At this time, Hao Zhao didn't know that Xia Houyuan had died under Zhao Yun's gun. He was still resolutely carrying out Xia Houyuan's order before he left, sticking to the west city and not sending troops to help Xu Huang attack the Han army camp. Xu Huang's army attacked the enemy, so when Xu Huang asked Xicheng to support the trebuchet, he agreed.

Hao Zhao ordered twenty trebuchets to be unloaded from the top of the city, fixed on wooden boards with wheels, and ordered the soldiers to slowly leave the city gate.

Twenty trebuchets lined up from the city gate like a troop of giants, heading towards the camp of the Han army. In the dark night, their huge figures moved in line, and looked very strange from a distance.

In a forest not far to the east of Xicheng, Wang Ping led a thousand soldiers and was waiting patiently for an opportunity. Wang Ping and the soldiers all changed into Cao Jun's uniforms, but the white cloth was wrapped around their right arms to distinguish them from Cao Jun. At this time, a The soldier pointed at the trebuchet slowly coming out from the west city and shouted, "Look, general!"

Wang Ping had already seen that huge catapults came out of the city. They must be to support Cao Jun who was attacking the camp. Wang Ping knew very well what the catapults meant to the camp walls. However, the slab wall is easy to collapse. If a gap is opened, Cao Jun will swarm into the camp, and their food and grass may not be able to be kept.

Wang Ping touched the leather bag on his back. Every soldier carried a leather bag, and each leather bag contained five catties of kerosene. They originally planned to attack the logistics and food accounts of Xu Huang's army, but He found that Xu Huang's army didn't bring any food at all. He estimated that they were preparing to get supplies from the west city. The soldiers each carried dry food with them, which made his plan come to nothing, but the twenty catapults became his new target.

"All the village heads come here!"

When Wang Ping gave an order, twenty chiefs gathered around him. Wang Ping pointed to the catapult and gave them some instructions. He immediately got up and ran towards the catapult. The chiefs also led their soldiers to follow Wang Ping all the way. After a while, the army came to the trebuchet.

At this time, Wang Ping had already ordered his soldiers to line up. He led the soldiers quickly to the trebuchet, cupped his fists to an officer and said, "General Xu ordered me to take over the trebuchet. You can go back." [

The soldiers in the West City never dreamed that the army in front of them turned out to be the Han army Qiao. They were controlling the trebuchets slowly going downhill. It was very difficult. Since the other party is willing to take over, it would be best. Twenty trebuchets were handed over to Wang Ping and his men.

Each village chief led the soldiers to control a trebuchet, and the trebuchet moved slowly. When Wang Ping turned his head and saw that the soldiers from the west city had already entered the city, he ordered in a low voice, "Do it!"

They took out the flat bags from behind one after another, sprayed kerosene on the catapults, and then raised the fire to ignite the catapults. Immediately, the flames rose three feet high and quickly engulfed each catapult. All ten trebuchets were overturned and left to be burned by the fire. They quickly left the scene of the fire and quickly disappeared into the night.

Cao Jun on the top of the city was stunned. The trebuchet that had just been sent out of the city was burned in a blink of an eye. What's going on?Everyone whispered, Hao Zhao felt something bad in his heart, maybe they were fooled.

Not long after, Xu Huang led hundreds of people to rush over, at this time the fire had completely engulfed twenty trebuchets, Xu Huang was so angry that his eyes burst into flames, he turned back to his opponents and said, "Go ask them what's going on? "

A general galloped towards the west city on horseback, and he asked loudly under the city, "Where is General Hao?"

"I'm here, what's the matter?" Hao Zhao replied from the top of the wall.

General Ya clasped his fists together and saluted, "General Hao, General Xu, what's going on? Why did the trebuchet burn when it left the city gate?"

Hao Zhao was taken aback, "Didn't you just hand over the trebuchet to your receiving army? You asked me what I did, you should ask yourself."

"General Xu didn't send an army to accept it, and he is still waiting for you to send the trebuchet! We don't know what's going on."

Hao Zhaoan yelled that it was not good, they were really fooled, and after a while he said: "The enemy must have pretended to be you, and they burned down the trebuchet. General Xu, please go and arrest the enemy immediately!"

Ya Jiangnai had no choice but to turn around and go back to report. Xu Huang was furious. He ordered his men to search for suspicious troops, and at the same time sent someone to discuss with Hao Zhao whether they could send ten more trebuchets over.

Not long after, his subordinates came back to report: "General Qi, General Hao said that there are only [-] trebuchets at the top of the city, and now we have given us [-] trebuchets, and the remaining ten are used to defend the city. No matter what, they can't be dismantled." , please forgive me, General!"

"Bastard!"

Xu Huang gritted his teeth with hatred and cursed, the prime minister clearly wanted everyone to work together to conquer the Han army camp, but now they have selfish motives, neither sending troops nor even catapults to support them, so he must sue them in front of the prime minister One shape. [

However, Xu Huang had to return to the front of the battlefield again. At this time, Cao Jun's first attack on the Han army barracks ended in failure. Cao Jun lost more than [-] people, and the remaining [-] soldiers were reassembling the whole team to prepare for the second attack. Attacked the Han camp for the second time.

Wang Ping had already led his troops back to the woods. At this time, someone suggested to attack the enemy's logistics camp. This was indeed a good idea, but Wang Ping had another idea.

Seeing that the enemy army was extremely "chaotic", and it was difficult to distinguish between the enemy and ourselves in the dark, he thought to himself, 'Maybe this is an opportunity. '

He immediately removed the white cloth on his arm, called the chiefs over, and said to them: "Many brothers suggested a sneak attack on the enemy's camp, but I think attacking the enemy is worse than attacking the heart. Now that the enemy is in chaos, we can Infiltrating the enemy army, spreading unfavorable news, and causing panic in the enemy army will have better results, what do you think?"

Wang Ping was the leader. He made a decision, and everyone naturally would not object. A village chief asked, "What news can we spread?"

Wang Ping thought for a while and said: "Two news can be disseminated. The first is that the Han army entered Guanzhong via Chencang Road, and Chang'an has fallen. The second news is that the Di people sent troops to attack Cao Jun. Cao Jun was pinched from front to back. ’Unfortunately died of serious injuries, I think these two news will definitely shake their morale.”

. . . . . . . .

The camp of the Han army took advantage of the short retreat time of the Cao army to quickly repair a section of the battalion wall that had been attacked, redeploy the defense, check the belts of the catapults, and the soldiers moved bundles of arrows and barrels of kerosene far away. Under the camp wall, a large number of boulders were brought in to supplement the shortage of trebuchets.

On the camp wall, a crossbowman was deployed at every step. They held crossbows in their hands, crossbow pots on their backs, and spears beside them.

Zhang Ren stood on the camp wall, watching Cao Jun from a distance, his brows gradually frowned, and the general Deng Xian next to him said in a low voice: "It's very strange, Cao Jun has assembled a long time ago, but he has been unwilling to attack for a long time. Why?"

Zhang Ren looked up at the sky. It was already Mao's hour, and the sky turned white. Seeing that the long night was about to pass, and the sky was about to dawn, he didn't know why Cao Jun didn't attack again. Could it be that they wanted to wait for dawn before attacking? ?But attacking during the day is more beneficial to defending. Xu Huang has experienced many battles, so it is impossible for him not to know this, otherwise he would not attack in the middle of the night.

Zhang Ren couldn't figure it out, so he said to Deng Xian: "You keep an eye on the enemy, and I'll go discuss it with Pang Junjun."

Zhang Ren turned around and went down the camp wall, and walked quickly to the big tent. . . . . . .

In the big tent, Pang Tong stared at the sand table for a long time, bowed his head in thought, he needed to sort out a few key ideas, so that he could make a correct decision. For a moment, the pace also slowed down.

Pang Tong felt his coming, turned his head and smiled, "It's just right, I also want to send someone to invite General Zhang."

Zhang Ren stepped forward and said, "Can the military advisor let me talk about it first?"

"General Zhang, please speak!"

Zhang Ren's tone was a little "strange", "It's very strange, the enemy army has assembled, but they haven't launched an attack for a long time, I don't know what's going on?"

Pang Tong's heart moved, and he said cautiously: "Is there any news from General Zhao?"

Zhang Ren was also taken aback. He walked quickly to the sand table, found Shenyuan Valley, pondered for a moment and said: "It's almost dawn now, and the battle in Chenyuan Valley should be over. It's only twenty miles away from us. It takes only half an hour to return after running, and it is very likely that the news of Shen Yuangu has already arrived, just as the military adviser guessed."

Pang Tong thought for a while and said, "Perhaps there is another possibility, which is my worry. Xu Huang wants to change his tactics. Instead of attacking the camp, he will use blocking tactics to block grain going northward."

Zhang Ren's expression suddenly became dignified. He understood what Pang Tong meant. The purpose of Cao Jun's attack on the camp was to destroy the food stored in the camp. He didn't realize this at first, but after a night of failure to attack the camp, Cao Jun probably already thought about this key.

"Then what should we do now?"

Pang Tong walked a few steps behind his back and said: "Whether it is the first possibility or the second possibility, it will cause Cao Jun to stop attacking the camp. If this is the case, it will be too passive for us to stay in the camp. I am considering whether Take the initiative to attack and turn passivity into initiative, but... there is one more condition."

"What conditions?" Zhang Ren asked eagerly.

"We still need to get definite information from General Zhao."

Pang Tong sighed slightly, and said to Zhang Ren: "So I suggest, don't act rashly for now, just wait and see what happens!"

Zhang Ren nodded, "I understand."

. . . . . . .

The Cao army has assembled, but Xu Huang has not launched an attack for a long time. Not long ago, Xu Huang received news that Xia Houyuan was ambushed by the Han army on the way. Unfortunately, Xia Houyuan was killed in battle. , now the defeated army is fleeing to the south, and the enemy is relentless in pursuit.

Xu Huang was shocked by this news. Xiahouyuan was killed in battle, and the situation started to get a bit bad. How many enemy troops ambushed Xiahouyuan's troops?Some said five thousand, some said ten thousand, and some said it was General Zhao Yun.

If it is really Zhao Yun, then there will be many troops under his command. If he comes down from the north and flanks him back and forth with the Han army in the enemy camp, will they be able to withstand it?

Xu Huang was extremely worried. Seeing that it was almost dawn, they could not attack the enemy camp for a long time, and the trebuchets were also burned by the enemy. The enemy's trebuchets were extremely sharp and could attack from far and near. This time Attacking the camp may be more or less auspicious.

At this moment, Zhang He stepped forward and said in a low voice, "General, there is a bad situation."

"what's the situation?"

"There have been deserters in the army?"

"what!"

Xu Huang was taken aback. What he was most worried about finally happened. He hurriedly asked, "What happened?"

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