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Chapter 500 The Law of Siege
Lu Wende knew very well that in order for Li Xia to recover Hanzhong, he had to block Brother Mo.

Otherwise, let Wang Zhongchen bring more than [-] Gong Changjun to Hanzhong, and give a fart.

That is to say, taking advantage of the present, the death of Brother Meng, the death of Wang Dechen, the death of the Mongolian army in Sichuan and Shu, and the fact that Wang Weizheng, the little boy in Lizhou, has not officially succeeded as the commander-in-chief... so Li Xia has a little chance.

That's why Li Xia desperately wanted to race for time, from Diaoyu City back to Chengdu, from Chengdu to Jianmen Pass, all the way in a hurry.

For other people, thinking that the Mongolian Khan is dead, Sichuan and Shu can also take a breath and take a rest.

After a short breath, do you still want to recover?

Take a rest, let alone Hanzhong, Lizhou, and Jianmen are closed... Even the bitter bamboo pass, you will never want to touch it in your life.

In short, Lu Wende understands Li Xia's entire strategy very well.

When Duanping entered Luo, he followed Zhao Kui to Sanjing, and it was the same damn situation.

In order for the Lu family to occupy Hanzhong and engage in border trade business, they will block it for another ten days!
Lu Wende was ruthless, so he personally raised troops to attack Dahuo City.Because Dahuo City is like a nail, nailed to the Song Army's defense line.

I thought it would be easy to catch, but I didn't expect that Yang Wen'an, a little bastard, was familiar with the terrain and abruptly blocked his attack.

For several days in a row, the city could not be attacked.

Lu Wende even took an arrow from Yang Wen'an.

The arrow got stuck on his bright light armor, although it wasn't fatal, it seemed like he had slapped Lu Wende in front of the formation of the three armies.

"Lu Heitan! I look down on you!" On the mountain city, Yang Wen'an shouted wildly.

So the descending army in Dahuo City thundered and cursed at the Song army at the foot of the mountain.

"It's better to surrender to Mongolia if Lu is greedy for money and enters Shu!"

"The food and wages belong to the black charcoal group, and the Song Dynasty will surely perish from now on!"

"..."

Obviously, Yang Dayuan was very popular when guarding Dahuo City, and the people in the city survived because of his surrender.

"Damn it, it's all rebellion! Countless classics!"

At this point in the battle, Lu Wende also became angry, and vowed to kill Yang Wen'an and send his head to Lin'an for credit.

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Brother Mo deliberately slowed down the frontal Jiang defense offensive, and sent Yang Dayuan to lead 2000 cavalry to detour for more than [-] li.

Afterwards, while Lu Wende was storming Dahuo City, Yang Dayuan suddenly rushed out, and the Mongolian army attacked together.

Seeing that the Song army was attacked on both sides, Yang Wen'an decisively led his troops to kill them.

At this point, Cangxi was completely lost, and Lu Wende had no choice but to order to retreat to Langzhong.

After making an agreement with Li Xia, he has been sticking to it for twelve days...

"Is there any news about Li Xia?!"

"The latest news came three days ago, saying that... Lizhou is about to be captured."

"Damn! Haven't won Lizhou yet? There are still more than 300 miles of Shu Road from Lizhou to Hanzhong!"

Lu Wende was furious, he kept swinging the battle ax in his hand, shouting and cursing.

"I understand now that it is impossible for him to take down Hanzhong. He is playing tricks on me! So what if I guarded it for ten days? The Mongols drive their horses into the rice barn road now, and they can get there faster than him if they walk with their eyes closed!"

Lu Wenfu also thought so deeply, and asked: "Brother, do you want to forget it?"

"never mind?"

Lu Wende frowned and thought for a while, then asked, "Did Liu Zheng and Xiang Shibi hit their chin?"

"Work hard to attack the city of Shibi, and almost break the city..."

Lu Wende frowned, very confused.

He carefully looked at the casualties in the army, although he felt distressed, but as long as he lasted for a few more days, the situation would be very different when he hit the chin.

"Brother? How to say?"

After thinking about it, Lu Wende finally gritted his teeth.

"Fight for a few more days."

"Why?"

"I'll kill that little bastard Yang Wen'an first."

Lu Wende refused to retreat any longer. While setting up defenses in Langzhong, he kept sending people to urge Liu Zheng and Xiang Shibi to attack Bazhong, and Li Xia to attack Lizhou.

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Li Xia is still far from capturing Lizhou.

He must first unplug the small city of Zhaohua in the south of Lizhou.

Li Xia didn't even tell Lu Wende about this matter, anyway, Lu Wende didn't know the specific terrain here very well.

Up to now, how many Song troops have been to the north of Jianmen Pass?

Zhaohua is [-] miles south of Lizhou City, at the confluence of Bailong River, Jialing River and Qing River.If you look from a high mountain, you can see that the mountains and water surround each other, as if you are playing Tai Chi.

It is the only place where the Jinniu Road must pass, and it is also the exit of the Pavilion Road at Jianmen Pass.

Zhaohua was the seat of Hanshou County in ancient times, that is, Hanshou of "Han Zuo Yongshou".

During the Shu Han Dynasty, Liu Bei stationed troops here to practice, and then took Chengdu; Zhuge Liang went out of Qishan six times, and kept running on the Jinniu Road, where the prime minister's residence was located; Guan Suo's wife, Bao Sanniang, also died in battle.

It can be said that it has witnessed the vicissitudes of the entire Shu Han.

Arriving here, Li Xia suddenly had a little understanding of the Shu Han people's ideal of "Han Zuo Yongshou" and their ambition to continue the Northern Expedition.

……

Of course the situation was urgent, but Li Xia's siege of the city was still not in a hurry.

It was the first time for him to fight a serious siege battle, and he was really not very good at it.

Not only him, but in terms of siege experience, the current Song army infantry is really inferior to the Mongolian cavalry.

In this case, Li Xia believes that the more anxious you are, the easier it is to make mistakes, and haste makes waste.

Every day before he attacked the city, he would send soldiers to shout to the city, saying nothing more than that Brother Meng was dead and the Mongolian army was blocked in Sichuan and Shu.

"Fathers and folks! How many were taken captive here from Shuchuan? The Song Dynasty has defeated the Mongolian army, and those who are willing to return to their homeland, don't go to the city to work their lives!"

"The general takes pity on the common people and does not want to attack the city and cause too many casualties. Don't be obsessed with resistance..."

After shouting like this, the Song army smashed the head of the city with cannon stones, covered up the nurses and piled up soil under the city, and built a series of earth walls.

For more than ten days, there was rarely a time when a ladder was set up to attack.Occasionally at night, some Song soldiers would try to sneak attack with rope ladders.

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At this time, the general of the Mongolian army guarding Zhaohua City was called "Li Tingwang", and he was Li Tingyu's younger brother.

When Jianmen Pass was breached, Li Tingwang was shocked, and hurriedly sent his horse to Lizhou to ask Wang Weizheng to send troops to support him.

But in the past few days, seeing the Song army's offensive, he was sure of defending Zhaohua, so he sent his personal soldier Li Cuo to report the battle situation to Lizhou.

Li Cuo quickly arrived in Lizhou, only to see a busy city inside and outside the city.

Originally, in order to support the Mongolian army's attack on Diaoyu City, Lizhou spent a lot of luggage... Unexpectedly, the situation changed suddenly, and it was too late to transport the luggage back to the city.

"Report! By order of Qianhu, report the war in Zhaohua..."

Soon, Wang Weizheng met Li Cuo in person.

Wang Weizheng was not very young at that time, and he was not tall like Wang Dechen.But his appearance is much more handsome, with a sense of refinement all over him.

There is still a white cloth tied on his forehead, which is wearing mourning for his deceased father.

"There is no need to rush to send troops to support, Tingwang can already defend Zhaohua?"

Wang Weizheng used to call Li Tingwang with uncle etiquette, but now he is the commander-in-chief, but he can still put on airs.

"Yes." Li Cuo respectfully replied: "Qianhu said that the Song army is not good at attacking cities."

Wang Weizheng was cautious, and asked carefully, "How can you see it?"

Li Cuo said: "It doesn't matter whether it's the location of the camp or the location of the artillery cart. Qianhu also said that the benevolent women of the Song Army did not dare to attack with ants. I don't know if the longer it is delayed, the worse it will be for them..."

Wang Weizheng felt relieved and said, "Then please ask Tingwang to stay there for a few more days, and send reinforcements there after Lizhou is fully repaired."

After he finished speaking, he rewarded Li Cuo again and asked him to go down to rest. After that, he turned to Wang Hanchen who was sitting beside him.

"How does Uncle Wu think my nephew's response?"

Wang Hanchen shook his head and said, "What Li Tingwang said is wrong."

Wang Weizheng was surprised and asked, "Why?"

"Ant-attached siege is the most stupid thing." Wang Hanchen said: "Siege has three realms, one is called method, the second is called technique, and the third is said to be Tao. The person who uses the law is tunnel and flooded, and the ants attached to the ladder have the most casualties; The one who lures the enemy, instigates rebellion, and surrounds the three; the Taoist, avoids the real and makes empty, and does not attack the fortified city."

"My nephew doesn't understand... how to break a city without attacking a fortified city, why is it called the 'way' of siege?"

"If the Great Khan doesn't attack Diaoyu City, he will go straight to Lin'an. Then Diaoyu City will be breached."

Wang Weizheng was silent for a moment, then sighed.

"My nephew understands."

Wang Hanchen nodded, and said: "The Song army did not use the 'method' of attacking the city with ants attached to the ladder, but wanted to counter the generals in the city. This 'technique' of attacking the city is even better."

"Why break it?"

"The New Year's Eve is approaching, give generous rewards to the soldiers in the city, so as to calm the hearts of the soldiers."

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Outside Zhaohua city.

Holding the book of war, Li Xia said slowly: "The so-called siege has three levels of law, art, and Tao. When I first learned how to siege, I started from the simplest."

Kong Xian replied with a smile: "I don't think so. The general pretends to be clumsy and slow to confuse the defenders in the city. This is a siege technique."

Liu Jinsuo scratched his head, glanced at Lin Zi, and asked softly, "What do you mean?"

"The tunnel has been dug."

"It's not... just digging a tunnel, how could it be some kind of magic spell?"

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That night.

In the west of Zhaohua City, there was a "da" sound from a corner.

The earth was pushed away, and a shovel was stretched out.

After that, Pifeng jumped out of the tunnel.

"Go, open the city gate..."

(End of this chapter)