To the west of Guang City, the Shu army was marching out of camp in an orderly manner. They were so calm that they did what they did every day. They got up every morning, had a meal, marched out of camp, formed up, attacked the city, and then threw the mess on the ground and collected the corpses.
Return to camp.
Even though Zhang He was already a short distance away, they were still like this and couldn't see much abnormality.
Five thousand infantry formed an array outside the west gate of Shangguang City. They pushed one large baggage cart to the front of the array, removed the wheels, and used the huge carriage as a shelter. The two carriages were connected with iron chains.
Together they can block the impact of war horses.
Behind the baggage carts were serial ballista carts. These carts were covered with iron sheets and had two huge wheels on both sides, which looked like inverted wheels. But Guo Huai knew that those carts were used for winding the strings.
These repeating crossbow carts have different shooting ranges, ranging from 300 steps in the distance to 100 steps in the distance. They are placed at intervals and the shooting speed is very amazing. So far, Guo Huai has not figured out how they supply arrows.
Such a fast rate of fire consumes a huge number of arrows. If you rely on people to place them one by one temporarily, it will be too late.
Behind the company's crossbow carriages, there are tall Pili carriages placed. Each Pili carriage is ten steps apart and is manned by five soldiers. One gunner, two loaders, and two wheel operators work together in tacit understanding.
In an orderly manner. Behind each Pili car, there are two carts transporting stone bullets, taking turns to supply stone bullets and clay pots filled with oil in a timely manner.
After so many days of attacks, what impressed Guo Huai the most was these Continental Ballistas and Thunderbolt Chariots. Compared with the lethality of these two weapons, the Shuhan Army's attack on the city was obviously not interesting at all. Under the attack of stone bullets,
After more than two months of attacks, Shanggui City was in dilapidated condition and seemed likely to collapse at any time.
Ma Zun, the prefect of Tianshui, could not help but twitch his face as he looked at the Shu troops arrayed in formation. The daily battles of attacking and defending the city had made him exhausted. He could not sleep at night, and his eye circles were dark every day.
"Your Majesty, Ni Shu is about to attack the city again." Ma Zun said weakly, not sure whether to remind Guo Huai or to tell himself this happened every day.
Guo Huai put his hands behind his back and shook his head: "No. They will not attack the city today."
Ma Zun was stunned for a moment: "You don't know how to attack the city?" He thought for a while, became happy again, and clapped his hands vigorously: "By the way, General Zhang has arrived to show his relatives, and they are about to withdraw. But..." He pointed
Outside the city, I opened my mouth and felt a little confused. It looked like the Shu army was retreating. They clearly still wanted to attack the city.
"They are not attacking the city, nor are they retreating, they are trying to prevent us from taking the opportunity to leave the city." Guo Huai smiled bitterly and sighed softly.
Shanggui City faces water on three sides, with the only outlet to the west, the Weishui River to the north, and the Bianchuan River originating from Mount Gu to the south, which flows into the Wei River in the east of the city. In the past, one had to go west and then cross the Wei River from the east to Guanzhong.
To take the Longshan Mountain, they could either go eastward from the Weishui River and take a boat directly into Duangu Valley. Zhuge Liang besieged the city for a hundred days, and all the boats, large and small, were seized by him. The waterway was impassable. If they wanted to go, they had to go west.
Zhuge Liang defended the west side of the city, and Shanggui City was like a turtle in a jar. Zhang He was here, but if he wanted to get out of the city to join Zhang He in attacking Zhuge Liang, he had to face the formation set up by Zhuge Liang first.
So he said that Zhuge Liang was not attacking the city today, but defending instead of attacking. He was expected to die in the city. Needless to say, his main force today would definitely be focused on guarding against Zhang He. Defeating Zhang He meant annihilating their army.
The last glimmer of hope is that Shanggui City will collapse without a fight.
Everyone knows this. It stands to reason that Guo Huai should take the initiative and cooperate with Zhang He to defeat Zhuge Liang. But he did not do so, and Zhang He did not let him do so. Zhang He just asked him to guard Shanggui and wait for action, saying that within ten days
Zhuge Liang must be defeated. Although Guo Huai believed in Zhang He's ability, he didn't know how Zhang He would do it, so he could only regard this sentence as inspirational propaganda and announce it to the whole city.
The soldiers and people in the whole city were very excited, but they, the senior officials, who were very familiar with the situation in the city, could not be happy at all.
Guo Huai is waiting for the opportunity. Since Zhang He does not need his cooperation, he will not take the initiative to take risks.
As Guo Huai expected, in addition to setting up a blocking formation of baggage trains, serial ballista carts and thunderbolt carts, the huge siege carts did not push to the front of the formation, the ladder carts did not appear, and the tall nest carts continued as usual.
Appeared. From those chariots, you can clearly see the city defense when you go up to Gui City.
It doesn't matter if you can see clearly. At this point, everyone knows the opponent's tricks.
Guo Huai was waiting, and so was Zhuge Liang. He defied all opinions and neither retreated according to the opinions of the majority nor accepted Xiang Lang's suggestion to withdraw into Guanzhong. He stayed at the foot of Shanggui City and waited for Zhang He to come and relieve him.
The siege of Shanggui. He could not leave Shanggui. Once he withdrew, Guo Huai in the city might come out of the city and join Zhang He's army, giving Zhang He nearly 10,000 infantry. Zhang He might also enter Shanggui and use Shanggui.
The food in Gui City was temporarily replenished to restore vitality. He had to stay outside Shanggui City to cut off their contact so that no one could help anyone.
Then, he met Zhang He's attack outside Shanggui City.
In addition to arranging a formation of 5,000 men at the west gate of Shanggui City to monitor Guo Huai, he used all the remaining 40,000-strong main force to deal with Zhang He. For more than two months, before discovering Guo Huai's flaw, he had been
He did not forcibly climb the siege, but used powerful siege equipment to continuously exert pressure on Shanggui and patiently attack it bit by bit. He knew very well that most of his soldiers were still recruits. Although their courage was commendable,
However, their combat capabilities still need to be improved. He needs to use this war to temper them.
Besieging the city and training troops simultaneously. As the hundred-day deadline gradually approaches, the skills and tactics of these soldiers have improved significantly, and the fear of the battlefield has slowly faded away. If Zhang He hadn't suddenly arrived, he would have truly launched the most violent attack.
Attack and quickly disintegrate Shanggui's city defense.
Now that Zhang He is here, he will use these already sharpened troops to deal with Zhang He first and cut off Guo Huai's last glimmer of hope.
He has a large number of thunderbolt chariots and serial crossbow chariots, and a rapidly growing army of 40,000 men. He is waiting for work and has enough confidence to block Zhang He and defeat Zhang He.
If Zhang He dares to come.
Unlike his panicked subordinates, Zhuge Liang had sufficient confidence in his own strength. He was not worried that the 40,000-strong formation would be broken through by Zhang He's 10,000 fine cavalry. What he was worried about was that Zhang He would not come.
Zhuge Liang sat on the command car and gently closed his eyes. He could hear his heartbeat and his fingers were numb. Defeating Zhang He was so important to the current battle situation and how important it was to him.
It was important, and he knew it all too well.
Fei Yi stood next to Zhuge Liang, glanced at Zhuge Liang's fingers tapping the table, and frowned slightly. Just as he was about to say something, a horse came running from a distance. The knight turned over and dismounted in front of the formation.
He left his horse behind and walked quickly towards the command podium.
Zhuge Liang opened his eyes, looked at the knight's face, and sighed secretly.
The expression on the knight's face was relaxed. Although he was sweating profusely and panting, he walked calmly and had no nervous look on his face.
This shows that Zhang He did not come, otherwise he would not be so relaxed.
"Prime Minister, Zhang He did not cross the water." The knight quickly walked to the podium and said loudly to Zhuge Liang, as if this was good news worth being happy about.
Indeed, for most people, this is good news. Although they know that the decisive battle with Zhang He is inevitable, it is always better to let this day come a little later. In their view, it is better to use 40,000 infantry against 10,000.
Jingqiu is a very risky thing. The outcome of the battle has been decided from the beginning. Only a scholar like Zhuge Liang would think that he could defeat Zhang He.
"Where did he go?" Zhuge Liang sat on the couch, motionless. He was sitting on the command podium, and his voice was not loud, so of course the knight could not hear it. Fei Yi immediately walked to the command podium and repeated it loudly.
"He went west along the Wei River." The knight replied loudly. After thinking for a while, he added: "He was on the north bank and did not cross the water."
Fei Yi was stunned for a moment, turned around, and walked up to Zhuge Liang: "Prime Minister, what is his intention of heading west...?"
Zhuge Liang's eyes trembled, he thought for a while, and said indifferently: "Going west, of course I will ambush Youchang."
Fei Yi was shocked and immediately understood what he was worried about. Zhuge Liang set up a formation at the foot of Shanggui City to hold Zhang He off. Ma Di led the army that had withdrawn from Yuzhong to outflank Zhang He's retreat. The two of them worked together to capture Zhang He and his troops.
Ten thousand reinforcements were killed at the foot of Shanggui City in front of Guo Huai. This was the most beneficial result for the Shu Han army. With Zhuge Liang's superiority in military strength and ordnance, he was enough to support Ma Su's arrival.
However, Zhang He was not fooled. Instead of attacking by force, he turned west to meet Ma Di. Ma Di claimed that he had thirty thousand men, but in fact he only had more than twenty thousand men left. He surrounded Yuzhong for more than two months and lost at least four to five thousand men.
After returning from a long distance and exhausted, wouldn't it be a disaster if Zhang He ambushed us?
"Prime Minister, shall we... catch up?"
"Can we... catch up?" Zhuge Liang asked.
Fei Yi opened his mouth, beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. He glanced at Zhuge Liang, but found that there was no nervousness in Zhuge Liang's eyes. Instead, there was some self-mockery in his eyes. He couldn't help but swallow back the words that came to his mouth. "Prime Minister
…Have you anticipated Zhang He’s change?”
Zhuge Liang smiled slightly: "Zhang He is one of the five good generals who rebelled against the Wei Dynasty. The former emperor was quite afraid of him. If he had just led the army to attack, how would he be able to achieve his current status? Wen Wei, don't worry, his change will
It was as expected by Youchang and I."
Fei Yi breathed a sigh of relief and laughed: "Then how will the Prime Minister respond?"
"Just wait and see what happens." Zhuge Liang closed his eyes again, paused for a moment, and sighed again: "It seems that this first achievement is what You Chang has in his pocket."
Jiang Wei, who was standing on the other side of Zhuge Liang, raised the corner of his mouth and showed a mysterious smile.
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