The seven-day period has passed, and the entire Nanzheng has made preparations for a fierce war, but the imaginary attack has not come.

"Shijun, then Liu Bei sent a team of men and horses to attack Chenggu!" The person in charge of investigating Liu Beijun's movements came to report, but the result made Zhang Lu a little difficult.

Chenggu is about sixty miles away from Nanzheng, and Liu Bei does not fight Nanzheng now, but begins to attack Chenggu, obviously to isolate Nanzheng, induce Zhang Lu to send troops, and transform the battlefield from siege warfare to field warfare.

Zhang Lu is a little difficult, although Chenggu is not as weak as Chuyang, but it is not a strong city, and the most important thing is that if Chenggu is lost, the connection between Shangyong, Xixian, and Fangling counties and Nanzheng will be severed.

To save or not to save? Is this a problem, or a big problem.

If you don't save it, it is equivalent to giving up the three counties of Shangyong, if you save it, send troops out of the city, you have to fight head-on with Liu Bei's army, and now Nanyang's troops are not as good as Liu Bei (Zhang Lu thinks so), if it is intercepted by the enemy and annihilated, then Nanzheng don't want to protect!

Zhang Lu looked at the civil and military under the tent with bloodshot eyes, and muttered, "What do you think? ”

Cao Cao's messenger had just set off, and the letter had not yet arrived, not to mention that Cao Cao gave an order to send troops to rescue him, and it would take at least two or three months......

"Lord, the last general is willing to lead 3,000 men and horses to gallop to Chenggu!" Yang Ren gritted his teeth and took a step forward and bowed.

Three thousand men and horses, Yang Ren carefully estimated, will not affect the defense of Nanzheng, and although the Chenggu city is not as strong as Nanzheng, but it is much stronger than that of Weiyang, then Wei Yan can rely on more than 2,000 people to hold on to the small city of Weiyang for several days under the siege of his own army, and give him 3,000 men and horses to cooperate with the defenders of Chenggu, not necessarily unable to hold Chenggu.

Zhang Lu looked at Yang Ren, and then looked at the others, a little hesitant, there were not many people with three thousand, but now that Nanzheng was tight, Zhang Lu was a little reluctant to send troops out.

"Master!" Yang Song's eyes moved, and he took a step forward and bowed to Zhang Lu and said: "Although the danger of Chenggu is urgent, I think that there is another place that needs to be taken care of more than Chenggu!" ”

"Oh?" Zhang Lu frowned and said, "But where is it?" ”

"Yangping Pass!" Yang Song said in a deep voice: "General Yang Ang's army is about to rush back, if Liu Bei gets the news and leads the army to capture Yangping Pass and block General Yang Ang's army from the pass, then our army will have no help!" ”

Not only Yang Ang, if Liu Bei's army really captured Yangping Pass, even if Cao Cao sent troops to support, he could be blocked out of the pass.

Yan Pu glanced at Yang Song unexpectedly, nodded and said, "What Bo Nian said is good, there are only eight hundred defenders in Yangping Pass, which is indeed weaker. ”

Since he is ready to surrender Cao, Yangpingguan is his own back road, and there is no room for loss.

"Shijun, I am willing to lead hundreds of men and horses to Yangping Pass to meet General Yang Ang!" Yang Song said awe-inspiringly.

Yan Pu frowned and looked at Yang Song: "Bo Nian can't understand the military, how can he defend Yangping Pass?" ”

"Although I don't know anything about military affairs, the guards of Yangping can understand it, and I can guarantee that I will never interfere in military affairs." Yang Song smiled and said: "Besides, the purpose of this trip is to urge General Yang Ang to rush back as soon as possible, not to fight the enemy. ”

Although they are all surnamed Yang, in fact, the surname Yang is a big surname in Hanzhong at this time, including Yang Ren, more or less related to Yang Song, but it is already a very distant kind, and it may not be close to the first seven or eight generations.

Yan Pu still felt that something was wrong, but Yang Song smiled and said: "What's more, the last time he sent Liu Bei to the military camp, Brother Yan was discouraged, in this regard, he is still stronger than Brother Yan, General Zhang wants to defend Nanzheng, and now under the command of Shijun, except for me, no one can take on this responsibility!" ”

"You ......" Yan Pu looked at Yang Song angrily when he heard this, and scolded people without revealing his shortcomings, this Yang Song is which pot is not opened, last time he was indeed suppressed by the power of Guan Yu, but it was strange that Yang Song, who looked at the little courage on weekdays, was not very affected, which made Yan Pu a little strange.

"Enough!" Zhang Lu interrupted the two who were about to quarrel when they saw it, looked at Yang Song and said, "Then this matter will be handled by Bo Nian, and I will be in charge of you...... Eight hundred soldiers, once Yang Ang's army returned, he immediately ordered him to lead the army back to Nanzheng. ”

"Whoa!" Yang Song was secretly happy in his heart, glanced at Yan Pu with some pride, took the arrow handed by Zhang Lu, and bowed to retreat.

Yang Ren stepped forward and said, "Master, that thing is solid." ”

"Chenggu ......" Zhang Lu hesitated for a moment and said: "It is convenient for you two thousand soldiers, if you can save it, you will save it, if you can't, withdraw it immediately!" ”

"This ......" Yang Renyan's face was a little ugly when he heard this, two thousand men and horses, plus Chenggu's defenders were less than four thousand, Liu Bei's army was besieging, how could this be defended?

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Chenggu, Liu Bei sent not many troops to attack the city, only about 3,000 people, not much more than Chenggu's defenders, but the momentum was very large, siege vehicles, trebuchets, and ladders each pulled five, led by Guan Ping and ...... Liu Yi is a military advisor.

This time, Liu Yi took the initiative to ask for it, and he wanted to see how effective his siege equipment was.

"Sir, how should this city be fought?" Guan Ping sat on horseback, looked at the city in front of him, and asked.

"Figure it out yourself, you are the chief general of the three armies, you should have your own judgment, I came this time, called the military division, in fact, to see how effective my siege equipment is." Liu Yi glanced at Guan Ping with some amusement, patted him on the shoulder and said, "This is a rare opportunity, you have been fighting with the lord and General Guan for many years, but there are not many opportunities to lead the troops alone, take advantage of it." ”

Guan Ping's military literacy and ability are not bad, the difference is the lack of opportunities to be alone, Liu Yi doesn't dare to let him go alone now, but like this kind of small-scale war, Liu Yi feels that he should give some opportunities to young juniors like Guan Ping, it is rare that veterans such as Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are not there, just hone it.

Guan Ping nodded silently when he heard this, carefully recalled his past wars, first sent scouts to explore the surroundings of Chenggu, and set up sentry posts on various roads from Nanzheng to Chenggu to guard against the enemy troops sent from Nanzheng, and asked Liu Yi to set up a military camp outside Chenggu City.

"You, what you lack most now is self-confidence." Liu Yi, who was woken up, looked at Guan Ping helplessly: "From now on, you can decide big and small things by yourself, you don't need to ask me, understand?" ”

"Whoa!" Guan Ping bowed silently.

Liu Yi was speechless, how could he make himself the same as the chief general of the three armies, waved Guan Ping out, Liu Yi pulled the quilt and continued to sleep.

Early the next morning, news came from the rear that Yang Ren, the general of Hanzhong, led the army to help, but was defeated by Huang Zhong and Wei Yan and retreated to Nanzheng.

Guan Ping didn't ask Liu Yi this time, he directly waved his troops to start attacking the city, the ladder was designed according to the height of the Nanzheng city wall, this time to attack Chenggu, the rich ladder did not need to be pulled up, you can directly reach the Chenggu city wall, Liu Yi had no choice but to order someone to dismantle the auxiliary ladder first.

At the head of the city, the guard watched the behemoths move towards the city wall, and there were carriages under the ladder, and he could see that there were people hiding inside, and hurriedly ordered people to release arrows.

It's just that Liu Yi just left a lookout to check the enemy's situation in the carriage, and at this moment, the other party released arrows and directly closed the lookout, and all the arrows from the city wall were blocked, and the soldiers in charge of pushing the ladder in the rear were protected by a baffle, and the arrows could not be shot at all.

Further behind were rows of archers under the protection of shield soldiers, whose range was farther than the condescending of the city walls, and not long after the battle began, the archers of the defenders at the head of the city were completely suppressed.

The ladder approached the city wall under the cover of bows and arrows, and the soldiers in the ladder ran out of the carriage, and as soon as the ladder was fixed, they pounced on the city wall like a wolf, and at the same time, the catapult behind had also included the city wall into the firing range, and the soldiers on the ladder had not yet completely come out, and five stone bullets had been smashed towards the city wall with a piercing roar.

"Boom~"

Rubble was splashed, and the stone walls in many places were directly cracked, revealing the rammed earth inside.

Although Chenggu is not an earthen wall, only the outer layer of the city wall is built with bricks and stones, and the interior is filled with rammed earth.

The guard looked at the female wall that was directly smashed into the air with some confusion, and just now, he was about to be hit by the stone bullet that fell from the sky.

Look at the power, if this really smashes on people, it is estimated that there will not even be a whole corpse.

"General, I can't hold it!" The county lieutenant crawled to the general's side and said with a sad face.

Condescending, suppressed by the enemy's archers, those Liu Beijun soldiers who killed them were extremely fierce, this battle was just beginning, and they felt a little overwhelmed.

The guard came back to his senses, kicked the county lieutenant with some fear, and said, "Reinforcements?" ”

Long before the arrival of this Liu Beijun, he had already sent people to Nanzheng to ask for support, Nanzheng came here, if he marched in a hurry, he would be able to arrive in half a day, and he hadn't even seen a ghost so far, which made him quite anxious.

"No reinforcements in sight!" The county lieutenant said a little aggrieved.

The guard gritted his teeth: "Continue to defend, hold over today, if the reinforcements can't arrive tonight, open the city and surrender!" ”

As he spoke, the second round of stone bullets had been smashed down again, and the guard hurriedly hid in the rear, looking at the fierce battlefield, his heart convulsed a few times with hunger, and he even doubted that he could keep it until dark.

The war continued, in the afternoon, the siege vehicle was put into the battlefield, the city gate was almost smashed, the city head was lost several times, to the evening, Guan Ping finally collected the troops back to the camp, the guard counted the losses, at the end of the day, it lost nearly half of the people, but the reinforcements did not come, this battle ...... No way to fight!