Zhao Junsheng said: "Come to the general, let's say stay or leave first?" If we stay and continue the siege until we break through the Dragon City, we can discuss how to attack the city now; If the troops are withdrawn, then discuss the withdrawal of troops! ”

Lai Daqian knew that Zhao Junsheng had said it to the point, and all the generals present were faced with this choice, should they stay or go? This issue must be decided as soon as possible, and it cannot be delayed, and if it is delayed for one more day, the news of the emperor's death and the death and injury of the ministers accompanying the army will be more likely to leak.

"Ladies and gentlemen, General Ben thinks what General Zhao said is very true, we must make a choice, whether to go or stay, now you all take a stand!" Lai Daqian looked at everyone and said.

The generals are silent, if they say that they don't want to fight and want to withdraw, it is tantamount to admitting that they don't have a face, the emperor and the ministers of the army are dead, and they still have the face to go back, not afraid of being poked in the backbone and laughing?

If you are willing to stay, how will this battle be fought? Obviously, the Yan army is very good at defending the city, and it is not easy to break through the fortified city defended by 20,000 people with 40,000 or 50,000 people.

Hua Mulan saw the expressions of these generals in her eyes, and asked angrily, "What's the matter?" Aren't they usually pretty good? Don't you take no one into account? Is it so hard to make a choice for you to make now? Don't think I don't know your minds, you want to preserve your strength, but you don't want to be infamous! Not only to be a watch, but also want to set up a memorial arch! It's disgusting! ”

Hua Mulan was straightforward and fast-talking, and her words directly stabbed the hearts of the generals.

The generals couldn't hold their faces at this time, and Su Xijing couldn't help it at first, and slapped the short man in front of him and said angrily: "Fart!" Mulan, don't underestimate people, I will stand up to the sky and the earth, and I will never be ambiguous if I want to fight······"

Hua Mulan also slapped the table in front of the gongs and drums: "Then you choose to fight, what are you grinding and chirping?" If you are still a man, and you admit that you are a gentleman, you will fucking stay and break through Dragon City before leaving, if you don't dare to fight, for fear of losing your strength, I Mulan will leave the words today, you are a bad seed, Lao Tzu looks down on you! ”

"You ······" Su Xijing's face turned red, how could he stand being despised by a woman to such an extent? I only felt the blood in my whole body surging to the top of my head, and I yelled on the spot: "Okay, Lao Tzu also put his words here, if you don't take down Longcheng, Lao Tzu will never withdraw the army, if you violate this oath, it will be like this case!" With that, he drew his sword and split the dwarf sword in front of him into two pieces.

Hua Mulan looked at Tuoba Qi: "Hejian Gong, what about you?" You can't even be as respectful as Su, right? ”

These words were so hurtful that Tuoba Qi couldn't admit it even if he didn't know it anymore, and immediately said loudly: "Lao Tzu will not be able to compare to him?" Pull me and his men over to attack the city, and see who admits it first! ”

Su Xijing was also angry: "It's better than it, do you think Lao Tzu is afraid of you?" ”

"Okay, that's it!" Hua Mulan clapped her palms, "Let's start fighting today, Su Xijing will go to the West Gate, Tuoba Qi will go to the North Gate, whoever withdraws first will be a bastard!" ”

Tuoba Qi glanced at Su Xijing, snorted coldly, turned around and walked out of the main hall to prepare for the siege, Su Xijing naturally did not dare to show weakness, this was not the time to admit cowardice, and immediately followed out.

The others looked at each other.

Hua Mulan glanced at the others and said slowly: "Everyone, today is Su Xijing and Tuoba Qi attacking the West Gate and the North Gate, should they be changed tomorrow?" The two of them have set an example, and you are all conceited and brave, you will not be compared to the two of them, right? Tomorrow, General Zhao and I will attack the South Gate, who will attack the East Gate? ”

Lai Daqian said in a deep voice: "I'll hit the east gate!" ”

"Okay, General Lai is worthy of being a veteran of the Three Dynasties, and he has played an exemplary role, Mulan admires it!" Mulan complimented.

Lai Daqian said with a cold face: "How to fight?" You can't fight like you did before, right? Little girl, General Ben is not those two bastards, don't fool me! ”

Zhao Junsheng took over Hua Mulan's words and answered Daqian's question: "How to fight is up to the generals to decide, everything is to minimize their own casualties and cause more damage to the defenders, you are all veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time, you won't even ask me and Mulan to teach you how to fight, right?" ”

"However, Zhao is here to remind you, let you grasp the proportion and heat by yourself does not mean that we can work without effort, in order to preserve the strength and delay the work, we don't have much time, now it is late September, we only have half a month at most, we must end the war before the cold snap goes south, otherwise when the cold snap hits, we can't run away if we want to, and then it will be a big disaster!"

Wei Wei stood up and said, "That's it, when you finish fighting tomorrow, it's our turn the day after tomorrow!" ”

After this military meeting, everyone left, Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan came out of the main hall, and he said to Mulan: "Let's go to Su Xijing's side to see how he attacked the city?" ”

Hua Mulan happily agreed: "Okay, Su Xijing has such a big temper, I want to see what he is capable of!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said with a smile: "A big temper doesn't mean that you have a big ability!" ”

"Won't it?" Hua Mulan was taken aback, "Didn't you say that people with great skills also have a big temper?" ”

"You're talking about the general situation, in my opinion, Su Xijing is just the opposite! The ability is not big, but the temper is not small! ”

After Zhao Junsheng finished speaking, he talked about what happened in the hall just now, "Mulan, you used this trick very well today, Su Xijing and Tuoba Qi, a few people with eyes above the top and big tempers, but they have no ability, have been successfully stimulated by you!" In the field, only what you say can play a role, no one else can, today you can be regarded as a relief for Daqian! ”

Mulan said: "I don't seem to be very happy with Daqian! ”

"That's for sure, because you stole the limelight from him!"

Hua Mulan couldn't help but complain: "This old thing, relying on the old and selling the old!" ”

When the two arrived outside the West Gate, Su Xijing was directing the soldiers to carry the siege ladder to attack the city, he saw Hua Mulan and Zhao Junsheng coming, frowned and said, "What's the matter?" Don't worry, so come and supervise General Ben? Worried that General Ben won't be able to do his job? ”

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand: "No, no, let's just come and have a casual look, learn siege tactics from General Su Xi, you just command, don't care about us, you can fight as much as you want!" ”

"Hmph, that's pretty much it!" Su Xijing snorted coldly, turned his head and ignored Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan.

Su Xijing's command has changed slightly compared to before, he is no longer so eager for quick success, the siege steps are very clear, and he is orderly step by step, but the problem is that the combat quality of the soldiers and generals cannot keep up with him, and he cannot realize his tactical intentions.

After a day of fighting, the casualties of Su Xijing's soldiers were not very large, but they did not cause much damage to the Yan army.

Tuoba Qi's side was similar, Emperor Tuoba Jian wanted to break the city too much when he was alive, so he ordered the generals of all departments to ignore the casualties, resulting in a large loss of the generals of the various departments, and now without the emperor's strict orders, they can freely decide the strength and intensity of the siege.

As for the siege effect, they themselves know that it is not very satisfactory.

This is also a matter of no choice, if a city is so easy to break, what is the use of building the city walls? Although the defender is in a passive position, it can make full use of the thickness of the city wall to defend, so as to kill and injure a large number of enemy troops attacking the city, and often the besieging side is five times the strength of the defender to have enough capital to attack the city, which also shows that the proportion of casualties is not small.

After fighting for five days in a row, almost all the generals of the various units fought two rounds, but none of the soldiers and horses could attack the city, including Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan, who were relatively good at attacking the city, failed to do so, which made the generals very discouraged.

Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan also failed to command the generals to attack the city, not because their command ability was not good, but because there were two reasons: first, the Yan army was well defended under the command of Guo Sheng, and they were very good at defending the city, and Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan could not find a flaw; Second, the soldiers under their command are all cavalry, and they don't know the method of foot combat at all, let alone attack the city!

On the sixth day, the generals of the various ministries were reluctant to fight anymore, and no matter how much Hua Mulan and Zhao Junsheng provoked the generals, it didn't work.

On the morning of the second day of October, it was already the seventh morning of the army led by the generals to attack the city in turn, Cao Jiao hurriedly ran into the tent and said to Zhao Junsheng: "General, Su Xijing has run away!" ”

"Ran away? Where did you go? Zhao Junsheng asked while eating breakfast, but he quickly realized something, and suddenly got up and said, "Wait, you mean he led the army to withdraw?" ”

"Yes, I passed outside his camp just now, the camp was terrifyingly quiet, there were no archers on the arrow tower, the camp gate was opened, I walked in and looked, it was empty, there was no one, they must have stolen away last night!"

The baked cake in Zhao Junsheng's hand fell to the ground, "It's over, once the news spreads, the other generals will definitely rush to lead the troops to retreat, and it will be strange if the Yan army in the city does not send troops out to chase and kill at that time!" Send someone to call Mulan, I want to discuss it with her!" ”

"Yes!" After Cao Jiao agreed, he immediately went out and sent someone to find Mulan.

Hua Mulan hurriedly came and asked, "Brother Junsheng, what is so urgent?" ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "Last night, Su Xijing led the troops to withdraw, which route was not clear, we couldn't catch up if we wanted to, but I am sure that once the other generals heard the news, they would definitely lead their troops to withdraw one after another, and when the time comes, the army will compete for the road on the road, not to mention that it is crowded, and the Yan army is only afraid that it will be chased and killed from behind, and the consequences are unimaginable!" ”

Mulan's face changed, "What should I do then?" Just gone? ”

"What else else? Someone opened this head, and the mouth couldn't be contained! This song news can't be hidden for a long time, we can't be left behind, you listen to me, now immediately take the right wing army to the palace to transport the coffin coffin of the emperor and the minister of the army, and immediately take the north road to Shicheng, I will take the Youzhou army to break the queen for you! ”

"Okay!" Mulan had no choice but to do what Zhao Junsheng said.

The great retreat began, and such a big move naturally could not hide the defenders in the city, and the great retreat of the Wei army was destined to turn into a big rout.