Seeing Wang Ling's embarrassed face, Zang Ba also had a bitter face.

Zang Ba, who has been in battle for a long time, naturally knows how to fight the battle, Zang Ba once followed Tao Qian, and also attached to Lu Bu, and later surrendered to Cao Cao, followed Cao Cao to fight in all directions, fought Yuan Shao, fought Sun Quan, and made great achievements.

When Cao Pi was alive, he relied on Zang Ba very much, and whenever there was a military priority, Cao Pi often consulted Zang Ba, and after Cao Rong ascended the throne, he released Zang Ba as a party member.

All of Zang Ba's achievements are all Zang Ba's fight on the battlefield with a knife and a gun, originally he was deeply skeptical that Cao Shuang could achieve six battles and six victories against Jiang Wei, and now after participating in a military conference, he feels that Cao Shuang is a straw bag, if these six battles and six victories are not falsely reported, it must be Jiang Wei's arrogant strategy.

Zang Ba was unwilling to follow such a coach to die, so he hurriedly said:

"General, Chang'an is a giant city in the world, it is very difficult to capture, in case of emergency, the last general suggests that it is still necessary to make complete preparations, such as siege vehicles, siege towers, thunderbolts and other siege equipment to be prepared before attacking Chang'an."

Cao Shuang was dissatisfied: "When will it be?" Our 120,000 troops are consumed here every day, and a lot of grain and grass are consumed every day, but we can't keep spending it here, Your Majesty is still waiting for my success. ”

Zang Ba said again: "At least ten days must be given to the last general to prepare siege equipment!" ”

"Ten days?" Cao Shuang was very shocked, and then refused: "That's not good, ten days is too long, General Ben has decided, he will attack Chang'an tomorrow, and he will attack Chang'an City according to the original strategy of luring the enemy!" ”

Coach Cao Shuang set a siege strategy, Zang Ba and Wang Ling knew that no matter what they said, it would not be useful, since this is the case, let's fight a battle first, even if it is to explore the reality of the Shu army!

The next day, when the scorching sun was in the sky, Cao Shuang raised an army of 120,000 and set up a super array outside Chang'an City.

The large array of the Wei army was neat, with the sword and shield men in the front, the crossbowmen in the middle, the pikemen in the back, and a large number of cavalry on both wings and in the rear.

At the head of Chang'an City, Jiang Wei and Zhuge Zhan, Liu Bao, He Yaoge and other generals were a little dumbfounded when they saw the army outside the city.

Zhuge Zhan couldn't help but sigh: "This Cao Shuang is not a fool, right?" Unexpectedly, he pulled out an army of 120,000 in one breath and put on such a large formation outside Chang'an City, except for the bed crossbow in front of the formation, there were almost no other siege equipment, what is this for, pulling the army to bask in the sun outside Chang'an City? ”

"It's good to bask in the sun, it's good to bask in the sun more!" Oh He said jokingly.

Jiang Wei smiled and said to Zhuge Zhan: "Little Zhuge , don't you see that Cao Shuang is trying to lure our army out of the city to face the battle, and then want to wait for an opportunity to defeat our army outside the city?" ”

"Dudu, let me lead 20,000 Qiang to kill them!" Oh He Yao Ge pleaded.

Jiang Wei shook his head and said, "Oh, you want to be a pioneer again, you can do it, but it's still the old rule, you can only defeat and not win, are you still willing to go?" ”

Oh He shook his head like a rattle, "No, no, no! I'm not going, I'm not going to fight this kind of! ”

Liu Bao asked a little puzzled: "Governor, you deliberately wanted to raise Cao Shuang before, in order to reap greater results, now there are 120,000 troops outside the city, if you can defeat this army, Cao Wei will inevitably be injured and the national strength will decline greatly, why do we still have to fight a defeat and invincible battle?" ”

Jiang Wei saw that everyone was a little puzzled, so he said: "There are 120,000 troops outside the city, and in the city of our army, the reinforcements from Tianshui, Lanzhou, and Longxi have not yet arrived, plus General Ma Dai's 20,000 Liangzhou iron cavalry and General Wang Ping's 20,000 Hanzhong elites are not in the city, and our army is now only 80,000 troops in Chang'an, and there is no certainty of victory in terms of troops." ”

"Then let's continue to hang up the war-free card and leave this group of Wei soldiers to bask in the sun, and see what they can do to us?" Xiao Zhuge said with a smile.

"But what if the Wei army runs away?" Jiang Wei asked rhetorically, "There are two battle-hardened veterans in the Wei army, Wang Ling and Zang Ba, although they nominally obey Cao Shuang's orders, but if the two of them find out that this battle will be defeated and withdraw their troops in advance, what should they do?" ”

Xiao Zhuge thought about it and felt that Jiang Wei was reasonable, and he should really try to hold off the Wei army at the moment and wait for reinforcements from Lanzhou, Longxi, and Tianshui to arrive.

So he said: "In this way, it is true that we must continue to use arrogant tactics against Cao Shuang." ”

Jiang Wei smiled and nodded, "Not bad!" And let him jump for a few more days, wait for the reinforcements from the Yongliang counties to arrive, and then wait for Wang Ping and General Wei Yan to come out of the Meridian Valley, our army can surround and eat the 120,000 troops outside the city with absolute superiority and one spirit, and at that time, the entire battle situation will be reversed. ”

Hearing Jiang Wei say that he wanted to eat the 120,000 troops of the Wei army in one go, all the generals in the city couldn't help but gasp, what a bold grand strategy this is, for the sake of this grand strategy, just let Cao Shuang continue to run rampant for the time being, it's worth it!

Jiang Wei took advantage of the situation and said: "Oh He Yaoge, since you proposed to fight the vanguard, it is up to you to go out of the city to fight!" ”

After thinking through Jiang Wei's intentions, he immediately gave up his hand and said, "The last general will obey the order!" ”

It didn't take long for Cao Shuang to send Deng Yang and 2,000 cavalry to the outside of the city to call for battle.

Deng Yang scolded Jiang Wei for being a turtle with a shrunken head under the city, not daring to go out of the city to fight, and was not a hero, and by the way, he greeted Jiang Wei's ancestors for the eighteenth generation.

Deng Yang felt that he had played very well today, and he scolded heartily, but Wang Ling and Zang Ba in the big array felt that Deng Yang was like a clown jumping off the beam, and his voice was almost hoarse outside the city, but Shu Jun did not react at all.

At the head of the city, the Shu army was still in full array, all the catapults and bed crossbows, as well as the bows and arrows of the crossbowmen, were vigilantly aimed at the Wei army outside the city.

After calling for half an hour, Zang Ba felt that the Shu army would not go out of the city, so he discussed with Wang Ling, I am afraid that I will not be able to fight today, it is better to withdraw the troops and go back to prepare siege equipment, and attack the city again on a later date.

When the two were about to set off to persuade Cao Shuang, Chang'an City suddenly heard the rumbling war drums, and then, the nine gates under Chang'an City suddenly opened, and a team of cavalry rushed out.

A miracle appeared, and the Shu army was really lured out by Cao Shuang.

This made Wang Ling and Zang Ba dumbfounded, and felt that all this seemed too incredible, if Cao Shuang only had 20,000 people at the beginning, it could be understood as Jiang Wei's arrogant strategy, and today in the face of 120,000 troops, Jiang Wei chose to attack, what is this?

As the cavalry in Chang'an City continued to pour out, Cao Shuang gave an order, and suddenly the war drums in the Wei army's large array rumbled, and the 20,000 forest guard cavalry under his command suddenly killed from both wings, and took advantage of the unstable foothold of the Shu cavalry to launch a charge against the Shu army.

"Kill!"

The morale of the Wei army's Yulin guards was high, and the sound of killing shook the sky, which soon overshadowed the momentum of the Shu army.

Not long after, the two cavalry were killed together, the Shu army had not yet formed an attack line, and was suddenly attacked by the Wei army, and soon it was chaotic, and in less than a quarter of an hour, it was defeated by the whole line of Yulin Weijing cavalry under Cao Shuang, and they turned their horses' heads and fled back towards Chang'an City frantically.

Wang Ling and Zang Ba looked stupid directly.