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Chapter 1171: Pig Teammate (Part )
The next morning, outside the city of Ande, Duke Lu Cheng Yaojin was commanding tens of thousands of soldiers to attack the city.

Cheng Yaojin led a group of cavalrymen who arrived at Ande City yesterday, forced the Turks back into the city, and carried out clearing and preparation. It was not until the early morning that the vanguard infantrymen who were transferred from Luoyang to Xiangzhou and later followed Cheng Yaojin to recapture the city and took over the territory behind him arrived at the city of Ande.

This group of fastest infantrymen only has 20,000 people, but it is enough to attack the city. Once these 20,000 people are used up, the subsequent troops will be replenished.

Cheng Yaojin has already received news that the main Turkic army, led by Shi Luodie, is heading north to meet Li Ji's army.

Li Ji also has 100,000 cavalrymen and is a veteran who has experienced many battles. Cheng Yaojin has great confidence in him, even more than in himself.

As long as Li Ji could hold the main force of the Turks at the gates of the city for three days, he would be able to capture the Turks' old nest, Ande City. Then he could go north and attack from the front and back with Li Ji's army, and he would surely be able to wipe out all the Turks at the gates of Gonggao City.

The two had communicated before going north.

If the Turkic army relied on the sharpness of the cavalry and roamed around everywhere, I am afraid that they would not be able to do anything to the other side. In the case of all cavalry, if the other side avoided fighting, they could only passively follow behind and eat dust.

Therefore, we must find a way to force the other party to fight with us.

After arriving in Hebei, they found that the Turkic army was not as weak as the court said. It was just that the Turkic army was scattered in several prefectures in the east of Hebei, and the strength of each place was not large, so they could not be sure how many Turkic troops were left.

However, even if the loss was not more than half as the court claimed, it would not exceed 200,000 people.

If these people are scattered, they will defeat them one by one; if they are concentrated, they will fight one or two annihilation battles.

It was just a battle between two evenly matched sides. Even if they annihilated the Turks, their losses would be immeasurable.

That is, we have to fight head-on, but we cannot die together.

So the two men discussed and decided to split their troops into two groups, one in the south and one in the north. On the one hand, it was to block the Turks in the southeastern part of Hebei and annihilate them; on the other hand, it was also to lure the Turks to divide their troops and defeat them one by one.

The Turks had a large amount of treasures looted from the south, so they had to send a certain force to defend the city, so there were only more than 100,000 soldiers and horses left to defeat the enemy.

Both of them have 100,000 cavalrymen against more than 100,000 Turks. They are at home and can rely on the city to defend at any time. Even if they cannot defeat the invading enemy, they can drag it out for a few days without problem.

If the Turks attacked Cheng Yaojin, Li Ji would lead his troops to attack Ande, and then outflank him, attacking him from the front and back. The same was true in reverse, and the strategies developed by the two were very flexible and had no set rules.

Both of them are veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time. As long as they discuss it in advance, they can improvise on the battlefield and adjust their strategies at any time as long as they have tacit understanding.

But they didn't expect that the Turks would be so decisive and take action.

According to their previous battlefield situation, the Turks should not know how many people they have and how they are deployed. It is a taboo to act rashly in the dark. According to common sense, they must first defend the city and slowly find out the situation.

Then formulate a strategy, and the whole process will last at least ten days to half a month.

Who knew that the other side changed their previous slowness and took action quickly. When Cheng Yaojin learned that the Turkic army was dispatched, he became suspicious again. On the battlefield, you count me and I count you, and no one dared to be careless.

They tempted the Turks to divide their forces and "defeat them one by one", but they were also afraid that the other side would really defeat them one by one.

After learning about the Turkic people's movements, Cheng Yaojin did not act rashly, but sent out scouts to follow them. The other side reacted too quickly, and he was worried that the other side might be deliberately luring the enemy to test him, and actually wait for him to attack the city.

Then he made a surprise attack and made himself a fool.

After sending out the scouts, he led the army slowly forward, heading north towards the city of Ande, while waiting for news from the scouts.

Ande City is only one day and one night away from Gonggao City. As long as he is sure that the Turks and Li Ji's men have fought each other, he can attack the empty Ande City with confidence.

When the army reached the vicinity of Liting, they received news from scouts that a battle had broken out and a fierce battle had already begun.

Cheng Yaojin did not hesitate and led 100,000 cavalrymen to charge at Ande. When his army arrived at the city, the Turks had already closed the city gates and were defending the city. Cheng Yaojin looked at the Turks who were defending the city with a look of determination and felt very disdainful.

How could these people defend a city? If the infantry arrived, they could capture the city in less than three days and wipe out the tens of thousands of defenders in the city.

'Boom boom. Boom.'

Amid the rumbling sound of war drums, cavalrymen drove past the city gates one after another, and arrows rained down on the city walls. The Turks on the city walls, looking down from above, also began to shoot arrows in retaliation, and the two sides fought fiercely, back and forth, and the siege began.

After several rounds of arrow rain, both sides suffered varying degrees of damage.

Then, under the general's banner, Cheng Yaojin, wearing the mighty Ming Guang armor, waved his command flag, and 20,000 infantrymen carried the ladders collected by the cavalry from nearby cities and the battering rams made by cutting down trees in the wilderness, and rushed towards the city. The Turks on the city threw stones and logs down in panic, but the infantrymen had not yet reached the city, so how many people could be hit by the stones thrown randomly? The general of the siege infantry was very experienced. Seeing this, he quickly ordered the siege soldiers to carry the ladders and shout and swing under the city.

Don't rush to attack the city, but consume the enemy's supplies.

Sure enough, within a quarter of an hour, the falling rocks and rolling logs on the city wall gradually became less and less. The Tang army seized the opportunity, put the ladders on the city wall, and began to rush to the city. Seeing this, the Turks were anxious and had no choice, but there were not many stones on the city wall.

After a while, the infantrymen howled and jumped onto the top of the city wall, fighting with the Turks.

"Hahaha, the Turks are still so stupid."

Cheng Yaojin and the generals around him laughed loudly. "I overestimated them. I thought it would take three days to capture the city. Now it seems that as long as there are not many defenders in the city, we can capture the city today."

"General Cheng, the Turks are not good at defending cities."

The leader of the Longxi Flying Cavalry was none other than Wei Deming. Seeing how smoothly the situation went, he said with a smile, "Their power is based on horseback archery. If we use cavalry to engage in a battle, even if we want to defeat them, it will take a lot of effort."

"But now they have abandoned their horses to defend the city with cavalry, which is obviously playing to their strengths and hiding their weaknesses."

"However, General Cheng must not be careless. We must be on guard against the Turks who might see the wrong opportunity and open the city gates and charge with cavalry."

"Haha, this is exactly what I want them to do."

Cheng Yaojin looked like he had everything under control: "I have concentrated all my troops at the west gate so that they can break out from other gates. They are hiding in the city like a turtle shell. Our 100,000 cavalrymen are useless."

"As long as they abandon the city, we can destroy them with our overwhelming superiority."

"Master Cheng is wise."

The generals were impressed. A person's reputation is like a tree's shadow. Cheng Yaojin was born into a family of military generals. He became famous when he was in Wagangzhai. Later, he surrendered to the Tang Dynasty and followed Qin Wang Li Shimin to defeat Song Jingang, capture Dou Jiande, subdue Wang Shichong, and pacify local separatist forces. He was listed as one of the twenty-four heroes in Lingyan Pavilion.

After Zhenguan, he participated in the Battle of Dingxiang and pacified Tuyuhun, Tubo, and the countries in the Western Regions. He made great military achievements and became famous.

They feel very safe following such a veteran of the battlefield.

Cheng Yaojin also tried his best to befriend the children of the core families of the Guanlong nobles. After another twenty or thirty years, when the current leaders of the major nobles have passed away, these children who have been tempered and have military power will inevitably step onto a more important stage.

Either they manage the family behind the scenes, or they enter the court as important officials. With these connections, it would be difficult for the Cheng family to decline.

Everyone was laughing and chatting casually, completely ignoring the meat grinder-like siege in the distance.

From time to time, the noble family's demeanor was clearly revealed. If they were not wearing armor, they would have had a bit of the demeanor of "Thinking back to the days when Gongjin was young, Xiao Qiao was just married, he was so handsome and heroic. With a feather fan and a scarf, he could destroy the masts and oars in the midst of laughter and conversation."

One of the young generals of the Du clan watched as the Tang army's infantrymen continued to rush up the city wall along the ladders. After more than an hour of fighting, with corpses falling from the top of the city wall from time to time, he frowned and asked, "Didn't they say that as long as we attack the top of the city wall, it won't take long before the city is broken?"

"How come after so long of killing, there is still no sign of the city collapsing?"

As soon as he said this, many young talents who had little experience looked at Cheng Yaojin in surprise.

Cheng Yaojin was stunned, and looked down upon these nobles. They were really stupid, but he still explained patiently with a smile on his face: "Under normal circumstances, the siege would definitely last for ten days or half a month, exhausting the defenders."

"In the end, the situation turned against them. The attackers climbed the city walls, which was like the final blow that crushed the defense. Once the defenders' mentality collapsed, they would collapse."

"This is also a practice formed by the experience of both sides. At the moment of climbing the city wall, the morale of the attackers will be greatly boosted, while the defenders will be extremely desperate. The situation turned around in an instant, and this is also caused by the mentality of both sides."

Everyone nodded silently after hearing this. Since they joined the army, they had only trained but had not fought much. Moreover, they were cavalrymen and had never been involved in siege warfare. The only common sense they had was learned from books.

Although he trained hard, he did not have much actual combat experience.

This expedition is also meant to be a form of training.

The elders of the noble families handed them over to veterans like Cheng Yaojin and Li Ji in order to let them make up for some practical experience. After a few major battles, these people will be reborn and become real elites.

(End of this chapter)