"I promise that this news is absolutely true! General Maori's 10,000 cavalry were completely wiped out by the Songshui Army a few days ago! No one escaped!"

"Nonsense! This... how is this possible!" Several deputy generals shouted: "If you spread such rumors and disrupt the morale of the army, you should be punished with military orders!"

The messenger fell to the ground: "Every small sentence is true, if there are false words, let the military law deal with it!"

General Tojo waved his hand and said, "They wouldn't joke about such things! With General Maori's character, if he had taken down Matsumizu Castle, he would have sent someone to show off his power. At this moment, he had not sent anyone here, which only means that he had encountered a problem!"

"General, what should we do now?"

General Tojo took a few deep breaths to calm himself down and said in a deep voice: "We are in Songbei Town at this moment, three hundred miles away from Songshui City in the south, and more than one thousand two hundred miles away from Luding City in the north. Even if our food is reduced in quota and ration, it can only be supported for five days! If we march 200 miles a day, we will definitely not be able to return to Luding City. Moreover, the battle has not yet been fought and the loss has been so heavy, so what are the faces we have to return to Luding City?"

All the generals nodded solemnly. General Lezhao said again: "In five days, use the first two days to arrive at Songshui City, and use the other two days to build siege weapons. On the fifth day, the city will be fully attacked, and all the people in the city will be killed, and no one will be left behind!"

"We are left to the construction of siege weapons! Fortunately, a few skilled craftsmen escaped the explosion!" said a deputy general of the siege army.

"How could General Maori's 10,000 cavalry be wiped out in such a small Songshui city? The question is too great. Before we arrive at Songshui City, we must find out the reason. Otherwise, if we fall into the same trick again, it will be a big deal."

General Tojo sent his elite spies to go out overnight, and Xunxian rushed to Matsumizu Castle to spy on the situation.

The next morning, General Tojo placed the wounded in Songbei Town, sent a small team of people to guard it, and led the army southward. However, their every move did not escape from An Yu's sight. Every hour, the spies in Songshui City would release a carrier pigeon to report to An Yu about his current location and the status of the Maha army.

Both Maha's army and Songshui City were tacitly in silence.

The Maha army did not rush to rush for its great defeat, and Songshui City did not take the initiative to attack for the previous victory. However, both sides knew that this was the peace before the storm came.

When the next morning of the next march, the spy sent by General Tojo had already returned and reported: "The people in Matsumizu Castle poisoned the little lake. What is the specific poison? There are many sayings. General Maori's troops, in order to restore their strength and prepare to attack the city, drank the water from the little lake. Both people and horses were drunk, and they were poisoned, so..."

"Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! How stupid!" General Tojo said angrily: "All the people and the horses were poisoned! Basic knowledge of marching, he actually... ten thousand soldiers and horses were gone! This is not that Milai people are powerful, but that Maori is too stupid! In the enemy's realm, he actually drank the stagnant water in the lake without any detection. What's the difference between this and sending death!"

"Hmph! That's good, I'm worried that their 10,000 troops were defeated by the Matsumi army head-on!" General Tojo's worries slightly reduced. If General Maori's cavalry was defeated by the head-on, then those infantrymen with no combat power would probably lose even worse.

"If you look for the entire Mile, you will definitely not be able to find such an army!" The deputy general said: "Being an enemy of us, Maha, is simply seeking death! General, we will march directly to the city of Songshui and occupy the city!"

"As planned, the Milai people's plan is very mysterious. They can think of poisoning the lake to deal with General Maori, and naturally they will think of other ways to deal with us!" General Tojo said confidently: "So, this time, we will do every step of the way, and will not give the other party an opportunity to take advantage of!"

"Send someone to spy on the situation in Songshui City again, it's best to find out what strategy they are going to deal with us!"

...

Songshui City has already become soldiers, and everyone who can move has mobilized to prepare for the fight against the Maha army. The inside and outside the city are busy. Although they are a little surprised by the war, people are more full of expectations, and they are looking forward to the defeat of the Maha army in Songshui City.

"Hey, at the gate of Anjia Courtyard, people are being recruited to dig a hole outside the city?" A man carrying a sack said. At this time, there were many people coming and going on the street, all of whom were following the orders to transport supplies.

"Dig a pit? What pit? Why go outside the city? If the Maha army attacks, wouldn't it be dead?"

"Yes! Who dares to go outside the city?"

Another man said, "Don't you know? The whereabouts of the Maha army have long been controlled by our great city lord! A quarter of an hour ago, the An family had just announced the news that the Maha army is still 120 miles away from our Songshui City! No matter how fast it is, it can't arrive before dark! And it's only in the morning to dig a hole. Hehe, after passing this village, there is no such store! I heard that the reward is quite good. Do you like to go or not? I'm going to go anyway!"

"Really? There is such a good thing? Let's take a look!"

"Hey! Don't leave me behind! The work I've taken hasn't been completed yet! Wait for me!"

"If you don't finish it, complete it first! We can wait for you, but the reward will not wait for you!"

Outside the gate of the Anjia compound, there were already a crowd of people. Those who came to take the task to dig holes outside the city could not even be squeezed in.

After inquiring, the people who came late found out that these people went to dig holes outside the city to bury landmines and pull fire thunders. As soon as the Maha army arrived, they hit the other party with a heavy blow.

There were two honest-looking men who followed the task and digged pits to bury landmines in a circle of areas around the city. It was already noon, and in the vast area half a mile outside the city, it had become a melon belt, and the digging task was almost completed. At this time, several teams of officers and soldiers walked out of the city gate. The officers and soldiers carried heavy wooden boxes, walked to the edge of the pit, opened the wooden boxes, arranged some devices in a certain order, and buried them with soil!

Both men knew that this was the landmines arranged. The two of them looked at each other, and Xun found an opportunity to sneak behind the tree, and with the cover, Xun moved away from Songshui City. These two people were sent by Maha to spy on the spear. Songshui City planned to use the mine array to attack the other party with a surprise attack, and Maha has already learned about it...
Chapter completed!