In the past month or so in Zheng County, Guo Jia's life has been in order, sleeping and eating as usual, and his living habits have not been affected by the war in the slightest.

For him, war is a rhythm, at first tense, there are times when it is difficult to sleep, and then gradually adapted, the mentality becomes calm, and the strong heart is forged in a series of experiences.

Accompanied by Fa Zheng, Guo Jia inspected the Zheng County camp, the three armies did not slack off in training, and the fortifications of Zheng County have also been built.

"My lord, General Gao said in his reply this morning that the fortifications of Huayin are nearing completion, and they will be completed within ten days at the latest."

Fa Zheng followed Guo Jia, slightly half a step behind.

After a pause in contemplation, Guo Jia said lightly: "Then send military orders to Zhang Liao and Yan Yan, and then send news to Zhen Yu in Chang'an, they have arranged for people in Hebei and Jingzhou to act." ”

After receiving the order, Fa Zheng bowed down and retired.

Looking around at the sweaty soldiers in the barracks and schoolyard, Guo Jia looked calm, and said to himself with a slight distraction: "It's almost over." ”

The battle reports of Hangu Pass and Wuguan, Guo Jia is paying attention to every day, Yuan Shao and Cao Ying's total of 250,000 soldiers and horses, has been rapidly reduced to more than 150,000, of course, if you want to exclude Cao Ying's 50,000 cannon fodder, in fact, in the past month or so, Guo Jia has only weakened Yuan Shao's more than 40,000 troops.

The decisive battle is about to begin.

Guo Jia was mixed because the enemy he was facing was Yuan Shao.

From his point of view, Yuan Shaoyuan, Cao Ying is close, and long-distance and close-range attack is the strategy he should take.

But none of this is beyond his will.

It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, and I'm always coming.

Yan Yan and Pang Tong, who stood condescendingly on the city, looked solemn, and in the bright days of this day, there was a murderous atmosphere inside and outside Wuguan.

The general of the Yuan army is Ju Yi, riding his horse in front of the formation, and he is majestic.

Cao Jun had suffered a defeat in Wuguan before, and Ju Yi turned a deaf ear.

Ju Yi doesn't care how others fight, win or lose, Ju Yi doesn't care, what he has to do is to fight his own war.

The three thousand lightly armored dead soldiers in front of the battle showed a hideous and murderous aura, and they showed an irrepressible battle spirit in front of Wuguan.

This is the first to ascend to the dead led by Ju Yi.

Xiandeng, the vanguard of the siege of the city, the first unit to rush to the enemy's city pass, is the first to ascend.

As long as it is a tough battle, any prince will have a first army under his account, but he may not enter the establishment, and after the soldiers are in the city, he will assign a general to lead the army to be the first to do it.

However, Ju Yi under Yuan Shao's account has a special army formed to break through the city, which is not only responsible for the task of being the first, but also an indomitable army of dead soldiers.

The battle is fierce, and only by abandoning all distractions and luck can we maximize the stimulation of blood and fighting spirit.

Ascend the dead first, fight to the death and never retreat, and never retreat if you don't climb the city tower and erect the handsome flag.

The east of Wuguan is narrow, not conducive to attacking the city, if there is no geographical advantage, besiege the city on all sides, the advantage of soldiers and horses will be the key to determining the victory, but the topography of Wuguan makes Ju Yi even if there are 50,000 soldiers and horses, it is difficult to give full play to the advantage of the number of soldiers and horses.

Looking at the vigilant defenders on the upper floor of Wuguan City, Ju Yi smiled coldly and roared angrily.

"Siege!"

The Yuan army flocked to Wuguan like a tide.

Pang Tong, who was standing on the city tower and looking down at the east, sighed silently, and said in a low voice: "Ju Yi is brave and strategic, and there are only nearly 10,000 defenders in Wuguan, if there are no reinforcements, it will definitely fall within ten days." ”

Yan Yan also looked solemn, the vanguard of the siege was not the first to climb the dead, but the ordinary soldiers under Ju Yi, obviously Ju Yi was prepared, good steel is used on the blade, first to the dead and then brave, at the beginning of the siege, I am afraid of heavy casualties.

It would be more effective to use ordinary soldiers to deplete the defense force of Wuguan, and then send the first soldier to die when the defenders are tired.

The other party's strategy is clear at a glance, that is, to attack Wuguan by force, and after the defenders of Wuguan are consumed, Wuguan will inevitably fall.

Yan Yan gave a military order to the lieutenant general beside him.

The adjutant turned solemnly to convey the order.

In the face of the swarming enemy army, Wuguan seemed to put on a posture of disarming and surrendering, and the 10,000 archers led by Yan Yan did not shoot the enemy with a rain of arrows at all, and at the same time, the head of Wuguan City, the figure is rare, except for the figures of Pang Tong and Yan Yan, it seems to be an empty city.

Ju Yi, who looked up at Wuguan, squinted his eyes, he didn't think that the other party had given up resistance, and the current calm was just brewing a more violent storm.

In war, we should never despise the enemy, even if the enemy is weak and weak.

Sure enough, Ju Yi's premonition was confirmed, and he opened his eyes wide to take a full view of the enemy strategy of the Wuguan defenders.

A large number of defenders suddenly poured out of Wuguan City, and they successively carried huge trees and threw them from Wuguan City.

Wuguan is located on a high place, the east is a gentle slope, thick and round giant trees fall from the head of Wuguan City, with a rumbling sound rolling down, overwhelming a defender.

After repeating this, Wuguan Chengtou threw down more than 30 giant trees in a row before temporarily stopping his movements.

To the north of Wuguan is Shaoxi Mountain, not to mention giant trees, even towering ancient trees can be cut down a lot.

The giant tree rolled down, colliding and crushing many of the charging enemy troops, and the screams came and went, but it was still difficult to stop the momentum of the enemy troops rushing up.

How many enemy soldiers can a giant tree crush to death? Ten? Twenty? Thirty? Fifty?

A sneer appeared on the corner of Ju Yi's mouth.

It would be whimsical to want to use this kind of measure to ward off the enemy.

He had 50,000 soldiers and horses, and the impact of the wave of giant trees just now caused his soldiers and horses to be killed and wounded no more than 500, and now those giant trees were piled up, but they couldn't block the route of Yuan's army at all.

Pang Tong at the head of Wuguan City watched the charging enemy continue to rush regardless of the deaths and injuries of his companions, and the huge trees piled up in the middle were particularly eye-catching.

"Shoot the arrows."

Pang Tong gave a faint order.

Ju Yi, who was looking at the battlefield from afar, looked at the archers at the head of Wuguan City in disbelief.

Archers are an indispensable class of troops for defending the city.

It's just that Ju Yi didn't expect that the other party would put a rocket!

The arrows ignited and flew straight into the enemy's formation, and the target was the giant trees that had been piled up.

When the rocket hit the giant tree, the mountain of giant trees ignited a sky-high fire, forming a wall of fire, raging like a dragon.

Ju Yi didn't expect that the giant trees that rolled down from the city were drenched in fire oil and coke.

The fire split the Yuan army in two, and the Yuan army that rushed in front began to be mercilessly shot by the defenders of Wuguan, while the Yuan army behind was busy digging earth to extinguish the fire.

Of course, there are also many Yuan Jun who were burned by the fire.

Ju Yi immediately ordered two battalions of soldiers to go to the front to extinguish the fire, and he knew that the troops rushing to the front must have died.

The fire in the east did not make Pang Tong look proud, but became more dignified and worried.

"He didn't withdraw his troops?"

Pang Tong didn't expect Ju Yi to be so tenacious, in the face of the current situation, Ju Yi had two choices, first, withdraw his troops, so that he could wait for the giant tree to turn to ashes before attacking the city. Second, extinguishing the fire and continuing to attack the city, but after all, extinguishing the fire will delay time and consume energy, and it is far easier to wait for the giant trees to burn out and automatically extinguish.

Yan Yan looked down at the city, the nearly 1,000 Yuan troops who rushed to the front had all been shot, and the fire not far away was being extinguished by the Yuan army, and it was not something that could be completed in a moment.

"He wants not to give me time to breathe, and he wants to take Wuguan in one go."

Pang Tong looked back at the huge wooden rolling stones piled up in the pass, these preparations for the enemy were what he expected to delay the enemy army for at least half a month, and now Ju Yi had a posture of swearing to the death, and wanted him to start recalculating the time.

The gains and losses of Wuguan, in Guo Jia's strategy, depend on the battle situation of Hangu Pass, and Pang Tong cannot lose Wuguan before he gets the news sent by Jia Xu from Hangu Pass, otherwise Guo Jia's overall strategy will be in vain.

"He wants to put out the fire, and I'll add fuel to the fire."

Pang Tong's eyes became sharp, and he said to Yan Yan in a deep voice.

Yan Yan comprehended and ordered the soldiers to throw down the giant tree again, and immediately released a rocket to ignite the giant tree after dropping it.

The giant trees that burned the fire rolled down one after another, and Yuan Jun, who was extinguishing the fire, did not dare to approach and immediately withdrew.

However, after being hit by the newly fallen giant trees, the pile of giant trees that were originally piled together and burning with fire were scattered in all directions, sparks burst out, and the fire was even stronger, and many of Yuan Jun, who had not run far, were burned by the fire and immediately rolled on the ground in an attempt to extinguish the fire.

Faced with this situation, Ju Yi smiled, the Wuguan defenders were so eager to stop his army, it was obvious that they were panicking.

Now that the situation has been controlled, even if more giant trees roll down, it will be difficult to cause too many casualties to the Yuan army, as long as it does not hurt the muscles and bones, Ju Yi can accept it.

From before noon until nightfall, the battle outside Wuguan did not stop for a moment.

However, even if Ju Yi wants to go all out, the soldiers should eat and sleep, and they still have to eat, sleep and rest, so after the sky gets dark, he can only take a truce and return to the camp, planning to fight again tomorrow.

Although the soldiers and horses in Wuguan have not been reduced, but the reserve consumption of the enemy's materials is serious, according to Pang Tong's calculations, as long as it takes another five days, they can only rely on manpower to defend the city, and exchange their lives for their lives, and for Guo Jia, who is not strong in the overall strength of soldiers and horses in Guanzhong, the loss of troops will be the most unwilling to see the situation.

In this regard, Pang Tong can only hope that news will come from Hanguguan as soon as possible.

Zhang Jaw, who returned to Hangu Pass, did not rush to attack the city, but rested for three days first.

Outsiders seem to be resting, but in fact, Zhang Jaw is waiting for the rabbit, he expected that Zhang Liao might take advantage of his unpreparedness to repeat the old trick, but the prediction failed, Zhang Liao had no intention of robbing the camp at all.

In the early morning of the fourth day, Zhang Jaw walked out of the big tent and looked at Hangu Pass from afar, the breeze was blowing, and Zhang Jaw suddenly raised his hand, seeing that he seemed to want to grasp the wind in his hand.

A smile suddenly appeared on his calm expression, and he pulled out his saber and cut a strip of cloth from his cuff, picked it up and raised it, looking at the direction of the strip of cloth swaying in the wind, his eyes changed from joy to firm and confident.

Hangu Pass, the city is about to be broken!

(To be continued)