Liu Xiu said: "I know.

You continue to keep an eye on the enemy's movements, and then talk and report! ”

"Yes! Your Majesty! ”

Qiu Rong agreed and took the order.

After Qiu Rong left, Liu Xiu sent someone to find Li Pan and asked him to hurry back to the camp.

After Li Pan came to Liu Xiu's sleeping tent, Liu Xiu said bluntly: "Gongsun Shu ordered Lu Kun to lead 5,000 elite soldiers, and now he is close to Shandu, and he may attack our army camp at any time!" ”

Hearing this, Li Pan gasped and said urgently: "Your Majesty, the camp is too dangerous now, Your Majesty should leave here quickly!" ”

Liu Xiu stood up and paced back and forth in the sleeping tent.

After walking for a while, he stopped and said: "I think so, early tomorrow morning, you will order the soldiers to pull the empty car to the Shandu City, and make the illusion that our army will transfer grain and grass to the Shandu." ”

Li Fan's eyes lit up, and he immediately answered: "Then our army set up an ambush in Shandu County and led the Shu army to attack?" ”

Liu Xiu nodded and said: "The soldiers of our army, most of them are old and weak soldiers, it is not suitable to have a head-to-head confrontation with the enemy, ambush in the mountain capital city in advance, occupy all the key points in the city, as long as the enemy army breaks in, even if it is elite, they can let them have no return!" ”

Li Pan thought about it carefully, bowed to Liu Xiu, and exclaimed: "Your Majesty is wise, and Weichen is happy and convinced!" ”

Liu Xiu shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said, "Transferring to the mountain capital city to fight is really a helpless move!" ”

They have 30,000 soldiers and horses, and it stands to reason that against only 5,000 enemy troops, there is no need to transfer the battle at all, even if they set up an ambush in the middle of the road, they can completely annihilate the 5,000 Shu army, otherwise, setting up an ambush in the camp can also make the enemy army have no return.

But the problem is that whether it is an ambush halfway or an ambush in the battalion, the soldiers need to engage the enemy head-on, but this is exactly what this Han army cannot afford to fight.

Liu Xiu could only retreat to the next best thing, making the illusion of transferring the grain to the mountain capital, leading the Shu army to steal the city, and confined the battlefield between the two sides to the complex terrain in the inner city.

In doing so, it is also to maximize the strengths and avoid the weaknesses.

According to Liu Xiu's order, the next day, the Han army led by Li Pan left the camp with great fanfare, drove one carriage after another, and marched in the direction of Shandu County.

The movements of the Han army were naturally discovered by the secret agents of the Shu army, and the Shu army still did not understand the purpose of the Han army, so they remained stationary for the time being, and continued to hide in the jungle in the north of Shandu County.

For three consecutive days, the Han army 'transported grain and grass' to Shandu County during the day, and at night, it secretly transported grain to Deng County, and three days later, the grain and grass in the Han army camp were carried away.

Through the actions of the Han army in the past three days, the Shu army realized that the Han army had placed all the grain in Shandu County.

On the night of the third day, late at night, the Shu army, which was hiding in the north of Shandu County, quietly came out of the mountains and forests and went straight to the Shandu City.

This Shu army, totaling 5,000 people, infiltrated Shandu County unknowingly and approached Shandu City.

Shandu County is not a strategic location, and the city defense of Shandu City is not very complete, and the defense of the county soldiers is even more lax.

Outside the city, there were only a handful of torches planted on the city walls, and the patrolling soldiers were completely invisible, and even the soldiers standing guard were difficult to find on the top of the city.

Hundreds of Shu army death squads quietly climbed to the top of the city, and did not attract the attention of any of the defenders during the period.

These Shu soldiers went down the steps down the city wall, came to the city gate hole, removed the door bolt, opened the city gate, and shook the torch outside the city to signal.

Seeing this, the main force of the Shu army ambushed outside the city immediately rushed out of the night, and thousands of soldiers and horses rumbled along the open city gate and poured into the mountain capital.

It wasn't until the brigade of the Shu army entered the city that the defenders woke up, and for a while, the sound of gold rang out, and people shouted for a while.

The Shu army had already mastered the topographical map of the mountain capital, and they had only one goal, which was to hoard grain granaries.

The Shu army that entered the city rushed straight forward along the main street, and went straight to the granary next to the county government.

Just when the Shu army was about to approach the county government, suddenly, the county government was lit up with light balls and torches, and countless Han soldiers boarded the wall of the county government, and people were holding crossbow machines in their hands.

Without warning, with a crackling sound, numerous crossbow machines fired crossbow arrows at the same time.

The Shu army, which was running at the forefront, bore the brunt, and people's heads and bodies were continuously shot by crossbow arrows, screaming and tumbling to the ground.

After a round of arrows was fired, the Han army on the wall did not hit the arrows again, and directly threw the crossbow machine down, and someone in the wall handed a new crossbow machine, and the soldiers took the crossbow machine and continued to release arrows outward.

This is just the beginning, on the roofs of the buildings on both sides of the street, countless torches were also lit, and the black and oppressive Han army appeared on the roof, and people were also holding crossbow machines, condescendingly, and launched a salvo at the Shu army on the street.

In just an instant, the Shu army camp exploded, and the soldiers in the camp fell to the ground from time to time with arrows, and some soldiers hurriedly raised their shields to resist crossbow arrows.

However, the shield can block one side, but it can't block the other side, and as the arrows continue, there are more and more Shu troops who have fallen.

At this time, of course, the Shu army also understood that they had a plan.

Someone in the Shu army shouted loudly: "Retreat!" The whole army retreats! ”

Now they want to retreat, it's too late, the city gate behind them, I don't know when it has been closed, above the city, there is a dense Han army, from the city to the city wall here Shu army, did not reach the city wall near the front, was covered by the arrow array smashed down on the city, the Shu soldiers fell to the ground in groups, and then immediately covered by the arrow array, in an instant, people's bodies were like a layer of black grass, shocking, creepy.

After the initial panic, the Shu army gradually calmed down, and the soldiers formed a shield array and kept approaching the city wall.

Seeing that their own arrow array could no longer stop the Shu army, the Shu army's shield array had advanced to the steps, once the Shu army was allowed to follow the steps, rush to the city, and do hand-to-hand combat, only the old and weak Han army could not be their opponent.

Liu Xiu, who was standing on the head of the city to supervise the battle, his eyes sank, and he shouted loudly: "Long Yuan, Long Zhun, Long Xiao, the three of you, go to the east steps to block the enemy!" Xuying, Xuting, Xufei, you follow me to the west steps to stop the enemy! ”

"Whoa!"

Everyone responded in unison.

Liu Xiu took Xuying, Xuting, Xufei and more than a hundred soldiers around forty years old, and went straight to the steps on the west side.

When they rushed over, there were already some Shu troops holding shields and climbing the steps.

Seeing the enemy coming up the steps, a Shu soldier put down his shield, held a shield in one hand and a ring-headed knife in the other, and rushed towards Liu Xiu with a roar.

When Liu Xiu approached, the ring head knife slashed at Liu Xiu's head.

Liu Xiu dodged sideways, let go of the edge, lifted his leg and kicked on the opponent's chest.

The Shu soldier flew out upside down on his back and smashed into the shield array behind him, making a muffled roar, and several Shu soldiers couldn't stand on the steps, and were knocked upside down and rolled.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Liu Xiu rushed down with arrows, and at the same time, the Chixiao sword was unsheathed and deeply inserted into the chest of a Shu soldier.

Xuying, Xuting, and Xufei did not fall behind, rushing out from both sides of Liu Xiu and killing into the crowd of enemy troops.

The more than 100 soldiers in the back, don't look at it, they are all forty miles away, but they still have a lot of strength, and people are holding weapons and fighting with the Shu army.

Liu Xiu and Long Yuan blocked the Shu army that tried to climb the city wall, which made a large number of Shu troops trapped under the city.

Even though the people were holding their shields high, forming a large shield array, the arrows that shot down from the top of the city still pierced the gaps between the shields from time to time and nailed into the crowd.

Seeing that it was not a way to go on like this, the situation on this side was already extremely passive and critical, and the soldiers of the Shu army rushed to the steps with their lives, and the pressure on Liu Xiu's side was also increasing.

Just when Liu Xiu and more than 100 others were shocked by a large number of Shu troops and retreated, hundreds of Han troops came behind them.

Many of these Han soldiers are already fifty miles away, and even the armor on their bodies does not seem to fit well.

Even so, their momentum was not weak, holding their spears, roaring loudly, and stabbing at the Shu army on the opposite side.

An old man of the Han army roared: "Your Majesty, don't panic, we will fight to the death with the enemy!" ”

"Fight to the death with the enemy-" These Han soldiers are not rookies who have never been on the battlefield and have no experience, on the contrary, they are all veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time, and they have only retired from the battlefield because of their age, and their strength is not as good as that of young people, but their combat experience and combat skills are not inferior to young people at all.

Seeing these veterans coming to participate in the battle, Liu Xiu was moved and enthusiastic, and he shouted: "Great Han warriors, kill the enemy with me!" ”

"Kill-" Liu Xiu's shout greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers of the Han army, and on the other hand, the Shu army on the opposite side all changed their faces greatly.

Only the Son of Heaven dares to call himself me, so in this way, Liu Xiu is in the mountain capital?

The Shu army trapped in the Shandu City was already in chaos, and now that they heard that Liu Xiu was in the Shandu City, the people were even more desperate, and the formation of the whole army became more and more chaotic.

The formation was chaotic, and the resistance to the arrow array was weaker, and the soldiers who were killed and wounded by crossbow arrows rose in a straight line.

When you go to the battlefield, no one will sympathize with the enemy.

Seeing that the Shu army was gradually becoming chaotic, Liu Xiu's confidence doubled, and he shouted: "Follow me to kill the city wall!" Annihilate the enemy! ”

As he spoke, he bent down and picked up a shield discarded by the Shu army, and with all his strength, he rushed down to kill.

Jingle Bell! Several arrows that flew over were blocked by Liu Xiu with a shield, and then, the shield was in front, and the person was behind, and he swooped downward, and boom, Liu Xiu's shield hit the shield array in the front row of the Shu army, making a heavy muffled sound.

The Chixiao Sword in Liu Xiu's other hand also pierced into the gap in the shield.

"Ahh

Liu Xiu drew his sword and stabbed forward.

Some swords were blocked by the shield, and some swords pierced along the gaps in the shield, stabbing several Shu soldiers behind the shield in a row.

Liu Xiu and the others worked hard to kill all the Shu troops who climbed the steps.

Seeing that the Son of Heaven took the lead and became more and more courageous, a large number of Han troops at the head of the city also rushed down the steps and joined the battle.

By this time, there had been a big scuffle in front of the city walls.

The Shu army, which was in turmoil and had no morale, was killed by such a group of old, weak, sick and disabled Han troops.

Just when the Han army was forcing the Shu army to retreat, Liu Xiu suddenly ordered the whole army to withdraw to the city wall.

Liu Xiu knows how to accept it when he sees it, don't look at the fact that they are now occupying the initiative, and it seems that the Shu army has no power to fight back, but he knows in his heart that this is only temporary, and it will not last long, and with his own strength, it is difficult to transform the advantage into victory.

The old and weak soldiers of their own side can still rely on a momentum to occupy the advantage at the beginning, but after a long time of fighting, their physical strength is exhausted, and their old and weak soldiers are only left to be beaten.

Don't look at Liu Xiu, who was not born in Jiangmen, and has not systematically studied military books and battle strategies, but fighting with Liu Xiu is definitely an extremely painful thing.

Because it is difficult for Liu Xiu to take the initiative to make mistakes, Liu Xiu found his loopholes when using troops, once Liu Xiu has an advantage, it is almost impossible to turn defeat into victory.

Even if the gods descend to earth, they have no way to return to heaven.

Liu Xiu's initiative to retreat, so that the only chance for the Shu army to turn defeat into victory has been lost, and now they want to follow the steps and kill the city, it is no longer possible, thousands of Shu troops are trapped in front of the city wall, there is no way to go to the sky, and there is no way to go down.

The arrows around were like raindrops, the periphery of the crowd, the inside of the crowd, and the soldiers of the Shu army who fell to the ground with arrows seemed to be dumplings.