Blessings are incomparable, disasters are not singular, but today's Yang Wu is double happy.

Although Zhu Qianyou was seriously injured, it was not fatal; His injuries were mainly left after a night of fierce fighting, although he was protected by heavy armor and did not suffer serious injuries, but the long absence of bandaging wounds caused him to lose too much blood, which was the root cause of his coma.

And when he finally charged, he fell to the ground and fell unconscious with six arrows, which looked very scary, but it was not like Li Zhang, who had been confirmed to be killed, it was an arrow in the brain, and the place where Zhu Qianyou was hit by the arrow was not critical, so as long as the treatment was timely, there would not be much danger.

After getting this news, Yang Wu was already pleasantly surprised, but another news that surprised him was that reinforcements arrived in time.

To his surprise, the reinforcements that came were not Li Jian, nor were they led by Li Decheng, Zhu Siqing or Chai Kehong, but by Yang Liu Nancheng's army!

When the flag representing Zhou Ben was waving in the wind and gradually becoming clear under the sun, the soldiers of the Wu army on the hillside let out cheers of victory.

At the same time, under the hillside, the camp of the Jin army was as dead silent, and countless people looked at the Wu reinforcements who were approaching in the distance, their faces were like earth, and the entire camp began to stir.

The direction of reinforcements was the north of the battlefield, that is, the left flank, where the terrain was narrower and the river cut it off.

At this time, the army that the Jin army had sent out to encircle the Wu army around the rear happened to be facing the Wu army reinforcements when retreating, and the battle broke out immediately.

The Jin army had just experienced a crushing defeat, morale was low, and the soldiers had no fighting spirit, and only wanted to retreat to rest and recuperate; However, the reinforcements of the Wu army came as a new force, and their morale was booming, and this battle immediately defeated the Jin army.

The Wu army on this side of the hill saw that the reinforcements had easily routed their opponents, and they suddenly became even more excited, even forgetting their fatigue and the grief caused by the tragic casualties, and they all cheered loudly.

The Jin army camp also quickly discovered the change in the situation, and their cavalry immediately dispatched to meet the retreat of the Jin army.

The fighting between the two sides intensified.

The reinforcements that had just arrived should only be the vanguard, their number was not much, only five or six thousand, although the morale was high, but in the face of the enemy's cavalry had to be careful, and the battle was in a stalemate for a while.

It didn't take long for several fast horses to gallop around the battlefield, and soon climbed up the hill to report to Yang Wu.

The first person turned out to be Yang Wu's brother-in-law Zhou Ye.

Seeing Zhou Ye, Yang Wu was immediately surprised and asked, "Why are you here?" Who's leading the troops now? ”

"Back to the king, the army under the mountain is led by General Wang Yanyu."

Yang Wu nodded, and then asked, "How many reinforcements have come, and how is the situation on Yang Liu's side?" ”

Although the situation here is urgent, Yang Wu never expected Yang Liu to send reinforcements, he only hoped that there would be no problems in the siege.

I only heard Zhou Ye smile proudly: "My father sent a total of 15,000 troops over, and now it is only a pioneer who has arrived." As for Yang Liu's side, please rest assured, the battle situation over there is very good, I heard that our army successfully ambushed the enemy last night, killing and wounding five or six thousand defenders in the city. ”

"What? And this kind of thing? Yang Wu was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly asked for details.

It turned out that after Yang Wu sent someone to inform Zhou Ben of the situation here yesterday, the generals under Zhou Ben's command heard that the Chinese army led by Yang Wu himself was surrounded by the main force of the Jin army, and they immediately couldn't sit still, and everyone thought that they should immediately send troops over to support in case of accidents.

However, Zhou Ben believed that his task was to besiege Yang Liu Nancheng, and the rescue task should be mainly handed over to Li Jian in Pingyin to complete.

Of course, he did not send troops to help, but he believed that he should send reinforcements to support Yang Wu on the basis of ensuring his own safety.

After all, it has been more than eight months since Yang Liu Nancheng was besieged, and although the soldiers in the city have not attacked out of the city for several months, but now that the Jin army has crossed the river in a big way, who can guarantee that the defenders in the city will not take the opportunity to kill them?

If too many reinforcements were sent to rescue Yang Wu, resulting in a shortage of troops left behind, and the defenders in the city suddenly came out to raid, resulting in the failure of the siege, it would be an even more terrible consequence.

So in the end, Zhou Ben decided to send only 5,000 troops, led by Wang Yanyu and Zhou Ye, to rush over from the small road, and try to avoid fighting with the Jin army along the way, preferring to take a detour to the battlefield as quickly as possible to help Yang Wu strengthen his defense.

At this time, Huo Yanwei, the original general of the Liang army, who later surrendered to Wu and is now serving under Zhou Ben, stood up at this time and offered a plan that he could use this opportunity to ambush the defenders.

According to Huo Yanwei's suggestion, Zhou Ben gathered half of the army, left the camp in batches, and made the appearance of going to rescue Yang Wu to confuse the defenders in the city.

After dark, except for the 5,000 forwards led by Wang Yanyan and Zhou Ye, the other troops quietly returned to the camp under the cover of night and laid an ambush.

In this way, if you look at the city from the city, you will find that the besieging Wu army has been reduced to only 20,000 people, although the army is still more than the defenders, but there is no absolute advantage, plus the Wu army must defend various defense lines, the forces will be further dispersed.

However, if the defenders go out of the city to raid, they can concentrate their forces, and they can have a local advantage in troops.

In this way, even if many of the defenders advocated immediately going out of the city to raid the Wu army, if they could break through the Wu army's camp in one fell swoop, they would not only be able to lift the eight-month siege, but also greatly reduce the pressure on the Jin king's side, and even if they were lucky, they could lead the army to support the Jin king after winning the victory here.

Such an attractive plan was immediately supported by the generals.

However, the chief general guarding Yang Liu Nancheng was Li Zhou, Li Cunqiao's confidant general, who had a cautious personality and was calm, and he was not so easily deceived.

During the eight-month siege of the city, the Wu army did not try to set a trap, hoping to lure the defenders out of the city for a decisive battle.

For example, when the Wu army rotated in a big way before, there was an extremely chaotic scene, and it seemed that there was a major hole in the defense line of the Wu army, as long as the defenders went out of the city to raid, they would definitely be able to win in one fell swoop.

At that time, many generals also advocated an immediate raid, but Li Zhou decisively refused.

At this time, in the face of the generals' requests, Li Zhou still categorically rejected the generals' requests, and he believed that he should continue to hold the city and not take risks easily.

It's a pity that Li Zhou forgot that his repeated refusals in the past had long made the generals disappointed in him, and many people thought that he was the main general but he was so afraid of the enemy and cowardly, and he was really unworthy of being the main general.

Immediately, a general stood up and said: "In the past, the main force of our army was still in Hebei, and it was indeed difficult to completely break the siege by relying on the defenders in our city alone, so it is understandable for the general to be cautious; But now that the king has crossed the river with a large army, it would be too cautious if we still defend the city. ”

The other general was not so polite, he directly accused: "The king led the army to cross the river and fight the Wu army, and it must have reached a critical moment at this time, otherwise Zhou Ben would not have sent the besieging army to other places." At this time, if we still blindly hold on, but sit back and watch the main force of the king fall into a bitter battle, what is the intention? ”

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In the face of the accusations of the generals, in the end, Li Zhou could not hold on any longer.

Although he is a close general of Li Cunxuan, after all, he has no major military exploits before, and he is far from being able to compare with veterans such as Li Cunshen and Zhou Dewei in terms of qualifications and prestige, and he finally had to compromise in the face of the excited generals.

However, although he reluctantly agreed to go out of the city to raid, Li Zhou, who was cautious by nature, still did not dare to be careless.

He divided his army into two parts, one part was left to hold the city, and the other part was used to raid the enemy camp.

As for the raid on this part of the enemy camp, he made careful arrangements, using the 3,000 infantry army as the vanguard to raid, and although the rest of the army went out of the city, he was not busy with action, waiting for the results of the forward raid to come out before acting.

If the forward raid goes well, then the follow-up army will immediately follow up to expand the results; Conversely, if the enemy sets a trap, then the follow-up army can also step forward to meet the vanguard and break through.

This arrangement seemed seamless, and even if the generals still felt that he was too cautious, no one could continue to accuse him.

That night, 10,000 Jin troops quietly went out of the city to raid, with 3,000 people as the vanguard, and took the lead in entering the Wu army camp.

The Wu army camp really seemed to be defenseless, and was thrown into chaos by the Jin army's surprise attack, and a large number of soldiers scattered and fled, as if they had been defeated by the Jin army.

Faced with such a scene, the generals of the Jin army became even more excited, and they asked for follow-up troops to be put into the battlefield to expand the results of the battle.

Even Li Zhou himself saw the hope of victory at this time, and he immediately personally led another 7,000 troops to raid, hoping to completely defeat the Wu army.

However, just after the follow-up Jin army was all dispatched, the Wu army began to move, and more than 10,000 troops in ambush suddenly came out, and the routs who seemed to be scattering and fleeing in the original camp also returned to the battlefield at this time, attacking inside and outside, and storming the Jin army.

When one side of the raid is defeated and instead falls into the encirclement of the enemy army, this scenario is too great a morale blow.

What's more, after the Jin army experienced an eight-month siege, the materials in the city had long been in short supply, and the soldiers were often starving and demoralized, and now they were even more powerless in the face of ambushes, and they were quickly defeated.

After nearly three hours of fierce fighting, four or five thousand of the 10,000 Jin troops who finally left the city were wiped out, and more than 1,000 were captured.

After this great victory, Zhou Ben estimated that the enemy army in the city was no longer able to go out of the city again, so he immediately sent another 10,000 troops to meet Yang Wu.

"King, the follow-up army of 10,000 has been set off for a while, but it should take some time for them to arrive." Zhou Ye said with excitement on his face.

Yang Wu nodded and said, "It's enough for you to arrive in time, and after a while, presumably General Li Jian will also be able to lead the army to arrive." ”

At this time, Zhou Ye noticed that the Wu army on the entire hillside combined was less than 10,000 troops, and he hurriedly asked, "King, how is the battle situation here?" The last general heard that the Chinese army under the command of the king himself should have more than 23,000 people, why is there only one person now? What about the rest of the forces? ”

Yang Wu's face suddenly showed sadness when he heard this, and he did not answer immediately.

Yang Yan on the side also had a sad face, and said: "Uncle, these troops are all the remaining strength of our army, and the other soldiers are all killed in battle!" ”

Although he is not from Queen Zhou Mengjie, he also wants to call Zhou Mengjie "Queen Mother", and Zhou Ye is naturally his uncle.

Zhou Ye was shocked when he heard this, he looked up at the hillside, and saw that this not too big hillside was full of corpses, from the bottom of the mountain to the place near the top of the mountain, there were corpses almost everywhere, including those on the side of the Jin army, and also on the side of the Wu army.

Such a tragic scene made Zhou Ye shocked when he saw it, and he forgot what to say for a while.

Wu Bo, who was following aside, opened his mouth at this time to introduce the situation of last night's fierce battle in a few simple words, and finally said: "Although our army successfully defeated the enemy army, it is also unable to pursue the enemy army. If you hadn't arrived in time, there would have been a hard battle to come! ”

Zhou Ye reacted at this time, and he said with a solemn expression: "King, generals, the last general has heard his father tell him about the tragic battles he has experienced in his life, and the soldiers have lost nearly half of them and are still fighting, which is already impressive; But compared to the king's battle last night, it is far inferior! ”

Yang Wu nodded, yesterday's battle was indeed the most tragic battle he had ever experienced in his life, and even now he was a little afraid, if the previous counter-charge did not win, maybe he would really fall on this nameless hillside.

And once he falls, then the general trend of the whole world will change, and it is difficult to say whether the foundation created by his father and son for two generations can be kept.

These consequences, when the situation was urgent, did not have time to think about them in detail, but now that he calmed down and thought about them, he suddenly sweated on his forehead.

At this time, there was a change in the distance again, and I saw a large number of troops in the north and south, and it seemed that the reinforcements of the Wu army and the Jin army had arrived at the same time!

During the fierce battle yesterday, Zhu Siqing and Chai Kehong sent someone to send a message, saying that they were fiercely blocked by the enemy, and although they were desperately rushing to kill, they still couldn't break through the Jin army's defense line, and they couldn't rush over to support for the time being.

Now it seems that it should be Zhu Siqing and them who finally broke through the enemy's defense line and arrived at the battlefield.

At the same time, the reinforcements sent by Li Jian from the south should have arrived, but the 4,000 troops of the Silver Spear Army had stayed in the south to block the enemy, and now they have also arrived on the battlefield.

In terms of overall strength, the current strength of the two sides is still in a relatively balanced state, and the Wu army has a slight advantage.

However, in terms of morale, the morale of the Jin army is obviously not as good as that of the Wu army, plus there will be reinforcements on the Wu side one after another, but there are no reinforcements on the Jin side.

It can be said that the current situation has been greatly unfavorable to the Jin army.

And for Yang Wu, after a night of fierce fighting, the time has come for a full-scale counterattack.