"From now on, the soldiers and generals of the three states of Yongliangyi, who have put down their weapons and surrendered to the pseudo-Han thief army, will be punished even if they are released and returned! The first criminal is forty-stop, and the first criminal is forty-stop, and the second criminal is beheaded, and the family is also guilty of being punished!"

Learning from a painful lesson, he adopted the suggestions of Hu Lie, Pang Hui and Du Xin and other votes of Jin army generals. Sima Wang, who was governing the military affairs of the three prefectures of the Jin army, had just issued this new military order, and the scout sent an urgent report of the Han army's entry into Linqiong. Mr. Wang, who was already afraid of being beaten by the Han army, did not dare to neglect him. He could only quickly summon the generals under the tent to discuss countermeasures and discuss whether to stick to the end.

Two different opinions emerged within the Jin army. Some generals of the Jin army, led by Wang Hun, felt that they should take the initiative to give up Linqiong and take advantage of the current maneuverability of the Jin army, and immediately retreat to Wuyang to meet Yang Xin. The reason is very simple. The small city of Linqiong is not a military fortress, nor is it a place where military strategists must fight. Instead of using precious cavalry to fight in the city for infantry, it is better to leave quickly and move to Wuyang, which has sufficient money and food and has the help of friendly forces, and then make plans later.

Hu Lie, who was in a bad temper, firmly advocated defending the city to the death. The reason was that Hu Lie felt that the Linqiong city was quite solid and the food in the city was barely enough. He could fight with the Han army and use the advantage of defending the city to attack the Han army head-on, attack the Han army's arrogance, and also encourage the morale that the Jin army had already been depressed to the extreme.

Surprising everyone, after careful calculations, Mr. Wang, who has always been known for his steady military use, actually adopted Hu Lie's suggestion with some anger. When Wang Hun and others were puzzled, Mr. Wang replied: "I must personally understand the siege ability of the siege army. The previous repeated battles have proved that our infantry is indeed not the opponent of the siege army's infantry, but we have only heard of the siege army's ability to siege the siege army. We have only heard of it and have never seen it with our own eyes. Using the siege city in Linqiong to fight with the siege army, we can see what siege tactics the siege army has, which will benefit us from defending Wuyang next."

"Also, Xuanwu is right." Uncle Wang added: "Our army has lost many times, and its morale and fighting spirit has been extremely weak. If we continue to flee without fighting, our soldiers will definitely have no courage to fight against the bandit army. We can only use the best city defense battle to fight with the bandit army, and at least win a few battles. This will only strike the bandit army's arrogance and inspire and boost our morale."

"But old governor, what if we still can't defend it?" Wang Hun asked worriedly: "We are only about 4,000 cavalry and more than 1,000 Linqiong defenders. The bandit army's strength is more than four times that of ours (including the Changjia private soldiers). If we still can't defend it, we may be in danger of annihilation?"

"If you still can't defend, you can run away." Uncle Wang replied lightly: "Linqiong is located in a plain, with open areas on all sides, suitable for our cavalry to move mobile. The infantry of the bandit army cannot trap our cavalry. That's it. Let's stick to it first. If it really doesn't work, then consider retreating to Wuyang."

Seeing that Sima Wang had made up his mind, Wang Hun and others had no choice but to help formulate tactics for defending the city. They quickly decided that the Central Plains soldiers would take over the city defense and withdraw the Linqiong defenders, which were almost all from Yizhou, to serve as reserves. In addition, they would mobilize the people to help defend the city and desperately transport the city guard supplies to the city.

It was almost noon when the Han army was at Linqiong City and chose to establish a camp five miles outside the North Gate of Linqiong City. At the same time, they divided their personnel to cut down timber and bamboo into the areas of Fenghuang Mountain and Baihe Mountain to build siege weapons. After Sima Wang personally came to the city to confirm this situation, he quickly sneered: "But that's all, build the camp so close, and set up a camp in an open area without any dangers. I don't have to worry that I suddenly send troops to attack your camp at night."

"Old Governor, just take advantage of the thief army to establish a foothold and send troops to attack the thief army camp tonight, killing the thief army unexpectedly!" Hu Lie suggested.

"No, I have carefully learned about Zhang Zhi's combat habits. This child is best at night battles and sneak attacks. Since he dares to build the camp so close, he will definitely prevent us from sending troops to attack." Sima Wang shook his head and said, "On the contrary, we have to guard against him to send troops to steal the city tonight. Zhang Zhi's attack on Wei County and Chengdu were both broken cities with this move, so we must guard against the death of the first few nights and cannot give Zhang Zhi's chance to steal the city."

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Without God's perspective, I certainly don't know that Zhang Zhili Camp is in an open area and deliberately built the camp five miles outside the city, with the purpose of intending to retreat immediately without luck. At the same time, the Han army's siege tactics are also very simple and clear, that is, to send troops as agreed at night, and at the third update, someone will attack the city, and if no one will receive it, they will retreat the next day, and not waste time for a disposable Linqiong small city for a long time.

In addition, the Han army prepared a response strategy and an interception tactic. The response strategy was to open the city late at night. If it was the enemy's trick to lure the enemy, the Han army would use a powder barrel to blow up the thousand-pound gate to meet the ambushed army to retreat back to the city or attack with all their strength; the interception tactic was to use night cover to urgently arrange multiple tripping ropes on the road outside the west gate of Linqiong, so as to intercept and ambush the Jin cavalry that would definitely flee to Wuyang.

The uncertainty of this battle is too great, and the Han army soldiers who served as vanguard must face huge risks. In order not to let the generals say that they favor one or the other, Zhang Zhi chose to explain the situation to the Han army generals first, and then let the Han army recommend themselves as voluntarily as vanguard. As a result, Mao Jing, who was quite ambitious, gritted his teeth and stood up first and said, "The last general is willing to be vanguard and take a risk to attack the city!"

"Be careful." Zhang Zhi reminded: "If you find that the situation is wrong, you have to run quickly. Linqiong's small town is not important, and it doesn't matter if you can't get it down. It's better to save the soldiers first."

In this way, after a lot of preparations, and in fact, not very sure, at the second update of the evening that night, Zhang Zhi led 10,000 Han soldiers to secretly go out of the camp. With the cover of the night, he quietly touched outside the North Gate City to launch a sneak attack. Cuan Gu led 4,000 infantrymen and Han cavalry to send troops to the west gate of Linqiong, and urgently arranged trips to the horseshoe and infantry ambush to surprise the Jin cavalry.

During the long wait, the third update finally came. However, what disappointed Mao Jiong, the troops of the front team of the Han army, was that the third update had already sounded in Linqiong City, and there was still no movement in Linqiong City. Neither saw any fire rising, nor did he hear any shouts of killing. After the situation was reported to Zhang Zhi, Zhang Zhi rarely regretted his excessive greed - how could he easily believe a very strange letter to submit?

Regret no matter how much regret it, with the last glimmer of hope, Zhang Zhi waited patiently for a while, but unfortunately he waited for another half an hour, but there was still no movement in Linqiong City. Zhang Zhi had no choice but to admit, "It seems that I was finally fooled this time. Please withdraw my troops, don't let the soldiers continue to feed mosquitoes."

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Before Zhang Zhi finished speaking, the sound of a gong suddenly became loud in Linqiong City. Then there was a sudden sound of shouting and killing, and a fire began to appear in the city. Zhang Zhi quickly withdrew his order to retreat and stretched his head to see the situation of the city gate. But what made Zhang Zhi very strange was that despite the rapid torches on the city and the shouting and killing in the city became louder, the city gate was still pitch black and there was no sign of the opening of the city gate.

After a while, Mao Jiong sent someone to report that he had clearly heard the sound of shouting and fighting near the North Gate of Linqiong, but he never saw the city gate open. It seemed that the Jin army was blocked in the corridor of the city gate. After receiving this report, Zhang Zhi was relieved and jumped up and shouted: "It should not be a trap! Beat the drum, ignite the torch, change the surprise attack to a strong attack, and directly bomb the city gate on the blasting team!"

The order was conveyed. The Han army blasting team, which was originally used for emergency rescue, immediately rushed forward, carried a coffin full of gunpowder and crossed the river directly, and rushed to the north gate of Linqiong. Although the defenders in the city who were already prepared also tried their best to stop the target, they were too dark and could not see clearly. In addition, the Han army blasting team was all wearing double armor, but they still could not stop the Han army blasting team's progress. The Han army blasting team successfully rushed to the front door to place gunpowder, lit the slightest silk and ran away.

"Boom--!"

The reasonable formula gunpowder that appeared thousands of years in advance still did not disappoint Zhang Zhi and the Han army soldiers. With a loud bang, the gunpowder sealed in the coffin exploded violently. The Linqiong City Gate was destroyed in response to the sound, revealing the firelight in the city. The Jin army on the city screamed loudly, and the Han army soldiers were joking. Mao Jiong even jumped up and immediately led the army to charge. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Jin army being caught off guard, he rushed into the city and rushed towards the Jin army infantry who were forced to dismount and fight.

There was no suspense, and he had already been afraid of being killed by the Han army. He saw the city gates being destroyed. In addition, there were internal forces from the Han army in the city. The Jin cavalry who dismounted and fought had no fighting spirit and rushed to the horse and escaped. When the situation was reported to Sima Wang who was hurrying to get up to respond, Sima Wang just yelled, and then immediately rushed to the horse and fled to the horse with his personal soldiers.

"The thief army can really attract thunder to split the city gate. Next time we encounter the thief army attacking the city, we must completely block the city gate corridor! Also, we have to tell the Jiange about this situation quickly!"

Zhang Zhi also successfully guessed the direction of the Jin army's escape. After snatching the horses and rushing out of the horse shed, the Jin cavalry brigade did rushed straight to the west gate, opened the city gate and rushed to the dark and deserted place on the west side. As a result, the tripping rope that Cuan Gu led the Han soldiers to urgently arrange by the Han army soldiers immediately played an important role, tripping over countless Jin cavalry who were charging desperately. While the people shouted and neighed, the Jin cavalry crowd was in chaos. The Han soldiers who were ambushing the south road took the opportunity to rush out, slashing and killing the Jin cavalry who could not charge and escape.

The fruits of the Han army soldiers who had cultivated for a long time finally ushered in the harvest moment. Because the base of soldiers was severely reduced, the Jin army generals who had been able to escape on war horses every time began to quickly turn into the dead souls of the Han army soldiers. First, Guo Zheng, who had participated in the Battle of Destroying Shu and the Chengdu Rebellion, Guo Xing and Xiang Lin and other Jin army generals were killed one after another. Then Tian Zhang, who had once broken through the three ambushers of Shu Han, was stabbed to death by the Han army soldiers. Then, even Sima Wang's capable deputy, Hu Lie, who had served as the governor of Jingzhou of Cao Wei, was stabbed to the ground by several Han army soldiers, and was fortunately becoming the Jin general with the highest level of death in the Battle of Linqiong.

However, Uncle Wang was lucky. Seeing that the cavalry in front of him were tripped by the squat rope, the mature Uncle Wang immediately realized that the situation was not good. He quickly turned his head with his personal soldiers, Wang Hun and others and fled to the northeast. Not only did he avoid the squat rope urgently arranged by the Han army, but he also avoided the Han army ambushed in the south of the road. At the same time, he ordered his personal soldiers to lower his flag early to prevent him from becoming the key target of the Han army's pursuit.

However, this is still dangerous. After bypassing the Han army's tripping horses, the Han cavalry lying here suddenly came out again. Fortunately, Mr. Wang had already put down his flag in time to avoid exposing his identity, and was riding a Dayuan horse with a quality far superior to ordinary war horses. Therefore, Sima Wang finally escaped from the pursuit of the Han cavalry and was able to escape towards Wuyang. The remaining Jin cavalry were robbed and killed by the Han cavalry. Only a few of them could escape by chance.

The Han army basically destroyed the only cavalry advantage of the Jin army in Yizhou. Taking advantage of the opportunity that a large number of Jin cavalry were forced to get off the horse and get on the city, the Han army that flocked into the city not only killed many of the precious cavalry of the Jin army, but also seized many more precious war horses. The ambushing outside the city also gained huge gains. The infantry cavalry still killed and captured thousands of Jin cavalry, which made the Jin army basically lose the ability to launch large-scale cavalry wars before obtaining subsequent support.

Of course, the more important thing is still behind. When the sky was dim, when the Han army basically controlled the small town of Linqiong, Wang Fu, a Linqiong soldier who claimed to be Zhuge Zhan, finally led many Linqiong soldiers who helped him initiate the in-commission last night to come to Zhang Zhi, and bowed to Zhang Zhi calmly and said, "The Great Han Guard General Zhuge Zhan, I have seen the next general."

Of course, Zhang Zhi and the Han army generals were greeted with suspicious eyes. After carefully looking at Zhuge Zhan, Yang Ji couldn't help but say, "The latter general, isn't it right? Didn't General Huo and Yan and others say that you look very similar to the Prime Minister? Why doesn't Zhuge Zhan, who calls himself the Prime Minister's son, look much like you?"

"General, General Wei's appearance is similar to the Prime Minister's wife, not the Prime Minister." A soldier stood behind Zhuge Zhan and said, "The villain Qiao Liang is the original personal soldier of General Wei. The villain can prove that he is Zhuge Zhan, the prince of our Prime Minister."

The son's appearance is mostly like a mother. Of course Zhang Zhi understood this principle, so Zhang Zhi didn't say anything, just said, "Don't worry, the old general Yan will come soon. He can tell us if this person is the prime minister's son."

After a while, Yan Yu, who had been left behind in the camp, came to the scene. What surprised Zhang Zhi and the Han generals was that after seeing Zhuge Zhan, Yan Yu was stunned, then quickly rubbed his eyes, and then blurted out: "General Wei! Is it really you?"

Hearing this, the Han generals were of course in an uproar. Zhang Zhi was so shocked that his chin almost fell to the ground. He almost thought that his history book had been read in vain. Zhuge Zhan looked calm and bowed to Yan Yu and said, "Gen. Yan, it's been a long time since he was gone."

It would be fine if Zhuge Zhan didn't speak. As soon as he spoke, Yan Yu immediately sank his face and changed his mouth and shouted: "The voice is wrong. It's not General Wei's voice. Who are you?"

"Elder General, I am Zhuge Zhan." Zhuge Zhan replied calmly: "After the defeat of Mianzhu, I forced myself to learn a foreign accent in order to avoid the pursuit of Wei thieves, so of course my voice is different from before."

It was useless to defend himself. After carefully observing Zhuge Zhan, Yan Yu, who became more and more suspicious, suddenly asked: "Since you are General Wei, then before the decisive battle in Mianzhu, what tactics I had proposed? You must know, what tactics I proposed at that time?"

Zhuge Zhan's face finally changed slightly, and he replied after a while, "Forgive the old general, it's too long, and I've forgotten it."

"Forgot?" Zhang Zhi finally spoke and said, "Since you are Zhuge Zhan, you will never forget the "Book of Admonitions" written to you by the Prime Minister, right? As long as you can recite the "Book of Admonitions" and write it again, this general will recognize your Zhuge Zhan!"

"Yes." After Zhang Zhi reminded, Yan Yu immediately remembered this important event and said hurriedly: "When I met General Wei, General Wei read the "Admonition for the Son" left by the Prime Minister day and night. As long as you can recite the "Administering for the Son" and write it, I will admit that you are Zhuge Zhan!"

Zhuge Zhan never dared to say anything anymore, but his companions were all anxious and said, "General Wei, recite it quickly. As long as you can recite the "Admonition for the Son" written by the Prime Minister to you, the generals and the others will recognize your identity."

Zhuge Zhan still didn't say anything, and sweat beads appeared on his forehead. Zhang Zhicha said with a look of expression and shouted: "Tell me quickly, who are you? If you don't tell the truth, I will punish you for being a fraud, and I will never give up!"

The intimidation worked. Zhuge Zhan, who had already been full of flaws, could not resist the fear in his heart. He knelt down and bowed to Zhang Zhi, screaming repeatedly: "Good your life, and Good your life, the villain's real name is actually Wang Fu, he is from Hanping, Fuling, the villain is not General Wei, really not."

Hearing this, Wang Fu brought a companion, and Zhang Zhi asked in a quiet manner. Wang Fu also told the truth, "Reporting to the post-General, this is the case. After the Mianzhu War, many of the old subordinates of the generals of the Guard were dispersed and came to Linqiong. No one did not say that the villain looked exactly the same as the prime minister's general of Wei Zhuge Zhan. Some people begged me to call on the military and civilians in Shu to raise an army to restore the country. At first, the villain did not have the courage, but when many people said this, the villain gradually became moved."

"Later, after General Wei's original personal soldiers, Brother Qiao and Brother Luo, came to Linqiong, they mistakenly thought of General Wei. When the villain was in a hot head, he admitted that he was General Wei."

Wang Fu pointed to Zhuge Zhan’s two original personal soldiers and said, “And then he saw that even they believed it and really treated the villain as General Wei, so he slowly regarded himself as General Wei. When he saw the latter, you led the Han army from Nanzhong to the north to restore Chengdu. The villain wanted to pretend to be General Wei and enjoy the glory and wealth, so he took the initiative to send someone to contact you. Under the banner of General Wei, he inspired many former Han soldiers to raise troops to meet you in Linqiong City, hoping to make a great contribution to you first, and then you can really become General Wei and have a delicious and spicy food.”

Hearing this explanation, the Linqiong soldiers who were motivated by Wang Fu were of course full of noise. Zhuge Zhan’s two original personal soldiers were even more speechless. They couldn’t believe that Zhuge Zhan, who had been sacrificing their lives to follow during this period, was actually a fake. Zhang Zhi was amused and crying, and couldn’t help but praise: “It’s really a talent. Others are cheating others. You are cheating so hard that you even believe yourself. It’s rare to see such a thing with your own eyes.”

Zhang Zhi was even more amused and crying. After hearing this, Wang Fu even said modestly: "Thank you, the general praised you. The villain is ashamed of you. The villain is willing to follow the general and raise an army to restore the country, go up to the mountain of swords and falls into the sea of ​​fire, and never frown."

Zhang Zhi smiled, and then thought that Wang Fu had indeed helped the Han army a lot this time, Zhang Zhi pardoned Wang Fu's crime of cheating and also gave him the reward he deserved. At the same time, he rewarded the Linqiong soldiers who helped Wang Fu meet the Han army's siege. As a result, when the Linqiong soldiers were happy to thank the soldiers, Su Ding and Su County Chief Jump jumped out and begged Zhang Zhi: "Later General, this ordinary man named Wang Fu is quite interesting. Why don't you reward him as a personal soldier? Let the lower officials train him well for you, and maybe they can help you in the future."
Chapter completed!