Zhang Han faintly noticed a few days ago that something seemed to be wrong.

Although the gates of the Xingyang and Aocang garrisons were closed, they never left.

However, the troops he deployed around were frequently attacked at night, and there were no big casualties or anything, which was quite disgusting.

I couldn't sleep all night, so I was listless during the day and had to find another time to rest.

And the periphery is constantly harassed, and Zhang Han, who is in the middle army, is also very distressed.

As a last resort, he could only order the troops to shrink their defenses and scare the other side with their numbers, so that they would not dare to act as recklessly as before.

As time went on, the possibility of a siege became less and less.

"How's the artisan mobilization?" Zhang Han asked with a frown.

"It's still mobilizing, but the situation is a little unoptimistic!" The strategist beside him, Peng Jia, responded.

"Send someone to urge! When this battle is over, I will settle accounts with them! Zhang Han was a little impatient.

Simple siege equipment they can do, for example, rudimentary to explode ladders.

But that thing was the most unreliable thing, and Zhang Han would rather stand still than use those ladders.

If you really use this thing, people will push it out directly with Ge, not to mention that the people on the ladder are injured and killed, and it is easy to hit the people behind, and the engineering efficiency is unimaginable.

And the real siege equipment must be built by professional craftsmen.

Originally, according to the rules, they must have attacked the city on this trip, so before leaving, they would bring a group of craftsmen and build siege equipment on the spot after arriving at the place.

But now there is no one available, and those who have some skill and experience have been transferred elsewhere, and there are no spare manpower to come here.

And a complete set of siege equipment, including a moving ladder.

It was pushed on four wheels, a large chassis, and a sturdy ladder fixed diagonally to it.

When attacking the city, the top of the ladder is against the female wall or the upper end of the city wall, and the lower wheel is directly stuck with wood.

The only means of resistance are arson, stones, and rolling logs.

In addition, there is also a mobile arrow tower, the height is at least more than one zhang higher than the highest part of the city wall, carrying three or four elite archers, relying on the cover of the arrow tower, standing on the high place to accurately suppress the defenders on the city wall, and auxiliary infantry to climb the city wall.

The other is to move and hit the wood, using the power of the swing to hit the city gate.

Although these three things seem simple, ordinary people really can't make them.

Zhang Han did not attack the city at the first time, firstly because there were too many defenders, and secondly, because there were not enough siege equipment, so he could only stand under the city wall and stare dryly.

As for manufacturing in advance, this is not realistic, and the height of each wall is different.

Moreover, this kind of large-scale equipment is not conducive to long-distance travel, with this thing, the road that can be walked in one day will take almost three days to complete, and the cost is too great, but it is better to go to the local site to make it.

"General, I'm afraid they can't do anything about this matter!" Peng Jia said.

After Qin unified the six countries, he collected the world's weapons and cast them into a huge bronze man, which can basically be said to let the six countries put the swords and guns into the warehouse, and the horses were put in Nanshan.

After the unification of Qin, siege warfare was almost gone, and siege warfare was not what the Qin army was good at.

Therefore, in the area of siege equipment, those who will do it, and those who have experience, are those old Qin people.

But those people are not very easy to call.

Coupled with the composition of Zhang Hanjun's own reasons, it is no problem to fight against the wind, but it is absolutely impossible to fight against the wind.

This is not to look down on people, but to the composition of the army, and such a result is bound to occur.

"General, Zhang Qi is back......" suddenly reported outside the tent.

"Zhang Qi? What did he come back for? Zhang Han was suddenly startled and hurriedly asked.

Zhang Qi was the official in charge of Gong County, and while escorting the grain and grass over this time, he reported on his work, and only left the camp and returned to Gong County two days ago.

It stands to reason that he should have just arrived in Gong County at this time.

"Could it be that there is something wrong with Hebei?" Zhang Han was puzzled, this time Zhang Qi came mainly because of the affairs in Hebei, so Zhang Han knew that the progress in Hebei was not going well, and he was quite annoyed.

"General...... Gongxian ......" Zhang Qi cried bitterly with a handful of snot and tears.

"What's wrong with Gong County?" Zhang Han suddenly felt a chill.

"Gong County lost ......"

"What...... What the? Although he had expected it, he couldn't help but be surprised when he heard these words come out of Zhang Qi's mouth: "How did you lose it?" What about forty or fifty thousand people, who can't even hold a city? ”

"I don't know, on the way back, I sent people back to inform them to prepare grain and grass, but in less than a day they will come to tell me that Gongxian has been lost, and the outside of the city is densely packed with thieves, and the number is probably hundreds of thousands."

"You say it again???" Zhang Han looked at Zhang Qi with a shocked face.

Hundreds of thousands of thieves?

Where did it come from?

They came from the west, Sima Xin brought 100,000 people in the south, Dahe in the north, and Dong Peng's 70,000 people in Hebei, so I asked you where did these hundreds of thousands of thieves come from?

"General, I'm afraid the situation is a little bad......" Peng Jia's head turned quickly, but the more he thought about it, the more terrible he felt, and continued: "If what Zhang Qi said is true, Sima Xin is afraid that he has already been defeated or surrendered, so that the general has not received any news, and the situation in Hebei is not optimistic, and the grain and grass that have been collected with great difficulty are not left in two, and the general at this moment In addition to the grain route being cut off, there is also a very serious problem in front of him, and we are surrounded......"

"Package...... Surrounded? Zhang Han felt a little incredulous, but this was just a knee-jerk reaction.

This way came smoothly, and Zhou Wen, who was once invincible, was defeated without even carrying two moves under his own hands.

Although he encountered some difficulties in Xingyang, Zhang Han did not take it too seriously.

Originally, after waiting for the siege equipment to come, he immediately attacked, completely wiped out Wang Buying, and then went south to kill Chen Sheng, and then went to attack the state of Chu.

The whole plan was arranged, and it was just when I was in high spirits when you suddenly told me I was surrounded?

But if you think about it carefully, there are hundreds of thousands of thieves in Gong County, doesn't it prove that there must be a huge problem along the way to the west or south?

But no matter which side of the problem, now Gong County is gone, there is Xingyang Aocang in front, and there are hundreds of thousands of troops in the two together, and there are hundreds of thousands of thieves in Gong County in the back, there are big rivers in the north, and mountains in the south, although it is not high, but these hundreds of thousands of troops in and out, according to the current situation, they can't get out at all.

The mountains are not steep, but no one can go hungry to climb the mountains.

Isn't this just surrounding?

"Has the news gotten out?" Zhang Han hurriedly asked.

"Not yet, my men are on standby ten miles away, and they didn't come with them." Zhang Qi shook his head again and again.

"That's good, you go back and let your people stand by, without the order of the general, you are not allowed to get close to the camp." Zhang Han ordered to Zhang Qi, the most rigorous problem is to block the news, once the news is spread, even if Qin II is standing here, he will not be able to control this army.

However, the problem of grain and grass must be solved as soon as possible, and although they only received a batch of grain and grass two days ago, they will not be able to eat for long with the 400,000 people.

"Send someone to contact Sima Xin and Dong Peng, and ask them to collect grain and grass on the spot and find a way to send it over, in addition, tell the soldiers that the surrounding villages are all in the company of thieves, and arrange troops to go out of the camp to collect grain and grass......"