The king behind the empress

Chapter 390 One hundred thousand against ten thousand, the advantage is mine!

On the city wall, Hu Ming was the only one who remained on the city wall, and the rest of the families dispersed.

But at this moment when they received the news that there was movement outside, they all rushed back again, but seeing the Yuzhi army below the city working in full swing, they couldn't help but put down all their hearts that had just been raised.

"Hahaha, they actually wanted to dig a tunnel to Yining City, thanks to their thinking."

Wu Dazhi, the patriarch who said in the morning that Mo Zizai was afraid, smiled the happiest. He pointed to the Yuzhi army outside and said to everyone: "Even naughty boys of a few years old know that the foundations of these cities are built in one piece. You actually want to dig a tunnel to get in, it makes me laugh so hard."

"With this skill, they might as well just smash the city wall, that would be easier, what a bunch of idiots."

"Patriarch Wu's words are reasonable. They want to dig a tunnel into the city. I think they are probably out of their minds."

In the morning, he was planning in his mind that after the old man of the Wu family died, Feng Jinxiong, the patriarch of the Feng family who would divide up the business of the Wu family, smiled and echoed Wu Dazhi's words, giving the impression that the relationship between the two was very close.

And although the others didn't speak up to the two of them, they thought the same thing in their hearts, and they all felt that Mo Zizi probably had something wrong with his head, otherwise he wouldn't have come up with such a stupid solution.

Only Hu Ming looked at the Yuzhi army outside the city without saying a word, without expressing any opinions.

As a qualified general, he never felt that any enemy was stupid, because that was irresponsible to himself and the lives of his soldiers.

So when he saw Yu Zhijun digging fortifications, his immediate reaction was that Mo Zizai was digging a tunnel, but he didn't draw a conclusion, but looked carefully at the Yu Zhijun below, Observe carefully.

"Not right!"

Hu Ming looked at the Yuzhi army under the city, and suddenly realized that something was wrong. There were too many soldiers digging fortifications in the Yuzhi army camp, right?
Although the distance was a bit far, he didn't see very detailed, but just such a rough estimate, he knew that there must be more than 5000 people who came out to dig the fortifications.

This situation is simply too abnormal. Who would use thousands of people to dig tunnels when attacking the city? What's more, Mo Zizai only has a total of 3 people in his hands. After so many people go at once, he still fights this battle Don't fight?

"Mr. Hu, what's the matter?"

Feng Jinxiong, who was making friends with Wu Dazhi, was always paying attention to Hu Ming. Hearing his low cry, he immediately turned around and asked, "What happened?"

"Their numbers are not right."

Hu Ming didn't mean to hide anything, and said directly: "You see, there must be at least 6000 or [-] people who came out to dig tunnels outside the Yuzhi Army barracks, right? But how could so many people be needed to dig tunnels, and they Is it too abnormal to dig from such a far away place?"

"Five 6000 people?"

Hearing what Hu Ming said, Feng Jinxiong also reacted, looked outside the camp of the Yuzhi Army, and after a while he nodded and confirmed: "There are indeed five or six thousand people, but why do they work? What kind of weird feeling?"

Feng Jinxiong looked at the Yu Zhijun who was in full swing over there, and always felt a little weird, but he didn't realize it, so he couldn't help but lower his head and think hard, "What's wrong?"

"Hey, Lao Yang, do you think they are digging outside?"

Just as Feng Jinxiong was thinking hard, Wu Dazhi looked outside the city and couldn't help laughing out loud, "These idiots even got the direction wrong, they're all right, haha!!!"

"Dig out???"

Feng Jinxiong and Hu Ming couldn't help being shocked when they heard this. They looked at each other, and before they had time to say anything, they directly looked at the excavation site of Yu Zhijun.

"Sure enough, it was dug out."

They didn't pay much attention before, but now after Wu Dazhi reminded them, they found that the Yuzhi army was indeed digging a tunnel from the inside out.

"Outward...outward..."

Hu Ming muttered several times in a row, and then suddenly said: "Come on, bring the map!!!"

"No need to take it."

Feng Jinxiong knew what Hu Ming wanted to see, so he stopped him directly, and then said in a bitter tone, "I am familiar with the terrain of Yining City. If I guessed correctly, the direction they are digging is the Qianlang River!"

"Thousand... Thousand Waves River..."

As the general guarding the city, Hu Ming had already been familiar with the terrain around Yining City, and Qianlanghe was no stranger to the fountain of life in Yining City.

It's just that at this time, when he heard the word Qianlanghe, he couldn't help feeling a little chilly in his heart.

Originally, although the terrain of Yining City was lower than that of Qianlang River, it was still much higher than other places. Once Qianlang River broke its embankment, the river would definitely flow to a lower place instead of flooding towards Yining City, so Qianlang The river can't threaten Yining City at all.

So the day he came to Yining City, he had already discarded the possibility of water attack from his heart.

But seeing Mo Zizai excavating with great fanfare at this moment, the possibility of water attack appeared in his heart instantly. Now it is the autumn flood, when the water level is high, if the Qianlang River bursts its embankment, the river will directly hit Yining City Well, then the entire city of Yining City will be turned into a swamp country, let alone defending the city, it's hard to say whether they can survive the flood.

Apart from Feng Jinxiong, the heads of these aristocratic families also have many smart people, so when Hu Ming and Feng Jinxiong both talked about this, they immediately understood what they meant, and asked in disbelief. : "You mean, Mo Zizai will flood the city?"

"No, it's impossible."

After the initial shock, Feng Jinxiong immediately came back to his senses. He didn't care about answering the other Patriarchs' questions, so he directly asked Hu Ming, "Yining City's terrain is much higher than other places. Even if they dig the Qianlang River and burst its embankment, the water will only flow further south, and it won't be able to flood our Yining City at all!"

"It stands to reason that Yining City cannot be flooded."

Hu Ming hesitated for a moment. He wanted to hide his thoughts, but he thought that even if he didn't say anything, this person would be able to react when he saw the speed of Mo Zizai's excavation work. Adding some barriers, he finally said truthfully: "But the information from Zhaoyuan City before said that Mo Zizai's subordinates seem to be all physical practitioners."

"They're all physical warriors? So what..."

When Feng Jinxiong said this, he suddenly stopped, and then his eyes widened, full of shock.

"Three... thirty thousand martial arts practitioners?"

Feng Jinxiong's voice trembled a little at this time, he looked at Hu Ming with hopeful eyes, how much he hoped that Hu Ming would tell him that he was joking.

"It's not as much as [-]."

Hu Ming shook his head, and said: "It should be less than 2. When they attacked Zhaoyuan City, the Yuzhi Army had only [-] people in total. The remaining [-] should be the mob who replenished in Zhaoyuan City." .”

"What's the difference???"

Feng Jinxiong is about to collapse. Is there a big difference between [-] and [-]?They only need to allocate [-] warriors to dig this river channel. In a maximum of two months, or even shorter time, the Qianlang River can be diverted directly to Yining City.

No wonder he just felt that the soldiers of the Yuzhi Army moved fast, they were all warriors, could they not move fast?
"We can't let them dig like this any longer!"

Except for Wu Dazhi, the rest of the patriarchs also understood. They looked at the Yuzhi army outside the city with gloomy faces, and said, "If they are allowed to dig down like this, there is no need for them to attack the city. Then we will have to attack the city." They all died in the Qianlang River."

"Why don't you let them dig? Send troops to beat them?"

Hu Ming glanced lightly at the Patriarch who spoke, Mo Zizai could obviously start digging from the Qianlang River, and let them be submerged by the Qianlang River without knowing it, but he didn't do that, he made it clear that he wanted to force They went out of the city to fight (nuo).

But if you go out of the city, how can you get out of the city?
Mo Zizai's Red Flame Dragonrider didn't know where it came from. The men and horses were all wearing heavy armor, and they were all wrapped up like iron cans. They went out of the city and smashed against this kind of iron cans on the plains. It's not like giving away people's heads. sent it!
"What if we don't send troops?"

Feng Jinxiong took a deep breath. At this point, he also wanted to understand Mo Zizai's sinister intentions, but they had no choice.

"If we just watch them divert the Qianlang River to this point, when Yining City is flooded, we will also end up in a dead end, even worse than going out of the city to fight."

After all, if they lost the battle with Mo Zizai and could still surrender, their lives might not be saved, but their family members might be fine.

But if Yining City is flooded, it's hard to say, water and fire are ruthless, this thing doesn't care about your status, once the whole process is flooded, there must be very few people from their aristocratic families who can survive.

"He dare not do that!"

Hu Ming pondered for a long time, and then said: "There are not only our defenders in the city, but also hundreds of thousands of people."

"After all, Mo Zizai represents the imperial court. These people are still his subjects in name. If he floods Yining City with water, these people will not be spared. I don't believe he dares to bear such a bad name!"

"Aren't you awake?"

Wu Dazhi understood what was going on after others' explanations. At this time, his face was pale, and when he heard Hu Ming say this, he was immediately angry. He took a step forward, pointed at Hu Ming's nose and said, "Don't Don’t you know the reputation of Zizai? He even kills important officials in the court like pigs and dogs, and hundreds of thousands of people in the area, do you think he will take it to heart?”

"You still don't dare to recite it, you go and ask the ministers who were beheaded by him in the court, whether Mo Zizai dares or not!!!"

As soon as Wu Dazhi said this, the city wall immediately fell into silence. All the Patriarchs agreed with Wu Dazhi's idea after thinking for a while, but the words came from Wu Dazhi's mouth, which made them a little surprised , I didn't expect Wu Dazhi to say such reasonable words, which is really impressive.

"Different……"

Hu Ming just wanted to say something to explain, but was interrupted by Wu Dazhi unceremoniously, "Stop talking nonsense, in my opinion, it's all the same!"

"This Yining City is the Yining City we were waiting for, not yours, and those who were drowned and died were also our clansmen, not yours, you don't care about them, but we do!"

"In short, we absolutely can't just watch them divert the Qianlang River to this point. I don't believe it. A 3 army can't beat him with [-] people!"

"What does Patriarch Wu mean by this?"

Seeing Wu Dazhi's merciless words, Hu Ming couldn't help being furious, and said, "Since Hu came to Yining City, he has been careless in defending the city."

"Are you doubting me or my teacher's sincerity when you say this at this time? Could it be that you have forgotten how you got your current status?"

Following Hu Ming's reprimand, Hu Ming's personal guards immediately leaned over. They put their hands on the hilt of their swords, and looked at the heads of these aristocratic families with a hint of unkindness in their eyes.

Seeing that the angry Hu Ming moved out Situ Yao's name, the rest of the patriarchs knew that this man was really angry, and looking at the surrounding soldiers, if there was something wrong, Wu Dazhi might not be able to do it today. You have to splatter the spot with blood.

"Mr. Hu calm down, calm down."

Seeing that the situation was at an impasse, Feng Jinxiong hurriedly stepped forward to smooth things over, and said, "Master Wu is also impatient, and he doesn't mean anything malicious. I hope Mr. Hu will not take his words to heart."

"Our aristocratic families were all supported by Lord Situ, so naturally Lord Situ is the only one who follows the lead. Please don't worry about this, Mr. Hu."

After finishing the scene, Feng Jinxiong changed the subject again, and began to persuade: "However, although Patriarch Wu's words are not pleasant, there are some things that are not unreasonable."

"Wait for the Qianlang River to divert, we will surely die. If we leave the city, we still have a chance."

"What's more, we have an army of [-] in our hands, and it is not impossible to win."

After speaking, Feng Jinxiong took the initiative to open his mouth to analyze with Hu Ming: "Mr. Hu, see for yourself, there are five or six thousand people under Mo Zizai's command now digging the river channel. Let's make a conservative estimate, and they only have 6000 people. In this way, Mo Zizai will not be able to do anything." There are only 5000 soldiers under his command."

"And out of the 1, [-] are the defeated remnants of the army he recruited from Zhaoyuan City. It's not easy for them to keep them under control. As for strength, it's not a concern at all."

After finishing speaking, Feng Jinxiong concluded: "In other words, what we really need to face is just over 1 people."

"As for one hundred thousand against ten thousand, even with that Red Flame Dragonrider, we still have the advantage."

"If that's the case, why can't we fight? Mr. Mo Fuhu, isn't he sure of winning with 10 people versus 1 people?"

"Wars are not counted, and the risk of going out of the city is too great!"

Hu Ming was a little annoyed by Feng Jinxiong's provocative method, one hundred thousand against twenty thousand, even if he went out of the city to fight, he was still somewhat sure of winning, but the problem was that the loss was too great.

Yining City is an important chess piece for the teacher, so in his plan, he must ensure the military strength of Yining City to the greatest extent, so that he can defend Yining City in the follow-up war, so from the bottom of his heart He said that he didn't want to go out of the city and collide head-on with Mo Zizai.

"There is no risk in doing anything."

Hearing what Hu Ming said, Feng Jinxiong put away the smile on his face, pointed to the soldiers on the city wall, and said calmly: "Mr. Hu, these soldiers are all looking at the Yuzhi army outside the city."

"They may not be able to guess what Yu Zhijun is doing in a short period of time, but if it takes a long time, do you think they will not be able to guess? And to take a step back, even if they really can't guess, you don't think Mo Zizai will Are you spreading your intentions?"

"If the soldiers guarding the city know that Yining City is in danger of being flooded, and they bring the news back to the city, what do you think will happen then?"

(End of this chapter)