and Yuanping County, Yanmen County.

Lu Zhi, who was sitting in the middle army to supervise the siege of the city, did not know that he had been regarded as a great enemy by the lord of the desert Tan Shihuai at this time.

But even if he knew, he would disagree, wouldn't it be sooner or later?

What's more, he has long regarded the other party as a great enemy!

Since last year, Tanshi Huai led the army into the Kou, and he judged that the Han Dynasty would continue to fight with this grassland hero in the future.

And what Lu Zhi is doing now is the necessary preparation for confronting this great enemy in the near future.

Just like at this moment, watching his subordinates command the army of the Han people to attack the city defended by the Han people......

It is not Lu Zhi who is currently commanding the siege, and it is not even his idea to launch the siege itself.

He only temporarily handed over the command of the whole army to Ding Yuan, the deputy lieutenant, before the army reached Yuanping.

The purpose of this is naturally to test the ability of his subordinates, of course, the premise is that with the current strength of his own side, there is no suspense to win Yuan Ping.

However, the results of this examination made him very dissatisfied!

Looking at his own soldiers who fell down from time to time at the head of the city, Lu Zhi's brows became tighter and tighter, causing Ding Yuan, who was commanding and giving orders on the side, to be a little unconfident......

Originally, he thought that he had done a good job, and he only used a small number of troops to suppress the defenders all the time, and now he has successfully attacked the city, even if he can't break the city today, but at most three days ......, no, at most two days, he can recover Pingxian!

Even Ding Yuan thought about it, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, as long as the defenders showed more fatigue, he would personally lead the troops to attack the city, and then break the defenders' defenses in one fell swoop.

This idea naturally stems from Ding Yuan's confidence in his own martial arts.

What kind of Lu Bu has been praised by Lu Zhonglang in public many times, it is said that he is brave, but he has always been secretly unconvinced, if he wasn't busy quelling the rebellion now, he would have gone to him to teach him a high level!

But when he looked at Lu Zhonglang's expression with his spare eyes, and found that his Confucian general's boss didn't seem to be satisfied with the result of the battle, Ding Yuan helplessly thought to himself, how could he be such a difficult boss......

Ding Yuan's mental activities, Lu Zhi could probably guess, but he scoffed.

In Lu Zhi's view, these operations of Deputy Lieutenant Ding are just for the sake of showing operations, and they are completely for himself.

Sun Tzu said: Soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of life and death!

I'm not here to put on a show when I hand over my military power to you!

Lu Zhi wanted to educate Ding Yuan like this at this time, but he couldn't help it, not only did it not work well, but it would also hurt the morale of the soldiers and his prestige.

After all, the soldiers below don't know so much, they will only know that they have worked so hard to achieve results, but they are still reprimanded by the general......

However, no reprimand does not mean that there is no punishment, after this battle, Lu Zhi made a conclusion to Ding Yuan in his heart, only: a slightly reckless vanguard is a general, and he cannot be given important things!

Lu Zhi also secretly thought to himself, what if he commanded by himself.

He would choose to attack the heart, write more essays and shoot into the city, inform the people in the city of the crimes of the scholars, and make it clear that he would only punish the first evil, and then surround the three and mess with his will.

A soldier who can surrender without being present is the best policy for a soldier, Lu Zhi has always thought so.

Even if these measures don't have a direct effect in the end, the siege will ease the resistance of many defenders.

In addition, Ding Yuan commanded this siege battle well, but in order to show his ability, he only used half of the foot soldiers, so that the rest of the foot soldiers and thousands of elite cavalry cadres watched......

The rebels around Yuanping had been defeated by their own side before, and Lu Zhi also ordered the scouts to expand the detection range to fifty miles, so there would be no reinforcements for the Yuanping rebels in a short period of time, so wouldn't it be a waste to put these excess military forces in the rear?

Although the cavalry can't attack the city, they can dismount and provide arrows under the city, and if the remaining foot soldiers are sent to the other side of the city wall to feint, they can also contain some of the defenders, so that their losses will be much smaller.

And this Ding Jianyang didn't care about the life or death of the soldiers in order to show his talents......

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West of Akiti Castle in the Western Regions.

Li Dao led the grain convoy along the Tianshan Mountains.

Although it is approaching March and the weather is getting warmer elsewhere, the peaks of the Tien Shan Mountains are still covered with snow.

Only some of the snow at the lower elevations melted slightly, and the snow water was left along the high places, making the road a little muddy, which also caused Li Wei's army to travel at a further reduced speed.

In fact, there is a Tianshan Mountain separated from Wusun Kingdom, of course, now it is not called Tianshan, the Han Dynasty called Tianshan Mountain as North Mountain, Kunlun Mountain as South Mountain.

Continue to travel west for two days, out of the North Mountain Pass, it is very close to the border of Dawan, and it is only ten days away from the lord's westward expedition camp.

The whole grain transportation team naturally knows the current position, so no matter how difficult it is, they grit their teeth and persist.

At first, the miscellaneous people were worried that someone would rob the grain, but most of the trip had passed without any abnormality, and naturally they all let go of their uneasy hearts.

But Li Wei knew that the last part of the journey was the most dangerous, or rather, these days were the most dangerous!

For this reason, Li Dao has quietly arranged for the sentry to expand the detection range to fifty miles, so that when the enemy army is attacking, he can give himself more time to prepare.

"Captain, the road here is slippery and muddy, do you want the brothers to rest?"

Li Heng and Hu Feng walked over to ask in the snow.

They are not only Li Dao's relatives, a cousin and a nephew, but also Li Dao's personal guards.

"Don't stop for the time being, tell the people that if you get tired, you can slow down a little faster, but you must not stop! In addition, let our sons save some energy and prepare for themselves. ”

Li Wei replied without thinking.

He had a feeling that maybe the enemy was coming today......

Of course, Li Dao's judgment has no basis, it is purely his own feelings accumulated over the years, so he just let the two of them secretly order silently.

Sure enough, the grain transport team dragged mud and water for another half an hour, and the scouts in front and rear came to report back, and found a large number of foreign cavalry rushing to attack, and they would arrive in about a stick of incense!

"The whole army immediately formed a chariot formation on the spot, hung the iron cable under it, and the government soldiers took out the ordnance in the car and prepared to meet it!"

When Li Dao heard the scout's report, he loudly issued a military order, ignoring the panicked look of the people, and after a few breaths, the voice still echoed in the northern mountain.

Li Wei issued a military order and summoned Li Heng and Hu Feng to assign tasks to them individually.

He asked Li Heng to lead the law enforcement team to control the panicked people, and let them help arrange and reinforce the car formation, and kill those who rebelled on the spot.

Then he asked Hu Feng to take out the thistles from the last few baggage carts and throw them around the outside of the chariot formation a few times to block the first wave of cavalry impact.

In the end, Li Dao personally arranged a circle formation in the chariot array, with spear foot soldiers and heavy shield soldiers outside, crossbowmen included, and as for the horses and camels pulling the carts, they were all placed outside the chariot formation to block the way.

That's right, in the face of the fierce foreign army, Li Dao didn't want to escape from the beginning, but wanted to face a wave!