The mountains are towering, vigorous and upright, as if they are the masterpieces of nature, on the high mountains, the strange rocks are craggy, and the forms are different, constituting a picture scroll full of charm.

Between the two mountainsides, there is a sheep intestine path, below the path is a turbulent river, the width of the path is not more than two feet, even the horses are difficult to pass, standing on the path, looking up, only to feel that the mountain peak is like a sword in the sky, steep and precipitous.

"Chen Shuai, what are we doing here?" Looking at this sheep intestine path, Wei Qing didn't dare to ride forward again, for fear that one of them would accidentally fall.

Chen Mo turned over and dismounted, took out the map from his arms, spread it out on the road, looked at the sheep intestine path in front of him, and after confirming that it was the one marked on the map, he said, "Wei Qing, can you see if this road can lead to the army?" ”

Wei Qing was stunned for a moment, although he didn't understand the art of war and strategy, but as a veteran, he could still understand the map, on the map, this sheep intestine path led to the rear of the Falling Horse City, he thought that Chen Mo was going to send an army to raid the Falling Horse City from this path, and immediately his face changed, and said:

"Could Chen Shuai want to raid Falling Horse City from here? This is absolutely unacceptable. This road is narrow, it is extremely difficult to open to traffic, and it is impossible to pass through the heavy grain and grass in the army, our tens of thousands of troops want to raid from here, that has to go to the year of the monkey and the month of the horse, and Liang Song is the best at scheming, if an ambush is set up at the end of the road, people do not need too many, as long as there are only hundreds of people, they can be a husband. ”

Wei Qing was afraid that Chen Mo would be impulsive.

"Definitely." Chen Mo was not so dizzy, and said: "Look at the geographical location of Falling Horse City and Shiling County, no matter which city is attacked, the other city can receive the news and send troops to support, and because of the geographical advantage, our reinforcements cannot be intercepted yet." ”

"Chen Shuai wants to send a force to pass by this road, and then place it in the rear of Falling Horse City to ambush the enemy's reinforcements?" Wei Qing was stunned, although this was more reliable than a surprise attack, the probability of success was still very small.

Chen Mo still shook his head and said, "At present, the enemy army knows the movements of our army well, but we have very little understanding of the enemy army, so I plan to send you and Commander Sun, and then select a few good men from my own soldiers, and through this road, insert themselves into the rear of the enemy army to explore the movement of the enemy's troops." ”

Hearing this, Wei Qing was shocked, this can be said to be a heavy responsibility, and at the same time, the number of dangers is also high, once discovered, he can't escape the fate of being caught and killed.

"Guaranteed to get the job done." Feeling Chen Mo's attention, Wei Qing hesitated for a while, but agreed.

"Remember to change into civilian clothes, there are few people, and it is not easy to be found in the mountains and forests, pay attention to camouflage." Chen Mo patted Wei Qing's shoulder and said.

"No."

……

On the evening of March 25, Wei Qing, Sun Meng, and five personal soldiers, a total of seven people, dressed in civilian clothes and armed only with knives, passed through the sheep intestine path in the mountain range between Yangcheng and Falling Horse City, and sneaked towards Falling Horse City.

On March 26, Chen Mo led Zhang He and Hu Qiang to lead 1,000 Shenwu guards, 1,000 trap guards and logistics teams to stay in Tianshui Town, and then personally led the army out of Tianshui Town and went straight to Falling Horse City.

In the afternoon of the same day, the enemy scouts in Falling Horse City found out the movements of Chen Mo's army and immediately went back to report.

On the evening of 29 March, the army set up camp ten miles away from the city of Falling Horses.

At the same time, the enemy scouts of Falling Horse City also came to Shiling County quickly, and told Liang Song the news that Chen Mo's army was about to attack Falling Horse City, and Liang Song left Qin Lang to sit in Shiling County, and took his own military camp to Falling Horse City.

Early in the morning of the 30th, Chen Mo sent an envoy to issue a war letter to the defenders of the Falling Horse City, and led the troops to the front of the city to call for battle.

There is a saying in the book of war that calling the formation has three functions.

The first function is to persuade surrender.

The second role is to rationalize and moralize one's own military operations.

I already knew that the current Tianshi Army was not the previous thief army, but the official army really appointed by the imperial court, but the Yuzhou Army had become a thief army, and its identity had been reversed.

The third effect is to demoralize the other side.

For the Yuzhou army, they have always thought that they are the side of the imperial court, and guarding Yuzhou is to protect the family and the country, and they are the righteous side, but now they are told that they have become a thief, and their mentality will change somewhat.

At this point, Xia Zhining reminded Chen Mo.

But the Yuzhou army in Horse City was determined to be a shrinking turtle, ignoring Chen Mo and them at all, and also hung a war-free card on the city wall.

In the afternoon of the same day, Chen Mo pushed the catapult to the front army, and the catapult in his current hand reached thirty, and launched an offensive against the Falling Horse City.

Chen Mo did not attack the city in an all-out way, but launched a feint, so the Yuzhou army easily defended it.

But before they could rest for long, Chen Mo launched a second round of feints.

In the evening, smoke rose in the city, and cooking began in the city.

That's when it happened.

"Knock Knock"

The sound of majestic war drums sounded outside the city, and the defenders of Yuzhou, who were resting in the city, hurriedly came to the city wall to guard.

Sure enough, Chen Mo's army launched another siege.

Just when the Yuzhou army thought that the thief army was feinting again, they saw black shadows thrown into the city.

"Boom Boom"

Suddenly, the sound of thunder exploded in the city, and the cooking stove built by the Huotou battalion in the city was directly destroyed by the aftermath of the black shadow explosion, and the food was scattered all over the ground, and the city was filled with a thick smell of gunsmoke.

Just when the Yuzhou army in the city had not yet reacted, another black shadow was thrown in from outside the city, and then everyone saw clearly that these black shadows were clay pots.

A soldier slashed at him with a sword, and in an instant, a violent wave of air struck him.

He only had time to let out a cry of surprise before he fell heavily to the ground, and his eyes turned black for a while.

Boom Boom Boom !!

The earthquake trembled, and the eardrum tingled, as if Lei Gong had descended into the world.

The originally silent Falling Horse City, at this moment, boiled in an instant, falling into boundless panic.

"Grandpa Lei spares his life!"

"The earth moved, the earth moved."

"Lei Gong has appeared again."

Where has the Yuzhou army seen such a battle, even if they have seen it before, they don't understand the specific reason, and they should be Lei Gong's manifestation.

The Yuzhou army in the city ran wildly in all directions, like headless flies.

On the hill on the left side of Falling Horse City, Chen Mo, Liu Ze, Cui Shuang, and Xia Zhining watched everything that happened in the city from afar.

Liu Ze and Xia Zhining had experienced it before, so they were not particularly shocked, but Cui Shuang was dumbfounded.

He knew that Chen Mo had the title of "Chen Immortal Master", and he thought that this was a title respected by the people, or that Chen Mo used some tricks to fool the people.

But as I see now, Chen Mo really has an "immortal law".

Cui Shuang was puzzled: "Chen Shuai, why don't you use this kind of technique to destroy the city wall?" Wouldn't it be easy to siege the city? ”

Chen Mo shook his head: "How can the city wall be so easy to destroy. ”

Chen Mo didn't think about using a fire pot bomb to blow up the city wall, but after a few experiments, he found that although the power could crack stones, in the face of the city wall of more than ten meters, it couldn't be blown up at all, and he could only blow up some city gates without jack gates, so he had no choice but to give up.

His current knowledge points are that to increase the power of gunpowder is to add some sugar, as for how to increase the power of the explosion, he doesn't know.

Unless it's a powder jar the size of a water tank.

Looking at the position where the Yuzhou army was hiding in the city, Chen Mo ordered: "Order, let all catapults aim in the direction of Kun and fire a salvo!" ”

"No."

Liu Ze stepped back.

After a while, the command flag on the mountain waved, and the flag officer who was responsible for controlling the catapult at the foot of the mountain immediately ordered to go down after receiving the order.

All catapults are angled, the faucets are aligned, the canisters are loaded, and the fuses are ignited.

"Put."

With a wave of the flag, dozens of fire canister bombs were suddenly thrown towards the Falling Horse City.

Another round of explosions.

Because it was the time of the meal, the Yuzhou army in the city was relatively densely gathered, and after several rounds of bombardment, the Yuzhou army suffered heavy casualties.

The most critical thing is that it leads to low morale.

There are also Yuzhou sergeants who knelt on the ground and kowtowed, begging Lei Gong to spare his life.

Chen Mo saw that the time had come and ordered the siege of the city.

Under the city, the drums beat loudly, the trapping guard was the vanguard, the Shenyong guard was the middle army, and the Shenwu guard was behind, rushing towards the falling horse city.

This time, it's not a feint.

Chen Mo stood on the top of the mountain, staring closely at the siege battle hundreds of meters away.

It's been a quarter of an hour, and I still can't push it up.

There is a cloud in the art of war: go to the army to plan, then attack the enemy, then attack the army, and then attack the city.

Sure enough, the method of attacking the city will only be done as a last resort.

The little force in Chen Mo's hand was not as large as Lu Yonggang at the beginning, and if he forcibly attacked the city, the casualties would be too great.

After observing for a while, Chen Mo ordered: "Mingjin retreats!" ”

"Bell"

A hurried gong sounded, and the siege guards suddenly faded like a tide, leaving corpses all over the ground.

"Hahaha."

On the city wall, the defenders of the Yuzhou Army erupted in cheers.

They repelled the attack of the thief army, and when Lord Liang came, they could ask for credit.

But what they don't know is that this is only the beginning of the torture.

When he was young, Chen Mo ordered a night attack.

At the same time, it was a feint, and when the Yuzhou army came to the city to prepare for battle, Chen Mo ordered the troops to be collected.

After that, until Liang Song arrived in the past few days of Falling Horse City, Chen Mobu continued to harass Falling Horse City, besieging but not attacking, and the soldiers and soldiers of Yuzhou were about to be tortured to the point of malaise.

At the same time, Chen Mo also received the news that Liang Song had come to Falling Horse City, and immediately ordered to launch another night attack tonight.

……

Late at night.

In the Ya of Shenmacheng County, Liang Song was discussing with a group of generals.

At this moment, a majestic drum sounded outside, and Shi Meng hurriedly reported: "My lord, the thief army has attacked the city." ”

The general defending the city on the side of the fallen horse city said: "The thief army must be besieging but not attacking, and it has been like this every time in the past few days." ”

"Don't be careless, follow me up to the city wall to meet the enemy." Liang Song did not let his guard down and took the lead in walking out.

And by the time Liang Song reached the city wall, the thief army had already retreated, and the surrounding defenders pouted: "It's like this again, aren't they tired?" ”

Liang Song looked at the retreating figure of the thief army, his eyes narrowed slightly: "Are you playing tricks?"

(End of chapter)