Chapter 187: Night Attack on Shu Camp
On March 27, 70,000 troops of Shu Han surrounded Tianshui, although there were 60,000 troops in Tianshui City, but 20,000 of them were Xinding, almost no combat experience, and only 40,000 were really elite soldiers.
Although there were more than 10,000 cavalry, in the face of a large number of Shu Han cavalry, Guo Huai still did not dare to go out of the city for a decisive battle, so he adopted the strategy of sticking to the city and waiting for Jiang Wei to attack.
In Tianshui City, there is still Dongxiang Princess Cao Aya, and there are generals such as Deng Ai and Xiahouba under Guo Huai. And Wen Yuan, known as the three armies of the brave champion, is also in Tianshui City at the moment.
Of the 70,000 troops brought by Jiang Wei, 50,000 were cavalry, including 20,000 Liangzhou iron cavalry, who were good at charging into battle and assassinating hand-to-hand combat. 10,000 Hun archers were good at long-range attacks, harassing raids. The 20,000 Qiang cavalry can shoot from afar and fight at close range, and they are all elite soldiers who have been in battle for a long time.
Among the 20,000 infantry, there are also world-famous strong armies such as the Qilin Army and the White Ear Army.
Therefore, although Wen Yuan wanted to go out of the city and fight Jiang Wei alone, Guo Huai once again appeared under the city of Longxi, afraid that Wen Yuan would be lured away from the battlefield by the Shu army as soon as he left the city, or be captured by the Shu army again, so Wen Yuan was not allowed to go out of the city.
Tianshui City, in terms of scale, is the largest city in Yongzhou except Chang'an, the city wall is tall, and the defense facilities are complete, Guo Huai believes that if Jiang Wei wants to attack Tianshui, he will definitely be hit and blooded.
However, after Jiang Wei surrounded Tianshui, he did not seem to be in a hurry to attack Tianshui immediately, but sent troops to cut off all the passages around Tianshui, and built a huge camp not far from Tianshui City, as if he planned to fight a war of attrition with Guo Huai.
The extension of the walled city, less than three hundred steps away from the gate of Tianshui City, Jiang Wei ordered Zhuge Zhan to assemble thirty thunderbolt cars in it, and used the thunderbolt car's ultra-long projection ability to bombard Tianshui City all the time.
The projection power of the thirty thunderbolts was so strong that the soldiers of the Wei and Shu armies were deeply shocked, no one had ever seen so many thunderbolts appear on the battlefield at one time, and every time the huge roar of the boulders thrown by the thunderbolts was like thunder, and the city walls, city gates and some buildings close to the city walls of Tianshui City were shot one after another.
Some of the stone bullets used by catapults were also wrapped in cotton cloth and oil, and when they were projected, huge fireballs were fireballed, so some houses in the city were ignited by the fire bombs, and thick smoke billowed up.
The defenders in Tianshui City also wanted to fight back, but at a distance of three hundred paces, even the bed crossbow on Tianshui City couldn't shoot it, let alone an ordinary bow and crossbow.
After exploration, Guo Huai found that the Shu army surrounded the west, north and south with heavy troops, of which the Shu army camp was in the north, and only a small number of Hun archers were stationed in the east.
But Guo Huai does not plan to retreat, and there will inevitably be an ambush in the east.
Guo Huai carefully observed the position of the Shu army, and saw that the thunderbolt car of the Shu army was set up in the camp, if Wen Yuan and Xiahou Ba were sent to attack to destroy these thunderbolt cars, they had to break through the camp first, although the camp of the Shu army was very simple, but they were all made of giant wood, it was not easy to attack in a short time, and it was afraid that it would be difficult to lose the troops and generals, so Guo Huai chose to be patient.
He believes that there is always a limit to the ammunition prepared by the Shu army, and it will naturally stop when it is used up. And he also saw that the Shu army did not plan to attack the city, otherwise why did the Shu army only smash the city gate to the ground, and then stopped bombarding the city gate. Instead, they chose to bombard the walls all the time?
He must have wanted to force the Wei army to withdraw from Tianshui and fall into his trap of encircling three and missing one.
Guo Huai resisted hard for a day and a night, and the Shu army also bombarded Tianshui City for a day and a night, and did not stop attacking until late at night.
Guo Huai pondered that it should be that the Shu army's ammunition was running out, so he ordered Xiahou Ba and Wen Yuan to lead 2,000 cavalry each out of Tianshui City, and be sure to destroy the Shu army's damn thunderbolt array at night.
In the middle of the night, the moon and stars were scarce, the crumbling north gate of Tianshui City slowly opened, and Xiahou Ba and Wen Yuan quietly touched the dark, each with two thousand cavalry from Tianshui City.
The camp of the Shu army was very close to Tianshui City, and the two cavalry soon arrived at the periphery of the camp. On the arrow tower of the camp, there are a few Shu army sentries sentry, while most of the Shu army is sleeping at the moment.
Before leaving, Guo Huai's plan for Xiahouba and Wen Yuan was that Xiahou Ba would use his super high archery skills to shoot the sentries of the Shu army first, and then Wen Yuan would use her super martial arts to jump into the village, break open the gate of the village, and then the cavalry would rush in, destroy the thunderbolt of the Shu army, and then set a fire in the village, which would complete the task and withdraw to Tianshui City.
Everything went smoothly according to the previous plan, Xiahou Ba's bow skills were excellent, and he had the posture to catch up with Xiahou Yuan. At this distance, unless he encounters a top player, he is completely confident that he can do it without missing a shot.
He calmly bent his bow and arrow, calmly aiming at his target. I only heard
"Hugh! Stop! Stop! ”
A series of bows were broken into the air, and Xiahou Ba had already shot a series of arrows in a row, quickly shooting and killing several sentries on the arrow tower of the Shu army.
Then, Xiahou Ba nodded towards Wen Yuan, indicating that the sentries of the Shu army had been eliminated by him.
Wen Yuan understood, her bright apricot eyes flashed with a hint of joy, her beautiful eyes were raised, and a smile appeared on her white melon seed face. I saw that she quickly took off the spear from her horse, and then approached the gate of the Shu military camp with light and fast steps, transported her true qi, and jumped lightly, and turned over the gate of the village.
After landing on the ground, after easily killing two sleepy-eyed Shu soldiers, he cut off the bolt of the gate of the village with the tip of his gun, and then kicked open the gate of the camp.
The Wei cavalry guarding outside the gate of the wall, seeing Wen Yuan easily opened the gate of the Shu army camp, they were all excited, and the Shu army's thirty thunderbolt cars were neatly placed in the camp, like a lamb in the circle, just waiting to be hunted.
Xiahou Ba immediately gave an order:
"Attack!"
Four thousand cavalry rushed in, and they all entered the Shu army camp and began to destroy the thunderbolt chariots of the Shu army.
Wen Yuan whistled, and soon her beloved mount followed the whistle to her side.
"Tonight's night attack is very smooth, it seems that Jiang Wei is nothing more than that! Destroy Jiang Wei's thunderbolt and see if he has any other way to attack Tianshui. ”
Wen Yuan was thinking proudly, when suddenly, there was a terrible horn sound in the night sky.
The voice was poignant and sharp, instantly piercing the silent night sky, all the people involved in the night attack couldn't help but stagnate, this voice was too familiar, under the city of Longxi, the Wei army still remembered this sound, this was the horn sound of the Shu army's cavalry attack.
"Kill!" Suddenly, a burst of shouts and killings shook the sky, and along the north gate of Tianshui City, a large number of Liangzhou iron cavalry rolled out, quickly blocking the retreat of the Wei cavalry.
Inside the camp, pairs of heavily armed unicorn soldiers armed with long knives poured out in a strict queue.
Xiahou Ba and Wen Yuan were surrounded in the camp in an instant.