In order to break the deadlock as soon as possible, even though she knew that the Han army was in the mind, Yang Hu sent troops twice to attack the Han army's camp outside the Jincheng, trying to eat the Han army's partial division led by Zhao Quan, and open the road for the Jin army in Jingzhou to enter the hinterland of Hanzhong.

Both attacks and camps were fought very fiercely. In order to repay Yang Hu's kindness to them, the soldiers of the Jin army, who loved Yang Hu very much, charged forward even though they knew that the Han army's camp was strong and launched frontal attacks again and again, and rushed to the Han army's walls more than once, posing a serious threat to the Han army's camp.

Fortunately, the Han general Zhao Quan was the best at fighting defensive wars. Under his command, the Han army soldiers resolutely fought, and each time they attacked the Jin army and retreated. Even if the Jin army once planted the general flag into the army's camp, they were not panicked. Soon, they relied on the reinforcements of the reserve team to block the gap and drove the enemy who attacked the walls from the camp. They never gave the Jin army any chance to break the camp. When the casualties were far less than the enemy, they caused considerable casualties to the Jin army.

These two battles also exposed the advantages and disadvantages of both sides. The strength of the Han army is that it has relatively good equipment, especially in armor, and the disadvantage is that it has more new recruits and lacks combat experience. The combat effectiveness of individual soldiers is far less than that of the Han army under Wu Ma. In addition, the strength of the troops is at an absolute disadvantage, so even if you have advanced armor like paper armor, you can only take a defensive posture in battle.

The advantage of the Jin army in Jingzhou was that the soldiers worked hard. Under the leadership of Yang Hu, who was recently similar to Zhuge Villageman in the late Three Kingdoms, the Jin army in Jingzhou was generally able to sacrifice their lives and fight hard, and cooperate more skillfully. The overall combat effectiveness was strong. The disadvantage was that the geographical advantage was too disadvantageous and there was no advantage in equipment. Therefore, although the offensive was fierce, it never had any chance to break through the Han army's camp defense line, and the casualties were far greater than those of the Han army.

The most troublesome thing about Yang Hu was the casualties. After the two major battles, the casualties of the Jin army quickly exceeded 3,600, and the casualties accounted for nearly 10% of the total force. Therefore, although Yang Hu still asked the soldiers of the Jin army to continue to build attacking weapons, he was extremely hesitant and hesitant, and he was reluctant to make up his mind to launch the third attack and battalion war.

Unlike Yang Hu, who was concerned about casualties, Yang Hu's right-hand man Xu Yin firmly advocated continuing to attack, and even spoke to Yang Hu: "The governor does not need to hesitate. Although the camp of the bandit army is strong, it is still not as good as the city. It is proof that the soldiers rushed to the wall in the first two attacks. Therefore, as long as we do not consider any casualties and concentrate our efforts to attack again, we will definitely be able to use our military strength to break through the camp of the bandit army and wipe out the enemies outside the city."

Yang Hu still hesitated and said for a while: "We have to consider the next step of war. It may be hopeful to take down the camps outside the thief's army at any cost. However, we have to face the problem of attacking the Golden City next. Without pulling out the nail, the Golden City, we will not be able to advance at all."

"We can follow the example of Zhong Hui back then." Xu Yin suggested: "If you don't attack the city, just leave multiple forces to surround the Golden City, and the main force can take advantage of the opportunity to advance westward and directly attack the hinterland of Hanzhong."

Yang Hu was still hesitant, but at this moment, a personal soldier suddenly came to the report outside the tent, saying that the Han army sent an envoy to deliver the letter. After Yang Hu was curious, he immediately ordered the reception. After a Han army envoy was taken to Yang Hu, and then he bowed and presented a letter and said, "Governor, this is a letter sent by our later generals from the praises. Please check it out."

"The letter written by Zhang Zhi's rebel thief to me?"

Yang Hu was stunned and quickly asked his personal soldiers to take the letter and forward it to him. However, after opening it carefully, Yang Hu's face changed slightly. It turned out that the content of the letter was Zhang Zhi who persuaded Yang Hu to change Sima You to the emperor and lead the Jin army in Jingzhou to help Sima You rebel and fight against Sima Yan to regain the throne. At the same time, Zhang Zhi also clearly told Yang Hu in the letter that he had already sent a letter to persuade Sima You to rebel, and Sima You was still quite moved.

After reading this letter quickly, Yang Hu immediately understood Zhang Zhi's vicious intentions and sneered at the Han army envoy: "Your rear general is really shameless. He tried to provoke our Emperor of Jin and his brothers to be incompatible. He also clearly told the Governor what he did, forcing the Governor to send troops as soon as possible and attack your camp with all his might. The Governor was still unprecedented in his mind."

"The governor forgives his crime. The villain is just a messenger. I don't know what you are talking about." The Han army envoy replied in a humble and arrogant manner, and said again: "If the governor does not have any other orders, the villain will say goodbye first."

He claimed to be a Confucian general, and of course Yang Hu would not make things difficult for a little envoy. He nodded and agreed to the Han army envoy to say goodbye and leave. Xu Yin next to him asked curiously: "Governor, what does this letter sent by Zhang Zhi's son from a hundred miles away to send people?"

"I have said just now, forcing us to send troops to attack the camp as soon as possible." Yang Hu replied expressionlessly: "Your Highness of the King of Qi is so popular. Zhang Zhi's thief uses this trick to disagree. Once our Majesty falls into a trap, either issuing an edict to force the King of Qi to fight as soon as possible, or he will have the idea of ​​changing the commander in the last battle. No matter what he does, it will be detrimental to our main force. If we want to help the King of Qi avoid danger, the only way is to advance as soon as possible and eat the eastern side division of the thief army to break the deadlock."

"What should we do?"

Xu Yin asked again quickly, and Yang Hu closed his eyes and thought for a long time before opening his eyes and said, "Satisfied Zhang Zhi's wish to rebel, advance, attack, and use our military strength to eat up the eastern side of the bandit army! As long as we do this, the initiative in the battlefield in Hanzhong will be in our hands."

He had originally advocated continuing to attack, but seeing that Yang Hu finally made up his mind, Xu Yin was of course unhappy and immediately volunteered: "Governor, please let the last general lead the army to attack the camp in this battle. If the last general does not destroy the bandit camp, the last general will not withdraw his troops!"

Yang Hu nodded in agreement and said, "Tonight, I will tell the soldiers clearly that my direct army will be the supervisor of the attack camp tomorrow. Anyone who takes a step back during the attack camp will be executed no matter who it is! After breaking through the thief camp, all the seized will be sent to the soldiers participating in the battle!"

Xu Yin held his fists and sang his promise, and then it was okay. Because it was the first time that Yang Hu issued such a strict order, the order that he did not allow a step back to fight the next day was passed to the various battalions of the Jin army, and the morale of the Jin army soldiers was still inspired. Countless Jin army soldiers expressed that in order to repay Yang Hu's kindness, they would do their best in the war the next day, and they would not care about their lives, and they were very motivated.

The next morning, he had just received a scout report and learned that Yang Hu had dispatched 30,000 troops to the west attack battalion this time. Zhao Quan, who had accumulated a lot of experience in countless actual combat, immediately realized that Yang Hu was planning to make a gamble this time, and quickly summoned the generals of the Han army to arrange defense and arranged elite combat soldiers to serve as reserves to make up for leaks and put out fires.

In addition, without Zhang Zhi's teachings, Zhao Quan also arranged an army with a very genius to carry firearms to fight, which was commanded by himself, and was not in a hurry to enter the front line. He stayed inside the camp and waited for orders so that he could suddenly take action at the most critical moment and catch the Jin army off guard. Zhao Quan knew very well that the Jin army in Jingzhou had not encountered any gunpowder weapons before.

After the arrangement was completed, the 30,000 Jin troops had already crossed the Xishui River and marched to the north of the Han army camp to set up an offensive formation. They immediately used sandbags brought by the army to fill the Han army's camp trenches. The Han army quickly blocked them with crossbows. The arrows were like rain. The Jin soldiers were killed and injured. However, the remaining Jin soldiers kept pace. While protecting their vital points with shields, they moved forward desperately and threw the sandbags into the trenches. At the same time, the Jin soldiers of the long shield also shot arrows desperately to suppress the Han army defenders on the wall.

The military strength had an absolute advantage. Of course, the Jin army quickly filled out several roads to cross the trenches with sandbags. Then Yang Hu, who made up his mind, only ordered the orders. The three thousand Jin army immediately charged up with flying ladders, cloud ladders, trench bridges and other objects, and launched a strong attack towards the north gate of the Han army's camp. An earth-shaking battle of offensive and defensive battle was once again launched in front of the Han army's camp.

Amid the thunderous drums, the feather arrows of the two sides intertwined like locusts. Faced with the rain of arrows that the Han army soldiers desperately cast, the Jin army soldiers rushed to the Han army like a tide, put countless flying ladders onto the camp, biting weapons and climbing up the tower desperately. The Han army fell like rain, constantly smashing the Jin army soldiers down the ladders. Countless torches and plastic bags tied into balls were lit and threw them into the Jin army ladder trucks, shouting and killing.

The walls of the camp were indeed not as tall and strong as those of the city wall. In the first round of attacks, many Jin army soldiers had already gritted their teeth and rushed to the wall. Fortunately, the Han army was prepared. As soon as these Jin army warriors rushed to the wall, they were immediately besieged by several Han army soldiers. They cut their swords and stabbed them with axes, and killed them out of the camp. The Jin army soldiers continued to attack, and the attack was like a tide, but the defense of the Han army was a solid wall and was unbreakable.

Standing at a high place in the camp, Zhao Quan, who was gradually becoming a general, was expressionless. He only stared at the bloody battlefield of the North Camp, and occasionally looked up at the Yang Hu's flag in the distance, snorting in his heart, "If you have enough courage, go to the front line to supervise the battle, preferably within the range of our artillery."

Unfortunately, Yang Hu, who was the same type as Zhang Zhi, never took the risk to move forward. However, after the Jin army's ladder car began to get onto the camp, he decisively invested two thousand troops to strengthen the attack. After the second wave of the Jin army's attack battalion joined the battlefield, the Han army's camp was even more like ants. It was constantly seen that the soldiers of the Jin army rushed to the wall, and at any time, the soldiers of the two armies fell off the wall, forcing Zhao Quan to replenish the front line and engage in a close-up melee with the Jin army, which had too strong offensive.

During this period, all conspiracies and strategies and tactics lost their effect. The soldiers on both sides competed with each other to who was faster and stronger. There were steel knives slashing blood flowers at any time, and spears pierced through the bodies of soldiers on both sides at any time. The shields were also used as weapons to hit the enemy wildly, and the shouts of killing and screams shone together, resounding throughout the sky.

Relying on the advantages of the wall and paper armor, the Han army successfully survived the first two waves of attacks of the Jin army and were forced to retreat due to excessive casualties. However, before the Han army soldiers could breathe a few breaths, the third wave of the Jin army's attacking army was already shouting and rushed to the vicinity of the trenches that had been filled with many roads.

Fortunately, Zhao Quan's best skills were to fight defensive battles. Before the Jin army could rush to the basement, the Han army's new force had already rushed to the wall to take over the defense line, replacing the tired army who had just experienced a hard battle, and then threw arrows and stones to continue to fight with the Jin army.

After the battle lasted for a while, Yang Hu finally called his deputy Xu Yin and said to him in a deep voice: "General Xu, the guards of the bandit army are too tight. Whether we can take down the camp of the bandit army today depends on you. I will give you three thousand iron armored soldiers. In any case, we must take down the wall of the bandit army for me and open the road to our entry into the camp!"

"Don't worry, Governor." Xu Yin clasped his fists solemnly and said, "The same thing is true. If you don't take down the thief's camp, you will never come back to see you!"

Yang Hu nodded with satisfaction, and then handed over the three thousand iron armored soldiers under his command to Xu Yin, asking him to lead these elite Jin army soldiers wearing two iron armor to fight to kill the enemy, and then ordered: "Start up the drums and cheer for our soldiers!"

Yang Hu seriously underestimated Zhao Quan's ability to adapt to this point. He had just seen clearly that the Jin army that followed was all wearing two armors. Zhao Quan, who had fought for Zhang Zhi for countless battles, immediately realized that the enemy had dispatched the core elites. After hesitating for a moment, he shouted loudly: "The elites of the thief army are here! The firearm team is on the base, aim at the iron armored soldiers of the thief army, and fight me hard! Also, try to aim at the enemy's flag of the chief general!"

The order was conveyed. The Han armament team, which was organized into a separate army, rushed to the camp with a large number of primitive grenades and thirty cast iron Guangkou cannons with ammunition, and urgently arranged artillery among the chaos, aimed at the Jin army's armored team that were coming in line. The other Han soldiers tried their best to protect these artillery and waited patiently for the Jin army's armored team to enter the range.

Of course, the movement speed of the iron-armored soldiers was slightly slower. It was not until the Han army had arranged thirty cannons that Xu Yin brought the Jin army's iron-armored soldiers to the nearest camp. Unknowingly, Xu Yin, wearing sleeve armor, walked to the front of the team, pointed the spear at the Han army's camp and shouted: "Soldiers, fight bravely to kill the enemy! Crack the thief camp!"

"Boom!"

Before he finished speaking, the Jin army in Jingzhou suddenly heard a loud thunderous sound they had heard before. Then, Xu Yin just felt a flash of his eyes. The iron armored soldiers of the Jin army not far away were already lying down. The person who fell to the ground either died directly or covered his head, face and screamed loudly. Xu Yin was also shocked and said to himself: "What is this?"

"Boom! Boom!"

There were two more cannons, and two more iron armored soldiers screamed and fell to the ground. Because the incident happened too suddenly, the iron armored soldiers of the Jin army were of course in chaos, and screams were everywhere. Xu Yin quickly shouted: "Don't be confused! Don't be afraid! Rush! Rush! Rush up!"

"Boom!"

The fourth Han army's wide-mouth cast iron cannon exploded. As the flames and iron blocks and sharp stones sprayed together, countless iron slags and sharp stones flew directly to the place where Xu Yin's flag was. Xu Yin was shouting, and his eyes were just flashed in front of him. He was immediately hit by many iron slags and sharp stones. Then, although the sleeve armor blocked many attacks for Xu Yin, some iron blocks and sharp stones still hit Xu Yin's face, making Xu Yin's screams not even have time to make, and he fell directly in front of the two armies.

"General——!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Then, Xu Yin's personal soldiers, who were lucky enough to be hit by a sharp iron stone, just screamed. More iron and sharp stones faced Xu Yin's position, knocking down the Jin soldiers who were struggling to rescue them in pieces, and also bombarding the iron armored soldiers of the Jin army even more chaotic.

At the same time, after knocking off the Guangkou pig iron cannon that was difficult to load, the Han armament team decisively threw primitive grenades at the Jin army crowd that were under the base. The iron slag and quicklime shot horizontally, and the Jin army ant-attachment team was suddenly in chaos. The Han army soldiers on the base cheered and took the opportunity to strengthen the attack, and soon drove all the enemies who rushed to the base, and also took the opportunity to burn down several Jin army ladder vehicles that had already reached the base.

Immediately afterwards, the Han soldiers on the wall seized the time to shoot arrows one after another, and shot the feather arrows like storms desperately towards the already chaotic Jin army iron armored soldiers. The unmanned Jin army iron armored soldiers became even more chaotic and even began to flee backwards. What was very sad is that because the distance was too far and I couldn't see clearly what was happening ahead, Yang Hu was still furious in the Jin army flag formation, "What is this Xu Yin doing for? Why did we bring our elite troops to fight the war like this?"

Finally, Xu Yin, whose face was covered in blood, was urgently carried back to Yang Hu. Yang Hu realized that his right-hand assistant Xu Yin had been seriously injured. He could only hurry up and check the situation. He was immediately startled by the wounded situation on Xu Yin's face. Then he groped and grabbed Yang Hu's hand. Xu Yin, whose eyes could no longer see the objects, struggled and said with difficulty: "Governor, the general is incompetent, but it is not that the general is not doing his best, it is the strange weapon of the thief army. It is too powerful..."

After saying this with difficulty, Xu Yin, who had countless wounds on his body, still had his head tilted. Unfortunately, he became the first important general to be killed in the Jin army in Jingzhou. Yang Hu also shed tears and cried, "General Xu, it was me who harmed you. I don't know the enemy situation and I don't know that the thief army still has spare strength, so he caused you to this."

"Governor, what should I do next?" Wang Rong, the general, asked timidly: "Our elites have been defeated, their morale has been depressed. Can we fight next?"

Looking at the core team of self-army who was killed in chaos by the Han army in the distance, Yang Hu shook his head helplessly and said, "There is no hope, let's retreat."
Chapter completed!