Chapter 140
What Shi Siming had no idea was that just three or four miles away, Guo Ziyi had already met with Li Qing and Li Guangbi again.
"Deputy Marshal, I'm afraid I can only attack in this situation. The success of this plan has made King Jianning make a great contribution. He has already done the best of the guards of Youzhou City. If we can't take Youzhou down this time, we won't have to fight this battle."
Li Guangbi hasn't seen Guo Ziyi these days, and he has quickly informed him of this incident when he saw him. Although Guo Ziyi has not shown up during this period, what happened around Youzhou cannot escape his eyes at all.
"Well, Shi Siming will leave us at least two days to go here. Within two days, we will definitely break the city! However, although there are nearly 100,000 soldiers in this city, there are no generals who can take the lead. We will attack for a day first, and then we can surrender them. After all, they thought Fan Yang was in danger at this time. If Fan Yang was gone, they would be alone!"
Obviously, Guo Ziyi wanted to use both soft and hard methods to give them some hard first, and wait until the defenders find that they cannot get any advantage before surrendering. This can not only reduce some losses in siege and save time.
"What the Deputy Marshal said is that as long as the connection between Youzhou and Fan Yang is temporarily continued to be cut off, their confidence will only last for one or two days!"
Li Neng and Li Guangbi both expressed support for Guo Ziyi's statement, and then the war to attack Youzhou finally began.
Even through a series of operations by Li Yan and the other three, the power of the Youzhou City defenders was already weak at this time, but there were still 80,000 to 90,000 people, which was still an absolute tough battle.
If they want to overwhelm the defenders in the city in terms of momentum, they cannot relax at all, at least on the first day, they must attack with all their might.
This battle was tragic. Although the siege equipment had been prepared long ago and the defenders did not have any reliable generals, Youzhou City was still a very difficult city to capture.
The three of them took their respective troops and concentrated their efforts to attack the least strong side of the city gate. Although the defenders were in a hurry, they were still able to resist at the beginning.
However, the defenders in the city knew what they were facing. When Shi Siming left, what they were most afraid of was that the Tang army outside the city suddenly attacked. Now they not only attacked, but also had more than 50,000 more troops. As one went up and down, the guards in Youzhou City were actually already afraid before the battle.
Let’s talk about Shi Siming. After coming out of Youzhou City, his heart had already reached Fan Yang. He ran towards Fan Yang almost without sleep, without wasting a second. Finally, he finally stared at two big dark circles and arrived at Fan Yang.
However, when he arrived at Fanyang City, Shi Siming was a little stunned because there was no war as mentioned before when the cavalry reported the news, and there was no abnormality outside the city.
"Could Guo Ziyi have already beaten Fan Yang?"
With such questions, Shi Siming carefully asked a group of people to slowly approach Fanyang City, but there was nothing wrong with it until outside the city gate. And when they arrived at the city gate, the city gate opened directly.
A team of generals came out of the city, and the leader was Shi Chaoyi.
"Father? Why are you back to Fanyang? Could it be that the enemy troops outside Youzhou City have been wiped out by his father?"
When Shi Chaoyi saw that his father's banner appeared outside Fanyang City, he was very confused and left the city himself.
However, Shi Chaoyi felt confused in his heart, and Shi Siming was not only confused, but also a feeling of a bolt from the blue.
Fan Yang is fine, but this is obviously not a happy thing, because it means that he has fallen into the enemy's plan. Fan Yang is fine, which proves that Youzhou is in trouble at this time!
"Can Guo Ziyi bring people here?"
"Father, Fan Yang is behind our Hebei Road, and there has never been an enemy army!"
"Guo Ziyi! This guy is really too cunning, hurry up! Take his troops back to Youzhou!"
At this time, Shi Siming was almost so angry that he vomited blood. It was obvious that he was tricked by Tang Jun with a plan. When it comes to playing the plan, he could be said to be in a complete defeat.
But Shi Siming knew that he had left a lot of people in Youzhou. Now he said that he had fallen into a trap. It was obviously too early to lose Youzhou. So he didn't even enter Fanyang City and directly ordered himself to take the original team to Youzhou and go back again, but told Shi Chaoyi that he must guard Fanyang well and that he should not be misunderstood.
Now Shi Siming is hoping that when he returns to Youzhou, the Tang army is still siegeing the city. At that time, he can cooperate with the soldiers inside and directly destroy the Tang army. In this way, it is obviously a one-time battle.
However, there was a vague idea in his mind, that is, Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi should not make such a low-level mistake.
Since they used this strategy to lure themselves back to Fan Yang, they must have planned their time. If they were not confident to attack Youzhou in about two days, this strategy would have no meaning to them.
With a very nervous mood and the soldiers who had not had a rest for a whole day, Shi Siming walked on the road from Fanyang to Youzhou as fast as possible.
The journey back was much longer than when they were gone. Whether it was physical or mental, the soldiers could not stand it, but for the sake of such a glimmer of hope of eliminating the enemy, they had to endure it.
Finally, I arrived at a place not far from Youzhou City. The scouts paid back early. There was no war outside Youzhou City now.
This news was like a bolt from the blue to Shi Siming, because it was different from Fan Yang. If there were no traces of battle, it would be that the Tang army outside the city had been wiped out by them, but that the city had become someone else's.
Shi Siming's body shook and almost fell off immediately. This incident had a great blow to him. He didn't believe in evil and asked a team of people to go to the city to see it. As a result, several people were shot and killed by bows and arrows on the city wall just after crossing the moat. Obviously, Shi Siming no longer had any expectations this time. Youzhou was no longer his.
Chapter completed!