When Jiang Wei lurked two miles behind the Tang army with his men and horses, the Tang army's offensive preparations were already underway, and countless men and horses opened a formation in the following Xixian City: a simple cloud ladder, on the shoulders of the soldiers in front of the formation, they were divided into two phalanxes and stood there quietly, and the left and right sides separated to give way to the middle formation. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info so nearly a thousand artillery pieces were neatly arrayed on the ground, according to the front light and heavy back, the left and right rapid-fire posture put down the gun carriage, set up the muzzle, and coldly faced the opposite city with its dark deep hole that was enough to kill people. Everyone was busy, especially the artillerymen. After all, in such a siege battle, their artillery is the absolute main force. Although they never rushed forward to kill the enemy from the front, they inflicted the most damage and shock on the enemy, because they had the most powerful artillery at their disposal. Of course, there are pros and cons to everything, and the power of this gun is very powerful, but it is also very troublesome to operate. If you don't do everything in advance, I'm afraid that the final fight will be much less effective. To use a phrase often said by those artillerymen in Li Sheng's army: "The matter of firing artillery is actually a technical job." ”

"It's really hot." Jiang Wei looked ahead with the crystal cylinder, looking at such a lively scene there, and couldn't help but sigh. He found that the enemy on the opposite side was not as demoralized as the intelligence he had seen said. Although it can be seen from some details that they still have some faint antagonism with each other, on the whole, their morale is still very high, and it seems that they are eager to break through Xixian County to completely cover the contradictions that they originally appeared.

"Is this a good thing or a bad thing for us?" Jiang Wei pondered this, but he couldn't come up with an answer that satisfied him. Although he was sure that he would definitely get a satisfactory answer if he took the time to think about it, the time in front of him did not allow him to spend a lot of time thinking about these things that he had and did not have. He was now about two miles away from the other party, which was an extremely close distance. He didn't dare to guarantee that he would not be detected by the other party if he lurked at such a distance. In response to this situation, he thought that he should launch an attack as soon as possible. Because only an attack can take the initiative in the whole battle - this is a certain thing, and as for the timing, the situation that the other side is making pre-battle preparations is undoubtedly the most suitable for his side.

“…… When we attack them, they have to be on the defensive. And all the preparations they are making now are for the offensive. When they go from attacking to defending, they are bound to make mistakes, and that mistake is our chance. Jiang Wei keenly grasped this point, and he explained to his subordinates. As the lieutenant general of Tianshui County, his current eyes are still limited to the corner of the conquest of Tianshui County, and he does not know that the same tactics as him have been used once by Zhao Yun of the Tang Army in the northern annex state. Of course, the formation used by this Zhao Yun was much stronger than his.

"Attack ......!" With Jiang Wei roaring in a long voice, the cavalry of the five thousands, who had rested for two hours, and had already recovered their physical strength, began to move. They rode their horses slowly out of the sparse woods, lined up in formation, ran slowly, and gradually accelerated, but when they were still half a mile away from the rear of the Tang army, they suddenly increased their speed and sprinted. The heavy hooves of the war horse stomped on the ground fiercely, and with heavy force, after making a loud "bang", the whole body and the rider on it rose up together. The gallop began, and the earth trembled with it. For a time, the horses were flying, and the smoke and dust were billowing out. Jiang Wei's five thousand cavalry were like a killing god who suddenly came from the darkness, bringing absolute shock to everyone in the Tang army. He made them all aware of the fact that victory is not yours yet, and that there is a tiger like me behind you.

What is the momentum of the tiger descending the mountain? At present, the posture displayed by the five thousand cavalry that Jiang Wei stepped out of is undoubtedly the so-called tiger descending the mountain. Because the physical strength and spirit have been well recovered, because there is a trace of anger in the heart of every soldier who wants revenge, so everyone's body is full of murderous aura. "Offense...... Offensive! Come on......! Wave after wave of shouts came out of their mouths, and they roared angrily, but they did not realize that such an act was a waste of their physical strength. Because they're all excited.

Half a mile, one mile, one hundred and fifty zhang, one hundred zhang, eighty zhang, sixty zhang, fifty zhang...... The fierce running made the faces of each rider turn red with excitement, their faces became hideous, the bows on their backs had long been removed, and the arrows in their hands had been lightly mounted, and it was obvious that they were going to inflict an overwhelming rain of arrows on each other when they had reached such a distance of forty zhang.

“…… This...... Not so good! Although the momentum of the whole army was adjusted, Jiang Wei faintly felt that something was wrong at this time: "Strange...... Our momentum has reached its peak. The charge of these 5,000 cavalry is no longer under the ordinary 10,000 cavalry, so it stands to reason that the guy on the opposite side should also show a surprised and frightened look! How could it be ......? Could it be that they had expected all of this? Or is this whole a trap? The other party's performance was so weird that Jiang Wei couldn't help but chuckle. He was about to remind himself to be more careful about this, but suddenly he found ......

"......Boom" was a loud bang, but it was not the sound of gunpowder exploding, but the sound of a piece of earth collapsing. After the sound of collapse, there was a miserable scream and curse, and Jiang Wei, who was following himself to the left and right of the Chinese army to charge, heard such a sound and secretly said that it was not good, but he immediately took advantage of the horse's vacancy, glanced ahead, and suddenly turned pale. I saw a pit about 100 zhang long and 3 zhang wide appear in my eyes. The pit was obviously very deep, and it seemed to be full of sharp things such as spear heads and short spears, but the men who had fallen into it were very miserable to be pierced and hung there.

"Trap ......! It's definitely a trap! Jiang Weitie said viciously with a blushing face. His so-called trap no longer refers to the trap itself, but to the fact that his entire pursuit plan is carried out in the layout that others have long foreseen, and he has already fallen into the calculations of others.

"Damn it! They've already gotten there. Jiang Wei roared angrily, but he tightened the reins of the mount under him so that his war horse stopped, and no longer stepped into that dead end. This is not only what he is doing, but everyone in his army is doing. It's just that this thing is better for those of them who are in the middle and back of the formation, after all, they are still some distance from the front, as long as they react in time, it is impossible to fall into the trap like this, and the chance of escape is still quite large, but for those soldiers in front, especially the soldiers in the front, everything is not so simple. They also try to stop their own subordinate posture, but in many cases they do not do anything. They can stop themselves, but those behind them may not be able to stop, and in the case of the people behind them constantly pushing the people in front, they are forced to be squeezed into the pit and fall into a desperate situation.

The so-called "blessing is incomparable, disaster is not a single line", just when the cavalry of the Wei army fell into chaos because of the trap suddenly laid by the Tang army, the sharp arrows shot from all over the world were like heavy rain falling from the sky, which gave Jiang Wei a slap in the face when he had a headache. Countless arrows and feathers sank into the soldiers' bodies, and they pierced through their bodies, bursting with brilliant blood flowers one after another. This is about forty-five zhang away from the other side, which is really an awkward distance for the cavalry. At such distances, the arrows used by the infantry could easily reach the cavalry, and the cavalry could do nothing about it.

“…… The squadron stops, the rear scatters! We withdraw. Jiang Wei gritted his teeth and ordered. The most chaotic in the whole army was the front team, which had already panicked, and it was very difficult to put it in order. They need time, and the most extravagant thing for the whole army is time. There was no way, Jiang Wei could only choose to abandon them. After all, they are only a part of the whole army, just a part that has long been hopeless. Under the continuous release of arrows from the other party, their number of people is rapidly decreasing.

"General, brothers are still ahead!" To abandon his comrades, no one is so ruthless, and after Jiang Wei made such an order, someone immediately tried to dissuade him.

"I don't have time. Do you think that the enemy's arrangement is only this piece in front of us? Jiang Weiluo waved his hand a little irritably, but he was very impatient: "I know that our people are in crisis, and I also want to save them." But I can't. Because I am not only responsible for them, but also for all of us. Compared with this small part of their front army, the middle army and the rear army are the more important parts. Under such circumstances, it is most important to ensure the safety of the Chinese army and the rear army first. Don't you see that? We have fallen into the trap of the enemy. If you don't get rid of it as soon as possible, I'm afraid everyone will be doomed. ”

"But...... But ......," the man said a few things, but he did not continue. Because it was already too late: under the faint morning light in the east, several huge phalanxes of infantry were marching in order, spears and spears coming towards them step by step. They are a phalanx composed of tens of thousands of people, but under strict training, the performance of these tens of thousands of people is the same as one person.

The atmosphere froze in an instant, if it was their fierce and murderous aura that brought to the Tang Army, then now it was the Tang Army who brought another kind of solemn coercion to them. Although the atmosphere is different, the feelings brought to each other are almost the same - they are all so uncomfortable.

"East...... West...... There are enemies on both sides. Jiang Wei glanced at the situation in front of him, and turned sharply to look north: there was no exception to the trace of the enemy. Only what made him even more discouraged was that the enemy that appeared in the north was not the same infantry as the east and west, but cavalry. The black cavalry stood in the north, without any sense of approaching, but it was like a big mountain, making people look up a little breathless.

"This cavalry is not afraid of tens of thousands, right? The other party really looks up to us. Unexpectedly, such a posture was discharged. Jiang Wei smiled bitterly, and couldn't help but feel a little flattered at the importance that the enemy attached so much importance to himself: "Damn! Now you can really fall into the situation of ambush on all sides. Although the enemy's movement speed was different and there was still a certain distance from him, he Jiang Wei still saw his current crisis from the opponent's position.

"Looks like you really want to keep us here? How does this say? Do you want to annihilate me, or do you want to force me down? Jiang Wei's wry smile quickly turned into absolute firmness here: "Hmph! Whether it's the end of annihilation or the end of surrender, I don't want to choose. Do you think that this kind of posture will scare me and make me stay where I am and watch you close? You're thinking too simply. If you surround me with pure infantry or pure cavalry, you may get me into trouble, but for now...... Can you really do the same with the cooperation of infantry and cavalry? I'm afraid it won't work. In an instant, Jiang Wei's idea had already been determined, and he quickly made a decision: "Break through, the direction is northeast!" ”

Northeast? That was where the northern cavalry phalanx of the Tang Army and the infantry phalanx of the eastern part of the Tang Army intersected. Since the formations of both sides have just been listed, and the positions that intersect have not yet been closed, it is still very reasonable for Jiang Wei to choose there as the direction of the breakthrough, at least there are some appearances that can successfully break through.

Everyone was speechless for a while, and they seemed to see that the current situation was not good, and they all rushed towards the gap after Jiang Wei. Because everyone is cavalry, the speed is naturally extremely fast, and Jiang Wei himself seems to have made such an order a little out of their "expectations", so the situation seems to be smooth, almost before the other party has time to react, Jiang Wei has already approached the junction of the two sides and made the appearance of breaking through.

"Haha...... As long as I get past here, they won't be able to catch up with me. Seeing that the success of the breakthrough was in sight, Jiang Wei couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He glanced at the cavalry on the opposite side, and saw that they finally understood, and rushed towards him in a swarm, but they wanted to catch up with him, "How can it be so simple?" You're a busy step after all. Jiang Wei glanced at his lips disdainfully.

However, accidents always appear when I get carried away, maybe this can be regarded as joy and sorrow: I saw that the ground that was originally a smooth road suddenly stretched dozens of ropes, and they were firmly blocked on the path of Jiang Wei and others. For a while, the miserable wails were renewed, and I don't know how many cavalrymen ran directly into these damn ropes because they couldn't retract the footsteps of their mounts under them. They ran very fast, but they fell very hard, some of them had broken heads and bloodies, and some of them had broken bones and bones. At the end of the game, nearly 100 people were injured by falling because of the rope, and the number of people who suffered losses due to trampling on each other was several times that number, which made the originally neat queue suddenly chaotic again.

"Bastard...... Is there an enemy even here? The sudden and startling changes made Jiang Wei's face extremely blue and distorted, and the continuous changes made his confidence suffer a great blow, making him always involuntarily look at the things in front of him very seriously - although the existence in front of him was only a few ropes at the moment, but he intuitively thought that there must be an enemy army on the other side.

"You know...... They have an army of 200,000 men! Even if we are deployed everywhere, we can still have an advantage in strength in any direction. It's really an ant against an elephant, and there's basically no fighting. Jiang Weiluo was a little deflated. It's no wonder, after all, at least at this time, he doesn't see a chance of winning.

"Do you want to try something else?" Jiang Wei asked himself, but he shook his head very quickly: "The enemy on the other side is a master." Since he blocked my men in one direction, it means that he has already thought of something that I will break through. In such a situation, how could he focus on one aspect and ignore the others? You know, he doesn't have any shortage of troops. ”

"What to do?" Jiang Wei was a little hesitant about this. By this time, more than half of the 5,000 cavalry he had brought out, and only a mere 2,000 horsemen remained. Such a number of troops may be considered a force in other places, but compared to the 100,000 elites of the other party who have already raised their spirits, such a force is nothing at all. As for the infantry who have not appeared so far, Jiang Wei has long lost hope for them. At this moment, he hesitated: he wanted to surrender and was very unwilling, and he was afraid of dying in vain - it didn't matter to him that he was going to die in vain, but he was unwilling to do so for his subordinates. He regarded these soldiers under his command as his brothers, and he was afraid that no one was willing to send his brothers to death except for some wolf-hearted guys.

After hesitating, the Tang army's brigade surrounded him. To be honest, the speed at which they were traveling was not fast, but they only saw the neatness and density of the array with each other, but Jiang Wei couldn't find any opportunity to take advantage of. Now, Jiang Wei is a little glad that he just made the judgment that he no longer forcibly broke through the enemy's stumbling block. Because he had already seen those damn guys stand up directly in the direction he was facing, shaking the dirt on his body but also making an array attack. It turned out that they were all lying in ambush under the ground.

At this point, the matter is irreparable. Under the cover of such a net of heaven and earth, Jiang Wei obviously has no escape. Of course, if he was willing to charge directly and use the blood of his soldiers to change his life, there might be a chance of survival, but he would never have done so. So, everything is closed.

The Tang army, which surrounded him, stopped about twenty zhang away from him. They didn't speak, they all stood with bated breath, their guns up, their arrows wound, and their swords unsheathed, but they brightly shot the rising light of the rising sun directly into the eyes of the people through the reflection of the blades of the swords, and they shone a group of people for a while. Such a light is undoubtedly dazzling, but such a momentum is so clear that it makes people always shudder.

"What exactly are they trying to do?" Since he couldn't escape, Jiang Wei's heart calmed down, he looked at the situation around him, pondering the posture of the other party fighting and not fighting, retreating and not retreating, and he knew a little about this in his heart: "Didn't they want to recruit me?" As soon as this idea came to mind, Jiang Wei determined that there was at least an eight-point possibility, and after a moment raised the possibility to nine, because he saw a literati quietly stepping out of the opposing camp.

"This is the lobbyist of the other party?" Jiang Wei raised his eyes and looked at the other party's expression indifferently, his long hair fluttering, and he looked like a hermit. This is also a very common perception, after all, among the lobbyists he knows, literati always account for at least ninety percent of them. To put it simply, only literati and certain military generals with brains have the capital to become lobbyists, while others can't do such things at all.

"Your Excellency is ......?" Seeing the other party walk in front of him, Jiang Wei hugged him flutteringly and asked politely.

"In the dismount, the horse is young." The man returned his hand, but he did not lose the slightest courtesy.

"Ma Yan, Uncle Liu's former military advisor?" Jiang Wei heard that it was this person, but the look on his face was somewhat disdainful, he didn't know that Ma Jian did have a certain level, but he looked down on Ma Yan. Because of Liu Bei's failure, he regarded Ma Jian as a loser. In his mind, the reason why Liu Bei was able to defeat from the level of owning the four counties was that this Ma Jian was at least seventy percent responsible. Who made him Liu Bei's military advisor, and he was also a military advisor who did not live and die with his own lord. Thinking of this, his face changed slightly, and his words were a little colder than just now: "Why are you here?" It's not like it's going to come down to me. Although I, Jiang Wei, am not talented, I am still clear about loyalty, so Your Excellency doesn't need to say more. We are divided between the enemy and the enemy, and we only need to line up to fight, and I don't want to know the rest. ”

"You really don't want to know?" Ma Yan looked at Jiang Wei strangely, and his vivid expression directly explained his surprise at this matter at the moment: "Your Excellency is a person who understands and has lived in understanding all his life, is he willing to die so inexplicably when he is about to die?" And he died as a completely insignificant outcast. ”

"Abandoned son? Are you talking about me? Haha, how is this possible? I'm not a fool, but I wouldn't be impressed by your words. Jiang Wei laughed loudly, but his words were very firm, and there was no wavering at all.

"Really? So I want to ask Your Excellency, do you know how your Governor Cao really arranged the entire battle situation in Guanzhong? At Jiang Wei's firm eyes, Ma Jian smiled faintly. He had completely seen through Jiang Wei's weakness under his firmness.

"How?" Under Ma Yan's gaze, Jiang Wei's eyes flickered a little inadvertently, and he didn't know whether it was instinct or intentionally asked back.

"The Wei army can mobilize more than 150,000 regular troops and more than 400,000 civilian troops in Guanzhong, I don't think you should deny this number." Ma Yan's smile became even more incomprehensible, and after Jiang Wei nodded lightly to confirm, he continued in a more gentle and calm voice: "Cao Zhen has so many troops, how did you arrange it?" Well, you may not know the specific situation. But I think you've heard of such a saying, I think you've heard it. In terms of the overall distribution of troops, Cao Zhen deployed 30,000 regular troops and 100,000 Tuntian soldiers to the west of Fufeng County, while more men and horses were deployed on the two enemy sides of Fufeng County and Jingzhao County. Your Excellency is a person who knows the soldiers, and you should know what the consequences of such an arrangement will be combined with Cao Zhenguang's behavior in the dock fort. They want to use this Longxi as a depth, with a small number of troops and a large number of dock fort strongholds, to consume our troops little by little. Whether you people win or lose, as long as you fight us, your actions will be what they want. The 30,000 regular troops, 100,000 Tuntian soldiers, and private soldiers and families in Longxi were all directly treated by Cao Zhen as outcasts. You can't withdraw, and if you do, then you've violated your duty to defend your territory, and even if you can break through successfully, it's a dead end. As for the war, do you think that with your strength, such a few thousand men and horses can stop our attack little by little? In the case that we didn't make a mistake at all? ”

"Hey......" Jiang Wei sighed and stopped talking. As Ma Zun's cronies, he may not know much about the entire arrangement of the Wei army on the battlefield, but he is still clear about the layout of the entire Tianshui County. After comparing the situation of Ma Tan's words with what he knew about the heavy arrangements of Tianshui County, he understood that what Ma Tan said was true. At least in this Tianshui County, Ma Zun's arrangement was based on this: the other enemy defenders in Tianshui County were greatly weakened, and the Ji County, where the county itself was located, was greatly strengthened. This in itself is an act of the strong and the weak, and on top of such an act, the order given by Ma to the county orders of the counties is: "...... Defend the city to the death, wait for backup, and do not evacuate the city for any reason, and those who violate the order will be beheaded. ”

This is definitely an unconscionable cold order for the current situation. Because it completely prevents the possibility of the defenders of the county town from escaping: resistance is death, and flight is death, then most people will choose to resist and not choose to escape. You must know that the bureaucracy of the Great Wei and the Tang Dynasty are completely different. In dealing with the families of their subordinates, they used a system of "bailing" at various levels: the families of the chief officials of the imperial court naturally lived in the capital like them, but the families of the officials who were released were different, the families of the first-level officials of the state pastor and the assassin were in the capital, the families of the first-level officials of the county taishou were in the county of the state, and the families of the first-level officials of the county order were placed in the county. Although the order issued by Ma Zun did not say that the families of those officials who fled were involved, Jiang Wei vaguely knew such a fact by virtue of Ma Zun's status as a close confidant, after some officials surrendered or fled, their families in Ji County not only lost their livelihoods, but were also harassed by some random people every day.

“…… You are an outcast......" Ma Jian did not speak, but his voice always surrounded Jiang Wei's ears. Jiang Wei's whole person became more and more sluggish, and he stood silently on a plate and kept asking himself: "Is this really the case?" Is that really the case? Even though no one told him, "That's really it!" But he still secretly confirmed: "That's really it." ”

"That's really it, so what?" Jiang Wei's momentum became even lower: "I don't have a wife, and my father died early!" But my mother is still in Ji County, as long as she is there, how can I surrender. Seeing that the families of those officials who surrendered were living so miserably, Jiang Wei thought that he should not surrender. He still has relatives, even if he doesn't think about himself, he should think about his relatives. Thinking of this, Jiang Wei raised his head and was about to reject Ma Tan, but he was surprised to find that Ma Jian seemed to have thought of something, and gently waved his hand to stop talking for the time being: "Don't make a decision so quickly." Look who is that? Ma Tan pretended to point in the opposite direction mysteriously. Seeing that the array of the Tang Army was separated again, a towering old lady walked to the front of the formation with the support of several young men in white. "Son......" That's her personal call. For a while, Jiang Wei's eyes were moist, but he knelt in front of Ma Tan: "Lord Ma Yan, Jiang Wei is willing to surrender!" ”