"You're the flies and mosquitoes!" Xie Wu scolded Lao Ma angrily. Gongsun Jian smiled and said, "Although the analogy of the old horse is inappropriate. But that's what it means. We don't fight with the other party's army, we just stare at his logistical baggage and constantly disturb him. At the same time, he didn't dare to take it lightly, and at the same time, the speed of the army could not be raised. The main thing is to buy some time for the county seat and the imperial court to prepare. ”

"yes, I see. Rest assured, my lord. I have carefully pondered the sixteen-character mantra you said before, and it is definitely a magic weapon for straggler guerrilla warfare. This time it must have made Wu Jun suffer. Ma Teng still said with a smile, and Xie Wu next to him couldn't help nodding. Obviously, these two veterans who were not born at night recognized and admired the sixteen-character mantra of guerrilla warfare taught to them by Gongsun Jian.

Just kidding, it was summed up by the old man Taizu in the previous life, and with these sixteen words, he just survived the little devil and defeated Chang Bald. How can it not be awesome?

You have to ask, what is the effect of the attack led by Gongsun Jian. Hehe, it can only be hehe.

That is, because there is no gunpowder, Gongsun Jian's attack is really not good. But it was enough for Wu Jun. On the way to Linshui County, there may have been three or four hundred soldiers who were poisoned, fell into traps, and were attacked and died. In addition, along the way, a lot of grain and grass were burned. Sun Sheng's heart was very unhappy, but he knew that what Gongsun Jian wanted to do was nothing more than to slow down his advance.

According to the information obtained by Sun Sheng, the state of Zhou was commanded by Qian Yan, the king of Fujian, and commanded 50,000 troops to fight against the Wu army in the three northwestern provinces. However, so far the forward troops have not been deployed.

In this regard, Sun Sheng, the king of Wu Guokui, can only be hehe. Is it still a yarn like this? When you come, I will already occupy the three northwestern prefectures of Zhou State.

Within a few days, Wu's army arrived fifteen miles north of Linshui County. After setting up camp, Sun Sheng took his generals to check the garrison of Linshui County.

I saw Linshui County, the city wall is not high, and there has not been much reinforcement for such a period of time. Even there are not many soldiers on the city wall, and there is no consciousness of having soldiers under the city at all.

Sun Sheng raised his account, looked at the generals on the left and right, smiled and asked, "Which general is going to fight the first battle?" Lone King saw that this Linshui County was actually not strong in defense. However, that Gongsun Jian should not be underestimated. This person has been harassing our rear team in a mysterious way along the way. Now that he has arrived in Linshui County, he will definitely not admit defeat easily. ”

When Han Dewei heard this, he was the first to bow down and said, "Lord Wang, the last general is willing to lead his troops to attack Linshui County." ”

Sun Sheng pondered for a moment, thinking that although Han Dewei had suffered the loss of Gongsun Jian before, he was his confidant's general after all. The other party should be given a chance to make a name for himself and atone for his mistakes.

"Han Dewei, this king will give you 5,000 soldiers, attack the city early tomorrow morning, and must break through Linshui County for this king in the evening. Otherwise, this king is engaged in military law. ”

"Obedience. Lord Wang, you can rest assured, I will definitely wash Linshui County in blood. Han Dewei said confidently.

Early the next morning, seeing the Wu army marching out of the camp to attack Linshui County, Qi Shi and Ding Feng and others, who were patrolling the city wall, couldn't help but be a little nervous. Especially Liu Dayuan, the magistrate, looked at the five thousand people who came out on the opposite side, and his legs and stomach trembled a little.

After all the other parties were lined up, Qi Shi let out a long breath and said to Ding Feng, Liu Dayuan and Feng Huaidao beside him: "Damn, I scared Lao Tzu a lot, I thought that all the Wu troops came out of the camp to attack, but it turned out to be about 5,000 people." ”

Liu Dayuan, who was on the side, asked with a bitter face: "Brother Qi, even the people brought back by Brother Ding are only two thousand people now, and there are still one thousand newly recruited." The other party is 5,000 elite soldiers! Are you so sure? ”

Qi Shi frowned, tilted his head and glanced at Ding Feng, and then replied to Liu Dayuan: "If you let go of the fight, it will definitely be no problem, the key is that the lord he ordered, let me take it easy, and not make all my strength scare the other party." So it's really a bit of a hassle. ”

"What? At this time, do you still want to preserve your strength? Liu Dayuan was taken aback by Qi Shi's words, and secretly scolded Gongsun Jian in his heart, you are not in the city, you can run if you run! But his family is all in the county seat, and if it is really broken by Wu State, his whole family will be finished.

But Qi Shi ignored him, looked at Ding Feng again and asked, "Ding Feng, your people will rest today, and if it doesn't work, they will come up to support." ”

"Hmm." Ding Feng said in a dull voice, and then turned around and came down to the city tower.

The 5,000 Wu troops outside the city had already been assembled and began a tentative attack under the command of Han Dewei. Don't look at Han Dewei's loss to Gongsun Jian before, it doesn't mean that Han Dewei has no real ability.

The 1,000 people led by them were divided into two teams, the hundreds of people in front of them carried huge shields in front of them to cover the arrows that might be shot at the head of the city and the stones and rolling wood that could be thrown, and the hundreds of people in the back carried cloud ladders on their shoulders and followed quickly. About a thousand Wu soldiers followed closely behind with swords in hand, and as soon as they rushed to the bottom of the city wall and set up a ladder, these soldiers began to quickly climb towards the city wall.

This set is the most common and most commonly used in siege warfare in ancient wars, and there are not too many tricks. It is completely relying on the superiority of numbers to attack. Han Dewei's command can be regarded as decent. And the side defending the city did not play any tricks, it was nothing more than throwing a bow and crossbow a few rounds, waiting until the other party approached, and then throwing rolling logs and stones. When the other party approaches the city wall, they pour hot oil and gold soup or something. Anyway, all the means that can be used to kill and injure the other party are almost all used in turn.

But after all, there were too few soldiers defending the city, and there were only 1,500 newly recruited, and there were still 500 people who followed Ding Feng to rest under the city, ready to support at any time.

According to common sense, generally speaking, in such an offensive and defensive battle, the side defending the city is more advantageous, after all, it is a leaning attack. Therefore, the 2,000 men invested by the Wu army at the beginning did not cause much trouble to the defenders of Linshui County, and they were barely able to support it. But Han Dewei quickly saw the flaw, it was obvious that the number of people defending the city was not large, and they were only able to compete because they had a geographical advantage. So an order was given, and the remaining 3,000 Wu troops immediately threw themselves into the attack.

At this point, the defenders on the city wall were a little unable to support it. Fortunately, Qi Shi is also a veteran, and he has participated in many battles to defend the city when he was in the Northern Army, so he has more experience. While yelling and ordering the defenders on the city wall to keep the other party from getting close to the city wall as much as possible, he led people back and forth to plug the loopholes that were broken by the Wu army.

"Brother Qi, the Wu army in the western section has killed two more places." Zhao Changle, as Qi Shi's deputy, was also covered in blood at this moment, but fortunately, it was all the blood of the enemy, not his own.

"You lead people to step up to defend this side, and I will take my brother to support." Qi Shi responded, turned around and prepared to go to the western section of the city wall. But Zhao Changle stopped him and said, "If you can't do it, just call Brother Ding's people up." Otherwise, it may really not be able to hold on. ”

Qi Shi hesitated for a moment when he heard this, and then said decisively: "Don't use it for the time being, if you can't stop it for a while, you can send someone to call Lao Ding to come up and support." ”

After that, Qi Shi took the spear in his hand and went to the western section to support.

The war was fought at this point with a lot of blood and courage. As long as one side cannot withstand that breath, then the balance of war will tilt in favor of the other. It has been half an hour since the 5,000 Wu army entered the battle, but they still haven't taken the small Linshui county, which makes Han Dewei a little embarrassed. was defeated by Gongsun Jian before, it can be said that he fell into the trick of the other party, but now he is fighting face to face with 5,000 men and horses, but if he still can't take it, although he will not necessarily be punished after he goes back, his position in the army will not be guaranteed in the future.

Facing the battle situation, Han Dewei became more and more anxious. Seeing that the sergeants who had climbed the city wall in several places were driven down by the other party, Han Dewei couldn't hold back any longer. He got off his mount, reached out and grabbed the shield of one of the soldiers next to him, and then yelled at the more than two hundred soldiers behind him.

"They all follow the general to attack the city, and we must take this city today."

Shouting, he rushed towards the city wall in the first place.

Sun Sheng, who was watching the battle outside the Wu army camp in the distance, couldn't help frowning a little, Han Dewei was going to play with the other party! Actually took all his own soldiers up, and there was no protection behind him, once the other party ambushed people and horses outside the city, a shock could defeat him, and it would solve the crisis in Linshui County.

Thinking of this, Sun Sheng immediately ordered his deputy general Kong Xiangzhong to take 3,000 men and horses to Han Dewei as backup, mainly to protect Han Dewei's rear and two wings from giving the enemy a chance to attack.

I have to say that Sun Sheng still has some ability to lead the army to fight, he found the problem at the first time, and quickly made arrangements to remedy it. But although he saw the flaw, Gongsun Jian, who had been ambushed near Beicheng for a long time, had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time. As soon as the whistle sounded, the more than 100 cavalry leading Ma Teng Xie Wu and his subordinates, as well as more than 500 people from Tian Kuan, who was stationed outside the east of the city, rushed over and killed directly from the flank and rear of Han Dewei's siege army. Immediately, Han Dewei's army was in chaos. Fortunately, after all, there are not many people in Gongsun Jian, and Han Dewei is also a talent, so he immediately personally took his own soldiers to turn around and face Gongsun Jian.

Gongsun Jian is still the same old-fashioned, he doesn't fight hard with the other party at all, but mainly harassment, and if he fights, he will give you a blow, but if he can't beat you or see that you have too many people, he will turn around and run. Han Dewei pursued Gongsun Jian here, but Cao Gang, who was originally stationed in the wharf warehouse outside the West Gate, also killed his brothers at this moment.

On the city wall, Ding Feng and five hundred soldiers who had rested for half a day also joined the battle to defend the city, and at this time, the morale of the Wu army quickly collapsed. Not only has the intensity and speed of the attack all decreased, but many people have been quietly retreating. The other part of the people were led by their own captains to fight against Cao Gang who had been killed from the west.

Seeing this situation, Han Dewei knew that he had lost today's battle, and he was afraid that he would not be able to take Linshui County if he continued, so he ordered someone to protect the left and right wings and began to retreat in an orderly manner. When the retreat was halfway through, Kong Xiangzhong, who came to the rescue, had already arrived with people.

After carefully checking his own men, he was not bad, only a few hundred people were killed in the battle. However, nearly 1,000 people were injured. It's not too early to see the sky, and the battle damage is not too big. Han Dewei collected his troops and returned to the Wu army camp with Kong Xiangzhong. As soon as he entered, Han Dewei knelt down and pleaded guilty to Sun Sheng. Sun Sheng didn't blame him too much, after all, Han Dewei's command was not bad overall, especially in such a tragic siege battle, his side only lost hundreds of people.

Not to mention the Wu army, Linshui County did not cheer at the moment because the Wu army had retreated, most of the militia soldiers who had never experienced a battle were staggered and paralyzed on the ground one by one, while some other personnel who were called up to assist were treating the wounded and cleaning up the bodies of the war dead. Qi Shi walked around, in addition to pacifying the soldiers, he was also constantly ordering people to strengthen the city wall and prepare more city defense equipment. Although I won by luck this time, it will be difficult to say next time. The Wu army did not suffer much damage. Maybe tomorrow or even tonight the enemy will come again.