"Oh? Blocked? Cao Cao didn't even do it? Luoyang, Hussar Hall, Lu Bu, who was discussing with Jia Xu, looked at the information sent by Nighthawk in surprise, handed the information to Jia Xu, and turned his head to look at Nighthawk: "Closely monitor the movements of both sides." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Whoa!" Nighthawk bowed slightly and retreated silently.

"Lu Xun actually killed a prisoner?" Lu Bu narrowed his eyes slightly: "It seems that the situation in Jiangdong is very bad, and he has not asked our army for help so far?" ”

"Jiangdong is sparsely populated, and killing prisoners is also a helpless move." Jia Xu put the information on the table: "If these people use it, they may turn against them at any time when they are about to fight, but if they are raised, in addition to consuming Jiangdong's military rations at the moment, if they are robbed by Liu Bei, then the battle of Qu'a will not make the slightest sense at all, and it is not good to kill them, Jiangdong is obviously unable to bear too many variables at the moment, but in this way, it is beneficial to the lord." ”

"Not bad." Lu Bu smiled and nodded: "Tianyu doesn't take it, but suffers the blame, I don't want to give me such a big gift before I am crowned king!" ”

"It's been less than two months since the king, and I'm afraid the time is a little reluctant." Jia Xu shook his head.

"Don't forget, we still have a card in our hand that hasn't been played yet." Lu Bu smiled.

"It's a lot of worries." Jia Xu was stunned when he heard this, smiled and shook his head.

Three days later, Yique Pass Pang De, Wuguan Hao Zhao and Wei Yan, who was transferred back to Hanzhong, each received a flying pigeon from Luoyang at the same time, ordering Pang De's troops to go out of Nanyang, and Hao Zhao sent troops from Wuguan and joined forces with Wei Yan to take Xincheng and Shangyong counties.

"General, it's finally time to send troops!" In Yique Pass, after receiving the Luoyang Flying Pigeon Message, the entire Yique Pass was jubilant, and Pang De immediately ordered 30,000 mercenaries from the Western Regions and 20,000 soldiers of the Shooting Battalion to start sending troops to Nanyang, leaving only a deputy general and thousands of temporarily recruited soldiers and horses to defend the city.

Wuguan, General's Mansion.

"It's finally time for this day!" Hao Zhao was a little excited to cinch the letter in his hand into a ball, and waved his fist excitedly, since Lu Bu entered the pass, Hao Zhao was stationed in Wuguan, responsible for the southern gateway of Chang'an, but not only Wuguan, as Lu Bu's troops gradually became sufficient, including Chencang, Xiegu These places are all responsible for Hao Zhao, from an ignorant boy back then, to now, Hao Zhao has almost reached the age of standing, although the responsibility is heavy, Lu Bu also showed enough trust in him, but as a general, he has been responsible for defense, Seeing that Wei Yan, Ma Chao, Zhao Yun, and Pang De were new generals after him, they were still responsible for defense, especially in the previous battle, Yique Pass and Tiger Prison were in a series of battles, but Hao Zhao could only wipe his weapons in Wuguan and wait.

Seeing that Wuguan's weapons are changed again and again, they can only shoot targets every day, and occasionally there is an enemy who comes to attack, or a coward, and they will stop eating as soon as they go down with random arrows.

Not only Hao Zhao, but also up and down Wuguan, are in an inexplicable euphoria, all these years, they have been training and training, training until they are about to vomit, seeing others get meritorious services and promotions, but they can only count ants in addition to training, such days have finally come to an end.

Compared with these two, Wei Yan, who had just been transferred back to Hanzhong and had not yet sat on the hot ass, was much calmer, the battle of Shuzhong had just come down, and now it seemed that he was going to use troops against Jingzhou.

The day after receiving the letter from Luoyang, Wei Yan and Hao Zhao sent troops at the same time, a large number of elite people in the pass out of the pass, one by one, the dragon and the tiger were fierce, and the momentum was like a rainbow to kill the two counties of Shangyong and Xincheng, where did the two counties Taishou see such a battle, and before they saw who the enemy was, they were shot by a rain of arrows, and the patrol city walls had to be patrolled by cats, and the enemy had not yet attacked the city, and the morale had been shot by others.

This battle really can't be fought, no one has a long range from the high ground, even if it's a trebuchet, it can't play a role, go out of the city to fight? It's even more nonsense, the total number of defenders in all the cities in the two counties is not enough 10,000, and when they rush out of the city, there is no one left before they arrive.

In less than half a month, the two counties of Shangyong and Xincheng were all subdued, and they were taken over by the soldiers and horses sent from Chang'an, and the two began to march to Nanyang after two days of repair, preparing to join forces with Pang De to break through Nanyang.

However, in Nanyang, Pound encountered resistance.

Although Guan Yu left, he did not take all the elites of Nanyang away, and after Liu Bei decided to attack Jiangdong, he transferred his general Li Yan to Nanyang, and increased the garrison of Nanyang to 50,000, in case if the war did not go well, Lu Bu took the opportunity to attack and was able to block Lu Bu's attack.

Li Yan obviously knew the power of the crossbow in Guanzhong, and also expected that once the war in Jiangdong did not go well, Lu Bu would inevitably go south, so at the beginning of his tenure, he began to implement the strategy of fortifying the wall and clearing the wilderness, using Wancheng as the front line to resist Lu Bu, moving a large number of people to the south, and at the same time digging out ravines outside Nanyang City, which was also the defense method that Li Yan pondered.

Although the crossbow is strong, as long as the soldiers hide in these ravines, no matter how strong the crossbow in the pass is, it is impossible to turn around and shoot the soldiers in the ravine, and at the same time, if the soldiers in the pass charge forcefully, the soldiers in the ravines can shoot the enemy with bows and arrows.

Wancheng was covered with these ravines in all directions, within five hundred steps, and Pang De's army was blocked by these ravines, and could not penetrate even for several days.

"General, what should I do?" Outside Wancheng, in Pang De's camp, a new round of loss ratio was sent, although most of the mercenaries killed in the battle were mercenaries from the Western Regions, but even if they used human lives to add such a long distance, and Li Yan still used layers of defensive tactics, and filled in all the 30,000 mercenaries from the Western Regions, they couldn't be added to Wancheng.

The invincible strong bow and crossbow were deflated in front of these trenches, which made the soldiers of Guanzhong itch with hatred, but they were helpless.

"We can't continue to fight like this, otherwise, before we touch the walls of Nanyang City, our people will have to be exhausted!" Pang De clicked on the map, he has been stationed here for almost half a month, Shangyong and Xincheng have been receiving successes one after another, but he is now unable to move an inch, which makes him a little unconvinced, although this is the main force, but how can the shooting battalion be said to be one of the five elites under Lu Bu's command, how can people compare?

"What are your plans?" Pound rubbed his temples and turned his head to look at the crowd.

"This ......" the generals looked at each other, and one of the generals said tentatively, "General, why don't we also dig out the trenches, avoid their bows and arrows, and fight them directly in close combat?" ”

"That's the way it is?" Pound touched his chin when he heard this, nodded and said, "Send a few more engineer troops to dig for me from different directions!" Shoot the Sound Battalion soldiers ready for melee combat! ”

"Whoa!"

In Lu Bu's army, there is a clear division of labor, each army will have an engineer battalion, which is responsible for building a camp and making fortifications, although it can also fight, but unless it is a last resort, the engineer battalion is rarely in direct confrontation with the enemy.

On Wancheng, Li Yan put up a pergola with his hands, watching the other party start digging trenches, and the faces of several generals around him were a little ugly: "General, if we dig like this, our advantage will be gone!" ”

"It doesn't matter, as long as you can hold out until the lord defeats Jiangdong!" Li Yan shook his head and sneered: "And since the other party chose to attack with trenches, it is also equivalent to giving up the advantage of Guanzhong's crossbow, which is not necessarily a bad thing for us." ”

The most desperate thing is to see that the other party can fight him, but he doesn't even have a chance to fight back, Guanzhong has obviously been adopting such a tactic, this kind of trench was also forced out by Lu Bu, if you don't dig three feet into the ground, you really can't communicate with Lu Bu normally!

"You command, see the direction of their digging, let the soldiers separate in advance, and shoot the thieves with bows and arrows first!" Li Yan thought about it slightly and said to the deputy general.

The adjutant general's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he agreed and began to command the flag officer to give orders.

Although the speed of the engineer battalion was fast, the trench of nearly 200 paces took two hours to dig.

"Boom~"

"Shoot the arrows!"

The clod of soil collapsed, and the soldiers who had already retreated to the sides followed the general's order, and dozens of arrows shot at the same time from both sides towards the few figures who had just come out.

"Bell Bell Bell ~"

In the dull sound, as the flying dust dispersed, what appeared in everyone's sight was several shields connected together, and the flying arrows did not cause any damage.

"Kill!" This time, the elite soldiers of the Shooting Battalion came in, and after shaking the soil on their heads, they quickly raised their shields and killed the other party.

The big shield made in Guanzhong is very large, and it can almost cover most of the body when it is erected, but in this trench, the movement is quite inconvenient, so the moment the two sides make contact, the soldiers of the shooting sound battalion directly smash the shield at each other, and then swing the knife to kill.

The weapons made of 100 slashing steel and the sturdy armor have an advantage in this not wide trench, unless the opponent's weapons are cut to the head and neck, it is difficult to cause damage to them, but the weapons of the soldiers of the Shooting Battalion can easily tear their leather armor or even cut off their weapons.

For a time, when three or five shooter battalion soldiers got together, the Jingzhou army that could be killed was defeated, and with the endless stream of shooter battalion soldiers coming in, the first line of defense quickly collapsed.

"General, this ......" several lieutenants saw the city wall really, this kind of small-scale collision encountered such an elite as the shooting battalion, and the narrow area provided convenience for the other party, and if it went on like this, this trench became the cover of the other party, and it was difficult for the archers at the head of the city to shoot the elite of these passes hiding in the trench.