Chapter 927 The Qinglong Army Asks for Help 11

Cao Meng did not personally lead the Qinglong Army to attack today. He had to prepare an action plan for the next few days.

This plan may not be used until ten days later, or it may be used tomorrow, so this plan cannot be made too late!

The soldiers of the Qinglong Army on the front line were busy attacking, and Cao Meng who was sitting at the rear was also very busy. After carefully watching and analyzing the intelligence around Cangde City, he became more and more determined in his inner thoughts.

"Cangde City is not a place to stay for a long time. It's better to make plans to retreat early!"

Cao Meng put down the information in his hand and rubbed his forehead with a headache.

"There are more than 50,000 troops around Cangde City. We will definitely reach Cangde City within three to five days."

"Damn it, Qi is richer than Shun. It even has more soldiers than Shun!"

Cao Meng picked up another piece of information from the desk, "These aristocratic families in Qi are also troublesome. I used to only think that the aristocratic families in Shun were rampant. I never thought that these aristocratic families in Qi were the real cancer. I didn't know that the king of Qi and the ministers of Qi were How do you think you can tolerate these aristocratic families?"

However, after reading more information about Qi's aristocratic families, he understood that Qi's country was made up of a number of aristocratic families.

The Qi royal family is the largest aristocratic family in Qi.

The kings of Qi in the past dynasties did not lack wise kings. They knew the harm of aristocratic families and would try their best to weaken the power of aristocratic families when they were in power.

But they couldn't go too far. In addition to weakening the family, they also had to ensure the stability of Qi.

After hundreds of years of development, Qi State has become the foundation of Qi State. To disturb the aristocratic family is to disturb the foundation of Qi State.

No one without great perseverance, great courage, and great wisdom can easily reform the shortcomings of Qi!

Obviously, there has not been such an outstanding monarch among the kings of Qi in recent years.

As a result, Qi's aristocratic families are still deeply rooted and growing, and their influence on Qi is even more profound.

Tian's rebellion is proof of this!

The Tian family is one of the largest aristocratic families in the south of Qi. If it had not been for independent fiefdoms, acres of farmland, and thousands of tenant farmers, households, and slaves, how could the Tian family have set off a revolution that almost affected half of Qi? Rebellion?

Even if a rebellious family like the Tian family appeared, the King of Qi had nothing to do with other families. At most, he ordered to restrict the family's development in the past two years.

It’s hard to say how many years it can be limited, it depends on how far Tian can develop.

If it is wiped out soon, and the King of Qi has the courage to send his confidants who are not from aristocratic families to manage the Tian family's territory, and then distribute the vacated interests after the Tian family is gone, it may be possible to restrict it for a few more years.

If the royal family is strong, other aristocratic families will stay dormant; if the royal family is weak, the aristocratic families will make further progress.

A careful analysis of Qi's various shortcomings would take more than three years to complete.

Cao Meng didn't want to spend so much time understanding Qi's shortcomings, he just needed to make a retreat plan for the Qinglong Army!

The situation that the Qinglong Army is facing is really not good!

Cao Meng had to make a plan first, then convince his men, and finally execute it!

It doesn't sound difficult, but everything is not that simple.

Just making plans made Cao Meng worry about losing hundreds of hairs!

Grab a handful!

Cao Meng was very grateful to the staff system established by the king at this time. Without the assistance of the combat staff, he would not have been able to complete the task even if he lost thousands of hairs!

In the evening, the Qinglong Army once again retreated to the outer city near the city wall.

Today there is still little progress in attacking the inner city, and the Qi army still firmly controls the east and south walls.

Unless Cao Meng puts all the troops of the Qinglong Army on the city wall and launches a continuous attack, it is possible to break all the outer city walls.

Cao Meng obviously would not do this.

Yang Zhi, who attacked the inner city from the outer city, had some gains. Before last night, the Qinglong Army only occupied less than a quarter of the outer city.

Today, with the efforts of Yang Zhi and the Qinglong Army soldiers, one-third of the outer city has been occupied by the Qinglong Army, and they have obtained a lot of materials.

Yang Zhi was not greedy and asked the soldiers to take away all the materials they could.

Don't see that the Qi army retreated decisively at night, cautiously, for fear of a surprise attack by the Qinglong army.

In fact, the Qinglong Army is under greater pressure!

Every night, Cao Meng dispersed his scouts for more than ten miles, and kept the Qi army's surprise attack pressure in the city, all in order to reduce the pressure on the Qinglong army and ensure that most of the Qinglong army could rest well.

The materials Yang Zhiyun brought back were very useful. The Qinglong Army has an engineering battalion with considerable combat effectiveness.

They would use these materials to build lines of defense to prevent the Qi army from sneak attacking them at night.

The Qi Army has much more troops than the Qinglong Army. Even when resisting the Qinglong Army's surprise attack, it is still capable of launching a sneak attack on the Qinglong Army.

The Qi army did not launch a sneak attack in the past two nights, but that may not be the case tonight.

Two days were enough for the generals of the Qi army to regain their senses and think of more ways to deal with the enemy.

General Qi is not the leader of the refugees. They all have their own ambitions and pursuits.

Being beaten to the gates of Cangde City by the Qinglong Army was a huge humiliation for them. If there was a way for them to erase this humiliation, they would definitely not let it go!

Defeating the Azure Dragon Army is undoubtedly the fastest and most effective way.

So starting from tonight, the Qinglong Army will become more and more dangerous.

Fortunately, Cao Meng had already made arrangements. Even if the Qi army really came to attack tonight, the Qinglong army would not be unprepared!

After Cao Meng and other generals sat down, he said: "We have achieved good results in the past two days of attack, but Cangde City is still very stable in the hands of the Qi army. You all also personally participated in the siege. You all said How many days do you think we can capture Cangde City?"

His words stunned the generals of the Qinglong Army present. They all personally led their troops to participate in the siege, and were greatly touched by the answer to this question.

Although the specific time in everyone's mind may be slightly different, generally speaking, it will not be wrong, and it is definitely unlikely to be within three or five days!

Thinking of this, the expressions on their faces began to change.

What does marshal mean?

Does the commander want to withdraw his troops?

There is no fool who can do this, and he quickly guessed Cao Meng's intention.

They are not willing to withdraw their troops, Cangde City!

Qi Jun's shame is their glory!

They were the biggest contributors to this war when they captured Cangde City, and the Qinglong Army was the biggest contributor!

So what if we were the first to invade Qi?

So what if five camps were breached?

Is it even more important to have the credit for conquering Cangde City?

They are not willing to give up such great achievements!

"Commander, do you want to withdraw your troops?"

A general asked tentatively.

Cao Meng did not show off and replied directly: "Yes, I plan to withdraw my troops!"

After speaking, he observed several of his subordinates, all of them had expressions of thinking, but were they really thinking?

Cao Meng chuckled a few times. It made no difference whether he thought about it or not.

After hearing the laughter, all the generals came back to their senses.

Commander Cao wants to withdraw his troops, can they refuse?

"Commander, when do you want to withdraw?"

Yang Zhi asked.

He is the one who most wants to stay and break into the inner city. No matter what, he wants to try it!

What if he could do it?

Even if you don't believe in yourself, you must believe in your soldiers and the teachings of the teachers!

Cao Meng looked at Yang Zhi with a serious expression. He saw Yang Zhi's thoughts and was willing to give him a chance, give himself a chance, and give all the soldiers of the Qinglong Army a chance.

"Two days later!"

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