73. The Three-Day Covenant
Cai Xing sat on the collapse, his body tilted slightly, and said to a middle-aged man next to him with a clear face: "Liu Penzi has come to reinforcements, and he is even stronger. Mr. Tian, what are your strategies to retreat to the enemy?"
The middle-aged man said, "The bandits are not worth worrying about. Mr. Cai only needs to hold on to the ground, so he can retreat to the enemy."
"Oh, if I had known that Liu Penzi had so few soldiers, I should have listened to Mr. Zhang Ding's army and attacked Shiliwu. Now the Dawu has been occupied by them, and it would be difficult to take it back!"
"Don't worry, Mr. Cai, this Dawu is still surnamed Cai after all."
"Oh? How do you say this?"
"The Red Eyebrow thieves have never occupied cities, don't serve as farms, and pride everywhere for a living. Hundreds of thousands of people have never stopped anywhere from Qingzhou. I think it is the same in Guanzhong, at least half a year or as long as one year, and they will inevitably leave. Mr. Cai thought about it, they did not even guard those prosperous counties, so how could they be willing to guard this bare stone fortress? Mr. Cai is now gathering thousands of people and relying on the strong city. Even if there are tens of thousands of troops, it is difficult to break it. Why fear a few thousand soldiers? Just guard for a while, the enemy will retreat. Shiliwu is not your belonging to you?"
Cai Xing laughed loudly, "I hope it's as my sir said!"
Cai Xing has now convinced Mr. Tian. Back then, he was afraid that he would be lonely and wanted to connect with Zhang Ding and support each other. Mr. Tian advised him not to lead a wolf into the house. Cai Xing refused to listen. Sure enough, he was occupied by a magpie's nest and threw away Shiliwu, which had been operated for many years.
Since then, although Cai Xing has been dissatisfied with Zhang Ding, Zhang Ding's power is far superior to him, and with Zhu Yu's support, he can only surrender to him on the surface and betray him.
Zhang Ding and Liu Penzi fought a fierce battle. Mr. Tian advised him to take advantage of Zhang Ding's elite troops to attack Shiliwu. Cai Xing was timid and did not dare to move. He insisted on sitting in the mountains to watch the tiger fight. When the Yulin Army succeeded with 300 people, Cai Xing regretted it.
Although he finally plucked up the courage to attack Shiliwu at night that night and almost succeeded, his luck was so bad that he happened to meet Wang Hu, who was loyal to his duties, and his efforts failed.
Cai Xing had to accept his fate and squint in Dongwu, but he learned his lesson a little, that is, he would listen to Mr. Tian more in the future.
This is what happens in the world. Cai Xing feels that he is already aggrieved when he squints, but others don’t even want you to squint. The Red Eyebrow Army came to the door.
Zhuge Zhi didn't even set up a camp, so he came directly. According to his idea, the little emperor could break 2,000 to 10,000 with a group of baby soldiers, and occupied the big dock. The guard camp could not defeat this small dock for a thousand? Isn't that a joke?
He never expected that this joke was really staged in reality. Not only did the other party not have the power to fight back as he thought, but his hand had to be quite heavy. Although he was an ordinary young man, he was very well-organized in defending the city, condescending with his bows and crossbows, and he even beat the guard camp, which was known as the elite soldiers, to no aura.
After attacking for a long time, hundreds of people were injured and injured, and they were blocked from the walls of Dongwu.
Although Zhuge Zhi was not very smart, he was also a veteran in war. He knew that the first wave of offensive was not good, and his morale was frustrated and he could not attack any more.
He ordered his retreat and rest, and he would first recover his long-distance physical strength and prepare for another fight tomorrow.
But the next day, before he could order all his troops, he had heard the sound of killing in Dongwu, and Wang Erlenzi took the Taishan Camp to attack the city first. Zhuge Zhi sneered, thinking that Wang Erlenzi usually blew the mountain sound, and this time he also made him suffer.
Wang Erlenzi was indeed suffering.
The opponent changed his simple defense style when fighting against the Guards, but went out of the dock from time to time to attack. The attacks were small troops, one or two hundred people, and each time they unexpectedly broke out from behind Wang Erlenzi, shooting a few waves of arrows, and shouting for a while. When he turned around and went back to fight, the people turned around and ran away.
These people are familiar with the local terrain, and they are hiking from east to west. As they run, they lose their shadows. Wang Erlenzi worked hard for a long time, but no one could catch up with him. When he turned around and went to attack the city, there was another person behind him. He went back and forth, and Wang Erlenzi ran around and was tortured to death.
Zhuge Zhi and Wang Erlenzi were originally dissatisfied with each other, and they both wanted to take Dongwu alone to show their abilities. Unfortunately, the situation was stronger than others. After experiencing pain and torture, they finally came together reluctantly and began to attack together.
There was no arrangement of tactics, and the two groups of men and horses were not in charge. Wang Erlenzi concentrated his troops in the east and Zhuge Zhi was in the west, each attacking one end, and more than a hundred other cavalrymen were cruising back and forth to protect the side and rear.
The intensity of the attack was much greater than the previous two days. The battle was unfolding on every inch of the city wall. Wang Erlenzi's hand had already been pulled onto the top of the city. Unfortunately, several knives continued to slash him, which scared him so much that he quickly shrank his hand and fell off the wall, knocking a soldier unconscious. Fortunately, he was unharmed.
The common programs were staged again. The Red Eyebrow Army was unable to break through the city wall and attacked until noon. The soldiers were hot, tired and hungry, and they could not fight, so they had to temporarily withdraw their troops and quit.
Only half a day after the breaking of the city, Zhuge Zhi felt desperate. It turned out that when he saw the emperor defeating 10,000 soldiers with two thousand baby soldiers, he felt that the robbers in Shiliwu were all weak. With the elite troops of his guard camp, he could definitely win in one battle. However, he did not expect that Dongwu was a tough tough bone. Although the soldiers were not regular soldiers, they were organized and cooperated, well-trained, and had sufficient preparations for the equipment to defend the city. There were thousands of well-trained guards in this size. As long as there was no food shortage in the dock, there would be no problem to guard for a year or two.
Unexpectedly, Cai Xing was actually a military expert, so he was in trouble now.
I originally wanted to use this matter to give the little emperor a warning and make him obey orders. If this trend continues, it is probably Zhuge Zhi who obeys orders. Who told him to speak so much in front of everyone?
The soldiers took off their armor and leaned against the shade to rest. Some soldiers made fire and prepared to make meals. They prepared to take the final general attack after the meal.
As soon as the smoke from cooking was raised, the dock gate suddenly opened wide, hundreds of cavalrymen rushed out and rushed into Zhuge Zhi's camp. The guards camp was caught off guard and the horses dispersed. Although they were all veterans, they were shocked and were very scared. They hurriedly put on their clothes and got on the horse to chase them. They had already run away. After a long time of tossing back and forth in the hot weather, their physical strength was severely overdrawn, and their morale fell to the extreme.
Wang Erlenzi was not much better. A group of people ran out of nowhere, shouting and killing in the camp for a while, scattering and leaving, causing everyone to exhaustion.
Siege the city in this state and dream! This battle cannot be fought.
At night, the siege of the city was still fruitless, and His Majesty the Emperor summoned the two of them.
The two people who also blow the snails have completely different performances when the cowhide is broken.
Wang Erlenzi shouted that as long as he had a few more days, he would definitely be able to climb the wall of Dongwu and cut off Cai Xing's head. Zhuge Zhi just said nothing, and it seemed that Lord Wei Wei still had to be a little bit of shame.
His Majesty the Emperor asked Wang Erlenzi: "You have been attacked from behind several times. Do you know where the enemy soldiers came from?"
Wang Erlenzi shook his head like a rattle, "I don't know, it's really strange. The dock gate is closed tightly and no one has come out. Is there a group of people?"
The emperor was so angry, "What kind of stupid battle is he fighting! Niu Decao, tell him!"
Niu Decao said, "Wang Giant, I am on the order of Your Majesty to patrol the river. When I met a group of thieves left the boat and went ashore. We went up and rushed for a while and killed a few...
"I just said there was a group of people, and it turned out to be water thieves!"
Niu Decao was speechless, it was too difficult to make up for the shortcomings in IQ. "There is no more group of people in Dongwu!"
Shiliwu and Dongwu are both close to the Wei River. Shiliwu faces a vast river surface with a gentle water surface and the river bank is slightly protruding outward, forming a natural river port where large ships can be moored in the harbor. Dongwu faces a winding waterway that separates from the Wei River, and only small boats can enter and exit.
Every time Dongwu sent people to come out on a small boat, find a hidden place to get ashore, and then wait for an opportunity to fight out from behind the Red Eyebrow Army. Unexpectedly, he made many achievements.
Shiliwu and Dongwu sometimes have exchanges, especially their subordinates, and sometimes their masters will be replaced. Shiliwu is mainly composed of private salt dealers and thieves, and there are also a large number of refugees who have lost land. The composition of Dongwu is more complicated, including the Cai clan, the villagers who depend on the Cai clan, and some recruited outlaws and refugees.
If Shiliwu is a group of pure robbers, Dongwu is a half-member and half-thief.
The battlefield has been hot these days, and Liu Penzi has not been idle either. He sent people to patrol along the river bank to appease the nearby villages; recruit sailors and drive ships of Shiliwu; recruit prisoners to identify and use them, enrich the young robbers of the Yulin Army, and select 3,000 strong men to reorganize them into the "Shili Army".
At this time, there is no way to care whether they are robbers or bandits. Most of the robbers these days are people who cannot survive. Isn’t the same in the Red Eyebrow Army? And the “Shili Army” doesn’t care about accepting reorganization. As long as someone cares about food and drink, who cares about changing the boss?
Another purpose of reorganizing the "Shili Army" is to break through Dongwu. The "Shili Army" knows the bottom line of Dongwu. Many of their relatives and friends are in Dongwu. If they do not carry out some spy wars and psychological warfare, it would be a waste of resources.
The harvest in a few days was beyond expectations. The little emperor is now determined to win Dongwu. Seeing that the two guys were still piled up on the city wall, the emperor could not bear it anymore, so he summoned them over.
"Three days have arrived. Don't fight again. Go back to the camp to sanction the army and wait for my military orders tomorrow morning!"
Zhuge Zhi stood up suddenly, and everyone looked at him. Could this person be breaking the contract? Unexpectedly, Zhuge Zhi just bowed, "Abide by Your Majesty's order!" He sat back suddenly.
What was so stimulating?
Wang Erlenzi was still stunned, "Your Majesty, don't fight anymore, are you going to withdraw your troops?"
"If we don't take it down these days, wouldn't it damage our army's reputation? Don't worry, within three days, I want Cai Xing to serve Dongwu obediently."
"Impossible!" Wang Erlenzi absolutely did not believe that Jiancheng, which he could not even defeat even the most powerful general in Mount Tai, would have come out to surrender by himself?
"Don't you believe it? Then, I'll make a bet with you. If I can't win Dongwu within three days, you will be able to win a rare opportunity to communicate with Dangzi..."
Chapter completed!