After several days of fighting, both sides lost a lot of men and horses, and seeing that so many clansmen and brothers lost their lives, Kuban and Tuoba finally calmed down, and they negotiated with each other and decided to temporarily cease fighting for a few days.

This war has become a protracted war, and such a war will consume a lot of manpower and material resources. After the change of the king some time ago, many people died, and the money and food were almost exhausted.

In particular, the department led by Tuoba Du was chased by the Kuban people in the early days, and they didn't have much property with Ben, so they finally gathered near Quanzhou to take a breath, but they didn't expect the war to start again.

It's not that Tuoba doesn't want to defeat Kuban and recapture the entire eternal steppe, but seeing that the people are in dire straits due to years of war, his heart is full of anxiety.

I want to defeat Kuban quickly at a very small price, after a lot of time thinking, I finally have a plan, and after discussing with my generals, I feel that this plan has a great chance of success, but this sentence requires more military support, and it is far from enough to rely on Quanzhou alone.

So Tuoba Du set his sights on Yang Ming of the state, Yang Ming is the elder brother of his wife Yang Ying, and there are hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers under him, if he assists, this plan has a great chance of success.

Thinking of this, Tuoba Du wrote a letter, asking people to quickly send it to Yang Ming, the victorious king of Yunzhou.

The letter was quickly delivered to Yang Ming, and at this time, Yang Ming was busy fighting with Yu Xian in a formation battle, after receiving the letter from Tuoba Du. He just looked at it in a hurry, and handed it to the lieutenant general on the side.

"King Tuoba Khan's plan is very detailed, according to his plan, the probability that we will defeat Kuban together is very high, and then there will be no pressure on the Quanzhou side, and then let them assist us in dealing with the Chu soldiers, then our chances of victory will be much greater." After reading Tuobadu's letter, the adjutant general said happily.

"Liuyi is a barbarian state, and my dignified Fu Heavenly Empire still fights with him, so that even if he wins the battle, he will be laughed at by the people of the world. What's more, after helping them defeat Kuban, the entire Wangu Grassland still belongs to the Liuyi people, and now when they fight each other and consume their strength, when the time comes, we will free up our hands and destroy the entire Liuyi, isn't it a low-hanging fruit? Yang Ming smiled faintly.

Yang Ming has always looked down on the Liuyi people, thinking that they are uncivilized barbarians, and after defeating the Liuyi in several wars, he did not take them seriously.

Later, after Emperor Fu married his sister to Tuobadu, Yang Ming's heart was very unhappy, but because of Emperor Fu's face, he had to suppress these unhappiness in his heart.

Over the years, Yang Ming has been thinking about how to directly conquer all of Liuyi in a way, so that he can completely become a vassal state of Dafu, and now Liuyi has launched a civil war, just to let them consume themselves, Yang Ming is too late to be happy, how can he send troops to help.

"Since His Highness has this idea, then why not let all Liu Cheng's soldiers and horses in Quanzhou be withdrawn, and wait for their own civil war." The adjutant general asked suspiciously.

"Hehe, you don't understand this! If we don't help Tuobada, once Kuban eliminates Tuobada's forces and unifies the entire Eternal Grassland, then their national strength will definitely recover quickly, and it will be very difficult to clean them up. Yang Ming said with a smile again.

"I understand what His Highness means, that is, let them have a civil war between the two sides, but no one can destroy anyone? If this goes on for a long time, the national strength of the Liuyi will become weaker and weaker, and it will be easy for us to destroy them at that time. ”

"Your Highness is really far-sighted, and your subordinates are waiting for the dust!" Several subordinates finally figured out what Yang Ming meant, and sent it to the sycophants in a timely manner.

So Yang Ming asked a civil official to write a letter on his behalf,

The meaning of the letter is that the war in Yunzhou is very tight, and it is indeed impossible to draw troops and horses to help, and will instruct Liu Cheng, the assassin of Quanzhou, to do his best to cooperate with Tuobada's actions.

When the letter was transferred to Tuobadu, Tuoba was very disappointed that his eldest brother was so faceless.

In desperation, Tuoba had no choice but to shrink his forces again, give up part of the grassland, try not to provoke war, and leave time for the people to develop the economy.

Since then, the Liuyi battlefield has returned to calm, and the Liuyi people, who belong to the forces on both sides, finally have a chance to breathe and seize the time to feed the cattle, sheep and horses who are hungry because of the war.

But what Yang Ming didn't expect was that his strategy gave Yu Xian an opportunity to take advantage of it, and let him eat the bitter fruit he brewed for himself.

It had been seven days since the Chu soldiers had been encircling the camp, and according to previous estimates, it would take ten days at most for the water and food brought by Yu Xian's army to be consumed.

"Let the brothers be energetic these days, they will definitely find a way to break through in these days, if it is too late, they will be hungry and have no spirit to fight." Yang Ming said with some smugness.

Yang Ming's estimate was good, the Chu soldiers who were hiding in the clouds were already starting to make final preparations.

"Inform the guy, add food to all the brothers tonight, so that everyone is well fed, and tomorrow we will rush out together, and let Yang Ming's kid see that we Chu people are not easy to bully." Yu Xian also issued an order.

The weather was very good this night, the moon was bright and the stars were scarce, whether it was the Dafu soldiers who were surrounded by the periphery, or the soldiers of the Chu State who were in the encirclement, they were all unusually quiet. Because many of them know that tomorrow is destined to be a day that cannot be peaceful.

Maybe God knows that the next day was the day of the big battle, so the weather was exceptionally sunny on this day. Early in the morning, the soldiers of the Chu army appeared on the periphery of the camp in full armor and in a neat line.

Seeing the movements of the Chu soldiers, the Dafu soldiers, who had been prepared for a long time, also took action, and according to Yang Yun's orders, surrounded the camp of the Chu army.

"This Yu Xian is also a general who has commanded the army for many years, and he would choose such good weather to break through, if it were me, if I wanted to break through, I would definitely choose the night, or foggy weather, so that the enemy army could not distinguish between the reality of our army, wouldn't it increase the possibility of a successful breakthrough?" Looking at the Chu army team in the distance, Yang Yun smiled a little contemptuously.

"Yes! In such weather, we can see clearly at a glance the formation of their troops, and in which direction they break through, we will strengthen the defense of that place, how can we rush out? How could Yu Xian make such a low-level mistake? An adjutant general on the side said with some confusion.

At this time, the Chu soldiers on the mountain finally opened a hole in the gate of the camp, tens of thousands, and walked out along this opening, and soon the gate of the camp was lined up.

"How does Yu Xian use the phalanx, this formation is obviously suitable for advancing step by step, but not for a quick breakthrough!"

"Archers, how can they be last in line? Could it be that after they broke through, they still had to let the archers break the back? ”

"The sword and shield men are in front, the pikemen are in the middle, and finally the archers, and there are also cavalry on the left and right to protect them. How can you look at Yu Xian's formation, it also looks like a steady positional battle, not like it is about to break through! Seeing the formation of the Chu soldiers, the generals under Yang Ming began to discuss.

"Ignore them first, let your brothers not charge, hold their positions steadily, our purpose now is not to care how many Chu soldiers we want to kill, the key is to block them inside, and we can't fight a single step." Yang Ming also felt that something was wrong, but he didn't think clearly what the problem was for a while, so he had to deal with Chu first

The soldier stopped inside and said.

Soon the Chu soldiers came to the first obstacle set up by the Dafu soldiers, which was a deep ditch about one zhang wide, and it took the Dafu soldiers several days to dig this deep ditch around the Chu soldiers' tents.

This earthen ditch is not too deep, but it is very effective in blocking the pace of the Chu soldiers' advance, and before repairing this earthen ditch, the generals of Dafu must have thought it through. The width of this earthen ditch is just so that the Chu soldiers can't cross it directly, and if they want to enter the bottom of the ditch and then turn over, the doctors and soldiers' knives and guns are not vegetarian.

This deep ditch gave the Chu soldiers a great headache, and in desperation, they had to find pockets from the rear, fill the pockets with soil and sand, and throw them into the ditch, trying to fill the ditch.

But how could the soldiers of Dafu on the opposite side allow the enemy to calmly fill in the ditch they had worked so hard to dig. So the soldiers of Dafu used bows and arrows, and long knives and spears. Attack the Chu soldiers, trying to stop their speed of filling in the earthen ditch.

Under the attack of the Dafu soldiers, many Chu fell to the edge of the ditch, and these Chu soldiers were obviously also red-eyed, and simply threw the bodies of their companions into the ditch.

In this way, after paying for the lives of more than 5,000 soldiers, the Chu soldiers finally used the corpses of their companions and the pockets they carried to fill the ditch in front of them.

The Chu soldiers, who finally rushed through the earthen ditch, moved forward step by step, and the two sides finally encountered, coming to the second line of defense of the Dafu soldiers, but the battle did not seem to be fierce at this time.

Because the Dafu soldiers built some simple fences on the periphery of the Chu army camp, the Chu soldiers were blocked from the fence, so that they could not devote themselves to the battle.

Seeing that the Chu soldiers were getting closer and closer, the Dafu soldiers used these fences as cover while using their bows and arrows to shoot at the other party.

In the face of this strategy of the Dafu soldiers, the Chu army was obviously prepared, and the sword and shield soldiers in front raised the huge shield in their hands high, blocked the arrows shot by the opponent, and quickly advanced with the team.

The first wave of arrows of the Dafu soldiers did not achieve much success, and most of them were blocked by the opponent's shield. Only a handful of arrows slipped through the gaps in the shields and hit some of the hapless ones who didn't have time to dodge.

However, for the Dafu soldiers, such a result did not disappoint them, because after all, they did not have any casualties at this time, but only consumed some arrows.

However, the rain of arrows from the Dafu soldiers only had time to shoot two waves, because by this time the Chu army was already close to the improvised fence they had built.

At this time, the bow and arrow were gone, and there was no place for it, and the archers quickly retreated to the rear, and they were replaced by some Dafu soldiers armed with long knives and spears.

Relying on the fence and with the help of long knives and spears, the Dafu soldiers attacked the oncoming Chu soldiers, and the two sides began a frontal encounter, and the casualties began to increase.

However, at this time, the side with serious casualties was obviously the Chu soldiers who took the initiative to attack, and their attacks were often blocked by the opponent's fences, while their own attacks were blocked by these hateful fences from time to time.

However, this situation was expected by the generals of the Chu army, and it was normal for the attacker to take the initiative to attack the opponent who had already defended on the battlefield, and the casualties of the attacker would be larger.

"Sword and shield soldiers defend, pikemen don't rush to stab people, first knock over their fences." At this time, the leading general in the rear of the Chu army shouted loudly.

Hearing the order, the Chu soldiers immediately took action, some of them were responsible for protecting, some of them were responsible for attacking, and after paying the price of some soldiers' lives, they finally overturned the fence built by the Dafu people, and the soldiers on both sides met directly without any barrier.

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