Do you know: I am Yuan Wenshao

Chapter 25 No. 20 Five Cards Win a Complete Victory
When Sun Qi and Yuan Wenshao came to the city, they saw more than 1000 Xixia troops forming a battle formation outside the city. They stopped [-] steps outside the city and did not launch an attack.

"My lord, what do these Xixia bastards mean?" Yuan Wenshao was a little confused about the intentions of the Xixia army.

"Look at that!"

Sun Qi pointed to a hillside in the distance, and saw many figures on that hillside, but the distance was too far to see clearly.

Yuan Wenshao had good eyesight. When he saw those people cutting down trees, he suddenly asked, "Are they rebuilding ladders?"

"That's right." Sun Qi nodded and said: "A lot of ladders were damaged during yesterday's siege, and the rest were probably burned when you robbed the camp. Without ladders, they can't fly up."

"My lord, should we strike preemptively?" Yuan Wenshao asked.

Sun Qi smiled and said: "There is no need. When the Xixia bastards attack the city, we should first use the city's advantages and kill more. This will also reduce casualties."

"My lord has a high opinion, but my subordinates are a little impatient." Yuan Wenshao scratched his head.

Sun Qi stroked his beard and said: "It is said that killing an enemy by one thousand will result in eight hundred losses. If this is the case in all wars, what do generals need to do? Just compete in numbers. Generals must be good at using their own advantages to reduce their own casualties .”

"My subordinates have been taught a lesson." Yuan Wenshao knew that Sun Qi was teaching him and felt very grateful.

The end of the paper is so shallow that I know that this matter must be carried out.

Although he has studied the art of war, he watched TV dramas in his previous life and there were many plots about fighting.

But it's one thing to watch, it's another thing to lead the troops in person.

Those classic battles can only be used for reference, but cannot be copied.

Sun Qi was very satisfied with Yuan Wenshao's attitude, nodded, and said: "Go and order Cheng Deyuan to secretly mobilize five hundred soldiers to hide at the top of the city, and then you and him will wait at the gate of the city. After the old man gives the order, Go out of the city and fight with the Xixia cubs."

"Yes!"

Yuan Wenshao responded and took the order to leave.

……

Early in the morning, Nuershan personally led troops to line up outside the city, and asked Zate to lead people to build the ladder.

It took an hour to build dozens of simple ladders and some wooden shields. Nu'ershan didn't dare to delay any longer and launched an attack directly.

Seeing the soldiers approaching the city wall fifty steps away, more than a dozen arrows were scattered from the city, and Nuershan said coldly: "Beat the drums, speed up!"

This time he sent a total of 1000 people to attack the city, and there were only a few dozen people in Minshan Fort, so what to defend?
The morale of those Xixia soldiers was very low because they were robbed yesterday and the general died in battle.

But seeing that the arrows shot down from the city wall were scattered and could not cause them much casualties at all, their morale immediately improved a lot.

Hearing the urging drumbeat, he immediately sped up.

Many soldiers thought the shields made of wooden boards were in the way, so they simply threw them away.

These things are freshly cut trees, very heavy, since there is no danger, why use this thing.

A dozen or so casualties of the Xixia Army approached the city wall, and as soon as the ladder went up, it immediately climbed up.

There were too few defenders on the city wall, and the huge boulders dropped could not cause much hindrance at all.

Nuershan, who was supervising the battle from the rear, smiled when he saw this scene.

Although his negligence caused the camp to be robbed, now that Xie Luo is dead, he can be considered a creditor for breaking Minshan Fort. If he goes back and spends more money to improve it, he might even become the defender of Lingzhou City.

To put it bluntly, even if Duke An Guo wanted to accuse him, the worst he could do was to seek refuge with the Queen Mother.

Just when the Xixia soldiers climbed halfway and Nuershan fantasized about going back to be promoted, a large number of soldiers appeared on the top of Minshan Fort.

Some soldiers held the rolling stone and threw it down, while others drew their bows and arrows and fired arrows at the soldiers below the city.

Immediately, a rain of arrows poured down on the Xixia soldiers.

"what!"

"Help me~"

It immediately caused great losses to the Xixia army, and the screams of Xixia soldiers could be heard everywhere.

"How could this be?"

Nuershan watched this scene in disbelief.

"Nu'ershan, don't you understand? Da Zhou's reinforcements have arrived, and if you don't hurry up and order the withdrawal, it will be too late." Zate shouted.

Nu'ershan came back to his senses, and quickly shouted: "Quickly call the gold!"

"Woo~"

The melodious horn sounded, and the Xixia soldiers who were caught off guard by the sudden appearance of the Zhou army and had long lost their will to fight fled quickly.

"If you want to leave, it's too late!" Sun Qi snorted coldly, and sent someone to deliver an order for Cheng Deyuan and Yuan Wenshao to lead troops out of the city.

Cheng Deyuan and Yuan Wenshao had been waiting at the city gate for a long time, and when they got the order to get on their horses, they shouted: "Open the city gate!"

"Squeak~"

The city gate opened slowly with a dull sound, Cheng Deyuan raised the horse in his hand, and shouted: "Kill!"

"Kill it~"

The soldiers shouted and rushed out with high morale.

With a long spear in his hand, Yuan Wenshao suddenly attacked from left and right, killing all the soldiers blocking the way.

These soldiers are not important at all, his purpose is the people commanding from the rear.

If you can catch a Xixia general and use it well, you can completely deceive the gate of Lingzhou City.

Nu'ershan turned pale when he saw the enemy army chasing and killing them. He didn't care about gathering the remnants, and turned around and fled with the remaining soldiers and horses.

But the road outside Minshan Fort was a narrow path. He fled with more than 1000 people, but the panicked soldiers blocked the road.

Nu'ershan looked back at the pursuers who were getting closer, gritted his teeth and led his own soldiers up the mountain.

At this time, he couldn't care about these soldiers anymore, he just hoped that these soldiers could buy him more time to escape.

Yuan Wenshao had been staring at Nu'er Mountain, and when he saw him go up the mountain, he secretly summoned him, but there were routs in front of him, and he couldn't get through at all.

By the time he reached the hillside, Nuershan had long disappeared.

Yuan Wenshao sent someone to tell Cheng Deyuan, and he brought more than 100 people to catch up with the mountain.

Fortunately, there were quite a few of them in Nuershan, and they left many traces. Yuan Wenshao and his men chased them along these traces.

On the other side, Cheng Deyuan led his troops to hunt for a while, and found Zat, who was protected by many soldiers, and ordered his troops to surround him.

"You should be a general in the Xixia Army, right? As long as you order to surrender, I will spare your life." Cheng Deyuan shouted.

"Hmph, how can I, a mighty Xixia warrior, surrender to the weak Zhou Dynasty?" Zate said coldly.

"Stubborn!"

Cheng Deyuan snorted coldly, took a few steps back, and a large number of soldiers stepped forward with bows and arrows in hand, aiming at Zat's group.

"Be careful, don't hurt the leader, shoot the arrow!" Cheng Deyuan shouted.

"Whoosh whoosh~"

With the sound of piercing through the air, the arrows shot at the Xixia soldiers, because Cheng Deyuan deliberately explained that they avoided Zat.

"Ah~"

Zate looked at the soldiers who were dying one after another with an ugly face, and shouted: "Fight them! Kill!"

The Xixia soldiers were driven into a desperate situation, and upon hearing this, they rushed to follow Zat.

"It's just courting death!"

Cheng Deyuan saw that Zate didn't know what was good and bad, so he ordered the soldiers to show no mercy.

Zate rushed halfway and was hit by several arrows and fell down.

The last courage in the hearts of Xixia soldiers disappeared with the death of Zat. Many people threw away their weapons and chose to surrender. The rest followed suit, and the war ended not long after.

"It is said that Xixia bastards are handsome and would rather die than surrender, but now it seems that they are still afraid of death." Cheng Deyuan laughed.

"What the general said is that Xi Xia is also a human being, how could he not be afraid of death."

The general beside him happily agreed.

(End of this chapter)