Chapter 248: Stalemate

Guan Suo originally received Jiang Wei's order to lead his army north to fight on the battlefield in Yongzhou.

Originally, Guan Suo had 10,000 soldiers and horses, which he trained after the expansion of the army in Jiaozhou, but after the military order arrived in Chengdu, Emperor Liu Chan ordered Guan Suo to double the army in the north, so when Guan Suo passed through Nanzhong, he brought 10,000 more Nanban elites in Nanzhong to go out.

This time, the leaders of the Southern Barbarians heard that Guan Suo was going to follow Jiang Wei to fight in the north, and they were all very active.

Therefore, everyone felt that there was meat to eat with Jiang Wei, and even some tribes offered to provide the tribe's most elite war elephants to Guan Suo to help him in the Northern Expedition.

But Guan Suo thought that the war elephants would definitely not adapt to the cold and frozen north, so he did not bring the war elephants there. Moreover, for the soldiers of the various departments of the Southern Barbarians, they were also selected, and finally 10,000 elite soldiers were selected, including 3,000 rattan armor soldiers, all the way north.

Guan Suo knew that the Northern Expedition was a good battlefield for meritorious service, so he urged the troops to march in a hurry all the way, and when he passed through Panzhihua, he got a thousand iron-armored swords, all of which were the heavy armor of the Qilin army, and dragged Guan Suo to the north and handed over to Liang Xu, the commander of the Qilin army.

Guan Suo took the equipment and hurried all the way, thinking that he would rest all the way to Chengdu, but as soon as he arrived at the outskirts of Chengdu, he learned the news that Chengdu was besieged by the Wei army.

So he ordered the whole army to march quickly, and finally arrived at the battlefield at the moment before the city of Chengdu was about to be breached.

After arriving at the battlefield, Guan Suo immediately found that Chengdu was already crumbling, and four huge siege towers were already close to the city walls of Chengdu, and the Wei army was constantly attacking the city walls.

There are also six huge catapults, constantly bombarding the city gates of Chengdu.

The country is in trouble, the Son of Heaven is in crisis, what is there to hesitate about? Guan Suo immediately ordered a thousand of his own soldiers to put on the armor of the Qilin Army, which was originally to be sent to the north, picked up the special war knives of the Qilin Army, lined up the line, and together with the Tengjia soldiers, began to attack the rear of the Wei army.

Guan Suo raised his arms and shouted: "The national capital is in trouble, the Son of Heaven is covered with dust, how can our army sit back and watch the Wei army run rampant under the city of Chengdu, the warriors of Nanzhong, follow me to kill and retreat the enemy army!" ”

Guan Suo shouted, and the 20,000 soldiers were suddenly enthusiastic, what a great credit it was to be able to save Chengdu from the Wei army, everyone was excited.

As the war drums rumbled, this new force ignored the fatigue and hardship of the journey, and rushed to the battlefield one after another.

20,000 new forces of the Han army suddenly joined the battlefield, which made Cao Zhi and Deng Ai a little surprised, seeing that Chengdu was about to break the city, they didn't expect such a new force to suddenly appear, and the number of people was quite large.

Deng Ai said to Cao Zhi: "Brother Yungong, the attack on Chengdu will be handed over to you for the time being, and I will go to Guan Suo who will come to help in a while!" ”

Cao Zhi nodded, "Chengdu City is about to be broken, don't be distracted at this time, there will be a soldier to drag the Han army reinforcements, just need to delay for an hour, I will lead the army to break through Chengdu." ”

Deng Ai also nodded, then ordered his soldiers and horses, raised his long knife and began to meet the enemy.

Seeing that the Han troops who came to help were all infantry and no cavalry, Deng Ai suddenly relaxed a lot, and immediately ordered the 20,000 troops under his command to set up a formation to meet the enemy.

Deng Ai's army had experienced many vicious battles in Yongzhou, and all of them could be regarded as battlefield veterans, so with Deng Ai's orders one after another, the army reacted extremely quickly and quickly completed the formation adjustment.

Soon a strong line of sword, shieldmen, crossbowmen, and pikemen was formed.

Deng Ai took the lead in jumping out and shouted at Guan Suo: "Guan Suo, you are holding the Qinglong Yanyue Knife, but this general sees that you don't have the courage of your father Guan Yu, can you dare to fight me alone?" ”

Guan Suo reluctantly put the Qinglong Yanyue Knife across his chest, and said loudly: "You are Deng Ai, right?" I heard that you can walk with my brother-in-law Jiang Wei for dozens of rounds, well, interesting, then I'll meet you today! ”

Then he bowed his head and whispered to Bao Sanniang, Wang Tao, and Wang Yue: "You ladies don't have to worry about us going head-to-head, Sanniang, you lead a thousand heavy armor soldiers to launch an assault, and you must rush to the city and destroy the six trebuchets and four siege towers." Tao Mei and Yue Mei led the army respectively, covering the heavy armor soldiers from the middle road, and trying to disperse the Wei army. ”

Guan Suo's three wives all nodded.

So Guan Suo raised the Qinglong Yanyue Knife, mobilized his true qi reluctantly, and his whole body burst out with bright red light, and killed Deng Ai.

The two horsemen quickly killed together, Deng Ai and Guan Suo each waved their long knives and made a crackling action, Guan Suo saw Deng Ai from a distance, and saw that Deng Ai had no real air rotation on his body, and said with a smile in his heart:

"A person who doesn't know how to be really angry actually goes head-to-head with me, it's like looking for death!"

So Guan Suo used ninety percent of his true qi and slashed towards Deng Ai. However, Deng Ai did not avoid it at all, and slashed towards Guan Suo, and the speed seemed to be faster than Guan Suo.

Guan Suo was taken aback, and quickly changed his move to block, and suddenly there was a violent sound of "dang", Rao is Guan Suo was full of nine points of true qi, and he also felt numb from being shocked.

Guan Suo suddenly understood why this Deng Ai was able to fight Jiang Wei for dozens of rounds, it turned out that this person was born with divine power, even if he didn't know his true qi, he was infinitely powerful.

Guan Suo then became very angry, and fought with Deng Ai, both of them used long knives, and the knives were strong and powerful, wide open and closed. I saw that the two of them were fighting in full swing, the sparks generated by the intersection of weapons splashed everywhere, and the powerful true qi overflowed and shook so that almost no one could get close to each other around the two fighting.

In the blink of an eye, the two have been fighting for thirty rounds, but they are still evenly matched.

But just when the two were in the middle of a fierce battle, the battlefield changed.

The heavily armored troops led by Bao Sanniang were like a steel knife inserted into the large array of the Wei army, and the advance was extremely smooth, whether it was the sword and shield bearers, crossbowmen or pikemen of the Wei army, they could hardly inflict an effective blow on this army.

On the contrary, wherever this army went, the Wei army was bloody and defeated, and Bao Sanniang led this army to advance under the trebuchet with great momentum, and quickly destroyed one of the trebuchets.

The follow-up part led by Wang Tao and Wang Yue sisters was mixed, and the three thousand rattan armor soldiers had the feeling of being half a heavy armor soldier, and they were also invulnerable and invincible, but the exposed necks and other places were often vulnerable to the blows of the Wei army's crossbowmen.

And the rest of the 7,000 southern barbarians are very miserable, because the armor level of the southern barbarians is really inferior, many of them are shirtless, although the southern barbarians are not afraid of death in battle, and the attack power is really high, but the defense is ridiculously low, almost pressed by the crossbowmen of the Wei army, and there is almost no power to fight back.

If it weren't for the 10,000 Jiaozhou soldiers providing escorts, I'm afraid that these 7,000 southern barbarians would have been shot and killed by the Wei army.

More and more Wei troops began to flock to the attacking Han army, and Guan Suo saw that it was difficult to defeat Deng Ai for a while, but if he was entangled with the Wei army for a long time, his own forces were obviously weaker than the Wei army, and there was a risk of being surrounded.

So Guan Suo burst out of his true anger, swept away Deng Ai's weapon with a knife, and then rode his horse towards Bao Sanniang.

Deng Ai was in hot pursuit in the rear, and while pursuing, he commanded the army to surround the Guansuo Department.

The southern barbarian soldiers of the Guansuo Department were reduced very quickly, and in addition to the vine armor soldiers, the seven thousand southern barbarian soldiers were lost by more than half in less than half an hour.

However, fortunately, the heavy armor attack went very smoothly, successfully hit the city, and destroyed the four siege towers of the Wei army.

Guan Suo saw that the steel armor produced by Panzhihua was really powerful, and immediately ordered the heavy armor and rattan armor soldiers to hold the line, and then let the rest of the soldiers slowly enter Chengdu City.

At this time, Deng Ai and Cao Zhi commanded the Wei army to frantically attack the formation of heavy armor soldiers and rattan armor soldiers. But no matter how you rushed, you couldn't break through, so you had to keep shooting the thinly armored Southern Barbarian soldiers.

Of the 7,000 southern barbarian soldiers, less than 2,000 eventually entered Chengdu alive.

Seeing the main force entering the city, Guan Suo was commanding the remaining ironclad soldiers to slowly enter Chengdu.

Once again, the two armies were at a stalemate.