Duan Yi and Xu Ang discussed the goal of this golden soldier for a while, but couldn't figure it out.
"Why did the Golden Thief send troops north to this place at this time? This is not the location of the Golden Thief's food route. What's the point of them coming here?"
Duan Yi was very puzzled.
Xu Ang was also confused.
"Could it be that the financial owner was unwilling to give in and wanted to attack Hejian Mansion again? So he sent people to attack?"
"This...isn't possible? Hundreds of thousands of gold thieves couldn't attack Hejian Mansion, let alone only a few thousand people now? It doesn't look like they came to attack Hejian Mansion."
"Then...are you here to attack Wubao and collect food?"
After hearing this, Duan Yi frowned and thought for a while, then nodded slowly.
"Don't mention it, the only reasonable explanation is this. The scale of the Golden Thief is so large. If the front line is short of food, it is really possible to send people everywhere to collect food... But the question is whether the Golden Thief has learned about it at this moment. Their food routes were cut off.”
"Hard to say."
Xu Ang shook his head: "If we knew, the Golden Thief would definitely withdraw all troops. There should not be only a few thousand people."
"What if it's the retreating vanguard?"
"Then...shall we fight?"
Xu Ang looked at Duan Yi. He felt that Duan Yi's brain melon seeds were more useful than him. He followed Duan Yi's suggestions more along the way and did not forget to ask Duan Yi's opinion at this time.
Duan Yi hesitated for a while.
"There's no reason not to eat the meat delivered to your door, right? Being able to eat these cavalry can also be regarded as reducing the pressure on Alang's cavalry on the front line, right?"
"That's the truth."
Xu Ang nodded and asked: "But we are mostly infantry and have very few cavalry, which is not enough to compete head-on. How do you think this battle will be fought?"
Duan Yi walked around in front of Xu Ang for a while, and suddenly an idea flashed across his face.
"Yes, it's hard to fight on flat ground, but it's easy to fight in a city."
"How to defeat the city?"
"Aren't the gold thieves coming towards Jiaohe? They don't know whether there are any of our people in Jiaohe or whether it is fortified. Let's just leave Jiaohe and give the county to them."
"This... do you want to turn the plain field battle into a city offensive and defensive battle?"
Duan Yi nodded.
"In a head-to-head confrontation, even if we win, we can't catch up with them. We will suffer losses for no reason, and the results will be small. In this case, it is better to give them the county seat. Look, it has been rainy these days. If there is a city to garrison, what will they do? select?"
"Of course you can live in it. You can also take shelter from the rain. Once the city gate is closed, you can still defend it. It is safe no matter how you look at it, unless..."
Xu Ang figured everything out, laughed, and said, "Unless they are surrounded by our army."
"The Golden Thief Cavalry cannot carry too much food when they move. As long as they enter the city, we can surround them. Even if we don't fight, they will starve to death if we just besiege the city."
Duan Yi said with a smile: "The distance between a gold thief and an enemy is usually ten to twenty miles. Let's do the whole show and withdraw the troops for twenty miles. After the gold thief is sure to enter the city, we will rush back and give him a big surprise. !”
"That's very good."
Xu Ang expressed his support and immediately promulgated the order.
Let the Guangfu Army garrisoned in Jiaohe County seize the opportunity to retreat and retreat twenty miles to the west. Leave capable sentries to observe carefully in this area. Once the Jin army enters the city, they will immediately bring the news back.
After receiving the order, the army immediately began to take action. According to the requirements, all traces of life were removed and all used things were taken away, so that Jiaohe City could be restored to the way it was when they first arrived.
It can be regarded as God's help. The light rain can cover up the traces of many people's lives, which is enough to provide cover for the Liberation Army.
Not long after the Liberation Army completely evacuated Jiaohe County, the Jin Army's sentinels arrived near Jiaohe County. They were surprised to find that Jiaohe County was deserted.
On the one hand, they immediately sent people into the city to check the situation, and on the other hand, they told Wanyan Benjian, who was cautiously advancing behind, the news.
Wanyan Benjian was a little surprised when he learned that Jiaohe County was ahead. He opened the map and looked at it, and found that Jiaohe County was not in his planned direction, and their direction was somewhat deviated.
Then he realized that it had something to do with the guide.
He immediately had the guide tied up and brought before him, holding him on his knees and looking at him murderously.
"I asked you to lead the way north by east. I want to go to Qingzhou. Why did you take us to Jiaohe? Aren't you very familiar with this road?"
The guide was also very surprised at this time. He felt that already at this place, the garrison in Jiaohe County should have discovered the Jin Army and should attack. How could Wanyan Benjian ask himself questions so calmly?
Where is the army?
The guide couldn't figure it out, and felt very upset. He felt that either he had remembered it wrong, or the Liberation Army had already left. In short, crossing the river was safe for Jin Bing.
He was despairing and felt that this was the end of it.
In this case, what else is there to hide?
"I wish I could eat your flesh and drink your blood! How can I lead you to the right path! I will only lead you to hell! To hell!!!!"
He roared angrily, and the cannibalistic look in his eyes made Wanyan Benji's back feel cold, so Wanyan Benji waved his hand and asked the guards to take him down and kill him.
A guide with ulterior motives who cannot show the way is meaningless, and keeping the guide will only lead the army to more dangerous places.
After killing the guide, Wanyan Benjian's problems became bigger again.
He had no one to lead the way, the weather was very cold, and it kept raining. The cold icy rain slapped randomly on his face. He could clearly hear many soldiers around him coughing and sneezing. He wanted to come here. After an ice rain is over, many people will fall ill.
That would be even worse for him.
In order to prevent too many people from falling ill and losing their fighting capacity, he felt that even tonight, he had to find a place to spend the night well, and could not continue to sleep in the open.
There was no news from the troops at the rear that the pursuers were found behind them, and it would take time to explore the road ahead, so anyway, it was necessary to find a place to stay for one night.
Thinking of this, Wanyan Benjian felt that if Jiaohe County was safe, it might be a good choice to stay for one night.
It happened that at this time, news came from the forward sentry cavalry team that Jiaohe County was indeed an empty city. It looked like it had been empty for a long time. It should be like many cities they encountered when they went south. The population had been removed to build strong walls and clear the country. .
It's just an empty city.
Although there are no food supplies, and even the door panels of some houses have been dismantled, there are still houses that can provide shelter from the rain and cold, which is better than nothing.
Wanyan Ben saw that many such cities were used as food and grass transit points for the Jin army's march south, so he summoned his subordinates to discuss it.
The subordinates also felt that there was nothing wrong with staying one night. They camped in the wild for several days. Some soldiers caught cold and developed high fever. If this continued, there would soon be a large number of non-combat attrition.
At this time, both people and horses really need to take a good rest.
So Wanyan Ben was relieved, nodded, and led the hungry and cold troops towards Jiaohe County. At the same time, he announced that the scout cavalry team should be completely dispersed to ensure the safety of at least a ten-mile radius and to ensure that if something happened, the Jin army in the city would be safe. Plenty of time to evacuate.
So many cavalrymen galloped away.
When Wanyan Ben saw it, he sighed and breathed a sigh of relief, and led his hungry and cold subordinates into the deserted Jiaohe County.
He arranged for his troops to live together in the north of the city, then guarded the gates on all sides, and inspected the city walls before he felt relieved to move into the greenhouse prepared for him by his subordinates.
After all, there were many wooden buildings in the city, and some dry wood could be dismantled and used. The golden soldiers went out to find dry wood to burn and make fires for warmth.
While my body was warming up, I finally had a hot meal that I hadn't seen for a long time, drank some hot water, slept peacefully, and dried the damp clothes on my body.
Wanyan Benjian, who stayed in the greenhouse, could finally relax a little and sleep peacefully, waiting to get up early tomorrow morning to lead the troops to evacuate Jiaohe County and continue to escape north.
On the other end, Duan Yi and Xu Ang, who quickly learned that the Jin Army entered Jiaohe County to rest, still did not know the real reason why this army arrived here, but this did not hinder their actions.
If there are enemies, kill them. This is their rule.
At midnight that night, the rain stopped.
In the early morning, the sky was still very dark. When it got a little brighter, Wanyan Benjian was shouted out by his terrified subordinates, asking him to quickly go to the city wall to see what was happening outside.
Wanyan Ben saw that he was being pushed and carried up to the city wall by his subordinates in a daze. When he looked outside, he felt that his seven-point sleepiness suddenly disappeared.
The hairs all over his body stood up.
Outside the city, there were densely packed Liberation Army troops as far as the eye could see.
They raised the banner of "Expelling the Barbarians and Restoring China", and surrounded the third and third floors of Jiaohe County. They were setting up traps and iron caltrops in front of their military formation, and they were ready to prepare for the attack. This is a posture that traps the golden soldiers to death.
Wanyan Benjian was dumbfounded and his mind went blank. He heard nothing from his subordinates' anxious shouts.
After a while, he shouted with despair.
"Where are the Sentinel Riders? Where are the Sentinel Riders searching for the enemy? Why was there no advance warning!? Did the bandit army fall from the sky?!"
It was more of a roar than a shout.
Wanyan Benjian yelled, cursed at the subordinates around him, and without any explanation, asked the soldiers to pull out and behead the three generals at the general manager level who had strongly supported moving into Jiaohe County yesterday.
The three bewildered senior generals did not die at the hands of the Liberation Army, but were beheaded by Wanyan Benjian.
But so what?
The city was heavily besieged, and the distance left for the cavalry to sprint was very short. The space was compressed to the extreme, and the advantage of the cavalry was gone.
According to Wanyan Benjian's preliminary analysis, the number of the Liberation Army outside the city was at least 10,000. They seemed to be well-equipped and powerful.
what to do?
His subordinates were all asking him, and the soldiers were panicking.
But the most terrifying thing is obviously Wanyan Ben seeing himself.
What else could he do?
Without the supplement of food and horse feed, he can only sit back and make nothing. Soon, the war horse will eat up the horse feed, and then lose its impact and riding value.
The soldiers can survive for a long time by eating horse meat and can defend the city, but the problem is that there is no replenishment of ordnance in the city.
What did they use to defend the city?
fist? A pair of legs? Or some strong will?
Thinking of this, Wanyan Benjian suddenly laughed out loud, feeling that he was very interesting.
After all, why should we defend the city?
The entire army was wiped out, and they were the only ones who escaped.
There are not many troops left in the Jin Kingdom in the north. Nanjing can only protect itself, and Guanzhong is also protecting itself. The remaining Liaodong nest still has some people and troops, but can it hold it in the face of the powerful Liberation Army?
After this battle, the Liberation Army completely established a strong pattern, and the Jin Kingdom became weak and teetering on the edge of collapse.
Who can save him?
Did he still expect Wan Yanliang to be resurrected and bring people to rescue him?
If Wan Yanliang was resurrected, the first thing he would do would not be to save him, but to kill him.
Dead, dead.
I'm going to die here.
Wanyan Benjian didn't expect that his life would end here, nor did he expect that he would end up in this way.
It's so ridiculous, so ridiculous.
So he shed tears and laughed at the same time, crying and laughing at the same time, just like a schizophrenic patient.
Seeing Wanyan Benjian burst out laughing and then laughing and crying, the subordinates all felt great fear. They felt a cold air rushing directly from the soles of their feet to the Tianling Gai, which chilled their hearts.
Is it finished?
No, there must be a way to survive!
What if the Liberation Army outside the city is just a paper tiger!
"Now the horses can still charge and the cavalry can still fight. If we don't take advantage of this moment to break through, how long will it take?"
Shi Morong, the general manager of the Shenguo Army, was unwilling to give up hope of survival. He believed that even at this point, there was still a way to survive.
Some officers also sought medical treatment in a hurry. They supported Shi Morong's views and supported Shi Morong in leading troops to attack.
The result was not surprising. A group of people watched on the city wall as Shi Morong led a thousand cavalry to attack. They watched the Jin Army cavalry fall off their horses and died under the attack of the powerful crossbows and arrows of the Liberation Army. They watched them charge. When they arrived at the formation, they were unable to break through the Liberation Army's formation, and instead were attacked head-on.
Shi Morong was not a coward, or he had a strong desire to survive, but unfortunately his strength was not up to standard. He was killed by random arrows during the battle and died under the city. Most of the thousand cavalry were injured, and only a few people fled back to the city in embarrassment.
The Liberation Army did not pursue, and still maintained their formation, as stable as a mountain.
The officers in the city were desperate.
Some collapsed on the ground and cried loudly, some collapsed on the ground with dull eyes, and some were unwilling to accept the reality and rushed down the city wall with a roar.
All in all, all sentient beings are different.
By this time, the golden soldiers in the city were also falling into despair and fear. Knowing that they were surrounded by the Liberation Legion, they were frightened and approached their superiors one after another, asking for an explanation.
The commander still wants to explain!
As a result, the city was in chaos and there was no life left.
