Su Yonglin was very sure that in this situation, he did not need to attack. The golden soldiers in the city would definitely send people to attack him.
Sure enough, on the third night after that, the Jin soldiers in the city couldn't bear it anymore.
Seeing the rapid progress of the coalition forces' projects outside the city, they really couldn't bear it and forced themselves out of the city to attack at night.
As a result, he was noticed by the big yellow dog when he was climbing over the horse.
A dog started barking, and almost all the dogs started barking. The roar was so loud that it could scare people, even ghosts, to wake them up.
The sneak attack troops thought they had been discovered and panicked. They immediately forgot their tactics and tactics, turned around and fled, making a loud noise.
The night guard troops were instantly alert and fired a volley of bows and crossbows. When the Jin soldiers fled, many people fell into the moat and drowned. They returned in disastrous defeat and could not even cross the blockade.
Wu Gulunwo Lun was completely panicked now.
He felt that if he didn't take the initiative, he would have to wait for the water to overflow, and he would be trapped to death together with everyone in the city.
However, it would be too difficult to take the initiative and the losses would be huge. There are not many troops in the city, and they are definitely not sufficient to attack unscrupulously.
He had never thought of this dilemma before.
He never expected that as a defender, he would actually be entangled in the issue of attacking or not, and he no longer looked like a defender, but more like an siege, and the offensive and defensive momentum had changed.
War is so wonderful.
While Wugu Lunwo Lun was worried, Sun Tzu Yi also became wary of the arrival of the Jin Army's cavalry because they received intelligence warnings from Su Yonglin. They reinforced the camp and turned it into a stronghold capable of defensive operations.
Then he started the siege but not attack mode, intending to drag the Jin Army cavalry to the Hejian City to fight a war of attrition.
Sun Tzu Yi believed that the Jin Army cavalry was indeed elite, but if he did not go out to fight with the Jin Army in the field, then the Jin Army certainly could not force him to fight in the field. In this case, he could just use Hejian City as a bait and fight a war of attrition with the Jin Army here. .
His troops were far superior to the Jin army. He believed that with these troops, even if they were exhausted, they could kill the Jin army. The limits of infantry and cavalry were exchanged for one. No matter how you look at it, the infantry would make a profit, or a huge profit.
However, Wanyan A-lin is not a fool. He is very shrewd and good at mathematics. Of course, he can also figure out accounts that Sun Tzu Yi can calculate clearly, so he will definitely not engage in a war of attrition with Sun Tzu Yi.
Through investigation, Wanyan Alin learned that Sun Tzu Yi was besieging Hejian City and not attacking, but instead fortified the camp and had the posture of holding on for a long time, so he knew that his whereabouts should be known to the enemy.
The other party decided to use Hejian City as a bet to have a decisive battle with themselves.
If they couldn't fight in the field, the advantage of cavalry over infantry would not be that great. Wanyan Alin would not be stupid enough to use such precious mobile elite troops to fight a war of attrition with the large number of the Liberation Army.
The idea of letting the Liberation Army and the Hejian City defenders consume each other's strength was shattered. Wanyan Alin felt that he could not wait any longer and had to start the war as soon as possible to take advantage of the mobility of the cavalry and do something.
We can't let the Liberation Army really drag on for so long. If there is no one alive in Hejian City, even if they can be defeated, his strategic goal will be a failure.
The Liberation Army wants to fight a war of attrition in Hejian City, then...
Just cut off his retreat, rob his food routes, and destroy his food reserves. This will force him to come out and fight a strategic decisive battle, right?
So Wanyan Alin decided to send troops to take a detour to the rear of Sun Tzu Yi's army to cause trouble.
On November 13, Wanyan Alin dispatched two thousand elite cavalry from Mozhou to the south, bypassing the main force of the Liberation Army in Hejian Prefecture, turned a corner and headed south, and successfully broke into Hejian Prefecture without any precautions. South.
Then they tortured the location of the Liberation Army's food and grass camp by capturing soldiers of the Liberation Army.
So two thousand fine cavalry marched through the starry night to attack the food and grass camp of the Liberation Army.
Although the defense of the grain and grass camp was not lax, they were unable to withstand the Jin army's surprise attack in the early morning. After a fierce battle, almost the entire army was wiped out. The grain and grass camp was burned down, and a large amount of grain was burned.
On November 16, two thousand fine cavalry of the Jin army went north along the way.
On November 18, two thousand fine cavalry drove prisoners of war and appeared behind the Liberation Army camp in Hejian Prefecture, causing violent shaking in the Liberation Army camp.
The grain and grass camp was destroyed, the route of retreat was cut off, and there was only food for seven days in the military camp, making it unbearable for a protracted battle.
At the same time, Wanyan Alin and the main force of the Jin Army also appeared in the north of Hejian City, forming a north-south pincer attack with two thousand commandos, forming a loose encirclement of the Liberation Army camp, but again, they surrounded but did not attack. .
They simply camped, as if waiting for the Liberation Army to take the initiative, or to starve to death after running out of food supplies in a few days.
Sun Tzu Yi was shocked when he learned about this situation. He did not expect that his retreat would be cut off by the Jin Army cavalry and the grain and grass camp would be destroyed. He regretted it and deeply regretted not sending more troops to guard the grain and grass camp.
But the matter has come to this, and regret is of no use.
Sun Tzu Yi knew that he only had seven days. If he could not fight his way out within seven days, his entire army would be annihilated.
So he decided to take a risk and sent 5,000 of his elite infantry and cavalry to attack the Jin Army cavalry south of the camp, trying to open up the road south and re-open the supply line.
However, when the Liberation Army attacked, the Jin Army retreated. When the Liberation Army attacked again, the Jin Army still retreated. It did not engage in combat with the Liberation Army, but only hung the Liberation Army from a distance.
They just didn't fight, they just kept retreating and hanging at a distance.
Leading this elite cavalry is Sun Tzu Yi's favorite general Du Yongtao. He is tall, brave and brave, and is known as the most brave general under Sun Tzu Yi with outstanding achievements.
But facing the cunning Jin army now, he also had difficulties, so he unknowingly went deeper into the south and stayed away from the military camp, forgetting Sun Ziyi's instruction not to stay away from the military camp.
When Wanyan Alin learned of the situation, he immediately sent another three thousand cavalry to quickly maneuver and go directly to the rear of Du Yongtao's army, cutting off their way back to the camp. Du Yongtao was shocked and immediately sent his troops back north.
The fluctuating military morale gave the Jin Army cavalry good offensive conditions.
This time the Jin army did not give in, but launched a very sharp attack. The three thousand cavalry from the rear also caught up, and six thousand cavalry surrounded the five thousand Liberation Army Corps.
They repeatedly attacked, shot at the Liberation Army formation with bows and arrows, and went back and forth several times, trying to wear down the strength of the Liberation Army.
The Liberation Army's military formation was greatly shaken, and it was only by Du Yongtao's timely delivery of instructions that he could stabilize the military formation.
Du Yongtao knew that he had been plotted, and the situation was not good at the moment. If he was not careful, the military formation would be destroyed. Once the military formation was destroyed, everything would stop.
He ordered all the crossbowmen in the military formation to output firepower and continue to strike.
Because the infantry's crossbows had a relatively long range and still had a certain deterrent effect on the cavalry, the Jin Army's cavalry did not achieve very favorable results for a while, but they did not retreat and continued to attack and harass repeatedly.
Du Yongtao couldn't bear the disturbance and felt that he could not sit still and wait for death. He began to try to direct the military formation to move northward, slowly advancing to force the Jin army to retreat, trying to get closer to the camp.
However, after noticing the actions of this army, the Jin Army cavalry began to launch a more active attack.
Many soldiers of the Liberation Army fell under the arrows of the Jin Army, and many Jin Army cavalry were hit by the counterattacks of the Liberation Army, fell off their horses, and were trampled into piles of rotten flesh.
Both sides suffered injuries to each other at this stage, but the Liberation Army could no longer continue to advance north and was held back by the Jin Army.
Seeing this, Du Yongtao gritted his teeth and simply ordered the military formation to stay still, waiting here for reinforcements from the camp to rescue him.
A small number of cavalry as a counterattack force were protected in the infantry formation, ready to wait for reinforcements to come and fight out together to maintain the force of the counterattack.
He believed that when things got to this point, the reinforcements from the camp would not fail to arrive, so it was okay to wait for the reinforcements here.
Indeed, when Sun Tzu Yi saw Du Yongtao's army being trapped, he immediately organized troops to go out to the camp to respond.
Another brave general, Xue Li, led another 5,000 men to attack, preparing to meet Du Yongtao's troops. However, before he could receive them, Xue Li's army was also surrounded by a group of Jin Army cavalry, and was completely defeated.
The two Jin Army cavalry attacked the surrounded infantry formation. Xue Li's regiment and Du Yongtao's regiment also fell into a hard fight and struggled to hold on.
