Three Kingdoms

The sound of fighting was extremely noisy, as if more than a dozen markets had been moved to the foot of Guanghan City at the same time. Although the Guanghan City Wall is not as majestic as iron, it seems to be much stronger compared to flesh and blood.

The small moat outside the city has been filled in in many places. Rocks, logs, bags of soil, and human corpses have filled the moat into more than ten roads, large and small, and the soldiers are crooked. Running diagonally on it, attacking or defeated.

Under the city wall, two or three huge caves were dug, which seemed like the lairs of wild beasts in the mountains. However, there was still a considerable distance before the city wall could be dug through or the city wall could be destroyed.

Many of the original blue bricks on the Guanghan City Wall peeled off during the battle, revealing the gray-yellow rammed earth, which was soaked with blood and turned purple-black in color, which was quite strange.

Of course, what is even more weird is Liu Zhang.

From sunrise to sunset, Liu Zhang persisted in supervising the battle under such circumstances, enduring the pungent smell and complicated noises. Although his face turned pale, he still refused to retreat. Such a tough performance was truly a turning point. Many people's original impression of Liu Zhang was changed, so they naturally worked harder.

Above Guanghan City, the response was also very tough. At this moment, two corpses were being picked up with bamboo poles and hung out. These two people were the two warriors under Liu Zhang who had boarded the city before. Now they had their armor stripped off. They were as naked as two pieces of bacon about to be dried. They were hung out with blood stains. The purpose was naturally to Suppress the morale of Liu Zhang's soldiers to attack the city.

"When can...can we capture the city?" Liu Zhang asked, his voice hoarse.

"Lord..." Pang Xi replied, "It's almost, it's almost... I just need..."

"No, I don't want to know what is needed..." Liu Zhang interrupted Pang Xi and said, "I just want to know how many more days it will take?!"

"This..." Pang Xi was dumbfounded. How could this be accurate to a few days? "Lord, don't be impatient. You must know that impatience is..."

"That's bullshit!" Liu Zhang couldn't help it anymore and swore, "I do this and that every day when I have time, why not go do something serious! Go! I don't need your company!"

What is Liu Zhang's personality? He is lazy, but he is also a bit stubborn. If it weren't for this stubbornness, Liu Zhang would not have raised an army to attack Zhao Wei, let alone insist on supervising the battle under Guanghan City. You know, Liu Zhang had never eaten before. Such suffering, but he gritted his teeth and endured it, but in the process, Liu Zhang's endurance was being consumed bit by bit.

Maybe we can capture the city tomorrow...

Maybe tomorrow...

perhaps……

After several consecutive days of frustrated attacks, Liu Zhang's patience gradually approached its limit. If he hadn't felt that it would be very embarrassing to retreat like this, Liu Zhang would have wanted to return to Chengdu at this moment to enjoy his bathhouse mats and ice cream. Fish wine, pink beauty...

If I hadn’t been thinking about my ancestral family business, if it wasn’t my first time to go on an expedition, I wouldn’t be too timid, if not…

Liu Zhang turned his head and grinded his teeth. Otherwise, what's so good about Pang Xi's old face?

Pang Xi had no choice but to retreat for a while, and went to the front of the battle line to check the arrangements again. After several days of offensive and defensive battles, it seemed that the two sides were fighting in full swing, with blood everywhere, but Pang Xi knew that the real critical moment had not yet been reached.

Zhao Wei is waiting for the opportunity, and Pang Xi knows this. He understands that Zhao Wei does not only show some strength in the city, so Pang Xi is also waiting, waiting for Zhao Wei to attack him head-on when he attacks from the city. A severe blow can completely defeat Zhao Wei's fighting spirit as quickly as possible.

Defending a city cannot always be done to the death.

Only after Zhao Wei's attacking force is defeated can we say how long it will take to conquer Guanghan. Otherwise, just with such exchange of forces and attrition, it will be impossible to conquer Guanghan in less than two or three months. Obviously, Liu Zhang did not Such patience...

Pang Xi squinted and stared at the head of Guanghan City. If he wanted to win a quick victory, it would be better to lure Zhao Wei's reserve team out of the city. "Come here, advance the tower thirty steps!"

After the order was given, the soldiers began to take action. As the wooden towers approached the city wall, the suppression effect on the bows and arrows on the city wall became more obvious. Many of the city defenders were unfortunately hit by arrows under the rain of arrows and fell to the ground screaming. Come down to the city and add some necessary or unnecessary color to the earth.

"Sword and shield bearer! Come forward!" On the city wall, Zhao Wei held a shield in one hand and a sword in the other, shouting, "Quick! Archers fight back!"

"Drink!" A group of swordsmen and shieldmen under Chidao immediately ran up the city wall, and then relied on the battlements to erect their shields, forming a temporarily heightened defensive wall, covering many towers from the opposite side. Arrows thrown.

Zhao Wei was behind the shield, carefully checking the movements of the battlefield. Although Liu Zhang's position was very conspicuous, Zhao Wei had no intention of killing Liu Zhang. There was another guard with a shield and armor in front of Liu Zhang. It was obviously not easy to raid, so Zhao Wei's target was only 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's time to use some means! This old bastard Pang Xi's trick of luring the enemy is simply ridiculous. Do you really think I'm a fool? However, it’s still good to use it to pull off a trick…

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Wei Yan led his men and horses through the mountain road.

In the land of Sichuan and Sichuan, only the Chengdu area in central Sichuan is relatively flat land. Dujiangyan also connects the Minjiang River and many rivers on that land. It is precisely because of the existence of Dujiangyan that Chengdu has become a land of plenty.

Dujiangyan not only brought abundant water sources to the cultivated land in central Sichuan, but also solved the original situation of unstable droughts and floods, which spread across the country thousands of miles away, allowing the lower-lying basin to no longer be affected by floods during the flood season and to develop stably.

The mountains surrounding the basin are the natural barrier for this piece of land. If the whole of China is a big basin, then Sichuan and Sichuan are the small bowls inside this big basin.

When traveling among the mountains, even if there are roads, if there is no guide to guide you, you will get lost. Many mountain passes are forked. Once you get lost, you may not be able to find the original direction even if you go back. .

Coming from Nanchong, this journey was not easy, but compared to the one just entering Sichuan, it was already relatively good. Wei Yan was even in the mood to compose a poem...

Well, actually there is only one sentence, and the other sentences have not been completed yet. Wei Yan was smacking his lips, thinking whether "Mountains are all stones" or "Mountains are all trees" was better. Suddenly, in front of him The formation was somewhat scattered, with several scouts running from the front. (The word "xi" was often used in poems of the Han Dynasty, but in later generations it was probably a modal particle like "ah", which has no specific meaning.)

Wei Yan's expression changed, and he immediately threw the rocks or trees aside and stepped forward to meet them.

"General Qi!" 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, "Stop the whole army!"

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 were contradictory and there was no reasonable explanation.

Why is there an ambush in the valley ahead? Could it be that the defenders of Guanghan got the news and were preparing to ambush him? But if he was preparing for an ambush, how could he appear unprepared and be discovered by his own scouts?

Wei Yan was confused, and finally decided to check it out in person, so he temporarily moved the soldiers to find a place to stay, followed the scouts with more than 30 guards, and quietly went to where the traces of the soldiers on the opposite side were found...

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The battle outside Guanghan City seemed to be repeated, but also seemed to be a little different. Both sides seemed to be controlling something, and they seemed to be waiting for something.

From dawn to dusk, from sunrise to sunset, I saw that just as the sun was about to set, a new rhythm suddenly burst out on the dull battlefield. The east and north gates of Guanghan City suddenly opened, and two troops under Zhao Wei left from He rushed out of the two gates and went around the city wall to sweep away the siege equipment standing around the city!

Archers, most of them are not equipped with any melee weapons. They can strangle the enemy with a bowstring like in Lord of the Rings. Most of them can only be found in games. The vast majority of archers are engaged in long-range combat. He is so arrogant that he will immediately scatter as soon as he is approached.

There are also individual archers and crossbow units equipped with melee weapons, and some even have stronger melee capabilities than long-range weapons. For example, the Yi troops have halberds and powerful crossbows, and they are both talented in culture and sports...

However, it was obvious that Liu Zhang and Pang Xi's archers were just better than the average new recruits. When they saw Zhao Wei's troops attacking with ferocity, they immediately broke up with a loud roar and headed towards their own large army. If you can still think about holding a bow and arrow and running together, you are already well trained.

When Pang Xi saw such a scene, he was not angry but happy. He shouted, "Well done." He immediately ordered the soldiers who were originally on the slope behind to rush to the foot of Guanghan City, blocking the destruction of Zhao Wei's soldiers all the way, and fighting all the way to the east of Guanghan. North gate.

Looking down from the sky, the troops of Zhao Wei and Pang Xi are like two intertwined onions. The center is Guanghan City and Liu Zhang's main formation, and the troops extending out from both sides are layers of onions. , all trying to wrap up the other side's troops, then strangle and devour each other.

"Okay! Okay!" Liu Zhang jumped up from the bench, stood on tiptoes and looked forward, waving his arms and screaming, like a wolfdog that had just been weaned, showing off its ferocity, regardless of the fact that he screamed to the end. His voice was broken, "Yes! That's it, go up and fight into the city! Those who are the first to enter the city will be heavily rewarded! Yes! There will be rewards! Tens of thousands of gold rewards! Reward~King~Qi~"

"My lord has an order! Whoever enters the city first will be rewarded with ten thousand gold!" The guards on the side shouted in unison, covering up Liu Zhang's broken voice.

Because Guanzhong and Guanzhong consciously and proactively cut off contact during the Liu Yan era, the five-baht coin still exists in Sichuan and Shu. In addition, the original economic system of Sichuan and Shu is relatively independent, and the currency system of Sichuan and Shu has not been affected. Bad money has too much influence, and ten thousand dollars is still a relatively exciting amount. The shouts of the ordering soldiers also boosted the morale of many soldiers. Those who shouted in succession rushed towards the gate of Guanghan City!

Zhao Wei stood at the top of the city, watching his two troops being gradually surrounded by Pang Xi's troops who came up from the flanks. There was a trace of ridicule on the corner of his mouth. Pang Xi, an old man who only knew how to show off his words with words, also Dare to lead the army and be an eyesore to someone?

"Send the order! Beat the drums! Light the fire!" Zhao Wei slapped his hand on the city battlements, "Let these stupid people know how powerful I am!"

Amidst the rumbling of war drums, Zhao Wei's troops who had originally 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. Like two candies that fell in front of an ant pile, they were densely stained layer by layer, and there were some ants in the outer circle that were anxiously wandering around, either waiting for a vacant spot or anxiously squeezing into the core area... …

Along with the rhythm of the war drums on the head of Guanghan City, three bonfires rose up, visible from far and near. Suddenly, a troop came out from the valley in the distance and headed straight for Liu Zhang and Pang Xi's main formation!

"Protect my lord!" When the guards around Liu Zhang saw the changing situation, they immediately gathered together and guarded Liu Zhang on the slope.

"Pang! Love! Qing!" Liu Zhang roared from behind the shield, "What is going on! Didn't it say that everything is within your curtain? Where is your curtain now? Where is the curtain!"

Pang Xi was immediately in a dilemma. He could either withdraw his troops now and call back his troops to resist the troops coming out of the valley, or he could bet that his current troops could withstand this army and let his troops break through Kaiguang first. Seoul, and then this army naturally collapsed...

"My lord, don't panic!" Pang Xi took out the long sword that was more decorated than practical and stood in front of Liu Zhang. "This battle has reached a critical moment! The Zhao thief is already at his wits end! If he can hold on for a moment, he will seize Guanghan." In the city, this army will be defeated! My lord, don’t worry, but as long as I have the spirit of my veteran, my lord will be safe!”

Pang Xi spoke impassionedly and with great pride, but if the sword in his hand did not tremble, the effect might be better.

However, behind the shield, Liu Zhang did not see Pang Xi's trembling sword, so he seemed to feel a little calmer in his heart and said: "Okay! Let's rely on Pang Aiqing! Destroy the enemy quickly, defeat the enemy quickly!"

Amidst the roar of war drums, soldiers from both sides gathered at several key points and fought hard to form a temporary stalemate. Now, it depends on which side is defeated first...