The fortress in the north of Fengzhou was swept away, and in front of it was the very important mighty city on Chencang Road. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info is located thirty miles southeast of Huangniubao, there is Huanghua Valley in the west of the city, which can lead to Tangcang Town. In the Tang Dynasty, Huanghua County was set up here, but it was abandoned due to population loss in the fifth dynasty, and it was only used as a military city, with a permanent army of 2,500 people.

On the eighth day of the fifth month, Zhang Yue and Wang Jing led the troops to rest for a day and then went south, and in the afternoon of the same day, Shen Shichu arrived in the north three miles of Weiwu City, and saw that the troops were about to come to the city. You see it's still early, whether to attack the city directly, or set up camp and fight tomorrow. ”

Wang Jing is old, the forward is advancing rapidly, and the march does not stop every day, he is a little tired, and he smiled and said: "Let's fight again tomorrow!" A large amount of grain and grass in logistics will be transferred to Diwankou, and it will take three days to keep up, so there is no hurry at this time. ”

"I'm afraid of delaying the fighter, the state governs Liangquan County to Weiwu City fifty-five miles, according to the speed of the Shu army's march, it will take about two days to come, and we have already rested for a day, if we don't fight today, tomorrow as soon as the reinforcements arrive, it will be difficult to fight again. If you have to wait for the grain and grass to arrive, you can only wait for the mighty city! Wang Jing's march was a little slow, and Zhang Yue was very impatient, so he analyzed the battle situation and said.

"This ...... Otherwise, General Zhang led his headquarters to attack the city first...... How about sending a dog to Tingyi to sweep the formation for you? Wang Jing also has another combat mission, and at this time he has the idea of retaining troops to the greatest extent, but Zhang Yue is a general of the forbidden army, and his status is not low, so Wang Jing can only give him face.

"Good! Siege launched in half an hour! Zhang Yue's plan has been decided, and he said categorically. Then the order was issued: Luo Yanhuan, the former army of the army, was the envoy of the formation, and Liu Chongbin was the deputy envoy, and he was on standby inside and outside the city, and he was about to launch an attack on the city.

Weiwu City was originally the county seat, the wall is one zhang five high, the circumference is more than eight miles, although it is located in the valley, but there is no moat, but the corner tower, the gatehouse, the arrow tower and other defense facilities are readily available.

The open space in the north is trumpet-shaped and narrow, and the two sides are only a few miles wide, and the Luo Yanhuan Department of the former army has already arrived at the city, received the military order to start pre-battle preparations, and sent heralds to draw out the sequence of the positions of each command post of each army.

As soon as Zhang Yue led the second army to arrive, the herald guided the center facing the city gate, with a total of 7,000 troops. Hao Tianying led the three battalions of horse troops to be useless for the time being, so he asked the soldiers to dismount, led the war horses to the rear and handed them over to the craftsman battalion to guard, and changed them into infantry and Zhang Yue's personal soldiers as the Chinese army, and prepared fifty wooden ladders for backup.

To the east is the 2,000-foot army led by Li Chuyun and Chen Jia; To the west, there were 2,500 people from the three armies of Luo Yanhuan's department, and he served as the vanguard all the way, accumulating three or four hundred casualties, which were supplemented by the Shu army.

After the formation was completed, Wang Jing also arrived, he led his troops to stop at the foot of the mountain at the intersection, and sent his eldest son Wang Tingyi to lead 2,500 people as Zhang Yue's backup, planning to watch the battle situation first and then set up camp.

As soon as the Zhou army arrived, they lined up outside the city, and the Shu general Zhou Qingchen watched from the wall, and his face was a little ugly. There were 2,500 men in the city, and 5,600 people fled back to the cattle fort, and there were 3,000 people. Yesterday, he prepared for a day, demolished the houses in the city, and prepared some rolling logs and stones, but the Zhou army was the main force of tens of thousands of people, and the reinforcements from Fengzhou did not arrive, Zhou Qingchen was a little less confident, but he was lucky again.

The terrain of Weiwu City is similar to that of the Yellow Bull Fort, facing the mountains in the east, although there is open space, but it is very narrow, and the Zhou army cannot be deployed. The west side is also narrow, and under the edge of the open space dozens of steps is the Qingjiang River, as long as you guard until dark and send people back to urge reinforcements, you can bear it tomorrow.

At this moment, the Zhou army began to attack, and the sound of the Chinese army drum sounded slowly, which was shocking. There are no heavy siege weapons, so naturally it is still the sword and shield hand to protect the bow and crossbowman to move forward first, advance to the city eighty paces to shoot the bow and shoot up, these cover are divided into two teams on the left and right, a total of 1,000 people, with Chen Jia commanding and coordinating.

Then Luo Yanhuan led 1,000 sword and shield men to form a five-horizontal team to open the way in front, Liu Chongbin, Jiao Dayong, and Zhang Guangzan led 200 wooden ladder fighters to advance in groups of two, plus a total of 2,500 people from Li Chuyun's division of the Second Army, divided into five phalanxes on the left, center, and right to follow up.

A total of 500 archers on the left and right were in position first, Zhang Gong and the Shu army at the head of the wall launched a confrontation, and there were 500 sword and shield hands mixed among the archers, Chen Jia commanded properly, and there were no casualties for the time being. Eighty steps is still a little far, and shooting from the back to the head of the city will not do any harm to the Shu army. Chen Jia ordered twenty steps forward, and the casualties on both sides increased.

At the same time, the front advanced to one hundred and fifty steps below the city, and the sound of the Chinese military drums suddenly accelerated, which was the military order, urging to speed up the pace. Eighty or ninety steps under the wall, Luo Yanhuan visually measured the distance in the second row, shouted the order, and the fifth row of sword and shield men quickly turned around, ran away on both sides and lined up again. The ladder men were exposed, roared in unison, and trotted forward, spreading out the queue as they ran, lest the formation be too dense and give the archers of the wall a chance.

Soon, a big ladder took the lead in the city, and then approached in a row, but the ladder hand was to escalate, and the defenders on the wall could not be pushed down and overturned, and when Luo Yanhuan led the sword and shield hand to rush up, climb up in formation, the wooden ladder was naturally stable due to gravity, and the ladder hand also rushed up with the queue.

Luo Yanhuan's martial arts are average, but after these days of fighting, he has seen that the Shu army is a group of rookie soldiers, as long as they are stronger, they can be scared away. However, there are skills in climbing the ladder, it is best to choose a position, and there must be a general stationed outside the city gate in person, so Liu Chongbin was sent to take the lead.

As more and more soldiers climbed the wooden ladder, one by one the big centipedes wriggled upward, and the archers of the Shu army at the head of the wall immediately shot arrows, and after the gap was scattered, piles of large stones were moved up, as well as tubes of rolling logs.

When the Zhou army was almost close to the wall, Zhou Qingchen gave an order, and the big stones fell like raindrops, mixed with rolling logs and fell horizontally, and many soldiers were caught off guard, and were swept down in strings, and the dumplings were thrown down one after another.

Luo Yanhuan has been staring at the head of the city, as soon as he saw the movement, he ordered to raise the shield, and the stone fell and was propped up by the pro-soldiers with their shields, and the rolling wood followed and swept down, fortunately, the pro-soldiers on it were experienced, and they jumped and fell down with the rolling log.

Jumping down three pro-soldiers in a row, Luo Yanhuan had no one to defend him, he faced the wall to attack, his pace accelerated instantly, and when he encountered the rolling log, he blocked with his shield and was almost swept down. It was also at this point in time that he jumped on the wall, turned over the battlements and fought against the wall, resisting the attack of the Shu army, and receiving his own men to enter the city. Zhang Guangzan's angry shouts were also heard near the left and right, and Luo Yanhuan felt a little calmer.

But the danger was not lifted, the Shu army reinforced a team over, although more than a dozen soldiers followed, but there were too few people, a little unstoppable, the gap was difficult to hold, Luo Yan was in danger. This is the case with the battle of ascending to the city, once you get to the top of the city, there is no way to retreat, otherwise you will not die or be injured.

"Closer to the west!" Luo Yanhuan shouted, and fought and retreated, but fortunately, Zhang Guangzan also found him, moved to this side, and the two teams gave up the gap to converge and defend themselves, only to ensure that the passage was much safer.

The danger encountered by the first to enter the city was naturally due to lack of strength, and the ladders were pulled over by hooks, and a string of soldiers fell, which made Zhang Yue's heart ache. A total of 100 wooden ladders on both sides of the city gate were set up, and they overturned as many as six or seven percent, and the ladder was lifted up and put up again, which was a gap, if it were not for the low morale of the Shu army, and the soldiers had no fighting spirit, I am afraid that they would have been driven down like the day before yesterday.

"Hao Tianying! Twenty wooden ladders were transferred to supplement the east side, and he led his troops to advance fifty steps forward to supervise the battle! Zhang Yue immediately ordered, Hao Tianying obeyed the order, and the three phalanxes moved forward, so that the soldiers of the front army could feel the determination of the main general, and those who wanted to retreat could only follow.

I didn't want the Shu army to fight a little stubbornly, the second wave went up partially, and was besieged and blocked again, and the wooden ladder overturned a lot, but there were no more stones and rolling logs, and the casualties were reduced a lot. Then there were waves of follow-up, one after another, more and more soldiers landed in the city, and the Shu army finally couldn't support it anymore and began to show signs of escape.

Unconsciously the sun sank in the west, the sky began to darken, but the battle continued, and after the front of the 4,000 troops landed in the city, the Shu army began to collapse, Zhou Qingchen could not stop the decline, and was surrounded by his own soldiers and fled.

As soon as Kai got dark, the battle was over, followed by a pursuit. Luo Yanhuan led his troops to chase out of the south city gate, the Shu soldiers ran fast, he took advantage of the situation to take over the south city gate, and then transferred troops to kill the stragglers, took over the military treasury and barracks in the city, and sent his own soldiers to inform Zhang Yue's main force to enter the city.

Zhou Qingchen and Jiang Hui fled four or five miles south all the way, stopped to gather stragglers, and only seven or eight hundred people remained. Everyone hung their heads and sat on the road to rest, discussing what to do, when the soldiers who left first ran back to report: Zhao Chongpu, the capital supervisor, led reinforcements to arrive.

Zhou Qingchen was panicked, he had repeatedly suffered defeats, if Zhao Chongpu was held accountable, then his head would not be saved, Zhou Qingchen sent a few soldiers to stay behind, and led the remnants of the army to flee to the Huanghua Valley in the west.

There is the logistics grain and grass transit place of Weiwu City and the military fort in the north, and his general Sun Tao led a thousand troops to garrison it.

His abacus played well, and Zhao Chongpu heard that Weiwu City was lost, so he had to take people to Huanghua Valley overnight, and took the initiative to camp outside the valley to rest, hold the mouth of the valley, and did not ask to enter the village.

The next morning, Zhao Chongpu ordered Zhou Qingchen and Jiang Hui to report the military situation. Jiang Hui and Sun Tao hesitated and persuaded Zhou Qingchen not to go, but Zhou Qingchen didn't listen, thinking that Zhao Chongpu didn't enter the village while guarding the valley pass, so naturally he wouldn't ask for the guilt, and forced himself to ask Jiang Hui to go with him, Jiang Hui had no choice but to agree.

As a result, as soon as he entered the Chinese army's tent, Zhao Chongpu gave an order, and his own soldiers swarmed out, arrested Zhou Qingchen and Jiang Hui, and then escorted them to the gate to be killed. (To be continued.) )