Country and Beauty

That night, Xie Fei was unable to sleep. When it was almost midnight, he suddenly heard a soldier reporting, "General Ran Zhan has something important to see you about!"

At this time, Xie Fei, who was still wide awake, immediately spoke to the guard: "Quickly invite him in!"

"This general pays his respects to the Duke of Qin!" Just as Xie Fei finished putting on his clothes, Ran Zhan came in and greeted him.

"What is it?" Xie Fei's tone was a little impatient.

Ran Zhan understood, the food had been robbed, the ten thousand elite soldiers had been annihilated, adding the "death" of his nephew Xie Shang, Xie Fei's mood would definitely not be any good, this was something Ran Zhan could understand. Xie Fei patted his head, suddenly, he thought about Ran Zhan being in charge of the earthworks, and asked: "Oh yes, how is the execution of the plan to dig the underground tunnel into the city?"

Ran Zhan said: "The final result just now was the number of soldiers in the city, so I think that the tunnel should be within a few dozen meters of the city. I have to go down to determine the direction of the direction of the situation, and the end of the tunnel should be a few hundred meters away from the city, but we have yet to dig an exit from the city, so I plan to send some men to enter the city from the tunnel later on, and then dig an opening later. I plan to take advantage of the defenses of the city to scout the situation, and then tomorrow morning, our main force will feign to attack from the front to attract the attention of the enemy, and then send our elite troops to enter the city from the inside. Xiangguo City is definitely going to be broken! "

Hearing that, Xie Fei did not feel happy, but instead, felt uneasy. Xie Fei had originally planned to do the same strategy as how the Qing Army did when they attacked the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Nanjing, exploding the city walls with explosives and taking down the Xiangguo City in one go. Because of the continuous battles that the Qin Army had done, no matter if it was the Heaven Bombing grenade s or the cannons, Xie Fei estimated that if they were to concentrate all of their gunpowder, although they could blow up a one hundred meter wide gash on the city walls, but because the Xiangguo City used the method of building a city on all four sides, it would have no effect. The hole is filled with smoke, and those of us who are in it will not be able to escape. "

Therefore, he promised Xie Fei that when he sent people into the city that night, he would first send a small amount of troops in and, when he confirmed that there were no more ambushes at the exit, he would send more people into the city from the tunnel. That way, even if the enemies of the city found out, the losses of the Qin Army would be lesser.

That night. Ran Zhan sent a Battalion Commander under him to lead a company of soldiers into the tunnel. The commander of this small troop was surnamed Qu, and his name was Qing Feng. In the Western Regions, the name of the ancient country of Shanshen. Capital, Mud City (near Ruoqiang, Xinjiang, China). Dongtong Dunhuang, Xitong and the last, elite, binding, Yutian, Northeast traffic master, Northwest, the silk road to charge. bear horses, donkeys, camels, etc.) The Han people, whose ancestors were people of Yanmen County, were only taken by the Huns when they were young and sold to the nation of Shansan for the purpose of raising horses. Qu Qingfeng joined the Qin Army. Because he was good at raising horses, he was also a brave, fierce and nimble warrior. In a short span of a year, he went from a small soldier to a leader.

Accepting the mission token, Qu Qingfeng was very excited, he had taken the initiative to take this chance to offer it to Ran Zhan. If he succeeded, he would have done a great deed and would definitely receive even more rewards in the future.

Not long after, Qu Qingfeng and the rest arrived at the end of the tunnel. Along the way, Qu Qingfeng followed Ran Zhan's orders and ordered the soldiers to increase the distance between them and every four feet or so, so that if the other party discovered this tunnel and used a smoky method to deal with them, the soldiers behind them could quickly retreat, lest they crowd into a crowd and no one would be able to escape. Arriving at the end of the tunnel, they found a large hole leading to the ground. In order to make it easier to dig upwards, there were a few ladders of different lengths. Qu Qingfeng ordered the soldiers to raise the highest one up, then sent a soldier to climb to the top of the ladder and continued to dig upwards with a shovel. Soon, the layer of soil above the hole was dug up. The soldier reached outside the hole with the handle of the shovel and shook it slowly to see if there was any reaction.

Qu Qingfeng was the first one to quietly crawl out of the cave entrance, carefully examining the surrounding environment. This place seemed to be the courtyard of a hundred families, and at this time, according to the typical northern structure of a four-sided courtyard, the main house was made up of five thatched huts facing the south, with two rooms on each side.

Qu Qingfeng carefully looked around and discovered that this person didn't have a dog. Although his movements were light and it wasn't easy to wake people up from their deep sleep, if he had a dog, the dog would have noticed this uninvited guest immediately. After carefully observing for a while, Qu Qingfeng did not discover anything out of the ordinary. He waved his hand, signaling the soldiers in the cave to come out. At this time, a dozen soldiers came out from the cave and quietly jumped into the other rooms. They were the first to capture this family, only then would they be able to effectively carry out field reconnaissance.

However, what Qu Qingfeng did not know was that their movements here had all been clearly observed by a few eyes in the dark. Qu Qingfeng took advantage of the darkness of the night to complete his so-called reconnaissance, and returned back to report to Ran Zhan in satisfaction.

Although Xie Fei was an outstanding strategist and tactical commander, he was definitely not a person of this era. However, he did not know that the ancient defensive city was the most afraid of the industry. In order to prevent the enemy from using the secret tunnel dug by Hori to enter the city, they would pour out a large vat every few hundred feet inside the city walls, and then send some soldiers with good hearing to listen in on the vats. If they heard any strange sounds from underground, they would dig a hole in the ground. This is the Hmong, the Hmong, the Hmong, the Hmong, the Hmong, the Hmong, the Hmong, the Hmong, the Hmong, the Hmong, the Hmong, the Hmong, the Hmong, the Hmong, the Hmong, the Hmong, the Hmong, the Hmong, the Hmong, the Hmong, the Hmong, the Hmong, the Hmong. It was a pity that Zhang Bin was not only an outstanding prime minister, he was also able to handle internal affairs smoothly. He was also a military expert, and the strategy he formulated to clear the field was effective in suppressing Xie Fei's goal of fighting to sustain the war. Although Xie Fei had adopted a disgraceful strategy, which temporarily guaranteed the stability of the Alliance, in terms of the root cause, Zhang Bin was right, and the strategy was also possible.

Before Zhang Bin left the Xiangguo City, he had told Guo Jing, "As long as you can confirm that the Qin Army is digging underground, you can ignore them for now and continue to listen in on the direction of the tunnels. If it is a large force entering the city, they will ambush the archers around the exit and prepare dried grass and firewood. After the Qin Army comes out of the tunnel, they will attack him together, and at the same time, just as Xie Fei had predicted, they will throw some dry grass and firewood into the tunnel and use the smoke to chase away the Qin Army in the tunnel. "

Guo Jing was the same as Shi Le to Zhang Bin, so he would listen to whatever said.

On the morning of the next day, Xie Fei and Liu Can formed a traditional siege formation outside the Xiangguo City. The infantry army consisted of dozens of square arrays, which were divided into two parts. At the front of the formation was the siege phalanx. In the front of each formation were the sabre and shield soldiers, followed by the assault soldiers carrying ladders or pushing carts; in the back, however, the phalanx did not participate in the siege. Their mission was to form a defensive formation, and this kind of defensive formation was also known as the central army. In addition to these infantry phalanx, there were nearly twenty thousand cavalry on both sides of the infantry phalanx. Their mission was to defend the two flanks of the entire army against possible enemy raids.

Since Xie Fei's army was mainly composed of cavalry, and Liu Can was a pure cavalry soldier, the effect of the cavalry on the city was not very big, and they were mainly relying on the infantry, thus in order to pose the greatest threat to the enemies of the Xiangguo City, Xie Fei had ordered ten thousand of his cavalry to dismount, and Liu Can had dismounted forty thousand of his cavalry. This time, the number of infantry battalions directly attacking the city reached fifty thousand people, and there were fifty thousand people attacking teams.

Riding his beloved warhorse, Liu Can looked at the great army whose morale was like a rainbow, and couldn't help but feel extremely heroic. He raised his whip and laughed loudly, "How hard is it for my hundred thousand tiger and wolf masters to capture Xiangguo City?!" When the generals beside him heard this, they couldn't help but feel proud.

The captain of the artillery division, who was standing in front of the artillery formation, couldn't help but laugh. "What a good target!" Even during training, there wasn't such a good target for me to hit! "

He then turned around and ordered the soldier beside him, "Order the artillery to attack these two targets ruthlessly!"

When the soldiers received the order, they immediately raised their banners and sent out an attack order towards the artillery in the city. At the same time, the observers who were responsible for directing the direction and direction of the target had already passed on the information of the target to the artillery unit through the flag language.

"Direction xx xx, distance xx xx …" As they busied themselves, the one hundred catapults with one hundred and twenty cannons were ready to go. "Fire!" With a loud shout from the officer, rocks larger than a basin were sent flying into the air. That scene was truly shocking! Huge orange-red fireballs also rose into the air. The scene was absolutely shocking.

Although Guo Jing had encountered this kind of siege methods more than once, he couldn't blame himself for feeling this way. Not to mention him, even Xie Fei was shocked by this scene, as if he had returned to the scenes of the later generations of military exercises.

The giant rock flew into the air and smashed onto the wall of the Xiangguo City, causing the ground to shake. The cannonball also landed in the middle of the enemy formation, causing a wave of blood fog and wails. Hundreds of stones rained down like rain, raising a cloud of dust. As the dust and dirt flew into the air, many Stone Army soldiers were smashed to the ground. Their shields shattered, and blood splattered in all directions. Immediately, wails of agony could be heard as the injured soldiers were expressing their pain.

Being hit by a stone was considered lucky. If he was hit by a cannon ball, then the scene would be more than miserable.

At the same time, Ran Zhan personally led the three thousand elite soldiers to the city from the secret passage. However, just as they were about ten or so people in the small courtyard, they suddenly heard a loud shout: "Release the arrows!" Afterwards, countless Shi Le Army archers stood up on the roofs around the courtyard. The Shi Le soldiers on the rooftops pulled back their bows and shot arrows at the Qin soldiers s in the courtyard.

The that had just climbed out of the tunnel were struck by a few arrows. Qu Qingfeng, who was in charge of the leading group, also noticed that something was amiss, but when he shouted "Not good, there's an ambush, quickly retreat!" Then a few arrows took their lives.

It was a pity for this general who was born a slave, but he died just like that before he even had the chance to complete his mission. He was then recorded in the army records that in the battle of the Xiangguo City's surprise attack, Battalion Commander Qu Qingfeng lost his life to a nation, and was only nineteen years old. Unmarried, no immediate family members.

The Qin soldiers in the cave also heard what was happening outside, and hurriedly sent a message to the back. There was an ambush above, they immediately retreated, and then everyone hurriedly retreated back along the tunnel.

However, at this time, after the dozens of Qin soldiers s in the small courtyard were shot to death by Shi Le's army, close to a hundred of Shi Le's army suddenly surged in the small courtyard, and almost could not stand anymore. These Shi Le Army soldiers quickly ran to the cave entrance, threw balls of firewood into the cave, and then threw down dozens of torches. They even felt that they could not hide anything. Someone even poured burning oil into the hole.

The front fire and the catapult attack lasted for less than half an hour, but there was still no movement from inside the city. Xie Fei felt that this matter was a little strange. He then frowned and asked Shi Yue who was beside him in shock, "Quickly go to Cui Cui Ran Zhan and ask him what the hell is he doing!"

Actually, there was no need for Shi Yue to ask, Ran Zhan had already ran over with a face full of dust.

Xie Fei looked at Ran Zhan and knew that his secret attack had failed. Even though he knew the result, Xie Fei still did not give up and asked: "What happened!?"

Ran Zhan knelt in front of Xie Fei and said sorrowfully: "This general was careless and was ambushed by the enemy. Three thousand warriors, more than half of them died in battle and this general did not want to live alone, but my brothers told me to tell the Duke of Qin, they did their best." He pulled out his sword and tried to cut his own neck.

Xie Fei's hands were quick, he knocked off Ran Zhan's blade, his tiger eyes opened wide as he shouted: "Useless thing, I want to die no matter what. Since you have the courage to commit suicide, why use your pig brain to think of how to avenge your fallen soldiers. "Trash ~"

Ran Zhan was a robust man, after hearing this, he couldn't help but wail and cry, and choked with sobs: "Thank you, Duke of Qin, for not killing me, I will avenge my brothers."

Xie Fei said coldly: The enemy's defenses are extremely tight, it is useless to continue attacking the city, let's order the retreat!

Although it was already the beginning of autumn, the blazing sun was as hot as fire, and there wasn't a trace of coolness to be seen! More accurately speaking, one of them was carrying the other on his back. They were all dressed in tattered clothes and looked extremely exhausted, so the two of them were none other than Xie Shang and his servant, Yang Zhen, who were ambushed by Shi Le and Murong Ke on the purple mountain. Just like Xie Tie, Yang Zhen was a soldier of the Qin Army's army, they are all loyal servants of the Xie Family. Although Xie Tie is brave and righteous, but Yang Zhen is a little shameless, even though he did not surrender, he still used the method of faking his death to get through, and then carried the heavily injured and unconscious Xie Shang for an entire day and night. In truth, Yang Zhen has already reached his limit, but he still has a belief in himself.

Finally, after a long and arduous journey, the master and servant pair finally entered Xian County City. As the city was taken down by Xie Fei, no troops were left behind to defend, but Shi Le obviously wanted to fight to the death with Xie Fei, so he did not care about the small city that was guarded by soldiers.

Yang Zhen arrived at a small restaurant called the Yangji Hotel in the southern part of the city. Seeing the special inscriptions on the door, Yang Zhen finally let out a sigh of relief. Now that they were here, they were truly safe. This was a prefectural stronghold of the brocade.

However, it was clear that Yang Zhen did not have the strength to contact the brocade intelligence personnel anymore. He took a deep breath and took out Xie Shang's identity plate, then said to the waiter: "Save them! "Save him."

His vision also turned black, he no longer knew what was going on.

Inside the middle camp of the allied army of Shi Le and Murong Ke that was located outside of Fine Yang City, Murong Ke, Shi Le and more than twenty high-ranking generals were seated. Although they had used all their strength to eliminate Xie Shang's ten thousand cavalrymen and all of his transport troops, the two of them and the other generals did not have any expression of joy on their faces. Xie Shang relied on only ten thousand troops to face their combined one hundred and forty thousand siege troops. Under the sudden assault of not fighting strength nor the advantage of land, he actually managed to take down Shi Le's twenty thousand troops and Murong Ke's twenty thousand strong horses.

When the Xiangguo City's battle report arrived.

smiled and said: "Guo Jing still hasn't disappointed me. Currently, they have already defeated Xie Fei and Liu Can's twenty-seven city siege battles consecutively, and now the Xiangguo City is still in our hands. Now that Xie Fei had lost, and had no food to support him for the next ten days, he would definitely lead the rest of the troops to Chang An and ambush the soldiers along the way.

Murong Ke said coldly: If we allow Xie Fei to lead the soldiers back to the Qin State, it would be better if we gather all the forces of your two families, take advantage of Xie Fei's return of the soldiers to the Qin State, hide in ambush with all our might, and chase relentlessly to kill Xie Fei and his soldiers on the way back, then the morale of Chen An's army will be extremely low. As long as Xie Fei loses, Chen An will no longer have any intentions to fight, and as long as we destroy Xie Fei's two armies, your two families can do it in one go, seize the opportunity and destroy Liu Can.

Shi Le laughed: "That's exactly what I wanted!"