"The Gushi Army cannot predict the future, there are only two possibilities." Tu Lian raised his feather fan and felt a little as he was chatting and laughing. "One is that there are Gushi Army spies inside our Flame Army, and they can grasp our dynamics at any time; the other is that there are experts in the Gushi Army who predicted that our Flame Army might cross the Huai River very early and made preparations in advance."

"There is a traitor?" Han Baling's eyes flashed with a look of shock and anger. "If there is a traitor, wouldn't all the details of us be clearly touched by our opponents?"

"Actually, I hope it is the former possibility. The traitor is just to grasp some situations. As long as we strengthen internal prevention, he will not be able to cause any big storms. However, if it is the second situation, we will be in a little trouble." Tu Lianju's face was a little confused.

He didn't think that this was a traitor, and all the people who really entered the top leaders in the Flame Army were ruthless characters who had been wandering for many years. In other words, if there was a traitor, it would have been at least three or five years ago, and there was little possibility.

Especially in Han Baling's army, it is even more impossible. This migrant army is basically the old friends of Han Baling's neighbors. It can be said that most of the senior executives have known Han Baling for more than ten years. Generally, the traitor scouts who have been infiltrated recently cannot understand more military secrets. This is really not worth worrying about.

In a mere county like Gushi, Tu Lianju didn't think that the other party might have sent people to sneak in to spy on the information a few months or even a year ago. That was too exaggerated.

"Oh? I'd like to hear it carefully." Han Baling became interested, and the traitor was not afraid. Instead, the enemy expected his actions to be very worrying. He wanted to hear what the senior strategist sent by Quan Shuai for him was capable of.

"If only a traitor infiltrates us, he will not be able to enter the top leaders of our Flame Army. At worst, it will be a mess in the hands of the people we recruit later. Just be careful, pay attention to keeping confidentiality, and then supplement it with other means. It will be a matter of time before we clear it up."

"Yeah, it makes sense."

"The second situation is a bit troublesome. The Gushi Army is just a county and prefecture army. It can actually determine that our Yan Army is going to cross the Huai River, especially in the early stage. The posture we put forward was to advance east from Caizhou. In this case, the opponents could guess our intentions and be able to take such a complete response in such a short period of time. Then we would really meet our opponents in this battle."

"Hmph, Lao Tu, you are making others' mighty and destroying your own spirit! How many people can there be in this small Gushi City? How many troops can the Gushi Army have? Even if their commander has three heads and six arms, he can't transform many soldiers! The military strategy says, if you surround them ten times, and if you attack them five times, is it that we can't take down this Gushi City?"

The scar man who had been standing beside Han Baling said disapprovingly. The already very ferocious slimming face was a long scar just across the bridge of his nose. The slightly raised knife mark was redder than the surrounding skin. The huge iron flail in his hand was buckled on his wrist, grinding it to the grease, which was obviously a very suitable heavy weapon.

"Boss Qiu, don't underestimate your opponent. Think about it, we are galloping around in Caizhou counties and have not encountered any opponents. Then Zhenyang can be considered a Dayi. Have you ever seen so many crossbow arrows and so on a rock throwing machine with such a long range?"

Tu Lianju had no good expression on these reckless men and retorted coldly: "This alone is worth our deep thought! In war, it is not only about force, but also about thinking more!"

The generals surrounding Han Baling were full of resentment on their faces, but under Han Baling's power, Han Baling did not dare to refute before he made a clear statement.

"In your opinion, this Gushi City is invincible?" Han Baling said thoughtfully, twisting his long beard under his jaw.

"Not necessarily. As Boss Qiu said, Gushi City is only so large after all, with limited troops. If we cross the Huai River, wouldn't it seem that we are afraid that Gushi will not succeed? We must fight this battle, but we have to consider how to fight. If the situation is unfavorable, how should we deal with it?"

Tu Lianju's words made all the generals and officials a little dissatisfied. The battle had just begun, so we had to make unfavorable preparations first. Isn't this a bad luck?

However, Han Baling did not think so. Gushicheng had already given him a new understanding, especially the performance of the car crossbow, the powerful crossbow and the stone throwing machine, which forced him as the head coach to think twice before acting.

"How do you think this battle should be fought?"

"In my humble opinion, if you want to fight us, you should do your best to fight! If you can't fight, you will say that time is urgent and we are unwilling to bother here and kill Shouzhou." Tu Lianju said decisively after hesitating.

He originally wanted to say that at least he would have to severely damage Gushi, but how to severely damage in this situation? Either he would take it down in one go, then he would not be able to attack with all his might, and he would not evacuate decisively without entanglement. It would be useless to drag it down.

"We can also take some tactical measures. Although those crossbows, powerful crossbows and stone throwers are powerful, they are very easy to damage. If we take measures to deliberately attract them to attack more, they can greatly reduce their attack frequency and effectiveness."

"Okay! As you said, today you must destroy the sheep and horse wall outside the city, fill the hay ditch, and attack with all your strength tomorrow! After breaking the city, let the soldiers reunite for three days! Those who break into the city will be promoted to three levels in a row, and rewarded with a hundred stakes!" Han Baling raised his eyebrows and said in a deep voice: "I inform the entire army of this order. If you retreat in the battle and retreat, you do not need to report it. Behead you immediately in front of the battle!"

Jiang Feng and Qin Zaidao soon noticed the changes in the formation of the ant army.

From the previous intensive charge to the dispersed linear impact, the soldiers of the Ant Army began to consciously adopt the strategy of fighting and constantly change the formation, making the divine arm crossbow and stone throwing machine unable to maximize their power.

The giant oar shield raised by the Ant Army and the pointed wooden donkey promoted by the Ant Army also played a huge role, effectively protecting the Ant Army soldiers who followed him.

The wooden fence that replaced the sheep and horse wall did not play a good role. Under the courageous destruction of the Ant Army soldiers, several sections of wooden fences were completely destroyed within two hours, and the road leading to the Mogul was quickly opened.

The dense rain of arrows began to cover the entire area in front of the moorglades. The soldiers of the ant army lacking armor could only rely on a small number of slalom shields and spire-topped wooden donkeys to resist attacks from the city walls. The rockets occasionally ignited the slalom shields and wooden donkeys, and the actions of extinguishing fires and throwing sandbags to fill the moorglades ran through the entire attack process.

"boom!"

The huge stone hit a giant oar shield with some broken marks. The oar shield finally couldn't support the impact force caused by the stone thrower shooting out the stone.

The more than ten soldiers hiding behind the oar shield even had the whine to make a sound, and were nailed to the ground by the overwhelming rain of arrows on the city wall. The poor infantry round shield could not resist the arrows without choice.

But soon two more oar shields were pushed up, and more soldiers surrounded the oar shields and worked hard to approach the Haogou step by step.
Chapter completed!