Wei Yan returned to the city, and the deputy general came up and smiled and said, "General is brave!"

"Hey." Wei Yan laughed and shook his head and said, "This time he met an opponent. Now he has many enemies and is trapped in the lonely city. This battle is not easy to fight. Let's bring Yang Bai to me."

"Here!" The deputy general agreed upon hearing this, turned around and ordered someone to bring Yang Bai.

As the first prisoner in the Battle of Hanzhong, no matter how capable he was, he was a general under Zhang Lu, and his significance was extraordinary. Therefore, after being captured, he was treated well. At least, except for Wei Yan's disdain and ridicule, he was not abused. In addition to losing his freedom, the food and accommodation conditions were pretty good among prisoners.

When Yang Bai was brought by two soldiers, there were still food residues on the corner of his mouth. When he saw Wei Yan, no one needed to scold him, he automatically knelt in front of Wei Yan: "Defeated general Yang Bai, please see the general."

Although he has no backbone, such behavior is probably the survival wisdom of most people, and Wei Yan is not a murderer. Although he is very unhappy to see such a general, he must admit that if it were not Yang Bai but Yang Ren, he would not have been able to make Zhang Lu believe that Mianyang was the main force of Liu Bei's army so easily, and he would not have sent the main force here. From this perspective, Yang Bai is still a hero to Liu Bei's army. In addition, Wei Yan is too lazy to ridicule him anymore.

"Get up." Wei Yan waved his hand and sat directly above the commander's position in the yamen office.

Yang Bai hurriedly thanked Zhihu and stood up.

"Yang Ren, tell me how many soldiers and horses are there in the Nanzheng area?" Wei Yan was too lazy to go around him and asked directly.

Yang Bai also simply looked at Wei Yan: "Yang Ren is a man with a strong martial arts skills and good at leading troops, but he is quite arrogant. He is so dirty with the last general on weekdays..."

"Hey~" Wei Yan sneered when he heard this. If he were himself, he had no good expression on such colleagues: "What about Nan Zheng?"

"There are 50,000 elite soldiers under Shijun, but before Ma Chao came to ask for help, Shijun had already sent general Yang Ang to lead 10,000 troops to help. In addition, Baishui Pass and Jiameng Pass need to be divided into troops, as well as Yangping Pass, Shangyong, Fangling and other places. Nanzheng garrisons were about 30,000. Previously..." He looked at Wei Yan carefully, and Yang Bai continued: "A lot of defeat was lost by the general, and at this time there were probably less than 30,000."

After hearing this, Wei Yan nodded, and asked some military questions and how to defend Nanzheng. Yang Bai answered them one by one. Wei Yan was basically sure that he had really attracted the main force of Hanzhong here this time. He felt a little relieved. Although Mianyang is not easy to fight, as long as Liu Bei can appear in time and conquer Nanzheng, there will be no danger here. But how can he make Yang Ren believe that this is his main force before this?

"Go down." Wei Yan thought, and saw Yang Bai still standing there, waved his hand and signaled the soldiers to take the other party down.

Now he only has more than 2,400 people around him, and the food and grass in the city can support him for ten days and half a month, but after this period of time, the logistics is cut off. Not to mention that the food and grass in the rear cannot be sent over the path. Even if he can, now the city is surrounded, Yang Ren only needs to send hundreds of people to cut off his supply line. Now he has become a lonely army.

The most deadly thing is not to defend the city, but how to trick Yang Ren into his own side into sufficient troops. Otherwise, once Yang Ren sees through the reality and reality, he will definitely not let the army use up food and supplies here. He either attacks with all his strength and destroys his own lonely army in one fell swoop, or transfers back a group of troops. Then the meaning of his own attracting the other army will no longer exist.

Wei Yan thought of Liu Yi's tired plan when he was in Mocheng, but now the situation is different, and the opponent has more troops. If one is not good, it will cause anger and launch a general attack directly. Everything Wei Yan arranged will be exposed.

"Wu Gao!" Wei Yan shouted outside the tent after knocking on the table.

"I'm in a humble position!" A personal guard came in. Wei Yan's personal guard was brought from Mocheng at the time. He had no bad skills. Many of them had been arranged by Wei Yan to be grassroots generals in the army. Wu Gao was his personal guard commander.

Wei Yan thought for a while and said, "Because the enemy has not yet besieged the city, I will send someone to the Censhui area. If I encounter the lord's soldiers and report the matter to the lord, I will say that most of the troops in Hanzhong have gathered in Mianyang. Please send troops quickly to capture Nanzheng!"

Yang Ren is not bad at all. With a city like Mianyang, his defense is a little anxious. It is impossible to break the enemy. Now he can only look at the situation on Liu Bei.

"Here!" Wu Gao bowed and turned around and arranged for people to report the news.

Alas ~

Looking at Wu Gao's back as he left, Wei Yan sighed softly. He missed Liu Yi a little. It was not Liu Yi's trick. In fact, Liu Yi had some tricks, but when he swept across the four counties, Wei Yan actually realized that Liu Yi's military was not much stronger than Yang Bai, but Liu Yi knew how to employ people and was willing to delegate power. Huang Zhong, Guan Ping, Liu Feng and himself. After Liu Yi gave up his power, he didn't ask any more questions at all. In addition, Liu Yi could always come up with some suitable ideas, and the enemies of the four counties in Jingnan were not too strong.

Wei Yan missed Liu Yi's craftsmanship. If Liu Yi was here, he would use his skills directly. The people in Hanzhong believed in the theory of ghosts and gods. Once Liu Yi used this method, the people of Mianyang would not accept it and do some city defense buildings and cities to defend the city. It would be much easier to defend the city.

...

Yang Ren did not think that the city was besieged. Mianyang City was not big, and 20,000 troops could still be besieged. However, considering that there were at least tens of thousands of Liu Bei's defenders in this city, Yang Ren did not dare to siege the city randomly. One of them was not good, and it was defeated by the other side. Moreover, if Wei Yan hid ambush outside the city, it would be even worse. Therefore, after Yang Ren set up camp, he did not rush to attack the city the next day, but sent scouts to places where there might be ambushing on all sides.

Wei Yan knew what Yang Ren was doing. It might not be a good thing if he didn't attack the city today. However, his troops are limited now, so he can only watch Yang Ren check the truth little by little, but he can't do anything.

If you could have two thousand more soldiers in your hands, that wouldn't be the case!

Wei Yan felt quite powerless at this moment. Now he wanted to deceive Yang Ren, but he probably won't be able to deceive him for long.

Yang Ren was puzzled that he didn't even have a guard post outside the city. Judging from what happened yesterday, Wei Yan was not a general who was incompetent, and he had sufficient troops. How could he give up all the important places outside the city?

There is no need for tens of thousands of troops to guard the small land of Mianyang!

But since it was confirmed that Wei Yan did not deploy troops outside the city, Yang Ren was not polite. On the third day after arriving in Mianyang, he sent a school of troops to cut off the non-existent food route. At the same time, the 20,000 troops were divided into three troops and surrounded Mianyang by surrounding three and missing one. The other two troops were only responsible for watching Mianyang and dividing Wei Yan's troops. Yang Ren led his main army and launched an attack on the Mianyang city wall.

Wei Yan had no other way now, so he could only gather troops to fight. Fortunately, when they came, the archers were basically equipped with Liu Yi's elite crossbows, and the defense of the city was just enough. Wei Yan used more than a thousand people to kill two or three thousand people, and once dispelled Yang Ren's doubts and began to concentrate on attacking the city.

However, in such a fierce offensive and defensive battle, Wei Yan's hand had few soldiers and was destined to be unable to last long. After five days of support, not only did the soldiers in the city lose their troops, but there were not many arrow clusters left. Mianyang was only a small county and had few weapons reserves. Most of them were supported by the arrow clusters brought by Wei Yan in the past few days. In five days, the arrow clusters in the army were basically exhausted. By the fifth day, the soldiers of Hanzhong had rushed up the city wall several times and were driven down by Wei Yan's men and horses. When it came to such a field, Wei Yan could not talk about weapons, but the troops that could be dispatched in his hands were not enough to rotate.

He didn't expect that he would fall into such a difficult situation when he first officially fought alone under Liu Bei's command.

"General, if we continue like this, we may not be able to hold on for a few days!" The deputy general was shot in the shoulder and cut down the Hanzhong soldiers who rushed to the city with a knife. He staggered to Wei Yan and said with a stern voice.

How many days?

Wei Yan smiled bitterly. Yang Ren might have discovered something wrong at this time. It was not that he wanted to show his timidity, but that he could no longer hold on. Once his defensive position was weak, Yang Ren would probably immediately see the clues. Whether the next offensive could be held up is a question. Not to mention a few days, whether he could defend tomorrow is a question. Did he come too quickly?

Wei Yan didn't say much, and the sound of the enemy's gold sound came from afar. The soldiers of Hanzhong retreated like a tide. Many soldiers guarding the city breathed a sigh of relief. Many people sat on the ground as if exhausted. Wei Yan's face was as deep as water. The other party retreated too early today. Obviously, Yang Ren also saw the clue.

Yang Ren's camp, as Wei Yan expected, did see the clues, so he ordered the Jin Dynasty to withdraw his troops.

"In the direction of the valley road, have you seen Liu Bei's army's grain team these days?" Yang Ren looked at a general and said.

"Not only that, the general shook his head and frowned, "Not only that, the general sent someone to the valley road to check. You can also see traces of the army marching near the valley road, but the distance is far away and there is no more convenient."

"Ha~" Yang Ren sneered when he heard this: "No wonder Wei Yan refused to set up troops outside the city. It turned out that he was an isolated army and immediately sent people to Nanzheng to inform Shijun that Mianyang was only a side division in a brigade, and our army was empty in Nanzheng. Please be careful of Liu Bei's surprise attack."

"Here!" The general was also shocked when he heard this, and quickly got up and took the order and left.

Yang Ren's deputy general Chang Qi looked at Yang Ren and said, "General, will this Mianyang still fight?"

"Fight!" Yang Ren snorted coldly, "Transfer our military orders and will attack in full swing tomorrow. I will definitely capture Wei Yan alive!"
Chapter completed!