But said that Pei Qian and Pan Jun led the army to pacify Wulingman, it took only four days of rapid march, and came to Yuanling, three hundred miles away, Yuanling County is adjacent to Linyuan in the east, Chenyang in the south, and Youyang in the west, known as the "gateway to Xiangxi", "the key to the south of the sky", easy to defend and difficult to attack, the geographical location is very important, and it has always been the military town of Wuling County against Wulingman, once the city of Yuanling is broken, Linyuan will have no danger to defend, and the entire Wuling County will suffer a catastrophe.

Now Wulingman was tempted by Zhang Xian, and put the main target in Linyuan, so the army swarmed and quickly conquered Chenyang, and nearly 20,000 troops surrounded Yuanling, attacking day and night.

Pei Qian's army came at the right time, because Yuanling couldn't hold on immediately, he saw that the enemy army was attacking urgently, and immediately led the army to kill from behind, and captured nearly 3,000 barbarians in a big battle, and then led the army into the city slowly.

After Pei sneaked into the city, he first comforted the Yuanling County Order for a few words, and then ordered the defenders to play the banner of "Wuling Taishou, Ping Barbarian Zhonglang General", and openly persuaded the barbarians to surrender on the city.

Huang Cheng, the commander of Yuanling County, was shocked when he saw this scene, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "Lord Taishou, if you expose yourself so obviously, you will let the barbarians besiege Yuanling City regardless of a single qiē, and then the loss of Yuanling will be small, if you have a mistake, how can the lower officials afford it?" ”

Unexpectedly, Pei Qian and Deputy General Pan Jun smiled at each other, and said softly: "The general is about to attack the enemy, and the more people there are, the better." ”

Then an order was issued: "Everyone is allowed to hold on, and not to go out of the city to meet the enemy." ”

"Huh? This...... The reason why we have been able to barely support us these days is mainly because we are constantly going out of the city to rob the camp, and now the adults are not allowed to go out of the city to meet the enemy, doesn't this make the enemy more assured and bold to attack us? Huang Cheng shook his head and smiled bitterly, but he had no choice but to obey the order.

Unexpectedly, Pei Qian then issued an even more ridiculous order, only sending the original soldiers and horses in the city and 5,000 new reinforcements to defend the city, while the remaining 5,000 reinforcements were recuperated and did not participate in any matters of defending the city.

Huang Cheng was puzzled, but the main general Pei Qian and the deputy general Pan Jun both looked secretive, which made people scratch their heads, and they didn't dare to ask again, so they had to retreat.

"Alas, it seems that Pei Taishou and General Pan are both young generals, and they have no experience in the enemy at all, I really don't know how long my Yuanling will last? It is hoped that reinforcements from other counties will arrive sooner rather than later, and perhaps this disaster will be averted. The county commander Huang Cheng looked depressed and retreated silently.

In the following days, I don't know whose intention was to make a statement, the news that Wuling Taishou was in Yuanling County was like having wings, and spread throughout the entire Wuling barbarians, and the barbarians from all over the country gave up the county seat they were currently attacking, and rushed to Yuanling City like a tide, and began to launch a fierce attack on Yuanling.

Huang Cheng, the county commander, saw that there were no less than 50,000 soldiers besieging Yuanling City, and his heart was even more worried, but seeing that Lord Taishou issued various orders in an orderly manner, and talked and laughed with the deputy general Pan Jun, as if he was in his chest, he had no choice but to strictly carry out the orders and lead the army to defend the city with all his might.

Fortunately, the new 5,000 reinforcements were all elite, and they had very sufficient experience in defending the city, dodging the enemy's arrows in time, and lost no time in throwing rolling logs, stones and other defensive equipment to block the enemy's offensive.

Seeing the table of the five thousand reinforcements, Huang Cheng's heart was slightly relieved, although Lord Taishou had arranged a little inappropriately in terms of defending the city, but it was indeed unusual in terms of leading troops, and he was indeed beyond his reach to be able to bring out such elite soldiers.

"Maybe this time, we can really successfully hold on and wait for reinforcements to arrive, but I don't know how many brutes there are? If we continue to increase troops like this, I really don't know what the future of Yuanling City will be? ”

Fortunately, Huang Cheng is also a quite calm county commander, although he is faintly worried in his heart, but he does not show the slightest expression on the surface, urging the soldiers to diligently guard the city, patrol, and boost morale, and even during the period, a county official questioned Pei Qian's order, and was also scolded by him: "Lord Taishou naturally has a plan, what kind of identity are you?" How dare you question the orders of adults? ”

Due to Huang Cheng's diligence and the heroic resistance of the new 5,000 reinforcements, the morale of the entire Yuanling County was quite high, and they bravely repelled wave after wave of siege troops, but this also made the enemy troops besieging the city more and more gathered, just a month later, excluding the casualties, there were still as many as 70,000 or 80,000 barbarians gathered under the Yuanling City! However, he noticed that the number of barbarians had not increased significantly in the past few days, while the defenders of the city still stubbornly held the city, and the five thousand soldiers who had no time to participate in the battle.

It was only at this time that Huang Cheng suddenly realized that this young Taishou must have made arrangements and made a plan to break the enemy, so he thought about uncovering the mystery and seeing what kind of clever strategy Lord Taishou had made to break the enemy?

And the 5,000 reinforcements who did not participate in the war from beginning to end were angry during the month, and the life was quite uncomfortable, everyone was desperate to defend the city, but they were arranged to the camp, and every day in addition to eating and sleeping was a drill, and there was not a single battle at all, such a life made them feel a kind of humiliation: "The same good man who defends the country, why let them go to the city to resist, but let us be idle?" As dignified and hot-blooded men, are we living such a life as turtles? ”

In fact, at the beginning, when they heard that they didn't have to fight, this group of soldiers was secretly excited, because they had worked hard for days, and they could finally find a good time to rest. But after three days, their hearts became uncomfortable, especially when they heard the contempt in the eyes of the other five thousand people looking at them, they became more and more unable to sit still, and after half a month, some soldiers came to their military marquis Liu Huan, Zhang Ping, Sun Yu and others, and asked for war.

Junhou Liu Huan and others couldn't stand the contempt of others for a long time, and immediately went to the deputy general Pan Jun and asked to participate in the defense of the city immediately, but Pan Jun categorically refused: "You all listen to Lao Tzu, let you recuperate is the order of Lord Taishou, even if General Fenwu arrives in person, this order cannot be changed, don't be impatient first, there is an opportunity for you to make meritorious contributions." Why don't you step down right away? Ben will warn you that this is the first and last time that you will be allowed to disrespect military orders and call for war without permission, and that you will not have to ask for anything like this again. ”

Liu Huan and the others saw that Pan Jun, who was usually kind and pleasant, was so stern, and they were not a little trembling, although the dissatisfaction in their hearts was even stronger, but they could only return silently in desperation, and under the inquiry of those soldiers with eager eyes, they could only sigh and flee back to their respective camps with shame on their faces.

After suffering like this for nearly a month, the morale of these 5,000 soldiers has become extremely high, and they are eager to leave the city immediately and fight to the death with the other side, and at this moment, they suddenly received a surprising order: "Everyone immediately return to the camp to rest, and must not come out without orders." ”

These soldiers, who had also been veterans of the war for many years, immediately guessed when they heard such an order that there must be a heavy military operation at night. Because in the past month, although most of them have been idle, their routine exercises during the day have never been interrupted, and they suddenly gave up the exercises today, which naturally has a deep meaning.

The soldiers all quickly returned to their tents, suppressed their excitement, and forced themselves to sleep as hard as they could, so that they could maintain their maximum vigor in the evening when they were in action.

"The day has finally come for us to raise our eyebrows." The soldiers all relaxed themselves completely, forcing themselves to fall asleep quickly.

By the time they awoke, twilight had fallen, and they had been given pork and liquor from the Fire Battalion, and they were immediately sure that the day's guess was correct.

Sure enough, after they finished dinner, they saw that the military marquis immediately reorganized their ranks to meet the review of the adjutant general, General Pan Jun.

I saw Pan Jun say in a calm voice: "Soldiers, raise soldiers for a thousand days, use soldiers for a while, the reason why Lord Taishou and this general let you be idle for a month is for tonight, Lord Taishou has an order, kill an enemy soldier, a reward of ten gold, kill an enemy general, a reward of 100 gold, kill the enemy Qu Shuai, a reward of a thousand gold, and seal the marquis." This time, we must completely defeat the barbarian soldiers, and return me to a peaceful and stable Wuling County, for the sake of Jiangshan Sheji, for the sake of the hometown fathers, for the peace of the entire Jingzhou and the entire Han world, let us use our blood to prove the bravery of our Han army to the barbarians. ”

"General Pan is mighty!"

"Taishou-sama is mighty!"

"General Fenwu is mighty!"

The roar of the soldiers was like thunder, and it sounded especially loud in the night sky.

"Each of you has a firearm, and you touch the enemy camp in the middle of the night, and set fire to it all together at my command, and tonight the north wind is strong, and it will surely make the barbarians disorder without a fight. Everyone only needs to win in the chaos to get the full credit, but do you understand? ”

After seeing the other party's affirmative answer, Pan Jun nodded with a smile, and ordered the quartermaster to send the fire-starting things to the soldiers, and after confirming that each soldier had enough fire-starting things in his hands, he led the 5,000-strong army out of the city gate and went all the way to the barbarian camp.

Looking at Pan Jun's team in the distance, Huang Cheng completely understood that Lord Taishou intended to attract the main force of the enemy army, gathered them all together, and created the illusion that Lord Taishou was weak and conservative in nature and never dared to go out of the city to fight, so as to confuse the enemy and reduce their vigilance, and then lead the army to launch a surprise attack and break through the enemy camp in one fell swoop.

It was only now that Huang Cheng understood why Lord Taishou was more and more happy when he saw more and more enemy soldiers? Because it turned out that Taishou had used a lot of money from the beginning to attract all the main forces of the barbarians to Yuanling, preparing to defeat the main force of the barbarians in one fell swoop, so that Wuling could maintain a stable position for at least ten years.

Huang Cheng, who understood the truth, was already deeply impressed by the strategy of this Taishou Lord, and at the same time felt ashamed of his short-sightedness and empty worries, looked at the dark night, and said silently: "Looking forward to the arrival of the good news of our army's victory over the barbarians, in the future in the history of my Wuling's resistance to the barbarian invasion, this battle will definitely be written again, such a merit is no less than the one-way rebellion of the Fubo general Ma Yuan's defeat of the prime minister." ”