruple Gang were so heavy this time that when they told the eldest brother the detailed casualties, they undoubtedly stabbed him in the heart with a knife.

But now that the war is over, the matter can no longer be delayed.

They didn't have the guts to lie to him.

The mule hesitated for a long time, but still hesitated and whispered: "There are still nine hundred and forty-two brothers who are intact and lightly injured, four hundred and thirty-eight who are seriously injured and disabled, and the rest of the brothers are gone, and we have only recovered more than three hundred corpses." ”

Zhang Chu kept saying that he was mentally prepared, but when he heard the accurate figures, he still felt that his heart was almost out of breath.

He didn't feel sorry for the loss of the foundation of the Silian Gang.

As long as he is still here, he can easily create another foundation that is even bigger than the Quadruple Gang.

He was distressed by so many lively brothers, and because of one of his orders, most of them were gone.

The corpses were destroyed in the flames of the siege......

This is to let them collect paper money in the future, and there is no place to collect it!

As soon as the mule and Li Zheng saw that his eyes were starting to turn red, they hurriedly stood up, one poured tea for him, and the other gave him a good breath.

"Don't worry, don't worry...... The brothers died defending the AllHeavens, and the people of the AllenHeavens were grateful to them, and this morning, many people came to the helm of our Quadruple Gang to take their spiritual seats back, saying that they would be worshiped for generations. ”

Zhang Chu took the tea bowl handed over by the mule and drank it in one gulp, calming down for a while before he took a breath.

He forced himself to stop thinking about those vivid faces, and forcibly changed the topic: "Have the four city gates been lifted?"

The mule knew what he was going to ask, and replied, "The ban has been lifted, and the brothers sent from the side of Kotou Mountain and blocked outside the city by the Northern Barbarian army have already entered the city this morning." ”

Zhang Chu gasped slightly and asked, "How is the situation on the other side of Kotou Mountain?"

"Elder Yang has already gained a firm foothold in the vicinity of Wuqu County, and thanks to your handwritten letter, the county lieutenant of Wuqu County did not dare to find trouble with Goutou Mountain. ”

"What about the food?"

"Solved for the time being. ”

"How?"

"The brothers who went out to buy grain bought some of it, and the rest, Elder Yang led people to encircle and suppress all the cottages and bandit strongholds near Gotoushan, and copied a batch of grain, according to the brothers who came from the other side of Gotoushan, the grain stored in Kotoushan was enough to sustain 20,000 people for three months. ”

"Three months?"

Zhang Chu frowned, and calmed down to analyze the current situation in Jintian Mansion.

The Zhenbei Army withdrew into Allen.

For the time being, it seems that both the Zhenbei Army and AllBright Mansion are safe.

With the strength of the Zhenbei Army and the number of Qihai Dahao, if the city is defended, there is hope that it will drag down the logistics supply of the Northern Barbarian Army and win the war......

Wrong!

The Northern Barbarians were nomadic peoples, and their own logistical supplies were indeed weak.

But now they have captured the three counties of Yanqi County, Zhige County, and Zhuma County, and half of Xuanbei Prefecture.

The grain and grass of these three counties, together with their own supplies, would greatly enhance the war potential of the Northern Barbarians.

And after the 50,000 horses of the Zhenbei Army in Jintian Mansion are added, the logistics of grain and grass will be tight, and if the city is defended, it is not necessarily necessary to consume many northern barbarians!

Moreover, Jintian Mansion is not Yongming Pass after all, and it can't withstand dozens of Qi Sea tycoons to concentrate on the war.

Not to mention anything else, let's just say that the four city gates of Jintianfu can't withstand the bombardment of many qi sea giants at the same time......

It is necessary to know that in siege warfare, the city gate cannot be sealed, because once the city gate is sealed, it is equivalent to losing the opportunity to counterattack.

If you lose the advantage of defending the city, you will be defeated by the 50,000 remnants of the Zhenbei Army, and it is impossible to be the opponent of the 150,000 army of the Northern Barbarians.

If the Zhenbei Army is the opponent of the Northern Barbarian Army, it is impossible for the Northern Barbarian Army to be driven from the Northern Xinjiang to Jintianfu like a rabbit.

In other words, there is a high chance that the Zhenbei Army will not fight the Northern Barbarian Army in Jintianfu!

There is a way ass to decide the head.

This kind of complicated situation, if it was changed to before, even if Zhang Chu wanted to break his head, he would definitely not be able to deduce a reason.

But after two months as a county soldier Cao, and commanding 10,000 soldiers and horses to fight such a tragic siege battle with the Northern Barbarians, he knew the advantages and disadvantages of both sides of the siege war, as well as the various means that might be used.

Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, the deduction is natural and smooth.

But this result made his face gradually gloomy again.

"Convey the location of Wu Qianyuan to Yang Chang'an, and ask him to send someone to find Wu Qianyuan, and ask his gang to raise enough food for 20,000 people to eat for three months, and must immediately organize people to farm...... Jintianfu, I'm afraid it still can't be held!"

He whispered with a sinking face.

When the mule and Li Zheng heard this, their faces both appeared hesitant.

It's not that they don't believe in Zhang Chu, but the seemingly prosperous military appearance of the Zhenbei Army has given them too much confidence.

Actually, it's not just them.

Even after Zhang Chu saw the menacing and menacing military appearance of the Zhenbei Army yesterday, he had a blind confidence in the Zhenbei Army.

When the weak meet a strong enemy, they will always pin their hopes on the strong.

Compared with the Zhenbei Army, Jintianfu is no different from the difference between a babbling baby and an eight-foot athlete!

Not to mention the 50,000 warriors, the more than 20 Qi Sea Heroes who surrounded the champion Hou Shizi yesterday alone were a terrifying force powerful enough to destroy Jintian Mansion many times!

"You two don't think about it, just do what I say!"

Zhang Chu didn't bother to explain so much to the two of them, and directly pressed the order.

He said so, and the mule dared to hesitate.

"Yes, when the subordinates turned around, they sent someone to deliver the news to Elder Yang. ”

"By the way, have you found out where the fifteen thousand Northern Barbarian army in Zhige County went before?"

Zhang Chu asked another question that had been backlogged in his mind for a long time.

The 15,000 Northern Barbarian army did not come to Jintianfu, which can be said to have spared the lives of the people in Jintianfu.

If the 35,000 Northern Barbarian army came to the city, and there were at least three Qi Sea Heroes among them, even if Zhang Chu could play the 13,000 people at that time, he would definitely not be able to keep Jintianfu!

He has always been suspicious that the 15,000 Northern Barbarian Army is the back road of the Northern Army of Chezhen.

But whether it is or not, we have to find out after the Blood Shadow Guard investigates.

"Clear!"

The mule affirmed Zhang Chu's guess: "The back road of the Northern Army of Chezhen has gone!"

According to the news from his subordinates, the Zhenbei Army has been besieged by the Northern Barbarians in a place called Anning County under the jurisdiction of Yanqi County, which is close to the Xuanyan Grand Canal, surrounded by water on both sides, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Northern Barbarians have been attacking for more than half a month, but they have not been able to attack it. ”

"The fifteen thousand in Zhige County is to block the border of Yanqi County. ”

"And the 25,000 Northern Barbarian Army in Zhuma County is responsible for attacking our Jintian Mansion, completely cutting off the retreat of the Zhenbei Army, and attempting to strangle the Zhenbei Army in the four counties. ”

"No wonder!"

When Zhang Chu heard this, his heart suddenly brightened.

It's no wonder that the 20,000 Northern Barbarian troops who came from Zhuma County will fight to annihilate the entire army and knock Jintianfu to the death!

It turned out that their goal was not only the county capital of AllHeaven, which was not of great strategic significance.

The target of the Northern Barbarian Army has always been the Zhenbei Army besieged in Anning County!

That's right, too.

The Zhenbei Army is good at guarding.

And the Northern Barbarians are good at field warfare.

Although the Zhenbei Army only had less than 50,000 troops left, with the special geographical advantage of Anning County, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, if the Northern Barbarians blindly attacked, at least they would have to pay a price of more than 100,000 people to break through Anning County.

That's it, there is no guarantee of total annihilation.

Because there are too many Qi Sea Heroes in the Zhenbei Army, once the ratio of forces between the two sides drops to a certain level, those more than 20 Qi Sea Heroes alone will be enough to protect the Zhenbei Army and forcibly break through the siege.

Like the Zhenbei Army, which has a broad mass base in Xuanbei Prefecture and has fought an iron-blooded army soul in the decades-long battle against the Northern Barbarians, to some extent, it can even be regarded as a strong army of the Northern Barbarian nemesis, even if only a thousand people are released, the Zhenbei Army will recover!

The assault was fierce and unsafe.

In contrast, the first capture of Jintianfu, and then let the Zhenbei Army enter the encirclement of the four counties of Yanqi County, Zhige County, Wuding County, and Zhuma County that had fallen, and use the cavalry movement warfare that the northern barbarian army is best at to consume the living force of the Zhenbei Army little by little, until the Zhenbei Army is completely destroyed, which can reduce casualties and be safe.

It just so happened that the Zhenbei Army had been trying its best to break through to the south.

Yielded.

Give somebody a dose of his own medicine.

Why not?

That's right!

The problem lies in the local battlefield of AllHeaven.

The Northern Barbarians attacked Jintianfu for the first time, because they had the Wu clan as their internal response, and they entered Jintianfu.

Although in the end, because of Shi Anzai's outbreak, he failed to take Jintian Mansion in one fell swoop, but he also figured out the reality of Jintian Mansion.

In terms of the situation when Zhang Chu took over the post of county soldier Cao, in the entire Jintian Mansion, there were only more than 1,000 remnants of the defeated generals!

The Northern Barbarians attacked Jintianfu with an army of 20,000, and they had already used a knife to kill chickens!

If there are no accidents, it is absolutely foolproof!

But the Northern Barbarians may not know that the new person who took over as the soldier of Jintianfu County was a gang leader named Zhang Chu.

Or maybe he knows, but he didn't take Zhang Chu in his eyes.

But he didn't want to, Zhang Chu used the hooligan method of developing the gang offline, and within a month and a half, he pulled up an army of 13,000 people!

What's even more erroneous is that in order to be able to quickly support the city gates and train recruits, Zhang Chu, the old Yin Bi, has always held a large number of reserves in his hands, so that the defense line of the four city walls has always been in a crumbling state.

It seems that as long as the Northern Barbarian army attacks in the next round, it will be able to break through the crumbling defense line of Jintianfu.

Who wants to use their brains to be positive?

As a result, the two sides fought to add fuel to the tactic......

Of course, among them, Zhang Chu also robbed the camp with a hundred horsemen in a fit of anger and slaughtered nearly 5,000 people of the Northern Barbarian Army in the first battle.

By the time this northern barbarian army found that they had gnawed a hard bone and broken their front teeth, it was too late......

At that time, they could only hope that a high-intensity assault could drag down and grind down the defense line of the four gates of Jintianfu.

As for the last one of the three great heroes of the Northern Barbarian Qi Sea joining forces to storm the southern city gate, it was already a desperate gamble for the Northern Barbarian army along the way.

Unfortunately, they lost the gamble and went bankrupt.

What's even more regrettable is that Zhang Chu won the gamble and lost the table.

......

"Do you know how the Northern Barbarian army finally broke through the encirclement?"

The mule smiled and sold a pass to Zhang Chu.

Zhang Chu pondered for a while, shook his head and said, "I don't know." ”

If he was the commander of the Zhenbei Army, he really couldn't think of any good way to bring out the 50,000 troops trapped under the encirclement of more than 100,000 Northern Barbarian troops.

"On that night five days ago, when you commanded five hundred armor soldiers to go out of the city and rob the camp, what tricks did you use, do you remember?"

The mule's complexion changed, and he no longer concealed the adoration in his eyes.

Zhang Chu was stunned, and suddenly reacted: "Firecrackers break the cavalry?"

"Yes!"

The mule struck the festival and exclaimed: "According to the news that your subordinates have found out from the Zhenbei army, the Zhenbei army has learned your method and used firecrackers to break the blockade of the Northern Barbarians' fierce cavalry at night, and overnight, it has broken through the four defense lines of the Northern Barbarians!

Zhang Chu suddenly said: "No wonder yesterday when the Zhenbei Army entered the city, the champion Hou Shizi was the first to look for me, and he said that 'offering a plan to break the enemy' promoted me by two levels, it turned out to be this reason." ”

He was a fake county soldier Cao before, from the seventh grade.

The guerrilla general promoted by the champion Hou Shizi was from the fifth grade.

It's just that the fake county soldier Cao is the real official of the county government.

And the guerrilla general is just a military officer with an empty rank.

That is, when you are not fighting, you stay where you are cool, and you can do whatever you like, but once the fight starts, even if you are rolling the sheets, you have to immediately lift your pants and roll into the Zhenbei Army, a reserve general who commands the army.

It's just that this reserve belongs to the Zhenbei Army system.

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