As Li Ling said, there are two completely opposite voices in the Dayue Dynasty today. One side is a group of military generals led by Guo Ang, the Privy Councilor. They naturally advocate taking advantage of the situation to fight north and break into the grassland. At least they must kill the Guirong tribes that violated the border, so that they will no longer dare to speak of the southern offensive.

On the other hand, civil officials led by many prime ministers in the Political Affairs Hall advocated that after expelling Guirong from abroad, they could stop and rest and recover, and at the same time check for omissions to prevent such incidents from happening in the future.

Such a debate has been dominated by the Dayue court since February and the front-line wars improved greatly. Even the people have discussed this several times and have different opinions. But one thing has been ignored by everyone, that is, the war in the northern border has not ended until now. The Guirong people have not yet been completely defeated, and they still occupy many border cities in Dayue.

Yes, after several proactive attacks were frustrated and some of the troops were damaged, Gui Rong did not attack the city again, but retreated, and then moved into the border cities they had sneak attacked before. Border cities such as Yunzhou and Bazhou are still under the control of the other party.

Perhaps they don’t know much about the tactics of defending the city and are far from comparable to the Great Vietnamese border army. However, with cities as support, they are invincible at least for a short time, and after occupying these important passes, they will also destroy them, which is also a heavy blow to the Great Vietnamese border army.

However, such a thing was concealed by the upper generals of the border army intentionally or unintentionally. So until now, many people in the court still thought that the situation in the northern border had been completely stable, and Gui Rong had become a defeated enemy who could let them slap.

However, this matter can be hidden from the court, but the soldiers below. All the heavy decisions fell on several front-line commanders. Dong Gongwang is one of them. What he is facing now is Yunzhou, a city he once regarded as the greatest help!

At this time, tens of thousands of troops had surrounded Yunzhou for more than half a month, but under repeated attacks, the Guirong people guarding the city were defending it without any loss, which made the original Yunzhou defender helpless, and the morale of the army suffered a considerable blow.

As a general in the army, Dong Gongwang naturally saw all these situations, but apart from being angry, he could not come up with a proper way. He could only ask people to attack the city again and again, and then lose again and again and again.

Such a battle looks weird, because in everyone's opinion, in every battle in the past, as long as it was fought around the city, the main defender would definitely be the Great Vietnamese border army, and the attacker was the Guirong. Now, everything is reversed, and it is awkward no matter how you look at it, so the attack is not too organized.

Another siege ended with the sound of gold from Dangdang. The Great Vietnamese border army retreated like a tide, and hundreds of border soldiers were added to the city. Everyone seemed a little helpless and helpless, but they didn't know what to do.

But immediately, with the military orders, many generals hurriedly headed to the central army's tent, but General Dong wanted to summon his subordinates and announced important matters.

Like these days, Dong Gongwang's face was still gloomy. Seeing the arrival of all the generals, he waved his hands casually and asked them to sit down, and then said, "We have been sieging the city for more than half a month. Is there really no hope of breaking the city?"

"General, our brothers have never practiced siege battles hard, and many siege equipment are not around, they are all there, they are all in the city."

"Yes, General, and those firearms were once our means of defeating the enemy, but now they are used randomly by Gui Rong. It's really hard to get started."

"We have suffered more than three thousand casualties in the past half month, and our morale has reached the lowest point. If we forcefully order the attack on the city, we are afraid..."

The generals all expressed their difficulties. Although the reasons were different, the meaning was the same, that was, they did not want to waste their troops to attack Yunzhou. This border city, whether it was the city wall or various weapons to defend the city, was the best in the Great Yue border city, and it was really not something that could be captured.

Listening to the complaints of his subordinate generals, Gong Wang was not happy or angry on his face. Until they finished speaking, they said in a deep voice: "Are you finished talking? Do you know that Yunzhou is difficult to attack? I have carefully investigated every brick and soil here. If it weren't for the changes in the city at that time, even if there were 100,000 Guirongs, I would not have thought of destroying my Yunzhou!"

After a pause, his eyes quickly swept across the faces of his subordinates like lightning, making everyone feel weak and all bowed their heads. Then he heard him continue: "But these things are useless, because the court has no longer had much patience. Just early this morning, the capital came to an urgent order to get them back to Yunzhou as soon as possible and prepare to fight back against Guirong! This time limit is set at the end of March and early April."

As soon as these words were spoken, they were exclaimed by the generals: "This is impossible! It is impossible to conquer Yunzhou in just one month. Even if we do not care about casualties, we can't attack day and night."

"General, there are at least 30,000 Guirong people in the city, all of whom are brave. If we really attack with all our might, the price would be too high..."

"Please think twice, General!"

As they spoke, these generals left the seat one after another, knelt on one knee, and knelt in front of Dong Gongwang. This made his eyebrows and eyes pound. The subordinates understood this principle, how could he not know as the chief general? But the problem was that the military order was as high as a mountain, and even he could not refuse to do it. Otherwise, once it was pursued, not only him, but also his subordinates would not be able to bear such a crime.

This is not only a crime of military failure, but also a crime of success or failure of the entire military general system in the Dayue court. This is even more unbearable by Gong Dong, a third-rank frontier governor.

But it was obviously unreasonable to force himself to order the siege, so he was not able to say anything except for a few urges. In the end, he could only let everyone disperse, and then leave only a few confidants for further discussion.

Those confidants obviously knew the difficulties of their chief generals better than others, so they did not say anything to dissuade them. Instead, they all thought seriously about the way to break the city: "General, can you leave this lonely city after removing the surrounding cities and force the Guirong people to voluntarily give up Yunzhou?"

"This is probably not going to happen. The city has enough food and grass, enough for them to eat for more than a year. It will only backfire to force them to abandon the city with this."

"What if they surrender? Now they should know their own situation. Even if they support themselves, they will still die in the end. Why would they send lobbyists to open the city and surrender?"

"If I could say that I would have surrendered them, I would not have to spend this effort. The Guirong people were the most warlike, and they knew that this invasion had committed a lot of blood debts, so I was afraid that they would not believe our strategy for surrender. Moreover, do you dare to believe them? Can't they make a fraudulent surrender?"

"So what if you force them to abandon the city?"

"There is no threat to attack the city on all sides, let alone attacking three sides."

After all, the last thing I got was either a solution or a war of attrition with the enemy until they exhausted the weapons they defended the city, until they exhausted their strength and patience. But this would have to be done at least within the time limit issued by the court.

In the end, Dong Gongwang had to send them away, and he continued to stare at the Yunzhou City Defense Map drawn by himself and fell into long-term thoughts.

It was late at night and the military camp was silent. Only the sound of silence sounded from time to time, but Gong Dong still didn't feel tired at all. He only held the oil lamp in one hand and moved back and forth on the detailed map with the other, thinking about countermeasures.

At this moment, a voice sounded outside the tent: "Master."

When Mr. Dong looked back, he saw his marching officer Fang Wenbi, who was greeting a layman, and smiled: "Come in, come late at night, do you have any good ideas?"

"I dare not, I just thought of a way, which may relieve the current worries of the general."

"Oh? Come and listen." Dong Gongwang's face suddenly turned joyful, and he quickly pulled the other party down, poured him a cup of tea and delivered it to him.

Fang Wenbi received the tea and thanked him, and did not rush to drink it. Instead, he said seriously: "Master, you said so much earlier. Yunzhou is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and it cannot be captured overnight. We cannot do this, and we are afraid that all the troops in the world will not be able to do it."

"So do you have any tricks to break the city?" Dong Gongwang asked again, but saw the other party shook his head slightly, which made him frown suddenly. He was here to make fun of himself. Since he could not break the city, what strategy would he offer?

Fang Wenbi was also willing to express the dissatisfaction of the head coach and quickly explained: "What Bei Zhi wants to say is not how to break the city, but how to try not to damage the power of our army when it cannot break the city, and not let the general take responsibility."

"Hmm? How do you say it?"

"Although the general has never really led troops to fight, he also knows a truth. Before the three armies move, the food and grass will go first. Now our army is blocking Yunzhou, attacking the city day and night, and logistics support is the top priority. But what if some of the food and grass are not delayed, which makes our army's morale frustrated and thus cannot successfully take Yunzhou? In this way, the fault of not being able to take Yunzhou is not the general, nor the soldiers of our army, but the officials who transported grain sent by the court are not doing their jobs. As far as the general is concerned, the food transport officials sent by the court came late this time, the transfer department Shaoqing, who was entrusted with important tasks by the court, and Li Ling, the governor of the transfer of northern borders, was enough to bear the blame." When he said this, Fang Wenbi's eyes flashed with a hint of excitement.

However, Gongwang Wang frowned slightly and looked at the staff member thoughtfully: "Isn't it right to do this? It's really shameful to blame others for being so scapegoat."
Chapter completed!