A group of Great Wei generals all had their own reasons and reasons, and they did not pursue Wei Yan in the first place, giving Wei Yan a lot of time and space.

Therefore, Wei Yan had enough time to set up camp and prepare for the siege after arriving at the back of the Tiger Prison Pass.

Only Wang Ling, who scolded his mother several times a day, cursed while still having to look forward to the arrival of some reinforcements.

In terms of time, Wei Yan still has some abundance.

However, as Guo Huai expected, the biggest problem that plagues Wei Yan now is not time, but grain and grass.

In several counties in the eastern part of Henan County, Wei Yan did not find much grain after breaking through the county seat, and Wei Yan did not pull his face to learn some "extraordinary means" from Cao Wei.

According to the grain and grass officer's estimate, the remaining grain and grass in the army can probably last for about ten days.

Now, Wei Yan can only do his best to attack the city, and at the same time expect Zhuge Liang on the front of the Tiger Prison Pass to cooperate with him and break through the Tiger Prison Pass within ten days.

It's just a tiger prison, it's really hard to fight.

The Tiger Prison itself is a Xiongguan that encircles the Heluo area, and it is not a temporary defense facility, but a permanent pass.

As long as Luoyang's status remains unchanged, then there is no possibility that the Tiger Prison Pass will exist if it is not repaired for a long time, and no one will ignore the gate of their own house.

Therefore, whether it is the Great Wei Dynasty or the Heluo family, they attach great importance to the Tiger Prison Pass, and in the past 30 years, no matter how the situation in the world changes, the Tiger Prison Pass has never lacked money and food for repair.

This light card, in a sense, is very strong, like Tongguan, Wuguan and other Xiongguan.

To break through such a Xiongguan, even if Wei Yan's army has sufficient food and complete armaments, I am afraid it will not be possible to do it in a short time.

And now, Wei Yan's military rations are insufficient, which makes it even more difficult to break through.

Of course, for Wei Yan, it is not without good news.

The defenders of Tiger Prison Pass were seriously under-manned, with only 5,000 people guarding them, while Wei Yan not only had 30,000 people on his side, but also 10,000 county soldiers led by Zhuge Liang on both sides, carrying dozens of siege equipment at the same time. This is the possibility of breaking the test in a short period of time.

And this is also Wang Ling's biggest headache now.

The defense of the Tiger Prison Pass is very perfect, and there is no shortage of various city defense equipment in the pass. But no matter how sufficient these objective conditions are, the reason why Xiongguan is Xiongguan depends on people in the final analysis.

There are not enough troops to defend it, and no matter how strong the Xiongguan is, it is just an ornament.

And now, Wang Ling only has 5,000 people, and the total number of troops before and after the Tiger Prison Pass is enough for him to be eight times the number of troops.

What's even worse is that the Tiger Prison Pass has been besieged for five days, and Wang Ling hasn't even seen the shadow of half of the reinforcements, is it possible that Sima Zhengxi just watched himself being besieged like this, and just refused to send troops to save him? !

If you want to defend it like this, once the casualties exceed 2,000 people, then this tiger prison pass does not need to be guarded, it is better to surrender to Shu Han directly.

There is one thing to say, Wang Ling does not have such a high consciousness, and Da Wei does not have much kindness to the Wang family. Don't forget, Wang Ling is the nephew of Wang Yun, a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty.

If you really want to talk about it, the Taiyuan Wang family is deeply favored by the Han Dynasty.

Shu Han, that is also Han Liu Bei, although he is not a descendant of the Eastern Han royal family, his Han clan identity is recognized by the world.

Liu Xiu could inherit the former Han Dynasty back then, so why couldn't Liu Bei inherit the Later Han Dynasty.

If it weren't for the fact that the personal relationship between Cao Cao and Wang Yun was not bad, after Wang Yun's death, Cao Cao would also take care of the Wang family, plus the Taiyuan Wang family is now in this situation under Cao Wei's territory, Wang Ling would not be stupidly guarding the Tiger Prison.

Especially in today's world situation has changed greatly, there is also a lot of debate within the Taiyuan Wang family about where to go in the future.

Shu Han now occupies Guanzhong Heluo, the foundation of the emperor is already there, if you can capture Yanzhou, then the emperor's business has been completed, the Han Sanxing, I am afraid that there is no one to stop. There is no need for the Wang family to follow Cao Wei all the way to the black.

Moreover, the Taiyuan Wang family is not a child of the family who did not serve in Shu Han, isn't Wang Chang.

Wang Chang, as a general, can still be reused within Shu Han, not only is he already Hongnong Taishou, but now he is working under the command of Zhang Xi, a famous general in the world. Everyone knows what this means.

Wang Ling doesn't feel that his ability is worse than that of Wang Chang, a clan brother, if he can surrender at this critical moment and help Shu Han open up the passage into Yanzhou, I am afraid that the future treatment will be much better than Wang Chang's.

After all, the importance of Tiger Prison today is self-evident.

Well. Wang Ling really thought so, but after all, he didn't do so, and he was still sticking to the Tiger Prison.

The main thing is that I can't pull this face.

Wang Chang surrendered because foreign aid was cut off and the army was defeated and had to surrender. This way of surrender, even on Cao Wei's side, no one can say anything, and Cao Heng still treats the Taiyuan Wang family as before.

After all, Wang Chang really had no choice but to surrender.

And if Wang Ling takes the initiative to surrender to the Tiger Prison Pass, it will be a bit of a betrayal to surrender, and Wang Ling will still have more or less face.

In these years, it has not yet reached the time of complete moral collapse, after all, Sima Yi probably can't swear by Luoshui in this time and space, and Sima Zhao probably doesn't have the opportunity to kill the king on the street, so well, reputation is a thing that is somewhat useful in this era.

At least Wang Ling didn't want to ruin his reputation, but also the reputation of the Taiyuan Wang family and Situ Wang Yun.

However, if he continued to defend like this, when the defenders suffered nearly half of the casualties, but there were still no reinforcements coming, Wang Ling would not have been buried for the Great Wei.

It is not such a critical situation now, so Wang Ling is still trying to hold on.

Moreover, judging from the current situation, in fact, what Wang Ling really needs to guard against is the Shu thief in front of the Tiger Prison.

Although the Shu thieves on the back have a lot of troops, with a scale of 30,000 people, they don't have any decent siege equipment in their hands, and even the ratio of bows and crossbows is not too high.

On the contrary, there are 10,000 Shu thieves on the front, not only with the assistance of more than 30 various engineering equipment, but also the bow and arrow suppression ability of the front Shu thieves, which can be described as "if there is divine help".

Really, at least Wang Ling has never seen such a dense rain of arrows, how did these Shu thieves use a thousand crossbowmen to shoot arrows with at least five thousand crossbowmen.

During the five days of defending the city, most of the casualties of the Wei army were killed and wounded by these overwhelming rain of arrows.

And what's even worse is that the frontal Shu thief, starting from the fourth day of the attack, doesn't know what's going on, and suddenly it's like a different person in command, always in Wang Ling's command gap, suddenly launch a surprise attack, and in the choice of attack timing, it can also echo with the Shu thief behind the Tiger Pass, causing Wang Ling to be deployed before and after, tired of coping. These are the real reasons why Wang Ling gave birth to those "ideas".

It's really unguardable, and it's a little unstoppable.

And just when Wang Ling was on the seventh day. Finally, Wang Ling saw a glimmer of hope.

On the back of the Tiger Prison Pass, behind the Shu thief, a large amount of smoke and dust suddenly appeared, which was a sign of the army's actions.

And the Shu thieves on the back of the Tiger Prison Pass also began to stop attacking, withdrew to the camp, and began to deploy defenses in the direction behind them.

After about half an hour, Wang Ling finally saw the banner of this incoming army. It is the banner of the Wei army, and on the general flag of the leading general, there is a big "Guo" character written on it.

Guo Huai finally arrived with his troops.

Wang Ling finally breathed a sigh of relief. Reinforcements finally arrived.

Guo Huai led the troops to arrive, not to mention whether he could repel the Shu army behind the Tiger Prison Pass, at least, it should not be a problem to break through the interception of this Shu army and support the Tiger Prison Pass.

But what happened next was really what happened. Some made Wang Ling speechless.

When Wei Yan led the army to set up a formation, he was ready to intercept Guo Huai's troops, and Guo Huai was also ready to break through Wei Yan's interception and support the deployment of the Tiger Pass. At this time, an even larger amount of smoke and dust suddenly appeared on the south side of the battlefield.

The scale of this smoke and dust is even larger than the movement of Guo Huai leading the troops over.

And the appearance of this army directly made Guo Huai and Wei Yan all change their faces.

Neither of them could guess whose family this army suddenly appeared from. This is a force that can turn the tide on the battlefield today.

Guo Huai was worried, this was the reinforcement of the Shu thief, after all, Guo Huai really couldn't imagine that there was anyone in his own army who could come to the aid from the south.

The Fengqiu guarded by Chen Tai was in the south, but the troops in Chen Tai's hands were insufficient, so it was good to hold the Fengqiu, and it was impossible to take the risk of encircling and suppressing Wei Yan's troops.

As for Sima Yi. If he wants to come, he will come from the east, and it is impossible to make a special detour to the south.

Therefore, Chen Tai was really worried, the army that came was the army of the Shu thieves.

But the problem is that Chen Tai led the army to block Fengqiu, and his scouts did not find out in advance that there were Shu thieves on the south side, if this army was a Shu thief, how did it come over.

And Wei Yan's idea is more relaxed than Guo Huai's, after all, at least half of the army from the south may be his own people.

As long as Xu Shu did break the main force of the Wei army in the south, it was not impossible to appear in Henan County at this time.

However, Wei Yan was actually also worried that it was the main force of the Wei army led by Sima Yi who came. I'm afraid I won't even be able to survive the day when I run out of food.

But in any case, the two commanders all ordered to line up for defense, carefully guarded, and at the same time, observe who this army is.

And soon, there was an answer.

It's not that whoever saw the banner of the incoming army commander first, but the speed of this army's march is too fast, and the movement caused by the march is too great.

The smoke and dust were filled, and the earth was trembling slightly. As long as you have a little experience in military formations, you can easily judge that it is cavalry.

And this judgment directly made Guo Huai's face pale, and he immediately ordered the whole army to cross cover, and personally led the pikemen to break off - withdraw the troops.

(End of chapter)