"Are all the things that lead the fire ready?" Wang Ping put down his hard bow and turned around and asked the captain who came to report his life.

The captain replied loudly: "Everything is ready, just wait for the general to give the order."

"Have you contacted General Shangguan, Shanshangguan, too?" Wang Ping asked again.

The captain replied: "Don't worry, General Guan has sent a team of troops to come down to respond."

"That's good. You will leave first with the injured brother, and you will be cut off."

The captain killed a Wei soldier who rushed to the front with a knife and said anxiously: "Please let the general go first, stay and cut off the rear."

"No need to persuade you anymore, follow the plan and follow the orders." Wang Ping shot another arrow, hitting a Wei soldier who was climbing over the village wall.

The captain was stunned for a moment, and responded with red eyes: "No."

After another half a day of fighting, there were only five or six hundred people left in Wang Ping's army. Although the Wei army suffered more casualties, they still rushed up one after another. Wang Ping knew that the camp could not be defended, so he planned to follow Yang Qing's order and abandon the place and go up the mountain to join Guan Xing.

In order to stop the enemy from pursuing, Wang Ping prepared to burn the village to win time to go up the mountain for the remaining 500 people.

"Shoot the arrow."

Seeing that the time was almost over, Wang Ping led the remaining soldiers to quickly retreat, ran for almost dozens of steps, turned around and shouted to the archers on both sides.

These crossbowmen heard the order to put the rockets prepared in advance on the bow, loosened the bowstrings, and hundreds of rockets shot on the wall of the village. The wall was splashed with tinder oil not long ago. When they encountered the rockets, a raging fire immediately ignited, blocking most of the Wei army outside.

"Let's go." Seeing that the plan worked, Wang Ping then led everyone to retreat to the south mountain.

A few Wei soldiers who climbed over the village wall and rushed into the camp were shocked by the Han army's operations. They did not come back to their senses for a while. After Wang Ping and others ran away, they realized that the Han army was going to escape and quickly chased after him.

Pan Yu and Chengshun outside were also a little surprised at first. They didn't know what the Han army was doing, but they soon woke up and knew that the Han army was going to run away. They quickly ordered: "Hurry up, open the wall of the village and rush in. Don't let Wang Ping escape."

However, the Wei army soon discovered that the entire Han army camp was ignited, and the camp was filled with burning fires. The Wei army was blocked and could not catch up with them, so they could only watch the remaining hundreds of Han soldiers fled to the mountain.

"Oh, it's a pity that Wang Ping was not captured and killed." Pan Yu sighed with regret.

Cheng Shun smiled and said, "Brother Pan, don't sigh. Wang Ping just fled to the south mountain and did not run far away. He was still surrounded by our army. He had the chance to capture and kill him. Although we have not completely wiped out the Shu army, it is a great achievement to break through this camp and occupy water. We must report the victory to General Left quickly."

"Haha, Brother Cheng said very well, you and I will complete the task first, so I have to report the victory to General Left!" Pan Yu thought to himself that this was the same. He thought that he finally avenged his previous shame and laughed happily.

"Anguo." Wang Ping led his troops to rest on the north slope on the southern mountain. When he saw Guan Xing coming, he quickly stood up to greet him.

Guan Xing had just led his troops to repel the Wei army's attack. He took advantage of this space to come and see Wang Ping and others who retreated to the mountain.

"Thank you for your hard work, have you ever been injured?"

Wang Ping said: "It's not worth mentioning that I suffered a little injury. Alas, it's a pity that I failed to defend the camp at the foot of the mountain, and I have to bear the trust of Mr. Yang."

"Hey, General Zijun doesn't have to worry about it." Guan Xing comforted him: "The Duke has been holding on the ground with less attacks and many days. He has made remarkable contributions. All the soldiers of the three armies see it. Xing and others admire it very much."

Wang Ping waved his hand and smiled bitterly, "As long as the king does not sue, Ping will be grateful, and he will never dare to talk about the merits!" After a pause, he continued, "After the camp at the foot of the mountain, I will no longer have the water source, so we can't keep the Nanshan Mountain for a long time."

Guan Xing nodded and said, "The water stored on the mountain can last for at most for one day, but Nanshan cannot stay. If you stay for another half a day, we will look for an opportunity to retreat to Jieting City in the evening."

"Ping thought so too." Wang Ping said: "There are about 400 people who can join the battle here, and I am willing to listen to An Guo's order."

Guan Xing was willing to hear this. He had fought fiercely for several days and had less than 2,000 soldiers under his command. With Wang Ping's four hundred people participating in the battle, he had more confidence in defending the past in the afternoon. He immediately held Wang Ping's hands and said, "Let your brothers rest for another half an hour. After half an hour, please lead the army to the south slope to defend."

"yes."

But when we went to the side of Wei, the Wei army in the city had not yet discovered that the Han army had fled, and they thought that the Han army would rest for half a day today.

At noon, Guo Huai discovered something was wrong. Although the Han army did not launch a fierce attack because reinforcements came to the city in the past few days, they would also send catapults to attack the city wall every day. However, until now, the Han army's catapults have not yet been seen out of the camp, which is really strange.

Guo Huai felt suspicious and quickly asked Tanma to leave the city and go to Han camp to inquire. In a short while, Tanma brought him a shocking news.

"What? The Shu thieves camp is empty? There are straw men around the walls?" Guo Huai was shocked.

The horse explorer replied, "That's right, when I got closer to the Shu camp, I saw that the Shu soldiers at the entrance of the village were dressed in a straw man, so I plucked up the courage to enter the camp and explore it. There was no Shu soldiers in the camp. We were all shocked and hurried to explore the other two Shu camps, and found that the same was true, all of them were empty."

"Haha, what a suspicious plan. Zhuge Liang is such a good method." Guo Huai sneered.

Ma Zun, who was standing beside him, said, "Empress, Zhuge Liang escaped in the middle of the night. Don't he want to break through Shangji?"

"Hmph, go to the brigade? Zhuge Liang must have led his troops to Jieting."

Ma Zun said, "Go to Jieting? Envoy, did Zhuge Liang send a group of troops to support Jieting yesterday? Why did he lead all the Shu army to the next day? Could this be Zhuge Liang's trick? He wanted to lure the main force of our army out of the city, and then ambush halfway to destroy our army in one fell swoop, and then return to the army to collect Shangqi."

Guo Huai turned his head and looked at Ma Zun in surprise, thinking that this person could still think of this festival. It seems that he is still capable.

"Well, this possibility is not ruled out." Guo Huai nodded and said, "But whether someone wants to lead the troops to chase him or not, he still has to find out Zhuge Liang's movements before making a decision. Besides, General Ye Yi has a 50,000 army, and it is not our turn to help the war for the time being."

Ma Zun bowed and praised, "What the envoy said is very true."

"Wait quickly and go north along Jieting to explore where the Shu army is going." Guo Huai immediately ordered the horse explorer.

"promise."

On the side of Jieting, the Han and Wei armies were still fighting with each other with their lives and fighting hard. At this moment, there was still about an hour before the sun set. Seeing that the soldiers were exhausted, Zhang He decisively ordered the Jin Dynasty to withdraw his troops.

It was still some time before dark, and he was going to let the soldiers rest for a while and then launch another fierce attack to see if the results of the battle could be expanded today.

Not long ago, the defeat of Wangping Camp finally made Zhang He's frown stretch out his brows these days. He immediately sent the news to the three armies. After hearing this, the Wei army cheered and their morale that had already declined was restored.

"When the water source is broken, the Shu army on the Nanshan Mountain will not last long. Once the Nanshan Mountain is broken, the Jieting becomes an isolated city. Once the Jieting is broken, the army can go deep into Longyou, and the battle situation will be reversed at that time."

Zhang He read out his ideas for military use again. The key now is to quickly break through Jieting. As long as the Jieting is broken, the overall situation will come alive. If it is delayed for too long, Zhuge Liang might have a large army. By then, the two armies stalemate in Jieting, and the war will become troublesome.
Chapter completed!