"I didn't have to look to know it was me again...... Trumpet! Wang Da did not give an order, but turned his gaze to Jiang Erlang. The head of the forward regiment was quite competent, he knew what to do without being ordered, and he yelled at the trumpeter next to him, and took the lead in beating the horse and running out.

Jiang Erlang didn't actually do anything, he took the forward group to run around Yingli City, and came back after waiting for the smoke from the beacon tower in the city.

At this time, Wang Da's main force slowly followed, and Xiao Wuna continued to break off, sandwiching Wang Qi's new regiment, baggage regiment and militia in the middle, and began to set up camp.

"Boy, wake up your ears at night, and report when you hear the movement of the brigade."

Gao Cuifeng was sent to Sichuan to manage the workshop, Hong Tao had no one to educate, everyone was busy and no one paid attention to him, so he simply went to the new corps, and happened to meet Wang Fifty-six following Wang Qi's ass and asking this and that.

"Great officials, why don't you raid while it's dark, the students can take advantage of the chaos to climb the city."

Don't look at Wang Fifty-six who hasn't followed Hong Tao much, but his habits are exactly the same as the children in the first phase of the children's group, he is not afraid of Hong Tao without stage fright, he comes over to ask questions if he has questions, even if he asks the wrong question and is criticized, he doesn't care.

"Ha, you've got a lot of skills! According to your method, how many people will die in breaking through the three walls of this city? "Hong Tao is worried that there is no one to educate, yes, it's you.

“…… I'm afraid there are three to five hundred people, right? Wang Fifty-six pursed his lips, feeling that this question was too amateurish, but he didn't dare to be presumptuous, thought about it, and gave an answer that he thought was reliable.

"The Western Xia was defeated at the beginning, and when the troops retreated, they would definitely add more people here, and three or five hundred people were afraid that they would not be able to fight. Even if it's three or five hundred, is it good for you that they die? ”

At this time, it is not clear how many enemies Hong Tao has in the city, but he estimates that there will be more than 20,000 on weekdays, unless the Western Xia generals are all fools. Even if there are only 20,000 people, if you want to break through the three city walls, even if there is ammonium oil medicine available, it is not possible for a few hundred people to do it.

Not to mention that you have to learn when you are old, just a few years after leaving, members of the children's regiment like Wang 56 have already abandoned military training, or they have not kept up with the pace, and their understanding of tactics is still stuck in the era when the new army conquered Liangzhou City.

"The lesson of the great officials is that the fewer casualties there are, the better...... But the casualties in the siege during the day are probably greater than at night. Now that the enemy has discovered us, reinforcements will arrive by tomorrow night. ”

Exchange the smallest effort for the greatest gain, Wang Fifty-six understands this truth, and he just suggested that the night attack is also for this purpose, if it is to wait for the enemy's reinforcements to come, and it is not more difficult to fight.

"The little general is right, it's really easier to attack at night, I don't know what the adults are planning, is it possible to use siege warfare to train troops?"

Xiao Wuna is as depressed as Jiang Erlang, one is always doing the business of stealing chickens and touching dogs, and the other is that he can't get a fart if he follows behind. Words are the voice of the heart, and if you have an opinion in your heart, you will bring it out.

"The Xixia people surrounded Lanzhou to lure our army deeper, and they didn't come and go, so we surrounded Yingli, and even the defenders fought with reinforcements."

As early as when he was in the Daimyo's Mansion, Hong Tao had studied how to attack Western Xia, and at that time he was still counting on persuading Emperor Shenzong to destroy Western Xia after defeating Youzhou, but it turned out to be useless.

But it's right to use this sentence when you're busy, and it's not going to be used. The deserts of the Western Xia country accounted for 70% of the country's land, and the rest were hills and mountains, and there were only three major areas of land suitable for cultivation with fertile land, abundant water sources: the Hetao Plain, the Yinchuan Plain, and the Hexi Corridor.

The Dangxiang people started as a nomadic people, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, they slowly developed into a semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic people, and even if these three pieces of land were knocked down, they could still drill into the desert and ravines.

Once such a situation is formed, the new army loses the initiative and is in a passive defensive position. These tens of thousands of new troops can fight ten times as many enemies face to face without suffering, but they cannot cope with the guerrilla warfare that is raging everywhere. Especially in the absence of the right time, place and people, fighting in a foreign land can only be exhausted.

How can this situation be avoided? As the saying goes, a snake cannot fly without a head, a bird cannot fly without wings, and there must be a leader to mobilize the people to fight guerrillas.

For example, if there were no Fu Ji and the representative of Ganliang Road to call for an organization, relying on the spontaneous initiative of the pioneers alone, even if there was a resistance, it would not form a scale and would not constitute a big threat.

This is the method that Hong Tao came up with, to eliminate as many party nobles and their clan soldiers as possible. Only by breaking the courage and backbone of these nobles and professional soldiers will it be possible to rule this land in the future.

To paraphrase a later generation, this is to break the backbone of a nation, so that as soon as they think of and mention foreign races, they will not have the courage to resist in the cracks of their bones, and they will have to scramble to be the first to be a traitor if they throw a few small money.

Then the Western Xia court knew that it couldn't defeat the new army, would it still send people? The ancients were not clouds, and the trapped beasts were still fighting. They spent so much money and material resources to build such a fortified city, didn't they just use it as a gate?

As long as you can't bear this courtyard, you have to use your last strength to guard the door. People are used to living in a big yard and don't want to live in a tent, and they are really reluctant to leave until the last moment, and even at the last moment, they are still reluctant.

Facts have proved that Hong Tao has figured out the hearts of the people, and in the second half of the night, Wang Fifty-six came, and Baga guarded the door without ordering anyone to enter.

"Big officials, big officials, here they are, a lot of horses!" Seeing Hong Tao rubbing his eyes and coming out, Wang Fifty-six was like the snotty child back then, pouting his ass and lying on the ground, swearing that he heard the movement.

"It's really evil, my tuner's ears can't hear anything?" Hong Tao was not far behind, and he and Wang Fifty-six put their heads on their heads, listening to their left ears and listening with their right ears, with a blank face.

"What a big herd...... I vouch for my life! Wang Fifty-six didn't understand what the tuner was, so he was anxious to shoot the ground.

"How many can you hear?" Hong Tao didn't doubt Wang Wuliu's words, but he was just envious and jealous of others' abilities.

"Thousands of ......" Wang Fifty-six lay on the ground again and listened, first stretched out three fingers, and then opened his palm, but in the end he was not sure.

"It's worth it, you're blind too...... Tomorrow this king will arrange an errand for you to fight, are you afraid? This made Hong Tao's heart much more balanced, and he got up and patted the soil and prepared to go back to sleep.

"We have followed the big officials in the battle since we were eight years old, why are we afraid of words!" Wang Fifty-six also stood up, and Bang Bang patted his chest to show off the glorious history.

"Then go back and sleep well, and come back to me after breakfast." It's a pity that the Hongtao people have already entered the tent and only threw out a sentence without an answer.

"Brother Tai, your knife is so weird, can you borrow it to play with it?" The characteristic of the young man is that he is full of energy, and the long-distance march did not completely consume Wang Wuliu's vitality, coupled with the promise to go to the battlefield tomorrow, he burned his five spines and six beasts, where is he willing to go back to sleep, and he began to ponder Baga's saber again.

"Brush ...... Yes...... I don't care about you! "The first sound was the unsheath of the knife, the second was the scream of the back of the knife slapping on the head of Wang Fifty-six, and the third was the roar of anger coming from the tent.

At breakfast, everyone else drank mare's milk and ate rice candy, but Hong Tao held a copper bowl about the size of a helmet or a copper basin to suck and eat soup cakes. Such is his privilege to carry food that does not belong to military rations.

But this privilege is really not envied by anyone, but thinks that King Liang has a quirk, puts the sweet and fragrant rice candy and does not eat it, and eats soup cakes and barbecue all day long.

"Come, sit down and eat the king's breakfast. Everyone has arrived, and we will talk about today's arrangements. Seeing Wang Fifty-six running over with a snort, Hong Tao put down the copper basin and wiped his mouth, and threw two rice candy sticks to the young man. It was his own breakfast ration, and the militia did not have a ration of rice candy, so it is estimated that he must love to eat it.

"Boss, the main attack is still you, don't use artillery first, and don't break the city before lunch. Erlang and General Xiao, you take your headquarters to attack the city wall outside a stone's throw away, blow up the gap with ammonium oil rolls, and go to the east of the city to block the east gate to prevent the enemy army in the city from retreating. Pigtail, you and the militia are responsible for clearing the gap in the wall, making a path for the box carts to pass through as quickly as possible, and then cruising north of the city to prevent the enemy from falling down the wall. But don't get too close to the walls, and if anyone is injured by the siege crossbows in the city, I'll send you to the school to see the children. ”

This time, everyone has a task if they are impartial, and they have not fooled Wang Fifty-six, they can indeed go into battle to kill the enemy, or they should be alone. Even if Yingli City only has four city gates, east and west, and no north gate, it is not one.