Qiao County, Wei Army Camp...

Xiahou Ba sat on the case, looking angry. Qin Lang lowered his head and remained silent. Sima Shi hugged his arm and leaned against the side, looking at the top of the tent with calm wind.

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

Xiahou Ba applauded, Qin Lang was worried, and Sima Shi did not comment, but it can be seen from his eyebrows that he was a little disdainful, and even disdainful of comments.

"Here, my military post is the highest, so I should be the one who decides." Xiahou Ba put away the order, put it in his arms, stood up and waved: "Come on the order to prepare."

"Here." Sima Shi bowed meticulously and turned to leave the tent. Qin Lang did not move. He looked at Xiahou Ba with a sad face: "Zhongquan, this matter is of great importance. If the general and his son refuse to cooperate with each other, we may not have any chance."

"General Cheqi and Cavalry did not expect them to cooperate." Xiahou Ba sneered: "What the general is thinking, you understand, I understand, and I understand that it is impossible to expect him. If he is willing to send troops to help, why would he be in a stalemate until now? Yuan and Ming, stop talking, I believe General Cheqi and Cavalry is willing to do his best. If you are still worried, it doesn't matter. For the Central Army, I will lead the cavalry as the vanguard behind the Sima Shi Hall."

"Zhongquan, look at you." Qin Lang smiled bitterly and said, "I mean that? I just said..."

Xiahou Ba reached out and patted Qin Lang, and laughed: "Yuan Ming, I know what you mean. I am a little impulsive in doing things. You are steady. Your Majesty asks you and me to cooperate. This time, I ask you to believe me and believe in General Cheqi. Don't you know the loyalty of General Cheqi? Helping General Cheqi is to help His Majesty."

"Yes." Qin Lang wanted to speak but stopped. He paused, stood up and squirted his cloak: "Since you have decided, let's follow the orders of General Cheval to execute."

"That's right." Xiahou Ba raised his eyebrows and laughed: "How many times can there be in life? After so many years, I have been fighting with Wei Ba long ago. See if he is the domineering power or the domineering power of me, and I have never been able to do it. I finally have a chance this time. If I let it go, wouldn't it be a pity?"

Qin Lang shook his head and said nothing.

...

Wei Yan walked into the central army's stance with great strides, bowed to Lu Xun, and said impatiently: "Boyan, the Wei army has set off the camp."

Lu Xun raised his head and looked at Wei Yan in surprise. Wei Yan had elite cavalry in his hand, and he was responsible for the scout camp, but there was no need for general news to come to report to him personally. Wei Yan came over and looked like this again, so a big thing naturally happened.

"Where did they go? Pengcheng?"

Wei Yan raised his thumb: "Boyan is indeed a brilliant and exquisite heart, and he can be guessed."

Lu Xun smiled bitterly. Wei Yan was praising him, but it sounded like a condescending and elders praised his juniors. In fact, they were about the same age. Wei Yan was a few years older, but not yet at the point of relying on his seniority. On the one hand, he spoke like this because of habits, and on the other hand, he also reminded Lu Xun that his official titles were above Lu Xun, and obeying his command was just to give him face.

Lu Xun had too many honors and disgraces in his life, and he would not take Wei Yan's little thoughts seriously. What he was concerned about was what the Wei army suddenly went to Pengcheng. Wei Ba was preparing to break Zhang He's blockade, send food, grass and weapons to Pengcheng, help Zhou Yin and Ding Feng stick to it, and drag the battle in a direction that was beneficial to him. Xiahou Ba and others marched towards Pengcheng at this time, naturally wanted to help Zhang He siege the city, but when they went, he and Wei Yan would naturally go. The strength of both sides was still the same. Is it meaningful?

Did the Wei army want to fight to the decisive battle in Pengcheng?

After careful consideration, Lu Xun still couldn't understand the true intention of the Wei army. No matter how he looked at it, the Wei army was struggling in helplessness.

Wei Yan was impatient. "Boyan, why do you think so much? Just keep up with me. Could it be that you really want to dig the Cao family's ancestral grave?"

Lu Xun smiled. He couldn't do that. It was not a gentleman who should do something like digging other people's ancestral graves. This is a stupid thing that only barbarians like Dong Zhuo and Cao ** would do. Even if they were to make money, he was not short of money now, so there was no need to do such things.

"General Wen Chang, please lead the elite cavalry and be careful. I will follow you and keep a distance. Pengcheng is only more than 300 miles away. Even if you are a little slower, it will be seven or eight days."

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

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

...

Pengcheng.

Deng Ai was in the south of Pengcheng. Today he wanted to dig a passage on Zhang He's position so that the weapons supplies needed by Zhou Yin and Ding Feng could be sent to Pengcheng. Zhou Ding and his men guarded the city for several months. Although there was no big battle and the consumption of weapons was limited, the food and grass were almost exhausted. If they didn't send the food and grass in, they would have to lose food, and the persistence in the past few months would lose its meaning.

The north of Pengcheng is the east-flowing Huoshui, which flows into Sishui in the north of the city, and then flows south together. The water surface is wider and is a natural moat, which is not conducive to attack. On the west side are rolling hills, which are not conducive to the arrangement of large corps. The only one who can launch a frontal attack is the south of the city. Zhang He is guarding here, and Deng Ai also placed 10,000 elite infantry here. Wei Feng led 5,000 cavalry to line up on the left three miles to prevent the Wei cavalry from raiding. Behind them is Wei Ba's eight thousand central army.

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

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

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

Tian Fu has returned from Lu County, but Wang Ling and Tian Yu have no movement. There is news from Qiao County. Xiahou Ba and others led 30,000 infantry and cavalry to approach Pengcheng. Lu Xun and his father Wei Yan followed behind. Both sides maintained normal speed. They advanced forty miles a day, and it took three or four days to reach Pengcheng. Even if the cavalry speed is fast, it will take two days. Tens of thousands of cavalry are not thousands or hundreds of cavalry, and they can rush to attack from a distance. They need to bring a large amount of baggage and can only advance like ordinary infantry.

As for the direction of Suiyang, there is no new news yet. Sima Yi has returned to Suiyang City, without any movement.

At this time, launch an attack and send the food and grass into the city, and the task is completed.

Everything seemed to be very smooth, but because of this, Wei Ba felt a little uneasy.

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

Wei Ba sighed secretly. Since he couldn't figure it out, don't think about it anymore. Maybe Zhang He had no choice but to do this, but he thought too much. He should hurry up and wait until Xiahou Ba and the others arrived, it would be difficult to fight.

Xiahouba had more than 13,000 cavalrymen, which would have an unignorable impact on the entire battlefield.

"Attack!" Wei Ba waved his hand.

The commander danced colorful flags and passed the order out. When the front army received the order, the sound of war drums suddenly exploded. The thunderbolt chariots that had been deployed in front of the formation began to roar, and they shot stones into the sky. The stone bullets roared past and smashed towards the Wei army's position. The crossbow chariots also began to shoot, and the dense arrows gathered into a dark cloud, crossing the sky, and shooting towards the Wei army.

At the same time, the Wei army also began to counterattack, with countless stone bullets and arrows pounced on the Han army.

Both sides began to attack each other with long-range weapons.

Deng Ai was not in a hurry to attack. He knew very well what the advantages of both sides were. Although the Wei army also had thunderbolt chariots and crossbow chariots, their supply of stone bullets was a big problem. During this period, Zhang He was not idle here and should have prepared a large number of stone bullets, but their reserves were not as rich as those of the Shu Han army. As time went by, the power of the Wei army's thunderbolt chariots would weaken with insufficient attacks. They would turn to pick up the stone bullets shot by the Han army to use.

Of course, Deng Ai would not let him do what he wanted. Soon after he started the attack, he caused some damage to the Wei army's positions, so he ordered to use the fire bomb to attack instead. The fire bomb would shatter when it landed, and the Wei army could not use it again. Moreover, they had no reserves of fire bombs, so they could only use the stone bombs to continue attacking.

Deng Ai estimated that at most one day, the Wei army's thunderbolt chariot would become a pile of scrap wood. Then, if you switch to stone bullets to attack, you can achieve better attack effect. After you have the overwhelming long-range strike force, you can give way to the infantry to launch an attack, which can reduce casualties.

The battle situation moved forward according to Deng Ai's estimate. After the two sides attacked for a day, the Wei army exhausted the stone bullets that had been prepared for several months, and the Thunderbolt cart slowly stopped. At night, Zhang He sent his soldiers to pick up the stone bullets on the position for backup, but the number was very limited, and it was obviously not supported for long. The battle situation began to become beneficial to Deng Ai.

The next day, Deng Ai switched to stone bombs and added more than 200 thunderbolt chariots to bombard the Wei army's positions. There were not enough stone bombs to counter the Wei army's positions, and the Wei army's positions were quickly destroyed by stone bombs falling from the sky. He had to give up the first position, threw down a bunch of thunderbolt chariots, and retreated backwards.

Deng Ai continued his efforts and ordered the thunder chariot to push forward so that Zhang He would not have any chance to breathe.

The front army attacked smoothly, the Han army was in high morale, but Wei Ba's mood was unable to relax. At night, he stood in front of the map and was puzzled. Zhang He knew he was at a disadvantage, but he still refused to retreat. What was he trying to do?

"Where is Xiahouba?"

"Xiangxian County has two days to go to Pengcheng." Gu Cheng said: "General Lu and General Wei are following twenty miles behind."

"Where is Tian Yu?"

"I received the news a day ago. He was still in Lu County, and there was no movement to send troops." Gu Cheng was silent for a moment: "The Yang family sent news, Tian Yu and his son... seemed to be separated from each other for life and death. It seemed that Tian Fu had the intention of fighting to the death."

"Tian Fu?" Wei Ba remembered that peer and became even more confused. That was not someone who was willing to give up easily. Could it be that Zhang He really wanted to trap beasts and fight to the death?

Is this still the clever and fickle Zhang He?

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.(To be continued.)
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