Hundreds of large counterweight trebuchets were throwing stones and fireballs almost simultaneously, and 500 bed crossbows were firing crossbow arrows day and night, and the dense offensive covered Fancheng!

Rumble!

Twenty-four Hongyi cannons were filled with gunsmoke, firing solid bullets at Fancheng, and solid bullets violently bombarded the walls of Fancheng!

The Shangyong Army invested 50,000 troops, the Youzhou Army invested 100,000, the Central Plains Army invested 150,000, and the captured tens of thousands of Jingzhou troops, a total of 300,000 troops, under the command of Wu Qi, attacked Fancheng day and night!

The crowd almost flooded this city!

The only thing that Fancheng relied on was the troops and grain and grass brought from the water by the Jingzhou Naval Division.

However, the speed at which the walls of Fancheng were damaged had exceeded the speed at which the defender Liu Renzhan could repair them.

The Xia army had two siege weapons, Xiangyang cannon and Hongyi cannon, and Wu Qi applied to transfer Liu Ye, the "thunderbolt" who had a bonus to trebuchets, so that the Xia army's offensive was extremely brave, so that Liu Renzhan, a famous general in the Southern Tang Dynasty who was good at defense, was increasingly tired.

Liu Renzhan finally fell ill because of the high-intensity defense of the city.

And at this time, the offensive of the Xia army became more and more ferocious!

Han Shizhong led the Jingzhou Navy Division to continuously support Fancheng, but he did not dare to land from other places, otherwise he would be defeated by the Xia army on land.

Fancheng wolf smoke was everywhere, Han Shizhong was powerless, and the deep sense of powerlessness made Han Shizhong feel guilty: "Fancheng has now become a lonely city in Jiangbei, Liu Renzhan sticks to Fancheng, it is just a dead end, it is better to give up Fancheng." ”

However, almost all the generals in Jingzhou knew that if Fancheng was abandoned, most of Xiangyang would not be able to hold it.

Boom Boom –

With a loud bang, one of the walls of Fancheng collapsed because it could not withstand the continuous high-intensity bombardment of the Xiangyang cannon and the Hongyi cannon!

"Kill!"

Li Guang took Zhou Yafu's fine willow battalion to grab the gap and started a fierce street battle with the defenders of Fancheng!

I have to say that Liu Renzhan, as a first-class defender, provided a lot of bonuses for the defenders of Fancheng.

However, once the walls that the defenders used as a barrier fell, it almost meant that a city had fallen.

Li Guang descended to the earth like a god on the battlefield of Xiangfan, shot and injured the tiger idiot Xu Chu, and as the first general of the Xiliu Battalion, he took the lead in entering Fancheng, and no one could stop him!

Huang Zhong and Qin Qiong, who could stop Li Guang, retreated to Xiangyang, and Liu Renzhan could only fight alone!

"You guys, come with me and kill the enemy!"

Liu Renzhan got up from the hospital bed, dragged his seriously ill body, and led the defenders of Fancheng to fight the trapped beasts.

The defenders of Fancheng were affected by the main general, and after Fancheng was breached, they still swore not to surrender, and fought bloodily with more and more Xia troops in the city!

Li Guang galloped through the city, shooting all the arrows in his quiver, and even killing two defenders with one arrow!

Li Guang had to pull out the ring head knife and fight hand-to-hand with the defenders of Fancheng!

The fighting spirit of the defenders of Fancheng is extremely tenacious, and they will not retreat from the fight to the death!

"Fancheng has been broken, surrender quickly!"

Li Guanglian beheaded dozens of people, shouted loudly, and tried to recruit the defenders of Fancheng.

The defenders of Fancheng are still relying on fortifications such as antlers, fences, and arrow towers to defend to the death, and every step forward of the fine willow battalion will have to pay a price!

Wei Wushu, Yellow Turban Army, Yu Linwei and other elite legions also attacked the city one after another, and Fancheng was bleeding!

"The besiegers are most afraid of this kind of stubborn defenders."

Wu Qi saw that the defenders of Fancheng under the command of Liu Renzhan were still fighting to the death after the city was broken, and he couldn't help but feel a headache for Liu Renzhan.

First-class defenders generally have the charm to influence the defenders to defend to the end.

"Fight!"

Liu Renzhan pressed the sword and beheaded a fine willow battalion soldier!

More than a dozen soldiers of the fine willow battalion held halberds and besieged the seriously ill Liu Renzhan, and the halberd pierced Liu Renzhan's chest!

Liu Renzhan fell to the ground with a bang.

Knowing that it was in vain, Liu Renzhan did not receive the order to surrender and fought until death.

The battle of Fancheng was extremely tragic, and in the end, the 50,000 defenders of Fancheng were almost completely annihilated, and only two or three thousand people were captured.

Wu Qi was given a ruined city.

Li Guang was also shocked by the scene in front of him, Fancheng was in disarray, black smoke was billowing out, corpses were everywhere, and he didn't see how many soldiers surrendered, even if some soldiers were captured, it was because they were injured.

Liu Renzhan, the defender of Fancheng, was killed, and his body was brought to Wu Qi.

"Most of the famous generals who defend the city will encounter misfortune. Come and bury him. ”

Wu Qi has no woman's kindness.

On the contrary, Wu Qi treated himself and the soldiers strictly, sharing weal and woe.

Wu Qi knew that Ci was not in charge of the army.

In troubled times, whether it is your own general or the enemy general, it is common to be injured or killed, and it is not surprising.

Liu Renzhan turned Fancheng into a blood-colored city, and inflicted tens of thousands of casualties on Wu Qi's besieging troops, and had already won Wu Qi's respect.

It's just that the opponent is the opponent after all, and only by capturing Fancheng and pressing Xiangyang can the Xia army's combat purpose be achieved.

Fancheng was lost, and Wu Qi's army was only separated from Xiangyang by the Han River.

"The shipyards of Xinyecheng and Shangyongcheng are mass-producing warships, and as long as they prepare enough ships to transport 300,000 troops to the south of Hanshui, they can capture Xiangyang, then Jiangling and Jingnan...... No, maybe if Xiangyang is taken, Jingzhou will all surrender. ”

Wu Qi stood on top of the ruins of Fancheng and looked at Xiangyang across the Han River.

The difficulty of attacking Xiangyang City is higher than that of Fancheng. Xiangyang City is on the south bank of the Han River, the north of the city takes the Han River as the moat, the city is high and the pond is deep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Fancheng is on the north bank of the Han River, the terrain is unobstructed, there is no danger to defend, and the arch guards Xiangyang.

Therefore, there is a saying - Xiangyang made of iron, and Fancheng made of water.

"The 50,000 defenders of Fancheng have been wiped out!"

Jingzhou sailors witnessed the tragic and bloody battle of Fancheng, but they could not do anything, and watched Wu Qi, Li Guang, Wei Qing, Zhou Yafu and others annihilate the 50,000 defenders of Fancheng.

The sailors were more restricted than the cavalry and many times could not do anything.

The Xia army almost razed Fancheng, and was preparing warships to cross the river.

As long as they are willing to spend their money, Xinye and Shangyong City can quickly produce hundreds of warships.

The purpose of the Xia army was only to cross the Han River.

"Liu Renzhan is really a ruthless person, and I am far inferior to him in terms of defending the city."

Han Shizhong also had to think that Liu Renzhan was a ruthless man who defended the city and died with the city.

The generals of the Jingzhou Navy Division were silent, and the situation was not optimistic for them.

The Xia army has already made progress in various theaters.

Hanzhong, Dingjun Mountain, Liu Bei successively received the news that the three counties of Nanzhong were lost, and the three passes of Shu Road surrendered without a fight, and his expression was lonely.

No matter how tenacious Liu Bei's will is, it is difficult to withstand the sudden blow.

The backyard caught fire, and the territory that Liu Bei painstakingly managed was scattered.

"I have been displaced all my life, from Youzhou to Jizhou and Yizhou, is it just a mirror in the end?"

Liu Bei faced such a situation, he didn't know what to do.

The Inhuman Military Master Chen Xi also fell into a long silence.

"Big brother, let's fight again, defeat the Xiliang army, take advantage of the situation to capture Xiliang and Guanzhong, don't want Shu County!"

Zhang Fei had a whim when everyone was silent.

Chutian went to steal Chengdu, and Zhang Fei thought that he could go to Xiliang and Guanzhong.

Liu Bei's first reaction was to look at Chen Xi.

Chen Xi said slowly: "Yide's words may not be unreasonable, but they are ...... The probability of success, close to zero. ”

Guan Yu stroked his long beard: "Since there is still a breath, then the eldest brother might as well give it a try." Whether we live or die, we will fight on the battlefield with our eldest brother. ”

Liu Bei seemed to have made up his mind: "Jingluo can still hold Chengdu, let's take a risk and fight to the death with the Xiliang army in Dingjun Mountain." If he wins, attack Wudu County and Hanyang County, and take the entire Liangzhou. ”

"Ling Yang Su managed to defeat Wang Jian and capture Guanzhong, only in this way can there be a glimmer of life."

At this time, Liu Bei pinned his hopes on changing homes with Chutian and taking Liangzhou and Guanzhong.

Liangzhou and Guanzhong, the strategic position is above Yizhou.

The Shu army assembled at Dingjun Mountain, intending to start a decisive battle with the Western Liang army, defeat the Western Liang army in one fell swoop, and then attack Liangzhou.

The military advisor Chen Xi was indifferent, knowing that the success rate of Zhang Fei's proposal was extremely low, and he did not stop Liu Bei.

Liu Bei was too tenacious and ambitious, and if he was not cornered, it would be difficult for him to be truly loyal to the other princes.

Chen Xi also gave up leading Liu Bei's forces, and any strategy and strategy would be difficult to make up for in the face of the absolute strength gap.

Chen Xi can only hope for a miracle, provided that there is really a miracle.

Qinling, Wang Qian, Meng Tian, and Li Tao's Guanzhong army fought for a long time with Yang Su, Han Baohu, Shi Wansui, He Ruobi, and the three generals of Northern Qi.

Yang Su and other generals guarded the various exits of the Qinling Mountains and set up fortresses, making it impossible for the Guanzhong army to deploy its troops, blocking Wang Qian, Meng Tian, Li Tao and others for more than a year.

Yang Su's generals of the Sui Dynasty, as well as the three generals of the Northern Qi Dynasty, were not much inferior to the generals of Guanzhong.

Chutian also ordered Wang Li, Su Jiao, and Shejian, the three generals of the Great Wall Army, to be incorporated into Meng Tian's army and lead the Great Wall Army to support Meng Tian.

The level of Wang Li, Su Jiao, and Shejian was not enough to intervene in a war of such a scale, regardless of Yang Su, Han Baohu, and the three generals of Northern Qi, their abilities were all above Wang Li.

However, Wang Jian and Meng Tian can serve as the main generals, so the three generals of the Great Wall Army also intervened in the battle of Qinling.

"Liu Bei claimed that the Xia army was approaching Chengdu, so let's fight against the water and put it to death."

Yang Su received Liu Bei's order.

The situation of the Shu army is critical, and it has been driven to a desperate situation.

"Although I am not very willing to obey Liu Bei's orders, it seems that if I don't defeat the soldiers and horses in Guanzhong, my position will not be guaranteed. Rectify the soldiers and horses, give up the Qinling Mountain Road, and fight to the death with the Guanzhong army. ”

Under Yang Su's order, the soldiers and horses who had originally held the fortress gave way to the passage, and the Shu army lined up at the exit of the Qinling Mountains, and was forced to fight a decisive battle with the Guanzhong army.

Otherwise, the Shu army in Hanzhong will be blocked in the Hanzhong Basin until it surrenders.

The three generals of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Hu Luguang, Lanling Wang, and Duan Shao, were alone as soldiers and horses.

Yang Su is another soldier, with three Sui generals, Shi Wansui, Han Baohu, and He Ruobi.

Most of these are the old subordinates of the former player lord Zhao Long, who have a grudge against Chu Tian, as well as a group of generals recruited by Yang Su.

"The Shu army is finally planning to fight us in Hanzhong, it seems that they have reached a dead end, so we don't mind pushing them."

When Wang Jian learned that Yang Su had retreated and given way to the valley exit of the Qinling Mountains, he immediately understood Yang Su's intentions.

If Yang Su insisted on defending, he would definitely not give up space for the Guanzhong army to line up.

Then there is only one possibility, the Shu army will fight for the last time in Hanzhong.

Wang Jian went out of the valley and fought with Yang Su, while the other army and horses led by Li Tao went out of the valley and fought with the three generals of Northern Qi.

A group of soldiers and horses appeared from Qinling in Guanzhong.

Liu Bei launched the decisive battle of Dingjun Mountain, in an attempt to defeat the Xiliang army and revitalize the situation.

Chutian's strategy, pressing step by step, forced Liu Bei's forces into a dead end.