As the lord of a city, Zhang Yuangang once served as a border defense general, and later became the lord of 10%. In short, he has a high prestige in Aolan City, and it is natural for him to be the temporary commander-in-chief of the Feng Army. Tang Jinjian took Zhang Yuan also. It was launched to ease the tense situation in the city.
Feng Jun suffered two defeats in a row, and the fact that he was defeated by Lan Wu had already spread in the city. Lan Wu's reputation was getting higher and more dazzling like the rising sun. Only Zhang Yuangang could change this situation. Tang Jinjian was here Juzheng wanted to use Zhang Yuangang's prestige to help him defend the city.
A few days ago, after learning that the Star Army was marching towards Aolan City, everyone, whether it was the city gate defenders or the people in the city, was in danger. As for the initial defeat of Zhao Xu by Zhou Hai, few people in the city mentioned it, because it had already followed Zhou Hai. Physical death becomes a thing of the past.
It just so happened that in the past few days, part of the Feng Army transferred from other places had arrived in Aolan City to support them. Otherwise, the situation in the city would have been even worse than it is now. When the Star Army attacks, Aolan City will definitely collapse.
This afternoon, the spies outside the city kept reporting the movements of the Star Army to Zhang Yuangang. After the Star Army set up camp, Zhang Yuangang discussed the matter of defending the city with Tang Jinjian. No matter when the Star Army came to attack the city, they must be prepared in advance.
How big is the Star Army camp? How many people are there? They need to find out everything such as the equipment one by one. Only by knowing themselves and the enemy can they be able to fight without danger. Before the war, they need to make many specific preparations.
Similarly, in fact, it is also inconvenient for the Star Army to investigate the situation in Aolan City. There is no way to enter the city. They also know nothing about the strength of the troops in Aolan City. In this case, rashly attacking the city is likely to cause serious consequences. The Star Army caused immeasurable losses, so during the camp, some generals had been responsible for investigating the enemy's situation.
From discussing how to investigate the information to executing the corresponding plan, everything was proceeding slowly. Fortunately, the Star Army did not have to worry that Feng Army would take the initiative to attack. In the evening, in the large tent of the Chinese Army of the Star Army, Lan Wutong, the commander of the third battalion, We are already discussing siege matters.
Some people suggested attacking the city directly, some people suggested finding out the details of Feng Army before attacking, and some people suggested sending envoys to persuade them to surrender. The generals were divided into three factions, each holding their own opinions. Lan Wu and Lan Ze, who were sitting opposite, had been paying attention to the generals' comments. view.
"The Feng Army suffered two defeats in a row and suffered heavy losses. Now they can only defend the city gate. According to the general's opinion, they will never go out of the city to fight, so our army can attack the city as soon as possible while the Feng Army is small."
"The Feng Army is defending, and our army is attacking. As the attacker, we do not have any advantage in the terrain, not to mention that we do not know the situation of the enemy forces in the city. If we rush to attack the city, if we cannot capture the city pass at once, not only will it cause More casualties will also damage the morale of our army."
"It's better to send someone to ask for surrender. Maybe we can use this to find out some of the situation in the city."
The three parties each held their own opinions and kept talking about their bases. Lan Wu, who had been discussing with them for a long time, fully understood the generals' intentions. If it were not for the fact that the details of the enemy's army were not clear at present, the issues that many generals were worried about were actually There is no need to think about it at all, but the first priority now is to find out the situation of the enemy forces in Aolan City. Now the generals cannot reach an agreement, and he has to make the final decision in everything.
However, Lan Wu also had no definite plan for the time being, but he was more inclined to the proposal of persuading surrender. After all, it would be best for them to capture Aolan City without any bloodshed.
"Report," at this moment, a soldier's voice came from outside, and then everyone looked at the door, only to see that the originally hanging door curtain was opened by a guard, and a man dressed as a scout walked in: "Qiu Marshal, half an hour ago, we captured an enemy sentry and got some information after being tortured. My subordinate came here to report the situation."
When Lan Wu and the generals all looked over, the scout captain continued: "There are currently 100,000 troops stationed in Lan City. The Lord of Ao Lan City is temporarily in charge of the three armies, but I don't know whether the news is true or false."
"Any other news?" Lan Xu was the one who asked.
"Not yet!"
"Where is the enemy spy?"
"Currently he is still detained in the camp."
With one sentence, the scout told Lan Wu and others all the information they could ask for.
"Continue to pay attention to the enemy's movements," Lan Wu nodded. Lan Wu knew that it was difficult to determine whether the information tortured from the other side's spies was true or false. Unless more people could be arrested for torture, in this way, the information they could obtain would increase, and You can also judge the authenticity based on many messages.
Of course, in the end, that is just a way for them to obtain information. Soon, no matter how much useful information they can detect, Lan Wu will determine when to send troops based on the discussion results of the generals. At that time, whether it is fighting or persuading surrender, there will be a decision .
At present, there are many soldiers in the Star Army camp, and everything can be carried out steadily. The things that require him to do personally are greatly reduced. After arranging many things to those generals, Lan Wu has a lot of free time to think about their relationship with the Feng Army. war between.
After a while, the meeting ended, and all the other generals in the big tent left. In the blink of an eye, only Lan Wu and Lan Ze were left. Seeing that Lan Wu seemed to still need time to think about it, after saying a few polite words to Lan Wu, Lan Ze also left. Go, leaving Lan Wu alone in the big tent.
After Lan Ze left, Lan Wu began to analyze the current situation. Relatively speaking, the enemy is now in an extremely unfavorable situation. No matter which strategy he adopts to deal with the enemy, it should be able to play its due role. Now the Star Army The storm was booming, and as long as he didn't miss the opportunity, it would not be difficult to capture Aolan City. What he had to consider was how to control the timing of sending troops to achieve the best results.
In fact, if they hadn't been marching for days and were exhausted, then attacking Aolan City as quickly as possible would have been the best combat strategy. However, it now takes at least three days of training to restore the morale of the entire army to the level when they first sent out troops, so Lan Wu had to postpone the date of the battle.
After analyzing the previous opinions expressed by the generals, Lan Wu finally had two options left in his mind: fight or persuade to surrender. As for how to fight or how to persuade to surrender, he needed to consider further.
They also know very little about the situation in Aolan City. Just as a general said just now, sending out troops rashly may not be able to break into the city in one fell swoop. On the contrary, it may cause their own morale to be depressed, which will be extremely detrimental to their subsequent siege of the city.
But one thing is certain, the longer it takes, the more troops Feng Kingdom will send to Aolan City.
In fact, if they want to capture Feng Kingdom, they will have to fight all the troops of Feng Kingdom sooner or later. However, facing the larger Feng Kingdom army with geographical advantages, their chances of winning will be greatly reduced, so they still attack Aolan City first. most.
If you want to persuade the enemy to surrender, you need to find a basis for the enemy commander to surrender. Lan Wu has a certain understanding of the city lord of Aolan City. Zhang Yuangang has always been tactful and good at establishing good relations with all parties. He usually has great prestige in Aolan City. Extremely high.
If this person is the main battler, the hearts of the people in Aolan City will be unified. If he is willing to surrender, even if the ancient Yuan Kingdom sends a few more supervisors, he may still not be able to change his intention. The key is Lan Wu's understanding of him. Most of it comes from hearing, and there are many things that cannot be fully believed. Now I don’t know where this person’s real weakness lies, so it is not easy to persuade him to surrender.
In addition, the Feng Army occupies the advantage of city defense and will not take the initiative to go out of the city to fight with them. Considering the geographical advantage, a trace of worry flashed between Lan Wu's eyebrows.
The expedition to Feng Kingdom was too urgent this time. They only brought three months' worth of food and grass, and some of it had been consumed on the way. They couldn't continue fighting against Feng's army. Although he had already sent food and grass to the royal family, he couldn't just wait. Grain and grass resources.
After a while, Lan Wu used the only information he had to consider the situation between the two armies. Now they did have a morale advantage, but they didn't have much advantage against the Feng army. To ensure victory, they needed some practical strategy,
Obtaining more information about Aolan City is one way. Considering the importance of obtaining information at the moment, Lan Wu wants to call back the generals who just left, although he doesn't know much about the city lord of Aolan City. , but there may be someone in the army who knows something about Zhang Yuangang. If he can get more information about Zhang Yuanyi, maybe he can make a plan faster.
Thinking about it now, he still made some miscalculations. Before sending troops, he should have asked the prisoners about Zhang Yuangang's personality. Of course, at that time, he did not expect that Tang Jinjian would appoint this man as the commander-in-chief of the Feng Army. As a result, Lan Wu had been thinking about it for a long time in his account, and Lan Wu decided Make preliminary plans.
On the morning of the second day of the garrison, the Star Army captured several spies sent by the Feng Army, and naturally tortured some information from the spies. What was unexpected was that the Feng Kingdom spies seemed to have discussed it in advance, and all of them had the same story. , there is no difference in the information the Blues get from them, and there is no redundant information.
In any case, early this morning, Lan Wu called the generals together again for discussion. During the discussion, there were several Feng Army spies being detained outside the Chinese army's tent, ready to be questioned at any time.
