Chapter 185 You play with my mind, I destroy your body!
Before the Song Dynasty, people generally lacked understanding of night blindness, and generals did not improve the nutrition of their soldiers from the dietary level, so there were many soldiers with night blindness.
Only elite soldiers who come from wealthy families like Qingshe's troops can maintain basic combat power at night.
And without light pollution, moonlight, and starlight, the night would be extremely dark.
The middle and lower-level generals cannot read the flags clearly and act according to orders.
Senior generals cannot clearly see the enemy and our armies in the distance, making it difficult to command accurately.
So withdrawing troops at dusk is the default practice for all generals.
Pang Nuan originally thought that Ying Chengyu would let go of the military formation and let the Zhao and Wei coalition forces return to the city. The two armies would rest for a night and continue fighting.
But Pang Nuan didn’t expect that the intensity of Ying Chengyu’s attack would reach another level!
Wei Qi asked in a low voice: "General Pang, there are so many bird-blind people in our army, do you want to forcefully withdraw the troops?"
Pang Nuan smiled: "There are many night-blind people in the Zhao and Wei army, but there are few night-blind people in the Qin army?"
"Since Lord Chang'an invites a battle, how can I not accompany him?"
< br>"Order! The chariots return to support, and the swords point at the Qin army's center!"
But Pang Nuan did not expect that this battle would last until the next day!
Pingdan (3:00) the next day.
Meng Wu paced back and forth in the camp: "Why doesn't the general allow me to leave the camp?"
"Could it be that we must first fade away my presence in the army, and then choose the opportunity to kill me!"
“Or is it possible to impeach this general for dereliction of duty after the war?”
“No, the king will not agree to this impeachment.”
Ying Chengyu said The form of the military order prohibited Meng Wu from leaving the camp and he had to sleep all day.
But our army is fighting a bloody battle with the enemy. As a deputy general, how can Meng Wu sleep?
After barely sleeping for nine hours, Meng Wu could no longer sleep.
Because of military orders, he could not leave the camp and even had difficulty observing the battle situation, which made Meng Wu anxious.
Agitated and idle, and with Fan Yuqi's warning, Meng Wu could not help but think too much.
Suddenly, the voice of the soldiers came from outside the camp: "General, it's Pingdan!"
Meng Wu immediately left the camp and sighed: "It's finally peace!"
After solving the three urgent problems, Meng Wu hurriedly asked: "Where is the coach?"
The soldiers responded: "They are still organizing an siege outside Xiuyu City."
Meng Wu was shocked: "It's Pingdan, and they are still sieging the city?"
"Take me to find the commander quickly!"
After getting on his horse, Meng Wu rode towards the Chinese army.
Far away, Meng Wu saw that every commander of the Qin army was holding a torch. Nearly 10,000 torches on his own side and thousands of torches at the head of Xiuyu City would be near Xiuyu City. The reflection is as bright as day.
The enemy and our soldiers also attacked each other as they did in the daytime, killing each other endlessly.
Hurrying to Ying Chengxuan’s side, Meng Wu bowed his hands and saluted: “Commander, Pingdan has arrived, and the general will come in response to the order.”
After issuing another military order, Ying Chengxuan Looking up at the sky: "It's already Pingdan? Time flies so fast."
Meng Wu said helplessly: "The coach thought time passed so fast, but the soldiers probably didn't think so."
"Since the siege started before dawn yesterday, the soldiers have been fighting continuously for more than ten hours. , I'm afraid the soldiers are exhausted."
Ying Chengqiao nodded slightly: "Indeed, the soldiers are working harder than me."
"I will order the soldiers to retreat. Come down."
"General Meng, go and wake up the 100,000 soldiers in the rear army."
Meng Wu:? ? ?
I can understand the first sentence, but I really can’t understand the last sentence!
Now is Pingdan!
Who is a good general who makes his soldiers get up at three in the morning?
Meng Wu asked hesitantly: "General, do you want me to wake up the soldiers in the rear army?"
"General, what plan does the general have to execute?"
Ying Cheng nodded slightly: "Please general Meng to lead the rear army to take over our army and continue to attack the city!"
"It must be given Xiuyu City has sufficient pressure."
Meng Wu suddenly said: "General, is this a strategy to weaken the troops?"
Now the Qin army has a major advantage over the Zhao and Wei coalition forces. It's a military advantage.
The Qin army attacked the city day and night, day and night, and the Zhao army had to accompany it to defend the city day and night.
But the Qin army can divide 200,000 soldiers and horses into two groups of 100,000 each, rotating every day.
Zhao Jun can only rotate at most 30% of his soldiers to rest every day.
If things go on like this, the Zhao army will inevitably accumulate more fatigue and pressure than the Qin army.
But Meng Wu still felt that this strategy was inappropriate.
Just as he was about to admonish him, Ying Chengyu smiled: "Tired soldiers are auxiliaries, but tired generals are the masters!"
Meng Wu looked puzzled: "Tired generals?"
"How will you be tired?"
The corner of Ying Chengyu's mouth raised slightly: "General Zhao Pang Nuan has extremely abundant battle experience."
"But there is one shortcoming that no famous general can overcome. , that is aging! ”
"Zhao General Pang Nuan is over ninety years old. No matter how much experience he has, he still has to use his brain to display it. Can his energy sustain it?" Nuan, but how can Pang Nuan's energy and physical strength compare to you and me?"
"So the most important thing in this battle is to endure it!"
"Endure it until Pang Nuan's physical strength is exhausted? , until Pang Nuan's energy is exhausted, that's when our army will win!"
Pang Nuan believes that the key to this battle lies in Ying Chengyu's mentality.
Ying Chengyu believes that the key to this battle lies in Pang Nuan's body!
Meng Wu was stunned: "What is this strategy?"
Ying Chengyu smiled and said: "There is no such strategy in the military books. I will call it the War Eagle Art, or maybe it is "Eagle-boiling tactics!"
After a day of fighting, Ying Chengyu has made a judgment on the strength comparison between the enemy and ourselves.
There is a certain gap between Ying Chengyu's command ability and Pang Nuan's, but the gap is not big, and there will not be a situation that will collapse at the touch of a button.
Although Pang Nuan repeatedly took the initiative to attack, he was using offense as defense. His offensive desire was actually insufficient, and he would not reveal too many flaws to give Ying Chengyu a chance to win with one strike.
Judging from the current battle situation, the battle will inevitably continue to drag on.
The longer the delay, the more problems the two sides will expose, further highlighting the gap in capabilities between the two sides and reducing Ying Chengyu's chances of winning.
So Ying Chengyu decided to target Pang Nuan’s age!
The two of them are like two chess players playing against each other.
Ying Chengxuan is a newbie with extraordinary talent but only two and a half years of practice.
Pang Nuan is a veteran who has dominated the chess world for seventy years.
When unable to find a way to turn the tables within the chess game, Ying Chengyu decided to look outside the chess board.
For example, stealing takeout from your opponent and making your opponent unable to fight anymore due to hypoglycemia.
For example, playing a square dance at a loud volume outside the hotel where the opponent is staying, causing the opponent to be in a trance due to lack of sleep and make the wrong chess piece.
This is the tactic that Ying Chengyu tailored for Pang Nuan today!
Meng Wu was stunned: "How shameless!"
Meng Wu really wanted to ask Ying Chengyu, how on earth did you come up with such a shameless plan?
People can’t!
At least not!
Ying Chengyu said shamelessly: "Although it is shameless, it is useful!"
"So I will divide our army into two armies, each with 100,000 people."
"In the future, you will The two of us will each command an army, and each will command the battle for one day, and then the other will take turns."
"In order to prevent the enemy from figuring out the rules, we will occasionally join forces or divide the troops and change generals."< br>
“But this will require a continuous onslaught day and night, every day!”
Meng Wu shook his head: "Now our army is facing the coalition forces of Zhao and Wei. Although Pang Nuan is low on energy, the Zhao and Wei armies rotate, and Pang Nuan has enough time to rest."
"General This strategy may be feasible, but it is useless in this battle!"
Ying Chengyu looked at the head of Xiuyu City: "There are indeed Zhao and Wei coalition forces in Xiuyu City, but in today's battle, both Zhao and Wei armies will be defeated! When the battle began, the generals of the Zhao and Wei armies also stood at the top of the city. "I boldly guess that the Zhao and Wei forces have joined forces and are under joint command."
" The commander is Pang Nuan!”
"And what if Pang Nuan really lets Wei Qi defend the city alone?"
"Wouldn't that be an opportunity to destroy the city!"
Meng Wu still doesn't think Ying Chengyu's strategy is effective: "Pang Nuan's troops are only the front troops of the Zhao army."
"Faced with the commander's strategy of tiring the generals, Pang Nuan will definitely summon Hu Luo and request Hu Luo to come to the rescue immediately."
"Once Zhao Zhao If the main force of the army arrives, or even just sends an additional general to lead a partial division, the general’s strategy will be ineffective!”
Ying Chengyu smiled: "Then our army has better achieved the goal of this battle, involving more troops and generals of the Zhao army."
"This battle is defeated, we, Da Qin We won too!"
"The punishment for excessive battle losses will be borne by me, so there is no need to worry, general."
Meng Wu was persuaded and sighed helplessly: "If we use this method, I'm afraid. Everyone in the world curses the general."
Ying Chengqiao said calmly: "Then let them curse!"
"This strategy is what I want, so everyone in the world abuses me, and it has nothing to do with General Meng!"
Will Ying Chengxuan care about the abuses from everyone in the world?
I won’t care at all!
As long as you kill hard enough, those enemies will be too scared to curse!
Seeing that Ying Chengyu was firm and prepared to suffer the loss of reputation, Meng Wu had no choice but to hand over: "Wei!"
Ying Chengyu also bowed his hands and saluted: "I'll bother General Meng next."
Bearing farewell to Ying Chengyu, Meng Wu immediately rode his horse back to the rear army and sighed deeply: "I think my grandfather is also from Qi. The father of this general was once a Confucian scholar of Qi State, and he became a refined general even after he switched to Qin Dynasty."
"But now I am doing such a conciliatory thing!"
" This general is ashamed of his ancestors!"
Suppressing his feelings, Meng Wu looked at the generals and shouted in a deep voice: "Send orders to the camp and bury the pots to make rice."
"Instruct all the generals to prepare the entire army in half an hour!"
"Prepare to attack the city!"
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Instead of calling for gold to withdraw the troops directly, Ying Chengyu took command. The various troops and horses covered the staggered retreat.
An hour later, Ying Chengyu’s men finally got out.
Looking at the Qin army retreating like a tide, Wei Qi breathed a sigh of relief: "The Qin army retreated!"
Pang Nuan also directed the troops fighting out of the city to return to the city, but there was no smile on his face.
After the orders were issued one after another, Pang Nuannhu’s eyes were filled with deep thoughts, and he murmured to himself: "The battle is at sunrise (5:00), the sun is about to rise, but the Qin army has withdrawn?"
"What exactly does Lord Chang'an want?"
Wei Qi guessed: "Maybe the Qin army is better at fighting at night, so they set the fighting time at night?"
Seeing that Qingshe had returned, Pang Nuan summoned Qingshe and asked directly: "How does the Qin army's night combat strength compare with our army?"
Qingshe answered with his hands in hand: "General Qi, Qin The army's night vision is obviously better than ours."
"Fortunately, it's not that strong, so we still can't see the flags clearly. We need to use torches to give orders."
Pang Nuan frowned and stroked his beard. "It seems that what Peng Chengjun said is reasonable."
It makes sense, but it is just an insufficient reason.
Pang Nuan still felt something was wrong.
Night blindness is only part of the reason that affects night fighting. Did Ying Chengyu choose to fight at night just because his soldiers had better night vision than the soldiers of the Zhao and Wei coalition forces?
Could it be that Ying Chengyu wanted to drag himself into a field unfamiliar to both parties in order to smooth the gap in capabilities between the two parties?
Wei Qi felt inspired.
General Pang praised me!
I've made progress!
Wei Qi immediately handed over his hand: "Thank you, General Pang for your compliments."
"The night is already dark, General Pang will go to rest first, and we will organize troops to clean up the battlefield in the future."
Pang Nuan shook his head: "No problem."
"I will always have to hear about the casualties of our army in order to sleep peacefully..."
Before he finished speaking, Pang Nuan saw a hundred figures running towards Xiuyu City, and he could occasionally hear the sound of wind blowing in his ears.
“Climb first! Climb first!”
“Don’t shout, attack quietly!”
“Pick up the ladder, resist the big shield, and attack when the enemy is not prepared. Charge forward! "
The hundred warriors who arrived first picked up the ladder and shield dropped by the dead man in battle, and rushed towards Xiuyu City in a sneaky manner.
Pang Nuan's eyes widened and he shouted: "Quickly go to the four gates to check whether there is any Qin army attacking first!"
Qingshe immediately accepted the order and galloped away on horseback.
After circling the city for a week, Qing She had no time to dismount and spoke loudly: "General, there are Qin troops outside the city gates on all sides. They are the first to attack the city!"
Wei Qi was confused: "Isn't the Qin army already there? Have you withdrawn?"
"Why are you starting to attack the city again?"
Pang Nuan had no time to be confused and shouted: "Crossbowmen, stop the enemy!"
As the first row of crossbow bolts were fired, the Qin army knew that they had been exposed, so they simply stopped hiding and acted like a fool. It was a wild rush.
Taking advantage of the slack period after a day of fierce battle between the Zhao and Wei coalition forces, the first warriors actually hung the ladder directly on the city wall!
It was obvious that Qin Jun was in disbelief.
After more than ten breaths, a Qin army rushed towards Xiuyu City.
Qingshe yelled angrily: "Besides, the thieves have no virtue!"
"Old lords, follow me and charge to kill!"
Qingshe personally led his team to block the city wall. , the Qin army also began to increase its strength.
In a blink of an eye, the temptation once again turned into a decisive battle!
Wei Qi murmured: "Is it true that the Qin army's withdrawal just now was false, and that it was true to deceive our army into relaxing its vigilance?"
However, as the sun rose, Wei Qi's guess was shattered.
What was seen outside the west gate of Xiuyu City was a new force with high spirits.
The person standing on the command platform of the army was also replaced by a middle-aged, handsome uncle with elegant temperament.
Wei Qi was shocked: "The Qin Army changed generals?!"
Pang Nuan looked at Meng Wu opposite, with a serious look in his eyes: "This person is the deputy general of the Qin Army, Qin Son of the old General Meng Ao, General Meng Wu!”
"If the general's prediction is correct, since your army was defeated yesterday, Chang'an Lord has deliberately used the technique of exhaustion to consume our army."
"Every next day may be like today, day and night!"
"Pengcheng Jun!" Pang Nuan said seriously: "We must divide our troops!"
"You and I should each lead a troop and fight with the enemy in rotation, otherwise our soldiers We will definitely not be able to hold on!"
Thinking of yesterday's fire in the Yellow River, Wei Qi whispered in fear: "General Pang, I may not be able to face Lord Chang'an!"
Pang Nuan smiled warmly: "No problem."
"Then I will lead the Zhao army to face Lord Chang'an, and Lord Pengcheng will lead the Wei army to face General Meng Wu."
However, Wei Qi The fear in his eyes has not diminished.
Wei Qi has never fought against Meng Wu, but Wei Qi is very familiar with Meng Ao.
How familiar are you?
Wei Qi could see Meng Ao in nightmares every night for half a year!
In a battle at Chaoge, Meng Ao beat Wei Qi to the point where he doubted his life. This was also the starting point for Wei Qi to lose his self-confidence.
How can a tiger father have a dog son!
Let me face Meng Ao's son?
I am afraid of the child!
Swallowing with difficulty, Wei Qi said with shame: "I'm not sure whether I will be the last general!"
(End of this chapter)