Fengzhou City

Fengzhou City was besieged by the troops of Dai, Jiao, and Qiao. The total number of troops from the three states was nearly 200,000. More than 100,000 people besieged it, and tens of thousands of people attacked it from all directions. All the prefectures and counties within a radius of nearly a thousand miles of Fengzhou City were breached.

Fortunately, the military advisor withdrew a group of people into Fengzhou City in advance, so that the number of guards in Fengzhou City reached more than 30,000 people. In addition, the residents in the city came to help in the battle, so Fengzhou City had not fallen yet.

"Li Xiang, the rebels are fierce and stubborn. This Fengzhou City has been under attack for more than half a month. I think it will be difficult to attack in a short time. We must find a way."

"General, what do you mean by using martial arts masters as the vanguard to attack?"

"Yes, that's what the rebel Wolong did. He used the martial arts saint as the spearhead to directly penetrate the enemy army, disrupt the enemy's camp, and clear the city wall. He could take it down in one battle."

"General, do you think I haven't thought about it? I can't command it."

Li Xiang smiled bitterly. Everyone knows the tactics of the rebel Wolong. He has always relied on him to defeat the army alone. But he asked other martial arts saints, and those martial arts saints said they couldn't do it.

Ordinary martial arts saints are stronger than martial arts grandmasters, but they are also limited. They are definitely not afraid of hundreds or thousands of people, but there are tens of thousands of people on the battlefield. Once they are trapped by the enemy and surrounded by layers, it will be too dangerous.

On the first day of the war, he looked for the martial arts saint and wanted him to lead the charge, but he refused directly. These martial arts saints have big families and big businesses. They can enjoy wealth and honor with big people, but they are not fools to let them fight like this.

"Prime Minister Li, time has dragged on for too long. I'm afraid the war will go badly. The Zhenguo Army has already gathered outside Fengzhou City. Now they don't dare to attack my rear army directly, but their numbers are increasing. As long as there is a general leading the way, they can harass our army. The troops of Shizhou are blocked in Qishan Mansion and can't advance an inch. Once the traitor Wolong solves the war in Taizhou, we will have no chance at all. We must solve Fengzhou before the traitor Wolong comes back and trap him in Taizhou, where he is not yet firmly established. Only in this way can we completely trap him to death."

The general said, this is their strategy. First, occupy Fengzhou. Taizhou Linjiang is not yet firmly established. At that time, hundreds of thousands of troops from the eight states will directly kill Taizhou. Even if the traitor Wolong is powerful, he can't be the opponent of hundreds of thousands of troops.

But their ideas are good, but they are difficult to implement. They can't fight when they reach Fengzhou City, and the same is true for Shizhou. They are trapped in Qishan Mansion and can't advance an inch. The war has become tense, which is very disadvantageous to them.

"Now I don't know what's going on in Taizhou, whether they have held back the rebels

." Li Xiang was also very anxious when he heard this. The rebel Wolong took the main force of Fengzhou to Taizhou. If the four states could not entangle the rebels, their situation might be reversed.

"Li Xiang, it's time to make up your mind."

"I'll talk to them again,"

Li Xiang said. He couldn't order those martial saints. The court had no prestige now. Without the martial saint forces directly under his control, they had to beg others. He could only negotiate again and again to see if he could offer more money to let them go to the battlefield.

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Lin Jiang came back, and returned to Fengzhou alone. The Zhenguo Army under his command was too tired, and even most of the war horses were lost, and they could not maintain high-speed mobility. Lin Jiang asked Fang Rui to lead 3,000 elite soldiers, and they only needed to travel 300 miles a day. Later, Qin Yong would lead another 10,000 people to follow, but their speed was slower, traveling about 100 miles a day.

After seven or eight villages and towns, Lin Jiang saw only devastation, houses that had been set on fire, and stinking corpses everywhere, as if he was in hell, without a single living person. It was not

until he entered a county town that Lin Jiang saw some living people. Among them, several officials saw Lin Jiang, recognized his identity, and knelt in front of him and cried loudly.

After asking, he learned that the troops of the coalition had come, broke through the towns, burned, killed and looted, and drove the people to attack the city and broke through the county town. After that, they did the same thing. A county town with thousands of people now has only a hundred survivors.

Lin Jiang patiently comforted them, and then asked them to go to various places to find the state-guarding army or farmers. Lin Jiang wanted to know how the battle was going.

A day later, Lin Jiang found more than a hundred state-guarding army and farmers in a mountain. They hid in the mountain when they saw that things were not going well, and they also covered thousands of people into the mountain.

Lin Jiang did not blame them, but took most of the soldiers away and asked them to find more people.

In this way, they gathered all the way. When Lin Jiang arrived more than a hundred miles outside Fengzhou City, he already had two or three thousand troops around him, but these people were very weak. The elite and brave people had basically died in the battle.

The enemy had discovered Lin Jiang and others and sent troops to attack. Lin Jiang killed a group of enemies and stationed in a county town with the remaining troops. He sent someone to contact Fang Rui.

Fang Rui arrived three days later and brought three thousand elite troops. With people in hand, Lin Jiang was more courageous and directly forced to camp five miles outside the enemy camp, and then sent people to continue to transfer people.

Lin Jiang already knew that the enemy army mainly wreaked havoc in the north of Fengzhou City, and only three prefectures in the south were breached. The Shizhou troops were blocked in Qishan Prefecture. More than a dozen other prefectures did not have any problems, but because there was no general with sufficient prestige to lead them, they did not dare to act rashly.

Lin Jiang ordered these prefectures to bring their elite troops. Apart from the necessary garrison forces, at least 30,000 to 40,000 troops could be mobilized.

"The three-state coalition forces, leave as many as you can, and don't take any prisoners,"

Lin Jiang said to his men very calmly. Just based on the evil they did in Fengzhou, Lin Jiang didn't mind bearing the infamy again, and didn't want any prisoners.

After a simple reorganization, more than 10,000 people left the camp and approached the coalition forces. The coalition forces also dispatched 50,000 to 60,000 people, set up a battle formation, and prepared to fight Lin Jiang in the field.

A dignified field battle requires very high overall quality on both sides, otherwise it is easy to collapse.

"The infantry will press forward first, Fang Rui, you lead the cavalry to plunder the formation on the side and wait for an opportunity to move."

Lin Jiang didn't play any fancy tactics, just push forward, he believed in his men.

He trained the Fengzhou troops for more than a year, and he believed that his troops were more elite than those in other states.

Nearly 7,000 infantrymen, in groups of 1,000, pressed forward in waves. Facing the active attack of the Zhenguo Army, the coalition forces also responded quickly and sent troops to deal with it.

The battle formations of both sides were arranged in a similar way, with shield soldiers in the front, a layer of spearmen, a row of sword and shield soldiers in the back, and a row of archers.

When the battle formations were more than 100 meters apart, both sides began to shoot arrows, each bearing the damage caused by the other's arrows. This reflects the significance of training. If the training is not strict, the battle formation may collapse after a few rounds of arrows, and what awaits is the harvest.

The coalition forces brought out the elite this time, so it is naturally not so easy to collapse. The two sides withstood several rounds of arrows and fought together. At this time, the archers had stopped, and the other soldiers and horses fought each other. After

one battle formation came into contact, the coalition forces soon fell into a disadvantage, and the coalition forces had to add another battle formation, but with the addition of another battle formation, they still failed to break through the battle formation of the Zhenguo Army, and the gap in their comprehensive qualities was clear at a glance.

The other battle formations of the Zhenguo Army were also advancing. The coalition forces continued to send out battle formations to meet the enemy. The number of people fighting on both sides soon exceeded 10,000.

"The enemy army is so fierce."

The coalition forces looked at the battle situation, and a group of high-level officials were also very different. They dispatched twice as many troops as the Zhenguo Army, but they did not crush the enemy.

"General, why don't you send more people up?"

"No, we can't use up all our trump cards at once. The enemy's cavalry hasn't moved yet. If we all press forward , we

will lose once the enemy's cavalry rushes." Li Xiang asked, but the commanding general refused. He knew the soldiers. If there were no trump cards, who would resist the enemy's cavalry? The entire battle formation would be overwhelmed.

"Fang Rui, you should move, force the other side to use all their strength, charge if you can, and hang them if you can't."

Lin Jiang said immediately. If the enemy doesn't increase the stakes, he will increase it.

"Yes, General,"

Fang Rui nodded, and soon led a thousand cavalry out. The cavalry would not take the initiative to attack the tight battle formation, and no general would do so.

But they would make a charge to see how the enemy would react. If the enemy's battle formation was not in chaos, they would rush to a distance of several dozen meters and go around from the side, then shoot arrows to harass.

If the enemy's battle formation was in chaos, they would really charge and completely disrupt the enemy's battle formation.

Fang Rui charged for the first time, and the enemy's battle formation did not become chaotic. Fang Rui swiped away from the side and then charged again. The cavalry made feints again and again, greatly oppressing the enemy, to see whether the cavalry's horsepower would run out first or they would make a mistake first.

Today's outcome was that Fang Rui feinted eight times, and the enemy finally became chaotic. Fang Rui decisively rushed up. Fang Rui had been with Lin Jiang for a long time and was also infected by Lin Jiang. With the body of a martial saint, he acted as a charging soldier and forcibly opened a hole in the enemy.

"Press up, press up"

The enemy general had to add more troops again. So far, he had sent out nearly 30,000 of the 50,000 people in his hands. More than 20,000 suppressed the 7,000 infantry of the Zhenguo Army, and nearly 10,000 suppressed the 1,000 people who surrounded Fang Rui.

"It's your turn."

The enemy general looked at Lin Jiang from a distance. This was also a trap. Lin Jiang still had two thousand men, and he still had nearly twenty thousand. According to Lin Jiang's habit, he should lead the charge.

"General, I'll go to pick up Mr. Fang."

Someone around Lin Jiang couldn't help it. Fang Rui and his men had lost their horse speed and were now surrounded by the enemy. They were caught in a bitter battle. Being surrounded by ten times the number of enemies was a very dangerous thing.

"No, no need to rescue. Follow me to attack the enemy's central army. Decapitation tactics."

Lin Jiang shook his head. Fang Rui only brought a thousand men, which was also intentional, because he was the most important person in this battle. He was going to charge and break the enemy's center in one battle. The victory or failure depended on this battle.