Chapter 15: Brutal Offensive and Defensive

Su Hongdao: "King, the enemy is large and we are few. The Han army is in full swing. It is probably difficult to find a way to defeat the Han army in a short period of time. The only way is to defend the city first, guard it for a while, wait for the Han army teacher to get under the old city, and then think of another plan."

"It's all." Deng Sheng nodded silently. Now he has only this. There are many Han soldiers, and there are top commanders like Fan Yi, so he can only wait for the opportunity.

After arranging all the matters to defend the city, Deng Sheng asked everyone to go down and rest.

"Siege!"

The next morning, with Fan Yi shouting loudly, the war drums were beating everywhere, and the drums were shaking. Thousands of soldiers were neatly dressed and armored. Tens of them rushed to the city with a huge shield in their hands. Then they squatted down and raised their shields. Then another team of thousands of crossbow archers rushed up and hid behind the shield hands and raised their crossbows and shot them. A large rain of arrows flew towards the wall. The two types of troops cooperated very tacitly.

At this time, Wang Yanzhang and Zhang Fei were guarding the city gate, and Yue Fei was in the middle to dispatch it.

"The whole army is on alert, rolling wood, preparing huge rocks, cooking oil, and preparing archers. When the Han army enters the range, shoot immediately."

Under Yue Fei's dispatch, everything on the city wall was going in an orderly manner.

After a round of shooting, the Han army finally broke through the range of Deng's bow and arrows and came under the city wall. The Han army successively set up ladders.

The defenders quickly used the long hook to deal with it, but the Han army rushed forward one after another. Finally, when the first Han soldier climbed to the top of the city, a fight began to start on the top of the city.

Zhang Fei and Wang Yanzhang led the way and kept killing the Han army that had climbed the city. They fought for nearly a day, and there were no less than a hundred Han army who died at the hands of the two of them.

The sun gradually set on the mountain. Fan Yi saw that Deng's army was very tenacious and there were fierce generals to put on the formation. It was getting late, so he ordered the Jin to withdraw his troops.

When the last wave of Han troops retreated from the city wall, Zhang Fei and Wang Yanzhang fell to the ground exhausted, next to each other.

"Brother, how many have you killed?" Zhang Fei wiped the blood from his face and asked Wang Yanzhang with a smile.

"Eighty-two, where are you?" Wang Yanzhang said.

"Hehe, I have one more than you, I'm eighty-three."

Just as the two were talking, Li Tianhu brought people up.

When the two saw Li Tianhu, they quickly stood up and said, "I have met General Li!"

Li Tianhu nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work today. The king asked me to replace the two generals to guard the city. The two generals will go and have a rest."

"Here!"

County yamen

Deng Sheng and a group of civil and military officials gathered together.

"Have today's casualties counted?" Deng Sheng asked in a deep voice.

Yue Fei said: "Our army killed more than 300 people in battle, injured more than 700 people, and more than 200 people were seriously injured and unable to go to the battlefield. The enemy army is estimated to be about 3,000 casualties. Moreover, today's Han army is just a tentative attack, mainly to test the strength of our army. Today's war loss ratio is probably much beyond Fan Yi's expectations."

Everyone nodded. One day, they had to tentatively attack, which caused the Han army to fall down 3,000 people. Such losses were probably unacceptable even a big country like the Han country. After knowing the strength of Deng army, Fan Yi would definitely not dare to attack casually.

If everyone expected, Fan Yi did not launch an attack in the next few days, but only allowed someone to surround Xixian.

In this way, the Han army besieged Xi County for half a month. Fortunately, after the battle in the 16th year of Deng Wang'an, Deng Sheng deliberately went to Xi County to stockpile food, grass and weapons. Now the food and grass that are out of touch in Xi County are enough for Deng's army to support for more than half a year.

"You guys, the Han army has been besieging the city for half a month. Moreover, yesterday a messenger came from Wancheng. Chu had sent people to Zhao. Zhao had sent troops, but was blocked by the Han army's general Cao Tian and returned without success. Wei was also blocked by the Han army's army and was unable to advance. The Qiang people in Qin were in chaos and had no time to look east. This battle was up to us. I wonder if you have any good plans?" In the county government, Deng Sheng gathered everyone to discuss matters next time, hoping to discuss the way to defeat the enemy.

Su Hongdao: "King, I actually have to do a solution with Cheng, Cui, and Yao, in the past few days, and after repeated calculations, I think it is feasible."

"Oh, come on, hurry up." Deng Sheng was overjoyed when he heard this. To be honest, he had been surrounded by the Han army like this for more than half a month, and he felt a lot of depression in his heart.

Su Hong, Cui Hao and others walked to the map and said, "King, please see, this is Wuguan." Su Hong pointed his finger and pointed to a point west of Xi County, where Wuguan, the southeastern gateway to Guanzhong.

"After the scout's rewards over the past few days, we can basically confirm that the Han army's food and grass were sent from Wuguan to Xixian Daying, and once every ten days. It must be the way for the Han Dynasty to check and balance Fan Yi. Fan Yi held a 200,000 army. The Han royal family has always been suspicious, relying on commanding generals and guarding against them. However, this gave our army the opportunity. As long as our army can have a soldier secretly bypass Xixian, ambush the Han army's ration team outside Wuguan, and then pretend to be the Han army to raid Wuguan. As long as Wuguan is occupied, Fan Yi's 200,000 army will face the danger of food shortage, and then collapse without fighting. Moreover, our army's main force is in Xixian. As long as Fan Yi is not alarmed, he will never expect that our army will dare to send troops to attack Wuguan under such a disadvantage. If you have the intention to make a fool of yourself, you will definitely be caught off guard."

"Although this plan is good, our army's main force is now in Xixian County. Under the siege of the Han army, our army cannot mobilize troops to Wuguan at all. Moreover, there cannot be many troops to Wuguan, nor can it be less. If there are too many, it cannot hide traces. If there are fewer, it will be impossible to seize Wuguan. Even if there are fewer, it will be difficult to deal with the counterattack of the Han army from Guanzhong and Fan Yi." At this time, Huang Biao raised objections. This strategy was too risky. If you are not careful, you will lose all your battle.

Cui Hao smiled and said, "What General Huang said is not unreasonable. Under the siege of the Han army, it is impossible for our army to mobilize troops to Wuguan, but I, Da Deng, have troops in Xixian County?"

"What does Cui Qing mean? Please tell me in detail."

"King, isn't Wancheng still stationed with 10,000 Yulin Army? The Yulin Army is an elite force of our army. There is no problem with the raid or the garrison of Wuguan." Cui Hao replied with a smile.

When everyone found out that Cui Hao and the others had actually set their ideas on Yu Linjun, they felt incredible.

"No, the Yulin Army is the last troops guarding Wancheng. If the Yulin Army is transferred away, what should Wancheng do? Wancheng is the capital, and there must be no mistakes." Huang Biao and Li Tianhu opposed in unison.
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