Chapter 105: West of Tongguan

The huge stone-throwing smashed on the head of Tongguan with the power of opening the mountain and cracking the stone, and the fragments of more than 100 catties of stone-throwing fell like a sharp knife scattered in all directions. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The defenders took the road to escape, and the whistling flying stones brought the anger of the Liangzhou people and the fear of the Han defenders.

But no one is going to run away.

They no longer saw a chance to survive after the defeat, and behind them, the huge banner of Cao Zi was waving in the wind, and Prime Minister Cao Cheng personally supervised the army to patrol the city with his helmet and armor, and dodged the stones with the soldiers.

That's the Prime Minister!

At this moment, only a few people know that this is likely to be the last battle facing the Han family, and perhaps they have lost...... There is no such thing as a big man.

Whenever they thought of this, they would look passionately at the big tent of the Liangguo Qiang Coalition Army under the city, and their eyes were full of pride and resolute fierceness.

They are the last hope of the Great Han!

But more people bravely participate in the battle only because their prime minister is behind them, their general is in front of them, and now it is the time for the imperial court to employ people, they must fight in a position!

For meritorious service! For the sake of the big man!

The people of Liangzhou turned the entire Jingzhaoyin into a pasture, and stood at the head of Tongguan City and looked down at the round tents of the Qiang people, which was terrifying. But for them, it was really terrible for these Liangguo people to drop huge stones beside them.

The crazy throwing stones were like meteors, falling one by one, some accurately at the head of the city, some under the city walls, and the continuous collision made the entire Tongguan seem to fall into an earthquake.

On the contrary, Tongguan, which should be crumbling, is as stable as Mount Tai!

In this era, except for the most efficient ladders with the same terrible casualties as soldiers, no siege weapon could inflict damage on Tongguan.

"This is not a small city like Weinan, if Ma Junhao wants to capture this world's No. 1 Xiongguan just by relying on a catapult, it is simply a fool's dream!" Cao Cao was placed at the head of the city by two rows of sturdy tiger guards with large shields on top of his head to form a passage, and walked towards the head of the city, and the anger in his heart made him laugh at it.

He knew that Yuan Benchu and Ma Junhao were smashed by Yuan Shao's catapult during the initial battle, and later the city wall of Weinan took several years to repair, which was almost the most glorious battle since the Xiping period to the present.

But Cao Cao knew better that the city wall of Tongguan was not comparable to Weinan City because of the different construction techniques.

Weinan City is a stone brick city, and the city walls are simply built of fired bricks. But Tongguan is completely different, first from thick and sturdy logs to drive deep piles in the ground, then with soil between the two layers of logs to tamp layer by layer, and finally with the outside of the logs to build a masonry wall...... Under the three-tiered structure, the force of the stone throwing is minimized by the impact of smashing down the city.

Even if the head of the city is smashed into bricks, this Tongguan city is still as stable as Mount Tai.

"Meng De doesn't have to worry, throwing stones is just a small trick of Liang Guo, nothing more than to break the fighting spirit of the defenders." Xun Yu sat in the military tent and smiled at Cao Cao, who entered the military tent angrily: "Let them vote, and when the time comes, when their soldiers and horses attack the city tower, they just push them down and kill them." ”

Xun Yu didn't take Liang Guo's stone-throwing offensive seriously, such an attack, even if the Liang people filled the pass with stones, so what?

In the end, isn't it difficult to shake this majestic pass?

"What if they paved a road outside the gate with stones?" Cao Cao asked, but with a smile on his face, it was obvious that he wasn't worried about this matter either, just casually mentioned it. Compared with the whimsical idea of paving a road outside the pass, it was obvious how to improve the low morale of the defenders that made him even more worried, and in a blink of an eye, his face was already full of seriousness and asked: "Wen Ruo, do you have any ways to improve morale?" ”

Before Xun Yu could open his mouth, a soldier suddenly ran in outside the tent, shouting and grabbing Cao Cao's arm, "Prime Minister, the enemy's slings are coming to the pass!" ”

As he spoke, a huge flying stone roared, smashing over several soldiers who were about to leave the city, dragging the crushed flesh and limbs to plow a ravine in the ground.

There are also throwing stones in the sky.

"What do they want to do?" Cao Cao shouted angrily, slapped his palm on top of several cases, pulled Xun Yu up and left, "Wen Ruo, get out of here." You don't have to protect me, let those Cao Ren force the head of the city, the head of the city is safe now, use rockets to set fire to those approaching catapults! ”

Outside the pass, the Liang Kingdom's slingling array was advancing earlier, but it was not absolutely safe on the city walls as Cao Cao imagined. The stones that smashed into the city were projected by one hundred and fifty pitched catapults in a line of advances, and one hundred and twenty paces behind them were sprayed with boulders at the head of the city and outside the city.

The 300 catapults could not be fired at the same time, and the stones would collide on the way, and eventually they would not reach their intended target and would shatter each other in the air, wasting the stone that the craftsmen had struck in the mountains.

Yuan Benchu's fifty catapults smashed down the city of Weinan, what is the concept of Ma Junhao's three hundred catapults?

In this day and age, people mean everything.

The Qiang warriors held the boulder and put it on the cart, and sixty or seventy hardcover men pulled the noose, and the huge kinetic energy dragged the throwing arm to rotate, and the stone flew away.

In Hedong, Zhang Hengdu commanded 10,000 Qiang to ride across the river, crossed Tongguan and plundered the surrounding counties in the enemy's territory, and drove the people of Hedong to migrate to Sanfu.

The imperial court had too few soldiers and horses, and the Liangguo people's attack on Tongguan was too fierce, Cao Cao could only deploy the effective forces as much as possible near the eight passes of Luoyang, and Hedong County had been basically abandoned, and the garrisons left were all county soldiers and county soldiers, and the real elite soldiers were guarded at Mengjin Pass, the Mengjin Ferry.

This is cruel, because everyone knows that the Ryokuni soldiers and horses will be strong in the land of and finish what they haven't done, but no one can do anything.

This is war, not child's play.

If it were possible, Cao Cao would even be willing to lead his troops and horses into Liangzhou, sprinkling salt on every field, so that the land that gave birth to such a great hero as Ma Yue would not grow food for a hundred years.

Compared with the national fortune, what is a state and a region?

But Cao Cao also knows very well that Liangzhou is not to blame for this matter, nor is he to blame Ma Yue. It's no wonder that the people of the Han Dynasty have too many mediocre emperors, and there are too many generals and eunuchs who dominate the government and the opposition. The greatest national strength has been spent in infighting.

In a court where coups often occur, how can the court where the general kills Da Changqiu, the auxiliary general kills the general, and the military academy captain kills the auxiliary general, how can it bring a sense of stability to the people of the Han Dynasty?

Cao Cao always sighed in every midnight dream after the founding of the Liang State, and there were two things that the imperial court did the worst.

One is that he was not reused when Liangzhou Mumayue wanted to enter the imperial court, and the other was that he did not rush into the Huangmen Temple to kill him during the earlier court turmoil.

People all over the world think that Ma Junhao is not good at camping and only knows how to work hard, such a person will make people feel threatened no matter where he is, but he will never be too taboo.

He's not good at camping.

But in fact, in the midst of the chaos, there is no need for the previous drill camp!

His power is real, and the root of everything lies in his ability and his heart to keep improving, and it is precisely because of these that he has won half of the hearts of the world, seized half of the world's land, and walked out of the poor countryside of Liangzhou from a reckless manner, and the snowball is getting bigger and bigger.

It's good now, with millions of military might, the soldiers are pointing directly at the imperial court!

All this is the connivance of the imperial court!

But now, whether they are conniving or not, it seems that things are no longer up to them.

Zhang Heng's Qiang soldiers didn't mention it for the time being, and Li Hu also took his 10,000 Di warriors to touch the dangerous road from Huashan.

The Huashan Dangerous Road is usually impossible for people to walk along...... But for the perennial climbers, all this is not so difficult.

Cao Mengde's crisis does not only come from the west of Tongguan, now whether it is Hedong north of Tongguan or Huashan west of Tongguan, it is no longer safe, not to mention that there is also Guan Yu's army approaching closer and closer at the revolving gate, and the psychological endurance of the government and the opposition has ended.

Even within the tightly enclosed eight passes, there was an army with a full army slowly moving towards the west.

Ma Bozhan, who is young but has been known for a long time, is known as the crown of the second generation of the Ma family in Liangzhou, born in a family that started with military merits, and is famous for being good at fighting.

Now, the 30,000 soldiers and horses of Ma Dai's department have been slowly approached by the Han army with a combined encirclement.

Twenty-five miles behind his military formation, Liu Xuande and his tiger generals were hanging in the distance, and to the west was Cao Angbu, who was rushing out from the direction of Tongguan, and this proud son of heaven was always ready to fight Ma Dai again. In the north, there are also 3,000 people from the headquarters of Inspector Wei who are sloppy, and not far to the south is the dry mountain connected to Huashan.

The three forces of soldiers and horses seemed to be running westward with Ma Dai, but in fact, they were just eyeing each other and did not dare to make the slightest plan.

In addition to Liu Xuande's soldiers and horses, the remaining two together are only more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and no one knows if it is Ma Dai's hand, not to mention, they don't know whether Liu Bei, the world-famous lord of benevolence and righteousness, will take the opportunity to attack Ma Dai with them.

But Cao Ang didn't dare to drag it down like this, and the roar of the falling stones opposite Tongguan seemed to be reminding him that this was a war.

It is also the biggest battle he has experienced in his life.

He once heard a lyricist sing about the 100,000 lonely souls buried in the First World War on the mainland, and he also figured out the truth of the war from the idle words of his uncles...... Dead person.

If the war does not really stop for a moment, no one knows whether they will survive or not.

If Ma Dai knew that King Liang's soldiers and horses on the opposite side were attacking the fortifications, who knew if he would directly gather troops and horses to attack Tongguan?

"The Han army listened to the order and attacked Ma Bozhan's soldiers and horses!" Cao Ang tightened his pocket, pulled out the Han sword at his waist and shouted: "Kuang Fu Han Room!" ”

The most ferocious tiger and leopard iron horsemen in the imperial court, and the brightly armored tiger guards converged into a torrent, and Cao Ang shouted loudly: "Kuang Fu Han Room!" "Charge out.

Towards the army of mourners.