Zhu Nao

In the morning of the next day, Han Fengxian, who was ordered to set off, led his troops to the city again.

Ever since he failed to forcibly attack the city, he has been unable to eat or sleep for the past few days, and he has been accumulating a bad breath in his heart.He admitted that the failure was not his fault. Originally, a fortress like Dasanguan was easy to defend and difficult to attack. He had already told Dong Jiang about this before sending troops.However, due to insufficient food and grass, Dong Jiang refused to fight a protracted war, so he ordered him to lead troops to attack.Under such circumstances, it was his fault that he had a bad start. !

However, those in the army hate him, and they will throw trouble whenever they find an opportunity.In the past few days, he has had enough of everyone's eyes and ridicule.Fortresses that he thought he could not attack would be equally impossible for other people in the army to attack.Therefore, watching Dong Jiang send people to the city every day to call for battle these days, but everyone returned in defeat, he was both happy and unhappy.

The good thing is that those fools are deflated, and he is happy to see them being scolded.What's unpleasant is that those idiots didn't have the chance to fight the Yanzhou army, and he couldn't get rid of the blame on him.He can't wait for the Yanzhou Army to show off its glory, beat his colleagues to the ground, and cry for their fathers and mothers!

However, the person he hates the most is not those wine bags and rice bags, but Dong Jiang.At the beginning he joined Dong Jiang's command, although there were various other reasons, it was also because Dong Jiang promised to reuse him and cultivate him.But in fact, those are just deceitful nonsense, don't talk about reuse, Dong Jiang is afraid of him everywhere and suppresses him everywhere! !

Last night, a soldier sent a message to him, saying that if he can't make up for it, Dong Jiang will take over his military power.He wished he could take off his shoes and take a picture of the messenger—no, Dong Jiang's face!

He had a fart!Whatever happened to him was due to that old bastard surnamed Dong!He still wanted to take over his military power. If he had known this before, he should not have been included under Dong Jiang's command that day when he led the two thousand bandit army. He should have beaten Dong Jiang's brains out!

Thinking of this, he was full of hostility, and stared fiercely at the city wall in front of him. If it wasn't that his eyes couldn't breathe fire, otherwise he could burn a hole in the city wall with his eyes.

He angrily ordered to his soldiers: "Send a few people to call for formation." The guy who led the army yesterday went back so hoarse that he coughed up blood.He knew that this was useless work, so he didn't bother to expend such effort himself.It's just that there is an order and I have to do it.

His personal soldier asked: "Lieutenant, what should I call you?"

Han Feng said impatiently first: "Call it whatever you want. The Yanzhou Army won't fight anyway."

His own soldiers were taken aback, and said: "If the Yanzhou Army doesn't fight, wouldn't Dong Zhoumu's..."

Han Fengxian's eyes became more and more sinister, and he lowered his voice and said coldly: "I think Old Dog Dong may just want to take this opportunity to cut my military power."

The soldiers trembled with fright from the cold air emanating from his body, and did not dare to answer, so they could only call for help first.

After a while, a group of soldiers from Liangzhou came to the boundary of the range of the tower and shouted inwardly: "A group of turtles with shrinking heads, dare to go out of the city and fight us?"

Someone on the city tower responded loudly: "Who leads the troops under the city?"

The soldiers replied: "It's Xie Wuji's grandfather, Han Fengxian!"

There was nothing to say on the tower.

Everyone was used to shouting and getting no response, and they were racking their brains to continue shouting, when suddenly, the two doors under the tower opened!

I saw hundreds of soldiers waving swords and spears, shouting loudly and rushing towards them!

Liangzhou soldiers: "..."

Han Fengxian: "???"

He didn't react for a moment, he was stunned and didn't know how to give the order.The soldiers of the Liangzhou Army subconsciously began to retreat.

A few days ago, they had already suffered a big loss under the hands of the Yanzhou Army, and it was inevitable that they were a little afraid of the enemy.The number of those rushing out now was uncountable for a while, seeing each one's arrogance and shouting loudly, they thought it was a large army coming out, and they felt a little afraid.

Morale is the most important thing on the battlefield. Once morale is lost, the army may collapse thousands of miles, completely lose order, and become a fish to be slaughtered.Fortunately, Han Fengxian was Han Fengxian after all. After a moment of turmoil in the Liangzhou Army's ranks, he immediately reacted and began to command the battle.

Under his instigation, the Liangzhou army greeted the soldiers who rushed out.

Due to the chaos at the beginning, the enemy troops who left the city appeared to be extraordinarily brave, causing the Liangzhou army to suffer a little loss when they came up, and a lot of people were cut down.But it didn't take long before the situation reversed.

These prisoners of war who went out to fight in the city fought bravely in order to survive, but they were not well-trained regular troops after all, and they did not cooperate well with each other.Soon, their team was dispersed by the Liangzhou army, and no matter how tenaciously they resisted, they still fell under the blade of the Liangzhou army one after another.

After winning a short battle, Han Feng first made a rough count and found that the Yanzhou Army had sent about 200 people out.He raised his head and glanced in the direction of the city tower, only to find that the city gate had been tightly closed again.

He suddenly felt a little strange: what kind of play is this?Why are there no reinforcements behind?Could it be that he felt that going out of the city would not win, so he threw out a team and then gave up?

Han Feng was baffled first, then assigned a team of people, and said, "Go, keep calling!"

However, this time, the city gate did not open again.

As dusk came, Han Feng stopped making further entanglements.He had already ordered the heads of two hundred prisoners of war to be cut off, and he felt a little better when he looked at the piles of heads piled up in several carts: Anyway, at least he did not return empty-handed today, compared to his useless colleagues. Much better.Going back, he had something to do with Dong Jiang, so his military power should have been preserved.

So Han Feng first ordered: "Transport all these heads back, and withdraw the troops."

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As the sun was setting, Xie Wuji climbed up the tower.

Right now, the outside of the city has quieted down, only the roar of the wind echoing in the valley.

He lowered his head and looked down. After the Liangzhou army withdrew, only a piece of headless corpses were left outside the city.

There was no expression on his face, and he ordered lightly: "Send someone out to collect the corpse and bury it."

His messenger asked suspiciously, "General, do you need to do this?"

It's going to be dark soon, and sending people out to clean up the battlefield now, there is no need to be afraid of the Liangzhou Army's sneak attack.Those cavalry could not attack the city at night.It's just that this battlefield doesn't seem to him to be very necessary to clean up.

A group of bandit soldiers are just prisoners of war, not their comrades.And they didn't plan to go out to fight in the city, the corpses were piled there, blocking the Liangzhou army's pace.Of course, the Liangzhou army would not collect the corpses in such a leisurely manner. It is estimated that in the end these corpses will be trampled into mud by horseshoes, melted into the soil, and washed away by the rain.

Xie Wuji didn't say much, just repeated: "Bury it."

His messenger immediately fell silent, not daring to say any more, hurriedly said: "Yes, I will arrange it right away." After speaking, he hurried away.

Xie Wuji looked at the setting sun in the sky, and couldn't help but think of Cheng Jingzhe's first conversation with Wu Cong when Zhu Nao sent him to practice, and he overheard him.

Wu Cong said that relying on benevolence, righteousness, filial piety, benevolence, and compassion cannot win a battle.

Jing Zhe said, but relying on wars can't save the common people in the world.

In fact, he has always understood this truth.Sometimes I will forget, and then I will remember it from time to time.

Standing on the tower, he saw the city gate below opened and a group of soldiers ran out to collect the corpse.He just turned and left.

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Four days later in the early morning, Han Feng first stood at the entrance of the barracks, looking at the thousands of assembled soldiers and horses in front of him, feeling very complicated.

After beating him and bringing back [-] heads that day, Dong Jiang tried to send other people to fight outside the city in the next three days, but unfortunately, everyone failed.Dong Jiang even ordered another risky attack.Of course, it was just a tentative charge. Without the people, Dong Jiang was reluctant to pay too many soldiers.In the end, the Yanzhou army didn't even go out of the city to meet them, and only used arrow rain and rolling stones to beat them back.

In the past few days, Dong Jiang's temper became more and more irritable, he smashed a lot of things, and people who went to see him were often beaten and scolded.After all, their food and grass have become less and less, and the hope of breaking through the Dasan Pass has become increasingly slim.

So today, Dong Jiang sent him to fight again.

In the past, Han Feng first hoped to get more chances to play, and even took the initiative to ask for battles many times.After all, after making military exploits, the other party has a chance to get more troops.But in the current situation, he really had no time to hide.Not to mention him, the other officers in the Liangzhou Army also avoided him in fear, but unfortunately they couldn't.

For some reason, he had a bad premonition in his heart, but he suppressed it so that he wouldn't think about it.

After a while, he jumped on his horse and ordered: "Get out of the camp!"

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Not long after, the army came to the fortress of Dashan Pass again.

The horse snorted uneasily and paced slightly.

The messenger waited for a long time, but Han Feng did not see the order first, and the army began to be a little commotion.He couldn't help reminding: "Captain?"

Han Feng first frowned in annoyance, and said slowly: "Send someone over there to call for battle."

The orderly felt a little strange.He found that Han Fengxian seemed reluctant to be called out?Why?

But he didn't dare to ask, and didn't have time to think about it, so he sent the order.

Soon, a group of people approached the tower and began to call in.

The Liangzhou army yelled a few words, and someone on the tower responded, "Who leads the troops under the city?"

This has always been the rule of the Yanzhou Army.Every day as long as someone comes to call for formation, they first ask who is leading the army.This kind of questioning is actually not uncommon. Many troops will do this. First, they need to find out the identity of the enemy, and second, they should know who to attack when they scold back and forth.However, the Yanzhou Army ignored the insults after each routine questioning.

The soldiers replied as usual: "It's Xie Wuji's grandfather, Han Fengxian!"

There was no sound on the tower again.

Han Feng, who became a cheap grandfather, looked at the closed city gate in front of him, his heartbeat gradually accelerated, and the seeds of uneasiness planted in the past few days were breaking through the ground.

The wind howled, and the pine forest in the valley made the sound of waves, hula la, hula la, wave after wave.

It seemed like a long time passed, and it seemed that only a moment later, the two city gates opened, and soldiers with loud shouts rushed out from inside!

Han Feng's face suddenly changed, his eyes blurred, and he almost fell off his horse.However, the battle was still waiting for him to command, so he had to suppress the fishy sweetness in his throat, and ordered: "The archers will shoot their arrows, and then the first battalion will charge forward, and the second and third battalions will surround."

His subordinates hurriedly passed on the order.

This time, Han Feng didn't stare at the battle situation any more, but stared at the city gate not far away.When about two or three hundred people rushed out, the city gate was closed.The calm city tower showed that they had no intention of sending reinforcements.

—Almost exactly the same as last time.

Han Feng was so angry that he almost gritted his teeth.

Originally, he brought two hundred heads back that day, and he was quite proud of it.After all, everyone else returned empty-handed, at least he gained something, and he was better than others.However, in the next few days, other people's calls still did not get a response, and he began to notice that something was wrong.

If only he felt wrong.But there are so many eyes in the army staring at him, and Dong Jiang has always been suspicious of him. There are too many people waiting for him to be unlucky. Before Dong Jiang, someone went forward and slandered him, saying that he colluded with the Yanzhou Army. The rumors have become more serious these days It's booming.

It turns out that this is simply a divorce plan!Xie Wuji is plotting against him! !

The army of prisoners of war who rushed out this time was the same as last time. Although they were brave, they were few in number, and they were not elite soldiers after all. They were quickly strangled by the Liangzhou army.

Han Feng first saw several prisoners of war being pressed to the ground, and his subordinates were about to kill them, so he immediately scolded: "Keep a few alive!"

His subordinates asked, "General, do you want to cut off their heads and take them back?"

"Bring me a fart!" Han Feng spittled all over the place, and shouted red-faced, "Retreat my troops! Go back to the camp immediately!!"

He had to go back immediately to find Dong Jiang to explain, otherwise the news would be passed back first, and then he would be chewed by those tongue-twisting people, and when he went back, he would not know what battles would be waiting for him.

The Liangzhou army came and went in a hurry, and disappeared from under the city tower in an instant.

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Xie Wuji got off the watchtower and returned to the house, where Jun Nao was sitting inside.

Seeing Xie Wuji come back, Zhu Nao wondered: "It's so early today? They withdrew?"

Xie Wuji nodded, took off his cloak and hung it aside: "He saw it, and withdrew it."

Junao chuckled.

Xie Wuji said: "I don't know how he plans to explain to Dong Jiang when he goes back. Do you think Dong Jiang will believe him?"

Zhu Nao didn't answer this question, but instead asked, "Do you think he would trust Dong Jiang and trust him?"

Xie Wuji raised his eyebrows, and after a while, the corners of his mouth curled into a slight smile.

He sat down on the chair, leaned on the back of the chair relaxedly, and said, "Then just wait and see."