Chapter 1460 Deadlock
The sound of fighting was extremely noisy, as if more than a dozen markets were moved to the city of Guanghan at the same time. Although the city wall of Guanghan is not as strong as iron, it seems to be much stronger compared with the flesh and blood.
The small moat outside the city has already been filled in many places. Stones and trees, soil bags and human corpses have filled the moat with more than ten roads, large and small, and the soldiers are crooked. Running obliquely on it, attacking or failing.
Under the city wall, two or three huge caves were dug out, which seemed to be the lairs of wild beasts in the mountains, but there was still a considerable distance to dig through or break down the city wall.
Many of the original blue bricks on the Guanghan City Wall peeled off during the battle, exposing the grayish-yellow rammed earth, soaked in blood, showing a purple-black color, which is quite weird.
Of course, Liu Zhang is even more weird.
From sunrise to sunset, Liu Zhang still persisted in supervising the battle under such circumstances, enduring the pungent smell and complicated sounds. Although his face turned pale, he was still unwilling to retreat. Such a tough performance is really a reversal Many people''s original impressions of Liu Zhang naturally made them work harder.
On the Guanghan City Pool, the response was also very tough. At this moment, the two corpses were being picked up with bamboo poles and hung out. These two men are the two warriors under Liu Zhang who boarded the city before. Now they have been stripped of their armor, and they hang out with blood stains like two pieces of bacon about to be dried. Naturally, the purpose is to suppress Liu Zhang. The morale of the soldiers under his command to attack the city.
"When will... be able to capture the city?" Liu Zhang asked with a hoarse voice.
"Master..." Pang Xi on the side replied, "Quickly, soon...just need..."
"No, I don''t want to know what I need..." Liu Zhang interrupted Pang Xi and said, "I just want to know how many more days?!"
"This..." Pang Xi was a little dumbfounded, how could this be accurate to a few days? "My lord, don''t be impatient, you need to know that impatience is..."
"It''s a fart!" Liu Zhang couldn''t help it, and burst into obscenity, "If you have time, you can do this or that every day. Why don''t you go do something serious! Go! I don''t need your company!"
What is Liu Zhang''s personality? He is lazy and lazy, but he is also a little stubborn. If it weren''t for this stubbornness, Liu Zhang would not have raised troops to attack Zhao Wei, and he would not have insisted on supervising the battle under the city of Guanghan. You know, Liu Zhang has never eaten before. This kind of suffering, but he also gritted his teeth and endured it, but in the process, it was also consuming Liu Zhang''s endurance little by little.
Maybe the city will be captured tomorrow...
Maybe tomorrow...
Maybe…
After several consecutive days of offensive setbacks, Liu Zhang''s patience gradually approached the limit. If he didn''t feel that it would be very embarrassing to retreat like this, Liu Zhang already wanted to return to Chengdu at this moment to enjoy his bath mat, ice cream Fish wine, pink beauty...
If it wasn''t for thinking about the ancestral family business, if it wasn''t for the first time to go to war, you shouldn''t be too cowardly, if it wasn''t for...
Liu Zhang turned his head away, and ground his teeth, otherwise, what''s so good about Pang Xi''s old face?
Pang Xi had no choice but to step back and went to the front of the battle line to check all the arrangements again. In the several days of offensive and defensive battles, it seemed that the two sides were fighting in full swing, **** everywhere, but Pang Xi knew that the real critical moment had not yet been reached.
Zhao Wei was waiting for an opportunity, and Pang Xi knew this. He understood that Zhao Wei did not only show some strength in the city, so Pang Xi was also waiting, waiting for Zhao Wei to give him a head-on attack when he came out of the city. Beat hard, so that Zhao Wei''s fighting spirit can be completely defeated as soon as possible.
Defending the city has never been able to stick to it.
Only after defeating Zhao Wei''s attack force, can we say how long it will take to conquer Guanghan, otherwise, it is impossible to really conquer Guanghan without two or three months just by relying on such an exchange of troops and attrition. Obviously, Liu Zhang did not Such patience...
Pang Xi squinted his eyes and stared at the head of Guanghan City. If he wanted a quick victory, he still needed to lure Zhao Wei''s reserve team out of the city. "Come on, push the tower thirty steps forward!"
With the order, the soldiers began to move. As the wooden towers approached the city wall, the effect of suppressing the bows and arrows on the city wall became more obvious. Many soldiers defending the city were unfortunately hit by arrows under the rain of arrows, screaming and falling. Come down to the city and add some necessary or unnecessary color to the earth.
"Sword and shield hand! Come forward!" On the city wall, Zhao Wei held a shield in one hand and a sword in the other, and shouted, "Hurry up! The archers strike back!"
"Drink!" A group of sword and shield fighters under the gallop immediately ran up the city wall, and then leaned on the battlements to erect their shields, forming a temporarily elevated defensive wall, covering a lot of people from the opposite tower. Arrows thrown.
Zhao Wei was behind the shield, watching the movement of the battlefield carefully. Although Liu Zhang''s position was very conspicuous, Zhao Wei had no intention of killing Liu Zhang at first. It is obviously not that easy to make a surprise attack, so Zhao Wei''s goal is only to fall on the siege equipment around these cities.
The ladder is nothing more than that, these towers and those rushing cars are indeed a great threat, perhaps, it is time to use the means! Pang Xi, a bastard, played this trick to lure the enemy, which is simply ridiculous. Do you really think I''m a fool? However, it is still good to use it as a trick...
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Wei Yan led his men and horses through the mountain road.
In the land of Sichuan and Shu, only the area of ??Chengdu in the middle of Sichuan is generally relatively flat land. Dujiangyan also connects the Minjiang River and many rivers on that piece of land. It is precisely because of the existence of Dujiangyan that Chengdu has become a land of fish and rice.
Dujiangyan not only brought abundant water to the cultivated land in central Sichuan, but also solved the original situation of erratic droughts and floods, so that the low-lying basins would no longer be affected by floods during the flood season and could develop stably.
The mountains around the basin are the natural barrier of this piece of land. If the whole of China is a big basin, then Sichuan and Shu are the small bowls in this big basin.
Traveling between the mountains, even if there is a road, if there is no guide to guide you, you will get lost. Many mountain passes are three-forked. If you get lost, even if you go back, you may not be able to find the original direction. .
Coming from Nanchong, this road is not easy, but compared to the road just entering Sichuan, it is already quite good. Wei Yan even wrote a poem in the mood...
Well, in fact, there is only one sentence, and the other sentences have not been completed yet. Wei Yanzheng smacked his lips, thinking that "the mountains are all stones" is better, or "the mountains are all trees" is better, when suddenly the front The formation was a little scattered, and several scouts rushed from the front. (There are many Chinese characters Xi in the poems of the Han Dynasty, but in later generations it is probably a modal particle like "ah", which has no specific practical meaning.)
Wei Yan''s expression changed, and he immediately threw the stone or tree aside, and strode up to meet him.
"Report to the general!" The scout looked a little nervous, and reported in a low voice, "Fifteen miles ahead, we found traces of soldiers in the valley!"
"What?!" Wei Yan frowned, and immediately ordered, "The whole army stops!"
Wei Yan asked in detail about the relevant information observed by the scouts, but the more he asked, the more confused he became. Many things contradict each other, and there is no reasonable explanation.
Why is there an ambush in the valley ahead? Could it be that the defenders of Guanghan got the news and prepared to ambush themselves? But if he was preparing for an ambush, how could he appear unguarded and be discovered by his own scouts?
Wei Yan was puzzled, and finally decided to check it out for himself, so he temporarily found a place nearby to stay with the pawns, followed the scouts with more than 30 guards, and quietly went to the place where he found the traces of the pawns on the other side...
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The battle outside the city of Guanghan seemed to be repeating, and there seemed to be some differences. Both sides seemed to be restraining something, and they seemed to be waiting for something.
From dawn to dusk, from rising to sunset, seeing that when the sun was about to set, a new rhythm of change suddenly broke out on the dreary battlefield. The east gate and north gate of Guanghan City burst open. He rushed out of the two gates and then went around the city wall to sweep away the siege equipment standing around the city!
Archers, most of them are not equipped with melee weapons, like the Lord of the Rings, they can strangle the enemy with a bow string, most of them only have scenes in the game, most of the archers are long-range combat He is so bullish, he is the type to scatter as soon as he is approached.
There are also individual archers and crossbow troops equipped with melee weapons, and some even have stronger melee capabilities than long-distance combat. For example, Qu Yi’s troops are equipped with long halberds and strong crossbows, with two styles...
However, it is clear that these archers of Liu Zhang and Pang Xi are better than the general new recruits. When they saw Zhao Wei''s troops attacking them viciously, they immediately collapsed in the direction of their own large troops with a bang. If you can still think about running together holding the bow and arrow, you are already well-trained.
When Pang Xi saw such a scene, he was happy instead of angry, and he shouted that it was good, and immediately ordered the soldiers who were originally underground on the back **** to rush to the city of Guanghan, blocking the destruction of Zhao Wei''s soldiers all the way, and killing all the way to the east of Guanghan. Gate North Gate.
Looking down from above, the troops of Zhao Wei and Pang Xi are like two intertwined onions, with Guanghan City and Liu Zhang''s main formation in the center, and the troops extending from both sides are layers of onion slices , They are all trying to wrap up each other''s troops, and then strangle and devour each other.
"Good! Good!" Liu Zhang jumped up from the stool, tiptoed to look forward, and screamed, waving his arms, like a wolf dog that had just been weaned showing its ferocity, ignoring himself until the end There was a bit of a broken voice, "Yes! That''s it, go up, go into the city! Those who advance into the city will be rewarded! Yes! There is a reward! Reward ten thousand gold! Reward~king~seven~"
"My lord has an order! Whoever enters the city first will be rewarded with ten thousand gold!" The guards on the side quickly shouted in unison, covering Liu Zhang''s broken voice.
Because Guanzhong and Guanzhong had consciously cut off communication during Liu Yan’s time, there is still a certain amount of five baht coins in Sichuan and Shu. In addition, the original economic system of Sichuan and Shu is relatively independent, and the Sichuan and Shu currency system has not been affected The influence of bad money is too great, and ten thousand gold is still a rather exciting amount. The loud shouts of the messengers also inspired the morale of many soldiers, who shouted one after another, and headed for the gate of Guanghan City!
Standing at the top of the city, Zhao Wei watched his two troops gradually being surrounded by Pang Xi''s troops who copied from the flanks, with a trace of mockery on the corner of his mouth. Dare to lead the army in front of someone?
"Command! Beat the drums! Light the fire!" Zhao Wei slapped the city battlements with a slap, "Let these stupid people know how powerful XX is!"
Amidst the rumbling drums, Zhao Wei''s troops who had rushed out began to gather their pace and formed a circular formation on the spot. Relying on the archers above the city, they neither advanced nor retreated, attracting a large number of Pang Xi''s troops. It was like two candies falling in front of the ant pile, densely stained layer by layer, and some ants in the outer ring were anxiously wandering, either waiting for the vacant position, or rushing to squeeze into the core area...
Accompanied by the rhythm of war drums above the city of Guanghan, three piles of bonfires rose up, which could be seen from far and near. Suddenly, a troop came out from a distant valley and went straight to the main formation where Liu Zhang and Pang Xi were!
"Protect the lord!" The guards around Liu Zhang saw that the situation was changing, and immediately gathered together to guard Liu Zhang on the slope.
"Pang! Love! Qing!" Liu Zhang roared from behind the shield, "What''s going on! Isn''t everything in your tent? Where''s your tent now? Where''s the tent!"
Pang Xi was in a dilemma. Either withdraw his troops now and transfer them back to defend against the troops that came out of the valley, or he could gamble that his current troops could withstand this army, and then let his troops break through the wide area first. Seoul, and then this army will naturally collapse...
"My lord, don''t panic!" Pang Xi pulled out the long sword that was more decorative than practical, and stood in front of Liu Zhang, "This battle has come to a critical moment! Bandit Zhao is already at the end of his skills! If he can last for a while, he will take Guanghan The city, this army will be defeated! My lord, don''t worry, but with the strength of a veteran, I will definitely protect my lord from any worries!"
Pang Xi spoke impassionedly and passionately, but if the long sword in his hand didn''t tremble, the effect might be better.
But Liu Zhang behind the shield didn''t see Pang Xi''s trembling long sword, so he felt a little more at ease in his heart and said, "Okay! Let''s rely on Pang Aiqing! Destroy the enemy quickly, defeat the enemy quickly!"
Amidst the roar of the war drums, the soldiers of both sides gathered on several key points, fighting and fighting, forming a temporary stalemate. Now, it depends on which side is defeated first...
(end of this chapter)