Chapter 305: Falling short

Chapter 3o5 falls short

"Victory is ours"

It's a belief, or rather, it's a pursuit, and everyone has a desire to win, and no one wants to fail

Li Shiqi also said the same thing to their soldiers, they also wanted to pursue victory, but they failed, the reason is simple, because they are not the protagonists, they are just playing tricks. To read the latest chapters, please lock the biquge.info of Aishang Novels

Everyone wants to be the protagonist, but unfortunately, there will always be only one protagonist, but there can be many dragon sets.

Li Shiqi failed, and after three days of continuous attack, he suddenly appeared, and he could not achieve victory. There are more and more defenders of Donggong City, and there are fewer and fewer soldiers under him. You can't fight such a battle

Half of the 30,000 men have now been lost, and they have lost faith in this victory that does not see the light of day. If this blow is not big enough, then the next blow will be fatal to them.

Three days, only three days, Zhailiang, Dafu, Xinyu, Toudong, Aoli, Fancheng, West Rail six cities, all lost.

In just three days, the territory that once belonged to the Flame Army was lost almost at the same time. The same three days, the same siege, they lost fifteen thousand men, but they gained nothing. They hadn't even stepped on the top of the city once, and they had taken six of them.

Is this ironic?

The reality is always so cruel, in fact, it is not ironic, they just didn't succeed. History is where the victors write their exploits, and if they succeed, it is not irony, but a ruin

"Young Marshal, Li Shiqi's troops, it seems that there are signs of retreat"

Xuan Ri told Hu Wei what she thought about it, she was very busy in the past three days, but she had results. In just three days, she initially integrated the militia units. From 10,000 on the first day, it has now grown to 30,000, and she can increase it if needed.

"If you want to run, we can't let them run. Although Jebe has made some achievements, she has too few people on hand to fight hard with Li Shiqi's troops. We must wipe out Li Shiqi's people in the vicinity of Donggong City, otherwise everything we have done before will be wasted."

Xuan Ri hurriedly said: "But our number is even smaller, and the soldiers of the Internal Guard Regiment in our hands are less than 2,000, do you want to eat Li Shiqi with these 2,000 people? Although Li Shiqi was hit by Yan Zòng this time, there are still 15,000 people in his hands, and his strength is far above us."

Hu Wei smiled: "Who said two thousand, didn't you already have 30,000 militia units in your hands?"

Xuan Ri hurriedly said: "But they are not trained, it is okay to defend the city, what kind of blocking mission is going to be carried out, they can't do it with Ben."

Hu Wei shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter, as long as they can push stones, I don't need them too much."

"Pushing stones?"

Xuan Ri looked at Hu Wei puzzled, although she was very smart, but she couldn't understand this kind of brainless words.

Hu Wei walked to the map and beckoned to Xuanri: "You come and take a look, you will understand." ”

Xuan Ri walked over and saw Hu Wei's finger, pointing to a place on the map - Tiger Chong.

Very strange place name, according to legend, this place, inhabited by a lot of fierce tigers, as soon as they see people, they rush out. Legend has it that there are not many such things, but the terrain here is dangerous, and it is true.

This is a valley road, almost on a par with the famous Ray of Heaven. The road is not wide, can only accommodate two horses in parallel, about two kilometers long, both sides are high cliffs, if someone occupies the cliff, and then block the two ends, the people inside, basically a death.

"You want to use Tiger Rush?"

Xuanri looked at the map and understood what Hu Wei meant, but she still put forward a different opinion: "Although this is a good place for ambushes, with Li Shiqi's ability, it is impossible not to guard against this place, I'm afraid it will not be so easy to succeed."

Hu Wei nodded and said, "If it's a simple use, of course it's not so easy." If Li Shiqi was really that stupid, he wouldn't be alive now.

I'm going to use Tiger Rush, but my goal is not there, it's this."

Hu Wei's finger swiped across the map, slid over Tiger Chong, and dotted on a clearing behind Tiger Chong.

"Oxcart Ping? Where are you going to stop Li Shiqi? There is a flat river, and there is no danger and there is defense. ”

"It is precisely because there is no danger to defend that Li Shiqi would not have thought that we would be there and eat him in one fell swoop, my plan is like this. ”

Hu Wei pulled Xuanri and explained the ideas in his heart to Xuanri one by one, in order to complete this plan, the 2,000 people under Hu Wei's current command must be insufficient, and the militia in Xuanri's hands must cooperate.

"General Li, what should we do now?"

In the camp of the Agni Army, Li Shiqi was holding a military meeting. Since the news came that all the six cities in the rear had been lost, the morale of the army has been unstable. Liu Guangda led 150,000 people to attack Langtian, but until now, no favorable news has been returned, and all the seven cities in the hands of the Agni Fire Army have been lost. Now that the Flame Army has no way out, who can sit still

"Hu Wei really has some ability"

Li Shiqi has no bottom in his heart, but he must hold on at this time, if he is also messed up, then the Fire Army will really be over.

Li Shiqi's words made many people roll their eyes in their hearts, if they didn't have the ability, they wouldn't have achieved today's results. As a loser, calling your opponent capable does not erase your own incompetence.

This time, the reason why he came to this point was completely because there was a problem with Li Shiqi's command, if he hadn't lost the cave arch city first, and then poured out, wanting to fight with Hu Wei, it would not have made Zhailiang and other six cities empty of troops, so that people would take advantage. Now he still has the face to say that people have some ability, and I don't know how he was favored by the big boss

Li Shiqi looked at the reactions of the generals one by one. continued: "Hu Wei has some ability, but we didn't lose. According to the news sent back by Tanma, this time it was Hu Wei's head of the internal guard regiment who led people to attack Zhailiang and other six cities. This woman has been Hu Wei's personal guard for a long time, and she was forcibly promoted to the top by Hu Wei, and she has not waved her fingers in many wars, and she is only a Japanese product, whether it is in terms of experience or ability, she is not very sufficient.

She now has only about 5,000 people on hand, but she occupies six cities in one go, and on average, each city is only more than 800 people. We still have 15,000 men and horses on hand, as long as we return to the army with all our strength, it will not be difficult to recover the six cities. Do any of you think that we can't defeat a mere 800 of our 15,000 men?"

Li Shiqi's words made the generals of the Flame Army ignite their fighting spirit again. The situation doesn't seem to be as bad as imagined, they can't beat Hu Wei, they can't beat a little girl with no combat experience?

"What if Hu Wei leads his troops to follow and pursue us?"

An officer asked a question, and his lips were a little white at the mention of Hu's name. In the past three days, more than 200 officers of all ranks have died under Hu Wei's arrows. Hu Wei's elusive arrow is really terrifying.

"Pursuit?" Li Shiqi shook his hand and said, "Don't you dare." Hu Wei will not have more than 3,000 usable soldiers in his hands now, and those city-dwellers can still be of some use in defending the city, and it is useless to pursue them. If Hu Wei dares to come out of that turtle shell, I can't wait for it."

Shiping City, Qin Ming military camp.

Qin Ming once again stood in front of the map, judging the shape of Yanzhou according to the information in his hand.

Conrad and Ma Zeben sat there with a convincing expression, waiting for Qin Ming's analysis. The last time Qin Ming said a word, Hu Wei really sent someone to take Zhailiang and other six cities, they all wanted to hear what Qin Ming would say this time.

This time, Qin Ming didn't speak, he drew a circle on the map, thinking quietly, Kang Ma and the two didn't dare to disturb Qin Ming, so they could only wait quietly.

Waiting, that is, half an hour, Qin Ming still didn't say a word, Ma Zeben couldn't sit still, and asked boldly: "General Qin Ming, how are we doing now?"

Qin Ming glanced at Ma Zeben and asked, "What do you think?"

Ma Zeben hesitated for a moment and said: "It's hard to say, I think Hu Wei made a wrong move this time, the situation on the side of Donggong City is so tense, why should he pull the strength of the two regiments to the south of Yanzhou, instead of pulling them to the north to support Donggong City or to Langtian." ”

A hint of contempt flashed in Qin Ming's eyes, and he raised his voice and said, "Do you think Hu Wei made a wrong move?" So according to your judgment, where will the strength of Hu You's two regiments end up?"

Conrad searched all over the map, and suddenly said: "Hu Wei wants to pull the troops to Rongsi, and he wants to deal with us"

Qin Ming threw out the map he had held in his hand before, nodded at Rong Si, who was circled by him, and said, "Hu Wei is not dealing with us, he wants to warn us not to meddle in the affairs of Yanzhou." ”

Ma Zeben gritted his teeth and said, "Then let's just watch Hu Wei take Yanzhou into his pocket?"

Qin Ming smiled and said, "Hu Wei is very ambitious, and he has a very good grasp of the timing. In the early days of the storm, he stood still, allowing all kinds of cows, ghosts, snakes and gods to jump out, and now he wants to take Yanzhou all in one fell swoop with thunderous means. We certainly cannot sit idly by and watch his tricks succeed. After watching it for so long, it's time for us to do something. ”

Conrad was overjoyed when he heard this: "General Qin Ming, are we going to send troops?"

"Send troops? hahaha, let's play first"

"General Li Shiqi, there is a tiger in front of you, the terrain here is dangerous, we must be more careful."

Li Shiqi glanced at his lieutenant with satisfaction, nodded and said, "Send a small team to get through Guò quickly first, and check the terrain everywhere." The troops were divided into front, middle and rear, with 5,000 men in each team, and the interval was ten minutes."

"Yes, General"

Watching the troops act according to orders, Li Shiqi felt a little comforted. To the outside world, the Flame Army is an army of mobs. Only the core members know that although there are mobs in this force, they are fundamentally different from the mob. This is because the commanders at all levels in the army are all people who have been trained in military style for many years. To put it mildly, this is a regular army

Although this time, he suffered losses in Donggong City, but the loss of tens of thousands of people was nothing to him. Now is the era of violence, as long as you have money in your hands, you can have a large number of soldiers.

Li Shiqi is very careful to command the troops to pass the tiger chong, but one, two, can not be three and four, in the face of Hu Wei, he has already made a lot of mistakes, and if there is a problem, the big boss in the background should be unhappy

"The young marshal, the vanguard of the Agni Army, has passed through the tiger rush. It is estimated that the time for all the people to pass Guò will be about half an hour. ”

Hu Wei glanced around at the two thousand soldiers of the Internal Guard Regiment who were making the final preparations before the war, and nodded: "Very good, is the militia ready?"

This time, Hu Wei once again used the mountainous area behind Donggong City, and at the same time as Li Shiqi's troops withdrew, he ordered to leave Donggong City. Due to the terrain, they were several hours ahead of the Agni Army and ahead of Li Shiqi.

It was a risky military operation, both in terms of the timing of the withdrawal and the high demands for secrecy. Once Li Shiqi is not right, he will turn the cave arch city. Then Donggong City is an empty city, and a few days of bloody battles will no longer be meaningful. Zhailiang and other six cities will also lose their support.

Fortunately, so far, it seems that a qiē is all shun lì. Thanks to Xuanri's help, it was she who commanded the militia units and completed the cover

Now, with her militia troops, Xuanri is following behind the Agni. As soon as the war in Niucheping was in place, she would take the militia and block Li Shiqi's back road.

"It's ready, as long as the Flame Army is all cleared by the Tiger Rush, they will occupy the high ground and block the back road of the Flame Army"

Hu Wei was just about to order the whole army to prepare for action, when suddenly his face changed drastically and he looked in the direction of Tiger Chong, and said angrily: "What happened there, why is there a fire burning?"

The sudden burning mountain fire attracted the attention of people from three quarters, and the first to make a move was the Agni Army. As soon as Li Shiqi saw the mountain fire, he immediately ordered the troops to stop advancing, and the front team turned to the rear team and withdrew from Tiger Chong.

Xuanri is now in a big problem, and Li Shiqi's sudden turn of head makes her miss the hand. She has 5,000 militia in her hands, and according to the plan, they only need to use stones to seal the way out of the old war, even if they complete the task, they don't need to directly engage Li Shiqi's troops, and they don't have the ability to fight.

The one who really participated in the battle was Hu Wei's 2,000 men and horses, and his task was to suddenly attack Li Shiqi's whole army when the formation was unstable. With the powerful offensive of five consecutive crossbows, Li Shiqi's fire army was pressed back into the tiger chong. The rest of the work, then it is really pushing the stone to solve the problem.

One wall at both ends, the stones on the mountain kept falling, not to mention that Li Shiqi only had 15,000 people, even if he had 100,000 people, he would have to die in the tiger chong.

However, this battle plan was simply destroyed by a mountain fire that suddenly ignited. If there was a fire on the road ahead, Li Shiqi would definitely judge that there was an ambush ahead, so he hurriedly turned his troops around and withdrew from the dangerous place of Tiger Chong.

What to do?

The militia of the Vortex Sun and Ben had no way to resist the attack of the Flame Army, and now there were two options in front of Hu Wei. First, if you make a mistake, you will make a mistake and immediately order an attack. The other, naturally, is to immediately lead people out of the battle. But if you do this, the 5,000 militia will be finished. They didn't have the strength to fight the Flame Army head-on.

2,000 people and 15,000 people went head-to-head, even if there were five crossbows, Hu Wei would not be pleased. But if those militias were left alone in their losses, it would not only be a serious obstacle to his militia plans, but would also cause him to lose a large amount of popular support. The loss is immeasurable.

To fight or not to fight, this is a dilemma, but Hu Wei has no time to think about it now, he must make a decision in an instant, the more it drags on, the more severe the consequences will be

Hu Wei now hates the person who set the fire to death, if he knows who did the good thing, he will definitely eat that guy alive

"General Qin Ming, let's just set the fire like this, okay?"

Ma Zeben's face was black and gray, and when he spoke, the two rows of teeth turned up and down, and it was really scary to look at.

Qin Ming's face was also stained with a lot of ash, but he was much better than Ma Zeben, only a little dirty.

Conrad was the worst, this guy accidentally let the fire take it, ignited his clothes, and almost didn't become a roast pig. The mud rolled all over his body didn't count, and most of his clothes were burned, and he was stuffy there, and he didn't dare to speak.

Qin Ming withdrew his gaze from the mountain fire, and he couldn't see the situation on Li Shiqi's side in this place, but he believed that as long as Li Shiqi's head was not trampled on by a horse, he would definitely not go forward into Hu Wei's ambush.

Qin Ming habitually stroked the scar on his neck, and sneered: "Hu Wei is uncomfortable this time."

That's right, this unknown mountain fire was set by Qin Ming with Ma Zeben and Conrad. Two days ago, the three of them dressed up as ordinary people, and they didn't bring a single soldier with them, and secretly entered the Yanzhou area.

Li Shiqi and Hu Wei were fighting, and Qin Ming was watching from the side. The bystander was clear, and he naturally analyzed Hu You's battle plan, so he made a stumbling block and finished such a play for Hu You.

Dilemma, Hu Wei is really unable to advance or retreat now, but he has no choice, only advance, no retreat

"Call the signal, the original plan is scrapped, let Xuanri take people away"

"Brethren, bow on the string, sword in hand, follow me"

Hu Wei shouted out two sentences, shook the overlord gun in his hand, and rushed out first

"Kill"

The two thousand soldiers of the Internal Guard Regiment also had red eyes, crossed their left and swords on the right, and followed Hu Youchong to kill them. Their thoughts are not so complicated, they don't need to think as much as Hu Wei, as long as they follow Hu Wei's actions, it's fine.

It was an unplanned battle, Hu Wei could have easily won a victory, but now, he had to fight hard to ensure that he could get out of the way. The ups and downs of life are so fast, too exciting, and too helpless.

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