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Hua Mulan had no choice but to stand up and clasped her fists and said, "The general is not familiar with the soldiers and horses of the capital, so please assign them to your Majesty!"

The ministers present couldn't help but look at Hua Mulan differently. Just now, her response was very decent. If she was asked to choose soldiers and horses, it would undoubtedly offend people.

Tuoba Tao couldn't help scolding Hua Mulan for being so cunning, he thought for a while and said to Qiu Mulingshou, "Shou, you didn't capture today, and this matter can't be left halfway, let Hua Mulan avenge you tomorrow." Well, tomorrow's siege battle will still be sieged by the guards and commanded by Hua Mulan!"

Qiu Mulingshou became anxious when he heard that, and if Hua Mulan commanded the attack, it would be fine if he couldn't attack the city. If Hua Mulan could attack it, where would he put his face like this?People will be more pissed off than people!

"Your Majesty, even if the last general can't be captured, how can he be able to do so? The last general really doesn't believe it! He can attack the city if he wants to, but he has to talk about what to do if he can't take it down?"

The ministers and generals all looked at Hua Mulan with great interest, wanting to see how she would respond this time.

Tuoba Tao looked at Qiu Mulingshou, then at Hua Mulan, seeing that she was silent, he asked, "Hua Mulan, if you can't attack, what should you do?"

Chapter 356 Mulan Siege

Hua Mulan clasped her fists in answer to Tuoba Tao's question: "Your Majesty, the attack on Huaishuo City is not the result of the last general's voluntary invitation. If he voluntarily invites Ying to issue a military order, there is nothing wrong with it. If he can't win within the stipulated time, it is all right to come to see him. The last general is ordered to attack the city, and he can only guarantee that he will do his best, and whether he can succeed is beyond the control of the last general!"

After hearing this, all the ministers and military generals thought that what Hua Mulan said was right. How many generals went to war were ever-victorious generals, and there were not many generals in history, right?Even a military master like Cao Cao has been defeated many times!

If every general who leads an army is punished if he fails to win a battle, who will lead the army to fight?Qiu Mulingshou is simply making trouble for no reason!

Tuobatao asked Qiu Mulingshou: "Did you hear that? Hua Mulan's siege was ordered by me. Even if it doesn't succeed, I can't punish you. But you are different. You took the initiative and promised to quit drinking for a month if you won't win, didn't you?" I forced you to quit drinking for a month, right?"

Qiu Mulingshou argued strongly: "But who can guarantee that he will do his best?"

Cui Hao next to him asked with a smile: "If you can win, it is a great contribution. After the battle, your majesty will reward you according to your merits. Who can deliberately not use all your strength? Unless this person has a brain problem, my lord." Is there something wrong with your brain?"

"Fart, I'm sober!" Qiu Mulingshou said angrily.

Cui Hao spread his hands: "Isn't this the end? A bastard like the prince would not deliberately fail to win a battle, and a quick-witted person like General Hua would not be so unwise!"

Qiu Mulingshou moved his mouth, unable to speak, and retreated to the side resentfully.

Tuoba Tao looked at him, smiled, and said to Hua Mulan: "Hua Mulan, from now on, you will lead the guards and horses, and I order you to organize an attack on the city early in the morning!"

"The end will follow the order!"

In the early morning of the next day, after breakfast, the Wei army assembled again outside Huaishuo City and set up an army formation.

Hua Mulan was riding a horse and standing in front of the guard army. There were more than 700 guards, and more than [-] people were lost in yesterday's siege. This kind of casualties are terrifying enough. The defenders are still people like Rouran. This kind of defender who can't defend the city, the city wall is not high, only about five meters, if the generals of Liu Song in the Southern Dynasty lead troops to defend the city, it is estimated that the casualties of the Wei army will be even greater.

Hua Mulan shouted loudly: "The owners of all buildings come to listen to the order!"

When the ten building owners heard this, they rode their horses and lined up in front of her.

Hua Mulan said solemnly: "This general is not your general, but His Majesty assigned you to this general's temporary command, so whether you are willing or not, today you have to obey orders, even if this general sends you to die, You can't frown, otherwise I will execute you for disobedience to military orders, this method of death is not very honorable, are you willing to fight to death, or are you willing to be executed for disobedience to military orders?"

The ten building generals looked at each other, knowing that the person in front of them was not joking, they couldn't deliberately confront Hua Mulan, they couldn't work hard, otherwise the fate waiting for them might not be very good.

The generals stood up and clasped their fists: "General, the last general is willing to obey orders, and the general does not have to doubt our integrity!"

"That's good. You all have contributed to taking down Huaishuo City. If you can't take down Huaishuo City, the dead soldiers will die in vain. This general believes that you will settle this account! Okay, now listen to this general's order, Each of you choose twenty strong men from your own command, no matter ordinary soldiers or officers!"

"Follow the order!"

The owners of each building immediately rode their horses back to the main formation to pick twenty strong soldiers to come and pay their orders.

Two hundred strong soldiers stood in ten rows, and Hua Mulan rode up to them and shouted, "Squad officer, raise your hands!"

Two of the two hundred people raised their hands, and Hua Mulan immediately pointed to a person with a quiet face and said, "You guys are temporarily organized into the supervisor team, and you are the team leader, and the other team officer and deputy! You two will lead the team." The supervisory team followed behind the siege troops. If anyone is afraid of the enemy and turns around to run away when attacking the city later, you will directly attack and kill them. I want to chop off the heads of both of you, do you understand?"

The two clasped their fists together and agreed, "Follow the order!"

Hua Mulan gave another order to the ten generals: "Each building will pick fifty people whose archery skills are better than other soldiers to assemble!"

The ten masters immediately returned to the formation and picked out five soldiers with good archery skills, and handed them over to Hua Mulan. Hua Mulan asked them to line up in twenty rows, and jumped out the highest-ranking officers, and let one of the team officers take the post. The bow and arrow team is the captain, and the other two are the team's deputy.

Next, Hua Mulan ordered two wooden siege ladders to be brought over, and they were placed against each other, and the soldiers were ordered to support them.

"How to climb the siege ladder? This general will demonstrate it to you once, so watch it!" Hua Mulan took a knife from a soldier after she finished speaking.

She walked to the bottom of the siege ladder, put the knife in her mouth and bit her teeth, tied a small leather shield to her left arm, raised her left arm to let the small round shield cover her head, and siege the city with her right hand and her feet. She climbed very fast, and soon reached the top of the siege ladder. During the climbing process, she kept the leather shield on the left or right side of her body from time to time to block the arrows that seemed to be about to shoot .

Hua Mulan got off the siege ladder and asked loudly, "Can you see clearly?"

The soldiers replied in unison: "See clearly!"

"Okay, now that we've seen it clearly, let's practice it before we officially start the siege! Come on, build a siege ladder!" Hua Mulan shouted.

Some soldiers ran over carrying wooden ladders, and Hua Mulan demonstrated to all the soldiers how to quickly and neatly set up the siege ladder on the city wall. The person in front of the ladder put the head of the siege ladder on the wall ground, and turned around to support the lower end of the wooden ladder with both feet, the soldiers in the middle and tail of the siege ladder immediately pushed forward and upward with the wooden ladder, and the wooden ladder would be pushed upright, and then fell towards the city wall.

Previously, Hua Mulan led and trained cavalry. She didn't know how to attack and defend the city, but she often ran to the baggage camp to meet Zhao Junsheng, and often saw Zhao Junsheng commanding the soldiers of the baggage camp to carry out battles. The siege and defense drills, if you watch a lot, you will naturally get a little better.

From her point of view, for a city wall like Huaishuo City, if Zhao Junsheng and his supply battalion came to attack the city, the Rouran people who defended the city might not be able to withstand a round and would be breached. How could it take a day?

It took an hour to conduct simple siege training for the soldiers of the guard army, and Hua Mulan divided them into groups. After the groups were completed, she led them slowly approaching the city wall of Huaishuo Town.

Seeing Hua Mulan moving with his men and horses, Tuoba Tao and the ministers and generals all turned their attention.

He Duoluo, the Duke of Hedong, was quite puzzled and said: "Hey, why didn't this General Hua order the soldiers to rush to the city wall, but instead approached slowly? With their speed, when they got to the city wall, they might have already been killed. Did the creeps kill them with heavy casualties?"

Cui Hao said with a smile: "Don't be anxious, Mr. Hedong, just wait and see!"

Under the watchful eyes of the soldiers and generals on both sides, Hua Mulan led the guards and horses and moved to a position a stone's throw away from the city wall and stopped.

Hua Mulan drew out her sword and pointed at the city wall, shouting: "Siege wooden echelons come forward, carry the ladders and stand side by side, with a distance of two people between each ladder!"

A siege ladder was carried by three people, one at the head, one at the tail and one in the middle. Under Hua Mulan's order, these people stood at the front of the team carrying a siege ladder every three people, and the first one carried a siege ladder. The ladder man had a shield strapped to his chest and back.

Hua Mulan ordered the soldiers of the two teams from the first building to step forward and stand between the siege ladders in a column formation.

After the first wave of attack echelons were ready, Hua Mulan walked up to the siege ladder team and said loudly: "Your task is to carry the siege ladder over, set it on the city wall and fix it, so that it will not be defended." The army was overthrown, do you remember?"

"remember!"

Hua Mulan walked to the side of the team, raised her sword and shouted towards the city wall: "The first wave of attacking echelon, let this general rush over!"

"Rush--" Whether it was the ladder-carrying soldiers or the Wei soldiers holding swords and shields, they all roared and rushed towards the city wall.

They had already entered the range of the defenders' bows and arrows since the start of their run, and a large number of arrows were shot from the city wall immediately.

The soldiers raised their left arms and shielded themselves with shields.

In front of and above the body, some arrows hit the ground, some arrows were set on the shield, and a few arrows hit the charging siege team.

Some people fell from the arrows, and the people behind continued to roar forward.

One of the ministers and generals who were watching the battle at the rear said: "This Hua Mulan really has a trick. Don't look at how densely he lined up the siege troops, but the soldiers all used shields to cover their heads, and most of the arrows were shot on the ground. on the shield, fewer arrows will be hit!"