It Starts With A Mountain

Chapter 159

At this time, Yang Longting's army had already reached Black Rock City and camped ten miles away from the city.

The troops are divided into four groups.

The first army was led by Li Shanyan, with ten thousand troops, and surrounded the east gate.

The Second Route Army was led by Qi Delong, with 10,000 troops, and surrounded the west gate.

The three-way army was led by Qi Deqiang, with 10,000 troops, and surrounded the North Gate.

The Chinese army of 20,000, led by Yang Longting, attacked the South Gate.

The so-called siege must be lacking, Yang Longting is an old fried dough stick in the battlefield, and this truth will not be understood. Knowing this, he still put on such a formation, obviously not even giving Xue Banchuan a chance to escape.

50,000 people eat horse chews every day is an astronomical number. The so-called three armies have not moved, food and grass will come first, and a steady stream of supplies will arrive every day.

Yang Longting knew very well in his heart that war is more than military, but also economics, politics, people's hearts and so on. If the logistics can be done well, half of the battle will be won before the battle.

So he paid special attention to the problem of food and grass.

Today's grain transport team came a little late, and the other party did not bring the food and grass he needed to Yang Longting, but brought Luo Tie's body.

Looking at Luo Tie's body in the tent, Yang Long was silent for a long time, and the surrounding air seemed to have cooled down a lot.

The team that failed to deliver food knelt outside the tent for a long time, shivering.

"kill!"

This was the first word Yang Longting said after seeing Luo Tie's body, and with a wave of his hand, the heads fell to the ground.

Then, Yang Longting wrote a letter to Cheng Dalei and ordered someone to send it to Toad Village.

In the letter he only wrote five words: "You are not afraid of death!"

Soon, he received a reply from Cheng Dalei, and the reply was six words.

"If you want to fight, you will fight."

After seeing the letter, Yang Longting was furious, and immediately ordered troops to break the Toad Village first, and then kill Xue Banchuan to take revenge.

Then, he quickly calmed down.

Cheng Dalei will definitely kill him, whether he kills Luo Tie or not, this matter will not change. And now killing, certainly not.

The army had just set up camp and came back to attack Cheng Dalei, which always seemed a little embarrassing. Moreover, if Xue Banchuan took the opportunity to sneak attack from behind, Yang Longting would fall into the situation of being attacked by the enemy from both sides, which is a big taboo in the military.

Moreover, Cheng Dalei still holds his own food supply. If he cuts off his own supply, the 50,000 army will be in a desperate situation.

With that said, Cheng Dalei doesn't seem to be too offended.

Yang Longting was so ruthless that he naturally bent down. Without this level of profound and black academic attainments, he would not have become the King of Youzhou today.

So, Yang Longting wrote another letter to Cheng Dalei. The content of the letter was briefly: I know that you killed Luo Tie. You killed Luo Tie well. There's no reason to speak. If you don't kill him, I'm about to kill him. I'm thinking of rewarding you with something. The food will be your reward. Of course it would be better if you could come and do things by my side.

After the letter was sent, Yang Longting soon received a reply from Cheng Dalei, in which Cheng Dalei returned to his previous attitude.

"The light of the north, the backbone of the empire, the king of Youzhou whom I will always admire:

After I received your letter, I asked everyone in the cottage to read it together. They were all impressed by your wisdom. How many people washed their faces in tears and were honored to read this letter.」

"...Of course, I really want to work for the king, but I am so ill that I can't even get out of bed, so I can only pray for you in my heart and wish you victory."

The inscription is: Your loyal younger brother, the eternal admirer of the King of Youzhou, the Ranger General Cheng Dalei of the Qingniushan camp in Youzhou.

When reading this letter, Yang Longting didn't have the disgusting feeling that Li Shanyan had, but felt a faint chill through the letter.

He closed his eyes and recalled the first and only time he met Cheng Dalei. He was bent over in a ragged jacket, and there was flattery in his speech and manner. It also includes the nonsense letters handed to Youzhou Wangcheng. Like all kinds of villains in the city who are good at flattering and speculating.

There is no doubt that he was deceived by him.

Those letters handed to Youzhou City were regarded as a joke by everyone, including Yang Longting. But at the same time as a joke, he subconsciously despised Cheng Dalei.

To this day, Yang Longting understands better than anyone that there is no shortage of fierce people in this world who dare to confront each other. At the same time, mass graves are never short of unidentified bodies.

In this world, tough guys don't live long, but no one will look down on them blindly.

What I am afraid of is that I should be strong when I should be strong, and bow my head when I should bow my head.

Yang Longting is such a person.

Could it be that Cheng Dalei is also such a person... Perhaps, he is a person more worthy of killing than Xue Banchuan.

No matter how much, first appease the dog thief, wait until the Black Rock City is broken, and then get rid of this thief on the way back.

What Yang Longting has to do now is to siege the city.

...

Xue Banchuan in the city was not defenseless. Logically speaking, Yang Longting's army was overwhelmed, and there should have been big households in the city who would open the city gate to welcome Yang Longting into the city. They didn't want to live and die with Xue Banchuan.

But this incident has not happened until now, the reason is that before this, Xue Banchuan invited the big households in the city to the City Lord's Mansion and held a dinner party.

At the banquet, Xue Banchuan raised his glass to tears before drinking, and said, "Yang Longting is not a thing, he will kill us all, but don't worry, I will protect you, and everyone will live in the City Lord's Mansion in the future. live and die with you.

Euphemistically called protection, it is actually detention. Having imprisoned the wives, children, and children of the big households in the city, Xue Banchuan was ruthless, and he just wanted to live together and die together.

Some of their children are serving in the army, and they can't rebel at this time. After all, their parents, wife and children are in the hands of Xue Banchuan.

If he really took refuge in Yang Longting, there was no doubt that Xue Banchuan would kill his wife and children.

Ruthlessness is a quality that no one in this era lacks.

In the face of Yang Longting's overwhelming army, Xue Banchuan had only one attitude: not to fight.

Anyway, my wife and children are hot on the kang head, what if you have it, and you have come from a long way, and you will be blinded if you run out of food for a day. Let everyone consume it and see who can consume it.

In addition to not fighting, Xue Banchuan has another strategy: spreading rumors.

In the city, it was widely publicized: Yang Longting is not a thing, he has been like a life since he was a child, his sisters and sisters, aunts and aunts... He never let go of any women in the family. It is said that he was too greedy since he was a child, and he couldn't grow up. His wife was sleeping for others, and he watched it, satisfying some kind of excitement. Otherwise, how could he still have no son...

This kind of remarks spread to Yang Longting Capital Camp in various ways. Rumors are really spread to no end, and no one believes them, but there are always one or two people who have no brains. After hearing them, they said: oh , no wonder no wonder.

Rumors don't hurt, but they disgust you.

There is no doubt that this strategy was made by Cheng Dalei.