Cao Cao shook his head and said with a wry smile: "We are only 300,000 horses, and the Jin army in front of us still has more than 600,000 troops!" Where do we have the strength to support Zilian? ”

Cao Cao thought for a moment, and said helplessly: "The army retreats to the defense line of Luojia Mountain!" In addition, the countries of the Western Regions were ordered to immediately mobilize in an all-round way, and at the same time, the Eighth Army was transferred to the Western Regions and the reserve forces of the four states of Bingzhou, Chang'an, Yongzhou, and Yuzhou were mobilized! ”

"No!" The herald clenched his fists and withdrew from the tent. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Cao Cao looked at the sand table in front of him and frowned: "It seems that I am too careless!" ”

"Your Majesty, what did you say?" Ma Chao on the side didn't hear clearly, so he asked.

Cao Cao shook his head and said to Ma Chao: "Meng Qi, you immediately go down to prepare for the retreat of the army!" ”

"Yes!"

Cao Cao returned to the top and sat down, and Dian Wei stood quietly beside Cao Cao like a shadow.

Just as the Wei army was preparing to retreat, the Jin army, which had been standing still since the defeat of the Wei army a few days earlier, suddenly made a move, and more than 400,000 Jin troops surged out of the fortress and lined up in battle formations, including more than 700 catapults.

It seemed that the Jin army was going to storm the Wei army stronghold.

The Wei army immediately arranged defenses, and the twelve Shenwei cannons bombarded the Jin army's array, but the effect was not very ideal, after all, the Shenwei cannon was a siege weapon rather than a weapon to attack the enemy's living forces.

"General, are you sure?" On the city gate, Queen Silan asked if he was going to take off the flower road.

Totobuhua shook his head, "I'm not sure." ”

Queen Silan rolled her eyes and said angrily, "I knew you would say that!" ”

"Our offensive here is to drag down the Wei army, not to annihilate them!" ”

"Then why did you just say to the generals that you want to annihilate the Wei army in front of you and capture the emperor of Wei?"

Tokh Buhua said with a smile: "You have to give the soldiers a big goal!" ”

Queen Silan is also a resourceful person, and immediately understood the intention of getting rid of it.

At this time, a Jin general came over and reported: "Empress, general, the army is ready!" Just wait for the general's order! ”

Totobuhua nodded, "Let's go!" ”

The unique war drums of the Jin people sounded loudly, and more than 700 catapults braved the artillery fire of the Wei army to push into the attack position and began to bombard the Wei army camp.

The catapults on both sides bombarded each other, and the 100,000-strong army of the Jin army attacked the Wei army camp from both flanks.

The offensive and defensive battle lasted a whole day, the Jin army temporarily withdrew to the fortress, the front of the Wei army camp was covered with the corpses of the Jin army soldiers, the Wei army camp was full of devastation, and the Wei soldiers were cleaning up the corpses of both sides near the fence trench.

In this day's battle, both the Wei army and the Jin army paid a lot of price, of course, the number of Jin army casualties was much higher than the Wei army's casualties.

Cao Cao stood on the watchtower and looked at the lonely battlefield in front of him, which was in stark contrast to the hustle and bustle of the day, but it made people feel a more tragic atmosphere.

Cao Cao suddenly had a very unreal feeling.

Ma Chao climbed the watchtower, followed Cao Cao's gaze and glanced at the wilderness outside the camp, and reported: "Your Majesty, the people of the Jin Kingdom have been repelled by us!" ”

Cao Cao nodded.

"Your Majesty, are we still retreating?" Ma Chao asked.

Cao Cao smiled bitterly and shook his head, "With the current situation, where can we withdraw!?" Today, the people of Jin Guo seem to be very desperate?! ”

Ma Chao nodded sympathetically, "The people of the Jin Kingdom are attacking desperately today!" In terms of morale alone, it can already be compared with our main army! ”

Cao Cao nodded solemnly and ordered: "At night, all armies take turns to rest!" Don't be negligent! ”

"No!!"

That night, a Jin army took advantage of the darkness to launch a surprise attack on the Wei army camp, losing most of it and failing to succeed.

At the same time, Xiahou Yuan and Hu Zhao, who were far away in the mountains of Khorezm, received Cao Cao's flying pigeon message.

Xiahou Yuan read the book and was shocked, and he suddenly got up, "I want to rescue Your Majesty immediately!" ”

"Miaocai, how do you want to rescue?" Hu Zhao asked.

Xiahou Yuan said impatiently: "I want to lead all the soldiers and horses here to gallop to your majesty!" ”

Hu Zhao analyzed: "This place is thousands of miles away from His Majesty's side, and it must take at least a month to arrive!" By that time, eighty percent of the war had already been decided! ”

"So what do you say? You can't just leave it alone, right? Xiahou Yuan said urgently.

Hu Zhao thought for a moment and said categorically: "For today's plan, we can only capture the Khorezm fortress as soon as possible, and then go out of the Khorezm Mountain and threaten the people of Jin from the flank!" ”

"Is this okay? In case," Xiahou Yuan said with some concern.

Hu Zhao said categorically: "If it doesn't work, it has to work!" The current situation on the entire northern front is very unfavorable for us, and we are the key to turning the tide of the war! ”

Xiahou Yuan said proudly: "Okay! We're going to storm Khorezm Fortress early tomorrow morning!! ”

Early the next morning, the war drums of the Wei army sounded loudly, revealing an atmosphere of fighting against the water.

More than 200,000 Wei troops, mainly the First Army, lined up in front of the fortress.

Immediately, the catapults on the forts of the left and right peaks began to bombard the fortress, and the target was mainly the Jin army's catapult positions on the city walls.

The artillery fire swept away the positions of the Jin artillery on the city walls, and most of the catapults on the city walls were destroyed.

Hu Zhao, who was standing on the watchtower and watching the battle, said to the commander beside him: "You can attack!" ”

The herald immediately informed Xiahou Yuan in the military formation with a banner.

Xiahou Yuan raised the Zhangba Snake Spear, and the tiger shouted.

The drums of war rang out in a hurry. The 30,000 Sabbatical troops pushed all kinds of ladders, flying hugs, ramming vehicles and other siege equipment towards the city wall.

The siege troops rushed halfway, and the catapults of the Jin people began to shoot, and the stone bullets roared and fell into the camp of the rest army, only to see many rest soldiers being lifted into the air by the huge power of the stone bullets.

Fortunately, the catapults of the Jin people were swept away by the catapults on the forts of the left and right peaks before, and now they are suppressed by the fire on the forts of the left and right peaks, otherwise the losses of the rest army will be even greater.

The Anxi army braved the fire and arrows of the Jin people to rush under the city wall, and together they let out a shout, and put the cloud ladder on the city wall, at the same time, dozens of soldiers roared and pushed the city cart towards the city gate, and the rest soldiers were very nervous, and at the same time they were extremely eager for victory, because if they made military achievements in the war, they could get quite rich rewards, and they might even be given the right of residence in the Central Plains by the Great Wei Empire to become the real Wei people, in the minds of the Anxi people, the core area inhabited by the Wei people is a real fairyland on earth.

At this time, the crossbowmen of the Jin army kept pouring arrows under the city wall, while the other Jin soldiers desperately pushed the sassal wood and rolling stones off the city wall.

Officer Kim shouted at the top of his voice.

Most of the dozens of resting soldiers who stormed the city gate fell under the rain of arrows from the Jin people, and immediately a resting soldier rushed up to take the place of the dead.

Pushing the city cart to the city gate, he quickly rushed to the city gate and began to ram the city gate.

At this moment, a liquid with a strong pungent smell was poured down from the round hole in the city gate, and many splashes were made on the roof of the storming car. Immediately afterward, several torches were thrown, one of which landed right on the roof of the liquid-stained stormer, jumped for a moment, and then the flames spread rapidly over the roof of the stormer.

In the blink of an eye, the storming cart was completely enveloped in flames, and it was only then that the dozens of resting soldiers under the storming cart decided to give up. Dozens of rest soldiers ran out from under the storming carts, and more than half of them fell in a rain of arrows.

At the same time, the Sabbath Army rushed to the city wall along the ladder and the flying tower, and the Sabbath soldiers were constantly smashed down by the wood and stones, and the Sabbath soldiers who rushed to the city were picked off the city wall in a blink of an eye.

The battle lasted nearly half an hour, but the Sabbatical Army did not make an exciting breakthrough.

Xiahou Yuan's general Zhang Zu ordered: "Let the first army give me up!" ”

"No!"

The 20,000 soldiers of the 1st Legion divided into two parts and pressed towards the walls on the left and right sides of the Khorezm fortress.

"General, look!!" On the watchtower behind the city walls, a golden officer pointed out the city and shouted.

Next to him was the general of the Kim Kingdom, who was in charge of defending the Khorezm line.

Huang Xuan had already seen the movement outside the city, and frowned: "This is the elite of the first army of the Wei army!" I didn't think they would be desperate on the first day! Give the order to go down, and all the reserves will go up to the city wall at once! ”

The officer was not surprised at this order, and any careless move in front of the elite First Army of the Wei army would be fatal.

After 20,000 officers and men of the 1st Army Corps entered the range of the enemy's long-range fire, they immediately dispersed their formation and began to charge.

The Wei army quickly rushed under the city walls, and the rest army under the city walls naturally gave way to the line of attack when they saw the arrival of the First Army.

The Wei army's obstacle sword warriors rushed upwards along the ladder erected by the rest army.

It took only a quarter of an hour to storm the city walls.

The warriors of the barrier sword and the soldiers of the Jin army launched a tragic bloody battle on the head of the city, the number of Jin people was dozens of times that of the Wei army at the head of the city, and the Jin army at this time was quite fierce and fearless of death, and the Jin people finally aroused all their fighting passion in order to protect their homeland.

Although Jin Guoren's performance was quite admirable, he still kept retreating in front of the First Legion Barrier Sword Warriors.

The Barrier Warrior wielded the Barrier Knife and set off a rolling wave of blood in the Jin Army, even if he was seriously wounded, he still fought to the death, and it was constantly seen that the seriously injured Barrier Warrior died with the enemy, and his courage could make the gods fear.

The First Legion Barrier Sword Warriors, with their fearless and indomitable momentum, finally tore a few big holes in the city wall after paying a considerable price.

Huang Xuan was shocked and said: "It's unbelievable! Fast! Order the catapults on the inner city walls to sweep the city! ”

When the herald heard this order, he was taken aback, "General, in this case, our people will suffer more casualties than the Wei army!" ”

He had a point! Because there are far more Jin troops than Wei troops in the current city, once the cannon is fired, I am afraid that the casualties of the Jin people will be even more heavy! (To be continued.) )