On the battlefield of Shouchun, the Southern Qi army and the Western Qin army fought like a veiled battle.

An Qingzhong, the general of the Western Qin, led 30,000 troops to hold Shouchun for half a month, and Wei Ran and Liu Renye joined forces with a total of 100,000 people, and there was no way to take Shouchun City.

When the scorching sun was in the sky, Wei Ran looked at the Shouchun city wall in the distance, his face was full of sadness, and then he spat on the ground fiercely: "Who is this Shouchun guard, I have never heard that there is such a person in the Qin Dynasty." ”

It's no wonder Wei Ran is so angry, Wei Ran's favorite thing in his life is to dig tunnels, but he didn't expect to meet An Qingzhong, who has the same interests here.

An Qingzhong dug all the way to the outside of the city wall, although the tunnel was destroyed, the arrow tower set up by Wei Ran outside the city wall suddenly collapsed.

Wei Ran was immediately angry, and what was even more outrageous was that Wei Ran couldn't help but rush to the vicinity of Shouchun and scolded, but scolded and scolded and suddenly dug up the tunnel under his feet, and then dragged the deputy general into the tunnel and slashed him, only throwing a head out.

This operation can suddenly frighten the soldiers of Southern Qi, the news reached Wei Ran's ears, Wei Ran was stunned at first, and then reacted, and hurriedly came to the military formation, Liu Renye is also smart, in order to ensure Wei Ran's safety, he dug a trench around the military formation, so that the tunnel could not be dug in front of him.

Wei Ran looked at the trench under his feet, and he couldn't cry or laugh, although this trench could make the tunnel of the thief army unable to dig, but it also affected his command of the battle.

Wei Ran looked at Shouchun and the trench on the ground, and then shouted: "Come on, just follow this trench and dig it ahead for me!" ”

Liu Renye was shocked, and he couldn't take care of it at this time, so he hurriedly grabbed Wei Ran's hand and said: "King Qin can't be like this, if the thief army sets fire to the passage, won't the army go and never return." ”

It turned out that Liu Renye was worried that Wei Ran would be found digging a tunnel, and then the Qin army set fire to another tunnel in the tunnel, and then used an artificial blower to make the soldiers in the tunnel lose air and die.

Wei Ran stroked the hilt of the sword, stomped his feet, and scolded: "The Qin army used tunnels to destroy our siege equipment, and its intention is self-evident. Now it is necessary to dig tunnels to dig over, and then dig trenches outside the city wall, so that the Qin army can dig tunnels outside the city wall and destroy our army's ladders and arrow towers. ”

Liu Renye saw that Wei Ran could not be persuaded to move, so he had to order the soldiers to start digging tunnels, and Wei Ran not only dug from the front, but also from the side.

An Qingzhong naturally noticed Wei Ran's strange behavior on the city wall, he propped his hands on the city wall, stared at Wei Ran in the distance fiercely, and then patted the head of the person next to him, and scolded: "His grandmother's, this Wei Ran is also planning to dig a tunnel." ”

The beaten general said with an aggrieved face: "General An, Nanqi Weiran is famous for his love of digging tunnels and holes, and the two of you are right." ”

When An Qingzhong heard this, he hit the head of the person next to him again, and said in a chattering mouth: "What kind of hole, you don't want to talk nonsense." ”

Later, An Qingzhong summoned the generals and ordered them to dig a trench inside the city, and at the same time dig a tunnel outside the city wall, so that Wei Ran would not destroy the Shouchun city wall in the same way.

At this time, the two of them faced each other, and the people digging tunnels met outside the city walls, and the two sides fought in the narrow tunnels.

But Wei Ran has a lot of people, and the tunnel dug is obviously a little wider than An Qingzhong's, and the soldiers of the Southern Qi Dynasty are quite comfortable using weapons, and the Western Qin soldiers have suffered losses one after another, and there is no way, the Western Qin soldiers can only withdraw from the tunnel and hurriedly pass the news to An Qingzhong.

When An Qingzhong heard this, he laughed, and then set fire to the tunnel entrance, and used manpower to fan the fire into the tunnel, wanting to choke Wei Ran's army in the tunnel.

But it is obvious that the people who dug tunnels in the Southern Qi had already taken precautions, and after encountering the soldiers of the Northern Qin, they did not continue to dig tunnels, but instead divided the soldiers into two ways, one was to dig holes upwards to create vents, and the other was to block the tunnels in the direction of Shouchun with soil, so that the fire could not pass.

After the two sides dug the tunnel for two days, An Qingzhong finally couldn't bear it anymore and took the lead in giving up the idea of tunnel warfare.

He scolded and threw the weapon on the ground, and spat at Wei Ran through the city wall: "Wei Ran, why do you like to make holes as much as you are a thief, and you have the ability to fight in an upright manner." ”

Wei Ran heard the words of the guards, threw away the wine jug in his hand with a smile, and sent a message to An Qingzhong: "You turtle, shrink in the city, if you have the ability, this king can beat you into meat with one hand." ”

An Qingzhong knew that he couldn't beat Wei Ran, but he still chattered endlessly.

Wei Ran rode a horse at this time, drank wine, held a piece of meat, and slowly began to take a leisurely stroll outside Shouchun City to inspect the Shouchun City defense.

But there were many people on the city wall, and Wei Ran couldn't tell who An Qingzhong was for a while, so he took out a bow and arrow and took a grass arrow, and shot it at random on the city tower.

Then the Shouchun soldiers saw that Wei Ran actually used grass arrows, and they didn't know why for a while, so they hurriedly handed the arrows to An Qingzhong.

But he didn't know that Wei Ran had been staring at the Shouchun city wall, and when a soldier handed his arrows to An Qingzhong, Wei Ran suddenly took out the sky-shaking crossbow from under the horse, and instantly fired the crossbow arrows in unison, heading straight for An Qingzhong.

As I said before, the sky-shaking crossbow is the latest weapon of the Southern Qi Dynasty, and it is powerful and heavy, and the arrow used by Wei Ran is even more hexagonal arrow, which is extremely powerful.

An Qingzhong didn't react at all at this time, but fortunately, the deputy general next to An Qingzhong saw Wei Ran's movements and shouted: "Not good!" ”

Then he threw An Qingzhong to the ground, and before An Qingzhong could react, two people around him were hit by arrows, and after a while, the two turned black and died on the spot.

An Qingzhong was angry and scolded: "Wei Ran, even if you sneak attack, you still use poison, what kind of decent man and gentleman are you." ”

Wei Ran was noncommittal, and then returned to the army and ordered the troops to be withdrawn.

Back in the army, Wei Ran called Liu Renye: "You lead an army at night, stand outside the south gate of Shouchun, the army is complete, pretend to be going to attack at night at any time, the number of people is not too much, but the flag must be full, and then take advantage of the night to quietly change people and trim them." ”

Seeing that Liu Renye seemed to be puzzled, Wei Ran explained: "Shouchun City and Hefei are generally fortified cities, although there are many soldiers in our army, but there are also many enemy troops, we can't let them have enough time to rest, starting from tonight, we must also make a siege posture at night, our army seems to be ready to attack at any time, but in fact it is just taking turns to rest, but the Qin army does not dare to relax." In the past, the Qin army was bound to be tired. ”

Liu Renye then took the order and began to arrange the military formation for the night.

After nightfall, An Qingzhong originally planned to rest, but when he heard that the Southern Qi army was complete and had been outside the south gate, An Qingzhong was very suspicious, so he personally went upstairs to check.

Wei Ran did not rest at the moment, but took advantage of the night to touch the south gate of Shouchun not far away, Liu Renye found out that it was already too late, and hurriedly said to Zhang Gui: "King Qin, why is this?" ”

Zhang Gui spread his hands, saying that he didn't know what Wei Ran meant.

I saw An Qingzhong walking to the top of the city tower, and sure enough, he saw the Southern Qi army flying flags everywhere in the distance, but he couldn't see it very clearly in the dark night.

An Qingzhong suddenly said at this time: "Come on, take a torch." ”

The general hurriedly took the torch and handed it to An Qingzhong.

An Qingzhong picked up the torch and stretched out the Shouchun city wall, wanting to take a good look.

Wei Ran saw that there was suddenly a torch on the wall of Shouchun City, and at that moment, regardless of the three-seven-twenty-one, the heaven-shaking anger erupted again.

Suddenly, there were several screams on the city wall, and someone shouted: "The general has been shot!" ”

Wei Ran struck out, but he didn't stay long, and he left in between.

Liu Renye was already staying in place at this time, Wei Ran actually took advantage of the night to sneak attack, and couldn't help blaming Zhang Gui: "This is too dangerous, if it is discovered by the enemy army, wouldn't King Qin be dangerous?" ”

Zhang Gui spread his hands. said that he could not persuade the king of Qin.

An Qingzhong was already thunderous at this time, and just now Wei Ran's arrow hit his armor, fortunately he was wearing heavy armor, otherwise he would have been shot through.

An Qingzhong picked up the arrow and was about to touch it, but the general hurriedly shouted: "Don't touch it, general, in case it is poisonous." ”

An Qingzhong thought of the death of the two in the afternoon, hurriedly threw away the arrow, and scolded: "This person is also shameless." It's a terrible work. ”

But then An Qingzhong had a plan, and hurriedly asked the soldiers to pretend to be flustered, and shouted that the general had been hit by an arrow.

Liu Renye saw the sudden chaos in Shouchun City, and couldn't help muttering in his heart: "Could it be that King Qin was shot?" ”

At this time, Wei Ran had already returned to the army, and when he saw the movement on the city tower, he couldn't help but rejoice: "Shaking the heavens and fury, several arrows are fired together, it should not be missed, I smeared snake venom on the arrows, and An Qingzhong will definitely die if he is hit by an arrow." ”

The corners of Liu Renye's mouth twitched slightly, it was still so natural for a secret arrow to hurt people, and it would be the king of Qin.

Seeing Liu Renye's strange expression, Wei Ran smiled and patted Liu Renye: "Soldiers are not tired of cheating, you still have to be more attentive on the battlefield." ”

Then Wei Ran ordered Liu Renye to act according to the plan, and sure enough, in order to prevent Wei Ran's sneak attack that night, the soldiers did not dare to rest more.

On the second day, Wei Ran ordered a fierce attack on Shouchun, although the Shouchun soldiers resisted desperately, but Wei Ran faintly felt that the Shouchun defenders always seemed to be slow to react, and they didn't see An Qingzhong commanding the battle all day, so Wei Ran said: "It seems that An Qingzhong really has an accident, and the combat strength of the Qin army today is not as good as yesterday." ”

Liu Renye also frustrated his hands and said: "King Qin Shenwu, shoot the enemy's head with one arrow, Shouchun group of dragons has no leader, and the city is just around the corner." ”

At this time, in Shouchun City, An Qingzhong sat in the mansion, called his cronies and generals and said: "Wei Ran must have thought that I was hit by an arrow, and tonight, you will kill from the four gates and attack Wei Ran's Chinese army camp at night." ”

However, some generals put forward different opinions: "General, the Southern Qi army is on guard night and night, and it may be difficult to succeed in a night attack." ”

An Qingzhong smiled and let the man step forward, and then slapped the man's head violently, scolding: "Confused, the Southern Qi army seemed to be in array last night, but in fact, it didn't move all night, and the next day the siege was alive and well, which shows that it is a suspicious plan." ”

The beaten generals could only say yes again and again, and then An Qingzhong said: "We must capture Wei Ran alive tonight." ”

In the evening, Wei Ran still let Liu Renye line up on the south side, and he went back to the camp to rest.

After Liu Renye arranged his troops, he returned to the army and saw that Wei Ran had not rested, so he pushed open the camp tent and said to Wei Ran: "King Qin, if An Qingzhong is dead, what is the best plan for me to attack the city in the future?" With such a fierce attack every day, the soldiers were killed and wounded too much. ”

Wei Ran looked at the book of war, and said: "It is the best policy to put pressure on Shouchun first, and then force him to surrender." ”

When Liu Renye heard this, he nodded, then sat down with a big grin, and poured himself a bowl of wine: "King Qin, don't you drink some?" ”

Wei Ran waved his hand and motioned for Liu Renye to drink it himself.

Liu Renye took a sip of wine, and then said with satisfaction: "Good wine!" ”

"This is a fine wine from Hengfu, there are not many left." Wei Ran said casually.

At this moment, suddenly Zhang Gui rushed in and said to Wei Ran: "King Qin is not good, the Shouchun defenders have come out of the city gate, and the outer camp has not had time to react, and it has been killed by the Qin army." ”

Wei Ran was taken aback, then threw away the book in his hand, didn't bother to put on his armor, picked up the spear and ran outside the camp tent.

At this time, most of the soldiers in the Chinese army camp had just been awakened from their sleep, but An Qingzhong had already rushed to the camp that Wei Ran promised the Chinese army, Wei Ran ordered Zhang Gui to quickly gather troops and horses, and then he was dressed in thin clothes and carried a gun and fought with An Qingzhong.

When An Qingzhong saw a person running towards him, he guessed that it was Wei Ran, so he shouted: "Wei Ran, I only know about sneak attacks all day long, and I will eat your grandfather An's knife." ”

Wei Ran snorted coldly, and immediately fought with An Qingzhong, Wei Ran waved his spear and said: "If you don't kill you with an arrow, your fate is big, you still have a little guts, dare to fight me!" ”

An Qingzhong didn't think much of it at first, but after the two sides fought, An Qingzhong was shocked, Wei Ran's marksmanship was like a dragon, and he was elusive, and he was difficult to parry for a while.

Liu Renye saw that Wei Ran had the upper hand, so he immediately patted the horse to help, and An Qingzhong was completely panicked: "Wei Ran, you are shameless, even if you hurt people with secret arrows, you have to fight two to one." ”

However, although Wei Ran gained the upper hand in the heads-up, the situation of the army was not optimistic, and many of the soldiers of the Southern Qi Dynasty died under the butcher's knife without preparation, and Wei Ran was anxious in his heart. But he still has to deal with An Qingzhong and his personal guards in front of him.

As An Qingzhong's personal guards joined the battle, Wei Ran and Liu Renye gradually became overwhelmed, after stabbing several An Qingzhong personal guards, Zhang Gui arrived in time with the army, seeing that Wei Ran was surrounded, Zhang Gui came without saying a word, and instantly slashed and killed several people.

An Qingzhong was also frightened, this person was too brave.

After Zhang Gui knocked over a Qin army who was about to sneak attack, he said with a smile: "An Qingzhong, have you heard of the prestige of your grandfather Zhang Gui!" ”

An Qingzhong saw that Zhang Gui had already sorted out his army, so he retreated and ordered the troops to be collected.

Zhang Gui was about to pursue, but was stopped by Wei Ran: "The thieves are all cavalry, there must be infantry after the break, we wait for the army to be chaotic, just retreat, don't pursue." ”

After hearing this, Zhang Gui had no choice but to put down the long knife in his hand and scolded: "It's a shame that the camp was attacked today!" ”

Wei Ran was noncommittal, but just asked Liu Renye to pacify the subordinates and gather the remnants, while he silently returned to the camp.

Zhang Gui followed closely and hurriedly asked, "What are the plans of King Qin?" ”

Wei Ran pondered for a long time, then slapped the table and shouted: "Quickly gather the troops and attack a wave of Shouchun overnight!" ”