"Immediately send envoys to recruit the Star Army to surrender. If the Star Army does not surrender, the army will attack the city at this time tomorrow." After the meeting began, Zhou Hai reported in detail the various circumstances of the initial battle. After he finished speaking, the Feng Army coach Zhao Tianyi and the supervisor Tang Jinjian After some humility, Tang Jinjian finally issued further combat instructions.
Persuading surrender is a way to subdue others without fighting. Regardless of whether it is successful or not, it is a process that a powerful country needs to go through before a war. If the two countries are equally powerful, this process can be omitted. If the army is stronger, Tang Jinjian still wants to go through the process first and then give the Star Army some time to think about it.
It has been a common rule among military strategists since ancient times not to kill the envoys when the two armies are fighting. After selecting the appropriate personnel, the envoys of the Feng Army set off directly and entered Yancheng smoothly. While the high-level officials of the Feng Army continued to hold meetings, the envoy said that the envoys of the Feng Army As a representative, he held a negotiation with Lan Wu and other senior Star Army officials.
The content of the negotiation was nothing more than the envoy telling Lan Wu and others the advantages of surrendering and the disadvantages of not surrendering. In short, the advantages in the envoy's mouth naturally outweighed the disadvantages.
After his coercive rhetoric, Lan Wu and the star army generals were angry, but they did not directly fall out with the envoy. Lan Wu also responded to the Feng army envoy in a normal negotiation manner, and finally agreed with the envoy. Send the Fengjun envoy back by giving a reply before time.
When the envoy returned, the pre-war meeting of the Feng Army had just ended. During the meeting, the commander-in-chief of the Feng Army and a group of generals discussed the strategy of attacking Rock City in detail. If the Star Army refused to surrender, all their strategies would be put into practice. actual.
After the envoy informed Zhao Tianyi of the situation of his departure, Zhao Tianyi directly ordered the camp to be abandoned. Hundreds of thousands of Feng Army soldiers took all the food, grass, and baggage and marched westward, under the dual banners of the ancient Yuan Kingdom and the Feng Kingdom. , and did not stop garrisoning until thirty miles away from Yanguan.
According to Zhao Tianyi's instructions, if they do not receive a surrender response from the Star Army tonight, they will send troops to attack the city early tomorrow morning.
Before the siege, Zhao Tianyi specially celebrated the victory of the vanguard troops and rewarded the participating soldiers lavishly. During the celebration, the whole army cheered and cheered. The military morale was high and their vigor became stronger. If the Star Army did not come up with countermeasures after today, it would be difficult to stop them. Xia Fengjun's attack.
Because morale is a very important thing for the army. High morale can urge ordinary soldiers to exert their long-term combat effectiveness in wartime. If the two armies meet again in the plains, with the same strength, then the final result will definitely be The Feng army won.
In order not to lose to the Feng Army, the Xing Army needs to temporarily avoid the edge or use some means to defeat the Feng Army's spirit. For Lan Wu, with limited troops, only by uniting as one can they win such an opportunity.
Just like this, one day passed. Early the next morning, Lan Wu received a message that the Star Army was ready to go. After confirming that the Feng Army was advancing, Lan Wu directly made some adjustments to the deployment of personnel on the city and locked up the defenders. From the original ten steps and one post to five steps and one post, the troop strength was directly doubled.
Originally, the 70,000 troops brought by Lan Wu merged with the border army, and there were nearly 110,000 troops. Now, because the border army has killed more than 20,000 people, less than 100,000 are left, and there are many wounded among them. The Feng army is much smaller. Their advantage is that they are the defenders and have strong city defenses that can be used to resist enemy attacks.
Siege warfare has always been one of the most difficult types of battles. If the Feng Army wants to capture the city gates and annihilate the tens of thousands of defenders in the city at once, the casualties will only be greater. Therefore, before the siege, the Feng Army must Be fully prepared. As for the specific combat strategy, it will depend on the situation.
For both sides, it is also crucial to find out before the war whether there is any gap between the other party and sneak into their respective military camps, because only by knowing yourself and the other side can you fight without danger. If the war between the two countries is planned by Feng State for a long time, then Feng Army will definitely be deployed in Yanguan in advance. Internal response, but this is not the case. The Feng army was ordered to go out. Time was in a hurry and there was no time to make more preparations for Zhou Xiang. It is not easy to find out the situation inside the pass.
Since he didn't know much about the situation in the city, the commander of the Feng Army decided to test it out first and accepted Zhou Hai as the vanguard general and led 50,000 soldiers to call for formation at Yanguan.
Half an hour after the vanguard of the Feng Army left, the remaining 100,000 troops officially set off under the leadership of Tang Jinjian. However, they did not rush directly to Yanguan, but stopped ten miles away from Yanguan, ready to respond at any time. Vanguard troops.
At the same time, at Yanguan, Lan Wu had received news that Feng Jun was about to attack the city. Feng Jun's movements were faster than he expected, but it did not make him lose his sense of proportion. After receiving the news, he continued to attack the city. Increase troop strength.
From five steps and one post to three steps and one post, almost every crenel position has a defender carrying a bow and arrow. The number of defenders on the city has greatly increased. In addition, there are more soldiers waiting behind the city wall.
After deploying the troops above and below the city, Lan Wu immediately convened the generals for discussion. Before the enemy formally attacked the city, they had to discuss countermeasures. In fact, after the Feng Army envoy left yesterday, Lan Wu and the stars The military generals are also not idle. They have discussed in detail the strategy to defend against the enemy, but now they have to confirm it again.
In the past two days, Lan Wu had repeatedly considered how to find out the gap. Before he thought of a comprehensive plan, he just arranged for some people to monitor the movements of the seven generals and did nothing else.
People who are not in the gap naturally have a clear conscience and are also unwilling to be monitored. However, with Lan Wu's comfort, they also understand that these are extraordinary times and everything should focus on the overall situation. Regardless of whether they are innocent or not, they still have to put their personal reputation first. On the side.
The reason why Lan Wu sent people to monitor the seven suspected generals was because he wanted to ensure that no unexpected situation would happen to his side before the war. Of course, he only wanted to monitor whether the seven people had any external contacts and did not conduct other investigations. Therefore, his approach There is nothing wrong with it after all.
On Lu Yunyou's side, after two days of rest, Jun Wucheng's condition has improved greatly, and the others are even more energetic. It is worth mentioning that the three of them have already considered joining the army. If it is determined that they will not be able to leave the army in a short period of time, Joining the army will be their only choice. Firstly, it can solve their identity problem, and secondly, it can make their lives easier.
In addition, Lan Wu's strategy has worked. Two days later, the frontier troops who had fled had regrouped. Many people spontaneously went to the school grounds to participate in training, striving to improve their strength as soon as possible, so as to prepare for the dead when the two sides started fighting again. The brothers took revenge. Even if no one asked them, those people still worked hard and seriously when participating in training.
Early in the morning, more and more people gathered in the huge school field, and the shouts of the soldiers during training became louder and louder. In such an atmosphere, it was difficult for everyone not to be affected.
After breakfast and having nothing to do, Brother Gao Li proposed to the three of them to go out for a walk together so that they could get familiar with the environment of the military camp more quickly. When the five of them arrived at the huge school field, there were many people practicing in front of them. Fighting and defensive moves were practiced in teams of two. It seemed that the soldiers' training methods and moves were very simple, but their attitudes were extremely serious.
There were some non-commissioned officers on the school grounds giving simple instructions to everyone, but most of them were practicing on their own, in twos and threes. Many martial arts cultivators were repeating training imitating actual combat situations. No one was tired, and some were just sweating.
After a brief observation, the few of them did not find anyone else to train with, they just found a place to practice separately. The Gao Li brothers practiced the basic moves they usually learn, without any special features. Lu Yunyou had no interest in watching their training. , so after finding an open space, he began to practice alone the boxing techniques that Fang Ting had taught him.
Every move was so familiar. When practicing boxing, he still had the feeling that Fang Ting was still beside him, so that he gradually entered a state of selflessness and finished a set of boxing skills in one breath.
After returning to reality in a flash, Lu Yunyou missed the time spent with Fang Ting and the others, and then he continued to ponder the characteristics of boxing, hoping to improve his boxing attainments.
Through constant practice and thinking, Lu Yunyou learned more about the characteristics of each move, and in a blink of an eye he entered a state of concentration.
The movements of his hands are getting faster and faster, and each move affects his whole body. The longer he practices, the smoother his body's energy and blood become. As a form of physical fitness, this boxing method is of great benefit to him in adjusting his physical condition. .
While Lu Yunyou was concentrating on practicing boxing, Ling Yun and Jun Wucheng were also practicing their respective martial arts skills.
Ling Yun's attainments in martial arts are much higher than Lu Yunyou's. He has been personally coached by Hong Ying for many years, and his insights into martial arts are also more thorough than Lu Yunyou's.
As a fifth-level martial artist, Jun Wucheng has achieved little success in the various martial arts he has learned. Now he is just trying to see if he can improve.
