According to Wei Huang's original intention, he wanted to forcibly "eat" Wanshan Fort with the advantage of strength before the Northwest Army reacted, so that the Northwest Army's encirclement could open a gap.

However, Wei Huang underestimated two points, one is the ability of the Northwest Army to defend the city, although the Northwest Army is famous for its iron cavalry, but its fundamental responsibility is to garrison the central capital, resist the southward movement of the grassland cavalry, and defending the city is not new to the Northwest Army, and it can even be said to be a housekeeping skill. Another point is that he underestimated Wei Ban's reaction speed, in his opinion, even if Zhuge Gong sent a light cavalry to report for help as soon as possible, it would take more than half a day to come and go, this time was enough for him to capture Wanshan Fort, but what he never expected was that Wei Ban already knew about it just half an hour after the war, so this time Wei Ban's attack was much earlier than Wei Huang expected. At this time, some soldiers of the Jiangnan Army had already gained a firm foothold in the city, and Wei Huang's face finally had a faint smile, but it was at this time that the more than 10,000 cavalry led by Wei Ban finally arrived at the battlefield in time, like a steel knife stabbed into the heart of Wei Huang's army without warning, and perfectly completed the battle of this rush and anti-encirclement.

The sudden insertion of the Wei forbidden cavalry brought an almost devastating blow to the Wei Huang army, not only completely cutting through the rear of the Wei Huang army, but also charging back and forth, and completely dividing the Wei Huang army into two pieces, making it impossible to take care of the end and the end.

Wei Huang was shocked and angry, but since he can be the right governor of Jiangdu, then there must be something outstanding, although the battle situation is unfavorable, but he did not panic, let alone wait to be killed, but tried his best to gather troops, intending to form a strangulation with Wei Ban's cavalry, and the worst thing to fight and retreat.

After all, Wei Huang has been leading the troops for many years, and he knows that the infantry can only compete with the cavalry, and if it forms a rout, it is destined to run two legs of four legs, and it must be a slaughter situation of "can't escape, can't fight", and at that time Hugh said that it was 50,000 infantry troops, even 100,000 infantry troops were not enough for this 10,000 cavalry to kill. Therefore, Wei Huang would rather fight with Wei Ban and burn the jade, and in the end only a remnant army remained, rather than be chased and killed by Wei Ban.

Just when Wei Huang barely stabilized his formation and began to slowly change his formation, the gate of Wanshan Fort slowly opened from the inside, and then Zhuge Gong's five thousand cavalry poured out.

These 5,000 cavalry became the last straw that overwhelmed the Weihuang army, not only dealt a great blow to the morale of the Weihuang army, but also formed a two-sided attack with the more than 10,000 cavalry troops of Wei Ban, disrupting all the layouts of Weihuang, and the 15,000 cavalry army was like a sickle in the hands of an old peasant in autumn, cutting into the formation of the Weihuang army like a crop, and began to harvest their lives on a large scale.

At this time, Wei Huang's heart was completely cold, and it was the kind that was cold through his heart, if the infantry army under his command was a strong army like the Northeast Army, he would not despair now, and he might even have the strength to fight, but now he has an ordinary army that has not been in war for a long time, although after the whole army, it is impossible to catch up with the Northwest Army at once, in the end, there is still a huge gap between the two sides, coupled with a series of changes, it has long been a loss of courage, morale, and after being cut back and forth by the two cavalry armies, it has been defeated, and even a large-scale rout。

Wei Huang is also a decisive person, without hesitation to lead the guards to start breaking through, without this 50,000 army can be called a broken muscle, but if the life is lost, then everything is empty, which is more important, Wei Huang naturally distinguishes clearly.

Wei Ban, the upstart of the Northwest Army, stared at Wei Huang who fled in a hurry, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, today he wants Wei Huang to know what it means to be defeated.

He put on a posture of besieging the city and fighting, not to really fight a protracted war here, but to achieve the purpose of dividing troops to lure the two Xiang defenders to take the initiative to attack, now Wei Huang has gone out of the city, and is defeated and lost, then Wei Ban will chase to the end, not only to completely eat Wei Huang's 50,000 troops, but also to capture Xiangfan City, one of the two Xiang!

In advance, Wei Ban prepared two ambushes, one of which was the more than 10,000 cavalry that rushed to attack, and the other was the 300 Zhongdu cannons and 30,000 siege infantry.

In the ensuing pursuit, Wei Ban and Zhuge Gong wiped out Wei Huang's 50,000 army without much effort, and deserters, dead corpses, and soldiers were all over the mountains and fields. Wei Huang and his hundreds of personal guards were almost driven to the city of Xiangfan by Wei Ban, and as long as you Wei Huang dared to enter the city, then I would dare to follow in.

At this time, Wei Huang was like Xu Lin under the middle capital back then, completely in a dilemma. He never imagined that what should have been a full and ambitious dispatch would end up like this.

As a last resort, Wei Huang could only let his guards stay outside the city, and he escaped into the city alone through the sling.

In this way, the 50,000-strong army can almost be said to be the only one who returned to Xiangfan City, and the rest of the people either died, fled, or surrendered, which was a real end of the annihilation of the entire army.

At this time, the defenders in Xiangfan City were only half of what they used to be.

After the 300 Zhongdu cannons arrived at Xiangfan City, Wei Ban did not hesitate, and immediately ordered a formation, and after half an hour, the 300 Zhongdu cannons lined up to face Xiangfan City, and then loaded the boulders wrapped in oil cotton, and waited for the battle.

At this moment, whether it was the foot soldiers, the cavalry, or even the defenders on the head of Xiangfan City, there was a moment of silence, waiting for the next shocking scene.

Wei Ban raised his right hand high, and after a moment's pause, he swung it down.

The boulder was ignited, and then with the sound of the reed of the Zhongdu cannon, it flew high, drew a perfect parabola, and fell towards Xiangfan City.

Of the 300 cannons, 300 flaming boulders flew up almost at the same time, filling the entire sky.

This scene can only be described in four words.

Meteor shower.

Hundreds of burning boulders smashed into this Jiangnan Xiongcheng together, and all the soldiers on the battlefield were shocked.

Boulders fall on the top of the city, fall into the city, or fall directly on the city walls.

Above and below the city, inside and outside the city, the earth shook and the mountains shook, and the flames were everywhere.

Under such an offensive, the flesh and blood body didn't even have time to make the slightest sound before it completely turned into a puddle of "paste" that was difficult to distinguish, and even Xiangfan City, which was as stable as a mountain, began to tremble slightly, as if it was embarrassed and burdened.

Wei Ban and Zhuge Gong looked at the results of the first round of salvos, and Zhuge Gong couldn't help but praise: "It is worthy of being a siege weapon." ”

Wei Ban narrowed his eyes and said with a smile: "With such a sharp weapon, naturally we can't live up to the king's hard work, and this battle should be fought to conquer Xiangfan City!"

The sixth day of the second month of the fifth year of the short text.

After three days and nights of fierce fighting, one of the two Xiangfan City fell, and the defender Wei Huang surrendered.

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