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Chapter 80 Waiting for the Opportunity
"Report!"

The sound of horseshoes approaching from far away, and the loud shouts showed the identity of the person who came, and it was the scout team sent by Wang Shao.But at this moment, only one person turned around. Wang Shao saw it from a distance, and couldn't help but feel a "thump" in his heart, and said to himself: "If the scout team fought the enemy, wouldn't it expose our army's whereabouts? Then it would be difficult to sneak attack. The military book says, Victory by surprise, cooperation by alignment. If surprise soldiers don't work, how can we defeat the Khitan army?"

While thinking about it, the scout quickly entered the barracks with the scout badge in his hand without hindrance.Not far from Wang Shao's tent, the scout got off his horse and entered the tent.

Wang Shao attached great importance to intelligence, and he issued tokens to inspectors and scouts to let them go unimpeded.If they were idlers, they would have been shot as hedgehogs a hundred paces before the barracks.

In order to ensure the nature of the surprise soldiers, Wang Shao set up his camp on the other side of the mountain near Youzhou City, and he was not allowed to light a fire for cooking.A few days ago, some scouts spotted the Han army who came to log. They held back and did not do anything.

Through intelligence collection, Wang Shao knew that the Khitan army was extremely short of siege equipment. He originally wanted to wipe out the Han army in this way, so that they could not make siege equipment, so they would not be able to pose a threat to Youzhou City.

But after thinking about it, Wang Shao decided to stand still and strictly control the imperial army so that they would not disturb the Han army logging and the Khitan people who supervised them, so as not to spoil the big event.

Why didn't Wang Shao wipe out the Han army who made siege equipment?The reason is: if all the Han troops are killed, the remaining Khitan army has two choices, one is to retreat immediately and stop attacking Youzhou City; the other is to continue the attack and transfer siege equipment from other places.

Wang Shao felt that the second possibility was more likely.The Khitans seemed to attack with great determination this time, fighting to the death without retreating.Even though tens of thousands of soldiers were killed or injured in the past few days, they still attacked Youzhou City in the same way.It shows that the Khitan people are determined to win Youzhou City, and they will not feel heartache when they kill the Han army who are inferior to pigs and dogs in their eyes.The big deal is to spend a little more time and transfer siege equipment from other places.

That being the case, why expose your tracks for an insignificant Han army?Wang Shao decided to endure it, wait and see what happens, and wait for the opportunity.

But the sudden scouts made Wang Shao frightened, fearing that the enemy had discovered his tracks.

Not long after, the scouts entered the camp, gave a military salute to Wang Shao, and said, "Report to the commander, my team has found out that the Khitan has not been able to attack the city for days, and the soldiers are full of resentment. Morale is not high, and we must take precautions against the outside world." It's not strict."

After hearing the scout finished speaking, Wang Shao felt that a big stone had landed in his heart.At this moment, he is far from being as strategic as in history. Naturally, he can't achieve the spirit of Taishan collapsing in front of him and his color unchanged, and elk rising from his left side without blinking his eyes.

Wang Shao asked: "Where are the rest of your team, have they been discovered by the enemy?"

The scouts replied: "The rest of the team are secretly monitoring the Khitan army, and they dare not get too close. The Khitan army's scouts are not crowded, and the range of activities is not far away. We all approached on foot and did not dare to disturb them." enemy."

Wang Shao praised their scouts for doing a good job, and asked about the situation of the Khitan camp in detail before letting him go. He began to think again: "Attacking their siege equipment will definitely not have a surprising effect. Then how could the sneak attack cause the Khitan army to return in defeat?",

Wang Shao paced back and forth in the large tent of the Chinese army, thinking carefully about the information he got: "The Khitans never bring supplies, and most of them bring their own military food. But it is difficult to get too close Find out how many days' rations each of them has brought. In addition, they have many mares, and drinking mare's milk can also replenish physical strength. This is worth learning, but there are not many Dashun mares... Alas, I want to find It is really difficult to break through the Khitan army's loopholes. Only when their rations are low, night raids and sneak camps can force them back. But how do you know that they are short of food? If they have no rations, they will definitely return to the army as soon as possible , It’s too late to steal the camp!”

Wang Shao intends to set up an ambush on the road, but he sees that the terrain in front of Youzhou City is a grassland, and there is no danger to defend.How to ambush a team of tens of thousands of people?It's almost like being made dumplings!
At a loss, Wang Shao became impatient.He told himself over and over again to be calm, to be calm, not to be impulsive.Slowly he calmed down, and thought: "Let's wait and see what happens, there will definitely be omens before the Khitan army runs out of food."

At this moment, the atmosphere in the Khitan barracks was also dull.Being unable to attack for a long time will have the greatest impact on morale.The soldiers who were not Khitans were okay, but the Khitan soldiers began to complain: "Why don't you let the Han army attack the city, and let our noble Khitans take their lives?"

"That's right, our Khitan people's lives are worth much more than theirs..."

"Hush, shut up, a general is coming..."

At this time, a general came out of the tent and shouted: "What are you muttering here, why don't you go on patrol?"

These patrolling Khitan soldiers didn't dare to say any more, picked up their sabers, and walked into the depths of the barracks with bowed legs.The officer cursed and cursed all the way to the big tent of the Khitan army.At this time, many generals had already gathered in the tent of the Khitan Central Army, and everyone was anxiously waiting for Yelu Chongyuan's wrath.

And Xiao Feng watched coldly from the side, hummed almost inaudibly, and didn't say much.

After the generals arrived, Yelu Chongyuan, who was sitting on the white tiger chair, snorted heavily, and said angrily, "What kind of battle are you fighting, huh? You can't even capture such a small city, and you still say that you are the most powerful in the world!" A strong army? The food we brought can only be eaten for forty days at most, and more than half of it has passed now. If the city cannot be broken within ten days, the army must be withdrawn. At that time, you will call me the emperor's uncle Face, where to put it?"

Almost all of them were generals of his immediate troops, and they all had ashamed expressions on their faces.At this time, a general said cautiously: "Our army is only good at field combat. Why don't we lure the enemy out of the city and fight with him?"

Yelu Chongyuan said angrily: "The gate is sealed, how can I lure the enemy out?" The soldiers who hit the gate today reported that the gate was full of sandbags and stones, and it was almost impossible to open it from the outside. After Yelu Zhongyuan heard the news, he became furious.

The general said: "We have been feigned defeat a few times, and we have shown that we have no fighting power. Isn't that all right?"

Another general said disdainfully: "It's better to write a letter and shoot into the city to persuade you to surrender. It's just whimsical."

After hearing this sentence, Yelu Zhongyuan's eyes lit up: "Persuading surrender? Good idea! Why didn't anyone think of it before?"

The general who spoke was stunned, and smiled wryly: "It's not that no one has persuaded them to surrender before, but those Han people simply ignored them. We treat the Han people like pigs and dogs. How can they surrender?"

(End of this chapter)