"You fucking shit!" Huangfu Yan scolded angrily, and slapped the officer who led the team to attack, "More than 100 people were driven down without contacting the Wei army, do you still have the face to come back?" ”

The leader of the team was beaten, but he dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, covering his beaten face and said aggrievedly: "General, it's not that his subordinates don't do their best, the brothers have never fought this kind of battle, the Wei army's bows and arrows and short spears are on together, and the brothers have lost more than 20 people and injured more than 20 people, and more than 100 people have lost half of them, and they are all scared!" ”

"You're still making excuses?" Huangfu Yan was furious, Yao Zhao was watching from the sidelines, he was forced to be helpless, and pulled out his knife and put it on the neck of the team officer: "Lao Tzu let you choose now, either take the rest of the people and kill them up the mountain now, or Lao Tzu will cut you, you choose!" ”

The officer's face turned white with fright, and his forehead trembled with sweat: "Subordinates, subordinates are willing to take the remaining brothers to attack again!" ”

"Good!" Huangfu Yan withdrew the knife and waved his hand: "Give you a cup of tea and gather your people, go quickly!" ”

"Yes!"

The time for a cup of tea was very short, and the Yan army began to attack again.

"Oh, it's all for Lao Tzu to listen to, this time whoever dares to retreat without authorization, Lao Tzu will cut him, all give Lao Tzu the shield in front, see the front clearly, once you find that the Wei army shoots arrows or throws short spears, you immediately squat in front of you with a shield, and wait until you are within thirty steps of the Wei army, Lao Tzu will follow Lao Tzu as soon as he gives the order, and he must rush over with his breath, go, go up the mountain!"

With the successful repulsion of the Yan army's attack just now, the Wei generals are no longer so nervous, they are cavalry, where have they fought this kind of battle? It was impossible not to be nervous, and seeing that the Yan army had attacked again, they all began to concentrate.

It didn't take long for the Yan army to enter the range of bows and arrows again, and Hua Hai gave an order: "Release the arrows!" ”

"Whoosh ······" A wave of arrows fired.

The attacking Yan infantry had experience this time, and immediately squatted on the ground to block the shield in front of them, only one person was killed, one person was killed and wounded, the others were intact, most of the arrows were shot on the shield, and a few were shot away.

"Okay, that's it, everyone uses their shields to block them and squat in front of them and bend over to climb up, hurry up!" The Yan military officer shouted.

The commander's command experience and the combat experience of the soldiers and generals were exchanged for the lives and blood of countless comrades in such battles again and again.

This time in the course of the attack, there were many fewer wounded.

Hua Hai stood behind Shi Ji and could see clearly, he frowned, but there was no good way, he could only order the archers to seize the opportunity, and release the arrows once the bodies of the Yan soldiers were exposed.

When the Yan generals entered the throwing range of the short spear, Hua Hai immediately ordered the short spear to be thrown.

A wave of short spears threw out, some of them were thrown into the air, and some of them were blocked by the Yan generals with their shields, and only a few of them hit the target.

"Charge me—" The Yan army officer raised his war knife and roared, and more than forty Yan soldiers rushed towards the Wei defense line with their shields on their heads.

Seeing this, Hua Hai immediately ordered loudly: "The archers retreat to the two wings and continue to shoot arrows, and the others pick up their spears and prepare for hand-to-hand combat!" ”

The Wei archers in the trenches quickly turned away, and they withdrew from both sides of the trenches behind the stones behind the flanks and continued to support with bows and arrows.

"Kill—"

As the shouts of killing spread, the Yan generals rushed up with their shields, but they were blocked by the trenches, and if they wanted to attack, they had to cross the trenches. Some of them, slow and with small steps, fell into the trenches and were shot dead by the archers behind the stones.

The Yan army's attack failed again this time, and the forty or fifty Yan soldiers who participated in the attack all died on the first line of defense of the Wei army, including the officers, but the Wei army also paid a lot of price, more than 20 people were killed in the battle, and 13 were wounded.

Soon, the 1,000 foot soldiers transferred from Pinggang City arrived, and the strength of the Yan army was replenished, and the number of troops put into the attack increased to 200 each time, which was the largest number that the Yan army could invest.

Although Mulan was not on the front line of command, she could clearly see the process of the battle from the mountain, and she found that there were many flaws in both the defense of her generals and the attacking Yan army, but as the battle progressed, both sides improved and learned quickly.

By the time of the fourth attack, the Yan army already knew that during the attack, the archers would be arranged in the rear for long-range support, and the Wei archers would have to suppress the Yan archers, so they could not shoot the attacking Yan army, and the Yan army could rush to the Wei defense line with minimal casualties.

After the end of the fourth attack, the sky darkened, the Yan army did not attack again, all retreated, and arranged a large number of horse rejection and horse traps at the foot of the mountain to prevent the Wei army from sneaking down the mountain in the middle of the night to attack, and they sent heavy troops to blockade to prevent the Wei army from escaping at night.

After dark, the moonlight shines, the stars shine,

A fire was lit on the mountain, and the Wei generals fought all day, tired and hungry, and at this time difficulties appeared.

"General, the soldiers have no dry food!" The adjutant general Fu Zhen reported to Mulan.

The Wei army's baggage was left in the camp outside Pinggang City, Hua Mulan originally planned to return to the camp at night after the ambush could not be completed, and the two days of dry food she brought had been eaten, and the team of men and horses led by Wu Dade to lure the enemy did not carry dry food.

If you don't have food, you have to go hungry, and Mulan has no other way but to say to Fuzhen: "You can only kill the horse, or everyone will be hungry!" ”

There was no food on the mountain at all, so he could only kill the horses, and the servant really knew that this was the truth, so he nodded depressedly, turned around and left to arrange for the soldiers to kill the horses and roast meat.

Not long after eating the barbecue, Hua Mulan convened several major generals to discuss, "We must send people to ask for help: first, it is to ask for help from the Youzhou Army; The second is to ask for help from the leading ······"

The generals all know that Mulan and Hedoro have irreconcilable contradictions, and it is almost impossible to ask for help from Hedoro, even if Mulan is willing to put down, Hedoro is afraid that he is not willing to bring troops.

Then he can only ask Zhao Junsheng for help, and the generals all know that Hua Mulan is Zhao Junsheng's fiancée, and with this relationship, it is impossible for Zhao Junsheng not to bring troops to relieve the siege.

"That's it, you really send a team of people to secretly go down the mountain to see if you can avoid the blockade of the Yan army, if you really can't avoid it, then forcibly break through and go out for help!"

That night, Fuzhen sent five messengers for help in a row, but they were all intercepted by the Yan army, and the last two forced breakthroughs were unsuccessful, but instead lost a tooth's troops, and Mulan was so distressed that she wanted to die.

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Van City.

The city is located on the east bank of the Wuhou Qinshui (the ancient name of the Laoha River), and the city and the surrounding area are inhabited by people of various tribes, including Xianbei, Khitan, Kumoxi and Han.

After Zhao Junsheng arrived here with his troops, before he had time to attack the city, the Yan army garrison surrendered with eight hundred soldiers, which made him so embarrassed, how embarrassing is this?

When the Yan army guards came out with the soldiers putting down their weapons, Zhao Junsheng asked the Yan army guards: "Why do you surrender without fighting?" ”

The Yan army guard said with a bitter face: "Back to the general's words, the last general is called Fan Guiting, a few months ago as a deputy general followed General Feng Yu to attack Youzhou, General Feng died in battle, the last general escaped with his life, I heard that this time the general led the troops to come, the last general knew that he was not the general's opponent, rather than let the soldiers under his command innocently send to death, it is better to surrender the city, and please treat these soldiers and the people in the city well, they are innocent after all."

Zhao Junsheng never thought that he would have such a great deterrent, and he made this Fan Guiting surrender with just one reputation, and he didn't know if this guy was afraid or because he worshiped him.

"Okay, since you are so knowledgeable, this general will not embarrass you, are you willing to serve me?"

Fan Guiting was overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "The last general is willing to follow the general, and he will die!" ”

"Get up!" Zhao Junsheng helped him up, "These eight hundred men and horses continue to be led by you, and you will be a partial general under my account for the time being, but this general wants to arrange a deputy general for you, are you willing?" ”

Fan Guiting hurriedly clenched his fists and said, "Everything is under the orders of the general!" ”

In the next two days, Zhao Junsheng learned about the military and political affairs, population, acres of land, taxes, and so on.

Gao Xu quickly rushed to Fancheng with 4,000 soldiers and horses to rendezvous with Zhao Junsheng.

In the hall of the mansion in Fancheng, Zhao Junsheng and Gao Xu sat facing each other, with wine and meat on the table, and the two were talking while eating.

"Is there any movement on the Rouran side?" Zhao Junsheng asked.

Gao Xu shook his head and said: "There is no movement, Rouran Khan Wu Ti seems to be quite honest in the past two years, and he has not made any movement at the border."

Zhao Junsheng said: "That's because he was busy cleaning up the civil strife, and he was dealing with Gaoche and Ele in the north!" Look at it, when Wu Ti combs out the interior and subdues the higher chariots and Eile in the north, he will definitely deal with Great Wei again, this has become a law! ”

Gao Xu put down the wine cup and said: "My subordinates heard news that Wu Ti, the Khan of Rouran, had sent a delegation to Pingcheng to ask the emperor to marry a princess!" ”

"Oh? When did you get the news? ”

"Ten days ago, the news brought by the baggage team that escorted a batch of ordnance from Wuchuan, now Wu Ti's mission should have arrived in Pingcheng, right?"

Zhao Junsheng frowned and said: "In this way, Wu Ti's envoy took the road from Wuchuan to Pingcheng, and they are afraid that it is not just as simple as asking for relatives!" One of the purposes of Wu Ti's courtship was nothing more than to reassure the emperor and show that Rouran and Great Wei were now in the honeymoon period and would not invade Great Wei; In addition, it is to probe the deployment of our forces on the northern defense line in the open! ”

While the two were talking, Li Bao walked in quickly and hugged his fists to report: "General, Lu Xuanbo is here, he looks very embarrassed, I'm afraid that something has happened to the young lady!" ”

Zhao Junsheng's face changed when he heard this, "Let him come in!" ”