Chapter 843: Empty City Strategy, Immortal Soldiers
"Brother Huahua! The black cavalry is coming, and our army may have no chance of winning!" Han Gui said worriedly.
These two people are not only subordinates, but also sworn brothers.
In the early years, when Li Shikai was still a prodigal, the two of them played together naked.
When Li Shikai joined the late emperor's service by chance, Han Gui also got on the boat with Li Shikai's recommendation.
"Han Xing's soldiers are really acting strangely. Our army attacked three times in a row, but we couldn't even find his main force! There are actually suspicious soldiers everywhere!" Li Shikai sighed.
Previously, Wang Zhongsi led his troops to suddenly rush out from behind them. Although he retook the city, Li Shikai, after being reminded by Zhuge Laoer, had realized that the number of the opponent's people was probably not too large.
Therefore, before leaving, he not only burned some important city defense materials such as the grain storehouse and the armory, but also burned three of the four city gates in one breath, just thinking that after regrouping, he could defeat Wang Zhongsi.
, truly captured the city.
But what Li Shikai didn't expect was that Wang Zhongsi was so courageous that he sent people to go to war and massacred half of the aristocratic families in the city or ransacked their homes. After this guy found out the reason, he really didn't do anything.
Not even holding back.
If the other party massacres them without reason, the remaining aristocratic families will naturally share the same hatred in fear.
But with the current situation, although other aristocratic families were frightened, they did not dare to say anything. After all, those families who were massacred or had their homes confiscated were involved in this kind of thing. Everything is a winner and a loser.
There are penalties for losers.
There was even a small group of aristocratic families who acted as Wang Zhongsi's vanguard. This group of aristocratic families was exactly the same group of aristocratic families who helped Su Hu at that time. There would be rewards for this. After the house was ransacked,
A part of the harvest has to be distributed to these aristocratic families. Do you think they worked hard or not?
Wang Zhongsi not only went to war in the city, but also brought 300 people with him that night to rob the camp at night. Fortunately, Li Shikai was also a senior figure, so he was on guard. After Wang Zhongsi realized that there was no chance, he made a prompt decision.
The best thing to do is to take advantage of the darkness and sneak away.
But Wang Zhongsi failed to attack the camp. After that, he resorted to the tactics of exhausting the troops. The gongs and drums came three or four times in one night, just to prevent Li Shikai's troops from having a good rest.
Li Shikai originally wanted to take advantage of the situation to ambush Wang Zhongsi's troops. As long as Wang Zhongsi dared to repeat the same trick again, he would definitely be in trouble.
However, Wang Zhongsi saw through it and used his plan. First, he deliberately fell into an ambush by Li Shikai, but he took advantage of the darkness and led less than a few dozen people to break out of the encirclement. Meng Wu, who was in charge of the ambush, was brave and good at fighting, but his fierceness was real and reckless.
It's true, I really dare to catch up like this.
Therefore, this was another ambush by Wang Zhongsi.
Fortunately, Li Shikai, who had been waiting for information in the camp, discovered something was wrong in time and sent Meng Wu's brother Meng Wen to lead the rescue force. Wang Zhongsi then resigned.
In this wave of ambushes and counter-ambushes, although the loss of troops on both sides was not large, after all, each only used a few hundred people, it was just a small-scale battle, but the morale of the Hedong soldiers and horses who had just been driven out of the city during the day was not good.
Big or small is a blow.
After finally holding on for two days, after a simple rest, Li Shikai immediately became confident and wanted to attack the city again. Before he left, he destroyed the city walls. Let's see how Wang Zhongsi can guard it!
However, what he didn't expect was that Wang Zhongsi actually planned an empty city plan for him.
There was not even a single soldier stationed on the city wall.
Of course, Wang Zhongsi was not Zhuge Liang after all, and it was impossible for him to lead two bookboys on the city wall to play the piano and cultivate their sentiments. He was indeed not good at that skill.
On top of the city wall, that's true, there's not a single ghost at all!
The more mature, steady, and smart the person is, the more suspicious he will be at this time. If he were someone like Dian Wei, he would probably just rush in without saying a word. The empty city plan would be a joke.
Although Li Shikai didn't have much contact with Wang Zhongsi, he was deeply impressed by this enemy general who had only been in contact for three days. From the time Wang Zhongsi came on the stage, he was defeated one after another.
Therefore, his instinct was to suspect that there was some kind of ambush. Tens of thousands of troops were actually blocked outside the city gate like this.
Zhuge Liang's empty city strategy was limited by the fact that he really had no soldiers at the time, so it was indeed an empty city strategy.
But Wang Zhongsi was different. He had soldiers under his command. By the time these Hedong soldiers and horses were exposed to the cold wind for most of the day under the city wall and became hungry and thirsty, he had already ambushed the soldiers and horses outside the city.
But suddenly he shot out from behind them.
Although the number was small and far inferior to Li Shikai's soldiers and horses, they used calculated and unintentional tactics to recharge their batteries to fight against the enemy's hungry soldiers.
Moreover, when the soldiers and horses from Hedong hurriedly turned around and prepared to meet the enemy, the flickering sunlight blinded them.
Although the sunshine at the turn of winter and spring is far less intense than in summer, the wind and snow this year are a bit heavy and there is snow on the ground. The sunlight can still blind your eyes when it hits.
As a last resort, Li Shikai was defeated again and could only retreat temporarily.
Although Wang Zhongsi's small tricks did not cause much damage to Li Shikai's troops, it was these small tricks that delayed Li Shikai for a long time and forced him to persist until Han Xin's arrival.
In fact, after Han Xin on the Xuanma Ancient Road received the news that Wang Zhongsi was so helpful, he still wanted to keep water on the Xuanma Ancient Road for a while.
However, even if he is willing to let go of the water, he can't let it go to the sea, right?
If it really was released into the sea, the enemy would have noticed something was wrong no matter what!
However, the enemy was still not strong enough. Even if he released his attack, he would still be able to defeat the enemy to the limit. So, if he didn't make a sudden advance, he would really arouse the enemy's suspicion.
As a result, Han Gui and Gu Jiantang, who couldn't hold on any longer, finally took their remaining soldiers and were defeated, and escaped along the Xuanma Ancient Road to meet up with Li Shi.
Han Xin's 50,000-strong army also officially entered Ningping County.
Although Han Xin's reinforcements were only 50,000 troops, and Wang Zhongsi's men were still lower than Li Shikai's troops. However, with the current strength gap between the two sides and the defensive advantage, it was difficult for Li Shikai to attack Ningping County.
As a veteran general, Li Shikai also knew that when Han Xin's troops entered the city, they would almost lose hope.