Lower Debate City, East City Gate Battlefield.

"Kill!"

"Sons, go up the ladder and kill it!"

"Archers, cover, cover!"

"Go and push the biggest siege engine up and blast the gates open for me!"

"Smash the catapult hard for me!"

Chen Zhi took the lead and was commanding several divisions under his command to launch a new round of strong attacks on the city wall.

But the tenacity of the Wei army in the city was beyond his expectations.

After several days of attacking the fortified battle, they were still crushed under the city, and the Wei army was well prepared, and the rolling logs and stones were smashed down one by one, and the soldiers of the Wu army did not even have a chance to attack the city.

"Commander, the chief of staff is here, there is an urgent military situation, I want to see you immediately!"

At this time, a staff officer came to report that Fa Zheng, who was mainly attacking the south city gate, suddenly came.

"Fazheng?"

Chen Zhi gritted his teeth, looked at the strong city wall, suspended the offensive, and returned to the command camp, he looked at the dusty Fa Zheng, and asked directly: "Xiaozhi, are you so here?" ”

"Commander, something happened, I want to report to the commander in person!" The face of the law is a little dignified.

"What's the matter?" Chen Zhi frowned.

"Meng Huo of the Fourteenth Army has just sent someone to report that the 45th Division under his command has lost the news that the 30,000 elite soldiers of the Wei army led by Zhang Ren have not entered the territory of the Baimaqiang tribe, but they have not returned to the trace of Xiabiancheng, but they have disappeared in Xidang Town!"

"Gone?"

When Chen Zhi heard this, his face was stunned, and he said: "Tens of thousands of Wei troops, when they move, the yellow sand is rolling, can they still fly, and isn't the scout battalion directly under the command of my Bashu Legion always staring at them?" Ask him, where is this Wei army now? ”

"Commander, the scout battalion directly under the command of the Bashu Legion has been completely wiped out!" Fa Zheng said solemnly.

"What?"

Chen Zhi was a little incredulous: "This is impossible!" ”

"It's because of this situation, so I think this battle Wei army is prepared to fight, they killed our scouts, just to want us to find no trace of them, I suspect that this Wei army will be killed!" Fa Zheng Dao.

"Surprise Kill?"

Chen Zhi said coldly: "It's the place to kill our belly and back, front and back, come on, I'm waiting for them, my eleventh army has not been put into battle, and now I am waiting for them to appear!" ”

"Commander, what if the target isn't our belly?" Fa Zheng said suddenly.

"What do you mean?"

Chen was confused.

Fa Zheng looked at a marching map on the conference table of the command tent and pointed to two of the positions: "Commander, have you noticed that in fact, after entering Guanghan County from Xidang Town, it is very troublesome to return to the lower debate, but it is indeed the closest to Baima Pass!" ”

"You suspect that they attacked Baima Pass!"

Chen Zhi was shocked.

"Hmm!"

Fa Zheng solemnly nodded his head.

"We have sent all the heavy troops to the north, and the soldiers and horses of the War Elephant Legion cannot go north to Baima Pass for a while, so at this time, the troops of Baima Pass are the weakest, if they ......" Chen Zhi's face suddenly turned pale.

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In the middle of November, the weather is getting colder and colder, and there is a light sleet falling on the sky of Baima Pass.

"The weather is getting colder and colder, and fighting in the cold winter is not conducive to attacking the fortified battle, so we must solve the battle of Wudu as soon as possible!"

In the camp, even if the brazier was burning, Zhuge Liang couldn't help but tremble, and hurriedly wrapped his coat tightly.

"Zhuge Overseer, why don't I let them light a few more braziers!"

Xu Sheng was strong and strong, so he was naturally not afraid of this cold, but he saw that Zhuge Liang was a literati and still proposed it.

"No!"

When Zhuge Liang heard this, he smiled slightly and shook his head: "Although I, Zhuge Liang, am a literati, my body is not so weak, and some chills can make my brain sober a lot!" ”

After taking a sip of hot tea to warm up his body, he walked to the topographic map of the sand table: "Is there any news about the siege battle?" ”

"I just sent back a battle report last night, the Wei army is now stubbornly defending, and there is no intention of withdrawing the troops, this battle is very fierce, I heard that Chen Zhi is ready to throw the eleventh army of the reserve army Jiang Qin into it!"

Xu Sheng handed Zhuge Liang a copy of the battle report in his hand.

"Defend to the bottom? That's not right! ”

Zhuge Liang looked at this battle report, successively flipped out several previous report news, compared it, there was a trace of uneasiness in his heart, he squinted slightly: "At this time, it stands to reason that the Wei army should not defend to the next defense, they will try to retreat to Liangzhou on the contrary!" ”

"What the Zhuge Overseers mean is that they should withdraw their troops!"

Xu Sheng opened several pieces of news that came back from the battlefield ahead: "But it says that Qishan has not moved at all, and even the north of the lower argument is tightly closed, and they have the intention of withdrawing troops in the north!" ”

"Commander Xu, if it were you who defended the city, you knew that in the face of my army's siege, Wudu would definitely not be able to defend it, would you defend it to the death?"

"No!"

Xu Sheng thought for a while and nodded, but quickly retorted: "But if I know that there are reinforcements to help, I will definitely stick to it, after all, withdrawing troops on the spot is too risky, and if you don't get it right, it will be a big rout!" ”

"Reinforcements?"

When Zhuge Liang heard this, his eyes lit up slightly, but he quickly shook his head: "They shouldn't have any reinforcements, we have been staring at Chang'an, and the soldiers and horses in Chang'an have not moved, which shows that they have no intention of reinforcing them, in addition to Chang'an, what reinforcements can they have!" ”

"Could it be that they are waiting for Zhang Ren to turn back!"

Xu Sheng said.

"It's a possibility!"

Zhuge Liang nodded and said, "Is there a report from the scouts who are staring at Zhang Renbu from the west?" It stands to reason that the 45th Division and Zhang Ren should have already fought at this time, why hasn't there been any news back! ”

"It's strange to say, it was originally a scout battalion battle report that was reported once a day, but now there is no news at all!" Xu Sheng frowned.

"What?" Zhuge Liang looked at him: "It's been a few days!" ”

"It's been four days!"

"Yes, something must have happened to the west!" Zhuge Liang's face changed greatly.

"What does the Overseer mean is that Zhang Renhui killed a horse pistol and fought back to defend himself?" Xu Sheng said.

"We have long been prepared for his troops, even if he asks our sight and wants to kill a horse pistol, we are also prepared in the soldiers and horses in the next debate, and will not let us suffer too many casualties, at most let him increase his troops to defend the city, but we have invested more than 100,000 main forces in the battlefield of the city of Xiabian, and there are seventy or eighty thousand reinforcements coming behind, even if he turns back, he can only delay the time for us to attack the city, and it will not have much effect!"

Zhuge Liang said analytically.

"But if he hadn't led his troops and horses back to argue, where else could he go?" Xu Sheng was puzzled.

"There's one more place, we're here!"

Zhuge Liang stretched out his hand, stroked his forehead, closed his eyes, his thoughts became clearer and clearer, a spiritual light flashed, and blurted out: "Zhang Ren is here!" ”

"What do you mean by Overseer?" Xu Sheng's face was stunned.

"Zhang Ren is coming at us!"

Zhuge Liang opened his eyes, and a gleam burst out of his eyes, staring at the position of the White Horse Pass on the sand table.

"At us?"

Xu Sheng gasped and hurriedly said, "What the Zhuge Overseer means is that the soldiers and horses led by Zhang Ren are coming towards Baima Pass!" ”

"I've deduced countless times, and I thought we had planned this battle very well, but it was still a hundred secrets, and we calculated everything, and we actually missed our own location!"

Zhuge Liang showed a wry smile on his face: "I'm sure that now he Zhang Ren is leading 30,000 elites, not to return to the west for reinforcements, but to go straight to my Baima Pass!" ”

"Conquer my White Horse Pass?"

Xu Sheng's pupils shrank slightly: "What's the effect of this, when our reinforcements go north, they don't want to flee in disgrace, Chief of Staff Huang Gai will soon lead the main force of my war elephant to the north!" ”

"When will it be soon?"

"Ten days at least!"

"In ten days, White Horse Pass will be in ruins!" Zhuge Liang said.

"He's going to burn us down White Horse Pass?"

"Let me ask you, what is the place of Hakuba Pass?"

"Granary!"

Xu Sheng suddenly realized: "This is the granary for us to support the northern battlefield!" ”

Zhuge Liang nodded and said: "That's right, this is our military transfer station, food, winter clothes, weapons, and large siege equipment are all here, if he destroys here, the hundreds of thousands of main forces on our front line must stop fighting and retreat to Bashu!" ”

"Report!" Outside the camp, a loud voice sounded suddenly.

"Come in!"

"Report to the Zhuge Overseer, Commander Xu, in the afternoon, the first platoon of soldiers of my scout company found a soldier and horse with an unknown banner ten miles west of Baima Pass, dressed like the Wei army, and there were a lot of soldiers and horses!"

The scout arched his hand and said: "We carefully explored the north and found the place where they were once stationed, according to the configuration of the Wei army, ten people are a stove, and they have at least two thousand five hundred stoves!" ”

"It should be the 30,000 elites under Zhang Ren's command, they are really here!"

When Xu Sheng heard this, his face changed in shock, and he gasped: "But the speed at which they came is a little too fast!" ”

"It's because we're too slow to react!"

Zhuge Liang gritted his teeth and hurriedly asked, "How many soldiers and horses are there in Baima Pass?" ”

"At present, there is only one regiment, three thousand soldiers!"

Xu Sheng immediately replied: "We had two regiments before, but the day before yesterday, a baggage regiment transported grain and siege equipment to the battlefield in Wudu, and at present, there is only a guard regiment directly under the command of the Bashu Legion!" ”

"Three thousand against thirty thousand, this is a big trouble, although Baima Pass is a gate, but it is not a very strong kind, the most important thing is that they have troops to besiege, even if we arrange the defense, there will be loopholes, if Zhang Ren is ruthless, at most two days, we can take our White Horse Pass!"

Zhuge Liang clenched his fists, if there were 5,000 soldiers and horses, he could be deployed along Baima Pass for a week, and he could hold it for three or five days, but now there are only 3,000 soldiers, which is not enough at all.

However, he Zhuge Liang is not a person who admits defeat, his eyes crossed a decisive light: "In the current situation, I am afraid that we can only fight and win in danger!" ”

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Evening.

On the western outskirts of Baima Pass, seven or eight miles away, on a hill, the soldiers of the Wei army marched for a day and began to bury pots and cook to recuperate.

Zhang Ren's tall body stood at the highest place of the hill, wearing battle armor and cloak, looking at the White Horse Pass under his eyes, and the corners of his mouth raised a touch of murderous intent: "Zhuge Liang, it's time for us to break off, this time, I will never let you leave Baima Pass alive!" (To be continued.) )