Back in the camp, Pu Luogu discussed the military situation with his brother Pu Badger Sun and the general Gou Xiong.

Pu Luogu expressed his doubts and said: "Inside the camp of Kojiqiu, the flags are full of flags, and the fire is like stars, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like 3,000 people. Brother said that when Koji Shuang went south, it seemed that a lot of soldiers and horses were assigned to Koji Qiu to stay, and this matter may be true! His camp has been strong, if there are more 10,000 people, the art of war cloud 'ten rules surround it', our army is only more than 30,000, and the attack will be difficult! ”

Pu Badger Sun was born to Pu Mao's father and the little maid of the Tang people, and he is a mixed race of Rong and Tang, but the Rong people and the Tang people are no different in appearance, unlike the Liang people, the Western Regions Hu, and even Bai Xianbei, all of which are different from the Tang people.

He is more than Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, in the prime of life, often in the army, practicing martial arts, a body of tendons and flesh, braided thick hair, and powerful.

Pu Badger Sun said: "Lu Shuang did not fall for Meng Sili's plan, and after committing Ran Xing, I tried to attack the ball camp twice. Kojiqiu, this person, I have been playing against him for more than a year, I know his nature very well, and I am very cautious! Although he refused to fight, I saw that in his camp, the banners were full of trees, and the dust was heavy, and it was indeed not like only 3,000 horsemen. ”

Although Pu Badger Sun is Pu Luogu's brother, but first, because of the lowliness of the maternal family, and secondly, there has been an experience of Pu Mao giving the throne to him, regardless of whether Pu Mao is fake or not, there is such a thing, in order to avoid suspicion, it is inevitable to be more careful, so in front of Pu Luogu and Pu Mao, the figure has always been very low.

He respectfully suggested to Pu Luogu and said: "The ball camp is unpredictable, in my humble opinion, it is better not to attack the ball camp, and divide the troops, and still let me lead the troops to fight against the koji ball, and Ah Di can only lead the army south to aid Ran Xing." ”

One of the people in the tent said: "Yan Gong's strategy is also a plan for destruction!" ”

Everyone looked at it, and it was a Tang scholar in his thirties who spoke.

This person's name is Ji He, his ancestral home is Chengyang, he lives in Henan, he was originally a scholar from Wei, because he saw the chaos of Xianbei Wei and was afraid of disaster, and he heard that there was a virtuous minister in the pass, so he moved his family west last year, and he threw himself into the name of the assassin, worshiped under Meng Lang's door, and was opened by Meng Lang to join the army.

After Pu Luogu, Gou Xiong and others defeated Yao Guo, they transferred their troops to Longxi, Meng Lang admired Ji He's talent, and had the intention to promote him, so he asked him to come with the successor food and baggage, which was regarded as giving him a chance to participate in the war and make meritorious contributions.

Pu Badger Sun and others are not familiar with Ji He.

Hearing his words, Pu Badger Sun's face sank and said, "How is it a plan to doom?" ”

Since the fall of the Western Tang Dynasty, the northern land has been impregnated with Hu Feng for a long time, and the clothing of nomadic races such as Xianbei, Rong, and Xiongnu has been gradually accepted by the Tang people because it is more convenient for daily actions than the clothes of the farming Tang people, especially military activities such as horseback riding, so it has gradually been accepted by the Tang people.

In order to reduce their rejection, although the hairstyle has not changed, and the bun is still tied, but in the clothes, it is indispensable to change into the traditional clothing of the Rong people.

He wore a long-sleeved robe printed on a white background, with a leather belt at his waist, the bottom of the robe was above the knees, revealing half of the small trousers of the colored color, and wearing short leather boots on his feet.

Ji He said: "If there are 10,000 people in the ball camp, dare to ask Yan Gong, how many soldiers and horses are needed to keep him under control?" ”

Pu Badger Sun replied: "Five thousand is enough! ”

Ji He said with a smile: "The ball club is all Dingxi Xiaorui, five thousand is not enough, at least seven or eight thousand people." ”

He crossed his fingers and counted for everyone, and said, "There are more than 34,700 soldiers in our army, divided into 8,000 and Yan Gong, and there are more than 26,000 left. The Koji Shuangbu is known as 100,000, which is a solid and imaginary number, but it is expected that the actual number should be about 30,000 or 40,000.

"With more than 26,000 of me, it seems to be enough to aid Ranxing and attack Koji Shuang, but don't forget that Tangxing County, where Dingxi General Koji Shuo is stationed, is only 500 miles away from Longxi. The news of the arrival of our army must have reached Tangxing now! Koji ball, Koji Shuang, and the clan of Koji Shuo is also close, and Koji Shuo is bound to not sit idly by. If my guess is right, it's likely that Kojishuo's reinforcements are on the way. ”

He asked Pu Badger Sun again, "With 8,000 soldiers, you can be the enemy of the ball battalion, if you add the reinforcements of Koji Shuo, dare to ask Yan Gong, can you still be the enemy?" ”

Pu Badger Sun said: "This is ....... ”

Ji He said: "It must not be! It is rumored that Shangjun guards Yang Man, and Yao Guoyue is a brother; The rebel minister Pu Ying, confessed that he had correspondence with Pu Jian, the assassin Shi Pu Tong of Youzhou, and raised troops together; Attacking Yao State, the Tiefu Xiongnu Department who fought with the army had a negative attitude, and Zhao Rangan, the son of Zhao Yanli stationed in Tunshuo, heard that there was a change; My government and the opposition are unstable, and Xianyang can no longer have reinforcements for our army. ”

As an official in Meng Lang's Mansion, Ji He was very familiar with Pu Qin's current situation, and after talking about the various potential crises, he asked Pu Badger Sun three times, "If Yan Gong is defeated by Koji Qiu and Koji Shuo's reinforcements, the back road of our army will be blocked." At that time, the Shuang army had not yet been defeated, the ball soldiers had arrived, and there were no reinforcements outside, dare to ask Yan Gong, isn't it the danger that our army is facing that will be destroyed? ”

Pu Badger Sun asked, "But in your opinion, how is it good?" ”

Ji He said categorically: "I conclude that the koji ball must be a bluff!" There are definitely not as many as 10,000 people in his battalion, and there should still be only more than 3,000 in his headquarters! Our army attacked it with ten times the number of people, and destroyed it like a finger! He bowed and said to the main general Pu Luogu, "The ball is here, threatening me to go back, you can't ignore it, but today's plan is to break it first, and hit Koji Shuang!" ”

Pu Luogu asked, "How do you conclude that Koji is bluffing?" ”

Ji He said with a smile: "The way of a soldier is virtual and real. 'Can be shown but can not be used and shown not to be used', this grandson's art also. This is number one. If there are really 10,000 people in the Koji Ball Division, relying on the strong camp, he will definitely want to fight with our army, if I were him, he will only stop the flag, hide his strength, and lure the enemy to attack, how can he declare his real strength to the enemy? This is the second. I didn't sleep in the middle of the night, put all the soldiers out, and raised torches one by one, what are you doing? It's obviously his weak heart! This is the third.

"Judging by these three points, the lower official asserts that the koji ball can only be bluffing!"

Pu Luogu, Pu Badger Sun, Gou Xiong and others thought about it carefully and felt that Ji He was reasonable.

Gou Xiong jumped up from his seat and said, "Tang'er little slave, it turns out that he is using fraud!" Hurry up and stop us! Wei Gong, since this is the case, please give an order tomorrow, let's do our best to attack the three armies, Lao Ji is not bad, our army is ten times his number, isn't it easy to defeat him? ”

Pu Luogu listened to the advice of Ji He and Gou Xiong, and the next day, he raised his troops and attacked the koji ball in a mighty way.

Kojiqiu received the report, went up to the watchtower in person, saw the smoke and dust billowing from the east, and confirmed that the military report was true.

He wondered in his heart and thought, "Ouch, my suspicious plan was seen through by Rong Zhu so quickly?" I thought, whatever, I can deceive them for three days and two days. There are masters in this Qin army! ”

The plan was discovered, and Koji Qiu still had a way to deal with it, but it didn't matter, but it stimulated his fighting spirit.

The koji balls descended to the tent and the drums gathered.

When Zhang Jingwei, Bing Bo, Qu Nanhu, Qu Nanjianri, Wang Shuwang and other civil servants and generals and colonels of various branches of the armed forces, such as infantry, cavalry, jian'er, and B soldiers, heard the sound of the drums and recognized that it was the sound of the summoning generals, they immediately put down the military affairs at hand, dressed neatly, rushed out of their respective camps, and rushed out of their respective barracks along the main road of the barracks within the time limit, lined up in two rows, and stood under the banner of the Chinese army, waiting to listen to the order.

The koji ball came out of the tent, and he had put on his helmet and armor, and hung a sword around his waist, and more than 100 soldiers guarded him, and two close officials, one holding his bow and arrow, and the other holding his lance, were closely at his side.

Walk to the generals.

Koji Qiu looked around at everyone and said solemnly: "Yu Qin saw through my plan and sent troops to attack. It is reported that there were about 30,000 of them, and the rest of the footmen were supposed to have come, except for a few troops who had been left to guard the camp. Thou shalt lead the headquarters and follow me to the bases. ”

Zhang Jingwei and others promised.

Then according to the pre-arrangement, under the leadership of Bing Bo and others, the fish penetrated the fortress wall, and all kinds of defensive equipment were put into operation, including beating rods, flying hooks, sandalwood, pheasant tail torches, etc., as well as the oil that Xin Er brought back from the triumphant victory of the Western Regions; In order to guard against enemy fire, there was a large urn on the wall every few steps, which was filled with water, and the lid of the urn was lifted at this time.

There were also hundreds of men in the camp, and from the nearby storage tents, they carried out three or two hundred wooden cities, and drove horses out of a hundred and ten ironclad carts, and scattered them under the four walls of the whole camp.

The wooden castle is a kind of equipment shaped like a fence, with large bamboo nails on the top, which can be used to temporarily plug the gap when there is a defect in the wall of a defensive structure, such as a city wall or a camp. This object is not heavy, and one person can carry it.

Ironclad car, is the invention of Xiner, similar to the wooden city, but heavier, the wooden frame is thick, very strong, densely covered with iron guns on the wooden frame, the head of the gun is outward, there are two wheels under it, when transporting with oxen and horses, this thing can also fill the gap, at the same time, if a plurality of ironclad cars are connected together, then all the cars are linked together, the perimeter is like a city, the crossbowmen are hidden inside, both offensive and defensive, enough to resist conflict.

The preparations were ready, and after a short time, the Qin soldiers came.

Koji balls and others watched Qin Bing's movements.

30,000 Qin soldiers and cavalry, divided into three roads, two roads with fewer soldiers and horses, more than 4,000 people each, around the north and south sides of the ball camp to station, the other road should be the main force, about 20,000 people, stopped at the east side of the ball camp.

Koji Qiu smiled: "I still have the ability to be Qin Yu, but that's it!" This is the lack of one of the three circles, and there is no new idea. ”

There was a trench outside the camp, and a fence outside the trench.

The Qin soldiers surrounded it, and while building a simple camp on the spot, in the direction of the east of the camp, they sent more than 1,000 foot soldiers with shields to tear down the fence.

Bingbo's defense area was in the south of the camp, and seeing that Koji Qiu was indifferent, he let the Qin soldiers dismantle the fence, so he became anxious, and hurriedly sent officials to ask: "Protectors, why did you watch Qin Lu dismantle the fence and didn't send elite soldiers to attack to stop it?" ”

Koji Qiu smiled: "I was about to fight the thief, and it opened the fence for me and saved me effort, why should I stop it?" ”

The official went back and gave Bing Bo the words of the koji ball.

Bing Bo exclaimed and said: "I know that the army is brave, but I don't mean that I am brave!" ”

He was already a fierce general, and now he is more and more combative.

Koji Qiu concentrated, carefully observed the Qin army, and said in his heart: "My army has few soldiers, even if we send some elite soldiers out, it will be difficult to prevent the Qin soldiers from tearing down the fence, adding casualties in vain and demoralizing my morale." Rather than blocking it, it is better to wait and see, which is also to show weakness to the enemy, so as to facilitate my use of the plan. ”

The Qin soldiers successfully dismantled the fence and continued to move forward, and then began to fill in the trenches.

Koji balls are still at the mercy of Qin Bing.

……

In the main force of the Qin soldiers in the east of the camp.

Pu Luo smiled at Gou Xiong and Ji He: "I was almost deceived by this little slave of Koji Qiu!" Our army demolished the fence and filled the trenches, and the koji ball did not dare to move, and if it was guessed by Ji Joinjun, there were really no 10,000 people in his camp, at most his 3,000 foot rides! ”

The certainty of breaking through the koji ball camp suddenly increased greatly.

Gou Xiong asked for battle and said: "The koji ball plan failed to succeed, and now I dare not come out, seeing my soldiers and horses, I must have been so scared that my pants are going to be wet!" When the trench is filled, please go first for the Duke of Jin! ”

Pu Luogu smiled and said: "With the people of Yao Kingdom, Shang Cheng is a ghost under the general's sword, and the koji ball of only three thousand parts is no problem!" I'm right here, watching the general break the slaves, and congratulating the general! ”

This sentence went to Gou Xiong's heart.

Gou Xiong laughed, glanced at Pu Luo's lonely eyes, and thought, "This is human words!" Fuck, there are tricks too? Lao Tzu is not only strategic, but also brave! has both wisdom and bravery, and he is talking about a general like Lao Tzu! ”

……

The Qin soldiers filled in five passages on the trench.

Each passage was several zhang wide and could accommodate twenty or thirty soldiers in parallel.

Koji Qiu knew that the Qin soldiers were about to launch an offensive, and the herald said: "Waiting for the thieves to cross the trench, without my order, the 'Kuaishou' is not allowed to set the target, and the big crossbow in the 'crossbowman' is not allowed to be released, only the small crossbow is allowed to be released." ”

The crossbowmen and archers on the ramparts received this order.

Gou Xiong drew 3,000 soldiers, galloped out of the main formation, crossed the trench, and pounced on the ball camp.

Because they knew that the Tang people were good at bows and crossbows, the Qin soldiers in front of them were holding shields, all of them were cautious, but unexpectedly, the crossbow arrows that came from the front were weak and crooked, and most of them fell halfway before they could shoot, and even if they were shot, they were weak and could not penetrate the shield at all.

The Qin soldiers were overjoyed, pushing the cart, carrying the ladder, waving their blades and shouting, and immediately drumming up to compete bravely.

Gou Xiong keenly felt that something was wrong, but the troops had already crossed the trench, and they could not return without a fight, and in a hurry, he had not yet thought about what to do, but when he saw the koji ball base opposite, suddenly the flag shook and the drum sounded.

……

The Qin soldiers were getting closer and closer to the fortress wall.

The appearance of the hundreds of Qin soldiers at the front or with their braided necks or their hair behind them can already be seen clearly by the Dingxi soldiers on the base.

Koji Qiu ordered: "'Kuaishou' can be targeted!" The big crossbow chooses a thief with a small rate, and shoots a thief with ten crossbows, and you can also let it go! ”

The flags and drums sounded, and on the walls of the ball camp, thousands of arrows were fired in unison.

……

Ordinary bows and arrows are fine.

Only the arrow released by the strong crossbow was thick and large, extremely fast, and the shield could not be blocked at all, and in a moment, several officers of the Qin soldiers were shot, and not by a crossbow, less than three or four crossbows in the body, more than seven or eight crossbows in the body, the chest pierced the arm and broke, and he was killed on the spot, and the whole body was disabled, and the death was miserable.

The Qin soldiers were terrified, and the offensive was slightly frustrated.

Arrows rain down, and so does the endless.

The crossbow bolt hits the shield, and the shield breaks. The bow struck the shield and the popping sound continued.

From time to time, soldiers were hit by arrows and fell to the ground, the flesh and blood of the dead were blurred, and the wounded groaned in mourning.

Braving the rain of arrows, a short distance ahead, there was an iron thistle on the ground.

With the officers suffering heavy casualties, there was a gap between Gou Xiong's command of the troops, and finally some soldiers could not suppress their fear, shouted loudly, turned around and ran.

The first attack of the Qin soldiers, which was like a rainbow, came to an end.

Outside the trench, Gou Xiong finally suppressed the riot bomb, found the first soldier who escaped, killed it with his own hands, and showed it to the public.

He's going to regroup and attack the camp again.

A general, Zuo Jinyan, said: "The morale has been discharged, and if you attack again, I'm afraid it will be difficult to attack suddenly!" It's past noon, so it's better to return to the big array first, rest for the night, and start a siege with a large army tomorrow! ”

Although Gou Xiong was unwilling and helpless, he had to follow the advice.

He played with confidence, but he didn't even touch the door of the koji camp, so he returned home.

When Gou Xiong returned to the army, he felt that the other party was laughing at him.

Spent the night hatefully.

The next day, Pu Luo was in a hurry to win, changed his strategy, and no longer sent Gou Xiong to fight alone, but attacked the whole army on three sides.