Although Yinping is not a big city, due to insufficient national power in the past, the city defense was not fully repaired in time.

However, in the few years after the Battle of Hanzhong, Wei Yan, as the governor of Hanzhong, still spent a lot of effort to repair the city defense of Yinping.

In Wei Yan's impression, after many renovations, Yinping's city defense was definitely not as good as that of a large city like Nanzheng, but it was still much stronger than the city defense of a fortress like Qiaotou.

At least Yinping's city wall is more than three feet high.

If Yinping does not have the conditions to hold on, Mi Yang will not let Ma Chao hold on.

But a few years later, when he stood at the foot of Yinping City again, Wei Yan was shocked by the completely unfamiliar scene before him.

Outside the city gate of Yinping, there were several mountains of earth that were higher than the city wall. The mountains were densely covered with blood-stained arrows.

It can be seen from this scene that Guo Huai, like Cao Zhen, adopted the strategy of attacking the city with earth and mountains.

But compared to Mi Yang's alertness, Ma Chao chose to resist forcefully when faced with this earth-mountain siege strategy.

The color of the earth is yellow, but in Wei Yan's eyes at this moment, the several earth mountains seem to have red stripes all over the mountains.

Wei Yan knew that it was the result of using the blood of countless Wei soldiers as dye.

This is true for Tushandu, which serves as the offensive base of the Wei army, let alone the Yinping city wall used for defense?

From Wei Yan's gaze, he could see that the Yinping City Wall that originally stood on the ground was no longer as solid as it was.

Countless arrow marks and knife marks fell on the city wall, making the Yinping City Wall, which had only been repaired for a few years, look like an old man dying, silently telling Wei Yan the fact that he was about to die.

Unlike the Tushan Mountain, which seemed to be wrapped in red stripes, in Wei Yan's eyes, the Nanzheng city wall facing the Wei army looked like it was wearing a bright red wedding dress, with almost no trace of green.

This proves that in the past battles to defend Yinping, both the Han and Wei armies suffered heavy casualties.

Wei Yan's eyes did not stay on the city wall for long, because a hole in the city wall attracted Wei Yan's attention.

It seems that under the fierce offensive of the Wei army, they successfully opened the gap in the city wall.

For the Wei army, which had some powerful siege weapons, it was not a difficult task as long as they were willing to sacrifice their lives.

But the Han army flags are still flying on the city walls of Yinping.

This shows that with Ma Chao's efforts, Guo Huai did not capture Yinping through this gap after opening the gap in the city wall.

As for how Ma Chao did this?

Wei Yan looked through the city wall from the cave entrance and saw part of the scene inside the city.

What caught Wei Yan's eyes was a fortress built on the basis of the surrounding residential buildings.

In front of that camp, countless corpses of the two armies were piled up.

There were so many corpses from both armies that the pile of corpses turned into a mountain of corpses. The mountain of corpses was almost as high as the city wall.

The scenes that fell into his eyes proved how fierce and fierce battles Ma Chao led the Han army and the Wei army in the past days.

It also reflects the price Ma Chao paid to maintain Yinping for Mi Yang to this day.

For a moment, Wei Yan's eyes turned solemn as he looked at Yinping City.

He not only respects Ma Chao, but also respects his colleagues who sacrificed their lives for the Han Dynasty.

When Wei Yan was observing Yinping, Ma Dai, who had learned the news one step ahead, also came to Wei Yan from the city at this time.

Ma Dai had many wounds on his body, and some important wounds on his body were treated, but for those wounds that did not affect his movement, Ma Dai simply bandaged them with some rags.

On the one hand, before the Wei army retreated, fierce battles would break out in Yinping from time to time, and Ma Dai did not have enough time to deal with his wounds one by one.

On the other hand, Yinping was besieged by the Wei army for more than half a year. During such a long period of time, many military resources in the city were insufficient, especially trauma medicine.

When Ma Dai saw Wei Yanhou, tears flowed from his eyes.

Reinforcements have finally arrived!

Those who have never participated in the Yinping city defense battle have no idea what kind of life he and Ma Chao had in the past.

Not only must high-intensity fighting be maintained at all times during the day, but the city defenses must also be patrolled from time to time at night, lest the Wei army make a sneak attack at night.

After half a year of arduous defense of the city, he finally waited for Mi Yang's reinforcements.

This feeling can no longer be described as joy, it can only be said to be the aftermath of a disaster!

But Ma Dai's first words when he saw Wei Yan were not complaints.

He just bowed to Wei Yan and said:

"Please tell Uncle Shepherd that we have secured Yinping!"

After hearing Ma Dai say these words with tears in his eyes, Wei Yan's emotions were also greatly affected.

He admired the Ma brothers even more.

It was rare for Wei Yan to take the initiative to help someone get up.

After helping Ma Dai up, Wei Yan originally wanted to say something to comfort Ma Dai, but looking at the sea of ​​blood and corpses inside and outside Yinping City, the stupid Wei Yan could not say such words.

He chose to directly give Ma Dai the promise he wanted to hear most.

"Yan will definitely report everything he saw today to the shepherd."

"When the imperial court asks for credit for everyone in the future, Yan Yi will definitely argue for it."

At first glance, Wei Yan's promise sounds like others may not understand the deeper meaning of Wei Yan's words.

But after listening to Wei Yan's promise, Ma Dai showed a happy smile on his face.

The Han Dynasty had just been established, and many capable ministers were still in various important departments of the court, making the affairs of the court run smoothly.

Under such circumstances, no one would normally dare to cover up the contributions made by the Ma brothers.

But what if it is not someone who wants to cover up the achievements of the Ma brothers, but the entire court wants to do this?

Some things cannot be judged right or wrong simply from the perspective of fairness.

Ever since the Ma brothers did what they outraged that day, it meant that they would have to face serious consequences for the rest of their lives.

This is what Ma Dai is worried about.

He is not a person who is greedy for credit, but he wants the world to know that he has been working hard to atone for his past sins.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Ma Dai knew that Ma Chao also thought so.

To do this, someone must speak out for him and Ma Chao.

Wei Yan may not have this weight, but Mi Yang behind him definitely does.

Wei Yan is Mi Yang's confidant, and Wei Yan's promise today may affect Mi Yang.

This is enough.

After Ma Dai showed joy, Wei Yan noticed something unusual and asked, "Where is the Hussar General?"

Wei Yan is currently the general of Zhenbei. Although he has a lower position than Ma Chao, Wei Yan is the general sent by Mi Yang to rescue Yinping. Due to emotions and reasons, Ma Chao should have gone out of the city to see Wei Yan.

Especially in recent years, Ma Chao has been frightened, and he will not allow himself to be negligent in this regard.

unless.

Wei Yan looked at Ma Dai with inquiring eyes, and after hearing Wei Yan's inquiry, Ma Dai's face showed sadness. He could no longer hold back the tears in his eyes and cried to Wei Yan:

"Hussar, General Hussar, he was seriously injured and has been bedridden for several days!"

Ma Dai's words made Wei Yan look shocked!

He made a decision almost subconsciously.

Wei Yan quickly summoned a personal guard and said to him: "Hurry back to Yangping Pass as quickly as possible and ask the general to come to Yinping as soon as possible."

The personal guard heard the urgency in Wei Yan's tone, so after receiving the order, he immediately turned around and returned to Yangping Pass.

Seeing the guards leaving, Wei Yan sighed heavily.

...

A few days later, Mi Yang led his troops to the outside of Yinping City.

After arriving outside Yinping City, seeing Mi Yang in a scene that was like a hell on earth, he couldn't help but take a deep breath in his heart.

There are many fierce and cruel city defense battles in the history books, but the records in the history books are always simple, so how could they have as much impact as those witnessed with one's own eyes?

Mi Yang did not stop outside the city. He walked directly towards Yinping City along the mountains of corpses on both sides.

In the past few days, due to the retreat of the Wei army, Ma Dai has been commanding the soldiers who can still move to clean up the corpses inside and outside Yinping City.

Otherwise, if Mi Yang entered the city today, he would probably have to step over corpses all over the ground to enter.

Yinping City is not big. Under the leadership of Ma Dai, Mi Yang quickly arrived outside Ma Chao's room.

Along the way, Ma Dai carefully reported to Mi Yang the process of defending the city.

After Ma Dai's report, Mi Yang learned that not only Ma Chao was seriously injured, but also his confidant general Zhang Yi.

Even though Zhang Yi was young and his recovery ability was much better than that of Ma Chao, at this time he could only linger on the bed and could not get up to see Mi Yang.

After hearing that Zhang Ni was also seriously injured, Mi Yang expressed his concern in a timely manner, but he did not choose to visit Zhang Ni first as Ma Dai expected - Mi Yang went straight towards Ma Chao along the way.

Come to the dormitory.
To be continued...