Han Shizhong sat upright and sounded like a loud bell, "The Art of War" says: 'The first is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the army, and then the second is to attack the city.' Now that Liu Lin is besieged, he has become a trapped beast. We only need to surround him. If you don’t attack, it will be destroyed over time.”
Zhao Yingluo nodded. Han Shizhong's strategy was indeed sound. It could avoid a large number of casualties and capture a large number of enemy troops, but she did not want to drag out the war for too long!On the one hand, there were reinforcements from Liu Yi behind, and on the other hand, she had to consider rescuing the two old men as soon as possible.
"What does General Yue think?"
Yue Fei pondered for a moment and then said, "General Han's strategy can achieve the greatest victory at the lowest cost, but our army still has Liu Yi in the north, and we have to worry about the Jin people waiting for opportunities to go south, so we should attack the city with all our strength! After taking down Liu Lin , so that the traitor Liu Yu can throw himself into the rat trap and no longer dare to pry into our land of the Song Dynasty."
After Zhao Yingluo consulted other generals for their thoughts, she finally decided to attack the city.
"I have decided to attack the city early tomorrow morning! At that time, General Fanlao will lead his army to protect our rear flank and guard against Liu Ni's reinforcements."
Han Shizhong was unhappy when he saw that she did not adopt his opinion, but since the officials asked her to be the leader, there was nothing to say.
"Although the princess's private soldiers achieved a temporary victory, the two battles were an ambush and sneak attack, and the other was a night attack. Neither of them had a direct confrontation with the enemy. Once the attackers were frustrated in this siege battle, it would have a great impact on the army. If the morale is not left to our army to attack the city, the princess can command the army to plunder the rear."
Zhao Yingluo smiled when she heard this, "My private soldiers are not what the general thought. General, you can wait and see and watch our army break the city in half a day."
Han Shizhong was shocked when he heard this. Although the city walls of this county were not as tall as those of prefectures and counties, they were still two feet high. There were tens of thousands of Liu Lin's troops in the city. How could they break the city in half a day?
On the other hand, Yue Fei, Wang Zaixing and others looked calm, and even showed a hint of eagerness to try in their eyes.
After Han Shizhong returned to his camp, he immediately began to arrange military deployment. In addition to ordering scouts to go out twenty miles to detect Liu Yi's army, he also divided his army into three wings, left, center and right, to defend Zhao Yingluo's army.
Zhao Yingluo's more than [-] troops separated a part of Han Shizhong's army to surround the south of the city, while the main force prepared to attack the north of the city with all its strength.
The next day, at dawn.
Under the command of the siege drums mixed with the whistles of Zhao Yingluo's private soldiers, Zhao Yingluo's [-]-strong army responsible for the siege slowly and orderly deployed.
In order to observe Zhao Yingluo's siege battle, Han Shizhong handed over the defense task to his deputy and went straight to the city gate formation. In his opinion, the siege was nothing more than a strong attack by infantry using siege blades, knocking against door posts, etc. The enemy was condescending. If you gain the upper hand, the cost of casualties to the attacking party will be considerable.
However, Zhao Yingluo's attack made him feel incredible. What did he see?He actually saw rows of people holding shields in one hand and something unknown in the other. They formed a column of three and approached the city gate. The shields protected them on the left, right, and wrapped them all up. in.
Several people behind them carried a three-foot-long, black, iron-bump-like thing.
As for the infantry that usually attacked the city, they were just lined up in front of the formation without any movement.
The people on the city wall were also a little confused...
In order to cope with Zhao Yingluo's army attacking the city, after entering the city, Liu Lin organized his soldiers overnight to transport all the stones and wood used to defend the city to the city wall, and also collected oil overnight to use against the siege ladder.
When it came time to actually attack the city, I realized that all this seemed to be in Lin on the city wall couldn't help laughing when he saw that she actually organized people to attack the city like this, "I thought that Shen Wanshu was really as omnipotent as the rumors said, but now that I saw it, it was just ridiculous. How could she attack the city like this?" Can you capture the city?"
The coach laughed, and even the soldiers guarding the city laughed. They didn't even use the stones and wood to defend the city, and just waited for the hundreds of people to line up at the city gate to see what they were going to do. What a moth.
Han Shizhong sighed secretly in his heart. Sichen, the officials asked her to attack the city. Isn't this nonsense?If they were really defeated, where would the Song Dynasty's face be?
"Princess Princess, let my army attack the city. This is simply child's play!"
Yue Fei and Wang Zaixing, who knew the inside story, saw Han Shizhong and said it was child's play, and their eyes suddenly became unfriendly.
Wang Zaixing, who was eager to protect his master, said rudely, "General Han, why should you be too anxious? Since my princess arranged to do this, she has her own reasons. Let me tell you, if it were General Han who attacked the city, even if he captured it, I would probably lose the soldiers." Most of them ended in a miserable victory.”
Han Shizhong was despised by him, and his face suddenly lost its expression. He had been leading troops in wars for more than ten years, when had he ever been so despised? When Zhao Yingluo saw that he was about to have an attack, she said, "The General has a lot of people, so why bother with him? Let's see how I can break the city."
have to!When she said this, Han Shizhong's anger was not easy to come out. Let's see how these people break the city.
Liu Lin, who was on the city gate, saw that hundreds of people headed by him had arrived under the city gate, and immediately ordered to throw stones and wood. However, as soon as the soldier in charge of throwing stones and wood showed his head, he heard "bang bang bang". "Bang!" There were countless sounds, and in an instant, the soldiers were beaten to a bloody pulp and were in disgrace.
Liu Lin was stunned by this sudden situation...
Seeing the shapeless body lying in front of him, the fear in his heart skyrocketed!What happened?Why did they suddenly become like this?
Although Han Shizhong could not clearly see the situation on the tower, he saw bursts of green smoke coming out of the row of columns, which was as bizarre as a spell.
Liu Lin didn't believe in evil. After ordering people to drag the corpses down, he replaced others and continued to throw rocks and trees, but the result was the same as before.
As soon as those people showed their heads, they turned into corpses in an instant. This time, Liu Lin was completely afraid. He was afraid that this evil method would turn him into a bloody corpse.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but take a few steps back. As he retreated, the morale of the army began to waver. However, under his order, the low-level soldiers could only move forward with their lives.
"Archers! Shoot!"
Following Liu Lin's order, the soldiers responsible for shooting bows and arrows on the city wall drew their bows to full capacity and fired arrows at the hundreds of people under the city gate.
However, their arrows did not pose the threat to the enemy as expected.
The height and distance of the city wall made their arrows seem weak. Even if they hit the target, due to the cover of the enemy's shield, they would only barely cause some damage and be unable to change the situation of the battle.
Soon, the piece of iron was protected by a passage made of shields and was passed to the gate of the city wall by the gunmen. After it was placed, the fireman at the front lit the fuse, and then a whistle sounded, and hundreds of people Maintain formation and retreat quickly.