"It's good if you don't chase it, it's good if you don't chase it." At this moment, Mutor had a feeling of relief, and there was a little bit of a brave general in the Warat tribe.

Finally safe, it took a while for Mutor to calm down, and then several of his generals, who had fled with him, called over and asked, "Tell me, how many enemies are there this time?" ”

"More than 20,000 looks." A straight-talking commander said this without thinking.

As soon as the voice came out, Mu Tuo's face showed a very solemn expression, and he looked a little unhappy.

"I think there are at least 40,000." Another commander noticed the change in Mutor's face and hurriedly spoke.

"I see seventy or eighty thousand people, otherwise how could our army of 30,000 be defeated so quickly." As soon as the figure of 40,000 was written, another commander said a different opinion.

It was only at this moment that Mutor's expression became much kinder. "I think there are 70,000 or 80,000 people, and we fought desperately for two days and two nights in this battle, and finally severely damaged the enemy with no less than 50,000 cavalry, and then retreated because of insufficient troops, everyone said yes."

This is talking nonsense with your eyes open. It is said that Mu Toll is not usually such a character, but he was defeated and injured and he couldn't explain it to the leader of Yexian, so he could only think of explaining everything in this way. In this way, not only will he have no fault, but he will also have merit.

The Lord set the tone, and the other commanders did not want to be affected by the defeat, and after only a little hesitation, everyone accepted such a fabricated fact. Soon, they also called the commanders and centurions below to unify their voices together.

A big defeat is a big victory for them to say, which can be regarded as a kind of "art" of war.

Outside the city, the assault continues. This is already the twelfth consecutive siege.

After the first day of the siege was heavily damaged by "mass destruction" weapons, the infantry commander-in-chief, General Kurban, changed his attack strategy. At a time, only two thousand people were sent to each city wall at a time, and under such a scale, the two sides fought a back and forth, regardless of victory or defeat.

Even several times, he almost reached the top of the tower, and under the hope of several times, Kurban became more and more tormented between hope and disappointment. When he made a summary when he had nothing to do, he was surprised to find a fact, the defensive ability of the five-star army seemed to be strong and weak, and every three days, the defensive ability would become weaker, and then it would strengthen day by day, until the fourth day would come again The fact that it became stronger and weaker.

Kurban is puzzled as to why this is the case, and the only thing he can do is to continue to attack the city, pay a heavy price and try his best to consume the opponent's strength. Didn't the scout say that? The enemy in the city has only 40,000 soldiers, and after such attrition, even if it is two or even three for one, the final victory will still belong to him.

Kurban had a good idea. But he didn't know that the reason why he gave him the illusion that the defense was sometimes strong and sometimes weak was entirely because the soldiers defending the city changed the law every three days. After twelve days of siege, the five-star army has replaced four batches of veterans, those experiences

The recruits who defended the city for three days completed the process of transforming into veterans, and then went to report to the New Second Army. From beginning to end, the main force of the New First Army has never been used.

Unable to know the specific situation in the city, Kurban only tried again and again, and then ten days passed, and the five-star army defending the city was still strong and weak, so that people could not find the reason. Kurban was shocked to find that he had only 10,000 troops left at his disposal.

After twenty-two consecutive days of siege, the 50,000 infantry in his hands were dead and wounded, but now there are only 10,000 people in good health, and he finally had to find Prime Minister Alipu and ask for reinforcements.

I never thought that the first city was so difficult to attack, and at the beginning it was said that it would take three days to capture the outer city, but only a few three days have passed, and even the number of soldiers who have attacked the city is insufficient, which makes Alipu very unhappy, but for the time being, he can't think of any better way, so he has no choice but to replace the original 20,000 cavalry with infantry and hand it over to Kurban.

Just as Alipu had finished doing this, another news came that the 30,000 iron horsemen sent by the Warat tribe had returned. But only 5,000 of the 30,000 who went out came back, which means that it is likely that they encountered a great defeat when attacking Mobei City.

Mutor is back. Originally, he could have returned a few days in the morning, but in order to show that he had indeed fought a hard battle with the Five Star Army, he deliberately delayed it. When he returned to the camp, he was also called over for questioning.

"What's going on? Given you 30,000 iron horsemen, you only brought back 5,000 men, and this leader needs an explanation. There was a cold light in his eyes, and if Mu Tuoer answered wrong, he would raise his butcher knife and kill.

Sighing to himself, thanks to the preparation in advance, Mu Toll pretended to be as calm as possible, and repeated the nonsense he had made up before, and after he finished speaking, he also pretended to be crying and said, "Lord Chief, it is entirely because of the unfavorable information of the scouts that we have been hit hard. ”

"Eighty thousand five-star troops, where did this come from?" The frowns were furrowed by Mu Tol's explanation, and he was also stunned at first. When did Mobei City have so many five-star troops? If this is the case, 30,000 battles against 80,000, 50,000 cavalry of the opponent have been eliminated, and 5,000 people can escape back, which is already not a big victory.

"The last general doesn't know." Mu Tuoer shook his head innocently, and then pretended to be aggrieved as he thought before, and said, "Lord Leader, do you say that the god of war has transferred the main army to the direction of Mobei City, and all that is left in the first city are some infantry?" ”

"Huh?" The so-called one word to wake up the person in the dream was also instantly woken up by such a word. When you think about it, this idea is not unreasonable, and the important thing is that there is no other possibility than such an explanation. "Okay, I see, I'll meet with Alip right away and talk to him about it in detail."

In order to shirk his responsibility, Mutor found such an excuse that led to a meeting with Alipu first, and at the same time hastened the defeat of their coalition forces.

In the main account, Alipu was also invited first, and told all the things that had happened to Mutor and his conjectures. "Prime Minister, now it seems that we

The previous estimate was wrong, the cavalry of the Five-Star Army was not in Shicheng City, they only left the infantry, which can explain why we failed in the siege of the city, and sent troops to Mobei City will also be defeated. ”

The first words are reasonable, and the clever Alipu was also misled and made the same judgment. "Well, that's how it should be. It's just that the walls of Shicheng are strong, and even if all the people left behind are infantry, what can we do if we can't get in? ”

Seeing that Alipu agreed with his judgment, he was also proud at first. In his eyes, Alipu was a very smart person, even if he agreed with his judgment, there should be no cavalry of the Five Star Army in the city. In this case, the previous military plan must also be changed. "Prime Minister, this leader knows that you have done your best, but as you said, the god of war is afraid that he considered the safety of the city when he built the first city, so it is not easy to capture them, even so, we need to think of another way."

"Think of another way." Alipu's face remained unchanged, and his heart was indeed very curious. "But I wonder what the Chief's mind is?"

"Hehe, there are some ideas, but I just don't know if it works, and I have to ask the prime minister for some advice." He also smiled first, he did have a bold idea, and he also intended to show off in front of Alipu.

"The Chief's thoughts will not be wrong, I would like to hear about it." Alipu saw that he was also selling Guanzi first, so he simply met the other party's request and said these words with a pleading expression.

Alipu's posture was so low that he was filled with a sense of pride, and he laughed for a while, and then said: "This leader thinks so, it is far from enough to attack Shicheng by relying only on cloud ladders, even so, it is better to go to Beiming to get some artillery, and it will be twice the result with half the effort to attack the city with the help of this thing." Only in the crisis of the first city, the cavalry of the five-star army in Mobei City must come to the rescue, at that time, we only need to attack it halfway, and the big thing can be accomplished. ”

"Is the siege fake, is the attack on aid reinforcements real?" Alipu's mind turned quickly, and he got to the heart of the problem at the moment.

"Nope. It's true to attack reinforcements, and it's true to attack Shijo. Whichever side makes progress, it will be our victory. He shook his head first, then nodded, his eyes full of smiles.

This time Alip didn't answer right away, he was thinking about the feasibility of the matter. Thinking that they still have an advantage in strength now, and it is feasible to fight on both sides, he agreed, but a bigger question was in front of him, "Will the Northern Ming Army give us artillery?" ”

"We don't want their artillery, we have picked up a hundred artillery pieces on the battlefield before, but there are not enough shells, now we just let them hand over the artillery, and we don't want it in vain, we can trade with them, trade with the surplus war horses in the army, this is exactly what they need, there must be no problem." I was very confident when I talked about it first.

"War horses trade cannonballs, but we don't have too many war horses." As he spoke, Alipu thought that he had just arranged for 20,000 cavalry to be converted into infantry to attack the city, and thought to himself, could it be his idea of 20,000 war horses to fight first?