Chapter 1114: Suli Gets Angry
Just when Suli was puzzled, his confidant General Fu Mengcha entered his tent with an anxious look: "Sir, today should be the time for the rear camp to transport cattle and sheep grain, but now the grain and grass They haven't been delivered yet. I wonder if something happened in the back camp?"
Su Li was stunned and immediately said: "Don't worry, now all the Han people are besieged in the city by our hundreds of thousands of troops and cannot move. What can happen to the barracks?"
"Could it be delayed by something else?"
"Let's do this. Early tomorrow morning, you will send someone back to the rear camp to see what's going on! Putting aside this matter, General Fumeng, what do you think of the war in front of you?" Su Li looked at it. Come on, it's not a big deal to be one day late in transporting cattle and sheep supplies to the rear camp. On the contrary, there are still four or five days of supplies in the camp. What he has to consider now is the war in front of him. It has been nearly two months since he went south, but his army is still there. There is nothing to worry about under the pass in front of me. It is already the end of October. If we cannot capture a Han city before the heavy snow falls, our hundreds of thousands of troops will freeze to death in the valley of this vast mountain. Among them.
Now in the neighboring Lulong County, the coalition forces of Mijia and Queji have invaded the outer city of Chifeng. Although they have not been able to capture all of Chifeng City, they have conquered all the Han territories south of Chifeng and north of Pingcheng. All the cities were captured, and all the personnel and materials inside were wiped out. Moreover, Wuhuan in western Liaoning also sent troops to march westward, and was cooperating with them to prepare to continue the attack southward, but he found nothing on his side.
In the past few days, Suli had heard complaints from some small tribes. Suli knew that without the instigation of some large tribes, how could these small tribes with hundreds of thousands of people dare to complain behind their backs.
Su Li was not sure how to deal with this. After all, his army had indeed been delayed here for too long, but if Longhua was not captured, how could his army go south with confidence. Thinking of this, Su Li couldn't help but feel dizzy. Could it be that there was a natural mismatch between himself and Huangfu Chaobo? A few years ago, when the Yuwen tribe was sent south to test the reaction of the Han people, Huangfu Chaobo's subordinates annihilated all the tribes sent.
The subsequent march of the army to the south was also due to the defeat at Longhua, which forced them to retreat from Lulong Fortress in desperation. Now it can be said that it was the third time to go south, but Huangfu Chaobo's army was stopped outside Longhua City. The Han people have a saying, "Things can only be done three times." . . Thinking of this, Su Li was startled and shook her head, trying to get this bad thought out of her mind. Then he turned to look at Fumengcha, his most valued confidant general, and wondered what he had in mind.
Seeing Su Li looking at him, Fu Mengcha calmed down and said cautiously: "Sir, in my opinion, after we captured Tangtougou Town, we could arrange between 10,000 and 20,000 cavalry here. , watching the Han army in Longhua City, the rest of the army turned south. Although the other big city was larger than Longhua, it was a newly built city. Its defensive capabilities were definitely not as good as the one that the Han army had been running for several years. A pass.”
When Su Li heard this, he sighed and said, "You mean if I hadn't gone my own way, maybe we would have captured that big city. I believe many people have this idea, right?"
"I don't dare! In fact, I only came up with this in the past few days. Weren't those people also clamoring to capture the city in front of them first?"
"Yes, we were all wrong! In your opinion, how should we deal with the situation at hand?"
"With the current plan, we have no way out, and it is impossible to abandon this city and go south, so we can only fight to the death!" Fumengcha gritted his teeth and said;
"Do you see any problems with the closed garrison?"
"The general also found it strange. He always felt that there was something strange in this. Judging from the initial news we got, the number of soldiers guarding the pass was only ten or twenty thousand at most. However, after more than a month of fighting, the defenders of the pass were... It seems that there is no decrease, not only the number of people has not decreased,
Even the defenders didn't show any signs of fatigue. "Having said this, Fu Mengcha was startled and looked at Su Li: "Is there any other way for Longhua City to get reinforcements from other cities? As a result, our chances of winning are not high. "
Su Li nodded and said: "This is exactly what I am worried about. You must know that Longhua City has never been open to others. Let alone us, no one can enter Longhua through Tangtou Gou Pass. Inside the city, we have no way of knowing what’s going on inside. If Longhua can get reinforcements through other means, our chances of winning are not low, but have no chance at all.”
"So," Su Li stood up fiercely, looked at Fu Mengcha and said, "Starting from tomorrow, we must attack Tangtou Gou Pass regardless of losses. Tonight we will discuss matters, and I will order all ministries to dispatch soldiers to join the battle!"
"The last general takes command!"
Sure enough, when Su Li convened the various ministries for discussion that night, he ordered a proportion of soldiers from each ministry to be deployed together with his own thousands of troops to attack the pass starting tomorrow, regardless of casualties. At the beginning, all the tribes were still a little reluctant, and two small tribes even spoke out against it at the instigation of others. However, Suli directly dragged the tribe leader out of the tent and beheaded him. The reason was that these two tribes did not agree. They respected the transfer order and violated the war order jointly issued by the seven major tribes. Their tribesmen were also rewarded by Suli to the Yuwen and Murong tribes as slaves.
This strike made all the leaders present silent, so the order to mobilize troops to attack regardless of casualties was carried out smoothly.
The next morning, the Xianbei attack began as scheduled. Inside the Xianbei camp outside Tangtougou Pass, the sound of horns rang out, and soon tens of thousands of Xianbei soldiers and horses came to Tangtougou Pass.
Standing on the wall, Huang Xu looked at the continuous stream of Xianbei troops on the opposite side, and he did not feel nervous. You know, the current Longhua City is not the less than 10,000 infantrymen at the beginning. In the past few days, nearly 20,000 infantrymen have arrived. Although 5,000 have been transferred to support Zhao Yun and others, Huang Xu still has more than 30,000 people in his hands, plus sufficient equipment, so Huang Xu is not afraid of the Xianbei attack at all. However, Huang Xu soon discovered something unusual. The Xianbei people who attacked today were not like before. Although they suffered heavy casualties in the counterattack of the defenders in the city, they still fought to the death. Not only that, the sound of war drums and trumpets from the center of the Xianbei army outside the pass was urging the army behind to continue the attack.