On the tower of Wancheng City, a group of Jingzhou generals have a little ugly faces, seeing the skillful cooperation of the Guanzhong generals, their own soldiers and horses were killed in the trenches and retreated, this kind of terrain, the advantage of the opponent's strong individual combat was brought into full play, and then continue to fight like this, the role of the trench is simply to facilitate the opponent's siege. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Yan sighed, the gap between the two sides is not only the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers, but also the equipment, although he can't see the specific details clearly, but the soldiers and horses left in the trenches by his own side are almost slaughtered, and the opponent's armor is probably a few grades higher than the fragile leather armor of the Jingzhou soldiers.

"Give up the first and second trenches and throw tung oil!" Taking a deep breath, Li Yan said in a deep voice, this was originally intended to be used in the siege battle in the future, but now it seems that it has to be used in advance.

"Yes!" The adjutant general agreed, and hurriedly asked the standard-bearer to convey the order.

The soldiers in the first and second line trenches heard the clarion call to retreat and hurriedly retreated to the rear trenches, while a jar of fire and oil tanks was constantly thrown into the first and second trenches from the rear.

Bang Bang Bang ~

In the shattered clay pot, a large amount of viscous liquid was sprinkled on the bodies of the soldiers of the Shooting Battalion.

"It's not good, it's tung oil, retreat!" Several alert shooting battalion soldiers smelled the pungent smell, their faces couldn't help but change, and they hurriedly turned over and wanted to climb out of the trenches, but unfortunately it was too late, and in the trenches behind, Jingxiang soldiers had already crawled out one by one, and threw the torches that had already been ignited into the trenches.

"Bang~"

The flames spread through the trenches with countless screams, filling the sight of the soldiers on both sides, no matter how well-trained and well-equipped the soldiers of the Shooting Battalion were, they could not stop the erosion of the flames.

In the rear, in the Pound camp, looking at the trenches covered by flames in an instant, there was a sound of shooting The soldiers of the battalion crawled out of the trenches covered with flames, rolling all over the ground, and someone had already rushed up to help extinguish the fire with soil, but after the fire was extinguished, those soldiers had already been burned. In the human form, Pound's fists clenched tightly for a moment, and he listened to the screams in his ears with an ugly face, his eyes flashed with a bright light, and he roared unwillingly: "Mingjin retreats!" ”

The soldiers of the Shooting Battalion and the mercenaries of the Western Regions slowly retreated, and the Jingzhou generals on the city tower breathed a sigh of relief, the combat effectiveness of these elite soldiers in Guanzhong was really strong, if it were not for this way, fighting head-on, even without the assistance of Guanzhong's strong bows and crossbows, the Jingzhou soldiers would not have much chance of winning.

Pang De retreated to the barracks, thinking about the battle in Wancheng and didn't feel a little headache, such a battle lost five hundred soldiers of the shooting battalion, if the other party's tung oil was enough, just these dense trenches in front of him were enough to stop his army from this Wancheng, not to mention that after defeating Wancheng, he would have to go south to Xiangyang, even if Wei Yan and Hao Zhao came, the result would not be much better.

"General, the soldiers and horses led by the two generals Wei Yan and Hao Zhao have arrived thirty miles away, and the two generals have come to join the general with their personal guards!" Just when Pound was at a loss, a colonel came in and said to Pound.

Shangyong and Xincheng were not the main battlefields of this battle, Liu Bei did not have many troops left in these two counties, and under the internal emptiness at the moment, it was not surprising that they were easily attacked by Wei Yan, but Pang De was still a little unhappy, as the commander of the five elite departments under Lu Bu, but now he couldn't even touch the city gate, and it was somewhat embarrassing to say it.

"Come in, two generals." Sighing, Pang De smiled bitterly, although he was a little unwilling in his heart, but he couldn't leave the two of them outside, speaking of which, whether it was Hao Zhao or Wei Yan, their qualifications were deeper than their own.

"Whoa!"

The little colonel agreed, turned around and left, and after a while, Wei Yan and Hao Zhao entered side by side.

"General Pang, it's been a long time!" Wei Yan and Pang De are also familiar with each other, and when he saw Pang De, he smiled slightly.

"The last general will see the general!" After Pang De greeted Hao Zhao, he bowed to Wei Yan and bowed.

"Uh......" Wei Yan and Hao Zhao looked at each other in amazement, and hurriedly helped Pang De up and said, "Ling Ming, you and I belong to the same level, why do you bother to make this big gift?" ”

"The general didn't know that before he set out on the expedition, he received a military order from the lord." Pang De got up, smiled and took a military order from his subordinates and said: "The lord has ordered the promotion of the general to the general of the expedition to the south, after my three-way soldiers and horses are combined, with General Wei as the commander, the governor of the battle of Jingxiang, before the lord is crowned king, in addition to the three counties of Nanyang, Shangyong, and Xincheng, you must take the southern county." ”

This is also to avoid disputes between the three soldiers and horses, but because of the master-slave issue, among the three, Hao Zhao is the oldest, Pang De is one of the five elites under Lu Bu's command, the main general of the shooting battalion, it is said that they have enough weight to take on this position, but in Lu Bu's opinion, the position of the coach, obviously Wei Yan is more suitable, and the other two are still a few points worse if they are generals and handsome.

Nanjun is where Xiangyang and Jiangling are located, in history, Liu Bei almost laid the foundation of Shu Han with a Nanjun, as long as Nanjun is a little, Liu Bei's power in Jingzhou is basically abolished.

A surge of excitement rose in Wei Yan's heart, and he hurriedly took over the seal and military order, and said solemnly in the direction of Luoyang: "Wei Yan has thanked the lord for his kindness, and he will do his best in this battle to repay the lord's cultivation grace!" ”

"The two generals came just in time, this Wancheng Li Yan is quite difficult to deal with, and Dezheng has a headache for this matter." After the greetings, Pang De began to introduce the topic into the topic, a Wancheng, but let the main force of the shooting battalion freeze here, which is somewhat discouraging, at this moment, Wei Yan, as the coach, just handed over this headache to Wei Yan.

"I have already seen it when the two of us came, and Ling Ming is talking about those trenches outside the city, right?" Wei Yan nodded and sat down on the main seat, he and Hao Zhao had already seen the criss-crossing trenches outside Wancheng when they came.

"Yes, I originally planned to deal with the trenches in the same way, dig in, and with the strength of the soldiers of my shooting battalion, even in that trench, it is enough to forcibly take the trenches, but that Li Yan used a fire attack and poured tung oil, causing me to lose five hundred elite soldiers!" Pound said with some annoyance.

"It's a bit of a hassle." Wei Yan listened to it and nodded, the equipment of the shooting battalion is the best, if it is attacked, the armor of ordinary soldiers can catch up with the armor of the generals of the Central Plains, under normal circumstances, let alone a field battle, even if it is a siege war, it can also break through the city at a very small cost.

But according to what Pang De said, this Li Yan obviously carefully studied the tactics of Guanzhong, not only in the way of trenches, so that the strong bow and crossbow in Guanzhong could not be played, and then in the way of fire attack, so that the elite of the shooting battalion were planted here.

Looking at the map, after a while, Wei Yan sneered: "Since they attack with fire, then we will fight back with water attack!" ”

"Water attack?" Pang De and Hao Zhao looked at Wei Yan in amazement.

"Yes, water attack!" Wei Yan looked at the two of them and said with a smile: "The two of you should know that Yanben is a person from Nanyang, but the terrain in this area is familiar, the land of Nanyang, although there is no big river, but Luoshui and Hanshui will flow through this place, of course it is not possible to flood the city, but if you just take these trenches along, it is more than enough, we only need to find a river and introduce it into these trenches, the trenches are connected before and after, as long as the water can be drawn, it is enough to level these trenches, and then you only need to prepare more floating boards, the Jingzhou army has no trenches, whether it is a field battle or a city battle, What are you afraid of? ”

"Not bad!" When Pang De heard this, he couldn't help clapping his hands and laughing, this method, without consuming people and horses, can completely destroy Li Yan's trench that has been prepared for a long time, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, no wonder the main guild takes Wei Yan as the commander, it is not unreasonable.

The three of them made a plan and immediately started to act, Pang De continued to dig trenches around, while Wei Yan and Hao Zhao were looking for water sources nearby to bring water to Wancheng, although the project was huge, but they now had enough manpower, tens of thousands of people to work together, but on the sixth day, Wei Yan had dug a canal, and Pang De had dug enough to quickly introduce the water flow into these trenches outside Wancheng.

On Wancheng, because of the trenches, it is difficult for Wancheng to send scouts to investigate the surroundings, coupled with Pound's blockade, Wancheng is almost cut off from the outside world, but seeing Pound has been digging trenches on the periphery for a few days, he is puzzled for a while.

"General, what are they doing?" Above Wancheng, several Jingzhou generals looked at Li Yan in confusion, not understanding what kind of medicine Pang De was selling.

Li Yan shook his head, his heart was a little heavy, in the past six days, Pang De has not sent any more troops, could it be that he has come up with some way to deal with the trenches? Just wanted to break his head, Li Yan couldn't think of what the other party was going to do for a while?

In the early morning of the seventh day, the soldiers at the head of the city suddenly came to inform Li Yan that Pang De was reorganizing his army and seemed to be preparing to attack the city.

Li Yan's heart couldn't help but tighten, and he hurriedly put on his armor and led people up to the city tower, just as he saw Wei Yanyi gathering the soldiers and soldiers, in front of the three armies, what was surprising was that in addition to the siege weapons that should have been there, the other party also made a piece of wood.

"What are they trying to do? Do you want to use a plank directly across the trench and cross the trench? The adjutant general looked at Li Yan puzzled, and Li Yan felt that something was wrong, because he saw that rows of crossbowmen had begun to appear in Pang De's array, and one after another crossbow planes were aimed at the open space in front of them, but they did not release arrows, as if they were waiting for something, what was it?

Li Yan couldn't help but look at the trenches or canals dug by Pound behind Pound, and so on...... Aqueduct!

Li Yan's heart suddenly tightened, and at this moment, Pang De suddenly waved his hand, and a rocket soared into the air, followed by a faint rumbling sound from the sky, and Li Yan's face suddenly became ugly.

"Quick, let the soldiers in the trenches withdraw to the city!" Li Yan suddenly shouted frantically, he had seen a large amount of water appear in the canal dug by Pound before, and quickly spread towards the trench.