Lai She, commanding the Western Expeditionary Army, launched a large-scale attack on the Hechi garrisoned by Wang Yuan.

The siege of the 100,000 Western Expeditionary Army, the offensive was like a tide, and it was unstoppable.

Even though Wang Yuan tried his best to lead the Shu army to resist the Han army, the balance of victory was still tilting towards the Han army.

The battle between the two sides began in the morning, and by the afternoon, the Shu army could not bear it.

And Wang Yuan, who released cruel words and kept saying that he wanted to live and die with Hechi, saw that the war was unfavorable, the Han army tore through its own city defenses again and again, and a large number of Han troops had already attacked the city. The Han army was attacked from the northern city, and Wang Yuan fled from the southern city with more than a thousand remnants.

As soon as Wang Yuan ran, the remnants of the Shu army in the city were leaderless, and they were defeated faster.

The Han army stormed the city in one go, and in the evening of the same day, it fully occupied Hechi.

In the battle of Hechi, the Han army was easily won.

Wang Yuan is a person who is loyal to Kui Huan, but his personal ability is really limited, and he is really not the material that leads the troops to fight.

Throughout the outbreak of the war between Liu Xiu and Kui Huan, Wang Yuan has not won several battles, but all the wars he participated in ended in Wang Yuan's escape.

Of course, another important factor in the great victory of the Han army was that Laishe was indeed good at siege warfare.

Laishe's side captured Hechi, and the battle on Gaiyan's side did not go well.

The Han army, led by Gai Yan, encountered desperate resistance from the Huan'an Shu army in Xia Wei.

The battle between the two sides was extremely fierce, and the Han army led by Gai Yan attacked the head of the city several times, but was finally repelled by the Shu army led by Huan'an.

In the battle of the next debate, the battle between the two sides entered a stalemate.

The Lai Shi Division, which successfully occupied Hechi, did not pursue the remnants of Wang Yuan who fled, and the Lai Shu troops were divided into two routes, one was the main force of the Western Expeditionary Army, advancing westward from Hechi, and approaching the flank of Xia Bian, wanting to cooperate with the Gaiyan Department to jointly attack the Xia Wei Shu army.

On the other way, 30,000 soldiers and horses led by Lai She personally detoured to the south of the lower debate.

The purpose of his Han army was to cut off Huan'an's retreat.

In Lai's view, his main army, with the Gaiyan Department, will be able to defeat the Shu army, and the Shu army can only flee to the south, and his own side will ambush the south of the Xiawei first, and the remnants of the Shu army that have fled can be annihilated in one fell swoop.

The distance between the river pond and the lower debate is not far, and there is only a tributary of the Jialing River between them, and when they come to the river, they need to lay a pontoon bridge on the river.

The army was temporarily stationed by the river, and the officers and men of the army recruited the strong men in the vicinity and cut down the trees nearby.

Lai Shi did not stay in the barracks, but personally went to the river to supervise the work.

The Han army recruited thousands of people in the local area and asked them to assist the Han army in laying pontoon bridges.

To lay a pontoon bridge, you first have to nail the wooden stakes into the river, and you also need a boat as a base and a wooden plank as the bridge deck, which is quite cumbersome.

The sky was getting dark, and the Han army had not yet finished nailing the wooden stakes in the river, so he was a little anxious, and ordered his soldiers to rush to work overnight, and they must finish laying the pontoon bridge before noon tomorrow.

Xiabi is the county seat of Wudu County, and taking Xiabian City is not the ultimate goal of the Han army, completely annihilating the Xia Bian's defenders and leveling the Shu army forces in Wudu County, which is the strategic goal of the Han army in Wudu County.

In order to achieve this goal, the Han army must be able to travel as fast as possible to the south of Xiabi and cut off the retreat of the Shu army.

It was getting darker and darker, and the Han soldiers and civilians working on the river lit torches one after another.

A Han military captain rode a small boat and walked back and forth on the river, inspecting the pillars (wooden stakes in the river).

When he came to a pillar made by the people, he stopped the boat, compared it with the front and back, and said with a frown: "No! You can't save the pillars here, it's too biased! ”

The people who were working at the scene stopped hammering one after another, looked at the captain of the Han military academy, and one of the people said: "My lord, you are mistaken, we nailed the pillar is not biased!" ”

The captain of the Han military academy frowned, checked back and forth again, and said in a deep voice: "Why is it not biased?"

Come and see for yourself, the front and back are all straight lines, but where are the pillars here? ”

The pillar is used to fix the ship, and the ship is the base of the pontoon, if the pillar is deviated, it is equivalent to the base of the pontoon is deviated, and the wooden board cannot be paved at all.

These people said that the pillars they had built were not biased, and the captain of the Han military academy said conclusively that their pillars were deviated, and the two sides could not argue, and the quarrels became louder and louder.

Soon, several more small boats drove by, and the Han soldiers on board asked what was going on.

The captain of the Han military academy was so angry that his face was red and his neck was thick, he pointed to the pillar in the river, and said loudly: "The pillar they nailed is obviously biased, but they are sure that it is not biased, I think these Diao people just didn't follow their good intentions and deliberately came to harm our army's big things!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a young and strong young man threw the wooden hammer in his hand into the river, making a muffled sound, and the splashing river water drenched the face of the Han military captain.

The young man said angrily: "Don't spew blood, we came to help you work for nothing, and we did something wrong!" ”

The captain of the Western Expeditionary Army, when did he suffer such a, he raised his hand to wipe a handful of water stains on his face, looked at the young man's eyes and was about to burst into flames, pointed at those people, and said angrily: "I think you are the fine work of Shu thieves!" ”

His words made the people present stop doing it, and the people shouted angrily: "Who do you say is the fine work? ”

"You've made it clear!"

"You're so deceitful!"

"......" The noise on their side became louder and louder, and even the people standing by the river could hear it.

His face sank, looking for prestige, it was already dark at this time, and he couldn't see clearly what was going on, so he asked, "What's going on over there, why is it so noisy?" ”

"General, it seems that our soldiers and the people have a dispute!"

When he heard this, his face became even more gloomy, and he said, "Pull a boat over, I'll take a look!" ”

The local people, for their Han army, not only provided boats, but also a lot of manpower to help the Han army lay pontoon bridges, at this time, the army and the local people disputed, it was too inappropriate.

After a short time, several Han soldiers came over with a small boat.

Lai She was about to get on the boat, but the surrounding generals stopped him one after another, saying, "General, now that it's dark, for the sake of safety, don't go over!" ”

Lai Xi waved his hand disapprovingly and said, "The river is full of our soldiers, what are you worried about?" ”

"General—" Lai She, ignoring the dissuasion of the crowd, boarded the boat, followed by four guards, and two guards rowed to the place where the accident occurred.

With the arrival of the visitor, the noise finally stopped.

The captains of the Han military and the people who worked all the way to complain.

The Han military captain said that the people had deflected the pillars, which would affect the laying of the pontoon bridge, and the people said that the Han military captain was nitpicking, deliberately finding faults, and deceiving people too much.

The two sides talked and shouted non-stop.

Lai Shi was so noisy that he asked the guards to carry the boat to the front of the pillar and check it back.

A few pillars here are indeed biased, but they are not too outrageous, so that the pontoon bridge cannot be laid.

He turned his head to look at the captain of the Han military academy and said, "Don't be too demanding, as long as you can pave the pontoon bridge and let our soldiers cross the river smoothly......" Before he finished speaking, among the people nearby, a middle-aged man's arm shook slightly, and a dagger suddenly fell out of his cuff.

The middle-aged man held the handle of the dagger, shook his body violently, and with only one arrow step, the person jumped directly into the small boat where the man was located.

This sudden change shocked everyone present.

The two guards beside him reacted quite quickly, and the two of them drew their swords as soon as possible.

However, before the two of them could make a move, the middle-aged man's arms waved to the sides, and he heard two rustles, and the sharp edge of the dagger tore open the throats of the two guards.

The other two rowing guards exclaimed, picked up the wood pulp in their hands, and slapped it directly on the top of the middle-aged man's head.

The middle-aged man was on one side, and with a wave of his other hand, two crossbow arrows were shot out of his cuffs, impartial, hitting the eyebrows of the two guards.

The two guards fell on their backs and fell into the river with a puff.

said that it was too late, it was too fast, and the four guards around Laishu were killed by the middle-aged man in an instant.

Immediately afterwards, the middle-aged man did not pause for a moment, and slashed directly at Lai's neck.

Lai She is not an orthodox military general, but a civilian official, in the face of this situation, Lai She was in a hurry, he subconsciously leaned back, narrowly avoiding the edge of the dagger.

Unexpectedly, the middle-aged man changed his moves very quickly, and as soon as he dodged this blow, the middle-aged man turned into a thorn.

There was a pop in the ear chakra, and the edge of the dagger pierced into Laixi's chest, and two-thirds of the blade did not enter Laixi's chest.

Lai Xi's eyes widened, and he fell straight back.

All this happened so fast, so fast that when the Han troops around him reacted, Lai She had already been stabbed in the chest and fell on the boat.

"General—" There was an exclamation all around, and the soldiers of the Han army took off their crossbows from their waists one after another, making a gesture to release arrows at the middle-aged man.

Unexpectedly, the middle-aged man's body suddenly became empty, turned into a cloud of smoke out of thin air, and disappeared on the boat.

After a few moments, they heard a muffled pop and a splash on the river.

People subconsciously threw arrows into the water, but it was too late, where could you still find middle-aged people in the river?

"Demon ...... Demon ......" Many of the Han soldiers and people present were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and they couldn't help but scream in shock.

The Han military captain roared angrily, "It's an illusion! Capture the Assassin and rescue the General! ”

Suddenly, the scene was chaotic.

When Lai She was sent to the shore by the Han soldiers and carried into the barracks, his face was bloodless, and he still had a dagger stuck in his chest in shock, leaving only the handle of the knife and the small half of the blade outside.

The medical officers in the army came to the camp tent as soon as possible, and when the people saw the injuries of Laishu clearly, they all gasped and fell to their knees.

Lai She's injuries, they can't treat them at all, let alone treat the injuries, even the dagger in Laishe's chest, they don't dare to pull it out.

The people knew in their hearts that if this dagger was pulled out, they would die instantly.

The generals of the Western Expeditionary Army, the medical officers were all trembling and kneeling on the ground, and the people shouted angrily: "What are you waiting for?

Heal the general's wounds! ”

The medical officers knelt on the ground, not daring to breathe or speak, only shaking their heads vigorously.

Seeing this, the generals became even more angry, and a general walked up to a medical officer, grabbed him by the collar, lifted him from the ground, and shouted with a hideous expression: "Heal the general's wounds!" If you hear it, heal the general's wounds immediately! ”

"Villain...... The villain's medical skills are not good, and he will ...... General's wound, little ...... The villain can't cure ......" The general pushed the medical officer to the ground, drew his sword with his hand, and shouted angrily: "If you dare not heal the general, I will want your life now!" ”

"Mo ...... Don't be embarrassed by the medical officer......" Lai She, who was lying on the bed, slowly opened his eyes.

"General-" Seeing that Lai Shu woke up, all the generals stepped forward one after another, knelt down in front of the bed, and looked at Lai Shu lying on the bed with red eyes.