As long as people with a little brains know that letting Hanzhong surrender troops to attack Nanzheng is a matter of letting these surrendered troops to death. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 But no one, including Li Sheng himself, objected to this. Because they all know that it is already a more merciful way to give these soldiers weapons and let them fight in this way. In an era where killing is not ugly, it is not a very sick thing to kill prisoners, but on the contrary, the merciful practice of releasing all captives without saying a word is very rare. Generally speaking, there are only two ways to treat captives except to kill them directly, one is to be sold into slavery by the big clans, and the other is to let them attack the enemy's military camps, formations, and cities. Of course, this kind of shock does not allow them to carry any weapons, after all, everyone is afraid that they will "turn against the battlefield" with weapons.

Li Sheng gave them weapons and let them go to the killing station, which can be regarded as a variation of the second method. However, Li Sheng's side did a much more tactful job: not only did he give these captives weapons and armor one by one, but also rewarded them with a lot of silver, so that their morale was boosted to a certain extent. Then let them charge with their elite soldiers, and let these prisoners, who were hesitant and complaining in their hearts, completely convinced. They all thought that Li Sheng's actions were treating them as if they were Li Sheng's soldiers, and it was definitely a fair thing. As a result, the vast majority of the captives, those who were originally going to be soldiers and eat food, no longer had any resistance to the tasks given to them by Li Sheng. Although they were directed at their original "masters", they still rushed forward happily, behaving as bravely and fearlessly as Li Shengjun's own soldiers.

The next three days of siege warfare were fierce. Catapults, Far Archers, Bombs, Hot Oil, Logs, Boulders, Reserves...... Li Shengjun and Hanzhong Jun both coincidentally sent all the weapons in their hands to the battlefield. For a time, blood, stumps, and charred corpses left marks one after another on Nanzheng City. Every day of the battle began with the roar of Li Shengjun's catapult, and under the counterattack of the reserve led by Yan Pu, it ended unwillingly in the roar of Li Shengjun's catapult.

Although for Yan Pu, the intensity of Li Shengjun's attack is indeed increasing day by day, and it seems that everything is going according to the plan he made at the beginning, but Yan Pu is not happy about this, because he clearly knows that Li Shengjun's strength is increasing, but the speed of this enhancement is too fast.

Although the battle was developing according to his plan, the speed of development seemed to be out of his control. So much so that after he put out a corresponding countermeasure according to Li Shengjun's strength the day before, he was always surprised to find that he thought that he could resist Li Shengjun's offensive arrangement, and he often underestimated Li Shengjun's strength. In order not to let Nan Zheng's fall come true, he always sent his reserves up from time to time to support.

"Alas...... How long will this last? Li Sheng was attracted to the city of Nanzheng, and there was nothing wrong with that. But...... With the combat effectiveness they have shown, it is a question whether I can support the return of the defenders of Baocheng. Li Shengjun's shots are really tricky. After a few days of fighting, Yan Pu's victory in defending the city was shaken little by little. Of course, he only dared to put such a result in his heart, but did not dare to leave it on his face. When facing others, including his own lord, he still looked confident, assuring them that Nan Zheng could definitely hold on.

The situation seemed critical, but this seemed to Yan Pu to be so. So on the night of the second day of the Nanzheng offensive and defensive battle, he sent more than a dozen clever soldiers to the city, let them go through the enemy camp, and go to Baocheng to report to Zhang Wei and them. However, Li Shengjun's defense was really tight, and these dozen or so soldiers were only put down yesterday, and the next morning they were captured and beheaded by Li Sheng, and their bodies were hung high on wooden poles three feet high. Originally, it was best to send a martial arts general to carry out this kind of thing of asking for help, just like Tai Shici who surrounded Beihai in the early Yellow Turban. However, because there were no brave generals in Nanzheng City, Yan Pu could only use small soldiers to carry out such things.

The first call for help...... Fail! Second call for help...... Fail! Third Call for Help...... Fail! Fourth Call for Help...... It seems to have succeeded. Of the 50 people sent this time, 47 were captured by Li Shengjun, and three escaped smoothly. Li Shengjun's blockade of the news of the battalion's attack and defense of the entire Nanzheng was so tight that Yan Pu became more and more convinced that Li Sheng himself had not seen through his plan, and that they were completely attacking Nanzheng with the idea of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle, intending to solve their own problems before settling Baocheng.

"I hope it doesn't make a mistake." Yan Pu thought like this, and there was a faint expectation in his heart. He hoped that Li Sheng, who was besieging Nanzheng, would not retreat because of the three soldiers who had missed. He was looking forward to them continuing to storm their Nanzheng City the next day. This is not a masochistic act, but a way to judge whether the other party has the right faith to see through their plans. In Yan Pu's opinion, if Li Sheng could continue to besiege him the next day, it would mean that he did not take to heart his plan to send people to Baocheng to ask for help to encircle him under the city, and he still wanted to destroy himself before the reinforcements from Baocheng arrived. This is undoubtedly a kind of luck gambling heart, but the other party's appearance in this kind of heart is what Yan Pu wants to see the most.

Things went according to his hopes. The next day, Li Shengjun's attack became more intense. Numerous men swarmed up, but instead of striking the other three, they concentrated all their forces, all their catapults, and all their archers on the west gate: eighty catapults, in four rows, took turns throwing the frightening clay pots. Thousands of archers, guarded by large shields, marched to the rear of the catapults, divided into several small phalanxes, and fired suppressive fire at the head of the city from afar. Because there was enough space between the formations, when the charge of the short soldiers officially began, the phalanx of archers in front did not play a role in blocking the short soldiers. Li Shengjun's soldiers still crossed the moat very quickly on the pontoon bridge, and still carried the sturdy ladder to the city wall very quickly, and they began to ascend the city.

For the Southern Zheng army defending the city, the period from the launch of the catapult to the time when Li Shengjun's soldiers began to pass through the moat was undoubtedly the most difficult. Because during that time, they were completely in a situation of passive beating. Although they have a high power, although they also have catapults and archers, somehow the range of their catapults and archers is far inferior to that of Li Shengjun. Therefore, when Li Shengjun bombarded them from outside the range of their catapults and archers, they did nothing. At this time, they can only wait, wait until Li Shengjun's ascent to the city begins, until Li Shengjun's catapults and archers themselves stop attacking, just like now.

When Li Shengjun began to ascend the city, the soldiers of the Southern Zheng Army also hurriedly ran out of the city tower and used the hook gun in their hands to hook off Li Shengjun's ladder. Because Li Shengjun's covering attack was too fierce, after suffering a loss, in addition to hiding most of the soldiers and under the city, the Nan Zheng army hid a lot of elite hookers in the city tower, which was used as the first step to prevent Li Shengjun from landing the city.

When the hook gunners braved the arrows that still kept falling to destroy Li Shengjun's ladder, more than a dozen huge oil pots were lifted up from under the city by Nanzheng's defenders with lids, and they were placed where they should have stayed in the first place, and then quickly poured the boiling oil down, scalding the Li Shengjun soldiers who were about to enter the city to the skin and flesh, wailing. The smell of human flesh permeated Nanzheng City like this, making everyone hold their breath.

It's a brutal war, and it's the place where you can grow the most. Just when the Nanzheng defenders sacrificed the "stunt" of quickly pouring boiling oil, and Li Shengjun's troops in the city suffered heavy losses, the catapults that were supposed to be stopped bombarded again. This time, it's not the same as before, using round firing to ensure continuous firepower. As Li Sheng, who was commanding the battle on the high platform in the rear, vigorously waved the red flag in his hand, the eighty catapults that were concentrated in one place threw out the clay pots that they had prepared for a long time, and blew up the city that had just been defended by a few people into a mess.

This was a blow that Li Shengjun took advantage of the Nanzheng defenders' gradual familiarity with his attack methods, and gave them a blow by surprise. Although the inaccurate hit of the catapult caused a lot of accidental injuries to his soldiers gathered at the foot of the city root, this accidental injury was nothing compared to the crushing of nearly a thousand enemy soldiers on the local castle tower. At least, in Li Sheng's opinion, it is still acceptable.

After this unexpected bombardment, Nan Zhengjun and Li Shengjun both started the city competition. Since the hook gunners of the Nan Zheng army have been lost, Li Shengjun was not hindered in this landing on the city, and all the two sides can compare is their respective speeds.

Desperately, desperately. No one wants victory to be in the hands of anyone else. As for the siege of the city, which was just a matter of acting, Li Shengjun only knew about the generals above the rank of colonel, and under Li Sheng's strict order that "no information should be leaked", the soldiers participating in the siege battle did not know the mystery at all. They only want to kill the enemy, and they only want to follow the orders given by their commanders to obtain their own military merits.

When Li Sheng's soldiers stepped on the cloud ladder to the top of the city in three or two with great momentum, Nanzheng's defenders did not turn around from the corner of the city much slower. If the two want to meet, that's something that can't be done without blushing. After several days of fighting, both sides had their comrades and friends killed and wounded, and both sides had a deep hatred for each other. At this moment, they bumped together, but they were caught and killed without any words, and the knife was bright and blood-red!

"Then Li Sheng really didn't find out." The situation in the city seemed to be in danger, but Yan Pu did not have even the slightest trace of sadness, but smiled faintly. Because he was glad that Li Sheng didn't see through his layout. Looking at the enemies constantly rising on the city wall, Yan Pu waved his hand excitedly and ordered his subordinates: "Go, follow me and drive them down together, he said loudly." He knew that he had many more soldiers than them, and that all his morale was not much worse than that of the other side. Although the other party has now controlled an entire city wall, and has already controlled the two crossings that reinforce them in front of him, he does not have the slightest worry, he knows that there are still six crossings in his hands at the moment, and he can still steal the enemy from three breads.

As soon as he thought of it, Yan Pu Hulala stepped on the city with his opponent and swung his sword into Li Sheng's army. Don't underestimate his appearance as a literati and think that he is a weak man who is powerless, in fact, he was born in the Northland, although he has practiced a lot of books, but the sword in his hand has never been put down. At this moment, he came with his army and rushed into the enemy formation, and the long sword in his hand danced continuously, but he cut off the heads of many of Li Shengjun's soldiers at once.

For a while, the bravery shown by him, the main general, was to drum up the fierceness of the ghost pawns in Hanzhong, but he drove Li Shengjun back all of a sudden.

"Yan Pu, is this guy still acting like a military advisor? It's just a living hero! Bai Feng is everywhere, and there is no one who will join him. Well, this guy did a good job. Looking at Yan Pu's invincible appearance at the head of the city, Li Sheng, who was standing on the high platform, sighed with a little mockery.

"My lord, please let me go up and teach him a lesson." Hearing Li Sheng's praise of his enemy so much, the few battalion officers who were ordered by Li Sheng not to go to the battlefield were a little embarrassed, and they shouted to Li Sheng for battle: "If you can't take Yanpu, you will be willing to pay with your life!" They assured Li Sheng aggressively.

"There's no need to do that." Li Sheng shook his head slightly: "Today's battle is the same as yesterday, we still have to lose." It wouldn't be good if you tigers were sent up and take Yan Pu's head. You know, no matter how many miscellaneous soldiers we kill here in Nanzheng, we can't show our strength, our target is the 50,000 elites in Baocheng. Li Sheng chuckled and reassured them.

"Yes, my lord!" Hearing Li Sheng say this, he compared them to tigers, and the battalion officers who were satisfied in their hearts stopped making trouble. In fact, they all know that now is not the best time to forcibly conquer Nanzheng. It's just that they always have their own dignity as generals, that is, they can't see that the weak can be appreciated better than themselves, especially when the weak are still enemies.

The battle became clear as the battle continued. With the influx of Yan Pu and the reserve army one after another, the scope that Li Shengjun could control was slowly compressing. Just like a few days ago, they gradually showed their decline, and only held on in a few small places. In the face of this situation, Li Sheng knew that today's drama had enough, and it was time for the end of the show. So he had Pang Tong wave the yellow flag in his hand, the golden bell of the snare drummer ringing rapidly, and then the remaining soldiers were returned under the projection of catapults and archers, ending the day's battle.

Then, it was nightfall......

When the people in Nanzheng City were peacefully intoxicated in their sleep, the gate of Li Sheng's military camp was gently opened, and the good team that had been prepared all the way came out of the camp and quickly disappeared into the night.

"This is already the third battalion." Looking at their departing figures, Li Sheng said with a smile. When the night had become deep, Li Sheng did not sleep. This is not the first time this has been the case, since Li Shengjun captured the soldiers sent by the Nanzheng defenders to contact the Baocheng side, Li Sheng sent one battalion after another to the west in the middle of the night. He caught the enemy asking for reinforcements, and naturally gained insight into Yan Pu's plan. He had already understood what Yan Pu was thinking, and he was naturally very eager to do what Yan Pu wanted. Of course, that kind of foolish behavior with luck was only superficial, and secretly, in the middle of the night, he began a different arrangement.

Between Baocheng and Nanzheng is a wide plain. Although such terrain can be used as a route for the march as long as the team is taken up, it is really a troublesome thing for Li Sheng, who intends to ambush the Baocheng army that is returning to the aid of Nanzheng. Therefore, after formulating the plan of "attacking Nanzheng as a means to attract the defenders of Baocheng to go out of the city and fight a decisive battle with himself", Li Sheng left Zhao Yun behind him and handed over all the 5,000 cavalry he brought this time, and he commanded the reconnaissance and combat work of the cavalry, so that he could explore all the terrain between Baocheng and Nanzheng, and prepare for the final calculation of the marching route of the defenders of Nanzheng on his side.

This is not a combat mission, but it is a mission that is much more important than a combat mission. As for the significance of this person, Zhao Yun, as a first-class general in Li Sheng's army, naturally has a deep understanding. Considering that there was no longer an enemy between Nanzheng and Baocheng, he boldly divided the 5,000 people in his hands into 500 teams of 10 people and sent them to Nanzheng and Baocheng to conduct topographic reconnaissance work, and soon a large amount of intelligence information was collected from below, and Zhao Yun directly transferred it to Li Sheng.

With the continuous enrichment of this information, Li Sheng, Pang Tong, and Fa Zheng have a deeper understanding of the entire battle situation, and they also have a rough judgment of the enemy's route. In the minds of Li Sheng and others, after Zhang Wei and the others received a letter of help from Nan Zhengcheng, they were definitely anxious in their hearts, especially the main general Zhang Wei. After all, Zhang Wei is Zhang Lu's younger brother, and he is the younger brother who has a good relationship with Zhang Lu. Therefore, Li Sheng and the others guessed that Zhang Wei and they would definitely choose a road that could quickly reach Nanzheng to march.

"They're going to go for sure. Because only in this way can they reach Nanzheng as quickly as possible. Li Sheng stared at the map that was gradually becoming more detailed, and said with a grim expression.

"Then let's put the battlefield here." Pang Tong pointed to a point on the map and said, "Most of the places where the gallop is located are the widest places without any covering, which is very unfavorable for our ambush. However, there is nothing we can do about it, and after thinking about it, this area is the only one that seems suitable because there are a few small woods where our soldiers can hide. ”

"Oh? Over here? Li Sheng looked at the map, but shook his head slightly: "Not here." I heard that Zhang Wei, Yang Ren, and Yang Ang were all cautious people, and this place, as the only place where soldiers and horses could be hidden on the entire marching route, was naturally the object of their attention. If we set up an ambush battlefield here, I'm afraid that we have just set up the ambush point on our side, and their scouts will discover it. ”

"That?" Pang Tong also went crazy, "Then where can we set up the ambush point?" Or is it just on flat ground? That's not going to be possible. ”

"How could it be?" Li Sheng asked with a smile.

"Huh? Is there anything the lord can do? Fa Zheng's eyes widened and asked.

"Let Zhao Yun's cavalry harass the enemy to the death after the defenders of Baocheng set off, I don't need to kill many enemies, I just need to make them unstable and annihilate the scout cavalry they sent. As for the ambush point, it is placed here. Li Sheng pointed to the place about east of the forest on the map and said, "This should be more than ten miles away from the forest, so it can be said that it has been separated from the location of the forest." If the presence of the woods makes them suspicious, then this place is likely to give them a little peace of mind. Oh, the peace of mind after the tension is easy to make people lose their vigilance. It's easy to take an ambush by surprise. ”

"But it's all plains." Pang Tong muttered, "The plains are endless, but they are not a good place to ambush. ”

"Don't worry." Li Sheng smiled, and his confident smile quickly soothed Pang Tong's anxiety: "It's true that this place is a plain, but combined with the time of day, there may not be no way to ambush." You see, it's a gloomy day, and it looks like it's going to snow again soon. It doesn't matter how heavy the snow falls. As long as he comes down, it will always affect people's vision. Ambushed troops can hide their bodies by digging tunnels in the field. This is already considered to be the north, and the soil is relatively hard, so although it is difficult to excavate, on the other hand, the excavation here is not prone to water seepage. As long as we dig up the tunnels and use the white veil as cover, I don't think it will be easy for the enemy to find out where our troops are. You know, they're also in a hurry. ”

"Using tunnels and camouflage to ambush?" Pang Tong was taken aback when he heard this, his brain spun quickly, and he quickly rehearsed Li Sheng's plan in his mind, and found nothing wrong, and suddenly became excited: "Lord, this is feasible." Although it can be a bit hard for the ambushed soldiers, once it is launched, it can cause the greatest surprise to the enemy. After all, they couldn't have imagined that we could ambush them on the plains. ”

"Yes, that's right." Li Sheng nodded, and immediately made arrangements: the ambush of the enemy's troops put in about 20,000 people, which were battalions as units, sneaked in the dark, and went to the battlefield in several days to prepare; At the same time, the attack on Nanzheng City was further strengthened, and Yan Pu in Nanzheng City must not be allowed to find out about his transfer. Of course, in order to cover up the fact that the forces of the army are slowly dwindling, we can change the original attack from all sides from tomorrow onwards, and attack the enemy in one direction only, so as to put the greatest pressure on the enemy in this regard, so that they will not have the time to find out the reduction of their forces and cover up the actions of their ambush troops.

I have to say that Li Sheng's plan is not bad, taking into account all the reactions of the enemy, and Pang Tong and Fa Zheng are even more excited when they hear this. They compared the map, and made some additions, deletions, and modifications to the details of Li Sheng's plan, and after improving it, the implementation of the plan began. As a result, there was Li Shengjun's onslaught on Nanzheng City, and Li Shengjun's camp made heavy moves at night.

As the days passed, Li Sheng had already transferred four battalions of ambush troops, and he himself planned to set off with this fifth battalion to the ambush site tomorrow night. As for the matter here, he intends to completely leave it to Fa Zheng to be responsible. After all, judging from Fazheng's performance these days, Fazheng undoubtedly has the quality of a top-level staff officer. Although he can't compare to Pang Tong in terms of strange changes, he is much stronger than Pang Tong in terms of perfection of the plan and attention to details, and he is also a somewhat bold person, and he is not as cautious as Kong Ming in terms of behavior, which can be regarded as the product of the combination of two-thirds of Pang Tong and one-third of Kong Ming.

Time passed, and the last moment finally came, on the eighth day of Li Sheng's siege of Nanzheng, and on the fourth day of Nanzheng's successful dispatch of helpers to Baocheng, near the battlefield that Li Sheng had expected, the black tide that was trotting forward was braving the snowflakes falling from the sky. They moved quickly, and they all trotted all the way over. Originally, Li Sheng thought that they would not arrive at the forest in front of the battlefield until evening, but he didn't think that just after noon, the figure of those people had already appeared.

Estimating their speed, Li Sheng came to the conclusion that they would arrive at the battlefield in another hour. Li Sheng had no choice but to order the soldiers who carried out this ambush to quickly enter the trench that had been dug and cover the top of their heads with the gray and white patches.

At this time, the sky has not yet darkened, the snowflakes falling with the wind are not very big, and people's vision is still quite clear, for the abnormality on the snow, although there is nothing wrong with it at a glance, but as long as you look a little more carefully, you can see the difference. It can be said that it is easy to detect an ambush at this time.

What to do? Li Sheng had no choice but to gamble. He gambled on Zhang Wei's eagerness to go to Nanzheng for rescue, and gambled that Zhang Wei's Hou could not conduct a careful search of this area.

Seeing the enemy showing his figure far away in the west, and watching the more than ten people who looked like Hou Zheng trotting in a panic and even taking a look at himself, the corners of Li Sheng's mouth couldn't help but show a smile full of joy: "Zhang Wei is really in a hurry, and even the reconnaissance is so sloppy." ”

Faced with this situation, Li Sheng was almost sure that he would win this battle. Because of the mental calculation or unintentional, the Baocheng army that was ambushed on the Chi Road definitely had no way to organize a formation. As far as the quality of the Chengcheng army is concerned, if they are unable to organize a suitable formation to compete with them, then their bravery will become a mere bravery, and they will not be able to pose any threat to themselves.

"Well, it looks like I just have to wait for the victory to be delivered directly to me." Li Sheng thought so, lying on the ground that had already frozen a little harder than iron like an ordinary soldier, feeling the biting ice, and staring at the direction of the west. At this moment, his attention was all there, and even the curtain wrapped around his body had become heavy because of the snow deposited, and he did not feel any pressure on himself.

I don't know how long I waited, until the frozen ground under him was already covered with his body, and the cold cold air turned into biting needles that kept piercing his body, Li Sheng saw the army running along the galloping roads on the high ground. "This is the Baocheng Army led by Zhang Wei." Li Sheng watched them think like this, but did not give an order. Because he knew that this was the time when he needed to hold his breath and endure it the most.

"Anyway, I've endured it for an hour, afraid of this mere quarter of an hour? Soon, there will be a great feast for you. With this thought, Li Sheng pressed his body even lower. [bookid=3676858,bookname="The Legend of the Otherworld"]