September 17th, Anzhou, Fang.

There is Suotou River five miles northeast of the city, there is a floating bridge on the river, and after crossing the bridge, there is a simple fortress. After the Thunder Army captured the fortress, Li Fengyun took advantage of the ruling fortress and placed the mansion here.

Before dawn, General Manager Gao Hu led a thousand cavalry to rush to Songshan, and caught the enemy off guard by attacking Songshan's key pass. Even if he could not achieve any results, he could at least seize the initiative and create better conditions for subsequent troops to attack this key pass.

After dawn, Li Fengyun, Hu Yanjian, Mi Yong, Jing Jiang Liujinfei and other generals surrounded Guifangcheng to check the terrain and prepare to attack this important town.

Two years ago, when Li Fengyun was in Songmo, he could only fight guerrillas and attack small castles because of his lack of strength. He did not dare to attack the important town of Guifang. As the northwest bridgehead of Xidi, Guifang played an important role in encircling and suppressing Li Fengyun. Therefore, Li Fengyun, Hu Yanjian and other brothers were not only familiar with this city, but also full of hatred. In the past, he had no strength, so he could only imagine that one day he would razor Guifang to the ground to vent his hatred, but now he has the possibility of a dream coming true.

The brothers looked at Gui Fangcheng and were quite moved. The murderous aura in their hearts was surging, and they had the urge to wash Gui Fang bloodily. However, after wandering around the city, they could not resist the impulse and think calmly. Gui Fang's "old appearance" had not changed. From the outside, it was still the city they were familiar with, and the defense was very strong.

The first defense of the ghost side is the moat, which comes from the Suotou River, circles around the city and returns to the Suotou River. The second defense is a thick earth wall behind the moat, with red deer forts on both sides of the earth wall, blocking the enemy's advance. The third defense is the urn city, which is small, but protects the city gate. The fourth defense is the last and most solid line of defense composed of the city gate and the city wall. Once this line of defense is lost, the city will fall. Even if the street battle is launched, it will only resist stubbornly and cannot reverse the fate of defeat.

This is the standard defense facility for the city. If the city is in a water-deficient place, there will be one less moat. Most cities in the north do not have moats, but Anzhou is an exception. There are many rivers in Anzhou, and most cities are built on water, which can build a solid defense composed of four lines of defense.

This kind of defense is a disaster for the horse army. Although the string control man who is good at riding and shooting is also very fierce in fighting, attacking not only requires the soldiers to be strong, but also requires sharp weapons to attack the city. If you want to do it well, you must first sharpen your weapons so that you can achieve twice the result with half the effort. Without a large amount of siege equipment, you have to attack the city. It is simply filled with dead bodies, and it is to fight for consumption. It uses one's own shortcomings to attack the enemy's strengths. This kind of fighting style is obviously stupid and will not be adopted by the horse army. The infantry must also consider it as appropriate. It will not adopt this inferior strategy unless it is absolutely necessary.

Now, the Alliance Army is in such an unfavorable situation. In order to grab time and speed, Li Fengyun still left all the things that could be thrown away when crossing the Lightning River. However, because of insufficient estimates for the future, Mi Yong and Huluba have been passively and just passing by in the past two years. As a result, when Li Fengyun came back and needed more help, they were empty-handed and could not give Li Fengyun the help they needed.

Now standing under Guifang City and looking at the city with strong defense, Mi Yong felt guilty again. If he had great confidence in Li Fengyun and followed Li Fengyun's instructions before leaving, he would not have been able to see Guifang at all.

Without a large number of heavy siege equipment, how can we attack the important town of Guifang? Especially when the siege time is only a few days, it is too late to fill in the dead body.

At noon, on the top of a small hill several miles southwest of Guifang City, Li Fengyun stood in his horse and looked around. After a long time, he finally made a decision to give up the attack.

"I don't have any siege equipment." Li Fengyun turned his head to look at Hu Yanjian beside him. Mi Yong and Jing Jiang Liujin Fei said in a calm tone, "I don't have enough time, and the ghost side is very strong under the construction and repair of various dynasties. Although we have an absolute advantage in military strength, it is difficult to conquer it in a hurry, and the astonishing losses caused by this are unbearable. So..." Li Fengyun hesitated for a moment and said firmly, "Give up attacks, besiege the city and attack aid, and give priority to destroying the living power of the Xi Lu, and do not compete with the Xi tribe for a city and a place to gain or lose."

Hu Yanjian, Mi Yong and Jing Jiang Liujin Fei looked at each other, but they did not raise any objections. The alliance army had just entered Anzhou and was still far from reaching the goal of capturing Anzhou. It is indeed unwise to lose limited troops under a city at this time. Instead of being blocked from attacking and falling into trouble, it is better to siege the city and attack the enemy's livelihood first, eliminate the enemy's live power first, seize the initiative first, and be invincible first.

"Under the current situation, the attack is indeed unfavorable to me." Mi Yong immediately agreed, "Now there are Huluba and Zhong Xin on the flat pine forest to block the Turks, and Ah Hui is withdrawing, and it takes time for him to retreat. Only reinforcements from the Xi Palace can reach the Guifang in the shortest time. However, the main forces of the five Xi tribes are fighting outside, and the number of troops left behind in Anzhou is limited. The main forces are placed on the Yanshan line to defend against the Central Earth and Guifang side to defend against the Turks, and are in the middle and in charge of the Xi King.

The mansion shouldn't have too many troops. It's not difficult to guess that even if the Xi Wang Mansion sends troops to rescue, there are only about four or five thousand people, at least half of them are temporary recruits of string control men, and they are all reserve forces among the tribes, either small or old, with limited combat power. The first goal of besieging the city to fight aid is definitely them. After encircling and annihilation of this Xi barbarian, the resistance of Jianchang Gong (Li Zixiong) to lead the selection army to Gubeikou south will be greatly reduced."

Speaking of this, Mi Yong glanced at Li Fengyun and carefully advised, "If the Guifang has not seen the situation clearly so far, has not judged who his enemy is, or even misunderstood that his enemy is a Turkic person, then this is our advantage, and this advantage may help us take down the Guifang."

Li Fengyun understood and nodded slightly. Hu Yanjian and Jing Jiang Liujin Fei knew Mi Yong's intention at first, which was to first surround Guifang City to lure the King Xi's Mansion to help, and then use the army of Xi's Mansion as bait to lure Guifang into the trap. Once Guifang believes that the enemy is in a dilemma of being attacked by the enemy from both sides, he may go out of the city to attack, so that he will lose one and the other, and the city will be empty; or, the Guifang mistakenly thinks that the reinforcements have repelled the enemy, and open the door to welcome the reinforcements without knowing the truth, and give up the city.

"Good plan!" Hu Yanjian became excited and immediately asked, "Brother Jian, in your opinion, is it a high possibility to lure the ghost party to take the initiative, or is it a high possibility to pretend to be Xi Lu to deceive the city gate?"

"There are only four or five thousand control strings today. If these people are still siegeing the city tomorrow, the Guifang should make a wrong judgment." Mi Yong said, "Of course, we cannot rule out that the Guifang already knew that the White Wolf had brought back with tens of thousands of Middle-earth troops, so from the perspective of security, the possibility that the Guifang could not stick to it is the greatest."

Mi Yong's answer is obvious. The best way is to wipe out the reinforcements of the King Xi Mansion, and then pretend to be the King Xi Mansion army to open the city gate. As for whether it can succeed, it depends on luck.

"In my opinion, it is actually not important to judge the situation in front of you. What is important is that as long as the ghost party mistakenly thinks we have been defeated, this plan is feasible." Jing Jiang Liujinfei also publicly supported it. Seeing Li Fengyun's expressionless face, he raised his horse whip and shook it in front of Li Fengyun, indicating that he spoke and expressed his opinion, whether this plan could work.

"Ghost Square City is not important, and the reinforcements of the King Xi's Mansion are not worth worrying." Li Fengyun looked at the three of them and raised his hand to point in the northeast. "Whether we can capture Anzhou as we wish is, the key is the key to Songshan Pass, and the key is to severely damage or completely wipe out the main force of Ah Huizheng and his five Xi tribes."

Hu Yanjian's eyes shone brightly and became more and more excited, "What do you mean is to take down the Songshan Pass at any cost and block Ah Huizheng from Anzhou, or use the ghost side as bait to use the favorable terrain of Songshan to ambush Ah Huizheng and wipe out all his troops?"

"Of course, it was to ambush Ah Huizheng and wipe out all his troops." Jing Jiang Liujinfei said without hesitation, "It's just that, it's better to take Guifang City down, so as not to be killed by Xi Lu in Guifang City at a critical moment and stab us in the back."

Li Fengyun didn't say anything and turned his eyes to Mi Yong. After all, Mi Yong persisted in the flat pine forest for a longer time and was more familiar with the terrain of Guifang, and could make better suggestions in some aspects.

"The Songshan Pass is very dangerous. One man is the pass, and ten thousand men cannot open it. It is easy to defend and difficult to attack." Mi Yong said immediately, "So attacking the Songshan Pass requires especially siege equipment. There are too many people and cannot be deployed. When we lack equipment and are short of time, it is even more difficult to conquer the Songshan Pass than to capture the ghost side."

This is obvious. Don’t expect to block Ah Hui from Anzhou. It’s more realistic. Consider how to annihilate Ah Hui under Guifang City. In this way, the alliance army not only needs to quickly annihilate the reinforcements of Prince Xi’s mansion, but also needs to seize the Guifang City before Ah Hui comes back, ensuring that he is focused and concentrates all his strength to fight the enemy to achieve his contribution.

"Good!" Li Fengyun said decisively, "Tonight, the general managers of the army will discuss it."

"If you send the order, the subsequent army will camp twenty miles outside Guifang City, and it is strictly forbidden to approach the city."

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September 17th, late at night, Guifang, Alliance government military discussions.

Li Fengyun came up with specific strategies for the Ghost Side's Battle, besieged the city and fought aid, and used the Ghost Side as bait to encircle and annihilate the Xi tribe reinforcements. The alliance army first encircled and annihilated the reinforcements of the Xi prince's mansion with absolute advantage, and then moved to Songshan to fight against the main forces of Ah Huizheng and the Xi tribe's five armies.

This plan was first questioned by Li Zixiong, "Why not capture the important pass of Songshan, block the main force of Ah Huizheng and the five Xi tribes outside Anzhou, and then use the power of the Khitans to surround Ah Huizheng? In comparison, is it a big loss to capture the important pass of Songshan, or a big loss to surround Ah Huizheng?"

As soon as this statement was made, it immediately won the approval of most alliance generals. Although many people dare not say it, they also thought so in their hearts. The army came over a long distance without having time to take a breath, and there was also serious shortage of food and weapons. Li Fengyun rolled up his sleeves and swung his arms, and fought to the death with the Xi Lu army regardless of the consequences. Isn’t it too rash to do it?
Chapter completed!