Chapter 26 Killing the Night
"Dang Dang Dang Dang Dang Dang!" As the evening approached, golden sounds sounded outside Huaixia City.
"The Huai Shang Army has withdrawn."
"The Huai Shang Army finally withdraws its troops." When the warrior of Cai heard this sound, he felt relieved when he heard it.
The Wu generals on the top of the city also breathed a sigh of relief.
Wu Dingguo looked at the sky and thought to himself that he had to last for four days. But he didn't know what powerful means would the Huai Shang Army use in these four days? In the future, will the Huai Shang Army have anything beyond his expectations?
This is unknown, and Wu Dingguo has no confidence in his heart.
There is no way, in recent years, Wu's family has trained elite troops and horse army. Various tactics have been innovating compared to other countries. However, the Huai Shang Army has gone further than their own training, battle formations and even equipment, and they have lost their confidence in the war situation.
The Huai Shang coalition is really unfamiliar.
After dinner, Wu Dingguo returned to his residence and took out a detailed look at the military book "Wu Zi" written by his ancestors during his lifetime, trying to find a better solution in it and find the confidence to win the battle with the Huaishan coalition forces.
The bamboo slip was held in his hand by him, and with the candlelight, not many words on it were projected into his heart.
After reading this military book that he had read countless times since childhood, Wu Dingguo finally focused on the text at the forefront of the military book.
The most different thing about the book "Wu Zi" and other military books in the world may be that at the beginning, it occupies nearly half of the text in the book.
Most of the military books in the world only record various methods of military reorganization, training and marching and fighting. Only "Wuzi" writes more space to summarize something called Tao. To put it bluntly, it is all kinds of war laws.
The ancestors of Wu's family repeatedly emphasized in their books, and even wrote bluntly that those who follow the way live, those who fall against the way die, and that all military tactics in the world evolved according to this way. At this moment, Wu Dingguo focused on these.
He tried to use this military strategy to confirm the way of the coalition forces in the Huai River, uncover the veil of unknown mystery, and even hoped to find his inconsistent flaws.
The battle formation, tactics and strategies of the Huai Shang coalition are extremely strong, but where is the power?
Wu Dingguo thought about it carefully and perhaps a regular word can cover most of it.
He found that since the Huai River sent troops, he had been on the right path, with almost no surprise attacks, raids and various strange methods, and his march was extremely stable. There were no flaws behind him at any time. In addition, the eye in the sky gave him a sense of impeccableness.
Facing the Huaihe coalition forces, it seems that there is no other way except to collide with it head-on, but head-on collision is its strongest side.
There are crossbows bombardment from afar and javelins nearby. Most troops will be defeated before fighting in close combat with them.
It is said that the army is also extremely powerful in close combat. Since then, each of the army's large shields, short swords, leather armor, and equipment are far stronger than ordinary martial soldiers. What is even more terrifying is the extremely strict and flexible formation. There must be a powerful order maintenance behind this formation.
How easy is it to defeat such an army head-on?
This is also the reason why he had to wait until the Dingyi City chariot returned to the Huaixia team and had more than twice the military power before he dared to launch a decisive battle.
And what if we don’t fight it head-on?
Surprise attacks, raids, ambushing and various means were all jokes under the surveillance of the eye in the sky. The warriors and soldiers of the warriors were not strong enough. Perhaps the Huaishan coalition forces would ambush them like the warriors they sent out to inquire about the enemy's situation a month ago.
If you are determined to avoid war and release the initiative, you must face the endless active attacks and weaken the means.
Just like that day, they and Wu Fengqi and others were forced to go down to the city, but they lost their control. The offensive of the Huai Shang Army suddenly strengthened. With the use of crossbow weapons alone, the most elite part of the Shang family lost nearly half of it, and then they were forced to retreat first, so that Shang family could not retreat with him to the Huai Xia.
Now, they were forced to go down the city wall. After the Shang family crossbow weapons and Xuanwu chariots were suppressed, they dared not go to the city and could not threaten their crossbow weapons, the Huai Shang army immediately attacked the city with all their strength, and even attacked the most important granary of the defenders in the city for the first time, and then continued to rage, bombarding important buildings, killing warriors and soldiers.
If it weren't for the landlord's real body to exert its strength in the end, the Huai Shang Army would have caused the strength of the defenders in the city to continue to fall.
In this case, the Cai army defending the city will definitely become weaker the further it goes, until it eventually collapses.
In this process, if they fought a decisive battle with the Huai Shang Army at the beginning, they might have a fight, but they were afraid of losses. The weaker they became, and even the ability to launch a head-on decisive battle would be lost.
"It's so amazing." Wu Fengqi couldn't help but sigh, and at the same time he was secretly glad, what's the glory? Of course, he was glad that he had a strong capital at hand, otherwise if he had the same military strength and faced the Huai Shang Army, he would really rush up and die quickly, and he would not rush up and die of depression.
After figuring out these, Wu Dingguo then began to think about how to break the right path of the Huai Shang Army.
He took a deep breath and all the other thoughts in Chengkong's mind.
How to break it?
They should have done part of this matter and went to instigate the Donghai Kingdom. This is to threaten the rear of Huai Shang, creating flaws for Huai Shang without any flaws. Otherwise, how could the Huai Shang coalition forces be so eager to seek a decisive battle with Cai State?
However, Wu Fengqi seemed to have targeted this on that day. All the means were to ask the Huaihang coalition forces to seek a decisive battle?
Thinking of this, he frowned again. The Huai Shang Army wanted a decisive battle, and he was preparing to fight him in four days. Is this right?
The Huai Shang Army dared to go north to fight to the decisive battle. Have you considered that the two sides of Dingyi Huai are joining forces and have ways to deal with it? How will they deal with it?
I guess I have to deal with it before joining the army.
Wu Dingguo took out a roll of cloth and wrote that the Huai Shang Army was very likely to ambush and attack Dingyi City and return troops. When notifying them to march, he should pay attention. On the other hand, if the Huai Shang Army mobilized troops to do this, the strength outside the city would definitely be insufficient, and the defenders under Huai Shang Army should go out of the city to attack.
Then he continued to write on the cloth.
Well, the Huai Shang Army is both infantry and they avoid the terrain being too flat during combat, which is actually to avoid chariots and soldiers. The Huai Shang Army’s combat formation is strictly required. Can we choose where the formation cannot be expanded, such as mountains and forests? In this way, neither side cannot develop a large formation?
Also, it is said that when the Huai Shang Army responded to the Xuanwu car, it used oil bombs to burn it. If the operator of the Xuanwu car was a group of superior warriors and pushed the impact with all their strength, could the crossbows still hit him? If it cannot hit, it would be possible to launch a large-scale impact with this car, or it would be invincible.
At this time, after obtaining the confirmation of his ancestor's military power, his ideas were wide open and various ideas emerged one after another.
And whether it is feasible or not, we will write down one by one, and we will call family members to discuss together tomorrow.
As a result, he gradually became confident in the decisive battle with the Huai Shang Army four days later.
But at this moment, an extremely rapid drum sounded outside Huaixia City, which suddenly interrupted his thoughts.
Is the Huai Shang coalition going to attack the city at night?
Wu Dingguo hurriedly got up and walked out of the room. When he met Wu Di, he shouted: "Hurry, arrange the warriors and the soldiers go to the city wall to prepare."
"No." Wu Di hurried to make arrangements.
So there were all kinds of panic in Huaixia City, and many warriors and soldiers who were ready to fall asleep were called.
This is the case with the Western City where the Wu family is stationed, and the Shang family is even more chaotic.
After all the general warriors and soldiers were arranged, Wu Dingguo asked another superior warrior to come to the city and take a look.
It was dark outside the city and nothing could be seen. Wu Zu asked him to hand over a torch and threw it out vigorously to illuminate the outside of the city. As a result, there were no traces of the Huai Warriors or Wu Zuo outside?
"General, there is no one outside the city."
Wu Dingguo breathed a sigh of relief and said to Wu Di on the side: "The Huai Shang Army is a way to disturb me, so that our army cannot sleep peacefully at night. If our army does not respond, they can turn from feint attack to real attack and go directly to the city."
Wu Di said: "We should arrange a large number of warriors. The military soldiers will always stay under the city wall at night, and send elite warriors to watch at the top of the city, throwing torches from time to time. If the Huai Army really comes, it will ring the bell to wake up the warriors. The military soldiers will prepare to defend the city. If they are feinted, they will not respond."
Wu Dingguo nodded and said that Wu Di's method was good, so he implemented it accordingly and notified the Shang family to deal with it.
In the first half of the night, the Huai Shang camp opposite was uneasy, and from time to time, the sound of drums was very unhappy, but the defenders responded, and although they still had the effect of disturbing the enemy, they were much weaker after all.
In this way, time has arrived late at night.
At this time, in the Huai Shang Army camp outside the city, a large number of warriors were busy, but they were carrying one by one. The stones of half a human size collected from somewhere gathered from all over the place and piled up on an open space in the camp.
After preparing for the middle of the night, such stones had already piled up into several small stone mountains in the camp.
Zhao Wu, who was staring at the side, probably felt that the number was enough, so he went to the commander's tent: "Young Master, as you ordered, the big stones are all ready."
Wang Yue put down the bamboo slips in his hand and asked, "When is it now?"
Zhao Wu said: "The moon is in the sky."
Wang Yue smiled and said, "So, the defenders in the city are almost asleep behind the city wall at this moment?"
Then he nodded, walked out of the tent with Zhao Wu, and looked up at the empty crescent moon.
As the saying goes, the night of killing people is dark and the wind is high. Tonight is really a good day to kill people.
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Chapter completed!