Lu Wenbin, who had already arrived in Ningyuan, didn't know anything about the situation on Wang Shuo's side.He sent many soldiers to Zhangxian County to investigate disguised as ordinary people.The people of Zhangxian County are no longer the same as before.They had confidence in Wang Shuo, and Wang Shuo benefited them through a series of laws, they supported Wang Shuo, and even the old people and children automatically organized themselves to help Wang Shuo's army defend the city and guard against spies.Any outsider who arrives in Zhangxian County will be immediately discovered by the people and immediately monitored.The spies sent by Lu Wenbin basically couldn't hear any actual situation, and only when Wang Shuo wanted them to know something, someone would tell them specifically.Wang Shuo adopted Lu Yinchang's opinion and planned to solve it quickly.He deliberately showed weakness and lured Lu Wenbin to quickly come and attack Zhangxian.The news that Lu Wenbin got from the spies was that Wang Shuo only had 5,000 men, and most of them had surrendered to the Shun army.The people of Zhangxian did not know that the Shun army was about to attack Zhangxian, and the city sang and danced without any preparation.Lu Wenbin decided to attack it unprepared, quickly take Zhangxian County, solve Wang Shuo, get rid of this henchman, he ordered the soldiers to cook food on the fourth watch, set off on the fifth watch, arrived in Zhangxian County on the evening of the same day, and fought a decisive battle with Wang Shuo in the early morning of the second day.When there were still fifteen miles away from Zhangxian County, the Shun army discovered the scouts of Wang Shuo's troops.Soon, Wang Shuo was afraid that the Shun army would besiege the city, so he hurriedly led his army out of the city and lined up outside the city wall and ditch to meet the enemy, and everything seemed panicked and disorderly.Lu Wenbin couldn't help but feel more relieved when he saw Wang Shuo hurriedly lined up, and the army was only four or five thousand people.He ordered the army to camp five miles away from the county seat, rest for one night, and fight a decisive battle tomorrow.Over there, Wang Shuo saw that the Shun army was camping, and he was also busy setting up a camp and erecting a grate to prevent the Shun army from attacking.A peaceful night.At dawn on the second day, Lu Wenbin took a clairvoyant monoscope and stood on a high slope to observe Wang Shuo's camp, and saw that there were 100 watchtowers made of logs in his camp, and he was very curious.Take a closer look, it turned out to be a stone thrower that had been eliminated a long time ago, and I couldn't help laughing, this Wang Shuo really didn't understand military affairs.This stone-throwing machine was used to siege the city when there were no cannons, and the boulder was thrown up by the stone-throwing machine and smashed on the city wall, which did have a certain power to destroy the enemy's city wall, and I have not seen it put it in the camp for flat field battles.This thing has a limited range, the stone flies slowly in the air, and it is very easy for the living to dodge, and it is impossible to stop the army from attacking.He doubted how the lieutenant general he had sent before would lose in such a two hundred and five hands, whether the lieutenant general was too light on the enemy to cause defeat, looking at the sun showing his face from the mountain, Lu Wenbin ordered to prepare to attack the Shun army, lined up in a neat phalanx, and walked out of his camp.Then, the war drums in the military formation sounded, shaking the hearts of every soldier on the battlefield.With 5,000 foot soldiers, they took the lead in forming a phalanx and advancing towards Wang Shuo's camp.Wang Shuo ordered to hold the fortress and not to attack.This is also because he listened to Lu Yinchang's advice, so that the soldiers have a barrier to rely on, and they have a sense of security in their hearts, so that there will be no panic when the two armies face each other, so that those prisoners who surrendered soon will defect again, causing chaos.The Shun army led with a shield array and marched in a neat pace.Look at the range of the bow and arrow, on the barrier of Wang Shuojun's army, the archers began to release arrows.The arrows generally flew towards the Shun army in the rain, but the Shun army was covered by shields and suffered little losses.When they approached the grate in front of the rampart, they stopped advancing and, under the cover of the shield soldiers, destroyed the grate.Then he slowly retreated for some distance, and then moved in two teams to both sides, making way for the middle road.Wang Shuo saw that the Shun army was planning to use cavalry to storm the barrier, and immediately issued an order, letting the long shield hold the barrier and form a long snake formation along the barrier to block the Shun cavalry.Sure enough, as soon as the long shield soldiers lined up in formation, horns and war drums sounded in their ears, and then, the great earthquake trembled, and the two thousand cavalry of the Shun army rolled up the yellow dust in the sky, galloping towards Wang Shuo's barrier from far and near.Wang Shuojun's archers began to release arrows, and this time the density of arrows was significantly larger than the first time, causing a lot of damage to the Shun cavalry.After three rounds of arrows, the cavalry of the Shun army had galloped to the front of the rampart.With its speed, the horse rushed up the low wall of the rampart, knocking down the longshield soldiers.But this charge caused the cavalry to lose its original speed, and they were stabbed down a lot by the spearmen in the back row of Wang Shuo's army.The cavalry of the Shun army finally rushed into the barrier one after another, slashing and killing Wang Shuo's soldiers, many of whom died under the horse's hooves, and the rest fled for their lives
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