King Wuyou discussed with Zhang Yankun and Prince Duan and decided to use the upper city as a cage to capture Huo Yuanji and the tens of thousands of Vietnamese troops he led.
Huo Yuan knew that King Wuyou had arrived at the upper city, and he was also planning in his heart. If King Wuyou was captured, the enemies on the western front of Yue would be basically eliminated. At that time, the Qi army and the Dali army would be driven back to Yue and Yunnan.
Border. Then all the southwest areas of the Yue Kingdom will be restored. You will be able to make a big improvement in your soldiers and food. In the spring of next year, you can regroup your troops and launch a counterattack against the Qi and Wu coalition forces in the north of the Yue Kingdom.
Huo Yuan also knew that King Wuyou and the Qi army led by him had no less than 40,000 people, concentrated in the upper city, but he had less than 50,000 people, and most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled city defense soldiers.
It is already difficult to cross the passes on the western front of the country. It is impossible to seize the upper city and seize the opportunity of King Wuyou.
Huo Yuan looked at Shangcheng in front of him all day and fell into deep thought. Suddenly Huo Yuan thought of the martial arts masters who followed him to Wangyue Tower.
So Huo Yuan called the guards and hurried to find some strange people from Wangyue Tower.
After a while, more than a dozen people came to the commander's tent. Huo Yuanxian bowed his hands to several people in greeting, and then said: "Fellow heroes, we have been confronting the Qi army for many days, and we have won and lost many times. It is thanks to all the heroes that we have won these days.
, helped me defeat the Qi army. I called you here today because I have something to entrust you to do. I wonder if you dare to go?"
These heroes are not afraid of heaven or earth, they are just afraid that others will look down on them. Seeing Huo Yuan asking if he dared to go, they were already angry and shouted: "What did General Huo say? We are all martial people, and we are always willing to be kind."
Qiu. General Huo treats us well. It is our duty to share the general's worries. There is no disobedience to the general's orders. The general only gives orders."
Huo Yuan said: "At this time, King Wuyou of Qi State is in the city. I heard from Li Long that King Wuyou's wife also lives in the city with the army. King Wuyou is most interested in his wife. I think
Everyone, go into the city, capture Princess Wuyou, and force King Wuyou to withdraw from the upper city. We can then rely on the upper city and defeat the Qi army against the Dali army."
After everyone heard this, they all disagreed and said: "It is really easy to go to the city and catch a girl back. We are a little worried because this matter will become a source of ridicule among our colleagues in the future."
One day, Huo Yuan felt secretly happy and quickly ordered to prepare wine and meat. He wanted to drink with several heroes and wish in advance that he would catch Princess Wuyou tomorrow.
These heroes were all masters who had competed in Hangzhou in the Yue Kingdom, and had achieved high rankings with fists, kicks, and weapons. Naturally, they didn't take it seriously to capture a woman in the city. They felt that if they went there, they wouldn't be able to catch her.
A few heroes pretended to be ordinary people, followed them into the upper city, and searched for the inn. Then they looked around and found an inn not far away, stayed there, and waited until late at night to start.
At night, it was half a month, and the sky was filled with stars. Several heroes packed up, covered their faces with scarves, secretly left the inn, and went outside the post house. They saw that the guard outside the post house was extremely tight, and there were four patrolling soldiers.
It was so obscene. It looked like it was impossible to break in by force. So I quietly went to the back and saw that there were not many people around, so I sneaked in secretly.
There is a building behind the post house, with bright lights and many guards and maids coming in and out. It looks like there are nobles from the palace staying here. A few people quietly climbed the big tree and climbed to the roof. They took off the tiles above.
I saw two young royals with extraordinary momentum below, surrounded by several generals, discussing something. A few people seemed to be discussing tomorrow's battle. Those who were interested made gestures, and a few people listened carefully.
Sitting in the first place was King Wuyou. He was facing Prince Duan and said: "Prince Duan, tomorrow we will launch an attack on the Vietnamese army in front of us. You lead the Dali army to ambush in the south, and I will lead the Qi army out of the city and ambush.
In the north. When the Vietnamese army comes to challenge, we will launch together to attack the Vietnamese army."
Prince Duan said, "My lord, if you lead troops out of the city to ambush, and Huo Yuan leads the Vietnamese army to attack the city, and the city is empty, wouldn't it mean that he has occupied the upper city?"
King Wuyou smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, he didn't know that my men were already ambushing him on his rear wing. He could only form a formation and call for battle. But General Zhang led 5,000 troops out of the city to fight with him. He didn't know that in the city
No matter how unmanned he is, no matter who wins or loses, he will just withdraw his troops after the battle. We can just cover up and attack him. When he sees us attacking from both sides, he will just think that our reinforcements have arrived, and naturally he will be defeated. We just won a great victory, and he will take advantage of the situation to pursue him.
We don’t even know if we can hit Fucheng!”
Zhang Yankun and other generals around King Wuyou all agreed.
Prince Duan then asked, "Then it would be better to leave some troops and horses in the city. I don't think it's appropriate to leave the city entirely."
King Wuyou smiled and said: "Prince Duan, you are too careful. There are 40,000 Qi troops in my city, leaving General Zhang with 5,000 troops. The other 1,000 troops only place military flags all over the city walls. He will not know the situation inside the city."
When the time comes, I will throw more than 30,000 troops and charge forward. You will also bring an army of 30,000 troops to attack them. He only has less than 50,000 troops, so why won’t we all annihilate them all? I have fought so quickly against the Vietnamese army in these years.
A quick decision. A complete victory."
Prince Duan seemed to be convinced, nodded repeatedly, and said: "Your Majesty, I will return to the camp right now and prepare overnight to ambush the troops on the south side of the Vietnamese army camp."
After saying that, Prince Duan took several of Dali's generals and left the room and went out. Zhang Yankun and others also said goodbye to King Wuyou, saying that they were going back to each camp to prepare their troops.
There were only two people left around King Wuyou at this time. Then King Wuyou discussed something in a low voice with these two people.
Several people upstairs looked at each other, and the leading expert made a gesture, and several people quietly left the roof and exited along the original path. The few people arrived at a secluded place and discussed: "This military situation is
We should go back and report to the general as soon as possible." Someone else said, "Then can we catch the princess?"
The leading expert said: "If we capture the princess now, the Qi army will definitely know that we have heard about their plan. We should go back first and tell General Huo the news, and let him make the decision!" Several people thought for a while and also
Feeling that this plan was a good one, he quickly returned to the Vietnamese army camp.
Huo Yuan stood in the camp, waiting for news from the sent experts. After waiting for less than two hours, he heard the sound of footsteps. Several experts returned to the commander's tent and reported the news to Huo Yuan.
Yuan. Huo Yuan couldn't help but be secretly surprised after hearing this. Huo Yuan thought to himself: This King Wuyou is a bit brave. If it hadn't been for a few heroes to sniff out the news, he really wouldn't have known that the Qi army would fight against him in an empty city tomorrow. And
Ambushing on both sides of oneself, when tens of thousands of troops attack him from both sides, he will definitely retreat to the camp instead of attacking the upper city. If the Qi army captures the camp first, then his army will be in chaos.
Huo Yuan couldn't help but secretly thumb up at King Wuyou's dangerous move. King Wuyou did the best in his deceitful tactics. Since he knew the Qi army's plan, why not take advantage of it and start the war tomorrow?
Camp out, rush into the upper city in one fell swoop, and defend the city. Since the Qi army wants to attack itself by surprise, then the food, grass and weapons in the city must be there. As long as the upper city is occupied, it will be difficult for the Qi army to retake it.
If you stick to the city and defend it, your chances of winning will be greatly increased.
Thinking of this, Huo Yuan quickly rewarded several heroes heavily and asked them to go down to rest first. Then he summoned his generals and hurried to the commander's tent to discuss matters.
On the second day outside the upper city, Huo Yuan still led his army to press outside the city. The city gate was opened wide, and a Qi army, about four to five thousand people, rushed out from inside. And the military flags on the walls of the upper city were fluttering, and it looked like
There are many defenders.
Now that Huo Yuan knew Qi Jun's plan, he sneered secretly in his heart: King Wuyou, this time I'm going to ask you to steal a chicken but you won't lose a handful of rice. This upper city will be mine.
Zhang Yankun, the commander-in-chief of the Qi army, was still standing proudly on his horse in front of the battle. Huo Yuan looked at the generals around him. Last night, Huo Yuan had already ordered all the generals to lead their own troops. As soon as the battle started, he would rush to the city with all his strength.
Capture the upper city. The siege troops behind are hidden behind the cavalry and infantry. They will only wait for the flag in front to change and rush to the city.
Huo Yuan raised his big gun, and the flag bearer of the Vietnamese army waved the flag. Tens of thousands of Vietnamese soldiers rushed over at once. Zhang Yankun seemed not to have expected that the Vietnamese army would rush over at once, and saw that his thousands of soldiers were simply not enough.
In order to fight, it was too late to retreat to the city, so he led his people to the north.
The forwards of the Vietnamese army pursued them, while the siege troops rushed out and rushed towards the city wall and gate. The Qi army on the city was sparsely guarded, and the Vietnamese army attacked with almost no resistance.
The city walls were opened, the city gates were opened, and the Vietnamese troops rushed into the city with shouts.
Huo Yuan stood on the city tower and watched tens of thousands of Vietnamese troops entering the city, while only the flags of Dali and Qi troops were waving in the north and south. Huo Yuan ordered to quickly prepare to defend the city, and at the same time fell into the city to appease the people. Then he went
Warehouse inspection of grain, grass and ordnance.
Not long after, the soldiers came back to report that although there was food and grass, there was not much left, and the same was true for the ordnance. Although Huo Yuan was a little disappointed after hearing this, he also understood why King Wuyou took this dangerous move. It was precisely because there was not much food and grass in the city.
, it was winter again, and the Qi army saw that they could not hold on for a few more days, so they had to resort to dangerous moves, destroy the cauldron, and defeat themselves in one fell swoop. But unfortunately, they seized the city.
Huo Yuan stood on the city tower, watching the Qi army and Dali army on both sides slowly surrounding the outside of the city. Not long after, King Wuyou arrived in front of the city gate accompanied by Zhang Yankun, Lu Zheng and other generals. King Wuyou looked at
Huo Yuan said with a smile: "Brother Huo, you're welcome. I didn't expect that we would meet here!"
Huo Yuan nodded and said: "Mr. Qi, King Wuyou, you fooled me into being so cool, but I still want to thank you for sending my mother and wife here. As a brother, I would like to thank you here!"
King Wuyou waved his hand and said: "Brother Huo and I had the same friendship at the beginning. I knew that King Yue had killed Prince Huo and was going to be unfavorable to Miss Li, so naturally I had to save her and my aunt. This is my duty. It's not enough.
It's not a big deal, but it would be a bit abrupt for Brother Huo to come to town more than me!"
Huo Yuan laughed: "Your Majesty wants to surround and annihilate me. Isn't it outrageous?"