On the 12th day of the first lunar month, when the Jin army was defeated and retreated into Liangcheng, the Yishi Army's joint camp twenty miles south of Liangcheng, and the soldiers and generals from the Yishi Army were filled with joy of victory.

Not to mention anything else, even Chen Xu did not expect that they could actually destroy the Jin army camp in one fell swoop and burned up a lot of the Jin army's food and supplies.

"...It's a pity that I failed to disturb Zhou Hu's Yingchuan Army."

When Xiang Xuan gathered together in public to discuss the follow-up strategy, he expressed his regret.

And this is exactly the regret in everyone present, except for Zhao Yin.

After all, when their charity army was preparing to pursue the Henan army to expand their results last night, it was Zhou Hu's Yingchuan army and Xue Ao's Taiyuan army who curbed their offensive, which allowed the Henan army to have a breathing moment.

Having said that, Chen Xu and others were satisfied enough. After all, they had removed the Jin army camps in the western suburbs of Liangcheng, which meant that the Jin army had lost all its foothold outside Liangcheng, which was conducive to their righteous army's next attack on Liangcheng.

Of course, Chen Xu still maintained a cautious attitude when attacking Liangcheng.

He said to everyone in a deep voice: "Although the Jin army was newly defeated, after the rest of the army retreated into Liangcheng, they strengthened the garrison of Liangcheng. Moreover, this defeat was equivalent to reminding Xue Ao, Zhou Hu, and Li Meng... I have no doubt that the next battle will become more and more difficult to fight."

Speaking of this, he turned to look at Zhao Yin and asked with a smile: "I wonder what the young master has to do about this?"

Hearing this, the generals sitting there looked at Zhao Yin.

You know, the strategy of the Yi Shi attacking the Jin army camp at night last night was formulated by Zhao Yin.

He predicted the strategy of Henan Commander Li Meng's "setting up an ambush in the camp" and used the strategy and instructed Xiang Xuan to send Zou Yuan, Xiang Ji and Zhou Zhongsan to pretend to be the Henan army.

As a result, everyone saw that the mere one or two thousand fake troops almost caused nearly 10,000 Henan troops in their camp to kill each other.

Therefore, when Chen Xu said the words "The first contribution of this battle is to Prince Angela Bohu," all the generals present remained unswerving.

It is precisely because of this that when Chen Xu asked Zhao Yin at this moment, all the generals present cast curious and expectant eyes at Zhao Yin, wanting to see if this young master Bohu could make any other good suggestions.

Facing everyone's eyes, Zhao Yin smiled humbly: "I am grateful to Mr. Chen, and I am ashamed of being aware of it. I am just learning some military tactics from my teacher. I may have an idea occasionally. But how can I lead troops to fight?

These humble words made the generals here feel a lot about Zhao Yin.

Chen Xu immediately smiled and said, "Young Master, don't be humble. It is precisely because we know that it is not easy to attack Liangcheng that we hope that you can contribute your wisdom without hesitation."

"Since this is the case, then let's take the initiative to say a few words."

After a little thought, Zhao Yin slowly restrained the smile on his face and said seriously: "Although my righteous army removed the Jin camp this time, this can only be said to be beneficial to my righteous army's attack on Liangcheng, but it cannot be regarded as a reverse victory or defeat... As long as Kaifeng County is still in the hands of the Jin army, my righteous army will be forced to face the embarrassment of the attack on the food road. Unfortunately, Kaifeng has heavy troops to guard and it is difficult to capture..."

The heavy troops he mentioned not only refer to the 7,000 Yingchuan County Army led by Zhang Ji and Cao Wu, but also includes the 5,000 Taiyuan cavalry led by Xue Ao's general Dong Dian and Zhong Liao.

Compared with the former, the latter poses a greater threat to the Yishi Food Road.

"How about trying to get back Kaifeng County before attacking Liangcheng?" Zhu Mao suggested.

Zhao Yin shook his head and said, "This will disperse the forces of my righteous army... You also know that in fact, my righteous army does not have the '300,000 army' as it claims, only 180,000 people... Excluding the war losses so far, it is probably around 160,000. This amount of troops is still not sure to use to siege Liangcheng, so how can we have the remaining strength to divide the troops to open the seal?"

Chen Xu also nodded and agreed, "Now, Xue Ao is afraid of our army, so he dare not take the initiative to attack. Once we divide our troops, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not set up a camp outside the city again..."

As he said that, he turned to ask Zhao Yin and said, "Does the young master mean to attack the city as soon as possible?"

"Um."

Zhao Yin nodded and said seriously: "Liangcheng is known as the 'nan capital' of Jin. It is the most important city of Jin south of the river. If Liangcheng can be captured, it will definitely damage the spirit of Jin and inspire the morale of the people around the world to oppose Jin... Therefore, I suggest that our righteous army should speed up the construction of attack equipment in order to use troops against Liangcheng as soon as possible."

"Um."

Chen Xu nodded deeply in agreement, asked the generals who looked around and asked, "Do you have any objections here?"

The generals here looked at each other a few times, but no one raised any objections.

Seeing this, Chen Xu nodded and said seriously: "Okay, since there is no objection, then accelerate the construction of siege equipment, and strive to complete all the weapons needed for siege before early February, and capture Liangcheng in one go!"

"Follow the order."

It has to be said that even Zhao Yin thought the Jin army would no longer dare to take any action in a short period of time, but the facts proved that he guessed wrongly.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Xu Bai, Wang Pin, Xu Rao, Lexing and Hao Shun, five wolves governors, were transferred back to Liangcheng in the name of Zhao Yu, and launched another sniping attack on the soldiers of the charity army.

On the evening of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month alone, eighty-six soldiers of Yishishi were shot dead.

The next day, Chen Xu, who learned about this, immediately invited Cheng Zhou, Wu Yi and Zhao Yin, and said with a serious expression: "I guessed that Zhou Hu would never be willing to swallow this. Sure enough... he transferred his group of wolf cubs back from Kaifeng!"

Hearing this, Zhao Yin was also stunned for a moment.

Others are unwilling to lose, so they can transfer elite troops to retaliate against his righteous army. He can understand, but Zhou Hu, the commander of Yingchuan,... that's his younger brother.

『What does that boy mean?』

Zhao Yin frowned and thought.

After a while, he finally understood: his younger brother probably wanted to use this to remind him that his "secret help" to the righteous master would end here.

"Didn't support my charity master to capture Liangcheng? Why? Don't he want to catch that Tong Yan? Or does he have another way? Wait! Speaking of which, the kid seems to be in Liangcheng now, and he can attack that Tong Yan at any time...tsk!"

Zhao Yin's expression gradually became somewhat subtle.

He originally thought that his younger brother gave secret help for the sake of his brother, but according to the current situation, the younger brother obviously had his own plans - the Jin army lost the camp outside the city, and his younger brother who was mixed in the Jin army could justify retreating into Liangcheng and attack Tong Yan at any time?

『…This guy!』

Zhao Yin felt that his face as his brother was vaguely unbearable because he vaguely realized that everyone, including him, seemed to have been taken advantage of by his younger brother.

"Young Master? Youth?"

"ah?"

After hearing two inquiries suddenly, Zhao Yin woke up from his thoughts. Seeing Chen Xu, Cheng Zhou and Wu Yi looking at him in confusion, he quickly bowed and apologized: "Sorry, I'm thinking about the group of wolves under Zhou Hu..."

He thought about it for a moment, nodded and said, "I agree with Chen Shuai's point of view. Zhou Hu obviously wants to take revenge on my righteous teacher... We should be wary."

Although I felt that Zhao Yin's reaction was a bit strange, Chen Xu didn't care and nodded and said, "I will hand over this matter to Xiang Xuan, but... the soldiers under Xiang Xuan's command are enough to deal with the Henan army, but I'm afraid it's a matter of dealing with the Kunyang Wolf under Zhou Hu's command..."

Judging from his expression, he obviously couldn't guarantee it either.

The next day, on the 16th day of the first lunar month, when Xue Ao and Wei Xu were standing in front of the gate tower in the south of Liangcheng, looking at the rebel camp in the distance south, a Yingchuan soldier wrapped in black scarf hurried to the two of them, but was stopped by Xue Ao's guards.

"Black scarf pawn?"

Xue Ao glanced at the person coming and immediately recognized the iconic black scarf of the Yingchuan jerk.

As far as he knew, the Yingchuan soldiers wrapped in black scarves were different from the ordinary Yingchuan soldiers, and even the confidant of the Yingchuan commander Zhou Hu.

So he waved his hand to order the guard to retreat, called the black scarf to his side, and asked with a pleasant look: "Are you a person next to Zhou Duwei?"

"Yes, general." The black scarf said with a fist: "The villain is the big leader... no, it is the guard beside the commander, Gong Jiao."

Seeing that the visitor tried his best to hide it, he still looked like a bandit tone. Xue Ao and Wei Xu were inexplicably amused.

But I didn't care. After all, everyone knows that Yingchuan Commander Zhou Hu was born as a bandit leader. The bandit leader has a large group of bandits under his command, which is normal.

With a cough, Xue Ao asked calmly: "Okay. Zhou Duwei sent you here, is there something important?"

Hearing this, Gong Jiao clasped his fists and said, "The commander ordered the young man to come and report to the general that the rebels are suspected to be stepping up the construction of siege equipment recently..."

"Oh?" Xue Ao asked in surprise: "Master Zhou sent someone to inquire?"

"Yes." Gong Jiao nodded and said, "This is the news sent by the Travel Wolf."

"Wolf-Benshi?" Xue Ao asked in surprise: "Aren't those five hundred wolf-Benshi in Kaifeng?"

Gong Jiao explained: "The commander transferred them back to Liangcheng two days ago."

"oh……"

Xue Ao and Wei Jing looked at each other, and then said in a deep voice: "Go back and tell Wei Zhou that since he has transferred back the five hundred wolf men, please be sure to carefully inquire about the news that the rebels built siege equipment. I want to know how many siege equipment the rebels have built."

"yes!"

Gong Jiao hugged his fists and turned around and left.

Looking at Gong Jiao's departure back, Wei Xun chuckled and said, "It seems that the rebels have made Zhou Hu angry..."

“…”

Xue Aoyi glanced at the departing black scarf pawn and nodded slightly.

A moment later, Gong Jiao returned to the west city gate guarded by Zhao Yu and met Zhao Yu in the city gate tower.

He clasped his fists and said, "Big Chief, I have informed General Xue of the rebels as you ordered."

"Okay." Zhao Yu nodded and asked, "What does General Xue mean?"

"General Xue asked the chief to carefully inquire about the news that the rebels built siege equipment. He wanted to know how many siege equipment the rebels built."

"Okay, I get it, you go back."

"Yes." Gong Jiao retreated.

Looking at his departure back, Zhao Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

Yes, this time he sent Gong Jiao to report to Xue Ao, just to let Xue Ao know that he had transferred 500 wolves from Kaifeng. As for the purpose, it was naturally to deceive Xue Ao's trust, making Xue Ao mistakenly think that he was in revenge on the rebels' attack on the camp that night.

"Zhao Yin wanted to catch Tong Yan when he captured Liangcheng. Although his idea was good, it didn't work. Not to mention that Tong Yan would run away when he was not good, the charity master on the opposite side might not be able to take Liangcheng... They didn't know that Xue Ao was just a vanguard, and then the army led by Grandmaster Chen... The charity master had almost no chance of winning."

Standing up, Zhao Yu stepped out of the city gate tower, and stood on the open space in front of the city gate tower with his hands on his back.
Chapter completed!