With a heavy heart, Sima Yi led an army of 20,000 and set off towards Chang'an. Vertex updates are the fastest

The news that Cao Pi was going to attack Hanzhong and Chengdu in multiple ways soon reached the ears of Ge Liang, Wei Yan and others, and they were not worried, but immediately became excited.

Wei Yan was excited because according to Ge Liang's previous letter, if the enemy made another big move, it would really be his turn to lead the army to attack alone.

Ge Liang was actually both excited and nervous. What is nervous is that I didn't expect the enemy to come so quickly, and the time for the official surrender of Longxi, Jincheng and other counties may have to be delayed; Excitedly, the enemy took the initiative to come again, and the battlefield was decided by himself again, and I believe that if this time is successful, the opportunity to seize Guanzhong will come in advance.

Yesterday's news came that the 5,000 men and horses led by Gao Xiang had withdrawn from Chencang Road and rushed to Tianshui, and it was expected that they would arrive at the Qishan camp tomorrow.

In the first battle of Longyou, their own losses were also thousands, although they surrendered a lot of Wei troops, but after all, they were newly surrendered, and the people's hearts were difficult to decide, so it was okay to stay in the rear and guard the camp, so it was too early for them to rush to the front.

Only by fighting another beautiful battle and making them completely believe that the world will be obtained by Liu Bei sooner or later, they will follow with all their hearts!

And those Hu people such as Qiang and Di who responded from all over the country, although they gathered a lot of knights, lacked training, and were easily scattered by the regular army and disorganized themselves, which could only play the role of icing on the cake when the momentum of breaking the enemy was formed.

What really needs to be used to fight a tough battle is to rely on our own well-trained army.

What is taking advantage of the emptiness of Hanzhong and Chengdu to sneak attack our rear, that's all!

Even if they really sent some people from various mountain roads to Hanzhong, it was purely to burn the plank road, follow Cao Zhen to learn to sabotage, and prevent Hanzhong from sending troops to attack Chang'an again.

His own Longyou burned his eyebrows, and if he had the troops to climb the mountains and travel in danger to fight Hanzhong for a long time, it was better to concentrate his troops earlier and recover Longyou to gather people's hearts.

In that place in Hanzhong, Cao Cao couldn't even look down on it!

And in Longyou, taking advantage of this time, he was fully prepared.

I heard that Sima Yi was going to be sent? Haha, this is really Zhuge Liang's old rival, if I don't come again, I will feel sorry.

crossed into Zhuge Liang, and naturally he had to defeat the biggest enemy in this life for him, so that he would not cross in vain.

Isn't it just to defend according to the danger, wait for the enemy to run out of food, and automatically retreat? I'll tell you, although we haven't been able to create the legendary artifact of the Wooden Ox and Flowing Horse, I now have enough military rations for half a year.

Moreover, we simply did not spend a lot of manpower and material resources to transport grain from Hanzhong and Chengdu.

Because, we brought a lot of money, and a lot of Shu brocade.

Now I have issued a wartime grain requisition order, and I have dispatched double the price to purchase surplus grain and beef and mutton from all over the country!

Although it is more expensive, it is more than double the cost of long-distance grain transportation, and it can also win people's hearts at the same time.

Many local people originally had the heart to Liu Bei and Ma Chao, but now they can even make a small profit, which naturally makes the surplus grain in Longshang counties rush to Jicheng like a tide.

Now, on the contrary, you Sima Yi are going to transport grain for a long distance, even if you send Guo Huai Enwei and force each other, you can't grab excess grain from the local people's homes.

When he received that Sima Yi had led the army out of Chang'an to approach Luoyang, Ge Liang held back his joy and decided to give Cao Zhen some real confidence.

After Cao Zhen sent Cao Xiu away, he was attacked by the Shu army many times, but he kept Cao Xiu's words in mind, don't underestimate these enemies, stick to the city, and don't attack easily.

Although there were more defenders in the city, he stayed in the city honestly, and when he saw the enemy coming, he rushed under the city wall, and as soon as he made contact, the tide receded like a tide.

According to the reports of several sergeants who escaped from Jicheng and were fortunate enough to escape through the enemy's blockade line, although the enemy was strong in combat, his number was not large, and he was reluctant to die, and the siege of the city was carried out by catapults.

Cao Zhen still knows more clearly about catapults, because Cao Cao once boasted in front of them.

He knew that the thing was powerful, but it was too bulky, so Cao Cao used it a few times, and after breaking Yuan Shao's high-rise arrow rain, he didn't use it again.

He decided to wait for the enemy to attack the city with catapults, and then attack with all his might, quickly approaching, and destroying all the catapults.

Now that the enemy did not bring catapults, he made many feints, retreated without a fight, and clearly did not intend to attack the city, but simply wanted to lure him out of the city to meet the battle, and once again fell into their trap.

Just because of the impulsive rush to suffer a big loss, and Cao Xiu failed to save Longyou, Cao Zhen told himself to be calm, not to attack, to be like the enemy, to accumulate strength, in order to win with one blow.

Cao Pi's will arrived, telling him that he had let Sima Yi lead his troops out of Luoyang, attack the enemy's flank, and cooperate with him to recapture Shanghe Jicheng.

And now there seem to be more and more enemies coming to challenge outside the city, and it seems that they are also feeling the crisis.

"Report!" With a long sigh, a sentry rushed back from outside the city, went straight to the city tower, and reported to Cao Zhen, "There are tens of thousands of enemy troops approaching Linwei. ”

Cao Zhen nodded, and asked again: "Did they bring any siege equipment?" ”

The sentinel shook his head, "I don't know. There are too many people to see clearly. ”

Cao Zhen waved his hand, very unhappy in his heart, and asked the armies to prepare, and then climbed up the tower himself, climbed to the highest point, and wanted to observe the enemy's baggage convoy.

The Shu army was overwhelmed by a black force, and set up a position outside the city, and a sergeant picked up a trumpet and shouted loudly to the city: "Cao Zidan, do you know how to be ashamed?" Hiding in the city every day, seeing that Liangzhou is going to be because of you, all of them are not surnamed Cao, are you worthy of Cao Cao who has raised you for decades, and are you worthy of Cao Pi appointing you as the general of Zhengxi? ”

Cao Zhen was scolded twice, and he also thought about the words, and the sergeant in the city immediately scolded back: "You despicable villains, don't lie here." Say that Chang'an is going to be taken down by you, have you seen what the city gate of Chang'an looks like? Didn't you Liu Bei threaten to treat people with integrity, and if you do this, aren't you afraid that he will be thundered? ”

Outside the city, the Shu army shouted again: "Don't think it's okay to hide in the city, don't you see those guys in Ji City, hiding in the city with their heads shrunk and not fighting, haven't they been driven out by us in a few days?" It seems that you don't shed tears when you don't see the coffin, tell you, today will ruin your city! ”

Cao Zhen didn't see the coffin, he saw the catapult.

Standing on the high tower, he could clearly see that behind the enemy's military formation, there were many people busy carrying equipment from a dozen carts, among which there were several long wooden poles, which needed to be transported by two two-wheeled carts far apart, and many sergeants had to be sent to support them.

That's supposed to be the catapult's launch rod.

It seems that today, the enemy is indeed preparing to use catapults to attack the city.

Great, he's been waiting for this moment too. (To be continued.) )