Spirit of the Phoenix: 106. Zhu Jiang

"Strange, where did he go? Could it be that the battle report was wrong, and Ge Shuhai didn't lead his troops south?" General Li murmured.

Mr. Ying's face turned livid, and he knelt on the ground with a plop: "His Royal Highness, on the day the city of Shunzhou was broken, the minister and the Turks fought **** battles to the end. I saw Wang Zhonglang die in the city with my own eyes. There is no lie..."

The crown prince hastily supported Ying Yue, and his eyes were sharp on General Li. General Li's face was a little embarrassing, his lips pursed.

"You don't need to say too much, Mr. Ying. I never had the slightest doubt about every word you said." The prince said in a deep voice, "The situation in Dingzhou City is unknown, and we will stay in the camp to rest and attack the city tomorrow. "

Daizhou can attack the city with only light cavalry and chariots, and the victory lies in surprise. Dingzhou is no better than Daizhou. The city walls are three feet high and the trenches are two feet deep. If the Yan army wanted to attack the city, they had to wait for the ladder to throw their carts in place before they had a chance to attack the city wall.

What's more, the walls are high and the ditches are wide, and the Turkic soldiers defending the city will definitely be ready. Rolling wood, beating stones, gold juice and ash bottles falling from the sky, causing countless casualties for the siege officers and soldiers. The infantry and light cavalry entered the city through the Luoyuan Gate.

It is true that a city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack can be used in the name of "fixation", which means that the power of a city is enough to stabilize the world.

The so-called siege is also the heart of the palace. To exhaust the patience and provisions of the generals and people in the city, even if the prince's 70,000 elite troops are fully charged, it will take more than a month at the fastest calculation.

"I still can't figure out how such a complete Dingzhou city was breached overnight by Turkic soldiers? Could it be that Ge Shuhai is really so powerful, and Dingzhou officers and soldiers are really so useless?" General Li considered his words carefully , ask carefully.

The prince raised his eyes in silence, looked at the city wall not far away, and shook his head slightly: "I can't figure it out either."

Smooth, very smooth.

The prince's battle this time seems to be stepping on the clouds, full of unreality everywhere.

After an unusually smooth journey, it seems that the Daiding Erzhou will be taken back without a single soldier, and the details reveal a lot of weirdness.

The prince subconsciously put his hand on his chest, and stroked the thin book of "Saint Ancestors", as if he felt the breath of her past existence.

"Tyan...you come with me," he said.

The next day at Maoshi, the crown prince led more than ten thousand elite soldiers to march outside the city of Dingzhou.

Before the words were finished, arrows were suddenly shot from the city. The gray-blue sky suddenly dimmed. When I looked up, I knew it was densely packed arrows falling down like covering the sky.

The Yan army had been prepared for a long time, and the soldiers lined up, raising their shields to block. General Li closely followed the prince, and he also raised a shield that was half a person's height in front of the prince. The rain of arrows was very dense, and occasionally two of them landed on the shield, making a bright metal impact sound.

It was crisp and loud, as if it had crashed into a person's heart.

As soon as the rain of arrows passed, the prince raised his hand as a signal. The soldiers of the Yan army stretched out their arms and drew their bows, aiming at the city wall outside the moat.

But the prince did not speak for a long time.

General Li waited for a long time, then hurriedly turned to look at the prince, only to find that his gaze was fixed on the ground in front of the shield.

Several Turkic arrows were scattered on the ground, which were blocked by the shield.

"Your Highness..." General Li anxiously asked the prince.

The prince took a deep breath and lowered his raised hand. The Man army was solemn and solemn, seeing the prince abandoning the military order to fight back at such a critical moment of life and death.

"Have you seen clearly, Shaolin?" The prince's tone was very trance, "This arrow...is my Dayan's arrow!"

General Li was shocked, and he picked up several arrows that fell on the ground and carefully identified them in front of his eyes.

The white feathers are fine and dense, the wood grain is dark, and the long arrows look like streamers.

"Could it be that the Dingzhou garrison was breached without resistance, and a large number of Yan army's military products were seized, and then taken by the Turks for their own use?" General, although people are mediocre, they are not greedy for life, afraid of death, and treacherous. Even if Ge Shuhaitian sent down the gods and soldiers to be brave and invincible, how could he not even resist? What's more, there are thousands of soldiers guarding the city. Where did you go? How come there is no news at all?"

Everywhere is weird.

General Li's eyes widened suddenly: "Could it be that there were spies in the army, and they came down to the city gate at night to let the Turkic elite soldiers in? Or maybe there were Turkic spies in the city before, and when they attacked the city, they should cooperate with each other..."

No, that's not the case.

The crown prince raised his head slightly, interrupting General Li's guess.

"The Turkic cavalry used to use short bows, and the wooden arrows matched them, which were also slightly stubby. Bows and arrows can only be used if they match. Even if the Turks captured a large number of arrows from the Yan army, they would always use the short bows they were used to. "The crown prince said, "But look, the long arrows of the Yan army that fell on the ground have neat tails and smooth shafts, and they were obviously shot from a matching long bow."

"So..." General Li gasped, "This arrow was not shot by the Turkic army, but by the Yan army..."

The crown prince frowned and his face was pale: "There are no Turkic soldiers in Dingzhou City. Ge Shuhai has never... breached Dingzhou City."

Since Shunzhou City was broken, there has never been a clear and accurate battle report sent from outside Dingzhou City.

Whether the city is broken or not, there have been various rumors from the beginning to the end. Among the panic-stricken border refugees, there is a lot of talk, until the "Dingzhou City Break" has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

However, the Turkic generals under Ge Shuhai's command never broke through Dingzhou City from the beginning to the end, and never even had the intention of breaking through Dingzhou City.

They surrounded Dingzhou City so densely that not even a fly could fly out, preventing any news of whether the city was broken or not.

The prince suddenly turned the horse's head, and the horse hissed in pain.

"Let's go!"

Without any further delay, the Yan army rushed straight to the front of the moat that protected the city.

Arrows and meteors usually stop for a moment, but the prince only ordered the generals to line up and raise shields to protect their bodies, without any intention of fighting back.

General Li Mengzhi was always brave, but at this moment he was so anxious that he didn't even care about his life. Go straight to the bottom of the trench and roar loudly: "Who is in the city? But Zhang Zhizhong, the prefect of Dingzhou? I am under the command of the crown prince of Dayan Dynasty, and I am leading the guard Li Shaolin. I came here to save the city, and I will fall down soon." door, let my army enter the city?"

Before General Li could finish his sentence, a long quenched arrow was shot from the turret with a whoosh, and it was nailed straight in front of his horse's hoof.

The horse jumped high in fright, General Li strenuously tightened the reins and controlled the horse, feeling furious in his heart.

Unexpectedly, there was a young general in the city who probed his head and retorted sharply: "Bah! Did the Turkic old dog think you are stupid? Yesterday he disguised himself as Wang Zhonglang's personal guard who retreated from Shunzhou City, and came here disguised as Taiyuan Mansion the day before yesterday Today, the reinforcements are even more courageous, pretending to be the Northern Army of His Highness the Crown Prince. Two years ago, the Crown Prince took over the Northern Lands, and the Yan Army consisted of 70,000 elite troops. Today, just looking at the appearance of these remnants and defeated generals, I will be considered a phlegm If you lose your mind, you won't be fooled!"

"If you are General Li under the crown prince's command, I would still be Marshal Tianpeng next to the Jade Emperor!" Commander Zhu laughed loudly and sarcastically said, "The year of the pig is auspicious, let me see my old Zhu send you to heaven!"

Commander Zhu issued an order, and another rain of arrows fell on the city wall. At this time, the two armies are facing each other very close to each other, the shields are no longer able to withstand the strength of the bow and crossbow, and the horses and soldiers are quite damaged.

General Li wanted to persuade him again, but the crown prince signaled Mr. Ying to drag him down.

"It's been tricked." The prince's face was still calm, but his voice trembled uncontrollably.

The city of Shunzhou was broken, and the Turks attacked Daizhou first and then Dingzhou. The prefect of the city defended for more than a month, but the Turks did not see the city attacking the city with all their strength. They just surrounded Dingzhou tightly to prevent the news from leaking out.

However, several days before the crown prince led the Yan army to set off from Yunzhou, the Turks disguised themselves as the generals of the Yan army and came to Dingzhou city every day to lure the city guards of Dingzhou to fall down the city gate.

Everyone has heard the story of the wolf coming.

On the first day, the second day and the third day, the Turkic generals pretended to be friendly troops of the Yan army to lure the enemy to open the door.

However, on the fourth day, when the prince really came with reinforcements, the generals defending the city refused to believe it no matter what.

"Yesterday...yesterday there was still a Turkic army here, but when we came today, we didn't see half of the soldiers." The prince said, "It's not that there are no Turks, nor is it that all the soldiers are guarding Shunzhou City. .”

"Daizhou has no soldiers, and Dingzhou has no soldiers. But the Turks clearly have soldiers, so the soldiers are all there..." The prince's pupils dilated instantly, his nose fluttered and his voice was hoarse.

"Yunzhou! The target of Ge Shuhai's attack is Yunzhou!"

"We fell into the trick of diverting the tiger away from the mountain. From the moment we led our troops northward to Daizhou from the city of Yunzhou, Yunzhou was like a fish and sheep waiting to be slaughtered before the New Year's Eve dinner, and was completely sent into Ge Shuhai's mouth!"

Yunzhou City is as solid as gold, and there is Taihang Yellow River. It has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.

But once the city of Yunzhou is broken, there will be Taiyuan Mansion in the south, with less than a thousand soldiers. To the south of the Three Jin Dynasty, there is only a natural moat on the Wei River. After crossing the river, you can directly take the capital.

The century-old Emperor Line of Great Yan is at stake.

The goal of Adubi and Geshuhai's southward invasion...was never the affluence of the two prefectures of Dingshun.

It's the whole Dayan.