Zhang Lang sat in the study, looking at the report he had just received from Hanzhong. Yan Yan's troops had resisted Sun Jian's army for ten days, and the battle was stalemate, although Sun Jian had not made any progress, but he did not have the slightest intention of stopping. Looking at his posture, it seems that he will not give up until he captures Hanzhong.

"My lord." Zhuge Liang came in and said.

Zhang Lang raised his head and hurriedly beckoned: "Kong Ming, come quickly." ”

Zhuge Liang came to the opposite side of Zhang Lang and knelt down.

Zhang Lang asked with some concern: "Kong Ming, do you think Cao Cao and Yuan Shao will also attack us at this time?" Today's form shì is a little bad for us! ”

Zhuge Liang smiled slightly, "Don't worry, the lord doesn't have to worry, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao will never attack!" ”

"Why? What a time to do it! If the coalition forces attack, the certainty of capturing the Tiger Prison Pass is far greater than at any other time! ”

Zhuge Liang smiled: "Lord, if you are Yuan Shao or Cao Cao, will you come to attack?" Zhang Lang thought about it, his eyes lit up, and he slapped his face and laughed: "Yes, yes, yes!" The two of them have their own ghosts, and they are both worried that the other party may take advantage of their full strength to attack their rear! There's no way they're going to attack us! ”

Zhuge Liang smiled and hugged his fists and said, "The lord is wise!" That's it! Now that both of them are outside the Tiger Prison Pass, this is all they can do! Couldn't go any further! ”

Zhang Lang touched his chin and frowned: "Even so, the army can't be transferred!" It's not easy to deal with the barbarians and Sun Jian! Although a strategy has been formulated to pacify Nanzhong first and then repel Sun Jian, I don't know if Yan Yan can hold it? Look at Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang pondered: "Yan Yan has nearly 100,000 troops, and there is a natural danger barrier!" It stands to reason that it should be able to resist! However, Yan Yan's army was adapted from the original Yizhou Army, and his combat power and will to fight are not comparable to other legions, and Sun Jian, Jiangdong Tiger, Yan Yan can resist for a long time, it's really hard to say! ”

Zhang Lang pondered: "Then we must plan for the worst, in case Yan Yan can't hold Shangyong City, we must have a second plan!" ”

Zhuge Liang said: "My subordinates have been thinking about this problem!" If Yan Yan can't hold Shangyong City, it is better to give up the entire Hanzhong! ……”

Zhang Lang was startled.

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The next day it was just dawn, but while the sergeants of the Leopard Guard were still sleeping on the top of the city, the earth trembled, and became more and more violent, from far to near; There was a rumbling sound in my ears, which began far away, and quickly approached, and after a few moments it was like rolling thunder overhead. The soldiers at the head of the city woke up one after another, and looked out of the city against the battlements, only to see a brown tide surging in the hazy fog of the early morning.

"Get ready to fight! Everyone's in the battle position! The generals on the city wall shouted loudly. The well-trained Panther Taowei soldiers immediately got into shape. The soldiers in charge of the crossbows and catapults immediately began to calibrate the angle and direction of their firing; The crossbowmen stood by the battlements, and took out their arrows and put them on the bowstrings, or pulled the bowstrings of the strong crossbows and loaded them with crossbow arrows; Another group of soldiers busily carried rolling stones and logs to the city walls; The soldiers in charge of the interrogation waved flags at the top of the city, while the war drums rumbled loudly.

Zhang Lang climbed the city wall accompanied by Xu Huang and others. Looking out of the wall, I saw that the barbarian army was arraying up to attack the city. The ladders and storming vehicles were densely packed, but there were no other more complex siege equipment. An army of hundreds of thousands of beasts was lined up on the left and right sides of the large array, and the Chinese army of Meng Shu and others was located in the rear of the siege assault force, erecting countless strange flags made of animal bark, and it felt like the barbarian army outside the city was like the monster army besieging the city in "Warcraft" in memory. Thinking of this, Zhang Lang couldn't help but smile.

The drumming outside the city suddenly stopped, and the horn of the Nanban sounded loudly, whining ......, resounding through the sky.

The earth stirred, and a wave of tens of thousands of troops roared towards the walls.

"Catapult launch!"

The catapults on the city walls were the first to shoot, and with a loud roar, stones the size of basins were thrown into the sky and whistling towards the barbarian army. Cracking sound...... One by one, the stones fell into the soldiers, the flesh and blood flew sideways, and the sound of the city gate crashing was endless!

The barbarians are brave, in the face of the onslaught of Lu Bu's army's catapults, these beasts that smelled blood not only did not retreat, but became even more excited and crazy, one by one holding their weapons high and howling like crazy, like crazy wolves, insects, tigers and leopards!

"Bed crossbow fire!"

The barbarians came into range of the bed crossbows, and the bed crossbows set up on the walls began to wield. Huge spears and arrows whistled out of the city, striking one of the barbarian leaders, piercing through them in an instant, and then piercing two more barbarian soldiers in succession, and finally pinning the fourth Manchu soldier far to the ground; Huge spears and arrows roared and raged from them, pulling out blood-colored traces, which were shocking.

The barbarian army still did not flinch, it was still extremely crazy, but the scene was a little chaotic.

The lord's brows furrowed under the Chinese army, and Lu Bujun's powerful long-range firepower surprised and shocked her. In fact, other barbarian leaders, including Meng Shu, also had this idea.

"Blow the horn a little louder!" Meng Shu shouted from the horn hand next to him. The trumpeters immediately blew desperately. Woo ......, it feels different from just now, as if an animal has been whipped and is starting to work harder.

The barbarian siege force was facing forward with the powerful long-range fire on the city walls, and people were dying every moment, and the screams were numbing. The barbarian soldiers rushed forward, they were all thinking: just rush under the city wall, it will be our turn to exert power, and we must make the Han people look good when the time comes!

Finally, they rushed under the city walls at great cost. The soldiers were excited, but they could not attack directly, because there was a moat several meters wide in front of them blocking the way. The soldiers carrying the mud and stones on their backs filled the moat one after another, and the moat splashed in all directions for a while.

"Crossbowmen shoot!"

Locust-like arrows fell from the city walls, and the sound of swishing was endless. The barbarian sergeants who hurriedly filled the moat were shot to the ground, and many rolled into the moat, and in a matter of moments, the clear water of the moat turned into a muddy mixture of yellow and red.

The barbarian soldiers under the city walls had no shelter and became the best target for crossbowmen, and the barbarian soldiers with leather shields tried their best to resist the opponent's arrows, but their thin leather shields could not block the powerful shots at all, and they were pierced one after another, and the shield-bearers died!