As an experienced veteran, Pan Chongche's intuition is still quite accurate.

Just as the Southern Han army was all pouring into the flame-filled Chenzhou City, Chai Kewu, the left vanguard of the Southern Tang Dynasty's expedition to the south, had quietly led the army to occupy all the important places in Yunshi Valley, and at this time he was looking at the smoke-filled city in front of him, with a surging smile on his face.

Probably at the same time as the arrival of Pan Chongche's army, Chai Kewu led his light cavalry day and night to march into the city from the north gate of Chenzhou City on the afternoon of August 12.

For Chenzhou City, a small but critically located city, Chai Kewu, who personally led the army to conquer a time ago, is naturally very familiar, at this time the Wuping army in the city combined about 13,000 people, in fact, the number of Pan Chongche's army is the same, but he did not follow the advice of the generals, blindly guarding the city.

Just because this city is really not conducive to defense, even if the city wall is strong, it is really a little low, and the cramped space on the head of the city can only barely stand three or four hundred people at most, the place is really limited, and the earth and stones carried up during defense are bound to occupy a large part of the space, even if there are more than 10,000 elite soldiers, they have to honestly take turns to fight.

Therefore, when the actual battle is actually fought, it is still equivalent to hundreds of people against the enemy army under the city who move freely, and the Dongxi barbarians suffered such a big loss here in the past. In addition, at the time of the war, there must be people on the head of the city, and it is difficult for the crossbowmen to expand the formation, so they can only find opportunities to snipe point-to-point.

Chai Kewu did not want to give up defending the city and turn to the field battle, but this extremely risky approach was quickly denied in time. Just because the field battle will inevitably encounter the invincible elephant cavalry of the Han army, although these behemoths are useless to attack the city, but the power of the field battle is extremely terrifying, the previous Wuping generals have already heard in the battle report, the 30,000 army of Bian Hao Zhang Luan was trampled by this group of monsters in Yizhang......

And Chai Kewu led his generals just to the top of the city, they had already heard the unison of war elephants in the Southern Han camp from a distance, this kind of behemoth that existed in the rumors, although they had not seen it with their own eyes, just hearing the sound of the soldiers had trembled slightly, but all normal people often would not blindly and confidently challenge the unknowable dangerous things.

But after all, the commander's order was placed on the top, Chai Kewu naturally could not let the Han army easily cross the last barrier to Langzhou City, when entering the city, after hearing that the Han army was all stationed in the Yunshi Valley in the south of the city, he immediately climbed to the head of the city to look at the enemy's situation, but saw that the Han army's camp was all at a glance, and ordered the scouts to count their camp tents and banners a little, and the estimated number of enemy troops was indeed almost the same as the battle report that was learned in Linyuan City before.

Chai Kewu immediately made a timely judgment, the commander of the Han army, Pan Chongche, dared to expose his strength in front of the enemy city, in addition to his full confidence, that is, he was sure that the main force of the Wuping army was still trapped in Xizhou, and he intended to implement surprise attack tactics against time, and this battle must have the intention of a rapid attack.

This judgment is indeed reasonable, but for Pan Chongche, a veteran who has won the battle for half his life and shoulders the hope of the whole country at this time, it is not a helpless move to win in danger......

Soon, the young commander of the Wuping army made a bold plan, and began to order in an orderly order, first prepare ships quickly and secretly outside the east gate, transfer all the main forces of the army to the east gate to assemble, only select 2,000 warriors to undertake the task of defending the city, and set up several huge crossbow machines at the bottom of the pressure box allocated by Li Yuan in the tower, in order to attract firepower as much as possible.

On the first night of arrival in Chenzhou, it rained heavily, and when the Han soldiers in Yunshi Valley shivered in the camp tent and lit a brazier to keep warm, the Wuping soldiers in the city were still gritting their teeth and insisting, although they did not know what to do, but they could only honestly follow the orders of the commander Chai Kewu, a group of people set up ships outside the east gate, and another group of people prepared fire oil in the city, anxiously waiting for the arrival of tomorrow's battle.

The siege battle on August 13 lasted from morning to evening, the battle was as tragic as Chai Kewu imagined, but from beginning to end his eyes were firmly focused on the crossbow machines on the tower, these weapons developed by the ordnance supervisor still did not disappoint him, even though the Han army launched seven large-scale charges in succession, and the two thousand Wuping soldiers defending the city died heroically, Chenzhou City was miraculously defended after all.

But holding Chenzhou City is not the main role of these crossbow machines, the real intention is to make the Han army pay a heavy price, in order to attack the city in order to rush to the end of the force to invest all the troops to fight again, and as long as the Han army leaves the Yunshi Valley, Chai Kewu's "change of home" plan can be carried out smoothly. Pan Chongche did not disappoint him, and before he arrived, the scouts had already reported that the Han army had begun to move on a large scale......

Now that he finally stood above the Yunshi Valley according to the plan, although Chai Kewu had a smile on his face, he did not dare to relax his vigilance at all, so painstakingly, it was not just to successfully switch the positions of the Wuping army and the Han army, at this time, while climbing the height and looking out, he was secretly anxious, as if he was waiting for something.

Soon the sergeant came to report it, and Chai Kewu immediately turned around and hurried back to the camp, heading straight to the tall huts that the Han army had built in the camp earlier. Before I arrived, I heard a loud noise, but in front of the shed, surrounded by the sword of the Wu Ping, hundreds of dejected Han soldiers were already standing in line next to the shed.

Looking at this group of nervous prisoners, although Chai Kewu's face was calm, he had to secretly wonder, these Han soldiers were all tall, and they were all wearing a full set of brand new and sophisticated armor, others must have thought that they were the elite soldiers of the Han army, but these elite soldiers were not equipped with any weapons, and they all held a thick leather whip in their hands.

Chai Kewu frowned, but saw a general step forward and whispered, then turned around and shouted loudly, and then the Wuping sergeants all lit up their blades to force each other, these Han soldiers with long whips had no choice but to step forward, and neatly open the fence doors of the shed in turn, while chanting strange language that confused everyone, and the long whip in his hand waved "crackling".

But seeing a total of more than 500 Han soldiers, they spontaneously divided into more than 100 small teams, and each team of four or five people waited in front of the door of each shed, and kept giving orders to the inside, until a tall shed suddenly emitted a high-spirited hiss, and then the more than 100 sheds hissed in turn as if they should be in harmony, and for a time the huge sound of "Ang Woo" and "Ang Woo" echoed in the entire Marble Valley.

Where have the soldiers of Wuping seen such a scene, their faces have changed greatly, they swallowed their saliva and clenched the blades in their hands, their eyes focused on the unfathomable darkness that opened up in these more than 100 sheds, Chai Kewu was stunned for a moment, and then took a deep breath and said: "This, is this an elephant?" ”

Several subordinate generals Xu Shi had already inquired about those Han soldiers, but they were calm and relaxed, only to see one of the generals with a happy face, and replied to Chai Kewu: "Chai Du envoy, it is the legendary elephant!" This, that, and more than 100 rooms are all elephants used in the Han elephant ride! These Han soldiers are elephant trainers who specialize in controlling war elephants! It's ours! ”

Another general also hurriedly stepped forward and said with admiration on his face: "This plan is really exquisite!" At present, Chenzhou City has been completely burned by the flames, and the city gate is already crumbling, these beasts are so tall that they are estimated to collapse directly with a slight bump! All the houses in the city have been destroyed, and they are even more flat......"

"Envoy, while the Han army is in the city, quickly order an attack! If the Han army marched north, wouldn't we have wasted all this effort in vain? ”

Chai Kewu smiled lightly, shook his head vigorously, and said, "Don't be impatient!" The Han army is here alone, and now all the grain and grass are heavy, and even the war elephants are in our hands, where does Pan Chongche have the confidence to dare to take a step forward? ”