Red Mansion: Bastards rule the roost

Chapter 191 Strategy to Reduce Troops 3
  "Enemy attack!" Wang Fei was so frightened that he roared at the top of his lungs. He turned over and dodged the two arrows fired from the city. He rolled and crawled to the huge warning gong on the wall, picked up the gavel and used it. Beat hard.

Bang bang bang! The huge noise woke up the whole city.

The soldiers on the border had extremely high fighting qualities. Just listening to the clanging of armor leaves, hundreds of soldiers stood up almost at the same time, unsheathed their bows and swords in an instant, and took up their positions.

It's also strange that the Tatars ignored one thing. During the day, so much dry firewood was burned under the city, and there was a lot of dry firewood left, covering the ground.

The ones far away from the city were fine, but the ones close to the city made a crisp sound when stepped on, and when they met a thief with extraordinary ears on duty at night, the sneak attack plan went bankrupt.

Seeing that they were discovered by the defenders, the Tatars shouted out loud and rushed over quickly. With a dull crash, dozens of siege ladders were set up on the city wall.

"Thunder tiger, great monk, hunter! Come up here, the Tatars are coming!" Wang Fei shouted while beating the gong.

The generals were sleeping in the houses at the base of the city wall. When they heard the sound of gongs, they had already dressed up neatly and stepped up to the city in a few steps.

Wang Fei was relieved when he saw the fierce general brothers coming up quickly. He quickly threw the gavel and said, "Your Majesty, the Tatars are attacking at night."

"I saw it!" Jia Cong pushed him away and sneered: "I don't know whether to live or die, so I followed others' night attacks. You Jiaxi, Lao Deng, and Lei Tai led their troops to guard the north wall.

Wang Jiaotou, Lao Zhang, Acan, and Wuji led people to ambush on the east and west sides respectively. Ling Kong and Yu Hong led people to ambush on the south. They must not make a single sound. I think the Tatars may be deceitful. "

"I humbly obey my orders." Everyone went their separate ways.

Here the first wave of Tatar vanguard troops have climbed up the city wall and are fighting with the border soldiers.

Under the firelight, the Tatar soldiers looked ferocious and ugly, and rushed forward with scimitars in their mouths. However, without the cover of ladder trucks and bows and arrows, they could not gain a foothold on the city wall.

However, the Tatars had their own plans, and they climbed up one by one without fear of death.

Although there are only three to four hundred troops on the north wall, Deng Lei, Lei Tai and others are guarding it. They are as stable as Mount Tai, harvesting the lives of the Tatars one crop after another, just like harvesting wheat.

Jia Cong watched coldly in the city gate tower. The Tatars wanted to use these people to build a ladder and break the city. That was a fool's dream. The Tatars would not be so stupid. There must be something evil.

Sure enough, a fierce battle was going on on the north wall, and many black figures suddenly rushed out from the east and west sides. They carried ladders and leaned against the city wall, and one by one they couldn't wait to rush up to the city wall.

In the distance, the Tatar rear army saw that the front was engaged in battle, and quickly rushed to the front, preparing for reinforcements.

However, there are only so many siege ladders, and even if there are too many people, they can't get up, so they have to surround the city and take advantage of the opportunities to release arrows.

When the Tatars saw the east and west walls of the city, only a few scattered torches were fluttering in the wind, and not even a single person was seen. They were overjoyed, thinking that they had all gone to the north to support them, so they hurriedly climbed up the city. Within a moment, dozens of people climbed up. people,

Suddenly, countless clicks were heard, and the defenders who were crouched and hidden in the shadows stood up at the same time, forming a formation and attacking from both ends to the middle with guns.

The Tatars didn't know they had fallen into the trap, their faces turned pale with fright, and they started shouting and cursing. Some asked the people below to come up quickly, and some wanted the people on the ladder to retreat quickly and not to block the retreat, and there was a chaos.

Wang Jin, Su Can and others, however, did not mess up. They shouted commands, and the border troops pointed their spears straight, turned into two forest of spears, and pushed towards the Tatars in front and behind.

The Tatars were forced into a ball, and those who were not afraid of death tried to rush over, but were directly stabbed to death by seven or eight spears. The descendants did not dare to rush anymore, and they all retreated back with their scimitars, and in a moment they were crushed into small pieces. group.

Just hearing the sound of whooshing, the crossbowmen on the arrow tower did not need to aim, they just shot at the group of Tatars, killing dozens of people in an instant.

The Tatars below the city were already frightened when they saw dozens of people being wiped out in an instant. However, the Shangguan urged them urgently. Knowing that the surprise attack plan had already been ruined, they had no choice but to rush forward.

This round of Tatar offensive was originally a night attack plus a surprise attack, but somehow it turned into a strong attack. From midnight to dawn, they killed corpses all over the ground, but the Shifang Temple Fort still stood there firmly. Jia Cong raised his telescope and looked around. He saw that the Tatar offensive had been exhausted and had lost its aggressiveness. It was better to say that it was an attack on the city than a mission.

Although they kept climbing up the city, it was just a desperate struggle, and without the assistance of siege vehicles, the efficiency was greatly reduced and the casualties were greatly increased.

"Come here, give me the order to have Commander Wang slowly withdraw the Spark Camp." Jia Cong said.

Half an hour later, Jia Cong said again: "Come here, send the order and ask Su Can to slowly withdraw the trapped camp."

After another two hours, Jia Cong said: "Come here, please send an order to Mr. You Qian. I will withdraw 300 people one after another. We must be slow."

After a while, You Jiaxi ran over panting and said, "Sir, what is the point of removing so many people in succession?"

He was a fat man, worse than Yu Hong, and even more intolerant of fighting. After hanging out for a long time, he was really tired, so he ran to Jia Cong to take a breather on the pretext of asking for orders.

Jia Cong smiled and said: "Mr. You Qian is fat and is not used to going into battle to kill the enemy. I didn't think carefully. You should come down and rest."

You Jia was surprised and said: "I'm incompetent because of my humble position. Please forgive me."

Jia Cong smiled and said: "What's the crime? Although you can't kill the enemy, you are good at handling military affairs. Even General Yang praised you. If I use your shortcomings but not your strengths, then I am incompetent." "

"My lord is full of praise, but I am afraid of my humble position." You Jiaxi was as "shy" as a child weighing more than 200 pounds, and asked for advice: "My lord keeps withdrawing his men, but you have a clever plan?"

Jia Cong said: "I don't have any clever ideas, but someone once told me about a plan to reduce the number of stoves by Sun Binshi, a famous general in the Warring States Period. I just followed the gourd's plan, and I thought it would work."

After saying that, a beautiful image of a weak, slightly angry and slightly angry figure appeared in my mind, and I couldn't help but smile slightly. Isn't the "Spring and Autumn" I read that day useful for this.

Youjia was overjoyed and suddenly realized, "Sir, do you want to strengthen the enemy's intention to break the city, lure the enemy deep into the city, and then gather together to annihilate them?"

Jia Cong nodded and said: "Some of it is right, but not entirely. Just imagine, if our army counterattacks too fiercely and the enemy sees that there is no hope of breaking the city, how can they continue to attack the city?
  Only by creating the illusion that our army is weak, they will attack the city without hesitation, and I can kill the Tatars' effective forces to the maximum extent! As for gathering them together and annihilating them, it's not that simple. "

Vigorous? You Jia likes to chew the new words from Jia Cong's mouth over and over, secretly thinking that the master deserves to be the most talented person in the country, and these new words are really good.

"Your Excellency, aren't you afraid that your troops will be scattered and the city will be captured by the Tatars?"

Jia Cong pointed the telescope outward and said proudly: "The Tatars' three axes have been used. Now the initiative is in my hands. If I want to reduce, I will reduce, if I want to increase, I will increase. What can you do to me?"

And there are many strong generals stationed in the city. The eight hundred strong men in the city are enough to resist the three to four thousand Tatars. "

"Your Excellency is wise." Youjia said hurriedly.

Jia Cong waved his hand, and could not help but feel a sense of superiority as a scholar, "It's not me who is wise, it's all thanks to the Tatars. I haven't read military books and I dare to fight."

Youjia said with a smile: "What do you know about the art of war as a barbarian? Even if you have studied art of war for more than ten years in a humble position, you are still like a child compared with adults, let alone the Tatars?"

Jia Cong pointed at him and laughed, saying: "Stop flattering, you go out and watch with Yu Hong, slowly withdraw people, I still have great use for these people."

You Jiaxi didn't dare to ask any more questions, so he clasped his fists and accepted the order and left.

(End of this chapter)