Sima Yi said to Zhang He: "Although we have arranged archers to watch here, we can prevent the Han army from continuing to fetch water at night, trampling on the road when leaving the camp, and keeping the road muddy."

But the Han army can splash water on the road from the camp, although it is not as good as splashing water while trampling on the effect, but splashing water, the road surface has been wet and difficult to dry, we are still difficult to attack. ”

Zhang He nodded and said, "This is a trouble, I don't know what Zhongda's countermeasures are?" ”

Sima Yi muttered: "You can move forward and arrange a dam outside its camp, if the Han army splashes water and the amount of water is too much, it will be blocked by the embankment, and the water will flow back into the camp, affecting their own passage."

If the amount of water is too small, the road surface can only be kept wet but not muddy, and when the road near us on this side of the embankment is dry, we can make the dry firewood and shrubs carry and pave them on the muddy road near the Shu army, and the road of twenty zhang can be done in half a day, and then we can attack. ”

When Zhang He heard this, he immediately ordered: "Okay, quickly gather the craftsmen in the army, cut down bamboo and wood to make baskets, and then transport the soil here." ”

The soldiers in the army are all from the common people, in addition to farming, they are better at other life skills, 50,000 people, it is not a problem to find some baskets, Sima Yi immediately sent people back to the camp to summon the craftsmen who are good at weaving baskets, but in two hours, hundreds of baskets were transported.

Zhang He ordered people to take soil nearby, loaded it in baskets, and under the cover of shield soldiers, entered the muddy road, and cautiously pushed forward.

The Han army naturally would not let the Wei army succeed, and immediately shot arrows to force the Wei army to retreat, Wei Guoqiang withstood the rain of arrows, advanced to the Han army camp 20 zhang away, poured dry soil and reinforced, and after paying hundreds of casualties, finally built an earthen dam about three feet high outside the camp.

If the Han army poured water from the camp and there was too much water, it would be blocked by the embankment and flow back into the camp, affecting its own passage.

There was too little water to make the twenty-foot road muddy, only to keep it wet.

After most of the ground outside the embankment was dry, when Zhang He attacked the camp, he only needed to use hay and shrubs to lay the 20 zhang road close to the Han army camp, and then he could attack the Han army camp, which did not cost much.

After arranging, Sima Yi said to Zhang He: "General Zhang He, the Han army will definitely find a way to destroy the embankment at night, 5,000 soldiers and horses are too few, or leave 10,000 soldiers and horses, if the Han army destroys the embankment at night, it will be shot back." ”

"It's good!" Zhang He nodded and said, "Zhongda, you lead the army back to rest, be vigilant, and if there is a situation here, immediately rush to support." ”

"No!"

Inside the Han military camp.

Lin Yuan and Deng Ai looked at the embankment built by the Wei army with their lives not far in front of the camp.

Deng Ai said: "The Wei army has built a dike, so it will be difficult for us to pour water from the camp, otherwise there will be too much water. It will return to the camp and affect our own traffic.

Too little water can only make the road surface of 20 zhang slippery and not muddy, and when the road surface on the outside of the embankment is dry, the Wei army only needs to carry hay and shrubs and pave the road close to our side of 20 zhang, and then they can attack our camp. ”

Lin Yuan snorted coldly and said, "Hmph, Brother Deng, you let the soldiers fetch water, and after I destroy the embankment at night, I will pour water from the camp and keep the situation muddy!" ”

Deng Ai shook his head and said, "Zhang He left 10,000 archers, and if he wants to destroy the embankment, I'm afraid it's not so easy. And the Wei army has 50,000 people, we only have 10,000 people, the Wei army can divide the troops, and the large group of people and horses go back to rest, and we are all in the camp, once there is any movement, how can the soldiers rest?

These days, the soldiers are busy day and night, and they are very tired, and if they continue to fight at night, the soldiers will not be able to hold on.

Now that the battle is imminent, we should cultivate our spirits, otherwise the Wei army will attack stronger than this road, and the Wei army will not need to attack, and the soldiers themselves will collapse. Right now, with the muddy road being able to stop them for three days, it's not bad. ”

Deng Ai has been leading the army to the street pavilion for more than ten days, these days and nights have set traps, tired, and now that the battle is imminent, he really needs to rest and rest.

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "The soldiers really need to have a good rest, so let's do it, I will lead five hundred people to destroy the embankment, and the rest of the soldiers and horses will have a good rest, if it really doesn't work, forget it." ”

Deng Ai advised: "It's okay, the Wei army must be staring at here at night, once it goes out, it will definitely be shot with thousands of arrows, if you can't do anything, don't force it." ”

Late that night, Lin Yuan led 500 people out of the camp, but for fear of being detected by the Wei army opposite, he did not dare to light torches, so he could only act in the dark.

But Zhang He has been guarding against this, and arranged a large number of scouts outside, and the Wei army soon noticed the movement of the Han army, and Zhang He hurriedly led a large group of men and horses to stop the Han army.

For a time, dense arrows were fired at the Han army.

Zhang He ordered his soldiers to beat gongs and drums to make an offensive appearance.

Although the Han army carried a shield, but on the muddy road, it was difficult to walk, forced by arrows to move an inch, Lin Yuan was constantly around the soldiers of the arrows, Lin Yuan was afraid of the Wei army attack, now here in the muddy field, his strength can not be played, see that nothing can be done, Lin Yuan had to lead the troops back to the camp.

Three days have passed in a flash, and in the past three days, Lin Yuan has tried to lead his troops to destroy the embankment every night, but the Wei army has attacked fiercely, but it has not worked at all.

After three days of exposure, outside the Han military camp, the road outside the embankment has been completely dry and can be walked normally.

On the inside of the embankment, the land within the range of 20 zhang near the Han army camp was splashed by the Han army every night, and the ground remained muddy, but the range of 20 zhang could not affect the Wei army much.

In the early morning of this day, 50,000 Wei troops came from the road, the front row was shield soldiers, and the rear soldiers were all carrying dry firewood, dry firewood, shrubs, and some carrying baskets with dry soil in them.

Under the guidance of the shield soldiers, the soldiers rushed to the front of the Han army camp against the Han archers on both sides of the mountains and the shots of the archers in the Han army camp.

The road of twenty zhang, although the Han army splashed water, but the amount of water is not much, because if too much water is splashed, the water will flow back into the camp, and when the Wei army comes to attack, it will affect their own defense.

Therefore, the road of 20 zhang, although muddy, but the effect is not as good as three days ago, the Wei soldiers spread dry firewood, hay, and shrubs on the ground, and poured dry soil, although it is not as good as natural dryness, but it is no longer a problem to support the Wei army's attack.

After paying the lives of nearly a thousand soldiers, the road finally returned to normal.

"Attack me!"

"Archers give me arrows!"

After paving the road, Zhang He immediately gave the order to attack.

With Zhang He's order, the Wei soldiers rushed to the Han army camp one by one with shields, knives and guns, and bee chrysalis.

In the rear, the Wei archers also shot arrows at the Han army camp.

In addition to the tall camp gate, there were also nearly 500-meter-long wooden walls, which were built by Deng Ai to be extremely strong, and the wooden stakes were several feet deep into the ground.

The Wei army rushed to the wall, armed with knives and guns to destroy the wall, and wanted to rush into the Han army camp, of course, the Han army would not let the Wei army succeed, guarding the opposite side of the wall, blocking the Wei army through the wall, and inside the camp, there were archers who sniped the Wei army with arrows.

The Han archers stationed on the mountains on both sides also kept firing arrows at the Wei troops on the road below.

Zhang He also ordered the soldiers and horses to walk along the side of the mountain on both sides, so that they could effectively avoid the arrows on the mountain, and the Wei army attacking the camp in front of the camp, the archers on the mountain did not dare to shoot, because they would accidentally injure their own soldiers and horses who were only separated by a wall.

A tragic offensive and defensive battle has begun!

On the side of the Han army, they desperately wanted to defend the street pavilion, because only by holding the street pavilion could they successfully take Yongliang.

On the Wei side, the Wei army is desperately trying to capture the street pavilion, because only by recapturing the street pavilion can the Wei state keep Yongliang.

The sound of drums shook the heavens and the earth, and the sound of fighting shook the sky, and the Wei army attacked the camp for only two hours, and on both sides of the wall, hundreds of people fell forever.

Zhang He led his troops to supervise the battle in the rear. On the side of the Han army camp, Deng Ai walked back and forth around the wall, directing the soldiers to defend, while Lin Yuan rode a lamp for a thousand miles, holding a tiger-headed golden gun, patrolling back and forth.

As for Wang Ping, he stayed inside the camp to rest, mainly because he was worried that the Wei army would attack day and night, so the three of them did not all go out, so that the Wei army would not attack at night and no one would be able to stand up and command.

Not only that, in addition to Wang Ping, there were 4,000 soldiers and horses left in the camp to prevent the Wei army from attacking at night.

Zhang He roared angrily in the rear: "Attack me, the Shu army only has more than 10,000 people, before sunset, you must take the camp for me." ”

Although the offensive of the Wei army was fierce, the defense of the Han army was also unwilling to retreat, and there was Deng Ai commanded, and the fierce general Lin Yuan wandered around to help, before sunset, the Wei army failed to take the Han army camp in addition to leaving more than a thousand corpses.

Zhang He's whole army was dispatched, but he didn't expect the Han army's defense to be so tenacious, and after attacking for a day, the soldiers and horses were exhausted, and Zhang He could only lead his troops back to the camp first.

Sima Yi said to Zhang He: "The Shu army is desperately resisting, so tenacious, our army wants to take the street pavilion, unless the whole army attacks day and night for three days, I am afraid that even if we take the street pavilion, we will have more than half of the casualties."

And when I look at the soldiers and horses of the Shu army today, it seems that only more than 5,000 people have been dispatched, and more than 4,000 people have not been dispatched, which seems to be to prevent our army from attacking at night. ”

Zhang He said with a calm face: "The Shu general who fought with me last time, helping back and forth, the war horse under the crotch is like flying, one person is comparable to thousands of soldiers and horses, if there is no him, it will not be a problem to take the street pavilion within three days." ”

Sima Yi nodded and said: "I have also seen it, it is indeed brave and extraordinary, with a divine horse under his crotch and a spear in his hand, no less than Lu Bu back then." ”

Zhang He muttered: "Since the Shu army only dispatched half of its soldiers and horses at a time to prepare for our army's night attack, I will fulfill him."

From tomorrow, the soldiers and horses will be divided into two batches, attacking day and night, constantly consuming the strength of the Shu army, and when they have few soldiers, they will attack together, so that within ten days, they can be taken! ”