"Hit!"

With a loud roar from Yuan Yong, the Hanzhong soldiers who were attacking Wanshan on their backs had not yet reached the mountainside, and they were severely attacked by the ambush soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and after a burst of arrows and stones, they retreated to the foot of the mountain with heavy casualties, and continued to retreat westward......

"The rebel army is defeated, the rebel army is defeated!"

Thousands of people who had been ordered to camp on the Wanshan Trail for defense held banners and cheered, and Wang's army's plan to approach Xiangyang from the west was frustrated.

But they didn't dare to chase deeply, who knows if this defeated Hanzhong soldier will come to lure the enemy?

After repelling the enemy soldiers, Yuan Yong ran to the mountain to report the results of the battle to Heifu, the generalissimo of the Northern Expeditionary Army, who was close to this place, and muttered:

"Gongwei is really easy, just guard Xiangyang City and watch the play, the enemy can't cross the river, can't get close to the city, and can't go up to Wanshang, there is nothing to do with him."

Heifu laughed and said, "He must have complained in his heart, saying that you only care about killing the enemy and eating meat, and you don't even drink a mouthful of soup!" ”

The place where he is located is the commanding heights within a radius of dozens of miles, with Xiangyang City to the east and a small basin in the mountains to the west is the famous "Longzhong".

At the foot of Heifu, the wall of ten thousand mountains stands by the river, pulling up the river, towering, and the cliff is phosphorus. Standing on the edge of the cliff and looking to the north, the sky is wide and the earth is wide, the atmosphere is magnificent, the Han River is mighty to the east, the sails of the warships on the river are dotted, and they are all the ships of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Wang Benjun's boat division that has not yet been formed, only spinning on the north bank, and even the heart of the river does not dare to go.

Although it was reported that Wang Ben had asked people to build a water village in Yuliangzhou in the east, and had the posture of training sailors, the lieutenant was not worried about this matter at all, and he patted his chest and assured Heifu:

"Junhou, the northerners are not good at boats and ships, they are all landlubbers, even if they build a hundred warships a month, I only need thirty ships to destroy the village and burn the ship, so that all Wang Ben's efforts are in vain. As for the pontoon? If the Northern Army dares to cross the river easily, I will let him repeat the mistakes of King Zhou Zhao, and the Sixth Division will not return! ”

Speaking of which, it is said that this area is the place where King Zhou Zhao drowned when he was drowning in Chu, and on the riverbank of Xiangyang City, there is also a temple dedicated to King Zhou Zhao and the two daughters of the same boat.

Although Wang Ben's army was numerous, it had not yet reached the level of "throwing whips and cutting off the stream", and the plan to march from the west had also failed, and it was slow to help Han, so the armies of the two sides had been facing each other here for half a month, but Xiangyang City was still impregnable, and even a piece of wall skin was not broken.

"What's going on in the east?"

Heifu did not relax his vigilance at all, and asked Sima Lao Wu, a cavalryman cruising near the Han River, that in the past few days, the Xiangyang City had observed the enemy's eastward dispatch during the day.

Lao Wu reported: "Dashuai, the Northern Army sent 20,000 people to move to Dongjin Pavilion (Dongjin Town, Xiangyang) east of Hanshui, and build a camp at the foot of Lumen Mountain......"

"Dongjin Pavilion, Lumen Mountain ......"

Heifu's eyes turned to the east, because it was far away, and there was Xiangyang and Da Xian Mountain, he couldn't see the situation in Handong, but building Xiangyang to defend against the enemy was the core of Heifu's garrison, and the terrain over there was full of mountains.

He knows that Dongjin Pavilion is a thousand miles of Hanjiang River in the west, the surging Tangbai River in the north, the Chunhe River in the southeast, nestled in the Lumen mountains, and the northeast corner is connected to the Sui, Zao corridor, and the water and land transportation is very convenient, especially in the north, the Tangbai River is connected to the hinterland of Nanyang, and it controls the main artery of water traffic in the north and south, which is convenient for the transportation of heavy grain and straw in Wancheng and Xinye.

And Yuliang Continent and Longwei Continent, which are separated from Dongjin Pavilion and Lumen Mountain, are the southeast throats of Xiangyang, although to be honest, even if this group of northerners wastes no effort to build a boat division, they are not the opponents of southerners, but this feeling of being choked by the throat is not comfortable.

Heifu was keenly aware that Wang Ben's move was probably not just as simple as encircling Xiangyang and protecting the Shuizhai Boat Master in terms of situation, he must be planning a bigger conspiracy......

These days, Heifu often travels back and forth between Wanshan and Xiangyang, and the more he examines the Jianghan Xiongguan that he has built, the more he feels that something is missing.

The Han River is difficult to cross, the mountains stretch for dozens of miles, the location of Xiangyang is wonderful, and there is no flaw in the first place......

"Circumference three que one! Because the opponent is Wang Ben, I don't dare to let Xiangyang have the slightest flaw, but I don't know that this is the biggest flaw! ”

Hefu slapped his palm, he knew where the strangeness in his heart came from!

In this era, with this kind of military garrison, Xiangyang is really perfect.

It's so perfect that people lose the desire to attack......

Heifu empathized, so he was the coach opposite, seeing this Xiongguan natural danger, if he didn't have the patience to survive for two or three years, he would definitely give up the attack and find another way.

Heifu immediately began to wonder, did Wang Ben not want to fight Xiangyang?

For example, he quietly moved his troops to Dongjin, and then marched directly southward, along the Han River to the south, and directly went to take Yan County, two hundred miles away in the south, and went deep into the Jianghan Plain......

But he quickly denied this conjecture: unless the boat division has an absolute advantage and completely controls the Han River, otherwise, only a stupid reckless man will do that, who dares to let Xiangyang not take it, the Northern Expeditionary Army here will cross the river at any time and cut off the enemy's food route, so that they have no return!

This is also the reason why the northern regime must first knock Xiangyang to the south of the country, and the geography determines that this nail cannot be bypassed.

Wang Ben is a famous general in the world, he will never fail to see this, and there must be another reason for Dongjin's deployment of troops.

Heifu thought of something again, and asked Lao Wudao:

"Since the enemy army has been stationed in Dongjin, the scouts of yours and others have not been able to cross that camp and reconnoiter north, right?"

Lao Wu was a little ashamed: "Marshal, I'll just tell the truth, on boat battles, ten northerners can't beat five southerners, and on cavalry, ten southerners can't beat five northerners." The northern army was invincible, and my scouts could only watch from afar, and it was true that they had not been able to cross Lumen Mountain and reconnoiter the north for several days. ”

Heifu understood: "So behind the Lumen mountains that stretch for dozens of miles, no matter how Wang Ben moves, our army is kept in the dark......"

He looked at Wang Ben's camp in the north of the Han River again, and it was time to eat the evening meal again, the cooking stove seemed to be not missing, but the army in the camp, is there still an estimated 100,000 people?

Even if there are a lot of people here, Wang Ben's subordinates still have 100,000 troops at his disposal, and since this place cannot be broken in a short time, they must be ordered by Wang Ben to start making other attempts.

Heifu stomped his feet and immediately wrote a letter, asking the scout Pegasus to inform Suixian, Hades and other places, but then he thought: "If Wang Ben plans to build a boat master and make a big show to hold my main force here, then why don't I plan and let the old general know that I am really here to play with him?" ”

"By the way, you can also test whether he is here!"

After Heifu made up his mind, he immediately asked people to waive their own banners and detour from the trail behind Wanshan to Xiangyang City.

Heifu also wanted to test whether the Xiangyang defenders strictly followed the order and let people call the door under their own banners, no, they should call in person, and they shouldn't until he asked people to cite a specially made passage talisman that the Xiangyang City Gate slowly opened......

"Well done." When Hefu entered the city, he praised the gate officer and asked him his name.

"Whisper! People from Juan County! The gatekeeper bowed his head, and the black man did not see his appearance clearly.

By the time Heifu climbed the northern wall, it was already early the next morning.

The red sun in the east penetrated the stratus clouds and shone on, Heifu squinted his eyes, looked at the enemy camp exposed after the river fog dissipated, and said to the lieutenant:

"Captain, let the soldiers at the head of the city repeat the words of this commander!"

Shaoqing, the head of Xiangyang City, accompanied by a burst of drums, sounded bursts of chanting:

Tens of thousands of soldiers shouted loudly: "Generalissimo of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Marquis of Wuzhong, Heifu, please tell the old general of Marquis Wu!" ”

"Please tell the old general of the Marquis of Tongwu!"

The echo resounded throughout the Han River, as if stirring up waves and startling the mallard ducks on the river......

The enemy camp on the other side had been awakened, and after a short period of confusion, silence had returned, but there had been no response for a long time.

After a long time, until Heifu secretly guessed in his heart: "Wang Ben may really be gone", tens of thousands of soldiers of the Northern Army on the other side of the river sent back a message for Wang Ben with a voice that was much higher than that of the Southern Army:

"Heifu, my son, above the battle array, is it a place to catch up with the past?"