roccoschili Chapter 107 Reinforcements Arrive
Chapter 107 Reinforcements Arrive
After finishing most of the matters, it was already the night of the second day.
The county town that was captured was more spacious than other county towns. If they squeezed together, it could still accommodate the full 30,000 soldiers.
While Yun Zhi was concentrating on writing something, Chen Yuanshu and Li Shun knocked on the door gently and walked in slowly from outside.
"My lord, most of them have been settled now. As for those who died in the battle..."
Having said this, Chen Yuanshu's voice became a little low and suppressed.
This is the cruelty and ruthlessness of war. In a battle, how can there be no deaths?
All they can do is discuss better tactics to minimize unnecessary deaths.
"A total of 676 people have now been cremated and placed in urns."
It is the beginning of the hot summer, and the bodies will start to rot soon. If we want to bring them back, we can only burn them and take their ashes back.
This is already considered lucky, after all, there is still time to burn the bodies. Most of the time, these bodies are buried on the spot.
On the battlefield, you don't have enough time to deal with corpses.
Some armies even simply ignored the corpses and abandoned them on the battlefield to be exposed to the wind and sun.
Yun Zhi's hand holding the pen never stopped for a moment, "Well, let's have someone take them back."
Generals die in a hundred battles, and strong men return in ten years.
The death toll this time is actually not that high.
There were many battles in which more than half of the troops were killed or wounded, or even the entire army was wiped out.
"Tell the soldiers to take this time to recuperate and prepare for the upcoming battle to defend the city."
Hearing this, Li Shun, who was standing next to Chen Yuanshu, couldn't help but ask, "Are you not going to continue the attack?"
"In these two battles, they probably suffered around 4,000 casualties. Adding in the troops defending the city, I'm afraid they only have around 15,000 men left to fight."
He paused, then continued, "Besides, it will take some time for their reinforcements to arrive, which is enough for us to capture the county. By then, they will have more people and it will be difficult to attack them."
"Right now, I'm afraid Wu Zhong won't leave the city no matter what we do. If we attack the city like this, the number of casualties will definitely increase, and..."
Yun Zhi finished writing the last word, put the pen aside, raised her head and looked at the two of them calmly.
"More reinforcements doesn't necessarily make the battle harder. Along with these reinforcements come generals. When opinions diverge and tactics differ, whose orders should the soldiers follow?"
"Tell me, if there's any minor conflict between any of their generals, wouldn't that be a good show to watch?"
Hearing Yun Zhi's words, Li Shun's eyes became brighter and brighter.
Yes.
Most of the generals who came to rescue would have an attitude of superiority.
If his tactics differ from Wu Zhong's and disagreements arise, will the generals who come to rescue him listen to him?
After all, you have just experienced a defeat, so it is not certain whether your tactics are reliable.
And what the lord just said.
It would be even better if there were some minor friction between their leaders.
They can send people to fan the flames, add fuel to the fire, make small things bigger, intensify the relationship between the two parties, and cause internal strife.
This makes it much easier to attack them.
After all, if you don't put your efforts in the right direction, no matter how hard you try, it will be of no use.
After figuring it all out, Li Shun raised his hands and clasped his fists in salute to Yun Zhi.
"Thank you for your advice, my lord."
"Okay, go get busy."
"Yes."
After they left, Yun Zhi sent out the letter she had just written asking them to send an additional 5,000 people.
Five days later.
The three generals, with more than 30,000 troops, marched into the county town where Wu Zhong was staying.
Upon receiving the news, Wu Zhong hurried out to greet them.
"General Wu, General Wu, weren't you quite impressive and brave in the past? Why do you have to rely on us now?"
Before Wu Zhong could get closer, a sarcastic voice came from afar.
Upon hearing this, Wu Zhong's face darkened and his brows furrowed tightly. However, thinking about what would happen next, he suppressed his anger and walked over to them, bowing his hands and saying, "Thank you all for coming to help us this time."
"Humph, if it weren't for the Marquis' order, who would be willing to come here? I'm clearly about to capture another city, and now I'm running here to help you clean up your mess."
Seeing the two people about to quarrel again, a general stood up and walked between them.
"General Wu, General Liu, both of you should take a step back. We are facing a powerful enemy now, and we should prioritize the overall situation."
The general named Liu folded his arms, looking impatient. "Alright, alright, got it."
A general who had been standing aside without saying a word was already used to this matter. Anyway, the two of them would always quarrel whenever they met.
They are still arguing about trivial matters after so many years.
Wasn’t it that during the martial arts examination that year, General Liu lost to Wu Zhong by a single move and missed the title of martial arts champion?
Several people walked into the house together.
The General Cao who had tried to mediate earlier looked at Wu Zhong and said, "General Wu, please tell us the details of what happened so we can discuss countermeasures."
Wu Zhong nodded, "Well, I'll make it short then."
"About ten days ago, we successfully captured Lin'an. As we entered the city..."
"That's pretty much it."
After hearing his words, General Cao fell into deep thought, "With so many troops, there shouldn't be some news."
"What's so strange about this? We weren't paying attention there, so of course we couldn't find it, just like Wang Yi didn't find it back then, right?"
"In my opinion, they are just a makeshift group. Now that we have more people than them, we should go out of the city to fight them, kill them all and seize their territory."
Wu Zhong shook his head. "That's not right. It's too impulsive. It will only increase the number of deaths. Why don't we..."
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by General Liu, "Do you have to refute what I said? Your tactics are good, so how did you lose the city? General Wu, being too cautious is cowardice."
Wu breathed rapidly and threw up his sleeves, "You're a reckless man. I can't reason with you."
"I am a reckless general? You are still a useless man who lost the battle."
Seeing that they were about to quarrel again, General Cao had to interrupt, "Okay."
He looked at the man who had been silent the whole time, "General He, do you have any good ideas?"
The person General Cao asked raised his head from the map and said, "It's not a good strategy. Why don't we send someone to investigate the enemy's current situation first, and then discuss a specific battle strategy."
"Well, let's leave it at that for now."
When everyone temporarily decided on the strategy of sending people to find out the enemy's current situation, Yun Zhi received the news that the spy had found out.