Regarding what Pound said, Ma Dai and Ma Jian were silent. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info They nodded slightly in agreement with Pound's statement. This is also true, after all, the reason why the enemy will surrender is completely because of the power of the artillery, although there is a suspicion of wasting shells without a single cannon, but at this moment, everything is variable, it seems that only in this way can the enemy stop because of fear, and not make so many associations - this is what Ma Dai and Ma Jian value the most. So, in a burst of intermittent rumbling shelling, the night passed, when the morning sun in the east once again spread the light on this land, the pale face of the move, trembling and trembling, led a group of soldiers with low morale out of the gate of Weiyuan City, kneeling in front of Ma Dai, Pang De and others who were about to enter the city.

Pound could see that it was indeed a little unwilling to pretend to be as calm as possible, but he seemed to be enduring something. The man was kneeling in front of his own people, but his eyes were clearly wandering around, and it was obvious that his mind was not here, but on other enemies. Although he didn't say it clearly, Pound could tell from the fear hidden in the corner of his eye that what he was looking for was actually the culprit who had brought him to such a point, directly destroying his 10,000 cavalry and a strong heart.

"Really...... Be! Poor thing! But the one who destroys you is not here, but behind. Looking at the reluctant move, Pound shook his head slightly, but didn't say anything more. He knew that on such an occasion, the protagonist of the surrender ceremony was not himself, but Ma Dai, who stood in front of him, who was the commander of the entire legion and the person with the highest position in the field at the moment.

The surrender ceremony passed in the unwilling fear of Zhao Zhao and the worried expressions of his men. It can be seen that everyone has no doubts about such a surrender, and finally passed in a "shock" and no danger. After that, Ma Dai led everyone to the hall, sat down on the winning and losing sides, and began to discuss the matter in front of him. Of course, in front of them, everyone is not talking about what to do next, but how to deal with the father and son and the army in his hands.

Truth be told, due to the intimidation of the artillery and the fact that the 10,000 cavalry who had come out of the city to meet the attack were too shocking, the army surrendered without much damage. The forty or fifty thousand horses along the way are naturally nothing compared to Ma Dai's Liangzhou Legion, but if they are not handled well, it is also a troublesome thing to leave them behind and let them make trouble, and if they don't get it right, they will damage their supply lines. This is absolutely unacceptable for Ma Dai. What to do, this is the way we are talking about right now.

In order to show sincerity, Ma Dai did not shy away from holding his hand directly to discuss this matter. Of course, this initial discussion was only between Ma Dai, Ma Yan, and Pang De. As for the trick, it was after the three of them discussed a result, and they were asking about the trick. This may seem a bit impolite in general, but in the case of the fact that the trick itself is a defeated, it is considered polite.

So, Ma Dai didn't ask anything, and he didn't say anything. He sat in the hall and watched his enemies of yesterday sit in their place and discuss in a low voice. He didn't hear what they were discussing, but as long as he used his brain to think about it a little, he could understand that what they were discussing was definitely related to him. "What are they going to do with themselves?" I was a little curious about this, and some of it was not a taste. After all, no one wants to be discussed like a piece of goods.

There was always a result, and after almost half an hour of discussion, the matter of what to do with the lead and his troops was largely settled. Ma Dai and they have established a principle for recruitment, that is: "The soldiers return to the soldiers, and the generals will return!" ”

"Many of your soldiers are local people's troops, and some are the elite of the Great Wei, and we have to distinguish between them. This distinction is made after upholding a certain principle of voluntariness, those who are willing to stay stay, and those who are willing to leave are different. We are not ready to go here again. For those who are willing to stay, we will organize them into our own ranks, and for those who want to leave, we will arrange them in the local area and exist as reserves, which is actually the work of tuntian and so on. Ma Jian explained in detail his arrangements for their troops, and then talked about the treatment of their generals: "As for you generals, we still intend to act according to your wishes. Those who are willing to stay will stay, and those who are willing to leave will be arranged for you to go to the rear. What do you think for yourselves? ”

"That's not bad, either. Kindness...... I thought...... "Since he was doing what he wanted, and the other party completely separated himself from his own army, he and his generals understood that what Ma Dai said was true and could be believed." After all, a general is nothing once he is out of the army, and no one will set his own trap for a general who is nothing. For a while, there was a lot of discussion in the hall, in addition to the move, everyone couldn't wait to say their current thoughts: there were those who were willing to follow Ma Dai and them to carry out a "counterattack", and there were also reasons to want to go to the rear to do something else again...... It's all lively.

"What do you think about this?" Looking at the appearance of being silent all the time, Ma Dai asked with a smile. To be honest, he didn't care about the lieutenants under him, what he valued was not them but the tricks. It's not just for the ability to draw, but also for his status. You must know that the identity of the Taishou of Longxi is still very important for a place like Longxi. If you can persuade others to surrender with your strength and status, it will still be very beneficial for you to fight further.

"I'm willing to join your team, but I don't want to face my former comrades...... Is that okay? He asked tentatively. There was nothing he could do: as an old general, he wouldn't do anything but fight, and he really didn't know what to do if he was allowed to leave the army. But staying in the army and returning to Wei to continue to be the enemy of Li Sheng, he was very embarrassed that he didn't have the guts, how could he dare to be tough in front of powerful artillery. Therefore, the only choice is to surrender. However, surrender is surrender, and he is embarrassed to do it with his original colleague in a blink of an eye. He still has a conscience and self-esteem for this.

"Hmm...... I can also agree to this matter, but I will have to wait for you to convince Shouyang City to me. The people in Shouyang City are your sons, and I think you, as a father, don't want your son to encounter the situation he just encountered. Under the bombardment of hundreds of cannons, there are very few who can be almost unscathed like you used to. Ma Tan said this with Ma Dai's permission.

"Okay then." After thinking about it for a while, he agreed. The power of the cannon was too amazing and terrible for him, and he didn't want his son to continue to try the taste he had already tried. "Perhaps, no matter who it is, even Lu Bu in the past can't maintain his high fighting spirit in that environment. That's not something that people can bear. "Thinking about that. At this moment, he has already seen a fact like Hao Zhao, that is: artillery will really become a reason why these generals are useless - "No matter how powerful the kung fu is, is it better than artillery?" This question is already very clear in the mind of the recruit.

This is the end of it. With the promise of the pull, the surrender of Shouyang City is already an ironclad matter. The bitter persuasion of his father under Shouyang City and the rumbling cannons that kept sounding at the other city gates were not as brave as his father to open the door and surrender, and Shouyang fell into the hands of the Tang army. After that, Ma Dai and Pang De merged the two armies in one place, and used the powerful power of artillery as a means of attacking the city, marching all the way east, even breaking Xiangwu, Nan'an, Zhongtao, Luomen and other cities, but after half a month, their powerful troops reached under Ji County. Ma Dai originally wanted to continue to attack Ji County, but here, he received a letter sent by Li Sheng urgently, which did not say anything, but only revealed a relatively important piece of information: There is a person named Jiang Wei in Ji County, who is good at strategy, good at fighting, and is very careful, and suggests temporarily slowing down the attack on Ji County.

“…… Jiang Wei? Is this person so powerful? We have nearly 1,000 artillery pieces and 200,000 troops, while Ji County only has 20,000 defenders. With such a defensive force, do we need to be careful, do we need to slow down? Ma Jian frowned tightly, but he was a little dissatisfied with this letter, he felt that his lord was a little too despised by his own people here? In terms of martial arts, Pang De is a master at the same level as Guan Yu, no matter how powerful Jiang Wei is, it is impossible for this young Jiang Wei to be so high. In terms of strategy, will he be worse than Jiang Wei? This is something he doesn't want to admit. “…… There are only a few people who are better than me. "Ma Jian has always confirmed this.

"I want to ...... Is this His Majesty reminding us to be careful of Jiang Wei? He just told us not to be careless, but as for the issue of attacking Ji County, we still have to look at it ourselves. Ma Tan thought for a long time in the face of this information, and finally said his slightly unwilling guess.

"Be careful Jiang Wei? Does that prove that Jiang Wei is indeed very strong? I think Your Majesty not only wants us to be careful of him, but more importantly, let us try to pull a strong person into His Majesty's account. I remember His Majesty saying something like, 'No one will have too many talents.' 'I think Your Majesty must be trying to subdue Jiang Wei. Pang De said with a smile, he had been on the CD for a while, and he seemed to know much more about Li Sheng than Ma Dai and Ma Yan, and naturally it was easy to grasp some things that they couldn't grasp at all.

"Do you want to subdue this guy. Wouldn't it be a little difficult if he really said that to his lord? Ma Dai frowned tightly, as if he was a little worried.

"Well, it's not impossible. But to accomplish this, we need more information, information about Jiang Wei. I need to know every aspect of him. Ma Tan knocked on the table in front of him and said his request. He felt it compelled to meet the man in white.

In Li Shengjun, intelligence is divided into different levels, and sharing permissions are established. "Everyone can know the level of intelligence that is relevant to them." This is what Li Sheng pursues and carries out. As a "military division" of the front army, Ma Yan's level is not low, while Jiang Wei, as a lieutenant general of Tianshui County, his intelligence level is not too high. Therefore, on the third day after Ma Wei sent someone to contact Bai Yi and put forward his request, a piece of information about Jiang Wei was sent to Ma Yan: "Jiang Wei is a boyo, he has been orphaned since he was a child, and he lives with his mother. He liked Zheng Xuan's scriptures, and did a job in the county, and soon he was engaged in the state. Jiang Wei's father, Jiang Yin, was once a meritorious cao in the county, and when the Qiang and Rong rebelled, he personally protected the county Taishou and died in battle. Therefore, the Wei Dynasty gave Jiang Wei Zhonglang and ordered him to participate in the management of the military affairs of the county. It is very famous in this county, and is called 'Qilin', and is famous for its precision thinking and military sensitivity and ...... in the township."

"Kirin'er? That's a great name. As far as I know, the unicorn is a divine beast of the same grade as the dragon and phoenix! Ma Tan muttered to himself. Of course, he knew what it meant to be a no-void person under the fame, and he became more and more concerned about Jiang Weiqi in a blink of an eye. He began to carefully study the combat examples of Jiang Wei in intelligence, study Jiang Wei's tactical style, and understand Jiang Wei's personality and ability through these styles.

I have to say that the information given by Bai Yi to Ma Jian is extremely detailed, and the comments about Jiang Wei even mention what Jiang Wei said in the army. Ma Jian was a little surprised by this, and he also asked Bai Yi briefly what was going on. But the answer he finally got was very shocking: "Jiang Wei's personal guards have our people." Not only that, it's Jiang Wei and other generals......"

"What? How can there be such a deep relationship? Ma Tan became excited, and wanted to ask something more, but was rejected by the other party: "This matter can only be reached to this point." We have our discipline. ”

"Huh? I understand! Ma Tan shivered involuntarily and nodded hurriedly. The other party didn't say anything in a cold tone, but he clearly felt a trace of killing intent against himself from these words. Although this killing intent was fleeting, Ma Jian still keenly grasped one point. He suddenly remembered the nature of the white clothes—they were still the kind of people who lived in the shadows.

This matter is over, Ma Jian no longer asks about all kinds of things about the white clothes, and the people in the white clothes no longer say anything, everything is like a breeze, slowly passing. Ma Jian just studied Jiang Weilai vigorously. After summing up Jiang Wei's strength and the "true meaning" of Li Sheng's letter to him, Ma Jian began to think about how many chess pieces he could use if he wanted to subdue Jiang Wei. He took it as a challenge. In his opinion, it is really no challenge to attack Ji County, which is only defended by 20,000 people, with 200,000 troops in his hands. With the help of artillery, Ma Jian was completely sure that he would break through Ji County in one day, which was completely simple, and it seemed that there was no need for His Majesty to send someone over to send him that letter. "I'm afraid...... Everything is really like what Ma Dai said, Your Majesty wants to subdue Jiang Wei. This is a bit more difficult than directly attacking Ji County. Although this is not very difficult, it is better than nothing after all! Ma Tan muttered this, but began to calculate carelessly. Of course, this carelessness is only superficial, but in reality, he is beginning to think about all aspects of what he can do on his side.

The battle began the morning of the second day after Ma Tan's calculations, and the large and small artillery was matched with firepower, and some arrangements were made, like a raging storm, and at the same time launched an artillery bombardment of Ji County from the three city gates. The cannon hit so hard that it took nearly half a day to almost deaf people's ears. Although due to the dispersion of artillery, the city of Ji County has not been broken for a while, but the effect of such a fierce shelling is not covered, and the city wall of Ji County is full of large and small craters, as well as those thin and long cracks that are densely scattered around the craters, but they are smashed out by the shells. The cracks weren't obvious at the moment, but everyone knew it would grow, as long as the artillery fire continued.

"If it continues to bombard like this, I'm afraid that Jixian County will be breached. Ay...... I finally know why that guy surrendered. Although I also look down on those who surrendered, how many people can resist such shelling? Don't look at me, Beryo, in fact, I'm still beating the drum in my heart. Ma Zun said with a pale face and a forced smile.

Jiang Wei, who was standing beside him, could naturally see that he was telling the truth, but he didn't mean much to laugh at him. Because he himself has stayed here, he naturally understands how much truth there is. Speaking of fear, Jiang Wei himself was also afraid, but it had been so long since the matter had been reported here, Jiang Wei also knew that this was just the result of the other party's weapon, but it was not a first-class god and ghost power, and it was not so terrifying as he thought, but at the moment, he looked at the situation of the enemy who stopped down to eat, and said one of his guesses: "Look at them like this, they won't shoot in the afternoon." They are going to attack the city in the afternoon, which is still a good thing for us, as long as we can hold out until the evening, then everything will have a different chance. To be honest, it was similar to the trebuchet that Taizu used in the past, only more powerful. I guess we should have no problem dealing with them with trebuchets. ”

"How to deal with trebuchets? Are you trying to sneak attack? But is there a chance that this sneak attack will succeed? In the face of the opponent's artillery, the method of sneak attack, Hao Zhao has used it, and the damn trick has also been used, but so far, no one has succeeded. "Ma Zun can sit in the position of Longxi Taishou is also very level, and he is not very optimistic about Jiang Wei's decision.

"Don't worry too much, the reason why Hao Zhaohe's trick failed was because their movements were too big. They sent out cavalry. How could the momentum of the cavalry be small? Didn't you tell people that I'm going to beat you! Hehe, since you have told people, why will they not be prepared, and the next row of artillery is a very understandable thing. As for the sneak attack, it is not a surprise attack, the key is to make people unaware. Today is the day of the last quarter moon, and the moon is not so bright, so it is a good opportunity for a sneak attack. Jiang Wei smiled and swore a promise: "I don't need to use cavalry, I only need three hundred guards in my hands." ”

"Three hundred? You mean to use your white-feathered soldiers? Ma Zun was a little stunned when he heard this, but soon smiled: "Bai Yu, then I will rest assured." "Others don't know what kind of means Jiang Wei's personal guards have, how can he, Ma Zun, as Jiang Wei's boss, not know everything? immediately agreed: "If you can really keep it in the afternoon, then I will leave this matter to you." On such a condition that Ma Zun had doubts that his city would last an afternoon, knowing that there were 200,000 troops under the city, beyond the ruined walls beneath his feet. Of course, they can't rush to the top of the list, but just thinking about the figure of 200,000 makes people a little worried. The scarcity of the population is no more than before, so that the forces that can be used by both sides of the war are reduced compared to before. An army of 200,000 is a very large number.

The afternoon battle began with an earth-shattering noise of gongs and drums. Countless ladders and building cars were sent to the city of Ji County, and countless soldiers climbed these tools to fight bravely. Swords were held in their hands, and arrows flew over their heads. At this moment, there was no neat and dense shock during the attack, but it brought a trace of tension to every soldier on both sides of the attack and defense. It's real tension, because the arrows flying in the air, the swords circling around them are deadly, and you don't know exactly when they're going to hit you.

According to the law of encircling three and one, the Tang army's attack was carried out at the three city gates at the same time. From the very beginning, Ma Dai laid 150,000 soldiers and horses at three city walls according to Ma Tan's suggestion: 50,000 on one wall, of which 30,000 were used as the main force of the wave attack, and the other 20,000 were the reserves of each side. As for the last 50,000 soldiers and horses, they were placed in the camp, and when one side showed signs that the city was about to be breached, they swarmed up and made a final attack on the enemy city. This is completely a general attack, although it is the first time that the Tang army has launched a siege on Ji County, but they are indeed carrying out a general attack.

"Looks like they really have such a plan." The Tang army attacked fiercely, but Jiang Wei still relied on his ability to stubbornly defend. Although he only had 20,000 horses in his hands, he mobilized more than 100,000 people in the city, and with the support of those people, all kinds of equipment and materials for defending the city were greatly replenished, which completely made Jiang Wei's defense get twice the result with half the effort. If the Tang Army's attack was like a steady stream of swarms, then Jiang Wei's defense was like a dam on the river, firmly blocking all counterattacks.

The battle continued, and the continuous attacks caused Jiang Wei's physical strength to be greatly depleted. He knew that he was already feeling a little unbearable, and this was not just his feeling, but the feeling of all the soldiers under him, and even the entire defender. How many times did you repel the opponent's attack? Jiang Wei couldn't answer this question, but he clearly knew that he had to support it, which was something that he had to do no matter what.

"Hold on! As long as we get through this last moment, we will welcome it. Although I have never heard of Li Shengjun's massacre of the city, you have all helped me like this, and you have fought like this, but it is hard to guarantee that nothing will happen. Seeing that the sun was already turning west, the enemy's attack was about to come up again, and his own people were already a little unable to support it, Jiang Wei had to half persuade, half threaten to raise the morale of his subordinates: "Behind you are your relatives." Are you willing to put them in that possible danger? It's the enemy! They won't tell you anything, and the only way to survive is to kill the enemy. Jiang Wei shouted loudly.

"Kill!! Fight the enemy!! The people were touched by Jiang Wei's shout, and they broke out with such a shout very blindly. They don't know if the enemy on the other side will make the decision to slaughter the city for their actions, but they trust their own "unicorns". Since even Qilin'er said so, then there is indeed such a possibility. Most of the time, people still believe in their own people, or they are convinced. So, in such a blink of an eye, the defense of Ji County became solid again, and in the desperate battle, many defenders showed extraordinary courage and strength: when the sword and gun were broken, they hit with their fists; When the hand is broken, he kicks with his foot; In the end, it really didn't work, and there were still teeth to use.

"This is no longer a battle, but a desperate ......" Looking at the situation in the city from afar, Ma Jian said with some emotion.

The battle ended in the end. As the sun goes down, everything returns to peace. Ma Tan and Ma Dai counted after the war, and today's results were surprised to find that their losses were far greater than they had calculated at the beginning.

"Even though we are really fighting, when the opponent's city has already been bombarded like that, we can still have such defensive ability, this Jiang Wei is too surprising." Faced with the battle damage of up to 30,000, Ma Dai couldn't help but sigh. He didn't know how much the loss of those on the other side had suffered, but judging from their final situation, their loss should have been less than 10,000. "It's simply no longer a loss of a grade." Ma Dai muttered quietly, but he was very helpless about it. He asked Ma Jian directly on the side: "Do we want to continue our arrangement?" ”

"Why not? We've all sacrificed to this point. If we don't continue, we will die in vain today. Although the lord has always said that soldiers are more important than generals, ordinary soldiers are not comparable to generals like Jiang Wei at all. Jiang Wei is very strong, and the more I get to know him, the more I feel like this. Ma Tan said affirmatively. He felt that he and Jiang Wei were opponents, and the opponents seemed to cherish each other. Although he is the only one who sympathizes with Jiang Wei now, Jiang Wei may not know him.

Hearing Ma Tan say so categorically, Ma Dai, who knew that His Majesty did seem to have such an idea, naturally didn't say anything more, but nodded slightly and agreed: "Since this is the case, then let's do what we can do." "It's the final word.