"Report, lord, Yingyang is lost, General Shi Tao is killed in battle, General Shi Shouxin is seriously injured!"

There has not been a conclusion on the Xuzhou incident, but another shocking news came at this time.

"What!"

After hearing this, Zhao Kuangyin and Miao Xun screamed at the same time, their eyes full of disbelief.

Before, Shi Shouxin had only defended alone after his defeat. He had lasted for so many days and had to help the Xuzhou army. Now, Zhao Kuangyin sent 10,000 troops to Shi Shouxin, but in just over ten days, how could he be broken?

"Impossible, absolutely impossible."

Zhao Kuangyin couldn't accept this fact and shouted in a little collapse: "Gu sent him 10,000 reinforcements, and Zhang Liao and Xu Huang's troops were only 50,000. How could Yingyang break it just by saying that?"

Zhang Liao's Guangwu Camp originally had only 50,000 troops. Even if the losses caused by these battles were small, there would inevitably be a reduction in personnel. The cities they had captured before also needed to leave people to guard. Therefore, Zhao Kuangyin said that less than 50,000 troops were actually estimated to be in the multi-mile.

Although they only sent 10,000 reinforcements, they were on the defensive side. In addition, Shi Shouxin's original troops were not involved. He had just sent reinforcements for more than ten days and directly brought him such a message!

Not to mention Zhao Kuangyin, he was considered a strategist such as Miao Xun, and he didn't believe it very much!

Shi Shouxin was the earliest general under Zhao Kuangyin. Everyone knows his abilities. Even though he was overtaken by Tian Dan and others over the years, he still deserves the title of a famous general in the Central Plains, so he lost like this?

However, they also knew that if this kind of news was not sure, how could it be spread blindly? Since it had already reached Zhao Kuangyin, it means that this news has been confirmed!

The remaining 150,000 soldiers and horses of Xuzhou, except for 30,000 people who stayed in Xuzhou, the remaining 120,000 followed Zhao Kuangyin to the Yuzhou front line. Among them, 50,000 soldiers followed Zhao Kuangyin to press forward towards the Xuchang front line, and 50,000 soldiers entered the important places in Runan.

After all, this place is the most important place in Runan.

The remaining 20,000 troops were sent to Tian Rangju, while the other part was sent to Shi Shouxin.

As for Shi Tao who died in the battle in Xinbao, this is half a local figure. Although he is not a system figure, he was born to a system figure. As the first general to whom Zhao Kuangyin was born, Shi Shouxin will naturally pass on his family and marry and have children in recent years, and this one is the eldest son of Shi Xinshou and the local figure.

He is also brave and good at fighting. He is the top figure among the second generation under Zhao Kuangyin. He is better than the blue one, but he doesn't expect that he will never escape this cruel battlefield.

"Say, what's going on?" Zhao Kuangyin's face was fierce, and he still couldn't believe the news.

When he first attacked Yingyang, Zhang Liao made a plank road and secretly crossed Chen Cang. He attacked Yingyang openly, but secretly led the light cavalry to help Cao Ren's troops. But even so, Xu Huang still had enough troops to attack Yingyang's Shi Shouxin. After all, Zhang Liao took away only some of the cavalry, which had little impact on Xu Huang's place.

Even though the plan with Cao Ren was successful later, after Zhang Liao led his troops back again, Xu Huang was still responsible for the siege.

First of all, these two people are both talented as generals, and Zhang Liao is good at surprise attacks, but Xu Huang is fighting steadily. In terms of offensive battles, Zhang Liao is not necessarily comparable.

Secondly, before Zhang Liao returned, Xu Huang had led his troops to attack for so many days, and he had almost done his defensive measures against Shi Shouxin. In terms of how to attack in the future, Xu Huang was clearer than Zhang Liao.

In fact, Xu Huang was actually confident of capturing Yingyang City before Zhao Kuangyin's reinforcements arrived.

But it was also because he found out that Zhao Kuangyin sent 10,000 reinforcements that he slowed down and prepared to eat all of them in one breath after the ten thousand troops arrived.

The tactics Xu Huang used in this battle were tunnel warfare.

This tactic has a long history and has begun to appear since the Spring and Autumn Period. During the Warring States Period, it was even more used in actual combat. Mozi also wrote an article titled "Preparing the Acupoints" for tunnel warfare.

During the late Han and Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang and Yuan Shao had all conducted tunnel warfares. After the Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties, the use of tunnel warfares became more flexible. In the Ming Dynasty, underground military caves were dug to deal with the enemy.

However, if this tactic is used too much, there are so many precedents in the front. The generals guarding the city will be prepared for it. After all, there are not many ways to prevent this kind of tunnel digging, and the difficulties will not consume much manpower. You only need to dig a deep pit by the wall, put a large urn in the pit, cover the mouth of the large urn with leather, and then send soldiers to listen carefully. If the enemy is digging the tunnel, you can hear it.

But for famous generals, even if they are commonly used methods, they may be able to play with them.

Xu Huang's ability is not necessarily stronger than Shi Shouxin, but since Zhang Liao returned, these five good generals gathered on this battlefield, and this set of combination skills naturally exploded.

Since Zhang Liao's nominal position as the main general was temporarily replaced by Xu Huang, remember that the skill effect of the combination skills was not placed on the actual main general Zhang Liao, but on the defeated Xu Huang.

With the increase in combination skills, Xu Huang's ability to command has greatly increased in a short period of time.

He also dug the tunnel, but Xu Huang chose to do it in two lines, light and dark. There was a second secret passage hidden deep in one tunnel, and the two tunnels were dug at the same time. Although Shi Shouxin discovered Xu Huang's method of digging the tunnel in time, and after the tunnel was dug through, he smoked it with mugwort, which made Zhang Liao not only failed to attack the city along the tunnel, but instead lost some manpower.

However, this open tunnel was exposed, but the dark secret tunnel deeper was not exposed, but was still hidden. Shi Shouxin discovered one of Xu Huang's secret tunnels, but did not expect that Xu Huang would hide another tunnel in secret.

Moreover, because he had discovered Xu Huang's method of digging tunnels, Shi Shouxin instinctively thought that Xu Huang would definitely not use the same trick again, which made him somewhat neglected to be on guard.

Therefore, after the enemy reinforcements arrived, Xu Huang sent soldiers to completely dig through the secret passage that was about to be dug. From then on, the soldiers of Guangwu Camp rushed into the city along the tunnel. Although Shi Shouxin fought desperately, he still could not escape the fate of a city breaking.

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