Shu Chen

Chapter 276
Order Guse.

The cold wind is howling, and the flags are fluttering.

Accompanied by the sound of footsteps, the soldiers of the Guan Xing tribe guarding this place are orderly changing their defenses, replenishing the consumed arrows and repairing the destroyed Luzhaizhai gate by the way.

It has been more than ten days since the Hexi Allied Forces of the State of Wei came here, and they also tried to attack the camp four or five times.

It's all tentative.

Only two or three schools are invested each time, and the direction of attack is also different, and the offensive is sluggish.

Those Wei soldiers with different costumes and hairstyles can tell that there are more Qiang Hu than Han family sons. When they were about to enter the battle, they all came slowly in a tight formation with large sculls and thick shields. In Luzhai, he hacked or pulled out a few sharp woods indiscriminately and then retreated.

When attacking, the Wei army who supervised the formation in the rear did not use bows and arrows to cover them, and the soldiers who ascended first did not have long ladders on their shoulders, horizontal boards in their hands, etc. to climb the fence.

Doing so seems to be just to consume the crossbow arrows of the Han army.

But Guan Xing, who has been paying close attention to the battlefield, knows that Wei Jun's seemingly childish behavior is a manifestation of caution.

When they destroyed the outer deer village, they were also looking for the weak point of the defense of the Han army's camp—the place where the elite soldiers attacked when they swore to the death.

However, Guan Xing felt that Wei Jun was doing too much.

His camp was backed by the remaining broken wall of Ling Jusai, facing Wuting in the east against the current, falling in a semi-arc shape, and the only places under attack were the north and west.And the camp is not big, even if the Wei army goes all out, the strength of each time it goes to the battlefield is only three or four thousand.

So, why bother to try again?

Could it be that there are tens of thousands of Hexi allied forces, but they can't even pick out three or four thousand elites?

Coincidentally, Pang Hui, the temporary leader and promoted city governor of the Western Union Army, also felt that there was no need to try again, but to attack day and night regardless of casualties.

It's not because of the blood feud of the fathers that he lost his mind, but because of the overall consideration.

After Gein's army arrived at Lingjusai, the main force under the supervision of Wei Yan, the general of Nishu, was always in Zhiyang County, and he only sent Ma Dai's troops back to support him.

And not all Xiliang cavalry.

During several small-scale conflicts with Ma Dai's tribe, Ke Wu, acting as the acting cavalry governor, already found out that there were only about [-] cavalry left with Jusai after Ma Dai returned.Pang Hui, who had previously supervised the cavalry, knew that even if Ma Dai came with only two thousand Xiliang iron cavalry, he would not be able to kill them with the elite level of Hexi cavalry.

But restrain him so that he cannot get close to the camp of Guan Xingbu.

In other words, the current plan of the Hexi Allied Forces should be to stop when it is time to stop!
Before Ni Shu and Wei Yan did not change their schedules, they would use the crowd to defeat the few, and first pull out the Guan Xing Department here, and then the cavalry could drive south to threaten Wei Yan's rear and relieve the turmoil of Jincheng County.

Otherwise, after the Han army dispatches another army to come to the camp and form a corner with Guan Xing's troops, it may be difficult for the Hexi coalition to do anything!

But this suggestion was rejected by Jia Xu.

Again, he has good reason.

The Hexi Allied Forces seem to be powerful, but the sources are too complicated and the army has been formed for too short a time, so it is difficult to stop orders.

The most worrying thing is that the armor is not complete.

Of the [-] people, less than [-]% of them wore armor, and most of them were leather armors; only the personal guards of the generals, Haoyou, and the leader of the Qianghu tribe wore iron armor.

Not to mention these personal guards, Jia Xu couldn't force them to gather.

Even if they fought with the same hatred and fought to the death regardless of each other, there were only more than [-] people.

But Guan Xingbu is different.

He also watched the battle in person during the previous trials and fortifications. Although the temporary Han army camp was not strong, the soldiers were all armored, well-armed, and there were a lot of powerful crossbows!

Even the huge "Yuan Rong Crossbow", which can shoot ten arrows and kill war horses, stands forty.

Furthermore, Jia Xu, who has been through war for a long time, also discovered something.

Whenever the Wei army approached tentatively, the soldiers in the Han army camp were densely arrayed, and there was no panic or noise; Fang Zuan shot.

There is no need to doubt, the soldiers of this Han army are all old soldiers!

Even Nishu Weiyan was an elite division carefully selected from various troops.

Compared with the armor, morale, and elite level of the enemy and ourselves, it is reasonable for Jia Xuling and Pang Hui to test more and postpone the all-out attack.

Or rather, he didn't dare.

Husband war, courage also.

Do it all at once, second time tired, third time exhausted.

The morale of the Hexi Allied Forces recruited by Yili was not high, and they did not have the will to die.

If you follow Pang Hui's request and attack the fortifications several times without breaking the Han army camp, I'm afraid everyone will give up!

Furthermore, the pioneer who served as the conqueror had always escaped death, who would he choose from?
Don't think about the subordinates of Haoyou and the leaders of the Qianghu tribe in the counties.

No matter how much profit they promise, they will not be tempted.

Because today's Hexi Corridor is already dominated by strength.

If they lose too much strength here, no matter how much money, food and land they get, they will be robbed by others after they return.

Huang Hua, the prefect of Jiuquan, who was elected by everyone as the deputy governor, knew that he would lose his power if he did not drive the Han army out of Liangzhou, but he would not be willing to use his soldiers as first ascendants.He, who is in conflict with the Zhang family in Dunhuang, also has to worry about whether the Zhang family, who gathers troops to wait and see the success or failure, will send troops to occupy Jiuquan County after the strength is damaged.

Only four people are available for the pioneers.

One is Jia Xu himself, the other is Cang Ci, the prefect of Zhangye who did not come to the battle in person, as well as Pang Hui and Ke Wu.

The four of them have a lot of troops under their command, nearly thirteen thousand.

But after removing the cavalry who could not participate in the attack, the remaining soldiers were only more than [-].

With [-] impromptu soldiers, can they capture the well-equipped camp of the Han army guarded by [-] veterans?
Jia Xu didn't do that fluke.

Therefore, he first asked the soldiers to dig a deep ditch along the deer village outside the Han army camp, and after making a gesture to encircle them until they ran out of food, he took several countermeasures with other generals, and finally set his sights on the people who had been there all along. Ma Dai, who was wandering around, was on the body.

It's not that I want to wipe out Ma Dai's tribe.

The last time they were in Huanggu, west of the Fortress of Shuyin, Pang Hui, Ke Wu and Hu Bo's three divisions planned an ambush, but failed.

No matter how reckless Jia Xu was, he didn't expect Ma Dai to give him another chance to ambush him.

He wanted the Kewu tribe to restrain Ma Dai's Xiliang iron cavalry, and then use the mobility of the cavalry to harass the two tribes of Zhi Wudai and Baihuwen who had already migrated to Yunjie County.

Anyway, there are a lot of cavalry in his army, and it happens to use the long to beat the short.

As for whether such a dispatch can force Wei Yan, who is stationed in Zhiyang, to send troops back to help, so that the pressure on Wei Ping of Jincheng County can be relieved?
Hey, just watch it.

The Han army was already few, but Wei Yan would turn a blind eye to the fact that Wei Yan separated the Guan Xing tribe to protect the two Hulu tribes, right?

Jia Xu thought so.

But he didn't know that Wei Yan, who was stationed in Zhiyang County, was "powerless".

(End of this chapter)