Anseong.

Wei Yan stood at the head of the city, stroking a huge stone thrower on the city wall.

Ma Chao captured Chang'an that year, and later Cao Cao repelled Ma Chao, but he was worried that Ma Chao would attack Chang'an again, so he deliberately set up a lot of city defense equipment in Chang'an. When Xiahou fled, he didn't have time to take these city-guarding weapons with him, and now these city-guarding weapons have fallen into Wei Yan's hands.

Bundles of sharp arrows were carried to the city wall, and stones the size of half a millstone were piled up at the base of the wall, and Wei Yan had a satisfied smile on his face. Xiahou fled, leaving not only countless arrows in Chang'an City, but also plenty of rolling wood and stones. Moreover, there is still a lot of grain and grass in Chang'an City, which is a great gift for Wei Yan. These logistical and heavy things are all considered to have been captured by themselves, but they will be counted in the war exploits after the war. Thinking of his exploits, the corners of Wei Yan's mouth curled slightly.

The two generals came over from a distance, and Wei Yan turned his head to look at them, these two were the two deputy generals under his command, Feng Xi and Zhang Nan.

Feng Xi and Zhang Nan were both generals from Jingzhou, who were originally Huang Zhong's deputy generals, and when Liu Bei entered Shu, he ordered Wei Yan and Huang Zhong to be the vanguard, and Feng Xi and Zhang Nan followed Huang Zhong at that time. Now that Liu Bei was on the Northern Expedition, he was worried that Wei Yan would not have enough manpower to go to the Meridian Valley, so he transferred Feng Xi and Zhang Nan to Wei Yan.

Feng Xi came to Wei Yan and said, "General Hui, as the general expected, Cao Zhen's army has indeed returned, and now it is less than twenty miles away from Chang'an City. ”

"The gates can be closed"

"The last general has ordered the gates to be closed." Zhang Nankou said.

Wei Yan nodded: "If I am not bad, we only need to hold on for three days, and Your Majesty's army will arrive, and then Cao Zhen will inevitably retreat to Tongguan." It's a pity that we are now undermanpower to defend Chang'an, and there is still a slight shortage, if I have 10,000 people in my hands, I only need to send 3,000 people to ambush near Tongguan, and when Cao Zhen's army withdraws there, I will definitely let that Cao Zhen take off a layer of skin! ”

Said here. Wei Yan shook his head slightly regretfully and then said, "Order the soldiers to rest quickly." I'm afraid there will be a tough battle ahead! ”

"Rest?" Xi and Zhang Nan looked at Wei Yan in confusion. Then he asked, "General Cao Zhen is less than twenty miles away from Chang'an. It takes more than an hour to reach Chang'an City. How can I rest now? ”

"Rest assured. Cao Zhen would not have attacked before tomorrow. As soon as Cao Zhen heard that Chang'an was lost, he came day and night. Waited until the city of Chang'an. The soldiers were already tired. Unable to fight again. Therefore, Cao Zhen will definitely order his soldiers to rest for half a day. Siege again; Second, Cao Zhen was originally the leader of the troops to defend Yongzhou, and it was naturally impossible for the army to carry siege weapons. The walls of Chang'an City are tall and strong, with siege equipment. How did he Cao Zhen attack this Chang'an City. Therefore, it is possible to let the brothers take a rest first to conserve their strength. When Cao Zhen attacked the city, it must be day and night. That's when we will be truly tested! ”

Listened to Wei Yandi's words. Feng Xi and Zhang Nan suddenly realized. Immediately arrange for the soldiers to start resting.

……

Cao Zhen's army.

"Dudu, fifteen miles ahead is Chang'an City!"

Cao Zhen nodded, and then said: "Hurry up, set up camp under Chang'an City again, it's noon now, rest for half a day today, and then attack the city tomorrow morning!" ”

"Don't do it!" Sima Yi next to him immediately walked over and said to stop: "The governor must not camp and rest, and when he arrives in Chang'an City, he will attack the city immediately." ”

"Zhongda, I know you are anxious to recapture Chang'an. But you see, we rushed to Chang'an day and night, and the soldiers were tired, and if we attacked the city directly, it would be difficult to succeed. Moreover, the walls of Chang'an City are tall, and we did not bring ladders to crash cars and other things, so we rushed out of the ladder crash overnight when the soldiers were resting, and we could directly attack the city early tomorrow morning. Cao Zhen opened his mouth to explain.

"Dudu, I know what you said, that Wei Yan has been on the battlefield for a long time and is wise, and he must be able to think of this. Wei Yan thinks that we will rest first after we arrive in Chang'an, so our defense in Chang'an City will also be relaxed, and we can take advantage of this to raid Chang'an City. As for the ladder crash, you don't need to prepare for it, you just need to pick up dozens of long ladders and be able to climb the city wall. Sima Yi said.

Cao Zhen nodded when he heard this, then frowned and thought about it, and began to weigh the pros and cons.

Seeing that Cao Zhen was still hesitating, Sima Yi then persuaded: "Dudu, the road in the Meridian Valley is difficult to walk, and it is not conducive to the walking of the army. Then Wei Yan came all the way from the Meridian Valley, and the soldiers and horses he brought with him would not exceed 5,000, and we had 100,000 people, as long as we could climb the city tower, even if it was worth exchanging three people for one person. Chang'an City is related to this victory or defeat, Chang'an City is in, we can still hold Chang'an, Chang'an is in, then Yongzhou will not be lost, but if Chang'an is lost, we can only withdraw to Tongguan and let Yongzhou out. ”

Hearing the words "let out Yongzhou", a cold light appeared in Cao Zhen's eyes, and he was obviously stimulated by Sima Yi's sentence. Thinking about it, Wei Yan dared to take a risk and led a few thousand people to raid Chang'an, so why didn't he dare to take a risk to recapture Chang'an? Thinking of this, Cao Zhen shook his teeth and said, "Okay, just according to what Zhongda said." ”

……

In the city, Commander Ma Zhong was looking at the Cao army camp in the distance.

This Ma Zhong is not the Ma Zhong who kidnapped Adou in Dongwu.

Now Ma Zhongke, who is standing on the wall of Chang'an, is an authentic general in Shuzhong.

Ma Zhongzi Dexin, a native of Bazhong, was born as a scholar and was once held up as filial piety. Liu Bei's Northern Expedition, the Brazilian Taishou Yan Zhi recruited 5,000 Bazhong disciples to help in the war. Because Wei Yan was going to take the Meridian Valley to raid Chang'an, Liu Bei selected some people who were proficient in mountain warfare from among the five thousand Bazhong disciples and put them in Wei Yan's army, and Ma Zhong happened to be transferred. So Ma Zhong became a small lieutenant under Wei Yan.

Ma Zhong looked at Cao Ying from a distance, and saw that Cao Ying was crowded with people, dusty, and looked very chaotic. From time to time, a few horsemen came to Chang'an City, and after some investigation, they turned back and went back.

Ma Zhong frowned, the Cao army camp in front of him looked a little weird.

Ma Zhong knew that Cao Zhen had been on the battlefield for a long time and was one of the best generals in Cao's camp, so he should not even make such a mess of 100,000 people camped.

"There is something wrong with the situation, Cao Zhen shouldn't be able to do this little thing, 100,000 people can command like this, where is this worthy of the reputation of Cao Jun's general!" Ma Zhong muttered to himself.

Suddenly, Ma Zhong found that the dust location of Cao Jun's camp was concentrated close to Chang'an City, as if a large group of men and horses were gathering in the direction of Chang'an City. It doesn't seem to be a camp at all, but rather like a pre-war set

After Cao Zhen had 100,000 people camped in the camp, the whole camp stretched for several miles, and Ma Zhong stood on a high place, looking at everything within a circle of miles, although Cao Zhen's camp was far away from Chang'an City, Ma Zhong couldn't see it really, but this camp that covers several miles has more dust and less dust, Ma Zhong can still distinguish it.

"It's not good, I'm afraid the Cao army will attack the city!" Ma Zhong had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and then hurriedly said to the junior colonel beside him: "Go and tell the general immediately that the Cao army is going to attack the city!" ”

At this time, Wei Yan was lying on the couch with his eyes closed, and he was asleep.

"General! Wake up! Zhang Nan's voice came from the outside, and he woke up and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"General, the guards patrolling the city wall will report that Cao's army is about to attack the city." Zhang Nan said.

"How did they come so quickly, did they not stop?" Wei Yanmeng sat up from the step, took the armor and put it on his body, and at the same time said, "Immediately follow me to mobilize people." Go to the city walls and defend the city! ”

As soon as the horn of the assembly began, the Shu troops who had been resting woke up from their dreams one after another and began to put on them.

Wei Yan had already come to the barracks in person, and the soldiers were gathered as soon as possible.

At this moment, the sound of war drums and shouts came from outside Chang'an.

"It's not good, Cao's army is really attacking the city.

Wei Yan looked at the soldiers under his command who were coming out of the battalion, but only a few and a half of them came out.

"Zhang Nanxi!" Wei Yan shouted.

"The last general!" Zhang Nan and Feng Xi immediately ran over.

"Gather your men and horses very quickly and go to the city wall to support, I will go to the city wall to resist for a while!"

……

Dozens of carts quickly rushed towards the moat of Chang'an City. It was winter, and the amount of water in the moat was relatively small, so several truckloads of sand and gravel were thrown into the moat, and it didn't take long for a road to float in the moat that could be passed through.

"Shoot me an arrow!" Ma Zhong shouted in the city, and at the same time personally bent his bow and arrows, shooting at a Cao army who rushed to the front, and the soldiers behind Ma Zhong also shot their bows and arrows at the city. Sharp arrows flew into the crowd of people charging below, and almost every arrow was able to hit the enemy.

However, the number of Shu troops in the city was too small, and most of the Shu troops were resting, so the bows and arrows of the Shu army could not pose much threat to the Cao army at this time. For the total number of 100,000 people in Cao's army, the people who were shot down were nothing at all.

"Give it to me!" Wang Shuang shouted, and dozens of improvised long ladders leaned against the city wall, and then the soldiers climbed up the ladder with knives in their mouths.

Seeing Cao Jun start to climb the city wall, Ma Zhong gritted his teeth fiercely. If it weren't for the fact that there were too few people on the city wall now, it would not be enough to control the city defense equipment on the city, and these Cao troops would not be able to approach the city wall so easily. Now that the Cao army has approached the city wall, it is still necessary to deal with the enemies under the city first, and try to block the Cao army and prevent them from climbing the city tower.

"Throw the logs down!" Ma Zhong gave an order, and the Shu army, which was not very numerous in the city, did not care about releasing arrows, so they threw down the bows and arrows in their hands one after another, and instead lifted the rolling logs and threw them towards the city. Since the ladders of the Shu army were all built temporarily, when the rolling wood was smashed down, the ladder that was hit was immediately broken into two sections, and the Cao army who was climbing above immediately fell down and smashed into the crowd below.

However, it is a pity that there are still too few Shu troops in the city, which is not enough to completely block the Cao army who is climbing the city wall, and finally, a Cao army has climbed the city wall.

And at this time, the successive Shu armies have also supported the city wall.

Ma Zhong drew his blade and rushed towards the Cao Jun who had just climbed the tower, and then raised his knife and slashed to death the Cao Jun who had just climbed the tower, but the continuous Cao army continued to climb up.

Ma Zhong secretly looked back, and now the reinforcements had already begun to rush up. Ma Zhong shocked Ma Zhong's heart, it seems that his previous report to Wei Yan in advance still had an obvious effect, and now the Shu army has fully reacted.

On the battlefield, he was most frightened, and at the moment when Ma Zhong turned around, the big man rushed over.

"Wang Shuang is here, take his life!" The big man shouted and rushed towards Ma Zhong. Ma Zhong hurriedly turned around when he heard the voice, at this time Wang Shuang had already rushed down Ma Zhong's approach, and the knife had already slashed at Ma Zhong, Ma Zhong hurriedly raised his knife to resist Although he blocked Wang Shuang's blow, he had already fallen into his hand.

Wang Shuangli slashed down a few times, Ma Zhong already felt that he was difficult to resist, and under Wang Shuang's attack, Ma Zhong kept retreating.

Suddenly, Zhong accidentally stepped on a corpse behind him, Ma Zhong's body suddenly lost his balance, and then sat down on the ground, where would Wang Shuang let go of this good opportunity, I saw Wang Shuang holding a knife in both hands and slashing at Ma Zhong.

"I'm dying!" Ma Zhong was so frightened that he closed his eyes and only heard the sound of "" reaching Ma Zhong's ears.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Shuang's voice reached Ma Zhong's ears: "Come and put whoever is named, the king will not kill the nameless person under his hands!" ”

"Hmph, Yiyang Wei Yan is also!" Another business came, and Ma Zhong opened his eyes in surprise to find that Wei Yan was already in the way.

Under the city, Cao Zhen was commanding his soldiers to attack Chang'an.

At this time, Cao Zhen was full of admiration for Sima Yi, as Sima Yi expected, the Shu army did not prepare for its immediate attack on the city, and only a few soldiers were left on the city wall, so under the command of Cao Zhen, the Cao army quickly climbed the city wall.

Everything is according to Cao Zhen's plan, next to stabilize the real position of the city wall, and then strive to capture the city gate, as long as the city gate is opened, the 100,000 troops under his command will flock in, and this Chang'an City will be recaptured.

Next to him, Sima Yi looked at the soldiers who were fighting fiercely on the wall of Chang'an City in the distance, but his brows became more and more wrinkled, and after a while, Sima Yi spoke: "Dudu, the Shu army's reaction speed is much faster than we expected, according to normal circumstances, General Wang Shuang should have stabilized the position on the city wall now, but now General Wang Shuang seems to have not taken the city wall."

Cao Zhen nodded and shouted loudly: "Immediately beat the drum three links to help morale." ”

……

The sound of Cao Jun's drums came, urging Cao Jun to attack as soon as possible, but Wang Shuang on the city wall heard this drum, but he could only do it in a hurry, and Wang Shuang had fallen into a bitter battle at this time.

Wang Shuang's characteristics are that he is powerful, and he can use a secret weapon like a meteor hammer, and when it comes to martial arts, Wang Shuang has not been instructed by a famous teacher, so Wang Shuang can only be regarded as middle and upper in moves. It's okay to deal with ordinary generals, but it's not good to deal with those first-class generals who rely on fine moves to fight the enemy.

Wei

Shuang, he does not suffer in strength, but Wei Yan is stronger than Wang Shuang in moves: double against Wei Yan, suffering losses everywhere and being controlled everywhere. Although it is difficult to lose in a short period of time, it has fallen behind.

"General, we're here to help you!" Feng Xi's voice came, and then he saw Feng Xi and Zhang Nan draw their blades at the same time and pounce on Wang Shuang.

Wang Shuang was not Wei Yan's opponent in the first place, but now with the addition of Feng Xi and Zhang Nan, Wang Shuang's pressure has increased greatly, and Wang Shuang has no choice but to lean north against the city wall, trying to keep facing the enemy head-on as much as possible to prevent someone from sneaking up behind.

The Shu army continued to support it, the place on the city wall was narrow, and both sides were short-handed, and the battle situation was tragic and abnormal.

However, after Cao Jun arrived in Chang'an, he did not rest, but immediately attacked the city, so Cao Jun's physical strength was already insufficient, at this time Cao Jun was only enough to attack the city with a sharp spirit, as time went by, Cao Jun's sharp spirit gradually passed away, and Cao Jun already felt physically exhausted.

"Click!" A crisp voice appeared, which was quickly drowned out by the soldiers' shouts of killing, and no one noticed the sound.

The next moment, a stand on the city suddenly broke, and the soldiers who were climbing the wall on it immediately fell.

Cao Zhen looked at this scene from a distance, his brows furrowed, he didn't roll the wood and fell on this ladder just now, why did this long ladder break by itself. Moments later, the second ladder also broke apart.

"Hey......" Sima Yi sighed, and then said: "Du, this long ladder was built temporarily, so it is not strong, and it is normal for one or two to break suddenly." ”

Cao Zhen nodded, but a trace of uneasiness rose in his heart.

On the city wall, Wang Shuang was already desperately trying to recruit all the ways in which they were all killed. Wei Yan and the others naturally would not exchange lives with Wang Shuang, so in a short period of time, Wei Yan would not be able to kill Wang Shuang.

"Feng Xi, Nan, this Wang Shuang has been handed over to us to support other places, and attack those long ladders first!" Wei Yan shouted at Feng Xi and Zhang Nan.

At this time, Wei Yan was still very sober, Wei Yan had already noticed that the long ladders that Cao Jun used to attack the city were all made improvised, far less solid than ordinary ladders, and there were not many of them, as long as they could break these long ladders, Cao Jun would not be able to climb the city wall.

Zhang Nan and Feng Xi immediately obeyed Wei Yan's orders and turned to attack the long ladders that carried the city.

As time passed, Cao Jun's shortcomings of physical exhaustion finally became apparent. In the narrow space on the city wall, the advantage of Cao's numbers could not be brought into play, and in the battle of the same number, Cao's army fell behind because of its physical strength, and the balance of victory gradually tilted towards the side of the Shu army.

"Governor, we can't beat it down, let's retreat!" Sima Yi sighed and said to Cao Zhen.

"After a little more fighting, maybe we'll be able to come down soon." Cao Zhen gritted his teeth and said.

"The governors and soldiers are already tired, and it will be a waste of troops to fight any longer. It's hard to make a difference! Moreover, these siege ladders are all made of improvised ones, which are not as strong and durable as the ladders, and it is difficult to support long-term battles. ”

As Sima Yi's words ended, the long ladder also broke apart cooperatively.

Seeing this scene, Cao Zhen could only accept the reality very helplessly, only to see Cao Zhen shake his teeth hatefully, and said: "Mingjin withdraws the troops!" ”

Cao Zhenming Jin withdrew his troops, and the Cao army in the city immediately retreated slowly. It is easier to go down the city than to climb the city, you need to go up step by step when you climb the city, and when you go down the city, you only need to hold on to the long ladder to slide down, so in the blink of an eye, the Cao army on the city retreated towards the city.

Wang Shuangyi slashed Wei Yan away, and then turned over and jumped directly towards the city. When Wei Yan saw Wang Shuang jumping down, his heart was shocked, the city wall of Chang'an City is not short, and if he jumps, he will definitely fall to his death. And this Wang Shuang jumped down like this, isn't he afraid of falling to his death?

Wei Yan looked towards the city with his hands, and saw that more than three zhang from the ground, the knife in Wang's hands had been inserted into the cracks in the stones of the city wall, and Wang's hands were holding the knife in both hands, and it was hanging in mid-air.

"This Wang Shuang is so powerful, the knife can be inserted into the crack of the stone." Wei Yan sighed lightly, and then turned to attack the other Cao troops who were still on the city wall.

Looking at the slowly withdrawing Cao army, Sima Yi took a slight breath and said softly: "I didn't expect Wei Yan to support so quickly, if Wei Yan was a little slow for a quarter of an hour, maybe we would have completely occupied the city wall by now." ”

……

The Great War ended.

The Shu army threw the corpse of Cao Jun who died on the city wall to the city, and after a while, the Cao army sent out more than a dozen people to collect the corpses of their companions.

Wei Yan wiped the blood stains on his face, and looked at the city, the Cao army had already died down, and bursts of cooking smoke rose in the Cao army's camp in the distance.

Wei Yan secretly screamed in his heart: "It's so dangerous, I'm careless, if it's a cup of tea at night, this city wall may not be able to hold it." ”

At this time, Feng Xi took Ma Zhong to Wei Yan, Feng Xi pointed at Ma Zhong and said, "General, the guard who was in the city just now is him." ”

Wei Yan smiled and nodded at Ma Zhong: "You did a good job, thanks to you discovering Cao Jun's movements in advance, otherwise this Chang'an City might not be able to hold it today." By the way, what's your name? ”

"The last general's name is Ma Zhong, and he is from Padang." Ma Zhong replied.

"Ma Zhong......" Wei Yan nodded: "Well done!" In this battle, Ma Zhong should be the first to remember. ”

The raid failed, and Cao Zhen had no choice but to honestly set up camp and let the soldiers rest, and at the same time began to make siege weapons such as ladders overnight, preparing for a large-scale siege of the city.

And this time, Wei Yan did not give Cao Zhen a chance, the soldiers were on standby for twelve hours, and the defenders of the city were constantly patrolling.

Xiahou's defensive weapons in Chang'an City helped Wei Yan a lot, and when the number of people was sufficient, whether it was a stone thrower or a large piece of rolling wood stone, it would cause great damage to Cao Jun's siege weapons, and the arrows accumulated in the city also became Cao Jun's life-saving talisman. Although Cao's army was outnumbered, they did not build enough siege weapons in a hurry, which made the siege progress very unsmooth.

Cao Zhen brought troops to Yongzhou, originally to resist Liu Bei, naturally it was impossible to carry siege weapons, and the number of temporary manufacturing was not enough for 100,000 troops to attack the city, without siege weapons, even if there were more people in his hands, Cao Zhen could only look at the tall wall of Chang'an City and sigh.

Three days later, Liu Bei also led the main force of the Shu army to Chang'an.