Guan Ning was a little dazed. Is this really the case? Even if he walked out of the military camp at this time, he still felt a little dazed.
"General Guan, you are back, how about you?" Lin Haoming and many people greeted him at the city gate.
Looking at Lin Haoming and everyone, he reacted, and then bowed and said, "The last general will fulfill his mission. General Xu promised to lead his army back to the northwest to prevent possible invasion of Wei."
This result was just like Lin Haoming expected. Xu Feng could not help directly, but he was unwilling to continue fighting. Going back to the northwest was the best choice for him.
The next morning, Lin Haoming indeed saw Xu Feng leading the army to retreat. After the scout confirmed that the army had indeed advanced north, Lin Haoming soon led the army south.
Just when Lin Haoming was dealing with the northwest border army, Wang Jiangman's 80,000 army was dragged by the 50,000 people divided by Jiang Ziqi. Zhu Feiling led the 120,000 army, facing Jiang Ziqi, who was twice his own strength, blocked Shimenpo, more than 300 miles outside the capital.
The two sides have fought fiercely here for two fierce battles. Jiang Ziqi's army has surrounded Zhu Feiling's troops, and Zhu Feiling seems to have been prepared for a long time. Although he fought twice, he did not want to fight the opponent's decisive battle. Jiang Ziqi divided his troops to drag the army of the north and south. From another perspective, isn't it that Zhu Feiling used 120,000 people to drag the opponent's main force?
The two armies had been in contact for a month. Although the encirclement was shrinking and smaller, he found it was getting more and more difficult to eat each other in one bite. Lin Haoming's Northern Army captured Changping County City, which made him even more worried, knowing that he would not have been too long.
Just as Jiang Ziqi was studying to eat Zhu Feiling's army as soon as possible, his subordinate scouts came to report. "Marson, Lin Haoming's Northern Army has gone south."
"Going south, so fast? How many people, are there 50,000 people?" Jiang Ziqi was shocked when he heard this and immediately asked.
"It is the entire army heading south, with a 100,000 army, Zhou Guangyi and Che Ying's 20,000 vanguard, and at most about five days."
Hearing this, Jiang Ziqi was shocked and said, "How is this possible? Xu Feng is a veteran who has been in the battlefield for a long time. How could he let the other party go like this?"
"General Xu led the army back north, saying that Wei State had an invasion and must prevent Wei State from sending troops."
Hearing this, Jiang Ziqi felt cold. He knew very well that Xu Feng did not intend to get involved, but he did not intend to get involved, which was equivalent to helping Lin Haoming, or he had agreed to defect to the other party in his heart, but there were some things that he could not do.
"Send an order immediately, the army retreats and return to the royal capital."
"Marson, even if Lin Haoming's army heads south, the vanguard still has five days to go, so we might be able to do it in five days..."
"What else can you do? Do you think Zhu Feiling is a fool? This person has endured humiliation since he was a child. Perhaps he is not the best at attack, but when fighting defensive wars, we have gained something when we advance east several times? Give me five days, maybe there is still a chance, there is only five days, retreat, and return to the capital, relying on the strong capital city, maybe you can still find opportunities for fighters. If it really doesn't work, you can ask Wei and Chu to borrow troops."
Seeing Jiang Ziqi's decision like this, no one else could disobey and immediately went to execute it.
At this time, Zhu Feiling, who was so oppressed by the enemy that he could not breathe, suddenly found that the enemy had retreated, which surprised him. It was not until he received a report from Lin Haoming that he knew the whole story. He was also very surprised. At the same time, he was also impressed by Jiang Ziqi's decisive retreat. If the other party finally took a chance and planned to take a risk, it would be completely defeated by himself and Lin Haoming's internal and external cooperation. In this way, the two armies merged into one place and attacked the capital, and the capital would not have much strength to fight.
When Lin Haoming's army headed south and finally joined forces with Zhu Feiling's army to siege the capital, he also admired Jiang Ziqi for being able to retreat.
Although it is not nice to retreat to the capital, to be honest, the army is indeed unable to conquer. Zhang Xiao has been in charge of the western part of Yue for many years and can still mobilize some troops. At that time, these people will respond to the capital's troops, which is indeed difficult to deal with, especially after a long period of time, variables are likely to occur.
The capital was full of food and supplies, and even if it was guarded for a year, there would be no problems. When Lin Haoming was patrolling the royal city outside the city, he couldn't help but recall the scene when he first entered this world.
When Lin Haoming returned from patrol, the southern army led by Wang Jiangman had already come to join. As a result, the three armies gathered together. However, what made Lin Haoming feel a headache was that although the 50,000 troops blocked Wang Jiangman lost more than 10,000 people, they were not defeated, but retreated voluntarily. In this way, it was equivalent to a powerful regular army cruising outside, which was much greater than retreating into the city.
However, even Lin Haoming had no choice for such an army. After all, if the troops were divided to encircle and suppress, it would not work if there were too few. If there were too many Jiang Ziqi's army to rush out, there would be problems. Moreover, these people had to be guarded, so they had to send an army to restrain them. Of course, the three armies were siege at the moment, and there was no need for the time being. Lin Haoming's meaning was to send another army in Jiangdong. It would not be necessary. Fifty thousand people were enough. In addition, the food route also needed to be guaranteed. Therefore, Lin Haoming had ordered Huang Zhan to go north with 30,000 troops and capture Ping'an warehouse first. In this way, there would be no accidents with food and grass support.
It has been more than half a month and it has entered the late spring season. The previous arrangement has been mobilized and arranged, but it has achieved results. There is only one thing left now, that is, how to conquer the king capital.
In fact, the total strength of both sides is similar at present. There are a total of 200,000 troops in the capital, while Lin Haoming has 300,000 troops. It is naturally impossible to attack with such a strong force. So after solving some troubles, a group of generals sat down to discuss how to attack the capital. After discussing, they couldn't come up with any good ideas.
Lin Haoming knew that a strong attack was impossible. There were only two ways to win. One was to siege for a long time and let Huang Zhan take Ping'an Cang. This was what he meant. If he was isolated and helpless, he would naturally be defeated without attack. However, Lin Haoming was sure that if this was the case, Zhang Xiao would probably ask for help from Wei and Chu, which would be even more troublesome at that time. After all, if Zhang Xiao fell into a desperate situation, it would be normal to make some demands.
Chapter completed!