Li Han saw the other party's teasing expression and felt quite unhappy, but his face was still calm and said to Zhang Fang: "Oh, what's the trick of General Zhang?"

Zhang Fang led Li Han to the sand table of the central army's tent, pointed to the imperial guard camp beside the Luoshui and said, "This camp is close to Luoshui, with only three sides of the gates open. I have observed it myself. There are seven gates in total. As long as we block these seven gates with barriers and trenches, and then build a camp opposite the Luoshui, we can isolate the inside and outside of the soldiers in the camp. And defending this line of defense does not require too much force, about 20,000. Then we will take the remaining 50,000 troops to capture Luoyang."

After hearing Zhang Fang's words, Li Han laughed in silence and said, "But how can our soldiers get close to these seven gates? The general has experienced the power of the other party's arrows and stone-throwing tools. How can we still be able to build trenches and barriers at the door of their camp in a big way."

Zhang Fang smiled and said, "This digging of trenches and building a building is exactly the strength of my general. Every 10,000 soldiers I led can build a building overnight. So as long as I take advantage of the night to sneak into the vicinity of the other party's camp, at dawn the next day, they will find that there are more high and deep trenches outside the door."

After hearing this, Li Han shook his head in disbelief, but he did not express any rebuttals.

This Zhang Fang is not a bragging tale. In the history of the initial space universe, Zhang Fang built a camp overnight at the gate of Luoyang City. Moreover, this camp was extremely strong and existed until the Southern and Northern Dynasties and was used by later generations. He was known as Zhang Fang's old camp.

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At night, layers of figures appeared outside the eighty battle distance between the gates of the imperial guard camp. They took advantage of the moonlight to dig trenches and build trenches in the woods and grasses. Despite the moon, at night, it was impossible to find any movement outside the eighty battles on the sentry posts on the Dayingwang Tower.

At dawn, Simaya, the chief general of the Imperial Camp, got up from the bed and was washing up. A soldier ran into the tent in a panic and reported: "General, the big thing is wrong, we are blocked."

Sima Ya scolded, "Don't panic, speak well. What's blocking?" The army then explained the matter clearly. Before he could finish his words, Sima Ya had already raised his foot and walked out. He climbed up the tower and looked out. Sure enough, a barrier appeared faintly in the fog in the morning. It was only seventy or eighty battles away from the gate of the main camp. The entire barrier trench was in an inverted U shape, surrounding the gate. Moreover, there were people at both ends of the U character and continued to extend to the imperial camp.

Sima Ya was not good enough and immediately mobilized three thousand infantrymen to fight, trying to prevent the other party from continuing to expand the barrier. However, shortly after these infantry left the camp, they encountered long-prepared rebels shooting fiercely with arrows. Under the cover of the shield, the infantry rushed to the end of the barrier and the gap in the wall of their own camp with arrows. The rebels who dug trenches and built a base were long gone.

At this moment, the rebels in a brigade rushed out from behind the barrier in an orderly formation and suddenly appeared at the gap. They spears were all out, and the imperial guards were caught off guard and many were shot down. Looking at Simaya on the tower, she saw it clearly. There were a large number of rebels rushing towards the gap behind the barrier. He did not think of the three thousand soldiers suffering any further losses, so he quickly ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

Then, another round of rounds of crossbow gun shooting began from the imperial guard camp, but Zhang Fang was already prepared for this, and the barrier he built completely took into account the factors of the crossbow gun. A shallow ditch was dug behind the projectile blind spot, so that even if the hot bomb landed at the edge of the blind spot, it would not burn to the rebel soldiers hiding behind the barrier.

The barrier behind the trench was not high, but it was very wide and it was unlikely that they could collapse just by using stone bullets from the crossbows. Simaya ordered the crossbows to test-fire a few rounds, and except for a burst of dust on the rammed earth barrier and crushing several sunken pits, it did not have much effect.

The rebel camps were far away from barriers and far exceeded the range of any long-range troops that Simaya had, including crossbows, bows and crossbows.

Simaya circled around the village wall and found that the seven gates were blocked by the camp, and there was no possibility of breaking through. Moreover, the emperor did not allow him to give up the camp and withdraw back to Luoyang City.

Simaya had another idea, and at night, he demolished a section of the village wall, and bypassed the barriers and sneaked into the rear camp tents of the rebels who were not protected by Gulei Desert Grottoes. However, when the night fell, Simaya observed the village wall and found that things were not that simple. Zhang Fang actually sent a large number of rangers to patrol the camp at night, even if the Luoshui River bank on the back of the camp was not ignored.

Simaya was helpless now and could only stand firm and wait for rescue. Fortunately, according to Sima Yu's arrangement, the camp had already stockpiled food and grass that could supply more than a month, as well as enough fire bombs, arrows and other war materials. At dawn, Simaya asked the soldiers to take out a pigeon from the pigeon cage.

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Two days later, Zhang Fang saw that his strategy had achieved initial success. The imperial guards had been blocked in the camp on the banks of the Luoshui River. So he personally led an army of 50,000 along the Luoshui River to continue advancing towards Luoyang City. Li Hanze stayed to command the remaining 20,000 rebels.

The Zhang Fang rebels, who stretched for nearly five miles, meandered forward on the north bank of the Luoshui River, like a black giant python. Two days later, Luoyang City was already in sight. At this time, Luoyang City and the surrounding three small guards, including the Acropolis and Jinyong City, were all closed four gates and ready for battle. Jinyong City and another small town ordinary personnel, including prisoners, had been transferred to Luoyang City. Only more than a thousand imperial guards were left behind in the city.

Zhang Fangzhuma, who was riding on the black war horse, looked proudly at his army that was missing from front and back. A scout came forward to report: "Report to the general, the west wall of Luoyang City is ahead. Now the gates of Luoyang City are closed everywhere. Except for the scattered enemy cavalry outside the city, no other large number of enemy troops were found."

Zhang Fang narrowed his eyes and looked east, as if he could already feel the faint Luoyang city wall under the eastern skyline.

"It is said that our general, the central and rear troops accelerated their advance, and the front troops set up camp ten miles outside Luoyang City to build camps!" The scout said and left.

At this time, Zhang Fang didn't know that he had made a mistake, in order to speed up the marching. Zhang Fang did not send scouts to the south of Luoshui, because it took a lot of time to cross the river. The scouts in the south of Luoshui would definitely be left behind, so there would be no point.
Chapter completed!