Traveling through time and space and becoming a deposed prince, he just wants to survive!

Chapter 504 Jinzhou Prepares for War

In Jinzhou City, the atmosphere was as tense as a fully drawn bowstring.

Gaddafi was not idle at this critical moment. He took Amir and walked straight towards Yuwen Zhou's camp with hurried and firm steps.

At this moment, they had only one thought in their minds, which was to persuade Yuwen Zhou to fight alongside them and jointly resist the impending Jinyang army.

Yuwen Zhou came to Jinzhou this time with an important mission entrusted by several Xianbei families - to occupy this place and increase bargaining chips for future negotiations with the Great Zhou Dynasty.

However, when Gaddafi asked him to fight against the Jinyang army, Yuwen Zhou was extremely resistant.

He knew very well that this battle was extremely dangerous and that if he was not careful, he could lose everything.

But looking at the aggressive Gaddafi and Amir in front of him, Yuwen Zhou was really afraid, worried that they would force him to submit.

For a moment, he was extremely anxious, and his mind was like a tangled mess, thinking about countermeasures, but he still couldn't figure it out.

At this extremely anxious moment, Yuwen Zhou suddenly had an idea, forced a smile on his face, and hurriedly said:

"My two leaders, resisting the Jinyang Army is a common cause for our three families. There is no need for you to say more. I, Yuwen Zhou, will fully cooperate!"

Gaddafi came to Yuwen Zhou and asked him to send troops, which was only one reason. More importantly, he wanted to take back the ammunition that had been transported and the weapons in Yuwen Zhou's army.

After all, we are still friendly on the surface and have not yet fallen out. It would be inappropriate to force it.

The imperial edict clearly stated that these ammunitions were to be transported to Gulzar, who was attacking Pingyang City, for handover. Although Gaddafi could represent Gulzar, he did not have the power to bypass this established process.

Gaddafi then stepped forward with a broad smile and said, "General Yuwen's profound understanding of justice is truly admirable. However, leaving him alone under enemy fire is neither moral nor logical. I have an idea..."

As he spoke, he strode to the table in the tent, dipped his hand in the tea, and slowly drew a city wall on the table.

Gaddafi gestured and explained in detail: “As far as we know, the Jinyang army came from the east gate and attempted to attack our east gate.

However, although the South Gate is strategically located, we should not take it lightly. The enemy is well prepared and must have brought a large amount of artillery with them.

Rather than relying on the city walls to defend, it is better to 'let the tiger return to its lair', lure them into the city, and then surround and annihilate them."

Amir knew Gaddafi's plan in advance, and his face did not show much surprise. Instead, he immediately agreed:

"That's right! Let the enemy in, and their artillery will be useless. Then we can engage in close combat with them in the city, and those 100,000 slave soldiers will be able to show their prowess!"

Yuwen Zhou thought to himself that it might not be a bad idea to fight together with everyone else.

If a fight really breaks out, the responsibility will not fall entirely on me.

Thinking of this, Yuwen Zhou deliberately looked embarrassed and said, "Although this plan is brilliant, the slave soldiers have already been divided between the two leaders. In this case, I am afraid my men can only watch the battle from the sidelines."

Gaddafi naturally did not want Yuwen Zhou to stay out of this. He had finally dragged him into this battle, so how could he let him escape easily?

He quickly said with a smile, "General Yuwen, what are you talking about! The three of us should work together to defend together. Those slave soldiers are just shields in front of us, and we are the real spears that will defeat the enemy!"

After hearing what Gaddafi said, Yuwen Zhou had an idea and thought to himself: having these slave soldiers as human shields is not a bad thing. When the situation is favorable, we can fight, and when it is not, we can withdraw.

He was thinking secretly when Amir interrupted and said, "We will gather our troops and weapons and deploy them throughout the city, while keeping a close eye on the slave soldiers.

We have over 100,000 men here, so it's easy to defeat the Jinyang army of only 50,000 men!"

Amir's words acted as a catalyst, stimulating Yuwen Zhou once again. A hundred thousand people against fifty thousand, with almost no effort on their part, was such a good thing, why not do it?

Yuwen Zhou gritted his teeth, made up his mind, and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you! Tell me, how do we fight?"

Seeing that Yuwen Zhou finally agreed, Gaddafi was overjoyed and his tone became lighter: "In this way, we will only open one of the four gates and pretend that we don't know they are going to attack us.

Regardless of whether they conduct probing attacks first or launch a direct attack with a large army, we should only defend ourselves at first and not retaliate."

Yuwen Zhou thought for a moment, then nodded in agreement and said, "Well, this plan is feasible."

Gaddafi then said: "However, we have to concentrate all our artillery fire on a few key locations in case the situation changes.

Furthermore, these artillery fires require unified command. Of course, the artillery personnel will still be in your hands, but the command authority will be unified."

Gaddafi specifically emphasized the relationship between personnel and command in order to reassure Yuwen Zhou.

Sure enough, Yuwen Zhou mistakenly thought that Gaddafi just wanted to take control of the command, so he readily accepted his proposal.

With this consensus, Gaddafi was no longer polite. He quickly began to distribute the 100,000 slave soldiers and gave 30,000 to Yuwen Zhou, who was very happy to see this.

However, Gaddafi changed the subject and said, "General Yuwen, I hope you can mobilize 2,000 artillerymen to guard the center of the city. No matter what happens, they cannot evacuate."

Yuwen Zhou did not think too much about the details of exchanging 2,000 men for 30,000. After all, these people were in the center and not far away from him. If needed, they could be withdrawn at any time.

He agreed without hesitation.

But he never imagined that the weapons carried by these 2,000 artillerymen were almost all the assets of his army.

Moreover, after these people were transferred away, Gaddafi immediately sent his own 4,000 people to cooperate, under the pretext of serving as assistants to the artillery.

In fact, this is equivalent to two people fighting against one person. When the time comes, it will be up to Gaddafi to decide where to transfer these people.

The east gate of Jinzhou City slowly opened. Outside the city, Wang Biqing was still the commander of the Jinyang Army.

He rode on a tall horse and looked at the open city gate from afar. There were only a few soldiers standing guard on the city wall. They looked leisurely and contented, and did not look like they were going to fight at all.

The strange scene before him made Wang Biqing suspicious, and he thought to himself: Could this be an empty city plan set up by the enemy?

Although full of doubts in his heart, Wang Biqing decided to make a tentative attack forward first.

He waved his hand and gave the order: "Fire the cannons and attack the city!"

Suddenly, several cannons roared in unison, and shells rained down on the city gates and towers, raising dust everywhere.

However, there was no sign of counterattack in the city. Even the few soldiers on the city wall disappeared without a trace after a puff of smoke.