Chapter 636: Food Shortage

Just when Ruan Zhengyu was sighing to himself, a pair of crossbowmen suddenly rushed out of the camp of the Annan army, and these people let go of the fleeing defeated soldiers, and then took a position in front of the formation, so they began to draw their bows and release arrows.

Ruan Zhengyu's eyes lit up when he saw this scene, could it be that he still had a chance to return to heaven.

It turned out that this archer was commanded by Ding Xiaochun, the captain of Annan, and he watched his troops defeat from the tall buildings in the camp, if they were not blocked, I am afraid that the camp would also be disrupted, and when Jia Ke waved his army, his side would probably be wiped out.

So Ding Xiaochun didn't dare to slack off, and immediately got off the high platform, lit up thousands of archers under his command, and rushed out of Dazhai.

Jia Ke was afraid that his army would lose too much, so he immediately stopped the attack, which allowed Annan to escape.

Ruan Zhengyu was carried by the guards and fled back to the camp, and was relieved to see that Jia Ke did not wave his army to attack.

At this time, Ding Xiaochun, who slowly retreated to the camp, came to Ruan Zhengyu's side, and said: "King, the Central Plains is strong, and you can't fight again, you should go deep and strong, hold on to it, as long as the other party's food and grass are exhausted, you will definitely retreat." ”

Ruan Zhengyu has nothing to say now, so he can only agree one by one.

So from this day on, Annan Guo will no longer fight against Jia Ke, they are deep ditches and high bases, tightly guarding the camp, not seeking merit, but seeking no fault.

Jia Ke challenged for several days, but the other party refused to fight, and Jia Ke also saw the other party's intention, which was to refuse to defend the camp and let himself retire automatically due to the shortage of food and grass. Maybe there is another idea, which is to lead yourself to attack the village, and finally use this village to kill and injure a large number of your own people and horses.

In the past, when I faced off with the Tatars, it was always the Tatars who attacked, and Jia Ke's side was stationed, and then a large number of Tatars were killed and injured in the defense, but I didn't expect to lose them now.

Jia Ke had the intention to wave his army to attack the opponent's camp, but he knew that in this way, his side would definitely suffer heavy losses.

So Jia Ke did not rush it, but sent thousands of wolf soldiers who were familiar with the path to inquire about the geographical situation of the mountains and rivers nearby, as well as the path of transporting grain and grass in Annan.

These wolf soldiers are accustomed to walking in the mountains, they divided hundreds of ways to infiltrate Annan from all directions, and protected the Han scribes who followed them, without half a month's effort, the geography of the mountains and rivers near Annan and the Central Plains, the rivers and roads were all clearly heard by them.

Jia Ke got this information, studied it carefully, and found that the border between Annan and the Central Plains is indeed densely mountainous, and now there are only two roads leading to the camp of Annan.

Jia Ke looked at the map and sneered, If you don't go to war and want to run out of my food and grass, I will let you go out of food first.

Since Jia Ke had made up his mind, he did not hesitate, he immediately ordered Wu Lu, the general soldier of Guangxi, to take 20,000 wolf soldiers into the territory of Annan, and began to harass the other party's grain routes, so that the Annan battalion could not be supported by grain and grass.

Wu Lu has also been a general soldier on the border for so many years, so he naturally knows more about the affairs of Annan.

He knew that the people of Annan were still very belligerent, and if he wanted to block the two roads, the other party would definitely attack him desperately, and I was afraid that he would not be able to do both.

So Wu Lu personally took his own soldiers and hundreds of wolf soldiers first.

Wu Lu went to the main road first, and sure enough, it was a wide straight road, which was newly built on a plain, and the road was conducive to the passage of the army, and the grain and grass of the Annan Kingdom mainly passed through this road.

When he came to the vicinity of another road, he saw that this path was built on the mountain, and the form was very dangerous.

However, because of this, since there are no important passes here, if the road is destroyed, it will take a lot of effort to re-dig it.

Wu Lu had an idea after inspecting the two roads separately, and he immediately ordered the wolf soldiers to destroy the path.

To say that it is easy to destroy and difficult to build, when building this road built by the mountain, Annan Guo does not know how many craftsmen it took and how many years to complete, and now Wu Lu gave an order, tens of thousands of wolf soldiers will work together, or take shovels or wooden sticks, and this path will be destroyed for more than ten miles without a day or two of effort.

Don't look at it, it will ruin these ten miles, if you want to dig it again, it will take a lot of effort. These roads are built by the mountains, and can not gather a large number of young people, so the people who can really participate in the project are very rare, and if you want to dig through the road of more than ten miles, you can travel day and night, and you don't want to succeed without a few months of effort.

Wu Lu was not satisfied until now, so he left a thousand men here, and in response, he took the rest of the men to the avenue, where he blocked the road and built a large camp.

As soon as Wu Lu's camp was set up, he received a report from the soldiers, saying that hundreds of people had come from the opposite side and were pressing grain and grass to pass through here.

It turned out that those Annan people who were carrying grain and grass didn't know that the big camp in front of them was under the command of Wu Lu, and they thought that their king Ruan Zhengyu was sent here to defend it.

Since this is the case, Wu Lu is naturally not polite, he first brought these people into the camp, and then ordered the soldiers to rush up and disarm these people and take them prisoner.

In this way, the convoy of Annan to the north to transport grain and grass came to the vicinity of the road, and was intercepted by Wu Lutongtong, so that the camp of Annan began to slowly become scarce.

Ruan Zhengyu didn't care at first, he thought that the officers in the rear were starting to slack off, so he sent his own guards to urge, but these people never looked back.

Seeing that the grain and grass in the camp were decreasing day by day, Ruan Zhengyu realized that something was wrong.

So Ruan Zhengyu didn't dare to slack off, and immediately ordered Ding Xiaochun to take 10,000 horses to check the form.

Ding Xiaochun is also a lifelong campaign, at the beginning he was a general under Ruan Zhengyu's father, and after the death of Ruan Zhengyu's father, he was a major minister of Tuogu.

Now that he was entrusted by Ruan Zhengyu with the important task of checking the passage in the rear, he naturally did not dare to slack off.

When Ding Xiaochun was traveling south for a day, he suddenly reported that the continent in front of him had been blocked by a military camp.

Ding Xiaochun immediately knew that it was probably this group of people who robbed his grain and grass.

So Ding Xiaochun led the troops to the front of this big camp, only to see that this camp was deep and high. Standing on the plain, people come and go in the camp, and the guard is heavy.

Ding Xiaochun knew that his 10,000 people, if he wanted to storm this camp, I am afraid that all the people would die, and he would not be able to break through.

So he had no choice but to order people to go and call for battle, hoping that the other party would come out of the camp to fight a decisive battle with him, and with the bravery of these people under his command, he might be able to defeat the other party.

Wu Lu received a report from the horse explorer and knew that the Annan people had sent men and horses to clear the way, so he came to the camp gate to take a look.

I saw that there were only about 10,000 people on the other side, and the team was not in order, the armor was not good, and many people did not even have complete weapons.

Originally, this weak brigade would definitely be able to win a big victory if Wu Lu went to war, but Wu Lu restrained the troops from fighting.

Wu Lu had already figured it out, this time his task was to block the road, so that the Annan camp had no food and grass, and there was no need to go out to fight with them.

So Wu Lu immediately ordered the surrounding Tusi in Guangxi and Yunnan, "From now on, no one is allowed to fight, and if there is any disobedience, there will be no forgiveness." ”

These toasters originally wanted to kill these people, make some merits, and ask for merit and reward in front of King Yan when the time comes.

How do you know that this general soldier actually let them stand still, to say that there is no resentment in their hearts, it is impossible, but they also know that the Central Plains Dynasty has strict military discipline, so even if there is resentment, they can only endure it.

Ding Xiaochun fought against the enemy in front of the camp for a whole day, and Wu Lu did not fight. In the end, Ding Xiaochun knew that the other party seemed to be determined not to fight, and since this was the case, he could only attack.

So Ding Xiaochun set up a camp three miles away from Wulu's camp, and then asked the soldiers to bury the pot to cook and rest early.

When it was time for the third watch, Ding Xiaochun suddenly beat drums to gather the generals, and then Ding Xiaochun ordered all the soldiers and asked everyone to tie a white cloth on their left shoulders.

After getting ready, Ding Xiaochun quietly approached Wu Lu's camp with his men and horses.

After Ding Xiaochun approached the Wulu camp with his men and horses, he found that although the camp was very solid, the soldiers were not well defended, and it seemed that they did not take their own people seriously.

Since he had this opportunity, Ding Xiaochun naturally couldn't let it go, and he immediately waved his troops straight forward.

Those soldiers guarding the camp gate did not expect that the other party would come to rob the camp, so they were very lax, and the other party approached the camp gate, only then did they find them, and hurriedly rang the gong to remind the camp, but it was too late at this time.

Ding Xiaochun rushed into Wu Lu's camp in this way and set fire to it everywhere, and because Wu Lu's camp did not have a unified command, although the wolf soldiers were fierce, they fought separately, and they couldn't stop the other party's attack for a while.

Wu Lu was also a little careless, he thought that the other party came from afar, and he scolded in front of the camp for a day, and he must be tired, so he didn't expect the other party to come to steal the camp and rob the village, which made Ding Xiaochun break into the camp, and when Wu Lu reacted, his camp was already in chaos.

And Wu Lu was also woken up from his sleep by his own soldiers, and he was shocked when he understood the situation.

Wu Lu said in a bad heart, if he loses this time and allows the other party to reopen the road, after he goes back, King Yan will definitely not be able to spare him, and then not only he is afraid that even his family will be implicated.

After Wu Lu figured out this, he knew that he had no way out, so he immediately asked his own soldiers to bring the BMW forward, he turned over and rode on his horse with a big gun, and galloped in his own camp while beckoning the nearby rebels, and his target was the leader of the other party.

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