When the city is not enough to act as a barrier, then the number of armies is crucial, and both sides must have the same number of armies to compete.

If the weapons and morale are insufficient, then if you want to compete with the enemy, you have to increase the number of troops, Hedong County only has 30,000 soldiers, how can you block the Han army of 100,000, so you have to ask for help.

The county guard's face was pale, and it was precisely because he was once a military general that he clearly knew what it meant to be ten times stronger!

Only scholars worship "lupine scarves, talking and laughing, and the canopy is in ashes", just as it is difficult for a person who has never earned a million yuan to truly understand the meaning of a billion yuan.

A gust of wind hit, which provoked the Hedong County Guard to shudder, and the copper bells under the eaves of the yamen hit each other, making a crisp sound, and as far as the eye could see, the night was already covered in the night.

Sighing, he showed the information to his staff and asked, "What is it now?" ”

When the staff saw it, their faces turned pale, and after a while, one of the staff members said: "Envoy, we have few soldiers in Hedong County, and the maximum number of soldiers is 50,000, how can we resist these 100,000 Han troops?" ”

Hearing this, another staff member couldn't help but say: "Envoy, either hurry up and ask for help, or ......"

Speaking of which, he kept his mouth shut and carefully observed the expression of the county guard.

How can the county guard not know what it means, and there is another way to surrender, his heart was in a trance, and his mind froze for a while, and said: "Yes, you must go to Xu Du for help first, and see what Xu Du says......

This tone immediately made the staff show joy, normal people would not have the mind to resist a tenfold enemy - that is to seek death.

"Envoy! Xu Du sent someone over there! Then suddenly a servant came in from outside, and said something in a report.

The county guard was stunned at this time, and hurriedly said: "Please come in!" ”

Without him to invite, a few people strode in from outside.

The leader is about thirty years old, resolute and resolute, Fei Yan recognized it at first sight, it is Sima You's henchman Pei Xiu.

Secretly complained in his heart, and hurriedly said: "This is not a captain, I don't know if you are coming here......"

"Your Majesty orders you to block the Han army here with all your might, hold on for at least ten days, and if you can't hold it after ten days, you can retreat." Pei Xiu sat directly on the main seat at this time and said to everyone present.

At the same time, the people of Liu Bao's faction are also giving orders to the county below:

"All the grain that can be collected in the county town is transported to the county seat, and it is too late to transport, and all of it will be destroyed before the city is broken.

In short, the marshal asked you to wait here for three days, and once the three days passed, it would be forgotten if you couldn't hold it. ”

It was Liu Yuan who came out to give the order, his pair of eye sockets were slightly sunken, and there was very little expression on his stern face, and when he said this, his muscles twitched imperceptibly, and after speaking, his lips tightened again.

The county commander lowered his head and thought about it, pursed his lips and muttered for a moment, and said: "The grain marshal in the county town can be transferred, but now there is no manpower to transport it away, and you also know the situation in the city, there are only a few hundred soldiers in the county, how can this stop the 100,000 army of the Han army for three days, and it is too difficult to divide the troops to transport grain......

Liu Yuan's eyes flashed with a fine light: "Don't worry, the marshal has expected your situation here, I came here this time, not only to transport some grain and grass back, but also to bring you hundreds of elites, these people will stay in the city today, under your command, together with the hundreds of people in your county, there are more than 1,000 people in total, the county town is small, including this strong city, can you always keep it for three days, right?" ”

Liu Yuan said with a smile.

There was silence in the hall, and the county commander thought about it and took a deep breath: "Since the young marshal said so, I will be ordered, but the young marshal wants to leave five days' food, and if these five days of food are not left, this battle will not be fought." ”

Liu Yuan only tugged at the corners of his mouth, agreed, and then stopped staying, and immediately ordered to travel with the grain and grass in the county, and left the county overnight after being busy in the middle of the night.

The county order was also helpless, so he had to respond, and as soon as the people left, several staff members picked it up: "Lingjun, what should I do?" ”

"Let's fight, most of the Hun soldiers who stayed here are mostly offended people, so they came here, but their net worth is in their clan, and it is impossible to surrender, let's fight first, hey!" The prefectural order said.

It was not only the county commander who was ordered by Pei Xiu and left a team of guards in Hedong County, but also Guan Yi, the commander of the Han army, who was hundreds of miles away.

Standing on the high platform, looking at the black pressure in the distance, Guan Yi didn't know what he was thinking.

Beside him were hundreds of heavily guarded school knife men, standing there without squinting, and even if an animal passed by, it could not escape their eyes.

The night breeze is a little cool, the spring solstice in March, the temperature difference between the white night is a little large, only standing on the high platform for a while, Guan Yi turned around and went downstairs, as soon as he entered the room, there was a fire head army to send supper to eat.

After drinking a few mouthfuls of hot porridge and warming his spleen and stomach, Guan Yi fell asleep, and woke up the next morning, with his own guards serving him to dress and wash.

When they came to the tent, they would wait here for a while.

Guan Yi took his seat on the main seat, his eyes scanning the people in front of him.

"Gentlemen, raise troops for a thousand days, use troops for a while, and pacify the battle of annexing the state and even the northern region is the time to use soldiers!

However, at present, it is only to attack a Xihe County that is not guarded by many soldiers, and there is no need for the whole army to march, I will send a vanguard to open up a road and capture the county seat, who is willing to go? ”

"Commander, please hand over this mission to me!" Without waiting for the crowd to react, one person strode out of the ranks.

Guan Yi looked fixedly, and it was Zhong Yi who came out of the ranks.

This Zhong Yi is heroic, only standing in front of him, showing the bearing and demeanor of a general, and most of the year has passed, and it is almost time to use it.

Guan Yi didn't wait for others, and nodded: "Since you take the initiative to ask for help, according to you, Zhong Yi listens to the order!" ”

"The last general!"

"I order you to be the vanguard, and after the situation is discovered, all battalions will cooperate to capture Xihe County!"

"The last general obeys!"

"The rest of the generals, prepare for war, and listen to my orders at any time!"

"Yes!"

Zhong Yi led a group, and the first attack was Xihe County, the barrier of Taiyuan County, which was a full establishment of 10,000 people, he managed the army properly, and at the same time sent spies to investigate the situation in front.

In less than half a day, the situation in Xihe County was found out by Zhong Yi.

The county town of Xihe is not small, the city is high and the ditch is deep, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

This county was originally located in the border area, and the guard was heavy, the Han army pressed the border, the county gate has long been forbidden to the people to enter and exit, and the suspension bridge is hung high.

"Pass my order and march in the direction of Xihe County!" After receiving this news, Zhong Yi did not care and ordered the troops to advance.

When Zhong Yi first descended, he changed from a marshal to a general, of course, he lost a lot, it can be said that if he was reused at that time, he would indeed have some psychological pimples.

However, in the blink of an eye, it is more than half a year, people are very adaptable animals, and for most of the year, I have figured out everything, and he is also a smart person. 113

And now, although the nominal position is not high, but this is in the Han Empire as a general, in the past in the Zhonghui Mansion as a general, the momentum is only in Guanzhong, but now it is the entire empire, the momentum is not the same as before, Zhong Yi gradually changed his mind, positioning himself on the courtiers, from the uncle to the princes, then from the dragon ministers are not bad.

He is not a descendant of the emperor, Zhong Yi is well aware of political principles and knows how to express loyalty to the emperor.

With such thoughts, Zhong Yi would not shrink back, and took the initiative to ask Yingying to be a pioneer.

This Xihe County, although there are few soldiers, Han and Hu live together, but 10,000 people want to take it in a short time, it is difficult to capture, but there is also a broken city camp, with this "broken city car" to break through the city wall, and capture the city in one go, it is not difficult for a general like him.

What he did was not to make meritorious contributions, but to show the emperor his attitude and that of the Zhong family, this is to stand in line.

Of course, Guan Yi, who is the emperor's confidant, also knows that the emperor does not restrict the surrender of generals, and even has the intention of reuse, as soon as he saw him stand up, he immediately agreed.

Along the way, the army pressed the border, and in this way, it entered the territory of Xihe County.

In this attack on Xihe County, as a vanguard, Zhong Yi also has his own cavalry, in terms of number and status, of course, it cannot be compared with the elite cavalry of the Han army.

However, as a surrendered general, the Zhong family kept a personal army of 500 cavalry to protect Zhong Yi, which the Tao family also has.

Half a day later, when the army entered the territory of Xihe County, there was little resistance, but there were fierce clashes with some sentry posts, and there were several groups of Hu people to explore the horses.

This Xihe County guard, the truth of a cold lip and a cold tooth, asked Liu Bao of Taiyuan County to help some knights, but Liu Bao only cared about his own three points of land and only gave a few hundred horses.

Zhong Yi led his troops to kill a few people, and then asked a few people who were caught, it turned out that he learned that the Han army was attacking, thinking that the dispersion of troops was not enough to resist the incoming army, and the Xihe county guard was also the same as Liu Bao, so he simply concentrated all the troops and material resources in the edge area in the county town, and used the county town as a nail to try to block the advance of the Han army in turn.

When Zhong Yi heard this, he couldn't help but sneer, just a small Xihe county town, he wanted to block this vast army, this is really a joke.

"Ask, how many defenders are there in this Xihe County now." Zhong Yi asked.

There had already been executions on the side, and they used means to pry out the news from the mouths of the captured enemy soldiers.

"General, in the Xihe County city ahead, there are only five thousand defenders!" After the captain of the execution got the information, he said back to Zhong Yi.

"Just five thousand?" When Zhong Yi heard this, he sneered a few times, just this person?

Before, Liu Bao also sent people to threaten him, saying that he was willing to guard the frontier for Hanchen and the Han Dynasty, otherwise he would use the cities as barriers, strong walls and clear wilderness, etc......

"It seems that what is said to be a barrier here is just a bluff, presumably it is to use this city to estimate the strength of our army, but our army is upright, that is, to destroy the front in Zhengrui, and now the marshal sent me to fight, which is also the meaning, since this is the case, there is no need to hesitate, this city is in the way, just open it and attack it directly!"

"Pass my order, release the arrows first, shoot the letters of persuasion one by one, give an answer within an hour, and at the same time surround the city, assemble the city-breaking vehicles, and prepare for battle!"

"Yes, General!" A platoon of archers stood under the city, and with a call and dozens of letters of surrender, they were shot into the city under several shots.

Zhong Yi stood tall on his horse and looked at the county seat from afar.

At this time, 10,000 infantry troops, plus 500 cavalry, and a broken city guard, were all arrayed outside the city, waiting for an answer.

One hour is the time for the assembly of the city-breaking car, which does not waste any time at all.

At this time, it was early in the morning, and a gust of wind blew outside the city, blowing the big banner hunting, and the 10,000 people in the vanguard were all elite, and the army was strict and murderous.

The sun gradually passed, and under the banner, there were dense arrays of Han troops dressed in red armor.

There are more than 10,000 soldiers who are boundless, which is terrifying, of course, what makes the Xihe county guards who are watching the battle in the city the most afraid is that at this hour, the soldiers of the Han army under the city will be arrayed, and they will not move at all, which is a typical strong army.

Standing on the city tower and looking from afar, he saw a huge banner with the word "Zhong" on it, he was sure that this was the original Guanzhong Governor Zhong Club, and it was definitely not Zhong Hui, then it was his nephew Zhong Yi.

It's hateful, this thief didn't want to be loyal to the country, and now he has become a traitor!

Almost at the same time, Zhong Yi was also staring at the city, and there were also soldiers and generals on it.

When the morning sun reached a certain time, Zhong Yi looked at the county seat, his eyes lit up with anger, and he said with a sneer: "It seems that the thief doesn't want to take advantage of the chance of survival I gave him, so let's fight!" ”

When the generals heard this, they all looked at each other and laughed, and their morale was high.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! The drums sounded, and the army of 10,000 people, except for the Chinese army, slowly stepped forward, and the murderous aura filled the entire battlefield.

The drums of war beat, the army marched forward in rhythm, and after a while, the city of Xihe County was getting closer and closer, and the soldiers draped in the city were clearly visible, and many soldiers were holding longbows, ready to shoot.

At 200 paces, the drums of war stopped, which was out of the enemy's range, and further on, within the range of the enemy's bow and arrow.

This Zhong Yi was on the horse, tall, with a red cloak all over his body, a deep face, not showing joy and anger, obviously entering the state of a general, and then he shouted: "Break the city!" ”

Five city-bustering vehicles, steadily advancing, came within range.

Zhong Yi ordered: "Ready!" ”

The city-breaking carts were slowly loaded with bullet stones, and there were hundreds of people waiting for them.

"Smash, smash a gap for me!" Zhong Yi said coldly.

"Order!"

At the command, hundreds of soldiers worked together, and the city-breaking vehicle roared violently, and a boulder, with a "boom", turned into an arc in the air and smashed it directly.

At this time, the operation of the city-breaking car, after several actual battles, is no longer a new hand, only listen to the sound of "boom", the boulder accurately fell on the city wall, this loud noise, like spring thunder, the whole city wall shook a little, and the sediment flew up a large area.

"A crack has been smashed!" People who were far away from where they had been hit, screamed.

The people in the city suddenly turned pale, although they had long heard of the power of the city-breaking car, but they did not think that it was so powerful, only to see that there were no living people in the place where they were smashed, only a piece of blood and mud remained.

"Put it again!"

"Boom!" Another series of earth-shaking loud noises, five boulders, one smashed on the crack last time, the dust flew at the same time, the original crack increased, the gravel fell hulala, and a big gap suddenly appeared on the city wall.

A piece fell a little farther, fell to the city tower, suddenly in the sky in the dust and rubble, this high-rise building "bang" down, see these, the city of 10,000 Han soldiers, immediately cheered together, deafening, soaring to the sky.

At this time, the Xihe County Guard was bathed in dust, his heart was in turmoil, but his mind was blank, he didn't know what to do, but he couldn't hear any sound for a while, and it seemed that a silent mime was being staged around.

At this moment, after three rounds of bombardment, there was a "boom", and a piece of the city wall finally couldn't bear it, and it collapsed with a bang, revealing a gap in the sky.

Zhong Yi immediately ordered the war drum to be beaten, a regular drum sound, one after another, straight into the hearts of the enemy and me.

The Han army under the city moved like a tide at this time, advancing towards the city wall, and in a moment, the sound of killing suddenly started, and a large number of Han troops rushed into it along this gap.