Without any resistance, he easily crossed the Wei River and arrived in Weinan, which gave Hu Feng a little more confidence in breaking the Xu Huang camp.

This is the battle of attacks. For example, in the Fortress game, if you completely block the city walls and gates, the enemy will think hard and follow the steps. But if you deliberately build the city walls into twists and turns, leaving a few holes to rush in and tempt the enemy to take the bait, the enemy will have a sudden confidence and rush up directly without even building siege weapons.

After Hu Feng crossed the river, he carefully observed Xu Huang's camp and saw such a scene.

Although there are ten levels of deer antlers and several pits, the camp gate is only nailed horizontally and vertically, and the wall is just a pinnacle wall with piles of earth rammed.

The weather in September of the lunar calendar was not so cold that it could pour water from the Wei River on rammed earth and freeze into an ice wall, so no matter how you look at the fortifications, you can easily break out of the gap - to put it aside, take the Wei River and pour it on the sand and soil to freeze the ice wall. Historically, Lou Gui thought about the time when he broke the Ma Chao in Cao Cao, but that year the weather was abnormal, and the temperature in Weinan dropped sharply before the beginning, so it was so cold at the end of September.

Hu Feng came this time, the weather was normal, and the lunar calendar was nearly half a month earlier, so the trick of solidifying the walls of frozen soil was useless.

"Hmph, County Magistrate Xu has indeed lied about the enemy situation. How could there be an enemy soldier of 'about 2,000 people'? It would be nice to have a thousand people. He is really afraid of the enemy."

Hu Feng observed it carefully at a distance of three or four hundred steps, and snorted coldly. He was not mistaken, because the garrison at the height of Wuzhangyuan was very hidden and invisible from below. In addition, the vegetation was lush, so he could only fight for the plants and trees.

The high ground is not afraid of being directly attacked, so there is no need to repair the fortifications. Just pile more wood and stones on the edge of the cliff, and there is no need for walls or wooden stakes. The fortification construction power of the five or six days ago was all concentrated in the lowland camp by the river.

Hu Feng saw only Xu Huang's camp, of course there were less than a thousand people.

Hu Feng immediately ordered: "Split the troops and two battalions, one battalion will fill the pit along the Wuzhangyuan side to destroy the antlers. The antlers in the dry areas can be thrown into torches and burned to test. If the enemy dares to stop the damage, the other battalion will prepare a crossbow to suppress it."

Although the army of Ji County was not a direct subordinate of Hu Feng, it was obedient and immediately executed the order.

I have to say that although Hu Feng’s official position is not high and his military achievements are not significant, he still only serves as a lieutenant in the Chang'an court, where his official position is poor.

But in the officialdom, we never only look at the level of the official position, but also look at the relationship between a person and the leader, and the meal. The officers in the officialdom of Mei County also knew that Hu Feng was Li Jue's confidant, very trusted, and often took on confidential affairs, so they did not dare to violate the order at all.

In history, it was Hu Feng who, after Fan Chou let Han Sui go, Li Jue set up a banquet for Fan Chou to drink, and then when Fan Chou was half drunk, he threw the cup as a sign. It was Hu Feng who was arranged by Li Jue and ambushed the knife and axe driver behind the account in advance, and suddenly attacked and assassinated the brave Fan Chou.

Those who can be entrusted by the leadership committee to "fall the cup as the title" are extraordinary confidants. If they were not aware of the truth, who would have dared to let him ambush the swordsman in the banquet hall?

There were more than 1,000 soldiers from the two battalions, and they were clearly divided into work and excavated and filled the land. Occasionally, they set fire to burn the antlers, and some players were covered with long shields.

Xu Huang on the opposite side was not to be outdone, and used crossbow shooting to suppress it, and shot against Hu Feng's rear camp. However, because the distance was relatively long, Xu Huang could not use the Zhuge crossbow for the time being - the Zhuge crossbow arrow had no tail feathers, and the flight was unstable, and there was no lethality outside fifty steps.

Hu Feng's archers also hid behind the long shield and followed them to rewind, and both sides fought back and forth.

Fa Zheng on the high ground watched the enemy enter the range, but did not reveal any firepower, which gave the other party the illusion that "the destruction of fortifications was smooth."

On the east edge of the mountain, near the Xu Huang camp below, a white flag was also erected. At this position, Hu Feng attacked from west to east, and the people in Xu Huang camp could see it, so they could calmly arrange their responses according to the observation of the high-altitude firepower observation post.

Fa Zheng made an appointment with Xu Huang in advance. The white flag was to "fire only with crossbows deployed in the low-level camp, not attack, and not expose high-level firepower." The black flag was to "follow the crossbows of Wuzhangyuan Highlands and the low-level camp with all their strength", and the last red flag was to "allow the soldiers of the trapped camp to rush out and counterattack."

Seeing the destruction smoothly, Hu Feng advanced more and more. He gradually moved forward in the pit area a hundred steps ahead of the camp. He tried to lean against the south side, fill the pit and burn the antlers, and dig out a way forward, and his confidence soared.

Some people may wonder: Why should Hu Feng try to rely on Wuzhangyuan on the south side instead of Weishui on the north side?

Of course, this is because when Xu Huang was repairing the camp, he dug several holes in the north Weishui River, so a river flowed into these pits. If the construction is carried out from the north, Hu Feng's project volume is at least several times larger. He had to block the Weishui River water first and drain the water, and when charging, he had to solve the problems of muddy land and sinking into the mud.

The south side is close to the Qinling Mountains and the Wuzhangyuan Highlands. The ground is very dry and solid, so of course I will go here.

As for whether the rolling stones will be thrown down on the top of the mountain, Hu Feng felt that it was not very important, because the enemy camp in the lowlands was right in front of him and just pass through the dangerous area quickly.

Anyway, the walls of the camp look so broken, and you can kill in just a few minutes and mess with the enemy. It is too much trouble to build a large-scale project in a few minutes. You can endure it and pass it.

"The enemy's attack is so weak, and there are only two trapped antlers left. The entire army's long snake formation rushed through the narrow road opened up! As long as we enter the enemy camp and make a group with the thief army, we will definitely win!"

Seeing that the breakthrough was about to break through, Hu Feng shouted loudly to the entire army to assault.

Five thousand soldiers, while filling the pit, filled seven or eight obstacles, and only about 200 people died in total, and some were injured. As a tough battle, the number of casualties such as destroying peripheral fortifications was completely acceptable. The soldiers on his own knew that this was inevitable, so their morale was not depressed. Hu Feng ordered the whole group to start queuing up like chicken blood.

If the road filled out was not too narrow, everyone would rather attack from a wide front than line up from a front that was dozens of steps wide.

With a command, Xu Huang also divided three hundred soldiers in the camp wearing iron armor and stabbed the horse sword and arranged in the wall section that was about to be impacted.

"Our soldiers are strong and smart, well-trained, far from comparable to Hu Feng's military soldiers. They are usually worried that the iron-armored soldiers will not be able to maintain their physical strength after a long battle. But today our army is waiting for labor, while the enemy is marching by detours. After traveling for a total of 40 miles to get here, our army can turn inferior to superiors in terms of physical strength, and Hu Feng is not afraid of it."

Xu Huang held the handle of the axe tightly and thought to himself calmly.

Of course, there is still a gap between his expanded version of the trap camp and Gao Shun's original trap camp, mainly in terms of practical experience and psychological quality. After all, Liu Bei entered Shu and was in seclusion for several years. The battle formations experienced by the infantry elites, that is, the battles when they attacked Nanzhong, were all practiced out of thin air. Some things, especially psychological quality, can only be trained if they are truly more bloody.

When Hu Feng's front army rushed to within twenty steps and leaped over the penultimate trench, dozens of Zhuge crossbows on the camp wall and the observation tower finally began to fire volleys, with the fire density comparable to the approaching of hundreds of crossbowmen.

In order to prevent accidental injury, all Zhuge Birds did not lower Wangshan to shoot the enemy in the front row, but slightly extended their firepower and separated the shooting from the front row twenty steps away. In this way, even if it was not very accurate, it would not hurt the soldiers of the trapped camp entering the hand-to-hand combat.

This kind of tactic of precise cooperation between crossbows and melee combat cannot be presented in another occasion.

Because the fire density of ordinary crossbows is too low, to achieve such firepower, at least hundreds of crossbow soldiers must be arranged in the front row. These people cannot fight in close combat. Once they want to enter melee, they have to retreat and change to melee soldiers to go up.

Only the firepower density of Zhuge Crossbow can be installed on just a few arrow towers, and does not occupy too wide front arrays.

Hu Feng's troops were instantly suffocated. The dozen or so rows of soldiers in the front saw arrows rubbing their heads, but they were unscathed, but there was a wave of terrifying and dense screams from behind. They rushed for a while, and they were not retreating, so they had to continue gritting their teeth and fighting hand in hand.

"Roar over! Break through the enemy formation and kill all the people on the arrow tower and win!" Everyone had this idea and rushed towards Xu Huang without fear of death.

Some of them were squeezed out of the last pit and trampled on each other and died, but they didn't care at this time. Even if they used their bodies to fill the last pit and the antlers inside, they had to go.

When they rushed to the rammed earth slope in front of the picket pile, many people were killed by condescending soldiers of the camp, and the bodies quickly raised the rammed earth a layer.

Some people were hit hard when they carefully climbed over the top of the picket wall and were directly inserted into the picket pile. They were as terrifying as the wooden piles in the Middle Ages in the West, but they also smoothed the tips of the wooden piles, which seemed to be less deadly.

Unfortunately, the victory that seemed to be getting closer and closer was still so far away, and it seemed that the opponent had no effort to use it.

"The ambition to trap the formation is dead but not alive!" As the earth slope and the picket stakes were almost flattened by the corpses, the soldiers who were covered with armor still lined up on the walls, stepping on the corpses to "fight" and gradually became difficult to move.

"Buried after burying" means that the fallen enemy bodies are piled up higher and higher, and the ankles and even some of the calves of the soldiers who are holding their positions have been buried.

Hu Feng was supervising the battle behind the formation, and he felt more and more incredible when he looked at it, and his facial expression became distorted: "How could it be? There are at most a few hundred people behind the wall? Our army was obviously rushing up!

If you work harder, you will be able to achieve your best! If you retreat now, all your efforts will be wasted! Good! There is hope! If you open a hole, you will go to the Arrow Tower! Kill all the disgusting Yuanrong crossbowmen!”

After fighting in a series of bloody battles, no one knew how many people died. His troops seemed to have finally repeatedly attacked on some local positions, killing dozens of soldiers who were trapped in the battle and tearing a hole. He could see the soldiers pouring in from that hole, which seemed to be able to expand the front of the battle many times.

As long as the narrow terrain is passed, the number of soldiers will be exerted, and they will no longer be beaten by a small number of well-equipped elite soldiers like they did at the beginning.

Unfortunately, just when he thought there was a turning point, Xu Huang saw the white flag of Fazheng turned into a black flag on the height of Wuzhangyuan.

Almost in an instant, the side firepower on the plateau was fired at the same time, twenty consecutive crossbows and five hundred ordinary crossbows opened fire together, and hundreds of huge rolling wood and rocks were continuously thrown down. Hundreds of firewood balls made of branches and leaves and dead grass were ignited and rolled down, forming a fire that hindered the advance of subsequent reinforcements.

Hu Feng's rear army was hit by multiple consecutive attacks and could not come forward to support it at all. It was blocked by the front army that had already broken through the gap.

Hundreds of soldiers in the front camp who had already entered Xu Huang's camp cut off their support. For a time, the number of people who were not as large as Xu Huang's. Dozens of people were killed and nearly a hundred injured, and the rest all surrendered with their heads in their arms and kneeled down, and more than 500 were captured.

Fa Zheng changed into the red flag just right, and all the rolling wood and rocks on the hill stopped. Xu Huang led his men out and captured the soldiers who were blocked among the rocks.

Hu Feng never expected that there were only a few hundred people in the enemy's low-level camp, and after resisting the offensive, he dared to retaliate. At that time, he was supervising the battle in front of the army, trying to restrain his team to prevent the fleeing, and also prevent the fleeing soldiers from robbing the ship and crossing Weibei first.

The use of ships must be assigned by the main general, because the number of ships is not enough to carry thousands of people at a time, and it has to be ferryed back and forth many times. If the defeated soldiers of the frightened bird drove the ship away and went downstream back to Mei County, wouldn’t the remaining people be left in Weinan? That is even worse than Wu Mengda’s “I haven’t gotten on the bus yet”.

Unfortunately, just when Hu Feng constrained military discipline to prevent the defeated soldiers from seizing the ship, Xu Huang, behind him, brought a few hundred scouts and cavalrymen, and suddenly broke out. Hu Feng's army blocked here and rushed backed too fast, so he had to return to his post to fight with Xu Huang to fight for time.

"The thief is killed!" Xu Huang and Hu Feng fought for more than ten rounds. Taking advantage of Hu Feng's strength, he swung an axe to kill him.

"Hu... Hu's Captain Hu died in battle! Run!" The remaining troops in Mei County were in chaos. Some wanted to seize the ship and cross the Wei River north, some ran west with no life, and ran towards Chencang. Some were so anxious that they were chased and kneeled down to surrender.

There were chaos for a moment, and everyone was still confused and didn't turn around: Why did they lose so badly with five thousand people attacking camps with less than one thousand people? This is too psychologically shady.

Fortunately, Xu Huang had very few mobile troops, with only a hundred cavalrymen, so he didn't dare to chase them deep. It was just now that the smoke from the fireballs that Fa Zheng set fire to the fire made the garrison in Mei County not know the reality and the number of cavalry chasing behind Yan, so he tried to kill Hu Feng.

So after catching three or four hundred prisoners a little more, Xu Huang also retreated back to the camp very steadily, and no longer relying on a hundred cavalry to chase the enemy soldiers crossing the river.

After half a stick of incense, Xu Huang returned to the camp, and Fa Zheng had also come from the highland camp to the lowland camp to welcome Xu Huang.

"Fa Duwei, how to deal with Hu Feng's head? Today's battle can be regarded as a vent of last year's anger!"

Xu Huang threw the head on the ground and let out a breath of turbid air in his chest. Last year, he and Fa Zheng both experienced the defeat at Wuzhangyuan. He was always very upset and had not been promoted much.

If the Northern Expedition is successful this time and there are more battles to fight, you will definitely catch up with those of Gan Ning and maybe you can become a miscellaneous general.

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PS: It's a little later, mainly because this is more word count, more than 4,000. That's it.
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