Wei Yan brought 5,000 soldiers and horses, but he left 1,000 soldiers and horses to guard the baggage, and the remaining 4,000 people brought over.

Zhang Ren's soldiers and horses were twice as large as Wei Yan's, but seeing that Wei Yan's soldiers and horses were so elite, Zhang Ren still had no bottom in his heart. He is a good general, and he knows that elite soldiers are not calculated by quantity, and the real elite soldiers are used to win more with less.

The two armies collided together, and then a one-sided situation emerged. Zhang Ren's soldiers fell in rows, but few of Wei Yan's soldiers fell. Both sides were rushing forward, Wei Yan and his soldiers continued to attack forward, and the soldiers formed a small army formation in groups of three or five, constantly reaping the lives of Zhang Ren's soldiers.

Seeing that some of his companions were falling, Zhang Ren's soldiers began to panic, and many people turned around and fled. Zhang Ren did not send anyone to supervise the battle, from the speed of the enemy's formation, he already knew that the battle would be lost, and when he saw someone fleeing, he immediately ordered a retreat, and then he took his own soldiers to break the rear.

After Wei Yan saw Zhang Ren broken, he immediately killed the people, he wanted to leave Zhang Ren behind, and killing the generals was the best way to establish his authority.

However, Zhang Ren was also paying attention to him, and when he saw Wei Yan leading people to surround him, he immediately pulled away. Although he is not afraid of death, he does not want to die in vain.

Wei Yan watched Zhang Ren flee, and could only let the soldiers shoot him with arrows. But unfortunately, several of Zhang Ren's personal soldiers were shot to death, but Zhang Ren was not harmed. Seeing this, Wei Yan was also angry enough, but there was no way, this kind of thing was more dependent on luck, there were many people on the battlefield, and it was normal to not be able to shoot.

Zhang Ren fled back to the barracks, and Wei Yan did not pursue, but cleaned up the battlefield. After cleaning up the corpses, collecting the prisoners, and collecting the weapons, he retreated three miles and began to set up camp. Wei Yan counted the losses and killed and wounded about 200 people, but killed nearly 1,000 of the enemy, and 3 or 400 prisoners who were seriously wounded and could not escape.

At this time, Fu Youde also rushed over, and Fu Youde saw that Wei Yan had already won a big victory, and couldn't help but look at Wei Yan with admiration. Although Wei Yan is a little problematic, he is very capable, and if he is trained well, he will definitely become a pillar of the country.

Fu Youde's arrival made the camp set up faster. Before nightfall, the camp was finished. More than 10,000 troops rested at this time, and Fu Youde originally wanted the enemy army to come and sneak attack! As a result, Wei Yan scared them, and until the camp was built, no one came out to attack.

Similar to what Fu Youde imagined, Zhang Ren and the others were indeed frightened by Wei Yan. Zhang Yiyi lost nearly 2,000 people in the battle, and the morale of the soldiers he saw in the camp was also low, twice as much as that of others, but he returned with a heavy defeat, so it is strange that the morale can be high.

The night was safe, and the next day Fu Youde led the army to start an invitation to Zhang Ren's three-person camp, and won the battle yesterday, and of course it will continue today!

However, because the soldiers did not have much morale, the three did not face the battle, but prepared to defend it.

Fu Youde saw that Zhang Ren and the others did not go out of the camp to fight, so he had no choice but to attack the camp.

Fu Youde attacked the camp, and Zhang Ren and the three people in the camp actively defended. It's a pity that the offensive ability outside the camp is too strong, and the three of them can barely resist, but the casualties are too great.

One day after the siege of the city, Zhang Ren and the three of them looked at the casualty report and were silent. Today, more than 1,000 people were killed and countless wounded, but the corpses of enemy soldiers obtained outside the camp were less than 100. Even if the enemy soldiers took some corpses with them when they retreated, it would definitely not exceed 300 people.

"It won't work like this, without the protection of the city wall, we won't be able to defeat Fu Youde at all." Zhang Ren said: "I'm going to withdraw to Ruoxian, otherwise we won't have any troops in a few days." ”

Liu Yi nodded and said, "Zhang Yijun's soldiers are too elite, I think it's better for us to withdraw overnight." ”

Ling Bao said with some concern: "Now the morale of the soldiers is completely lost, if they are withdrawn overnight, I am afraid that many soldiers will take the opportunity to escape!" ”

Liu Bi said: "It is better to let them escape than to be chased and killed!" ”

Zhang Ren nodded, then prepare, let's withdraw tonight! ”

The three of them had decided to withdraw in the evening. They left very suddenly, and they hadn't lit torches, and by the time Fu Youde's soldiers found out, Zhang Ren and the others had almost withdrawn. Wei Yan proposed: "General, the enemy withdrew overnight, and he must be afraid of our army. Please let the general let me pursue in case the enemy army returns to Yuxian safely. ”

Fu Youde nodded and said, "That's true, but you don't need to be too close to avoid being ambushed." The enemy army fled overnight, and there must be many deserters, so it is only necessary to follow them and not let them collect the deserters. ”

Wei Yan immediately led his troops, followed Zhang Ren and the others, and chased them all the way to Ruoxian. Zhang Ren and the three fled back to Luo County, and only six or seven thousand of the 20,000 people they brought out were left, and the rest of them fled. Coupled with the 10,000 people Deng Xian left in Luo County, the defenders of Luo County were only more than 10,000.

Fu Youde and Di Qing arrived outside the city of Ruoxian one after another, and their soldiers were as many as 40,000. Di Qing was not in a hurry to attack the city, but to build siege equipment.

Shuzhong is not good at this, there are not many mountain roads, and you need to build siege equipment from scratch when you don't get to one place. Fortunately, the distance between Mianzhu and Ruoxian is not long, and many siege equipment left in Mianzhu can be packed and transported.

After the siege equipment was ready, Di Qing and Fu Youde immediately began to attack the city, and the stone arrows flooded the head of the city in Ruoxian.

It was also the first time for Zhang Ren and the four of them to face such an attack, and they never thought that the siege outside the city would be so fierce. Although Zhang Ren quickly let the soldiers hide, the morale of the soldiers in the city inevitably decreased. At this time, trebuchets are a big killing weapon, and when they are used, the attacker will have a psychological shadow.

Fortunately, there were many soldiers in the county, and Zhang Ren and others directly reluctantly held the county and held on for more than ten days.

Di Qing and Fu Youde had to capture Ruoxian several times, but each time they missed by a fraction of a millimeter, and each time they were personally blocked by Zhang Ren and others.

There is no strategy to think about in siege warfare, it is nothing more than ant attachment and digging into the ground, in the era when you can't go to the sky, there are only these two roads to go, and the rest are just cover methods.

Zhang Yijun's cover methods were already superb, and the number of soldiers killed and wounded in Ruo County was increasing by nearly 1,000 per day. But the defenders of Ruxian County have also become accustomed to such an attack, whether it is the way or the degree of tragedy, they have gradually mastered the trick of defense.

The further back they went, the fewer casualties among the soldiers of the county became, and in seven or eight days it had dropped to less than 500 people, and after more than ten days it was only 300 people.