Time returned to an hour ago, at the same time that Zhang Yue led his troops out of the camp to the battlefield, in the Baoshui River valley five miles to the north, this large camp was used as a grain camp after the main force went south to Baocheng. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Due to the lack of guard troops, the size of the battalion was reduced by half, and a trench of two zhang wide was dug deep on the periphery, and the camp fence was erected side by side with large trees of zhang height, and antlers were laid underneath, and the defense facilities were quite complete, but only more than 1,500 logistics miscellaneous troops were stationed, and the generals were two township soldiers who were commanded by the Fengxiang army to transport grain to the south, one was named Wei Jingzhen, and the other was called Du Ping.

After the main force went south to Baocheng, it was set up separately, so it was quite safe here, and there were more than 5,000 stones of grain and grass transported from Fengxiang Mansion and Fengzhou, which was a military supply of 16,000 soldiers for half a month, and it was currently stored in the northeast corner of the camp. This side is close to the river valley and is relatively ventilated, dry and not easy to get damp, so a separate camp area was built with a camp fence.

There were more than 700 wounded soldiers of the forbidden army who went south to fight, of which more than 400 were seriously wounded and basically stayed in the camp to recuperate, some of the lightly wounded returned to the team, and the rest also assisted in the defense. There are also 200 craftsmen, and now they don't need to build equipment, and most of them are idle.

Early in the morning, the camp drank smoke drifted away with the wind, and the soldiers got up early to have breakfast, Wei Jingzhen gathered the soldiers to line up, and then went to the center of the camp to distribute troops to change the guard. After the camp was reduced, the number of troops required was much less, and each wall was just one team, and the two gates in the north and south were one city, and the remaining hundred people happened to be used as patrol posts and arrow towers.

The north and south gates are the top priority, and non-own soldiers holding tokens above the rank of the head officer are not allowed to put them in, and the defense is changed smoothly first. Then there are two walled walls in the east and west, one of which is divided into two teams, and the main and deputy heads each lead a team to go separately.

The villagers who had retired from the handover of the defense were on duty at night, and they were all a little tired, so they went to the open space in the camp to wait for the disbandment, so that they could return to the camp to rest for breakfast. The soldiers on the walls on both sides saw that their comrades were coming, and they didn't care whether the guards were in place to take over, so they gathered down first without authorization.

At this moment, the scream of "Ah ......" was particularly long, Wei Jingzhen turned his head suddenly, and saw a lookout on the west wall fell from the high arrow tower, fell on the camp fence with a "bang", and was penetrated by a sharp wooden stake, and blood fell down.

Suddenly, rows of ladders appeared on the wall of Xizhai, and the figure wearing an iron helmet followed and turned up, running on the narrow walkway at the head of the wall with a sword and shield in hand, quickly seizing a favorable position, and following the figure below.

"Not good! It's the Shu army! There is an enemy attack......" Wei Jingzhen was taken aback, and immediately sent a personal soldier back to the camp to inform the craftsmen and wounded soldiers to protect themselves, and another person was sent to beat the drum to warn, and immediately led the troops with Du Ping, who had just retreated, to stop the Shu army.

The two teams that changed the guard under the Xizhai wall have been fighting with the Shu army on the inclined ladder road, and they were intercepted for a while and could not go up, and those who have not come down are fighting with the Shu army. Wei Jingzhen and Du Ping led more than 700 people to rush over the camp area of nearly 200 paces, and sent Du Ping to lead 100 archers to shoot at the Shu army on the wall, and the other 100 foot soldiers rushed up from the ramp with swords and shields.

Because although the wall is high, the top is very narrow, and the ramp on the wall is naturally not wide, so there are too many people to spread the troops. Wei Jingzhen led his command of five hundred people to run to the northeast corner of the wall, where there were two ramps, and the five hundred people went up easily.

Looking up and down the wall, Wei Jingzhen felt a chill, the Shu army was on the opposite side of the trench under the west wall, there were more than 2,000 people, they were using large wooden bridges side by side to cross the ravine, holding knives to cut off the antlers, and erecting wooden ladders. After a cursory sweep, there are only a dozen wooden ladders on the wall for the time being, and the number of Shu troops who have climbed up is less than a hundred.

Seeing this situation, Wei Jingzhen breathed a sigh of relief, it would take some time for the Shu army to cross the trench, so he led his troops to fly from the corner to the middle of the west wall, and quickly exchanged hands with the Shu army who came over the wall.

The narrow wall is framed by a large wooden frame of two zhang, minus the blocking positions on both sides is just one zhang wide, and only three people can stand side by side. Wei Jingzhen ran forward to seize the defensive space, and summoned the rear team of soldiers to follow, gradually forming a three-column formation, and stabbing forward with a group of five horizontal pikemen.

In the face of the reinforcements of the township soldiers, they quickly formed a sword and shield array, forming a big turtle shell to block the way.

"Brethren! It's a great achievement to drive down this gang of straight thieves, and the brothers of the forbidden army will come to reinforce it...... Kill! "Wei Jingzhen is a veteran of the Fengxiang Army turned into a township soldier command, he has been on the battlefield many times, and he is not afraid of the Shu army, standing in the front row as a soldier, striding and stabbing through the gap in the shield on the opposite side, and the shield hand of the Shu army in the middle of the opposite side let out a muffled snort.

Wei Jing was really happy, and the head of the spear that he quickly withdrew brought out a puddle of blood, and the head of the spear swung as fast as lightning and stabbed out, at this time, the shield hand of the Shu army on the right reacted, and slashed the head of the spear, which actually hit his spear head, which shocked his wrist and numb. But the soldiers on both sides of him were not idle, and the two of them also shot at the same time, and the shield man on the right had already drawn his sword, revealing half of his body, and was immediately pierced by a single shot.

However, at this moment, a dense small black dot fell in the air, and the villagers were caught off guard and screamed one after another, and dozens of people were shot by arrows and overturned. Wei Jingzhen looked over the wall, and the archers of the Shu army lined up along the edge of the trench, and were lining up to release arrows at the head of the wall. Only a few of the villagers were equipped with leather armor, and most of them were only dressed in thin military uniforms, and at such a close distance, the lethality of arrows was very strong.

And the big trees laid on the trench below are also becoming more and more dense, forming a large flat land, the Shu army carries the wooden ladder and rushes over to set up the wall, more and more enemy troops rush up, making Wei Jing feel a sense of powerlessness in his heart.

Soon, the number of people coming up from the Shu army increased to three or four hundred and then divided into two teams, one team continued to block Wei Jingzhen's department, but for a while rushed down the wall from the ramp, and Du Ping's department was scattered, dozens of township soldiers rushed to the camp in a chaotic manner, but the Shu army gathered the whole team under the wall and did not chase and kill.

"Commander Wei! Get down! Come down! Come with me......" Wei Jing was really anxious, and suddenly saw a recuperating forbidden soldier with his left arm hanging from his head and a knife in his right hand and shouting in a low voice under the wall.

With the Shu army in front and his own brothers behind him, Wei Jingzhen was a little out of order, glanced down, stepped forward to hold the head of the wall to block the sharp wooden stake and jumped down violently. Sure enough, as soon as he left, the soldiers behind him followed with a loud uproar, and they were a little out of order.

Wei Jingzhen stood firm, and then yelled at the wall: "Brothers! A certain family gathers people to support, those who can come down will come down, and those who can't come down will fight to the end, don't embarrass someone Wei! ”

"Less nonsense! The granary matters! There is no need to defend the gate anymore, concentrate on guarding the granary! The forbidden army shouted and gathered dozens of people who ran over and retreated to the northwest corner of the camp.

"How can you hold it if you let the Shu army attack? What is Brother Tai called? I see it every day but I don't know it...... "Wei Jingzhen was a little anxious, and his heart suddenly jumped, if the camp grain and grass were lost, it would be a big crime."

"Just call me Liu Dalang, don't panic! We still have hundreds of brothers, and it's easier to defend when the defense range is smaller! Liu Dalang, the head of the forbidden army, calmly replied while running.

The two gathered the stragglers as they ran, and when they reached the gate of the granary in the northeast corner of the camp, more than 300 people were concentrated, plus the eight or nine hundred people who had gathered here before. Wei Jingzhen discussed with Liu Dalang a little, and assigned troops to defend the wall, mainly defending the west and south, and the northeast corner of the riverside beach was not used for the time being.

Three hundred men on each of the two walls were completely packed, and two or three hundred reserves below were busy carrying arrows, carrying bundles on the walls for the archers. Two hundred lightly injured veterans of the forbidden army are the main force at the head of the wall, and with them, Wei Jingzhen is a lot more relieved.

After a short time, Du Ping also ran back with seven or eight people in embarrassment, and the door of the granary did not dare to open again, so Wei Jingzhen asked the soldiers to lower the rope and hang them up. At this time, the Shu army also followed the cover-up, gathered and looted in a chaotic manner, and set fire everywhere, setting fire to the vacant camp tents one after another, and suddenly the fire rose to the sky, and the smoke was billowing and filling.

Half an hour later, the Shu army brigade all entered the camp, there were more than 2,000 people in a large area, and an officer came out of the crowd and loudly persuaded him to surrender: "The main force of your Zhou army has been defeated in Baoguoyuan, and Zhang Lingzhen, who commanded Zhang Lingzhen, led his troops to steal grain and cut off the back road of your main force, and it is still too late for you to surrender, if my army arrives, I will kill you and leave no armor!" ”

"Just because of your Shu army, you still want to defeat my Great Zhou Forbidden Army, and you won't pee and take ......," Liu Dalang laughed loudly.

"That's it...... Let's kill to Baocheng and still can't shrink, look at your virtuous clown, you actually came to persuade you to surrender! Wei Jingzhen also replied.

"Brethren! Give me arrows! Cover ladder hands to climb the wall! Shu general Zhang Lingzhen was furious when he heard this, and began to dispatch troops to climb the wall again.

Before the ladder men stepped forward, they were greeted by a burst of accurate point shooting, unlike the township soldiers who had little combat experience, the archers of the forbidden army were much stronger, and they had a tacit understanding to take care of a team of ladder hands with several people at the same time, which caught the Shu army off guard.

After a wave of attacks failed, Zhang Lingzhen angrily consulted with the deputy envoy, divided the troops to the camp to continue to set fire to disturb the morale of the army, and attacked two walled walls at the same time, each with twenty wooden ladders pressed up, and the battle became fierce again.

Suddenly, there was a roar in the valley, and the earth shook, and the sound of horses' hooves came like muffled thunder, gradually approaching the camp. Liu Dalang at the head of the wall quickly realized that a horse army was coming, and when he raised his eyes, he saw his own flag fluttering in the wind in the distance.

"Not good! Fall back! Remove! Zhang Lingzhen was shocked, the camp had just been cleared by them of an empty road, although there were still camp tents and a section of the wall burning in the south, but they could not block the Ma army's charge.

Hundreds of horse troops rushed into Yuanmen like a gust of wind and covered the Shu army. This time the Shu army had no way to escape, Zhang Lingzhen ran away with his own soldiers first, and more than 2,000 Shu troops collapsed in an instant, crying and fleeing in all directions. (To be continued.) )