Early in the morning, the 300,000 troops of the four major sects were ready to fight, and Zhang Yiping had already discussed the personnel deployment of the army with the four heads last night, probably based on the total score of their attributes. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Zhang Yiping deserves to be the supreme commander of the three armies and the division of the whole army, Su Changqing is the commander of the infantry, Yan Zhao is the commander of the archers, and Xu Ning is the commander of the cavalry. A total of 30 upper-level disciples of the four major sects served as generals, each leading 10,000 people, 300 middle-level disciples served as commanders, each commanding 1,000 soldiers, and the other 70 lower-level disciples were in charge of siege equipment.

According to Zhang Yiping's thoughts, although his side has an army of 300,000 and more than 400 sect disciples, well-equipped and high-spirited, the enemy only has an army of 190,000 and 24 sect disciples. However, the enemy's defense occupies a favorable position, and its own siege is not conducive to defense, and if the whole army rashly attacks at this time, it will inevitably become a live target for the enemy. Therefore, after consulting with the three masters last night, he decided to take three steps to attack Izumo Castle.

The first step is to set up the position of twenty catapults and throw stones at Izumo Castle without stopping. In the second step, after the protective facilities of Izumo Castle were destroyed by catapults, 100,000 infantry held shields, brought two rushing carts and ten ladders to march forward quickly, and when they marched to the gate of Izumo Castle, they hit the gate with two rushing chariots in turn, and assembled ten ladders at the same time, and the infantry used the ladders to climb the city wall from ten directions at the same time. In the third step, when the city gate was about to be broken by the rushing car, with 100,000 cavalry in the lead, 100,000 archers in the back, and at the same time with ten crossbows, quickly marched to Izumo City, and after meeting with the infantry in front, the three armies rushed into Izumo City together, killing him without leaving a piece of armor!

Zhang Yiping's plan seems to be flawless, but his plan is based on the condition that Izumo City only defends and does not attack, and the strange thing is that almost no one in Zhang Yiping and Yan Xu Su will doubt Izumo City's strategy of only defending and not attacking, probably they all think that Izumo City, with such complete protective measures, is unlikely to give up such a unique superior condition and choose to go out of the city to fight.

However, Zhang Yiping is not a fool after all, the war situation is ever-changing, and the tactics should be adjusted accordingly due to changes in the battlefield situation, and his problem is that he is overconfident in himself and overly contemptuous of the enemy.

Liu Hao had been tossing and turning after discussing the battle with everyone last night, and he had been thinking about what strategy Zhang Yiping would adopt to attack Izumo City. According to Zhang Yiping's old spicy, he would definitely not adopt such a reckless strategy as the three armies attacking Izumo City at the same time, because such an advance would undoubtedly become a live target under Izumo City's protective facilities, and Izumo City's stone cannons, bed crossbows and arrow rain towers are definitely not vegetarians.

Zhang Yiping's old spicy, cunning and conservative, Liu Hao has seen it a long time ago, before the crusade against the Demon Sect, when the five major leaders competed in the ring of Lanzhou City, Qin Changfeng, the head of the Huashan faction, used the Dugu Nine Sword with ten percent of the power to hit Zhang Yiping hard, but he bled to death violently. Although this incident has been regarded as an accident by most martial arts people, Liu Hao can't figure out two questions, first, if the rumors in the rivers and lakes that Dugu Jiujian will bleed to death if he uses ten percent of his strength is true, why would Qin Changfeng dare to risk his life? Qin Changfeng is definitely not such a reckless person who disregards his life for the sake of winning or losing a competition. If the rumors in the rivers and lakes were not true, why did Qin Changfeng really bleed to death when he used the Dugu Nine Swords with ten percent of his strength?

Second, Qin Changfeng's tenth-percent Dugu Nine Swords were simply shocked after they were used, even the current Liu Hao, without seeing the tenth-percent Dugu Nine Swords, is unlikely to be able to dodge this fatal blow, why was Zhang Yiping, who was ranked outside the top ten at that time, able to dodge the critical position of the Dugu Nine Swords, which was accurate in the sword, could it be that Qin Changfeng's Dugu Nine Swords were off-track? No, no, no, this is absolutely impossible, even if it is an ordinary upper-level disciple, when the enemy does not move, he will definitely not use the swordsmanship that deviates from the position. It was absolutely impossible for Qin Changfeng to make such a low-level mistake.

These two inexplicable points have been entwined in Liu Hao's heart, and the strangeness in them makes Liu Hao feel more and more that unless there is a major conspiracy hidden in it. From the perspective of who benefited after Qin Changfeng's death, Zhang Yiping got rid of this always disobedient head, and Su Changqing justifiably assumed the position of the head of Huashan, and more importantly, the two people who benefited the most inexplicably walked together.

After thinking about it like this, Liu Hao no longer believed that this incident was just an accident, and the clues can be seen from the change in Zhang Yiping's attitude towards Emei and Huashan after the crusade against the Demon Sect, and this incident also made Liu Hao know Zhang Yiping more deeply.

The art of war is cloudy: know yourself and know your opponent, and win all battles. Liu Hao began to constantly imagine in his mind the strategy that Zhang Yiping might adopt, if he was Zhang Yiping, he would definitely adopt a more conservative and safe offensive strategy. It must be the first to make good use of the siege equipment such as catapults, rushing cars, ladders, etc., so it is very important to do a good job of defending the siege equipment, if the enemy's catapult throws stones at Izumo Castle, this is basically unsolvable, and can only be bombarded with stone cannon vehicles. If the enemy wants to use the rushing car, ladders and other siege equipment will inevitably first use the infantry this flexibility and carrying the highest type of troops, at this time our army should be on the city wall bed crossbow, archers and ground infantry cavalry to cooperate with the strike, and strive to give the enemy the greatest damage in the shortest time, at this time if the enemy cavalry and archers come to reinforce, this is just into our set, a wave of defense equipment attack will make the enemy suffer a big loss, after the other party suffers heavy losses, our three armies out of the city to fight, at this time will be able to kill him a piece of armor without leaving a piece.

Liu Hao speculated in his mind about the various strategies he might adopt according to Zhang Yiping's characteristics, and he fell asleep after nearly three watches last night. Early this morning, he and his military advisor Nie Yuan went to the city wall to observe the enemy's movements, and at the same time rearranged the protective equipment, the brick wall above the city wall was urgently thickened, and the arrow rain tower was also equipped with thick steel plates, and bed crossbows and boulders were arranged above the city wall. As the commander of the three armies, he arranged for Du Jiayi to lead 80,000 archers to wait on the city wall, Luo Yaoxi to lead 50,000 cavalry to wait under the city, and Zishu to lead 60,000 infantry to respond at any time on the cavalry side.

At this time, Izumo City seemed particularly quiet, the air was filled with the tense atmosphere of the big war in real time, everyone was holding their breath and paying attention to the thousands of troops of the four major sects at the foot of Izumo City, in this solemn battlefield of the two armies, any martial arts master will not be able to play a huge role, only in the midst of strategizing, can win a decisive victory thousands of miles away.