The Western Shu army attacked Chang'an for the second time, but failed again.

At this time, Li Cunba hurriedly ordered someone to set up wine to celebrate Yubaoshan.

At the banquet, Li Cunba praised Jade Baoshan: "General Jade is so brave!" The sword slashed the helmet of Marshal De Yihai of Western Shu. Terrific! Terrific! ”

Yubaoshan hurriedly said, "Where, where." ”

Yubaoshan knew that Li Cunba was polite. If you want to say that Li Cunba can also slash the helmet of Marshal Xishu like me, he can do it. I have long heard that Li Cunba is brave and invincible, known as "Sai Zhang Fei". Why didn't Li Cunba? That's because he has few soldiers, and he wants to preserve his strength to defend Chang'an. People focus on the big picture. Fight with the Xishu army with your eyes closed? If you fight hard, you will hurt the soldiers, there are few soldiers, how can you defend the city when there are fewer soldiers?

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Let's talk about the Xishu camp.

Emperor Wang Yan of Xishu also asked people to set up a table for De Yihai.

Even if it's to shock De Yihai.

At the banquet, Wang Yan asked De Yihai: "De Yihai, what's going on?" I remember that when you attacked Chang'an yesterday, although you didn't achieve anything, you were still unharmed, what about today, why didn't you come back today? Why are you not as good as a day? ”

De Yihai said in his heart: Little rabbit, say so about me!

It's no wonder that De Yihai said this in his heart about Wang Yan. De Yihai is Wang Yan's uncle. Uncle said nephew, don't you say that?

However, De Yihai didn't say it.

De Yihai also knows the difference between monarchs and ministers.

De Yihai said: "The minister is incompetent. ”

Wang Yan said: "De Yihai, I remember that before we sent troops this time, what you said to me was that even if we can't get the whole world this time, we can get Qinchuan, and even if we can't get Qinchuan, we can at least get something from them." I remember what you said to me yesterday was that our men and horses could not attack the city because our men and horses were tired all the way, and our men and horses had a good night's rest, and they could almost take Chang'an City the next day. And today? Today you have given me two more words, incompetent. No, it's three words, the minister is incompetent. De Yihai, how can your courage not be as good as day by day? ”

De Yihai suddenly made Wang Yan speechless.

De Yihai said: "This ......? ”

De Yihai said in his heart: What can I say?

De Yihai thought about it.

De Yihai said: "Your Majesty, we didn't capture Chang'an City this time because Li Tang suddenly came to reinforcements. If Li Tang hadn't suddenly come to reinforcements, we would have been able to take Chang'an City this time. ”

Wang Yan said: "Don't say it's useless! I'm asking you now, what will we do in the future? Can we still get the whole world in the future, even if we can't get the whole world, we can get Qinchuan, even if we can't get Qinchuan, can we get some of them? Shall we roll up and go back immediately? ”

De Yihai thought about it, and De Yihai said: "The emperor is gracious." From the minister's point of view, we can't attack the city this time, also because of the lack of our ladder. ”

Wang Yan said, "What? What is our lack of ladders? ”

De Yihai said: "Yes." We don't have a lot of ladders. Although there are many of our people, not many of our people are attacking the city at the same time. Because we don't have that many ladders. ”

Wang Yan said: "What do you think? ”

De Yihai said: "In the opinion of the minister, let's build a cloud ladder now." The more ladders you make, the better. It's best to have one ladder for one of our 150,000 people. ”

Wang Yan said, "What? We have 150,000 people and one ladder per person? ”

De Yihai said: "Of course that's an exaggeration. The minister just means that the more ladders we have, the better. ”

Xishu is indeed like that. They don't have a lot of ladders. They had just come all the way from Xishu. It was inconvenient for them to carry too many things on the march, so they didn't bring many ladders.

Wang Yan said: "If that's the case, will we definitely be able to capture Chang'an City?" ”

De Yihai said: "I think it's about the same.

De Yihai said in his heart: What do you still ask me? If you hadn't let Hu Peng take away those 50,000 horses, we would have taken Chang'an City a long time ago!

De Yihai recognized it anyway: the reason why he couldn't take Chang'an City for a long time was because Hu Peng took away the 50,000 horses.

So, is it really because the Xishu army has been unable to take Chang'an City for a long time?

It's also hard to say. If you want to say that if you have more than 50,000 horses and horses to attack the city, they will definitely be able to take Chang'an City, and it can't be said so absolutely. However, with the 50,000 horses attacking the city, they have a better chance of taking Chang'an City, that's for sure.

Wang Yan said: "De Yihai, I remember that when I asked you yesterday why we couldn't attack the city, you told me that it was because our men and horses were tired all the way, and when I asked you why we couldn't attack the city today, you said it was because we had few ladders. In the end, what is the reason why our men and horses can't attack the city? ”

De Yihai said: "Yesterday, the minister said that the reason why we couldn't attack the city was because our men and horses were tired all the way, which is also true; Today, the minister said that the reason why we can't attack the city is because we have few ladders, which is also true. The reason why we have fewer ladders, why didn't the minister say it yesterday? It's because their reinforcements haven't arrived yesterday, they have fewer people, we have a few more people to attack the city, we have a few fewer people to attack the city, we have more ladders, we have fewer ladders, the problem is not very big, this problem has not yet come to the fore. Why did you mention it today? It's because they came to reinforce the army today, they have more people, if we have fewer people attacking the city, it will be difficult for us to attack the city, and the reason why we have fewer ladders is highlighted. ”

Wang Yan said: "In your opinion, let's not attack the city first, let's build a cloud ladder first?" ”

De Yihai said: "No. In the opinion of the ministers, we should still attack this city as we want, we will attack the city on the one hand, and we will build a ladder on the other. Anyway, we have a lot of people. Anyway, we have more people than them in two places."

Wang Yan said: "Why? ”

De Yihai said: "Of course there are benefits. Your Majesty, please think about it, if our men and horses suddenly stop attacking the city, he, Li Cunba, will definitely ask what we are doing? If he knew what we were doing, he would have thought of a countermeasure. Even if he is asked to think of countermeasures, they may not necessarily come up with anything, but if he comes up with something, won't he cause us trouble? If we keep attacking the city, he won't have time to think about anything else. We are attacking the city vigorously, and they just want to hold the city. Besides, as far as the minister knows, there are not many things in his Chang'an City to defend the city. In that case, we can also consume and consume their fortifications. As far as the minister knows, there are not many bows and arrows, rolling wood, thunder stones and other things in his Chang'an City. As soon as we attack the city, we can consume their defenses. When their fortified things are almost consumed, and our ladder is also built, at that time, we will be able to take Chang'an City almost as soon as we are ready to go. ”

Wang Yan said, "Okay. ”

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Since then, the Western Shu army has feinted to open Chang'an.

The so-called feint attack is a half-truth attack. If you want to say that he really attacked, he didn't attack so actively; If you want to say that he fakes attack, if you ignore them, they will attack too.

At the same time, the men and horses of Xishu are also building cloud ladders.

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The people and horses of Xishu built a cloud ladder, and some people were unlucky. You need wood to build a ladder. When they saw a tree, they cut it down whoever it was. Even some of the houses of the common people have been demolished. Demolished the house, so that wood could be used.

Some people reasoned with them, and they said that it was the emperor's will. They said that the emperor made them do this.

The common people scolded: What emperor? "Phew!"

And no wonder. This is the ground of Li Tang, the emperor of the family is Li Cunqiao, you Wang Yan came here to preach the holy decree, can people not "bah"?

Anyway, if you have wood, you'll be fine!

Soon, the ladder in Xishu was built.

At this time, Li Tang's two reinforcements had not yet arrived.

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On this day, the Western Shu army attacked the city again.

The Xishu army has more cloud ladders, which really work. There were many people attacking the city, and Li Cunba was really a little overwhelmed.

De Yihai smiled again.

At this time, De Yihai saw that some of his soldiers had already attacked the city.

However, as soon as De Yihai's laughter fell, someone suddenly came to report: "Report!" Li Tang's reinforcements have arrived, and they are killing in our direction with great momentum! ”

De Yihai was shocked at the time.

De Yihai said in his heart: Could it be that I attacked Chang'an three times and was in trouble again?