When Wei Yan returned to the city, the deputy general greeted him and said with a smile: "The general is brave!" ”

"Hey." Wei Yan laughed when he heard this, shook his head and said: "This time I met an opponent, and now the enemy is outnumbered, trapped in a lonely city, this battle is not easy to fight, go and bring that Yang Bai to me." ”

"Whoa!" When the adjutant general heard this, he turned around and ordered someone to bring Yang Bai over.

As the first prisoner of the Battle of Hanzhong, and no matter what his ability is, he is a general under Zhang Lu after all, and his significance is extraordinary, so after being captured, the treatment is still good, at least except for Wei Yan's disdain and ridicule, he has not been abused, except for the loss of freedom, the food and accommodation conditions are not bad among the prisoners.

When Yang Bai was brought by the two soldiers, there were still the residues of food at the corners of his mouth, and when he saw Wei Yan, he didn't need anyone to scold, so he automatically knelt in front of Wei Yan: "Defeated general Yang Bai, see the general." ”

Although there is no backbone, but this kind of performance, I am afraid that it is the survival wisdom of most people, Wei Yan is not a murderer, although it is very unpleasant to look at such a general, but it must be admitted that if it was not Yang Bai but Yang Ren who came at the beginning, I am afraid that he would not be able to make Zhang Lu believe that this Yang is Liu Beijun's main force so easily, let alone send the main force here, from this point of view, Yang Bai can be regarded as a hero to Liu Beijun, plus now that he has a good attitude, Wei Yan is too lazy to ridicule him again.

"Get up." Wei Yan waved his hand and sat straight on the seat of the government office.

Yang Bai hurriedly thanked Zhihu before getting up.

"Yang Ren, tell me, how many soldiers and horses are there in the Nanzheng area?" Wei Yan didn't bother to go around in circles with him, and asked directly.

Yang Bai also glanced at Wei Yan: "Yang Ren is a person with strong martial arts and is also good at leading soldiers, but he is quite arrogant, and he has a lot of dirty ...... with the last general on weekdays."

"Hey~" Wei Yan sneered when he heard this, and he didn't have a good face for this kind of colleague: "What about Nan Zheng?" ”

"There are 50,000 elite soldiers under the command of Shijun, but before Ma Chao came to ask for help, Shijun has already sent the general Yang Ang to lead 10,000 troops to help, in addition, Baishui Pass and Jiameng Pass need to be guarded by troops, as well as Yangping Pass, Shangyong, Fangling and other places, the Nanzheng garrison is about 30,000, before ......" glanced at Wei Yan carefully, Yang Bai continued: "Defeated by the general, a lot of losses have been lost, and I am afraid that there are less than 30,000 people at this time. ”

Hearing this, Wei Yan nodded, and asked some questions about armaments and how the city defense of Nanzheng was, Yang Bai answered them one by one, Wei Yan was basically sure that he really attracted the main force of Hanzhong to this side this time, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, although the battle of Chuyang is not easy to fight, but as long as Liu Bei can appear in time and break through Nanzheng, there will be no danger on his side, but how to make Yang Ren believe that this is his main force before this?

"Go down." Wei Yan thought about it, and when he saw that Yang Bai was still standing there, he waved his hand and motioned for the soldiers to take the other party down.

Now there are only more than 2,400 people around him, and the grain and grass in the city can support him for ten days and half a month, but after this time, the logistics will be cut off, not to mention that the grain and grass in the rear are impossible to send over through the path, even if he can, now that the city is besieged, Yang Ren only needs to send hundreds of people to cut off his supply line, and now he has really become a lone army.

The most important thing is not to defend the city, but how to deceive Yang Ren that there are enough men and horses on his side, otherwise once Yang Ren sees through the truth, he will definitely not let the army waste food and grass here, either he will attack with all his strength and destroy his lone army in one fell swoop, or he will transfer back a group of soldiers and horses, then the meaning of talking about the other party's army to attract him will not exist.

Wei Yan thought of Liu Yi's tired plan when he was in Mocheng, but now the situation is different, the other party has more troops, if one is not good, provokes the other party, and directly launches a general attack, everything Wei Yan has arranged will be exposed.

"Wu Gao!" Knocking on the table, Wei Yan shouted outside the tent.

"Humble duty!" A personal guard came in, Wei Yan's personal guard was brought from Mocheng at the beginning, and his skills were not bad, many of them had been arranged by Wei Yan to be grassroots generals in the army, and Wu Gao was the commander of his personal guard.

Wei Yan thought for a while and said: "Taking advantage of the fact that the enemy army has not yet besieged the city, send someone to the area of Shuishui, if you encounter the lord's soldiers and horses, report the matter here to the lord, and say that most of the troops in Hanzhong have gathered in Chuyang, please send troops to attack Nanzheng as soon as possible!" ”

Yang Ren's ability is not bad, he is a little bit of a man, with a city like Chuyang, the defense is a little urgent, it is impossible to break the enemy, and now it can only look at the situation on Liu Bei's side.

"Whoa!" Wu Gao bowed, turned around and went to arrange for someone to report the news.

Alas~

Looking at the back of Wu Gao leaving, Wei Yan sighed lightly, he missed Liu Yi a little, not Liu Yi's tricks, in fact, Liu Yi had some ghost ideas, but when he swept the four counties, Wei Yan actually saw that Liu Yibing was not much stronger than that Yang Bai, but Liu Yi would use people and be willing to let go of power, Huang Zhong, Guan Ping, Liu Feng and himself, Liu Yi didn't ask more questions after he put down his power, plus Liu Yi can always come up with some suitable ideas, and the enemies of the four counties of Jingnan are not too strong.

Wei Yan misses Liu Yi's craftsmanship, if Liu Yi is here, directly show his skills, the people of this Hanzhong land believe in ghosts and gods, Liu Yi's means are used, the people of Weiyang will not bow their heads and worship, and then do some city defense buildings, city defense equipment, this city defense will be much easier.

……

Yang Ren didn't think about besieging the city, this city is not big, and it can still be done with 20,000 troops to besiege the city, but considering that there are at least tens of thousands of defenders of Liu Bei's army in this city, Yang Ren does not dare to besiege the city indiscriminately, one is not good, it will be broken by the other party, and it is not good if Wei Yan hides an ambush outside the city, so after Yang Ren set up camp, he did not rush to start attacking the city the next day, but sent scouts to the places where there may be ambushes on all sides.

Wei Yan knew what Yang Ren was doing, and if he didn't attack the city today, it might not be a good thing, but he now had limited troops in his hands, and he could only watch Yang Ren check the truth little by little, but he couldn't do anything.

If he could have 2,000 more soldiers and horses in his hands, it wouldn't be like this!

Wei Yan has a feeling of powerlessness at the moment, and now if he wants to deceive Yang Ren, I'm afraid he won't be able to deceive for long.

Yang Ren was puzzled that there was not even a sentry outside the city, judging from yesterday's events, Wei Yan was not an unscrupulous general, and he had enough troops in his hands, how could he give up all the important places outside the city?

In the land of the projectile in Chuyang, there is no need for tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to garrison it!

But since it was determined that Wei Yan did not deploy troops and horses outside the city, Yang Ren was not polite, and on the third day of arriving in Weiyang, he sent a school of men and horses to cut off the non-existent grain route, and at the same time the 20,000 army was divided into three groups of men and horses, and besieged Weiyang in a way that surrounded three and one of them, and the other two teams were only responsible for watching Weiyang and dividing Wei Yan's troops, while Yang Ren led the main army and launched an attack on the city wall of Weiyang.

Wei Yan now has no other way but to gather troops to meet the battle, fortunately, when they came, the archers were basically equipped with Liu Yi's elite to make bows and crossbows, and the city was being used, Wei Yan used more than 1,000 people, and the feeling of two or three thousand people was beaten, which once dispelled the doubts in Yang Ren's heart and began to concentrate on attacking the city.

It's just such a fierce offensive and defensive battle, Wei Yan has few soldiers in his hands, and is destined to not be able to hold it for a long time, after supporting it for five days, not only in the eyes of the soldiers in the city, there are few arrow clusters left, and Weiyang is only a small county, and there are not many weapons reserves, most of these days are still supported by the arrow clusters brought by Wei Yan, and in five days, the arrow clusters in the army are basically exhausted, and by the fifth day, the Hanzhong soldiers have rushed to the city wall several times, and Wei Yan personally led the men and horses to drive them down, to such a field, Wei Yan don't talk about weapons, None of the troops at hand are sufficient for rotation.

He didn't expect that his first official solo battle under Liu Bei would fall into such an embarrassing situation.

"General, if we continue like this, I'm afraid we won't be able to hold on for a few days!" The deputy general was hit by an arrow in the shoulder, and with a knife cut down the Hanzhong soldiers who rushed to the city, he staggered to Wei Yan's side, and said astringently.

Few days?

Wei Yan smiled bitterly, then Yang Ren may have discovered something wrong at this time, not that he wants to show his cowardice, but he really can't support it, and if his defensive position is weak, then Yang Ren will probably see the clue immediately, whether the next offensive can hold up is a problem, let alone a few days, whether he can hold on to tomorrow is a problem, is he coming too fast?

Wei Yan didn't say much, the sound of the enemy's gold had already been heard in the distance, the soldiers of Hanzhong retreated like a tide, many of the soldiers defending the city breathed a sigh of relief, many people sat on the ground as if they had collapsed, Wei Yan's face sank like water, the other party retreated too early today, obviously, Yang Ren also saw the clue.

Yang Ren's camp, as Wei Yan expected, Yang Ren did see the clue, so he ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.

"In the direction of Gudao, have you seen Liu Beijun's grain team in the past few days?" Yang Ren looked at a general and said.

"Never." The general shook his head and frowned, "Not only that, but the last general sent people to check inside the valley road, and the traces of the march of the army can still be seen near the valley road, but the farther places are gone. ”

"Heh~" Yang Ren sneered when he heard this: "No wonder Wei Yan refused to set up soldiers and horses outside the city, it turned out that he was a lone army, so he immediately sent someone to Nanzheng to inform Shijun that Chuyang is just a partial division, and our army is empty in Nanzheng, please be careful of Liu Bei's surprise attack." ”

"Whoa!" The general was also shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly got up and took the order.

Yang Ren's deputy general Chang Qi looked at Yang Ren and said, "General, is this Yang still fighting?" ”

"Hit!" Yang Ren snorted coldly and said: "Pass on my military order, tomorrow will be a full-scale attack, I will definitely capture this Wei Yan alive!" ”

"Whoa!"