Chapter 267: Taking a Risk

From the beginning of being ordered to attack the rear of the Xiliang coalition army, Wei Yan marched westward along the Weishui ice, and the surprise troops raided Tianshui. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info The generals of the Xiliang Army are all on the front line, Tianshui should be empty, it happened that Wei Duan, the son of Weikang, the Taishou of Liangzhou, was unavailable, and promoted Yicheng Gong Cao Jiang Jian to escort the grain and grass to Tianshui, and the two had a big battle outside the city, Jiang Jian was defeated, and lost the grain and grass and hid in Tianshui City.

On the one hand, Jiang Jian sent people back to Yicheng to ask for help, and on the other hand, he summoned the people in the city to fight hard, and he was in a stalemate with Wei Yan for more than 20 days. Wei Yan had few soldiers and couldn't storm Tianshui, if it weren't for the grain and grass escorted by Jiang Yan, he would have run out of food and was forced to retreat.

Arrogance forced Wei Yan not to retreat easily, time passed day by day, the Xiliang coalition army outside Chen Cang had already received the news, perhaps the Xiliang army did not dare to retreat easily, so they did not come back, but the longer it dragged on, the more unfavorable Wei Yan's army became, and Wei Yan did not know whether the Xiliang coalition army was fighting or retreating.

Two months have passed in a flash, Wei Yan is at a loss, the food he has stolen is exhausted, and Tianshui is still holding the city. Wei Yan originally wanted to attack Tianshui, cut off the return route of the Xiliang army, block the Xiliang army in the Guanlong Avenue between Tianshui and Chencang, and attack at both ends, defeating the Xiliang army. Even if the idea is good, it is very difficult to execute. Now it is impossible to fly to the sky.

At the same time, it was reported that the merchants of Handan, the assassin of Yongzhou, sent grain and grass from Guzang to Yicheng to support the great cause of the Xiliang army. It turned out that Handan Shang sent an envoy to persuade Lu Bu to carve up Liangzhou to no avail, and he was angry and decided to support the Xiliang coalition army, and sent an envoy to contact Zhong Xuan. Zhong Miao was forbidden by Ma Teng's family, and all strategies could not be supported by Ma Teng's father and son.

It was also rumored that Liu Zhang in Chengdu sent people to send a lot of food from Shanggu to support Zhong Xuan.

Wei Yan looked at the information in his hand, he was at a loss, he had nothing to do, and the battle with the Xiliang army would be stalemate until next year, once the Chang'an army was delayed to stabilize and other places, it would seriously restrict the sowing problem next year, and thus fall into a situation of no food.

Wei Yan held the bag that Lu Bu gave him, and his palms were full of Han water. Lu Bu explained that until the mountains and rivers are exhausted, this bag cannot be opened. It must be a poor situation now, right? Wei Yan opened the bag, and there were two words written on the strip of cloth inside:

"Heartbeat!"

What heart? Wei Yan didn't know what Lu Bu meant. Lu Bu is thousands of miles away, and at the same time, it is a plan left a few months ago, unless Lu Bu can pinch and calculate, calculate his current situation. Wei Yan shook his head mockingly, the tips that Lu Bu gave him were useless. Crumple it up and throw it into the stove.

Wei Yan reclined in the big tent, trying to leave the tips left behind by Lu Bu, the more this happened, the more the word attack went deeper into his mind.

"General, when you run out of food and grass, retreat. Otherwise, it will cause a mutiny. A member Wei Yan walked into the big tent and said to Wei Yan. Wei Yan has been stranded outside Tianshui City, and if he is not a threat to Tianshui, it is better to retreat.

"Hahaha...... Pregnant. General Lu really had a wonderful idea. Wei Yan suddenly understood that Lu Bu's attack was just for him to fight at a dangerous moment and make the enemy believe.

"Quickly reorganize the army and go to Qingshui."

"The general is going to take the grain and grass of the Xiliang army?" The guard asked in horror.

Qingshui City is not easy to take, and the Qingshui River flows in a circle to surround Qingshui City, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The source of the Qingshui River is located in Longshan, which forms two horizontal mountain ranges in the north and south of Longshan, the mountains are steep, the river valleys are dense, and it is the important place of the Xiliang army's grain.

"You don't have to attack Qingshui City. The Qingshui River forms a circle and surrounds the Qingshui City for hundreds of miles, the water and grass are abundant, there must be many herdsmen who harvest a large amount of pasture grass for the livestock to use for the winter, we just need to pile up all the pasture near the Qingshui City, cut off the road to the east of the Qingshui City, and then set fire to the pasture, the Xiliang Army must think that we have broken through the Qingshui. The grain and grass were burned, the soldiers panicked, how could the Xiliang army be invincible? ”

Wei Yan didn't know if this plan would be discovered, so he could only gamble. Leaving an empty camp, Wei Yan faked the traces of Shun Weishui's retreat and went straight to Qingshui City along the Qingshui River. There are few people near Qingshui City, leaving empty houses, the herdsmen are catching and fleeing, and the yellow weeds under the snow on the hillside set off a panicked picture.

"All the soldiers collect the grass abandoned by the herders and cut down the trees."

Longshan is also desolate enough, except for the dry pasture grass under the snow, it is a desolate mountain and deep valley, the forest is extinct here, Wei Yan sent soldiers to search for a long time, only to find a small forest under the cliff.

Wei Yan ordered more than 100 soldiers to bluff in the distance and single-handedly go to the city to fight. When the enemy general suddenly saw the enemy army coming, he didn't want to act rashly, he couldn't stand Wei Yan's abuse outside the city, so he went out of the city to fight with Wei Yan. Wei Yan beheaded two enemy generals in a row, and the defenders did not dare to act rashly, and carefully guarded Qingshui City.

"The warriors under the command of this general are all southerners, and they are not used to the cold, this ghost is too cold, so it is better to make a fire to keep warm."

Wei Yan delayed for a day, so he collected a lot of fire-starting things and piled them up like a hill outside Qingshui City. The enemy general looked at Wei Yan's piles of firewood, and was a little unsure of Wei Yan's intentions, how many people was this to heat up?

The grass was already full of smoke, and there was a lot of wet wood in between. Wei Yan lit the pyre outside, and the smoke covered the sky, and the nearby area of dozens of miles was covered by the smoke, and Qingshui City was so smoked that he couldn't open his eyes. Wei Yan didn't have siege equipment, so such a good siege opportunity was wasted.

"Attack the street pavilion."

The street pavilion is the throat of Guanlong Avenue, and its strategic position is very important, and it has become a place where soldiers of all dynasties must fight. Wei Yan calculated that there must be a Xiliang army in the street pavilion, and Zhong Xuan was not a mediocre talent, so he would definitely leave soldiers to guard the street pavilion in case of accidents. Wei Yan's attack on Jieting was fake, but he only told the defenders of Jieting the fact that Qingshui's grain and grass were burned by him Wei Yan, and the news of the burning of grain and grass was spread to the Xiliang camp outside Chen Cang through the mouth of the Jieting soldiers.

Wei Yan ordered his soldiers to raid houses and houses along the way, loot the herdsmen's livestock, and drive thousands of cattle and sheep to the street pavilion.

The grain and grass of the Xiliang army are mainly cattle and sheep, and the hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep are not so easy to catch fire, Wei Yan threatened that these cattle and sheep were taken from Qingshui City, and countless cattle and sheep all fled into Longshan.

Suddenly, someone reported that the smoke near Qingshui City was covered with smoke, and the street pavilion guard knew that there was a loss of grain and grass, so he hurriedly ordered troops to rescue, and quickly passed the news to Chen Cang.

Wei Yan drove the cattle and sheep, and met the street pavilion guards who came back to rescue him halfway down the road. Wei Yan's army followed behind Niu Yang, and Niu Yang blocked the speed of the Xiliang cavalry, and killed the enemy army in a chaotic manner, Wei Yan did not dare to continue the pursuit and capture the Jieting, and chose a dangerous place in the same place, and then blocked the Qingshui City Grain Army for two days, so as not to let the news of the grain and grass intact reach the front line, and after the chaos of the Xiliang Army, Wei Yan retreated to Tianshui and returned to Chencang from the ice surface of the Wei River.