Upstairs in Chenggu City, Yang Ren and Yang Ang looked at the scarecrow not far from the city tower full of arrows, and their faces were not very good-looking. But there is no way, who called the fog last night, and the soldiers under his command broke up the four city gates and it was insufficient, so they had to open the arsenal and take out the arrows among the young and middle-aged people among the people to defend the city. However, although this Chenggu city is not a strong city, there is plenty of grain and grass, and most of the people are Zhang Lu's believers, and a large number of people defend the city independently. What more could Yang Ren and Yang Ang ask for?

Chenggu East Gate, Zhang Fei has been flustered these days, if other generals still have the role of playing Zhang Lujun, but Zhang Fei is gone, although he is not as stupid as he seems on the surface, but he is also a person who can't be quiet. In the past few days, he came up with a good idea, and ordered the soldiers to dig a lot of pits, then take the earth in them, wrap them in cloth bags, and use trebuchets to fire them at the Chenggu wall. The sappers had already mastered the technique after firing for a while, and they could ensure that 90 percent of the earth wrapped in the cloth bags hit the city wall and then landed on the left and right of the wall. On the first day, Yang Ren didn't care, on the second day, Yang Ren didn't care, I don't know what the Jingzhou army outside the city was doing, but on the fourth day, he faintly realized that something was wrong, he saw that there were more and more cloth bags piled up outside the city wall, which were already five feet high.

However, how can there be so many cloth bags, Zhang Fei's cloth bags are used up, so he smiled and went to Ma Hong to ask if the sappers have almost practiced the projection technology, can they switch to throwing stones. Ma Hong took Zhang Fei's hand and said with a glint in his eyes, Brother Fei, you are really a genius.

Genius, Zhang Fei likes Ma Hong to praise him so much. After that, Ma Hong, Liu Qi, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei stood in front of the trebuchet and watched the flying stones smash towards the city wall, and then landed in front of the city tower, and the stones piled higher and higher. Very few stones are smashed into the city, if they are smashed into the city, it is not good to be picked up by the enemy and used to smash themselves, obviously Zhang Fei's IQ is not low, so he first experiments with soil with a cloth bag, and then throws stones.

The trebuchet was constantly working, Yang Ren was helpless, he didn't even have time to send soldiers to clear the soil, if he cleared the stones with the rain of stones, then he would definitely be smashed into meatloaf.

"Brother Fei, you're such a genius."

Ma Hong gave Zhang Fei a thumbs up again.

Zhang Fei laughed, took off the wine jug from Ma Hong's waist, took a sip of wine and said, "I learned Zhang Fei's skills from my eldest brother." ”

Liu Bei saw that Zhang Fei bragged and piggybacked on him, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: What a good brother, bragging doesn't forget the eldest brother. ”

"With General Zhang's strategy, we can enter this Chenggu City without much effort." Liu Qi also followed Ma Hong to pick up Zhang Fei.

"It's just that we're going to besiege the city to send reinforcements, and it's been four or five days, and there's no movement of reinforcements."

Liu Bei rubbed his big ears, and always felt that mosquitoes had been biting his big ears in the past few days, and he had given birth to a few packs.

"That's right, on such a hot day, my face hurts."

Zhang Fei took a sip of wine, buttoned the bag on his nose and said.

Ma Hong nodded and said, "Could it be that this Zhang Lu wants to abandon Yang Ren and Yang Ang?" It shouldn't be! ”

Liu Bei rubbed his ears and didn't understand this too much.

At this moment, the scouts came with the news that an army was reinforcing Chenggu, with 5,000 men and horses.

"Probe!" Ma Hong said.

Everyone was overjoyed, after Zhang Fei got the news, he buttoned the bag on his nose with all his strength, so that the blood and pus flowed out, Ma Hong quickly took out a piece of cloth from his pocket and handed it to Zhang Fei, asking Zhang Fei to cover his nose.

"Strategist, what should I do next?" Liu Bei asked Ma Hong.

In fact, what to do next, Ma Hong had already planned it, but he still rubbed his eyebrows and pretended to think about it, and then he spoke: "Uncle Liu Huang, Hong thinks that General Zhang Fei is talented, and General Zhao Yun is cautious, I want to ask the two generals to lead the army to meet the enemy's reinforcements." What do you think? ”

Liu Bei looked at Liu Qi and saw Liu Qi bowing his head, so he nodded and said, "Prepare to listen to the military advisor." ”

"Oh, military advisor, you have good eyesight, you can see how powerful I am Zhang Fei." Zhang Fei slapped Ma Hong's shoulder hard as he spoke.

Ma Hong was about to open his mouth to reply to Liu Bei's words, but when Zhang Fei slapped him, he bit his tongue, tears of pain came out, and he covered his mouth and squatted on the ground.

Zhang Fei smiled even more happily when he saw this, but Liu Bei couldn't cry or laugh in his heart, and looked at his third brother with a calm face and continued to pretend to be rough.

In June of Jian'an, Zhang Lu fought on both sides, and he asked the leaders of the clan Yuan Yue, Du Hao, and Pu Hu to lead 5,000 soldiers to rescue Chenggu.

It is said that this ethnic group, a minority in history, also known as the Yin people and the Ban Man, is the "main source" of the Tujia family now. Although they are not included in the 56 ethnic groups today, they have had incomparable glory in Chinese history. Long before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, he established his own state. The people are brave and strong, and they are good at singing and dancing, and the national characteristics of the people who are brave and warlike and can also sing and dance have been vividly brought into full play on the battlefield. According to "Huayang Guozhi Ba Zhi": "King Wu of Zhou cut down the Xuan, and he was the master of Bashu. Ba Shi Yongrui, singing and dancing to Ling Yin people, (Yin people) defection, so the world is called it: King Wu cut down, before and after the song and dance. ”

On the battlefield of life and death, while charging into battle, singing and dancing at the same time, this kind of scene is estimated to make the enemy with weak combat strength look at it, and it will be frightened. Legend has it that Liu Bang's rebel army fought fiercely against the Qin Dynasty's army, and the brave and warlike Yin people often acted as the vanguard of Liu Bang's army. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Qiang people attacked Hanzhong, and the imperial court sent people to defeat them, called "divine soldiers". At the end of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Lu according to Hanzhong, induced the leaders of the Ba and the leaders of the ditch, Du Hao, Pu Hu, and Yuan Yue to betray Yizhou Mu Liu Zhang and return to himself. [In addition, judging from the excavated ancient tombs on Baqu, from the excavated ancient tombs on Baqu, each tomb has bronze weapons, including swords, spears, cantons, putus, night tops, hooks, etc.] Among them, the long beard wears the tiger stripes in the square, which is called by archaeologists to be the most refined of the same kind of weapons in Shu. A long sword shaped like a willow leaf, the edge of which is still very sharp. The tiger stripes on the weapon are very realistic. It shows the courage and strength of the people, advocating force, and also reflects the exquisite smelting and casting technology of the people. 】

When Ma Hong heard that Zhang Lu invited the Yu clan to fight, he didn't pay much attention to it at first, but when Gan Ning, a native of Ba County, heard about it and came to tell Ma Hong about some of the deeds of the Yu clan, which made Ma Hong pay attention to it. When Gan Ning was in Ba County, he had a skirmish with him, and Gan Ning led 300 people to be defeated by 50 of the Yu tribe. This surprised Ma Hong, Gan Ning is not a mediocre person, such a violent nation, if it really fights with it, it will lose a lot of soldiers! After careful consideration, Ma Hong decided to personally accompany Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun to face the Yu clan.

Gan Ning was idle, outside the east gate of Chenggu, that is, in front of the gate that the Jingzhou army did not encircle, he dug hundreds of pits, each pit was buried with barbs cut from sharp wood, and obstacles such as iron thistle arrays, horse pits, and horse guns were set up along the way, in fact, the arrangement of these obstacles was also learned by Gan Ning from Zhou Yu, and he was disgusted by Zhou Yu, so Gan Ning used a set of things he learned from Zhou Yu here.

When the Gan tribe came to the rescue, Gan Ning ordered the deputy general Wei Yan to garrison the north gate, and he led his troops to surround the east gate (the previously unguarded city gate), and used the knife cart made by Ma Hong to make a strong mobile city wall. The knife cart made by Ma Hong is three meters high, five meters wide, has four wheels, and four handrails are cast at the back of the car, which can be pushed and pulled by four people at the same time. These knife carts are different from the knife carts used to guard the city gate, the knife carts used to guard the city gate are larger, and these knife carts improved by Ma Hong are relatively smaller, and they are relatively simple to make, because Hanzhong is mountainous, it is not convenient to use chariots and cavalry, Ma Hong came up with the idea of making knife carts as a moving city wall. There were a hundred of these knife carts, all of which were sent by boat through the Han River, and if they were to be towed, they would be light, but they would be tiring to death.

On the wooden plank in front of the knife cart, there are a total of eighteen steel knives densely packed, these knife carts can be combined to push, or scattered to push, a hundred knife carts combined into a layer of moving city wall, this scene looks quite spectacular.

Yang Ren and Yang Ang looked at each other on the top of the city tower, they thought that the Jingzhou army was surrounded by three and one and did not camp at the east gate, and when the time came, they could send troops and reinforcements with the east gate to attack the Jingzhou army, but at this moment, they were watching, the dense knife carts blocked the main road, and it was not easy to rush over.

(To be continued.) )