Mu Sheng's 7,000 people received the general's order, so they had to pull out the camp and go to Lingxi to garrison, but fortunately, it was not far from the main force.

After a day of marching, the next morning the troops arrived at the station, which is also one of the important grain and grass transit stations, there were already 3,000 garrisons, the main general heard that Mu Sheng's troops had come to replace him on the front line, and immediately rejoiced, happily completed the handover procedures with him, and rushed to the front line with 3,000 men and horses to get military merits......

Acting like this, Mu Sheng scratched his head, and he didn't know what to say, he looked back at Yan Kun, the second-in-command in the army, also with a depressed expression, he seemed to have long known that he would definitely not be able to get any decent military merits by following this master. It is destined to be the fate of following the army to fight soy sauce, anyway, the current situation is better than watching on the front line.

Mu Sheng had nothing to do, walked around the barracks a few times, and felt that the defense was still a little rudimentary, so he called Feng Wei and ordered: "Feng Sima, you bring someone to cut some nearby wood to strengthen the camp and dig a trench." ”

"No." Marching Sima Feng Wei took the order and left.

Anyway, there are too many trees in this place to count, but it can be built vigorously, Mu Sheng estimates that this battle is only a siege of Yucheng and not a fight, and it may take several months, just wait for the grain and grass to be almost exhausted, and then you can return smoothly again.

However, as far as the city defense of Yucheng is concerned, Mu Sheng observed for a long time, the cliffs on all sides, there is only one path leading to the top of the mountain, which is comparable to the Diaoyu City where the god broke the whip in later generations.

But the grain and grass of the Jin army is only enough to support more than five months of operations, presumably the southern barbarian defenders in the city are also aware of the situation of the Jin army, Mu Sheng has also heard of the experience of attacking this city in the past, and the three times he came to besiege Yucheng was to encircle the point to send reinforcements, and after eliminating a lot of mountain puppet troops, he hastily withdrew his troops, and it was unthinkable to take this city.

In the evening, after arranging the soldiers to take turns on duty, Mu Sheng went to rest in the camp tent, and the day after tomorrow, there will be several grain ships passing through Lingxi, and then you have to be on guard.

A few days later, three grain ships were showing at the source of the river, and it was not until the grain ships came to the vicinity of the garrison that they slowly stopped, and the soldiers on the boats rowed a small boat to unload a part of the grain and grass from the grain ship and transported it to Mu Sheng's camp, and after they came ashore, they sent a grain transport team to transport grain and grass to the main force.

At this moment, the scout broke into the camp and reported: "Report! Captain Qiyu, fifteen miles to the south and fifteen miles to the east, a large number of unknown enemy troops were found marching towards us. ”

When Mu Sheng heard this, he stood up and said with a serious face: "Can you see clearly?" How many people are there? ”

The scout said: "Captain Qiyu, his subordinates don't dare to get too close, it looks like there are about 10,000 people from a distance. ”

Mu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, there were 7,000 people under his hands, and he was backed by the fortified camp, and he was not afraid of who came from the other side.

Thinking of this, Mu Sheng still didn't feel at ease and ordered: "I'm exploring." ”

"No." The scout was commanded to ride away.

Mu Sheng opened the camp tent and summoned the generals to be on alert immediately, and the camp immediately began to act, and the soldiers put down what they were doing and took up their weapons and gathered outside the camp, waiting for our army to line up in a phalanx and prepare to meet the battle.

The enemy army has also slowly emerged from the dense forest, Mu Sheng climbed the watchtower to take a look from afar, and gasped, this shadow is at least no less than 20,000 horses.

Mu Sheng said in his heart, isn't it true that the main force of the mountain puppet is pressed near Yucheng? How is it possible that there are so many people who come to intercept the grain road?

After the enemy army approached, he saw clearly that it was the old enemy, the former people he had seen in Yuejun back then, and he had a bad feeling in his heart......

Mu Sheng immediately summoned the scouts and ordered: "Break out of the encirclement, and immediately report the military situation here to General Deng of the Left Route Army, quickly, immediately." ”

The scouts took the order and left, and Mu Sheng sent three waves of scouts in one go, hoping that the main force could receive the news!

The enemy's horn sounded, and the two wings of the former army slowly moved and began to encircle this small Jin army, at this time there were only 3,000 troops outside the camp, Mu Sheng stood on the watchtower to observe the enemy army, only to see that the enemy army sent a team of men and horses to occupy a hill, and there were vaguely a few people standing on the top of the hill and also observing their camp.

Mu Sheng speculated that he was probably a commander of the enemy generals.

Seeing this, Mu Sheng immediately ordered the brothers in the camp to enter the camp and hide, he estimated that the opposite side should not know how many people there were on his side, and when it was really time for the hand-to-hand battle, he gave them a big surprise.

If the enemy knew that there were 7,000 people here, they should have sent additional troops to eat the Jin army and cut off the grain route, but the Jin army's grain route was not only the one where Mu Sheng was stationed, but also two grain routes were constantly sending supplies to the front-line army.

At this moment, the first Nanban general on the top of the mountain drew his sword and swung it forward, and suddenly the people of the former tribe rushed towards the Jin army camp with a roar of swords and shields like a tide.

At this time, Mu Sheng shouted to the watchtower: "Yan Kun, Feng Wei, our army must not take the initiative to attack, first stick to the camp." ”

The two agreed, their eyes were full of war, and it was finally their turn to make meritorious contributions, and there were many people on the other side.

As soon as the marquis Yan Kun waved his hand, the crossbowmen hidden in the camp immediately stood up and greeted the enemy arrows rushing forward, and the offensive of the former tribesmen was immediately stagnant.

Mu Sheng stood on the watchtower and couldn't help but secretly praise, this Jin army's arrow array is really powerful, it is a three-stage attack method, the first row of strong crossbows squats down to load arrows, the second row continues to shoot, and then loads the arrows, and the third row then gets up and shoots, the coordination is perfect, it can be said that the arrows are raining down, and the enemy takes a lot of money every step forward.

The enemy soldiers were shot down in rows like mowing grass, but they did not rush in front of the Jin army.

Finally, the enemy was able to storm in front of them with the superiority of numbers, but they were greeted by the sharp Changge of a thousand heavy infantry and the sharp blades of the axemen.

Mu Sheng ordered the troops to rotate into two shifts on the battlefield, and left two thousand reserves in the rear army to maintain the state of the Jin army's combat strength at its peak.

After shouting and killing, the two armies fought for an hour, and the enemy finally dropped the body of a temporary retreat, and now the enemy finally realized that the Jin army was far more than these people, and it seemed that it was still the elite troops of the Jin army, the enemy obviously did not expect this, and wanted to break down the Jin army camp with numerical superiority, but they did not succeed, but suffered heavy losses.

Mu Sheng saw that they were retreating, so he also ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, and the troops withdrew to the camp, so he didn't use the defensive advantage of the camp to consume them, the enemy really wanted to gnaw down at any cost, and it was estimated that their losses were not small.

Mu Sheng sighed in his heart, thanks to the whim at that time, he strengthened the defense of the camp, which gave him the confidence to hold on.

Mu Sheng carefully reviewed his own advantages in his heart, the military camp does not occupy an advantageous area, and it cannot be condescending, but there is no shortage of water sources with the back of the river, and there is no shortage of grain and grass baggage, originally this is a grain and grass transfer station, the only thing he is afraid of is that the other party will attack by water, cut off the water flow in the upstream, and then use water instead of soldiers to destroy their own camps, then it is really cold, and the gods can't stop it.

However, it is absolutely not enough to use water to attack them, which requires a large number of manpower and engineering troops to build a dam upstream, and it also takes time, and it is generally a large-scale battle of more than 100,000 people to consider this method, and now the enemy army can only take their own camp.

In the evening, Mu Sheng saw that there was no movement on the other side, so he called Feng Wei and Yan Kun to come to the Chinese army's big tent to discuss countermeasures, and after a bloody battle, Yan Kun still looked very energetic, without the slightest tiredness.

Mu Sheng said: "Yan Kun, do you have any views on today's enemy army?" ”

Yan Kun carefully reviewed today's battle and said: "Back to Lieutenant, I just think they want to take our army's position in a hurry, so they charged our camp at any cost today. ”

Feng Wei also said with a serious face: "Your Majesty, I suspect that there may be something wrong with the main army, I think it is very likely that the mountain puppets will use themselves as bait and want to join forces with the former clan to completely eat our army." ”

Mu Sheng was puzzled: "Won't it?" The main force of the mountain puppet Yucheng is 70,000 or 80,000 people if the defenders in the city are full, if they join forces with the people of the past to eat our army, the people of the past must prepare at least 200,000 horses to achieve it, which is basically equivalent to pouring out of the nest for the people of the past people, will the people of the past be so reckless at all costs? ”

Feng Wei was also a little skeptical when he heard this: "What the general said is that even if it is to help people, it is not such a help, what major benefits can the mountain puppet people come up with before they can say that the people of the former clan are acting like this?" ”

Yan Kun said: "Feng Sima is right, unless the brains of the former clan are caught by the door, they will fight our army so hard at any cost. ”

Several people discussed for a long time and didn't come up with a reason, so they simply came to block it, covered it with water, and then divided labor and cooperation tomorrow.

Yan Kun commanded the troops outside the camp, Feng Wei commanded the troops in the camp, and Mu Sheng still stood on the watchtower to take charge of the overall situation and observe the enemy's situation at any time to deal with tomorrow's battle.

In the early morning of the next day, the enemy army was indeed pressed into battle again, but this time a strange device appeared in the enemy camp, a wooden plank tied together with wood like a raft, row after row like a huge shield wooden wall, slowly approaching his own camp.

Followed by a group of soldiers, Feng Wei saw this situation, and gave an order to shoot arrows like locusts at the enemy formation, and sure enough, his own arrows could not penetrate the thick planks, and the enemy saw this situation and pushed forward even harder.

Seeing this, Feng Wei sneered, waved his hand and shouted, "The crossbowmen in the camp obey the order and shoot towards the sky." ”

Under an order, the Jin army's arrow rain was thrown down, and the barbarians holding the shield behind the wooden shield fell down with another wail, and the arrows thrown and the downward impact potential energy would actually be more powerful and penetrating, and sometimes even the shield could not be prevented.

Even so, the barbarians' casualty in this way was much smaller than before, and they would not be put down in rows.

Seeing this, Feng Wei ordered and shouted, "The crossbowmen are ready to release the rockets." ”

For a while, like locusts in the Jin camp, a row of rockets flew out, and the giant shields of those barbarians slowly advancing were burned into bonfires.

However, the barbarians still relied on this defense to approach the Jin army camp, and the drums and trumpets in the former army formation were everywhere, and the southern barbarian soldiers roared and rushed up around the giant shield.

Seeing this, Mu Sheng admired the brains and execution of these people, and actually made this crude temporary siege machine overnight.