The entire Yunnan City was filled with shouts and cries of joy.
The reinforcements had arrived. How could they not be happy? Previously, they had been on tenterhooks, guarding against the barbarians below the city. These barbarians were baring their fangs and brandishing their claws. There was even a Han Chinese among them. They had actually clamored to break into Yunnan City and would massacre everyone in the city.
In this way, the common people of Yunnan were scared out of their wits.
Now that the reinforcements had arrived, they seemed to be saved.
"Reinforcements, reinforcements are here! Governor Zhang, our reinforcements are here! "On the city wall, Zhao Yi shouted excitedly to Zhang Jin who was beside him.
Zhang Jin was different from Zhao Yi. He frowned and said to Zhao Yi, "Second Young Master, don't you find it strange?" Zhang Jin said to Zhao Yi.
"Strange?" Zhao Yi looked at Zhang Jin in confusion.
"Eldest Young Master, the barbarians outside the city have more soldiers than us. But, they haven't done anything other than making a ruckus outside the city. Don't you think it's strange?" Zhang Jin shouted at Zhao Yi.
Originally, Zhao Yi had fallen for the trick of luring the tiger away from the mountain. His main force of 4,000 troops had been transferred out of Yunnan City. This had caused Zhao Yi to be trapped in Yunnan City.
They should have attacked the city directly. However, the barbarian army only knew how to talk and did not do anything.
"Do you want the barbarians to attack the city?" Zhao Yi said unhappily.
"Second Young Master, this subordinate did not mean that!" Zhang Jin explained to Zhao Yi.
"These barbarians are all ignorant and uncivilized. They are already afraid of our Yunnan city. How can they attack it? Moreover, the people of Yunnan are engraved in our hearts. The barbarians won't dare to attack us!" Zhao Yi said proudly.
The hearts of the people? Zhang Jin curled his lips. If it was not for the idiot at the city wall clamoring for a massacre, the people would not have helped him.
However, with the arrival of the reinforcements, Zhang Jin's heart calmed down. As long as Yunnan City was defended, everything would be fine.
"My Lord, look! The barbarians are retreating!" "Over there!" Someone pointed at the barbarian camp and shouted.
Sure enough, the barbarian army that was originally surrounding Yunnan seemed to be retreating.
"Haha! Barbarians from outside the borders of civilization! How foolish and ignorant of you! You bullied me because I didn't have any troops! Today, I'll definitely bury your dead! Zhao Yi thought that the barbarians were scared and couldn't help but laugh.
"That's not right!" Zhang Jin looked in the direction where the barbarians were retreating. It didn't seem like they were retreating. Instead, they seemed to be advancing.
As for the direction in which they were marching, what were the reinforcements?
Zhang Jin widened his eyes and looked in the direction where the barbarians were heading. A bad premonition rippled in his heart.
"Reporting!" On the other side, Yang Chao's troops had just stepped into Yunnan's territory. Before they could even set up camp, they immediately received the order from the scouts at the front.
"Reporting to General, we've discovered the Barbarian Race's army five miles ahead of us. They're advancing towards our army!"
"Coming for us? Yang Chao's subordinates were in an uproar.
These barbarians didn't know when to advance or retreat. How dare they take the initiative to attack? Wasn't this courting death?
"How many people did you find out?" Yang Chao asked.
"Only three thousand or so!"
"Haha!" Immediately, Yang Chao's troops burst into laughter. Over three thousand barbarians dared to make a move against Yang Chao? Although his five thousand men weren't Zhao Wei's elites, they were still strong and well-trained.
Once they set up a battle formation, even if there were ten thousand barbarians, Yang Chao was confident in defeating them.
When he returned to Yunnan this time, Yang Chao was most afraid that Yunnan had already been breached. That wouldn't be fun. Now that Yunnan was still there, the barbarians were courting death. How could Yang Chao not laugh at them?
Yang Chao sneered, "Good! Since he's here today, we'll take this credit. Pass down my orders! Prepare for battle! "
"Yes!" Yang Chao's five thousand strong army moved towards the barbarians.
"A tired army should avoid battle. Don't you know such military tactics?" Jia Xu shook his head and looked at Yang Chao's army.
If he didn't know such military tactics, then he really didn't deserve to be a captain.
When marching to war, it was necessary to set up camp and have a good rest before starting the battle. Otherwise, after such a long journey, one would be out of breath and half of one's strength would be gone. How could one fight then?
The general of Zhao Wei's army should know this. If he still did this, then there was only one possibility. Zhao Wei's army didn't put the barbarians' military tactics in their eyes.
"Hu 'zi, you're being looked down upon!" Jia Xu shook his head as he taunted.
"Crush his balls!" Hu Zi subconsciously cursed in the language of the barbarians.
The barbarians were like this. You could defeat them, you could kill them, but you couldn't look down on them or humiliate them.
"Good, bad temper, I like it!" Jia Xu said with a smile. He looked at Zhao Wei's reinforcements, whose morale was still high, and couldn't help but grin. His pair of beady eyes narrowed, and his expression was as though he was looking at his prey.
"Such a gift delivered to our doorstep, it would be a waste if we don't accept it! Hu Zi, let's give him a gift! "
"Kill!"
"Chota, chota, chota!" Zhao Wei's army of five thousand immediately started fighting with the barbarians' army of three thousand.
On the walls of Yunnan, Zhao Yi was looking at the battle with excitement.
After all, men were hot-blooded animals. They were born with a fighting spirit. Looking at the battlefield, Zhao Yi was also excited.
If Zhang Jin hadn't stopped him, Zhao Yi would have already led the remaining thousand soldiers to kill the barbarians.
However, Zhao Yi's face also showed a smile. What were the barbarians? Their weapons were poor, their defense was poor, and they didn't know how to attack. Other than being able to walk in the mountains like walking on flat ground, they were useless.
On the other hand, although Yang Chao's army was lightly armed, they were still wearing leather armor and holding long swords in their hands.
"What a joke, who said that the barbarians don't have swords?" Jia Xu sneered. The boss behind the barbarians was Yangzhou's Han King, Liu Mang. Each of them had a Yangzhou sword. As for their armor?
Hehe, it wasn't that they couldn't afford to use iron armor or leather armor. It was just that these things weren't as useful as the vines on their bodies. The iron armor was too heavy. If they were careless and rolled down the mountain, the armor would become an iron coffin. The defensive power of the leather armor couldn't be compared to the armor they were wearing.
All of the barbarian soldiers seemed to be wrapped in a mat.
It wasn't a decoration, it was called rattan armor.
They were all made from dried green vines on the cliffs. Then, they were cut up one by one and weaved together.
This thing was made from some old green vines. They were at least eight hundred years old. People could pull them to the cliffs to pick medicinal herbs.
Using this thing to make an armor, one could see its defensive power. Its toughness wasn't any worse than that of iron or leather armor.
In addition, the gap between the armor was larger than that of leather or heavy armor. It was very breathable. This was the depths of the forest.
When the armor was worn, it was quickly wet. It wasn't breathable at all. It was so hot, how could they fight?
"Kill!" Yang Chao took the lead. The blade in his hand chopped down on the body of a barbarian soldier. Yang Chao's eyes were ferocious and the corners of his mouth revealed a cruel smile. Although he wasn't a famous general, he was still a second-rate general.
In Yang Chao's opinion, this slash would definitely cut this barbarian soldier into two halves from top to bottom. This would definitely frighten these barbarians.
But it was obvious that Yang Chao had miscalculated.
The blade in his hand chopped down on the mat, but it only made a squeaking sound. It didn't cause any damage to the barbarian soldier.
This barbarian soldier wasn't slow either. When he saw that Zhao Wei's general didn't kill him, he immediately charged towards Yang Chao.
Yang Chao thought that he didn't hit him. He couldn't help but shake his head. He also raised his blade and faced the barbarian soldier head-on. He wanted to crush him along with his blade.
The saber in Yang Chao's hand was made of the best Meteoric Iron. It was one of the best sabers in the Yi Province. God knows how many people it had killed and how many sabers it had destroyed.
This time was no exception. Sure enough, the blade in the barbarian soldier's hand was broken. This made the barbarian soldier stunned.
Yang Chao's face couldn't help but reveal a mocking expression.
But before he could ridicule, there were two more blades chopping towards him.
He held his blade horizontally and continued to meet force with force. The second blade, the third blade.
The fourth blade, ka ka ka ka! Yang Chao listened to the sound of the blade breaking because of the collision. It was simply intoxicating.
He liked to see the shock and disbelief on the faces of his enemies after their weapons were cut in half by his saber. It was a kind of enjoyment.
"All of you, die!" Yang Chao saw that these broken mats were difficult to break. Then, he chopped towards the neck, where the defense was the lowest.
In Yang Chao's opinion, his attack was 100% successful, but it didn't bring any effect.
"En?" Yang Chao's eyes widened. Could it be that this barbarian soldier had an indestructible steel body? He was clearly within the attack range of his saber. According to the length of his saber, this attack would definitely be a fatal one.
But there was no movement at all.
When Yang Chao looked over again, his soul was almost scared out of his body.
His blade, which was passed down in his family, was made of the best meteoric iron. But now, only the hilt was left. It was already broken.
Yang Chao was stunned and was immediately injured. One of his arms fell down.
He gritted his teeth and was about to retreat.
But those barbarian soldiers didn't let it go. Didn't you know how to show off? Now you want to run?
As long as they chased after Yang Chao, they would definitely be able to kill him because he was too far ahead.
However, he was stopped by Huzi.
"An An, oh, oh!" Huzi explained. Jia Xu had ordered that the others could be killed, but not Yang Chao. He had to be kept alive to inform Jia Xu.
Yang Chao, who had a treasured blade passed down in his family, was already no match for the barbarians. The remaining soldiers were even less of a match.
Their weapons were directly cut into pieces in the battle with these barbarians. Their own blades couldn't break the defense of these rattan armor.
But the enemy's blades could easily cut open their armor.
Except for a few who were wearing iron armor, the rest of the soldiers couldn't resist at all.
Moreover, they were an exhausted army while the barbarian army was waiting for the exhausted barbarian army. Now, the situation was great. Five thousand barbarian soldiers were being suppressed by three thousand barbarian soldiers.
On the city wall, Zhao Yi was dumbfounded. What happened to the reinforcements? What happened to taking over the siege of Yunnan?
"Trash, trash, trash!" Zhao Yi suddenly cursed. 5,000 soldiers couldn't even defeat 3,000 barbarians. If this wasn't trash, then what was?
On the other hand, Zhang Jin didn't have such an intense reaction. Instead, he smiled bitterly as he looked at the battlefield.
The reinforcements that came were under the banner of Yang. They represented Zhao Wei's subordinate, Yang Chao's army. This was one of the main forces.
They were also Zhao Wei's central army. In terms of elite level, they were much stronger than Wang Cheng's troops that Zhao Yi had sent out.
But even so, the 5,000 soldiers were still suppressed by the 3,000 barbarians. It was only a matter of time before they were defeated.
But with such strength, they were able to let Yunnan live peacefully for a few days.
If these barbarians wanted Yunnan City, it would be as easy as taking something out of their pocket.
However, these barbarian soldiers did not attack Yunnan City, so there was only one possibility.
"We have become bait!" Zhang Jin was very unwilling to say such words, but this was the truth.
Just like fishing, they had become the bait.
This Zhang Jin really had some ability. That's right, Jia Xu, this poisonous snake, was using Yunnan City as bait.
Jia Xu didn't go to the front lines of Jianning and directly attacked Yunnan. From the beginning, he wanted to besiege Wei to rescue Zhao. Therefore, he didn't bring too many soldiers. 3,000 was enough. This was because Liu Mang had only transported 3,000 war blades to the barbarians.
Therefore, instead of bringing tens of thousands of barbarians to the front lines of Jianning as cannon fodder, he went to Yunnan to deal with Zhao Wei's base.
The 3,000 soldiers moved quickly and each of them prepared their own rations. If the number of soldiers was small, it would be easy to deal with them. If it was an army of tens of thousands, it would require some planning.
The 3,000 soldiers were just enough.
Take down Yunnan City? If Jia Xu wanted Yunnan City, he would have taken it when Wang Cheng's army was sent out.
Jia Xu didn't want Yunnan City. Yunnan City alone wasn't enough to satisfy Jia Xu's appetite.
Besiege Wei to rescue Zhao. The prerequisite was that Wei Nation's capital hadn't been breached. If Wei Nation's capital was breached, what use was there for him?
At that time, Zhao Wei would definitely ignore Yunnan and attack Jianning even more fiercely. He would then break through the defensive line and enter Hanzhong.
At that time, it would really be the opposite of what he was doing. He had good intentions but ended up doing bad things.
Therefore, Jia Xu had been threatening the defenders of Yunnan City. He had them send letters to Zhao Wei asking for help. Only by telling Zhao Wei that Yunnan City was still worth rescuing would Zhao Wei not send troops.
Of course, Jia Xu was also afraid that Zhao Wei would bring back all the troops at once. That would be a huge problem. Jia Xu couldn't swallow them all in one go. Therefore, while threatening Yunnan City, Jia Xu also wanted Yunnan City and Zhao Wei to underestimate his strength.
With 3,000 soldiers, he only needed to send one army.
Therefore, when Yang Chao came, Jia Xu reluctantly swallowed him.
Besiege the enemy! Jia Xu wanted to swallow Zhao Wei's army bit by bit.
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