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After Wuyang City, it is not more than seventy miles to the north, and it is the capital of Shu State, Chengdu.

Here, it has become the last barrier in Chengdu, and Gou Jian gathered the 35,000 soldiers and horses he could use at hand, and put on a posture of sticking to Wuyang and never taking half a step back.

In the early morning of the same day, the pottery merchant led 80,000 front troops to the south of Wuyang City, and the follow-up army of nearly 70,000 people will arrive a day later.

The camp of the former army was completed, and the pottery merchants immediately launched a tentative attack on Wuyang City.

The siege lasted from late afternoon to dusk, and lasted about an hour and a half, and after paying 700 soldiers dead and wounded, the potters found out the enemy's ability to defend the city, and decisively ordered the troops to be collected and returned to the camp.

Gou Jian really did as he expected, and concentrated the main force in Wuyang City, and the city defense of Wuyang City was also quite strong, and it seemed that it was not easy to attack on the surface.

If this city is placed in a mountainous area like Jiangzhou, the potters will naturally be afraid, but the location of Wuyang is a flat Chengdu plain, and the potters have nothing to worry about.

No matter how strong you are, can you be stronger than Liyang, Jianye and other worlds?

The next day, the follow-up 70,000 troops rushed to Wuyang, and the 150,000 troops of the Great Wei were officially assembled under the city of Wuyang.

In the king's tent, the potters gathered the generals to discuss the plan to break the city.

All the generals gathered, the hunting intention burned wildly in the tent, and the faces of every general were burning with excited blood, all of them were gearing up and eager to fight.

The potter eagle glanced at the big tent, looked at the enthusiastic generals, nodded slightly, and showed a satisfied smile on his heroic face.

Taking a deep breath, the pottery merchant looked at Su Qin and ordered: "Su Qing, you have been an envoy to Shu and know the most about Shu and the whole country, this king wants you to write a "Letter to the Military and Civilian Beings of Shu", and write out all the things about Liu Zhang's connivance with the barbarians and the poisoning of the people in Shu in the Jiangyang area, and call on the soldiers and people of Wuyang Shu to turn their backs on Liu Zhang and submit to my Great Wei, otherwise when the city is broken, people and animals will not be left!" ”

This is also the usual method used by the potters, and before attacking a fortified city like Wuyang, it is customary to carry out a spiritual offensive first.

Su Qin immediately comprehended the spirit of the potter, and arched his hand: "Don't worry, the king has already thought about how to write this text." ”

The potter nodded, and the eagle eyes swept the civil and military again, and said proudly: "Break through this Wuyang City, which is the capital of Shu City, Chengdu City, we have been fighting for several months, and the goal of destroying Shu Kingdom is only one step away from being achieved. ”

The god-like majesty and thunderous hunting rhetoric echoed in the big tent, shaking the hearts of every Great Wei elite.

The generals, the blood boiled in an instant.

"Stepping on Wuyang!"

"Stepping on Wuyang!"

In the king's tent, a group of generals were enthusiastic and roared in response, and the sound of killing echoed in the sky, echoing over the camp, and the fighting spirit of the soldiers of the three armies was also boiling.

The killing order of the pottery merchant has been ordered, and the 150,000-strong army launched an unprecedented onslaught on the Shu State to start it.

Within five days, Su Qin rewrote more than tens of thousands of copies of the "Letter to the Military and Civilian Beings of Shu State" written by him and shot them into Wuyang City.

With his sharp writing, Su Qin denounced Liu Zhang, in order to protect his throne, colluded with the Southern Barbarians, connived at the barbarians to burn, kill and loot, poisoned his own people, scolded Liu Zhang as a faint monarch who was difficult to write, and called on the soldiers and people of Shu to rebel against Liu Zhang and return to the king of Great Wei.

Liu Zhang, that is, Gou Jian, joined forces with the southern barbarians to deal with the pottery merchants, and the news that Jiangyang was much cruel to the barbarians has long been spread throughout Shuzhong, and the soldiers and civilians of Shu are secretly dissatisfied with Gou Jian's decision.

Since the Wei army attacked Shu, Gou Jian has been defeated in successive battles, and the losses of the soldiers have been innumerable, and finally the Wei army has hit the hinterland of Yizhou like Wuyang, and Gou Jian's incompetence has inspired the Shu people to complain and dissatisfaction with him

This kind of complaint and dissatisfaction is like a powder keg, which may explode at any time, and the pottery merchant's "Letter to the Military and Civil Affairs of Shu State" is just the fuse that ignites this powder keg.

Soon, Wuyang City, which was already panicked and complaining, fell into a situation of resentment and anger among the people.

Under the spiritual offensive of the pottery merchants, under the instigation and threat of the inscription, the soldiers and civilians of Shu in Wuyang City were dissatisfied with Gou Jian like a dark tide, and the already low will to resist was even more deeply affected.

In order to cooperate with the enemy's mental attack, the potter launched a powerful military attack.

Cao Shen, Hua Xiong, Fan Xu, Ma Yuan, Wu Zixu and other generals who were good at attacking, commanded the army of 150,000 Great Wei, and launched an unprecedented crazy attack on Wuyang City day and night.

In addition to the infantry attack, powerful siege weapons such as the Sky Thunder Cannon and the Shenwei Ballista also appeared, bombarding the enemy city without night or night.

The bombardment lasted for five days, and in five days, the heavenly thunder cannon fired more than 100,000 stone bullets into Wuyang City, cutting all the buildings on the surface of the city wall, including the city tower, to the ground.

And the powerful Shenwei ballista also shot out tens of thousands of standard arrows, densely covering the Wuyang city wall, nailed with huge standard arrows, and almost shot into a hedgehog.

The stone bullets that rebounded and fell from the city wall rolled into the moat, and even directly filled in the moat, saving the Wei army a formality for filling the moat.

Under such a high-intensity and continuous attack without dawn and night, the already demoralized Shu soldiers were devastated mentally and physically, and their morale gradually fell to the bottom.

Finally, the Shu people began to be unable to support it.

The onslaught lasted until the seventh day, when the Shu general Zhang Yi led 500 soldiers to launch a rebellion, wanting to seize the south gate and surrender to Wei.

It's just that Zhang Yi didn't think things through, didn't contact the Wei army in advance to make internal responses, and when he launched a rebellion, he sent people to the Wei camp, but before the pottery merchants could send troops to arrive, Zhang Yi and the five hundred rebels were extinguished by Zhang Ren, who rushed to hear the news.

Zhang Yi was killed, and all the 500 rebels were annihilated, and Gou Jian, who was angry, ordered Zhang Yi to be dismantled in eight pieces, and his body was hung in four gates to deter those who had rebel intentions.

Although Zhang Yi's rebellion was finally extinguished, its bad influence was tantamount to a "bad example" for the Shu people, and in the nearly a month after Zhang Yi's rebellion, the Shu army launched mutinies one after another.

Although these rebellions were small in scale, they were all extinguished by Gou Jian, but they made Gou Jian tremble and couldn't sleep all night.

So, under the suggestion of Fa Zheng, Gou Jian changed to Li Yan and other confidant generals to guard the gates of Wuyang, and strengthened the patrol of the city to strictly prevent rebellion.

Those rebellious Shu troops, seeing that the rebellion could not succeed, began to cross the city at night and fled to the Wei camp in batches to surrender.

First there were more than a dozen, then more than a hundred, and finally hundreds of people, and in half a month, nearly 1,000 people escaped from Wuyang City and surrendered to the Wei army.

This is exactly what the potter wants.

The pottery merchant then ordered to treat these Shu soldiers who crossed the city and surrendered with good food and drink, and at the same time sent Wu Yi, a general, to lead these soldiers to shout outside the city every day to attract more Shu soldiers to come and surrender.

Under the influence of this, more and more Shu soldiers risked their lives to surrender out of the city and come to submit to the Great Wei, and the situation in Wuyang City became more and more unfavorable.

Gou Jian was completely enraged, and hated these spineless soldiers, and immediately ordered to strengthen the inspection of the first line of the city wall, but all the escaped soldiers who were caught would be sentenced to death.

At the same time, Gou Jian also adopted a policy of joint sitting, in which when a soldier fled, all other soldiers in his army would be severely punished, and those who denounced it would be rewarded.

Under Gou Jian's high-pressure policy, Wuyang City was shrouded in blood, and the escape of the soldiers was finally curbed on the surface.

In the next few days, the number of Shu soldiers who escaped from the city and returned to Shun was significantly reduced for a long time, but the pottery merchants learned from the mouths of these fleeing soldiers what Gou Jian did in the city and knew the current situation of the morale of the people in the city.

The potter had a hunch that the hearts of the Shu army were about to collapse, and Gou Jian couldn't hold out for long.

That night, after another round of thunder artillery attacks, the pottery merchant party collected his troops and returned to the camp, and as soon as the front foot entered the big tent, Su Qin followed in the back foot.

"The king, Shicai Shu has secretly sent someone to steal someone out of the city to send a letter, saying that Liu Zhang is afraid that he will not be able to support it, so he has no choice but to use the method of correcting the law and wants to use the army to attack my camp." Su Qin excitedly reported and presented the secret letter.

The potter's eyes lit up, and he snatched the letter, swept it carefully, and sure enough, it was as Su Qin said.

Li Hui not only claimed in the letter that he was willing to surrender, but also presented the news of Liu Zhang's night attack on the camp to the potters as a gift of surrender.

The potter smiled.

used various means to suppress the spiritual force of Wuyang City for more than a month, and finally waited for the surrender of Li Hui, a key Shu general.

Li Hui's letter of surrender not only made the pottery merchants very excited, but also Su Qin and other civil and military people, all of whom were boiling.

Although the potters had the absolute advantage of 150,000 troops, Gou Jian still had more than 30,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, and if he refused to defend Wuyang without fighting, even if the potters were sure to take the city, it would take at least three or four months.

Now, Gou Jian himself can't sit still first, and he wants to take the initiative to attack the camp, if the pottery merchants can plan and set up a net to defeat the Shu army, it can greatly weaken the strength of the Shu army and deal a heavy blow to the already low morale of the Shu army.

At that time, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to break through Wuyang City quickly!

"I've waited for so long, and finally waited for this God-given opportunity, it's not easy......" The potter laughed, and showed the secret letter in his hand to the generals.

Wu Zixu took the letter and looked at it a few times, but said: "King, the Shu army is suddenly going to take the initiative to attack, so Li Hui proposed to surrender at this time, could this be a plan set up by Gou Jian to surrender?" ”

"It's not impossible." The potter nodded slightly, and looked at Zhang Liang, "Ovary, what do you think." ”

Zhang Liang took the letter, stared at it for a long time, but said: "Liu Zhang has lost all the hearts of the people, and the heart of the Shu army in Wuyang City is close to collapse, otherwise there would not be so many soldiers, willing to risk death to go out of the city and surrender, Gou Jian should be very clear, according to the development of this situation, without our action, his army will collapse without a fight, in this case, Gou Jian fought against the water, but it is also reasonable." ”

Zhang Liang's words obviously thought that Li Hui's surrender was true, and there was no suspicion that Gou Jian was going to go out of the city and rob the camp.

Hearing Zhang Liang's analysis, Wu Zixu also nodded slightly, and seemed to agree with Zhang Liang's analysis and changed his opinion.

"You used to work with that Li Hui back then, what do you think?" The potter's gaze turned to Wu Yi again.

I think that at the beginning, it was Wu Yi and Li Hui who were sent by Gou Jian to assist Meng Huo, but before Jiangyang City was broken, Li Hui went to Gou Jian to move rescue troops and escaped the catastrophe.

Wu Yi pondered for a moment, and arched his hand: "According to the minister's understanding, Li Hui also secretly opposed Liu Zhang's collusion with the Southern Barbarians, but he was soft-spoken and not taken seriously, and he should also be dissatisfied with Liu Zhang. ”

With Zhang Liang's analysis and listening to the judgment of Wu Yi, the general, the potter had no doubts and firmly believed in his judgment.

Syllable!

The potter took the case, his whole body was full of hunting and murderous energy, he waved his big hand, and shouted happily: "Li Hui's surrender, it is really the sky is going to die in Shu, since Liu Zhang wants to send a big gift to this king, how can this king not appreciate it, pass on the king's order, and set up a net in the camp tonight, this king wants to give Liu Zhang a big surprise!" ”

When the order was handed down, the generals' sentiments were high, and the fighting spirit was like fire.

At that moment, the potter and the generals drew up a plan to fight against the camp, arranged tasks for each of the generals, and ordered them to disperse and make preparations.

The officers and men of the three armies had a full meal, slept with A, and listened to orders at any time.

In the middle of the night, the time for the robbery of the camp revealed by Li Hui was approaching, and the generals secretly woke up the soldiers and quietly entered their respective positions, waiting for the Shu army to enter the net.

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Wuyang South Gate.

Gou Jian's expression was solemn, his eyes were gloomy, his sword stood on the head of the city, and his cold gaze looked at the brightly lit Wei army camp from afar.

Footsteps sounded behind him, and Zhang Ren, the first general in Shuzhong, hurriedly went to the city and arched his hand: "The army, all the armies are in place, and they can set off at any time." ”

Gou Jian's figure shook slightly, and he looked at Fa Zheng, with a little hesitation in his eyes.

Fa Zheng looked resolute, and said in a deep voice: "Now that our army is in chaos, it won't be long before we have to fight and become chaotic, and taking the initiative to attack is our only chance to turn defeat into victory, and we have no choice." ”

Gou Jian nodded slightly, and after taking a few deep breaths, there was no longer hesitation in his eyes, only determination.

"Bring those people here." Gou Jian waved his hand and shouted.

The order was passed, and after a while, the cries of women and children sounded on the street, and the Shu soldiers who had been arrayed for a long time saw this posture, and their faces changed.

Those old and weak women and children are none other than their wives and daughters.

All the Shu soldiers suddenly panicked, and they all looked at Gou Jian on the head of the city, not knowing what their king meant by bringing their wives and daughters to the city at this moment when they were about to go to war.

Gou Jian stood on the top of the city, looked down at his soldiers with cold eyes, and said coldly: "My Dashu has reached the critical point of survival, tonight's battle, the stakes are very important, if you can fight with all your strength, this king will have a heavy reward, if anyone dares to surrender to the enemy, whose wife and children are old and young, they will not survive tonight!" ”

The soldiers of the Shu army in front of the city were violently shocked, and they were all stunned and shocked, and they suddenly realized one by one, only then did they understand the intention of their king.

It turned out that their king was going to take their wives and children hostage and threaten them to fight to the death to prevent them from treason.

Gou Jian also can't help it, at the moment the people in the army are panicking, the heart of Wei is spreading like a plague, so many soldiers and horses go to rob the Wei camp tonight, if it is the critical moment of the battle, these soldiers take the opportunity to surrender to Wei, wouldn't it be a big deal.

In desperation, Gou Jian could only make this decision, using such even some "despicable" means to threaten his soldiers, so that they would care about the life and death of their relatives and dare not surrender to Wei.

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