From a son-in-law to a favorite of the empress

Chapter 333

After sitting in the carriage for two days, Zhou Yuan felt his buttocks were sore. He opened the door of the sedan chair and saw that the sun was shining brightly outside. Summer had arrived and the weather was getting hotter.

"Li He, where are we?"

According to the time, it was time for us to arrive.

Li He shouted, "General, we passed Xuchang this morning, and it will be Linying in about four or five miles. Linying is only twenty miles away from Yancheng."

Zhou Yuan said, "Speed ​​up the march. We must get outside Yancheng before dark, and then attack them directly."

Li He also felt dizzy. After a long journey, attacking the city at dark, how could the soldiers bear it!

He couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "General, why don't we stay there for one night and attack the city at dawn."

Zhou Yuan waved his hand and said, "Don't interrupt, just do what I tell you to do."

As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Fang came riding a horse and said anxiously, "General, we found spies from Yancheng ahead, more than 20 people in total, and captured six."

Zhou Yuan was amused and couldn't help laughing, "They even knew how to send spies, break their hands and then let them go."

"Who is the garrison commander of Yancheng?"

Liu Fang said in a deep voice, "It is said that his name is Zhao Yunhu, he is strong and has the courage to fight one hundred people."

"Let these six people go back and tell Zhao Yunhu to wash his neck and wait for me to chop off his head."

Li He glared and said, "Just let him go like that?"

Zhou Yuan said, "Follow the order!"

"Yes!"

Li He quickly shrank his head and went to work.

Soon, the six captives with broken arms hurried back to Yancheng and met Zhao Yunhu, who was eight feet tall.

"They let you back?"

Although Zhao Yunhu was young, only twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, he had a full beard and looked quite scary.

He said in a muffled voice: "Although Zhou Yuan was born a scholar, he still had some sense of justice and knew not to kill the captives."

"But did this guy really bring all the people? Is he braver than me?"

One person whispered: "General Zhao, it's true. The marching team is very neat. You can see at a glance that there are 60,000 people!"

"Damn it, he really doesn't care about his life!"

Zhao Yunhu hurriedly said: "Hurry up, send pigeons to the garrisons of Yingcheng and Chenzhou, asking them to Send 20,000 people each to support. Zhou Yuan is here to fight me to the death. "

A strong man shouted: "General, why do you need to ask for reinforcements? There are 60,000 people. What are you afraid of? We are defending the city. How can we be afraid of the Five Army Battalions?"

Zhao Yunhu glared and roared: "Damn it, I told you to read more and gain more knowledge, but you didn't listen."

"The Five Army Battalions of the court are the elite of the elite. They have strong individual combat capabilities and strong coordination capabilities. They also carry various heavy tanks. Their ladders can directly You can drive on the neck of the city tower, you can keep a fart! "" I know the door of the widow's room all day, or take a few young female refugees, and don't understand the military. Don't want to be a general in your life. " I would like to praise Lao Tzu, and I would like to give me more ground. "The words had just fallen, and someone rushed in outside. He roared: "Come and ask for the reinforcements to let them come overnight. In addition, what is the army of the court? We are the court, and they are pseudo -dynasties." After speaking, he strode out. After putting on the armor and reaching the tower, he looked down and immediately gasped.

Several miles outside the tower, the dense torches looked like a rain of stars in the sky, and the huge cloud ladder looked like a war beast, with dozens of wheels supporting its body, slowly approaching the tower.

"Ah! Damn it! This cloud ladder is taller than my tower!"

Zhao Yunhu couldn't help but yelled: "Get ready, pour tung oil, and burn their cloud ladders!"

At the same time, the army of the Fifth Army Camp also launched a charge, and the roar resounded through the world.

This vigorous battle finally kicked off.

The beast-like cloud ladder had already leaned against the city wall, and countless soldiers climbed up and killed the tower.

The tung oil was poured down, and the enemy army ignited it with rockets, and the Fifth Army Camp poured sand and water to put out the fire.

For a time, the sound of shouting and killing resounded through the world.

Zhou Yuan looked at this scene and said calmly: "Only attack for half an hour, then withdraw. Implement the order. Remember, attacking the city is not the goal. We just want to fight, but not to win, so we must avoid more casualties."

LiHe asked in confusion: "General Jie means that we just need to keep fighting, and there is no need to risk our lives to charge?"

Zhou Yuan smiled and said: "Okay, you will slowly understand it."

Liu Fang said: "Chenzhou and Yingcheng will definitely send reinforcements. It will not be good if they make us a mess."

Zhou Yuan smiled coldly and said: "The premise is that they can get through."

While speaking, he took out the map and said in a deep voice: "Look at the map, Yingcheng is in the west and Chenzhou is in the east. They are not far apart and can be reached at night."

"There are two pipelines from Yingcheng to Yancheng, namely Xiangcheng in the north and Ye County in the south."

"They are on the road at dark, Time is tight, and it is impossible to take the mountain road, otherwise it is unsafe and time-consuming, so how do they take these two pipelines? "

Xiang Yong immediately said: "It must be through Ye County. After all, Xiangcheng is too close to us. Ye County is much safer and a little closer."

Zhou Yuan sneered: "I have asked Shi Yi to lead 2,000 elite soldiers to ambush on the bank of Kunshui in Ye County. As long as their army passes by, they will be intercepted."

"At the same time, Chenzhou has only one official road to support Yancheng, which is through Changshe."

"Wang Xiong is already waiting for them there. No one can support Yancheng tonight."

Li He said: "Jie Shuai Ying Tomorrow, we will ambush at night. They can't guess how many people we have, so they will be panicked. It will take them at least until noon tomorrow to get to Yancheng."

"Then we can take Yancheng during this time... But the price is a bit too high. After all, Yancheng has 60,000 defenders, and our casualties will not be too small."

Zhou Yuan smiled and said, "Why do we want to attack Yancheng?"

"Yancheng is just a point. We are attacking the reinforcements. This is called besieging a point and attacking the reinforcements."

"The point is not important. We don't need a city. We just need to consume the enemy's manpower."

Xiang Yong said, "But General Jie, how can two thousand people resist the enemy's reinforcements? According to common sense, Yingcheng and Chenzhou will probably send 20,000 reinforcements.

Zhou Yuan waved his hand and said, "This involves the issue of discipline. In complex situations, our soldiers can obey orders, but can those peasant soldiers?"

"When they move forward, we fight, and when they stop, we retreat again."

"After repeated guerrilla warfare and repeated pulling, those peasant soldiers may not even be able to find where the team is."

"Besieging a point and attacking reinforcements is just a skin. The real core is to disrupt them during the movement, so that these peasant soldiers with poor discipline lose their backbone and lose their goals."

"At that time, killing them will be almost the same as killing pigs."