Troubled times: Start practicing spiritual practice by taking care of your sister-in-law.

Chapter 185 Fighting
Xu Jie was still a step late. He frowned when he saw that the gate of Tianshui Town was closed and the unfamiliar military flag was erected on the top of the city.

There is a saying in the art of war: if you are ten, you are to surround it, if you are five, you are to attack it, if you are twice as many, you are dividing it. If the enemy is small, you can fight it. If you are small, you can escape from it. If you are small, you can avoid it.

As a veteran general, Xu Jie naturally understands this. He currently only has more than [-] men under his command. With this number of people, if it were to be a plain battle, he was confident that he would not lose to any army with less than [-] troops. But when attacking a city, this number of people It's not enough, especially when you don't know how many people there are on the other side.

Historically, there have been very few successful examples of forcibly attacking a city when a certain amount of troops were stationed in the city.

Siege warfare generally relies on internal response. First, a well-equipped squad sneaks into the city and creates chaos in the city during the siege. For example, setting fire to the granary, or attacking the courtyard of the main character, or trying to seize control of the city gate. Let your own troops come in.

The reason why the Tianshi Army was able to capture Fengxian was not because they had instigated the rebellion of the major clans in Fengxian City before and had internal support.

The last resort is to lure the enemy out of the city and fight them in the wild.

The first two methods are not applicable to the current Xu Jie.

You can try the last method.

And leading the enemy out of the city is nothing more than scolding and provocation.

Xu Jie tried all these methods, and the people in the city were like cowardly turtles, not even bothering to take risks.

Therefore, the only way in front of Xu Jie is to wait.

Waiting for other Yuzhou troops to come to support, this is their territory, they have the time and capital to wait.

After having a countermeasure, Xu Jie ordered the camp to be withdrawn from Sanli, but he did not lose alert and set up multiple sentries.

In order to prevent the Tianshi thieves from escaping from behind the city, Xu Jie also sent out scouts to keep an eye on them.

He hoped that the Heavenly Master thief could escape from behind the city. As long as the opponent left the city, he would be like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered in front of his cavalry.

Xu Jie is not an arrogant person, but judging from the current situation, Tianshui Town is just a plate of Chinese food.

The Tianshi thieves in the city can only defend the city.

He even thought of a follow-up plan.

When General Qin and others arrive, they will not rush to break the city, but instead surround it without annihilating it. They will send out news and encircle the city for reinforcements.

Time passed little by little, and the night in Yuzhou was hot and quiet.

The soldiers' swords on duty reflected a cold light under the moonlight. Apart from the occasional fighting sounds and the clash of armor leaves on the patrol sergeants' bodies, there was no other movement in the camp.

The camp with more than [-] people was like a beast dormant in the darkness.

Under the night sky, in the middle of Tianshui Town.

Chen Mo patted Xia Zhining's armor with a knife and warned: "Don't be dazed tonight. If you are dazed, I won't be able to take care of you."

The bright moonlight shone on Xia Zhining's beautiful face. She pursed her lips, then looked at the young man's stern face, and said her first words of concern for Chen Mo so far, saying: "You Be careful, if you can get out safely, I will let you do whatever you want."

Hearing this, Chen Mo was startled, then he hugged Xia Zhining, took a sip, and said with a smile: "Just to say this, I will definitely live."

After separating from Xia Zhining, Chen Mo found Liu Ze and said, "Take good care of your young lady."

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The night was getting dark. Chen Mo, Sun Meng, Su Wu and more than ten people took advantage of the darkness to quietly leave the city. They led the horses with wrapped hooves and quietly reached the outside of the Yuzhou Army's barracks.

However, there was still a long distance, so Chen Mo and others did not dare to get close.

Looking at the bright lights outside the military camp, Chen Mo and others frowned.

Five hundred steps away from the military camp, several sentries were set up, and then more sentries were added every hundred steps. The surrounding trees were cut down, and the field of vision was wide. There was no darkness. Officers and soldiers patrolled back and forth. The defense was extremely tight. As long as anyone got close, The military camp will definitely be discovered.

Chen Mo's assassination plan failed. Then he took out a small notebook and charcoal pen from his arms to record the opponent's way of setting up camp.

This is all experience. You can copy it when you camp in the wild in the future. No one can be a qualified general all his life. He grows up by accumulating experience bit by bit.

Chen Mo looked up at the sky, and a dark cloud covered the crescent moon.

At the same time, Tianshui Town.

"it's time."

Xia Zhi calculated that a quarter of an hour had passed. She led more than a hundred people and left the city through the rear gate with great momentum. Each person held two or three torches. They were about ten feet apart from each other. Under the cover of the night, it seemed that there were people above. It's like thousands of people leaving the city.

The Yuzhou Army scouts who were watching from behind saw this scene. After leaving two people to continue staring, one of them rode a fast horse and went back to the military camp to report.

However, not long after one of the scouts left, Xia Zhining and his party, who had originally left through the rear city gate, suddenly turned around and came back.

The two scouts were shocked.

"No, if something happens, if you continue to stare at me, I will go back and report it."

"Ah."

Outside the military camp, Chen Mo and others watched Yiqi rush into the military camp.

They knew that it was Xia Zhining who started taking action.

Not long after, a whistle sounded in the military camp, and the Xuanbao Cavalry began an emergency gathering.

But the sentry outside the military camp remained motionless, still scanning the surroundings vigilantly.

"Remember, when the cavalry comes out, look for the opportunity, immediately light the cup bombs in your hands and throw them out, shout for Lei Gong to help me, and then quickly retreat to Tianshui Town." Chen Mo warned again.

"No." Sun and Meng grasped the hemp rope holding the clay pot tightly and stared at the military camp.

Chen Mo took off the strong bow from his back, bent the bow and nocked an arrow, waiting for the man with the red number "245" on his forehead to come out.

As a strong army, from gathering to dispatching troops, not even half a quarter of an hour passed.

Soon, the sound of horse hooves sounded, and hundreds of horsemen galloped out of the military camp. Chen Mo didn't dare to blink, and his eyes quickly swept over their bodies.

Seeing that he entered the enemy-locking range of Chasing Cloud Arrow and did not see anyone with the red number "245" on his forehead, Chen Mo could only sigh, and then quickly targeted a person with "107+8" on his forehead. Point to loose.

"Whoosh!"

"Pfft."

In the blink of an eye, a captain of the Black Leopard Cavalry was shot off his horse. The cavalry behind him could not avoid it. The horse trampled over the corpse, and his intestines were squeezed out.

At the moment when they were surprised, a dozen shouts suddenly sounded from the southwest:

"Lei Gong help me!"

Then they saw a dozen black and brown things swinging toward them.

Someone draws his sword and chops.

Someone rode to avoid it.

But they soon regretted it, as the clay pots suddenly exploded above, in front of, and around them.

"Boom"

Like the deafening thunder in a thunderstorm, the iron pieces and sawdust in the pot, as well as the fragments of the exploded pot, were like injuring hidden weapons, accompanied by thick black smoke, flying in all directions.

"Pfft."

"Bah bah."

In the shocked eyes of everyone, dozens of people were killed, their bodies were covered in blood and their bodies were turned upside down.

Many soldiers were injured by "hidden weapons" and lay rolling on the ground.

With such a loud noise, hundreds of war horses were frightened and ran wildly in all directions uncontrollably. Some actually turned around and rushed towards the military camp, while others collided into a ball. The scene was chaotic.

The soldiers on the sentry post all looked horrified, their eyes full of fear of the unknown.

But soon there was an unaffected Black Leopard Cavalry who reacted. For a strong army, they quickly determined the direction of the abnormal movement and rode their horses to kill it.

At the same time, Tianshui Town.

Han Wu, Xia Zhining and others had already led two guards and waited behind the city gate. When they heard the loud explosion, they all looked excited. Han Wu shouted: "Open the city gate!"

The gates are open.

Nearly two thousand men and horses moved towards the direction where the explosion came from, killing them.

"Dong dong dong" the marching drum sounded, and immediately there was an overwhelming cry of killing.

"Kill." As an ordinary person, Han Wu actually took the lead.

The cry of killing spread along the night wind, causing a commotion among the pursuing Xuanbao Riders.

When Chen Mo heard the sound, he immediately turned his horse's head and shouted: "Follow me and fight back!"

"Kill, the day to defeat the enemy is now."

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Xu Jie's troops who were reorganizing the army in the military camp heard about it, and there was a sudden commotion. Xu Jie had his own way of leading the troops. When he learned that the Tianshi bandit army was escaping from behind the city, Xu Jie ordered the Xuanbao Cavalry to pursue them without even thinking, and then He took the remaining infantry behind to support him, but he never expected that the cavalry would be ambushed as soon as they left the barracks.

If he had known that the other party had only touched a dozen or so people, just to avoid making too much noise and avoid detection, he would definitely be surprised at the other party's courage.

"Get into formation and prepare for battle." As the commander-in-chief of an army, Xu Jie hurriedly gave the order without panicking.

"Whoosh!"

The feather arrow flew out and shot down a Black Leopard Rider who turned around to escape, killing him with one blow.

Chen Mo put his bow on his horse, pulled out the Tang Sword from his waist, and accelerated up. There were still a few feet away, and with one sweep, he killed several enemy cavalrymen and fell them under the horse.

Behind him, nearly two thousand soldiers of the two guards, led by Han Wu and Xia Zhining, rushed forward.

Outside the military camp, the frightened war horses had just been controlled when they heard the shocking shouts of killing, but they had not yet recovered from the shock.

The next moment, Chen Mo, Sun Meng and others rushed into the Black Leopard Cavalry team. One of the cavalrymen was still thinking about fighting Chen Mo, but as soon as he raised his sword, an invisible sword energy fell. It hit the top of his head and split it open.

Blood splattered everywhere, and various internal organs were scattered on the ground.

Chen Mo seemed to be unparalleled. Within a radius of five feet, whoever came to attack the enemy would die.

In the military camp, the crossbowmen held the divine arm crossbows but did not dare to shoot because the Xuanbao Cavalry was outside and there were many people who accidentally injured them.

While they were hesitating, Han Wu and Xia Zhining joined the battlefield with two thousand soldiers.

Xu Jie's heart was bleeding when he saw a Xuanbao cavalry soldier being killed off his horse. However, he saw that the Heavenly Master thieves were about to rush into the military camp in order to reduce losses.

Xu Jie closed his eyes and waved his hand: "Fire the arrow."

After hearing the command from above, the crossbowman no longer hesitated and pulled the trigger.

"shhhhhh"

In the blink of an eye, dozens of soldiers from the two guards were shot and killed.

"Follow me and lead the troops to fight in."

When Chen Mo saw this, his expression changed drastically, and then he roared loudly and led his troops towards the military camp.

(End of this chapter)