After the grain and grass were burned by the future people, the Shu army was panicked, and Kong Ming had to order a retreat, so a large number of men and horses immediately retreated to the rear of the ditch city.

Fortunately, Kong Ming made full preparations when he came, and let Ma Dai lead 5,000 troops to garrison here and hoard a large amount of grain and grass to prevent the army from losing the battle with Cao Wei's coalition army as a retreat stronghold.

Kong Ming led the defeated troops all the way to the ditch, due to the hot weather and the high mountain and dangerous roads, coupled with repeated defeats, the morale of the soldiers was very low, so they walked very slowly, fortunately, the Cao Wei coalition army also suffered a lot of losses in the battle of this sneak attack Liu Chuang led the ambush Wei army almost all died, and the soldiers who resisted in the camp also suffered heavy casualties, plus Cao Ren's large army had not yet arrived, so Zhang He and Li Yong They were also unable to organize troops to pursue the defeated Shu army.

The Shu army led by Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong and others in the Northern Expedition on the Western Front also fought against the Wei army led by Xiahou Yuan and Sima Yi who were stationed in Hanzhong for defense.

Kong Ming, who had retreated to the city of Tangqu, immediately ordered the reinforcement of the city and the excavation of the moat to strengthen the city's defenses. In addition, this city is small, and the places where troops can be garrisoned in the city are limited, so he led 50,000 troops to garrison the city, and then let Ma Chao and Wei Yan each lead 50,000 troops to garrison in the north and south of the city near the water source, and asked them to dig trenches, strengthen defenses, and use each other as horns to resist the attack of Cao Wei's coalition army.

While arranging the defense, Kong Ming once again convened a military council. After three battles and three defeats, the morale of the soldiers was very low, especially when it came to the weapons of the future people, everyone felt that they could not defeat them at all.

Seeing that the generals present were a little disheartened, Kong Ming said to everyone: "Victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, although our army lost three battles, it did not hurt its vitality, and the strength of the army is still there." According to the calculations of this minister, the Cao Wei coalition army that came to attack this time is now at the end of the crossbow, and will soon collect troops and retreat. ”

Then he took out a bullet casing and a bullet and showed it to everyone and said: "Everyone, please see, this is a thing fired from the weapons of the future people, the bullet casing was picked up by someone I sent someone to pick up at the scene of the battle, and this pointed bullet was collected from the body of the person who was wounded by it. ”

Holding the bullet case in his left hand, he inserted the bullet into the bullet case with his right hand and said to everyone: "After careful inspection, this shell contains gunpowder, and when the gunpowder is ignited, this pointed bullet will be fired out of the tube." This pointed warhead is so fast that it is invisible to the naked eye, so after hearing its sound, the people who are pointed by its tube fall to the ground one after another, and they are also killed. ”

"The prime minister is really a strange person! Can we also use this weapon to fight it? The crowd asked.

Kong Ming said to everyone: "Such fine skills are beyond the reach of today's craftsmen, so we can only summon the world's skilled craftsmen to try to make them after retreating from Cao Wei's coalition army." ”

Everyone sighed again: "It seems that we can't compete with it at this moment!" What if people come to attack the city in the future? ”

Kong Ming also said: "According to the calculations of this future, although the car and weapons used by this future person are extremely powerful, they are limited by the space of the vehicle, and the ammunition they carry must be limited; And most of its conquest must have been consumed along the way, and there should be little left. If our army sticks here, there is nothing to do about it, just wait for its ammunition and food to run out, and it will not be able to attack it, and then we will wait for the opportunity to counterattack and defeat the Cao Wei coalition army in one fell swoop. ”

Wei Yan stood up and said: "Prime Minister, Cao Wei's coalition army has been successful in attacking the city many times, and Jingzhou City, which General Guan guarded, was not also captured by him?" ”

Kong Ming glanced at Wei Yandao and said, "As far as I know, the people of the future have attacked the city several times by him to destroy the city gate with a powerful firearm, and then use that powerful divine car to knock down the city gate and then break into the city. If I seal the gates of the city with earth and stones, see how they will break into the city. ”

Ma Chao, Wei Yan and other generals clapped their hands and shouted: "The prime minister is wise! I'll stop the gates later!" ”

Time passed quickly, three days passed in a blink of an eye, and Kong Ming anxiously waited every day for news from Zhao Yun and them of the Western Road and Northern Expedition, hoping that they could break through the Wei army's defense line in Hanzhong and force Cao Cao to order Cao Ren to withdraw his troops. But what I never expected was that the Western Route Army led by Zhao Yun was strangled by Xiahou Yuan and Sima Yi on the front line of Hanzhong. So he looked up to the sky and sighed: "It seems that Zilong will also return in vain, and we can only live and die together in this city!" ”

After the battle, they were busy cleaning and cleaning the battlefield, and then they waited for the arrival of the brigade led by Cao Ren.

In this battle, Li Yong and they also paid a lot, consumed a lot of ammunition, and the vehicle was also partially damaged, especially the wheel, although it is non-inflatable, but it is still made of rubber and other materials, and each battle was shot by the enemy's arrows only many times (even rockets with fire), especially in this battle, the wheels of the whole vehicle were shot into "hedgehogs", resulting in the wheels being out of circle, seriously affecting the driving of the vehicle, and the drone used to attack the grain and grass of the Shu army also crashed when returning.

In the end, after careful counting, only more than 5,000 rifle bullets (machine gun and sniper rifle bullets are common) remained; more than 600 rounds of pistol bullets; more than 20 mortar paodan rounds; 40 rockets, more than a dozen rounds and other ammunition.

Cao Ren received a letter from Zhang He's men that morning, knowing that Kong Ming's sneak attack had been thwarted, and he immediately asked to rush to Zhang He's forward camp, and arrived there that night to meet them.

When Li Yong saw the arrival of a large army led by Cao Ren, he immediately asked Cao Ren to lead a large army to the ditch to fight a decisive battle with the Shu army that had retreated there. Cao Ren felt that the Wei army had won successive battles and had high morale, so he agreed to his request, and after placing the wounded, he led his army to set out early the next morning to fight to the death with Kong Ming, who was stationed in the ditch.

After two days of marching, the army led by Cao Ren came to the place two miles in front of Danqu City and set up camp, and then Cao Ren led Li Yong, Zhang He and Xu Huang and other generals to inspect the terrain around the camp of the Shu army, but when they looked at the terrain, everyone gasped.

It was the summer of summer, and the river was swollen and widened and flowed very fast; In front of the castle there is a moat that looks like a freshly dug city, about 20 meters wide, which is connected to the small river outside the city, and the murky water is flooded with thin waves.

They looked at both sides of the city again, the terrain of the east and west mountains of the city was very dangerous, and at the foot of the mountain were stationed two large battalions of the Shu army, forming a horn with the city of the ditch; Flags fluttered in the camp of the Shu army, and the neighing of war horses and the shouts of soldiers drilled were heard from time to time.

At this time, there was a deafening sound of drums and trumpets in the direction of Danqu City, and Cao Ren and the others looked around, and there were many flags fluttering on the strong city wall in the distance, and one of the flags fluttering high had the word "Zhuge " written on it. At this moment, there was a group of people on the city tower vaguely around the person sitting on the wheeled cart in the middle, and his hand was holding a feather fan pointing at this side, presumably he also saw Cao Ren and them.

Cao Ren couldn't help but let out a loud voice, "This person must be Zhuge Kong Mingye!" After everyone saw it, they all nodded and agreed: "What the general said, this person is Kong Mingye." ”

After inspecting the defensive positions of the Shu army on the spot, they returned to their camp. After Li Yong went back, he went to the vehicle to carefully observe the images transmitted by the satellite, and found a lot of details about the deployment of the Shu army, so he took Zhang He and went to Cao Ren to report the situation.

After Cao Ren listened to Li Yong's report, he immediately summoned all the generals to the Chinese army's big tent to hold a pre-war meeting, and everyone agreed to take advantage of the enemy's low morale and lack of fighting spirit to defeat them in one go, and fight to Xichuan as soon as possible to eliminate the forces of Liu Bei in Xishu. In the end, Cao Ren decided to launch an attack on Danqu City early tomorrow morning.

At dawn the next day, after breakfast had been eaten, the army immediately marched towards the city of Ditch. The vanguard troops that Li Yong and Zhang He had replenished were the first to take the lead, and it didn't take long for them to march into the moat in front of the city.

Someone had already passed the news of seeing the Wei army attacking Zhuge Liang in the city, so he immediately ordered the entire Shu army in the city to come to the city wall and prepare to meet the Cao Wei coalition army.

After arranging the troops, he asked the soldiers operating on the catapult position to be notified to prepare for battle (he had already transported the catapults from the last battle here and secretly set them up, the target was directly in front of the city gate, to prevent the future people's chariots from attacking here from the city gate). ）

Zhang He lined up his 20,000 horses and Cao Renqin's 50,000 horses in front of the city, while Cao Hong and Xu Chu each led 80,000 troops to surround the Shu army of Ma Chao and Wei Yan stationed on both sides of the city, preventing them from coming down from the mountain to attack the flank of the Wei army attacking the city.

Chen Tao drove the "Crossing Ship" to rush forward and rushed into the moat at once, but because Kong Ming had already raised the height of the moat embankment on the side of the city wall with huge stones, the "Crossing Ship" could not cross the embankment and go ashore, so he could only drive in the moat to find a place to go ashore.

At this moment, a few "whoosh!" were heard from the direction of the city. Several boulders fell from the sky and smashed into the river around the "Crossing Ship", stirring up several high water columns, which frightened the people watching from the Wei army's position.

"Not good! The stone thrower of the Shu army, rush to the river embankment! Li Yong shouted loudly.

Just as Chen Tao was about to increase his horsepower and rush to the opposite bank, he heard a loud noise from the top of the vehicle, and then the whole vehicle shook violently to the side. Wang Yan shouted: "We were hit by a stone, rush to the other side!" ”

At this time, there were still boulders falling from the sky, Chen Tao gritted his teeth and drove the vehicle to the opposite shore, but no matter how hard he tried, he never rushed to the opposite shore.

Seeing that he couldn't rush over, Li Yong had to ask Chen Tao to hurry back to his camp, so Chen Tao drove the vehicle back and ended the storming of Danqu City.

After seeing that the vehicle of the future people was smashed and returned to the camp of the Wei army, the Shu army standing on the city wall stood up one after another, holding their swords and cheering for victory.

Cao Ren and the others were very disappointed when they saw Li Yong and their incomparable courage in retreating, and when they saw Li Yong and their retreat from this extremely brave car, they couldn't help but marvel, it turned out that the car was hit by a boulder, and all the guns on the top were destroyed, and the roof of the car was smashed into a deep pit, but fortunately the people in the car were not injured.

Li Yong and the others drove the car out of range of the stone thrower in the city and stopped, and several of them walked out of the car, and when they saw their beloved car smashed into this tragic situation, they were all filled with righteous indignation.

Li Yong immediately took out the last drone from the car and prepared to take off, and then asked Wang Weihong to control the drone to fly to the city to find the position where the Shu army launched the stone thrower, and then Li Yong and Chen Tao took out mortars and shells from the car and quickly set them up, only waiting for the enemy target sent back by the drone and then fired back.

Wei Hong steadily controlled the drone that flew towards the city. Today was cloudy and the visibility was not very good, but in order to see the target clearly, he unconsciously lowered the height of the drone to find the treult position.

"Target found!" They could see the position of the catapult from the images that came back, and the cheers of many people who operated the trebuchet were dancing with their hands, and they had just hit the future man vehicle.

Wei Hong immediately located the position of the catapult and asked Wang Yan to pass it to Li Yong, but just as he was about to control the drone to return, suddenly the drone lost control, but from the images sent back, it was possible that the drone was shot down and fell to the ground, and then lost contact with the drone.

In fact, when the drone just flew into the sky, it was discovered by the Shu army standing on the city wall and reported to Kong Ming, who commanded the battle on the city tower, this Kong Ming already knew that the future people would have flying artifacts, so he immediately ordered to recruit strong archers in the army, and found a total of more than 30 people and concentrated training, specializing in dealing with the artifacts that flew at low altitudes from the future people.

After arranging the position of the trebuchant, he transferred these special archers here to defend, but he didn't expect the future people to really send drones to investigate, so they saw the drones coming from low altitudes, and a salvo shot down the future people's drones.

This is exactly what Kong Ming has carefully studied and pondered about the city defense

A wise man must lose a thousand thoughts, and finally tasted the first defeat