—180 A.D.——

The final decision made by the two generals of Zhengxi and Zhenxi was to launch an attack on the rebel camp with great fanfare and slowness, and at the same time order the scouts to publicize the fact that "Chen Cang has fallen into our hands", and forcibly let the Xiliang rebels respond to this, instead of guessing the other party's response.

This style of acting is not very Huangfu Song, but it is very warm.

During the confrontation with Fufeng County, Bian Zhang and Han Sui continued to build fortifications around the camp to strengthen their defenses, and now the riverside wasteland, which was originally near Weishui and known as the "World Outer Slope", has been built into a medium-sized dock fort.

When Dong Zhuo came to participate in the military discussion, Li Ru had a guess, and Zhang Wen really proposed to let the "Liangzhou Volunteers" led by Dong Zhuo take the lead, trying to save the "Sanhe Elite" to "chase the dead and chase the north", which sounded as if Dong Zhuo could drive the rebels away without loss.

When Zhang Wen raised this point, Dong Zhuo had already secretly sneered and decided to answer it first-after all, the request made by a general who was killed by a sneak attack by a rebel assassin would not be turned out afterwards, would it?

It must be known that in the Spring and Autumn Period and even in the pre-Qin period, Zhuzhu, Yaoli, Jing Ke, those famous assassins, had the same identity as "rangers".

But to Dong Zhuo's surprise, Huangfu Song vetoed the plan without waiting for him to pretend to approve it, and after a few mocking words with Zhang Wen, he asked Dong Zhuo to cooperate in attacking one of the three sides of the "Siege Three", and he could choose his own direction.

Oh, this general may have seen something, or he may simply care about the many rangers under his command, and want to express to himself that "although the big man is not so good, it is not too bad", but unfortunately, about this, it may take a hundred people to make efforts for this, but the results can be completely destroyed by only one person.

Since the other party inadvertently saved that Zhang Wen, Dong Zhuo would not look for more trouble, he selected the mountainous side that was conducive to the infantry and the trapped camp according to the situation of his subordinates, and handed over the trapped camp to the command of Guan Hai and Zhang Ke, and then ordered Niu Fu to lead the archers to press the formation, and Hua Xiong led the cavalry team to protect the flanks on the flat ground in the mountains.

As for the actual actions after the intelligence offensive, in order to achieve the effect of "joint attack" with the faster "Knights of the Three Rivers", the volunteers need to rush to the vicinity of the world outside the slope overnight to ambush before the official attack, which is a test for both the generals and the soldiers.

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Dong Zhuojun's camp.

"The subordinates are still opposed to the lord going to battle in person," Li Ru would call Dong Zhuo in a different word when there were outsiders, and his tone would change slightly, so as not to be criticized by other generals: "Even if there are these...... 'siege organs' are the same." ”

"Haha! Wen You, it's just because you don't know how to command them," Dong Zhuo patted Li Ru on the shoulder: "Even if you are as well-informed as you, you don't know how to deal with it, let alone those rebels." ”

Although he does not agree with Huangfu Song's views on the Han family, if someone says that this general of Zhengxi has done nothing during the nearly year he has been stationed in Fufeng, Dong Zhuo will be the first to object.

If you want to know the specific reason, just look at the "hideous-looking" catapult that was sent to the barracks, Huangfu Song's department was a step slower than that week, in addition to gathering other knights of the two rivers, that is, to bring a Han clan named Liu Pu, and hundreds of craftsmen under him.

Although it was impossible for them to go to the battlefield, during their stay in Fufeng County, they built a large number of ordnance such as rushing carts, ladder trucks, trebuchets, and even well railings, which originally seemed to be intended to give a "surprise" to the rebels besieging the city, but now when they take the initiative to attack, the effect will not be too bad.

The most important thing is that they are all detachable and easy to assemble, for example, this trebuchet can be placed in about an hour with five or six baggage soldiers, and then it can be operated by only three people, and the spiked baffles can also be used to defend against cavalry assault and bow and arrow shooting.

Although field encounters and sports battles that were fought before the fall of the faction were not useful, siege battles were about to be fought now with plenty of time to prepare.

"These things ......" Li Ru is still arguing with reason: "If the lord must use it, he needs to separate a separate army for protection and control, if it is randomly assigned to various divisions, and they fight separately, not only can they not strengthen their combat strength, but also disrupt the cooperation between the troops." ”

Although the generals such as Niu Fu and Hua Xiong, who were happy to hunt this kind of big guy, glared at him fiercely, Li Ru didn't seem to have any intention of changing his mind at all.

"Well......" Dong Zhuo thought about Li Ru's "company battalion" characteristics, and decided to follow his words, so he nodded and said: "Then, you will command this 'siege agency force', but correspondingly, I hope to see the effect in time when they need to help." ”

"Rest assured, my lord! The son-in-law will not be dishonored! Li Ru immediately replied in a loud voice.

It turns out that you are the one who likes them the most...... Virtuous son-in-law.

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A few days later, due to the "propaganda" of Fufeng County, the rebel troops and the invading Qiang tribes finally believed that their back roads had been cut off and their morale dropped greatly.

It doesn't matter if they are originally Han people's border and Han subordinate troops, even if they are scattered by the official army, they can also disguise themselves as the people of Liangzhou and flee and hide, but the rebels who are obviously different from the Han people do not have such conditions, so the voice of "counterattacking Chen Cang to ensure the back road" continues to spread among the Qiang people, even to the point that most of the rebels ignore the orders of Bian Zhang and Han Sui.

Moreover, the cautious and slow attack of the Han army made them feel that there was no need for so many people to defend this place.

As a last resort, Han Sui ordered Ma Teng and Pang De to lead a group of 30,000 homesick rebel cavalry to return to Chencang to reinforce Chencang, and he himself took the remaining 70,000 infantry mixed cavalry troops to defend the world's outer slope to avoid being attacked by the Han official army.

But it's a pity that Huangfu Song, who did everything to make them divide their troops, immediately gave the order for a general attack as planned, and Dong Zhuo's department also approached the side wall of Shiwaipo overnight as agreed.

Although the diet of these Qiang people gradually assimilated with that of the Han people, it was still far from enough to cure the "finch blindness", and when they looked down on the wall of the Shiwaipo where the torches were lit, they could only see endless darkness.

In this darkness, Dong Zhuojun, or rather, Li Ru's siege troops are in full swing to build siege equipment.

In the absence of the participation of "unequaled generals" and "siege equipment", the normal tactic used in siege warfare is "ant possession", that is, to cross the moat against the ladder - if there is one, and then build the city wall, braving the rain of arrows and rolling wood and other means of city defense to break through.

It is no wonder that Zhang Wen was not willing to send the knights of the Three Rivers to attack the city, and in the case of not being able to ride their horses to attack and break through, they were only better equipped infantry, and the role of equipment in the army was almost none.

"Virtuous son-in-law, this plan ...... Is it ideal? Seeing that the first catapult was about to be built, Dong Zhuo finally couldn't help but ask.

Due to the characteristics of the "company battalion", Li Ru did not list a comprehensive and complete strategy, but only handed over the battle plan to the generals who commanded the bows, infantry, and cavalry.

In order to suppress the dissatisfaction of the siege troops with Li Ru, Dong Zhuo personally came to supervise the troops, and naturally saw the strategy delivered by Li Ru.

The order he gave to the trapped camp was to "lie in ambush behind the organ troops, and cut off the organ troops when they retreat, but not to step into the original positions of the organ troops."

The instructions given to the archers were: "Ambush the enemy infantry on both sides between the unit and the city, and let the enemy infantry into the forest without hindrance, but if anyone tries to escape from the forest, kill them one by one." ”

The instructions given to the cavalry were: "Hide near the city, ignore the infantry, and when the fire breaks out in the forest, and the Qiang cavalry unit in the city goes out, attack them halfway." ”

Finally, the agency troops themselves: "Only build a trebuchet, disguise it with flammable traps as well fences, rush cars and other equipment, throw a stone bullet at random into the city after the first rooster crows, and retreat directly after seeing the enemy soldiers enter the forest." ”

While there should be follow-up strategies to be added, the first movement of these forces would have wiped out at least three of them—if all goes well.

"This is the 'unparalleled characteristic' of the son-in-law," Li Ru said: "Design in the most ideal situation, and remedy or change according to subsequent changes, in order to achieve the best results that can be achieved, in a word, [do your best, obey the destiny of heaven]." ”

"If you think about it carefully, this plan is not without the possibility of success," Dong Zhuo thought for a moment and responded: "I am very familiar with the character of those Qiang people, when the 'finch blindness' improved slightly, I found that someone bullied them and couldn't see anything at night, so I was afraid that they would light a torch and rush out directly......"

Li Ru was about to respond, but his gaze fell into a daze as he swept the direction of the city wall.

Dong Zhuo followed his gaze and saw that on the wall of the outer slope of the world, there was a man with an unusually tall figure, who was surrounded by a group of Qiang people wearing at most fur light armor and decorated with wolf teeth and horns, this person was wearing a set of dark bone heavy armor, his face was not revealed, he just raised his hand, and pointed in the direction of Li Ru with contempt, and then withdrew and made a throat-cutting motion.

"Beigong Boyu ......" Although he has never seen this person, Dong Zhuo has no doubt that he is the rebel leader of this Liangzhou rebel army, and Li Ru's "simple" strategy has been completely seen through by him, and the top priority now is to retreat as soon as possible and re-

At this moment, a pillar of light that penetrated the sky and the earth with indescribable colors, and made all those who looked directly could not see anything else for a while.

At the same time, Dong Zhuo seemed to hear a young woman chanting in a voice that forced a smile:

[Multi-dimensional saturation bombardment! ] 】