Early the next morning, Li Xin set off with 30,000 elite foot riders, drove more than 100 miles, and went south to attack Wu'an City.

As the so-called "noble soldiers", the task of this infantry cavalry is to take Wu'an by surprise with lightning speed, so as to cut off the connection between Handan and Yecheng, occupy Wu'an, and use it as a bridgehead for the subsequent attack on Yecheng.

The speed of this official army was extremely fast, and Li Xin did not forget to send scouts to Wu'an to reconnoiter while marching. The news he finally got made Li Xin frown.

"Wentai, Hua Rong, we just got a scout to report. It is said that Wu'an has closed all four doors and entered a state of high alert! There should be more than 10,000 defenders in Wu'an, and the defender is none other than Zhu Bao, the general of Fenwei! ”

Hearing this, Wentai and Mulan's expressions became very serious.

Wen Tai forked his hands and said: "General, I have heard that Zhu Bao is brave and good at fighting, good at attacking but not good at defending, at this time, the general is willing to lead an elite, pretending to be the rout of the Handan rebels, blending into the city, when the inside and outside should be combined, and take Wu'an in one fell swoop!" ”

"Nope." Li Xin waved his hand and said, "Wentai, Zhu Bao is certainly a brave general, but there is no lack of strategy. How could he risk the fall of the city to let the rout enter the city? ”

"I wonder what the general is going to do?"

"I'm going to use the enemy's strategy. In this way, our army of 30,000 people was divided into six teams, one team of 5,000 people, and at intervals of half an hour, they pretended to attack Wu'an City once. The city of Wu'an is quite large, and our army can divide troops to attack, while the rebels cannot divide troops to defend it. In this way, regardless of whether the rebels in the city divide their troops or not, our army will have a chance! ”

"Good!" Wentai and Mulan glanced at each other, and they both felt that Li Xin's plan was feasible.

Wu'an City, is a military town in Hebei since ancient times, sits on the control of Jingcheng, north to Xiangguo, Handan, south to Yecheng, belongs to the county seat of Wei County of Zhao State.

Originally, after the fall of the Zhao State and the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, Wu'an had lost its original role as a military town, and the following dynasties repaired Wu'an, but Wu'an has been reduced to an inconspicuous county seat. However, after the Shixuan rebellion, the city fortifications of Wu'an were re-strengthened, so Wu'an at this time essentially played the role of a military barrier, and its degree of ease of defense and difficulty in attacking was no less than that of Handan.

With more than 10,000 defenders, it is more than enough to hold a Wu'an city, but Li Xin's tactics are very scoundrels, and the strength of the Wu'an defenders is simply overstretched.

Next, Wentai first led 5,000 cavalry to the city of Wu'an.

"Kill!" After getting off the horse, the official army did not set up camp step by step, but did not play cards according to the routine at all, and directly launched an attack on Wu'an City.

"Bell, bell! ......" The gong hanging on the tower of the city on all sides of Wu'an sounded, and the sound of this gong represented the enemy attack.

Suddenly hearing the shouting and killing and the sound of gongs, Zhu Bao, who was originally eating breakfast, suddenly changed color, and found a personal soldier, hearing that it was the official army who was attacking, he hurriedly put on his armor, took a ring-headed knife and rode on his war horse, and ran to the city.

"Kill! Rush! ”

The movements of these officers and soldiers were very strange, don't look at them dismounting, picked up the ladder and rushed to the side of the city wall, but whenever they approached the city wall and entered the range of the defenders, they would always retreat with the command flag.

This back and forth, the rebel soldiers defending the city threw several rounds of arrows, but they shot very few enemies!

"Stop firing the arrows!"

Zhu Bao's brows furrowed, these officers and soldiers seemed to be just feints.

After a while, the officers and soldiers really receded like a tide.

Zhu Bao thought that the officials and soldiers were pretending, so he didn't care, returned to his mansion, and continued to eat breakfast.

As soon as he finished breakfast, he heard the sound of gongs and shouts of killing again, Zhu Bao was angry, but he was afraid that this time the official army was really attacking, so he picked up the ring head knife again and ran to the city.

This time, the official army was really attacking the city.

Under the command of Mulan, the 5,000 officers and soldiers rushed towards the city wall like a black cloud overpowering the city.

The officers and soldiers set up ladders and began to climb the top of the city, but only a few officers and soldiers climbed up to the top of the city and met the rebel soldiers there. However, it didn't take long for the officers and soldiers to start collecting their troops again, leaving behind less than a hundred corpses.

Zhu Baozhen was at a loss for this kind of practice of the officials and soldiers.

A general beside Zhu Bao said: "General, this may be the enemy's strategy to exhaust the enemy, intended to harass our army, and when our soldiers are exhausted, they will attack the city in one fell swoop!" ”

"How to crack?"

"You can divide the generals into two or three groups and take turns defending the city."

Hearing this, Zhu Bao waved his hand and said, "How easy is this idea of yours?" There are not many defenders in Wu'an City, and if I divide my troops to defend the city, I am afraid that the enemy will take advantage of it! ”

Zhu Bao did not listen to the general's proposal, and he suffered a lot this time.

The officers and soldiers made five feints to attack Wu'an City, with an interval of half an hour, either violently or pretendingly, without losing many soldiers and horses, but tossing enough for the rebel soldiers in the city.

Seeing the exhausted appearance of the soldiers defending the city, Zhu Bao had no choice but to divide his troops into two batches, and at the same time sent people to forcibly recruit young men in the city and ordered them to assist in defending the city.

After the sixth siege was over, Li Xin looked up at the sky, and received a report that the rebel forces on the city had decreased, so Li Xin bowed his head slightly and said, "It's time." The order went down, the whole army made a final rest, and after half an hour, the whole army attacked! ”

"Knock knock! ......" The dull sound of cowhide war drums once again sounded outside Wu'an City.

This was the seventh attack of the official army, and the rebel soldiers defending the city were very numb, but under the shouts of their respective captains, they had to take up their weapons and run to the city to fight.

This time it should be a feint! This is the thought of many rebel soldiers.

Li Xinke didn't care what the rebels were thinking, holding the reins in one hand and waving his sword in the other: "Attack!" ”

"Kill!"

Inside and outside Wu'an City, there were already corpses all over the field, stained with blood. The battlefield that has not yet been cleaned has once again ushered in a bloody storm!

Under Li Xin's order, the officers and soldiers who were full of strength had red eyes and rushed to the side of the city wall.

This official army is a long-distance attack, in addition to the necessary ladders, such as trebuchets, bed crossbows, thunderbolts and other siege equipment are not brought, so to capture the fortified city of Wu'an, it must be filled with human lives!

As far as the eye can see, under the city of Wu'an, it seems that a huge black torrent is coming.

The officers and soldiers in green clothes and black armor spread their feet and ran wildly, facing the overwhelming rain of arrows of the rebels on the city, they shouted, and climbed up the ladder to the top of the city.

"The enemy is attacking the city again?!"

Hearing the news, Zhu Bao was so angry that he threw the teacup to the ground and shattered it. But no matter how angry Zhu Bao was, the officers and soldiers outside the city were not idle.

Is there no end to this? It's been a day in a row, and I've attacked seven times!

With an indomitable momentum, the officers and soldiers quickly attacked the city, and more and more officers and soldiers went to the city and fought to the death with the rebels. When Zhu Bao rushed to the city gate angrily, the city gate had been opened by the officers and soldiers who rushed in, and what followed was the wolf-like officers and soldiers!

"Run!"

The defeat was like a mountain.

The rebels suddenly scattered, and Zhu Bao saw that the general trend had gone, so he hurriedly led a team of his own soldiers to fight his way out of the encirclement, but was unexpectedly bumped into head-on by Wentai's troops and horses!

"Suffer death!" Wentai recognized Zhu Bao, and when he saw that this guy wanted to escape in a panic, he raised a spear and stabbed straight through.

Zhu Bao hurriedly waved the ring head knife in his hand to parry a few times, left slash and slash, after a sound of "clanging", Wen Tai caught a gap, waved the spear, and immediately picked up Zhu Bao's ring head knife, and then bullied up, a shot poked a hole in Zhu Bao's heart, and immediately blood flowed!

"Zhu Bao is dead!"

With Zhu Bao's death, the leaderless rebel soldiers suddenly fell to their knees, threw their weapons, and surrendered to the official army.