On July 16, Wang Yuan's troops had been in a village ten miles away from Lu'an City for two days.

"Taiwei, you should quickly attack Lu'an and then defend the city, so that you can block the reinforcements of the Jin army." Chen Cui said to Wang Yuan.

"Our mission is to stop the reinforcements of the Jin thieves, not to occupy Lu'an. Lu'an has been occupied by the Jin thieves, so why should we spend our troops to attack? We can still fight the Jin thieves here."

"Taiwei, that's not what it means. In Lu'an City, we can defend ourselves and go out of the city to harass the Jin thieves' retreat. In this village, the Jin thieves can block us with a small number of people, and the brigade goes to Shouzhou."

"There are a few Jin soldiers who block us? Then I will annihilate them. It is better to fight on the ground than to attack the city."

"Taiwei,..." Chen Cui was about to persuade him again.

Wang Yuan suddenly became irritated: "How to attack the city? How to attack the city? You are not unaware that after being wet two days ago, the military man fell ill and the civilians were also lost. Now there are not even people who make equipment. How to attack the city?"

When he heard that the civilians were also separated, Chen Cui showed an unbearable look on his face. Many civilians were infected with wind and cold after being in the rain and were abandoned by Wang Yuan on the road.

Although the military men did not fall ill halfway through what Wang Yuan said, there were 30% of them. There was no medicine to resist the wind and cold in the army. At least they brought a lot of ginger to serve meals. They served ginger soup for both meals a day, which was hard to hold on with the patient.

Wang Yan said at this time: "How can we cure wind and cold in this village? And there is not much food or grass? I think we will take them to Hezhou."

Wang Yuan waved his hand: "The Jin thieves' army is approaching now, who will take them back? Wang Tongzheng, how can you take them back?"

"The last one is willing to fight against the Jin thieves."

"Then General Chen, would you please take them back?"

"The last one is more willing to go into battle to kill the enemy."

Wang Yuan was furious: "I said I would take the patient to Hezhou again, but everyone refused. There were more than 10,000 patients and no general watched it, so why would it be reassuring?" Wang Yuan sighed: "I can't say that, I have to take the patient to Hezhou."

ah?

Chen Cui stammered: "Taiwei, go to Hezhou, then here...here..."

"What are these? I'll go to Hezhou for the time being, and I'll leave it to the King's Commander."

"This is not right." Chen Cui said.

"What's wrong? Do you look down on the king's commander and think he is from a red scarf and can't take you?"

"It's not true." Chen Cui quickly argued.

After squeezing Chen Cui, Wang Yuan said to Wang Yan again: "As soon as the general leaves, the important task of blocking the captive chief will be handed over to you within three or five days. I wonder if you dare to take it."

"How can a real man dare not take it?" Even though he knew that Wang Yuan was running away on the pretext, Wang Yan couldn't bear to say that he did not dare to be a Jin thief.

"That's good, I'll ask you all. Within ten days, I will definitely return." Suddenly, Wang Yuan extended the time from three to five days to ten days.

There were eight or nine thousand patients here. Wang Yuan took away his confidant subordinates to "escort along the way", leaving only 15,000 people to Wang Yan and Chen Cui. Wang Yanwang's far away sighed: "Strengthen the camp."

At the foot of Shaanxi Mountain, the Song and Jin armies had been fighting fiercely for a day. Under the cover of bows and arrows and crossbows, Han Shizhong's command desperately attacked the mountain.

The only ones guarding the city on the top of the mountain were Wanyan Bashu and his personal guard Mouke, as well as the more than a thousand Bohai and Xi people mixed teams assigned to him by Wanyan Sai. The huge phoenix crossbow made them frightened. In the dense rain of arrows, they could only hide behind the city wall and blindly threw down the rock-beating wood.

Han Shizhong's soldiers rushed to the foot of the city wall many times before being repelled by the rock-beating wooden rolling wood.

The defense of the mountain city became arduous, and Shaanxi Mountain was like a reef in the stormy waves. As the water level slowly rose, it was about to be submerged.

Wanyan Bashu had already stood behind the mountain city and commanded his personal guard Mouke. He divided Mouke into two parts, one with weapons in his hand, waiting under the gable, and the other with bows and arrows in his hand, aiming at the Song army that was climbing the city wall with one arrow.

Dozens of Song soldiers had already climbed the gable and were immediately challenged by organized arrows and guns. They all fell off the cliff and killed their lives.

But the situation of the Jin soldiers was still very critical. Every Song army was killed, and one Jin soldier was buried with him, and the Song army's strength was twice that of the Jin army.

At this time, a thousand cavalry rushed out of Xia Cai City and rushed straight to Han Shizhong's back. Although the Song army attacked Xia Cai City on three sides, the Jin army was not blocked and went straight to the rear of Han Shizhong's army.

Han Shizhong had no choice but to transfer two commanders to cover his side, and the attack was restrained, and the offensive on the mountain was slowed down. Han Shizhong was under pressure and sent someone to ask Du Chong for help.

Du Chong said: "Why is Han Wu so unaware of this? Let him attack Shanshishan to attract all the main forces of the Jin soldiers in the city and let Longwu and Longwei fight one battle. I will go to reinforce him now. The Jin thieves hide in the city, which is difficult."

"Tell Han Wu that he would attack the mountain more violently and call out the little captains."

Today is July 17th. Wanyan Nianhan's army had just met with Wang Yan and Chen Cui. The 28,000 Jin army was indeed extraordinary, forcing Wang Yan and Chen Cui's 15,000 subordinates back to their camp.

"Dad, this Wang Yan and we fought with each other many times in Hedong, which is not easy to chew."

"Then don't rush to eat it." Wanyan Nianhan smiled and said, "Seibao."

"The son is here."

"You bring your own headquarters to join Meng'an, plus 20,000 signing troops, build a trench around this camp, trapping Wang Yan and others, and wait for me to rescue Cai to help protect them, and then come back to deal with Wang Yan."

"Dad, Wang Yan is also a big fish. Why not solve him first."

"He is such a small number of people. As long as you surround me, the big fish will not be able to escape."

After arranging the assistance to encircle Wang Yan, Wanyan Nianhan hurriedly rushed towards Xia Cai with 25,000 troops and the same number of sign troops.

July 18th, another hot day. Han Shizhong had been attacking the foot of Shaanxi Mountain for three days. It is necessary to admit that his soldiers were not as brave as the Jin soldiers. Only half of his Jin soldiers occupied the gables and the harassment of reinforcements from Xia Cai from time to time blocked Han Shizhong for three days.

Du Chong's attack on Xia Caicheng became increasingly weak. He started attacking every day at Chen hour. At Si hour, the sun became hot. Everyone retreated to eat and take a nap. When the sun was weak, the sunlight in Shen hour was weak and then launched an attack. After an hour, the sky turned dark. Everyone withdrew their troops and returned to the camp and fought again tomorrow.

Han Shizhong couldn't bear it, so he went to see Du Chong in person in the evening: "My husband, when adjusting the troops, please lend Zhang Jun's troops to the last general, and it is better to conquer Shaanxi Shishan first."

Du Chong said: "Han Wuxiu is anxious. If you persist for a few more days, the Jin thief will definitely come out of the city. Now, it is just about who can't hold back."

"My husband, I will eventually lose my soldiers at the foot of Shaanxi Mountain. Please help me add more troops."

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say. After this battle, we will give General Han a higher title."

"My husband, even if there are no people, it's good to add some crossbow arrows."

"Well, okay, I'll give you another hundred crossbow arrows."

"One hundred?"

"A hundred pieces are already many, let alone gables, even Yanjing has broken them."

Han Shizhong had no choice but to look back and prepare for tomorrow's attack.

July 19th is a good day. Zhao Chen got up early in the morning and pulled King Kang Zhao Gou to play chess: "I have a premonition that the decisive battle with the thief is today. I want to follow the example of my ancestors, play chess with the emperor, and watch the soldiers defeat the enemy."

He waved his hand, and Huang Yanjie brought the eunuchs to bring two pairs of wooden shoes.

"The weather is hot, and it's cooler for the emperor and I to wear wooden shoes. I've prepared tea to calm down. If the emperor loses, don't make excuses."

Zhao Gou smiled and thanked the emperor for giving him shoes. At this time, Huang Yanjie took another threshold and placed it at the door of the big tent.

The chessboard and tea cups were already set up, and the two started playing chess.

Hu Yangeng washed up and took the tooth sign to enter the palace. Gao Lu sorted out the gauze crown for him, with a hint of jealousy: "What's the point of Wang Yanshu asking you to enter the palace today?"

"Hmm? I don't know either."

Hu Yangeng comforted Gao Lu for a few words and came to the palace. He felt that this was not good, but there was a voice in his heart saying, "Since the besieged city of Bianliang, that wonderful relationship will be over today."

On Bagong Mountain, the emperor's tent. Zhao Chen walked out a wonderful hand and felt proud. Suddenly, there was a noise outside.

Zhao Chen was about to jump up, but stopped and asked in a calm tone: "Is the main force of the Jin thief out of the city? But do you want the Longwu Army to go and block it?"

Yang Yizhong, who was guarding the door, picked up the big tent: "Your Majesty, there are cavalry of Jin thieves around the camp. You are setting up defenses for the activities, so don't worry."

"Du Chong is incompetent to let the Jin thieves run to Bagong Mountain, so he let Xiang Gong solve this Jin thief."

There was indeed a shout of killing outside. Zhao Chen smiled at Zhao Gou: "If the emperor is worried, you can push the scale and admit defeat."

Zhao Gou replied respectfully: "Your Majesty will not be in chaos when he is in the battle, it is a gift from heaven. Although I am frightened, I will also accompany Your Majesty to finish the chess."

The two left more than twenty more hands, and Zhao Gou smiled and said, "Your Majesty is watching me play chess without intention and deliberately giving in to me. Now my situation is better."

Tong Mu didn't know when he went out, but at this time he lifted the curtain and came in: "Your Majesty, we were bitten by the Jin thieves' army. The Jin thieves were beating Wanyan Nianhan's banner."

Wanyan Nianhan's cavalry suddenly appeared beside Zhao Chen's camp. They could have arrived on the evening of the 18th, but they deliberately lurked thirty miles away. They waited until dawn. First, two Meng'an cavalry arrived first, directly attacking Zhao Chen's camp, and at the same time cut off the connection between Bagong Mountain and the Song army in Xia Cai.

The other Jin soldiers gathered all the animals, including horses, donkeys, and mules, and rode to Bagong Mountain. The third wave was the signing army brigade and arrived on foot.

"Sage, the city defense of Bianliang has been repaired, and the Bianliang defenders with the Longjie Army as the main body have also been reorganized."
Chapter completed!