Outside Anyi City, corpses were everywhere, and blood-stained swords, guns, swords and halberds fell on the ground.
At the north, east, and south gates of Anyi, more than a thousand Wei soldiers gathered their companions' corpses and weapons on the ground in a majestic manner under Anyi City. However, the Qin army at the top of the city not only did not obstruct their actions, but also sent hundreds of soldiers. The Qin army collected the corpses of Qin soldiers that fell from the city walls. The soldiers of the two warring countries would also return the corpses and weapons of the enemy soldiers they found to the other side.
This can be regarded as one of the few "rituals" left in this era when etiquette has collapsed.
At least no one dares to play tricks at this time.
On the top of the city, a general in his early thirties looked at the tired faces of the Qin soldiers who were collecting corpses in their robes below the city, and sighed.
His name is Huanjue, he is a Duke, and he is currently the false governor of Hedong County.
Those who pretend to be conservative are just conservative.
He was the governor of Hedong County who was appointed temporarily rather than officially for some reasons. He resigned immediately after the incident.
As the governor of Hedong County, Anyi naturally had more defenders than those small towns, but they were only a mere 8,000 people.
Originally, with the strength of Hedong County, there should never be only 8,000 troops, but Hedong County was really drained.
At that time, King Zhaoxiang used Hedong County as the base of Qin's eastward expansion, expanded Hanoi to the east, conquered Nanyang in the south, and attacked Shangdang in the north. During the Battle of Changping, "The king heard that Zhao's food road was exhausted, so he moved to Hanoi and granted each level of civil nobility. "On the fifteenth year of his birth, he went to Changping, blocking Zhao Jiu from getting food." However, as the base for the Qin army to go eastward, if Hedong County had not been completely drained, why would King Zhaoxiang go there again at such a huge cost? What about levying Hanoi’s civilian power?
The Qin army won the victory in Changping, but they immediately attacked HD. Then Lord Xinling stole the talisman to save Zhao. A few years later, he organized a five-nation coalition to attack Qin. In Hanoi, Qin's eastward base, many men were killed and injured. It was so disastrous that it had finally recovered somewhat in the past few years, but it had not yet fully recovered, with only 8,000 defenders.
Fortunately, only half of the 80,000 Wei troops launched an attack. Under the leadership of the Zhang family in Anyi, many wealthy and noble people in the city handed over all their diners to him, ranging from a family of more than a hundred people to as many as seven or eight hundred people. , various people gathered together more than 7,000 people!
You know, these people are diners, not ordinary young people.
Most of the diners of these rich and noble families are young and strong people, including many old soldiers and knights. Although their fighting strength is not as good as that of the Qin army, they are far better than ordinary young people.
It was thanks to these diners that he was able to stick to Anyi.
Of course, it was impossible for these wealthy nobles to spend all their family members to help him defend the city because of his reputation as a pretend governor of Hedong County, but because of a letter from Hangu Pass.
Although the direct lineage of Zhang family in Anyi has withered away, leaving only Zhang Ji, a single seedling, during the several years when Zhang Ji was studying abroad, there were people from the collateral lineage who tried to demote Zhang Ji's lineage to a sideline. lineage, and promoted his own lineage as a direct lineage.
But unfortunately, the Anyi Zhang family has not produced a top talent that can be promoted to the stage in the past decades. When mentioning the Anyi Zhang family, people still think of the Qin Prime Minister Zhang Zi who stirred up the world, not other people. People, that’s why this proposal was dropped.
It wasn't until Zhang Ji learned that he entered Korea and showed his prowess for the first time, and became Ying Zheng's confidant. He was also regarded as an adopted son by Zhao Ji, and was awarded the title of guest minister, Weiwei, and became the leader of Luo Wang. Although not as good as Zhang Yi back then, Zhang Yi did not have such achievements and fame when he was Zhang Ji's age.
Since then, no one has mentioned this kind of thing again, and people have been sent to repair Zhang Ji's old house in Anyi.
As the false guardian of Hedong, Huanjuan was naturally not stupid enough to go against Zhang Ji's people, and he also took good care of the Zhang family in Anyi on weekdays.
Although Zhang Ji has never admitted his connection with the Zhang clan in Anyi in public, they, who claim to be members of the Weiwei clan, have also obtained many benefits from this skin in the past six months. Not only that, but all The people of Anyi have benefited a lot.
So after learning that the Wei army intended to conquer Hedong, Zhang Ji wrote to the Zhang family in Anyi.
He has received so many benefits and preferential treatment through his status as a tribesman, and it is time to make his own contribution.
Zhang Ji asked the Zhang family in Anyi to help the Qin army defend the city. Therefore, under the leadership of the Zhang family in Anyi, many wealthy nobles in Anyi, who were also members of the township party, donated their diners and gave many gifts to Huan Jie. food, and hired civilian men to carry the defensive equipment for the Qin army.
This was an investment, and they paid their own money, hoping to get more benefits from Zhang Ji in the future than before.
Moreover, their relationship with Qin has become so close with Zhang Ji. One can imagine how the Wei army will treat them after they break the city.
Huan Jue watched the soldiers of the two armies under the city return to their camps, but saw that the Wei army's front line not far away began to make arrangements again.
However, in the past three days, the casualties suffered by the Qin army and diners were not small.
The people in charge of the siege were not Wei Wuji, but Zhang Er and Chen Yu.
Wei Wuji only presided over the initial siege, and after putting pressure on Huanjue, he handed over the task of siege to Zhang Er and Chen Yu.
When the two attacked the city for the first time, their command was still a bit raw. Even with Wei Wuji's full support, they could not command the Wei army like him.
At first, Huan Jue was happy because he repelled the Wei army one after another, but soon he discovered that Wei Wuji used him as a whetstone for the two young generals, polishing their military skills.
As time went by, Zhang Er and Chen Yu gradually became more sophisticated in their siege methods, and found their own unique style of using troops.
Wei Wuji's military style is calm and majestic, Zhang Er is fierce and courageous, and Chen Yu is cunning and changeable. The two working together really put a lot of pressure on Huan Jue.
Moreover, the intensity of the Wei army's siege in the past few days was extremely fierce. Both the defenders and the diners suffered heavy casualties, and even Huan Jue suffered an injury.
If the Wei army continues such an offensive, it will only be a matter of time before Anyi is an isolated city.
In the evening, the Wei army camp
The sky was getting dark, the winter night came more than half an hour earlier than usual, and the Wei army's offensive ended here.
Due to lack of nutrition, not many soldiers have night vision, and these people are often the treasures of the general.
Furthermore, most of the people who could eat meat were nobles with extraordinary wealth, and the last few were powerful men with strong family backgrounds, or hunters who were good at hunting. No one would waste them on attacking the city at night.
"Jin Yao, surrender to Qin!"
The news sounded like thunder in the Wei army's tent.
Wei Wuji stood up and walked quickly to the retainer. His wrinkled hands snatched the information from the retainer's hand.
The three thousand disciples under his command did have an intelligence system independent of Wei State, otherwise it would not have been a hunting trip rather than a violation of the state of Zhao.
But even so, Wei Wuji couldn't believe that the information he heard was true.
"Block the news!"
Wei Wuji reacted very quickly. This news was a huge blow to morale. Jin Bi surrendered to Qin alone. Everyone would guess whether it was him, the leader of the Wei army, who forced him to do so. This was definitely a heavy blow to the morale of the Wei army who was attacking Anyi. .
But the news soon became known to everyone. There were too many old Jin troops in the Wei army.
From the time he took over the task of reorganizing the Wei army after the Battle of Yique Longmen to the death of Jin Bi, it was thirty-six years!
The Wei army suffered a devastating blow, then Jin Bi reorganized the Wei army, and then defeated the Qin army twice in Linxia and Jiyi, saving Daliang and reviving the morale of the Wei army. Jin Bi's prestige was too high, and the old troops were too too much.
Moreover, those old Jin Bi tribes among the Wei army who were instigated to rebel were also reported among the army that Wei Wuji was overbearing and tyrannical, and that he conspired with the Qin army to scheme against General Jin Yao. General Yao was defeated by the Qin army because of the betrayal of his own people, and had no choice but to surrender to Qin.
In addition to the internal Wei army, the snare was also in operation. Even the Korean army at the rear of the coalition also knew this "secret."
Even if some people have some doubts about this, Wei Wuji arranged for Zhang Er and Chen Yu to attack two empty cities, but handed over the difficult-to-attack Yucheng and Yanshi cities to Jin Yao. Isn't this the most straightforward evidence?
Thinking back to a few years ago, Wei Wuji secretly attacked his ally South Korea when the five-nation coalition forces gathered at Hangu Pass... In order to suppress dissidents, he did not hesitate to cooperate with the Qin army. It seems that Wei Wuji may not be able to do such a thing.
The distrust of Wei Wuji and the Wei army became more and more serious among the coalition forces, and the same was true among the Wei army.
Although Lord Xinling is now the general of Wei, his control of the army was too short. Although he stole talismans to save Zhao and join forces to defeat Qin, he could not compare with the prestige of Jin Bi, who had controlled the Wei army for thirty-six years.
It does not seem impossible that a man who would not hesitate to kill General Jin Bi, who was obeying the king's orders, would conspire with foreign enemies because of a blood feud with his lieutenant.
The morale of the Wei army is getting lower and lower day by day. Today they can plot against Jin Yao, and tomorrow they can plot against their old Jin troops. Who knows what else Wei Wuji can do.
Morale was low and the attack on the city could not proceed.
Not only that, Huanjue, who received the secret report from the net, personally led more than 1,000 Qin troops and 2,000 diners in the city who could see at night to attack the Wei army outside the south gate at night.
The Wei army at the south gate was beheaded by more than 2,000 people due to the surprise attack by Huanjue, the pretended guard of Hedong County, and many people were trampled to death.
Ten days later, the Wei army, whose morale was at a low point, withdrew from the siege and returned to Bancheng and Wucheng to rest and reorganize, and the siege of Anyi was lifted.
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