Qian County, the camp of the Wei army.

Xiahou Ba sat down according to the case, with an angry face. Qin Lang lowered his head and was silent. Sima Shi crossed his arms, leaned aside, and looked at the top of the tent lightly.

Zhang He's order was on the case, and it had just been passed on by the three of them, but the reaction was completely different.

Xiahou Ba applauded the case, Qin Lang was worried, and Sima Shi did not make any comments, but it could be seen from between his eyebrows and eyes that he was a little disdainful, and even disdainful of evaluation.

"Here, my military rank is the highest, and it should be my decision." Xiahou Ba put away the order, put it in his arms, got up and waved his hand: "Prepare according to the order." “

"Whoa." Sima Shi meticulously arched his hand and turned out of the account. Qin Lang didn't move, he looked at Xiahou Ba with a sad face: "Zhongquan, this matter is very important, if the general's father and son are unwilling to fully cooperate, we are afraid that we will not have much chance." ”

"The general didn't expect them to cooperate." Xiahou Ba sneered: "What is the general thinking, you understand, I also understand, I can't count on him." If he was willing to send troops to help, why did he have a stalemate until now? Yuan Ming, don't say it, I believe in the general and am willing to go all out. If you are still worried, it doesn't matter, you are the Chinese army, let Sima Shi be the queen, and I will lead the cavalry as the vanguard. ”

"Zhongquan, look at you." Qin Lang smiled bitterly: "Do I mean that?" I'll just say ......"

Xiahou Ba stretched out his hand to pat Qin Lang and laughed: "Yuan Ming, I know what you mean. I'm a little impulsive, but you're steady. Bixia lets you and me cooperate, which is the meaning of learning from each other's strengths. This time, though, I ask you to believe me, to believe in the Che Rider General. Don't you know the loyalty of the general of the chariot cavalry? To help the general ride of the car is to help Bixia. ”

"Yes." Qin Lang wanted to speak and stopped. He paused, got up and said, "Since you have decided, then let's carry it out according to the orders of the general of the chariot cavalry." ”

"That's right." Xiahou Ba raised his eyebrows, hahadaxiao: "There can be a few beats in life." So many years. I've been fighting Wei Ba for a long time. Let's see if it's his domineering or my domineering, I haven't been able to get my wish. This time I finally have a chance, if I let it go. Isn't it a pity? ”

Qin Lang shook his head. Didn't say anything.

……

Wei Yan strode into the big account of the Chinese army. He arched his hand at Lu Xun, and said impatiently: "Bo Yan, the Wei army has pulled out of the camp." ”

Lu Xun raised his head. looked at Wei Yan in surprise. Wei Yan had elite cavalry in his hands, and the scout camp was also in charge of him, but general news did not need Wei Yan to report to him personally. Wei Yan came running, and with this demeanor, naturally something big had happened.

"Where did they go? Pengcheng? ”

Wei Yan gave a thumbs up: "Bo Yan is really a seven-trick and exquisite heart, and he can guess it." ”

Lu Xun smiled bitterly. Wei Yan praised him when he said this, but no matter how he sounded, there was a kind of condescending meaning, and the elders praised the juniors. In fact, they are about the same age, Wei Yan is a few years older, but not to the point of relying on the old and selling the old. He said this, on the one hand, it was out of habit, and on the other hand, it was also to remind Lu Xun that his officials were all above Lu Xun, and listening to his command was just to give him face.

Lu Xun has gone through too many honors and disgraces in his life, and he will not take Wei Yan's careful thinking in his eyes. He was concerned about what it meant for Wei Jun to suddenly go to Pengcheng. Wei Ba was preparing to break Zhang He's blockade, send grain, grass, and ordnance to Pengcheng, help Zhou Yin and Ding Feng hold on, and drag the battle in a direction favorable to him. Xiahou Ba and the others marched to Pengcheng at this time, naturally they wanted to help Zhang He besiege the city, but if they went, he and Wei Yan would naturally go too, and the strength of the two sides was still about the same, did it make sense?

Could it be that the Wei army wanted to fight a decisive battle in Pengcheng?

Lu Xun thought about it carefully, but he still couldn't understand the true intentions of Wei Jun, no matter how he looked at it, Wei Jun was struggling in desperation.

Wei Yan was impatient. "Bo Yan, what do you want to do so much, just keep up, is it possible that you really want to dig the ancestral grave of the Cao family."

Lu Xun smiled, he couldn't do that kind of thing, digging up people's ancestral graves, how could a gentleman do it. This is a stupid thing that only barbarians like Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao would do. Even if they were looking for money, he was not short of money now, so there was no need to do such a thing.

"General Wenchang, you lead the elite cavalry, be careful. I then followed, keeping my distance. Pengcheng is more than 300 miles away from here, even if it is a little slower, it will take seven or eight days to arrive. ”

Wei Yan nodded, turned around and went out to make arrangements.

Lu Xun stood still in front of the map, pondering. He had a premonition that a big war was about to break out, but now he didn't understand the intentions of Zhang He and Xiahou Ba, which made him very uneasy.

……

Pengcheng.

Deng Ai lined up in the south of Pengcheng. Today, he was going to dig a passage through Zhang He's position, so that he could send the ordnance supplies needed by Zhou Yin and Ding Feng into Pengcheng. Zhou Ding and his wife stayed in the city for several months, although there was no major war, and the consumption of ordnance was limited, but the grain and grass were about to run out. If they don't send grain and grass in, they will run out of food, and the perseverance of these months will be meaningless.

The north side of Pengcheng is the water that flows from the east, and it flows into Surabaya in the north of the city, and then flows south together, the water surface is wider, it is a natural moat, which is not conducive to attacking, and the west side is the undulating hills, which is not conducive to the swing of the large army, and only the south of the city can launch a frontal attack. Zhang He guarded here, Deng Ai also placed 10,000 elite infantry here, and Wei Feng led 5,000 cavalry to line up on the left three miles to prevent the Wei cavalry from raiding. Behind them was Wei Ba's 8,000 Chinese army.

The formation has been set up, just waiting for Wei Ba's order.

Wei Ba sat on the command platform of the Chinese army, looking at Pengcheng in the distance and the Wei army camp outside Pengcheng, looking at Zhang He's battle flag, still pondering.

He couldn't figure out what Zhang He wanted to do.

Tian Fu had already returned from Lu County, but neither Wang Ling nor Tian Yu had moved. There is news from Qianjun, Xiahou Ba and others are leading 30,000 cavalry to Pengcheng, Lu Xun and Daddy Wei Yan are following behind, both sides maintain a normal speed, advancing forty miles a day, it will take three or four days to reach Pengcheng, even if the cavalry is fast, it will take two days. Tens of thousands of cavalry are not thousands or hundreds of cavalry, they can run long distances, they need to carry a lot of baggage, and they can only advance like ordinary foot soldiers.

As for the direction of Suiyang, there is no new news yet, and Sima Yi is still in Suiyang City, and there is no movement at all.

At this time, launch an attack, send grain and grass into the city, and the mission will be completed.

Everything seemed to be going well, but because of this, Wei Ba's heart was a little uneasy.

"General, it's time to attack." Yu Yan bent down and reminded Wei Ba in his ear.

Wei Ba sighed secretly. Since you can't figure it out, then don't think about it, maybe Zhang He has no choice but to do this, but he thinks too much. It's better to hurry up, and when Xiahou Ba and them arrive, it will be difficult to fight.

Xiahouba has more than 13,000 cavalry, which will have a non-negligible impact on the entire battlefield.

"Attack!" Wei Ba waved his hand.

The herald waved the bunting and passed the order. When the front army received the order, the war drums suddenly exploded, and the thunderbolts that had been deployed in front of the formation began to roar, shooting stone catapults into the sky. Stone bullets whizzed past and smashed into the Wei position. Even the ballista began to shoot, and the dense arrows converged into a dark cloud, which streaked across the sky and shot at the Wei army.

At the same time, the Wei army also began to counterattack, and countless stone bullets and arrows rushed towards the Han army.

The two sides began to attack each other with ranged weapons.

Deng Ai was not in a hurry to attack, he knew very well where the advantages of the two sides were, don't look at the Wei army also had thunderbolts and ballistas, but their supply of stone bullets was a big problem. During this time, Zhang He was not idle here, and should have prepared a large number of stone bullets, but their reserves were not as rich as the Shu Han army after all. Over time, the Wei army's thunderbolt power would weaken as the stone bullets were insufficient, and they would turn to picking up stone bullets fired by the Han army.

Of course, Deng Ai would not let him get his wish, and soon after the attack began, after the stone bullets had caused some damage to the Wei army's position, he ordered to switch to the attack with fire bombs. The fire bombs shattered when they landed, and the Wei army could not use them at all, and they did not have any fire bomb reserves, so they could only use stone bullets to continue the attack.

Deng Ai estimated that in a day at most, the Wei army's thunderbolt would become a pile of waste wood, and then switch to stone bullets to attack, which could achieve a more haode attack effect. Wait until you have an overwhelming long-range attack Liliang and then let the pawns attack, which can reduce casualties.

The battle proceeded according to Deng Ai's estimates, and after a day of attack, the Wei army ran out of stone bullets that had been prepared for months, and the thunderbolt slowly stopped. At night, Zhang He sent soldiers to pick up the stone bullets on the position for backup, but the number was very limited, and it was obvious that it would not last long, and the battle situation began to become favorable to Deng Ai.

The next day, Deng Ai switched to stone bombs, and added more than 200 thunderbolts to bombard the Wei army's positions. There were not enough stone shells to counteract, and the Wei position was quickly smashed by stone bullets falling from the sky, and had to abandon the first line of positions, throw down a bunch of thunderbolts, and retreat backwards.

Deng Ai made persistent efforts and ordered the thunderbolt to be pushed forward so that Zhang He would not have any respite.

The attack of the front army went smoothly, and the morale of the Han army was high, but Wei Ba's mood could not be relaxed. At night, he stood in front of the map, puzzled. Zhang He knew that he was at a disadvantage, but he still refused to retreat, what did he want to do?

"Where is Xiahouba?"

"Xiangxian, there are still two days to get to Pengcheng." Gu Chengdao: "General Lu and General Wei followed twenty miles behind him. ”

"Where's Tian Yu?"

"I received the news a day ago that he was still in Lu County, and there was no movement of sending troops." Gu Cheng was silent for a moment: "The Yang family sent news, Tian Yu father and son...... It's like life and death. It seems that Tian Fu has the intention of fighting to the death. ”

"Tian Fu?" Wei Ba remembered that peer and was even more confused. That's not an easy person to give up. Could it be that Zhang He really wants to trap the beast and fight to the death?

Is this still the clever and fickle Zhang He?

(To be continued......)