The Villain's Counterattack

Chapter 506: 36 Strategies for Defending the City in Winter

Thirty-six Strategies for Defending a City in Winter: The First Strategie: Fortify the walls and clear the fields. When the weather is freezing, remove the weeds and firewood to prevent the army from getting warm.

Thirty-six Strategies for Defending a City in Winter, the Second Strategy: Turn the Ground into Steel. Before the weather gets cold, send people to sprinkle water on the ground below the city to make mud, leaving only the main gate and the main road. The rest will be covered with ice. In winter, Liaodong City is extremely cold with ice three feet deep, making it difficult for the army to set up camp.

Thirty-six Strategies for Defending a City in Winter, the Third Strategy: Freeze the City. Sprinkle water on the city walls and let it freeze into ice, making it more difficult for the enemy to attack the city and improving the defense of the walls. The first thing the enemy will destroy is the city walls. If the walls are covered with ice armor, they will not be easily damaged.

Thirty-six Strategies for Defending a City in Winter, the fourth strategy: Water Dragon Cannon, which melts ice into water and shoots it out with a water dragon cart. The range can be as short as twenty or thirty feet or as long as fifty feet. It can kill people without killing them, and cause endless disasters.

Thirty-six Strategies for Defending a City in Winter, Strategy 5: Ice Hell...

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Thirty-six Strategies for Defending a City in Winter, Strategy No. 35: Cut off food supplies behind enemy lines. Use elite soldiers to harass the rear, and escape thousands of miles away if an attack fails. Equipped with skis that leave no footprints on the snow, all elite soldiers have light skills and attack everywhere to cut off the food supply.

Thirty-six Strategies for Defending a City in Winter, Strategy No. 36: Food Strategy. When the enemy is short of food and grass, cook delicious food in a big pot on the city wall. I won’t tell you how it tastes, but the fragrance will surely spread thousands of miles away. This is a strategy to win over the enemy’s mind.

Yuwen Shang and Li Shentong looked at the thirty-six small tricks in their hands, which recorded in detail the precautions and equipment to be equipped. Their faces showed extremely rich expressions. If they were the Goguryeo siege army, how would they deal with these small tricks?

Yang Xuyan refused to leave the city and just wanted to defend it. The soldiers and civilians in the city were strictly managed, and there was no shortage of food, fodder, and equipment. There was also coal for heating and sufficient groundwater supply. The three-foot-thick ice outside the city prevented the possibility of digging a tunnel, and the city walls were frozen. What could be done?

What attracted them the most were the elite soldiers mentioned in the book who were proficient in light skills and equipped with magical equipment that could walk on snow without leaving any traces. In winter, they could come and go as fast as the wind and be as fast as a horse. If they missed an attack, they would escape thousands of miles away and cut off the enemy's food supply. It was terrifying just to think about it.

"How do I obtain this magical artifact that leaves no footprints on snow?" Li Shentong looked at Yang Xuyan eagerly. Yang Xuyan shook his head slightly and said, "It's not difficult to craft, but using it is difficult. However, it leaves no footprints on snow, but it's useless on ordinary, snowless terrain. Ordinary elite soldiers can master it after training for ten days or half a month in heavy snow. Those with good Qinggong skills can become masters in just three to five days."

"We wish to form an alliance to defend against Goguryeo's winter offensive. What do you think, Lord Liaodong?"

"good."

"A talented young man in my family admires the Marquis of Liaodong and is willing to serve as a guard officer in Liaodong City."

"I have a useless son in my family, but he is quite interested in the elite troops of the Liaodong Marquis. Although he is young, he has barely entered the Xiantian realm and will definitely not be a drag."

Yang Xuyan looked at the so-called talents who were around 30 years old and brought with them, and complained in his heart, "Boy, I still have half a year to become an adult. Are you also considered young talents when you are over 40?"

However, compared with these old antiques in their fifties and sixties, they are indeed young, and being able to achieve innateness at the age of thirty, he is indeed a talent in the entire Sui Dynasty. Not everyone has countless inheritances like him, and has many methods of quick success.

The elite troops that had run out of food were actually the Buzhou assassination team's dark forces. They were all disciples of the Butian Dao sect. They had learned the advanced lightness skills of floating on water and flying on grass from Yang Xuyan. They were led by Yang Ke and Yang Gai, two half-step masters who had practiced the Sunflower Manual. Even though there were masters in the Goguryeo army, they could come and go freely.

After all, Yang Xuyan had always valued his brothers. In addition to the Quanzhen Sect's Tiangang Big Dipper Seven Stars Sword Formation, he also taught them the Wudang Sect's Zhenwu Seven-Section Formation, the Huashan Sect's Fanzheng Liangyi Sword Technique, and the Hengshan Sect's Sword Formation, allowing them to carry out missions individually or form formations to confront enemies. The Butian Dao had two hundred disciples, and more than half of them had accompanied Yang Xuyan to Liaodong this time, all of whom were among the best. Ten of them were innate, enough to handle even the most powerful Grandmasters.

Unless Fu Cailin personally takes action, Yang Xuyan is full of confidence in them. If Fu Cailin really takes action in person, Shi Zhixuan will certainly not stand idly by. He had fought Fu Cailin before and was undefeated. His strength and confidence have reached a critical point. Once he breaks through and becomes a grandmaster, Fu Cailin will not be able to leave even if he wants to.

Shi Zhixuan was even somewhat impatient to face Fu Cailin head-on, so he often tested his disciple Yang Xuyan. This was probably because by chance, he discovered that his disciple had mastered a sword technique called "Nine Swords of Dugu", which was similar to the Yi sword technique. This was one of the important reasons why he wanted to break through to the grandmaster level by challenging Fu Cailin.

The three great masters in the world are no ordinary ones. Ning Daoqi is the number one in Taoism, with unfathomable martial arts skills and a realm as high as the best. Although Shi Zhixuan is confident in his own Immortal Seal, he does not think he can defeat him. Not to mention that the Turkic Bi Xuan has many masters around him, he is also a man with a strong character and fierce attacks. If one is not careful, both of them may suffer losses.

Shi Zhixuan was quite confident only in the Yijian master Fu Cailin. Even if he couldn't defeat him, he would be able to escape unscathed. What's more, Fu Cailin was injured when he tried to assassinate him before, and he took advantage of the situation and won first, thus taking the initiative. He would have a psychological advantage when they met next time.

Moreover, Fu Cailin was a rather contradictory person. His life was related to the life and death of Goguryeo, so he was very afraid of death. However, this fear of life was not for himself, but for the entire Goguryeo.

As the weather grew colder, the Goguryeo army in Pyongyang prepared for battle and quickly recaptured all territory east of the Yalu River. Well, actually, they reoccupied it. After all, the Sui army had completely retreated, leaving no troops behind. However, before leaving, they also destroyed the city's defenses, took away the defense equipment and supplies, leaving only an empty city.

When Yang Guang was on the expedition, Goguryeo adopted the strategy of fortifying its defenses and clearing the countryside, which caused great harm to itself. It was extremely difficult for the photovoltaic city to recover its original state at this time. In addition, the navy was completely destroyed, and it was unable to cross the Yalu River before it froze. On the contrary, Yang Xuyan had the help of pirates from Jeju Island, who launched sneak attacks again and again, destroying their warehouse reserves east of the Yalu River, making it difficult for the Goguryeo army to prepare for a counterattack.

Not until the Yalu River froze over and the pirates from Jeju Island left did the Goguryeo army finally prepare with peace of mind. However, the weather was so cold that even the Goguryeo army itself was greatly affected.

In Pyongyang City, at Fu Cailin's residence, the King of Goguryeo came out angrily.

Ever since Fu Cailin became a Grand Master, the King of Goguryeo began to expand, and his ambition could no longer be suppressed. He continued to expand the territory to increase Goguryeo's land, and invaded western Liaoning from time to time, provoking many enemies.

In his view, there were only three Grandmasters in the world, so Goguryeo, with its Grandmaster, should be one of the top three great powers in the world, and the current small country was not worthy of him. In his eyes, the Grandmaster was invincible, and there was nothing he couldn't solve. If one time didn't work, he would send two.

Among the three great masters in the world, the Grand Master of the Sui Dynasty, Ning Daoqi, was not on good terms with the imperial court, or was secretly opposed to Yang Guang. The Grand Master of the Turkic people was known as the Martial Saint, and was in a high position and had power and could even influence the position of Khan. Only the Grand Master of Goguryeo, although highly respected, was controlled by the King of Goguryeo, which was really puzzling. It was precisely because of this that the King of Goguryeo became overly ambitious.

However, this time, the Sui Dynasty's expedition to Goguryeo really taught him a lesson. Obviously, most of the Sui Dynasty's army had been dispatched, and the nine armies represented nine masters, but the remaining people who were guarding Yang Guang still stopped Fu Cailin.

Not only did he fail to capture the king, but the fact that Grand Master Fu Cailin was injured made him extremely worried, and his morale plummeted instantly. The King of Goguryeo had mixed feelings about Fu Cailin. He relied on him, but was also wary of him. This time, he personally went out to test him.

One is to persuade Fu Cailin to help him assassinate the generals defending the Liaodong area;

Secondly, he wanted to marry Fu Jun'er and further control this grandmaster.

However, both of his requests were politely rejected by Fu Cailin. How could the self-righteous King of Goguryeo remain calm? He inevitably ruined Fu Cailin's reputation along the way, and his cursing made Jin Zhengzong, the chief martial arts instructor who was accompanying the king, speechless.

As a member of the upper class of the Goguryeo nobility, how could he not be aware of the current situation? The Sui Dynasty was powerful, and if Grand Master Fu Cailin did not come out, even the small number of Sui troops defending the city would be difficult to deal with. If the campaign could not be concluded during the winter, how could Goguryeo survive the return of the Sui army the following year?

But compared to the short-sighted and utilitarian King of Goguryeo, he hoped that Fu Cailin could rest and recuperate during this period and recover to his peak condition before the Sui Emperor returns next year, otherwise Goguryeo would be in danger.