Chapter 942: Stalling for Time

When the first sergeant climbed the walls of Yifeng Castle, he was greeted not by corpses and snow on the ground, but by the flat floor of the city wall.

He didn't see any clue, and then, urged by the sergeant behind him, he stepped straight up to the wall.

Stepping on the city wall, a strong bloody aura came to his nose, and the sergeant immediately frowned and began to look for the source of the bloody qi.

And at this time, the sergeants in the back also climbed the city wall one after another.

Unlike before, the sergeants were visibly nervous, and they formed a dense formation and slowly searched the city walls.

The first group of attacking sergeants, about 400 men, went up, and the whole army was quickly destroyed.

The sergeants who went up the second time, organized about six hundred men, who were careful under orders, but did not see anything unusual above the walls.

Judging from the city walls, it can only be thought that this is an empty city.

Not only were the walls empty, but there was also a dead silence inside the city.

None of the houses smoked from their chimneys, and there was not a single pedestrian on the streets, not even a dog.

A sergeant with a long knife in his hand looked left and right, and also carefully examined the ground, but found nothing wrong.

And at this moment, the stone ground under his feet suddenly disappeared.

There was no time for the sergeant to scream before he fell.

At the same time, the same situation is happening in many places.

For a while, a large number of sergeants stepped on the air and were directly transferred into the city wall, and they only had time to scream, but they did not have time to notify their comrades above.

Seeing that his comrades fell into the trap, the remaining sergeants who were more fortunate hurriedly looked down, but only a probe, they were stabbed straight to the center of the eyebrows by a cold arrow and fell to the ground instantly.

Only then did the few remaining siege soldiers reflect and throw the torches in their hands directly into the city walls.

It was by the light of the fire that they could see what was going on.

Within the city walls, there were so many people who didn't know how many people were hiding, and their comrades-in-arms who had just fallen into it had already died.

Just as the remaining sergeants were about to shout, a spear appeared from the ground and stabbed almost all the remaining siege sergeants to death on the spot.

Of course, such a kill could certainly not be comprehensive, and a few sergeants escaped.

One of them, jumping directly from the top of the city wall, broke his leg, and he struggled to climb back and reported to the officers behind him what was happening on the wall.

And many more soldiers died under the walls as they jumped.

The design of the tower can only go up and down, this is to prevent the situation of desertion, which is very demoralizing during the siege.

But in the current situation, the tower has become a staircase to send these soldiers to death.

Before noon, the second attack was declared a failure.

But unlike the previous attack, this time, Shi Fei finally figured out the situation and knew where the enemy was hiding.

He gritted his teeth in hatred.

If he lost these sergeants in a normal attack, he wouldn't care, but the other party was obviously using yin, and he paid the price of a thousand men to figure out where the enemy was.

He suddenly had the feeling that he had been tricked, and that the other party had not only killed all his sergeants, but had completely delayed the time, and they themselves had not paid any price.

Thinking of this, Shi Fei immediately ordered.

"Order the next group of sergeants to prepare the fire oil, as long as they go to the city wall, immediately throw the fire oil down, and burn the entire city wall of Yifeng City for me!

Shi Fei viciously ordered.

But when the sergeants of the third team of attacking received orders to prepare for the attack

At the time of the city, on the city wall, the figure of the defenders of Yifeng City appeared.

Each of them held a torch in their hands, poured fire oil on the towers, and directly burned all the towers close to the city wall.

Suddenly, as if suddenly appeared, a large number of defenders of Yifeng City appeared on the head of Yifeng City, and they threw the corpses of the soldiers of Mingyuan City who had been killed before from the city walls.

They burned the Tuicheng Tower of Mingyuan City, and the banner of Yifeng City once again appeared on the city wall.

These defenders of Yifeng City, none of them spoke, in their eyes, it seemed that there was only one thought, kill!

Huang Yuchen saw this scene from afar, and his brows furrowed.

"I'm afraid these people are not ordinary sergeants, they should have received special training, the West Wangfu put these people in Yifeng City, they must have long expected that Mingyuan City Shi Fei would attack Yifeng City!"

"How do you know again?" Zhuang Lexian glanced at Huang Yuchen, glanced at the firelight from the direction of Yifeng City, and said: "I think that his Shifei is a rice bucket, and 30,000 people fight such a small city, and let people take the lead." ”

Huang Yuchen frowned and said, "Their combat is very distinctive, and their purpose is also very clear. ”

"Attract these siege engines first, and then wait for these sergeants to rush up and suddenly attack. The same was true for the second time, but the second time someone went back alive, so they changed their strategy and now it appears directly. ”

"All of their practices have only one purpose, and that is to stall for time. ”

"Half a day has passed since the battle began, but Nayifeng City has not lost a single soldier. ”

"Not only that, but he also killed a thousand soldiers in Mingyuan City and destroyed their siege equipment. ”

"Just to build these equipment, Shi Fei will waste half a day's time. Huang Yuchen looked at Zhuang Lexian and said, "After half a day, I don't know if there are any other tricks waiting for him." ”

"What do you want to say?" Zhuang Lexian looked at Huang Yuchen and said, "You don't plan to help him, do you?"

"If the siege time is too long, the troops of the West Wangfu will inevitably come back, or the main force, or the reinforcements of Zhangyang City, as long as the reinforcements arrive, it will be dangerous for the Mingyuan City Division to fly. ”

"It doesn't matter if he dies or not, the sergeant below is my man!" Huang Yuchen looked at Zhuang Lexian and said, "This is our starting point." ”

"If these sergeants are gone, where are we going to get so many soldiers in the future?"

"Don't beat around the bush, just say what to do. Zhuang Lexian saw Huang Yuchen's concerns, and said, "You said this guard so evilly, do you have any way to deal with him?"

"I have some clues, but it's not the time to do it yet. Huang Yuchen frowned slightly, and once again turned his gaze to the battlefield.

He's thinking about it, thinking about when he's going to make a move.

If it goes on like this, this Yifeng City is like a hedgehog to Shi Fei, and when he finds that he can't do anything, he will return to the city of the division of the edition, which is not good news for Huang Yuchen.

Huang Yuchen was a little in pain, but Shi Fei had a headache even more at the moment, to be precise, he was a little furious.

He completely let the family play with it.

Even if he knew in his heart that there must be defenders in Yifeng City, even if he told his sergeants to be careful, he didn't use the fastest speed to see the tricks played by the defenders of Yifeng City.

This cost him dearly.

Needless to say, the death of a sergeant is still acceptable to Shi Fei after the death of a thousand people.

What he couldn't accept was that he wasted half a day's time in vain, and the siege equipment he ordered to make was all destroyed in this battle, and if it was made again, it would take at least half a day.

But this is also to blame him for being too careful, knowing that Yifeng City is defended, but only a few hundred people were invested for the first time, when he knows these people

When the whole situation was destroyed, Shi Fei did not give the order for a general attack, but sent hundreds of people up to test it.

It is precisely because I was too careful that I fell for this evil.

At this moment, Shi Fei was heartbroken, but the matter had already happened, and he was helpless.

"Order, make new siege equipment at once, and build me two trebuchets in the fastest time! I want to see how long they can hide!"

Shi Fei viciously ordered, since there are traps and hiding places on the walls of Yifeng City, he will use trebuchets to smash the city walls!

At this moment, he no longer thinks about how to defend Yifeng City, if he wants to defend, he has to fight down.

The general in charge of building the siege equipment immediately received the order and quickly left the big tent.

And Shi Fei sat in his chair, his brows furrowed.

According to his estimates, he has a day left at most.

After a day, if he hadn't captured Yifeng City, there would have been no more time.

After occupying the city, it will take a day to arrange the defense, not to mention two days, and the reinforcements from Zhangyang City will definitely arrive.

At that time, he will definitely suffer from the enemy on his back, and Shi Fei will definitely not let himself get into such trouble.

If he can't take Yifeng City one day, he will smash all the walls of Yifeng City, and then return to Mingyuan City with his army;

Thinking of this, Shi Fei hammered the table hard, and the generals next to him could clearly feel Shi Fei's anger, and no one dared to speak.

After a while, Shi Fei raised his head and said to several generals on the side: "You can't let them rest, you organize the sergeants immediately, and I will shoot rockets to the top of the city wall for me no matter what means you use!"

When all the generals heard this, their faces were all embarrassed, and none of them immediately received the order.

"What, do you want to disobey?" Shi Fei immediately frowned, and his voice became cold at the same time.

"City Lord, it's not that we want to disobey, it's just that we can't let our soldiers die in vain. ”

A general emboldened himself and spoke first.

"That's right, Lord Castle. Another general immediately continued: "The enemy has appeared, this Yifeng city is three feet high, if you want to shoot arrows up, at least advance under the city wall, how many people will die?"

"Besides, now that our siege equipment is completely destroyed, and there is no follow-up attack to make up for it, these sergeants will die in vain. ”

All the generals did not agree with Shi Fei's order and talked nonsense.

"Boom!"

Shi Fei knocked on his desk violently, and said angrily: "I don't know if that's the case?"

"There will be a lot of sergeants, don't I understand?"

"But if we give them a chance to breathe, even if our siege equipment is ready, they will have other ways to destroy it. ”

"Or is it that if there are no siege machines, there will be no siege?"

Shi Fei was obviously angry, and none of the generals present dared to speak, but they were all a little disappreciative in their hearts, and some of the generals even had a little contempt in their hearts.

Obviously, it was Shi Fei's poor command that led to the current result, and he was still angry at the generals, which made these already dissatisfied generals even more complaining in their hearts.

Shi Fei went out to fight, not in the name of rebellion, but in the name of recovering lost territory, and he attacked the Xiwangfu.

All the generals under his account are from the old department of Qitian, although these people are now obeying Shi Fei's orders, it does not mean that they will always obey him.

It's just that when Shi Fei made his career, he killed many people who opposed him, and these generals also understood that Shi Fei didn't say that he rebelled openly because he felt that it was not time yet.

If the time comes, he will definitely put up a big banner.