It wasn't until the next day that Fu Zhi came to Shiquan City with his troops, that he understood why Zhang Mancheng had no intention of attacking at all, with this kind of Xiongguan Jiancheng, there was really no need to rush out to attack the enemy, it was easier to wait for the enemy to collide with him.

Looking at this narrow ramp and the curved city walls that can be attacked on both sides, can this kind of place really be captured?

After observing for a long time, there was no good way to rack his brains, maybe the only thing that could be used was to capture the hill north of the city wall first, but the mountain was very steep!

Looking at it, he only felt that his head was a little dizzy, he really didn't know how to fight this kind of battle.

Attack it! You can't just come and go back without doing anything!

He ordered his troops to move forward along the hill on the east side, and while he began fortification work on this side of the mountain, he decided to dig the slope as flat as possible, even if there would be a larger gap in the siege of the city, at least to push the ranged troops up, otherwise it would be impossible to capture the city.

Seeing that Cao Jun was just digging but not attacking Zhang Mancheng, he was not in a hurry, he knew what Fu Zhi wanted to do, but, even so, how many long-range troops could he push up? Or does he feel like he doesn't have a ranged unit in the city?

On the surface, Fu Zhu honestly dug the soil for two days, but secretly, Fu Zhu infiltrated more troops into the mountains, wanting to take the mountain on the north side, but Zhang Mancheng had already prepared, and the Yellow Turban Army in the mountains did not fall behind at all, and Fu Zhu couldn't, so he had to continue to dig the soil. The originally narrow road was dug twice as wide, but it was not much wider, compared to the city wall. It's still a very narrow front.

Of course, he wasn't just digging in the dirt, he was doing something else.

"General, the scouts report that the number of people in the camp seems to have increased, and the scope of the camp has expanded, and Cao Jun often goes to the surrounding mountains these days to cut down trees and transport them back to the camp. Don't know what you're doing? ”

Zhang Mancheng thought about it and couldn't figure it out: "Who knows what they are going to do, maybe they want to make siege equipment." ”

"Perhaps, but General. What kind of equipment can be used for this kind of terrain? ”

"I don't know, you'll know when they figure it out."

"It's not a fire that will burn at that time."

"Maybe they'll wait for the rain to attack1

"It's possible, but if that's the case, how do we deal with it?"

"Smash it with a trebuchet. What else can be done? ”

"That's right, General. Cao Jun piled up logs in the camp, and if we could carry out a night raid, we would be able to clean them up with a fire.1

Zhang Mancheng's eyes flashed, but he seemed to remember something, shook his head and said, "Do you think you are stupid?" ”

"It's not stupid1

"He's inexperienced?"

"It won't be 1

"Then why do you think that the frustrated professor would be so careless and stuff the camp with flammable materials waiting for us to burn?"

"Is this a trap?"

Zhang Mancheng nodded: "It is very likely, there is no way to take us now, and he is doing everything possible to lure us to attack." He's only going to have a chance to win if we go out, or maybe the camp is really full of wood. They could even set us on fire, but just when we thought we were winning and chasing after us, their ambush came. ”

"In that case, is it an illusion that they are increasing the number of troops in their camp?"

"Hehe, you can order the scouts to check and see if there are any hidden camps around. The military advisor said that we are not going to defeat Cao Cao, what can we do if we defeat Cao Cao? Can you still occupy the West City? So we don't have any need to attack, our purpose is not to win, but to be undefeated, and to use the pressure of the undefeated and Cao Jun to demand benefits from Liu Bei and Sima Fang. I only now realize that the military advisor is really far-sighted, as if he has seen the evolution of this war a long time ago. ”

"I see! Amazing, when you think about it, wouldn't all the tricks of frustration be useless1

"Originally, yes, we don't seek victory, and we can help me 1

If he heard this, he would definitely be so angry that he would vomit blood! It turned out that Zhang Mancheng didn't intend to win this battle at all, in the face of such an unenterprising guy, no matter how great his ability was, it was impossible to deceive Zhang Mancheng, and if Zhang Mancheng didn't come out, Frustration would have no way to win.

In fact, the tricks he had made in the camp were indeed a trap for frustration, and he ostensibly increased the number of troops in the camp, but in fact reduced the number of soldiers, and these transferred soldiers built a very hidden camp further back.

He was just waiting for Zhang Mancheng to come out and burn down his camp, and then he pretended to retreat, lured Zhang Mancheng out to pursue, and then launched an ambush to defeat Zhang Mancheng in one fell swoop, and then took advantage of the situation to capture Shiquan City.

But Zhang Mancheng didn't seem to have found the possibility of burning the camp at all, and he couldn't wait to run into the city himself to tell Zhang Mancheng, come and burn my camp, I promise to let you succeed!

Seeing that Zhang Mancheng was indifferent, he came up with other tricks, building a raft with felled wood downstream, and then pretending to go upriver at night, but when the raft entered the range of long-range weapons in Shiquan City, the trebuchet in the city was a salvo, and the shooting boundary had already been demarcated, even at night, the river surface was completely covered.

The scattered raft rushed down with the current, and immediately washed the frustrated troops into a mess, and the frustrated gave had to retreat, losing a lot of troops in vain, and the people still didn't even get out of the city gate half a step.

In the following days, he exhausted all kinds of methods, anyway, Zhang Mancheng made up his mind not to go out of the city, and he could only choose to attack in the end.

After choosing a rainy day, he pushed the equipment he built and began another attack, these equipment focused on defending against the enemy's trebuchet, the heavy giant wood supported the spire, and it was covered with raw cowhide, it looked like a moving house, the boulder flew high from the city, and then smashed on the siege equipment, but the effect did not seem to be good, the small house trembled, and then continued to move forward!

Soon the siege machines were advanced to the end of the road dug by Fuzhi, and then one by one the machines were connected in a row, and the soldiers could rush through the small houses in a series to the point not far from the city wall, and use the shield array to form a defensive position and shoot at the defenders of the city. Then build a ladder on a very steep slope, rush up, and then build a ladder to prepare for the siege.

Seeing that a large number of Cao troops had gathered together, a gong suddenly sounded in the city, and then a large piece of paper talisman floated down from the sky, followed by a black oil can.

The exploding paper talisman broke through the shield of the Cao army, and then the oil tank fell with the torch fireball, although it was raining in the sky, a large amount of fire oil was still ignited, while the Cao army was in a hurry to extinguish the fire, the defenders of the city shot down the arrows denser than the raindrops, and the Cao army suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat.

Under the relentless blows of the trebuchet, the small houses were crushed one by one, and the frustrated offensive had to be stopped after losing more than a thousand soldiers.

After exhausting his scheming, the best result of the frustration was to advance the battle line to within a hundred steps under the city, in the process, the frustration lost tens of thousands of soldiers before and after, and the casualties of the other party may be less than three digits, this battle was too difficult, the impact of the terrain on the war has reached the point where people can not imagine, thinking of the way to the west, there are countless such terrains, Cao Cao has an urge to give up.

"I can't fight this battle, I can't imagine that Shu Dao is difficult, and it is difficult to become like this1

Cao Cao's exclamation contained the meaning of retreat, and Xi Zhi felt it keenly.

"Could it be that the lord is retreating and is not ready to continue attacking Shiquan?"

"The prime minister has also said before that if Shiquan and Nancheng cannot be taken down in one fell swoop, it will be difficult to take them head-on, and if these two cities cannot be taken, Hanzhong will only be out of reach.1

"Lord, it's the subordinates who advocate letting the frustrated professor beat up, and the lord thinks that the subordinates just want to try to see if they can beat it?"

"Oh? Could it be that Zhicai still has other ideas? ”

"Exactly, the subordinates think that this Shiquan must be fought, even if it can't be beaten, it might as well be fought slowly, the subordinates look at Zhang Mancheng's way of coping, he is determined not to win but to seek defeat, as long as our army is not greedy for merit, there should not be any big loss, the loss of frustration in the early stage, mainly because he is not familiar with the enemy army and terrain."

"That's true, but why do we have to hit Stone Spring?"

Xi Zhicai pointed to the map on one side and said: "My lord, please see, the importance of Hanzhong does not need to be repeated by his subordinates, so it is a matter of time before Shiquan is captured, and then now this opportunity, it just so happens that we will first repair the road leading to Shiquan, and also repair the advance fortress that attacked Shiquan." ”

"This opportunity? What does Zhicai mean? ”

"It means that Liu Bei will not come to harass, Liu Bei will definitely be happy to see us attack Shiquan, so he will not attack Xicheng, in this way, Fu Zhu is also idle to garrison Xicheng, it is better to take the opportunity to make preparations for attacking Shiquan as much as possible, if Fu Zhu finds a better way to attack during the period, or the Yellow Turban Army can't bear to show its head, maybe we can pick up a bargain."

Cao Cao pondered carefully, this is really the case, Xi Zhicai's idea is indeed very interesting.

"This is also very reasonable, being idle is also idle, it is not bad to be able to build roads and train soldiers, but this must be informed of frustration, so that he can control the losses and investment as much as possible."

"That's how it should be, and I think Gonghe can also understand the ingenuity in this."

At the same time, Fu Zhu is also opening up the road along the mountain road on the east side behind him, and he has the posture of repairing the road to the west of Shiquan, and similarly, he is also building the road in the direction of Xicheng, which makes Zhang Mancheng very helpless.

To be continued......