Chapter 1895: The Heart of Yanjing's Offensive and Defensive Battle (6)
Chapter 1895: Attacking the heart of the Yanjing offensive and defensive battle (6)
"Father, let me go to war. I am willing to issue a military order and behead the Su Lie dog thief."
Xue Kui asked for orders again with red eyes, like a furious lion.
Xue Gang glanced at his son and said calmly: "Come here, tie up Xue Kui and put him in the dungeon. When he calms down, let him out."
"promise."
"Dad, the war is about to begin, why are you tying up the child? The child realizes his mistake, and the child promises not to cause any trouble, dad, dad..."
Xue Kui shouted, but Xue Gang ignored him and watched helplessly as Xue Kui was taken away.
After seeing this, the other generals who wanted to ask for a fight did not dare to propose a fight. After all, Xue Gang had even detained his own son, so he would definitely not let them go.
Xue Gang glanced at the generals and said in a deep voice: "I know that you are aggrieved, but you can bear with me even if you are aggrieved.
I would like to reiterate one last time that no one is allowed to go into battle without permission, and anyone who disobeys the order will be killed."
A murderous sound of the word 'kill' made everyone present feel a chill in their hearts.
They have no doubt about Xue Gang's determination. Once someone violates military orders, he will really kill someone.
After Xue Gang had frightened the generals who were about to make a move, he looked coldly at Su Dingfang at the bottom of the city and said to himself: "Su Lie, as long as I, Xue Gang, am here, you can't even think of capturing Yanjing."
Su Dingfang, who was outside the city, saw that after cursing for two hours, there was still no movement in the city. Knowing that Xue Gang had made up his mind to defend, he decisively ordered his troops to retreat back to the camp.
Su Ding had just returned to the camp when Lu Bu and Sun Lingming came to meet him. They already knew that the Han army did not dare to fight, and even scolding them had no effect at all.
"Su Shuai, what should we do now?" Lu Bu asked.
Sun Lingming picked his nose and said nonchalantly: "What else can we do, we can only attack by force."
As soon as he finished speaking, both Lu Bu and Xue Rengui gave him a fierce look.
"There is no rush to attack the city."
Su Dingfang shook his head and said: "The city of Yanjing is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Even if we attack it forcefully, we can't attack it within a short period of time. Therefore, the first priority is to attack the city and the highest priority is to attack the heart."
A flash of light flashed in Xue Rengui's eyes and he asked: "How to attack the heart?"
Su Dingfang took out a folded large piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Xue Rengui, who couldn't help but read: "A letter to the people of Yanjing?"
Both Lu Bu and Sun Lingming showed a clear look on their faces. They immediately understood what Su Dingfang said about the backhand and what was going on now.
In the battle to attack Bohai City, Su Dingfang relied on a "Letter to the People of Bohai" to plunge Bohai City, which had hundreds of thousands of people, into internal fighting. In the end, Bohai City was destroyed without an attack. Now it seems that this is a repeat of the same trick.
ah.
Xue Rengui didn't look at it, he thought of another point.
“The situation in Yanjing is completely different from that in Bohai.
Yuan Shao valued the family and despised the common people. The land annexation of Zhao State was serious and the domestic conflicts were sharp, so he could easily be provoked by a letter. The hypocrite had no such internal conflicts at all.
Liu Che was one of the most thoroughgoing princes in promoting the land-acreage system in the Han Dynasty. It is precisely because of this that the people support Liu Che so much.
If we rely on the same method we used to deal with Yuan Shao to deal with Liu Che, it may be difficult to achieve the same effect."
Hearing Xue Rengui's words, Su Dingfang smiled calmly and said: "Of course I know this. The hypocrites have done very well in the system, and they are not much different from our army. The rhetoric used to deal with Yuan Shao will naturally be of no use to Liu Che.
It’s useless, but that doesn’t mean Liu Che doesn’t have any shortcomings.”
Hearing this, Xue Rengui immediately felt a lot more at ease. Since Su Dingfang understood this, he would definitely not do it in vain, which made him look forward to the content of this letter.
Xue Rengui opened it and saw that it read: Su Lie, the general of Han Dingbei, sued the 300,000 people of Yanjing...
The actual number is naturally not that much. Su Dingfang just wrote 300,000 just to round up the number.
Xue Rengui browsed the article at a glance, and soon finished reading the thousands-word essay, and couldn't help but secretly admire it in his heart.
Su Lie's statement was far less intense than the attack on Bohai, but it also demonstrated the orthodoxy of the Qin army and Liu Che's ambition, and also denounced Liu Che's ten major crimes.
If this was seen by the people in the city, although it would be impossible for Yanjing City to collapse without attack, it would definitely severely damage the morale of the defenders, and it would be relatively easy for the Qin army to attack Yanjing later.
"Brother Su, this letter of yours is eloquent and eloquent with more than a thousand words, but every word is reasonable. It must not have been written recently, right?" Xue Rengui asked with a smile.
"This "Letter to the People of Yanjing" was written as early as Yuyang, and 500,000 copies have been printed."
Hearing Su Dingfang's words, the other generals were just surprised, but Sun Lingming was secretly frightened.
It turns out that as early as when he attacked Yuyang, the general had already anticipated that he would encounter this situation when he attacked Yanjing, so he made preparations in advance and wrote a message. This was probably too far-sighted.
Sun Lingming admired Su Lie even more, and even felt that the old commander Long Qie was not a commander at the same level as Su Lie.
Su Dingfang didn't know what Sun Lingming was thinking. Instead, he looked at Lu Bu and ordered: "The wind direction is just right today. There will definitely be strong winds. General Lu Bu, you lead 10,000 strong crossbowmen and use the wind to shoot these slogans into Yanjing City."
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"promise."
Lu Bu accepted the order with excitement on his face, and Xue Gang also immediately received the news that Lu Bu was leading the army.
"Report... to the commander-in-chief, the Qin army has come to challenge us again."
Xue Gang asked calmly without blinking an eyelid: "Who is coming this time? Sun Lingming?"
"No, it's Lu Bu."
After hearing Lu Bu's name, Xue Gang's eyes were filled with hatred and he stood up suddenly, as if a volcano was about to erupt.
Lü Bu killed Xue Yong, and Xue Yong was Xue Gang's elder brother. The eldest brother was like his father. The hatred between Xue Gang and Lü Bu could be described as irreconcilable.
Although Xue Gang hated Lu Bu, he understood that war was more important than anything else. He could only suppress the hatred in his heart and gritted his teeth and said: "No matter who comes to challenge, they are not allowed to fight."
"promise."
On the other side, Lu Bu saw that Xue Kong still hadn't left the city, so the soldiers immediately tied the slogans to the arrows, and then ordered the soldiers to shoot.
Xue Gang thought that Lu Bu was going to use crossbows to consume the defenders on the city, so he ordered the soldiers near the city wall to hide behind the city wall, while the soldiers not near the city wall put up shields to defend themselves.
The defenders who were not near the city wall raised their shields, but found that only a small number of arrows were shot at them, and most of the arrows were shot into the city.
When Xue Gang saw this, he also looked confused. He didn't know what the purpose of Lu Bu's "empty arrow" was.
Soon after, when a soldier brought a message in a panic, Xue Gang finally understood the sinister intentions of Lu Bu and Su Dingfang.
"...Liu Che is a member of the Han clan, but he is so ambitious that he goes beyond proclaiming himself emperor, is disloyal to the court, and disrespects His Majesty. This is an offence..."
After only seeing a third of it, Xue Gang couldn't stand it anymore. He tore up the memorandum and shouted angrily: "How many more are there?"
"Everywhere."
At this moment, a strong wind blew by. Lu Bu, who was outside the city, was overjoyed when he saw this. He did not let the soldiers continue to shoot arrows. Instead, he scattered the message into the sky and let the wind blow the message into the city.
As long as half of the five hundred thousand letters can be blown into Yanjing City, the plan to attack the heart will be completed, and half a million arrows will be saved.
With such a strong wind, the soldiers of the Qin army were throwing out messages again, and the papers were blown everywhere.
Seeing this, Lu Bu nodded with satisfaction. The direction of the wind was exactly the direction of Yanjing City. He estimated that it could blow in at least two-thirds of it.
Xue Gang, who was on the city tower, saw countless messages flying towards Yanjing City like raindrops. He suddenly opened his mouth wide and was speechless for a long time.
After a while, Xue Gang weakly gave an order: "Pass the order. No one is allowed to read the proclamation that flew into the city. Once discovered, it must be handed over immediately, otherwise it will be punished with treason."
After saying this, Xue Gang couldn't stay any longer and hurried to the palace to report the matter to Liu Che in person.