"Report ~~~ Former general, Chang'an flying pigeon sent by Huayin City."

"Oh? I'll see, oops, okay! ”

"Former general, what's the good news?"

"Ladies and gentlemen, on the eighth day of October, Da Sima led an army to raid Jinyang City, fell into the city in a battle, and captured the prince of Taiyuan, a thief of Jin. Moreover, because General Zuo (Zhao Yi) infiltrated the city in advance and guarded the grain depot, our army also got 300,000 stone of grain in Jinyang City! ”

Due to the limited load of carrier pigeons, many things can only be said in a nutshell. In fact, the battle situation that day, at least on Zhao Yi's way, was far less easy than Zhang Zun said: after the Han army attacked the city, Sima Hao immediately realized that Jinyang could not hold it, and then he did not organize troops to grab the city wall at all, but concentrated the main force in the city to burn the grain depot. Zhao Yi led more than 1,000 people and Sima Hao's more than 2,000 people only fought for most of the hour, and the casualty rate of both sides exceeded 30%. Fortunately, Guan Yi entered the city quickly, otherwise Zhao Yi might have died in Jinyang City.

"Oops! Congratulations to the Great Sima! Congratulations to General Zuo! ”

"Hahahaha~~ It's a pity that my brother gave a strict order that you must not drink alcohol during the confrontation in front of the enemy, otherwise you will have to drink enough of the burning knife tonight."

"Former general, don't be like this, Da Sima's military law is strict, if you commit it, I'm afraid it will damage the brotherhood."

"Hehe, change it, don't be nervous, I don't mean to drink. However, since the elder brother has taken Jinyang, it is likely that the Jin thieves will mobilize heavy troops to merge the state. In order to share the pressure on him, I can't say it, it's going to be real. ”

"Really? Former general, you mean you were joking around the other day? ”

"Not really, but in preparation for the attack that began today. Well, to put it into words, how have the casualties of our army been in the past few months? ”

"The cumulative loss of nearly 2,000 people before and after."

"These are all sacrifices that have to be paid in order to win Tongguan."

"You? Do you really want to win Tongguan? ”

"Of course. Change, in terms of power and strategy, I am far worse than you. But you have too many things to do all day long, where can I compare to the only thing I have been thinking about for more than three years is how to break Tongguan. So, if you think about it for a long time, you will naturally have a way. ”

"Oh? Okay, I'll see! ”

This day was October 25, five months after Zhang Zun led his army to attack Tongguan.

On the morning of this day, Ji Hanfang once again launched ten freshly laid trebuchets in the direction of Tongguan.

"Hahaha~~ The Shu thief came to die again! Come on, push closer, grandpa will destroy you in a while. ”

Because of the height difference, Ji Han's trebuchet suffered in range. So after a few months, Ji Han lost almost ten trebuchets every day. Fortunately, there are many towering trees in the vicinity of Qinling. Otherwise, Zhang Zun wouldn't even be able to build a trebuchet.

But on this day, the trebuchet unit of the Han army stopped when it was still a certain distance from the maximum range of the trebuchet of the Tongguan Chenglou.

"Come on! Closer! Why don't you go? It doesn't matter if Grandpa can't hit you, but your stone bullets can't reach the city wall! Hahaha~~~"

"Hmph~!" On this day, it was Zhang Zun himself who led this trebuchet team. After lining up outside the opponent's maximum range, Ji Han's soldiers, under Zhang Zun's instructions, tore open bags of cloth bags and poured countless powders out of them. Then the other guards took the sand and water from the banks of the Yellow River and quickly mixed the three things together.

After these three things were fully mixed into a paste, Zhang Zun gave an order, and the soldiers packed the paste-like and uncondensed cement into super-large and ultra-thin clay pots, and then put them into the cannons of the trebuchet.

"Governor, join the army! The front-line Shu thieves attacked the city again. ”

"Oh." After unhurriedly putting a chess piece on the chessboard, Malone raised his eyebrows: "What?" Is there anything different today? ”

Before the herald could speak, Wang Tao laughed: "Could it be that the Shu thieves really failed to attack the city?" ”

"If you go back to join the army, this is not true, it's just that the thing that the Shu thief projected today is a bit strange."

"Oh?" At the same time as Malone spoke, he had already gotten up and put on his clothes: "Go to the city!" ”

After stepping a few steps onto the city wall, I watched the Han army throw the clay pot far away, and the clay pot was of course shattered after it landed. But the slimy liquid inside the clay pot made Malone frown.

"Governor, join the army, the trebuchet of the Shu thieves is far away from us, so the clay pot they threw cannot reach the city wall. But the mushy liquid that came out of the clay pot after it was broken began to solidify after about a quarter of an hour, and then ......"

"Hey! Cement! Cement! That's what the name means! ”

Ji Hanjun has been stationed under Tongguan City for more than five months. For five months, every day Zhang Zun sent ten trebuchets to his death. In addition to the shattering of the trebuchet, it is inevitable that a few unlucky people will be killed by the stone projectiles dropped by the Jin army, and they have lost 2,000 people in five months. Although thousands of stone bullets were smashed out before and after, such behavior was not only ridiculed unscrupulously by the Jin army, but also complained about it within the Han army, which had strict military discipline. The soldiers who think that General Zhang has nothing to do with the lives of our little soldiers are actually very many.

But today, all of this finally shows that Zhang Lingxing is not a fool!

In the past five months, each trebuchet of the Han army was generally able to project an average of two stone projectiles per day, and the time was a little longer, and the Jin army's trebuchet with a modified trajectory would smash the Han army's trebuchet. But you won't be able to withstand this bombardment long enough.

For more than five months, the Han army initially projected round standard stone projectiles, and after more than a month, they were replaced by a square with clear water chestnut angles. At that time, the Jin army was still laughing at the Han army: I told you not to come to send you to death, you want it, now it's okay, right? Even the stone bullets didn't have time to polish. How can such a boxy thing be thrown far in the air? You can't even touch the walls.

As a result, after more than five months, more than 3,000 stone bullets slowly accumulated under the city of Tongguan, and the ten-meter-high city wall of Tongguan was buried alive as much as five meters.

Malone didn't fail to consider whether the enemy would rely on the accumulation of too many stone bullets to kill the city wall, and whether the enemy would rely on the stacked stone bullets to kill it. But after a little thought, there is no concern: these stone bullets are piled up here, and the gaps between them are of different sizes, and it doesn't hurt if one or two people walk through this stone pile, but tens of thousands of people climb up from this stone pile? When the time comes, as soon as the stone mill collapses, the people who come up don't need to be killed by the Jin army, they are all buried alive!

But now, before the cement was dry, it was hit on the stone mill, and most of it continued to flow down the cracks of the stone mill. And a small amount of cement, which did not flow to the lower layer of the stone mill, slowly dried, but reminded Ma Long all the time: Look, your grandfather Zhang was really stupid some time ago? That's setting the stage for today!

"The former general is really talented! After five months, the enemy's city gate has long been blocked by our stone bullets, even if Ma Xiaoxing figured out the key at this time, he couldn't do anything! ”

"Hey, hey, hey, change it, I'm not bad at it, right? It's just a bit time-consuming and labor-intensive. In the first few months, I was actually laying the foundation! ”

"It's really an excellent way, but, I've heard that there are four city walls before and after this Tongguan?"

"Hahahaha, don't worry about changing it. Tongguan does have four city walls. But only the first three are used to guard against the direction of Guanzhong, and the last one is to guard against the direction of Luoyang. The distance between the three front walls is only 80 zhang. At this distance, the lethality of the bow and arrow is close to none. However, the siege is mainly carried out by trebuchets now......"

"So, as long as our army takes the first city wall, the next two city walls will be much less difficult to capture?"

"Yes, this is the stupid method I came up with for more than three years in Huayin Town. Let the change smile. ”

"Where, in the face of a general like Ma Xiaoxing, it is already amazing to be able to effectively threaten Tongguan! Lingxing, you are really a person with a ravine, as Da Sima said. ”

"Hehe, even though this cement fills the gaps, it will take at least another month. Moreover, we only have more than 27,000 soldiers here, and even if we fill the cement to the highest part of the Tongguan city wall, we will have to attack from the bottom to the top. It can be said that Tongguan has only received a threat, but there is still no real danger of falling. However, Ma Xiaoxing may be very calm, but the emperor in Luoyang will not be calm. I heard that some time ago, we smashed out a few cracks in the wall of Tongguan, and he recalled 20,000 people from Bingzhou. And this time? Does he dare to send more troops to attack my brother? ”