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    w In the early morning of June 7, the entire plain of Zhuma Village was shrouded in thick morning fog. The officers and soldiers of the Jinwu Guards on duty in the trenches heard a series of strange sounds coming one after another from the distance outside the camp. The sound was dull.  Continuously and continuously.  The sentries did not dare to neglect and hurriedly reported the incident to the officer in charge of the camp.  The officer came here, listened for a while, and his expression immediately changed. He lay on the ground, put his ear to the soil, and shouted in surprise: "Everyone, be careful, the Dongping Army is digging soil!"

    Because it was related to military intelligence, the news was immediately reported to Murong Huai, the left-behind manager.  He hurriedly put on his coat and came to the front, stepped on the ladder and lay on the wall to observe.  It was still dark and the fog was thick. Even though Murong Huai tried his best, he still didn't see anything. However, the "puff-puff-puff" sound of digging was getting denser, louder, and closer.  .

    Murong Huai was puzzled and said to the brigade commanders: "Generals, I have only heard of digging the ground when attacking a city, but I have never heard of digging the ground when attacking a stronghold. Meng Taibao did this.  What¡¯s the purpose?¡±

    The brigade commanders also shook their heads. No one knew what Meng Ju was doing.

    An hour later, the sun came out and the fog gradually dissipated, and everyone could see clearly. In the open space one mile away from the camp position, a large number of Dongping Army soldiers were as busy as brown ants. They were chopping wood and digging soil in the wilderness.  Building fortifications actually looked like they were about to set up camp.

    The general of Jinwu Guard stared at it for a while. Liu He, the commander of the Mangshan Brigade, was the first to react. He shouted: "Sir Tangbu, we cannot let them set up a camp in front of our formation. If we do,  It will be very troublesome. I request you to attack immediately and pull out their camp now before they have a stable foothold!"

    But Murong Huai suppressed the generals¡¯ request to fight because he saw that behind the construction site of the Dongping Military Camp, rows of black battle armors were already in preparation.  The armored warriors of the Dongping Army were already gathering and on standby, so they attacked rashly.  There will certainly be no good fruits waiting for you.

    In his heart, Murong Huai was indeed quite surprised by Meng Ju's behavior.  In his expectation, Meng Jugai, who had been slapped in the face by the court, would attack him like an enraged wild boar and crash into the solid fortifications of the camp. He would also take the opportunity to kill the Dongping Army's troops.  Unexpectedly, Meng Ju did not attack, but instead set up camp in his spare time, assuming a posture of long-term confrontation with the court.  This made Murong Huai really unable to understand: Even with the strength of Uncle Tuoba back then, he could not defeat the imperial court. You, Meng, who gathered tens of thousands of lone troops, don't you know that the longer the time goes by, the greater the imperial court's advantage?

    But since Meng Ju was making mistakes, Murong Huai certainly wouldn't remind him.  He said to the brigade commanders: "If the Dongping Army wants to set up camp, let them do it. As long as they can't attack, I want to see what tricks Meng Taibao is playing?"

    In the afternoon, Murong Huai received another report from his subordinates that the Dongping Army not only set up a camp in front.  Three camps were also set up on the sides and rear of the camp.  Several camps three miles apart echoed each other, forming a semi-surrounding pattern for the imperial camp.  The Dongping Army not only set up camps, but also dug layers of trenches between the camps, cutting off all roads leading to the camps. At this time, even the stupidest people in the Jinwu Guards understood the Dongping Army¡¯s intentions.  Their intention: they wanted to completely surround the camp.

    Being surrounded is an extremely dangerous situation militarily. It means losing contact and support with the rear, and it means being isolated and helpless.  If the siege tactics can be successful.  Not only physically, but also psychologically it will cause great shakes to the besieged.  Seeing that the Dongping Army completed the siege of themselves, there was a panic among the Jinwu Guards.

    My home was actually surrounded by enemies of comparable strength on the plains.  The brigade commanders were extremely indignant at this fact.  They all secretly complained about the commander Murong Huai, feeling that it was because of Murong Huai's slow response that he failed to attack decisively in time, which gave the Dongping Army enough time to complete the encirclement.

    The brigade marshals talked among themselves in private: "The old man is old after all, and he no longer has the same spirit as when he defeated the southern troops in Jiangbei."

    "Yes, after the battle at Yue Mushan, he returned to the Luojing Military Headquarters and has been sitting and talking in the court. Now, the old man has not been to the front line in person for thirty years. I am afraid he has even forgotten how to fight the battle.  Bar?"

    "If you ask me, we should have taken advantage of the Dongping Army's failure to build a camp and rushed out at the opportunity. We would have been able to tear apart their siege!"

    "Yes, who doesn't know this? But the old man doesn't allow us to go out to fight!"

    "Idiot, senile, confused, and self-righteous. If this old man becomes our commander-in-chief, we are afraid that our future will not be good."

    The private discussions among the brigade commanders failed to hide Murong Huai's knowledge. In order to restore the morale of the troops in the camp, Murong Huai had to summon the generals and analyze the pros and cons to everyone: the Dongping Army's move was justIt was just a strategy to attack the heart, but it actually did not cause much real damage to the camp: there was already enough food and grass stored in the camp. Now that the emperor has led the main force to evacuate, the food stored in the camp has been left, which is enough for the remaining soldiers and horses in the camp for three months.  edible.  Moreover, the Dongping Army built forts on three sides on the plain, but the camp position was built against the mountains. Even if the worst happened, the remaining officers and soldiers could still retreat safely from the back mountains, so everyone did not have to worry about the safety of their retreat.

    After such persuasion, the generals felt a little at ease.  But they also made a request to Murong Shangshu: They cannot just watch the Dongping Army digging trenches to cut off everyone's way of survival. The camp must attack. Even if the Dongping Army cannot be stopped, it is still good to hinder their progress.

    Hearing this request, Murong Huai wanted to yell at the brigade commanders: "Are you going to attack? To stop the Dongping Army from digging trenches? Just because you are useless?" But he restrained himself, and in the end he even agreed to allow his subordinates to attack in small groups.  Soldiers and horses were dispatched to harass the Dongping Army's project progress - the city was idle anyway, and the Qiu Ba gang had too much energy, so it was better to let them torment the Dongping Army than torment themselves.

    At dusk on June 8, the Jinwu Guards¡¯ counterattack began.  Taking advantage of the cover of dusk, more than a hundred armored warriors and thousands of soldiers marched out of the camp and rushed towards the unfinished northern camp of the Dongping Army.  The officers and soldiers of the Jinwu Guards shouted ferociously, crossing the trench in front of the camp like a tide, overthrowing the fences and fortifications in front of the camp, slamming the newly erected pillars with sledgehammers and iron awls, smashing the walls, and leveling the trenches.

    It was expected that the Jinwu Guards would not be killed without hesitation, and the Dongping Army's counterattack was also very swift and violent.  Stationed here is the Shi Wenting Brigade of the Dongping Army.  Hearing the sound of the Jinwu Guards' incoming battle, the workers who were digging trench walls immediately dropped their carts and hoes, picked up their swords, and stood up to fight.

    This was a brutal battle. The officers and soldiers of the Jinwu Guard shouted: "Death to the traitor!", while the Dongping Army shouted: "Despicable trash!" The battle armors of the two armies fought in the pitted ravines, and the sound of battle was heard.  Boom, the battle is fierce.  The Jinwu Guards who attacked came with a wave of indignation and resentment. At first, their ferocious killing power really caught the Dongping Army off guard, and they retreated to the front of the camp construction site.  But as more and more reinforcements from the nearby Dongping Army arrived, Jinwu Guard's offensive was quickly contained. Finally, when Xu Haojie's Doukai troops entered the battle as a whole, the battle situation was completely reversed, and Jinwu Guards  Beaten to the point of being unable to stand firm, they retreated continuously until they reached their starting position. Finally, with the cover of their own heavy crossbows and catapults, they escaped from the pursuing Dongping Army and fled back in embarrassment.  After arriving at the camp, they closed the camp door tightly and did not dare to show their heads, leaving only corpses scattered outside.

    The battle that took place on June 8 was just the beginning.  From that day on, the siege and counter-siege battles continued day and night. The several-mile-long open space between the Jinwuwei camp and the Dongping Army position became a battlefield where the two armies fought, with the roar of trebuchets and crossbows.  The sound of piercing and shooting continued one after another, and the battle was cruel, often with heavy casualties and numerous corpses.

    No one expected it beforehand - the commander-in-chief of Jinwu Guard, Murong Huai, did not expect, Meng Ju did not expect, and even the officers and soldiers of Jinwu Guard themselves did not expect that after the officers and soldiers of Jinwu Guard, who had always been despised by everyone, were cut off from their retreat, they also  Can fight vigorously.

    Although there may be some reasons for Meng Ju's release of water, the officers and soldiers of Jinwu Guard did show excellent fighting spirit in this surrounded battle.  After experiencing several encounters with heavy casualties, their morale did not decline. Instead, they attacked more frequently and fought more tenaciously and tenaciously.

    Then everyone knew that Jin Wuwei couldn't really fight. He really had to force these people to retreat, and the combat effectiveness of their eruption was also surprising.

    On the Dongping Army side, the generals all praised the wisdom of the Governor in unison: Now it is just a siege, and the intensity of the Jinwu Guards' resistance has been far beyond expectations.  If it hadn't been for the wise decision of the Grand Governor, if he really wanted to attack the camp, how many people would have died!

    Fighting comes after fighting, but both Meng Ju and Murong Huai know very well that the war must serve politics in the final analysis, so the relationship between the two armies has never ceased.

    During the day, the soldiers of the two armies fought to the death, the sound of killing was loud, and rivers of blood flowed from the fighting.  But at night, the messengers rushed between the two armies, as densely as a swarm of returning bees.

    When the negotiations began, the imperial envoy was very arrogant. He told Meng Ju in a threatening tone that the Dongping Army was besieging the imperial troops, which was a treasonous act. The imperial court was mobilizing reinforcements from all over the rear, and an army of 500,000 people was fighting.  Kai was heading this way. If His Majesty hadn't been merciful, all the Dongping officers and soldiers who had fallen on board would have been smashed into powder.  Now, the imperial court is giving you the last chance to order Meng Ju to immediately restrain his troops, stop all hostile acts against the imperial court, and wait for the imperial court to deal with it. This may still be possible.Being forgiven by the court - this is the only way for your Dongping Army to survive!  m

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