Where would Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei know that the reason why Liu Qi feinted to attack Wangxian for many days was to wait for these hundreds of stone throwers.

As early as Liu Ye made a thunderbolt car to successfully defend Lu'an City, Liu Qi attached great importance to the research and development of the stone throwing machine, after many studies and repeated trials with Huang Yueying, Han Ji and other mechanical manufacturers, finally successfully developed a stone throwing machine that can be launched 200 steps away, and can launch a boulder weighing 30 or 40 pounds!

Although such a stone thrower had been developed several years ago, Liu Qi did not use it too early, because he was afraid that the other party would imitate it.

It was not until this time after encountering Liu Bei's main force under the city of Wangxian that Liu Qi decided to use this secret weapon, and it was secretly used when the other party was completely defenseless, with only one purpose, that is, to break through the city today and annihilate the main force of Liu Bei's army as much as possible.

For the sake of secrecy, Liu Qi's stone throwers were far away in Ji County, so in order to be able to transport them to the city of Wangxian County, Liu Qi led the army to feint to attack the city for many days, and also disguised the stone thrower as a grain truck, and quietly transported it to the camp.

Ten years of sharpening the sword, is to stand out, now Liu Qi's new stone throwing car appeared, it did cause a strong shock effect, huge stones smashed on the city wall, the city tower, the soldier's head, the soldier was stoned to death, the city tower was destroyed, the city wall was also smashed to the ground, the original solid city wall was crumbling, as if a gust of wind could blow down.

Zhuge Liang looked at this qiē with a gloomy face, and suddenly gave birth to a feeling of exhaustion of talent, he found that no matter what kind of strategy he formulated, no matter how ingenious the arrangement, he always slowed down with Liu Qi, as if this person was born to be his nemesis. Looking at the ruined city wall, imagining that Liu Qi's army would soon be able to pour in, Zhuge Liang's heart twitched fiercely, and he suddenly felt a sweetness in his throat, and spewed out a bloody arrow.

"Strategist."

Liu Bei, who was on the side, was shocked when he saw Zhuge Liang vomiting blood. hurriedly supported Zhuge Liang and ordered the military doctor to treat him quickly.

I saw Liu Bei say with a gloomy face: "Cure the illness of the military advisor at any cost, otherwise, you will be ruined." ”

This is not to blame Liu Bei for being ruthless, it is really because Zhuge Liang is the most important reliance on his foundation to protect this foundation, it can be said that Zhuge Liang is the backbone of his Liu Bei, and it is the Dinghai Divine Needle of the entire Great Qin, if there is no Zhuge Liang. He really couldn't imagine what he had to rely on.

Guan Yu died, Ma Chao and Zhao Yun surrendered, Zhang Fei may also surrender, and the old team before he entered the customs was left with Sun Gan, Mi Zhu, Chen Zhi and Zhuge Liang, but Mi Zhu was too bad in politics and strategy, Sun Qian was only suitable for debate and some rebellion work, and Chen Zhiyong was brave, but he couldn't leave for a while. Only Zhuge Liang is the person he can really trust with confidence, and even he decided to even if he died. will also give his son Liu Chantuo to Zhuge Liang.

It is precisely because of this that he attaches so much importance to Zhuge Liang's condition.

But I heard Zhuge Liang say slowly: "Thank you, the lord, Weichen is fine, it's just a hurry, it's good to rest and rest, but now Liu Qi has mobilized hundreds of catapults at once." The city walls were smashed to the ground, and Wei Chen estimated that in another half an hour, the city walls would collapse, and the enemy army would rush over, trying to defend it with our strength. It was a thousand difficulties, so the lord should immediately order the army to retreat. ”

"Do you really want to retreat? I knew this earlier, I might as well have exchanged Yide for Yide to buy people's hearts, at least there will not be such an embarrassing situation now, there is obviously a general, but I can't guess his thoughts, so I don't dare to reuse it. Liu Bei couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart.

But he knew that he couldn't complain about Zhuge Liang and Zhong Xuan, who opposed this matter at this time, after all, this was also her idea, but no one thought that in less than three days, so many powerful stone-throwing vehicles were immediately transferred to his military camp, which could easily destroy the city wall.

In this matter, Liu Qi can only be blamed for being too cunning.

Liu Bei knew that it was too late to regret now, and all he had to do was to follow Zhuge Liang's plan and lead the army to withdraw from Wangxian.

Since the city can't be saved, they naturally can't spend all the main forces here, and they also have to preserve their vital strength for the later battles.

"Strategist, where are we withdrawing?" Liu Bei looked at Zhuge Liang, who was pale, a little apologetic in his heart, and asked softly.

I saw Zhuge Liang said slowly: "Wang County has been lost, along the way of Huang Mi and Yongxian are all in danger to defend, and Chen Cang is about to fall into the encirclement of the enemy, even if we go, it is meaningless, according to Liang's plan, we are as good as garrisoning Wuzhang Yuan, here in the south of the Qinling Mountains, north of Weishui, east and west are all deep ditches, the terrain is dangerous, can be attacked, retreat can be defended, it is a good place to garrison, as long as our army is stationed here, we can strangle the enemy, so that it can not advance." ”

"Then we'll go to Gojohara." After Liu Bei finished speaking, he quietly passed the order down, so that the army quickly prepared, ready to evacuate at any time, and then Liu Bei listened to Zhuge Liang's plan, so that the crossbowmen ambushed on the inside of the city wall, once the enemy entered the city, the ambush soldiers were exhausted, and the army of ten thousand crossbows fired together, first to give the enemy a dismount, so that it did not dare to chase, and then slowly retreated.

The stone-throwing carts of Liu Qi's army smashed into the city wall like raindrops, and soon collapsed a large part of the city wall.

But he didn't expect Zhuge Liang to be on guard, and for a while, he saw ten thousand crossbows fired at once, and more than 2,000 people who entered the city first were shot to death in an instant.

"This time we have lost so many soldiers, and the sin of loneliness is also" Looking at the more than 2,000 corpses, Liu Qi's face sank like water, and he said extremely sadly.

"I didn't expect Zhuge Liang to really develop a repeating crossbow, but fortunately, we were cautious when we entered the city this time. Otherwise, I am afraid that the loss of power will be even greater. Jia Xu hurriedly comforted Liu Qi, but his heart was not as heavy as Liu Qi's, because the more than 2,000 people who died were actually soldiers from Wangxian County, not soldiers and horses from the headquarters, and they exchanged their lives for Zhuge Liang's hole card exposure, which was actually a very worthwhile thing.

But Jia Xu didn't dare to show such an expression in front of Liu Qi, because in front of Liu Qi, even the surrendered troops were treated the same as his own soldiers and horses, and he would never favor one over the other, and it was precisely because of this that many surrendered troops who took refuge in him could quickly transform into loyal and brave soldiers under his command.

And Jia Xu, who has followed Liu Qi for many years, realized that Liu Qi's attitude towards surrendering troops was by no means contrived, which was also an important reason for his admiration for Liu Qi, because in all fairness, there are not many generals in the world who can treat surrendered troops equally, and there are even many princes like Cao Cao, who kill tens of thousands of soldiers at every turn.

This also proves that Liu Qi is a true benevolent master, although he is more ferocious to his enemies than Cao Cao, but he has always been full of benevolence and sincerity to his own people.

Liu Qi sighed for a moment, did not dare to chase again, and after Liu Bei's army slowly retreated, he led the army into the city, and let the soldiers who were killed be buried together, and personally mourned. He also ordered the army to register the fallen soldiers in accordance with the rules of the army, and to give bereavement and rewards to their relatives.

After this qiē was completed, Liu Qi ordered Zhang Bang Anmin to do a good job in internal affairs, but at this time, he listened to Jia Xujin and said: "Lord, Zhang Bang Anmin is important, but what we need most urgently now is to further march, now that our army is stationed in Wangxian, Chen Cang is surrounded by his belly and back, Liu Bei will inevitably order Chen Cang to guard Sun Gan to retreat quickly, and we should set up an ambush in the middle to annihilate Sun Gan's forces." ”

"What Wen He said is good, but the problem is, we don't know where the enemy army is going to retreat, and how to set up an ambush?" Liu Qi couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this, and said helplessly.

But seeing Jia Xu's mysterious smile, he said indifferently: "Zhuge Liang uses soldiers, has always sought stability, this time he will inevitably retreat to Wuzhangyuan in Chencang County, this place is connected to Qinling in the south, Weishui in the north, and there are deep ditches on both sides of the east and west, the terrain is dangerous, and it can be attacked and defended, it is a good place to use troops, as long as it is choked here, it can protect the right and the wind is not lost, since Liu Bei settled here, then Sun Qian will definitely retreat here, as long as we send the Wudang Fei Army to quickly rush to this place, and lay an ambush, it will definitely let Sun Gan give the head, The next thing is that we are united with the Ganning army, and we confront the Qin army in Wuzhang Plain, hehe, Zhuge Liang is afraid that Wuzhang Yuan is dangerous, but he definitely did not think that the lord had already sent strange soldiers to attack his back road, and this time Liu Bei was doomed to die. ”

Liu Qi nodded approvingly, and then immediately sent two generals, Meng Shu and Sha Moke, to lead 20,000 Wudangfei troops, and immediately set up troops to set up an ambush in the area of Beiyuan, the main road along the way, in an effort to completely annihilate Sun Qian's army.

While sending Meng Shu and Shamoke to ambush Sun Qian, Liu Qi's main army did not delay much, took a short rest, and continued to lead the army forward.

"Hehe, congratulations to the lord, as long as Sun Qian's army is destroyed, Liu Bei will inevitably lose a force, and as soon as Gan Xingba comes, he will attack Liu Bei's army in Wuzhangyuan from the south bank of Weishui, and our army will attack Liu Bei's army in Wuzhangyuan from the north bank of Weishui, and then our strange soldiers will attack him again, even if Zhuge Liang is reincarnated in vain, it will still end in a fiasco."

Liu Qi glanced at Jia Xu, full of approval, and said with a smile: "This qiē is also due to the arrangement of Wen He's clever plan, and he also knows the Guanzhong region well, so we can have this victory." ”

"The lord praises falsely, this qiē is because the lord has established a stable foundation, we have abundant materials in half of the south of the Yangtze River, even if there is no strategy, it will be a matter of time before Guanzhong perishes." Jia Xu also said softly with a smile on his face. (To be continued......)