Ma Hua and Fu Dingyuan reported to Zuo Sanxiang, who had already met him halfway with his troops.

As soon as Zuo Sanxiang saw that there were only twelve people left behind Ma Hua, he knew what was going on and quickly dismounted to comfort him.

Ma Hua also dismounted and knelt down crying bitterly. Zuo Sanxiang helped him up, "I can't blame you for not succeeding in stealing the camp this time. It's good to have you back. It shows that the enemy is not only stupid pigs and stupid cows, but also powerful people!"

Fu Dingyuan also dismounted and apologized, "My subordinates failed to rescue me, which caused many losses to Commander Ma's troops. Please punish me, Commander Zuo!"

Zuo Sanxiang waved his hand, "You two are not guilty. I saw Yinshi and there was no movement from you, so I ordered my troops and horses to meet you! If there is any military information, I will tell you back to the camp!"

MCA originally thought he would be punished, but Sanxiang Zuo didn't even say a word of blame, which made him even more sad.

"Commander Zuo, my subordinates underestimated the enemy, which led to the failure of the secret camp. If you don't punish me, I will have trouble with myself!"

Zuo Sanxiang patted his forehead: "Ma Hua, know your shame and then be brave. As long as you are not dead, the heavy responsibility of avenging your brothers will be on you. This time it is just to find out the enemy's strength. Even you have to fight to the death to break through."

, now no one will underestimate the enemy and rush in!"

Then Zuo Sanxiang asked Fu Dingyuan about the enemy camp, and Fu Dingyuan told him about the enemy's dam building.

Zuo Sanxiang frowned and then smiled, "I finally met my opponent! This time I went to steal the camp, and I did a good job!"

Back in Luntai City, a whole-sheep feast was held in the school grounds to entertain the 106 people who had returned. Everyone burst into tears of gratitude.

When Zuo San saw that the time had come, he cleared his throat, "General, I have always made clear rewards and punishments. This time, you must ask, why do those who lost the battle get preferential treatment when they come back? Let me tell you, these two hundred people are going

Stealing a camp is inherently difficult. There are hundreds of thousands of enemy troops. Their courage alone must be rewarded. I have always been very strict in managing the army. If I steal a camp and lose more than 30%, I will be punished. But this time, I will be punished.

For me, it was because I did not understand the enemy's situation and underestimated the enemy. It was not easy for MCA and Fu Dingyuan to break out! Of course, there will be dissatisfied soldiers. If you can lead a hundred people to steal the camp and fight better than them, I will fight hard

There’s a reward!”

The three brothers Wang Xiaoming had long felt that Zuo Sanxiang was protecting his calf, so they all went out together: "The three of us are willing to lead a hundred people to steal the camp. If we are not as good as Commander Ma, we are willing to be punished. If we can fight better than Commander Ma, please ask Zuo

Don’t break your promise, handsome!”

The Third Prime Minister Zuo took out an order flag and said, "If the three of you can do better than Commander Ma, Mr. Zuo will never break his promise. Next time, I will reward you with a hump!"

Wang Xiaoming took the order: "Thank you, Commander Zuo, can we and the three brothers attack together? Please let Commander Zuo make it clear!"

"There is no need to stick to formalities in the use of troops. As long as you can steal the camp and succeed, there is nothing wrong with the three brothers leading an attack with 300 people! Just be careful not to be too eager to fight and not to be greedy for merit!"

The commanders of other battalions thought that the three Wang brothers were stupid. Even the MCA was almost killed in battle, and they still rushed to fight.

Liu Jingchuan couldn't stand it. "Commander Wang, you have to think twice. Commander Ma and Commander Fu are so brave and they are fighting very hard. If something happens to you, how will you explain to General Wang in the future?"

Wang Xiaozhun smiled, "Mr. Liu, you are worrying too much. We are not going to die. We are going to steal the camp tonight and we will leave as soon as possible!"

The Third Prime Minister Zuo was stunned for a moment and then laughed, "Well, there is no need to use troops anymore, but you did the opposite. Well, even if the enemy is prepared, if they rob the camp again tonight, at least they will not be able to build a dam with peace of mind!"

Liu Jingchuan heard the word "dam building" and immediately asked, "Commander Zuo, the enemy has occupied the upper reaches. They have built dams to store water. Once the ice and snow melt in the future, there will be no need for enemy troops to fight, and the flood will flood Luntai City."

Got it!"

"So Mr. Liu thinks that we must repel the enemy before they succeed in building the dam! The enemy thinks the same way. The dam building is just a cover. He

The supplies for our hundreds of thousands of people will not last until the turn of spring and summer next year!"

Liu Jingchuan's heart skipped a beat. In fact, the food supplies for the Western Expeditionary Army would not be able to last the next spring. Gaochang had never shipped food.

The three Wang brothers' secret camp also hit a snag, and they had to rely on their subordinates to fight to the death before they could break out of the encirclement.

The three brothers who returned to Luntai City suddenly lost their temper, and the Third Prime Minister Zuo came to comfort and comfort, "Three commanders, don't be sad, the commander of the Shidu Kingdom this time must be a careful person, and he will guard against us stealing the camp all day and night, so

A night attack is not feasible. There are many of them, and we can definitely do it by taking turns to defend! It looks like we need to discuss countermeasures!"

After losing two battles in a row, morale was depressed. Zuo Sanxiang wondered whether the enemy would take advantage of the situation to attack the city. Combining the enemy's actions and cautious tactics, Zuo Sanxiang judged that the enemy would not attack rashly without being prepared.

Luntai City.

But what happened next made Zuo Sanxiang shudder. He had never seen such a siege strategy.

An overwhelming number of people holding sticks and stones rushed towards the two beacon forts in the west.

The ground forty feet away from the Beacon Fire Fort was soon covered with corpses, but the charging crowd did not stop, but charged even more vigorously.

In less than half an hour, the Shidu people launched seven charges. By the eighth time, the two Liang troops in Beacon Fire Fort had no arrows to use.

The Shitou infantry quickly rushed under the Beacon Fire Fort. Liang Jun used the hidden holes left in the fort wall to kill many Shitou infantrymen with spears.

The Shitou Man still did not flinch, and soon the fort gate was broken down, with a pile of Shitou Man corpses lying on the knife cart at the fort gate.

The stairs inside the Beacon Fire Castle are all built in reverse. The people at the bottom of the stairs want to attack, but the sword-wielding weapons are restricted by the wall. The defender on the stairs happens to hold a shield in his left hand and a hammer in his right hand to attack the attackers.

Beat them up one by one.

However, the Shitou people didn't care about the death toll at all, and despite the arrows from the other two beacon fire castles, they used their swords, axes and hammers to collapse the beacon fire castle.

Liang Jun from the other two beacon forts who witnessed this scene were dumbfounded. This was completely costing lives, and now it was too late to evacuate.

Zuo Sanxiang took Ma Hua and Fu Dingyuan to the rescue, but five miles outside Luntai City there was a dark formation of Shitou cavalry waiting.

After charging and killing three or four times, Zuo Sanxiang had no choice but to leave the battlefield and return to Luntai City.

Seeing that the remaining Beacon Fire Fort was in danger, the Shitou people withdrew their troops and returned to the camp.

Zuo Sanxiang was also a little shaken for a while. Although the enemy suffered thousands of casualties and he lost about 200 people, if he continued like this, thousands of his own people would be gone within ten days.

Liu Jingchuan looked at the remaining eight beacon fire forts and expressed his idea, "The Shitou people are desperate to fight. We can't continue to fight with them. We have built four small boats these days. Although they are of little use,

But if you shoot arrows on the river to contain the enemy, it will still be useful, at least it can delay their attack on Beacon Castle!"

Zuo Sanxiang realized that the enemy troops on the opposite side were fighting irregularly. Not only did he agree with Liu Jingchuan's suggestion, he also ordered people to open an extra secret door in the west and north directions of the city wall, and used wooden planks between the city wall and the moat overnight.

A low wall was built with dirt.

It is useless to rely on the city wall to defend at the top of the city. Sooner or later, the arrows used to beat the rocks and roll the wood will be used up. Only by using the city wall to inflict blows on the enemy outside the city can the defense be possible.

Zuo Sanxiang was not wrong this time. The enemy actually used the same method to attack Luntai City.

Having learned the lesson from the Beacon Fire Fort, Sanxiang Zuo did not order the arrows to be fired. Instead, he waited for these people to rush near the moat and greeted them with a rolling log. In order to reuse it, one end of the rolling log was tied with a rope.

The rope is connected to the winch, and the lever is used to control the swing of the rolling log to hit the enemy.

Shitou Man was not stupid either. Seeing that the attacking slaves were knocked down one after another, he changed his attack method.

The Shitou people's arrow array began to follow the slaves and attack the defenders on the city wall. Each time a thousand people fired a volley. After shooting ten arrows, they returned to their own array.

After the archery team of 20,000 people finished shooting, arrow shafts were nailed everywhere on the top of Luntai City and inside the city. All the soldiers manipulating the wooden logs were also killed, and only the Liang Army infantry holding shields were left on the city wall to continue to hold on.

Facing such a dense and continuous archery team, the Liang Army cavalry who were originally preparing to attack had to hide in the Tibetan Soldier Cave and wait for orders.

When the archers suppressed Liang's troops on the city wall, the slaves jumped into the moat and swam over holding wood in their arms.

Liang Jun, who was behind the low wall of the moat, greeted them with bows, arrows and stones. Suddenly, the moat was filled with floating corpses of Shitou slaves, and the river water turned into blood. The Shitou people's archery team reacted and fired arrows at the base of the city wall, but the size of the arrows was not large enough.

Some of them fell on the Shitou slaves who were still crossing the river.

With this low wall, the Wet Poison Man's attack was temporarily withstood.

After the Shitou people retreated for a long time, they brought out 300 carriages and continued to attack the moat.

The horse was loaded with trees and sand, and as soon as it reached the river, the reins of the cart were cut off, and the man drove the horse back to the main formation, and the cart rushed into the river with the help of inertia.

The Shidu people were trying to fill the river, so Sanxiang Zuo immediately led a team to intercept and kill the Shidu people's convoy.

The Shidu people reacted quickly. The archery team rushed towards Liang Jun's cavalry and fired arrows, killing them together with their own convoy.

Fortunately, Zuo Sanxiang was leading the most elite heavy cavalry and survived. However, blocked by a jumble of vehicles, the impact of the heavy cavalry was lost.

Zuo Sanxiang had no choice but to lead his troops back to the city, and the Shidu people began the next round of river filling operations.

Zuo Sanxiang felt extremely aggrieved. When it came to war, he was not afraid of the enemy's tricks or deceit. He was afraid of such life-threatening people, no, they did not take human lives as their own. Once encountered, it would be a bottomless pit.

The fight lasted until the seventh day. Liang Jun still had three beacon forts left, the moats had been filled in, and the low walls no longer existed.

Liang Jun had no idea. The navy organized by Liu Jingchuan was as ignored by the Shidu people as mosquitoes. The Shidu people even carried Liang Jun's arrows from four small boats to attack Fenghuo Fort.

Zuo Sanxiang regretted a little. Although he had paid attention to the Shidu people's counterattack, he did not expect it to be such a brutal counterattack. Calculated purely in terms of casualties, Liang Jun had wiped out about 50,000 enemies, and Liang Jun had lost less than one person.

Thousands of people.

But the Shitou people's goal was almost achieved. According to this siege speed, Liang Jun would not be able to withstand it for the next seven days. Together with the collected arrows shot by the Shitou people, the total number was less than 10,000. Liang Jun

The army's sword is almost sharpened into a sword.

In fact, what Zuo Sanxiang didn't know was that the commander-in-chief Haripali on the opposite side was also very aggrieved. The mindless charge was not Haripali's original intention, but the order given by Wang Olpe, the army supervisor of Shidu Kingdom.

Wang Olpei came to supervise the army on behalf of the four emperors of the Shidu Kingdom. Haripali almost took away the most elite troops of the Shidu Kingdom. How can the civil and military ministers of the country be at ease? So Wang Olpei came to supervise the army.

Bringing the white-clothed guards to supervise the army and supervise the battle, in Wang Olpei's view, only a quick victory can prevent Haripali from relying on his own troops in the future. Moreover, the civil and military ministers of the Shidu Kingdom have not wanted to expand their territory for a long time.

There are so many troops. As long as this battle can consume the Shidu Kingdom's troops and slaves, it will be a huge gain for the civil and military ministers and merchants.
Chapter completed!