Through discussion, Wei Xiang divided the army under his command into four parts.

Some were led by Wang Yuan and stationed in Longdi, some were led by Niu Han and stationed in Wating, some were led by Wang Meng, stationed in Jitou Road, and some were led by Xingzhang, stationed in Fanxukou.

The troops were stationed everywhere, with Niu Han's troops the largest, with 100,000 troops.

In addition, Wei Xiang also gave Niu Han temporary conscription power, which means that Niu Han could recruit soldiers and horses in Wating and surrounding areas. This means that Niu Han's command more than 100,000 soldiers and horses can reach more than 100,000.

From this we can see that Wei Xiang trusts and values ​​Niu Han.

After separating troops to four places, Wei Xiang sent another letter to Gongsun Shu, asking Gongsun Shu to send troops to help. Gongsun Shu did not ignore him and sent his generals Li Yu and Tian Ya to command 50,000 troops to reinforce Wei Xiang.

The arrival of the 50,000 Shu army was like giving Wei Xiang a reassurance, making him feel full of confidence all of a sudden.

After the 50,000 Shu troops led by Li Yu and Tian Ya arrived in Shangji, Wei Xiang personally led the 30,000 Long troops left behind in Shangji, and went straight to Lueyang, which was occupied by the Han army, with the Shu army.

Wei Xiang had a clear plan. Wang Yuan, Niu Han, Wang Meng, led four armies and blocked the Han army to the road close to Hanyang. Then the 20,000 Han troops that captured Lueyang were an isolated turtle in a jar.

It is easy to destroy this Han army with a total of 80,000 troops on our side.

Before the war, Wei Xiang was full of confidence and led an army of 80,000 to Lueyang in a mighty manner.

Inside Lueyang City.

A spy had already reported the news of the enemy's approaching to Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu climbed to the top of the city and looked out. He saw a large army walking to the west of Lueyang, looking at the flags that were cast out of the army. Some flags had the word "wei" written on them, and some flags had the word "Gongsun".

After seeing it, Lai Xu frowned and said, "Your Majesty, this must be the reinforcements sent by Gongsun Shu to Wei Xiang. It seems that there are still a large number of reinforcements!"

Liu Xiu nodded and estimated: "There should be no less than 50,000!"

Qingqi said: "The Long Army has about 30,000 troops."

One side is 50,000, and the other side is 30,000. Together, it is almost 100,000 people. There are only 20,000 soldiers on our side. It is not easy to resist the siege of nearly 100,000 troops!

Seeing that the generals' faces were a little solemn, Liu Xiu smiled slightly and said in a brisk tone: "What are you afraid of?! If these 80,000 enemy troops were all Long Army, or Shu Army, it would be difficult for us to fight in this battle. However, half of this enemy troops were Long Army and half of Shu Army, it would not be too difficult for us to resist!"

The most common occurrence of coalition combat is to save our own strength and shirke each other.

Wei Xiang and Gongsun Shu are not generous people, and they have very strong selfish intentions. It is not difficult to imagine that when they really come to the battlefield, they only hope that the other party can take the lead, fight against the enemy and consume it, so that they can stay behind, preserve their strength, and easily pick up bargains or sweep them.

So although it seems that there are many soldiers and horses in the enemy, Liu Xiu really didn't take it seriously. After hearing Liu Xiu's words, Lai She, Qing Qi, Ji Zun and others suddenly felt energetic again.

Qing Qi said proudly: "Luoyang City has high walls, abundant food and supplies, and sufficient city defense weapons. Even if the enemy is one hundred thousand elite soldiers who are united, it is not easy to capture Luoyang!"

Liu Xiu turned his head and said, "Send the order and let the entire army be prepared for the battle!"

"Here!" The generals present bowed and responded.

The Han army was ready to face the enemy, and the coalition was also ready to attack.

Wei Xiang quickly arranged troops and set up formations. He personally led 30,000 Long Army, mainly attacking the Xicheng in Ruoyang; ordered Li Yu to lead 30,000 Shu Army, the North City of Lord Luoyang, and Tian Yan to lead 20,000 Shu Army, and the South City of Lord Luoyang.

If a grandson says, the encirclement of the army will be missing.

It means that whether it is siegeing the city or siege of the enemy, there must be a gap and not besieging the enemy to death. In this way, the enemy will not resist to the death and greatly reduce the damage to the war on its own side.

Wei Xiang's ability to lead troops to fight is indeed very ordinary, but this does not mean that he does not understand military theory knowledge or military books and war strategies.

There was no objection to Wei Xiang's deployment of troops, whether it was the Long Army generals, Li Yu, Tian Yan and other Shu Army generals.

Afterwards, the coalition forces were divided into three parts, and the Shu army led by Li Yu and Tian Ya moved to the outside of the north and south cities of Lueyang respectively.

When the troops and horses from all sides were ready, Wei Xiang ordered to march by beating the drum. The first to launch an offensive against Lueyang was the 30,000 Long Army. The front army of the Long Army lined up a neatly square formation and advanced to the city of Lueyang.

Within a hundred steps of Lueyang City, a long arrow formation soared over the city. The arrow formation was like a dark cloud, cutting through the sky and smashing down towards the head of the Long Army. The soldiers raised their shields to form a shield formation to resist the Han army's arrow formation.

Pa, pa, pa—

Arrows were nailed to the wooden shield, and crisp sounds came one after another, endlessly, and soldiers fell to the ground from time to time. After a round of arrow formation, the second and third rounds were immediately followed...

The Han army's arrows seemed endless, causing great pressure to the advancement of Long Army formation.

Wei Xiang, who was watching the battle behind, frowned, raised his whip, pointed to Lueyang City in front, and asked in a deep voice: "Why is the enemy's arrow formation so fierce?" The arrows shot out seemed to be worthless.

In fact, the arrows used by the Han army were indeed obtained without any money.

When the Lueyang defenders fled, they left a large amount of military equipment for the Han army, including hundreds of thousands of arrows. Now, the Han army has used all these arrows picked up for free on the Long Army.

The front army of the Long Army, facing the Han army's arrow formation, finally advanced within fifty steps. At this time, more dense crossbow arrows were shot from the head of Lueyang City.

The arrows were smashed in the air with arcs, while the crossbows were shot straight down. The first thing that was affected was the soldiers in the front row.

After a round of crossbow arrow formation, a row of people fell in front of the formation, and each of them had dozens or even dozens of crossbow arrows inserted into them.

The soldiers in the second row quickly moved forward, but the second round of crossbow arrows followed by shots on them again.

As the Han army shot one round after another, the casualties of the Long army rose sharply. Before this front army, which consisted of thousands of people, could not advance to the front of the city wall of Lueyang, he heard the sound of gold coming from behind.

The soldiers of the front army didn't know what was going on, so they could only turn into the front team and retreat all backwards. After they retreated from the battlefield, they looked at the battlefield, and there were thousands of corpses lying on the battlefield, and each of them looked like a hedgehog.

The generals who led the front army came to Wei Xiang, intervened and bowed, and asked, "Why did the king retreat?" They were about to attack the city of Lueyang. Retreat at this time would be equivalent to paying for thousands of casualties from their brothers in vain.

Wei Xiang glanced at the generals under his command and said with a gloomy old face: "The enemy's arrow formation is very fierce, and our soldiers are difficult to resist. Instead of taking risks to attack, it is better to restrain them here. Wait for Li Yu and Tian Yan to break through the enemy's city defense first."

The generals of the former army were not fools. When they heard this, they immediately understood Wei Xiang's intention. The king did not want his side to take the lead and fight against the enemy head-on, but wanted Li Yu and Tian Yan's Shu army to be consumed with the enemy first.

As a general, he was unwilling to hide behind people. This was too embarrassing and too backbone. But from Wei Xiang's standpoint, he could fully understand Wei Xiang's approach.

Liu Xiu, Gongsun Shu and Wei Xiang have the smallest territory and the weakest strength. If your side does not try every means to preserve its strength, the future will either be annexed by Liu Xiu or annexed by Gongsun Shu.

Under the influence of selfishness, Wei Xiang only made a tentative attack on Lueyang. After losing thousands of soldiers, he immediately withdrew the attacking troops.

At the same time, the 30,000 Shu troops led by Li Yu were attacking the Beicheng in Lueyang. The Han army had more than 5,000 people on the Beicheng side, and the head general was Qingqi.

On the other hand, the 20,000 Shu army led by Tian Ya was attacking Nancheng in Lueyang. The Han army had more than 5,000 defenders on the Nancheng, and the head general was Ji Zun.

The battle in the south and north city of Lueyang was almost a replica of the west city. At the beginning, Li Yu and Tian Ya sent troops to attack.

But when he saw the defenders' arrow formations were very fierce, he heard that the Long Army in the west city had retreated, and the two of them no longer attacked blindly, but instead ordered the attacking troops to retreat, turning into thunder and rain.

The performance of the coalition forces can be said to be exactly the same as Liu Xiu expected.

Wei Xiang's Long Army was waiting for the Shu army to attack first, Li Yu and Tian Yan's Shu army were waiting for the Long Army to attack first, and both sides were waiting for the other side to go first, but they were unwilling to take the lead, and both sides were facing Mo Yanggong.

Under this mentality, the coalition forces wanted to tear open the defense line of the Han army and capture Lueyang, which was naturally a dream. In one day, the coalition forces were exhausted under the attack of heavy thunder and small raindrops.

When it got dark, Li Yu and Tian Ya led their respective troops and retreated to Wei Xiang's side.

At this time, Wei Xiang's face looked extremely ugly. In order to retain his strength, he would not want to fight head-on with the Han army.

But the Shu army that came to reinforce was far away, and they also had selfish intentions and wanted to preserve their strength and were unwilling to take the lead. It was so shameless.

The coalition forces and the west city of Lueyang set up camps. In the central army tent, Wei Xiang sat in the middle, his face as heavy as water. The generals stood on both sides, bowing their heads one by one, without saying a word.

Wei Xiang looked around everyone, slapped the table suddenly, and said angrily: "Today's battle is simply infuriating! You guys say, how did today's battle fight?"

The generals of the Long Army looked at each other and muttered to themselves, "Master, you don't let us attack the city with all our might. Why are you blaming us now?"

Of course, such words cannot be said. Zhao Hui whispered: "King, the enemy is fierce and tenacious. Our army has been attacking for a whole day, and there are great casualties!"

Li Yu and Tian Ya looked at Zhao Hui and almost laughed out loud. They were not blind. There were only a thousand people in total, so how many casualties were caused by the Long Army?

Wei Xiang glared at Zhao Hui fiercely and shouted angrily: "It's useless, it's useless, there's no need to make excuses in front of me!"

As he spoke, he turned his head and his eyes fell on Li Yu and Tian Ya. His tone was a little softer, and he asked, "General Li, General Tian, ​​what's going on with you today?"

Li Yu and Tian Ya looked at each other and said in his heart that he came. Wei Xiang scolded Zhao Hui in public, but in fact he was just for them to see. The two of them felt a mirror in their hearts, and they did not show any expression on their faces. They continued to pretend to be confused and said seriously: "Reported to King Shuoning, our army was also subjected to stubborn resistance from the Han army when they were attacking the city. Several strong attacks were all repelled by the Han army, and countless soldiers were damaged and generals were lost."

Wei Xiao was so angry that his teeth were itchy. Today's casualties in the Shu army were not as serious as those on his own! Li Yu and Tian Ya were from Gongsun Shu after all, and they came to help, so he couldn't scold them too much.

He said meaningfully: "Your Majesty sent two generals to Hanyang and expressed high hopes for both generals. He also hoped that the two generals could do their best and not to be lip service."

Li Yu and Tian Ya looked both righteous, both intervened and bowed, and said in unison: "I should do my duty to Your Majesty, and I will never refuse!"
Chapter completed!