After several rounds of arrows, the whistling of arrows finally stopped.

Liu Xiu pushed away the corpse pressed on his body, raised his head, and everywhere he looked, whether it was the ground or the corpse, it was full of dense arrows.

After waiting for a while, confirming that there was no arrow array to smash down again, Liu Xiu stood up and pulled Luo You up by the way.

Soon, there were corpses wriggling around, and then they were pushed away, and from under the corpses, stood up the sparse Han soldiers.

Originally, there were one hundred Han soldiers, but after a few rounds of arrow formations, only thirteen of them could still breathe, and eighty-seven Han soldiers were shot into hedgehogs by the arrow array of the Shu army.

Liu Xiu looked around for a week, and said in a deep voice: "Bring the bodies of the fallen brothers back to the city!" ”

More than a dozen surviving Han soldiers responded in unison, and with red eyes, they lifted the bodies of their comrades and tied them to ropes.

When Liu Xiu and Luo You returned to the city, it was already an hour later, and both of them were covered in blood.

When they went outside the city this time, they gained a lot, getting back tens of thousands of crossbow arrows, as well as a few war horses that were shot.

But at the cost of eighty-seven people.

Liu Xiu sat on the arrow stack, looking at the night outside the city, motionless for a long time.

Luo You stepped forward and said softly, "Your Majesty! ”

Liu Xiu said with a deep gaze: "Just for those eight dead horses, eighty-seven people were lost, that is eighty-seven lives!" ”

Luo You wanted to comfort Liu Xiu, but he didn't know what to say for a while, so he could only sigh softly.

Liu Xiu jumped down from the arrow stack and said, "Let's go, go wash the blood stains on your body!" ”

As he spoke, he strode under the walls.

The next day, the Shu army again attacked the mountain capital.

The second day's engagement was even more tragic than the first's.

The Shu army withstood the arrows of the defenders, attacked the city countless times, and was repelled by the defenders countless times, and the two sides launched an endless tug-of-war.

The casualties of the Shu army were not small, but the casualties of the Han army were also very large, and countless soldiers on both sides were lost.

After a day of fierce fighting, the Han army led by Liu Xiu finally withstood the offensive of the Shu army, allowing the Shu army to return again in vain.

After two consecutive days of fierce fighting, the soldiers on both sides were physically and mentally exhausted, and on the third day, the Shu army finally stopped attacking.

The first is that the Shu army is tired and needs to rest, and the second is that Liu Shun, the Taishou of Nanyang, organized 5,000 Han troops to come to the mountain capital for reinforcements.

Of the 5,000 Han troops, more than 1,000 of them were county soldiers, and the other 3,000 were county soldiers who Liu Shun beat from the counties of Nanyang.

Hearing the news that Liu Shun led the Nanyang Army to reinforce Shandu, the generals of the Shu army gasped.

If the 5,000 Han troops rush to the mountain capital again, the Han army should join forces with the outside world, and the situation on their own side will be very unfavorable.

The chief general of the Shu army, Lu Kun, was very calm, and he didn't take Liu Shun's Han army in his eyes at all.

He immediately issued an order, sending more than a dozen soldiers and horses and thousands of soldiers to attack the villages and towns around Shandu County.

For his order, the soldiers of the Shu army were quite puzzled, their target was Shandu City, what was the use of attacking the surrounding villages and towns?

Besides, there is still plenty of food in the army, so there is no need to go to the surrounding villages and towns to grab food! People don't know what Lu Kun thinks, but the order has been given, and they can only carry it out.

The Shu army divided more than a dozen troops and horses to attack the villages and towns around the mountain capital.

The Shu army entered the villages and towns, killed people when they saw them, and robbed them when they saw things, turning the villages and towns around Shandu County upside down, and the people fled with their families and mouths.

There is a Shu army outside the mountain capital, and the people dare not run to the mountain capital nearby, and they heard that Tai Shouzheng led the army to aid the mountain capital, and the people fled in the direction of Liu Shun.

Liu Shun, who led his troops to reinforce the mountain capital, naturally heard about the evil deeds of the Shu army, and ordered the soldiers under his command to try their best to help the fleeing civilians once they encountered them.

But what Liu Shun never expected was that among these fleeing people, there were still Shu troops.

The number of these Shu troops who were killed in disguise was not large, only more than 500 people, but they were all elites under the command of Lu Kun.

When the Nanyang army rescued the people, these Shu troops mixed with the people suddenly attacked the Nanyang army.

The Nanyang army led by Liu Shun, a total of 5,000 people, was caught off guard by 500 elites of the Shu army, and even Liu Shun himself almost died in the chaotic battle.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, Liu Shun had no choice but to lead his troops to retreat.

Of the 5,000 Nanyang soldiers, only 2,000 escaped with Liu Shun in the end, about 1,000 were killed in the battle, and the other 2,000 were all scattered.

The strategy used by Lu Kun was not very complicated, that is, to create refugees by himself, and then disguise a group of ambush soldiers as refugees, and follow the refugees into the Nanyang army, and then find an opportunity to suddenly attack and kill the Nanyang army by surprise.

It was such a ploy that defeated the Nanyang army led by Liu Shun.

The defeat of the Nanyang Army made the situation in Shandu City undoubtedly worse, and it became more and more isolated and precarious.

The local army in Nanyang could no longer be counted on, and the pressure to rescue the mountain capital city fell on the head of the southern expeditionary army.

Now the Southern Expeditionary Army is making every effort to deal with the menacing Tian Rong and Ren Man leading more than 100,000 Shu troops in Nanjun, and the war has reached the most critical moment.

To rescue Shandu City, the Southern Expeditionary Army is bound to divide its troops, but once it divides its troops, where can it withstand the pressure of more than 100,000 Shu troops?

The military tent in the Southern Expeditionary Army.

Cen Peng and his generals gathered together to discuss countermeasures.

A general frowned and said, "Your Majesty did not send someone to ask for help from our army, which shows that the battle in Shandu City is not as bad as we imagined!" ”

Another general frowned and said: "That's because Your Majesty knows that we are fighting in Hetian Rong and the end of your term of office, and you don't ask us for help, Your Majesty doesn't want us to scatter our troops and energy, resulting in the defeat of the Nanjun battlefield!" ”

Cen Peng looked at the generals present and said meaningfully: "Nanyang Tuntian Army, although there are 30,000 people, I think you all know what the combat power of these 30,000 soldiers is. ”

The 30,000 Tuntian army was originally an elite soldier who followed Li Tong and went deep into Shu to fight with the Shu army and fought hard, but after repeated squeezing by the Southern Expeditionary Army, the officers and soldiers in the Tuntian Army had already been completely transferred, and the rest were the old, weak, sick and disabled that the Southern Expeditionary Army looked down on.

How can you resist the wolf-like Shu army?

The people looked at Cen Peng in unison and asked, "What does the general mean?" ”

Cen Peng said categorically: "Now, Your Majesty is trapped in Shandu, the situation is critical, and our army must be rescued by dividing troops!" ”

After a pause, he said: "I will lead 30,000 soldiers to Shandu County. ”

As he spoke, he looked at General Feng Jun and said, "During my absence, General Feng can temporarily serve as the commander-in-chief of the whole army!" ”

Feng Jun grinned secretly, hurriedly stepped out of the ranks, and said, "General, the last general...... The last general is afraid that it will be difficult to take on this heavy responsibility! ”

With Cen Peng here, the officers and men of the whole army, with one heart, can still withstand the offensive of the Shu army, but if Cen Peng is not there, he will have to transfer 30,000 soldiers, how can he still stop the attack of the Shu army?

Cen Peng looked directly at Feng Jun and said: "General Feng, now Your Majesty is in danger, compared with Your Majesty's safety, Nanjun is not worth mentioning, which is more important, you can't tell which is more important?" ”

Feng Jun shrank his neck when he was reprimanded by Cen Peng, and hurriedly intervened to give a salute, saying, "The general has taught him a great lesson!" ”

Cen Peng said: "If you can fight, you can lead the whole army and try your best to resist the enemy, if you can't fight, you can lead the whole army and retreat temporarily!" ”

"The last general obeys!"

Cen Peng glanced around at everyone and asked, "Do you generals still have something to discuss?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, and then bowed to Cen Peng in unison.

Liu Xiu did not send someone to send a letter to the Southern Expeditionary Army, asking them to come to Shandu County to rescue, but after weighing the pros and cons, Cen Peng still made a decisive choice and led 30,000 Southern Expeditionary Army to Shandu County in Nanyang to rescue the trapped Liu Xiu.

As Cen Peng said, Liu Xiu is the Son of Heaven, and the importance of the Son of Heaven is far greater than that of a Nanjun, even if because of his decision, it will eventually lead to the loss of the entire Nanjun County, and it will be worth saving the Son of Heaven.

Cen Peng is in Nanjun, Nanjun's defense can be described as impregnable, Tian Rong and Ren Man don't remember how many times they went out to Nanjun, they were all repelled by Cen Peng before, and this time, Cen Peng suddenly left Nanjun, and also took away 30,000 southern expeditionary troops, which is a rare opportunity in the eyes of Tian Rong and Ren Man.

During the period when Cen Peng led his troops to Nanyang, Tian Rong and Ren Man also formulated an attack plan, and the two of them used the naval army, starting from Jiangguan, marching east along the river all the way, and directly taking Wuxian.

The Great River is also the Yangtze River, and the Yangtze River was either called the Great River or the River Water in the Han Dynasty.

Like the Yellow River, the Yellow River is often referred to as the river water.

The Southern Expeditionary Army led by Feng Jun did not expect that the Shu army would fight a water war this time, and it was not well prepared, and Wuxian County was lost.

After that, the Shu army continued to advance eastward along the river, first taking Yiling, and then taking Yidao, and successively seized three important places along the Yangtze River with lightning speed.

Feng Jun is very self-aware, he knows that he is not good at fighting water battles, for the enemy's naval army, he avoids fighting, leads the southern expeditionary army, and retreats to Jingmen and Huya.

When Tian Rong and Ren Man led the infantry to get off the ship, intending to take advantage of the victory to pursue and take Jingmen and Huya in one fell swoop, they were attacked head-on by the Southern Expeditionary Army.

On the waterway, the Shu army, which played a triumphant song all the way, came to an abrupt end after going up to the land, and the southern expeditionary army stationed in Jingmen and Huya was like two locks, keeping the Shu army out.

On the other side, after the Southern Expeditionary Army led by Cen Peng entered Nanyang, they went straight to the mountain capital.

Lu Kun didn't expect that his attack on Shandu City would attract the Southern Expeditionary Army, and it was personally commanded by Cen Peng.

Lu Kun secretly laughed at Cen Peng who didn't know the severity, in order to rescue a mountain capital, he didn't even want Nanjun, isn't it insignificant?

In the past, Lu Kun and Cen Peng had never fought, but this time the two armies faced each other, and Lu Kun also wanted to try Cen Peng's weight.

After Cen Peng led his troops to Shandu City, Lü Kun did not withdraw his troops, but opened up a position and started a head-to-head confrontation with Cen Peng's troops outside Shandu City.

Cen Peng's troops came from afar, and Lü Kun's troops waited for work, Cen Peng's troops had slightly more soldiers and horses, with 30,000 people, while Lü Kun's troops and horses were about 20,000 people.

The two sides launched a head-on decisive battle against Mai Mang, and as a result, the battle was defeated, and the whole army was scattered.

At the same time, Liu Xiu in the Shandu City also led his troops out of the city and pursued the defeated Shu army with Cen Peng's troops.

Lü's troops were defeated all the way west, from Shandu County in Nanyang County to Hanzhong in Yizhou.

It wasn't until Lu Kun was defeated and returned to Hanzhong that he knew that Liu Xiu was in the mountain capital.

After hearing this, Lu Kun's head buzzed, and he almost didn't lose his breath on the spot.

The intensity of the Shu army's attack on Shandu City was not very large, only the first two days of the confrontation were relatively intense, and then the Shu army's offensive slowed down.

In Lu Kun's view, the battle of Shandu is a sure victory for one's side, and if one storms Shandu, one's own side will lose a lot of soldiers, so it is better to trap the enemy army in Shandu City.

If he had known that Liu Xiu was in Shandu City, he would not care about the casualties of his soldiers at all, even if there was only one soldier left, he would have to break through Shandu City and capture Liu Xiu alive.

It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in the world, and Lu Kun, who was defeated in Hanzhong, no matter how he sighed, no matter how he regretted it, it was useless.