After a while, Wuxin Marquis Gongsun Qi led Qin Shaojun, Wang Yi and others to climb the heights and look into the distance under the mountain, and sure enough, they saw a large group of people and horses coming to the flat land outside Hangu under the banners of Wei, Shangshui, Sichuan and so on. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Why did Wei Jun come back so quickly?" Qin General Wang Ji couldn't help but muttered to himself.

After all, according to their estimates, Wei Gongzirun would not be able to return to Hangu until at least seven or eight days later, and even more than seven or eight days.

"Could it be that something has happened?" Qin Shaojun said something that was not nutritious.

At this time, the Marquis of Wuxin's grandson stared intently at the Wei army formation in the distance, and after half a sound, he said in a deep voice: "Wei General Sima An...... Amazing generals! ”

"What?" Hearing the brainless words of Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi, Qin Shaojun, Wang Di and the others all looked confused.

Seeing this, Gongsun Qi frowned slightly and explained: "The monarchs and the Wei army under the mountain, felling wood, setting up camps, building military tents, performing their duties, neat and orderly, calm and calm, which shows that the Wei general Sima An is still alive." Otherwise, if Sima An had died, the momentum of the Wei army would not have been like this...... Placid. ”

……

Qin Shaojun couldn't help but glance at Gongsun Qi, and then turned his gaze to the Wei army under the mountain again.

He didn't see the "peaceful atmosphere" of the Wei army, he only knew that there were too many Wei troops under the mountain, so that there was an invisible pressure in his heart.

"Estimating the schedule, it can't be Sima An rescued by Wei Gongzirun, and the date is not right. General Wang Jian is good at attacking and defending, even if his strength is far inferior to the Wei army, but with the thousands of Iron Eagle Army under his command, it is absolutely impossible to defeat so easily. …… In other words, Wei Gongzirun was most likely in vain, and by the time he led his army to Lu's family, Sima An had already cleared the siege on his own. ”

Speaking of this, Gongsun of Wuxin Hou turned his head to look in the direction of the Yunan Basin Valley, and continued to murmur: "If the Wei general Sima An breaks the siege on his own, then it means that the Qian tribe in the Yunan Basin Valley has been destroyed...... Not good, not good. ”

Shaking his head, he summoned a guard and said in a deep voice: "Quickly send someone to inform the country, and ask the king to send troops to help Lantian." …… Sima An may pass through the Qinling Mountains and attack the territory of our Great Qin. ”

"Yes!" The guards took the order.

On the side, Qin Shaojun and Wang Yi were quite shocked when they heard it: Could it be that this battle would affect the Qin State itself?

A few days later, the Wei army rebuilt a military camp outside the Hangu Mountains.

Because he wanted to end the war on Qinchuan's side as soon as possible, Zhao Hongrun ordered the Shangshui army to fight in front of Hangu when the military camp had not yet been completed.

However, the Qin army on Hangu Mountain did not react to this, and allowed the Wei army under the mountain to insult them.

Or some Qin generals couldn't help but be angry in their hearts, and strongly asked to send troops to fight the Wei army, but they were also forcibly suppressed by Gongsun Qi, Marquis of Wuxin.

At nine o'clock in October, seeing that the Qin army could not retreat, the Wei army tried to attack Hangu.

But unfortunately, because the Qin army had enough time to build the entire Hangu military camp like an iron wall, the Shang Shui army did not gain anything from the attack on Hangu.

Sure enough, Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi made up his mind that he couldn't shrink out......

From beginning to end, he watched the Wei army's scolding of the Qin army for two days, and saw that the Qin army had no intention of sending troops, and Zhao Hongrun hated itchy.

In his opinion, what Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi said started from Hangu and ended with Hangu, putting on a posture of wanting to fight to the death with his Wei army in Hangu, in the final analysis, it was just a tactic focused on dragging.

But then again, if you want to forcibly attack Hanshan, Zhao Hongrun really has no certainty.

After all, in his eyes, the Qin army had built a camp that stretched for more than ten miles on the mountains on both sides of the narrow mouth of Hangu, and this area was built as solid as gold, even if the elite of the Shang Shui Army forcibly attacked, I am afraid that it would not necessarily be able to capture this Qin camp - at least, the casualties of the strong attack were unacceptable to Zhao Hongrun.

According to common sense, if the strong attack fails, then the only way to do it is to take a sneak attack, but Zhao Hongrun has no confidence in this.

It seems that a far-sighted figure like Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi would not be wary of the Wei army's attack on the camp?

Zhao Hongrun didn't believe it.

There is no point in trying your luck.

That night, Zhao Hongrun personally wrote a letter of war, ordering several cavalrymen of the Lun tribe to be sent to the Qin camp.

After waiting for Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi to receive it, he couldn't help laughing, because Zhao Hongrun only drew a group of shrunken and lifelike turtles in that war book.

is the first big turtle, and it is also written next to this Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qiye! The words.

At that time, the Qin generals who saw this picture were all so angry that their faces were flushed and angry, and even Qin Shaojun was a little angry, and muttered to himself in his heart: Damn guy, did you scold me too?

Only the Marquis of Wuxin, Gongsun Qi, was calm and smiling, and smiled at the guards on the left and right: "The picture drawn by Wei Gongzirun himself, looking at my Great Qin, there is only one and only one!" ”

Immediately, he ordered someone to reward each of the warriors of the Lun tribe with a small bag of rice, and asked them to go back to the Wei camp to spread the word: Thank you Gongzi Wei for the painting! A certain also gave back some things that the son lacked.

The warriors of the Lun tribe did not know the intention, so they returned to the Wei camp with a few small bags of rice and told Zhao Hongrun about the passage of 1510.

After listening to the story of the warriors of the Balun tribe, Zhao Hongrun was also angry in his heart, because the Marquis of Wuxin, Gongsun Qi, was clearly ridiculing him with food and ridiculing him for the fact that the Wei army was short of food.

Is the Wei army short of food?

Lack!

Very lacking!

Let's not talk about the rest of the battlefields for the time being, let's say that on Zhao Hongrun's side, seventy percent of the soldiers under his command rely on killing sheep every day to satisfy their hunger, which can be called extravagant.

But what about the extravagance? What a loss.

Don't look at the Wei army, which plundered the sheep of all the tribes in Sanchuan who were unwilling to submit to the Wei State, including the Wuxu tribe, the Qian tribe, and the Ling tribe, and scraped hundreds of thousands of sheep, but for the more than 200,000 troops under Zhao Hongrun, even if all of them were slaughtered, how many days could they last?

Ten days, no more.

After that, more than 200,000 Wei troops will fall into the embarrassing situation of lack of food.

"Give me more people to build catapults!"

After listening to Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi's reply, Zhao Hongrun ordered as if gritting his teeth after being silent for a moment.

In fact, when he returned to Hangu Mountain, he had already ordered his soldiers to build catapults, after all, Wuxin Marquis Gongsun Qi wanted to adopt delaying tactics to guess, he had already guessed when he was in Luocheng.

At that time, Zhao Hongrun had a premonition that their Wei army's attack on Hangu would be a protracted battle, so he ordered someone to send a letter back to China and asked the General Administration of Metallurgy to send someone to escort oil barrels and bombs to Sanchuan.

It is undeniable that due to various reasons, Zhao Hongrun tried his best to avoid using a strategic-level lethal weapon such as oil alone, but now that Wei is in a difficult position, he can't care much about it.

What pollution, what leaks, all stand aside!

If the country is destroyed, what does it matter if the pollution here in Hangu is not polluted? What does it matter if the secret of oil is leaked or not?

On October 12, the first batch of grain was delivered to the Wei camp on the Sanchuan front.

This batch of grain was not from the Wei court, but the grain purchased by Zhao Hongrun from China and Weiguo by Wang Yongshang Wen Shaobo, after all, the household department of the imperial court was already unable to undertake the transportation of grain and grass on the two lines of the Hanoi battlefield and the Song County battlefield, so Zhao Hongrun would try his best to solve the grain and grass matters by himself.

Even, in order to alleviate the pressure of rice and grain, he did not hesitate to let the soldiers of the army under his command use mutton to satisfy their hunger.

This time, Wen Shaobo did not come in person, he just asked his henchmen to urge the people to transport the grain to Luocheng, and handed it over to his righteous brother, that is, Zhao Hongrun's staff Jie Zi Yuan, and after Jie Zi Yu got this batch of grain, he undertook to send grain to the Wei army in several local battlefields such as Hangu, Lushi, Hengjian, and Fenyin in Hedong, and used meager grain reserves to maintain the supply of grain and grass for many local battlefields in the entire Western Wei battlefield. Walking on thin ice, the Wei army on the battlefield of Weixi will not fall into the predicament of lack of food.

Even Zhao Hongrun admired it.

In addition, along with the grain and grass, there is also a handwritten letter from Wen Shaobo.

In the letter, Wen Shaobo told Zhao Hongrun that there was a shortage of grain in Wei and Wei, so he was preparing to go to the land of Qilu to buy grain from Qi.

This was Zhao Hongrun's idea.

After all, although the State of Qi is still in civil strife, Zhao Hongrun's brother Zhao Hongzhao (Ji Zhao) assists Gongzi Bai, and has not completely defeated several of the latter's brothers for the time being, but in general, because Tian Tan, Tian Yan, Tian Wei, Tian Wu and other famous generals of Qi are all obeying the orders of Lu Xi, the king of Qi, and choose to support Ji Zhao and Gongzi Bai, Ji Zhao has now gained an advantage in the civil strife of Qi State, but there is still a distance from quelling the civil strife.

And in this case, although Ji Zhao can't send troops to help the mother country, he can provide some help in food.

The problem lies in Liang Luqu.

In fact, the Lianglu Canal, which was jointly built by Wei and Lu, has actually been completed ninety percent, and the biggest deterrent at present comes from the forces of Song Yun, the leader of the orthodox rebel army in the Song Dynasty, which is a local rebel army in the Song region that is not only obedient to the Wei state, but also an enemy of Nangong Yao, the general of the Song Dynasty.

For this canal, the soldiers of the Lu State had several clashes with Song Yun's rebel army last year, but unfortunately, the craftsmen of the Lu State were famous all over the world, and the army of the Lu State, in the case of temporarily losing the money and food of the Qi State, was honestly as weak as the soldiers of the Qi State who unloaded their armor, so that they were beaten to the ground by Song Yun's rebels in the area of Surabaya - Weishan Lake.

Unexpectedly, when Nangong Yao rebelled, Song Yun stood on the side of Wei - to be honest, Song Yun did not exactly say that he was on the side of Wei, but he was vigorously attacking the counties of Song County controlled by Nangong Yao.

Therefore, Wen Shaobo decided to talk to Song Yun in person, and for this reason, he also specially asked his righteous brother Jie Ziyuan to mention him.

As for what to mention, Zhao Hongrun can guess how much, after all, Song Yun prides himself on being the general of the former Song State, and has always been committed to restoring the Song State. If Wei was defeated too quickly, how could the rebels under Song Yun be able to stop Nangong Yao's Suiyang army and Chu's army?

Therefore, Song Yun absolutely did not want the Wei State to fall at this time, as long as he started from this aspect and persuaded Song Yun to agree to the opening of the Lianglu Canal.

At least in Zhao Hongrun's opinion, Song Yun would definitely not be willing to wait for the opportunity to restore the country, because the Wei State was defeated too quickly and missed in vain, so that the Song Land was occupied by the Chu State after it became the territory of the Wei State for a time.

And more importantly, compared to the nobles of Wei, the nobles of Chu were more greedy.

On 14 October, the first batch of oil barrels and bombs arrived at the Hangu Wei camp, a full 40 truckloads of 12 barrels each.

Although the number was not very large, it was enough to prove to the Qin army that the Wei army's decision to break the Han Valley was sufficient.

So on the same day, Zhao Hongrun led 50,000 merchant and naval troops, 20,000 Sichuan and Luo coalition troops, and dozens of catapults to set up a formation outside Hangu.

"Burn this mountain for this king!"

With Zhao Hongrun's order, dozens of catapults endlessly threw oil barrels and bombs at the Hangu Qin camp in the distance, and nearly 500 barrels of oil were used up in an instant.

At the same time, as Gongsun Qi, Marquis of Wuxin, had guessed, the Wei general Sima An, who was sitting in the Nan Basin Valley, was preparing to lead his army across the Qin Mountains and invade the Qin mainland.

In the area of Hedong, the current Taiyuan Shoule Cheng of South Korea also fought with Wei General and Lintao Jun Wei Ji in Fenyinjin, and the daily exchanges continued, and the blood of the soldiers on both sides stained the river red.

It has to be said that as the cold winter approaches, the battle situation on the battlefield of all parties is heating up rapidly, and everyone wants to gain an advantage before the cold winter comes.