Because of this, Sima Yi was able to annotate so many books.

A few days later, Sima Yi arrived in the capital city of Luoyang, and under the leadership of the palace guards, he once again stepped into the palace. It has been two years and four months since the last time he won the championship and was appointed as the prefect of Langya, leaving the palace to take office in Langya Mansion.

More than two years ago, he was an ignorant boy with arrogance and arrogance. Today, there is no arrogance and arrogance in his body, and some are just scholarly.

On the Shenzhou Wuji Palace, Lin Nan and the ministers were discussing the specific matters of using troops against Jing Han, and when they saw the warriors in front of the palace come in to announce that Sima Yi was coming, Lin Nan's face was immediately filled with a smile.

"Quickly pass Sima Yi to the palace!" Lin Nan shouted happily.

"Pass Sima Yi to the palace!"

With an order, Sima Yi entered the main hall from outside the hall, a big man of 1.8 meters, a slender figure, long flowing hair, and trendy clothes, all of which made Sima Yi earn enough attention from the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs.

Stepping on this Shenzhou Wuji Hall again, Sima Yi's heart was very calm, Gu Bo's unfazed face and deep eyes exuded the charm of a mature man, making people unbelievable that the person in front of him was the arrogant and proud Sima Yi a few years ago.

"Minister Sima Zhongda, knock on the emperor." As soon as Sima Yi entered the main hall, he immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Lin Nan.

"Aiqing got up and spoke, and walked to the stairs." Lin Nan said to Sima Yi.

Sima Yi said "no", and after standing up, he took a step in front of everyone's eyes and walked towards Lin Nan. When he was about to reach the stairs, he hurriedly stopped and stood in the center of the main hall. It seems very humble.

Lin Nan looked at Sima Yi and was very satisfied with Sima Yi's humility. In the past two years, he asked Sima Yi to go to Langya to be the prefect, instead of jumping to a high position all of a sudden, which exercised his temperament. Now that he has returned two years later, he has indeed reached his satisfaction. I thought to myself: "Sima Yi has finally grown up, and he has completely shed his immaturity. ”

"Sima Zhongda, you've been separated from me for two years, right?" Lin Nan asked casually.

"It's been two years, four months and seven days since the Enlightenment Saint." Sima Yi remembers it very well.

Lin Nan smiled: "You remember it very clearly. Sima Yi, a few days ago, Jing Han's army attacked Wancheng, causing Zhang Liao to lose his troops. After five years of recuperation and recuperation, our Huaxia Kingdom has an army of 700,000 waiting for the end, and I am ready to send 200,000 troops to counterattack, with the purpose of attacking Xiangyang, the capital of Jinghan. I don't know what you think? ”

Sima Yi didn't think about it, and immediately said: "Qi Qi Sheng, Jing Han and Cao Wei have been allied for a long time, and in the past five years, these two countries have continuously harassed our borders, making the border soldiers and civilians very hateful. The minister very much agreed with the construction of the Holy Lord's army to attack the Han, but once our army launched a national war. Cao Wei will inevitably harass in the northwest, so the saint will not be able to focus on the Han. The War of Annihilation. It costs a lot, and once the national war is launched, it must be carried out in one go, and the vowed not to give up if Jing Han is not destroyed. The most important thing is that the saint's intention to destroy the Han must not be shaken, once shaken. Then all the work will be wasted. ”

After Lin Nan heard this, he felt that what Sima Yi said was very reasonable, and looked at Jia Xu, Xun You, Guo Jia, Gai Xun and many civil and military ministers, and there seemed to be no objection.

"Ladies and gentlemen, do you have any other opinions?"

Xun You stepped forward. Lang Sheng: "The minister thinks that my Huaxia Kingdom and Eastern Wu have been friends for generations, and they are closely related, and there is a feud between Jing Han and Eastern Wu, if the emperor wants to send troops to destroy the Han, he can send envoys to rush to Jianye first, and invite Eastern Wu to attack Jing Han together." In this way, our army has another chance of victory. ”

"In addition, once our army sends troops, Cao Wei, who is in alliance with Jing Han, will inevitably make some moves in the northwest, and the emperor must strengthen the defense of the northwest, as long as it is strictly guarded, the northwest will not be worried." Guo Jia also built yì road.

After Lin Nan heard this, he immediately thought about it, and said loudly: "Chen Lin, I plan to write a holy decree, Zhao right chariot cavalry general Xu Huang to strengthen the defense of Tongguan, Zhao Huyi general Tai Shici led 30,000 cavalry, from Lingzhou south to attack Qinzhou, in addition, with Ma Chao as the general of the expedition to the west, led 20,000 cavalry, attacked Wuwei, Wei General Pang De led an army of 20,000 to attack Anding, to attack as defense, to contain Cao Wei's army!" If they encounter Cao Wei's army, they will adopt a campaign to annihilate the enemy's living forces. Within seven days, no matter what the results were, all of them were returned to Lingzhou. ”

As soon as the voice fell, Chen Lin, who was sitting in the main hall, began to write down the holy decree.

"Sima Yi!" Lin Nan shouted again.

Sima Yi said respectfully: "The minister is here!" ”

"I will appoint you as the general of the military division, and immediately rush to Wancheng, temporarily under the command of Zhang Liao, the general of Huya, and take office tomorrow."

"Obey."

Lin Nan glanced at Zhong Xuan, the head of the household, and asked loudly: "Zhong Shangshu, if you want to raise a year's worth of military grain and grass, how much time will it take?" ”

Zhong Xuan walked out of the class, thought for a while, and then replied: "Please ask the emperor to give the minister a month, and after a month, the minister will personally escort one million stones of grain and grass to Wancheng for military needs." ”

"Well, not only food and grass, but also soldiers' salaries." Lin Nan added.

"The minister understands that a month later, one million stones, grain and grass, and 500,000 silver coins will all be transported to Wancheng." When Zhong Xuan said this, he didn't even frown, you must know that one stone of grain and grass can feed an adult for 200 days, and a silver coin can provide for the expenses of ordinary people for a month.

When we fight a war, we are fighting with national strength, and this is an immutable truth. Therefore, having strong national strength is the capital to wage war.

After five years of recuperation, Huaxia has formed four huge grain production bases in the northeast, Jizhou, Central Plains, and northwest, especially the development of the Hetao area, which was not very prominent in the first two years, until the last two years, the role of the Hetao area has become more and more prominent.

Although Lin Nan proposed the system of all the soldiers, but when it was actually implemented, there was considerable resistance, so all along, the militia system was only implemented around the border towns, and the Hetao area was the most successful in the implementation of the militia system, and the 100,000 Dongyi soldiers who were dismantled on the spot became the militia, and made great contributions to the defense of the border and the development of wasteland. Therefore, even if Cao Wei and Xianbei were allied, they still did not pose any threat to the northern part of Huaxia.

Once the problems of food, grass, and military salaries are solved. Then the rest is a question of sending troops. Therefore, Lin Nan synthesized the opinions of all parties, and finally made a decision to send 300,000 troops to destroy the Han Dynasty. Let him lead the troops and horses of his headquarters, divide the troops into two routes, and start a formal counterattack against the Han Dynasty.

On the other hand, Lin Nan requisitioned Zhang He and Chen from Jizhou to the 110,000 new troops trained in recent years, and let the 110,000 new troops rush from Jizhou to assemble near Luoyang, leaving the Huwei general Zhao Yun to guard the north, and let him be the governor, the governor of Youzhou, Liaodong, Dongyi, Bingzhou, Jizhou, Yunzhou and other places.

Also, Lin Nan asked Ganning's 100,000 navy to sail from the port of Shangjing to the Jiangdu of Guangling Prefecture in Xuzhou. There, the port was expanded and a naval base was repaired, across the river from the port of Qu'a in Soochow. He also asked General Zuo Zang Ba to dig a canal and prepare to connect the Huai River and the Yangtze River in Guangling Mansion.

After a series of orders were issued, the Senate and the Privy Council jointly issued an official document and stamped the jade seal of the country, preparing to officially start the self-defense counterattack against Jing Han a month later. and take advantage of the victory to destroy the Han.

After the court meeting was dispersed, Lin Nan took the form of a secret edict. Let Sima Yi rush to Wancheng to see Zhang Liao.

After Sima Yi left, Lin Nan summoned Lu Heng again and met with Lu Heng alone.

"The last time you were captured by the Han army, it can be described as a stain on your military career. Presumably, in this battle to destroy the country, you will definitely take the initiative to ask for your life, right? "Lin Nan and Lu Heng had a delicate relationship from the beginning. is not only a master servant, but also a brother, and Lin Nan once taught Lu Heng marksmanship, which can be regarded as a teacher and friend. So, when two people sit down alone. There's nothing left to talk about.

Lu Heng nodded and said: "The minister wants to make meritorious service for his crimes, the last time the minister was captured, this time the minister wants to arrest Zhuge Liang to the emperor personally." ”

Lin Nandao: "I guess that's what you think. I can send you to the front, but you must remember that you are not going to capture Zhuge Liang, but to fight, and don't lose a big one because of a small thing. Although Zhuge Liang must be arrested, he can only do his best, not to catch Zhuge Liang, and I will lose a general. You are good at defense, General Hulie is good at attacking, I will send you to serve as a deputy general for General Hulie, sooner or later you will consult with each other, and you will listen to the opinions of the staff headquarters more, and then make reasonable actions, don't be captured alive again. ”

"The minister would rather die than be a prisoner again, please rest assured that the emperor." Lu Heng secretly swore a poisonous oath in his heart.

"There is a superstitious letter here, you carry it, pass it on to General Hulie, and in a few days, I will send you a military advisor."

"No!" Lu Heng took the superstition, turned around and left.

Two days later, Sima Yi finally arrived in Wancheng, and as soon as he entered Wancheng, he went straight to the palace to meet Zhang Liao, the general of Huya.

Zhang Liao was instructing Lin Lin to practice qi at this time, and when he heard that a secret envoy was coming, he asked Lin Lin to cultivate by himself, and he went to the living room to meet.

In the living room, Zhang Liao and Sima Yi met each other and exchanged a few words, and Sima Yi took out the superstition and handed it to Zhang Liao.

After Zhang Liao hurriedly read it, he couldn't help but be taken aback, and said to Sima Yi: "Our army has just experienced a big defeat, and there are only more than 7,000 people left in the 30,000 army. ”

Sima Yi knew the content of his heart, and when Lin Nan handed over the letter to him, he had already explained it to him. Even if Lin Nan didn't say it, with his wisdom, he would definitely be able to guess that this secret letter was urging Zhang Liao to raise troops to attack the county occupied by the Han army.

There was no expression on his face, and he squirmed his lips and said, "The emperor's arrangement must have its own meaning, and the general just does it." After a crushing defeat before, the general should attack the Han army with lightning speed while the soldiers were in grief, and the general is now the vanguard of the right flank, so he should show the courage and courage of the vanguard. The Han army has just been victorious, and it must be defenseless, and this is the time to counterattack. ”

After Zhang Liao heard this, he closed the secret letter and said, "Okay! The mourning soldiers will win, so I will take Wancheng with 3,000 soldiers and horses to seize the county. ”

After the words were spoken, Zhang Liao immediately lit up the three thousand horse steps in Wancheng, put on the horse, took Sima Yi, and left Wancheng.

At the same time that Sima Yi arrived in Wancheng, Lu Heng also rushed to Runan alone, and without saying a word, immediately asked to see Huang Zhong, the general of Hulie.

The two met each other and exchanged pleasantries, and Lu Heng took out the secret letter and handed it to Huang Zhong.

Huang Zhong looked at it. Haha laughed twice, stroked his gray beard happily, and said happily: "I have been in Runan for five years, and I thought that the emperor had forgotten me." ”

"The general is a meritorious person, how could the emperor forget the general. General, what is written on the secret letter? Lu Heng asked.

Huang Zhong said: "The emperor asked a certain to lead all the soldiers and horses in Runan to take Xinye with lightning speed. Huang can finally be useful. ”

After hearing this, Lu Heng said: "At present, the country is actively preparing for war, grain and grass, soldiers' salaries, equipment, and military horses are being requisitioned one by one, and the national war will be launched in a month at the latest. Xinye is the northern gateway of Xiangyang, and once Xinye is captured, it can be used as the front line of the southern expedition and make military contributions for the future. Lay the groundwork. ”

Huang Zhong said: "Without further ado, the old man's 50,000 soldiers and horses are waiting for him, so he will order 50,000 troops to rush to Xinye." Although the Han army left heavy troops in Jiangxia, it was used to defend Eastern Wu, and Tian Yu did not dare to mobilize Jiangxia soldiers and horses lightly, once Jiangxia soldiers and horses were mobilized, Eastern Wu's army in Lujiang would launch an attack on Jiangxia. ”

Lu Heng felt that Huang Zhong's analysis was very reasonable, and at the same time, he also felt that Lin Nan was prescient. Hurriedly said: "General, 50,000 troops will advance together." It will inevitably attract the attention of the enemy, so it is better to allocate a small force and attack Huyang, Xinye, Fuyang, Zhangling, Xiangxiang, and Suixian at the same time. ”

Huang Zhong thought about it for a while, and felt that Lu Heng's construction was very pertinent. Then he said: "Very good, Huyang, Fuyang, Zhangling, Xiangxiang, Suixian and other places are not very many soldiers and horses, if you send a partial army to attack, our army suddenly attacked, and the enemy army was defenseless." will inevitably abandon the city and flee. General Lu, you go with me to attack Xinye, and the other four places will be temporarily handed over to my generals to attack. ”

"Willing to help." Lu Heng readily agreed.

The two discussed, and Huang Zhong called the five captains under his tent and assigned the five captains to capture Huyang, Fuyang, Zhangling, Xiangxiang, and Suixian, each with 5,000 horses. Subsequently, Lu Heng asked to be Huang Zhong's forward, Huang Zhong couldn't withstand Lu Heng's repeated requests, reluctantly agreed, allocated 5,000 cavalry to Lu Heng, and took Xinye, and he himself brought 20,000 troops to follow.

When 50,000 regular troops poured out of Runan, Wang Ling, the prefect of Runan, immediately mobilized local militia to fill the vacancy, and only 20,000 militiamen were requisitioned and dispatched to strictly guard the border towns and counties to prevent any accidents.

In the fifth year of Huaxia Shenzhou, in 196 AD, less than half a month after the National Day of the Chinese People's Republic of China, the Huaxia army immediately launched a self-defense counterattack against Jing Han, Huya General Zhang Liao led an army of 3,000, and with lightning speed, Lianke Anzhong, Sui County, Yin County, Zhuyang and other counties, the Han army was caught off guard, defenseless, and lost the four counties of Gongwei Xinye one after another, and Xinye's western defense line suddenly collapsed.

At the same time, the headquarters of Huang Zhong, the general of the Huaxia Army, also achieved excellent results, and the five lieutenants under him conquered Huyang, Fuyang, Zhangling, Xiangxiang, and Suixian respectively with absolute superiority, and cut off the eastern defense line of Xinye.

In just two days, the Han army lost nine counties in a row, which shocked Guan Yu stationed in Xinye.

In the past two days, the defeated army has continued to retreat to Xinye, and when Guan Yu learned that Zhang Liao only rode three thousand light horses to the four counties of Lianke, he didn't know why, he suddenly regretted letting Zhang Liao go.

Back then, he and Zhao Yun fought alone, and finally lost to Zhao Yun. Later, the more he thought about it, the more unconvinced he became, just because his "Wan Jun Sha" failed to be used at that time, so since then, he has practiced the "Wan Jun Sha" hard and finally achieved the state of sending and receiving freely, so he is also looking forward to fighting Zhao Yun again. And that time he was deliberately let go by Lin Nan, and in order to thank Lin Nan for his kindness, he let Zhang Liao go. It's just that I didn't expect that letting Zhang Liao go would leave me with so much trouble.

According to the report of the defeated army, Zhang Liao first attacked the county seat of Anzhong at night, and the defenders did not know what was going on, Zhang Liao's soldiers and horses had already entered the city, and the shouting of killing outside shook the sky, and the fire was soaring, and the guards could not identify how many soldiers and horses came in the night, so they abandoned the city and fled.

As a result, after Zhang Liao occupied Anzhong County, he did not stay, but rushed to Sui County overnight, and when the defeated army from Anzhong fled to Sui County, Zhang Liao's army also came. The guard of the county thought that the guards of Anzhong colluded with Zhang Liao, and they couldn't help but say that they killed the guards of Anzhong. However, the defenders of Qixian County faced Zhang Liao's army, and before they had time to defend, they abandoned the city with the defenders and fled.

After that, Zhang Liao made it like this, and conquered two counties one after another.

After Guan Yu listened to the advice of the guards who had retired from Zhuyang, he sighed heavily.

Zhuge Liang is on the side. After hearing this, he also sighed with emotion and said: "Zhang Liao, both civil and military, the previous defeat, this victory, completely mastered the rapid mobility of the cavalry. He has played such a masterful art of conducting that he is indeed a well-known figure. ”

After Guan Yu heard this, he regretted letting Zhang Liao go even more, and immediately shouted: "Order all the soldiers and horses, and personally lead the troops to kill Zhang Liao and recover the lost territory." ”

Zhuge Liang hurriedly dissuaded: "Zhang Liaojian went sideways and conquered the city all the way, although he was very brave. But with Zhang Liao's personality, he would never be so risky. In the last battle, Zhang Liao lost his troops, and there were only more than 7,000 people left in the 30,000 Wancheng garrison, and there were only more than 4,000 people stationed in Yuyang. If I'm not mistaken. Huang Zhong, the general of the Huaxia Kingdom, had already led the army on the way to Xinye at this time, and Huyang, Fuyang, Zhangling, Xiangxiang, Suixian and other places had also been lost. ”

Guan Yu listened. I didn't believe it, and was about to refute it, but I saw the scout's report, saying that Huyang, Fuyang, Zhangling, Xiangxiang, and Suixian were all conquered by the Huaxia army, and Huang Zhong led an army of 25,000 men less than fifty miles from Xinye.

Hearing the news, Guan Yu was taken aback. Twisted his face and glanced at Zhuge Liang, as Zhuge Liang said. It's just that he wonders why the defeated troops in Huyang, Fuyang, Zhangling, Xiangxiang, and Suixian don't come back to report.

Zhuge Liang saw Guan Yu's doubts, and said slowly: "Huang Zhong is different from Zhang Liao, Zhang Liao has no soldiers and horses. can only take a quick attack, and Huang Zhong has 50,000 troops in Runan, with strong soldiers and horses, he must launch an attack on the five counties at the same time, the five counties have few soldiers, and they will definitely be captured by Huang Zhong, how to come back and tell him? ”

Guan Yu asked again: "Huang Zhong's 25,000 troops are approaching Xinye, why didn't the scouts find out?" What do they eat? ”

Zhuge Liang said with a smile: "The general Hugh wants to be angry, but it can only be said that the Huaxia military plan is very ingenious, first use Zhang Liao to launch a fast attack, attract the attention of our army, and let our army focus all its attention on Zhang Liao, thinking that it is Zhang Liao's crazy revenge after the defeat in the last battle, so that we ignore Huang Zhong on the Eastern Front." It's a two-pronged approach, and this war is getting more and more interesting. ”

Guan Yu said: "The soldiers are coming to the city, our army was also damaged in the previous war, and today facing Huang Zhong's 50,000 troops to attack, how should we retreat from the enemy?" ”

Zhuge Liang said: "Abandon the city!" ”

"Abandon the city?" Guan Yu said in surprise, "Guan Mou has a heavy army in his hand, and he is about to fight Huang Zhong to the death, but you let Guan Mou abandon the city?" ”

"General, Huang Zhong is eyeing the tiger, the forward 25,000 troops are about to arrive at Xinye City, and the follow-up troops are also on the way. In the past five years, the Huaxia Kingdom has taken a defensive position, and today it suddenly turned to the offensive, which must be to mobilize a large army to march south, Xinye City is small, and it is not suitable to hold on, it is better to temporarily retreat to Deng County, with the capital at its back, not only the supply line is short, but also the soldiers will resist bravely to defend the country. ”

After Guan Yu heard this, he glanced at Zhuge Liang and said, "Rong Guan thinks again!" ”

"The enemy army is close at hand, abandon the city at this time, and still be able to retreat with all his body, if it delays any longer, I am afraid that the city will be besieged. The general rest assured that he had already made arrangements in the lower quarters, and even if he retreated, he would give the Huaxia army another painful blow, so that the enemy army would not dare to chase our army. Zhuge Liang hurriedly said.

Guan Yu looked at Zhuge Liang's self-confidence, just from the last battle, Zhuge Liang was very good, and Guan Yu also looked at Zhuge Liang's resourcefulness differently. Seeing that Zhuge Liang was full of confidence today, he finally nodded and agreed, and said, "Okay, order the three armies to temporarily withdraw to Deng County." ”

Zhuge Liang said again: "Wait! General, more than 100,000 people in Xinye should be taken away together, leaving only an empty city for the enemy. ”

Guan Yuhu hesitated for a moment and asked, "Wouldn't it be troublesome for yourself to take the people away?" ”

"The people of Xinye are the foundation of the emperor, when the emperor was the order of Xinye, the people of Xinye were very supportive of the emperor, and those who won the hearts of the people won the world, and should be brought to Xiangyang for settlement. The general only needs to give 3,000 soldiers and horses, and he can hold back Huang Zhong's army and win time for the people of the whole city to retreat. ”

Guan Yu said: "Du Xian, you lead three thousand light cavalry to stay, and the rest of the people all retreat, immediately go and inform the people of the city, just say that the Huaxia army is coming, mobilize all the people to evacuate, take away everything that can be taken away, and not leave a grain of grain to the enemy." ”

At the sound of the order, the city of Xinye suddenly exploded, and tens of thousands of people in the city suddenly withdrew with their families and mouths. The Han army mobilized more than a dozen villages near Xinye City, and more than 100,000 people of Xinye retreated south under the protection of the Han army.

Guan Yu was not at ease with Zhuge Liang, so he asked Dong He and Wang Fu to lead the people to go first, and he ordered two thousand light horsemen to lead Huo Jun and Lu Chang to prevent accidents.

Zhuge Liang and Du Xi led 3,000 soldiers and horses to meet Huang Zhong, a new battle. It's about to kick off.

Under the leadership of Huang Zhong, the Huaxia army is getting closer and closer to Xinye, Huang Zhong is wearing a chain of armor, wearing a steel helmet, holding a Jiufeng Chaoyang knife in his hand, and a green chestnut lion skull under his crotch, which looks particularly powerful.

Lu Heng followed Huang Zhong and asked, "General, in forty-five miles there will be Xinye County." Presumably, the Han army has already discovered the traces of our army, and it is right to accelerate its advance at this time. ”

Huang Zhong nodded and said, "Pass the order, and the whole army will speed up." ”

Lu Heng immediately gave the order, he originally led 5,000 cavalry as Huang Zhong's vanguard, but unfortunately the road was rugged and not suitable for cavalry to advance, so that the itinerary was synchronized with Huang Zhong's infantry army. In the end, they had to join forces.

After the order was given, Lu Heng still galloped at the front with the cavalry. At this time, he had already passed the rugged mountain road and entered a slightly flat area, and the forward 5,000 cavalry led by him quickly distanced himself from Huang Zhong.

Lu Heng led 5,000 cavalry to run wildly, and soon ran out of fifteen miles, getting farther and farther away from Huang Zhong.

On the march. Suddenly hearing the sound of a tie-up, Lu Heng was startled, and hurriedly shouted: "There is an ambush!" ”

The Huaxia army was suddenly panicked and frightened.

However, after the panic. But no one appeared, not a single arrow was fired, and as soon as the sound of binding stopped, all that was left was the shouting of horses and neighing.

Seeing a false alarm, Lu Heng immediately regathered his soldiers and horses together, and ordered: "The Han army has already taken precautions, and you need to be careful when you advance, everyone will take out their crossbows, and if they encounter an accident, they will shoot at both sides of the road." ”

"No!"

So, Lu Heng continued to move forward with the army, and after walking less than two miles, he heard a bangzi sound again, and as soon as the bangzi sound sounded, Lu Heng's troops shot at both sides of the road, and shot indiscriminately, but there was nothing, and it was a false alarm.

After that, almost every two miles of walking, I encountered such a situation, and it was all a false alarm.

By the sixth time, when the bangzi sounded, the Huaxia army no longer had any action, and this time, it was as safe and sound as ever.

When the scout hidden in the woods saw this, he galloped to Zhuge Liang's side and said, "The prison army, as expected, after six bluffs, the enemy army has become numb. When I heard the sound of the bangs just now, the enemy did not make any moves. ”

Zhuge Liang smiled and asked, "Who is the leader?" ”

"It's still the guard captain Lu Heng."

"It's him...... The last time I let you go, this time it's not so good. Ordered to go down, and concentrate all the arrows on Lu Heng alone for a while. Zhuge Liang showed a sinister smile on his face.

"No!"

The Han army here was in a tight position, and Lu Heng advanced quickly with his soldiers and horses, and when he advanced for another two miles, and when he heard the sound of bangzi again, Lu Heng's department ignored it at all, and did not stop, and rushed forward vigorously.

However, as soon as the sound of bangzi fell, I saw that hundreds of arrows on both sides of the road were all shot out, and they shot towards Lu Heng, who was in the lead. An arrow went down, and Lu Hengdeng, who was walking in the front, was killed.

However, the Huaxia army did not become panicked because of Lu Heng's death, but used the crossbow in their hands to start a counterattack against the Han army on both sides of the road, and shot and wounded many people. At such a short distance, the crossbow of the Huaxia army was exerted to the extreme, and the sharp arrows directly penetrated the body of the Han soldiers, under the crossbow arrows of the Huaxia army, all the armor on the Han army was ignored, some were iron armor, some were leather armor, no matter what kind of armor it was, it could not block the steel arrows.

"Kill! Kill me! Suddenly, at the back of the army, a man dressed as a soldier shouted loudly, all the cavalry actually listened to the soldier's command, when the soldier galloped into the woods and stabbed three people to death, the Han soldiers saw the soldier's face clearly, it was Lu Heng, who had died.

No, it should be said that it was only Lu Heng's stand-in who died.

The 1,000 Han troops who had been ambushed were immediately scattered, and several soldiers were captured by Lu Hengsheng. Lu Hengdang was about to step on his feet alive, and asked angrily: "Where is Zhuge Liang?" If you don't say it, I'll castrate you! ”

The soldier hurriedly protected his crotch. He replied, "In ...... Ten miles in front. ”

After Lu Heng got the answer, he immediately pulled out the long sword in his hand, beheaded all three captives, then tied his head to the horse's neck, and led his subordinates to quickly head towards the Shili slope in front.

In fact, Lu Heng felt that there was something strange about this from the third bang. Thinking that Zhuge Liang was scheming, he had been fooled by him before, and now he must not be fooled again, so he found a warrior who was not afraid of death and changed his clothes and armor with him, so that he was able to deceive the scout's eyes. Otherwise, he would have died here.

The Han scouts hurriedly reported back to Zhuge Liang, saying that Lu Heng had not been tricked.

After Zhuge Liang heard this, he also felt a burst of surprise. Then he smiled: "I didn't expect me to underestimate his ability, interesting, it's so interesting." ”

Du Xian was beside Zhuge Liang, anxious like an ant on a hot pot, and hurriedly asked: "Prison army, this plan can't be successful, what should our army do?" The enemy army is huge, it is better to retreat for ......"

"Who dares to take a step back. It is to disobey the military order, and to be beheaded for public display. Zhuge Liang said angrily.

"But...... The overseer's strategy didn't work......" Du Xi muttered.

"Don't forget the jì. I left a double insurance plan, and if it didn't work, I proceeded to the second step. Originally, I thought that Lu Heng would die, but I didn't expect him to escape by luck, since this is the case, then don't blame me for being ruthless. ”

Zhuge Liang turned around and said to the scout again: "How is Xinye's movement?" ”

"All the people's troops have withdrawn. Shinno Castle was already an empty city, and the general had a cavalry of 2,000 men outside the city to prevent accidents. ”

Zhuge Liang nodded, turned around, and said to Du Xian: "General Du." This time I will give you another big credit, as long as you do a good job, Lu Heng and his cavalry team will all be burned to death by you. I have already asked people to arrange flammable objects in Xinye, you lead Lu Heng to Xinye County, and then burn Xinye City with a fire, I will drink the general to retreat to Deng County first, waiting for your good news. ”

After Du Xian heard this, he immediately rejoiced, shouted, and took his subordinates with 2,000 cavalry to meet Lu Heng.

The more than 700 cavalry who had ambushed Lu Heng before also returned one by one, gathered around Zhuge Liang, and left with Zhuge Liang.

Du Xun led 2,000 cavalry to meet Lu Heng, and retreated while fighting. After the previous battle, Lu Heng became extremely cautious, and at this time, he was also cautious in the pursuit of Du Zheng.

About half an hour later, Du Raid successfully led Lu Heng to Xinye City, and then rushed into the city, Lu Heng chased after him, Du Raid did not dare to stay, and fled directly with the army.

Lu Heng saw that Du was defeated and was afraid of an ambush, so he stopped chasing and sent someone to report to Huang Zhong, and he asked the soldiers to start burying pots and cooking in the city.

It was almost dusk, Lu Heng and others were tired and hungry, and searched the whole city, but they did not find a grain of grain, and later a soldier found the grain buried in the cellar, so he salvaged it and began to make a fire to make rice.

After the wine and food are full, the moon is on the top, suddenly rumored that the Han army suddenly arrived, Lu Heng hurriedly led the troops to the city, just rode a horse to the city gate, and saw that the Han army released a lot of fire arrows, the strange thing is that the fire arrows do not shoot people, but shoot into the corner, the flammable materials that were originally piled up in the corner of the fire arrows once they touched the fire arrows, and immediately burned.

Zhuge Liang had people sprinkle fierce fire oil in the flammable material, and the water diluted it, volatilizing the smell in it, Rao was so, the fire still spread rapidly, and the entire Xinye City suddenly became a sea of fire.

The fire burned, the fire quickly sealed the city gate, when Lu Heng came to the city gate with the cavalry, Du Xun and others had already retreated, and the whole city was in flames, and Lu Heng knew that he had fallen into the plan again.

"Withdraw! Evacuate Shinno! Lu Heng took the lead in rushing out of the city gate, and as soon as more than ten horsemen rushed out behind him, the gate beam of the city gate fell, cutting off the exit at once, and blocking all the remaining soldiers and horses in the city. Xinye City has a total of two gates in the north and south, the north gate is blocked, the soldiers of the Huaxia Army galloped towards the south gate, and broke through the fire along the way, but when they arrived at the south gate, they unexpectedly found that the south gate was also blocked, the horses did not dare to approach the fire, and the raging fire in the city was connected into a fire dragon, trapping more than 4,800 cavalry of the Huaxia Army, and finally all were burned alive in Xinye City.

Huang Zhong's army was very slow because it was carrying grain, grass, baggage, and siege weapons, and when it was about to reach Xinye, it suddenly saw the flames in the direction of Xinye, so he was taken aback, and hurriedly took five hundred cavalry to leave the army and rush towards Xinye.

When he arrived in Xinye, Huang Zhong saw Lu Heng standing outside the city with the remnants of more than 100 cavalry, all of them as black as carbon, and some of them were even burned in tattered clothes.

"What's going on? I just received the good news that you occupied Xinye, why did it suddenly turn into a sea of fire? What about the rest? Huang Zhong asked sharply.

Lu rolled the saddle and dismounted, knelt on the ground, and cried to Huang Zhong: "General, everyone else is trapped in Xinye City, and I am afraid that there will be more luck and less ......."

"You, you...... On a certain road, I urged you not to rush forward, but you just didn't listen, Xinye has become a scorched earth, and more than 4,000 soldiers have all died because of you, how do you want to explain to the emperor and the families of more than 4,000 soldiers? Huang Zhong also regretted for a while, if he didn't let Lu Heng be the striker, there would be nothing.

Lu Heng wiped his tears and immediately shouted: "It's my fault that one person does things and one person is responsible, I won't affect anyone, the lives of more than 4,000 soldiers, I, Lu Heng, have nothing to repay, I can only use this head to apologize to them!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Lu Heng immediately drew the sword in his hand and was about to swing his sword to kill himself.

Seeing a flash of cold light, Huang Zhong brandished the Jiufeng Chaoyang Sword and knocked down the long sword in Lu Heng's hand, and said angrily: "Although this battle is said to be caused by you, but the old man is the main general, and it is difficult to escape the blame, I will truthfully play the emperor on this matter, and ask the emperor to make a ruling." Now, temporarily remove you from your position in the army, and go to the head of the army to listen to it. ”

Lu Heng didn't refute either, just a look of shame and resentment.

Huang Zhong cleaned up the mess and stationed the army outside the city, and the next day, after the fire was extinguished, more than 4,000 charred corpses were cleaned up, all of which were buried outside Xinye City. After that, the army was stationed in Xinno, and no longer advanced, waiting for the imperial decree.

After the end of the battle of Xinye, Zhang Liao and Huang Zhong joined forces in Xinye, and then the army advanced forward, and was stationed in Chaoyang County, formally confronting Deng County of the Han army, and in accordance with Lin Nan's will, deliberately released the news that two months later, he led the whole country to 700,000 troops to destroy the Han Dynasty.

In addition, Lu Heng was dismissed by Lin Nan, and Huang Zhong was also implicated, deducting one month's salary, but Lu Heng was left in Huang Zhong's army, and the entire vanguard army was handed over to Huang Zhong to be responsible, and Zhang Liao was deputy.

Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang retreated the army to the area of Deng County, and hundreds of thousands of people who dragged their families from the front line were all sent by the Han army to the area of Xiangyang for resettlement. When he heard the news released by the Huaxia Army, Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu discussed it and decided not to report it for the time being, so as not to cause panic among the people of Jingzhou.

However, without an impermeable wall, it is even more difficult to defend the mouth of the people, so soon, the news of the attack of the Huaxia army spread to Xiangyang, and there was an uproar in the court, and the ministers were shocked, and some ministers even took the initiative to beg to move the capital to Nanjun.

Liu Bei sat in the main hall, and the trivial words of the ministers sounded in his ears, and he was extremely impatient when he heard it.

Suddenly, he stood up, glanced at the ministers with a sharp gaze, and said angrily: "My Han army has 300,000 land and water troops, and it also has the danger of Han water, as long as you guard the Han water, you will definitely not lose." You are all the founding heroes of my Han Dynasty, and the Huaxia Kingdom has not yet sent a single soldier, so you are clamoring here to move the capital, what is the reason? Now that you have just lost the land of the ten counties of Xinye County, you are already afraid of becoming like this, once the Huaxia army rolls in, are you ready to kill me and surrender the whole country? ”

After speaking, Liu Bei brushed his sleeves away, furious. (To be continued......)