If you keep it for a long time, you will lose it, this sentence is a wise saying throughout ancient and modern times.

Regardless of the fact that any strong fortress is breached from within, from the perspective of the war itself, if one side only thinks about defending and not attacking, it is tantamount to putting the initiative in the hands of the other side, how to fight? When to play? It's up to the opponent to decide.

Although the defender will take advantage of the defender of the city and occupy the geographical advantage, everything has advantages and disadvantages, and psychologically, the side defending the camp will be under greater pressure.

Zhang Ren is also a famous general in Shu, familiar with the art of war since childhood, naturally understands this truth, so although he built a strong walled city, but did not completely give up the attack because of this, and Zhang He these few days of fighting, seven points of defense, three points of attack, the strength of both sides is similar, but they are not willing to lose too much, looking for the opponent's loopholes in order to defeat the opponent at the minimum cost.

This is probably a common problem of powerful generals.

Zhang He will send people to scold every day, occasionally to launch a tentative attack, Zhang Ren's side after repelling the other party, will be ruthlessly mocking, the war intermittently from the scolding war to a small-scale fight and then scolding, both sides are trying their best to provoke each other to make the other party lose their minds, but whether Zhang Ren or Zhang He, they are the kind of sensible generals, do not see rabbits and eagles, and will never move out of anger.

The so-called art of war, in fact, is a lot of deception, to see who can deceive each other, two old fritters here to play deception, to be honest, talking wonderful, but for the soldiers on both sides, it is quite boring, full of tricks of operation, in the end only dozens of people really put into the war, not to mention the dead and wounded, which is like the feeling of two 30,000-strong armies facing each other? I didn't know and thought it was a group to quarrel.

This situation lasted until the fifth day, when Zhang He finally ceased to be just provoking, and early in the morning, the Wei army, under the command of Zhang He, began to line up outside the Han army camp.

Is it finally coming?

Standing on the arrow tower, looking at the military formation of the Wei army from afar, on the road that is not very wide, the military formation of the Cao army is very long, and at a glance, there is no end in sight.

In the frontal battle, the defender obviously has the advantage, the block of the wall, the gap in range, it is easier to see the enemy's formation from a high position, especially when the strength of the two sides is similar, if this wooden wall is used well, it will bring thousands of people may not be able to fill the gap.

In the rumbling drums of war, the Wei army moved first with siege equipment, and the Cao army's thunderbolt chariot became extremely huge after continuous improvement over the years, slowly pushing on the battlefield, like a giant beast slowly approaching this side.

Zhang Ren frowned, there are catapults of this size, there are also in the Han army, but there are not many, under normal circumstances, the trebuchet that can eject the stone out of a hundred steps is enough to deal with many battlefields, such a giant catapult, with the help of the lever principle and the machine bracket that Liu Yi said, can project two hundred steps away, although there is, but it has never been used, Liu Yi's conquest of Nanzhong is useless, in Liu Yi's words, it is a sample, let everyone know how to do it.

Some people don't quite understand why the other party brought this giant siege equipment here to use, and it feels like a knife to cut mosquitoes.

Still advancing?

Looking at the trebuchet that had obviously included the entire battalion in its firing range, Zhang Ren was a little stunned, at such a distance, did he want to directly cross the city wall to attack the interior? What's the point?

"Catapult ready!" In any case, since the other party has sent this thing to his own range, Zhang Ren will not be polite, five catapults with a height of about half of the opponent were pushed behind the wooden wall, and some sappers leveled the wheels of the catapult, so that the catapult would not fall backwards because of the stones.

The accuracy of the catapult is not high, even if it has the accuracy attribute, it is scary with a low hit rate, and it is impossible to hit the opponent's catapult without seeing the opponent through the wooden wall, but the catapult itself was not created for precision strikes.

When the catapults on both sides began to exert force, Zhang Ren watched in amazement as the other party's stone projectiles fell towards the wall after crossing a distance about the same distance as his own catapult.

"Bang~"

Sawdust flew, and several soldiers who did not stand firm planted directly from the wooden wall, and the wooden wall, which was quite strong, was directly blasted out.

Didn't you say you could hit two hundred steps?

Zhang Ren watched with some surprise as the other party's catapult began to slowly reload, the opponent's stones were also very large, and the power was equally terrifying, but this range was a little touching, and at the same time, the Wei army began to pour in the direction of the walled city, Zhang Ren didn't care about thinking about the range of the other party's catapult, and ordered the archers to start releasing arrows.

The cold arrow cluster swept through the void, with the scream of death and fell down, shooting through the wooden shield, some directly penetrated Cao Jun's body, and some were stuck on the wooden shield, the advantage of the equipment was the most perfect embodiment at this moment, Cao Jun's arrow cluster was usually unable to shoot through the wooden shield of the Han army, even if it was not bounced off, it was only barely pierced on it, and the Han army's arrow cluster could directly shoot through the opponent's wooden shield.

Reflected in the casualties, it is very terrifying, before the enemy, the casualties of the Cao army have begun to increase, and the Han army is almost none, this is not the most sophisticated equipment in the Tiangongfang, that kind of equipment is generally for the elite equipment in the army, under Zhang Ren, there are only a hundred sets of such equipment.

The tragedy of the war and the excellence of the weapons of the Han army were obviously beyond Zhang He's expectations, although he was originally acting in this battle, but in the face of a general like Zhang Ren, even if he was too careless, it was not easy to deceive him.

Fortunately, the terrain here is not spacious, the loss is still within the bearable range, the second stone bullet was also loaded, fired again, and bombarded the wooden wall fiercely, this time because of the last proofreading, accurately hit the soldiers on the wooden wall, two Han soldiers who could not dodge were directly smashed into flesh, and the violent vibration made more than a dozen Han soldiers directly planted from the somewhat crowded wooden wall, and were quickly pounced by the Wei army that followed closely, and launched a tragic battle under the wooden wall.

The Han army was well-equipped, but in the face of countless swarming Wei troops, after killing several Wei soldiers one after another, they were soon overwhelmed by the crowd, and the temporary wooden ladder hooked the wooden wall with barbs, and some people rushed directly along the gap opened by the catapult, but were killed by the Han army in the wall, and the two sides launched a fierce battle near the gap.

The arrow towers everywhere also began to shoot arrows at the Wei army, and the shortcomings of the narrow terrain also had restrictions on the Han army, especially the wooden wall that was pinned on did not play much role before being blasted open by the opponent's catapults, and the gap was constantly expanded under the fight between the soldiers on both sides.

"Shoot the arrows!" Zhang Ren waved his arm, and the archers in the back row, who had already formed a formation, raised the longbow in their hands high and shot arrow clusters towards the sky, and the rain of arrows formed a dark cloud of death over the Wei army, and the clusters of arrows that were shot down made the originally fierce fighting sound obviously weakened for a moment.

"The catapult pushes forward again...... Ten steps! Zhang He estimated the distance and said in a deep voice: "Replace it with a gravel projectile!" ”

Ten paces away, the Han army shot three rounds of arrows, and on the road in front of the walled city, the soldiers of the Wei army could not find a place without corpses to settle down for a distance.

"Whew~"

With the piercing roar of the catapult, the rubble fell all over the sky, and the archers in the rear were hit from the sky without preparation, and the momentum of the size of a fist fell from the sky, if it fell on the head enough to shatter the skull, Zhang He's move was indeed ruthless enough, especially in this kind of narrow place, the lethality was greater.

Zhang Ren did not show weakness, after the five catapults were replaced with gravel, the lethality brought by them was also like the end of the world.

"Mingjin!" Zhang He sent two more stone bullets, looking at the fierce battlefield between the two sides, his heart was dripping blood, and in the final hard fight, the Wei army obviously couldn't fight the Han army, if it continued to kill, it would definitely be the Wei army that couldn't hold it first.

According to the previous plan, Zhang He made a hurried withdrawal of the army, did not collect the baggage, and hurriedly ran back, although the Han army had the upper hand, but the Wei army had not yet collapsed, so suddenly withdrawing the troops, making Zhang Ren suspicious.

Zhang Ren went to the high platform, and saw that the Wei army seemed to be in a hurry, thinking that Zhang Fei had written to say that he wanted to make a detour to Longguan to raid Zhang He's army from the rear, Zhang Ren's heart moved, and he couldn't care too much, and shouted: "Gather soldiers and horses, chase and kill the Wei army!" ”

Even if he guessed wrong, but judging from the current battle between the two armies, Zhang Ren felt that his men and horses could also defeat Zhang He at a certain price.

At that moment, Zhang Ren ordered all his troops and horses to come out of the camp and chased after Zhang He's army.

Just turned a corner, but saw that Zhang He's army had regrouped in an open place, Zhang Ren saw that the secret road was not good, and before he had time to react, he saw that the top of the mountain on the side suddenly sounded the earth-shattering shouting and killing, countless stones and rolling logs fell from the sky, and the Han army that was moving from the sky was stoned to death by the stones and wooden blocks that fell from the sky.

"Zhang Ren, you have been tricked, don't descend early!" Zhang He came to the front of the formation, looked at the besieged Zhang Ren, and laughed.

Zhang Ren looked at Zhang He and didn't answer, but slowly raised the spear in his hand and said, "Formation!" ”

Less than three hundred guards quickly formed a circle in front of Zhang Ren, these soldiers, as Zhang Ren's personal guards, wore the most sophisticated armor, the most sophisticated weapons, and the best treatment, and similarly, the will was also the strongest, even in the face of the Wei army, they were not afraid at all!