It is Shangshui, besieging the city, and Fenxing fortress. There is also Yangzhai of Yangzhai King Zhao Jing... The Fenxing fortress is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is not a good place to start a war. I suggest that I fight Shangshui.

To besiege the city, you attack Yangzhai."

"Yang Zhai..."

Xiong Qi, Lord Biyang, pondered for a moment.

It has to be said that due to the smuggling and trade exchanges between Shangshui County and Pingyu Yi in the past years, the details of each other have been almost unknown for a long time. The problem is that even if the military deployment of the Wei army is clearly known, it may not be possible to take advantage.

Just like Fenxing Fortress, it is located at the strategic intersection of Wei, Chu, Baqian and Guizhou. However, this fortress is located in a dangerous location and is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Biyang Jun Xiong Qi fought for several months, but not only was it not captured

Fenxing Fortress was also defeated by Wei general Xu Yin who was stationed at Fenxing Fortress at that time.

The same is true for the "siege city". It is located between Fenxing Fortress and Shangshui County. If this fortress can be captured, the connection between Fenxing Fortress and Shangshui County can be effectively cut off. But the problem is that the Shangshui Army is operating in the siege city.

For more than ten years, the siege city has been built into an impregnable ground, which is not inferior to Fenxing Fortress. How could it be so easy to conquer?

"How about trying to attack Xu County by surprise?"

Xiong Qi, Lord Biyang, thought about it and suggested.

As far as he knew, Xu County was an important rear granary for the merchant water defense line, maintaining the food and grass supply for the Fenxing Fortress, the siege city, and the adjacent Great Wall garrison. Although the capture of Xu County could not completely cut off the food supply for the merchant water defense line.

Road - because Shangshui County itself built many large granaries for war - but it can effectively increase the burden on the Wei army's food road.

"Well——"

Xiong Hu, Lord Pingyu, thought for a moment and felt that he might as well try this plan.

Anyway, the worst result is failure, and losing some troops is nothing.

In the next two days, Pingyu Lord Xiong Hu still stayed in Shangcai, waiting with Biyang Lord Xiong Qi for the arrival of "Gaoling Lord Xiong Xiang" and other Lords of the Xiong clan in western Chu.

About four or five days later, after waiting for the princes of the Xiong clan in western Chu to gather their forces in Shangcai one after another, the Chu army finally began to take action and move towards the Wei state.

According to the strategic deployment of Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu, "Xianyang Jun Xiong Ping" took the lead in pretending to attack the siege to attract the attention of the Wei army.

After receiving the order, Xiong Ping, Lord of Xianyang, led about 30,000 troops under his command and headed towards the siege of Shangshui County.

The guard who besieged the city was the veteran Wei general Wuma Jiao, one of the first Chu generals who surrendered to Wei Gongzi Run. However, twenty years later, Wuma Jiao had already regarded himself as a general.

Wei people.

On February 16, Shangshui soldiers wandering around the besieged city found out about the Chu army's attack and immediately reported it to the guard general Wu Majiao.

It is undeniable that Wu Ma Jiao's intelligence is mediocre compared to Zhai Huang and Sun Shuke, and his military force is mediocre and far inferior to Wu Ji's. He is just a middle-aged man.

To put it harshly, he and Gu Liangwei were just the "horse bones of a thousand gold horses" that Wei Gongzi Run used to recruit the generals of Chu to surrender, but having said that, he also knew how to be grateful.

He knew very well that with his ability, if he had not been lucky enough to meet Wei Gongzi Run, he might have been just a general of Chu State with two thousand men in his whole life. Even three thousand generals were not enough, so how could he be so lucky?

As he is now, he has thousands of military power in his hands, and he is also lucky enough to obtain the noble status of the Wei State, and he barely squeezes into the category of the aristocratic class of the Wei State.

Therefore, when he learned that "Xianyang Lord Xiong Ping" was coming to attack the besieged city, Wu Majiao secretly reminded himself that he must use a hearty victory to repay the kindness of the current Wei King Zhao Run - by the way, with this military merit

If you want to be able to raise a title, it is best to get a hereditary fiefdom and leave it to your children and grandchildren.

When he thought of the fiefdom, this veteran general who was over fifty years old felt his heart was burning. He immediately took his eldest son Wu Mahui out of the besieged city and prepared to block the army of "Xianyang Jun Xiong Ping" in the upper reaches of Ru River.

Shangshui City is the home base of the Blue Crows. Trying to hide it from the eyes and ears of the Blue Crows in this area is simply a fool's errand.

Even though the march route of "Xianyang Jun Xiong Ping" was still secretive, by the time he reached the upper reaches of Ru River, the troops of Wuma Jiao and Wumahui's father and son had already been waiting strictly on the other side of the river.

At that time, Xiong Ping, the king of Xianyang, had 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers under his command, while Wei general Wu Majiao only led 5,000 soldiers. However, the battle across the river ended with Wei's complete victory.

It’s no wonder, after all, although Xiong Ping, Lord of Xianyang, has 20,000 to 30,000 men under his command, at least 78% of them are just soldiers recruited for food supplies - what role can such a ragtag group of people, who can’t even be called a miscellaneous army, play in front of the Wei army?

After just a few rounds of volleys of bows and crossbows, the besieging army under Wei general Wuma Jiao defeated the Chu army on the other side and fled in panic.

Looking at the chaotic Chu army on the other side of the river, Wuma shook his head anxiously.

He felt that even after twenty years, the Chu State was still so stagnant. What effect could a ragtag army like peasant soldiers have on a real battlefield?

Especially when the two armies are separated by a river, not to mention 20,000 or 30,000, even with several times the number of troops, Wu Majiao has full confidence to block them on the other side of Ru River and prevent them from advancing even an inch.

Of course, as a general born in the Chu State, Wu Majiao also knew the Chu State's war methods very well.

Regardless of the fact that he repelled the army of Xiong Ping, Lord of Xianyang, and shot to death many of the latter's grain soldiers, in fact, this caused almost no loss to Xiong Ping, Lord of Xianyang - there were many strong men in the Chu State.

On the contrary, the Wei army spent a lot of crossbows and bows in order to block Xiong Ping's army.

"It seems that to capture the thief, we need to capture the king first."

Looking at the defeated "Xianyang Lord" flag on the other side of the river, Wu Ma thought to himself anxiously.

As a result, Wumajiao deliberately pretended to be elated after winning the battle, and happily led his troops back to the besieged city. At the same time, he sent people to contact the local Qingya people to ask them about the Chu army on the other side.

He felt that Xiong Ping, Lord of Xianyang, suffered a defeat today and would probably try to sneak across Ru River at night.

Just as Wu Majiao guessed, Xiong Ping, the Lord of Xianyang, did not take this defeat at all in the daytime - his Chu State's grain-recruited troops faced the Wei State's army. Even the local army of the Wei State could not win.

What are the chances of winning?

The advantage of recruiting soldiers with food has always been the human sea tactic. On a battlefield where this advantage cannot be reflected, it is quite normal for them to be defeated by the Wei army.

The only thing that surprised Xiong Ping, Lord of Xianyang, was the reaction of the Wei army. He thought that the marching route of his army was secret enough, but he never thought that he would be caught by the Wei army.

"Try sneaking across at night..."

After learning that Wumajiao's army retreated happily after winning the battle, Xiong Ping, Lord of Xianyang, thought to himself.

At midnight that day, Xiong Ping, the king of Xianyang, ordered his general Chen Xi to lead his army to sneak across Ru River.

It has to be said that a tactic like a sneak attack is really not something that a ragtag group of soldiers can pull off. No, when crossing the river, the Xianyang Army made a lot of noise. This not only made Xianyang

Jun Xiongping secretly

Worrying, even Wu Majiao, Wu Mahui and his son, who were preparing to ambush the Chu army on the other side of Ru River, were secretly anxious, fearing that the Chu army would see that the situation was not good and give up crossing the river, leaving them to defend the ambush point in vain.

One night.

Fortunately, Xiong Ping, Lord of Xianyang, did not give up crossing the river in the end, but unfortunately, because his soldiers made a lot of noise while crossing the river, Xiong Ping, Lord of Xianyang, considered that it was likely to be noticed by the Wei army, so he did not dare to cross the river himself.

, just sitting near the river bank, looking at our own army from a distance.

This made Wumajiao unable to catch the big fish of Xianyang Jun Xiong Ping in the end. Instead, his son Wu Mahui took advantage of the Chu army's panic after launching an ambush and shot Xianyang Jun Xiong Ping with a crossbow.

Chen Xi, his general, immediately killed the latter and added a military merit to his merit list.

In the afternoon of the next day, Pingyu Lord Xiong Hu received the battle report from Xianyang Lord Xiong Ping and learned the outcome of the battle.

However, just like Xiong Ping, Lord of Xianyang, Xiong Hu did not care about these defeats. He simply said through the messenger: "Tell Lord Xianyang to set up camp first, and then continue to attack the siege and put pressure on Shangshui."

After that, he continued to lead the army towards Shangshui County.

One day later, when he was leading his army and was about to approach Shangshui County, he suddenly received news from the scouts ahead: "Several Wei military camps were discovered ahead!"

After learning about this, Pingyu Lord Xiong Hu immediately ordered the entire army to stop advancing. Then he climbed a nearby hill and looked to the north.

Shangshui County is located in the plain area washed out by the Yingshui River system. Therefore, the terrain in this area is flat. Except for a few rivers blocking it, there are actually no natural dangers to defend.

It is for this reason that on the plain terrain south of Shangshui County, the Wei State established several camps about ten miles apart, facing each other and guarding each other, forming a corner-to-corner situation.

But Pingyu Lord Xiong Hu knows very well that the defense strength of Shangshui County is probably the strongest in the entire Shangshui defense line, because an army "Shangshui Army" is stationed here that has not been defeated in twenty years.

, and the biggest natural enemy of his army's Zhongliang Recruitment, "Shangshui Youma".

Looking back at his own dark army of hundreds of thousands, and then at the neighboring Wei camps with the words "Shangshui" erected in the distance, Pingyu Lord Xiong Hu took a long breath and looked extremely solemn.

Although he knew that his side had the absolute upper hand in terms of military strength, to be honest, he didn't have much confidence in this battle.

"Just do your best..."
Chapter completed!