Cao Ren was observing Guan Yu's army outside the city of Xuchang. Alas, what an old enemy.

I wanted to stick to Fancheng back then, and the whole army of the forbidden reinforcements was annihilated, Fancheng was hit by the flood, and it was almost broken by Guan Yu, but fortunately, there were Xu Huang's reinforcements, and Sun Quan sneaked up on Jingzhou to help, and finally relieved the siege of Fancheng.

This year, Guan Yu led the troops to the north again, even Liu Bei personally went into battle, no way, learn the lesson of the last time, Xiangyang gave up directly, Fancheng held on for a while and gave up, and retreated to Wancheng, but because Guanzhong was lost, the enemy sent troops from Wuguan Road to attack, Wancheng became an isolated hanging city again, and Cao Pi ordered to give up.

Now retreat to this Xuchang, that is, no matter what, you can't retreat again, otherwise Luoyang will become an isolated city, and the areas east and north of Xuchang will be driven straight by the enemy and quickly fall.

Fortunately, before the retreat from Wancheng, Xuchang City was well prepared for defense, the grain and grass were fully prepared, and the city wall was also heightened and strengthened to a certain extent, and the siege weapon used by the enemy when attacking Wancheng was a catapult, and now we also have it, relying on the city wall, condescending, and fighting farther than the enemy! More ruthless!

If the enemy wants to attack the city with catapults again, we will smash his catapult first!

Didn't you see that Guan Yu's army had besieged the city for so long, didn't it just launch a few feints sporadically, and after being smashed by our catapult, it never tried to get close again?

Speaking of which, it seems that if you hold this Xuchang City, after a long time, the enemy will know the difficulty and retreat?

No, no, no, no! Cao Ren hurriedly shook his head, and pulled the corners of his mouth with a wry smile, although this Guan Yu did not come to attack the city, he had already cleaned up the Wei army camp stationed outside the city to form a horn.

It is understandable to be defeated, but the odious thing is that many reinforcements from all over the country who were urgently transferred from other places just came here, because they heard that Liu Bei had sent some Ma Zhong and Zhang Wei to lead troops to fight their hometown, so they quickly turned around and went back.

Forget it, those people don't have much combat effectiveness, but even a fierce general like Zang Ba left Chen Liu and went back to Xuzhou without authorization, isn't this going to put me to death?

even lied that he was ordered to leave, which is simply not taking my Great Wei Emperor in his eyes!

Well, it's okay to go home to protect yourself, what's even more odious is that many people simply surrendered to Liu Bei, this battle hasn't been fought yet, and the Wei army, which was originally superior in numbers, now seems to be about to lose even this little advantage.

Aren't these damn guys afraid to follow in the footsteps of Jingzhou Thorn Shi and Nanxiang Taishou, who surrendered to Guan Yu during the Battle of Xiangfan? Are you so sure that Liu Bei can succeed this time? What if Sun Quan sneaked into Liu Bei's rear again?

Just when he was thinking wildly, Man Chong, who had been following behind, noticed that the enemy had made a move, and hurriedly reminded: "Da Sima, the enemy seems to be preparing to attack the city!" ”

Alas, it is still full of favor and reliable, over the years, every time he encounters difficulties, he unswervingly comes to his side, cheering for himself, guarding Fancheng back then, if he didn't insist, he almost abandoned the city and fled, it's really embarrassing to think about.

"Oh? What do they want to do? Cao Ren retracted his thoughts and focused his eyes on the distance.

In the distance, a large number of Ji Han soldiers marched towards Xuchang City, but they separated far from the city wall, and formed a good formation on the left and right.

"Haha! They're pretty accurate, do they're sure to take a few more steps and they'll be within range of my catapult? What is this for? Want to call the battle directly? Cao Ren couldn't help but taunt the enemy in order to cheer up his own people.

"It doesn't seem to be." Man Pet saw that after the enemy stood in formation on both sides, there were people in the middle who began to push something forward.

What is that? As the enemy stood in formation, unloaded the materials from the ox cart and began to set it up, Cao Ren and Man Zhong could clearly see that the long and thick logs were used to assemble the catapult.

"The enemy is going to attack the city with catapults again?" The two of them stared at each other with wide eyes, "Could it be that they have made catapults with a longer range?" ”

They remembered that Guan Yu had tried to attack Xuchang City with a few catapults before, but the result was that the defenders who occupied higher and threw farther away were beaten away, and two cars were directly smashed.

It seems to be true, otherwise, why would they start erecting catapults so far away, everyone be careful!

The defenders hurriedly looked for a place to hide, and when the enemy launched a rocky attack, there would be a place to hide.

Everyone panicked for a while, but they were not attacked, and while the enemy outside the city set up the catapults, many sergeants began to push the dump trucks to transport earth and stones, piling up in front of the catapults.

"Wow! The enemy has prepared so much earth and rock, how long will it take to launch? Chen Jiao exclaimed in surprise, and found that something was wrong, "Huh? If you want to launch, you should pile it on the back or side of the catapult, and what is it for in front of it? ”

After Sergeant Ji Han piled up a small mound in front of him, the personnel dispersed, and more than a dozen catapults began to operate, constantly throwing the stones high and piling them on top of the previous small mound, piling higher and higher.

"I see," Cao Ren patted his head, "this enemy is so cunning!" Seeing that we had taken advantage of the high ground of the city walls, they could not bargain, so they wanted to pile up mountains of earth outside the city, so that the catapults could be framed higher than ours, so that they could throw them farther in the future! ”

"Father, what then?" Cao Ren's son, Cao Tai, was in a hurry all of a sudden.

Cao Ren gritted his teeth and said: "It's simple, since the enemy has begun to pile up dirt mountains, then we will continue to raise the city wall!" Higher than theirs! ”

The defenders hurriedly got up, and a earthmoving competition began outside the city.

Immediately afterwards, the Han army outside the city chose several places to pile up dirt mountains. The defenders of the city also hurried to raise the walls in corresponding positions.

The earth mound competition lasted for more than ten days, and Man Pet found that this was not the way, and said to Cao Ren: "The earth and stone outside the city are inexhaustible, and we are different in the city. ”

Cao Tai also ran over to complain: "Father, I feel out of breath. The enemy was in the direction of the wind, and every day the dust was blown into the city, so that my eyes were always dusty and swollen. ”

Man Chong didn't care about his personal safety, but reminded Cao Ren again: "If you dig like this, this Xuchang City will become a big deep pit." The water in the city cannot be drained, and if it rains heavily, won't it be flooded like Fancheng again? ”

Chen Jiao was so tired and out of breath after running before and after: "Alas, this enemy uses catapults to pile up earth and stones outside the city, which is much easier than what we can carry on our shoulders. ”

Cao Ren didn't have the heart to reply one by one, so he only asked loudly: "Then what do you say?" Why don't you rush out and fight with them? ”

Manchu hurriedly stopped talking, the enemy was waiting for him with heavy troops around the catapult, can this rush? If I could rush out and fight, I would have fought a long time ago.

Outside the city, Ge Liang looked at hundreds of catapults working non-stop, a busy construction site, and joked to Huang with a smile: "I remembered a famous saying. ”

"What?" Huang was also unfortunate to be blinded by the dust.

Ge Liang told him loudly: "Which one is stronger in digging technology?" Lanxiang Technical School is looking for Ge Liang! ”