It was precisely because Li Jue believed in the "yellow plan" that Fa Zheng accidentally leaked the secret that he was more eager than before to completely capture the Wuzhangyuan camp, and then set fire to the plank road that had just been restored by the Yizhou army.

"Liu Bei wanted to set up a large number of Dige Gai at the forefront to store grain, and supplement it with the grain of Weinan to supplement military needs during the autumn harvest every year to ensure the Northern Expedition. Then the simplest countermeasure is to burn the plank road directly and burn the Dige Gai at the moment, which can be delayed for several years."

This is a very normal and simple idea. A slight intellectual value pass is needed.

Therefore, this set of strategies that Li Su taught him from a distance and implemented in a specific and random manner will be of great benefit to Liu Bei's plan for the Northern Expedition in the long run. (It was an unexpected situation for Ma Chao to come to ask for help, not in the opportunity that Li Su taught him from a distance)

But the pressure on Fa Zheng suddenly rose, which further stimulated the enemy's determination to "stop it in the bud".

In addition, four days ago, Hu Feng was attacked and killed by Xu Huang when the attack camp was retreating, and the subsequent garrisons in Mei County were also disbanded, and almost no one went back to work hard for Li Jue, which led to Li Jue knowing very little about Hu Feng's death and defeat.

Li Jue thought that "the reason why Hu Feng was defeated so miserably may be because the Legalists were a prominent family in Mei County. They used strategies and connections to buy local people in Mei County to rebel or send troops but failed to do their best. Hu Feng was defeated and died."

So he must personally command the attack on Wuzhangyuan and try the severity of the defenders.

However, considering Hu Feng's fate, Li Jue knew that his identity was valuable, so his commander would not be a soldier first, but chose to take the boat near the north bank of the Wei River to supervise the troops and front-line command officers to fight in Weinan.

From this arrangement, it can also be seen that Li Jue is worthy of being a "crawling person" and has reached a certain level of stability in terms of personal safety. He feels that sitting in a warship covered by tight wooden cabins is safer than staying on the north shore.

After all, there are 5,000 cavalrymen on the opposite side, which is more than Li Jue's cavalry. If the attack and battalion are not smooth, the main force will cross south to the south bank, and Ma Chao will find a gap in shallow water to break through and detour to the north bank and carry out the "beheading operation". Wouldn't it be bad?

If you sit in an armored ship in advance, there is no risk of "snatching the ship and avoiding arrows". The ships within a hundred miles of the Wei River have basically been searched. Even if Ma Chao uses assault troops to reach the north shore, he will have no choice but to deal with the warships in the river.

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After two days of repairing and setting up camps, Li Jue's army steadily crossed the Wei River in the south on September 24th, he launched an attack from both east and west.

The East Road was supervised by Yang Ding, and east of Wugongshui, attacked Ma Chao's camp on Mazhong Mountain.

The west route was supervised by Li Jue himself, and attacked Wuzhangyuan Fazheng Camp west of Wugongshui.

In order to help Ma Chao and to show sincerity, Fa Zheng also spent a lot of money to distribute ten Zhuge crossbows for Ma Chao's army, allowing him to set up a formation at the dangerous places in the camp, set up an arrow tower, and create a slightly sudden fire support point.

After the battle began, Yang Ding's attack on the east road was indeed unreasonable. When he was in Qi County, he fought with Ma Chao for more than ten days, because he did not take up any land and could not get any benefits.

Although the terrain of Mazuka Mountain Camp is not as good as defending the city, it is also relatively dangerous. In addition, the soldiers who survived Ma Chao are all elites who can eliminate the drought and maintain the essence, and their martial arts and psychological qualities are very good. Yang Ding almost had to pay a four-fold exchange ratio to be slightly enterprising.

After slightly destroying the outer antler pit, Yang Ding had already suffered more than a thousand casualties after fighting at the first simple wooden wall of stakes. The key is that the subsequent layers of defense made people's scalp numb. Yang Ding knew that his troops could not replace Ma Chao's five thousand by changing their lives, so he had to temporarily transfer to the siege.

The morale and fighting will of the troops Li Jue supervised in the west were much higher than that of Yang Ding. After all, the two sides had not fought before, so there was no fear, let alone calculate the exchange loss ratio.

Li Jue was also more IQ than Hu Feng who died tragically. He relied on the large number of people to build a weir from the banks of the Wei River to block the river water, and then recruited the people of Mei County to carry soil and fill the moat, which expanded the front line for the subsequent attack.

As Hu Feng did when he attacked the camp, he could only charge along the narrow corridor of the Wuzhangyuan cliff on the south side and was covered by the firepower on the cliff.

When Fa was looking at the situation below on the plateau, he knew that Li Jue was worthy of being the territory he had created. His military strategy was much stronger than Hu Feng, and this opponent was very difficult to deal with.

"I've suffered, so that although the enemy still has mud and pits when charging, the surface that can charge at the same time is several times wider, and more than fifty steps away from the cliff, it will exceed the range of the crossbow on the high ground." Fa Zheng thought to himself, noting this problem.

Fa Zheng was not vague and immediately ordered the troops to move, push the car to carry it on his shoulders, and transfer all the twenty Zhuge crossbows on the high ground, and move it to the post tower on the front of Xu Huang's camp wall below, increasing the firepower on the front of the camp wall to forty crossbows.

As for other preparations, Fa Zheng had no choice. The rolling wood, stones, and firewood balls piled on the edge of the cliff a few days in advance were probably not used. The height difference of the camp wall was too small, and the gravity potential energy when throwing these things was not comparable to throwing them down from the cliff.

In the end, Fa Zheng could only send someone to take care of Xu Huang: All crossbows must be equipped with horses and vehicles to stand by nearby, so that when the walls of the camp are about to be broken, they will retreat in an orderly manner in advance to avoid large-scale capture of important equipment and materials by the enemy.

In addition, in the front camp north of Wuzhangyuan, do not store additional supplies, but pile up firewood to ensure that the front camp can set fire immediately when it falls and retreats.

As mentioned earlier, Xu Huang can actually divide it into two pieces in an inverted L-shaped distribution in the flat camp below Wuzhangyuan.

The camp of Yishihe is located near the Weihe River in the north and Wuzhangyuan in the south. Because the distance between Wuzhangyuan and Weihe is relatively wide, if Li Jie attacks against the Weihe River, it will exceed the range of the firepower covering the highlands. At this time, the horizontal line of the northern line may be broken.

The vertical camp relies on Wugong Water in the east and Wuzhangyuan in the west. The narrow valley between Wuzhangyuan and Wugong Water is much narrower, and the widest place is less than fifty steps. Therefore, no matter how Li Jue circles in the future, it is impossible to circumvent the fire range of the high ground. If you throw stones and wood down, you can hit people.

Fa Zheng is mentally prepared to give up that camp.

The reason why we could not give up before was to prevent the enemy from easily crossing the Wei River in the south and prevent the enemy from blocking Fazheng's grain-search team. Because once the Weiying District is gone in the north, Fazheng's people will no longer be able to attack flexibly, grab the wheat that has not been collected in the Weinan villages, and the food that the people are still drying, and they will not be able to advance to Mei County.

But now, the "Autumn Harvest and Grab Grain" operation has ended, so Beiying gave up.

After a while, Li Juele forced the people of Mei County to fill the ditches. After a long time of construction, they finally blocked the holes that were poured into the Wei River, and most of the deer antlers were destroyed. Although hundreds of people died and nearly a thousand injured in the whole process, they also destroyed Xu Huang's peripheral fortifications.

The only drawback is that the ground is still very muddy. After all, the water is not completely discharged when filling the pit, so if the soldiers charge on such a section of road, they will still be deep and shallow. If they are not lucky, they will fall into it and be trampled to death by the people behind them.

But Li Jue had no choice but to worry about it. Seeing that the pit filling operation had almost been completed, he ordered a team of about 5,000 people in the front army to launch a full charge from the front two or three hundred steps wide.

Xu Huang did not care about firepower anymore this time. It can be seen that Xu Huang's heart was already shrouded in fear and severity. There was no calmness of "firing when you get closer". As long as the enemy entered the range, he would fire with all his strength, trying to scare away the enemy.

A dense scream erupted in the charge of Li Jue Army. Many soldiers were subconsciously afraid because of the dense rain of arrows and wanted to charge, but fell down because of the mud on the ground.

But the comrades behind did not dare to stop and did not want to be exposed to the fire of arrow rain for longer, so they rushed forward without stopping, stepping down the fallen people into the mud, unable to even scream. They opened their mouths and poured them into the mud, and finally stepped on the mud pit to death.

However, this method of death is quiet and weird enough, because there is no sound and no sound, and people who have not seen it with their own eyes will not notice it. They just pretend that nothing has happened and continue to rush forward like a numb war machine without a brain.

Xu Huang looked over the arrow tower where he was supervising the battle. Instead, he could grasp the overall information. Seeing that at least 200 Li Juejun were trampled and drowned in the mud, he filled a solid road for the people behind him to relieve the problem of sinking. He couldn't help but gasp.

Li Jue is a desperate attack.

"Hold on! Hold on! Don't stop Zhuge's crossbow, shoot all the crossbow arrows! Three rows of the trap camp! Half a stick of incense substitute!"

Xu Huang shouted anxiously, giving the infantry a high position. He knew that after this battle, the opportunity to clean the battlefield was probably not in his own hands, and the crossbows left in the front camp might not have time to transport them back to the rear camp in a hurry, so it would be better to shoot them on the spot.

In the melee battle, all the soldiers of the camp were one or more than five, and some of them were very skilled in martial arts, even one or ten. After all, they were all iron-armored soldiers. However, as the corpses in front of the camp wall were piled up, and Fa Zheng's firepower support was not supported, after about two incense sticks of repeated fighting, Xu Huang gradually couldn't hold on.

All the Zhuge crossbows were transported away, and the infantry were under even greater pressure. After Xu Huang issued the order to retreat, the entangled soldiers could not escape, and dozens of iron-armored soldiers were swarmed and killed during the final break. The remaining soldiers who had slightly left the enemy contacted the enemy all relied on setting fires in the camp in time and forming a dense fire wall with firewood to block the follow-up pursuit.

After retreating to the rear camp, Xu Huang counted the number, and more than 100 pairs of iron armor were left alone, and they were all left untold by the soldiers who died in battle. In the last Hu Feng's attack on the camp, Xu Huang was the victorious side and could clean the battlefield, so the iron armor could be recycled for newly surrendered soldiers.

The moment Li Jue saw that the front camp was captured, he also smiled grimly, and ordered the warships with flags and drums, and the entire army continued to attack.

After Li Jie's army extinguished the flames, they continued to attack Xu Huang's Nanying with high morale. However, this time, they were treated by Hu Feng again - the rolling wood, stone, firewood and grass balls on the Wuzhangyuan high slope were rolling together, burning and smashing the attacking troops into doubting their lives.

The morale accumulated just now due to the miserable victory was soon completely defeated. The soldiers of Li Jie ran away with their heads in their arms, wailing, "I've taken another trick to correct my treacherous plan." They ran back with flames all over their bodies. Some soldiers in the back row squeezed forward without knowing the situation, resulting in a chaotic trampling on each other.

Xu Huang also fired all the crossbows that had just been deployed, trampled and shot, and killed them. A set of firepower output took at least a thousand people away.

Li Jue's scalp was numb when he saw it on the boat, and his mood was ups and downs. Ming Jin allowed the soldiers to retreat to the newly captured Xu Huang's camp and turn to the defense on the spot.

"There is really a dangerous place between Wuzhangyuan and Wugongshui. It's such a small place. What's the use of a forceful attack? Or wait. Since Fa Zheng is blocked in the valley, he can't escape from the disaster. When Wenhe comes back, or Aduo defeats Han Sui's main force, he will work together to make a long-term plan."

Li Jue looked at the perverted terrain and wanted to stop as soon as possible. After cutting off the possibility of the enemy's continued harassment, he made other plans.

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Chapter completed!