At this moment, a scout entered the tent with intelligence from the front lines: "Your Highness! Military Advisor! No soldiers have been spotted at the other gates of Stone City!"
Ji Wan nodded and waved the scout away.
Although there were no soldiers at the other city gates, Ji Wan always felt something was wrong.
The other side now has an absolute advantage in geographical location, and it is impossible for them to suddenly suffer from a serious illness. They sent a vanguard army just to launch a surprise attack, but what else could they do if not for a surprise attack?
This vanguard army sent...
At this moment, Ji Wan saw that the eyes of several of her advisers were basically all focused on the north gate of Shicheng. She carefully pointed at the gates around Shicheng on the map.
Gave suggestions to Cui Min and Cao Ke.
"Rucheng, Xingzhi, do you think it's possible that the enemy will send soldiers from other city gates and divide them into several groups..."
Ji Wan's finger slowly moved across the map, finally sliding to the location where his own army was stationed: "They are forming a double-teaming situation for our army..."
Cao Ke stroked his beard and said in agreement, "Your Highness's analysis is not without reason.
If the enemy's vanguard army is just to attract our army's attention, then there will definitely be death row prisoners, deserters, etc. sent out among the crowd to cover up their tracks.
The real military strength should be concentrated at the other city gates..."
At this point, Cao Ke suddenly laughed out loud, as if he couldn't help himself: "If this is true, then Shicheng is in danger..." His tone was joking.
After listening to Cao Ke's analysis, Cui Min felt a little more excited.
He knew that the enemy might not be good at fighting, but he didn't know that the enemy was so stupid and his luck was... not so good.
But he still made a careful and quick decision, summoned the soldiers and gave them orders, and sent a message to Mr. Tuoba at the front: "Keep a close eye on the other gates of Shicheng."
If their real purpose of releasing the soldiers from the north gate was to attract Ji Wan's attention and take the opportunity to severely injure Ji Wan, then their calculation was wrong!
Besides, would there really be such a fool who would not use his terrain advantage to force Ji Wan to death, but instead choose to send troops to attack?
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The clatter of horse hooves continued to hit the ears of the death row prisoners.
The order from Chief Secretary Wu Run was still fresh in his mind. He had said, "Your mission is to cooperate with the vanguard army in a surprise attack on Ji Wan's traitor camp. If the raid is successful, that would be great. If it fails, then disrupting their military order would be fine."
Yes, Wu Runzhen planned to use a small force from the north gate to harass the target continuously, and then have the soldiers from the west and south gates rush all night and go around the mountain to inflict heavy damage on Ji Wan's army!
Wu Run was a disciple trained by the Cui family in officialdom. He was very talented in political infighting, but unfortunately, he was not a military talent.
After receiving Ji Wan's manifesto, he sent a letter to the Cui family in Wangdu, but he didn't expect that it had been almost half a month and there was no reply from the other side.
He knew that Ji Wan was going to be eliminated by the Cui family, but the Cui family did not reply to the letter and did not send anyone to help him. He had no choice but to shamelessly go to the next state to borrow troops.
After finding out that Ji Wan's army was just stationed and not taking any action, Wu Run decisively released the death row prisoners and the vanguard camp.
At the front line, the soldiers of Shicheng were preparing to change their formation in order, from the original two horses running parallel to more horses running parallel.
But unexpectedly, at this moment, something unexpected happened.
The death row prisoners were the first to be attacked. They could see the little lights of fire from afar, followed by a long blast of trumpets and deafening shouts of killing.
The countless amounts of silver that Ji Wan had invested in the army showed their effect at this moment, almost in an instant.
The war horses in front were frightened and neighed, and the war horses behind were stuck in the narrow mountain road.
On the opposite side were Ji Wan's soldiers, charging forward with great momentum and fearlessness, regardless of their lives.
Accompanied by the neighing of war horses, Ji Wan's army acted like cutting melons and vegetables. Before the entire Fanzhou death row and vanguard camp had time to change their formation, a big hole was opened in the long line of troops.
Countless people fell and were trampled into pieces by war horses.
Wu Run on the city wall frowned, and the scout behind him spoke quickly: "Report! Lord Changshi, an elite enemy team has been spotted outside the city!"
"What about the number of people?!"
"Your Excellency, there are more than 10,000 people!"
Wu Run breathed a sigh of relief. The traitor Ji Wan was indeed just a brainless and useless princess. She was probably instigated by someone with ulterior motives to get involved in the dispute among the princes.
They actually sent out most of their troops to encircle and suppress those death row prisoners!
Thinking of this, he felt quite calm. Seeing the scout sweating and looking flustered, he subconsciously started to scold him.
"Why are you so flustered? Do as I ordered!"
At this moment, many death row prisoners had decisively abandoned their horses and, under the cover of darkness, hurriedly rushed into the mountains and forests, fleeing in all directions as if they had survived a disaster.
As if he had ten thousand eyes, Tuoba Feng rode on his horse, closed his eyes and reported the situation within a few miles: "General Jin, the enemy has entered the encirclement outside our army!"
Jin Lie brandished his sword, deeply moved after hearing this: "Military Advisor is truly as foresighted as ever! We must advance even faster!"
Among these fleeing enemies, many were even wearing soldiers' clothes, and they clearly looked like a group of deserters.
They forgot that after a severe drought, all the surrounding forests had been eaten clean by starving people, leaving no shelter at all.
He hadn't run a hundred meters when he saw the Qingshi State army forming a semicircle.
front.
"There is an enemy attack! There is an enemy attack! Uh..." The soldier at the west gate was the first to shout, and was immediately targeted by Ji Wan's army. However, he was pierced through the body by a spear just after he shouted two sentences.
The spear was an improved version of fine iron made by Gao Qu using the formation left by Tuoba Feng in the kiln to purify the iron element. It was so sharp that it was no exaggeration to say that it could cut iron like mud.
It was easy for this spear to penetrate a person's armor.
They had just opened the city gates and were about to send out troops to wipe out the traitor Ji Wan! Who could have imagined that there were still enemies holding spears at the west gate?
What is this? Opening the city gates and letting the enemy in?
Or is it that the enemy is so foresighted that they can predict the actions of the Chief Secretary in advance?
The legs of many war horses were cut off by the sabers of the front row of Ji Wan's army. When the riders fell off, they were either pierced by the long spears of Ji Wan's army or trampled into pieces by various horse legs and human legs.
Screams and the smell of blood were intertwined. In the distance, at some unknown time, many large siege machines began to move towards the stone city.
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