Like many places in the northern Central Plains, Desheng Town is located in a plain where there is no sufficient water source. Apart from the few wells in the town, people mostly rely on this small river that passes through the town to live. They take the water from it to wash clothes and cook, and draw the water to irrigate the fields.

It can be said that this nameless river has long been integrated with the town, which makes both the Vietnamese army in the town and the Guirong people outside the town easily ignore its existence.

But some habits will not change. For example, the Guirong people's camp was stationed on the upper reaches of the river. It can be said that in two days, both the enemy and us lived a life of drinking the water of the same river.

Now, with Hertulai's finger, everyone finally understood. All the leaders and soldiers of Guirong looked at the river water in front of them, and a strange light flashed in their eyes.

Without Hertu Laido's explanation, they already understood what they should do. At this moment, with several leaders, the Guirong soldiers who were still resting stood up one after another, rushed to the river, either carried them with their hands or pried them with weapons, and built simple earth walls on the river.

What they had to do was to cut off the river water so that the Vietnamese army in the town could cut off the water. By then, the basic conditions they had to rely on for their livelihood disappeared, and they would have to go out of the town. As long as they arrived on the open plains and had no support from the walls, the advantages of the Vietnamese army would be gone, but the strength of the Guirong people could be fully utilized.

With a plan, Hetu made the current battle situation undergo a fundamental change, and the balance of victory suddenly tilted towards Gui Rong. Just because he understood this, Gui Rong was surprisingly united at this time, and everyone worked hard, and soon built an earth wall on the river.

As the earth walls gathered together, the river water that was originally flowing happily was quickly cut into two sections. After the first half was blocked, the water level began to rise, and the water flow in the second half became slower and shallower. When the sky was completely dark, less than 30% of the previous one was left. When it flowed forward, the water flow into the town was even shallow enough to reach the insteps of people.

And this was just the beginning. Because the Guirong people had already built more earth walls upstream at this time, their purpose was to completely lock the river water and thus kill thousands of people in the town - if they still stayed in it.

When this scene happened, Chen Daoshou and Li Ling both felt a little tricky. Only then did they think of the weakness, the enemy quickly grasped it. This is not a good thing.

Especially the blow to the morale of the military was quite obvious. Looking at the busyness of the enemy in the distance and looking at the shallow river water in front of him, many soldiers were already panicked. The Fengzhou soldiers were still fine and could still maintain military discipline, but the imperial guards couldn't help but mutter: "What should I do? Is the well water enough for us to drink?"

"If the well water is also affected by the river water, wouldn't we be thirsty here?"

"Then it's better to fight out. We might have a chance in the last battle with the Guirong people!"

Various statements were spreading in the town. The officers wanted to stop them, but were worried that they would hurt their morale even more, and they were in a dilemma.

Seeing this, Li Ling and the others knew that the situation was critical and could not hesitate anymore. When tomorrow, maybe the morale was bleak and Gui Rong came again, they might not be able to defend themselves.

"It seems that we can only take the initiative to attack tonight." Li Ling hesitated, "But will they be prepared to guard against us, and even set up an ambush halfway just waiting for us to fall into the trap?"

Chen Daoshou pondered for a moment and said firmly: "No matter what, we should take the initiative tonight. But we can make a choice and catch them off guard in the most unexpected way!"

Li Ling didn't want to interfere in the matters in combat. Since Chen Daoshou said so, he nodded and added: "In fact, we can also take this opportunity to send people to break through and ask for help. As long as the frontiers arrive in time, we can completely turn the defense into an offensive."

"Well, I think so too. In this way, Yang Zhen, who is by his side, has outstanding martial arts skills, so he will take a few people to ask for help. How about it?"

"Okay, I'll talk to him." Li Ling agreed immediately. Indeed, in terms of flexibility after breaking through, high martial arts skills and smart enough, the Yang brothers are indeed the most suitable candidate.

As for Li Ling's order, Yang Zhen and Yang Chen did not refuse, and agreed to them all, and then they gathered their energy there. As for the other soldiers, they were the same. They all had enough food and drink, and waited for the third update to break out of the town and raid the enemy camp.

Time passed quickly with this arrangement and preparation, and it was already the third day.

Like yesterday, there were thick clouds in the sky, covering all the stars and moons, and the surroundings were pitch black, which was suitable for sneak attacks. This time, the difference between the Vietnamese army and the Guirong people was that they did not use horses. The mixture of the six hundred imperial guards and Fengzhou soldiers was all out on foot. Everyone held wooden sticks in their mouths, silently moving forward, and soon disappeared into the night.

Now only two hundred imperial guards are left in the town. Li Ling once again climbed to the second-story building and looked ahead, waiting for the war to begin, and only Li Moyun was left beside him.

Such waiting is always tormenting, and the team has only left for a meal. Li Ling felt that it had been almost half a day and exhaled, saying, "What do you think they will make?"

Li Moyun understood. He was talking about what kind of preparation Gui Rong would have, but he couldn't think of it for a while, so he could only comfort him: "Young master, maybe they are not guarded at all. We can defeat the enemy in one battle."

"Impossible. If they can think of breaking my water source in time, it proves that there are smart people in it. How could they have such a carelessness? The two sides are fighting each other's own plans." Li Ling said, tightening his fists again. This feeling of unpredictable life and death was something he had rarely experienced before.

"Young master, don't worry, even if I really lose, I will protect you and leave." Although Li Moyun couldn't see Li Ling's appearance, he could feel his nervousness and said firmly.

This sentence brought Li Ling's silent smile, and then he stopped talking and was still quietly waiting for the war ahead to begin.

Wuli land, even in the dark, was not too far away. But unexpectedly, half an hour passed, and there was still no movement in the enemy camp.

This was not because Chen Daoshou and the others made some mistakes on the way or gave up the sneak attack. But because their strategy this time was even more clever and they did not pounce on the enemy camp directly, but instead circled around and quietly touched the rear of the enemy camp.

Until the fourth update, looking at the Guirong Camp under the bonfires in front of him, Chen Daoshou suddenly drew his sword in his hand, pointed his sword forward, and shouted: "Brothers, killing the enemy is today, killing me!" Before he finished speaking, he had already led the way and rushed forward.

The other soldiers were all energetic and shouted, "Kill!" and rushed forward quickly, holding up the weapons, their eyes widened, and then they aimed at the position of the bonfire below and rushed towards the position of the bonfire below.

A few dozen steps away, they rushed past the enemy camp in an instant, and then they heard the sound of horns. Sure enough, the Guirong people in the camp did not fall asleep, but they also crawled out of the tent, roared, and then came to fight. The two sides instantly launched a head-on battle in the Guirong people's camp.

Because the Vietnamese army entered from the rear, it was somewhat beyond the enemy's expectations, and their arrangements were not fully utilized. They even gained the upper hand and killed the enemy to retreat. As the swords and guns were swinging, many Gui Rong soldiers fell down one after another, and the battle situation was rarely one-sided.

This made the soldiers even more inspired, as if a tiger entered a pack of wolves, constantly roaring and advancing step by step, killing straight to the central army tent, with the attitude of pushing the entire enemy camp.

But Chen Daoshou, who was in the middle of the team, was not as optimistic as everyone. Although he rushed forward step by step, almost no one could take care of him, the uneasiness in his heart continued to accumulate: "No, the resistance here is too weak... They, they only left a few hundred people here, what about the other Guirong people?"

As his mind changed, an extremely bad thought arose from his heart, which made him unable to help but look up at Desheng Town ahead. And just as he looked, as if to confirm his worries, the sound of horns also rose again in front of Desheng Town. A group of cavalry, with extremely fierce attitude, launched a fierce attack on the town from the side!

"I've been trapped!" Chen Daoshou was shocked, regretting that he had missed this possibility.

He had thought before that the Guirong people would set up an ambush in the camp and wait for him to lead his troops in before they could come out, or use the terrain and even the accumulated river water to cause trouble to his troops... If the enemy really uses these methods, he has ways to resolve them one by one. Even if he attacks the crowd with few, he may not have no chance of winning.

However, he missed the move to avoid the real and attack the virtual. The opponent actually moved the main force to the side of the town early in the morning, and then just waited for his troops to lead his troops into the camp, and then rushed to attack Desheng Town. In this way, he perfectly avoided the biggest obstacle and formed the result of mutual exchanges.

For the Guirong people, this place is just a camp, with at most broken tents inside, and it doesn't matter even if it is lost. However, the Desheng Town there is different. Not only are there important figures such as Li Ling, but there are also thousands of people. The most important thing is that countless food and supplies are stored in the town. Once they are taken advantage of by Guirong, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Many soldiers were also shocked when something happened in front of them, and some soldiers of the imperial guards wanted to ignore the war here and rushed back to rescue the town. However, the Guirong soldiers who stayed here had already received strict orders. They knew that if they wanted to win, they had to keep the main force of the Vietnamese army, so they screamed and fought to the death to stop the war, with a greater momentum than before.
Chapter completed!