Thinking of this, Chu Yunfei calmed down and asked Lanling: "Sister, how many troops are there in the rebellion this time?"
Lan Ling replied: "The soldiers just reported that there are about 100,000 enemy soldiers."
Chu Yunfei was a little surprised: "What? There are only 100,000 troops? Didn't it mean that 100,000 troops came just for reinforcements?"
Lan Ling nodded and said: "We also find it a little strange. Tan Ma said that this time it was the second batch of reinforcements. The first batch of rebels are still gathering soldiers and have not dared to come at all."
Chu Yunfei nodded and asked, "What time is it now?"
Lan Ling looked at the sky outside and said, "It's time to have dinner soon. I originally wanted to come over and wake you up, but seeing that you were sleeping soundly, I didn't wake you up."
Chu Yunfei smiled slightly, knowing that Lan Ling was considerate of him and wanted him to sleep a little longer. He jumped up from the bed, washed his face and said: "Let's go over and take a look. I don't know when these rebels will come."
Attack launched."
Lanling nodded.
When the two came to the city wall, it was still quiet outside the city. Ma Shumou and other generals were standing on the city wall. When they saw Chu Yun flying over, they hurriedly turned around to greet them.
Chu Yunfei came to the city wall and looked outside. He saw flags flying outside the city and densely packed rebel troops, surrounding the entire city of Jinan.
Chu Yunfei looked at it for a long time, sighed, and turned to look at Ma Shumou and other generals Lu Guangda. Seeing that they were looking at him, Chu Yunfei asked: "Look at this rebellion.
What kind of siege method are you preparing?"
Lu Guangda and Ma Shumou looked at each other, and Ma Shumou boldly said: "Prince Jin, judging from the future, this time the rebel army has surrounded Jinan City and may want to trap us tightly.
Here, we will then take turns to attack the four city gates. As long as one of the city gates is breached, we can take the opportunity to rush in and take advantage of the strength of the people to occupy Jinan City."
After hearing this, Chu Yunfei nodded slightly and said: "Our army is gathered at the south gate. The other gates are weak, but it is a bit difficult to handle."
With that said, Chu Yunfei raised his head and glanced at Lu Quanda and said, "Quanda, in your opinion, what should we do?"
Lu Guangda said: "King Jin, the bandits are strong but weak when divided. It will be difficult for us to defend the city, but now that the enemy is scattered around Jinan City and their forces are scattered, it is not difficult for us to rush out."
Chu Yunfei then nodded and said: "What you mean is that we take the opportunity to break out. With the ability and military discipline of the bandit soldiers, we are still too far behind to compete with our Sui Dynasty Iron Army."
Having said this, Chu Yunfei looked up at the sky and said after a long time: "General Lu, General Ma, what you two said makes sense, but if we abandon the city and leave, the rebel army will definitely attack Jinan City and cannot find us.
, we will definitely take out our anger on the people, burn, kill, and loot. Aren’t we hurting the people? Besides, we are here to eliminate the rebels, but now we don’t even dare to fight a mere 100,000 rebels. How can we talk about pacification in the future?
Jiangnan? This Jinan City, we must defend it even if we can't, and we must defend it even if we can't! It's just a hundred thousand thieves, as long as my soldiers work together, it's nothing to worry about!"
Having said this, Chu Yunfei went to Lan Ling and said: "Sister, Chief Situ is guarding the east gate. I want you and the female soldiers and generals to go over and help him. I will give you another five thousand troops."
Lan Ling nodded and said: "Brother, don't worry, I will be there at the city gate, and I will die at the city gate!"
Chu Yunfei nodded, feeling a sense of relief in his heart. Lan Ling had the spirit of being a woman and not giving in to men. Once something happened, she would not flinch at all.
He then went to Lu Guangda: "General Li Chu is guarding the north gate, and Meng Feiwu is helping him. It won't be a big deal. I would like to ask the general to go to the west gate and help Luo Lin and Zhang Wu guard the city gate. I will also give the general five thousand
people."
Lu Guangda nodded and said: "Don't worry, Prince Jin, I will try my best to defend the city, but as a result, the number of manpower at the south gate will be somewhat reduced."
Chu Yunfei shook his head and said: "The east gate, north gate, and south gate each send 10,000 people. I have more than 30,000 people left here, which is enough."
With that said, Chu Yunfei went to the crowd and continued: "We will do our best to defend the city. When Xin Fa and Zhang Chuchen bring news, we will make a decision. Before that, I leave it to you."
As he spoke, he bowed slightly to the soldiers.
All the soldiers at the top of the city bowed in response and shouted: "I obey the order of the King of Jin and swear to live and die with Jinan City!"
Chu Yunfei nodded. He was not too worried about whether Jinan City could be defended. After all, Jinan City had thick walls and sufficient food and weapons reserves. If he couldn't withstand it for even a few months, then he, the general manager of Yangzhou, wouldn't need it.
After doing it, what Chu Yunfei was thinking about was how to minimize his casualties.
In the evening, Chu Yunfei asked the soldiers to finish dinner early and take turns to guard the city and put strict vigilance.
Sure enough, not long after the soldiers had dinner in the evening, there was a cry of killing from the city. Chu Yunfei climbed up the city wall and looked down. He saw the rebels surging forward and various engineering vehicles rumbling.
, rushed towards the city gate.
Ma Shumou took command and waited for the rebel soldiers to rush to the city gate before waving his hands and ordering them to fire arrows. Following his loud shout, the Sui troops on the top of the city immediately fired thousands of arrows, and the rebels launched an siege.
Before the cart reached the city gate, the soldiers pushing the cart behind had been shot to death by random arrows. The remaining ones who were lucky enough to survive had no courage to continue to attack.
Gao Meng watched coldly in front of the formation. Seeing such a situation, he couldn't help but snorted and ordered the swordsmen and axemen to wait in front of the formation. Any soldiers who dared to retreat would be killed without mercy!
At this time, the rebels below the city became a mess, shouting one after another, and rushed forward as if they were desperate for their lives. Countless shields were shot through by bows and arrows. In a blink of an eye, the corpses of soldiers under the city wall were covered with soldiers under the city and above the city wall.
Their eyes were already red from the killing, and there was no need for Uncle Ma to give orders. The long arrows fell downwards like rain.
In less than half an hour, the corpses of the rebels below the city had been spread all over the ground.
Gao Meng still looked at the dead and wounded soldiers coldly, without any emotion at all.
The fierce military advisor couldn't sit still and came to him and said: "General, if this continues, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on for long."
Gao Meng turned to look at him and said, "Military advisor, what should I do according to your instructions?"
The military advisor pondered: "Jinan City has four gates, and the south gate is heavily guarded. However, I heard that the Sui army only had 60,000 troops. Since the south gate is heavily armed, the other three gates must not be guarded by that many soldiers.
We might as well try to attack the other three city gates."
Gao Meng nodded and said: "Military advisor, what you said is right. It's a shame that this beast Gao Kai is so self-righteous that he lost more than half of his troops for no reason. Otherwise, if our 200,000 troops attacked Jinan City at the same time, we would have trampled Jinan City into powder.