Chapter 385 One day or one month
Mo Zizai looked at Xing Jun who was waiting for the battle on the city wall, and couldn't help but feel a little funny. Although he attached great importance to Zhaoyuancheng's siege this time, he just wanted to minimize the losses of the Yuzhi army.
With the current strength of the Yuzhi Army, since he is ready to issue an edict to the far city at the fastest speed and cost, he will not be given room for resistance.
He is still on guard. Do you really think that you can defend the Zhaoyuan City by relying on caution?
Thinking of this, Mo Zizai turned his head to look at Han Qu and asked, "How long will it take to use our troops to capture the imperial edict in the Yuancheng?"
“How long does it take…”
Han Qu looked up at the city guards who were shady on the top of the city and pondered for a moment.
A strong city like Zhaoyuan City, with a high city and a deep pond, and the guard general Xing Jun was determined to be a turtle. It would not be a surprise to stay for a year or two without shortage of food and grass.
Of course, that's just a normal situation. The entire Yuzhi Army is a warrior, and it's not a problem to use one to five or even one to ten. Therefore, it would not take that long to issue an edict to the far city.
Therefore, Han Qu thought for a while and gave a relatively conservative time, "Fifteen days, with the strength of the Emperor's Army, fifteen days are enough to get the imperial edict to the far city."
"Fifteen days?"
Mo Zizai shook his head, obviously not very satisfied with the time, but he didn't say anything, but turned to look at Yang Yanzhang and asked, "What do you think?"
Yang Yanzhang's judgment in his heart was similar to Han Qu. He felt that it would be fine to take the edict to the Yuancheng in fifteen days. But seeing that Mo Zizai seemed not very satisfied, he was silent for a moment and added his strength.
He is now in the Golden Body Realm. If he forcibly attacks the city, the defenders of Zhaoyuan City will definitely mobilize a large number of troops to set himself forward, which will greatly shorten the time for breaking the city. Therefore, he was cruel and said, "If I participate in the war, I can get Zhaoyuan City in at most ten days."
"But this happens, my strength cannot be concealed. When I hit Yining City, the guards there will definitely find ways to prevent me."
In Yang Yanzhang's plan, he was not ready to take action in Zhaoyuan City. In this way, when he attacked the county town of Yuanling County, Yining, he would have a sudden attack to achieve the greatest victory.
After hearing Yang Yanzhang say this, Mo Zizai has not yet expressed his opinion, Han Qu looked at Yang Yanzhang in surprise. The only thing that can control the situation on the battlefield is the Golden Body Realm. But what Yang Yanzhang means is that he seems to be a Golden Body Realm warrior?
But if I remember correctly, Yang Yanzhang should be just in his early thirties, right? He is in his golden body state in his thirties???
Han Qu felt it was a bit difficult to accept. He was almost sixty and had not yet touched the shadow of the Golden Body Realm. Yang Yanzhang was at the Golden Body Realm at thirty. He was not a mediocre person. How could there be such a big gap?
"Ten days?"
Mo Zizai didn't care about Han Qu's shock. When he heard the time given by Yang Yanzhang, he couldn't help but frown, "Ten days have been too long."
Ten days is there?
Yang Yanzhang and Han Qu looked at each other, feeling helpless. Zhaoyuan City is a real big city, and it is already very fast to be defeated in ten days. Mo Zizai is still slow.
"one day."
Mo Zizai raised a finger and looked at the two of them, and said firmly in his tone: "At most one day, I will get the imperial edict to the far city."
"One day, this is impossible."
Han Qu shook his head directly. Ten days is the shortest deadline, and one day is simply unrealistic. Unless the Yuzhi Army ignores its own losses, he can only chew the Zhaoyuan City in a short period of time. However, if the Yuzhi Army attacks the city like this, the Yuzhi Army will definitely suffer heavy losses.
In this way, what if you can conquer the edict in one day? What will you do to fight Yining City?
Therefore, Han Qu was very disappointed with Mo Zizai's order to get the edict to the far city in one day, because many famous generals in history were killed by such blind commands. At this time, in his heart, Mo Zizai had already equated with those foolish monarchs who issued military orders randomly, and he felt a little regretful in his heart to bring the border army to Mo Zizai and sent him to death.
Yang Yanzhang didn't have so many thoughts. After following Mo Zizai for so long, he still had some understanding of Mo Zizai, so he directly advised: "Prince, the day is too tight. If we really want to fight according to this deadline, we will definitely suffer a lot of unnecessary losses. We don't need to be so rush."
"If necessary, the faster you fight, the smaller the loss will be."
Mo Zizai replied indifferently, although he and Yang Yanzhang were all talking about losses, but this loss was not the same person.
The losses Yang Yanzhang mentioned refer to the losses of the Yuzhi Army, and the losses Mo Zizai mentioned were not only the Yuzhi Army, but also included the soldiers of Zhaoyuancheng.
"As long as you can break through Zhaoyuan City and behead those generals who cause rebellion, do you think the soldiers of Zhaoyuan City will fight to the end?"
After hearing what Mo Zizai said, Yang Yanzhang was silent for a moment. The current Great Zhou Dynasty did not completely lose people's hearts under Tang Weiyi's various tax reduction policies. These soldiers in the city were just following the thief under the coercion of officials.
If the imperial edict was broken, Mo Zizai's army would enter the city, and the soldiers would naturally have no reason not to surrender.
"Although the soldiers in the city are not called elite, they are well-trained. If they have a little more 'training', there will definitely be no problem as backup soldiers of the Imperial Army, so it is necessary to save them."
Mo Zizai knew Yang Yanzhang's concerns, so after saying this, he continued: "Of course, they are not their own people now, so I definitely wouldn't let the Yuzhi Army die in vain for this reason."
"What I said is that there is a prerequisite for breaking the Zhaoyuan City in one day."
Speaking of this, Mo Zizai showed a faint smile on his face and said, "As long as you can hold back the main force of Zhaoyuan City, I am sure to capture a wall in a short time."
"If this is the case, it will naturally be no problem to break the Zhaoyuan City in one day."
"How is that possible?"
Yang Yanzhang and Han Qu looked at Mo Zizai in disbelief. You should know that the city wall of Zhaoyuan City is five meters high, which is fifteen meters high. It is a bit exaggerated to capture a wall of such a high city wall in a short period of time?
Yang Yanzhang, who had just entered the Golden Body Realm, had the eight dragon and elephant techniques to support him. He felt that his strength was already considered good, but after he climbed the city wall, there would definitely be many soldiers targeting him.
After all, the soldiers on the top of the city are not all targets. If they were not opponents, they would retreat temporarily. At that time, the generals of Zhaoyuan City and various defending equipment were there. If he did not want to die on the city wall, all he could do was retreat temporarily.
"You guys don't have to worry about it, it may not be possible."
Mo Zizai did not explain to them, but asked them, "I just ask you, are you sure that you will be able to hold Zhaoyuan City?"
"Of course there is no problem with this."
Yang Yanzhang and Han Qu nodded without hesitation. With the strength of the Yuzhi Army, although it is not enough to capture the city wall in a short period of time, it is still no problem to hold Zhaoyuan City.
"good."
Mo Zizai nodded and said, "Since that's the case, Yan Zhang, you lead five thousand red flame dragon cavalry to attack the city wall on the south, General Han, you lead ten thousand Yuzhi troops to attack the city wall on the west and east."
"As for the front, just leave it to me."
"Here!"
Yang Yanzhang responded to Han Qu, then discussed with Mo Zizai for a moment, and soon finalized the plan for siege.
Mo Zizai looked at the city wall of Zhaoyuan City with his hands behind his back. He issued Zhaoyuan City one day, not because he had expanded, but because he had two new trump cards, with these two trump cards in his hand, and if he had to spend ten days in Zhaoyuan City, he would be too useless.
"Hmph, is Zhao Yuancheng?"
A coldness appeared in Mo Zizai's eyes. As the accelerator level increased, his wings were gradually full. He didn't need to hide any trump cards.
Today he would let the aristocratic families of the Great Zhou know that since he dared to kill ministers unscrupulously in the court, he would have the strength to suppress all opposition voices. If he wanted to stand on his own, he would be prepared to die.
"Zhou Qi sent someone to shout, saying that the commander of the Yuancheng treasury would treason and let the generals in the city surrender immediately, otherwise the whole family would be punished on the day the city was destroyed!"
"Here!"
Zhou Qi responded and immediately sent a few people to Zhaoyuan City to shout, but he did not gain anything except being shot by two pieces of arrows.
Seeing that the shouting did not bring any riots on the city, Mo Zizai knew that all the generals in the city had been mastered by Xing Jun, so he exhaled softly and said in a cold tone: "Since that's the case, don't blame me for being ruthless."
He mastered Xing Jun of all the troops in the city and did not care about Mo Zizai's call just now. At this time, he looked at the scattered army under the city and knew that he was preparing to divide his troops to attack Zhaoyuan City. This made him feel relieved because if the troops were several times more powerful than those in the city in the siege, then there would be no problem in dividing the troops. After all, the city wall is so wide, and it would be useless to concentrate all the troops on one wall.
Therefore, it is undoubtedly a very wise choice to divide troops to attack the city at this time.
But the current situation is that Yuzhi soldiers are not many, even less troops than the city defense. Even the 20,000 troops are a little nervous when concentrating troops to attack a city wall, but now they have to force their troops to divide the troops. Xingjun wants to see how he is ready to attack.
"The enemy's commander seems to be a man of war on paper."
After reaching this conclusion in his heart, Xing Jun spoke with a little ridiculous expression: "Does he think that the soldiers under his command all have the strength of those Red Flame Dragon Cavalry, and they can all beat ten if they are one? I really don't know what it means."
“What the adults said is.”
Liang Ming, behind Xing Jun, looked at the changes in the army below, couldn't help laughing. After echoing Xing Jun's words, he spoke: "Not to mention that he does not have the strength of the Red Flame Dragon Knight, even if they have it, do they think that they can block the coverage of arrow rain without heavy armor?"
"Don't take it lightly."
Xing Jun, who was originally a little proud, was immediately evoked bad memories when he heard the word "Doujia". He immediately restrained the smile on his face and said with a gloomy face: "The Red Flame Dragon Knight has such strong combat power, and they cannot let it go. I am worried that they may abandon the horse and siege and forcefully attack the city."
"You will immediately follow me to the south wall and bring more tincture oil to support the other side. Once the cavalry dares to attack the city directly, then pour the fierce tin oil down. I will burn these canned iron to death under the city!!!"
Xing Jun's tone had a bit of gritting teeth, as if the red-flame dragon cavalry were in front of him at this moment, all of whom were burned to death by him.
"Caval infantry battle? Not so?"
Liang Ming was a little questioning Xing Jun's judgment. It would be a waste of military strength to turn a cavalry into an infantry man. Which fool would do this?
But he also knew that Xing Jun had been hit by the Red Flame Dragon Knight, so he didn't dare to say anything at the moment. After responding, he immediately mobilized the civilians to go to the warehouse to move another batch of hot turbulent oil and stockpiled it on the south wall.
After Liang Ming arranged to arrive at the southern city wall, he couldn't help but feel a little dumbfounded when he looked at the scene below, "Is there such a fool?"
Under the city wall, all five thousand Yuzhi soldiers dismounted, wearing heavy armor, carrying siege ladders and pressing towards the city wall.
Although Xing Jun, who was standing by, felt that the cavalry and infantry battle was a bit waste, he was more shocked by the strength of the red flame dragon cavalry under the city.
He had tried the power of those heavy armor with bows and arrows. The arrows could not even dents on them. The armor that had such defensive power was probably the ink armor made of ink iron. As we all know, ink armor is generally made for generals, with an astonishing weight that ordinary soldiers could not afford.
But at present, these soldiers of the Red Flame Dragon Cavalry are wearing ink armor and walking and running as usual. Could it be that they all have the strength of their own generals?
Thinking of this possibility, Xing Jun felt a little desperate. This gap in strength made him urge to surrender.
But I can only think about surrender.
Not to mention the identity of his gentry, just to say that his family is in Yining City, unless he ignores the lives of his wife, children and children in the family, he will definitely not be able to surrender.
"Mo Zizai really got a good hand."
Seeing the Red Flame Dragon Cavalry getting closer and closer under the city, Xing Jun felt a little sad, because with the strength shown by these Red Flame Dragon Cavalry, even if the rest of the Yuzhi Army were ordinary soldiers, he could only guard for one month at most.
As the garrison of Zhaoyuan City, the day the city was destroyed was naturally the time for his despair.
"A month?"
Xing Jun took a deep breath and forced himself to cheer up, "A month is only one month. As long as you can die, even if you can only stay for one month, so what if you can only stay for one month?"
Thinking of this, he loudly ordered: "Liang Ming!"
"I'm in a humble position!"
Although Liang Ming also felt something was wrong with the Red Flame Dragon Knight below, he did not think as much as Xing Jun thought. When he heard Xing Jun call him, he immediately answered loudly.
"You go and transfer all the reserve troops to this city wall, and then transfer two more arc arrows and arrows."
Xing Jun looked at the Red Flame Dragon Rider below and was secretly ruthless in his heart. He had a city wall to guard, so what if the Red Flame Dragon Rider was very strong?
Mo Zizai only has this trump card in his hand. If he was severely injured in Zhaoyuan City, he would like to see what else Mo Zizai could use to calm the Great Zhou Dynasty.
All the aristocratic families in the Great Zhou Dynasty were hungry wolves. Once they noticed that the court was weak, they might be able to swallow the entire court in an instant.
Chapter completed!