At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

The Liangzhou soldiers up and down the city tower were in a state of chaos, which was almost uncontrollable.

On this basis, after half an hour of bombardment, the tunnel traps around Chang'an City were also completely filled, and the defensive facilities and obstruction facilities were wiped out by the Wei army.

So Guo Peng decisively ordered the whole army to attack and began to attack the city.

The infantry of the Wei army formed an army formation with their big shields on their backs, and approached the city wall step by step.

When it got close to a certain level, the attack of the trebuchet would stop, and the crossbowmen in the army would suppress the firepower of the city to cover the advance of the infantry.

The dense rain of arrows caught the Liangzhou soldiers who had just recovered and were forced to resist by the officers by surprise.

One after another, they were hit by arrows, one after another fell to the city wall and died, and one after another fell to the ground and died.

The ladder was driven up, and a large number of soldiers of the Wei army ants attached themselves to the city, trying their best to climb the tower.

The strictly trained crossbowmen in the army began to shoot at fixed points to cover the comrades who were climbing the tower. When they saw someone throwing down rolling logs and rocks or stabbing down with spears, they shot them with arrows. Do your best to protect your comrades who are climbing the walls.

Their casualty rate is the largest, no matter how hard the cover is, the casualties will not be less.

A large number of soldiers of the Wei army climbed up the city wall and began to fight, and many soldiers of the Wei army were thrown down by stones and logs before they could climb up, and died tragically on the spot.

There are also soldiers of the Wei army who were poured on their heads with boiling water, screaming and falling off the tower to die.

Some were shot to death by crossbow arrows, and some were stabbed by spears.

What's more, after climbing to the tower, facing Liangzhou soldiers far more than their own, struggling to gain more space, they often cannot escape the inevitable death in battle.

As more and more soldiers of the Wei army ascended the tower, they could fight back and forth with the soldiers of Liangzhou. Fierce fighting was carried out on the top of the city, and death happened every moment, every moment .

Anyway, Ma Teng never thought that such a tall and strong Chang'an City would be attacked on the city wall on the first day of the siege.

The siege tools used by the Wei army beyond his imagination also gave him a great shock, causing panic among the soldiers in the entire Chang'an city.

Everyone was rumoring that Guo Peng knew magic and could use magic to throw huge stones weighing dozens of catties into the city, killing all those who opposed him.

It is not that there are no soldiers who are scared to collapse and unable to fight because of this, on the contrary, there are quite a lot of them.

Ma Teng approached with all his strength to command the soldiers on the city wall he was in charge of to resist the Wei army's attack. The cannon fodder couldn't resist, so he pulled his own soldiers up, and used the elite and fully armored soldiers to resist the Wei army head-on.

They are the defenders of the city, occupying an advantage, and the speed of reinforcements is much higher than that of the soldiers of the Wei army, but they are crushed and beaten by the Wei army on the top of the city. !

Ma Teng took his two sons, Ma Tie and Matthew, into battle in person, and tried their best to resist the Wei army's attack.

On the other side, Zhang Ji also fought for his life. He took his nephew Zhang Xiu and elite guards to the tower to fight with Wei Jun.

Zhang Xiu took the lead and was unstoppable, supporting the resistance work of this city wall.

Han Sui was also unwilling to hand over the dominance of the city wall so quickly. In order to defend the city, Han Sui also went into battle in person.

Accompanied by his son-in-law Yan Xing, Han Sui led his elite soldiers to the city wall. Yan Xing, who had almost killed Ma Chao, took up the task of counterattacking and led his troops to the front, with unparalleled bravery.

The fierce offensive and defensive battle of Chang'an is going on.

Chapter 557 They want to gamble again

The individual combat effectiveness of the Liangzhou soldiers should not be underestimated. The desperate fighting in three aspects made it difficult for the Wei army to attack.

After paying a certain amount of casualties, at dusk, Guo Peng ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, ending the day's siege and reserving to fight again tomorrow.

After withdrawing troops and returning to camp, Guo Peng ordered people to count the losses.

Knowing that more than [-] soldiers were lost in the First World War today, and more than [-] people were injured. Basically, the injured can be rescued, and there is really no way for a small number of injuries to be too serious.

For this reason, Guo Peng personally came to the wounded soldiers camp to comfort the wounded soldiers, personally bandaged the wounds of the wounded soldiers, fed them medicine, and ordered to increase the food supply of the wounded soldiers and give them better food to speed up their recovery. Uphold the heavy military doctrine as always.

Guo Peng didn't know how many Liangzhou soldiers he had killed, but it was not a loss if he thought about it.

The casualties of the Wei army were mainly concentrated in the hand-to-hand combat stage of climbing the city. The casualties at this stage were relatively large and unavoidable.

If we really want to talk about the overall casualties, the Liangzhou soldiers were killed by long-distance strikes before. In comparison, the casualties of the Liangzhou soldiers are far greater than that of the Wei army.

In fact it is.

After Wei Jun Mingjin retreated, the Liangzhou soldiers on the top of Chang'an City were relieved. Ma Teng put his hands on the wall and looked at the retreating Wei Jun, panting heavily, and then he couldn't hold it anymore after walking a few steps. No, it was Ma Xiu and Ma Tie who supported Ma Teng.

Han Sui and Zhang Ji were not much better, because of Wei Jun's bravery, Han Sui's son-in-law Yan Xing was even injured.

At the summary meeting in the evening, everyone counted the casualties and found that there were more than [-] dead and more than [-] injured, which left Ma Teng, Han Sui and Zhang Ji speechless.

"This is the first day..."

Ma Teng said in a low voice.

"After all, it was the first day. None of us expected that Guo Zifeng could use that kind of stone-throwing weapon to attack the city. The biggest casualties were caused at that time."

Han Sui said slowly: "From tomorrow onwards, we must pay attention to guarding against the impact of that kind of stone. As long as we can avoid the impact of the stone, there will be no such heavy casualties."

"I also know, but how to hide? You can't leave the city wall without people standing. Once there are people, there must be casualties. This time we desperately pushed them back. What about next time? Can we push them back? We lost in the First World War." There are more than 2000 people, how many people do we have? If this continues, can Chang'an be guarded for a month?"

Ma Teng shook his head: "Do you know how long Guo Zifeng's food can last? Wenyue?"

Han Sui remained silent, and Zhang Ji didn't know what to say.

"We have to come up with a way. We can't sit and wait for death. If we sit and wait for death, within a month, Chang'an will be finished, and so will we."

Ma Teng looked at Han Sui and Zhang Ji.

But who can come up with a good way?

A group of people in a safe room looking at each other, no one knows how to make suggestions.

Desperately defend the city?

Looking for foreign aid?

Raid out of the city?

I have thought about everything in conventional ways, but I can't do it, and I can do it in unconventional ways, but I can't think of it.

A group of people gathered together to brainstorm and put forward various ideas, but they still couldn't come up with an effective strategy.

"Otherwise, let's break through and withdraw the troops?"

Zhang Ji suddenly came up with such an idea.

Seeing Ma Teng and Han Sui looking at him with strange eyes, Zhang Ji said hastily: "It's just that we are no opponents in a frontal battle, and defending the city is a dead end. In this way, apart from withdrawing troops, Is there any other way?

And according to my observations, Guo Zifeng doesn't want to fight us to death, otherwise he will surround the city on all sides and surround us to death instead of besieging three and missing one. If you have physical strength, the horse can still run, so retreat quickly, Chang'an is dead, and the isolated city cannot be defended. "

Ma Teng and Han Sui looked at each other, and suddenly felt that what Zhang Ji said made sense.

In the three battles in the past few days, the Liangzhou army has lost uglyly. Not to mention the casualties, even Chang'an has become a deadly place.

Now that Guo Peng has an absolute advantage, if the fight continues, everyone may be trapped to death in Chang'an.

Frontal field battles are tough and tough, and offensive and defensive battles are not dominant. In this case, what else can we do?

What Zhang Ji said was very reasonable, but both Ma Teng and Han Sui were a little unwilling.

Now that we have reached this point, do we still have to go back to our hometown in Liangzhou?

Moreover, can Guo Peng really withstand the food supply for such a long time?

Can it really go on and on, instead of the last madness?

If Guo Peng was just bluffing, but in fact there was no more food and grass, then as long as everyone persisted, they would definitely be able to persist until Guo Peng ran out of food.

In terms of daily food consumption, it is an astronomical figure for Guo Peng, isn't it?

If this is the case, wouldn't it be a waste of a great opportunity to retreat now and give up strategically important places?

Once Guo Peng has gained a firm foothold, it will be difficult for everyone to come back here again.

With such thoughts in mind, Ma Teng and Han Sui were very entangled, ambiguous about continuing to fight or withdrawing troops, and could not make up their minds.

"Not to mention anything else, Pang Lingming and my nephew Ma Dai are still in Guo Zifeng's hands, how can I leave them alone and just leave?"

After all, Ma Teng still didn't support Zhang Ji's opinion, and Han Sui didn't support it very much either. Both of them still wanted to gamble that Guo Peng's logistics could not keep up and he would withdraw his troops soon.

I have to say that they still have some ideas and insights.

Because of such a long-distance combat and a lot of consumption, it is not an easy task for Guo Peng.

At least Jizhou, Yanzhou and Qingzhou have been mobilized, and hundreds of thousands of young and strong are commuting to and from the road to deliver food.

In this regard, even if Guo Peng vigorously expanded the number of government personnel, and recruited a large number of officials into Weigong's mansion to do business, the manpower was still tight.

Wei Guoshangshutai has too many things to do.

Because Guo Peng is committed to building a big government.

In the early days of the establishment of the General's Mansion, Guo Peng still gave the local government a lot of power, and the governors of each state had considerable administrative power.

After the state of Wei was established and Guo Peng gained enough power and influence, he took back some local power, especially financial power.

The financial budget must be approved by the central government, so as soon as Wei Guoshangshutai was established, government affairs were very busy.

Guo Peng never used Wei Guoshangshutai as a local authority from the very beginning.

Wei Guo Shangshutai was built and used directly for the power center of a complete unified empire.

Cheng Yu has a lot of power, which is equal to the de facto prime minister, while Chen Ji and Tian Feng, as the left and right deputy prime ministers, also have great powers, and they are assigned layer by layer. There are many staffs and things are very complicated.

That is to say, Guo Peng built a large number of official roads and post stations in advance, and created a very complete transportation and communication foundation, so that Wei Guoshangshutai could have an impact on local administration from the beginning of its establishment.

Otherwise, I don't know what big troubles are going to happen. It is not so easy to create a central authority.

Chapter 558 Five Chang'an offensive and defensive battles

560 Seven Do you still want to enjoy the eight-hour working system?

Among the major prefectures under Guo Peng's control, only Youzhou and Xuzhou have relatively strong local power.

The rest of the states have become subordinate institutions of Shangshutai in various senses, and they are no longer in the state of silos in the early days of troubled times.

Guo Peng took back many powers in these areas to the central government, and sent additional supervisory officials to restrain local forces and strengthen the authority of the central government.

The Xuzhou that was just acquired is also Guo Peng's own Xuzhou animal husbandry, and the situation in Youzhou is more special, and we will deal with it later.

Originally, government affairs were relatively busy, but now there is a war, and logistical tasks are overwhelming.

Cheng Yu has already written two letters, hoping that Guo Peng can end this battle as soon as possible. Although Shangshutai has been expanded and its manpower has increased greatly, it is still not enough under this situation.

In an emergency, even some military officers were seconded to Shangshutai to run errands.

If this battle is not finished quickly, there will still be a lot of supplies, but people will be exhausted first.

Guo Peng was also a little depressed. He didn't expect that the first problem on his side was not the food, but the officials.

It seems that the number of officials is still not enough. Guo Peng decided to expand the number of officials and staff in Shangshutai after this battle, and then divide the responsibilities in detail, expand some new departments, and lay the foundation of a big government. locked up.

But even though this is said, in Guo Peng's view, the Shangshutai of the Duke of Wei will be the Shangshutai of the Wei Empire in the future, and it will be the center of the country, and its importance is self-evident.

If we don’t train this office hard now so that it has a considerable ability to withstand pressure, how can we take on great responsibilities in the future?

In the future, there will be less government affairs and officials will be free because of fewer wars. Guo Peng will not give them many opportunities for leisure.

When you are free, you will have a lot of thoughts that you shouldn't have. When you are free, you will start fighting, fighting back and forth, and fighting endlessly.

With my salary, I have to be prepared for [-] or even [-], and be prepared to receive blessings.

In my feudal centralized empire, do I still want to enjoy the eight-hour working day?

What a joke!

In this cannibalistic world, having a job and a salary is a great blessing, what else do you want?

Paid time off?

Guo Peng sent messages back to Cheng Yu twice, letting Cheng Yu learn to do things, learn to rest, and learn to formulate a detailed work and rest schedule.

Do your best when you are working, and rest well when you are resting.

The officials should move around each other less, communicate less and drink with each other, and save time to do things for me!

Of course, don't be reluctant to hand things over to the people below. Don't think that you can't do things well without yourself. If you are exhausted, who else can Guo Peng discuss important matters with?