Although Yinping is not a big city, due to the lack of national strength in the past, the city defense has not been repaired in time.

However, in the years after the Battle of Hanzhong, Wei Yan, as the governor of Hanzhong, still spent a lot of effort to renovate the city defense of Yinping.

In Wei Yan's impression, after many renovations, Yinping's city defense is definitely not as good as a big city like Nanzheng, but it is also much stronger than a fortress city defense like Qiaotou.

At least the city wall of Yin Ping is more than three zhang high.

If Yin Ping does not have certain conditions to hold onto, Mi Yang will not let Ma Chao defend it.

But when a few years later, when he stood under Yinping City again, the completely unfamiliar scene in front of him shocked Wei Yan.

I saw that outside the gate of Yinping, there were several earth mountains higher than the city wall, and the earth mountains were densely packed with blood-stained arrows.

It can be seen from this scene that Guo Huai, like Cao Zhen, adopted the strategy of attacking the city with earth and mountains.

It's just that compared to Mi Yang's alertness, in the face of this earth and mountain siege strategy, Ma Chao chose to resist hard.

The color of the soil is yellow, but in Wei Yan's eyes at this moment, it is like a stripe of red stripes all over the mountains of the earth mountain.

Wei Yan knew that it was the result of using the blood of countless Wei soldiers as a dye.

As the base of the Wei army's attack, Tushan is still like this, not to mention the Yinping city wall used to guard?

From Wei Yan's gaze, it could be seen that the Yinping City Wall, which originally stood on the ground, was no longer strong at this time.

Countless arrow marks and knife marks fell on the city wall, making the Yinping City Wall, which had only been renovated for a few years, like an old man dying on his death, silently recounting the fact that he was going to die to Wei Yan.

Compared to Tushan, which seemed to be wrapped in red stripes, the Nanzheng city wall facing the Wei army was like wearing a bright red wedding dress in Wei Yan's eyes, with almost no wisps of cyan.

This proves that in the past battles of guarding Yinping, both the Han and Wei armies paid great casualties.

And Wei Yan's gaze didn't stay on the city wall for long, because a hole in the city wall attracted Wei Yan's attention.

It seems that the Wei army has successfully opened the gap in the city wall under the fierce offensive.

For the Wei army, which has some siege weapons, as long as they are willing to fill it with human lives, it is not a difficult task.

But the Yinping city wall still flutters with the flag of the Han army.

This shows that with Ma Chao's efforts, Guo Huai did not capture Yinping through this gap after opening the gap in the city wall.

As for how Ma Chao did this?

Wei Yan's gaze passed through the city wall from the entrance of the cave and saw part of the scene inside the city.

What caught Wei Yan's eyes was a barracks built with the surrounding dwellings as the basic plate.

And in front of that barracks, there were countless corpses of the two armies.

Even because the corpses of the two armies were piled up too much, the corpse pile had become a mountain of corpses, and the corpse mountain was almost at the height of the city wall.

The scenes that fell into his eyes proved that in the past time, Ma Chao led the Han army and the Wei army to start a fierce battle.

It also reflects what kind of price Ma Chao has paid to keep Yin Ping for Mi Yang to this day.

In an instant, Wei Yan's gaze towards Yinping City became solemn.

He is not only respecting Ma Chao, but also respecting those comrades who sacrificed their lives for the Han.

When Wei Yan was observing Yinping, Ma Dai, who had learned the news one step in advance, also came to Wei Yan from the city at this time.

Ma Dai had many wounds on his body, and some important wounds on his body were treated, but for those wounds that did not affect his movement, Ma Dai simply bandaged them with some rags.

On the one hand, when the Wei army did not retreat, fierce battles would occur from time to time in Yinping, and Ma Dai did not have enough time to deal with the wounds on his body one by one.

On the other hand, Yinping had been surrounded by the Wei army for more than half a year, and in such a long time, many military resources in the city had long been insufficient, especially trauma medicine.

After Ma Dai saw Wei Yan, there were tears in his eyes.

Reinforcements are finally here!

Those who have not participated in the battle of Yinping to defend the city do not know what kind of days he and Ma Yu have had in the past days.

Not only must you always maintain high-intensity battles during the day, but you must also patrol the city defenses from time to time at night, for fear that the Wei army will attack at night.

After half a year of arduous defense of the city, he finally waited for Mi Yang's reinforcements.

This feeling can no longer be described as joy, it can only be said to be the aftermath of the catastrophe!

But Ma Dai's first words when he saw Wei Yan were not complaints.

He just bowed to Wei Yan and said:

"Please tell Uncle Shepherd, we have kept the peace!"

After hearing Ma Dai say this sentence with tears in his eyes, Wei Yan's emotions were also greatly infected.

He admired the Ma brothers more and more in his heart.

It was rare for Wei Yan to take the initiative to help someone get up.

After helping Ma Dai up, Wei Yan wanted to say something to comfort Ma Dai, but looking at the Blood Sea Corpse Mountain inside and outside Yinping City, the stupid Wei Yan couldn't say such a thing.

He chose to give Ma Dai a promise he wanted to hear the most.

"Yan will definitely report what he saw today, 1510, to the shepherd."

"When the Japanese court asks for credit for everyone, Yan will definitely fight for reason."

At first glance, Wei Yan's promise sounded, and others might not understand the deep meaning of Wei Yan's words.

But after Ma Dai listened to Wei Yan's promise, a happy smile appeared on his face.

The Han Dynasty has just been established, and many capable ministers are still in various important departments of the imperial court, so that the affairs of the imperial court are running well.

Under such circumstances, no one would dare to hide the merits of the Ma brothers.

But what if someone wants to cover up the merits of the Ma brothers, but the entire court wants to do so?

There are some things that cannot be judged right or wrong by the mere aspect of fairness.

Since the Ma brothers did what they did that day, it means that they will face serious consequences for the rest of their lives.

That's where Ma Dai worries.

He is not a merit-seeking person, but he wants the world to know that he has been trying hard to atone for his past sins.

Ma Dai knew that Ma Chao also thought so in his heart.

In order to do this, someone must come out and speak up for him and Ma Chao.

Wei Yan may not have enough weight, but Mi Yang behind him definitely has.

And Wei Yan is Mi Yang's henchman, and Wei Yan's promise today is likely to affect Mi Yang.

That's enough.

After Ma Dai's face showed joy, Wei Yan noticed something unusual, and he asked, "What about the hussar general?" ”

Wei Yan is currently the general of Zhenbei, although his position is lower than Ma Chao, but Wei Yan is a general sent by Mi Yang to rescue Yinping, so it is reasonable that Ma Chao should go out of the city to see Wei Yan.

Especially in recent years, Ma Chao is like a frightened bird, and he will not let himself be negligent in this regard.

Unless.

Wei Yan looked at Ma Dai with an inquiring gaze, and after Ma Dai heard Wei Yan's inquiry, his face showed grief, he could no longer hold back the tears in his eyes, and cried to Wei Yan:

"Hussar, hussar general, he is seriously wounded and has been bedridden for several days!"

Ma Dai's words made Wei Yan look shocked!

He made a decision almost subconsciously.

Wei Yan quickly summoned a personal guard and said to him: "Hurry back to Yangping Pass as quickly as possible, and let the general come to Yinping as soon as possible." ”

The guards could hear the eagerness in his heart from Wei Yan's tone, so they immediately turned around and returned towards Yangping Pass after receiving the order.

Looking at the back of the departing guard, Wei Yan sighed heavily.

A few days later, Mi Yang led his pro-army to the outside of Yinping City.

After coming to the outside of Yinping City, when he saw Mi Yang, who was like a hell on earth, he couldn't help but gasp heavily in his heart.

There is no shortage of fierce and cruel siege battles in the history books, but the historical records have always been brief, how can there be a great impact brought by what you have seen with your own eyes?

Mi Yang didn't stop outside the city, he walked directly along the corpse mountains on both sides towards the inside of Yinping City.

In the past few days, due to the retreat of the Wei army, Ma Dai has been commanding the soldiers who can still move, cleaning up the corpses inside and outside Yinping City.

Otherwise, if Mi Yang enters the city today, I am afraid that he can only enter by stepping through the corpses everywhere.

Yinping City is not big, and under the leadership of Ma Dai, Mi Yang soon came to Ma Chao's door.

Along the way, Ma Dai cautiously reported to Mi Yang about the process of defending the city.

Under Ma Dai's report, Mi Yang learned that not only Ma Chao was seriously injured, but even his henchman Zhang Wei was also the same.

Even if Zhang Wei is young, his recovery ability is much better than Ma Chao, but at this time, he can only linger on the sickbed, unable to get up and come to see Mi Yang.

After hearing that Zhang Wei was also seriously injured, although Mi Yang expressed his concern in a timely manner, he did not choose to visit Zhang Wei first as Ma Dai expected—Mi Yang came straight to Ma Chao's bedroom all the way.

Mi Yang's choice moved Ma Dai's heart.

After all, compared with the infamous Ma Chao, Zhang Wei is Mi Yang's henchman and one of the representatives of emerging generals who have attracted the attention of the court.

After standing outside Ma Chao's door, Mi Yang asked Ma Dai to retreat first, and he chose to step into Ma Chao's house alone.

After stepping into the house, Mi Yang's nose soon smelled a strong smell of medicine.

And the dim light in the house also made Mi Yang a little uncomfortable for a while.

After Mi Yang got used to the light in the house, he saw Ma Chao lying on the couch.

Mi Yang quickly stepped forward to the couch, and at such a close distance, Mi Yang saw Ma Chao's figure and face.

In Mi Yang's impression, Ma Chao's body is like a bear and a tiger, and his face is like a crown of jade, and he is a beautiful man in the world.

But Ma Chao, who is lying on the couch now, still has half of the old look.

With a thin body and a haggard face, it is really difficult to associate with the Jinma Chao in my impression.

As his eyes flowed, Mi Yang also saw that Ma Chao's chest was wrapped in a large piece of blood-stained white cloth.

This place is the most serious injury suffered by Ma Chao.

How did Ma Chao suffer from his injuries?

It was to block the Wei army that was pouring into the city.

Thinking of this, Mi Yang's eyes showed an unbearable look.

Carefully calculated, Ma Chao has been guarding Yin Ping for more than half a year.

And even if the defenders of the bridge are transferred to Yinping, Ma Chao has no more than 6,000 soldiers and horses.

But how many Wei troops were there led by Guo Huai?

The main army is about 20,000 people, but if you add the auxiliary soldiers and the Qiang soldiers who joined later, the total strength that Guo Huai can use to attack the city is about ten times the strength in Ma Chao's hands.

Under such a large gap in numbers, in the case that his own city is not strong, Ma Chao is hard to help Mi Yang defend Yinping for half a year, which is undoubtedly a very successful example of defending the city.

And holding Yinping is of extremely important strategic significance to the entire Liangzhou war.

Perhaps due to some famous examples of defending cities in history, many people will subconsciously think that defending cities is very easy.

But history books cherish pen and ink, and those cases of defending cities will be recorded in history books because they are rare, not because they are common.

Besides, for those defenders in the war examples, if there is a choice, which one of them wants to fight this kind of battle?

Everything is just a last resort, just the Ma Chao of this world.

In the same way, because of this amazing Yinping Guarding Battle, Ma Chao will definitely continue to sketch a strong stroke in the history books of this world in the future, attracting the admiration of countless people in later generations.

After hearing a sound in front of the couch, Ma Chao woke up from a half-asleep state, and then he saw Mi Yang standing in front of the couch.

For a while, Mi Yang and Ma Chao looked at each other.

After looking at each other for a few moments, Ma Chao first said with a smile:

"General, I'm glad to see you.

Chao is also very fortunate to have kept the peace for the general. ”

Since the passage was opened, Ma Chao also knew that Mi Yang was worshiped by Liu Bei as a general.

And Ma Chao's two sentences reminded Mi Yang of the dialogue between him and Ma Chao when he asked Ma Chao to come to guard Yinping.

"How long do you have to stay?

After I die. ”

Judging from the current situation, Mi Yang and Ma Chao have not broken their promises.

This answer actually only happened a year ago, but so much has happened in this year.

After the dust settled on many things today, Mi Yang and Ma Chao thought of this answer, and they both felt embarrassed in their hearts.

The feeling of embarrassment in his heart made Mi Yang's gaze at Ma Chao softer.

Mi Yang was a person who had read history books in his previous life, and the Ma Chao he knew before was not the Jin Ma Chao who was beautified by Luo Guan to avenge his father.

It was the murderer who killed his father and brothers, and killed hundreds of people.

Under this fact, Mi Yang really can't have any good feelings for Ma Chao.

Or in the entire Ji Han court, from Liu Bei to the small officials, who will have a good impression of Ma Chao?

Even when Mi Yang asked Ma Chao to guard Yinping, to be honest, it was essentially a matter of taking what he needed.

But Mi Yang is not a pedantic person, Ma Chao has made a great contribution to him this time, and from this aspect, Mi Yang will not be stingy to release kindness to Ma Chao.

Mi Yang sat on the edge of Ma Chao's couch, and he said with gratitude:

"Without a hussar general, Liangzhou is in danger."

Mi Yang was telling the truth.

If it weren't for Ma Chao defending Yinping, Guo Huai's army would not have been dragged under Yinping City for so long.

And if Yinping falls into the hands of Guo Huai, even if Guo Huai will not smuggle Yinping, as long as Guo Huai leads the army to arrive outside the Sword Pavilion, he will be able to join forces with Cao Hong's two armies to completely block the passage outside the Sword Pavilion.

In that case, even if Mi Yang came up with a plan to surprise attack Dingjun Mountain, it would be useless.

From this point of view, Ma Chao not only saved Liangzhou, but also indirectly saved Dahan.

After listening to Mi Yang's appreciation, Ma Chao asked a sentence that Mi Yang didn't expect:

"Then today, can I be regarded as a real Hanchen?"

Ma Chao's question was caught off guard but penetrated into it, making Mi Yang can't help but groan for a long time.

This sentence is not easy to answer.

Or rather, it is very sensitive.