On the way back, Lin Haoming was not stingy about how he fought.
Hong Chenyi is indeed a humble person. After listening to Lin Haoming's explanation, he couldn't help asking halfway: "General Mian, I understand that you didn't continue to plunder food and grass before and changed to plundering those big households. After all, you have to burn the other party's food and grass, making it difficult for the other party and causing difficulties for the people, but why don't you continue to do it later?"
"General Hong, the Western God Kingdom is big after all. We burned some of the dealers, which only caused the other party to transport food and grass for a long distance, which brought some difficulties and some unstable factors. But after all, the enemy is strong and we are weak, and the enemy is still in the back. The fields I burned are all wealthy families. These families have strong local power and have now destroyed most of the foundation at once. What would happen if you were these people?" Lin Haoming asked.
"this?"
"If I guessed correctly, I'm afraid my fields will be destroyed and I will rob the fields of ordinary people." Hu Sheng added.
"Yes, that's it. As long as we stay until winter, Mo Yiqi will be in chaos behind him." Lin Haoming said affirmatively.
"Then why not just burn a little more?" Hong Chenyi asked.
"If even those ordinary people burn, they will hate us. If there is no land, men will choose to join the army and eat food. The hatred for us at that time will probably be difficult to deal with. If I were Mo Yiqi, I would directly recruit tens of thousands of troops locally, and the training will be almost ready to be used until winter begins." Lin Haoming said.
"Although I mainly hide troops this time, harassing and looting is a cover-up, I am not ruthless when I robbed." Hong Chenyi said distressedly.
"General Hong, you should clean the surroundings. After all, this place is too close to Tianzhu City, and it is less than half a day's road. It's better to sweep it clean. This is why the people of the Western God Kingdom are really careless and don't build some military camps behind them just in case." Lin Haoming said.
"Sure enough, the military books are dead and the people are alive, and I learned it." Hong Chenyi was even more impressed by Lin Haoming at this time.
The army returned in triumph. After the news came back early in the morning, Yang Xisheng also took the initiative to greet Lin Haoming and others at the city gate. This time he took two thousand men out, but in the end he lost only 500 people, which can be said to have won a great victory.
Yang Xisheng wanted to report to the court, but some subordinates who followed Lin Haoming out had received rewards. Niu Dazhuang became the centurion. Mian Lifeng, who had become the centurion for business, was promoted to the commander of thousands of men. The two were also responsible for managing the slave camp where two thousand people were originally slaves.
The three kingdoms of Dongzhou all have a battalion with a thousand people, and set up a battalion commander, who is also a commander of thousands of men. Lin Haoming is now the chief of these two battalions.
Next, after waiting for less than a month, Lin Haoming was finally promoted to general by His Majesty's order. At the same time, Mo Yiqi also led an army of 300,000 to fight over.
Some harassment had indeed blocked Mo Yiqi's preparations before, but Mo Yiqi knew better that the more the enemy was like this, the faster he would act. In fact, before some people arrived, he brought most of the troops to kill him first.
Some fortifications here have not been completely built, and the wall of the urn city has only been more than one meter high, which is barely similar to that of ordinary county towns.
When the war was about to begin, the inner wall was still being reinforced and built.
Lin Haoming was appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief of the city gate at this time, but in fact he was responsible for the specific operations, and the commander-in-chief was Hong Chenyi.
After the two of them settled their past grudges, Hong Chenyi asked Lin Haoming for advice these days, which made Hong Chenyi more respectful to Lin Haoming, although he was a few years older.
There were many iron nails and barbs on the ground outside the city. At the beginning of the first battle, thousands of corpses were left behind when these things were cleared.
But there was no way to do this. The next morning, Mo Yiqi realized that the army continued to attack the city. After all, this low city wall, a martial soul warrior with a slightly higher cultivation level could directly stare at the city wall, and he didn't even need to set up a ladder.
When Lin Haoming was about to attack, he ordered people to light some fires on the top of the city. Suddenly, with the wind, thick smoke blew towards the enemy. The fire was obviously poisonous, which immediately made the ready-to-go army unable to open their eyes, let alone siege the city.
When the enemy found something wrong, Lin Haoming immediately opened the city and rushed out. The army that lined up to attack the city was defeated. Fortunately, there was still a rear army to suppress the formation, but Lin Haoming immediately ordered the people who had fought out to come back without any greed for merit.
After suffering a great loss, Mo Yiqi did not immediately order the attack, but spent some time to recover the soldiers. After listening to the military doctor's advice, he used a wet cloth to surround his mouth and nose to prevent poisonous smoke from being inhaled again.
However, the moves that Lin Haoming used will naturally not be used again. For the third siege, Lin Haoming poured oil on one side of the city wall in advance, causing those who wanted to climb up with the city wall to slip directly, and finally had to wait for the ladder and other siege equipment to come.
But in this way, a volley of fire from above also killed and injured many people, which greatly damaged the morale of the siege.
One side had a damaged morale and the other was in full swing, so after a fight, although the city was actually not very advantageous, it was not defeated.
Although he didn't fight, Mo Yiqi was much more at ease. Today's fight showed that the opponent's methods were almost used, and he would definitely be able to win the city in the next two days.
The next day, they were ready to go again, and the army rushed up again early in the morning. This time, after making enough preparations, they didn't play any empty talk. They relied entirely on the number of people and siege equipment to attack. Finally, the city gate was still a little weak. After repeated attacks, they were directly knocked open, so a large number of people rushed in.
Mo Yiqi, who was watching the battle from a distance, was also very excited, but after watching for a while, he suddenly felt something was wrong. The city gate was broken. Why was the place fighting on the top of the city so fiercely? There was no intention of retreating to the inner city?
Just when he was suspicious, he suddenly saw a big vine ball dropping above the city gate, and then a fire ignited, and the city gate suddenly shone into the sky.
"Not good!" Mo Yiqi immediately realized something, but it was over.
At this time, there were two or three thousand people rushing into the urn. The urn was not big. At this moment, the people on the city wall suddenly threw the cans below and were covered with tins of tin.
"Not good." Seeing this, the army rushing into the city also realized something, but with the torches being thrown down and the intentional hay being set aside in Weng City, a fire suddenly ignited in the city.
Two or three thousand people were engulfed by flames, and some of them were better under the city walls, but the people on the city head did not give any chance at all, and might be hit by stones and arrows and shot.
Chapter completed!