socalfunplaces Chapter 279
Chapter 279
Yuwen Chengdu was certainly not Li Cunxiao's opponent, and in order not to show his defeat, he retreated after only fifty rounds.
Wang Mang looked at the retreating Great Sui soldiers and horses, and his eyes burst out with a fine light.
"This Yuwen Chengdu is really difficult, and he actually chose to retreat after testing the strength of General Li Cunxiao!" Wang
Mang turned his head to look at Zhuge Liang beside him: "Kong Ming, now that the enemy army is shrinking in the city, do you have a strategy to break the enemy?"
Zhuge Liang smiled slightly, the feather fan in his hand shook slightly, and his face showed a sworn look.
"Your Majesty doesn't have to worry, although Yuwen Chengdu is cunning, but the minister has a plan, which will definitely wipe out the Great Sui soldiers and horses in front of him. "
Oh?" Wang Mang's eyes lit up: "What is Kong Ming's clever plan?"
Zhuge Liang approached Wang Mang with a feather fan to cover his mouth, and muttered a few words in a low voice.
After Wang Mang heard his plan, he couldn't help laughing: "Kong Ming, Kong Ming, this plan is really unsolvable."
"That's a good plan, you go down and arrange it."
With Zhuge Liang's plan, Wang Mang felt a lot more relieved, after traveling for so long, he was finally able to sleep well tonight.
That night, Wang Mang called Mu Guiying over, and ordered the guards not to disturb him no matter what movement was outside the city.
When Wang Mang was smashing the Yellow Dragon, there was a huge sound of bull horns and war drums on the city wall.
"Woo woo woo ~ "
"Dong dong dong ~"
Only on the eve of the big war will the sound of bull horns and war drums be used to boost morale!
Such a harsh sound broke the silence of the night, causing the faces of the Great Sui soldiers and horses outside the city to change greatly, and they got up from the tents one after another.
Even Yuwen Chengdu and Xiong Kuohai didn't dare to be careless, put on their battle armor and rushed towards the camp gate.
However, as soon as they arrived at the gate of the camp, where could they see the shadow of Dahua's soldiers and horses, and even the soldiers below reported that the gate of Jiuquan City had not been opened!
"Damn!"
Yuwen Chengdu, who was disturbed by the sweet dream, shouted angrily, and the surrounding soldiers were frightened to retreat.
Xiong Kuohai on the side frowned and said: "Marshal, the enemy army is trying to use a strategy to exhaust the enemy!"
Regarding Zhuge Liang's plan, Xiong Kuohai also guessed a little, knowing that the other party wanted to use this way to prevent them from resting and drag them down.
Yuwen Chengdu's face sank, and he turned his head and asked, "Then in General Xiong's opinion, what should our army do?" "
It is better to send a few troops and horses to take turns to keep vigil, so that they can also guard against a sudden sneak attack by the enemy." Xiong Kuohai pondered for a moment and suggested.
After hearing this, Yuwen Chengdu raised his head and glanced at Jiuquan City in the distance, and sneered: "Hmph, in this way, isn't it the right way for Wang Mang."
Since the other party has made a move, the handsome man can't sit still.
Pass the order, leave three battalions of soldiers and horses to keep vigil in turn tonight, and attack the city early tomorrow morning!"
Since you Dahua disturb their rest at night, then they will attack the city during the day.
His purpose was very simple, on the one hand, he wanted to give people a feeling of-for-tat, and on the other hand, he also wanted that after attacking the city during the day, Dahua's soldiers and horses would be seriously physically exhausted, and it would be impossible to send troops to attack his camp at night.
This move can be described as killing two birds with one stone!
And the next situation, as Yuwen Chengdu expected, Dahua soldiers and horses did not attack in the second half of the night, but kept blowing the horn.
Early the next morning, Yuwen Chengdu attacked the city with well-fed and well-fed soldiers.
Mighty soldiers and horses rushed with siege engines and ladders.
But Dahua also had soldiers and horses stationed outside the city, and the two sides immediately fought outside the city.
Li Cunxiao personally went to the battlefield and commanded the battle in the Dahua camp outside the city, relying on archers to shoot back the soldiers and horses of the Great Sui.
When Yuwen Chengdu saw this scene, he couldn't help frowning, and he was puzzled.
Dahua used the strategy of exhausting the enemy, and did not
want him to attack the city, did he want to force him to fight a decisive battle? This attack was only on the scale of less than 10,000 people, and Dahua actually dared to fight him outside the city, could it be that there was some other conspiracy?
Without knowing Dahua's specific plan, Yuwen Chengdu did not dare to start a large-scale war, so he had to order the withdrawal of troops after leaving behind more than 300 corpses.
On the city wall, Wang Mang couldn't help laughing when he saw this scene: "Kong Ming, your plan is really good, this Yuwen Chengdu really wants to attack the city during the day."
It's a pity that our army has already deployed troops and horses outside the city, and it will not be easy for them to attack the city.
Next, it's Yuwen Chengdu's turn to be anxious.
Zhuge Liang smiled slightly on the side: "This Yuwen Chengdu is not stupid, he immediately withdrew when he saw that our army was prepared."
It seems that he learned the lesson of the destruction of the Great Song and Qing Dynasty, which is why he is so cautious.
It's a pity, the more cautious he is at this time, the more it will bring him death. "
Their tactics are only superficial, and the real plan has not yet begun.
In the next few days, Dahua's soldiers and horses repeated their old tricks, constantly blowing horns and beating war drums at night.
Although the soldiers and horses of the Great Sui knew that this was a strategy to exhaust the enemy, and they also sent soldiers and horses to guard the camp, no one dared to guarantee this kind of thing, what if the soldiers and horses of Dahua really came to kill them?
Many of the soldiers and horses of the Great Sui were sleeping at night, but in this case, who could really sleep, and they were all worried about sleeping.
After a few days, the soldiers and horses of the Great Sui were already very tired.
Although Yuwen Chengdu also knew about this situation, he was helpless.
At this moment, another piece of bad news came!
On this day, three cavalrymen rode their horses and rushed to the tent of the commander of the big battalion: "Marshal Qiyu, General Han has sent an urgent letter!" Yuwen
Chengdu must have been a letter from Han Baohu, he didn't dare to be careless, and immediately took the letter and looked at it.
After reading it, Yuwen Chengdu's face changed greatly! Xiong
Kuohai on the side couldn't help frowning and asked, "Marshal, what happened?"
"Hmph, Huo Qubing led the soldiers and horses to block the road from Yumen Pass here, which is equivalent to cutting off our food route.
Yuwen Chengdu looked ruthless: "No wonder Wang Mang's army didn't rush to attack after coming here, it turned out that they wanted to consume us!"
Without food, this is a big problem.
However, this is a large-scale invasion of Dahua, and they cannot obtain local grain and grass assistance, so they can only transport grain from behind.
But now Huo Qubing made a detour to Yumen Pass and cut off their grain route, so the grain could not be transported from Yumen Pass.
This is a big problem for Yuwen Chengdu.
Now he is faced with a dilemma, either to withdraw his troops and return to Yumen Pass.
Either they can take advantage of the fact that the grain and grass are not used up now, and directly conquer Jiuquan City!
However, no matter which of these two choices you choose, there will be trouble.
If he retreated to Yumen Pass, Wang Mang would definitely lead the army in pursuit! If
he directly attacked Jiuquan City, he didn't dare to guarantee that he would be able to take the city before the food ran out!