Wei County was surrounded by regiments, and Xiahou Yuan's scouts could hardly be dispatched, and he could only watch the Han army move anxiously from the city every day.

Although the Han army was a siege war, the Wei army was in a good position to defend.

However, their morale was so poor that they could hardly go out of the city to engage the Han army, so they could only retreat in the city.

They saw with their own eyes on the tower that after more than ten days, the Han army suddenly divided into several units and headed in the direction of Fanyang and Qiuqiu, which made Xiahou Yuan very worried.

"The scouts of the Han army are now all over Wei County, not only us, a few days ago, before Guan Yu surrounded us, the last official letter from Yecheng said that even Dangyin and Anyang have now been surrounded."

Xiahou Yuan sighed and said to Xiahou Rong: "Youquan, our soldiers and horses in Fanyang and Qiuqiu have all been discovered by them, and now they are passive, if you want to wait for the rabbit anymore, I'm afraid it won't work." ”

"Expected."

Xiahou Rong shook his head: "Now that the enemy is strong and I am weak, the entire Wei County has been attacked on three sides, and the Xiangguo in the north doesn't know how long it can last." The most feared is Sima Yi, if he has different intentions, even if we can defeat Guan Yu, Wei Zhiqi, we must do our best. ”

"Alas, Youquan, this expedition, maybe my father shouldn't have taken you out."

Xiahou Yuan was in a complicated mood.

Xiahou Rong is very smart, and this time he probably expected that the Han army would definitely detect their deployment, but they have no way now.

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, no matter how smart Xiahou Rong is, he can't change anything without the right time, place and people.

There is only a fight to the death.

Xiahou Rong said softly: "Even if he dies with his father in battle, the child has no regrets. ”

In late October, the weather gets colder and colder.

Fanyang, General Cao Wei, General Huan Fan of Dongzhong Lang and Liu Ye, the leader of the Central Army, were in the city.

Cao's army on the Eastern Front suffered heavy losses in the Battle of the Yangtze River with Guan Yu.

More than ten generals such as Lü Qian, Wang Shuang, Pu Zhong, and Chang Diao died, and Zang Ba almost drowned in the war, and died of illness not long after escaping back.

At that time, Cao Xiu had several strategists around him, Dong Zhao, Liu Ye, and Jiang Ji ran away with Cao Xiu, and later the three were recalled to Luoyang, Cao Pi did not kill them, but used Xiahou Yuan to let Liu Ye and Jiang Ji return to the Eastern Front to assist him.

Huan Fan had always been the governor of Xuzhou and Qingzhou before, helping Cao Xiu to supervise the transportation of grain and grass in the rear. As a result, after Cao Xiu's death, the Cao army on the eastern front had a period of hollowness, and it was Huan Fan who organized troops and horses to barely maintain it until Xiahou Yuan came.

At this time, Xiahou Yuan's soldiers were outnumbered, and he himself led a part of the soldiers who could still fight to garrison Wei County, stopped in front of the main force of the Han army, and then let Huan Fan and Liu Ye come to Fanyang as his right flank.

In addition, the former Dongguan Taishou Hu Zhen was given by General Jia Zhenwei, and his friend Jiang Ji guarded the Qiu to respond to the left wing of the Wei army.

In fact, Cao Wei's talents have withered quite now, and many of the more famous generals in the later period are either not famous or not reused at this time. For example, Du is only six years old now, Yang Wei is only seven years old, and Wang Jun has just become an adult and has not yet worked as a clerk in the township.

There are even many former senior generals of Cao Wei who are now Han soldiers, such as Deng Ai, Zhou Tai, Wenpin, etc., who are now senior generals of the Han army.

And even if these people are reused, with Cao Wei's current national strength, they can't support them to grow up. So now that Cao Wei has reached this point, it is no different from the exhaustion of mountains and rivers.

At this moment, Huan Fan and Liu Ye, as well as the rest of Wu Zhou, Yang Ke, Lu Chuan, Wu Zhen and other generals, were guarding the city together.

There is also a Wei army camp outside Fanyang City, which is a horn with the city.

In the northeast of the city, set up a Han military camp, a total of three camps were built in the word Chengpin, and the banner of the main general was clearly written with the word "Guan".

Of course, it wasn't Guan Yu, but Guan Ping.

At noon, the Han camp jingled to the sound of drums and troops, the Han army had more than 20,000 people, and there were only more than 10,000 Wei troops inside and outside the city, and there was still a big gap in the number of people on both sides.

Guan Ping personally led the army, and ordered the general Zhong Limu to take 5,000 people to guard the camp, and then took the rest of Ding Feng, Dai Lie, Chen Biao and several other generals to go on the expedition.

Many of the middle and lower-level generals in the Han army on the Eastern Front were Jiangdong generals in history, and most of them were born in families.

After all, now the Jiangdong family has been cut down too badly, and those who rebelled with Sun Quan were basically exterminated, and those who did not rebel were mostly confiscated from the population and land.

And if you want the family to continue to develop, there are basically only three ways for the Han people in the south, one is to participate in the imperial examination, the other is to be appreciated by high-ranking officials and nobles, and the last one is naturally to join the army.

So now there are many generals of the Jiangdong family in the Han Army on the Eastern Front, basically with the gradual promotion of Zhuge Jin and Lu Xun and others, the Jiangdong Group has gradually gained a firm foothold and began to exert its strength.

After Guan Ping led more than 10,000 soldiers out of the camp, he made a deployment, ordering Ding Feng and Dai Lie to lead 3,000 people from their headquarters each, a total of 6,000 to surround the Wei army camp outside the city, and then he himself led about 5,000 people to block between the city and the camp.

Seeing the dense Han army outside the city marching in dozens of rows, leather boots stepping on a long circle of floating dust, and heading towards the Wei army camp stationed outside the city in the distance like a rainbow, Huan Fan and Liu Ye immediately knew that something was wrong.

"The Han army is planning to make it easy first and then difficult, first break through the camp outside the city, let us lose foreign aid, and then concentrate on attacking the city."

Liu Ye looked into the distance, and said with a face sinking like water: "If our army's garrison is sufficient, it is completely possible to take advantage of their surprise attack when they attack the camp outside the city, so as to achieve mutual help, but now their troops are far more than ours, if we go out of the city to fight."

The effect of being a horn is that if the enemy is focused on you, your teammates will be able to attack the enemy, and vice versa. But now that the Han army is strong and the Wei army is weak, Liu Ye feels that they may not be able to break the Han army and gallop to the Wei army camp outside the city.

Huan Fan stared intently at the outside of the city, frowned and said, "Let's see what the enemy plans to do first, if they fail to break through the camp for a long time, they will definitely be impatient, maybe it will be an opportunity for us to go out of the city and defeat them." ”

"I hope so."

Liu Ye also kept looking into the distance.

I saw that the Han army was divided into two parts, Guan Ping led the men and horses to stop between the main city and the outer camp, and 5,000 people lined up ten small phalanxes in Qu as a unit, listing the formation.

Ding Feng and Dai Lie each approached with 3,000 men near the Wei army camp outside Xicheng and began to approach slowly.

The sound of the Wei army's horns and war drums of "dong dong dong" and "woo woo woo" was endless, and the Wei army on the high oar of the arrow tower looked in the direction from afar, constantly shouting below, and the Wei army on the wall of the wall looked nervously at the situation outside.

The Han army approached in an orderly manner, Ding Feng was on horseback, he was less than two hundred steps away from the Wei army camp, this distance could not be shot by a bow and arrow, at least a hundred paces away.

According to the normal attack style, the Han army needs to use a wooden curtain or shield to cover the death squad to rush to the outside of the camp, and then take a wooden ladder and start to climb the wall to forcibly attack the camp.

However, Ding Feng waved his hand slightly, and the Han army behind him immediately surged forward, and under the cover of the shield array, they only stopped at a distance of about eighty paces, and did not continue to charge forward.

For a while, there was silence in the field, and the Han army was holding an iron shield at the front, and there was also an iron shield above it, like a turtle shell, and this formation was often used to defend positional warfare.

But it is clear that the Han army is the attacking side, doesn't the other party plan to storm the camp?

This kind of question filled the minds of every Wei soldier, because of the silence in the field, they were a little surprised, and they exchanged heads and ears, and their emotions were quite nervous.

"Quiet, quiet, don't speak, crossbowmen ready, crossbowmen ready!"

"Don't talk, be careful."

"Before the order is issued, no one is allowed to release arrows, and if you hear it, no one is allowed to release arrows, and those who violate the order will be severely punished!"

Uneasiness enveloped all the Wei troops, and seeing this scene, the general Lu Chuan stationed outside the city hurriedly issued an order to calm the soldiers, and the officers at all levels quickly passed on the order.

Moreover, Lu Tuo still asked the soldiers not to release arrows without permission, and they must be forbidden by order, and wait until the arrows are to be released above.

This is not to ensure the unity of action of the army, but simply the lack of supplies.

The Han army has reached eighty paces, and normally it has reached the range of bows and arrows, if it was Cao Wei, who was rich in the past, he would have started to shoot arrows indiscriminately, striving to kill a few more Han soldiers on this section of the 100-step death charge.

However, with the defeat of Cao's army and the great decline of national strength, the entire Henan region, and even many places in Hebei, fell one after another, and the supply of logistics and materials became difficult.

When Xiahou Yuan withdrew from Qingzhou, he hoped that Chen Qun could replenish him with grain, grass and equipment, but unfortunately Chen Qun could not do anything, so he could only plunder the people.

Therefore, at this time, Cao Wei seemed to have a total strength of more than 200,000 troops, but in fact he was already stretched and almost on the verge of extinction.

The Han army outside the camp had been silent for a while, just like the calm before the storm, which made the Wei soldiers look out extremely nervously, and in the early winter, many people began to sweat, and the hands holding their weapons turned blue.

After about half an hour, there was finally a change on the side of the Han army, and they began to move forward, and only when they were about fifty paces away from the camp did they finally stop.

Fifty meters away from about seventy meters, the Wei army was condescending above the camp, and it was already able to pose a huge threat to the Han army, but because the Han army was covered by a shield, the Wei army above did not shoot arrows for a long time, and still looked down uneasily.

At this moment, the shield above suddenly opened, revealing the crossbowmen below, and in an instant, the Wei generals above roared angrily: "The enemy is going to shoot arrows, release the arrows!" ”

"Shoot the arrows!"

"Quick, release the arrow!"

"Bang bang!"

The thumping sound of the bowstring kept ringing, and the arrows on both sides shot at each other.

However, the quality of the soldiers of the Wei army was very poor, and many crossbowmen did not have any accurate heads, and immediately squatted under the wall without looking at them after release.

I heard the "clanging" sound outside, and almost all the arrows hit the shield.

Because the Han army suddenly moved, and they were so well trained, they closed their shields again immediately after shooting, resulting in the Wei army's bows and crossbows being completely useless.

A large number of arrows covered the sky and the sun, and then rained down into the Wei army camp.

The generals and officers of the Wei army were still scolding the soldiers to continue to fight back, and the second round of arrow rain had already followed, suppressing the wall above that it could not reach out.

However, this rain of arrows lasted for a short time, almost less than two minutes later, after four rounds of arrow rain, the movement outside was gone, and when the Wei soldiers stretched out their heads to look, they saw that the Han army had slowly retreated.

"They seem to be gone."

"Really?"

"Huh! Look at what this is. ”

Many Wei soldiers squatted under the wall, and after the movement outside was gone, some of them were bold enough to look out, and some came to their senses and looked around.

I saw that in the chaos, many of the arrows shot by the enemy had a small bamboo tube hanging from the shaft.

The soldiers of the Wei army were puzzled, and they picked up the arrows one after another and opened the bamboo tubes.

"What is this?"

"It's like faith."

"Is it a letter of persuasion from the Han army?"

"It's . It's a family letter, it's our family letter. ”

"What?"

The soldiers of the Wei army, who originally did not know why, suddenly exploded.

Although the literacy rate is not high, there are certainly some literate soldiers as well as low-level officers.

As soon as they picked up the letters, they began to read them, and soon determined that they were not letters of surrender, but letters from their families.

Most of the people who could escape back with Xiahou Yuan were from Hebei, and there were many people from Wei County, Qinghe Kingdom, and Julu Kingdom, so Lu Xun sent more people to search for the families of soldiers in various places, especially the families of officers, no matter how far away.

Then he asked the army scribes to copy a large number of them, and then sent them to the Cao camp through arrows, many Cao soldiers heard that these were family letters, and immediately had no intention of fighting, so they picked up arrows everywhere, and found literate colleagues to help read them, to see if there were any letters written by their own families.

Lu Xun collected tens of thousands of letters, copied a large number of them and sent them to Cao Ying, and there must be very few letters from his family who can match and be lucky enough to pick up his family, like looking for a needle in a haystack.

But as long as there were one or two, it would immediately cause a lot of exclamations, and at once a large number of soldiers would gather around, wondering what the family of their comrades had written to them.

For a while, the entire Wei army was in a mess, and when Lu Pan saw this situation, he said angrily: "Give me an order, you are not allowed to pick up arrows, what about the supervision team, the supervision team has passed, all those who pick up arrows will be dealt with according to military law, and all arrows and letters will be collected and destroyed by me, and I am not allowed to disturb the hearts of our army." ”

"General!"

The guard next to him said with a bitter face: "The overseers have gone to pick up the letter." ”

"What?"

Lu Fu was even more furious and shouted, "You come with me!" ”

As he spoke, he went down the wall, cut down several soldiers who were picking up letters with knives, and shouted at them: "Death to those who pick up letters!" ”

This sudden scene suddenly made the atmosphere in the camp freeze, and all the soldiers threw down the arrows and letters in their hands, and looked at the direction of Lu Fu a little sluggishly, with a somewhat frightened and angry expression on their faces.

"Everyone, throw away all the letters, where is the overseer, sweep and burn all the letters for me!"

Lu Pan yelled.

"General!"

One of the soldiers had just found his family's letter, glared at Lu Chuan and said, "This is my family's letter, why did you burn it?" ”

Seeing his unruly expression, Lu Pan glared at him and said, "Disturb my army's heart, and dare to look at me angrily?" Kill him! ”

"I'm not guilty!"

The soldier raised his knife and roared.

"Kill him!"

Dozens of guards around Lu Fu were about to go up and kill him.

But I don't know when, hundreds of Wei soldiers slowly approached.

The faces of each of them were extremely unkind, and everyone clenched the handle of the knife in their hands, and looked at Lu Fan's eyes, full of indifference and hatred.

There were even quite a few officers among them.

And more and more Wei soldiers joined them.

Some middle- and lower-level generals such as Jun Sima and Qu Junhou, who were originally going to impeach them, swallowed their saliva and silently retreated to the side when they saw this scene.

Lu Fan didn't realize that something was wrong until this time, and said in shock: "You can't mutiny!" ”

Before the words fell, one of the military Sima shouted: "Kill Lu Chuan, let's surrender to the Han army, we have to go home, no more fighting!" ”

"Kill!"

In the camp, there was a shocking shouting and killing, followed by screams, and after less than two or three minutes, the sound slowly subsided.

Then the gate of the Wei army camp was opened, and all the Wei soldiers threw down their weapons.

(End of chapter)