"Boom! Boom! Boom! At this time, it was already sunset, but the war drums in the Wei army camp were rumbling.

The Sui army in the Sui army camp became nervous, and some people hurriedly ran to report it, and after a short time, Yao Junsu and the deputy generals Wang Xingben, Feng Li, and Li Zhengbao rushed to the watchtower when they heard the news.

I saw that the Wei army under the battalion had been mobilized on a large scale, and groups of Wei troops were like converging rivers and seas, gathering in front of the Sui army camp from all directions.

Under the setting sun, the battle flag of the Wei army is like a cloud, like a forest of weapons, shining, the momentum is huge, the momentum is eye-catching, and the heaven and earth are full of murderous atmosphere.

Yao Junsu's expression was grim, his eyes were awe-inspiring, although he had 40,000 troops in name, but Shouchun County, which was the county governor, divided his 5,000 soldiers, Anfeng County in the upper reaches of Feishui divided 3,000 soldiers and horses, and all the small cities on the west bank of Feishui had to be garrisoned by troops. The army he fought against was actually only about 30,000.

Since Li Mi's entry, he has been attacking day and night for three days and three nights, causing Yao Junsu's army to suffer nearly 10,000 casualties in the dense and fierce offensive, and the remaining 20,000 soldiers are also exhausted.

He said to Wang Xingben beside him: "Li Mi refused to launch a general offensive for a long time, but let all the armies attack in turn day and night, which is nothing more than the implementation of a tired strategy. Our army did not eat well or sleep well during these three days, and everyone was extremely tired. Looking at this posture, I want to capture the big camp before tonight. ”

Wang Xingben said worriedly: "General Qin's Jiangxia army has already set off, and crossing the Yangtze River north is Yong'an, according to the speed of the cavalry, it will be able to arrive tomorrow morning, but the problem is that the army is coming from a long distance, and it is also extremely tired, if there is no good rest, it will not play much role at all." Until they recover, they can only rely on our 20,000 tired soldiers, does the general think we can hold out until that moment? ”

Yao Junsu shook his head, "I don't know either!" ”

"For the sake of today, we will do our best to hold the camp no matter what!" Speaking of this, Wang Xingben paused, pondered for a moment, and then said: "Our army's camp is on the only way for the Wei army, and if you want to go deep into Huainan, you will inevitably break the camp. Judging from the direction of their attacks these days, they are generally divided into three routes, mainly the east gate, and then divided into north and south roads. I am in charge of guarding the east gate in front tonight, and the north-south direction can be handed over to Feng Li and Li Zhengbao. As long as we hold on to reinforcements, we will be a great achievement. ”

Although Yang Tong did not give Yao Junsu many troops, there were many generals who came to train.

Regarding Wang Xingben's suggestion, Yao Jun was noncommittal, but looked at Li Zhengbao beside him, and when he saw that he wanted to speak, he asked with a smile: "If General Li has any good suggestions, you might as well say it directly." ”

"Yes!" Li Zhengbao first bowed, then stood up straight, looked at Yao Junsu, and said proudly: "The meaning of the last general is very simple, why should we stick to it?" ”

"Why did General Li say this?" Wang Xingben was stunned.

Li Zhengbao replied: "Li Mi's attitude is already obvious, he intends to capture our army's camp tonight, in addition to the three frontal places, the Wei army, which has a large number of generals, can also take advantage of the night to send a strange army to attack from the Bagong Mountain, once the camp is entered from the mountain, our army is bound to be in chaos." ”

Xue Wanjun took this method when he attacked Zhuyang Pass, he took Gao Yan and Yu Zhan as surprise soldiers, and entered the pass from the mountains on both sides of Zhuyang Pass, killing the Tang army in the pass into chaos, and finally gave the frontal army the opportunity to trap the city. Topographically speaking, the Sui army camp is exactly the same as Zhuyang Pass, and it is also sandwiched between two mountains, so Li Mi can also apply Xue Wanjun's method to deal with the Sui army.

Wang Xingben also participated in the battle of Zhuyangguan, so as soon as he heard Li Zhengbao's words, a cold sweat broke out all of a sudden.

"General Lee and I are in the same boat." Yao Junsu said with a smile: "Those who are good at fighting do not fight for the gains and losses of one city or one place, but for the final victory." I decided to abandon the camp at the right time, retreat to the west bank of Feishui, and gradually drag Li Mi's main force to the west, away from Jiangdu, so as to create a good opportunity for the Holy Lord to calmly seize Jiangdu. ”

Looking up at the sky, Yao Junsu said again: "In one or two hours, the sky will be completely dark, and we will take the initiative to retreat then, Li Mi saw that we were retreating without chaos, and we must have adopted a plan to lure the enemy into the depths, in order to avoid being ambushed, he will definitely not pursue, and by dawn, we have retreated to Shouchun." ”

"But then again, our army already has a favorable geographical advantage, and it is completely possible to gain a lot with the help of the camp and the condescending momentum. Therefore, this battle must be fought with all our might, and Li Mi must not be allowed to win too much. ”

"The last general obeys!"

The three generals saluted, and each led an army to hurry to the direction of the Wei army's main attack.

At this time, Yao Junsu took a deep breath and shouted loudly: "Pass my order, let 10,000 soldiers and baggage soldiers participate in the defense, and another 10,000 soldiers as reinforcements." ”

The Sui army not only has 20,000 soldiers, but also requisitioned 10,000 young and strong people, these young people born in troubled times are not afraid of war, nor are they afraid of blood, as long as they are simply trained, they are given weapons, they can defend the camp together, after these three days of war, they also adapted to the war, as long as the Wei army did not break through the camp, this 10,000 people will not be chaotic.

Yao Junsu, who once blocked hundreds of thousands of Tang troops from going south to Hedong, knew very well the hearts of the people who assisted in guarding the palace.

The Sui army, which was on the defensive side, had just been arranged, and the Wei army had already been assembled. For this general attack, Li Mi was completely out of the nest, he divided the troops into three ways, one way to attack the Dongying Gate, the other two ways to attack the north and south, and each road has the front army, the middle army, the rear army three groups, once the front army is frustrated, rotate the Chinese army to attack the camp, to the time when the Chinese army is weak, the rear army will go up again. Three sets of cycles, be sure to take the Sui army camp tonight.

As Li Zhengbao expected, he listened to Fang Xuanzao's suggestion and sent two strange soldiers, intending to climb the mountains on both sides of the Sui army's camp when it was dark, and wait until the battle reached a stalemate, and then launch a fatal blow to the Sui army.

Everything, ready to go.

Li Mi looked at the Sui camp in the distance, pulled out the sword at his waist, the blade of the sword pointed straight ahead, and shouted vigorously: "The division of the broken camp, the generals will be promoted to one level, and the ordinary soldiers will be rewarded with one year. ”

When the internal army guarding the emperor heard this, they opened their throats and shouted: "The division of the broken camp, the generals and schools will be promoted to one level, and the ordinary soldiers will be rewarded with one year's salary, and those who will behead the head of Yaojun will be rewarded with a reward of 10,000 taels and given the duke of the country." ”

"The division of the broken camp, the generals will be promoted to one level, the ordinary soldiers will be rewarded with one year, and those who will be beheaded by Yao Junsu will be rewarded with a reward of 10,000 taels and given to the Duke of the country."

Under the heavy reward, there will be brave men!

Under the instigation of high-ranking officials and heavy money, the Wei army began to rush to the Sui army camp in an orderly siege formation, like a tide and like crazy.

Although the Wei army did not launch a general attack, they were never idle, but took advantage of the night to constantly fill the trench traps in front of the camp with mud, and the three offensive directions of the frontal battlefield have been filled in, and these three safe lines have become the main battlefield for the Wei army to attack the camp tonight.

Tens of thousands of Wei troops carrying strong shields swarmed along the three security gaps that were two miles long, and the array was as dense as an ant colony, and behind them, each with five huge nest carts, slowly drove towards the Sui camp.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

The fierce sound of war drums seemed to break people's hearts, and the arrows fired by both the enemy and us were like a storm, forming a large cloud of black and oppressive arrows, which made the soldiers on both sides of the attack and defense breathless.

At this moment, more than a dozen heavy trebuchets of the Wei army took turns to project, smashing huge boulders and piles of gravel towards the Sui camp, and huge holes pierced through the camp wall; Gravel fell from the sky without a head and a brain, sprinkling it on the Sui army guarding the camp.

The screams resounded all over the world, the Sui soldiers after three days and three nights of enemy defeat, have slowly transformed into elite soldiers, one by one are also red-eyed, condescending they take advantage of the terrain, from the camp wall to smash a piece of rolling wood to the Wei army, the giant wood rolled down along the sloping city, the speed is getting faster and stronger, the strength is getting bigger and bigger, a series of Wei soldiers were smashed to the ground, let out a terrible scream.

"General, they are coming, and the number is about three thousand."

On the frontal battlefield, a loud soldier reminded the main general Wang Xingben.

"How far is it?" Wang Xingben looked up at the soldiers on the watchtower.

"It's about two hundred and fifty paces, and it's within range of the broken army's crossbow." The soldier replied loudly.

"Breaking the army crossbow preparation, target, enemy rear."

With Wang Xingben's order, a crossbowman quickly divided into six rows, and came to the camp wall, these people are two people share a big crossbow, but these crossbows are different from the usual, the bow body alone is about eight feet, the bowstrings are made of ox tendon and wire, in order to reduce the strength required to open the bow, each big bow has two bowstrings, one of which is also equipped with two fixed pulleys in the middle, but Rao is so that two people can use it, one person is responsible for calibrating the target, the other is responsible for opening the bow, as for the range, it has reached a sensational more than three hundred steps.

"The first set is ready!"

"Crunch."

There was a dull sound, and the strong soldier used all his strength to pull the bowstring apart and buckle it on the bracket, and the other soldier quickly put two large crosses five feet long on the bowstring, although this light army-breaking crossbow was not as time-consuming as the large bed crossbow used to defend the city, but it was very labor-intensive, even if it was a strong man selected from various levels, he could only fire the bow five times at most.

"Volley! Put! ”

The commander on the watchtower gave an order, and 2,000 sharp arrows fell in the Wei army's array, and only this volley was dispersed. As far as the eye could see, there was a mess, the corpses of Wei soldiers were everywhere, stumps and broken arms were scattered and splashed, and human heads and bodies were soaked in blood all over the ground, like hell on earth. Some of the soldiers were cut in half by the powerful force of the cross-arrow, and for a moment they had not completely lost their breath, and the upper half of the corpse let out a terrible scream.

But the Wei army was also extremely brave, dying in one and going up in the second. At the same time, the Wei army's catapults also launched a roar towards the front camp.

"Boom~Boom~Boom~"

With a piercing roar, the Wei army's catapults roared at the same time, and more than a dozen boulders fell on the city wall one after another, causing the entire camp wall to shake, as if the earth dragon turned over, and some soldiers who had no time to dodge were smashed firmly on their bodies by the stones that fell from the sky, and they didn't even have time to scream, they were directly shattered, and blood and broken corpses were splashed in all directions.

In fact, the actual casualties caused by these catapults were very limited. After all, the stone is so big, and it is difficult to achieve accurate strikes, and a large stone may not be able to take ten lives on average, but the mighty momentum is quite a blow to morale.

The terrifying power of the natural disaster, and the death of the soldiers who were hit, greatly reduced the morale of these soldiers who had not yet become elite.

For the performance of these soldiers, Wang Xingben could only shake his head and sigh, fortunately the soldiers did not show signs of defeat, so he continued to command the soldiers to launch a crossbow counterattack.

……

Time passed slowly in a brutal bloody battle, and the sky soon turned into darkness. The Wei army outside the camp had already lit torches and blazing bonfires, illuminating the inside and outside of the camp as if it were daylight.

"General, there is a crisis in the north of General Feng's responsibility, the camp wall has collapsed, and the brothers are almost unable to withstand it."

"General, there is a crisis in the direction of General Li."

"The nest car is already close to the east gate of the camp, and the enemy army is too strong to draw the bow of our army's crossbowmen."

The defenders on the three routes were in danger, and the messengers reported the battle situation to Yaojun one after another.

Yao Junsu also saw the three nest cars close to the east gate, and the Wei army on the nest car was already higher than the camp wall, and they fired arrows at the camp gate, suppressing the soldiers on the wall so that they could not fight back.

Wang Xingben could only order the crossbowmen to retreat to the camp and use the range advantage of the broken army crossbow to attack the Wei army on top of the nest car, but the broken army crossbow was not a catapult after all, although it was hugely powerful, it could not be like the boulder of the catapult, which could shatter the nest car. The Wei army had the advantage in numbers, dying one batch after another, while the Wei army on the ground had lost the suppression of the bow and crossbow and had already killed in front of the camp wall.

The war has lasted until now, and two hours have passed, whether it is the main battle soldiers or the temporarily requisitioned baggage soldiers, all of them are brave and brave, and they are even better than Yao Junsu imagined. However, these soldiers were far inferior to the army he led before in terms of cooperation, and when the flying stones arrived, there would always be chaos for a while, which gave the Wei army a chance to breathe. However, the Wei army was under the command of Li Mi's life, and the battalion could not support it for long.

Now that it's like this, there's no point in holding on any longer. Instead of getting entangled and unable to distinguish between friend and foe, it is better to leave before the Wei army arrives,

That's it.

Yao Junsu ordered: "Order five thousand soldiers to be responsible for the broken queen, if the Wei army pursues, use bows and crossbows to hunt." Five thousand soldiers were ordered to carry the wounded. ”

Until the war has been fought until now, the 10,000 soldiers that Yao Jun has used to prevent sudden changes have never been put into the battlefield.

"Whoa!" A squad of soldiers quickly left.

About two minutes later, the soldiers returned to report that all the wounded had been removed from the camp.

"Let the three generals give up their defenses and retreat directly to Shouchun City with weapons and equipment." Seeing that the mission had been accomplished, Yao Jun readily agreed to order the three armies to retreat.

"Whoa!" The three teams of guards were ordered to leave.

As the main general, Yao Junsu retreated with the 5,000 soldiers in charge of covering, and before retreating, they used fire oil to burn the camp, and the entire camp was suddenly plunged into a flame.

The raging fire and the flames of the sky also bought time for the retreat of the Sui army to evacuate safely.

As the Sui army camp fell into a sea of fire, the soldiers of the Wei army, who were under pressure, suddenly cheered, and the cheers resounded in the sky.

Li Mi was also infected by the momentum of victory, he took a deep breath, and said happily to Fang Xuanzao beside him: "Sir, we won!" ”

But Fang Xuanzao didn't respond, and the whole person stood there in a daze, as if he had lost his soul.

Li Mi thought he liked to be in a daze, and joked happily: "Mr. has always been as steady as a mountain, how can he be so happy about this little victory?" ”

"Holy!" Fang Xuanzao, who came back to his senses, took a deep breath, and looked at Li Mi's eyes with a faint look of uneasiness and worry: "It seems that something is not right." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Li Mi was stunned, and his smile stopped.

Fang Xuanzao said worriedly, "Does the Holy Lord remember the information we received at noon today?" ”

"Mr. refers to ......"

"The grain ship that was supposed to arrive in Tushan County, Zhongli yesterday, has not yet heard from it."

Li Mi also thought about it, and said awe-inspiring in his heart: "Has the person who inquired come back?" ”

"Back to the Holy Heavens, the soldiers have gone to investigate, but until now, no one has sent back the news."

Li Mi's heart was also clouded, the delivery of military rations and materials has always been the top priority, neither can there be any mistakes, nor can it be delayed, is it an accident?

He muttered to himself: "The grain ship departed from Jiangyang Cang, arrived at Shanyang through the ditch, and then went west from Shanyang against the Huaishui, and the water and land along the way are our core areas, so there should be no accidents." Even if the Sui army marches east by ship from Runan, we will get the news. ”

Fang Xuanzao frowned, and said worriedly: "Our troops left in Jiangyang Cang and Jiangdu City are too small, and Weichen really can't rest assured. ”

"The general has 60,000 soldiers, Jiangyang Cang has 5,000 soldiers, and Jiangdu City also has 20,000 troops, these troops are enough to cope with the defense. Even if the remnants of the Jiangnan Shi clan rebelled, it would not be possible. ”

Although Li Mi said this, he knew that Fang Xuanzao was not the kind of person who suffered from gains and losses, so he simply asked, "What is Mr. worried about?" ”

"Wechen is worried about the Sui army." Fang Xuanzao had already thought of their holes in defense, and when he thought of that possibility, he only felt a chill down his spine.

"Sir is overthinking." Li Mi shook his head and smiled: "The Sui and Tang wars are on the eve of the outbreak, the Sui army does not have the energy to pay attention to our Great Wei, in this war, we are the side that is taken by surprise and attacked by surprise, even if the Sui army starts a war at the same time, Wang Bodang and Xu Shiji will defend and will warn us in time." Du Fuwei is restrained by a general, where can the Sui army cut off my grain route? ”

Fang Xuanzao said in a trembling voice: "Sea Road! ”

"By sea?"

Li Mi only felt as if his head had been hit hard by a hammer, buzzing, and a burst of Venus jumped in front of him, and he fell into a brief dizziness. The joy of victory brought by the destruction of the camp suddenly vanished without a trace.