Jiang Tao was wrapped in a thick cloak and wearing a thick fur hat on his head. He stood at the top of the city, but his body was still shaking. He was not familiar with martial arts and was thin. He had been living in the south with a warm climate for most of his life. It was really unsuitable for such extremely frozen weather in the north.

But as the commanding general in the middle of the Shuntian Army, he could not have been like he did in the eastern border army of Chu State. He just needed to sit in the room and give orders. Now the morale of the Shuntian Army is extremely low. If he cannot see the main general, the morale of the military may be further reduced.

Jiang Tao knew that the thousands of Shuntian troops under his command now had doubts about him, a thin scholar, as the chief general. In their image, the generals should be Kong Wu's powerful ones, but I am afraid that these people have never seen a general like him.

Fortunately, through the offensive and defensive battles in the previous few days, these people's doubts were slowly fading away. For Jiang Tao, fighting at this scale and enemies of this level did not have any sense of accomplishment for him to successfully block the opponent's attack. His former opponents were the Qi army that dominated the world, even those army with luxurious equipment and extremely high tactical qualities could even get it in front of him. Cheng Wuben's title of Iron Wall of Chu was counted on him.

As a gateway to guard the front of Changyang County, Jiaodongcheng is actually not as good as Pingdu, and there is no natural danger like Pingdu River as support. The low city wall is dilapidated and disrepaired for so long. Although the overall quality of the soldiers stationed here is much higher than that of Ma Zhe in Pingdu, facing the tens of thousands of elite troops brought by Wu Shixiong, the soldiers here are actually unconfident. The three thousand Chu troops brought by Jiang Tao became their life-saving straw. In fact, in the battle a few days ago, the Chu army easily defeated Wu Shixiong's attack again and again, which greatly increased the confidence of the original garrison here.

It turns out that there is such a way of fighting in battle.

The Chu army's battles these days opened their eyes.

In some aspects, the equipment of the Chu army is more luxurious than the Qi army, because they are not short of money. In order to allow their army to compete with the Qi army, the Chu court is quite willing to invest in it. The Chu army in Baoqing is responsible for the mission of opening up the second battlefield. As a pioneer unit, their equipment shocked the poor and deserted Shuntian Army.

A series of catapults that can be disassembled and assembled, a series of foot-step crossbows that can be fired continuously, and a stone cannon, instantly turned Jiaodongcheng, which looked riddled with holes, into a hedgehog with thorns all over his body.

Jiaodongcheng was not big, but instead gave the Chu army a great advantage. In every key position, they could calmly arrange military strength and weapons.

Wu Xin is indeed an excellent general, and his training of the army is effective, but a skilled woman cannot cook without rice. Facing such an enemy, they cannot even attack near the city. The distance from 500 meters to 100 meters near the city is their way to death. A large number of casualties made every attack return in vain, causing minimal losses to Jiaodongcheng.

During the whole day yesterday, Wu Shixiong did not make any noise, but Jiang Tao knew in his heart that as Wu Shixiong, who had received regular military training and professional background, his brief silence was not because he admitted his failure, but because he was taking on greater actions. Generals who received regular military training, unlike most of the military generals of the Shuntian Army, they would never lose confidence because of temporary failure. On the contrary, they would find out the enemy's weaknesses from the lessons of failure and use them to try to get back their disadvantages.

For Jiang Tao, the enemy in front of him was not his biggest worry. The information showed that the Taiping Army, which had been silent for several days, finally began to act. The Canglang Camp was moving towards the direction of the Fenshuiguan, and the Tiger Camp was moving towards Changyang County. Last night, an emergency information from the inner guards from Shayang County made Jiang Tao even more worried. Another Taiping Army unit stationed near Shayang County, Jushan Camp, disappeared, and the entire camp was empty.

The destination of Jushan Camp is self-evident, but the inner guard spies were unaware of the time they left, which made Jiang Tao quite angry. If they could accurately identify the time when the troops left Shayang County City, it would be of great significance to him. At least he could determine how deep the Taiping Army participated in this incident.

If it was a temporary departure after the incident, it would be fine. If this army had already been departed in advance, the problem would be serious. Departing in advance means that the Taiping Army had already predicted the Wu Xin incident in Changyang County. If this is true, then everything I see in front of me is very likely an illusion.

Taiping Army! Jiang Tao's doubts became deeper and deeper. Although there were many differences in the training of the opponent's training of the spies of the inner guard in Shayang County, Jiang Tao could see at a glance that this was the training of the Chu army. He also personally participated in the compilation and revision of this training.

He sent the names of several important generals of the Taiping Army to the Inner Guard Headquarters in Shangjing City, hoping that they could find out the details of these people and see what their relationship has to the Chu army?

Caodian and combat methods are so familiar, which makes Jiang Tao's doubts deepen.

"General, look!" Wu Shifang, the general of the Shuntian Army standing beside him, pointed at the opposite side and shouted, "Why is the rebel camp getting on fire? Such a huge smoke?"

Jiang Tao, who was pulled back to reality by Wu Shifang's scream, raised his eyes and only looked at the direction of the flag flying, his face changed slightly, "I ordered the entire army to cover his mouth and nose with a wet towel. The other party was not a fire, but he wanted to smoke us with thick smoke. Look at the direction, their attack will inevitably be after this thick smoke."

The wind was strong, and thick smoke quickly floated over. In a flash, the entire Jiaodong City was shrouded in thick smoke. The smoke on the opposite side was still pouring in endlessly, and bursts of noise came from the city. At the same time, the sound of war drums on the opposite side was already rumbling.

"I want to win in chaos?" Jiang Tao snorted, looked back at the city, and it sounded more serious.

"Wu Shifang!" he shouted sternly.

"General, I'm here!" Wu Shifang took a step forward, and has been with this weak general for the past few days. He was completely impressed by the person in front of him. The orders that were light and could always be pinched to the most critical place. The feeling of lifting heavy weights made Wu Shifang amazed.

"Take your army to guard the city walls, just don't mess around. If someone takes advantage of the chaos to attack the city walls, no matter who it is, he will continue to fight because our people will not climb the city walls." Jiang Tao said coldly.

"Yes, General. That's it?" Wu Shifang asked, but his heart was thrilled. The enemy had a numerical advantage. In such thick smoke, no target was left in any response. I'm afraid that the next battle would be a chaos.

"Wu Shixiong is trying to pull our level to the same level as him and then duel with us. Since that's the case, I will satisfy him and let him know what a real power brigade is. Three thousand Chu soldiers will leave the city to fight. Your soldiers have no problem with operating crossbows, catapults, etc., tell them to shoot desperately at 300 meters away."

"But general, we also have subordinates fighting under the city." Wu Shifang was shocked.

"Don't worry, the Chu army will only move within a range of 100 to 200 meters under the city, and will never step out of this category. Wu Shixiong, ha, pediatrics, dare to take things in front of me." Jiang Tao sneered.

"Cheng Wenjie." Jiang Tao turned around and looked at a Chu army general standing there like cast iron on the other side, "Take your troops and teach me a good lesson."

"Receive the order!" Cheng Wenjie was a smart little man. When he heard that he was going to go out of the city to fight, he was full of fanaticism. This guy was also a former general of the eastern border army of the Chu army.

"Mr. Jia, I'm going to let you down." Jiang Tao finally set his eyes on the old man who had been following him: "Please pretend to be a soldier, mingle with our troops, find Wu Shixiong, and then shoot him to death. Wu Shixiong wants to win in chaos, but this is not our opportunity. We can't see it, nor can he see it."

"General, I'm leaving, are you safe?" the old man hesitated for a moment.

"Don't worry, I'll go back to the city tower now. I will never show my head until the battle is over." Jiang Tao smiled and said, "I won't be a trouble for you. The mission has been released, and it's your business to end. If you win, I'll celebrate your merits. If you lose, it seems that I can't escape."

"Don't worry, General." Wu Shifang, Cheng Wenjie and Mr. Jia shouted loudly.

Seeing the three of them going down the city, Jiang Tao looked at the increasingly denser smoke opposite, and couldn't help but cough a few times. The personal soldiers beside him quickly handed over the towel wet with water and covered his mouth and nose. Jiang Tao hummed, "Wu Shixiong, I've opened the city gate now, but it depends on whether you have the ability to enter."

After the thick smoke, Wu Shixiong stood with his sword. Behind him, sixteen burly men carried Wu Xin's coffin and raised the big sword in his hand high. Wu Shixiong shouted in a hoarse voice: "Brothers, avenge General Wu."

"Avenge General Wu!" The shouts resounded throughout the sky.

"Advance, advance! The whole army attacked!" Wu Shixiong shouted, and rushed into the smoke with his big knife. The shouts followed one after another, and rows of soldiers followed the coffin and disappeared in the deep smoke. Behind them, another group of soldiers were constantly throwing the pine branches, cypress branches and other branches collected from these days into piles of fires.

Use thick smoke to block the opponent's vision, prevent their excellent equipment from exerting their due effect, prevent the enemy from exerting their exquisite teamwork, lower them to the same level as themselves, and then flood them with their number of advantages. This is Wu Shixiong's plan.

Opposite him was the elite Chu army. Wu Shixiong knew the combat qualities of these people. After waiting for several days, he finally arrived as promised today. He launched a lonely attack without hesitation. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!