"How many times have you said it! When you fire the crossbow arrow, you cannot be exposed on the front of the Duo Tan, but you cannot squat and hide! Shoot along the side, take a look at the moment when you shoot the arrow, and immediately squat down with your back against the Duo Tan! You don't need to save the crossbow arrow, and you can quit after you have another five days!"

"The iron armored soldiers don't need to throw away the wooden rocks, just be responsible for command. The armored auxiliary soldiers will just throw them in the direction of their command. Don't get up and raise your hand to push them down against the wall! Who told you to push them from the pile, are you stupid? Isn't it stupid to push them from the gap?"

At the wall of Sanguan, the bloody offensive and defensive battles every day are repeated like a scene replica. The difference is that there are more and more casualties on both sides, and the quality of the soldiers guarding the city is also improving rapidly.

Carrying a ring-headed knife, a large round shield, and an officer with iron armor, above the town chief was walking around the city. He didn't know how to correct these new recruits who had been killed for less than ten days every day, so that they could use cross-fire power to get closer and use simple geometric calculations and experience to try to improve the masking effect of the bunker.

Anyone who cannot learn often dies faster, so those who survive are stimulated by blood and life, and their learning speed is often faster, which is almost the fastest efficiency in learning things in their life.

Lu Su's instructions were very clear: no need to save arrows, all the light was shot, because they could not finish shooting, and they had to distribute manpower to at least transport them back to Hechi County. The military rations were also opened to eat, so that the soldiers could take full care of them every day. The new recruits from military farming soldiers lived for so long, but they had not been able to eat every day as they are now, and their morale was quite useful.

...

Lu Su calmly guarded Dasan Pass. When he was on the fifth day, Fa Zheng also received the order from Liu Bei and rushed to the front line to support him.

But there are no need for many generals to guard the walls. As soon as Lu Su and him decided to supervise and organize the people to retreat, hide, and transfer military supplies. In short, they are the first to strengthen the road and clear the road.

Of course, this work was not implemented after Fa Zheng came. Lu Su has been implemented for several days, but it is nothing more than a capable and capable official commander and coordinated. Fa Zheng happened to take over the job when he came.

Fazheng is a native of Mei County and belongs to the prominent family of Youfufeng. In recent years, the military farmer tourists absorbed by Sanguan County and even Hechi County are mostly refugees flowing south into the Qinling Mountains in the Youfufeng area of ​​Guanzhong, so they are half a fellow villager with Fazheng. Fazheng has more affinity and prestige, so it is easier to persuade the people to trust.

But after all, Fa Zheng followed Liu Bei's camp very late and had never experienced the formation in Youzhou. He didn't know how to rotate and store the wheat harvested in advance, so Lu Su had to explain and teach it step by step. After Fa Zheng mastered it, he immediately began to organize local people to increase their efforts to implement it.

It has to be said that the arrival of Fazheng is really good, because for farmers, it is very reluctant to harvest early before the crops are fully mature. Harvest half a month early may result in one-third of the yield, and the loss of shelf life has not been calculated.

However, before Fa Zheng came, he also received permission from Liu Bei and Li Su. He had policies to compensate the residents. Therefore, Fa Zheng ordered the people near Sanguan County to go directly to the grassroots level again. He asked batches of minor officials to shout at each village:

"My fellow villagers, there are also state and county officials here. If you rush to harvest wheat for rotation and retreat with the army, the court will exempt you from this year's rent and taxes. In the spring of the year, the famine will be given to you for three months to cross the wasteland. The famine will be kind and righteous. There is a rare opportunity. If anyone does not listen, he will be treated as a follower!"

After a few days of crazy harvesting, I finally cut all the wheat from the narrow and small terraced fields in the Monk Yuan area and the valleys in the south. After getting the work done, I went to Hechi County and continued to repeat this operation.

Although in Lu Su and Li Su's plan, Hechi County will not give up. At most, the rebels will only be allowed to pass by the Western Han River River east of Hechi County at that time, but the rebels will never be allowed to enter the county town from the west bank.

But because a lot of the farmland is outside the county town, especially the half of the land located on the east bank of the Western Han River in Hechi County is the most fertile block nearby. If the military rations are not collected, then all the military rations will be obtained.

After Fa Zheng arrived, he spent another five or six days dispersing the people, transferring supplies, and snatching all the crops to harvest. Finally, he successfully reported to Lu Su, telling him that he could retreat.

Because there are not enough stone mills, the wheat cannot be made into a mill for the time being, so I first deposited the green wheat into Hechi County, and let the mills in the county boil oil and light the lamps every day to start work day and night. Before I had time to grind, I dried Mr. Qingmai to avoid rotting. It was nothing more than losing some taste, but I could eat it.

...

On August 12, the rebels had attacked Dasan Pass for more than ten days and had not yet arrived. Thousands of casualties were added. Lu Su's troops had already drawn two new recruits from the people in the military farm as support because of the excessive losses of the soldiers guarding the city.

Fortunately, he finally waited for good news from Fazheng. In the evening of that day, the soldiers bluffed and used the most fierce firepower to repel the enemy's last wave of attack that day. Then, the flags, drums, horns and other objects on the wall remained motionless and retreated quietly.

During the retreat, two batches were divided into two groups, and all the infantry were asked to retreat first, while those with horses dragged them back for an hour. Finally, those riding horses left, Lu Su also ordered them to replace the torches on the city with a new batch, and to tie fuel in advance to prevent the torches from being discovered by the enemy troops in the siege camp in the middle of the night.

In order to prevent the shutdown from being completely silent, Lu Su arranged a trick similar to hanging sheep to beat the drum to create noise at night, but the drum was not used.

In addition, he was very careful in his work. In the past few days, he set up three simple wooden walls every thirty miles on the 120-mile mountain road from Sanguan County to Hechi County.

They all found hundreds of tree-cutting men, cut down the trees and inserted them in the narrow place of the canyon to form simple fortifications. In this way, even if the Xiliang soldiers found an empty city and immediately caught up, they could use these village walls to delay the enemy. Lu Su's men could rest and rest slightly every thirty miles back.

The exquisite preparation of this hand was indeed awesome. Even if there was an old fox like Jia Xu on the opposite side, he still couldn't see through Lu Su running in the middle of the night. Even the soldiers riding horses would shoot arrows under the city when they heard the storm. It seemed that they could not be normal anymore.

...

Until the second half of the night, when Jia Xu got up at night, he finally noticed that there were too few torches on the city, and some of them were extinguished.

After all, Lu Su cannot wrap too much fuel. If the torch is too big, the initial fire will be obviously more violent than usual, and it is easy to see the problem at a glance under the city, so you can only find a balance point between "battery life" and "realistic appearance".

The alert Jia Xu thought for a while and immediately ran to Zhang Xiu's camp to wake him up.

"What's wrong with Captain Jia?" Zhang Xiu rubbed his sleepy eyes and was a little confused.

Jia Xu: "Let your night patrol soldiers tentatively attack again. I think there are too few torches on the top of the city and the speed of destruction is not normal. Could it be that Lu Su ran away?"

Zhang Xiu: "This...if the enemy's plan to lure the enemy, it will only increase casualties."

Jia Xu: "Just believe me again and send hundreds of people to touch him."

Zhang Xiu woke up and organized the soldiers to try it out. In order to boost morale, the soldiers who selected the sneak attack were arranged to eat a few pieces of boiled meat from unknown species, drink a few bowls of wine, and then go into battle.

A Qu Junhou led the team to touch the stairs up the stairs with a worry, but he did not encounter any resistance. He just seemed to have accidentally tripped up some mechanisms when he was climbing over the wall in the dark. Several torches stuck on the top of the city were triggered and dropped by the mechanism, igniting large piles of half-dried straw placed on the city wall.

The soldiers were panicked, and some people thought they were ambushed, so they jumped off the wall two or three feet high and were in a mess.

Jia Xu looked very carefully at the city. At first, he thought it was an ambush, but because he didn't hear the shouts of killing and the rolling stones, he immediately shouted loudly to calm down his morale: "Let the soldiers not panic! It may be just a trap without ambush! The fire is not big and can be put out!"

Unfortunately, when Jia Xu's order was passed on to the city wall, it had been chaotic for several minutes, and the fire had spread a lot. Although he knew there was no enemy, the soldiers did not want to risk their lives to put out some straws, so they would rather stand idly and wait until the grass was almost burning.

The trap fire burned for half an hour, and the flammable materials on the wall were almost burned. The Xiliang soldiers climbed the city again, carefully extinguishing the embers in the corners. After ensuring everything was safe, Jia Xu opened the city gate and followed Zhang Xiu to climb the city.

Jia Xu carefully checked the ashes and the unburned things, and pondered: "The burning should be all wheat straw, and some of them are not dry enough here, and they are green, so they are not burned.

It seems that as I expected, Lu Su has been here for more than ten days just to strengthen the wall and clear the fields. He may have suffered both losses and destroyed the nearby wheat fields. He would rather not receive food than keep it for us."

Jia Xu knew very well that the purpose of delaying time was nothing more than two things. One was to strengthen the wall and clear the field, and the other was to wait for reinforcements. Now that we have the previous possibility paved, the probability of the option "The Han army reinforcements are approaching" should be reduced a little.

Of course, it cannot be completely ruled out. Lu Su may be both strong and clearing the fields and waiting for reinforcements.

Zhang Xiu was too young and didn't know the strategy, so he had to ask directly: "What should we do now? Will we pursue it immediately?"

Jia Xu put down the half-burned green wheat pole and patted the ashes on his hand: "Chasing, you must chase. If Lu Su does not destroy the fields, then his retreat will be like reinforcements coming to lure the enemy, and I dare not chase them.

Now that way, there should be no danger of catching up with you for ten or eight days. But you can go first, just leave some people to escort me with the military ration team, and I will also carefully check the defense zone that Lu Su gave up.

Lu Su, Lu Su, but that's the case. He is indeed rigorous in his military management, but unfortunately he is not strange. If I use troops, even if the solid walls and clearing the fields have been completed and the army has to retreat one after another, I will leave hundreds of dead soldiers to continue to guard the walls, and I can pretend to be unprepared at night and lure the enemy to attack the enemy many times, and then suddenly the bows and crossbows on the walls are fired to kill and injure the enemy soldiers.

Lu Su cherishes his soldiers' lives too much and refuses to leave a abandoned son to make a big fortune. Otherwise, at least it can be weak and real, and it will be more than a day. As the saying goes, those who are kind and do not control the soldiers, and those who are the generals dare not use any means to accomplish anything. It seems that only Li Su, the counselors of Liu Bei's army, and Fa Zheng, can use any means to dare to cut off their arm.

In the battle of Wuzhangyuan pursuing Liu Bei, in order to rescue Liu Bei himself, their thousands of troops almost gave up. Fa Zheng had such courage, no wonder I mistakenly thought Li Su at that time."

While commenting, Jia Xu was also adjusting his summary of enemy strategists and adjusting his differentiated response strategies when meeting Liu Bei's army's strategists in the future.

Then Jia Xu woke Fan Chou up and told Fan Chou about the news of "Zhang Xiu's sneak attack on San Pass overnight" to conquer San Pass, without saying anything else.
Chapter completed!