Three Kingdoms Eschatology

After a while, Cao Cao came to the largest school field in Yecheng.From a distance, he saw Guo Jia directing a group of soldiers to go up and down, and there was a giant statue standing in the school grounds.

Cao Cao shouted loudly from a distance: "Feng Xiao, what are you up to? Why don't you go to the Tongque Terrace to watch soldiers today?"

Hearing Cao Cao's voice, Guo Jia trotted over to greet Cao Cao, and said, "Your Majesty, today I was going to attend the ceremony of watching soldiers. They said that it was done, so they asked the attendant to explain the reason to the king's servant, and then hurried over to check and test. The reason for this... is not that the minister is boasting, this thing can increase our army's combat power several times. If it is Without this, if our Wei army fought normally, we would never be the opponent of Liang Jun."

"Oh, what is so important?"

While Cao Cao and Guo Jia were walking and talking, they had already come to the huge thing.Only then did Cao Cao discover that it turned out to be a thing made of bamboo strips and paper, resembling a huge lantern.

Guo Jia continued to explain: "Your Majesty, have you ever heard that Liang Jun has a fetish that can fly into the sky and carry people? In fact, it is this thing. The principle is that the flame under the big lantern causes heat to rise, pushing the lantern into the air."

Of course, the principle of hot air balloons is not an interpretation that Guo Jia takes for granted.But he did deduce that the heating source under the hot air balloon and the cover on the heating source must be the key to making the hot air balloon take off through the descriptions of several people who had seen Liang Jun’s hot air balloon with their own eyes.So follow this clue and let craftsmen imitate.Without knowing the principle of hot air balloons and what factors are directly related to the lift, the craftsmen crossed the river by feeling the stones, and they finally succeeded by mistake.

On the school field, this paper hot air balloon rose slowly amidst the flames.There are also famous craftsmen under the hanging basket.The soldiers on the school field suddenly burst into cheers.Cao Cao's expression also became excited, and he said: "Feng Xiao, Feng Xiao, you have made great contributions. This flying object is not only useful for our army's battle, but also improves our army's morale several times. In the past, many people in our army thought that Liang Jun had ghosts and ghosts because of Liang Jun's possession of these novelties, but now we also have them. They will no longer be suspicious on the battlefield."

The two chatted for a few more words, Cao Cao suddenly remembered the business, and told Guo Jia about Hua Xin and others' persuasion.Guo Jia sighed and shook his head.Cao Cao asked with a thump in his heart, "What? Feng Xiao also thinks it's not feasible?"

Guo Jia smiled calmly and said, "If the king had asked the minister before, the minister would have advised the king to take it easy. But now Hua Xin has made it clear in front of all the ministers, and his king can only obey the fate and ascend the throne. proclaimed himself emperor."

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In the Yangxin Hall of the Xudu Imperial Palace, there were bursts of wailing.Liu Xie, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, cried and said to himself: "Unexpectedly, I will become a subjugated king in the end. This is how I will meet my ancestors. Cao Cao, Cao Cao, can you not be so impatient. Wait." After my son has grown up and passed the throne to him, won’t you force the palace again? If so, I won’t be a subjugated king!”

Half a month later, after the performance ceremony of three concessions and three rejections was over.Cao Cao ascended to the throne amid the shouts of long live from the officials.

Chapter 600

In the late summer and early autumn of the sixth year of Xiuwu, the hot and dry air has not yet cooled down.On the barren, still lush Nanyang Plain, a huge army marched forward.The line stretched for three or four miles from start to finish.The words "Wei", "Yu" and "Li" can be vaguely seen in Rulin's flags.

This Wei army marched nearly [-] cavalry, led by the general Jin and Li Dian as the deputy general, attacked from Fangcheng, an important military town occupied by the Wei army, and went straight into the Nanyang Plain.

Most of the current Nanyang Plain is a deserted and uninhabited land.Because no matter Wei State or Liang State occupies this area, they will be quite passive, especially Wei State.

Originally, the State of Wei once occupied Nanyang, and implemented the policy of filling the Nanyang Plain with the people and stationing troops, hoping to build an offensive supply base in this place next to Zhuyang, the accompanying capital of the State of Liang.However, after being continuously harassed by Liang Jun, and after Zhou Yu joined Liang Jun in a decisive battle against Zhang Yun, the entire system and plan were completely destroyed.

Later, Liang Jun attacked Liu Bei and occupied Jingzhou.Under such circumstances, this Nanyang Cao Jun couldn't stay any longer.Because at this time, in addition to crossing Mianshui from Zhuyang, Liang Jun could enter the unobstructed Nanyang Plain from Fancheng in Xiangyang in the south and Yiyang Pass in Tongbai Mountain.If Cao Jun still stayed there, it would be a situation where he could only be beaten out of the mountain, and he could not do any counterattack except for passive defense.

Cao Cao discussed with his advisors and had no choice but to completely withdraw the Wei army from the Nanyang Plain.At the same time, a military town was set up at the gap between the Nanyang Plain and Yuzhou in the Central Plains, and a heavy army was stationed.At the same time, stronghold camps were built on the Luyang Mountain Road connecting the Yiluo Basin and in the valley of Pingshi County in the upper reaches of the Huaihe River to block the road leading to Wei State.

In this way, Liang Jun's reclamation and garrison on the Nanyang Plain is also passive and unfavorable.Therefore, for a long period of time, the Nanyang Plain became a barren land with few people.It wasn't until more than half a month ago, when Liang Jun was preparing to start the eastward expedition, that he sent troops to occupy Wancheng and Xinye, two empty cities in the hinterland of the Nanyang Plain, one in the south and the other in the north.This does not mean that Feng Yu decided to use Nanyang as the main direction of the Eastern Conquest of Wei.In fact, Feng Yu has divided the 23 legions participating in the Eastern Expedition into three routes, north, south and middle. Among them, Tongguan is the assembly point for the north route, and the main attack direction is to take Luoyang directly via Hongnong, and then enter the hinterland of the Central Plains.On the middle road, Zhuyang is used as the gathering place, and the main direction of attack is to occupy Yuzhou through Nanyang and then go straight to Yanzhou, Cao Cao's old nest.On the South Road, Nanchang and Jiangxia were used as assembly areas respectively. After joining Hukou, they marched down the river to capture Jianye and Huainan, and then headed north to the Central Plains.

But Feng Yu himself has no idea which direction to take as the main attack direction.Because it depends on Wei Jun's reaction to make the final decision.Entering Wancheng and Xinye was just Feng Yu's tentative move.

The news that the Wei army had also entered Nanyang was soon known to Zhao Yun, the commander of the Central Route Army in Zhuyang.Zhao Yun secretly sighed: "I didn't expect the Wei army to react so quickly. Our army has only occupied Wancheng and Xinye for half a month."

Then, Zhao Yun secretly thought about Wei Jun's intentions this time.If it is just to consume the strength of the Liang army, it should dispatch war cavalry to harass the logistics of the Liang army as it did back then.But now Wei Jun is directly attacking the two cities already occupied by Liang Jun.Could it be that the Wei army wanted to reoccupy Nanyang, but in this way, if they want to gain a foothold in Nanyang, they need to pay a considerable price, otherwise they should have occupied Nanyang before.

So Wei Jun saw Liang Guosan's intention to attack Wei?But how is this possible?Feng Yu's plan was only known to no more than ten senior generals and ministers in Liang State, and most of the legion commanders were not aware of it.Leakage is impossible.In addition, although Feng Yu made this plan, the mobilization and assembly of the army has just begun.Many legions are still on their way to various assembly points.Even if the scouts of Wei State reported these situations to Wei Ting, Cao Cao and his counselors could guess at most that Liang Jun had a major military operation, but it was impossible to know the route of Liang Jun's advance.

Zhao Yun couldn't figure it out, but time didn't allow him to think about it.He couldn't let the Wei army occupy Nanyang in a big way at the moment when Daliang was about to conquer Wei in the east.This is not just a problem of his central army being blocked, but it is likely to destroy Feng Yu's entire plan.

Because the Wei army occupying Nanyang may go around through Luyang to the rear of the North Route Army that is attacking Luoyang, and launch a fatal blow to the North Route Army.The same is true for the South Route Army, and it is entirely possible that the Wei Army will cross Tongbai Mountain after capturing Yiyang Pass at any cost, and attack Jiangxia, the rear of the South Route Army.

At present, there are only [-] reclamation soldiers transferred from Dankou stationed in Wancheng. The situation in Xinye is better. There is a C-level army led by Wei Feng and more than [-] Fancheng reclamation soldiers stationed there.But now Zhao Yun only has three legions to call, and the rest of the legions assigned to his command are still on the way.Of these three legions, one is his own, and the other two belong to the brothers Dianwei and Dianqing.

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In Wancheng, Wei Jun's dozens of monster-like counterweight trebuchets lined up in a row, and the forest-like suspension rods swayed back and forth in the air in turn.Huge boulders or net bags filled with gravel were thrown high and smashed hard towards the city wall of Wancheng.

Amidst the loud roar of collisions, the tower at the east gate of Wancheng collapsed first, and the battlements at the top of the city were successively crushed by the rocks.Wei Jun's bombardment finally stopped, followed by shouts like a mountain roar and a tsunami.The Wei army began to attack the city. In front of them were infantry carrying swords and shields and carrying ladders on their shoulders, and behind them were crossbowmen.

When they rushed to less than sixty or seventy steps away from the city wall, the crossbowmen of the Liang Army's reclamation soldiers at the head of the city fired arrows one after another, but the crossbowmen of the Wei Army also stood still and fired more dense and fierce arrows. Save shot.Thousands of arrows rushed towards the top of the city like a shower, most of the battlements at the top of the city were damaged, and the guards of the Liang army at the top of the city had nowhere to hide.Even wearing high-quality Zhajia, people are still injured by arrows.Those without shields had to take shelter temporarily on the stairs at the top of the city, and those with shields joined the shields together to form a wall along the corridor at the top of the city. superior.

The Wei army infantry rushing to the city erected strangely shaped ladders one after another. The top of these ladders has pulleys and retractable, which can be stretched.The fully extended ladder is placed directly between the city head and the outer edge of the moat.The soldiers of the Wei army climbed up the ladder like ants.

At this time, although Wei Jun's shooting stopped, the faces of the Liang Jun reclamation soldiers at the head of the city turned paler because of nervousness.Yu Jin, who was lucky to watch the battle, breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the Wancheng city wall covered with ladders and the dense figures on the ladders.His worries about Wancheng being guarded by Liang Jun's heavy troops have been eliminated.

Chapter 601 Battle for Wan City

The first wave of Wei army soldiers quickly climbed onto the wall of Wancheng, but a row of bamboo poles and spears pierced out from behind the large shield made of thick wood, and they shouted in unison: "Kill!" In an instant, this wave of Wei army soldiers Sixty to seventy percent of them fell down amidst the scattered blood.

A soldier of the Wei army looked at the corpses of his comrades who had fallen side by side, and after a little stunned, he swung the steel knife in his hand and yelled at the entire row of Liang army soldiers who had just stood up on the opposite side.With a few swishing sounds, more than a dozen sharp arrows flew towards him, most of them missed, but two still penetrated his leather armor.

The soldier of the Wei army vomited blood and fell limply on the ground. When he fell to the ground, he saw a boy who was only fifteen or sixteen years old looking at him expressionlessly, holding an empty crossbow in his hand. He is the same as the crossbowman of Liang Jun's reclamation soldiers.These Liang Jun reclamation soldiers usually only have three months of service each year, and fighting the enemy depends entirely on a few movements that are repeatedly trained on weekdays.Such a volley of guns is one of them.

When the first wave of Wei Army infantry fell under Liang Jun's spears and arrows, the hands of those spearmen who had just killed someone trembled slightly.But they had no time to relieve their psychological burden, and the second wave of Wei army infantry rushed up again. Amid the shouting and killing in unison, they mechanically stabbed out the forest of bamboo poles and spears again.Those crossbowmen also released a second round of arrows.

The soldiers of the Wei army on the ladder became hesitant when they heard the screams from the top of the wall and saw the corpses of their companions falling from the top of the wall, and began to slow down their climbing speed.Fortunately, at this time, there was the sound of the gong for withdrawing troops.They slipped down the ladder like amnesty.

Li Dian asked Yu Jin, "General Yu, why did you withdraw your troops?"

Yu Jin snorted coldly and said, "The opponent's troops are weak, but they are skilled in defending the city. If we take the city for a long time, we will inevitably lose a lot of money. Since we have a powerful weapon to attack the city, why should we sacrifice the lives of the soldiers."

After finishing speaking, he thought of something again, and said to Li Dian: "General Li Dian, there are not many troops in Wancheng. It is a waste of time for our army to concentrate here to attack this city, so I trouble you to take a partial division to attack Xinye. Liang Jun in Xinye has time to get reinforcements."

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After the infantry of the attacking Wei army retreated back to the main formation, Yu Jin said again: "Pass down our military order, the whole army's catapults will concentrate on bombarding a section of the city wall, and the city wall of Wancheng must be blasted before sunset!".

Soon afterwards, Wei Jun's counterweight catapult showed off again.Boulders and pockets of gravel were thrown endlessly towards the city wall. In addition, the Wei army also used ballistas to throw earth-made incendiary bombs into the city.

The buildings in the city with the Maos as the tops burned one by one, and black smoke suddenly rose.The city wall couldn't stop trembling under the constant bombardment, and the crossbowmen of the Wei army continued to shoot arrows at the city from time to time within a distance of dozens of steps.

With a muffled bang, a boulder was being bombarded on the shield wall, and the two or three Liang Army reclamation soldiers crouching behind the shield were immediately crushed into a pile of meat, covered with several fragments of the shield.Finally, a few soldiers began to lose their minds, and they stood up screaming and ran towards the entrance of the stairway.As soon as they ran to the entrance of the stairway, they heard a voice from down the stairway: "Those who flee in fear of the enemy will be killed without mercy." Several people were shot and killed on the spot.

From noon to sunset, the Wei army never stopped throwing and bombarding Wancheng.At the head of the city, the captain of Wei Feng's army battalion, a well-known general serving as the guard, felt the city wall under his feet violently shake and sink when there was another loud bombardment.He looked down, and found that there was a fist-wide crack on the ground at the head of the city.

Immediately, a thought came to his mind - no, the city wall is about to collapse! Then he ordered: "The whole army will withdraw from the city along the stairs, including the archers and crossbowmen, and retreat to the city! Hurry up!" Liang Jun The soldiers stood up one after another, rushing towards the stairway like a tide, and those archers who were hiding in the stairway had already run down the stairway.

Not long after these Liang Jun reclamation soldiers retreated from the city wall, they heard a loud bang, and the east wall of the city collapsed a large section of more than a hundred parts.The collapsed walls even filled a short section of the moat.The drums and trumpets of the Wei army's attack were loud again, and the soldiers of the Wei army shouted again and rushed towards the gap in the city wall that had just appeared.The difference is that this time they are not carrying a ladder, but a springboard for the moat and ruins.

These soldiers of the Wei army rushed to the ruins amidst the dust. Yu Jin, who was watching the battle from a distance, could hear the fighting, screams, and weapons clanging from the dust.He thought that he would be able to break into Wancheng this time, but after a while, he found that more and more Wei soldiers gathered at the gap, and his troops seemed to be blocked at the gap.

On the ruins amidst the smoke and dust, there were scattered corpses of soldiers of the Wei army. Most of them were shot with javelins, and a small part were shot with arrows from crossbowmen of the reclamation soldiers.Behind the ruins, hundreds of Liang Jun soldiers in ring armor lined up several shield walls.The only infantry battalion of the Liang Army Standing Corps in Wancheng went into battle.

Yu Jin bit his molars hard a few times, and said with a bulging cheek, "Let you guys stand back and continue to bombard me with the trebuchet to double the gap!"

At the east gate of Wancheng, Wei Jun ignited a large number of lighting objects. Under the bright lights, the trebuchet "bite" the gap in the city wall of Wancheng wider.At dawn, the entire collapsed city wall was three hundred paces long, and the Wei army charged again.In addition to infantry, the Wei army's war cavalry also came in handy.This time, Liang Jun couldn't stand it no matter what, the reclamation soldiers were defeated first, and then the half-destroyed infantry battalion had to retreat to the west gate in a hurry.

The Wei army's infantry quickly filled the streets and alleys of Wancheng, and they soon discovered that it was an empty city, and all the remaining Liang troops had fled from the west gate.However, that Ximen was originally the escape route that Wei Jun deliberately left for them in order to prevent Liang Jun from fighting trapped beasts.Yu Jin, who entered Wancheng, had no intention of arranging special forces to chase them down, but a few cavalry teams wanted to cut off a few more heads for their own military exploits, and chased them out towards the west gate.

On the vast Nanyang wilderness, hundreds of fine cavalry were excitedly hunting down the rout of the Liang army, but they saw more than a dozen banners rising on the horizon in the southwest, and then a long line of invisible cavalry appeared in front of them. on the horizon.Then these war horses galloped up, the ground began to tremble, and the roar of horseshoes roared like thunder in summer.

Several members of the Wei Jun cavalry team were shocked and said: "That is Liang Jun's war cavalry, retreat! Let's retreat quickly, go back and report to the general!" After speaking, they turned their horses and ran towards Wancheng.But before they ran a few steps, random arrows swished from both sides, and a large number of Liang Jun's light cavalry flying feathers surrounded them at some point, and now they began to shoot arrows...

Chapter 602

Hundreds of Wei soldiers on the west side of Wancheng galloped wildly, and fled back to Wancheng in embarrassment after being chased and shot all the way by the opponent.At this time, they only had less than two hundred riders left, so it can be said that stealing chickens is not worth losing money.

When Yu Jin got the news, he was shocked. He didn't know how many reinforcements the other party had come.It is very likely that he will be surrounded by the opponent's army.Moreover, almost one-sixth of the city wall of Wancheng has been destroyed, and it is impossible to hold on to the isolated city.

So Yu Jin's calculation is - it's better to face the enemy directly in the countryside. If the enemy has not many troops, he can defeat the enemy in one go.If the opponent is attacking with a huge force, he can also leave Wancheng without becoming a turtle in the urn.After making up his mind, Yu Jin ordered his left and right: "Pass a certain military order, and the whole army will go out of the city to fight against the enemy!"

Amidst the sound of rumbling drums, Yu Jin's five-thousand-step cavalry took up battle in the west of Wancheng.The five phalanxes are two miles wide from south to north.At the far end on the left and right is Wei Jun's new tiger and leopard cavalry and one ordinary war cavalry, and the infantry phalanx formed by three infantry in the middle.

Yu Jin was just halfway through the formation when the yellow dust was already billowing from the west, and the three battalions of the Liang Army cavalry in a long cavalry line were rolling in.Yu Jin's heart suddenly turned cold. If Liang Jun launched an attack at this time, he could only let two thousand cavalry come forward to meet the enemy, and that would be to let the cavalry decide the outcome.But even though Wei's war cavalry has also been greatly improved, the shadow of Liang Jun's iron cavalry like tigers and wolves is still deeply imprinted in the hearts of every Wei army officer and soldier, including Yu Jin of course.

Fortunately for Yu Jin, Liang Jun's war cavalry did not charge immediately, but stopped far away after seeing a large number of Wei troops in front of them, but still maintained the basic cavalry formation.This part of Liang Jun's cavalry belongs to the Dianwei Army, and now they are also waiting for the infantry from the rear to come up.

After Yu Jin had just set up the army formation, Dian Wei also led the infantry battalion and the supply battalion of the headquarters to the city of Wancheng. Seeing this, he rushed to the general formation before the Wei army formation advanced nearby.

The two armies stopped at a distance of less than eighty battles, and hundreds of ballistas on both sides lined up behind the phalanx.Yu Jin and Dian Wei didn't engage in such boring things as scolding and inviting battles, and they directly started using ballistas to bombard each other.At the same time, the infantry phalanxes of the two armies approached quickly, braving the rolling stone bullets, crossbow guns, and explosive bombs.The cavalry on both wings also moved quickly like arrows leaving the string.They swooped towards each other from left and right respectively.

There was a continuous roar of explosive bombs detonating in the Wei army formation.A dozen Wei soldiers suddenly turned into burning men, and several others were injured by the burst pottery.The dozen or so fire men wailed and screamed, some ran wildly, and some rolled on the spot.The rest of the soldiers of the Wei army hurriedly dodged, and many of them were knocked down and tripped and even ignited by the flames on the burning man, and the Wei army's formation suddenly became chaotic.General Quhou of the Wei Army, who was in charge of supervising the battle, rushed forward with his soldiers and killed these people on the spot with a knife in his hand, which stopped the chain reaction.But then a heavy arrow pierced through his body, this is the heavy arrow of Liang Junchang's archer.Liang Jun's hot bombs and stone bombs continued to fly from behind Liang Jun's formation.

Similarly, Liang Jun's formation is constantly being attacked by Wei Jun's ballista and bed crossbow.From time to time, stone bullets with huge kinetic energy can be seen smashing into the Liang Army formation, turning the Liang Army soldiers behind the shield wall on their backs, turning them into meat sauce.Fortunately, Wei Jun didn't know the strengths of the ballista. He didn't know the meaning of Liang Jun's ballista's ballista deliberately polished into a ball shape, so their stone balls were all slightly polished, and the stones of different sizes stopped quickly after hitting the ground. Stop, can no longer hurt people.

Liang Jun's ballista bombs are different. After landing, under the action of huge kinetic energy, they can still roll forward for a distance of more than ten battles.Therefore, every time Liang Jun's stone bullets fell in Wei Jun's formation, it turned into a bloody alley when it rolled, and those who stood in front of the stone bullets and had no time to avoid them often ended up with broken legs.

When the distance between the armies of the two sides was shortened to within twenty battles, the Wei army had stopped firing ballistas and bed crossbows. Because of such a short distance, it was difficult for Wei army ballistas to use imitation ballistas and stone bullets of different sizes. Make sure not to accidentally injure your own soldiers.But the ballista behind Liang Jun was still shining.

But at this time, apart from the stone bullets fired by Liang Jun's ballistas, explosive bullets were flying in the air, and the bows and arrows of both sides were firing at once, shuttling intensively in the air.The shield soldiers in the front row of both sides raised their large shields or scull shields and patched them together to form a shield wall. In addition to the shield soldiers in the front row on Liang Jun's side, the spear shield soldiers in the middle also raised their shields above their heads to form a complete turtle shell phalanx. .

Ten battles away, there was a sudden burst of shouting from Liang Jun's formation, and the "turtle shell" spread out in an instant, and countless javelins were thrown from under the "turtle shell" that suddenly disappeared.

With the muffled sound of bang bang, most of the javelins thrown by the fly were nailed to the oar shield of the Wei army, but a considerable part still penetrated into the corpses of the soldiers of the Wei army.Amidst the blood spray and screams and wailing, soldiers of the Wei army fell in pieces in a pool of blood.At the same time, the dense arrows of Wei Jun also caused many people in Liang Jun who opened the "turtle shell" to be hit by arrows.Even with the protection of ring armor, such a short distance still caused many casualties, and Liang Jun's infantry, carrying a few arrows on their bodies, continued to move forward steadily.In the end, the shield walls of the two armies collided, and the soldiers slashed and killed each other through the shield wall, stabbing each other...

The cavalry on both sides of the two sides had already begun to confront each other.What Yu Jin didn't expect was that his cavalry had the upper hand in front of Liang Jun, who was good at cavalry warfare.

In fact, this is not surprising. First of all, the tiger and leopard cavalry of the Wei army were also improved into armored cavalry. Although they did not have giant war horses such as Shire horses, their performance was still slightly inferior to that of Liang Jun's heavy cavalry.However, the Dianwei Army has only a thousand cavalry, and one battalion of heavy cavalry and light cavalry, so the numerical advantage of the Wei army's war cavalry is enough to make up for this gap.In addition, the Dianwei Army is good at infantry combat, so it is also dominated by infantry.Dianwei's regiment consisted of 800 men, except for two cavalry battalions, the rest were infantry battalions and supply battalions.Relatively speaking, Dianwei's cavalry was already at the second-rate level in the Liang army.

On the left flank, the heavy cavalry of the two armies was indistinguishable, and they had repeatedly charged on the wrong horse nearly ten times. The cavalrymen on both sides had almost dropped their lances, and began to smash each other with sabers and mace sticks.The ground was full of fragmented corpses trampled by horseshoes.On the right wing, Liang Jun's light cavalry has been dispersed by tiger and leopard cavalry mixed with ordinary Wei cavalry. These light cavalry fly feathers and use kite flow, but their arrows can't penetrate the iron armor of the tiger and leopard cavalry if they are too close. Speed ​​up, and there is a possibility that the opponent will suddenly rush up and kill you with a knife...

Chapter 603 Butterfly Wings

Outside the west gate of Nanyang Wancheng.After a quarter of an hour of intense fighting between the armies of the two sides, the gong for retreating was sounded almost at the same time.

Seeing the stalemate between the two sides, Dian Wei heard that the Liang soldiers who had escaped from Wancheng said that the Wei army had as many as a thousand people.Under such circumstances, it is impossible for him to capture Wancheng in a short time, so there is no need to waste and sacrifice his soldiers in vain.

Yu Jin saw that although his cavalry had the upper hand, the Wei army's central defense line was already on the verge of collapse, and he didn't know when it would be defeated by the opponent.Moreover, he has discovered that Liang Jun's strength is far less than he imagined, and it is impossible to besiege Wancheng.So he also ordered to ring the gong to withdraw the troops, and prepared to retreat into Wancheng and occupy the city for defense.

Amidst the sudden sound of gongs, the lines of shields, walls and soldiers of the two armies that had been staggered together suddenly separated, and slowly retreated step by step.When retreating, the two sides also used crossbows, slingshots and other weapons to attack each other from time to time.The cavalry on the two wings also ran back to the rear of their own side instead of turning their horses around and charging after the last confrontation with wrong horses.After a while, the two armies basically returned to their original state.

The setting sun was like blood, and the corpses, severed limbs and heads of soldiers and horses from both sides could be seen everywhere on the ground.Liang Jun has turned around and turned back west, and Wei Jun has also retreated into Wancheng.

Five miles to the west of Wancheng, Dian Wei reined in his horse with a cry and ordered: "The whole army turned around and rushed towards Xinye. In addition, the Qingqi Battalion was ordered to bring enough dry food for several days and quietly return to Wancheng to keep harassing them. policy to prevent the Wei army from repairing the city wall."

Dian Wei's plan is very simple, since Wancheng cannot be taken back.Then it's better to support his younger brother Dianqing, at least keep Xinye.After reinforcements from Zhuyang or Xiangyang arrive, join forces and go all the way to recover Wancheng.He had just let the scouts find out that the other wall of Wancheng had collapsed and was almost defeated. As long as he sent Qingqi to harass him continuously, he could prevent the Wei army from repairing the wall.In this way, it will also be convenient for Liang Jun to recover Wancheng in the future.

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As night fell again, the east gate of Wancheng was still brightly lit by bonfires lit by various fire starters. Many soldiers of the Wei army carried their shoulders on their shoulders and were busy wielding shovels and pickaxes.

It turned out that Yu Jin had strictly ordered Wei Jun to repair the city wall as quickly as possible.But this is easier said than done, the entire collapsed city wall is about two hundred steps long.The Wei army has only less than 5000 soldiers, and it will take at least five or six days to restore it to its original state, even if the entire army is mobilized, and this is an ideal situation where the [-] men are energetic, hard-working, and without any external harassment .

These five thousand soldiers of the Wei army had just finished a battle and were exhausted, and now they were asked to do heavy work again and again.In addition, they are all soldiers, and they have never done any hard labor at ordinary times, which is usually done by laborers or land reclamation soldiers.So at this time, these soldiers were grumbling while working reluctantly.

On the noisy construction site, several soldiers of the Wei Army suddenly stopped working, and the overseer next to him shouted, "Don't dawdle and be lazy, work quickly. This is the military order from above. If you don't do it, why don't you let me do it!"

One of the soldiers trembling lips said: "No, Junhou, listen, there seems to be some movement in the distance." At this time, the Junhou realized that there were a large number of horses galloping in the distance, and he could even feel the sound of the ground. Trembling slightly.

The soldiers of the Wei army shouted in a hurry. "It's Liang Jun! Liang Jun is coming again!", "Hurry up and get your weapons!", "Hurry up and call for reinforcements, call for cavalry to help...", "It's too late, run!"

Arrows shot at them overwhelmingly. Because of their work, most of these Wei soldiers were bare-chested, shirtless, and at most wore sweatshirts.After the arrows hit them, they penetrated into their bodies effortlessly, and hundreds of people immediately fell on the ruins of the gap in the city wall.Liang Jun Qingqi Feiyu galloped back and forth dozens of battles outside the gap, and arrows flew non-stop.

A soldier of the Wei army was lying among the rubble and did not dare to move. He saw with his own eyes two companions nearby trying to sneak back into the city, and they were shot into hedgehogs by random arrows as soon as they lifted themselves up.He suddenly heard the urgent sound of horseshoes coming from his ear, getting closer and closer, and suddenly felt fear in his heart, remembering that it was already too late when he got up, a huge horseshoe stepped on his back vest...

Hundreds of light-feathered flying cavalry of the Liang army seemed to be about to break into the city, and some of the cavalry had rushed to the ruins. Fortunately, more than a thousand tiger and leopard cavalry led by Yu Jin arrived and drove them away.However, Liang Jun's raid this time has caused the casualties of three or four hundred Wei soldiers, and more importantly, it has cast a shadow of fear in the hearts of the rest of the Wei soldiers.

As a last resort, Yu Jin had no choice but to step up and divide into several groups to guard the construction site for repairing the city wall in shifts.In this way, the manpower required to actually repair the city wall will be greatly reduced, and the construction period can only be delayed longer.Even so, throughout the whole night, Liang Jun Qingqi came to attack three times and five times, although they were dispersed by the tiger and leopard cavalry on duty every time, no actual casualties were caused.But it always made Wei Bing, who was working hard, nervous.

When it was almost dawn, Wei Jun, who was on duty near the construction site, heard the noisy sound of horseshoes again.The captain who was in charge of the command yelled and cursed: "Liang Jun, the dog day, has been tossing all night, and he is still uneasy. Brothers, prepare, this time I will teach them a lesson. The crossbowmen are ready..."

When overlapping black shadows appeared at the east gate of Wancheng, the captain gave an order, and the arrows shot at the opponent like a pouring rain.The Captain held his stomach full of cavalry, eager to kill a few Liang soldiers to vent his hatred, he led the tiger and leopard cavalry to rush out like an arrow from the string, and rushed towards the opponent.

Many people on the other side were shot off their horses by random arrows, and seeing tigers and leopards attacking, they turned their horses' heads as usual and wanted to escape.The difference is that before fleeing this time, they shouted and shouted for a while, but because the distance was still far away and the wind was upwind, the captain couldn't hear what they said clearly.After he caught up and stabbed the two of them off the horse with a lance, he realized that something seemed wrong.At this time, someone shouted angrily: "Damn, I'm blind, it's my own, I'm Li Dian!"

The captain hurriedly shouted to his subordinates to stop, and those fleeing like frightened birds in front also stopped one after another.

It turned out that Li Dian was riding [-] paces to attack Xinye, but hit a wall, and then the Dianqing Army rushed over again, attacking inside and outside Xinye City, completely defeating Li Dian's army.Li Dian had no choice but to flee back to Wancheng overnight.

At dawn, two urgent military intelligence reports were sent from Xinye and Wancheng to Chang'an and Yecheng respectively.At this time, everyone in the world, including Feng Yu and Cao Cao, did not expect that the small-scale conflict in Nanyang triggered the first battle between Liang and Wei like a butterfly effect.

Chapter 604 Resurrection of Wan City

In Zhuyang City, when Zhao Yun received the news of the battle of Wancheng, it happened that the Yan Yan Army and the Liao Hua Army had rushed to Zhuyang from Jiangling and Hanzhong respectively.

After Zhao Yun sent an urgent letter to Chang'an through Feige, he ordered the Yanyan Army to guard Rangcheng, which is located in the southwest of Wancheng and northwest of Xinye, and the Liaohua Army went to reinforce Xinye.

Similarly, Xu Huang, the commander of Fangcheng, an important town in the Wei State, received the report from Yujin, and urgently mobilized more than [-] cavalry to reinforce Wancheng. Huyang in the northeast of Xinye.

In the Nanyang Plain, where no parties were willing to station troops, tens of thousands of Liang and Wei troops gathered within a few days.If the four cities occupied by the two sides were connected by line segments, they would look like an approximately symmetrical quadrangular rhombus.

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Wancheng.Yu Jin followed the corridor of the city wall to the east gate, and saw that the soldiers were busy picking earth and stones, and there was still a section of the gap in the east city wall that had not been repaired for nearly a hundred steps.He couldn't help frowning, and called the captain in charge of the work, and asked, "Our army has occupied Wancheng for six or seven days. Why is the city wall still only half repaired?"

The Colonel of the Wei Army said aggrievedly: "Please tell the master, I am divided into three squads, and I am ordered by the general to repair the city wall day and night. However, Liang Jun's cavalry still harassed Wancheng in turn, causing our department to disperse energy from time to time. The army raided and harassed and drove away the Liang army's cavalry."

After hearing this, Yu Jin was silent for a long time, before he said to the generals beside him: "It's not an option to go on like this, we must teach Liang Junyou a lesson."

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Seventy miles south of Wancheng, there is a slender mound of more than ten miles high and more than ten miles long. It is shaped like a Wolong, so it is named Wolonggang.

At this time, in front of Wollongong, a line of cavalry rose from the horizon of the uninhabited wilderness, but behind Wollongong, close to the foot of the mountain, there were densely packed tiger and leopard cavalry of the Wei army.Yu Jin himself crouched in the grass on the top of Wollongong, observing the Liang Jun's rangers from far to near. This is not the only way for Liang Jun's rangers, but it is a place they often pass when they harass Wancheng.

Yu Jin looked at Liang Qi who was getting closer and closer, and couldn't help feeling excited. There were thousands of horses on the other side, and if he could wipe them all out this time, it would be a big victory.But when Liang Qi was less than a hundred battles away from Wollongong, he suddenly turned around and left, obviously discovering Wei Jun's ambush.