Liu Xiu's plan was to let Niu Han deliberately defeat him, escape to Jitou Dao, and give Wang Mengjun a fatal blow internally.

Wang Meng's plan was not to support Wating and sit back and watch Niu Han's defeat, so that he could take the opportunity to turn Niu Han's subordinates into his own subordinates.

Both sides have their own ghosts, and they are not well-intentioned.

A few days later, the Western Army began to attack Wating.

The defensive line on the periphery of Wating was completely vulnerable in front of the Western Army.

Niu Han was 'forced to do so', so he could only gather his troops and horses and concentrate them all in the small city of Wating.

Without the resistance of the Long army, the Western Army was even more overwhelming, advancing all the way to the outside of Wating City.

Niu Han is also a fierce general, facing the wolf-like Western Expeditionary Army, leading all the soldiers and horses under his command to go out of the city to meet the battle.

The two sides engaged in a large-scale legion battle in the eastern plains of Wating.

The scale of this battle is indeed huge, 100,000 people in the Western Army, 150,000 in the Long Army, the two sides opened a posture, as far as the eye can see, the crowds are surging, overwhelming, and there is no edge in sight.

The front army of the Western Army took the lead in advancing, and when Niu Han saw this, he immediately ordered the front army to fight.

The front army on the side of the Western Army had 50,000 people, and the front army of the Long Army had 60,000 or 70,000 people.

The battle formations of the two sides went in opposite directions, and soon, they entered the range of the arrow array.

The soldiers and horses on both sides fired arrows almost at the same time, only to see a dark cloud rising from the Han army camp and the Long army camp at the same time, and the two dark clouds converged in the air and fell into the opponent's camp.

In the camp, there was a crackling sound constantly, and there were soldiers in a neat phalanx, and from time to time someone fell to the ground with an arrow.

From the outside, the battle between the two sides is completely a clear clan battle, but if you are inside, you will find that the arrows shot by both sides are without arrows.

Nailed to people's armor, at best, it can hear a sound, and it can't penetrate the armor at all.

However, even if they were not injured, all the soldiers who were shot lay down on the spot, showing that they had been killed.

This is not so much an engagement as a large-scale exercise.

The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, and the bow and arrow array is joined by the crossbow arrow array, and the arrow array is becoming more and more dense, and the number of fallen soldiers is also increasing.

The soldiers of the two armies collided with each other's arrow arrays, and for a while, the rumbling sound of the shield array hitting the shield array became one, and the soldiers on both sides picked up the spears and halberds in their hands and stabbed at the opposite side.

However, whether it is the Western Army or the Long Army, the spears and halberds held by the soldiers are wrapped in thick linen cloth and stabbed on people, not to mention injured, and there is no pain.

There were few soldiers in the west, but the offensive was extremely fierce, and the soldiers of the Long army who fought against them were killed in groups and fell to the ground.

Seeing that the front army was difficult to support, Niu Han hurriedly mobilized the Chinese army to go up, trying to save the decline of his own front army.

However, when Niu Han mobilized the Chinese army, the Chinese soldiers of the Western Army were divided into two routes, from the left and right, and attacked the two wings of the Long army.

Seeing this, Niu Han couldn't help but get nervous.

Even if this is just a drill, a play for Wang Meng later, he really wants to see what is so powerful about the Western Army.

Seeing the Western Army attacking his wings, Niu Han immediately ordered the Chinese army, and the soldiers were divided into two ways to meet the soldiers and horses on the side of the Western Army.

Just when Niu Han was engrossed in staring at the battlefield in front of him, suddenly, he listened to the chaos behind his back.

He couldn't help but gasp, looking back, he couldn't see the specific situation clearly, but he could see the banner of the rear army, and it suddenly became crooked.

Before Niu Han could figure out what was going on, a soldier galloped over from the rear, and when Niu Han approached, he intervened to salute and said urgently: "General, enemy cavalry, sneak attack on our rear army!" ”

When the cavalry of the Western Army went around behind his side, Niu Han knew nothing at all.

Hearing that his rear army was attacked, his face changed suddenly, and he hurriedly said: "Pass the order, the rear team will become the front team, and give me the enemy cavalry!" ”

It's too late! The cavalry is the most elite troops, and the rear army is the weakest soldiers and horses, most of whom are old, weak, sick and disabled.

Seeing a large number of Youzhou assault cavalry rushing over, the soldiers of the rear army ran fast one by one, and hurriedly made way for others.

Exercises are exercises, if you really let the war horse crash into it, you will be seriously injured if you don't die, besides, the war horse will not let you, once you are knocked down, I am afraid that you will not even have a chance to get up, and you will have to be trampled to death.

It wasn't meant to be a battle for the dead, and no one would be stupid enough to stop the cavalry charge.

Seeing that Youzhou was coming, the soldiers of the Long army ran faster than one another.

The chaos of the rear army affected the Chinese army, and the chaos of the Chinese army directly affected the front army, and soon, the 150,000 Long army, the front, middle, and rear armies were all in chaos.

Niu Han successively issued general orders, and the chaotic trend of the Long army was under control, but on the scene, the Long army had begun to be at a comprehensive disadvantage.

Near the battlefield where the two sides were fighting, there were many spies of Wang Mengjun, who constantly transmitted the situation on the battlefield back to Jitou Dao.

Chicken Head Road, Wang Mengjun's camp in Boluo Valley, the Chinese military tent.

Wang Meng sat behind the handsome case, listening to the spies' return, with an indifferent expression on his face.

When Niu Han led the army, out of Wating, to meet the Western Army, Wang Meng had already scolded Niu Han for being a fool, and confronted the Western Army, do you really think that you are commanding 150,000 elite soldiers?

Later, I heard that the front army of Niu Han fell into passivity, and the Chinese army was forced to go into battle, and the rear army suffered a sneak attack by the cavalry of the Western Army, which led to a great chaos in the whole army, Wang Meng sneered and laughed, and said conclusively: "This battle, the overall situation has been decided, I thought that Niu Han could lead his troops to resist the Han army for three or five days, and now it seems that I really overestimated Niu Han." ”

As he spoke, Wang Meng stretched out a finger to his generals and said, "One day! Niu Han can only last one day! Tonight, the disadvantage of Niu Hanbu will become even greater, and by tomorrow morning, it will be crushed, and its remnants will definitely flee to the Chicken Head Road! ”

Hearing Wang Meng's words, all the generals present were secretly grinning, Niu Han commanded an army of 150,000, even if it was 150,000 pieces of wood standing there, motionless for people to cut down, it would not be cut in a day! How could the combat power of the Western Army be so fierce?

Everyone's faces were not very good-looking, and they all said: "General, when the Western Army hits the Chicken Head Road, our department will ...... Will our ministry be able to resist it? ”

Wang Meng was not afraid, and said with a smile: "Our army has already occupied the steep place of Jitou Road, not to mention that Feng Yi led the army to attack, even if Liu Xiu personally led the troops to attack, the enemy army would not be able to enter!" ”

He was full of confidence, but it greatly calmed the panic of the generals.

Hopefully, as the general said, his side can defend the Western Army outside the Jitou Road.

The war in Wating is still going on.

The battle between the two sides has become a stalemate, and no one can withdraw, and even if the sky gradually darkens, the two sides can only bite the bullet, grit their teeth, and continue to fight.

It's just that after dark, the battle between the two sides is far less fierce than during the day, and the soldiers in front of them are all holding weapons in one hand and dry food in the other, gnawing two mouthfuls and roaring twice, so that the spies outside know that they are still fighting fiercely.

At this time, the center of the battle between the two armies is very interesting, the soldiers of the Han army eat dry food, some soldiers still have dried meat, and the Long army is eating fried noodles, and in everyone's grain bag, there is a small handful of fried noodles, and two or three bites are gone.

The soldiers of the Long army were staring with hunger, and when they saw the Han army on the opposite side eating dry food, their eyes were almost green.

There was an elderly veteran, and he couldn't help it, and strode outside.

Before he got closer, he was stabbed several times by the halberd spear of the Han army, and although he did not break the armor, he was also stabbed in the chest.

"Why are you still here?"

Seeing that this veteran of the Long Army was stabbed several times and did not fall to the ground and pretended to be dead, the Han army on the opposite side shouted in dissatisfaction.

"Brother, do you still have anything to eat?

Give me some evenness! Truth be told, I haven't had a full stomach for five or six days! ”

The soldiers of the Han army looked at each other, and a team leader stepped forward and asked, "Isn't there any food in Wating?" ”

"Huh!"

The veteran couldn't help but smile bitterly, shook his head and said, "There is only 100,000 people's food, and now 150,000 people are required to eat, how can you be full?"

We drink mush every day, and it's only today that we made some fried noodles! ”

As he spoke, he took out the grain bag, shook it to the Han army, and said, "That's so much for each person!" ”

The Han army took a closer look, and only one of the slender grain bags had a drum at the bottom.

Looking at the yellow-faced and thin-skinned veteran, and then at his grain bag, the Han army led without saying a word, touched his body, his dry food had been eaten just now, he turned around and asked: "Who still has dry food!" ”

Soon, a Han soldier handed over a large piece of dry food.

The team leader handed it directly to the veteran and said, "Eat!" ”

The veteran swallowed his spit, bowed to the ground, and then ended up with dry food, gobbling it into his mouth, and watching him eat was so scary that he rolled his eyes.

Seeing this, the Han army couldn't help but persuade: "Slow down! Slow down! If you don't have enough to eat, we still have it here! ”

He was afraid that the other party would choke to death by dry food.

"Uh-huh, uh-huh...... Hush (thank you) ...... Sh......hhh

Seeing that the veteran was about to get dry food, the surrounding soldiers of the Long army stepped forward one after another, and asked pitifully, "Brother! Han Jun brothers! You still ...... Is there still dry food, too...... Let's give us some points too! ”

There were too many people coming, and when the team saw that the scene was about to get out of control, they hurried to report to the higher military marquis.

The two sides were doing exercises, and the soldiers on the opposite side suddenly came over to ask for food, and the Han army marquis did not dare to make his own decisions, so he could only report to the military Sima.

Jun Sima reported to the lieutenant again, and the lieutenant reported to the general...... After layers of reporting, in the end, several bags of dry food were sent by Han soldiers.

Seeing the dry food, the Han army was not doing much, and the soldiers of the Long army rushed forward as if they were crazy, fortunately, the Han army was maintaining order, otherwise, it is estimated that these bags of dry food would be robbed in an instant.

Knowing that the front army had dry food to eat, the Chinese army behind them did not do anything, and they crowded forward one after another, and the front army and the Chinese army were simply in chaos.

The news soon spread to Niu Han, and after hearing about the situation ahead, Niu Han smiled bitterly, looked around at the generals, and lamented: "It's me who is incompetent!" Let the brothers go hungry all day long......" "General-" Niu Han waved his hand, now he is very glad that he has led his troops to submit to the Son of Heaven and the Han family, otherwise, the more than 100,000 brothers under his command will starve to death.

Knowing that the soldiers under his command were cheeky to ask the Han army for food, Niu Han did not order to stop it, although face is important, but it is not as important as stomach, so that the soldiers can fill their stomachs, what is it to lose face?

Niu Han sent one of his henchmen to the Han army on the opposite side, asking to see Feng Yi, explaining to Feng Yi the current predicament his side was facing, and asking the Han army to take advantage of the darkness to distribute more food to his soldiers.

Feng Yi met with the generals sent by Niu Han, and after hearing about the situation of Niu Han, Feng Yi was not stingy, and immediately asked people to prepare dry food and send it to the camp of the Long army.

The food sent by the Han army was really a timely rain, and for so many days, the soldiers of the Long army were also full for the first time.

Many of the soldiers sat down on the ground and could not stand up.

However, people did not rest, did not work, they just sat on the ground and yelled and shouted, as if in the center of the battlefield, there was still a fierce battle.