Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

"Report, my lord, Yingyang has been lost, General Shi Tao died in battle, and General Shi Shouxin was seriously injured!"

The Xuzhou incident has not yet been negotiated with a result, but another shocking news came at this time.

"what!"

After hearing this, Zhao Kuangyin and Miao Xun screamed at the same time, with disbelief in their eyes.

Before, Shi Shouxin could only defend with a lone army after a big defeat, but he persisted for so many days until the Xuzhou army came to help. Now, Zhao Kuangyin sent [-] troops to Shi Shouxin, but it only took more than ten days. How could it be possible? Just say it’s broken?
"Impossible, absolutely impossible."

Zhao Kuangyin found it difficult to accept this fact, and shouted in a broken voice: "Gu Ke sent him [-] reinforcements, and Zhang Liao and Xu Huang only had [-] troops. How could Yingyang break it just yet?"

Zhang Liao's Guangwu camp originally only had 5 men. After these battles, no matter how small the losses were, there would still be attrition. The cities that were conquered before also needed to be garrisoned by men. Therefore, , Zhao Kuangyin said that there were less than [-] troops, but in fact he was estimating further.

Although only [-] reinforcements were sent over, they were on the defensive side. In addition, Shi Shouxin's original participation of troops was not enough. They had just sent reinforcements for more than ten days, and they had brought him such a sudden attack. The news!
Not to mention Zhao Kuangyin, even Miao Xun and other counselors didn't believe it!

No matter how you say it, Shi Shouxin was the earliest general under Zhao Kuangyin. Everyone knew his abilities. Even though he was overtaken by Tian Dan and others in recent years, he still deserves the title of a famous general in the Central Plains. He just lost like this. ?
However, they also knew that if this kind of news was not confirmed, how could it be spread falsely? Now that everything has reached Zhao Kuangyin, it means that the news has been confirmed!

Of the 15 Xuzhou soldiers and horses, except for 3 who stayed in Xuzhou, the remaining 12 followed Zhao Kuangyin to the Yuzhou front line. Among them, [-] soldiers and horses followed Zhao Kuangyin to advance to the Xuchang front line, and [-] soldiers and horses were stationed in Ru South important land.

After all, this place is the most important place in Runan.

Of the remaining [-] troops, some were sent to Tian Rangju's place, while the other part were sent to Shi Shouxin's place.

As for Shi Tao, who died in the battle in the letter, he was considered a half-local figure. Although he was not a system figure, he was born from a system figure. As the first general born under Zhao Kuangyin, Shi Shouxin would naturally continue the family line, marry and have children over the years, and this one was the eldest son born to Shi Xinshou and a local figure.

He is also considered to be brave and good at fighting. He is one of the leading figures among the second generation under Zhao Kuangyin. He has the appearance of being better than his master, but he does not want to escape this cruel battlefield after all.

"Tell me, what's going on?" Zhao Kuangyin looked fierce, still unable to believe the news.

When he first attacked Yingyang, Zhang Liao built a plank road to attack Chencang secretly. He attacked Yingyang openly, but secretly led his light cavalry to support Cao Ren's troops. But even so, Xu Huang still had enough troops to attack Yingyang's Shi Shouxin. After all, Zhang Liao only took away some of the cavalry, which had little impact on Xu Huang.

Even if the plan with Cao Ren succeeds, after Zhang Liao returns with his troops, Xu Huang will still be in charge of the siege.

First of all, both of them are talented generals, and Zhang Liao is good at surprise attacks, but Xu Huang is more steady and steady. In terms of offensive battles, Zhang Liao may not be able to match him. Secondly, before Zhang Liao returned, Xu Huang had led troops to attack for so many days, and he had a good grasp of Shi Shouxin's defensive methods. Xu Huang was more knowledgeable than Zhang Liao on how to attack next.

In fact, Xu Huang was already sure of capturing Yingyang City long before Zhao Kuangyin's reinforcements arrived.

But it was precisely because he heard that Zhao Kuangyin had sent [-] reinforcements that he slowed down and prepared to eat them all in one go after the [-] troops arrived.

The tactics used by Xu Huang in this battle were tunnel combat.

This tactic has been around for a long time. It has appeared since the Spring and Autumn Period. During the Warring States Period, it was even more used in actual combat. Mozi also wrote an article called "Preparing Acupoints" specifically for tunnel warfare.

During the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang, and Yuan Shao all conducted tunnel warfare. After the Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties, the use of tunnel warfare became more flexible. In the Ming Dynasty, underground caves were dug to hide soldiers to deal with enemies.

However, if this tactic is used too often, there will be so many precedents, and the generals defending the city will be more prepared. After all, there are not many ways to prevent this kind of tunnel digging, and the difficulty does not require much manpower. All you need to do is dig a deep pit next to the wall, put a large urn in the pit, cover the mouth of the big urn with leather, and then Send soldiers over and listen carefully. If the enemy is digging a tunnel, they will be able to hear it.

But for famous generals, even common methods can be put into their hands, and they may be able to play tricks.

Xu Huang's ability is not necessarily stronger than Shi Shouxin, but since Zhang Liao came back, these five good generals have gathered on this battlefield, and this combination of skills has naturally exploded.

Since Zhang Liao temporarily replaced the general's position with Xu Huang, the skill effect of remembering the combo was not placed on the actual leader Zhang Liao, but on the defeated Xu Huang.

With the increase in combo skills, Xu Huang's commanding ability greatly increased in a short period of time.

It was also digging tunnels, but Xu Huang chose to proceed in two lines: light and dark. Deep in one tunnel, there was a second secret tunnel hidden, and the two tunnels were dug at the same time. Although Shi Shouxin discovered Xu Huang's tunnel digging method in time, and waited for the tunnel to be dug, he smoked mugwort with mugwort, so Zhang Liao not only failed to follow the tunnel to attack the city, but also lost some men.

However, this obvious tunnel was exposed, but the deeper secret tunnel was not exposed, but remained hidden. Shi Shouxin discovered one of Xu Huang's secret tunnels, but he never expected that Xu Huang also secretly hid another tunnel.

Moreover, since he had discovered Xu Huang's method of digging tunnels, Shi Shouxin instinctively thought that Xu Huang would not repeat his same tricks, which made him somewhat unprepared.

Therefore, after the enemy's reinforcements arrived, Xu Huang sent soldiers to dig out the secret tunnel that was about to be dug. From then on, the soldiers of the Guangwu Camp followed the tunnel and entered the city with overwhelming force. Although Shi Shouxin He resisted desperately, but he still couldn't escape the fate of his city being destroyed and his son perished.

(End of this chapter)