diskusbooks Chapter 485 Yu Ziling's Plan to Break the Empty City
Chapter 485 Yu Ziling's Plan to Break the Empty City
Yu Ziling brought Yang Hongying and rushed to the west gate. Seeing the many torches and enemies outside, she immediately ordered the Yan army that came to support to guard the camp gate and the village wall.
Soon, the enemy's offensive was blocked and they were forced to retreat step by step.
The Shenji Camp also arrived with fire bombs and threw them directly at the enemy.
With the loud explosions, the enemy realized that the night attack had failed and there were many casualties, so they retreated in a hurry.
The Yan army was about to pursue, but Yu Ziling quickly ordered them not to pursue and to retreat and rest.
She was worried that this was another enemy plot, deliberately luring them out and into an ambush.
The Yan army repaired the camp gate and most of them went back to rest, while those who stayed continued to guard.
Seeing that it was only three o'clock in the morning, Yu Ziling went back to sleep.
The next morning, Yu Ziling, who was not in good spirits, got up. When she and Yang Hongying were having breakfast, a spy suddenly came on horseback to report.
"General, this is bad. The enemy seems to have escaped."
"Run away? Where did you run to?"
Yu Ziling put down her bowl, stood up and asked.
"I don't know. We did some investigation and found that the enemy's north gate was wide open, and there were a few old men sweeping the road.
Then we went to check the other city gates and found the same thing everywhere: all the gates were wide open, and there wasn't a single enemy soldier on the city walls."
Yang Hongying frowned and said,
"The city gates are wide open? Did the enemy escape last night?"
The spy nodded quickly and said,
"What the deputy commander said is very likely. The enemy may have seen that they could not defeat us and their night attack failed, so they abandoned the city and fled at night."
Yang Hongying smiled and said,
"That's perfect. No need to fight, I can get a credit for nothing."
However, Yu Ziling shook her head and said,
"Something's wrong. I'm afraid things aren't that simple. How far can they get this night? Send the scouts to chase them immediately, heading towards Xuzhou to see if there's any trace of them."
"As ordered!"
The spies went out immediately.
Yang Hongying sat down again and said while eating,
“The enemy probably ran away, leaving us an empty city. But you are right to be cautious. This city is here and we can’t escape. We can enter at any time.
If we chase them, we probably won't be able to catch up. If the enemy really escapes, we can have Skynet inform the Zhennan Army and let them give chase."
Yu Ziling nodded and said,
"Yes, the Zhennan Army has 100,000 cavalrymen who come and go like the wind. They are truly formidable. The Yan State is truly formidable.
When the Emperor of Qi fled, I saw the Zhennan Army chasing him, so I hurriedly sent a pigeon to inform the Emperor of Qi.
As a result, he ran away, leaving behind all the troops and all the gold, silver and food, and was directly defeated by the Zhennan Army.
The strength of the Zhennan Army is truly, truly impressive."
"Hehe, the Zhennan Army is certainly terrifying as an enemy, but as our own people, it's still reassuring. They are our ace troops."
Yang Hongying smiled sweetly.
They had just finished their meal when the communications soldier came to the door again.
"General, there's a pigeon message from Skynet, it's from the prince."
The communications soldier immediately handed the note to Yu Ziling.
After thinking for a while, Yang Hongying asked,
"Does the prince miss you?"
Yu Ziling looked at the paper expressionlessly for a long time before sighing.
"The enemy has given me a big problem."
"what happened?"
"The enemy didn't leave, but ambushed in the city."
"Hmm? What's so difficult about this? Just charge in, surround their ambush location, and kill them all, right?"
"No, the enemy's ambush is too scattered. There are more than 10,000 houses in the city, and almost every house has several soldiers hiding in the houses, waiting to strike our army head-on.
If our army doesn't know that they are lying in ambush, then when we go in with a small number of troops to take over the city, they will gather together and attack us, catching us off guard.
If our army knew there was an ambush, we would definitely go and clear it out, but the enemy is too scattered and hiding in civilian houses. Our forces will also be dispersed to the extreme, and our firearms will be useless.
Furthermore, in a chaotic battle, whether it is our army, the enemy army, or the civilians, there will surely be heavy casualties."
Hearing this, Yang Hongying's face suddenly darkened, and she frowned and said,
"This damn Li Mi has kidnapped all the people in the city and brought them together to fight against our army.
If it were another commander, he would not even think about it and would directly order a massacre in the city, regardless of the casualties among the people.
But Li Mi knows our commander. You are the former queen and you are from Qi. You are reluctant to kill so many people from Qi, and you are reluctant to let tens of thousands of Qi civilians and tens of thousands of pseudo-Qi soldiers be buried with them. You are also reluctant to let your side suffer heavy losses, so you will not use artillery to bombard the city.
He has a firm grasp of your mentality."
Yu Ziling sighed deeply, her pretty face full of worry.
"How come I encountered something like this on my first expedition?"
This is a dilemma for Yu Ziling.
Yang Hongying sighed,
“If we attack Xixiang City by force, even if we command a large army and sweep all the way from south to north, the civilians and our army will surely suffer heavy casualties in the chaotic battle.
Moreover, the enemy is in the dark, while our army is in the light, so we don’t know which side has more people and which side has fewer people.
There is no way to deploy troops reasonably.
Moreover, those soldiers are likely to use civilians to threaten our army, which will make it even more difficult to fight.
What can I do? "
Yu Ziling lowered her head, thinking hard about a solution.
In fact, in this situation, the best way is to use artillery fire and massacre the city.
But not only Yu Ziling would not do such a thing, even Shen Changgong would not allow it.
Although Shen Changgong was extremely cruel to the powerful and wealthy, and would often exterminate entire families, he was very kind to the people. He would never allow the massacre of civilians in occupied areas and enemy countries, and he would always reduce the hatred of the other party to the lowest level, which would facilitate assimilation and unification.
Yu Ziling thought and calculated carefully.
Since conventional tactics don’t work, is it possible to find another way?
A plan gradually emerged in her mind, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
Yang Hongying saw her smile and asked quickly,
"What good idea have you come up with?"
"I've come up with a unique and excellent solution that works just for this situation."
"Any solution that can eliminate the enemy is a good one. Tell me quickly."
Yu Ziling said,
"First of all, the enemies here are all scattered throughout the city. There aren't many people here to begin with, and if they're further dispersed, communication and command will become even more inconvenient, or even paralyzed. In that case, let's take command for him."
"Command for him? How?"
Yang Hongying raised her head, her eyes filled with clear stupidity.