Wang Tiezhu followed the defeated troops of the Cui army all the way, and found that the Cui army had gathered tens of thousands of people to build a position, so he led his team back to the camp.

Wang Tiezhu returned to the camp, gathered the generals of each battalion, and told all the truth he had seen.

"I, Wang Tiezhu, do not deceive my brothers, and in the next battle, I can only return to Luoyang if I defeat the enemy head-on!"

Most of the families of the soldiers in the Wei army are in Luoyang, and it is impossible to retreat, and if they can't return to Luoyang, most of their families will become ghosts under the swords of others.

"Marshal Wang, if you have anything to say, just fight back!"

"Yes, Marshal Wang, no matter how many enemy troops there are, we are not afraid, kill them!"

"Our wives and children are still in Luoyang, if we don't kill them back, where else can we go?"

"Kill back to Luoyang! Kill back to Luoyang! ”

All of a sudden, the crows near the Wei army's camp were all startled, and the black pressure went west.

Wang Tiezhu originally wanted to take advantage of the high morale to kill him in one go, but the military advisor Tang Sixin disagreed.

"Marshal Wang personally investigated, and he also knew that Cui Jun had dug a long trench and set up traps, and there were many fences to resist horses, and if we rashly attacked head-on, the brothers would suffer a lot of casualties! I don't agree with the assault! ”

Everyone was stunned, this Tang military division easily did not speak, but if he spoke, Marshal Wang would always listen, so they all looked at Wang Tiezhu.

Wang Tiezhu asked Tang Sixin again: "Does that military advisor have a good strategy?" It's too late to take a detour now! ”

Tang Sixin touched his beard, "Wait!" Wait for seven days, there will be heavy rain, our army occupies the high ground not far from the Cui army in these seven days, dig more ditches, and lead the water to the Cui army camp! ”

"If it doesn't rain after seven days, or if it doesn't rain much, aren't we tired for seven days?" Wang Tiezhu felt that staying for one more day would be more dangerous, let alone seven days.

"Listen to me, I said that if there is rain, there will be rain, and when the time comes, if it doesn't rain, I will sacrifice my head to the sky to apologize! Tell all the soldiers, and tell the people around them, that after seven days there will be heavy rains, and let them all move to the nearby hillside! ”

Although Wang Tiezhu was reluctant, Tang Sixin gambled with his life, which shows that he was sure.

The Wei army went west to a high underground village twenty miles away from Cui Jun to dig the earth, and according to Tang Sixin's instructions, not only to dig a ditch, but also to raise the camp to catch up with rain gear and rafts.

The surrounding villages heard that it was going to rain heavily in seven days, and they all went to the mountains to build grass huts for temporary shelter. Word of mouth spread among the villages, and for a while, the people within a radius of 100 miles began to take refuge on the hillside.

Huang Chongdao saw that the people were hiding in the mountain, and hurriedly sent people to investigate, and after a look, he learned that the people went up the mountain because they wanted to avoid heavy rain and torrents.

Huang Chongdao looked at the sky, "No, there will be no rain in ten days, how can it rain?"

The generals in Cui's camp also talked about it, saying that it would rain, and some said that it would not rain.

After asking more than ten spies, Yu Yaoshan decided to personally take people to investigate near the Wei army's camp.

This exploration found that the Wei army had indeed gone up the mountain, not only on the mountain, but also on a lot of rafts outside the camp.

After returning to the camp, Yu Yaoshan decided to immediately send troops to attack the Wei army's camp and seize the high ground and raft, but Huang Chongdao thought that this was a trick of the Wei army.

"The old man has been watching the stars for several days at night, but he has not seen any signs of rain, why did General Yu abandon our original interception plan because of the enemy's actions?"

"Master Huang, do you dare to guarantee that there will be no rain in a few days? If it is by the Wei army at that time

Come to flood the Seventh Army, do you want us all to stay here and feed the fish? ”

Huang Chongdao was hesitating, and Yu Yaoshan spoke again, "Master Huang, if you can guarantee that it won't rain in the next seven days, we will listen to your continued perseverance!" If your old man can't guarantee it, I'll take the high ground first and save my life!" ”

"But the Wei army is condescending, we want to attack it, we will suffer heavy casualties! What's more, with Wang Tiezhu here, we may not be able to beat the Wei army guarding the mountain! Huang Chongdao persuaded hard

"But I can't feed the fish with the lives of these tens of thousands of soldiers, I still have fifty percent certainty of attacking the high ground, and I am afraid that if the Wei army wants to kill us at that time, we don't need to do it myself!" Yu Yaoshan insisted on leading a large army to capture the high ground.

"If General Yu has to capture the high ground, then please sit in the big camp, and I will go with the soldiers to capture it! As the commander-in-chief, if anything goes wrong, we have no hope at all! "Huang Chongdao's deployment is very conservative, in order to prevent Yu Yaoshan from being killed by Wang Tiezhu and causing the army to collapse.

But Yu Yaoshan felt that Huang Chongdao was trying to compete with him at this time, "Didn't Huang Junshi say that there was no rain?" With Huang Junshi sitting in the camp, I will only feel at ease when I am fighting outside! Don't worry, I have self-knowledge, I'm not that Wang Tiezhu's opponent, I'm not stupid enough to fight with him! ”

Huang Chongdao saw that the advice was useless, so he looked up to the sky and sighed, "God bless!" ”

Yu Yaoshan ordered 10,000 horse infantry troops and brought 16 generals to attack the Wei army camp, Li Yuan took the initiative to ask for battle, but Yu Yaoshan felt that this person was unlucky to be defeated repeatedly, so he sent Li Yuan and Huang Chongdao to guard the camp together.

Yu Yaoshan brought tens of thousands of people to besiege the Wei army camp, Wang Tiezhu was ready to shoot his horse and rush down the mountain to meet the battle, Tang Sixin grabbed him, "The marshal is only allowed to defeat but not win, kill a few generals and flee, we don't want this highland!" ”

"Without the high ground, how can we survive when the flood comes?"

"If the water is big or not, it doesn't matter for now, what I want is to lure the enemy out, and now that the enemy has come out, it is a good opportunity for us. Archers must first pull the bowstring back full before shooting it! ”

"But the high ground is lost, and it will rain in one day!"

"To tell Marshal Wang the truth, there is no rain at all, and the old man is here to mobilize the enemy army when he releases this word! Marshal Wang has defeated the enemy and brought the enemy army to this high ground, and then we will surround the high ground and attract the enemy's reinforcements! In the past few days, the brothers have been tired of carrying water from the bottom of the mountain, and it is time to rest! ”

"The military advisor even hid this plan from me! Okay, just listen to the military advisor! Wang will meet them! ”

Wang Tiezhu led 300 men and horses down the mountain to meet the battle, and rushed straight into the enemy formation with a double hammer.

Although everyone didn't know Wang Tiezhu, they recognized this pair of copper hammers, Yu Yaoshan saw Wang Tiezhu rushing over in the array, and hurriedly mobilized three hundred sword and shield men and five hundred cavalry to meet the battle, and the rest of the bows and crossbows fired together to block Wang Tiezhu.

Wang Tiezhu did not charge towards the place where Yu Yaoshan was, but towards the right flank.

The copper hammer passed over, people turned over on their backs, wailing endlessly, and the people who were hit only hated that their parents had given them a few legs, and the rest of the people avoided Wang Tiezhu.

The five partial generals were hammered off the horse after only one round, and for a time Cui Jun's right flank was in chaos.

In order to prevent Wang Tiezhu's surprise attack, the Chinese army continued to maintain a defensive formation and drove up the mountain. Wang Tiezhu was invincible, but the Wei army took the opportunity to retreat, and many Wei troops rushed down the mountain to flee after fighting for a while.

Although Wang Tiezhu disrupted the Cui army's formation on the right flank, after all, there were few people and he didn't dare to fight, so he had to turn around and attack the left flank of Cui Jun.

At this time, Yu Yaoshan's Chinese army had already taken the highland Wei army camp, and seeing that only Wang Tiezhu's cavalry was left in the Wei army, and continued to attack the left flank of the Cui army, he waved the order flag to surround Wang Tiezhu.

Wang Tiezhu's original intention was to complete the deception that Tang Sixin said, and he was counting on fighting Yu Yaoshan, but after fighting for an hour, he found that Yu Yaoshan had no intention of going down the mountain to fight a decisive battle, so he had to lead the cavalry to the east to kill.

The Wei army, under the leadership of Tang Sixin, only retreated five miles and continued to assemble, and Wang Tiezhu arrived and complained that Tang Sixin's plan was not working.

Tang Sixin laughed, "Okay, it seems that Marshal Wang's majesty is really out!" It's a good thing that the enemy commander doesn't dare to go down the mountain, but if he goes down the mountain and lets him escape back to his own position, it will be difficult to get rid of it! The whole army did not stop for a moment, quickly turned back to the surrounding mountain, and when the mountain was encircled, the two bridges to the east and north were destroyed, and the bow and crossbow battalions and the spear battalion were all ambushed at the water source, waiting for the enemy troops on the mountain to come and send them to death! ”

After seizing the high ground in the first battle and repelling Wang Tiezhu, Yu Yaoshan himself couldn't believe it, and after checking the Wei army camp, Yu Yaoshan immediately realized one thing.

There is no water source in the mountains at all! Thinking of this, Yu Yaoshan hurriedly sent people down the mountain to occupy the water source.

Deputy General Yu Ping smiled, "Big brother, I have already sent five hundred people to stay behind in the water source, don't worry, the Wei army has retreated, if the eldest brother is not at ease, send another five hundred people down the mountain!" ”

"No, hurry up, send another two thousand people down the mountain! Hold the water source, and then send scouts to find out the news of the Wei army! ”

"Report, General Yu, the water tanks and buckets in the camp are full!"

"Test the poison! Revisit! ”

As soon as he heard that there was still water, Yu Ping and the others laughed, "It's going to rain tomorrow, there is only a lot of water, don't worry about the water source, but worry about whether the brothers in the camp will be flooded!" ”

Yu Yaoshan looked up at the sky, and then looked around at the grass hut and wooden shed on the mountain in the distance, and was also a little hesitant.

"Send five hundred more men, fetch some water first, and if it rains tomorrow, there will be no need to keep it guarded!"

By the time these 500 people drove down the mountain, the Wei army had already rushed over, and the Cui army was defeated and retreated back to the mountain.

Some generals were worried that the Wei army was coming to seize the water source and besiege them, Yu Yaoshan pointed to a few large tanks on the camp, "I'm afraid that they are not reluctant to give up these water tanks, but they are afraid of feeding the fish under the mountain!" Even if the water source is lost, the water on this mountain can be managed for three to five days, so you might as well! What's more, it's going to rain tomorrow! ”

After the Wei army surrounded the bottom of the mountain, they circled the mountain and made it look like they wanted to seize the high ground, and the army of Yu Yaoshan threw arrows and stones at the bottom of the mountain, and the Wei army retreated some distance.

At the same time, Cui Ju in Xiangyang City learns a shocking news that almost makes him fall to the ground.

"Yuzhang has fallen?" Cui Ju couldn't believe what he heard

"Yuzhang has fallen? Impossible! The Wei army is now taking care of itself, the Jiangnan side is pinned down by the Southern Navy, and the rest are rescuing Luoyang! Did you know that lying about the military is a capital offense? ”

Cui Ju asked again

The answer of the sergeant kneeling on the ground made Cui Ju sit down paralyzed, Yuzhang was not captured by the Wei army, but by the Southern Navy.

Cui Ju rubbed his temples, "Southern Navy? The Southern Navy is actually coming west! So the Jiangnan area has all fallen into the hands of the Southern Navy? ”

"Back to the King of Jin, the Southern Navy has returned the land south of the Yangtze River to the Wei State, and the Wei State will borrow the road for them to fight us!"

"Well, how did you know all this?" Cui Ju felt that it was impossible for such a low-level officer to know this, so he was even more suspicious

"The villain doesn't dare to deceive the King of Jin, these are all said when the Southern Navy who came to attack Yuzhang called for battle, and the Wei army on the Danyang side appeared with them!"

Cui Ju slapped the table, "Shameless!" Shameless! This Li Xiaofei actually colluded with Wei and betrayed Daliang! Quick, come on, go and order Shen De, Ke Yuan, and Ke Wen! ”