Ao Cang is located on Ao Mountain. Although it is called a mountain, it is actually just a platform slightly higher than the ground. Cangcheng is also quite simple. It was built during the Qin Dynasty. It has a circumference of no more than two thousand steps. There is no circumference of each city wall. What's worse is that this place was burned at the end of the Xin Dynasty. Ma Yuan just used the ruins to build the foundation of the wall again, and traces of smoke and fire could be seen occasionally.

This is a few feet high, so it cannot make the guards in Aocang City feel more secure when the endless Red Eyebrow Army surges.

"Ao Cang is a bait for fishing. This bait must be able to lure the red eyebrows to swallow, but it cannot be eaten by them. Therefore, a tiger general must guard it. Who else can you give me?"

This is Ma Yuan's general order. General Zhang Zong, the Huwei general, was ordered. When he looked up at the tower, he saw the invading enemy endlessly. Because of the distance, it seemed that the size of an ant was on the surface. However, the mountains and fields were everywhere. They passed through the streams, filling the rivers between Guangwu Mountain and the Ganggu, and more people were running from a distance.

"It's like a bunch of moths."

Zhang Zong couldn't help but sigh, and Ao Cang and the food and fodder inside were like candles in the dark, attracting moths to fly wildly.

When the enemy was approaching, Zhang Zong noticed that the Red Eyebrow Army was wearing various clothes: winter clothes, summer clothes, and even women's deep clothes. They cut skirts and put them on their bodies, wrapped them together to keep the cold, and the weapons in their hands were also diverse.

But they all have one thing in common: two red eyebrows on the forehead, depending on different preferences and habits, either animal blood, red soil, or even human blood!

After careful observation, I found that the armor-wearing rate of the Red Eyebrow vanguard was not low. I heard that they swept through the Central Plains and defeated many princes in the Green Forest. The armor-wearing soldiers on their bodies were basically captured, so they were all kinds of, but after wearing it for a long time, they were in ruins but they had never been carefully patched.

In contrast, the Wei army relied on Hanoi and Handan to continuously produce iron and armored clothes, and the paint colors were basically the same.

In terms of hardware conditions alone, Wei Jun is undoubtedly much stronger than Red Eyebrow, so he can make up for the shortage of people, but what Zhang Zong is worried about is...

"The soldiers assigned to me by the National Guard are as new as the armor they have on them!"

Ma Yuan's command was based on ten thousand veterans who participated in the Hebei Battle and recruited them in batches. The ones who joined the latest had not even suppressed the thieves. After only three months of training, they were all blocked in Ao Cang's garrison.

Zhang Zong could only ask the lieutenant: "Don't you guys face the Red Eyebrows directly on Pingchuan. You only need to rely on the small town of Ao Cang to hold the enemy for several days. If you can't even do this, can you be worthy of your full meals for months?"

The water tower is close to the water and the moon is the first to get the moon. The Ao Cang has sufficient food, with a total of 150 earthen warehouses. In theory, it can store 100 to 2 million stones of grain. Now it has only been less than half of it, so of course it will not be hungry to guard.

Chimei also understood this, and both the offense and defense tacitly avoided using fire attack.

The Red Eyebrow Army had limited long-range shooting weapons, so it was difficult to kill the Wei soldiers on the city wall. As long as they recovered from the panic that had just started fighting, the frontal threat was not that great. But behind them, the military judges were quite sharp-eyed. Dong Xuan, known as the "crouching tiger", was ordered to supervise the battle. The army was ruthless and led a group of military judges with swords to patrol each city wall. Any behavior of retreating and fearing war would be severely punished.

Then, Dong Xuan targeted a small man in the crossbow barracks. He frequently raised crossbows with his robes, but he did not shoot every time.

Dong Xuan saw the problem, but he remained calm. Dong Xuan learned the law and was very familiar with the story of Han Zhaohou's crimes and the story of Han Zhaohou's crimes and the clothes. He was familiar with it and deeply agreed with it.

As the military commander of the entire division, he was in charge of the lieutenant and his brigade and military judges at all levels in the battalion. If he crossed them to catch a small soldier, it would be like Guan Dianguan and Dianyi's three-court officer went directly to put on clothes for Han Zhaohou.

"If the subordinate officials do not manage their duties, it is overpowering, and if the superior directly manages subordinates, it is also overpowering."

Dong Xuan held the law enforcement sword tightly and his eyes moved back and forth between the crossbow soldiers who were just filling in numbers and the Jun Zhengzheng, who was ordered to supervise the area.

Fortunately, Jun Zhengcheng also discovered this problem, and the crossbow soldiers were pulled down and temporarily tried at the base of the city wall.

"Why don't you shoot a crossbow? Is it the crossbow machine broken?" Jun Zhengcheng seemed to feel Dong Xuan's forcing eyes and was quite strict with the soldier. If so, the soldier would still be at fault if he didn't report it in time, but he would not have to die.

This is the military law of the Wei army. It is appropriate in detail and made Dong Xuan admire it very much. Although he had never seen His Majesty the Emperor, he could see it from these details.

"Your Majesty, you should also be a person who likes order."

But there was no problem with the crossbow machine being inspected, but the crossbow soldiers were trembling and speechless. Dong Xuan found that this crossbow soldier was quite young, and ordinary new soldiers would always be dull because of fear, but what Dong Xuan saw in his eyes was not fear, but... pity?

But the army cannot tolerate such kindness of women. Because it is a typical example, the judgment immediately came out: "A man who hears the drums and does not advance, does not stop when he hears the gold, does not raise the flag, does not hold a low flag, does not shoot when he hears the order, and does not attack when he stands. This is called a contradictory army. Those who are like this will kill him!"

The procedure has been completed, and all that is left is the law enforcement officer who put the soldiers in the corner of the city wall to rectify the law. Dong Xuan then walked over and asked the little crossbowman: "Do you think that Red Eyebrows are like you, who used to be honest people and can't bear to take action?"

The crossbow soldiers lay down and said nothing, begging for mercy. After hearing the accent, they were actually Dong Xuan's fellow countrymen.

Dong Xuan nodded, expressed his understanding, and then waved his hand and asked someone to continue the execution!

After circulating the head of this person, Dong Xuan told Jun Zhengcheng this way, the army's Simas: "Brother Eyebrows retreat a little, tell the soldiers not to have any mercy on Red Eyebrows."

Just like him, in the past, Dong Xuan still had a little sympathy for this group of thieves who were engaged in the brutality and disorderly world, and felt that they were forced to do so.

Until the Red Eyebrow hit Huaiyang, he ate all his wealthy hometown like a group of locusts and moths, and broke into his peaceful home without invitation.

Dong Xuan held the sword and said, "Gathering to be a thief and plundering prefectures and counties is no longer an ordinary people, but a thug! We must be punished and destroyed!"

"Ao Cang has one-third of the food in the garrison. In addition to military use, it will also be distributed to the hungry people in Luoyang and other cities to provide relief. If this place is occupied by the Red Eyebrow, the families of the soldiers will go hungry."

The red eyebrows can not be hungry, but raise the mantis' arms and tear them apart the green forest that is unjust to them.

But Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Xuzhou, Sili, the people who are ten times larger than the Red Eyebrow Army also have the right to survive!

This is not a win-win situation for the poor people on both the host and the guest to defeat the powerful together, but a life-and-death struggle between the thieves and the indigenous people in order to fight for limited food and the right to survive!

There is no need to talk about the great truth. Dong Xuan believes that standing on the big granary of Ao Cang, the soldiers can understand why they "fight".

For the sake of yellow corn and to allow myself and my family to live in winter.

"It is also a new order that was painstakingly created by the emperor and a group of generals and ministers after the chaos!"

...

Chimei's attack on Ao Cang was not smooth. She rushed to Aoshan several times, but was repeatedly driven down from above.

"The Wei army is indeed much harder to fight against the Green Forest than the New Army." Yang Yin remembered that Fan Chong sent someone to remind him that the Wei army was different from the Green Forest they had fought before, and Ao Cang was indeed a tough fight.

But Yang Yin, the "Five Duke", was not furious. Everything was as expected. Since there was no hope of taking Ao Cang quickly, he focused his attention on Guangwu Mountain southwest of Ao Cang.

"Ao Cang was attacked, would Ma Yuan really not send troops to aid?"

Isn't it just a coincidence? The two fishermen happened to use the same bait. Yang Yin also wanted to use Ao Cang, which must fight for military strategists, to fish out the Wei army that "avoided the war" and achieve "encirclement and attack the aid".

Yang Yin learned from the local people that the main traffic between Ao Cang and Xingyang is the corridor and Guangwujian, which can avoid the Red Eyebrow Army on the edge of the Ganggu. Guangwu Mountain is a road barrier and is also the commanding height within a radius of 100 miles. There are two villages on the mountain, namely Han Wangcheng and Xiang Wangcheng. The scouts discovered that the Wei army also arranged troops there.

But I don’t know how many troops there were. Anyway, the Red Eyebrow’s soldiers were defeated and they were not tested. These Wei troops hidden in the camps in the Shancheng City did not even light the smoke stove, which made people unable to judge.

It seems that Ma Yuan is divided into three places, Ao Cang, Guangwu Mountain and Xingyang. To put it nicely, it is a supportive horn, but to put it bluntly, it is a long snake formation with one character, and it is difficult to save each other from the head and tail.

"It takes seven inches to hit a snake!"

Yang Yin was able to get along with the Five Red Eyebrows, and she was also a little capable. The seven-year battle was not in vain. She just said: "I will first lead 40,000 people to attack Ao Cang, lure the Wei army in Guangwu Mountain to rescue him, and fight in Pingchuan. Once they leave, they will immediately order 40,000 people near Xingyang to march westward, follow Xiang Yu's method of fighting Liu Bang, cut off the corridor, and occupy Guangwu!"

By then, Xingyang and Ao Cang will be cut off, and the Red Eyebrows occupy the land of Gaoyang, so Ao Cang will be unable to save the gods. After eating, he will be filled. When Fan Chong’s main force arrives, he will seize Xingyang together and enter Chenggao westward, and the road to Luoyang will be opened.

As the Red Eyebrow surrounded Ao Cang, there was finally movement in Guangwu Mountain. The Wei army began to frequently allocate flags, and the flags were hidden among the valleys and ravines, making people think that the mountains were full of spears and flags, and it was difficult to distinguish the people. They seemed to be hesitating, not knowing whether to support Ao Cang. Yang Yin could only wait patiently, and secretly scolded the Wei army for being too timid.

It was half an hour later that the Guangwu Wei army was still rubbing in the mountains and forests, which made Yang Yin feel something was wrong. Sure enough, the Red Eyebrow Scout from the south rushed to report to Yang Yin: "The Wei army came out from the south of Guangwu Mountain and attacked the four 10,000 battalions in the north of Xingyang City!"

"Go to the south?"

Yang Yin was stunned and immediately reacted and looked at the group of Wei troops who were struggling in the mountains and forests in Guangwu Mountain. It seemed that these were suspicious soldiers!

"The Wei army in Guangwu Mountain is very brave. Who is in charge? I must have wanted to defeat our rear army first, and then join Ma Yuan in Xingyang City to cut off the retreat route of our front army!"

Yang Yin was shocked and sweated coldly. Unexpectedly, the Wei army, who had been avoiding the war, suddenly became so brave.

But this kind of shock was replaced by anger, which was too much despised by Red Eyebrows!

Yang Yin immediately called out the three elders: "Ten thousand people are staring at Ao Cang."

"Don't let the defenders come out."

"Ten thousand people directly attacked Guangwu Mountain and tried to seize its city. If all the Wei troops were out, the two camps would be empty. The suspicious soldiers in the mountains could not deceive me. Even if they could not capture all the two camps, it would be considered a victory."

"There are 20,000 people left, let me go back!

Yang Yin's calculations were good. Although he didn't know how many Wei troops went south in Guangwu Mountain, even if he merged with the Wei army in Xingyang, his total force should not exceed 30,000.

After returning to the rescue, the Red Eyebrow will have as many as 60,000!

Two against one, as long as he holds it down, he will have an absolute advantage in military strength when the 20,000 people who are behind, and if he is lucky, he will directly drop the main force of the Wei army in the countryside. The battle between Ao Cang and Xingyang will end early.

The camp where the Red Eyebrow Army spent the night the night before was only more than ten miles south of Aocang, facing the hills on the eastern foot of Guangwu Mountain in the west, and a small stream to the south, barely considered the "solidity of mountains and rivers".

When the Red Eyebrow's camp was launched, there were a group of old bandits and old farmers. There was no plan, no fence, and nothing. They just roughly followed the camps of ten thousand people, three elders, and were under their command, and they set up a piece of open space for rest, and squeezed to sleep together. After seven years of war, they finally made some progress and learned to dig trenches outside the camp and set up posts, which became orderly in chaos. Yang Yin made arrangements before leaving. Even if the Wei army came out in full bloom, it would be fine to keep them.

However, after two hours, what did Yang Yin see when he approached the camp ten miles away?

A hornet's nest that was lit by someone!

On this winter day when the weather is dry, fire burned among the crowded simple wooden sheds in the camp. Forty thousand red eyebrows were already preparing to fight the enemy by the stream, but suddenly the camp behind them was burned. People's hearts were in chaos, buzzing like a lost hornet, and thousands of people shouted.

But after all, the Red Eyebrow Army moved to several states and had seen everything. Although one battalion collapsed and ran away, the other three were still facing the fire and tenaciously confronted the Wei army, which was twice as many as its own.

The front line between the two sides was a small river called Gravel Creek. As the name suggests, the stream was filled with pebbles washed from Guangwu Mountain, mostly white. However, the Wei army and the Red Eyebrow had not yet confronted each other, but the two sides fired weapons for a while, and the whole stream turned red in an instant!

But soon, even Yang Yin could not observe this thin red line. Although the Wei army's crossbow arrows were more and more rapid, they did not seem to intend to win with it. The sword and shield soldiers and the spear soldiers were bravely rushing forward, and the wide and huge array blocked the Blood Creek and rushed towards the Red Eyebrows.

"It's still time."

Yang Yin sent someone to urge the soldiers who were behind to speed up. Judging from this posture, his side could hold on for at least half an hour. He decided to cut from the stream downstream and attack the Wei army's soft abdomen, not seeking complete victory, but only hope to repel their adventures.

This area is the remnant of Guangwu Mountain, with small hills undulating, making the terrain look like the waves rushing from the shore of Donghai County, Yang Yin’s hometown.

A moment later, Yang Yin climbed a "Wang Peak" that could be seen from afar, but saw a scene that puzzled him.

Some people used the side attack strategy earlier than Yang Yin. An elite Wei army from Guangwu crossed the stream and broke into the left wing of the Red Eyebrow Army!

How many people did that Wei army have? Three thousand, five thousand? And they are infantrymen, but why did they run so fast and charge so without hesitation?

Just in the blink of an eye, he saw that a 10,000-person battalion on the left wing of the Red Eyebrow Army was scattered and in danger, like a soft limb that was cut by the sharp blade of the Butcher Ding. The skin and flesh were blooming, and blood were pouring out. The Red Eyebrow Army was like a broken tendon, fleeing loosely, and finally even its bones were cut open. The Red Eyebrow Army instantly lost an arm!

Before it was over, the army that dismembered the left wing of Red Eyebrow did not stop after completing the strategic task, but continued to move forward! He hit the heart of Red Eyebrow.

"He plans to break two thousand battalions with three thousand people?"

Thinking of this in his heart, the carriages and horses did not stop. Yang Yin was close to the battlefield for only three miles, and the screams of yelling and killing were like thunder shaking in his ears, and he could even meet many red-eyed soldiers fleeing backwards.

"Come the defeated soldiers, gather the defeated soldiers, and follow me to kill them! Turn defeat into victory!"

Yang Yin shouted vigorously, and at the same time climbed up the hill again to look.
To be continued...