Chapter 944: Soldiers are trapped in Mantou Mountain
Shannan County of Wei is the largest county in the northern part of Wei State, and it is also the largest county in area after Wei County among the five counties of Wei State. The state of Wei itself is a country of mountains, with many mountains and hills, and Shannan County is one of the best, the huge Shannan County, more than half of the area is covered by mountains, rolling and towering.
Among the mountains, there is an oval-shaped earth mountain like a big steamed bun buckled on the earth, which is not very conspicuous among the many high mountains and mountains, but at this time, Han Mo and his thousands of soldiers have been besieged on this steamed bun mountain.
Han Mo was sitting under a big tree at this time, the armor on his body was already very torn, the helmet was put aside, his handsome face was still stained with blood, beside him, there were several generals, everyone's armor was covered with blood, some of the blood stains were even dried and blackened, and everyone's face was tired, some of them were sitting on the ground, some were standing and leaning against the tree, and there were people in the middle who couldn't help themselves to close their eyes and take a nap, and one of them had a bearded general standing against the tree and snoring loudly.
Han Mo was also exhausted, but he suppressed his sleepiness and thought about something.
For five whole days.
During the five days, thousands of soldiers hardly had time to rest, and they were faced with the threat of the Shannan Army attacking from the bottom of Mantou Mountain at any time.
When he set off from Tingshui Pass, Han Mo never thought that such a situation would occur, until now he couldn't figure it out, he was cautious, secretly marching along the way, he was confident that in this continuous mountain, he had achieved the greatest degree of concealment, but why did Sima Haoyue know so much about his whereabouts, and even laid a trap a long time ago, and when he unknowingly entered the trap they set, the 20,000 Shannan County had already tightened his mouth and surrounded Han Mo and his four thousand soldiers.
It's a big well-designed trap.
Although Han Mo's march was secretive, Sima Haoyue was even more hidden, his army was not in the Snake Road, nor was it on the Wild Wolf Road, but was ambushed near the steamed buns.
Han Mo failed to ambush Sima Haoyue as planned, but was ambushed by Sima Haoyue.
If it weren't for knowing Han Mo's whereabouts well, Sima Haoyue would never have laid such a big trap.
In the face of the Shannan army, which was five times their own, Han Mo and his subordinates did not have the slightest fear and fought bravely, but in the face of the Shannan army, which had the absolute upper hand in strength and was good at mountain warfare, Han Mo and his subordinates could only fight and retreat, and were finally besieged on this Mantou Mountain.
It has been five days since the day of the siege.
In the first two days, the Wei army attacked from all sides, trying to defeat Han Mo in one fell swoop, but Han Mo and his subordinates showed enough bravery and toughness, although their own side suffered heavy casualties, but the casualties in Shannan County were even more serious.
From the third day, Shannan County stopped the continuous offensive. , they only occasionally attacked, and the Yan army on the mountain always maintained pressure and threat.
Han Mo was very clear about Sima Haoyue's intentions.
Sima Haoyue obviously knew that if the attack continued, the Shannan army would definitely suffer huge losses, so he adopted another strategy, that is, to trap the Yan army on the mountain to death.
When fighting with the Wei army, Sima Haoyue ordered the Wei army to carry out a ruthless attack on the horse team in charge of food, and the already scarce food and water were lost, and when the soldiers retreated to Mantou Mountain, there was no other food except for the day's rations they carried.
On Mantou Mountain, there were originally some animals, after being surrounded, in order to supplement food, Han Mo specially ordered the formation of a hunting team, and the prey on the mountain was almost swept away, but although nearly 1,000 people were killed, there were still nearly 3,000 soldiers, and those wild things that were hunted could not support the consumption of thousands of people.
Sima Haoyue died trapped in Mantou Mountain, obviously because the Yan army was not well fed and could not support it for a few days, and when the Yan army ran out of food, even if the Yan army did not give in, but the lack of food would inevitably lead to inability to fight.
The attacks launched from time to time in the past few days are to keep the tension at the moment of severity, so as to intensify the physical energy consumption of the Yan army.
Han Mo sent people several times to take advantage of the darkness to break out of the encirclement and ask for help from Han Xuanling's side, but the Shannan Army was too heavily guarded, and the soldiers sent for help would be swaggered under the mountain by the Wei army with their spears the next day.
After a few days, Han Mo was exhausted, but he knew that at this time, as the commander of the first army, he must not collapse, in his hands, he was holding the lives of three thousand subordinates, once he could not hold on to the collapse, then his three thousand soldiers would also not be able to hold on.
He sat under the tree, and what was in his mind at this time was why Sima Haoyue used all his forces to besiege his thousands of men.
According to common sense, compared to destroying these thousands of men and horses, the Evil Yang Ridge is obviously more important, Sima Haoyue has the upper hand, and can completely send men and horses to reinforce the Evil Yang Ridge, even if he sends 10,000 horses over, he can also send a huge reinforcement to the Evil Yang Ridge, and can give the Yan army attacking the Evil Yang Ridge a huge trouble, leaving 10,000 troops to deal with his thousands of men and horses, even if it can't be eliminated, it can be completely blocked.
But tactically speaking, it is good for 20,000 Shannan troops to besiege a few thousand Yan troops, but strategically speaking, this is a matter of priority and priority.
If Sima Haoyue just thinks about annihilating the opponent in front of him and ignores the overall situation, then he is indeed an incompetent general, but Han Mo already knows that Sima Haoyue is by no means a confused general, and the current situation, which is light and which is heavy, is the most mediocre general, and can also understand, let alone a character like Sima Haoyue.
In this case, Sima Haoyue must have another purpose for living in Mantou Mountain despite the evil yang ridge.
And the only possibility that Han Mo could think of was that Sima Haoyue already knew who the main general who led this army was.
There is only such an explanation.
Han Mo's identity is not trivial, although his name is acting for military affairs, but after several changes, he is now the actual number one person in the Northwest Army.
If the number one person in the Northwest Army falls into the hands of the Wei army, the consequences can be imagined.
At that time, the internal and external troubles of the Yan army will spread rapidly.
Han Mo can suppress the Northwest Army, but once Han Mo falls into the hands of the enemy or other accidents occur, then the Northwest Army will never be as monolithic as it is now.
The snake has no head, if it can take down Han Mo, for Sima Haoyue, it is far more useful than reinforcing the Evil Yang Ridge, maybe in Sima Haoyue's opinion, if he can capture or even kill Han Mo, this news spreads, the Yan army's military spirit will be in chaos, and the Wei army will have a chance to turn defeat into victory.
It's just that Han Mo couldn't figure it out, how could Sima Haoyue be so clear about his appearance, and even know that the leader of this army was the chief general of the Northwest Army?
In fact, Han Mo has made extremely good arrangements for this trip, not to mention that the thousands of men and horses are all disguised as Wei troops, not to mention the secret and cautious march along the way, even before being besieged Mantou Mountain, only a very few of the thousands of people under his command know that the general of the army is Han Mo, and most people think that it is Wang Siyu who leads the troops into Shannan County this time.
As for the purpose of entering Shannan County to intercept Sima Haoyue, among the four thousand people, only three or four people knew about it.
After setting off from Tingshui Pass this time, the soldiers only thought that it was Wang Siyu who led the army, and they didn't know that General Han was dressed as a soldier and followed Wang Siyu with a mask.
Han Mo was worried that the news would leak out, so he was extremely cautious, and among the tens of thousands of people in the Northwest Army who knew about this operation, there were only more than 20 senior generals.
It was precisely for this reason that Sima Haoyue attacked him with all his might, which made Han Mo faintly feel that there must be an unusual conspiracy in it.
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At dusk, half an hour ago, the Wei army launched an attack, which was once again pressed down by the Yan army.
Although it is surrounded by the mountains, after all, it is condescending, and if it really wants to fight, it still occupies a certain geographical advantage. It's just that the officers and soldiers of the whole army have not used food for nearly two days, even ordinary people who don't eat for two days must be physically lacking, not to mention the soldiers of the Yan Army who have fought hard repeatedly.
Now the soldiers of the Yan army are hungry and exhausted from top to bottom.
If it was according to Han Mo's plan, this time it should have been a beautiful ambush battle, choking the important terrain, dragging the Shannan army, and creating conditions for the Yan army to attack the Evil Yang Ridge.
But the fact has become what it is now, Han Mo is quite remorseful in his heart, if he hadn't proposed this plan by himself, all the soldiers under his command would not have fallen into the situation of being besieged today, and even faced the dilemma of annihilation of the whole army.
It's just that he will never show this kind of self-reproach on his face.
There was a sound of footsteps, and Zhu Xiaoyan, who was wearing a mask and armor covered with blood, came over with a spear in his hand, Han Mo turned his head to look, and the eyes under Zhu Xiaoyan's mask were also full of tiredness.
When Zhu Xiaoyan approached, several generals around Han Mo suddenly looked up at him, but everyone's expressions were very strange, and some people's eyes were full of anger that was difficult to hide.
Zhu Xiaoyan stepped forward, still holding the spear in his hand, and said lightly to Han Mo: "White smoke is rising in the rear of the Wei army under the mountain, it should be cooking, and it shouldn't be attacked for a while!" ”
Han Mo nodded and said, "You've worked hard too, let's rest first!" ”
Zhu Xiaoyan said: "Our food has been cut off, if it continues like this, the Wei army will attack sooner or later...... I have to think of a way. ”
Han Mo's expression was grim, he groaned slightly, and asked, "Have all the injured brothers settled down?" ”
"Yes." Zhu Xiaoyan nodded and said, "The little ration left is also left for them." Hundreds of brothers were seriously wounded, and even if they had only enough food to be fed, they would not be able to hold out for long. The most important thing for them now is to need medicine, and if the injuries are not treated early, those wounds can kill them. ”
As soon as his words fell, a general next to him suddenly couldn't help but say: "This march, you are leading the way, I want to ask you, we were introduced into the encirclement of the Wei army, it really has nothing to do with you?" ”
As soon as this person's words fell, several generals next to him immediately held the hilt of their swords, and everyone's eyes were staring at Zhu Xiaoyan's body like wolves.
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