The Shuhan Empire of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 20

Shangyong offense and defense
Time passed slowly, and the wailing from the top and bottom of the city wall became more and more tragic. It was almost an hour; although many Cao soldiers climbed up the city wall, only corpses were left in the end. Seeing that the task could not be completed in an hour, Wu Hua was very anxious; Jumping off the horse, grabbed a shield from the personal guards and started running towards the ladder. Seeing his general attacking the city in person, the soldiers' morale immediately rose. Wu Hua continued to run towards the ladder, taking off the general's battle robe on the way. , boarded a ladder that had just been built, and was very lucky that he was neither poured by boiling water nor hit by rolling stones. He stabbed to death a soldier who was about to stop him and immediately climbed up the city wall, followed by many Cao soldiers Climbing up this road, Yan Tong, who was directing the battle situation, saw the situation here and led his personal guards to rush up without saying a word.

The reason why Wu Hua dared to say that he could open the city gate with 3000 people was not out of high spirits. He himself possessed extraordinary courage and force; The gap on the city wall is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more Cao soldiers are climbing up.

"Wang Lin, you lead 100 people to destroy the enemy's ladder immediately and drive them all down. I'll meet this fierce man." After finishing speaking, Yan Tong met Wu Hua without hesitation.

After one round, Yan Tong knew that he was no match for Wu Hua, but it was too late for him to retreat, so he could only grit his teeth and hold on. Fortunately, Wang Lin was too quick to hide his ears, and destroyed the ladder; the dozens of people who had just climbed up the city also After being completely annihilated, seeing the situation on the top of the tower, the Cao soldiers below the city charged even more fiercely; while Yan Tong on the top of the city had withdrawn from the duel with Wu Hua, Wang Lin led the army to make up for it, but it was still difficult to subdue Wu Hua , Under the city, soldiers of Cao Jun continued to climb up the wall, Yan Tong returned to his command position, and began to continue to deploy defensive troops.

Although Cao soldiers continued to climb up the city, they did not achieve any decisive results. At this time, the drums of retreating troops sounded in Cao's camp, and the troops that had just attacked the city retreated like a tide, and Wu Hua also grabbed a ladder He slid down, but was bitten by an eyeless arrow behind him. It didn't seem to have any effect on Wu Hua. He pulled out the arrow with his backhand and immediately splashed five steps away.

The time has gradually come to the afternoon, and Cao Jun sent [-] soldiers to take the city this time, and they are bound to win with high morale.

When the war started, Cao soldiers came rushing in like a tide again. Looking at the situation of Cao Jun, Yan Tong had no choice but to transfer 200 people from each of the other three gates to the east gate. Now only 100 people are left guarding the other gates. As the battle became more intense, casualties on both sides also gradually increased, and the bluish-white city wall was soaked in blood at this moment.

Just when the east gate was locked, a large number of Cao troops rushed out of the west gate of Shangyong City and approached the west gate, but at this time only the last 100 people were guarding the west gate;
"Report, General Cao Jun suddenly appeared at the west gate with five thousand people, and they were almost approaching the city wall." A guard of the west gate ran to the east gate in a panic to report to Yan Tong.

When Yan Tong had just finished listening to the soldiers' report, he felt that he had collapsed, "Shangyong is over, Major General, I am sorry for your trust." After finishing speaking, Yan Tong resolutely walked up to the city wall with a knife to fight Cao Bing.

Just when Cao Bing's ladder was already on the wall of the west gate, when all the guards at the west gate were desperate, and when Yan Tong was ready to sacrifice himself to serve the country;
The guards at the south gate showed that long-lost smile; because they saw the big banner of 'Liu' coming here, with the yellow sand billowing behind them; they immediately shouted, "The major general is here,,,".

When Liu Feng was close to the city wall of the south gate, "report; general, hurry to the west gate, there are a large number of enemy troops at the west gate." The scouts behind came to report.

At this time, Liu Feng also vaguely heard the sound of weapons colliding, "The whole army obeys the order, and follow me to the west gate."

Eight thousand soldiers immediately turned to kill Ximen, and at this time Cao Jun who attacked Ximen had already climbed the ladder, and was in a dilemma;

General Cao Jun resolutely gave the order to retreat, because he believed that this army had been waiting for him to attack and then ambushed him afterwards, otherwise how could the timing be such a coincidence.

At the west gate, Cao Jun hurried away like the waves on the sea level, and passed away into the distance. After Liu Feng arrived at the west gate to relieve the siege, he led his army to the east gate without stopping. After all, that was the main battlefield;

At this time, the main battlefield is showing a one-sided trend. Cao Jun keeps rushing up the tower to reap the lives of the defenders, and Yan Tong is exhausted,,, and is about to commit suicide.

"General Yan, General Yan, look at the Major General's return!" The guards at the south gate were also frightened when they saw Yan Tong's actions, and immediately shouted loudly, but in the end they were hacked to death by a group of Cao Jun.

Yan Tongyi immediately lifted his spirits and shouted, "The reinforcements have arrived, the reinforcements have arrived...

The soldiers were naturally overjoyed when they heard the horn that the reinforcements had arrived, and their morale doubled; as soon as Liu Feng's army arrived at Cao's camp, the drums for retreating sounded again.

"Major General, you're here, I won't be able to see you if it's a moment later." Yan Tong saw Liu Feng like a person in despair in the dark night, seeing the light of a lighthouse.

"General Yan is very fortunate. If it wasn't for General Yan, I would have come here in vain. Go down and rest quickly, and leave Shangyong City to me at ease."

"The major general is at the head of the city, how can I evacuate, I can still kill him a few times"

"Okay, since this is the case, General Yan can continue to arrange for the defense of the city. If you don't have enough soldiers, come to me and ask for it. I will go to supervise the army." Liu Feng fulfilled the wish of the passionate man beside him.

Cao Jun's camp "How did this battle go so well that the other side had reinforcements coming and our scouts didn't even notice?" Xu Huang crazily reprimanded the scout leader beside him.

"General, we have spotted the enemy army before, but the enemy marched too fast, and the terrain here is not suitable for riding horses, so we delayed sending the news." The scout also seemed a little helpless, and he must have scolded Liu Feng a thousand times in his heart. million times.

"Others can march like this, the scouts should be faster, and the scouts in question should be punished with thirty army sticks." Xu Huang issued the military order; thinking about how he had not dared to attack the city with all his strength just now, is he really old?

"Notify the army to take a rest today and attack the city tomorrow. Now that the morale of the defenders is high, it is not easy to attack again." Xu Huang gave an order helplessly

Xincheng; the meeting hall, I saw that all the people sitting in it were people brought out by Zhuge Qiao from Chengdu: "We marched all the way from Chengdu to Shangyong to help Liu Feng fight against powerful enemies. After several battles, the 60 people we just left from Chengdu returned There are 36 people left, and the fame has not yet been established, but the people have gone west; it has been so long that Liu Feng has not sent anyone to prove that Shangyong is still in his hands, and Wei Yan is coming soon, here is safe, we should leave Go to the next destination"

"Where is our next destination, Commander?" Liu Yu asked first
"Go north to Ziwu Valley in Hanzhong. Ziwu Valley is the most direct way for Hanzhong to cross the Qinling Mountains to reach Guanzhong; remember not to tell anyone our purpose, otherwise the enemy will be alerted."

"When to set off"

"Let's leave tomorrow without passing through any counties and counties, and try to reach Taniguchi within [-] days by taking the mountain road."

Afterwards, Zhuge Qiao went to the barracks to visit those wounded soldiers, "Spike's battle killed 24 people, will 'Spike' continue to fight?" Zhuge Qiao kept asking himself.

In fact, the reason is very simple. After all, Langya has only been established for a short time, its foundation is not solid, and its combat experience is insufficient, but after this baptism of blood and death, I believe they should grow a lot.

Before dawn the next day, Zhuge Qiao left the new city with his original troops. It was impossible for Shangyong City to be captured. The siege of Shangyong was lifted immediately, so there was no need for him to continue guarding the new city. It was enough to leave a letter to Liu Feng.

After leaving the new city, they started again, training and marching in the field with heavy loads; if Zhuge Qiao was asked who was important between Ziwu Valley and Liu Feng when he came out of Chengdu this time, he could only choose Ziwu Valley as the main line and Liu Feng as the copy.

After the Battle of Shangyong Xincheng, the enthusiasm of the soldiers was obviously high, and the dagger became their main weapon. In this war, they all knew that a short dagger can actually produce huge results. At this time, they belonged to the Shuhan Empire. China's first full-featured special warfare unit has truly appeared before everyone's eyes.

After nearly fifteen days of long marching, Zhuge Qiao's team finally approached the entrance of Ziwu Valley; when approaching the entrance of Ziwu Valley, Zhuge Qiao realized that the entrance of Ziwu Valley was not as narrow and precipitous as imagined, and the entrance of Ziwu Valley was completely a wide road. The avenue is just a very barren form before the eyes of passers-by. Although Zhuge Qiao is unwilling to believe that the entrance of Ziwu Valley looks like this, he really shows it here. I can't believe it anyway.

But after that he became indifferent. After all, when Emperor Gaozu, Han Xin took this road. If this road was really steep and steep, how could Han Xin's tens of thousands of people pass by.

"Enter the valley" Zhuge Qiao shouted; the reason why this mission will enter the Ziwu Valley is to investigate the situation of the troops stationed at the 'Ziwu Pass' in the valley and the terrain of the Ziwu Valley; Soldiers are trained here to prepare the prerequisites for sending troops to Ziwu Valley during the Northern Expedition.

On the second day after entering the valley, the mountain road changed completely. Due to the abandonment of Ziwu Valley, landslides appeared in many places, which caused great difficulties for the march.There are also some places that can only be passed by sticking to the mountain wall, such as cliffs, trails, and high mountains; "The road to Shu is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky." Zhuge Qiao couldn't help uttering this sentence;
"Tun Commander, you said that even if our Northern Expedition can pass Ziwu Valley safely, but after that, we are definitely a group of tired soldiers, so how can we fight Cao Jun?" Qin Shan asked with great emotion
"So we can't let the enemy know that we have passed the Meridian Valley. We took the opportunity to regroup the army for two days, and finally sent out surprise troops to take Guanzhong."

(End of this chapter)