Wang Ru now only felt a severe headache and couldn't come up with an idea at all. He rubbed his throbbing temples and asked, "Do you have any clever ideas?"

Chen Jun said cautiously: "If Yicheng is lost, our army will lose all its opportunities, and reinforcements to Xiangyang will be extremely difficult..."

Wang Li was dissatisfied: "But if our army does not go to reinforce, Xiangyang will be lost! Once Xiangyang is lost, the officers and soldiers will flow down the river, both land and water will be exhausted, and the gate of Jiangling will be opened. Even if the city wall is strong and the trench is deep and wide, I am afraid it will not be able to withstand it.

Onslaught of officers and soldiers!”

He emphasized his tone: "If Jiangling is lost, Nanjun will be lost! If Nanjun is lost, Jiangxia will be undefeated, and we will be doomed!"

Wang Ru frowned and said: "Xiangfan has to be saved. If Xiangfan is lost, we will be waiting in Jiangling, and Jiangxia will not be able to live in peace. But now Fancheng has fallen, Xiangyang is surrounded, Yicheng, Linju, and Zhonglu are also

If Xiangfan is captured and the waterway to the north is cut off, it will be extremely difficult to go north. What should we do?"

Chen Jun pondered for a moment and said: "The officers and soldiers went south to attack Xiangfan. Firstly, they wanted to understand the siege of Yuzhang, and secondly, they wanted to grab food...According to business travelers who passed by, Nanyang was severely short of food now. In order to fill their stomachs and cook

At that time, wheat bran and flour were made into cakes and eaten. There was not much food left in their official warehouses, but the number of refugees pouring into Nanyang from the Central Plains and Guanzhong increased with each passing day. The pressure was so great that you can imagine

And you know!"

Wang Li asked impatiently: "What does this have to do with the current situation?"

Chen Jun smiled slightly and said, "Maybe we can use this to defeat the enemy."

Wang Ru asked: "How to use it?"

Chen Jun said: "It will take a long time for the millet in Nanyang to be harvested, and the grain stocks in their official warehouses have been exhausted. If they cannot grab grain from the Xiangfan area and transport it back, there will be chaos in Nanyang! Our army should take advantage of this opportunity.

They have not yet transported away the grain they grabbed, and they have moved forward with the entire army on both land and water. There is no need to fight them head-on. As long as they can block their grain transportation route so that they can't transport the grain out, at the same time, they send spies to sneak into Nanyang and spread rumors.

The grain stored in the official warehouse has been exhausted, and everyone will starve to death. If it takes ten days and a half, Nanyang will definitely be in chaos, and then our chance to defeat the enemy will come!"

Wang Ru pondered for a moment and said: "This plan is feasible! Send me an order: the entire army will advance by land and water and surround Yicheng!"

After making up their mind, this army with a total strength of more than 50,000 people went upstream, marched by land and water, and headed straight for the city. A terrible wave suddenly rolled up on both sides of the Han River. The boats on the river were connected with each other, and the shadows of sails were like clouds.

, there are mighty infantry on both sides of the strait, hunting with war flags, spears covering the earth like a steel jungle, and the rumbling war drums almost disperse the clouds in the sky. Once tens of thousands of troops move, the ground will shake.

Even those who are timid don't need to fight, just looking at the momentum will scare them away.

The small imperial court in Nanyang also responded quickly, sending Zhang Xuan and three cadres of infantry and cavalry to quickly go south and seize Lumen Mountain on the south bank of the Han River. Relying on the mountain, it took only three days to build a small city across the Han River.

Shui confronted the rebels guarding Bianshan, and was also responsible for intercepting the rebels trying to go north from the south bank. One of the three men Zhang Xuan brought was cavalry. For Wang Ru's rebels, who were mainly infantry,

This is a sharp sword that hangs over the head and may fall at any time - at this time, all the cavalry in Wang Ru's army may not be able to make up enough people.

A collision between quantity and quality begins.

Wang Ru's army soon arrived in Yicheng and set up camp to confront Sima Fan's army. It's not that they didn't want to surround the city in one step, it was because the terrain around the city was cut into pieces by rivers, lakes, and wetlands.

, it is difficult to deploy a large army. The lessons of the Battle of Rangcheng told him that the combat effectiveness of his troops is far behind that of the officers and soldiers. Even if he has a tenfold advantage in strength in a field battle, he may not be sure of victory. If he really wants to encircle Yicheng, his troops will definitely win.

He would be cut into pieces by this disgusting terrain of his grandma's house, and it would be difficult to follow it from beginning to end. In the end, he would have to be defeated one by one by officers and soldiers. He would not make such a low-level mistake!

Sima Fan felt very sorry: Why is this guy so smart? If he were dumber, wouldn't I be able to win this battle easily?

On the south bank, the 14,000 men led by Wang Li continued to advance, all the way to the vicinity of Lumen Mountain, and set up camp here. During the advance, they were attacked by Jin cavalry, although there were also many on the south bank.

Small lakes and wetlands are not ideal battlefields for cavalry, but the Jin cavalry still broke out with terrifying combat effectiveness, using bows, arrows, spears and scimitars to deal a heavy blow to the rebel vanguard, allowing them to even reach the border of the Lumen Mountain camp.

Nearly all the people were lost before they even touched it. But Wang Li didn't care about this loss. They were all bandits and bandits who surrendered from Jingzhou and Jiangzhou and voluntarily joined. They were not old brothers from Guanzhong, so what was there to feel bad about?

With this idea in mind, he ignored the harassment and attacks of the Jin army's cavalry and advanced all the way to the foot of Lumen Mountain to confront the Jin army. At the same time, he set up wooden fences along the river to block the Jin army's grain transportation channels without letting a single grain pass.

River.

The current situation is that Sima Fan blocked the main force of the rebels in Yicheng, Zhang Xuan blocked Wang Li in Lumen Mountain, and Wang Li and Wang Ru in turn blocked the Jin army's route to transport the captured grain back to Nanyang.

, each pinching each other's vital points, no one can move.

The small court in Nanyang obviously could not accept the fact that there were hundreds of thousands of grains but could not be transported north, so they once again sent more troops to the south. Zhang Xuan's troops quickly increased from three cadres to six cadres. The troops to encircle Xiangyang were originally between Sima and Fan.

After the first transfer, the number of troops had been reduced to more than 80,000, and now it has increased sharply to 16,000. The number of counterweight trebuchets used to demolish the wall has increased from the original eight to 20. A large number of refugees and powerful private soldiers have been mobilized

Get up to transport supplies and make ammunition for the trebuchet.

Those local tycoons were really wealthy. They thought it was difficult to make stone bullets, so they melted down a lot of iron at home and cast them into iron bullets. Twenty huge counterweight trebuchets fired red-hot iron at the walls of this strong city.

Each hit caused the city wall, which was more than two feet thick, to shake and crack. The Jin army braved the rain of arrows and stones poured down by the rebels, and under the cover of toad carts, they advanced to the bottom of the city wall, using pickaxes and other tools.

The tools were used to dig hard at the cracked city wall. The city wall was so thick that even a 300-kilogram iron bullet fired by a counterweight trebuchet could not break it down. It would have to be hard work!

The rebels on the city wall were almost crazy under the pressure of survival. They risked being smashed into pieces by iron bullets and stood on the city wall. They poured boiling oil onto the chariots below the city and then threw torches to kill the people hiding in the city.

The Jin army in the car was burned to death. The Jin army finally opened a hole in the city wall, and they immediately gathered their forces to fight back and pushed the Jin army down again.

The Jin army tried to dig tunnels to attack the city, but after digging a few hoes, groundwater emerged. They selected sites several times in a row, but failed because the groundwater was too sufficient.

In this way, they fought hard for another eight days, and the attacking Jin army suffered considerable casualties, but Xiangyang City was still unable to be taken. After all, it was Guan Yu who retreated sadly, leaving the elite soldiers of half the world with him after a thousand years.

It took six years to gnaw down the world's most powerful and advanced engineering machinery, and it was really difficult to defeat it.

Sima Fan quickly stopped the attack after learning that Xiangyang could not be captured for a long time. He analyzed: "The rebels must have seen the reinforcements and thought they could get reinforcements at any time, so they were so tenacious. It is not rational to continue to attack Xiangyang. They should kill Wang Li's troops.

Severely weaken the enemy's morale, and wait until the morale of the Xiangyang defenders is low."

All the generals thought that what he said was reasonable, so Wang Li became the monkey that was killed to show the chicken.

On August 31, Zhang Xuan, who had been confronting Wang Li's troops for more than ten days, figured out Wang Li's bottom line and left only 500 men to guard the city. He led more than five cadres to fight out and attacked Wang Li's troops in the rustling autumn wind.

A fierce attack was launched. Wang Li immediately faced the battle, gathering nearly ten thousand brave soldiers to line up in several rows, and collided head-on with the Jin army. The Jin army's bows, arrows and javelins were very powerful, causing heavy casualties to the rebels as soon as the battle began.

However, the rebels relied on their huge advantage in strength to press forward and faced off against the Jin army. It was difficult for the Jin army to win for a while.

This is not surprising. Wang Ru was known for his barbarity and fierceness. He became the commander-in-chief of the refugees. What kind of general leads what kind of soldiers? When Bashu revolted, the refugees in Guanzhong had nothing and could only fight to the death to fight for a way out.

Disciples, and with a boss like Wang Ru, their combat power cannot be underestimated. The last time they were unlucky, they encountered Bei Gongjun, a nuclear warhead, and were stunned. They were completely defeated before they could react. This time, they were mentally prepared.

So easy to deal with.

Historically, Wang Ru was in trouble until 312, when a severe famine occurred in the army and he had to surrender to Wang Dun. In other words, they were not defeated, but starved.

Zhang Xuan had no expression on his face and commanded the army to fight repeatedly with Wang Li. The Jin army, mainly composed of Jingzhou soldiers and Nanyang powerful private soldiers, performed well, fighting with less and more without falling behind. Just when Wang Li got anxious, he

When all the family members came forward to fight, a group of Jin army cavalry sprang out from his left wing like ghosts in a horror movie and launched a fierce attack on the empty side and rear of the rebel formation. For a moment, the iron hooves shook the sky and the earth.

The battlefield was filled with blood, and the rebels collapsed layer by layer under the impact of the cavalry. The Jin army's infantry took the opportunity to counterattack across the board. Under attack from both sides, the rebels replicated their tragedy in the Battle of Rangcheng, and were completely defeated. Countless people were horrified.

They fled the battlefield, only to trample on each other and suffer numerous casualties, and those who fell into the Han River drowned countless others.
Chapter completed!