In the past few days, there have been a lot of things happening in Jingzhou.

The people in Jingxiang area are quite confused.

Liu Biao and Liu Bei died one after another, Jingzhou changed hands, the new lord's ass was not yet hot, so he surrendered to Cao Cao, and the New Han Army had officially sent troops to storm Jiaxia County, an important defensive city in Jingzhou, and so on. Before these news could be digested, the news came out that Liu Bei's two sworn brothers, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, led the army to serve Liu Yi of the New Han Dynasty.

When they received the news, Jingzhou Wenwu, they suddenly felt a sense of nervousness and panic that the sky was about to fall.

You must know that not long ago, the entire Jingzhou civil and military, they still put their hopes on peerless generals like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, thinking that with these two generals guarding the frontline defense line for them, the Xinhan army would have some scruples and would not dare to attack lightly. Even, even if the New Han Army attacked, with these two generals, they should be able to withstand the attack of the New Han Army.

In particular, under the city of Wancheng, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei fought against the generals of the New Han Army respectively, and even fought with Na Liu Yi, and they did not fall behind. Therefore, although Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were only invited generals, the mighty strength displayed by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei during the period of time when they were nominally the commanders of the Jingzhou Army could indeed greatly shock the morale of the Jingzhou Army. At least, the two generals Guan Yu and Zhang Fei will not let the New Han Army fight unscrupulously, and will not let a random general of the New Han Army come out to call for battle, and none of the hundreds of thousands of Jingzhou troops will dare to face the battle.

The battle between military generals is a matter of a soldier's face and the morale and courage of the entire army.

Remember. In an anti-Japanese TV series in later generations, the words spoken by Li Yunlong of the independent group are the most appropriate in this ancient era.

He said. When the ancient swordsmen met their opponents in a narrow way, no matter how strong the opponent was, even if the opponent was the number one swordsman in the world, knowing that they were invincible, they had to show their swords, even if they fell under the opponent's sword, they were still honored! This is the bright sword, which is a matter of the soul of an army.

Now, the New Han Army and the Jingzhou Army meet in a narrow way, but does the Jingzhou Army dare to show their own swords?

If there are no generals who can compete with the real generals, will they dare to come out and die with their small soldiers and shrimps?

Will be the soul of the army. The so-called soldier bears a nest of bears, which is the truth.

The New Han army fought in front of the formation. No one in the Jingzhou army dared to fight. This is called how can the Jingzhou army improve the morale of the sergeants? Everyone is a turtle with a shrunken head, everyone is facing the shouting and scolding of the New Han Army, and they are asked by the New Han Army about the women of their family, what can they do? Defy. Go out and go head-to-head? No more convinced. Let's group P?

Can't! The Jingzhou army did not dare to fight the New Han Army head-on, and they were frightened when they saw the lineup of the New Han Army, and when they saw the battle flag of the New Han Army, their courage was lost.

They are two generals, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, which is equivalent to having the soul of the army and the pillar of the army. It's like the sky is falling. There are still these tall ones on top. Seeing these real generals charging into the trap with them, their blood boiled. If you dare to rush forward, you will dare to fight the enemy to the death.

Therefore, although Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are not their veritable commanders, even if Guan Yu and Zhang Fei may not be able to directly mobilize them. However, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the two powerful generals, were at ease, their morale could be boosted, and they dared to fight with the New Han Army.

But at this moment, the military soul they tacitly accepted in their hearts, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who they unconsciously regarded as spiritual pillars, turned their guns at this moment, helped their enemies deal with them together, and fought against them, how did these Jingzhou troops adapt? And how can you not be frightened?

Now, among the Jingzhou army, what they are most worried about is that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei will attack them together with the Xinhan army. If that's the case, how do they resist?

In fact, many Jingzhou generals, as well as some generals sent by Cao Cao, such as Wang Wei, Han Xuan, Li Dian, etc., were very dissatisfied with Zhang Liao's release of Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and their military horses to go to Wancheng to return to Liu Yi of the New Han Dynasty. Especially Xiahoudun and Xu Huang, if it weren't for Zhang Liao's insistence, I am afraid that the two generals would have led the army to stop Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in Anzhong County, and at least the two or 30,000 military horses led by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei would have been left.

But Zhang Liao moved out of Cao Cao and told Xiahoudun, Xu Huang and other generals that if Prime Minister Cao Cheng would be investigated in the future, he would investigate the matter of letting Guan Yu and Zhang Fei defect to Liu Yi, and he himself was willing to take responsibility with all his might, and had nothing to do with Xiahoudun, Xu Huang, Li Dian and other generals. In this way, Xiahoudun and Xu Huang had nothing to say, and could only watch Guan Yu and Zhang Fei lead the army from Anzhong County to Guò.

The current Jingzhou army can barely stabilize Zhang Liao's military morale, and for the time being, only Zhang Liao can mobilize the Jingzhou army. The two generals Xiahoudun and Xu Huang are naturally inferior to Zhang Liao in terms of their ability to unify the army and govern the army, and they have just rushed from Xiangyang to the Jingzhou army camp in Anzhong County, and they have not officially begun to command the Jingzhou army, so even if they are unwilling to let Guan Yu and Zhang Fei leave, they have no way, without Zhang Liao's approval, they will not be able to mobilize the Jingzhou army to besiege and kill Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

What's more, although Guan Yu and Zhang Fei have not been in the Jingzhou army for a short time, they have already faintly established a mighty image in the minds of the soldiers of the Jingzhou army, and have a certain prestige and prestige.

Many times, everyone knows that the crowd tactics must be able to hit more powerful enemies, even the original god of war Lu Bu, or even Liu Yi, using the crowd tactics, can definitely kill them. However, everyone knows that if you want to kill generals like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei on the battlefield, how much life you have to pay? Everyone knows that as long as they attack around Guan Yu and Zhang Fei without their lives, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei will always be killed. But the question is, who will come forward to attack? Under the circumstance that whoever goes first and who dies, does the Jingzhou army have the courage to step forward and send him to death? And how many people do you have to die to kill Guan Yu and Zhang Fei?

How can the current Jingzhou Army be compared with the post-modern People's Liberation Army? No guts. The Jingzhou army, which has no morale, is timid and fearful, and is destined to have no way out.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei led the army to Wancheng. Suddenly the Jingzhou army's morale was in turmoil, and Zhang Liao, who had just used force to suppress the Jingzhou army generals, did not have a very good way to deal with it.

Among the Jingzhou army, deserters began to appear, and some Jingzhou generals who were suppressed by Zhang Liao were also fluctuating at the moment, and they could lead the army to flee at any time.

Jingzhou's Anzhong and Jiaxia defense lines. At stake.

In fact, the defense line of Anzhong and Jiaxia is not as simple as being precarious, but is already on the verge of collapse.

It is bounded by the Yushui River. Anzhong County is not far from the bank of the Yushui River, while Jiaxia County is in the northwest of northern Jingzhou, side by side with Anzhong County. A line of defense was formed.

This line of defense. In fact, it is not very long, only about 200 miles, and further west, is the southern mountain forest area of the rolling Qinling Mountains. In those mountains, there are no people, and it is difficult to walk, so it can be said that there is no road at all. Hence the Jingzhou defense line. It is just based on Jiaxia County and Anzhong County, and then uses some undulating mountain and forest areas in this area. A line of defense was built. Here, it is said that it is a mountain forest, but in fact, it is some relatively gentle hilly areas.

At the beginning, when Liu Yi led the hundreds of thousands and 200,000 displaced people who had been displaced to Luoyang to migrate to Dongting Lake Xinzhou, he relied on Huang Xu to lead 200 cavalry in this area to attract the pursuers led by Zhang He sent by Yuan Shao, and deal with them, so that they were exhausted.

Of course, at the beginning, there were not many troops on both sides, one side was only 200 horsemen, and the other side was only a few thousand men and horses. Such a small number of people and horses, thrown into a place where hundreds of miles of forests are everywhere, it is true that they can't even splash a single wave. But now it is different, the military horses on both sides are counted in 100,000, so in this area, small troops will not play a big role.

Guan Yu and Zhang Feitong went to Anzhong County, threw themselves into Wancheng, and submitted to Liu Yi, which soon spread to Jiaxia County, which was only a hundred miles apart, and suddenly made the Jingzhou army in Jiaxia County almost collapse, and almost let Qin Jie take it.

Fortunately, Huang Zu arrived in time and stabilized the army's heart.

Huang Zu and Qin Jie actually knew each other for a long time, or rather, Huang Zu knew Qin Jie, but Qin Jie would not remember Huang Zu. Speaking of which, Huang Zu was still Qin Jie's old subordinate, but at that time, Huang Zu was still not famous and had not yet shown his ability, so he was not valued by Qin Jie, who was the captain of Jiangxia at the time, and he was just a soldier under Qin Jie.

Qin Jie raised troops from Jiangxia, killed Wancheng, and after defeating the Yellow Turban Army, he stayed in Wancheng as the Taishou and never returned to Jiangxia. Huang Zu was after Liu Biao served as the pastor of Jingzhou, when he governed all parts of Jingzhou, Liu Biao took a fancy to Huang Zu's talents, so he would reuse Huang Zu.

The Xinhan army used trebuchets to bombard the county seat of Jiaxia County day and night, and the non-stop rumbling sound all day long shook the ears of soldiers on both sides.

The city wall of Jiaxia County has already been bombarded with craters by the stone projectiles of trebuchets, as if it was covered with pimples on the city wall.

A round of dozens of trebuchets dropped bombs, and there would always be three or so stone bullets falling on the city wall, and every time it was hit, the city wall seemed to be shaken to the ground.

Being bombarded by the New Han Army all day long, all the Jingzhou soldiers who were forced to stay in the city by the Jingzhou generals were cold, and everyone turned pale, praying that the New Han Army's trebuchet stone projectiles would not be smashed on their heads.

Womb, really wobbly!

The Jingzhou army has also fought many battles, even if most of them are defeated, but they have really never encountered such a siege method. If they do not send troops and horses to attack the city, they just use the incessant bombardment of trebuchets to throw stone bombs at them a mile in front of the city wall, so that they are beyond the reach of the whip, and their own defenders have no way to counterattack. It's just blindly being bombarded, and such a passive battle makes everyone feel helpless and cold.

There are also trebuchets on the defending side, but there are not many, but the maximum throwing distance of the trebuchets on the city wall is more than 100 or 200 steps closer than the range of the trebuchets of the New Han Army, and the difference is almost equal to the distance of half the range of a bow and arrow. Therefore, the trebuchets on the head of the city could not threaten the trebuchet of the New Han Army, so that the defenders could only watch the trebuchets of the New Han Army exert their might, and they could only swallow bitterness in their stomachs.

There is no way, who called the New Han Army's trebuchets to have a longer range than theirs? To fall behind is to be beaten. This is an eternal truth.

From time to time, a stone bullet would fall directly on the head of the city, smashing the flesh and blood of those Jingzhou soldiers who barely stuck to the city. The direct blow caused their morale to plummet, and they basically lost confidence in fighting with the New Han Army.

The Jingzhou soldiers at the head of the county seat of Jiaxia County, they looked at the stone bullets that were whistling one after another, either falling on the city wall, or crossing the city wall, smashing into the city hard, and seeing the incomparable power of the stone bullets flying over. Seeing that one could fall on their heads at any time. Where do they dare to hold on to the city anymore?

If Huang Zu hadn't arrived in time, I'm afraid they would all have withdrawn from the city.

If this is the case, the new Han army can quietly ascend to the top of the city. Put down the drawbridge, open the city gates, and let the army of the New Han Army enter the city, and so on. Jiaxia County was declared lost.

Of course. Qin Jie now, no matter what the situation in Jiaxia County is, he only needs to be ready, put on a posture that he can attack the city at any time, and then, the trebuchet keeps bombarding, waiting for Liu Yi to give the order to officially attack.

A group of generals of the New Han Army, they are full of fighting spirit. I can't wait to launch an attack on Jiaxia County immediately.

However, due to military orders. They can't attack on their own.

At this moment, the sun has set, and there is still a little light on the horizon.

They gathered in Qin Jie's military tent, put wine and food on the table, and discussed while eating and drinking, of course, more importantly, they wanted to ask Qin Jie for his life, hoping to attack Jiaxia County when the Jingzhou army was hit to the point that they had no fighting spirit.

Qin Jiejun, they have been guarding Wancheng for more than ten years, and their swords have already been sharpened, and they have been thirsty for war for a long time. If they don't fight, their desire to fight will be frustrated.

Speaking of which, the army of Wancheng, since the initial knife test, has hardly had any combat orders, even if it is occasionally transferred, it is only transferred to Luoyang to guard, and it has not had a chance to really go to the battlefield.

If it is an ordinary army, or in the early days of the formation of the New Han Army, the officers and soldiers in the army will have the mentality that some people just want to be soldiers and eat food, and some people will indeed have the mentality of avoiding war. After all, they have food to eat, food and salary, and they are free to guard in Wancheng, as long as they train every day and complete the tasks assigned from above, they can be free.

In the past ten years, not all of the Wancheng defenders have spent time in the barracks. In times when there is no war, when there is no war, they can leave the camp and move freely, and even the soldiers who are in the area, they can go home.

It's been more than ten years, and people have been raising soldiers for thousands of days, but this Wancheng defender has been thousands of days.

When the army was formed, soldiers in their forties have now retired, and most of the boys who joined the army in their teens are now fathers of several children.

It can be said that this Wancheng defender, in peacetime, except for the fixed training is more difficult, is almost enjoying happiness in peacetime.

You must know that part of the large number of women captured by the New Han army in the expedition to the desert and the Wa Kingdom was to let the kings and concubines in those armies be selected as wives and concubines.

The government of the New Han Dynasty gave those soldiers who had no family to resettle a home, and then let those soldiers resettle their women, so that they could feel the warmth of home. These benefits, it can be said that looking at the entire Han Dynasty, or the previous dynasties, I am afraid that there is no such thing.

At this time, the people of the Han Dynasty became young and strong when they became soldiers, and in general, they all knew how to be grateful, and after they became the New Han Army, what they gained was far more than they imagined.

Under such circumstances, when the new Han Dynasty needed them, they were more motivated and eager to repay the court.

Without the imperial court, there would be no one qiē they have now. As long as there is a little conscience, they will want to repay and serve the New Han Dynasty.

What's more, the conscription of the New Han Army was voluntary, and the imperial court never forced the people to join the army (except for prisoners), even if they were already soldiers of the New Han Army, if they were afraid of war, as long as they made it clear that they were afraid of death, did not want to go to the battlefield, and would rather go home to farm, then the military would not force them to go to the battlefield. There are such examples in the New Han Army, and they are not few, even among those elite troops, those tough soldiers can apply for retirement if they have a sense of fear after some battles of life and death. At this point, the New Han Army will never force them to join the army and work hard for the New Han Dynasty.

Of course, on the other hand, the propaganda of the New Han Dynasty and the army is also very in place, especially for the basic national laws of the New Han Dynasty, almost every soldier of the New Han Army must be familiar with it, even ordinary people. In this way, almost everyone in the New Han Dynasty has a mentality of protecting their families and defending the country, and every person in the New Han Dynasty clearly understands that the reason why they have today's good life is completely because of the strength of the New Han Army. Therefore, when the New Han Dynasty needs them, they will consciously join the army and consciously serve the New Han Dynasty.

The songs are all sung, if you are not a soldier, I am not a soldier, then who will protect your home and country?

Many people apply to be discharged from the army and go home because they are afraid of war and death, which will also make their families ashamed, and many children of ordinary people will also be forced by their families to return to the army after returning home.

Anyway, among the new Han army, it is generally a benign state.

This Wancheng defender, these soldiers, they are now, they have a loyal heart to serve the country and make meritorious contributions, so they hope to be able to fight and make meritorious contributions. (To be continued......)