Emperor Sun made his fortune from scratch

Li Zhao was in a wonderful mood when he learned that Liu Haoyan had killed Zhang Xia. He originally only hoped that Liu Haoyan could defend Lu County, but he never thought that there would be such an unexpected joy.

"Go and pass the order to Liu Haoyan, and then Luxian County will abandon or defend, you can decide for yourself, and you don't need to ask the commander. Li Zhao said.

"Yes. The scout received the order and quickly left.

Yang Zhidao: "The last general thinks that after this defeat, Shen Tian may change his strategy. The Qi army still has the advantage in strength, and it is estimated that it will not be long before it will launch an attack on Nanzheng or Dashuai.

Li Zhao said: "Qi Jun will not go to Nanzheng, nor will he go to Qi Jingyun, he will only come to me." Not only is there the most Zhaowu army here, but more importantly, the handsome people are here. If Ben Shuai can be caught, the battle of Hanzhong will end in a short time. "

If Li Zhao and Qi Jingyun gathered troops in the same place, the Qi army would definitely attack Nanzheng first. surrounded Li Zhao without fighting, and at the same time cut off Li Zhao's grain channel. After a long time, there were no reinforcements and no food, and the Zhaowu army would be defeated.

But Li Zhao chose to divide the troops, and the Zhaowu army here only had more than 30,000 people, and he used himself as bait to lure the Qi army to attack.

"This time Shen Tian is serious, Ben Shuai doesn't talk nonsense, let's get ready to fight. You must firmly believe that the one who will win this battle is and can only be the Zhaowu army. Li Zhao said in a deep voice.

"The last will obey. The generals responded in unison.

After the generals left, Li Zhao asked Fan Shuo, "How is it now?"

and "It will take some time." Fan Shuo said.

"As soon as possible.

An archer of the Zhaowu Army was eating on the battlefield, and he inadvertently glanced at the camp and said to his companion: "Could it be that I am dazzled, I always feel that the big camp behind me is higher in some places." The

companion smiled: "Of course you are dazzled, how can the camp be suddenly raised." Stop thinking and eat quickly. The Qi army is about to kill, if you are distracted again, be careful to lose your life.

After Yang Xu received the military order, he didn't delay for a moment, and soon came to the outside of the Zhaowu army camp.

If you want to capture Li Zhao's camp here, the intricate trenches in front of the camp are a major difficulty for the soldiers of the Qi army. Although there was no trench to the south of the camp, there was a cliff there, and the Zhaowu army had a condescending advantage, and it was more difficult to attack from the south.

Yang Xu thought for a long time and chose to fill in the trench. At the sound of an order, the Qi army's foot soldiers and young men marched forward quickly, scattering a large amount of gravel and earth into the trench. In order to cover their movements, thousands of crossbowmen set up bows and shoot arrows to attack the Zhaowu army in the distance. The catapult was also throwing boulders, trying to break down the arrow towers of the Zhaowu army.

It was expected that when the trench was filled, it would be attacked by the Zhaowu army. More than half of General Shen Tian's bows, arrows, bed crossbows and other ordnance were transferred to Yang Xu.

Even so, the Zhaowu army's counterattack was swift and violent. There are a large number of well-trained archers in the army, and dozens of arrow towers have various bed crossbows. Li Zhao prepared a huge number of arrows, and asked for only one, to shoot all those who wanted to fill the trench.

On both sides of the trench, there were soon dead and wounded, and the ground was covered with dense arrows.

Yang Xu was a little surprised that the archers of the Qi army could not suppress the other party. ruthlessly ordered that if there was a corpse of Qi soldiers outside the trench, it was not allowed to be brought back, and it was directly used to push and fill the trench.

The trenches were deeper than expected, and it took the Qi army a day to fill only a small number of trenches, losing hundreds of soldiers and young men.

Thinking of the death of so many soldiers, Yang Xu was extremely dissatisfied with Chen Ran in his heart. He had expected that many people would die when he pushed and filled the trenches, and that such a job could be done by the young man. After telling Shen Tian about this, Shen Tian immediately sent a letter to Chen Ran. Let Chen Ran quickly recruit 100,000 young people, send them to Hanzhong, and replace the soldiers to fill in the trenches. With a population of millions in Shudi, it is not difficult to recruit 100,000 young people. Chen Ran's side didn't know what was going on, and he didn't reply for a long time.

Shen Tian once tried to forcibly recruit local young people in Hanzhong. However, because of the previous incident with Wang Jing, the Qi army was unpopular in Hanzhong, and the problem of young and strong escaping was serious.

Some of his subordinates suggested to him that there was no need to continue to push and fill the trenches, which was too time-consuming and energy-consuming. Wooden planks can be placed between the trenches and the soldiers can step on the planks to attack.

Yang Xu felt that he could give it a try, and urgently asked the carpenters in the army to make a large number of wooden planks, and he needed to ensure that several soldiers stood on them so that they would not collapse.

It took the carpenter hundreds of planks in a very short time.

The Qi army braved the fierce arrow rain of the Zhaowu army, erected wooden planks on the trench, and the soldiers stepped on the planks to reach the top of another trench, and began to place new planks, stepping on the planks forward. And so on and so forth, little by little.

Seeing this, Li Zhao sneered and ordered the stone-throwing cart to be filled with clay pots and filled with fire oil. After igniting, it was thrown at the plank under the feet of the Qi soldiers. Many planks were set on fire and could no longer pass through them, and some soldiers were smashed and fell into the trenches.

Yang Xu did not give up, and saw that the accuracy of the stone throwing truck was not good, and he failed to burn all the wooden planks. The Qi army was ordered to continue to use this method and continue to move forward.

Between the trenches, there is no fixed width. Some of the planks were not long enough to be erected on them, and the soldiers were forced to stop and wait for new planks. And while waiting, it is extremely vulnerable to crossbowman fire.

What Yang Xu didn't expect was that there were a large number of soldiers of the Zhaowu Army hidden in the back trenches.

The Zhaowu army, armed with spears under the trench, desperately attacked the Qi army marching above the plank. Some of the planks were pierced from below, and some of the soldiers were stabbed by sharp spearheads, and they could not move forward under the severe pain.

Only a small number of Qi soldiers successfully passed through all the trenches and entered Li Zhao's camp. But they will face the heavy infantry of the Zhaowu Army. Because the Qi army did not follow in time, and was isolated and helpless, the Qi army either died or surrendered.

After a day-long onslaught, the Qi army did not make much progress, but lost hundreds of people.

Yang Xu sighed in his heart and was forced to order to stop the attack. Late that night, the Qi army suddenly climbed the ladder and launched an attack from the south, but the Zhaowu army was very well defended and failed to attack.

Whether it was erecting planks or sneak attacks, they all ended in failure. Yang Xu finally understood that there was no other way than to fill the trench honestly.

Every day after that, the Qi army was doing the same thing: filling the trenches! No matter how fierce the rain of arrows on the opposite side was, no matter how the spearmen blocked, no matter how heavy the casualties in the army were. Yang Xu had only one thought in his heart: fill in this damn trench as soon as possible, and then rush over to kill Li Zhao.

Shen Tian came twice during this period, gave Yang Xu an additional 5,000 troops, and urged him to speed up the progress.

Just as the Qi army was stepping up the siege of Li Zhao, Shen Tian received bad news: Yan Kang had died in battle.