The flight of the yellow crane is not yet passable, and the ape wants to spend his sorrow and climb. Hande County was at this time, and the Wu and Han families started a tug-of-war in a small hundred miles. Soon after Liu Bei ascended the throne, Prime Minister Zhuge Liang thought that Hande County had "a road of thirty miles from the big sword to the small sword pass, and the mountains were extremely dangerous". And in the cliff of Dajian Mountain, the two cliffs are cut off, leaning on the cliff and building stones as the door, placing the pavilion captain, setting up a garrison, making the sword pavilion a military pass.

At this time, the Zhenwei general of Shu Han, Zitong Taishou Ma Zhongzheng led an army of 2,000 troops stationed in the corner of the Sword Pavilion to resist stubbornly, and the Wu army has been rectifying the soldiers and horses in Shu County since Qiao Ren settled in Chengdu, on the one hand, consolidating the rule on the other hand, and waiting for the news of the Wei State, but the Sword Pavilion is important in the end, so the Fubo general George and the central supervisor Liu Xian led 7,000 troops to Hande County.

The Sword Pavilion is majestic and Cui Wei, one husband is the pass, and ten thousand people are not open. Guards or bandits, turned into wolves and jackals. Avoid tigers in the morning and long snakes in the evening. Grinding teeth and sucking blood, killing people like numbness.

Outside the Sword Gate, the seven thousand Wu troops lined up in a row can be regarded as imposing. George, Liu Xian and Sun Cheng (Sun Huan's eldest son) stood in front of the pass, looking at the pass and sighing.

Liu Xian, who was familiar with the grass and trees in Shuzhong before, after witnessing the terrain of Jianmen Pass, realized that it was a bit redundant for others to bring so many troops this time, because the terrain in front of the pass was so wide, and sending five or six hundred people up would block the road. Moreover, the pass is four or five meters above the ground before the pass, and the men and horses of the Wu army are still attacking from the back, and the north and south mountains of the pass are high enough to reach the sky, and it is very unfavorable to climb, not to mention the detour from both wings.

"I didn't expect the Sword Gate Pass to come to this point, this is really a bit unexpected to me." Before the battle was fought, Liu Xian really sighed at Wangguan.

"The terrain is a little dangerous, but as long as you can break through this level. There's a smooth road ahead, so let's try a few battles first. ”

At this time, George, who had been ambitious before the expedition, was also a little vain, because he found that the cities built by the enemy Hengshan were all built of solid stones, and they were connected from west to east, and there were nearly three or four lines of defense, and each one was a cut higher than the previous one. I'm afraid that even if there is a return cannon in hand, it will not be easy to overcome.

Sun Cheng, the youngest on the side, said: "The other party is built of solid stones, and eighty percent is afraid that we will attack with fire, and the defenders of the city will still have a few abilities." I'm still in favor of fighting it once and trying the power of the return cannon and the opponent's ability. ”

The first wave of attack troops was 3,000 soldiers and horses led by George himself, and these 3,000 men experienced the victory of Yuzhou and broke through Yong'an. This time, morale was high, and the soldiers had actual combat experience in using return guns. Therefore, as soon as George and the others pondered the first battle, they personally led them into the field.

In the early afternoon. The battle officially began.

According to the design of General Wu Guo's supervisor, the effective strike range of the return cannon is 130 paces, and this distance has obviously entered the range of the condescending enemy crossbowmen.

Therefore, in order to protect the return cannon into effective range safely, George ordered 500 shieldmen to take the lead. A thousand crossbowmen followed, covering more than thirty return cannons and slowly driving towards Jianmen Pass, followed by one thousand of the most elite siege troops.

Seeing these thirty huge siege machines, Ma Zhong was stunned for a moment. At this time, the return cannon is very different from the thunderbolt in the cognition of the Shu army, and Shu Han has not been attacked by Wu State, nor has he seen the latest return artillery, plus Ma Zhong has never been out of Shu in his life, where has he seen this kind of thing.

Although he didn't know what it was, Ma Zhong didn't care about the idea of 3721, and when the enemy army entered his range, he ordered the crossbowmen above Gaocheng to shoot Lao Tzu fiercely.

Knock knock! As soon as the drum sounded, the sword gate closed and arrows rained down.

It was a real descending from the sky, the momentum of the height, so that the arrows shot down not only increased the range, but also increased the power, only the Wu army was pressed to the point that he couldn't even breathe, the enemy shot ten arrows, and a thousand crossbowmen could only barely shoot one or two arrows back from the gap in the shield array, and there was no accuracy at all, therefore, in the first battle, the long-range firepower of the Wu army was comprehensively attacked.

After losing a few hundred people, the return artillery finally entered the attack distance, and the gunners, under the cover of the shield soldiers, struggled to load the counterweight, and then, with a command, the first wave of more than 100 stone shells rose into the sky and roared up to Yangping Pass.

The moment the stone bullet took off into the air, it was like a downpour suddenly stopped, and the dense rain of arrows stopped instantly. There was no other reason, but because the Han army in the city was stunned by the flying stone bullets at that moment, and forgot the bow and crossbow in their hands.

A few seconds later, boom boom! The stone bullet hit accurately, and for a moment the stone chips splashed, and the roar was like thunder.

Although the momentum of the return cannon is huge, but the effect is not good, those who were killed on the spot by the stone bullets, but only a dozen people, and the stone bullets hit the thick city wall, although the sound is very great, but the destructive power is really limited, except for the blast of a few edges and corners, did not have a substantial impact on the city wall. After all, Ma Zhong had never seen the Huihui Cannon, but Zhuge Liang had seen it, and he took this aspect into account when building the Sword Gate Pass.

However, the Han army was frightened by the sound of the return cannon, and the defenders shrank under the female wall and did not dare to show their heads, and at this opportunity, the Wu army's crossbowmen could straighten their waists and calmly attack the Guanshang with arrows. For a while, arrows and artillery were fired, and this time it was the turn of the Han army to be pressed and unable to raise its head.

After this time, Sun Cheng, who was watching the battle in the Chinese army, keenly spotted the fighter plane and said excitedly: "General, the time has come, let the siege army be dispatched quickly." ”

So George immediately ordered, and a thousand attacking troops swarmed towards the Jianmen Pass with cloud ladders and chariots.

By the time a thousand siege troops had easily climbed over the moat and were ready to attack the city, the Han army in the city had recovered from the initial panic and began to counterattack.

As soon as the contact battle began, the return cannon did not dare to fire again, so as not to bombard his own people by mistake, and at this time, the only person who could provide cover for the attacking soldiers was the thousand crossbowmen who followed behind.

When the soldiers climbed the city, they tragically discovered that the original city wall was narrower than the place where they had previously displayed their soldiers, and more than 1,000 people were piled up underneath it was too much, and the space that could be used to climb the city at a time was only one or two hundred people, and the rest of the people were crowded under the city wall and became the target of the Han army.

However, this army was an army trained by Qiao Ren's method of governing the army, and although the enemy's means of defending it were extremely strong, they were not allowed to retreat, so they still braved the threat of death and bravely climbed along the ladder to the top of the city.

However, this Guan Pavilion designed and built by Zhuge Liang himself was not so easy to take, the number of people participating in the attack was not advantageous, and it was impossible to effectively suppress the enemy's firepower, coupled with the extremely high Guancheng, after a short time, more than 3,000 elite soldiers were lost in half, but no one was able to successfully climb to the top of the city

George and Liu Yan, who were familiar with the terrain, rushed to the gate three times in a row, but were repelled by rolling stones and sassal logs rolling down from the slope. The Sword Gate is a broken ground in front of it, and anything that rolls down from it is fatal to the attacker. In desperation, George could only order the withdrawal of troops.

During the day, he lost seven or eight hundred soldiers, but he only came to one conclusion, and he could only outwit him, but outwitting naturally would not be Liu Yan's topic, and in the end, George had to use his brains. (To be continued......)