Zhongli wanted to use Qingyang as bait to besiege the city and send reinforcements, but he never thought that Su Muzhi was also using Qingyang as bait to lure the main force of the Qingyang army.

In fact, at the beginning, Su Muzhi was not 100% sure whether he could successfully capture Xunyang, but his use of troops was completely different from Xiao Wang, who was cautious in his life, and he liked to be dangerous!

And the siege battle in Xunyang, its intensity, it can be said that every time the green army dies, the wind army will also fall.

After three days and three nights, after the sleepless onslaught, the personnel of the green army were sharply reduced, and the city defenses of Xunyang were also announced to be about to fall.

He couldn't stand it anymore, and when the first batch of wind troops attacked the city, he also made a quick decision, directly abandoned Xunyang, and began to lead the remaining thousands of remnants to defeat the generals and retreat to the rear.

At this time, successfully taking Xunyang, not only Su Muzhi breathed a sigh of relief, but Sun Sheng even fell back to the heart that mentioned his throat.

You must know that if you don't break the city again, if you continue like this, you don't know how many more soldiers you will have to suffer casualties!

After entering the city, the soldiers of the wind army, that breath of heart also suddenly leaked, people like deflated balls, one after another held the halberd, sat against the wall, up and down, that is no longer able to lift a trace of strength.

Subsequently, Su Muzhi ordered that all the dried meat and good wine in the generals should be taken out and rewarded to the three armies.

In the hall of the county government in Xunyang, the military doctor had just taken down the arrow for Su Muzhi, waited for him to bandage it, and after treating the wound, he retreated, and Sun Sheng also came up, and first asked: "Su Shuai, ...... your arrow wound?"

"It's fine." Su Muyi's arm couldn't move, and one arm was slightly raised.

"Oh......" Sun Sheng responded, and then said tentatively: "General Qingyang's second urgent letter has arrived, and our army ...... After our army rests, is it time to go to support Yingcheng? ”

Su Muzhi frowned slightly and thought about it for a while, and said, "You say, what will Zhongli do after receiving the news of the loss of Xunyang?" ”

"This ......"

"He will not think about attacking back, but will no longer be in such a hurry to annihilate the Qingyang Division, continue to besiege it, and still adopt the strategy of besieging the city and sending reinforcements." Su Muzhi said: "Therefore, our army is still unable to support Yingcheng. ”

"But this!" Sun Sheng was in a hurry, didn't he watch Qingyang die in battle!

Su Muzhi glanced at him and continued: "Our army has captured Xunyang, which is very important for the entire battle situation, because we can send a cavalry from Xunyang at any time to easily rob the grain and grass sent by the Qing army to Hengzhou. ”

What he said is not wrong, assuming that the grain and grass of the Qingjun are transported to Yingcheng, and then transported from Yingcheng to Hengzhou, in the middle, Su Muzhi can find out the news and can rob this batch of grain and grass at will.

If the army has no food, it can no longer fight, and the Yueheng in Hengzhou has lost food and grass supplies, so it can only choose to retreat.

"But such a tragic price, and General Qingyang ......," Sun Sheng said.

"It's worth the price!" Su Muzhi directly interrupted him.

Sun Sheng swallowed his spit and said, "But once General Qingyang dies in battle, when the time comes, how will Su Shuai explain to the king......

Hearing this, Su Muzhi took a deep breath, and then said quietly: "This is also a matter of no way, Ben Shuai believes that the king can understand it." ”

He directly gave up Qingyang and the 30,000 wind army in Yingcheng, to be honest, it seems ruthless, but in fact, this decision is undoubtedly correct for the overall situation, because once he goes to support, it is very likely that the entire army will be wiped out!

A few days later, in the camp of the youth army outside the city, Shi Yaobing defeated Xunyang and arrived here with the remnants.

After seeing him, Zhongli's mood can be imagined, it was annoyed and angry, pointing at his nose and scolding: "Waste! Xunyang is solid! Ben Shuai gave you 50,000 horses, how to lose the city in four days! ”

Shi Yao knelt down and said sadly: "Zhong Shuai, the wind army is like a wolf and a tiger, attacking the city for three days and nights in a row, our army only has 50,000 troops, desperately resisting, fighting to the fourth day, there is no way to change the defense, all the soldiers are exhausted, it is really not that the last general is greedy for life and afraid of death, but can not resist it at all!" ”

Now, he is still in crooked armor and looks embarrassed, and as soon as he heard his words, Zhongli suddenly became angry, he pointed at Shi Yao, and said sharply: "When Ben Shuai leaves, the military order given to you is to let you stick to Xunyang!" But now, in order to survive, you led your troops to flee, and said that you are not greedy for life and afraid of death! Someone's coming! Drag it down to escape in military law! ”

Hearing this, Shi Yao was so frightened that he hurriedly kowtowed desperately: "Zhong Shuai spare his life!" Zhong Shuai spares his life."

Seeing this, several of the other generals in the tent moved the corners of their mouths, looking like they wanted to stand up and plead, but Zhongli glared and glanced for a week, and immediately said: "Whoever dares to persuade each other will be guilty of the same crime!" ”

As soon as he said this, how could anyone dare to say anything, and Shi Yao, as a general, gave up the city pass and fled here in order to survive.

As he spoke, Zhongli also waved his hand angrily: "Don't drag it out yet!" ”

"Zhong Shuai spares his life! Zhong Shuai spared his life......" Shi Yao's cry quickly disappeared outside the big tent.

At this time, the partial general couldn't help but stand up, clasped his fists and said: "Zhong Shuai, now that Xunyang has fallen into the hands of Su Muzhi, the last general suggests that the wind army in Yingcheng should be wiped out immediately!" ”

When he received Shi Yao's urgent letter before, Zhongli also launched an attack on the corresponding city, but at that time, Qingyang's resistance was fierce, and of course he was sure to exterminate this group of wind troops, but what he didn't expect was that Shi Yao was defeated so quickly.

At this time, after listening to the general's suggestion, he first muttered for a while, and then said: "Now that our army is besieging the city, the wind army in the city is already unable to fly, so don't storm it and make senseless sacrifices, just surround it and trap it alive." Qingyang is the city of surprise attack, therefore, there must not be much grain and grass to carry, and it will not take a few days, and they will be defeated without a fight. ”

When people heard this, they all nodded, and another general said: "I just don't know if Su Muzhi will come to the rescue of this group of wind troops." ”

"Hopefully he'll come." Zhongli sighed softly.

Now from the various signs made by Su Muzhi, he has no hope for the siege of the city.

After shaking his head slightly, Zhongli couldn't help but say quietly: "In this battle, Ben Shuai took a wrong step, I didn't expect that Su Muzhi would dare to directly abandon a general like Qingyang, which was really beyond Ben Shuai's expectations." ”

After speaking, he said to a person again: "In addition, pass on the book to General Yueheng and tell him that Xunyang has been lost......"