Yinbo waited for a long time before he saw Wei Ba. Before that, he noticed some unusual details, if he didn't pay attention to them, he might have neglected the past, but in the eyes of a caring person, these details could reveal a lot of important information.

First, he heard the Wu language with a Langya accent. He is a native of Qingzhou and is no stranger to the Langya accent. Before coming to Chengdu, his original Jihua was to go to Wu County, and he also knew something about the Wu language. This strange accent immediately caught his attention.

In fact, he noticed that the people who spoke Wu were gone, and after a while, Fa Miao hurriedly appeared, still a little panting, and came back from outside. Obviously, he should have been there to see off the guests. It can be seen that the status of this guest is not low, but it is not very high, so it can only be sent by Fa Miao, and Wei Ba himself does not send it.

Zuihou, when Yinbo entered the main hall, Wei Ba was already sitting in the hall with a solemn expression, and it was not until he came in that Wei Ba showed a reluctant smile. Yin Fan didn't dare to think that Wei Ba was waiting for him, with Wei Ba's arrogance, it was impossible to give him this face. He has been sitting here, naturally he has just thought about important things, and now he has to reflect, so he has been sitting in the hall, and he has this look.

While saluting Wei Ba, Yinbo prayed that those who were lurking outside the city would be able to see the traces of these Wu people. After he entered Linyuan, the fine work lurking in Linyuan connected with him, so others could still receive some news secretly in the city.

"How do you look these days?" Wei Ba opened his mouth lukewarmly.

"Got a little bit of a picture." Yin Fan gave a rough account of what he had seen: "I think I should report these situations to the hussar general in time, so that he does not expect too much from the general." Jingzhou Tuntian has achieved results. It is still somewhat difficult to support all the grain and grass of the army of 50,000 or 60,000. ”

Wei Ba's face was slightly pale, and he bowed slightly. "I'm very happy that Yinjun can be so considerate. However, although you have a keen eye, you still see too few places, and it is a pity to generalize. In this way, I will send someone to protect the Hidden Monarch, and then go to Lingling to have a look, and when the Hidden Monarch reports to the hussar general. It can also be more detailed. It's all the hard work. ”

Yinbo secretly complained, a few days ago he was going to Lingling, Wei Ba found all kinds of excuses, just not to let him go. Now he is in a hurry to return to Xiangyang. Wei Ba asked him to go to Lingling again. Apparently with ulterior motives.

"General. The hussar general is fighting in Xiangyang, so I'd better go back as soon as possible. ”

"Do you know how to fight?" Wei Ba glanced at Yinbo with a little mockery: "I only know that Yinjun has eloquence and is familiar with the power of the Legalist family. I didn't expect to know how to march and fight. I have time to ask for advice. ”

Yin Fan closed his mouth knowingly. Wei Ba made up his mind not to let him go, I don't know what the intention was, but if he insisted on leaving, it would be easy to make Wei Ba suspicious.

Yinbo returned to the post house, calm on the surface, but in his heart, he was up and down. In the middle of the night, he finally received a report that the guest Wei Ba met with today was Zhuge Ke. When Zhuge Ke came, he was targeted by the meticulous workers, but he didn't have time to report it to Yinfan, and to the surprise of the meticulous workers, Zhuge Ke was very calm when he came, but he was very hurried when he went back, as if something had happened, and what was the specific matter, then I don't know.

Yin Fan thought about it, didn't dare to slack off, and immediately wrote the news as a secret letter and found an opportunity to send it out.

……

Xiangyang.

After more than half a month of hard work, Li Yan successfully piled up dozens of mounds of earth as high as the city wall outside Xiangyang City, and connected some of them into sections of earthen walls, a large number of crossbow carts were pushed up the mound, and the thunderbolt carts were pushed behind the mounds, and with the cover of the mounds, they fiercely shot at the defenders in the city at a distance of more than ten paces.

The situation of the Wei army became more and more difficult, and although the mound was not as strong as the city wall, it could provide the greatest protection for the Shu Han army. Now the Shu Han army no longer needs to push a bulky shield cart to shoot at the defenders of the city, they not only have the advantage of numbers, but also the advantage of projectiles and arrows.

After Ma Jun's transformation, now the Wei army also has a crossbow and a thunderbolt, but there is still some gap in the performance of the jishu between the two sides. Although the Wei army's crossbow carts also used wheeled arrows, the speed of the arrows was not as fast as that of the Shu Han army, and they needed at least five people to operate a crossbow car, while the Shu Han army only needed three or four people to operate. The volume of the Wei army's ballista is large, in the same volume, the Wei army's ballista is loaded with fewer arrows, and the efficiency of continuous shooting is only about seven or eight percent of the Shu Han army.

The performance gap is even greater on the Thunderbolt. For a long time, the Shu Han army's ballista was hiding behind obstacles, and it was difficult for the Wei army to see the true face of the thunderbolt car, although some information was obtained from the scattered confessions of the captives, but Ma Jun was transferred to Longyou to help Hao Zhao transform the ship before he could complete these transformations, so the Wei army's thunderbolt car still uses the artificially pulled launch method, and the accuracy, distance, and speed of the launch are quite far from the Shu Han army's thunderbolt car.

However, the bigger gap is in the supply of projectiles.

The projectiles used by the Shu Han army are basically round stone bullets with similar volume and regular shape, which are fired with high precision and good repeatability, but the stone bullets used by the Wei army are either large stone balls, which are hammered out by the stonemasons, and the output is very limited, or they are irregular stones, large and small, and can only be roughly equivalent, and the accuracy of such stone bullets is certainly not too high.

After the battle had progressed to a certain extent, the Wei army would rather pick up the stone bullets fired by the Shu Han army than use the stone bullets they prepared.

This largely restricted the Wei army's counterattack and greatly shortened Li Yan's preparation time.

After all the preparations were completed, Li Yan held a mobilization meeting before the siege.

Although the generals were a little slanderous about Li Yan's arbitrariness, Li Yan completed the siege of Xiangyang City in just over a month, and was about to enter a real siege war, which greatly shortened the combat period, and the battle damage was also very well controlled, which proved that Li Yan's combat command ability was still very good. The hope of conquering Xiangyang City has greatly increased, and everyone has temporarily put away their unhappiness, preparing to win the opportunity to start in the next siege battle.

Compared with the attitude of the main general, for all soldiers, whether they can win the battle and whether they can be rewarded for meritorious service is more important. No matter how bad a general's attitude is, as long as it can bring them victory and benefits, it is more real than smiling at them every day.

Therefore, Li Yan's mobilization meeting went quite smoothly.

Li Yan said very simply, the earthwork of the siege has been successfully completed. All kinds of siege equipment were also prepared. Next, it's up to you to break the city. Those who fight bravely are rewarded, and those who are passive in fighting naturally also have military law waiting for them. He immediately announced the reward again, and went to the city first. Kill generals of different ranks. There are different awards. Clearly, all written in the clear.

Seeing the reward, the generals and captains in the tent were coarse. Their eyes were red, like a vicious wolf, they puffed up their chests and looked at Li Yan with blazing eyes, hoping that Li Yan would notice them and give them a chance to fight.

Li Yan immediately announced the order of the battle, Zuihou waved his hand, and said lightly: "Let's go and prepare." ”

Whether they have an opinion on him or not, they all agreed to it, and then went out of the account and carefully prepared.

The next day, Li Yan launched a fierce assault on Xiangyang City. Hundreds of ballistae and thunderbolts roared, and countless arrows and stone bullets flew towards Xiangyang City as if they didn't want money, so that the defenders on the city couldn't raise their heads. A series of ladders stretched out from behind the mound and set up on the city wall, and a group of Shu Han soldiers wearing armor held shields and stepped on the wide and strong ladders to attack the city wall.

Although the Wei army fought back vigorously, they were under tremendous pressure in the face of the powerful offensive of the Shu Han army. General Lu Chang, who had been defending Xiangyang for more than ten years, couldn't help but be shocked when he saw this scene, Li Yan's offensive not only surpassed any previous attack, but even the last time Lu Xun and Wei Ba joined forces to attack the city, Li Yan even surpassed it. He knew very well that Xiangyang's own liliang alone was no longer enough to ensure Xiangyang's safety, and if there were no reinforcements coming, the loss of Xiangyang would only be a matter of a few days.

Lü Chang sent dead soldiers to venture across the Han River and ask Sima Yi for help.

……

Sima Yi sat on his war horse, looking at Xiangyang City at sunset, his eyebrows tightened.

Li Yan's attack speed exceeded his expectations. He originally thought that in the face of a Xiongcheng like Xiangyang, Li Yan would need at least two to three months to complete the siege of the city, and another month to conquer Xiangyang City. Unexpectedly, Li Yan completed the preparations for the siege in just one month.

"The defeat of the sailor has had a great impact on us." Sima Yi sighed very regretfully: "Without Fancheng's response, Xiangyang is equivalent to a broken arm." Without the worry of flanks, Li Yan could attack the city wholeheartedly, and the progress was much faster than we expected. At this rate, in half a month at most, Xiangyang will be lost. ”

"So what do we do?" Sima Zhao pulled the reins with some uneasiness: "In half a month, can we break through the Shu army's sailor blockade?" ”

Sima Yi laughed helplessly, not knowing how to answer. Sima Shi responded quietly: "Xiangyang and Fancheng were originally the handover points for dismounting and changing boats. Now the sailors of the Shu army are stronger, and they are just occupying the Han River, and entering Nanyang is still the world of our Great Wei Iron Cavalry. ”

"Then are we going to give up Xiangyang?"

"Xiangyang was originally a bait to lure Li Yan to bite." Sima Shi glanced at Sima Yi: "It's just that Li Yan eats the bait faster now, why is my father so frustrated?" ”

"Morale." Sima Yi sighed lightly: "The loss of Xiangyang is too fast, not only will it fail to achieve the goal of consuming Li Yan's strength, but it will also greatly affect our morale. If Xiangyang is not rescued, in front of Bixia, how can we explain? ”

Sima Shi smiled silently and did not answer the conversation. Although it was father and son, he also knew that there were some things that Sima Yi just said. He turned his head and looked into the distance, and in the twilight, a horse galloped in.

"It's my work." Sima Shi turned his horse's head and greeted him. After a short time, he came back again, and said to Sima Yi with a smile: "Father, the reason is here, Wei Ba and Sun Quan have a close relationship. Sun Quan may send reinforcements from Wuchang, we can't rush deeper, we can only watch Xiangyang fall. ”

Sima Yi glared at him, took the secret report, read it carefully, and muttered: "No, Sun Quan is trying to stir up the situation, even if he doesn't send troops to Xiangyang, he may make some moves in the Jianghuai area." No, this matter must be reported to Bixia immediately. ”

Sima Shi said with a smile: "Father, I'm afraid it's not all. If Sun Quan makes a move, it must be Wei Ba who is going north. Otherwise, he would not dare to draw the forces defending Wei Ba out to attack Jianghuai. In my opinion, either one of them does not move, or two of them move together. This is what we really have to worry about, since Li Yan can conquer Xiangyang by himself, then Wei Ba will go north, and the target will at least be Wancheng. ”…… (To be continued......)

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