Farmer of Shu Han

"Your Majesty, the situation has changed." When the sun was heading towards the west, the captain of the Dark Night Battalion came to report the new situation again, "There seems to be some movement from the thief Cao?"

Feng Yong was startled, "Have you been discovered?"

"No. It's the new thief army found in the west."

Feng Yong's heart tightened, "How many people are there?

"I don't know for the time being. The brothers in the camp are trying to figure it out. But it looks like there are a lot of carts and horses inside, and it looks like they are escorting food and grass."

At this time, Zhang Yuan, who had been staying on the top of the mountain to observe the enemy's situation, also ran down panting, holding tightly in his hand the telescope that Feng Yong temporarily let him keep.

"Shan Zhang, Cao thief sent a batch of food and grass."

This is... the logistics force?

Feng Yong's thoughts immediately turned.

From the west, they were either sent by Jincheng, or they came from the other side of the Yellow River, crossing the river from Jincheng.

Going east, there must be only one destination: Yuzhong.

Therefore, this small camp is a transit station, or a temporary foothold.

From the smooth all the way in the mountains, to the unguarded mountain pass, to the Wei army's supply team appearing in front of him in such a big way.

This made Feng Yong more sure of one thing: Jiang Wei's conjecture was probably right, and Wei Jun in Jincheng never thought that he would come over the mountain.

Although I don't know what Liu Hun and Chen Shi did, the general Wei Jun in Hexi didn't notify Jincheng.

Or it may have been notified, but the defender of Jincheng didn't care at all.

But no matter what, this is a great opportunity.

Feng Yong thought for a while, and then asked someone to call Li Jian over.

"Your Majesty, what are your orders?"

The headband Li Jian originally wore had long since disappeared, because it was easy to be caught by branches and weeds when walking in the mountains.

His robe was also torn a few times.

Although this family member didn't seem to have experienced too much hardship, he was able to grit his teeth and persevere along the way, which made Feng Yonggao take a look at him.

"Crossing the mountain from the south, how many people know this road?"

Feng Yong asked a question.

"It should be quite a lot. After all, the caravans in the clan come out of the mountains, and they can't hide it from others."

Li Jian didn't understand why Feng Yong asked this question, so he pointed out.

"On the flat land outside the valley, there used to be a small village. In fact, it was the place where the clan's caravan came out of the mountains and stayed overnight."

Feng Yong immediately thought of the small camp, "But now there is no small village outside, only a Cao thief's camp."

Li Jian smiled when he heard this.

"The Lord Haojiao learned that since the Northern Expedition of the Han Dynasty and the restoration of Longyou, most of the people near Yuzhong and Jincheng were relocated to Hexi."

"The ones that haven't moved out are mostly in and around the outer city. How can there be people living in other places?"

"So when the clan's caravan came over the mountain for the last time last year, that small village was no longer there."

Thinking of her own family, Li Jian also sighed.

Back then, Didao was the only way to go to the Western Regions. Later, although everyone left from Jincheng, it was no problem for the family caravan to go the old way.

Anyway, they are all going to the Western Regions!

Unexpectedly, after more than a hundred years of Qiang chaos, this passage was completely blocked.

Later, the family finally opened a new road. Although it is not convenient, it is better than nothing.

Who knew that the Northern Expedition of the Han army would be encountered again, well, this time they would not even be able to go to Guanzhong.

Fortunately, I was able to get some specialties in Sichuan from the Li family in Sichuan, and I was finally able to hold my breath.

Unexpectedly, the dispute between the Han and Wei Dynasties in Longyou stopped, and the Qiang and Hu rebelled in Longxi, and even Didao was almost occupied by the Hu people.

So sometimes Li Jian really doubted, could there be something wrong with the feng shui of Li Jiazu's grave?

Otherwise, how could the luck of the Li family in Longxi get weaker and weaker over the years?

Naturally, Feng Yong didn't know Li Jian's thoughts. He heard Li Jian's words and remembered that there were no people on the official road, so he suddenly came to his senses.

At the same time, he was more certain in his heart that the defender of Jincheng was completely defenseless against this side road.

"Go, call me all three generals."

Feng Yong ordered Zhang Yuan.

Li Jian resigned tactfully.

After learning the real situation outside, Jiang Wei's face became excited, and he was the first to speak: "Your Majesty, this is a great opportunity!"

"Food and grass are the foundation of the army. Cao thief's food and grass are here, so Jincheng must have sent reinforcements to Yuzhong."

"As long as we cut off their food and grass from the back, Cao's army has no food, and we will go to rescue Cao's bandits in Yuzhong, and we will be defeated! This is much better than pinning down the Jincheng bandits!"

Well, this speech fits well with Jiang Wei's historical personality.

Sometimes I like to use surprise soldiers to risk my troops, either to win or lose.

Feng Yong looked at Zhang Yi and Ju Fu, but saw that they were also looking at him eagerly.

"Your Majesty, most of the enemy's grain roads are carefully guarded by heavy soldiers. Now such an opportunity is hard to find, so don't miss it!"

Although Zhang Ni was more stable and suppressed his voice, his tone was urgent.

Feng Yong pondered, "These are just our guesses, how sure are you?"

Jiang Wei and Zhang Ni helped the three of them to look at each other, and finally Zhang Ni said, "It's worth seven or eight points to say less."

That is, there is still 30% danger?

Feng Junhou felt a little regretful in his heart. In fact, I wanted nine points...the remaining one point is for God's will.

"Okay! Then we will rob this batch of food and grass."

Feng Yong nodded in agreement.

Now I don't know anything about the situation in Jincheng and Yuzhong. If I can rob this batch of grain and grass, I can at least get some news from Cao thief, so I can deal with it.

The school lieutenant of Wei Jun stood outside the camp, constantly yelling at the auxiliary soldiers and civilians, asking them to place the grain carts and baggage in the camp according to the rules.

At the same time, they were asked to place all kinds of livestock around the camp.

Someone was in a hurry, and the grain and grass in the car were turned out all at once, causing the captain to yell at him.

"Are you in a hurry to find death?! This is the food and grass for the army ahead. If something goes wrong, I'll see how many heads you have to chop off!"

The military marquis guarding the camp led people out to help, and the food and grass had to be settled before the sun set.

It was busy and chaotic inside and out.

"Lieutenant Yang must have been tired and thirsty after rushing all the way. The camp has already prepared hot soup. Why don't you go in and rest for a while. For outside matters, just leave it to the subordinate officials."

Junhou said to the leading school lieutenant.

The captain nodded, and was about to turn around when the civilian husband who happened to pass by the two of them carrying grain suddenly shook his hands.

With a sound of "Peng", the grain bag fell to the ground, and the mouth opened, and the yellow millet spilled out, mixing with the dust on the ground.

"you wanna die!"

The school captain was furious, strode forward, and slammed the civilian husband on the head with the handle of the knife.

The civilian husband was knocked down to the ground, and blood soon flowed from his forehead.

He screamed, and was about to cover his wound, but suddenly his eyes showed panic, and he stretched out his finger to point behind the captain.

At the same time, he opened his mouth and screamed, as if he wanted to speak desperately, but he couldn't say a word.

"Playing dead? Hurry up and get up and work!"

The captain raised his foot and was about to step on it when someone grabbed his arm suddenly: "Uncle...uncle..."

Who is your uncle?

The captain turned his head angrily, his open mouth could no longer close.

Under the golden light of the westward sun, countless Shu troops poured out from the valley, like a surging red tide, approaching this small camp.

"Lieutenant Yang, what shall we do?"

Junhou, who was guarding the camp with less than 200 people, was the first to react, his face extremely pale.

Before the lieutenant could speak, the civilian husband who was already busy shouted from someone: "The Han army is here!"

So with the small camp as the center, there was a "boom", and many peasants fled in all directions like headless chickens.

"boom!"

Huge stones hit the city wall, and even the Wei soldiers hiding inside the city gate felt the throbbing of the city wall.

Some soldiers who couldn't stand the sound tightly covered their ears.

If it weren't for the strict military laws of the Wei State, the parents, wives and children at home would be implicated, and I'm afraid some people would already start fleeing.

When the Han army stopped throwing stones, a faint cry of killing could be heard from outside the city.

The soldiers of the Wei army knew that the reinforcements from Jincheng were trying to break through the interception of the Han army.

"The old man is your mother!"

Zhang Hua, the prefect of Jincheng, watched the soldiers who were fighting on the front line being forced to retreat, and couldn't help pointing at Yuzhong City in the west, jumping and cursing.

"The old man led the army to rescue, Wei Ping, are you dead? You dare not even go out of the city to respond?"

Three months ago, Xu Miao, governor of Liangzhou, appointed Zhang Gong from the Zhang family in Dunhuang as the prefect of Jincheng, but Zhang Gong declined because of his old age.

Xu Miao wanted to replace Zhang Gong's son Zhang Jiu.

Zhang Gong had no choice but to recommend his younger brother Zhang Hua as the prefect of Jincheng.

Xu Miao, on the grounds that the Zhang family in Dunhuang wrote in Hexi, specially allowed Zhang to take office together with his clan uncle as the chief historian of Jincheng.

Zhang's uncle and nephew had only been in office for three months when they encountered a large army of Han troops attacking Yuzhong.

Zhang Hua asked his nephew Zhang Jiu to guard Jincheng, and at the same time was responsible for the delivery of grain and grass, while he personally led the army to rescue Yuzhong.

Unexpectedly, Wei Ping, the defender of Yuzhong, dared not even show his head, let alone go out of the city to respond to him.

How could this not cause Zhang Hua to yell at him?

It's just that Wei Ping in the city is suffering and can't tell.

When the Han army first arrived at the city, it wasn't that he didn't try to test the opponent's depth.

Unexpectedly, the military general with a jujube face on the opposite side is really extraordinary, he killed the soldiers he sent out in one fell swoop.

In addition, in the past few days, countless stones have been thrown on the city continuously, and a few unlucky soldiers were smashed into meat paste under the eyes of everyone.

It's really terrifying.

Although the Han army did not officially attack the city, the morale in the city had already begun to drop.

The stones flying all over the sky rumbled like thunder.

When some boulders fell into the city, they directly smashed a big hole in the ground, sinking three feet into the ground.

This is a siege implement that has never been seen before.

There have even been rumors in the city that the Han army, with the help of ghosts and gods, performed magic and was able to throw boulders on top of their heads hundreds of steps away.

Every time a huge boulder was thrown, the Wei soldiers standing under the city wall and hiding were terrified, let alone the defenders who were forced to guard the city wall.

Everyone at the top of the city was leaning tightly behind the female wall, feeling the vibration of the city wall, and always felt that the city wall would collapse in the next moment.

Wei Yan didn't surround Yuzhong to death this time, he just surrounded the south and west.

To the north is a big river, blocking the way.

The only way to survive is to the east.

But the east is not easy to go.

Wei Ping knew that after the Shu captives captured Longyou, the original Great Wei was in Hedong, but there were actually three places to guard.

In addition to Jincheng and Yuzhong, there is also Zuli of Wuwei County.

But since the Shu captives followed the example of the Great Wei and appointed a captain to protect the Qiang, Zu Li had to give up.

Because the pseudo-guard Qiang captain of the Shu captives was very disgusting, he directly placed the government office in Pingxiang, which was like pushing Yuzhong and Zuli's throats, making people feel like they were stuck in their throats.

What's even more disgusting is that the fake guard Qiang Xiaowei used some method to make the Hu people in Longyou so obedient.

Because Yuzhong is close to the big river, and Jincheng echoes each other, there is no need to worry too much.

But Zuli was different, it was too far apart, the isolated city was difficult to defend, and was often harassed by Hu people coming from the direction of Pingxiang.

So before the Shu captives sent troops, Wei had to take the initiative to give up Wuwei's territory in Hedong.

Now it is already a grazing land for the Hu people, and there are even rumors that the Shu captives are dividing the pastures for the Hu people there.

Wei Ping could guess that if he dared to go from the east, those Hu people who had become the dogs of the Shu captives would definitely bite him on the road.

So the best way is to wait for Jincheng's reinforcements to come, either to repel the Shu captives, or to cooperate with Jincheng's reinforcements and return to Jincheng together.

Wei Yan brought more than 20,000 people over, and only surrounded two directions, and he didn't need soldiers to attack the city for the time being, so the troops were naturally quite sufficient.

But the Jincheng reinforcements coming from the west made it impossible to concentrate on dealing with the Cao bandits in Yuzhong City, and Wei Yan's anger gradually became uncontrollable.

"Then what's going on with Feng Yong? It was agreed to restrain the bandits in Jincheng, and now the bandits in Jincheng have all gone to Yuzhong City, what about the others?"

When the sun went down and the two sides ceased their troops, Wei Yan was furious in the commander's tent, "Has he brought tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to play?"

Gao Xiang, the prefect of Nan'an who was in charge of stopping Jincheng's reinforcements, heard Wei Yan's words, and could only comfort him: "Maybe Feng Junhou has something to delay."

"Besides, the division of troops between the two armies makes it difficult to communicate and respond in time, which is also normal."

That's what he said, but Gao Xiang was still a little worried: Feng Junhou, something happened, right?

Compared with Wei Yan, Feng Yong, who was young and talented, had outstanding performance in the Northern Expedition, and had excellent skills in governing Longyou, naturally made Gao Xiang feel closer.

Of course, as a general who followed the late emperor to Shu from Jingzhou, General Gao was naturally very principled.

Certainly not because people from the Jingzhou faction were willing to get close to Feng Yong because they got benefits from those Hanzhong manors, Nanzhong sugar cane, and Longyou wool spinning workshops.

Wei Yan was still angry: "What I'm worried about is that looking at Yuzhong City, I'm afraid it won't be able to last for two days. If the city is broken, the Cao thief will either fight to the death, or find a way to escape."

"At that time, Cao's bandit reinforcements will be on the side in the west, how can we wipe out the bandits with all our strength?"

Gao Xiang had a different opinion: "General Wei, without Feng Junhou's engineering battalion, how could we have broken through the city so quickly? Just wait."

Wei Yan snorted and did not answer the topic.

He turned his head and asked Huo Yi who was standing below: "According to the current situation, how many days are left before we can break the city?"

This time, Huo Yi was sent by Hu Qiang's captain's mansion to temporarily take charge of the engineering battalion. His most important task was to guard the engineering battalion tightly and not allow others to intervene indiscriminately.

He knew that his qualifications were shallow, so he always stood on the edge and remained silent.

Seeing Wei Yan questioning himself at this time, he stood up: "Return to the general, as long as there are enough stones, the city will be broken in two days."

This is the actual statement of the chief engineer of the engineering battalion. Huo Yi just conveyed it, but in fact he didn't know anything about the operational terms of the engineering battalion.

"Okay, I'll wait another three days. After three days, if there is no more news from Feng Yong, let's let go of the west side, and we just need to take down Yuzhong City. It will be Feng Yong's fault for the Cao thief to flee!"

Wei Yan gritted his teeth.

Although it seems that the troops are divided into two sides now, in fact, it is only necessary to block the enemy to the west.

When the city wall of Yuzhong collapses, it will be the day of siege, and if we divide our forces at that time, we will be in danger.

Because the collapse of the city wall is only the first step in the siege.

Only when the soldiers invaded the city and wiped out the thieves in the city could they truly break the city, so at that time, let alone trying to encircle and wipe out the defeated army, they might even be reluctant to block the enemy to the west.