"The head of the military department?" Fang Li looked up at the thin back of the little baby on the lookout, "My Datang Nine Rank Junior Officials have such a great consciousness?" ”

Xu Huang seemed to remember something, shook his head helplessly and smiled: "It's not just this one, if the lord goes to the military camp to investigate carefully, he can find a lot of children of my Tang officials, even if he is a general, there are many sons of the Wenchen family who have also been sent, which really gives the ministers a headache." ”

"General, you can't just see those sons of adults!" Next to the battlements of the city wall, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old Yuan Shu crossbowman suddenly called, "The little ones were also driven by the grandmother to join the army and defend Xingyang!" ”

Xu Huang slapped the young man's helmet angrily, and scolded with a smile: "Okay, I know that you kid is brave!" ”

Fang Li smiled, he didn't blame Meng Lang for this little soldier, but took the initiative to squat down and chat with him, seeing that the lord was so approachable, many half-sized babies next to him also came up one after another, and rushed to start introducing themselves.

There are those who are less than sixteen years old but have taken the initiative to join the army for three years, there are those who were driven into the barracks by their grandmothers a few days ago, and their hands have been stained with the blood of Wei soldiers, and there are also those who are obviously the only seedlings in the family but take the initiative to join the army without their parents, and some even say that the sisters in the family also want to disguise themselves as men, which caused a burst of laughter among the young people who are strong in blood.

The older veterans took the initiative to take on the responsibility of reconnaissance and vigilance, leaving the opportunity to get up close and personal with the lord to these children.

Fang Li smiled and listened to the bold words of these big and small children in front of him, but there were huge waves in his heart.

The people are not afraid of death, so why should they be afraid of death?

The morale of the people in the Tang Dynasty is like this, a small Wei State can really destroy the Tang Kingdom!

The dark clouds that had been haunting his heart since he learned the bad news in the north suddenly dispersed, and from these half-grown children, Fang Li felt incomparable confidence for the first time.

"They are all my good sons of the Tang Dynasty!" Fang Li looked over one by one, trying to remember the vivid faces of each teenager, "You have to live, live to make contributions to my Tang Dynasty, and glorify your ancestors!" ”

The teenagers erupted in earth-shattering cheers, and infected the veterans who pricked up their ears to listen, and gradually spread, and the four walls of Xingyang City were shrouded in a vigorous cheer.

Under this fearless spirit, Fang Li felt that dominating the world was no longer an illusory mission imposed on him by the system, and the 60,000 Wei troops who should have had the advantage under the city walls somehow remembered how they looked when they were chased by the Tang army not long ago, and they couldn't help but start feeling a little weak in their hearts.

The cheers of the Tang army were clearly audible even in the big tent of the Wei camp, and Wei Yi put down the battle report in his hand, and couldn't help but walk out of the tent and look into the distance, adding a bit of solemnity to his heart.

Twenty kilometers away from Xingyang City, Ma Zhong, who had led five thousand light horsemen to aid Xingyang twenty days ago, but entered the city five days ago but was nowhere to be found, appeared in the bushes on the side of the road at some point, followed by five hundred Tang soldiers, all dressed in light armor, holding long swords and light crossbows, all lying on the ground, staring closely at the sheep intestine path more than a dozen cloths away, obviously waiting for someone.

The young Tang soldier who was lying beside Ma Zhong couldn't help but start complaining in a low voice: "General, we have been waiting here for five days, and the brothers are all about to become moldy, is the information of the lord accurate?" ”

"Shut your mouth and wait quietly!" Ma Zhong didn't blink his eyes, "When will the lord's intelligence be missed, look at it, when the Wei army messenger arrives, that will be the time for us to make meritorious contributions!" ”

The young Tang Bing looked a little unconvinced: "There have been a few waves of people who have gone to Daliang, and I haven't seen a ghost who came, general, we really didn't wait for the wrong place?" ”

Ma Zhong raised his head, just about to teach this endless bastard a lesson, when suddenly his ears pricked up, and the sound of hurried horses' hooves was faintly heard a hundred steps away.

"It's coming!" Ma Zhong hurriedly fell down again, and Tang Bing's eyes lit up, and he also closed his mouth and looked over without blinking.

Soon, three lightly armed Wei cavalry appeared in everyone's sight, and Ma Zhong waited quietly, waiting for the three to enter the range of the tripping horse, and suddenly whistled.

A sharp whistle suddenly sounded from the bushes on both sides, and the three Wei soldiers were startled and hurried to rein in the reins of their horses, but it was too late. The Tang soldiers, who had been in ambush on both sides for a long time, pulled the rope suddenly, and the stumbling horses buried in the soil were tightened, and the front hooves of the three horses bent, and the owner on his back fell off the horse in an instant.

Ma Zhong whistled, and five hundred Tang soldiers swarmed up, but the poor three Wei soldiers died in the chaos before they could draw their weapons.

Waving his hand to let everyone clean up the battlefield, Ma Zhong squatted down and touched the three Wei soldiers, and sure enough, he found a stack of white paper full of words.

Even the blank paper was used, and it seemed that Weiss was in a hurry.

Ma Zhong opened the paper and looked at it carefully, and sure enough, it was the news of the rescue of the commander, and he couldn't help but be happy: "Good guy, the lord's information is really right, let's stop the right person!" ”

The command dragged the three corpses into the bushes, and a man who looked like a pawn in the Tang soldiers ran to ask for instructions: "General, do you want to send someone to inform the lord of the situation here?" ”

"No, Wei Yu has surrounded Xingyang City so much that even birds can't enter, let alone deliver letters." Ma Zhong shook his head, "The lord knows in his heart, let's concentrate on stopping people here." ”

Once he made up his mind, Zhao Yong's movements were indeed as vigorous as his people, and the army on the border of Zhao Qi could not move, so he transferred 20,000 cavalry from the border of Zhao and Jin, and asked Guo Xin to take the formation on the border of Zhao and Wei, putting on a posture that he was going to invade Wei tomorrow.

Although there were only 20,000, the reputation of the cavalry of the Zhao State who were brave and good at fighting, and even the grassland barbarians could hardly match it, still frightened Wei Si, and summoned Wei Wuji overnight to discuss countermeasures.

Wei Wuji had a promise of righteousness in advance, and decided that the Zhao army was just acting like it would not really attack, so he persuaded Wei Si to withdraw his troops from the Tang State as previously agreed, so as to concentrate his forces to guard against the Zhao army.

Wei Si was not as determined as before now, but seeing that Xingyang City was reluctant to let go of the fat in his hand, Wei Wuji still hesitated under repeated persuasion.

Seeing this, Fa Zheng gave Wei Wuji an idea, there is no need to withdraw completely, as long as half of it is withdrawn, anyway, the Tang army and the Jin army are contained, most of the soldiers and horses in Yanzhou have already gone to Pinglu, how can it take a month for the army to rush from Pinglu to Xingyang, and it is enough for Wei Yu to leave 30,000 troops.

Weiss thought about it, this is the truth! Looking at the 20,000 Zhao troops on the border, the more they looked at it, the more frightened they became, and they hurriedly sent messengers for eight hundred miles to rush day and night to deliver a message to Wei Yu.

In addition to the transfer of troops, Weiss also has his own careful thoughts - the monarchs and ministers of the Tang State are on the front line and Wei Yi's eyebrows, although Weiss is not enough to suspect Wei Yi's rebellion, but he finally has a pimple in his heart.

Taking this opportunity to transfer Wei Yu back and put it under his nose, Wei Si can rest assured, Xingyang City is empty, and Wei Yu has been surrounded for so long, it is the same to change the general in the past!

After making up his mind, Weiss waited day and night in the palace for the news of Wei Yi leading his troops back to help.

After waiting for five days and not replying, it may be that something went wrong on the way of the messenger; Then send another batch!

There was no reply, maybe Wei Yu had some other plans, send another batch, and the wording should be harsher!

Twenty days later, no news came back. The Zhao army on the border was fierce, and it was about to be killed.

Wei Si was a little panicked, and summoned Wei Wuji to discuss countermeasures, and a not-so-good sentence appeared in the minds of the two of them at the same time - the general is outside, and the military order is not accepted!

Wei Wuji persuaded Wei Si not to draw conclusions first, and then send a group of messengers to try, and describe the crisis encountered in the country in detail to Wei Yu, Wei Wei is handsome, as long as he understands the meaning of the lord, he will definitely send troops back to help, Wei Si listened.

The third group of messengers died again under Ma Zhong's knife without any suspense, and Wei Yi had besieged Xingyang for nearly a month, and he was even more confident.

Wei Wuji was also a little empty now, and began to probe Fa Zheng's words openly and secretly, wanting to test whether Wei Yi had really reached a tacit understanding with Tang Guo.

Fa Zheng was naturally full of denials, and persuaded Wei Wuji not to think too much, Wei Yi was a great talent leading troops, and he must have some thoughts of his own and it was inconvenient to say them clearly, so he chose to remain silent.

Wei Si listened to Fa Zheng's words, not only did not eliminate his suspicion of Wei Yi, but felt more and more that there was a problem on the Xingyang front.

It is reported that there are less than 10,000 defenders in Xingyang City, and even if reinforcements enter the city later, it will be less than 20,000 when it is full, right? They are all tired divisions who have experienced the battle of attacking Jin, why did he fight for a month without any movement?

The last straw that broke the camel's back was the news from the Jin State attacking the Shaoliang front.

"What do you say? The Jin army was defeated?! Weiss held the silk book's hand and trembled uncontrollably, "This is impossible, isn't he still full of confidence when he sends troops?" How suddenly it was a big defeat! ”

Wei Wuji lowered his head, and his heart was also full of bitterness: "Duke Jin said that he thought that Xingyang was besieged, and Cao Cao would definitely send troops to help no matter how far he went, and Shaoliang would definitely be empty." But I didn't expect that Cao Cao was a madman, and he didn't even save the lord when he was surrounded! ”

"There are as many as 60,000 defenders in Shaoliang City plus the original Qing Yuan garrison, and the Jin army only has more than 30,000 people.

"That idiot!" Weiss slapped his palm on the table, his eyes reddened, "He thought, how could he think so!" Attacking Shaoliang, what a big deal, even if he doesn't gather heavy troops, how can he recall the first Bi Wan back? He's so treacherous..."

"Lord, it's useless to blame Duke Jin now." Wei Wuji interrupted Wei Si's venting, his mouth full of bitterness, "This is the news from half a month ago, and now Cao Cao's Tang army is afraid that it has invaded the territory of the Jin State again, and the top priority is to quickly let General Wei Yi's army come back to help..."

"The widow thinks!" Weiss was so angry that he smoked, "You are watching, how many times have the widows sent messengers?" Did he react in any way?! ”

Wei Wuji sighed: "This time is different from the past, the lord should persuade General Wei Yu well." ”

What Wei Wuji wanted was to tell Wei Yi the news of the defeat of the Jin army, and even if Wei Yi wanted to take Xingyang again, he would definitely take into account the overall situation and retreat to help. But Weiss thought differently, this monarch who was anxious and afraid that he had lost his mind moved to kill in his heart.