Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 77 Deadlock

At the head of Wuwei City, Li Yangui watched silently in the distance. Zhou Jun was camping on the Jiangpan Avenue two miles away, looking like he was going to confront them for a long time.

"I didn't want to lose in the hands of a junior." Li Yangui sighed.

The generals around them bowed their heads in shame and remained silent, and many people still had injuries on their bodies.

As an important fortress on the Chencang Road in the Shu Kingdom, Wuwei is a stronghold, hoarding a lot of grain and grass, but there are not many of them.
Yesterday 100 troops left the city, and in the end more than [-] people fled back. In addition to the defense in the city, there were only [-] defenders in the pool at this time.

And Zhou Jun under the city is just a forward.

The rear army should be on its way.
"A tiger father has no dogs, so I have seen it now." After yesterday's battle, Lee Yeon Kyu seems to have aged a bit, and the 66-year-old is now showing his old age.

"When the commander sees a move, he should deal with it properly. It is the soldiers who are defeated by the Zhou army." Someone said unconvinced, and his words were indeed insightful.

As a veteran of the battlefield, Li Yangui really dealt with Zhou Jun's changes.

It was a pity that the left-wing battlefield, which had invested several times the force, was still blocked by the Zhou army. Although the leader of the Zhou army led his troops to charge directly, it did not change the situation that the number of Shu troops on the riverside battlefield was at least twice that of the Zhou army.

However, in such a situation, the Shu army was unable to break through the left wing to counter the outflanking Zhou army, and did not dare to fight with the brave Zhou army for a long time, so that the central army was besieged and strangled, and they all lost.

Li Yangui's deployment is in place, and he has rich experience in the battlefield. It's a pity that a clever woman can't cook without rice. The soldiers dare not fight and can't fight. No matter how well the main general is deployed, it is useless.

After all, it is impossible for a general to be one to ten, one to a hundred, and it is each soldier who truly determines the outcome of the battlefield.

"Failure is defeat. Why are there so many excuses? Find more excuses to say something nice and make you feel better. Could it change the facts? It's a rotten problem!" Li Yangui scolded.

Everyone dared not speak.

He sighed, he is from Shanxi, but he has been in Shuzhong for so long, it is impossible to have no feelings for Shu, but Shu is different from Guanzhong and Hedong in the north of Qinling Mountains.

They are always good at telling one thing, which makes Li Yangui very unaccustomed. Just like yesterday's war, defeat means defeat, but if the officials of Shu state say it, it may seem like they have won. , but actually failed.

The damned person is dead, the damned land has been lost, and the situation will not change because of the different explanations.

Could it be that extravagance and glitz create such an atmosphere?Li Yangui didn't understand, he only knew that if this continued, Zhou Jun was afraid that Chen Cangdao would be penetrated.

He never imagined that a young striker would be so powerful.

"Looks like someone is really old"

In the next few days, they saw from the top of the city that the Zhou army pushed the camp to about a mile below the city wall, surrounded the city from the north, cleaned up and buried the corpses, cleaned the battlefield, and placed and looked after the wounded. mean.

The soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, but Li Yangui frowned. The other party was very smart and was waiting for the follow-up army.

When the army behind Zhou Jun arrived, I was afraid that Wuwei City would be broken in an instant.

In the afternoon, dozens of horsemen came two hundred paces away from the city, saying that Shi Congyun, the general of the Zhou army, wanted to see the general of the Shu army.

After hearing the news, Li Yangui hurried to the top of the city and looked at the people below.

In the middle is a young man, with tight armor and a very tall stature, he must be Shi Congyun.

At first sight, he was actually shocked, Shi Congyun was much younger than he thought.

He knew Shi Yanchao's name, and after hearing that he was Shi Yanchao's son, he thought that he should be a young man, but he didn't expect to be so young.

He was so young that he had no beard on his face, and even his voice had a childish tone.

Zhou Guozhen is full of talents, no wonder they can beat the Northern Han and Khitan, Li Yangui thought.

Then, according to the requirements of the shouting from the city, the bowmen from the city head were withdrawn, and the other party approached within a hundred paces.

He saw Shi Congyun shouting at him, the city was windy, and only vaguely heard a few words such as "surrender now to protect your wealth and glory", "the big week will win the world", and "those who know the current affairs are heroes".

It means he already understands.

For a moment, Li Yangui was a little shaken, and the climate of the Zhou Dynasty had become a reality. This was an indisputable fact.

But soon, he thought of the whole family in Chengdu, children and grandchildren, if he had a little bit of dissent, I was afraid that the whole family would not be able to survive.

The point is... he's getting old.

66 people, how many years are left to live?

If he was young and strong, in order to get revenge for his future, he might have really joined Zhou Jun, but now it is different.

Li Yangui shook his head: "Someone is loyal to His Majesty, loyal to Shu, and swears that he will not betray him. General Shi doesn't need to say much, let's see the real chapter under our hands!"

After saying that, he hurried down the city head, ignoring Zhou Jun under the city.

In order to stabilize the military, he could only say that Zhao Jili's reinforcements were on the way, but he actually knew something. According to reports, Zhao Jili has been leaving from Chengdu for almost three months, and now he is still missing. The reinforcements are almost impossible to count on. .

As a result, the two sides were deadlocked in Wuwei City. Li Yangui did not dare to abandon the city rashly and flee, and Shi Congyun did not dare to move forward. He bypassed Wuwei and went directly to Fengzhou. Because there are many soldiers in Wuwei City, they may be caught in a front and back attack. situation.

The follow-up messengers brought news of Wang Jingzhong's army. After the army left the customs, it encountered heavy rain for three consecutive days, the mountain road was muddy, and the advance was slow. After marching for more than half a month, the forward was still at the Huang Niu shop in the north of Huanghua Valley.

Moreover, the composition of Wang Jing's vassal troops was complex, and many bandits joined the army to avoid disasters, which was completely different from the central forbidden army such as the Konghe Army, and the discipline was lax during the march.

Wang Jing's order to him was to act cheaply. At the same time, he had ordered Xiang Xun to lead a thousand elite cavalry of the Zhen'an Army to set out first to reinforce them as soon as possible.

The confrontation in Wuwei City continued for several days.

And in late June, a thousand Zhen'an cavalry led by Xiang Xun marched in the rain on the mountain road and finally joined him.

There are more and more Zhou Jun outside Wuwei City.

Seeing that it was about to enter July, Shi Congyun's soldiers had recovered to more than 4000 soldiers. Excluding Luo Yanhuan's force to ensure the grain road, the frontal force was enough to attack Wuwei City.

As the Zhou army continued to increase its troops, the Shu army in Wuwei City became more and more frightened every day, for fear that when they woke up one day, the Zhou army had already attacked the city.

However, Shi Congyun was not in a hurry to siege the city, because the Taiyuan siege had left him too deep an impression. If he followed the brutal method, he would only be able to die for two or three days.

So he would rather wait to give up some of the credit and wait for the arrival of the Chinese army to force Wuwei City to surrender, rather than let the soldiers die like that.

Anyway, he must be the first. If he eats the meat himself, he must let others drink the soup.

(End of this chapter)