Chapter 848: The enemy is approaching

At noon the next day, Shen Luoyan was the first to send someone to report that they found a large number of enemy corpses in the depression about six or seven miles away from the pseudo-city. They should be those who had been washed away by the flood before.

A rough estimate is that there are at least 5,000 corpses.

This is only what they can see.

It is estimated that many bodies were buried by the sand.

After receiving the news, Yunzheng immediately ordered Zuo Ren: "Immediately lead five thousand people to support the princess! Put away all the weapons and armor, and bury the bodies on the spot to avoid the plague!"

As soon as Zuo Ren took the order and left, Huo Gu sent someone to report again.

Huo Gu had led his troops to clear out the remaining enemies in the puppet city, but there were about a hundred people there who resisted and hid quietly under the battlements. When they approached, they suddenly launched a sneak attack, causing more than twenty casualties to them. .

In the end, Huogu's side also captured more than 3,000 people.

Originally there were five thousand people left behind.

But some people were washed away by the flood because they did not have time to run up the city wall.

In addition, a small amount of grain was obtained and moved onto the city wall.

However, because they froze on the city wall for two consecutive nights, many of the soldiers they captured fell ill.

There are still many corpses in this city wall.

Huo Gu had already ordered people to dig holes and planned to bury the corpses on the spot.

Yunzheng nodded slightly and immediately ordered: "Send the order to Huo Gu. After handing all the prisoners to Deng Bao, immediately organize the army and bring the food, grass and baggage to meet with Fu Tianyan and Feng Yu's troops!"

It's time to attack Iya.

After all, the trebuchets were all delivered.

Although it is difficult to smash Iya Castle open, it is good as long as it can cause some trouble to the enemy.

Anyway, stones are free, and one round of throwing them can kill one or two enemy soldiers.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the blood-clothed army led by Qin Qihu finally came to meet them.

"Brother Xian, are you done with the fight now?"

Looking at the mess in front of him, Qin Qihu couldn't help but feel a little depressed.

You just arrived and the fight is over here?

"There's nothing to fight about."

Yun Zheng smiled and glanced at Qin Qihu, "Don't worry, I won't be able to fight without you! The people behind me are all tough!"

Yiwu, Gubei and Gule are not so easy to break.

Not every city can be conquered by flooding.

"well!"

Qin Qihu chuckled, "The Bloody Clothes Army has also rested for half a year. It's time to let the enemy have a taste of our power!"

"Correct!"

Yunzheng nodded and smiled, "You guys take a rest first, and we will start marching to Turtle Back early tomorrow morning!"

"it is good!"

Qin Qihu nodded suddenly, his eyes shining with excitement.

Are we finally going to attack Turtle City?

However, after being excited, Qin Qihu was secretly confused.

With Yun Zheng's temperament, he shouldn't attack Turtle Back by force, right?

If this was a forced attack, even if they captured Turtle Back, they would definitely suffer heavy losses.

Early the next morning, Yun Zheng led the leading cavalry unit towards Turtle Back.

On the way to Turtle Back, they also found a small number of enemy troops in a panic.

Those were the people who were lucky enough to survive the flooding. Some people were still running away on the back of the turtle in embarrassment, while some people fell ill and were lying on the ground dying.

Yunzheng sent a small number of people to take these people into custody and send them to the rear to be handed over to Deng Bao's command.

For these sick people, Yunzheng can only provide limited medical treatment.

Many of the medicines in his hands were meant to be reserved for their own people.

Whether they can carry it through depends on the fate of these people.

Turtle Back City was not far away from them originally. Before noon, they arrived outside Turtle Back City.

This place is less than ten miles away from Turtle Back City.

Yunzheng took Qin Qihu, Shen Luoyan and the others to the nearby high ground and carefully observed the terrain around the turtle's back.

The terrain around Turtle Back City is undulating. Although there are not big mountains on both sides, the mountains are very steep.

Dogs would shake their heads just looking at this terrain!

Moreover, there is almost no greenery on the mountain, and it feels like a stone mountain.

If you attack from their position, it is basically an attack from above, which is very disadvantageous for the offense.

"This is not easy to attack!"

Shen Luoyan frowned slightly, feeling a headache when seeing this kind of terrain.

"It's really hard to attack!"

Yunzheng nodded lightly, "If we attack by force, the enemy will have a general who is good at defending and hoard ten or twenty thousand troops in the city. As long as there is no shortage of water and food, it will be difficult for our hundred thousand army to attack..."

He had heard people say that the terrain of Turtle Back City was dangerous, and when he saw it today, it was indeed well-deserved.

If it was purely based on human lives, even if 100,000 people filled it in, there would be no guarantee that they would be able to capture it.

"Brother Xian, do you have any plans or anything?"

Qin Qihu smacked his lips and looked at Yun Zheng expectantly.

Yun Zheng shook his head slightly, "If the enemy can't defend, no cunning strategy will be of any use! If you want to win with cunning strategy, you have to lead the enemy out of the city, or directly blow down the enemy's city wall..."

If you use a catapult to blast slowly, sooner or later the enemy's city wall will be knocked down.

But they were attacking from above, and Turtleback City was located on a higher ground. Even if the enemy's catapults were not as far away as theirs, they should be able to hit their catapults due to the favorable location.

Moreover, they don't have so much time to spend slowly with the enemy.

This is a troublesome thing!

This time, he brought a small amount of explosives.

If the burial position is better, it may be possible to blow up a small section of the city wall and open a gap.

But even so, if you want to attack Turtle Back City, you will definitely have to pay extremely heavy casualties.

"If it doesn't work, just fight Gule first!"

Seeing Yunzheng's frown, Shen Luoyan suggested: "Now that the puppet city has been destroyed and reinforcements from all directions are blocked, Gule has become an isolated city. Among the three cities, Gule is undoubtedly the easiest to defeat. Come down."

"Yep!"

Qin Qihu immediately echoed, "Kill Gule first, and then find a way to beat Iwu and Turtle Bei!"

"Actually, I never thought about attacking Gule in the first place!" Yun Zheng shook his head and smiled, "It's just an isolated city, there's nothing to fight! As long as the defenders of Gule are trapped, they will be unable to hold it back sooner or later, and they will take the initiative to break out or surrender."

If the Gulle defenders insist on holding on, they will attack by force, and the casualties will not be small.

Since a city can be trapped to death, we won't fight it if we can.

"Then we can only fight Iya and Turtle?"

Shen Luoyan smiled helplessly.

"For now, this is basically the situation."

Yunzheng rubbed his somewhat swollen head. He had been thinking about it for the past few days, whether it was possible to lure the enemy troops in Turtle Back City out of the city to pursue them by faking defeat.

However, Lou Yi chose to hold on until he was defeated. Now that he has just suffered a defeat, he may be more cautious.

The key is that Lou Yi is staying in the city and won't come out. He can't even try any tricks like cheating.

Headache!

Yunzheng thought silently and ordered the messenger: "Order Jia Yao to come immediately to discuss the matter!"