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Chapter 174: Soldiers approaching the city

Emperor Zhengchu was one of the three kings who secretly contacted the leader of the enclave, the Northern King.

It was he who told the enclave leader the news that Qitian changed and the Eastern King was trapped, and told him that he was the most powerful of all the forces now, with 600,000 troops and suppressed the other two kings on the front battlefield. It was only a matter of time to get the treasure, and let the enclave leader cooperate with his attack and weaken the combat power of the Eastern King's Mansion. If the enclave leader does this, when he ascends to the throne, he will not only not attack the enclave, but also seal the enclave leader as Qitian's only foreign king, who will live in the enclave for generations. If he encounters danger, Qitian will also send troops to help.

The enclave leader only needs to agree to the surrender conditions of the Eastern Prince's Mansion, introduce his main force into the hinterland of the Enclave, and drag him down. The Northern King will take action to prevent the end of the Eastern Prince's Mansion from taking care of each other.

The enclave leader had no choice but to agree to the surrender of the Eastern Prince's Mansion before. The enclave resources were relatively barren, with a small population but also occupied a large area. After several years of confrontation with the Eastern Prince's Mansion, he also knew that the Eastern Prince's Mansion was difficult to deal with. But now there was such a news that the Eastern Prince's Mansion's helmsman, Dongwang Huang Yeyu, was trapped in Qitian Inner City, and was 80% dead. The Eastern Prince's Mansion's 200,000 soldiers were also trapped in the hinterland of Qitian, and it was difficult to return. The Enclave leader immediately had a small plan in his heart.

In the enclave, there are more than 100,000 elite soldiers, which is more than enough to deal with a small amount of troops in the East Prince's Mansion. If you surrender to the East Prince's Mansion, you may become a vassal of the East Prince's Mansion, and the title of the leader of your enclave is also in name only. Moreover, the East Prince's Mansion is now at a dead end, and the main force is trapped and the commander is killed. There is no benefit to surrender to the East Prince's Mansion. On the contrary, the conditions offered by the North Prince for himself are too tempting.

In this way, the enclave leader agreed to the Northern King's suggestion and used a strategy to urge Ye Guan to Wufeng City. After Ye Guan entered Wufeng City, he removed the soldiers guarding the city walls, intending to let the soldiers of the Eastern Palace enter the enclave, and use the strategic depth of the enclave to drag all his new forces to death. The two thousand Eastern Palace soldiers entering Wufeng City never took it seriously.

It’s not that he had never heard of the reputation of the four lords of the East Mansion, but he really didn’t expect that the lord of the East Mansion had such combat power, and he had nothing to do after drinking so many drugs that were so faint.

Since then, he has been trapped in the hands of the enemy. No matter how things develop later, the enclave leader feels that it seems a bit difficult for him to survive.

Seeing that the enclave leader stopped talking, Ye Guan smiled slightly and continued to drink tea.

Liu Yuan was still drinking with the guards of ordinary enclave leaders below, and he was drinking so happily.

Ye Guan controlled the enclave leader in Wufeng City, which made the entire East Mansion's actions in the enclave have a little possibility.

But at this moment, except Ye Guan, the other two directions did not get this news, nor would they get it.

After spending the night safely, Sha Shaoyuan stood on the city wall and looked into the distance.

After crossing the burned enclave garrison camp, a force appeared on the official road in the distance.

This unit is not a friendly army in terms of equipment or weapons.

"Enemy attack! Get ready for battle!" A scout obviously saw the enemy at the first time and immediately shouted down.

All the soldiers guarding the city immediately took a defensive posture, and three thousand soldiers fought on the city wall, holding long bows in their hands, and staring into the distance.

Sha Shaoyuan's eyes narrowed slightly, and his eyes were cold.

He had known for a long time that the people in the enclave would definitely bring in large troops to regain the defense power of the city wall. Only in this way can they completely drag the main force of the East Mansion entering the enclave to death. Moreover, the enemy troops attacked this time must be several times higher than their own.

After a night and midday, Sha Shaoyuan had completely figured out the defensive situation of the city wall and the surrounding environment. At this moment, there were only three thousand soldiers on the city wall. The remaining three thousand soldiers had already ridden on war horses. Cui Chi led them and was ambushed in a ridge twenty miles away.

It is worth mentioning that the two enemy soldiers who had their tongues cut were caught by Yu Sheng after they entered the enclave before. However, they did not escape immediately, but instead stumbled outside and arrived in a hidden place to ignite the wolf smoke. Seeing this, the two soldiers who were ordered to follow him immediately stepped forward to kill the two and reported the situation to Sha Shaoyuan.

When Sha Shaoyuan learned of this, he immediately understood what was going on. After he had arranged all his defenses, he ordered the sergeant to light the wolf smoke prepared by the people of the enclave.

This wolf smoke must be a message informing the enclave that the people in the enclave had entered the city wall, and it should be a signal of attack. It seems that they have already calculated that they will not order the killing of two remaining soldiers. If nothing unexpected happens, after the wolf smoke is lit, a team of scouts will enter, hand over the two remaining soldiers in the enclave, and inquire about the layout of the city wall. Therefore, the Yu Sheng ignited their camp before, but they did not attack immediately even though they knew that the enemy had entered.

In this way, Sha Shaoyuan analyzed several points.

First of all, the enemy general who was responsible for recapturing the city wall was a person who used wisdom and was cautious. Before launching a large-scale attack, he would definitely try this to learn the reality of the defense.

Secondly, this person is cruel and ruthless. He uses any means to achieve his goal. Even his soldiers under him can use such a hand and cut off their tongues in exchange for his dispensable sympathy, so as to find out the truth and reality of his side.

After seeing through the enemy's strategy, Sha Shaoyuan arranged an ambush and first killed a team of scouts who came to hand over to the two remaining soldiers. There were only seven people in this group, but their war horses were not as good as their own exquisite black-maned horses. Instead, their fur was messy, and it was obvious that they were ordinary horses who were not good at long-distance raids.

Kill the enemy's scouts, and the rest is waiting for the enemy to attack.

As expected, Sha Shaoyuan had expected, before the enemy attacked, he sent multiple scouts to enter the defensive area of ​​the city wall to test. One of them rushed to the place where Cui Chi led the team to ambush, but Cui Chi could only change the direction. The enemy troops who were testing the city wall defense had recently arrived in their burned camp and watched from afar.

Sha Shaoyuan asked all the soldiers guarding the city to hide behind the city wall without revealing any trace, and to the greatest extent, their own garrison direction was not exposed.

After all, it is far from enough to defend against such a large city wall, only three thousand people.

Besides, the defense is not the outside of the city wall, but the inside. The inside is not for defense, but for transportation. This defense line is not as indestructible as the front of the city wall. If there are really many enemies, it can even go up directly along the steps, the difficulty of defense can be imagined.

In the previous arrangement, Sha Shaoyuan had ordered the sergeants to block several steps on the city wall with items to minimize the speed of the enemy's climbing onto the city wall. Many simple fortifications were also arranged on the city wall.

Compared with simple fortifications, although Sha Shaoyuan has not many soldiers in his hands, he has enough crossbows. Each person has more than 200 arrows in his hand. The traditional weapons used to defend the city walls, such as rolling stones and turbulent oil, are also available. It should be that the people in the enclave retreated urgently and did not have time to take away these things or destroy them all, and there are still many left to use.

With these things, Sha Shaoyuan still has the confidence to defend the city wall for a while.

There was dust flying in front of him, and the brigade of enemy soldiers was moving slowly, mostly infantry, with only a small number of cavalry scattered on both wings, at most no more than a thousand people.

However, the enemy's frontal troops were roughly divided, and there were no less than 40,000 to 50,000 people. This was a huge gap compared with the 6,000 soldiers in Sha Shaoyuan's hands.

The enemy team marched to the camp, but stopped moving forward, but stopped and began to camp.

Before, about 20,000 soldiers in front had maintained a defensive formation, while about 20,000 soldiers in the rear immediately unloaded their baggage and began to reshape the camp. Judging from their intentions, it seemed that they were ready for a protracted war.

Seeing the enemy's army like this, Sha Shaoyuan couldn't help but smile.

If the enemy army rushed forward with tens of thousands of pounds, he would really feel a headache. At this moment, he was happy to see the enemy camping.

The more the enemy holds the idea of ​​a protracted war, the more beneficial it will be for Sha Shaoyuan.

Before coming, Huang Yuanwu had already said that Huang Yanghui was returning with his soldiers from the Dongwang Mansion. Once the 200,000 soldiers of the Dongwang Mansion who had been through many battles entered the enclave, the enemy troops in front of him were probably not enough to get them into pieces.

Sha Shaoyuan did not give any orders, but just stood quietly at the top of the city, watching the enemy troops set up camps in the distance, set up camp tents, repaired sentry towers, and built horses, but were unmoved.

"Let's camp, the longer I drag it, the happier I am." Sha Shaoyuan looked at the enemy camp in the distance and said in his heart.

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, two hours were coming. It was almost dusk. The enemy camping speed was so fast. In such a short time, the camp that could accommodate 40,000 troops had been built. The enemy's phalanx was disbanded and all entered the camp.

On the other hand, the three thousand soldiers in charge of defending the city wall looked at the camp in front of him, and had a little helpless. They had long given up their ready-to-go attitude and rested. The rest was waiting for the enemy to attack. Judging from their camping actions, even if they attacked, it would be impossible to send all their troops to pounce on them in one fell swoop. If the enemy only sent a small number of soldiers to attack tentatively, it would be absolutely impossible to capture the city wall.

Sometimes, it is not a good thing for the general to be too cautious and to take steady steps, and it is a waste of fighting opportunities.

When Sha Shaoyuan saw the enemy, he thought they would attack in one fell swoop, and all the soldiers were ready to fight bloodyly, but now the enemy did this, Sha Shaoyuan was a little disappointed.

"Transfer." Sha Shaoyuan saw that the enemy camp had been established, and whispered, saying: "Tonight, the enemy will have its first attack, and order the Sixth Battalion to defend with all its strength, and the other two teams will rest and not participate in the battle."

"Old order!" The messenger took the order and immediately conveyed Sha Shaoyuan's order.

After giving the order, Sha Shaoyuan narrowed his eyes slightly in the afterglow of the sunset, looked at the large camp of the enemy in the distance, and whispered to himself: "If you want to waste, then I will waste with you."
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