"Dong! dong! dong! dong! dong…!"

The rhythmically pounding cowhide drums resounded throughout the world. In the comfortable late spring warm breeze, the Wei soldiers in black lined up in neat rows, pushing and carrying various attacking weapons, slowly heading towards the Han army camp to the north. Their steps gradually accelerated with the sound of drums, and finally evolved into a charge, like a black tide, rushing unstoppable towards the Han army camp.

Needless to say, the first one to launch a charge to the Han army camp was of course the former Shu Han soldiers who were forced to surrender to the Wei army in Yizhou more than a year ago. Although these former Shu Han soldiers knew that their enemies were comrades-in-arms who were once under the same regime as them, they also understood that the Wei army ordered them to charge first, which was to let the southwest soldiers who once held high the Han flag kill each other, but they had no choice because their parents and relatives were all in Yizhou. As long as they retreated, they would immediately implicate their relatives and families.

This day was March 25, 2018, the fourth day after the Wei army arrived at the battlefield in Wei County. No matter how the Wei army called and yelled, the Han army could not stand. The Wei army, who came from afar, had difficulty transporting food and grass, and had difficulty in ensuring logistics. They had to fight quickly. Therefore, the Wei army had no choice but to launch a forced attack on the main force of the Han army outside Wei County, intending to enter the camp, severely damage or even annihilate the main force of the Han army.

Although it was forced to attack the toughest, the Han army had long built the camp outside the city as strong as a city wall. However, the generals of the Wei army led by Qian Hong and Tian Xu were quite confident in this battle and felt that their own army must have a lot of hope to invade the Han army camp and achieve the established tactical purpose.

The reason why Qian Hong and others are so confident is very simple. Through the information collected from various channels, Qian Hong and others have basically figured out the composition of the Han army. They know that although the Han army has more than 18,000 troops, there are about 13,000 of them. They are the surrendered soldiers and recruited recruits after the Han army luckily seized Wei County. A large part of them are the main soldiers of the South Central who returned north. They have only been one month since they joined the Han army. The morale of the army has not yet been determined, and their combat effectiveness will definitely be greatly reduced.

Well, logically speaking, it should be true.

This is not counting. Even the five thousand core backbones brought by Zhang Zhicong, the members were extremely complex. Most of the new recruits surrendered and many prisoners were captured, so even the unified military uniform could not be purchased. They could only tie a red cloth around their necks to distinguish the enemy and us. The combat power was also uneven. The main reason for being able to take Wei County by chance was that Wei County was empty at that time, and Huo Yi's prestige and influence helped the Han army a lot.

The situation in the Wei army was completely opposite. Even the surrendered soldiers of the Shu Han who were used as cannon fodder by the Wei army were basically old soldiers on the battlefield who followed Jiang Wei to fight south and north. They were rich in experience and strong in combat, and their qualities were better than those of the soldiers of the South who had been suppressing bandits in the valleys all year round.

Not to mention the Wei army in the Central Plains, which had more than 21,000 people, most of them were the elite Wei army's border troops who fought with Jiang Wei in Liangzhou all year round. They not only had better equipment, stronger combat power, and more guaranteed loyalty. Because of the regional reasons, their height and physique were significantly higher than those of the relatively thin Southwest soldiers, and their comprehensive strength was crushing the Han army that was purely mob.

It is precisely because of these huge advantages that even though the Han army directly rammed the earth to build a camp, dug three deep and wide camp protection trenches, built a large number of arrow towers and horns to resist horses, and prepared many catapults in the camp. Qian Hong and Tian Xu and other Wei generals were still confident in breaking the Han army camp, and firmly believed that their own army would soon let the Han army, the group of mobs, know what the invincible royal division of the Great Wei!

Unfortunately, after the actual battle, Qian Hong and Tian Xu and others gradually realized that they might be underestimating the enemy. With the strong battalion defense fortifications, the Han soldiers who were defending the battalion fought hard to meet the enemy, and even defeated the elite Shu Han soldiers under Jiang Wei's command and could not advance in a row, with heavy casualties and injuries. After a long battle, the surrendered Shu Han soldiers could not even break through the three trench defense lines of the Han army and touched the camp and building wall that was as high as a half feet.

After waiting for a while, seeing that the surrendered soldiers of Shu Han still failed to make progress, Qian Hong was inevitably a little angry. With the fact that he had already invested two thousand front teams, he sent two thousand surrendered soldiers to strengthen the offensive. In this regard, the generals of the Wei army represented by Tian Xu generally looked relaxed and did not consider the consequences of excessive intensive troops on the front line that would increase casualties; several surrendered generals of Shu Han represented by Yan Yu remained silent and did not react.

But it was still useless. After the problem of insufficient crossbows and feather arrows had been completely solved, the feather arrows of the Han army were like storms, shooting the surrendered soldiers of Shu Han who had to step on the trench bridge to destroy the red antlers, causing heavy casualties and continuous trenches; the catapults arranged by the Han army in the camp also continued to throw stone bombs to bombard the dense crowd of Shu Han surrendered soldiers, and once they hit, they immediately became a large area; and when the surrendered soldiers of Shu Han rushed to the third trench with difficulty, the Zhuge crossbow with a relatively close range in the Han army also began to play a role. The successive shooting of the likes of machine guns made the surrendered soldiers of Shu Han even more casualties and made it more difficult to move forward.

Seeing this scene, Tian Xu not only did not feel any distress at all, but also asked Yan Yu, who had a grudge against him, "Right General, why are you Shu people so useless? After fighting for so long, you can't even touch the walls of the thief army. Is this worthy of calling you Shu people the elite?"

After barely squeezing a little, Yan Yu smiled and replied: "President Tian, ​​don't blame me. This is normal. The Shu soldiers have always been not good at fighting. This is a recognized fact. Otherwise, Zhuge Liang would not have been unable to conquer a Chencang City at the beginning, and that ordinary man Jiang Wei would not have been helpless with the Jiuzhai of Qishan."

Yan Yu still had to whisper a humbly reminder, Tian Xu then slapped his forehead and said, "Indeed, I almost forgot that you Shu people can barely get through the battle between the wild and the city defense war, but in the battle of the tough battle, it is not worthy to carry shoes to our King of Central Plains."

Qiang smiled and nodded, Yan Yu said to Qian Hong carefully: "General Qian, the first batch of soldiers who attacked are already short of. Should we rotate? Otherwise, the casualties of our soldiers will definitely be even greater, which is not conducive to future wars."

"No hurry, take a look."

The result of Qian Hong's casual answer was naturally that the number of casualties of the surrendered soldiers in Shu Han continued to rise, but Qian Hong's persistence was not without reward. Under the pressure of the Wei army's supervision team, the surrendered soldiers in Shu Han rushed to the basement of the Han army and began to set up a ladder to launch ant support, gradually winning the opportunity to fight in close combat with the Han army.

But it is still a pity that as many as three camp-protecting trenches seriously restricted the speed of the troops invested by the Shu Han surrendered trenches, resulting in the Shu Han surrendered trenches who could only cross the trenches on the trenches and chariots, like moths to the fire, constantly lying under the towering and solid Han army camp. Even if someone occasionally rushed to the top of the wall, they were soon beaten and knocked down by the Han army behind the wall with more hits and poked them down with less, and hooked them into the camp to capture them alive, which was almost no threat to the Han army camp.

At this time, the fierce shouts of killing had certainly resounded throughout the world. Seeing a Yizhou soldier who had been following Jiang Wei for many years and fighting in the south and north, screaming and falling down from the wall, falling into a wide and deep trench filled with sharp bamboo stakes, the generals and soldiers of the Wei army from the Yongliang Central Plains generally looked relaxed, and they were talking and laughing. The surrendered soldiers of Shu Han who were lucky enough to be sent to the battlefield were confused, as if they had seen their future fate.

Yan Yu in the Wei army flag formation never dared to say anything. However, Du Xin, the old subordinate brought by Qian Hong from Longxi, could not stand it and said, "General, our former team is depressed, and its physical strength has also declined seriously. If you continue to fight, it will be destined to be futile and will only die in vain. Please rotate the army."

After saying that, Du Xin took a step forward and whispered in front of Qian Hong: "General, don't do it too obvious. The rabbit will bite people if it is anxious, let alone a living person?"

Seeing that Du Xin, who had been with him for many years, said this, Qian Hong also ordered: "Ming Jin, withdraw the attacking camp team and replace 3,000 more people to attack. Yan Yu, this time you will lead the troops and break through the bandit camp. I will ask the court for you."

Yan Yu agreed and quickly went down to command the three thousand-person teams designated by Qian Hong to attack and replace the front team with a sharp decline in physical strength to launch an attack. Of course, the newly sent three thousand-person teams, except for the supervising team and the commander and the general of Qu, were all surrendered soldiers of Shu Han who surrendered a year ago.

But it was still useless. Although Yan Yu shouted at the top of his lungs in front of the formation and encouraged the surrendered soldiers of Shu Han to move forward and kill the enemy and receive rewards, because the Han army's camp was too solid, the fierce battle was in Shenshi in the afternoon, and the surrendered soldiers of Shu Han still failed to attack the Han army camp. On the contrary, they threw down hundreds of corpses on the battlefield.

Seeing that it was getting late, and seeing that the surrendered soldiers of Shu Han did do their best, but because the Han army's camp was too solid, it was futile. Qian Hong then listened to Du Xin's persuasion and ordered the gold to withdraw the team and prepare to return to the business to discuss countermeasures.

When the arrow was injured and retreated to the formation and reorganized the team, many of the surrendered soldiers of Shu Han were of course dejected, and many others were quietly wiping their tears. Yan Yu forced a smile and ran to them to comfort and persuade them, encourage them to cheer up their morale and fight again to take revenge in the future. Unfortunately, the veterans under Jiang Wei generally refused to pay attention to Yan Yu, the former right general. Many people even sneered at Yan Yu, making Yan Yu's hot face completely pressed on his cold butt.

At this time, an unexpected incident happened. The Han army actually sent an envoy to the camp with a white flag in his hand and came to the Wei army's formation and shouted: "People from Wei State, please report to your General Qian, and say that our Governor Zhang is based on benevolence and morality, allowing you to send a thousand soldiers to clean the battlefield without weapons, take away the bodies of your fallen soldiers, and save your seriously injured soldiers. During this period, our army will never launch an attack!"

Hearing this, the Wei soldiers were of course very surprised. The surrendered soldiers of Shu Han also looked strange and could not believe that Zhang Zhi could have such kindness. However, when the news came to Qian Hong, Qian Hong was furious and roared: "Call that thief to get out! Let the Shu soldiers surrendered to the palace and immediately withdraw their troops and return to the camp!"

Qian Hong's reply was told to the Han army envoys. The Han army envoys had no choice but to turn around and leave. The soldiers of the Wei army remained indifferent, while the surrendered soldiers of Shu Han looked depressed, and some people even had tears in their eyes.

I don’t know how fake Zhang Zhi was to the point where his false righteousness reached, which made Qian Hong and Tian Xu and others even more surprised. On the morning of the next day, when they were discussing how to force the Han army to capture the camp, a personal soldier suddenly came outside the tent to report that the Han army had actually released some injured and captured soldiers from the army. Qian Hong and Tian Xu and others were extremely surprised when they heard the news. Of course, they came to the open space in the camp and personally learned about the situation from the surrendered soldiers of Shu Han who were released by the Han army.

The surrendered soldiers of Shu Han who were released were also very frank and confessed honestly that after they were rescued by the Han army, they not only received medical treatment from the Han army, but also ate two legendary delicious instant noodles and lunch meat, as well as sweet candies. Then the Han army gave them some instant noodles and candies this morning, so that they could return to the camp and return to the team.

Curiously looking at the instant noodles and candy that were searched for from the surrendered soldiers of Shu Han, Qian Hong asked the surrendered soldiers of Shu Han: "Did you tell me why you were sent back to the team?"

About 30 surrendered soldiers from Shu Han were hesitant, and then some of them answered truthfully: "Report to the general, the bandit army asked us to come back and tell our comrades from Yizhou, asking us Yizhou people to wait with peace of mind and save their lives first. After they defeat you, as long as they surrender to them and return to the Han army, they can eat instant noodles and candies every day, and they can often eat lunch meat and better fermented black beans."

"The thief army also asks us to persuade the soldiers of the Central Plains." Another surrendered soldier mustered up the courage and said: "After we were defeated by the thief army, even if we were from Yongliang, the people of the Central Plains who surrendered to the thief army, they could also eat instant noodles and candy. Their treatment was the same as those of the Yizhou people and would never be treated differently."

"What a treacherous traitor. He really had the idea of ​​divisive disagreement with our army." Qian Hong sneered, then shouted at the surrendered soldiers of Shu Han who were released: "Go back to the team immediately, keep your mouth tighter, dare to say a word that shakes the morale of the army, be careful of your head!"

Thirty surrendered soldiers from Shu Han quickly sang their promises. However, what surprised Qian Hong and Tian Xu was that several surrendered soldiers of Shu Han mustered up the courage and asked carefully: "General, can you return the things given to us by the bandit army?"

"Give you back?" Tian Xu was furious when he heard this and shouted, "Can you return these things that shake the morale of the army?"

"Don't worry, General, the young people will never let others eat and shake the morale of the army." A surrendered soldier said quickly: "The young people just want to bring this kind of thing home and let their family taste it. My parents are so old that they have never eaten such delicious food before."

"Get out!" Tian Xu kicked the injured surrender, then curiously stuffed an undisassembled Alpine milk candy into his mouth and tasted it. He vomited it out again, and said angrily: "What the hell? It doesn't taste any smooth and tasty, can this be delicious?"

Not all Wei generals were as stupid as Tian Xu. Under the guidance of a surrendered local official in Jianning, Qian Hong and other Wei generals finally tasted the deliciousness of candy and instant noodles. Needless to say, even though the Han army gave the surrendered soldiers of Shu Han only the lowest Alpine hard candy and Huafeng Sanxian Yi noodles, Qian Hong and Tian Xu and others were still stunned and screamed, "There is such a delicious thing in the world? I'm afraid our emperor and King Jin have never eaten such good things?"

"Strike the camp quickly! Strike the camp quickly!" Tian Xu shouted again: "I heard that Zhang Zhi's rebels have countless such good things in his hands. Hurry up and break through the camp and grab it, so we can eat enough!"

When the generals of the Wei army agreed, Yan Yu, who was lucky enough to participate in the taste, was full of worry and said, "No wonder those prisoners and surrendered soldiers were so devoted to the life of Zhang Zhi's thief. As long as they could often eat such good things, let alone those from Yizhou from Nanzhong, even from Central Plains, they would be willing to work hard for Zhang Zhi's thief!"

"So you have to quickly annihilate Zhang Zhi's thief army and can't let him grow bigger anymore." Qian Hong rarely agrees with Yan Yu's point of view, and then asked while eating candy: "What do you have any opinions on the next attack tactics?"

"We must first fill the trenches of the bandit army to protect the camp before we can launch a tough attack." Yan Yu hurriedly said: "Otherwise, we will invest too slowly by relying on the trench bridges and trench boards to cross the trench, and a strong attack will only waste our troops."

"How much time will it take?" Tian Xu immediately retorted: "We have little food, and there will be a problem of siege in the future. It will take too much time. How can we have food to attack the city for a long time?"

"But if we don't fill the trenches, how can we advance?"

While Yan Yu was arguing with Tian Xu with a wry smile, a personal soldier suddenly came in outside the tent and presented a letter to Qian Hong. Qian Hong took it and opened it to take a closer look. He was soon surprised. Tian Xu also asked, "General Qian, what's the letter?"

"It was sent by the Cuan family who had contacted us before." Qian Hong replied calmly: "He got news from the old man of Cuan You, saying that among the generals of this general, there was a traitor who had secretly colluded with the thief army. This traitor was also preparing to secretly instigate the soldiers of Yizhou in our army to rebel, and to join the Zhang Zhi's thief army inside and outside to sneak attack our camp. Therefore, the old man of Cuan You is now full of confidence and is mobilizing the private soldiers of Cuan You to guard and work hard together, and is also preparing to send troops to help Zhang Zhi's thief army chase our defeated army."

Before Qian Hong finished speaking, Yan Yu, who had been seriously suspected of Zhang Rong's false letter, had his face changed drastically. Tian Xu couldn't wait to ask: "Did you find out who the spy is, who secretly approached our Cuan family?"

"No." Qian Hong shook his head and said, "He just heard the news that this traitor was related to an important gangster under Zhang Zhi's thief."

"Who is that? Who among us has a relative relationship with Zhang Zhi'er's party members?!"

When Tian Xu asked this, Yan Yu knelt in front of Qian Hong with a look of earth, screaming with sweat, "General, I dare not! I dare not! I dare not! I have a concubine, the cousin of Su Ding, the general who gave Zhang Zhi's son to the city of Xiancheng, in Guangtan. But after hearing that Su Ding's husband rebelled against Wei and surrendered to the thief, the general had already driven the concubine out of the house and never took advantage of her and Su Ding's husband!"

Hearing this, Tian Xu and Wei Jun were of course shocked. Only then did they realize that Yan Yu had such a relationship with Zhang Zhi. Qian Hong laughed and said, "Duchang Hou, don't panic. Since you can take the initiative to explain this relationship, it proves that you are open and selfless in your heart. Of course, this general can trust you."

Yan Yu quickly thanked him, but Qian Hong asked slowly, "But Duchanghou, why have you never told us about such an important situation before?"

Yan Yu's face was as dark as before, and after a while, he replied with a sad face: "General, I feel that it's just a concubine and a cousin, and it's nothing important, so..., so..., so I didn't report it."

"Then if we hadn't heard the wind through others, Duchanghou, would you never tell us that you have this relationship with the thief army?" Tian Xu asked sarcastically.

Yan Yu's face turned dead gray. After a little calculation, Yan Yu also took off the seal on his waist, held his hands over his head, and said tremblingly: "Let General, General Tian, ​​in order to avoid the melon and field, I will ask for his official position to be removed from his post and die in vain."

"What's the use of removing an official position?" Tian Xu sneered: "Horse Duchang, you are the right general of Shu people. You raise your arms and shout in our army. Don't Shu people respond in groups?"

Yan Yu, who was over 50 years old, was completely desperate and said after a while: "Then, please behead the last general and eliminate future troubles forever."

"Duchang Hou, don't say so seriously." Qian Hong began to smooth things over and said, "When did I say that I don't trust you? You are right. A concubine and a cousin are just a cousin, so there is no need to explain it specifically. Also, General Tian, ​​don't always target Duchang Hou. We have to use people without doubt, and we don't need to doubt people."
Chapter completed!