At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Gao Pei fell to the ground, motionless, the other eye was intact and never closed.

Gao Pei, who has experienced many battles, did not die in the hands of the bandits in central Shu, Zhang Lu, Ma Teng and Han Sui, and Wei Jun before he died.

He died from an arrow shot from behind, by his own hands.

It has to be said that his life was really sad.

However, he was not the only one who was sadly reminded, there were many companions who fought side by side with him.

Chapter 835 .840 The Battle of the Five Swords Pavilion is about to enter the next stage

Even Gao Pei, who was in armor, was shot to death by arrows, and the other soldiers who had no armor at all or only simple light armor and leather armor could not escape.

They were shot indiscriminately by the dense arrow rain, and died one by one.

The officers were at a loss, and the soldiers panicked. When the rain of arrows came, they couldn't react at all, and they died in large numbers.

When he was still fighting Wei Jun in the front, he was stuck in the back by an arrow shot from behind and died.

More than a thousand Shu troops died in battle in a blink of an eye, and the number continued to increase, because the arrow rain never stopped.

Wei Jun was naturally attacked by dense arrows.

However, Wei Jun was covered in armor and protected by shield soldiers. Under the blow of the arrow rain, many soldiers were shot because they were too forward and out of the protection of the big shield. Those who were unlucky were shot in the face or forehead And die, luckily only injured.

They quickly reacted and stretched out their large shields to block the arrows.

Zhang He and Cao Xiu were immediately protected by the soldiers.

They were very surprised.

"Their own people are still fighting us here, so they shoot arrows? Are they not afraid of hurting their own people?"

"How did this happen? The Shu people in the city don't want these soldiers anymore?"

Cao Xiu and Zhang Yun said this to their own soldiers respectively.

The Wei army group, which has been paying attention to not abandoning or giving up since its establishment, naturally cannot accept this fact.

There is no winner in the battle here, and your own people are still fighting us bloody, so you start killing your own people and shooting indiscriminately, what is this?

Is this also a war?

Is it too sinful?

To put it another way, people are in a bloody battle, and you, the general, are behind the scenes. It is true that you killed the enemy and saved the city, but you also made all the soldiers feel sad and no longer trust you.

Who will be willing to fight for you in the future?

Can you still carry out your orders?

Who else will obey your orders?

Because of this, when Fazheng raised the only problem with this operation before the war, neither Guan Yu nor Xun You believed that Wu Yi could do such a decisive thing, and thought that such a thing was unlikely to happen.

But he still did it.

The Shu army is still fighting with the Wei army, and you are still gritting your teeth. As a result, you fired an indiscriminate shot from behind, shot and killed many Wei army soldiers, and blocked the Wei army's front, but more importantly, the armor rate is very low. soldiers of the Shu army.

They seldom wore armor, and their armor was not as good as that of Wei Jun. They were shot into sieves from behind, and almost all died on the spot. It can be said that they killed a hundred enemies and lost a thousand themselves!

The entire Shu army did not escape, and Lei Tong certainly did not escape, and died together with his personal guards.

Cao Xiu and Zhang Yun were lucky and were protected immediately, but Wei Jun was soon overwhelmed by the fierce arrow rain and was severely suppressed. They lost a lot of troops and had to retreat as a group , to avoid the rain of arrows.

The main force brought by Guan Yu was obviously useless, and before he arrived at the battlefield, he was very helpless looking at the closed city and the rain of arrows.

After all, Guan Yu failed to give the order for a general attack, so he swallowed his anger and ordered to retreat with a look of displeasure.

Afterwards, counting, the Wei army killed 130 people and injured more than 300 people. Cao Xiu and Zhang Xi were unable to move forward and were repelled by the arrow rain. Basically, this military operation was a failure.

Of course, the Shu army suffered even greater losses.

From the beginning of the night attack, more than 500 people from the Shu army were strewn with corpses, none of them survived, and a considerable part of them died at the hands of their own people.

Veteran generals Gao Pei and Lei Tong died outside the Guancheng, and no one even picked up the corpses, which was quite miserable.

But precisely because of this, Jiange was saved by Wu Yi, and Wei Jun's action plan that he thought he would win failed.

This operation was designed by Xun You leading the entire staff team. The purpose was to push the Shu army to counterattack into the Guancheng, capture the city gate, and then enter the Guancheng, capture Jiange, wipe out the Shu army defenders, and break into the Chengdu Plain in one fell swoop. , to establish the victory.

As a result, the winning strategy failed under Wu Yi's resoluteness, and Wei Jun also paid a big price for it, and had to retreat and give up the achievements he had made.

This made Guan Yu very angry, and Xun You blamed himself very much.

"It's my fault. Mingming Xiaozhi has already raised this possibility, but I didn't pay attention to it. This is my fault. I will make a petition to His Majesty, and ask Your Majesty to punish me for my crime."

Xun You planned to take responsibility for the failure of the assault battle himself, but was stopped by Guan Yu.

"I am the commander-in-chief of the army, and I gave the order to advance. If the operation fails, I cannot absolve myself of the responsibility. Gongda does not have to bear it alone."

Guan Yu sighed, and said: "The plan itself is not a problem, but I underestimated Wu Yi's determination, and this point was only pointed out by Fazheng, but I didn't care about it. This is my problem. , Fazheng."

Guan Yu named Fazheng.

Fazheng went out to make a military salute.

"General."

"You are meritorious in admonishing, and we are all guilty this time, but you are meritorious, and this will be stated in the form to His Majesty. You don't have to worry about being implicated."

"The subordinates dare not, this is a matter of the subordinates' duty, and the subordinates dare not take credit for it."

Fazheng salutes again.

"A meritorious service is a meritorious deed, and a demerit is a demerit. What you did was right, so if you have meritorious service, you should be rewarded. You don't have to be humble."

Guan Yu stroked his beard, and said slowly: "But the most important thing right now is that Wu Yi is so decisive, I don't think I will have another chance, he will never fight again, even if he does, I will wait." I won’t get the same opportunity as before, so don’t mention this plan again, and let me tell you what to do in the future.”

Guan Yu let everyone speak freely.

Everyone looked at Fazheng.

Obviously, before, only Fazheng reminded Wu Yi of what he might do from the perspective of people's hearts, but everyone didn't care, and suffered a disadvantage. That's all.

Fazheng was a little excited and felt that this was a good opportunity to show his abilities, so he took a step forward and spoke slowly.

"Wu Ziyuan unexpectedly closed the city gate and abandoned all the Shu people who were fighting to the death. Although he kept the Jiange and repelled our army, he also lost the morale of the army. What is certain is that the generals of the Shu army no longer trust Wu Ziyuan.

His military order will no longer be so easy to use, and no one will be willing to go out to fight in the city. It will be difficult to put it away after opening this hole. His troubles have just begun. Our army can continue to use trebuchets to attack the city. Waiting for him to make his own mistakes. "

Fazheng looked at the battle from another angle, and believed that Wu Yi faced greater internal pressure than the external pressure of Wei Jun. Wei Jun only needed to maintain a routine siege, and Wu Yi's troubles would continue one after another. make mistakes.

That was Wei Jun's chance.

Xun You nodded in agreement with Fazheng's opinion.

Guan Yu stroked his beard and thought for a while, then nodded slowly. The generals had no other opinions, so the matter was settled.

The forcible attack on the pass city could not be successful, it just increased the casualties. Guan Yu realized that he had to be careful not to advance again, otherwise the loss of the army would increase. Not only would he be useless, but he would also be guilty.

The next battle situation is to use fierce fire oil tanks, thunder and boulders to attack without interruption, and bombard Jiangeguan City without interruption, without giving them any respite.

On the ninth day of March in the second year of Yande, the battle of Jiange is about to enter the next stage.

At this moment, the battle in Padang County is also going on fiercely.

This battle was fought on both sides of the waterway, and the attacker in the first battle was the Shu army. The Shu army took the initiative to launch an attack, which kicked off the prelude to the battle.

Chapter 836 .840 Liu Yan Yan took the initiative to attack

Yan Yan never fought against Wei Jun.

Although he had heard about Wei Jun's record, he was not afraid, thinking that he would fight against each other no matter what.

Wu Ban tried his best to dissuade them, saying that the Wei army is quite powerful, and the Shu army may not be an opponent in a direct confrontation. He suggested that Yan Yan stick to Qutang Pass and Baidi City, and wait for work with ease.

His suggestion was reprimanded by Yan Yan as a cowardly battle. Yan Yan believed that the Shu army's logistics were difficult. If the Wei army could not be defeated as soon as possible, it would inevitably be dragged down by the logistics. Therefore, this battle needs to be proactive.

Wu Ban failed to dissuade him, so Yan Yan stayed in Baidi City to garrison him, not allowing him to delay the military plane.

Then Yan Yan took the initiative to lead more than 30 warships and [-] infantry to attack, and decided to test the combat effectiveness of the Wei army.

For the Wei army, Le Jin was stationed in Yiling, with Gan Ning as the first echelon, and led [-] troops to garrison Wu County as the vanguard. .

Guo Jia believes that Yan Yan took the initiative to attack because he had never fought against Wei Jun, and wanted to test Wei Jun's combat effectiveness. For this general who has no fear in his heart, he might as well try to lure him to go deep.

So Guo Jia made a plan to make Gan Ning pretend to be defeated one after another, and gradually lure Yan Yan to the city of Wuxian to see if he would increase his troops and try his strength.

Gan Ning still had some skills.

When Yan Yan led the army to attack, Gan Ning led the Wei army's infantry to fight persistently, but the navy was quickly defeated.

The Wei army's navy, mainly composed of Jingzhou sailors, was defeated first and could not continue to fight. Therefore, although Gan Ning led his army to fight against Yan Yan on the shore, he was suppressed by the Shu army's buildings and boats. Lead the army to retreat.

Yan Yan was overjoyed and continued to lead his troops forward.

In the second battle, Gan Ning received reinforcements, turned around and fought Yan Yan, but was suppressed by the arrow rain from the Shu army's buildings, was defeated, and fled in embarrassment.

In the third battle, Gan Ning reorganized the land and water armies to fight again, but the water army was still weak in combat, which affected the land operations. As a result, the Wei army was suppressed by the arrow rain from the Shu army's building ships, and due to terrain restrictions, cavalry could not be used. So he lost again and had to retreat.

The Wei army was defeated in all three battles. Gan Ning lost his troops and had to retreat into the city.

Yan Yan won all three battles, and his confidence was greatly increased, so he decisively sent troops to attack the city, besieging three and one to force Gan Ning.

Gan Ning stood firm in Wu County, but Yan Yan's attack on the city was blocked twice, so he felt that his troops were not enough, so he sent people back to Yufu County to recruit [-] soldiers and horses to help in the battle.

Knowing that Yan Yan had won all three battles and that he was planning to send more troops to attack Wu County, Wu Ban, who stayed behind in the camp, was very surprised.

He reflexively thought that this was Wei Jun's tactic to lure the enemy to go deep, but thinking that he could not leave Baidi City, Yan Yan was unlikely to follow his advice, so he had to entrust Yizhou to work with Wang Lei to go with the army to dissuade Yan Yan Don't lead your army deep.

Wang Lei was a resolute main fighter and strongly advocated resisting the invasion of the Wei army, so he was appointed by Liu Zhang to come to Yufu County to assist in the transfer of military supplies.

After hearing what Wu Ban said, he felt that what Wu Ban said made sense.

He had always heard that the Wei army was good at fighting and swept the invincible opponents in the Central Plains. How could he be easily defeated by Yan Yan in all three battles?

There must be something wrong here.

So Wang Lei came to the front line of Wu County with the army, and saw Yan Yan who was storming the county with troops.

"General, the Wei army pacified the Central Plains, Hebei, Guanxi, Jiangdong, and Jingchu. They were victorious wherever they went. There are almost no opponents in the world. Why did they suddenly lose three battles in a row? Could it be that they lured the enemy into deeper?"

Yan Yansu came to admire Wang Lei's character, and when she heard Wang Lei say this, she shook her head with a smile.

"I don't know what to do. In my three battles, I used more to attack and less, and I had the advantage of the navy. I first defeated the Wei's navy, shook its foundation, and threatened its rear. Only then was it possible to win successively and push forward. In Wu County, it was not an easy victory.

Furthermore, our army has been blocked in Wu County for ten days now. The Wei people defended tenaciously, and our army was unable to attack for a long time. If this is to lure the enemy to go deep, why would they stick to Wu County instead of retreating? ?Don't worry too much about it. "

Wang Lei thought about it, and it made sense. Looking at the intensity of the battlefield, it didn't seem like Wei Jun deliberately retreated to lure the enemy into deeper, as if he was really invincible.

But he was still worried.

"The Wei army is attacking. It claims to have an army of 15. Although this is an imaginary number, it is not difficult to attack with [-] to [-] elite troops. Apart from Wu County, the Wei army must still have the main force behind. The general advances rashly, and there may be something wrong. The main force of the Wei army is here..."

"Don't worry, I have already sent sentry cavalry to explore the road to the east and find out the news. Once the main force of the Wei army advances, I will get the news in advance. If the main force of the Wei army comes, I will not love to fight, but if the main force of the Wei army arrives. Wuxian, isn't that a good thing?"

Wang Lei felt that what Yan Yan said was reasonable, so he stopped talking, but tried his best to transfer food and grass for Yan Yan.

Finally, under Yan Yan's efforts, on February [-]th, Wei General Gan Ning set fire to the city, led his army to break through, abandoned Wu County, and retreated eastward. A batch of food and supplies came out.

Yan Yan was very happy, convinced that he had won, and got Wu County, which was defended by Wei Jun, and also got the food and grass supplies that were in short supply.

It's a pity that Gan Ning was too resolute and actually set fire to the city, causing him to lose part of the spoils he should have obtained, which made Yan Yan a little annoyed.

"Gan Ning, you betrayed His Majesty in the past, but you don't want to linger on your last breath after your defeat. Yan will definitely capture Gan Ning and present it to His Majesty!"

Yan Yan gritted her teeth and hated Gan Ning.

After the war, Yan Yan reorganized the army and went to visit Wei Jun for news.

Soon, Yan Yan's spies found out that the Wei army's army stationed in Zigui did not advance, and they looked like they were behind closed doors. At the same time, some spies discovered that the Wei army not only did not send troops to Wu County, but even pulled some of them back. horse.

Yan Yan was very puzzled by this.

Is this battle still to be fought?Aren't you going to march into Shuzhong?Why did you withdraw the army back?what is this?