Chapter 5: The Meeting Before the Siege

When Xiao Hongtao and Wei Jiang walked to the door, they found that there were two samurai with halberds standing on each side of the tent door, Xiao Hongtao took a look, the four were all about 175 tall, slightly lower than Xiao Hongtao's current height, tall and tall, wearing gray armor but no helmet, sharp eyes, keenly watching the people who passed.

When Xiao Hongtao and Wei Jiang walked past the four of them, the four halberd-wielding warriors did not stop them, but immediately became respectful, and shouted in unison, "Hello Xiao Ye!"

Hearing the sound at the door, Chai Rong, who was making an impassioned speech inside, had a smile on his face, and hurriedly smiled and beckoned Xiao Hongtao in. Xiao Hongtao walked towards the house with a smile on his face, but Wei Jiang did not follow, he turned around and went out and stood next to the halberd warrior.

The conference hall is not very big, there is only one altogether, about 15 square meters, a big sand table is placed in the middle of the conference hall, and a spherical incense burner is also placed at the end of the sand table, incense is burned in it, the fragrance is simple and elegant, and the smell is shocking. Nine chairs were placed next to the sand table in turn, and one was placed in the middle and back position, the chair was red, and a tiger skin was laid on it, and the chair and tiger skin were slightly old, needless to say, this was Chai Rong's seat. There are a total of eight chairs on the east and west sides of the sand table, and the shape of the chairs is no different from that of Chai Rongsuo. There were a total of eight people in the room, except for the first chair on the right, which was empty, and the rest of the chairs were all sitting on the full armor of the generals, among which the last military general on the left hand side had a white cloth strip wrapped around his right shoulder, and on the cloth strip could still see the new oozing Yin Yin blood.

Chai Rong beckoned Xiao Hongtao to sit down on the first chair on the right hand side, and asked with concern: "Third brother, are you feeling better?"

"It's okay, I'm healed now, and I can't bear to let my eldest brother worry about it. Xiao Hongtao originally wanted to say that he bothered his eldest brother, but after thinking about it, he still used the word "concern", he thought that it was all ancient times, and he had to be antique when he spoke.

At this time, the remaining seven generals also stood up together and said together: "I wish Xiao Ye a long life and good health." ”

"Hey, okay, good, brothers, thank you", Xiao Hongtao first waved his hand, thought it was wrong, and hurriedly thanked him like everyone else.

After some greetings, everyone sat down again, and Chai Rong spoke: "Now that my third brother has also arrived and the personnel are complete, then we will continue to discuss the siege of the city." Aiqing, our army lost more than 800 warriors in just one hour of tentative siege yesterday, which shows that Yizhou City is still prepared for our army's attack. Although the morale of the army in the First World War was somewhat frustrated yesterday, the strength of our army is still there, especially the third brother's headquarters is fully equipped, and yesterday's situation is not to be worried. At present, our army has a large number of people, sufficient food and grass, and the people in the city are also looking forward to the return of the king. On the other hand, Yizhou City, although the city defense is strong, and the Khitans are also brave in battle, but after all, it is a small city, with few defenders, and the location of Yizhou City is prominent, isolated and helpless, our army will be able to destroy the withered and decayed, break through Yizhou City in a battle, and recapture the sixteen states of Yanyun!"

To tell the truth, Chai Rong's analysis of this speech was reasonable, and his tone was impassioned and very incendiary, which made the generals present gear up and ask for battle, saying that they would lead the officers and soldiers of the department to bravely kill the enemy and rescue the people in the city.

"Okay, since everyone is so enthusiastic, let's assign combat missions. At this moment, the morale of the generals was high, and Chai Rong seized the opportunity to start assigning combat tasks.

"Zhang Aiqing listens to orders!"

"The minister is here!" sat opposite Xiao Hongtao, an extremely thin-looking general stood up and clasped his fists with both hands.

"Order you to lead 6,000 infantry, divided into 6 teams, a team of 1,000 people, and attack the south gate of Yizhou City in turns. ”

"The minister commands" The thin general surnamed Zhang was ordered to sit down, don't look at the general surnamed Zhang, who is thin and thin, but his voice is very loud.

"Zhao Aiqing obeys the order!"

"The minister is here!" a young fat general sitting under the general surnamed Zhang got up to receive the order.

"Order you to lead 2,000 cavalry to attack at the east gate, when the city is broken, 1,000 cavalry will enter the city to help the battle, and the remaining 1,000 cavalry will still wait at the east gate to hunt down the Khitan deserters. Chai Rong commanded again.

"The minister commands!" The general surnamed Zhao also received the order to sit down.

"I will personally lead 6,000 soldiers to attack the West Gate," after saying that, Chai Rong turned to Xiao Hongtao, "Third brother, can your army help in the battle?"

"Of course you can, it's all up to the eldest brother's orders" Everyone is so enthusiastic, Xiao Hongtao can't say anything if he doesn't make a positive statement, Xiao Hongtao can only gladly agree.

"Okay, but the third brother has just recovered from a serious illness, and it is not advisable to overwork, so the third brother will lead the army and horses to feint at the north gate and help the eldest brother, can you?" Chai Rong looked at Xiao Hongtao, his eyes full of expectation.

"Hey," Xiao Hongtao dragged out his tone, "Where can I only feint and attack, junior brother, I have recovered now, besides, the junior brother's troops and horses are fully equipped, and the junior brother asks for orders as the main attack, and attacks Yizhou City with all his might." The younger brother must do his best to live up to his mission. Xiao Hongtao still has his own careful thoughts in his heart, where will he fight, let's just say it first, when the time comes, the command will still be in his hands, if you want to fight, you won't fight, you can fight how you want, it's one thing to talk, how to fight when the time comes, Chai Rong can't help it, everything is still Xiao Hongtao's final say. Even if he has to attack the city with all his strength in the end, it's nothing, it's all a matter of the ancients, and he has to find a chance to go back to the 21st century, where there is still a beautiful manager waiting for him, and everything he does now is just a stopgap measure.

"Okay, third brother, be happy!" After saying that, Chai Rong turned to the other generals, "The other generals follow their own generals, they must strictly obey the military orders, and there must be no mistake in killing the enemy bravely!

"Yes, the minister commands!" everyone present stood up and clenched their fists.

Seeing that everyone else was like this, Xiao Hongtao had no choice but to get up and follow everyone to make a very lame fist hugging move.

"Alright, everybody go back and get ready. Go back and tell the soldiers that the first soldier to climb the city wall of Yizhou will have a bounty of 3,000 taels. ”

"Wow, 3,000 taels!" everyone showed joy, joking with each other not to rob themselves of their own credit, and then left one after another.

After everyone said goodbye and left, Xiao Hongtao also got up to say goodbye to Chai Rong, he was going to see his army, there was a war tomorrow, he didn't know where his troops were, and he didn't know how many generals there were in his army, who was available. Also, he still has to think about how to play this big drama tomorrow, should he find a chance to escape?

When he got up and walked out, he glanced at the city in the center of the sand table, ah? How could this be! Xiao Hongtao was really taken aback in his heart.