Xiao Mian was overjoyed when he heard this and said, "Brother Lin, this is a wonderful plan!"
Lin Sumo then added: "Brother Xiao can personally stay in Wuling as a countermeasure against the enemy, and order Zheng Wenxiu and Yang Daosheng to each lead an army. They will set off after dark and attack Taoyuan and Meishan at dawn. We will definitely defeat him in one battle!”
Xiao Mian immediately understood what Lin Sumo meant. Only when he appeared outside the "Wuling City" would Wang Rong continue to occupy the city. After Taoyuan and Meishan were captured, Lin Shihong would desperately send troops to help.
After nightfall, Xiao Mian once again launched an offensive against "Wuling City". With the cover of the army mobilized outside the city, Zheng Wenxiu and Yang Daosheng each led an army of 10,000 people and quietly left, splitting into two groups to surprise Taoyuan and Meishan cities.
After dawn, Xiao Mian received the battle reports from the two cities. Without any effort, Zheng Wenxiu and Yang Daosheng captured the two cities and killed more than ten thousand enemies.
However, Xiao Mian ordered people to block the news, and also ordered people to block the channels leading to the outside world around Wuling City, so that Wang Rong could not receive news from Taoyuan and Meishan cities for at least three days. As for three days later, you will realize something is wrong.
The best fighter planes were within these critical three days. Later, Xiao Mian ordered Zheng Wenxiu and Yang Daosheng to lead an army to attack Yuanling. At the same time, he mobilized nearly 50,000 troops from Baling, Yiyang and other places and marched along the route. Zishui marched westward and stationed in the Yuntai and Anzhen areas.
Liang Jun's 20,000-strong army attacked Yuanling. As expected, Lin Shihong panicked and immediately led an army of 100,000 troops from Changfeng and Chenzhou to come for reinforcements. When Lin Shihong's troops entered Luxi, Zheng Wenxiu and Yang Daosheng immediately led their troops to retreat. They pretended to be panicked and fled, leaving behind countless baggage, cattle, sheep and other property.
Lin Shihong was indeed deceived and immediately ordered the army to pursue him. However, the military discipline of Lin Shihong's troops was chaotic. The soldiers fought for property along the way and fought fiercely. Although it did not cause too much chaos, the morale of the army was already unstable.
When we arrived in the Yuntai and Anzhen areas, it happened to rain heavily, the roads were muddy and slippery, and the army was marching slowly. Lin Shihong had no choice but to order people to set up camp and wait until the rain stopped before setting off on the road. However, before the camp was set up, there were three armies. Came to cover up.
The sudden attack and killing caused Lin Shihong's troops to panic. Coupled with the low morale of the troops, after the panic resistance, as more and more soldiers were killed, it soon turned into a great rout.
At the same time, Xiao Mian outside Wuling City was always paying attention to the battle situation in Yuntai and Anzhen. When Lin Shihong's troops were completely defeated, Xiao Mian immediately led his troops to leave Wuling and go straight to Yuntai. Come.
The departure of Xiao Mian's army immediately attracted the attention of Wang Rong in "Wuling City". After many investigations, Wang Rong realized that he had fallen into Xiao Mian's plan, and immediately mobilized all 30,000 troops in Wuling City to pursue Xiao Mian's tribe. to.
However, only twenty miles away from the city, there was a sudden sound of thunderous drums, and Liang Jun came from all directions to attack him. The sound of killing was so loud that Wang Rong was horrified, and he knew that he had fallen into Xiao Xian's plan of "moving the tiger away from the mountain".
Fortunately, Wang Rong's army was all elite. After a brief panic, Wang Rong immediately led the army to break through and attacked with overwhelming force. However, Wang Rong was only focused on breaking out, but he did not notice that there were fewer and fewer soldiers following him. .
When Wang Rong broke through the siege of Liang Jun, when he looked back, he found that there were only a dozen soldiers left around him. Wang Rong was suddenly shocked. When he was about to lead his troops to fight back, he saw more than a hundred Liang soldiers on the hillside in front of him. A general in black armor came out surrounded by army soldiers.
"Xiao Mian?"
Wang Rong raised his eyes and looked up, but he didn't expect that the general of the Liang army was actually Xiao Xian, Emperor Liang.
Xiao Mian laughed and asked loudly: "General Wang Rong, are you willing to dismount and accept surrender?"
When Wang Rong saw this, he laughed in surprise and said: "Xiao Mian, you should never, absolutely should not appear in front of me. Sons and gentlemen, please follow my general to capture Xiao Mian, Emperor Liang!"
Wang Rong and others were only a hundred steps away from the hillside where Xiao Mian was. They arrived at the speed of a galloping horse. Wang Rong, who was rushing at the front, could even clearly see the shocked look on Xiao Mian's face.
However, when Wang Rong and others rushed to the hillside, the guards behind Xiao Mian quickly retreated, revealing five loaded crossbows.
"Boom!"
Accompanied by a loud sound of cracking rocks and piercing clouds, crossbow arrows from all over the sky were shot at Wang Rong and others.
The moment he saw the crossbow on the bed, Wang Rong knew something was wrong. He immediately jumped up and escaped through the gap between the crossbow arrows. Then, the soldiers following Wang Rong were not so lucky and were shot directly at high speed. The crossbow arrows penetrated through, and the powerful kinetic energy even directly tore the corpse into two halves.
After just one round of arrows, Wang Rong was left alone. Even Wang Rong's war horse was given special care. Seven or eight crossbow arrows were inserted into the horse's body. If it weren't for Wang Rong's extraordinary cultivation, half of the seven or eight crossbow arrows would have been inserted into Wang Rong's body.
However, Wang Rong, who was still in shock, just raised his head and saw another rain of arrows coming. He had to close his eyes and sigh, "It's over." Then, arrows rained down like rain.
The combination of "encircling the point to mobilize reinforcements" and "moving the tiger away from the mountain" can be said to be a plan within a plan. Regardless of whether Wang Rong fell into the plan and left "Wuling City", defeat was already a foregone conclusion.
By evening, more than half of the more than 30,000 Wang Rong troops who were surrounded by the formation were killed or wounded, and the rest fled in all directions. In addition to some who escaped, nearly 13,000 people surrendered.
Xiao Mian stood on the hillside and looked at the battlefield. He was in a happy mood and said, "This battle wiped out Wang Rong's tribe and captured Wuling City. Master Lin took the greatest credit!"
Lin Sumo said with a smile: "Brother Xiao, thank you. Now it's Lin Shihong's turn. Brother Xiao can order people to collect flags, armor and weapons from the defeated army, and then order Zhang Xiu to lead people to pretend to be Wang Rong's defeated army, or intentionally Unexpected gains!”
Upon hearing this, Xiao Mian immediately ordered someone to go down and collect materials with Lin Shihong's mark according to Lin Sumo's words. After that, the reorganized army set off again and marched towards Yuntai.
The main battlefield of the ambush battle was in the hills between Yuntai Mountain and Mingyue Mountain. Facing the strangulation of nearly 80,000 Liang troops led by Zheng Wenxiu and Yang Daosheng, Lin Shihong's 100,000 troops suffered numerous casualties. The sergeant even dropped his weapon and ran away with his head in his arms, escaping into the nearby mountains and forests to hide, while more were cut into several pieces and were continuously eaten away by Liang Jun.
Lin Shihong slowly retreated into Yuntai Mountain under the protection of Cui Jixiu, Zhang Shanan and others, with less than 50,000 soldiers following him.
More than half of the 100,000-strong army was lost. Looking at a group of defeated soldiers in the camp, Lin Shihong's face was gloomy. Cui Jixiu, Zhang Shan'an and others were even more silent and did not dare to say anything. They knew that Lin Shihong was angry at this moment and no one wanted to be this punching bag. .
"Report!"
At this moment, a scout came quickly and knelt down to report: "Your Majesty, General Wang Rong's generals were found ten miles away, but..."
Lin Shihong shouted in a deep voice: "Just what? Don't hesitate!"
The scout said: "It's just that General Wang Rong and other generals seem to have suffered defeat and escaped!"
Lin Shihong was shocked, knowing that something bad was going on. Wang Rong's generals appeared here at this moment, which meant that Wuling City must have been lost.
