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Chapter 20: Calculation overcomes superiority

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    In the evening, Liu Cong personally led a dozen soldiers to investigate the situation in front of Shen Dan Shen Yi's military camp. However, after seeing it, he immediately rejected his idea. This Shen Dan Shen Yi was not an ignorant person.  The camp is well organized, both offensive and defensive, and they are the horns of each other. There are many soldiers patrolling the camp and the defense is tight. If the camp is robbed rashly, no matter the outcome, it will suffer heavy losses. Liu Cong cannot afford this price now.

    So after the second update, Liu Cong and Li Hu quietly set off again with their troops.

    The effects of the five-day long-distance running training have already appeared. Even at night, the two thousand soldiers marched at a fast pace. At dawn, they were less than fifty miles away from Shangyong City.

    Liu Cong ordered the soldiers to immediately bury pots to make rice and make some repairs.

    An hour later, Liu Cong led more than a hundred soldiers, disguised as ordinary people and businessmen, carrying some burdens and pushing several small carts towards Shangyong City.

    Liu Cong had already thought up the plan to capture Shangyong. Although he had two thousand troops and the defenders of Shangyong City were only five hundred, he was not prepared to attack by force because in this era, the cost of attacking a city was very high.  Even if the big one is captured, the casualties of his soldiers will reach more than 500. In addition to Shangyong, there is also Xicheng. Even if he captures it, he will not have a few soldiers left.

    Therefore, "Sun Tzu's Art of War" says that the first step is to attack with troops, then to fight, and then to attack the city. Attacking the city is the last resort and must be done as a last resort.

    Liu Cong and others did not walk very fast, and they arrived at the city gate after about an hour.

    On the top of the city, some soldiers stood in twos and threes. They occasionally looked out through the crenellations. There were more than twenty soldiers at the city gate, checking the passers-by.

    However, they did not strictly interrogate everyone, because Shangyong had been away from the war for a long time. These people would not have thought that enemy spies were coming, and the interrogation was just to gain some benefits.

    Liu Cong was fully prepared. Once he encountered an investigation, he would directly take out a bunch of money. When the other party saw that these people knew the rules, they immediately put it in. Money can make people go around, but who can?  What about having trouble with money?

    After entering the city, Liu Cong discovered that there was a military camp under the city. Including the ice soldiers at the city gate, there were about a hundred people, and there were about a hundred soldiers on the city.

    Shangyong City is somewhat similar to Fangling City, with only two gates. It seems that there should be more than 200 people at the other gate.  This Shen Dan Shen Yi is really careless. Shangyong is their home base, but they only have so few soldiers left.

    After all Liu Cong¡¯s one hundred people entered the city, those dressed as merchants casually took out their goods on the street near the city gate, while some ordinary people dressed as ordinary people went up to bargain with them.  Liu Cong sat down in front of a tea stall, ordered a cup of tea, and tasted it carefully.

    After about half an hour, the soldiers on the top of the city suddenly became nervous. A soldier hurriedly ran down the tower and entered the military camp.

    Soon, a captain came out of the military camp and climbed up the tower in three steps.

    At this time, he discovered that a large group of soldiers and horses were running towards the city.

    "Quick, if there are enemy troops, close the city gate immediately!" the captain shouted nervously.

    The captain guarding Shangyong was named Wang Kai. He was usually highly regarded by the governor Shen Dan. Therefore, when Shen Dan left Shangyong, he handed over the task of defending the city to Wang Kai.

    Although Wang Kai was a captain of thousands, Shen Dan only left him 500 soldiers. Therefore, Wang Kai felt deeply responsible for his heavy responsibility, so after Shen Dan led his army to leave Shangyong, he moved out of his home and lived directly in the military camp.  The military camp is at the gate of Nancheng.

    Once the enemy troops come from Fangling City, this place will bear the brunt.

    However, Wang Kai did not pay special attention in the past two days. Shen Dan led the army to Fangling. Even if enemy troops came, they would definitely meet halfway. Once the two armies started a battle, there would naturally be scouts who would deliver the news.

    But he never expected that suddenly the enemy troops would approach the city, as if they fell from the sky.

    These soldiers outside the city kept charging forward. It was obvious that they did not plan to set up camp, but wanted to take down Shangyong in one go.

    "Archers, be ready!" There were two thousand troops outside the city and less than three hundred soldiers defending the city. It was impossible to hold on.  However, Wang Kai was not particularly worried. He felt that as long as he held on for two or three days, Prefect Shen Dan's army would definitely come back to support him.  After all, Fangling is only more than a hundred miles away from Shangyong.

    "Leave thirty soldiers at the city gate, and the rest will go up to the city!" Wang Kai breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the city gate was closed, and then gave the order.

    Dozens of people at the city gateThe soldiers immediately rushed to the top of the city and stood at the crenellations of the city wall with weapons in hand. At this time, the army outside the city was less than ten miles away from the city.

    The army outside the city was getting closer and closer, and Wang Kai's palm holding the sword was already sweating. He knew that this was a tough battle, but although the opponent's troops were several times his, they did not have many siege equipment, which made him  The tension was somewhat relieved.

    Getting closer and closer, already within the shooting range of bows and arrows, and the soldiers outside the city began to shoot arrows at the top of the city.

    Wang Kai raised his sword high and was about to give the order to release the arrow. Suddenly, a cry of killing came from the city, which startled Wang Kai.

    "kill¡­¡­"

    Wang Kai looked back, his face changed drastically, and he saw a group of people, about a hundred or so, holding swords and guns in their hands, shouting and heading towards the city gate.

    Although these people were wearing the clothes of ordinary people and merchants, Wang Kai could tell, how could these be ordinary people?  All of them are strong, ferocious, and have a strong aura of iron and blood on their bodies. They are clearly elite soldiers who have fought in hundreds of battles.

    "Hurry shoot them quickly!"

    The crossbowmen hurriedly turned their arrows and began to shoot arrows into the city. But at this time, Liu Cong led most of these soldiers to the city gate hole and started a battle with the thirty defenders here.

    With an absolute advantage in military strength and a stronger individual combat capability than the opponent, plus catching the opponent off guard, this is not a battle at all, but a unilateral massacre.

    "Hurry down and kill them!" When Wang Kai saw that the crossbowmen had only shot a dozen people, and the city gate was about to be lost, he shouted and rushed down first.

    Dozens of soldiers on the top of the city followed closely behind and rushed towards the city gate.

    At this time, the dozens of soldiers at the city gate had been killed, and Liu Cong's soldiers began to open the city gate.

    "Kill!" Wang Kai shouted and slashed several people to death with his knife, leaving blood all over his body. "Kill them quickly and block the city gate!"

    "Looking for death!" When Liu Cong saw Wang Kai killing several of his soldiers, he was furious and faced him with his sword.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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