Since mid-April, Hu State seemed to have awakened its will and launched a fierce counterattack against Shizui City, which was occupied by Liang Jun.
The sky was dark and the earth was dark every day.
The siege campaign lasted until early May. During this period, Hu State launched a total of seventeen attacks. Although each time ended in defeat, Liang Jun was forced to raise the city wall by nearly one foot.
After every battle, it took most of the day to clean up the corpses. The stench from the burned corpses had not dissipated for more than a month.
The defenders are all exhausted, let alone the attackers.
In mid-May, the Hu people no longer attacked the city, but used cavalry to harass Liang Jun's logistics supplies. The grassland was too open, and Liang Jun's cavalry was no match for Hu Jun. Even if they could react quickly to intercept, they could not completely eliminate the danger. .
In desperation, Song Che transferred 50,000 elite troops from the top road and stationed them specifically on the right wing of Shizui City. In this way, even if the enemy cavalry attacked, they would have to make a wide circle, which bought more defense time for logistics support.
After being separated from their combat power on the upper road, they entered into a stalemate with the enemy again. However, the enemy on the lower road guarded the two major passes of Jiayu and Yumen, making it even more difficult to shake.
From mid-May to early June, both sides seemed to have acquiesced in a truce. However, from early June, Hu launched another attack.
"Kill!"
"Come on!"
Endless killings, corpses piled up like mountains, blood staining the grassland red.
On this day, Liu Tong found Song Che.
"Military advisor, after more than a month of observation, I have confirmed that there are about ten suspicious characters, all with foreign faces. Among them, eight are male and five are female——
The women pretended to be prostitutes and had affairs with many soldiers, but the discipline in the army was strict, and the people who came to buy sex from them were all small soldiers, and no sergeants patronized them;
The other eight men took the initiative to request to be incorporated into the cavalry tent. They were very passive on the battlefield and rarely negotiated with their colleagues. One of them often went out late at night and his behavior was quite suspicious. "
"Hmm...have you tested them?" Song Che asked.
"The lower official was afraid of alerting the enemy, and was afraid of leaking important military information, so he didn't dare to try it easily. He just collected enough evidence and came to the military adviser for confirmation," Liu Tong said.
Song Che thought for a moment and said, "In this way, if you falsely spread the news, it means that a batch of important supplies will be shipped from Lucheng tomorrow, so that the cavalry can prepare to receive it. We will see how he fares tonight."
"The military advisor has a brilliant plan, I will go and do it now."
…
That night.
late at night.
Song Che, Jiang Yuntian, and Liu Tong specially came to the sentry tower. From a commanding position, they could overlook the entire military camp.
Perhaps he was too tired to defend the city during the day, so it was quiet in the military camp, and all the soldiers were asleep.
The night was three minutes deeper.
"The mouse is out of its hole."
Song Che handed the binoculars to Jiang Yuntian.
A soldier tiptoed out of the military camp. He must have done this more than once. The route he chose perfectly missed the patrol time.
He walked to the foot of a locust tree a hundred steps away from the camp, looked around for a moment, and after confirming that no one was around, he whistled softly. A wild goose fell from a branch into his arm, and he tied his creed to the goose. He lifted his foot gently into the air, and the wild goose flapped its wings and flew away to the moon. Then he returned to the cavalry camp as if nothing had happened.
"It's hard to guard against thieves during the day and night. No wonder the other party can pinpoint the time of delivering supplies every time. It turns out that there is a spy who has been sending them messages. It's so abominable!" Jiang Yuntian handed back the telescope angrily.
Song Che said calmly: "It's not strange, it's not strange...it's actually a good thing."
"Good thing?"
"He must have passed on information more than once, and every piece of information benefited the Hu people. This will undoubtedly increase the Hu people's trust in his information, and we exactly need this trust——
This is called raising pigs. First, a trap is set up to raise the pigs until they are white and fat, and then they are slaughtered while sharpening their knives. "
"It's not good to feed pigs too fat. It will hurt if they get bitten."
"Well...it's time to kill the pig."
Song Che took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Liu Tong, "Mr. Liu, this is a very difficult task. Looking at the entire military camp, I can rest assured that you can handle it alone——
You go out of the city overnight and deliver this letter to Asler, the leader of the Eagle Tribe who is stationed twenty miles west of the city. Tell him again for me that sometimes choices are always greater than hard work. You only have one chance. I hope he will consider it carefully. "
Liu Tong gritted his teeth and took the envelope. "I will definitely fulfill my mission!" Then he walked down the guard tower resolutely.
"You want to... alienate them?" Jiang Yuntian asked.
Song Che nodded lightly, "The Eagle Tribe is the most powerful tribe besides Dadu of the Hu State. The biological mother of the eldest prince, Sudan, is the sister of Asler, the leader of the Eagle Tribe.
The second prince, Kuimu, killed his father and brother to seize the throne, which created enmity with various tribes. The reason why they briefly allied themselves to attack us was because they regarded us as a common enemy.
Now I am taking the initiative to show my goodwill to him and give him an offer that he cannot refuse. There is an 80% chance that he will become friends with us. "
"Is it only 80%? What if he is determined and wants to share the same hatred with the Hu tribe?" Jiang Yuntian asked.
"No, 80% is to be friends with us, and the remaining 20% is undecided. But he will definitely not refuse easily, because I said in the letter that I will praise him as the king of the grassland," Song Che asked Jiang Yuntian with a smile: " If you were Asler, would you refuse?"
Jiang Yuntian shook his head, "I will probably refuse, but... do you really want to make him the king of the grassland?"
"Of course not. I just drew him a piece of pie. It doesn't matter whether he eats it or not. The main purpose is to let others know that I drew him a piece of pie."
Song Che said: "When Asler is tempted, we will use the hands of the insider to convey the news that Asler is colluding with the rebels, thereby intensifying the conflict between the capital and the outside world, and then reaping the benefits - this Yangmou is called 'driving the tiger and swallowing the wolf'."
