On top of the Songzhou city wall, Cheng Kai looked gloomily at the 200,000 Jin soldiers and horses led by Yelvmo and Longchang outside the city.
"Commander, although these two generals of the Jin Kingdom, Yelu Mo and Longchang, are not well-known, they are quite disciplined in their use of troops. If you hadn't reminded them in time, our brothers would have suffered a big loss."
"Among the twelve generals of the Southern Border Guards of the Kingdom of Jin, there are no names of these two people, and I don't know where these two military talents came from."
Zhou Baoyu on one side also nodded with lingering fear.
"Cheng Kai is right. Just now, General Mo took his brothers to have a tentative fight with them, and almost fell into their trap and was surrounded by the Jin army."
"The skills of these two men in arranging troops cannot be underestimated. If this Jin army is not all new soldiers and cannot accurately execute orders, otherwise the last five thousand brothers will probably die today!"
Liu Mingzhi held up his telescope and looked at the Jin army that had begun to set up camp at the north gate of Songzhou City, and began to think about the words of Cheng Kai and the others.
Two middle-aged men wearing general armor can be vaguely seen in the lens tube, riding on horseback and looking towards the city wall.
Unsurprisingly, it was Yelv Mo and Longchang who were the commander-in-chief and deputy commander of the two armies.
Perhaps because of their field of vision, the two of them rode horses and walked slowly toward the city gate.
The faces of the two people in the mirror gradually became clearer.
The two of them stopped at a safe distance, pointing at the city wall and saying something.
Liu Mingzhi frowned slightly as he looked at the appearance of the two people, always feeling as if he had seen them before somewhere. However, the number of people from the Jin Kingdom that Young Master Liu was familiar with was limited.
I couldn't figure out the identity of the two people for a while.
Silently putting down the telescope in his hand, Liu Mingzhi raised his head and looked at the somewhat gloomy sky above his head.
"It depends on the situation. I'm afraid it will snow in a few days. Maybe there will be a heavy snowfall today. Fortunately, I have been on guard. Otherwise, once we are surrounded by this Jin army in Jizhou and Xingzhou, we may really It becomes a turtle in a urn."
"Cheng Kai, Baoyu, do the two armies on the left and right have golden eagles to send messages?"
The two shook their heads in silence: "It's been three days and I haven't received any communication."
Liu Mingzhi stared at the endless Jin Guoying Village outside the city with a complicated expression and sighed.
"I don't know how the fighting between the left and right armies is going. Currently, there is no news from the Song Qing and Duan Bu Ren troops. When the heavy snow comes, once the road is closed, we will really be left alone to defend Songzhou."
"I am not worried about the 200,000 soldiers and horses outside the city. Once Wanyan Chizha returns home due to the heavy snow and launches troops towards Songzhou, we will all have to bury our bones in a foreign country."
"Song Qing, Duan Can't bear the delay in joining forces to return reinforcements. If they can't capture the twelve border cities of the Jin Kingdom, they can't block the Jin Kingdom's army from outside the pass. Let's not talk about encircling the main army of the Jin Kingdom. We won't be surrounded by others. That’s a good thing.”
Both Cheng Kai and Cheng Kai looked a little downcast: "The city we finally captured has to be returned. There is no other way."
"Who told us, the dragon, to fight one against two? Our form is inferior to others, so we can only avoid the edge for the time being."
"Commander, this is in the hinterland of the Kingdom of Jin. We have lost the geographical advantage. If it snows again, we will also lose the weather. If Song Fushuai and his two armies are too late to come back for reinforcements, we will also lose the peace of our people."
"The right time, right place, and right people are not on our side. The general will really not know how to fight such a battle."
Liu Mingzhi hammered the city wall hard: "A living person cannot be suffocated to death. If there is no chance, we will create an opportunity, fight against the odds, and find a way to eat these 200,000 troops!"
"Only by eating these 200,000 troops can our advantage be brought into play. Otherwise, we will be trapped and die in Songzhou City sooner or later. We have been running for a long distance, and we don't have much food and grass. Even if we add the emergency food and grass seized from the four cities of Songzhou, we will not be able to take advantage of it." But stick with it for two months.”
"The twelfth lunar month of winter is when the Jin Kingdom is cold. Once there is not enough food and grass, we will definitely die."
"Find a way to eat this 200,000 Jin army!"
Cheng Kai and the two took a breath of cold air and stared at the army outside the city.
"Commander, the purpose of this Jin Kingdom army is very clear. It is obviously to hold us back. It has no intention of confronting us head-on."
"If we attack, they will retreat. If the tug of war continues for a long time, it will play into their hands."
"It's difficult to eat them all in one fell swoop."
"Yeah, if it's a tired army, it's better to say that we can quickly leave the city and start a charge. But when the general made a tentative attack just now, Commander-in-Chief, you saw it from the city wall. The morale of this army is at its peak."
"They must have been repairing before they suddenly surrounded us."
"Especially the terrain of Songzhou, from the west close to the grassland, is suitable for our cavalry to run long distances. The other three cities cannot open up the cavalry's formation at all."
"It's impossible to lure them to the west. These two generals are very thieves. They can definitely see our purpose at a glance."
"Don't let them make a false move when the time comes. If you can't bear them, they will take the city away. Our situation will be even worse by then."
Liu Mingzhi closed his eyes and thought deeply for a moment, then slowly opened his eyes and looked up at the gloomy sky.
"Then it depends on whether God gives us a chance!"
The two of them were stunned. Cheng Kai looked at Liu Mingzhi, who seemed incomprehensible: "Commander, what do you think?"
"The soldiers were ordered to beat drums and shout to support the speed of setting up camp."
"Now that the weather is getting colder and colder, we can't survive without tents and bonfires at night. If there is another heavy snowfall, it won't be a big problem for our 120,000 cavalry to eat up this obviously new army of 200,000 troops. "
The two of them thought about it for a moment, and their eyes lit up.
"The general will go immediately and order the brothers to beat drums and shout, pretending to go out of the city to start a battle."
"Baoyu!"
"The end will be here."
"Call Cheng Kai, once the Jin Kingdom realizes that we are pretending to attack and delay their plan, we will immediately order the artillery soldiers to fire."
"It doesn't matter if you can hit it or not, it doesn't matter if it's within range or not, just use your momentum."
"The general will get the order at the end."
Outside Songzhou City, Yelvmo and Longchang were discussing countermeasures.
"Commander, why can't the enemy retreat after trying to charge? With Liu Mingzhi's reputation, he shouldn't be afraid of us two unknowns!"
Yeluhu shook his head silently: "It's hard to say, maybe he has a more profound plan. Just like none of us thought that Liu Mingzhi would voluntarily give up the captured city, empty out the food and grass, and retreat to Songzhou."
"Behind Songzhou is the Turkic grassland. Liu Mingzhi is thinking of retreating if he loses!"
"Gui Bu'er, Mu Changfeng and the others have led their troops to start a detour? We must find a way to block their retreat from the rear to buy time for the king and princess to return to the court and encircle them."
"We have already detoured. If nothing unexpected happens, we will be able to detour back to the west of the city before dark and set up an ambush in the south of the city."
"That's good............"
"Boom...boom...boom..."
"Come on!"
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