Chapter 71 One of the Flaming Mo Daggers

Just when Julan City was almost unable to fight back by Satuk, Melki also faced a great enemy. A cavalry of hundreds of people arrived first. Yang Yi saw that there were few people on the other side, and regardless of Murong Chunhua's advice, he went out to the city to meet the enemy. However, the Uighur soldiers did not continue to approach, but retreated for about a mile and stopped at the fork in the road.

Yang Yi was afraid that he would lure the enemy, so he led his troops back to the city. Soon the Uighur army arrived one after another, step by step. Within half a day, nearly ten thousand people were already in the army. The general in charge was Gasu. Hornard was shocked and thought, "Bogra Khan is here, this time he is really here! His army is so strong. How can this group of Tang Kou be the opponent?" Thinking about this period of time, the Tang army did not trust him and gradually became aware of his heart, but he wanted to return to Satuk, and he said intimidation: "Gasu must have spoken badly to me in front of Bogra Khan. If he goes back at this time, Bogra Khan must kill me to sacrifice the flag." After thinking about it, he finally abandoned the small nature in Nanyuan and fled into Saman. The three non-government areas between the Uighurs were bandits.

Seeing that the enemy was in great force, Yang Yi did not dare to attack rashly, but just guarded the city defense. On this day, the Uighur army arrived one after another, blocking several ways out of the city. Murong Chunhua looked at the size of his camp and the activities of his soldiers. It was estimated that the number of this army should be between 10,000 and 15,000 people. With such a large army, of course, it must be the main force of the Uighurs.

"I really didn't expect that Satuk would actually take the city of Murki first." Murong Chunhua said: "I originally thought he would detour from the back. Now, it's time for us to have a Murki defense battle."

He estimated that after this battle, the intensity of this battle would be higher than that of the battle on Dingshangcheng. The third Zhechong Mansion in the city and the auxiliary team of the Eight Hundred Civil Affairs Department were very nervous. The Uighur army outside the city had nearly ten times more troops than the Tang army in the city, but Melki was not as good as Dingshangcheng. The city defense fortifications were very complete and built by mountains. Although the city was small, it was very solid, and the city had sufficient water, so the military and civilians in the city were not worried.

Besides, Melki is not without support, and there is also a large army in Julan City behind him. As long as he is defended for a period of time and drags the enemy to exhaustion, he will send a signal to invite the main force of Julan City to attack and attack, and maybe he can create another great victory that is more brilliant than Deng Shangcheng.

With this hope, the Tang army's idea of ​​defending the city became even stronger.

Unexpectedly, although the Uighurs arranged a large army to block Mörki's way out, they did not launch an attack. At first, Yang Yi thought the other party was preparing to attack the city, but unexpectedly, the Uighur army had no movement at all. This inevitably made the Tang army, who was looking forward to fighting, it was both strange and suspicious.

However, for a small and hard mountain city like Mörki, it is also an option to siege and not forcefully attack. However, now Mörki is in constant water and sufficient food. Seeing that the enemy outside the city is making such an idea, the Tang army in the city sneered.

The next morning, Murong Chunhua lit the wolf smoke and informed Julan City of the situation. Unexpectedly, Julan City also ignited the wolf smoke in an emergency.

"What's going on!" Yang Yi, Murong Chunhua and the four lieutenants were stunned.

"Julan City is besieged by an army of more than 20,000?"

The first reaction of several lieutenants was: "What should I do!"

But Murong Chunhua's first reaction was: "How is this possible!"

Although Murong Chunhua had never seen Li Bin, Li Bin's analysis of Satuk's troops. After Zhang Mai arrived in Julan City, he repaired a letter to Yang Yi to explain the matter in detail. After reading the letter, Murong Chunhua also felt that Li Bin's analysis was very reasonable. But now, the total Uighur troops coming to attack were 70% or 80% more than Li Bin's expected. Combined with the besiegers' performance, Murong Chunhua said: "Is it possible... the group of people surrounding me, Murki, are actually just a group of virtual soldiers?"

"Void soldiers?" asked the captain.

"Yes, just like we used the Minzu to intimidate Sekan in the city of Ding Shang, and used the Minzu to attack Talas... Maybe the Uighurs used this move, maybe the Uighurs outside the city were also using this move."

Yang Yi said: "You mean that the Uighur defenders who surrounded us outside the city were just a paper tiger. The reason why they surrounded and did not attack was because they were afraid of revealing their bottom?"

"There is this possibility." Murong Chunhua nodded.

It is unlikely that the Uighurs will suddenly increase their troops in a short period of time, but with Satuk's influence, it should be possible to integrate some men, women, young and old in this area, and a thousand people.

Yang Yi suddenly jumped up: "If this is the case, I will take people out of the city tonight and rob their camp - whether it is true or false, you will know it if you fight a war!"

"No!" Murong Chunhua advised: "What I just said was speculation, and there is no evidence to testify for the time being. It is also possible that this is simply a trick of the Uighurs to lure us out of the city. In fact, as long as we defend this mountain city, we can stop the Uighurs from outside the city from moving west. In fact, there is no need to be too risky."

Yang Yiqi said: "You were the one who suggested attacking Mirki at the beginning, but why did you suddenly become so timid now?"

"That's different." Murong Chunhua said: "I suggested to defeat Melki because I thought that if I didn't take this city, my Anxi Tang army would be in great danger, but the situation is not clear yet. If I act rashly, I'm afraid..."

Yang Yi did not listen to his explanation and said in the intercept: "If there are three hundred people missing in the city, can you defend Melki?"

"Three hundred people?" Murong Chunhua didn't understand Yang Yi's meaning.

"I ask you if you can keep it."

If there are three hundred people missing in the city, then there are still nine hundred people left in the third Zhechong Mansion, plus eight hundred people strong, "It should be okay to defend Melki."

So Yang Yi made a decision that shocked Murong Chunhua: "Then I will lead a battalion of soldiers tonight, and rob the Uighurs' camps to rob them to the evening."

"What?" The generals next to him almost didn't believe their ears: "Guardian, you have to use three hundred people to rob more than 10,000 troops of camp. This, this, this is a big deal..."

This is too nonsense!

But Yang Yi seemed very serious: "You don't need to persuade me, I will set out tonight at the third update - Chunhua, if I succeed, I need to say that if I fail, you will continue to take charge of this city and keep Melki well!"

"Satuk used a trick!" Li Bin invited Yang Dingguo, Guo Shiyong, An Shoujing and Liu An to come together, and met Zhang Mai after the East City Gate. The sound of shouting for killing came one after another, and occasionally even heard the muffled sound of giant trees hitting the city wall.

"There is absolutely no army in the world that has fought for twenty-four hours in a row but is not tired." Li Bin said

Li Bin took a short sword and drew a circle on the ground to represent the city of Julan, and marked the three city gates in the east, south and west: "From the beginning, Satuk's goal was focused on the east gate, because this was once his city, and his subordinates should have a good understanding of the reality of the city defense of Julan City."

"He really put all his troops into the battlefield where he attacked the East Gate." Liu An said, "Everyone can see this."

At this time, a scream sounded above his head, and a soldier who was caught in an arrow fell from the city. Shi Ba was quick in his eyes and quickly threw out a rope to trap the injured soldier. However, although this trick was accurate, it failed to pull the soldier. Because he didn't have enough strength, the rope was removed. When the comrade next to him saw it, he knew that even this young general who was as powerful as a bull was exhausted.

The only reserve force in Julan City, Modao Camp, was nearby. Several soldiers saw that they rushed over from the side, stretched out their hands at the same time, and caught the wounded soldiers. These soldiers were all strong strong men. Although the injured person's depravity was fierce, they only sank on the hands of these strong men and did not get injured again.

All this happened to Li Bin, and even Liu An couldn't help but exclaim, but Li Bin seemed to have not seen it, and continued to draw his picture, saying: "Satuk did not cover up his plan to attack the East Gate, but he covered up something else, that is, the soldiers attacking the East Gate."

"Soldiers attacking the East Gate?"

"Yes." Li Bin said: "Have you noticed that in the past two nights and two days, the Uighurs were one level after another, as if they were never tired."

Zhang Mai reminded him: "There are still some people who are very tired, but those main attack troops are indeed a bit strange. Each round of attacks appears to be very fierce, not like those who have fought for more than ten hours in a row." On the battlefield, it is impossible to calculate the number of opponent's attacking troops, but Zhang Mai also determined that the number of Uighurs' attacks is indeed more than 10,000 people per siege. Even if Satuk asks some of the soldiers to rest, that number should only occupy a small part. It is impossible for the entire main siege to retain energy.

"The problem is here." Li Bin said, and pointed at the south gate with a short sword, and said, "The attacks on the three gates of Julan City are completely different. They are doing their best to the east gate. When the south gate, the west gate is mainly siege and attack as a supplement. It seems not very hard, but it makes us dare not rashly draw troops to the east gate to garrison, nor dare to rest completely. This is his trick. It is his trick that he used this trick to make the soldiers attacking the east gate seem to be tired."

Guo Shiyong, An Shoujing still had some understanding. Li Bin continued to explain his speculation: "I estimate that Satuk's army is between 20,000 and 23,400 people. We temporarily assume that it is 22,000, including about 4,000. I suspect that it is the herdsmen caught along the way, or the fugitives who escaped from the city of Talas, or even the ones who happened to join his tribe. In short, I am very generous to these people. In the past two nights and two days, the only people in Satuk's army who had almost never rested like our East Gate guards."

Zhang Mai nodded and said yes. He had long noticed that there were thousands of people in the Uighur army who were regarded as cannon fodder by Satuk. After these two nights and two days of hard fighting, nearly half of these poor cannon fodders had died.

"In addition to these thousands, Satuk should have about 18,000 troops and less than 20,000 troops. But he divided these 8,000 troops into several leaders. In order to facilitate explanation, I will make the number more realistic. Just say that Satuk divided the 8,000 people in the evening into 18 divisions, each division about 10,000 troops. From this morning, he used ten of them to drive away the thousands of soldiers in front of the city. At the same time, he attacked the South Gate and 3,000 troops to attack the West Gate. However, Satuk still left about two horses to rest in the rear. During the melee, 10,000 troops from 20,000 troops had not been used. This is normal and it is difficult for the enemy to detect."

This is just like the situation in the Tang army seemed critical several times, but they still gritted their teeth and allowed Xi Sheng's Modao and Battle Axe Camp to retain their physical strength so that they could respond to the situation when they were extremely urgent.

"However, unlike what we keep the Modao and Battle Axe Camp, the two thousand people in Satuk were not resting for two nights and two days, but were moving."

Li Bin drew a circle outside the east gate, west gate and south gate to represent the soldiers who were besieging: "Satuk did this. At the time of the year, the army attacked the city together, but the two thousand people were still resting. At noon, they replaced the two thousand Uighur troops outside the east gate. These Uighur troops outside the east gate only surrounded but did not attack, so these soldiers were almost half resting here. Then these substituted soldiers secretly moved to the east gate to replace the main attack.

The two thousand people in the army, these two thousand people became the main attacking force of the East Gate's main attacking force, and the replaced soldiers went down to rest. Two hours later, they went to the West Gate or the South Gate to replace the next group of soldiers. This cycle continued, so that the Uighur's siege was almost continuous in two nights and two days. But in fact, the Uighur soldiers could get a certain rest. When we were fighting, there were constant cavalry movements outside the city, for this reason."

Speaking of this, all the generals were surprised. Li Bin said: "Of course, I just said two thousand people, two hours. Just to give an example, the elite level of each general under Satuk was different, and the command of the troops was different. Therefore, when Satuk was really doing it, it might be divided more closely, and the length of the rest time might be somewhat different from what I said, but in short, he should have used this method of taking turns to make his army seem to be never tired."

Li Bin's analysis seemed complicated and novel at first glance, but in fact it was an ancient tactic - the changes and application of the tactics of the tired enemy's running.

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Jin and Chu used this tactic when they fought for hegemony. At that time, Jin and Chu competed for the ownership of Zheng. Jin divided the army into three armies, and only dispatched one army each time. When Chu was in power, they attacked Zheng. As soon as the Chu army arrived, Jin army retreated. Zheng was a fence-bearer. When Jin came, they paid tribute to the State of Jin. When the Chu army came, they paid tribute to the State of Chu. Jin used its own army to mobilize the entire Chu army. After a few rounds, Chu could not withstand it. Jin was exhausted from the Chu army, and then launched the final battle of the universe!

Although Satuk may not have heard of the battle for hegemony between Jin and Chu, he also has extraordinary talent in military tactics. The principle of military tactics, which was partially rested, was compressed by him for several days to squeeze the Tang army's physical strength.

After listening to Li Bin's analysis, Guo Shiyong and Liu An felt that it was very likely. Yang Dingguo said angrily: "These Hui Captains are really cunning. Now their main strength has not been greatly damaged. The first generals of the Zhechong Mansion are exhausted. If it were this time..."

Just then, a soldier shouted at the top of the city wall, and Zhang Mai asked, "What's wrong!"

Tang Renxiao sent someone to report: "The Uighurs got a huge bump in wood from somewhere, and made another strange thing to protect the soldiers who bumped into wood. It seemed that they were coming to hit the city wall."

All the generals were filled with awesome heart: "The attack of the universe is coming!"

When I climbed the city, I saw the Uighur army carrying a huge wooden bump into the battlefield. There were not many large trees in the desert area, and there were no such large wood near the city of Julan, but the bump into the wood was not natural, but was tightly tied up seven or eight large woods.

In addition to the wood hitting, there are also several crude sprays - an ancient siege equipment, which is like a cart, and is made of wooden felt on it, with empty inside and no base. The soldiers can avoid bows and arrows below, pushing them to the city to dig tunnels or even dig up the city walls. The construction of this car is not complicated, the materials are simple, but the effect is very great. Zhang Mai whispered: "Why does Satuk have such things?"

Li Bin guessed that Satuk might have dismantled these parts of the spray gun. If only a few parts of the spray gun were used, the light cavalry could still bring them with him.

At this time, the Uighurs used spearing to cover the soldiers, lifted the wood and pushed it to the cracked city wall at any time.

Guo Shiyong shouted: "I'll go to the east gate to help guard!"

But when he heard the sound of killing outside the city, six thousand Uighurs circled around to the west gate, and the south gate was still waiting to go, but the six thousand Uighurs had already launched an unprecedented fierce attack on the west and south gates!

Guo Shiyong and An Shoujing hurried back to defend the city, but seeing that the fourth place was about to be transferred, the fifth place was no longer feasible to rush to the mansion to reinforce the East Gate.

Yang Dingguo had already transferred all the powerful women in the city to the vicinity of the East Gate to provide reinforcements at any time, but if the First Zhechong Mansion could not play the role of the mainstay, how could these powerful women alone help?

"What should I do now?" Liu An turned to Li Bin, who was on the top of the city with the help of several soldiers. "If you see through Satuk's tricks, you should be able to break it!"

Li Bin was a little embarrassed, pondered for a moment, and said, "There is nothing I can do, I can only fight to the death!" He saw through, but Satuk's thunder strike was about to be launched at any time. At this time, there was no other way except to fight to the death.

Liu An was stunned.

But Zhang Mai suddenly burst into laughter, laughing so suddenly, and laughing so arrogantly!

Yang Dingguo and Liu An were both shocked by his laughter. I wonder why he could still laugh under such circumstances. But he laughed: "Li Bin is right. Now it's time to fight to the death. When it comes to fighting to the death, isn't it exactly what we are best at? Okay, okay, Satuk, come well! Just today, at this moment, let's decide the winner!"

Turning his head and calling Guo Fen: "Fen'er!"

"ah?"

Zhang Mai said, "Go and prepare something for me!" After speaking a few words, Guo Fen's eyes lit up and he hurried away with his sisters.

"Xi Sheng!"

"exist!"

Hearing Zhang Mai call Xi Sheng, the generals were moved, thinking that this reserved army was finally going to be used. Li Bin even thought: "If you have the opportunity to change the situation of the war, maybe you have to rely on this army, but the strength of a battalion is too small after all, how can you use it to turn the world around?"

Zhang Mai said: "This time, the Modao and Battle Axe Camp has not moved! I think it's time for you to exercise your muscles!"

"Don't worry, the special envoy!" Xi Sheng shouted: "Even if I fight to the death, I will stop the Hui Gu, so that they will not enter the city!"
Chapter completed!