In the palace city in Chang'an City, Xiahou Nan came to Cao Zhang's side with an excited face.

"Ziwen, I look at the catapults of today's thief army, and they can't cause any major damage to the city wall."

After Xiahou Nan came to Cao Zhang, the first thing he said was this.

And from this sentence, you can clearly feel Xiahou Nan's happy tone.

After seeing the Han army launch the dozens of catapults at the beginning, Xiahou Nan's heart was actually full of worry.

Because the catapult launched by the Han army was different from what he had seen before.

Importantly, Xiahou Nan also learned from Cao Zhang's mouth how powerful the catapult was.

Compared with Xiahou Nan, Cao Zhang naturally recognized the dozens of catapults.

After all, not long ago, those catapults used to be the siege weapons of the Wei army.

On that day, after explaining to Xiahou Nan the power of the catapult, Cao Zhang's heart was actually worried.

But the progress that followed was enough to make Xiahou Nan and Cao Zhang overjoyed.

The sturdiness of the Chang'an city wall is far above that of ordinary wooden tents.

The hard city wall has repeatedly resisted the onslaught of the Han army's catapults.

And this also brought a great sense of security to Xiahou Nan and Cao Zhang.

Originally, Ma Jun's improved catapult would not have caused this damage to Chang'an City.

The main reason was that Mi Yang gave an order to ask Ma Jun to adjust the range of the catapult and try not to let the boulder fall too far into the city, so as not to cause a lot of damage to the people in the city.

Mi Yang's "pedantic" behavior, Cao Zhang has disdained it more than once in the past few days.

And after hearing Xiahou Nan's words, Cao Zhang's face also showed a smile.

"When the thieves tried to attack my western wall, I was still a little worried.

As you know, the Li Guo Rebellion and the Ma Chao Rebellion both caused serious damage to the western wall of Chang'an City.

It's just that I didn't expect that the newly repaired city wall would be so hard.

Looking at the hardness of the Chang'an city wall, it can be compared with Yecheng. ”

Seeing Cao Zhang's comparison of Chang'an with Yecheng, the sense of security in Xiahou Nan's heart rose even more.

According to common sense, the city defense of Chang'an City should be above Yecheng, but in fact this is not the case.

As Cao Chang said, Guanzhong has been in a state of turmoil for decades.

And Chang'an City must be the center of the turmoil.

In this case, the walls of Chang'an City have been damaged many times, especially the western wall.

On the contrary, since Cao Cao took Yecheng, he has been bent on making Yecheng his base camp.

Therefore, for decades, Cao Cao has continuously spent a lot of manpower and material resources to increase and repair the city defense of Yecheng.

In terms of the hardness of the other walls, Chang'an and Yecheng may be between them.

But if you just talk about the western city wall, Chang'an is definitely slightly inferior to Yecheng.

This has always been the most worrying place in Cao Zhang's heart before.

Of course, Cao Zhang also knew why the Han army knew this - it must have been Zhang He, the Wei traitor, who leaked the secret.

It's just that the worries in my heart gradually disappeared after the Han army took the action of attacking the city.

There is a saying in later generations that a skinny camel is bigger than a horse.

is talking about the current situation of the western city wall of Chang'an.

The western wall may be the weakest compared to the others, but it is not comparable to the average small city, or the camp.

After the two laughed, Xiahou Nan, who had a calm personality, was worried about one more thing:

"The thief army is digging tunnels, and I hope Ziwen will take precautions against this in advance."

Xiahou Nan was originally a kind reminder, but Cao Zhang suddenly laughed after hearing Xiahou Nan's reminder.

"How could I not know about this?"

"It's just that I want to laugh at the thief and the poor!"

"Seeing that the frontal attack was not possible, the thieves thought about digging a tunnel and sending troops to attack the city from the tunnel, which was common sense.

But he shouldn't have been, in order to be in a hurry, he let the soldiers and people rush to work day and night.

In that case, how can this matter be hidden from me?

And this matter is known to me, so I naturally have a way to deal with it. ”

Cao Zhang's self-confidence surprised Xiahou Nan.

Xiahou Nan didn't understand military strategy, and of course he didn't know how to deal with the authentic tactics of the Han army.

Seeing that Xiahou Nan was confused, Cao Zhang said with a teaching heart:

"Our army does not need to go out of the city to stop the thieves, our army only needs to build several trenches in the city.

In this way, once the thief army digs the tunnel into the city, it will naturally have nothing to hide in front of our army.

The tunnel is narrow, and it is bound to be difficult to accommodate a large number of thieves to pass through.

At that time, as long as our army stays outside the tunnel, or intercepts and kills, or releases water and fire into the tunnel, the thieves will die and have no place to be buried! ”

Cao Zhang's explanation made Xiahou Nan suddenly realize.

After understanding Cao Zhang's countermeasures, Xiahou Nan couldn't help but bow to Cao Zhang.

Full of security!

The next thing they have to do is to respond to all changes with the same and wait for the thieves to come to their deaths.

I think that if they can hold Chang'an in the end, they will definitely go down in history because of this battle!

Thinking of this, Xiahou Nan and Cao Zhang were both excited.

When Xiahou Nan in Chang'an City discussed countermeasures with Cao Zhang, and belittled Mi Yang by the way, Mi Yang was not idle.

Liu Bei arrived at the foot of Chang'an City, and several days have passed.

In the past few days, Han generals have come back one after another to report that the tunnel has been opened up under the Zhangcheng Gate.

And just when those Han generals who had completed the task in advance thought that they didn't need to enter the tunnel anymore, Mi Yang assigned them a new task.

This task is a bit dangerous, so you need to personally supervise it.

This task is to let the Han generals who open up the tunnels dump enough stone grease and a large amount of flammable materials into the tunnels.

Mi Yang's order made the generals even more puzzled.

But because of Mi Yang's prestige, they can only do it honestly.

As early as after the First Battle of Jieting, Mi Yang knew that he might use stone grease again in the future, so he issued warrants many times to remind the Han generals of some precautions for stone grease.

Although the stone grease is flammable, fortunately it is now winter, and the temperature in Guanzhong is extremely low.

Coupled with the unpurified stone grease, there is still a lot of gap between the flammability and the petroleum of later generations.

Therefore, as long as there is no open flame, then the grease is within the controllable range.

With Mi Yang's reminder, except for Wei Yan, the other Han generals today have completed the task he assigned.

And Mi Yang is in the tent today, waiting for Wei Yan's report.

After the sky gradually darkened, Wei Yan, who had been scolding all the way, finally returned to Mi Yang's military tent.

It's just that Wei Yan, who was still spitting fragrant outside, became quiet as soon as he entered Mi Yang's military tent.

He came to Mi Yang in front of him in an orderly manner and reported:

"General, the minister has completed the task!"

Since Wei Yan came back at the latest, he hadn't had time to wash up, and he had a pungent smell of stone grease on his body.

But Mi Yang did not dislike Wei Yan.

After hearing the words "completing the task", Mi Yang's face was only happy!

Mi Yang suddenly stood up from his seat and issued a military order to the Han generals in the tent:

"From tomorrow, all the kings will fall into the city with Lone!"

Mi Yang's tone was impassioned, which caused the generals in the tent to be excited.

It's just that after the excitement, the generals can't help but have doubts.

Among them, Wei Yan was the most confused:

Could it be that he has been in the underground for a long time in the past half month, and he doesn't know where the city wall was smashed out of the hole by a catapult?

Otherwise, how can you trap the city?

Night fell, but Liu Bei's big tent was brightly lit.

The old eunuch knelt in front of him.

In Liu Bei's violent coughing, the old eunuch's words begging Liu Bei to return to Luan became more and more urgent.

"Your Majesty, even if we don't go back to Nanzheng, it's good to go back to Huaili!"

Compared with the field barracks with difficult living conditions, the city is undoubtedly the most suitable place for Liu Bei to recuperate.

But in the face of the old eunuch's loyal advice, Liu Bei never said a word.

Liu Bei's persistence made the old eunuch even more anxious.

In a hurry, he couldn't help but say: "The general said that a few days have passed."

When the old eunuch said this, Liu Bei finally reacted.

He angrily slapped the case and said, "Enough! ”

"Zisheng said that a few days is a few days!

It won't be months, it won't be years!

There is no need to persuade again, I have made up my mind! ”

It was the first time that Liu Bei was angry in front of the old eunuch.

And just when the two monarchs and ministers were at a stalemate, the Yulin army outside the door told him that the general wanted to see him.

After hearing this report, Liu Bei hurriedly let Mi Yang in.

After Mi Yang came in, he saw the old eunuch kneeling on the ground at a glance, and after a little thought, he knew why the old eunuch was like this.

And after Liu Bei saw Mi Yang, a smile appeared on his face.

"How many times have I said it, I believe you, and you don't need to come to me."

Liu Bei thought that Mi Yang was here to stabilize his emotions.

But what Liu Bei didn't expect was that Mi Yang didn't respond to his words, but slowly took out a jade pendant from his arms.

Under the flickering candlelight, the jade pendant shines brightly.

And that piece of jade pendant Liu Bei is very familiar.

"I hope that in the future, you can use this jade pendant as a token to connect me to Chang'an City, just like I did back then."

This was a promise between Liu Bei and Mi Yang before.

And Mi Yang's move of taking out the jade pendant, what does it portend, how could Liu Bei not know?

Due to the excitement in his heart, Liu Bei couldn't help but stand up, and at the same time, his eyes had slowly become moist.

"Your Majesty, Uncle, Teacher.

Tomorrow we will go home together! ”

The candlelight and shadow were full of shadows, reflecting on Mi Yang's body, making Liu Bei, whose eyes were full of tears, have an illusion.

In Mi Yang's back, he seemed to see the figure of an elk appearing.

A Han in the east, a Han in the west: the deer walks into Chang'an, and there is no difficulty.

The Great Han wants to be revived!

Early in the morning of the second day, the majestic drums sounded in the Han army camp.

Tens of thousands of Han troops, under the guidance of the sound of majestic drums, quickly put on their armor and came to the outside of Chang'an City in an orderly manner with weapons in hand.

For the elite Han army, they knew that this drum sound represented an all-out attack.

And the stalemate for more than half a month has also made every Han army know how difficult it is to attack Chang'an City.

If they want to storm a fortified city like Chang'an head-on, they will definitely pay a lot of casualties today.

But looking at the two figures in front of them, there was no hint of flinching in their hearts.

Those two, one is Liu Bei, the Son of Heaven, and the other is the general Mi Yang.

With these two people leading, what kind of battle do they dare not fight?

Tens of thousands of Han troops lined up in tight phalanxes, following Liu Bei and Mi Yang and constantly advancing.

There was no need to drive a horse for a distance of hundreds of steps, and Mi Yang was supporting Liu Bei to walk towards Chang'an City step by step.

Closely surrounding the two of them was a sturdy Han general.

Compared with ordinary soldiers, many Han generals were curious about why Mi Yang would take Liu Bei to the city.

At present, the gate of Chang'an is not broken, and His Majesty is old and frail, is it possible that the general still wants His Majesty to charge in person?

But although the generals were puzzled, Liu Bei's pace of progress was very firm.

In his eyes, the majestic gate of Chang'an City is still standing.

But he was holding the jade pendant tightly in his hand, and the warm touch of the jade pendant made Liu Bei have full confidence in Mi Yang.

Maybe as he walked with Mi Yang, the walls of Chang'an collapsed by themselves?

If that's the case, the Great Han is really destined for heaven.

Mi Yang didn't walk out for long after supporting Liu Bei, he took Liu Bei to an underground entrance.

And when Mi Yang and Liu Bei stood still, more than a dozen Han generals who had been instructed in advance went to stand at another tunnel entrance.

The Han army poured out of the nest, and naturally it couldn't hide Cao Zhang in the city.

After learning that the Han army was going to launch a general attack today, Cao Zhang hurriedly mobilized his troops and personally came to the city wall.

Cao Zhang, who was standing on the city wall, saw Liu Bei and Mi Yang at a glance.

And looking at the strange formation of Liu Bei and Mi Yang in front and tens of thousands of Han troops behind, Cao Zhang, who didn't understand the deep meaning, couldn't help laughing.

Could it be that Mi Yang wanted to take Liu Bei personally and enter Chang'an City from the tunnel?

This is ridiculous.

Cao Zhang's laughter was wanton and rampant, and his laughter also caused the laughter of many Wei soldiers on the city walls.

Their laughter spread along the wind to the ears of the Han generals in the city.

Liu Bei could also hear it.

But just as the laughter of the Wei army on the city wall intensified, Mi Yang took a torch from the side and handed it to Liu Bei.

"Your Majesty, throw the torch into the tunnel."

Mi Yang's words made Liu Bei more and more puzzled.

But he didn't hesitate in his movements.

He took the torch from Mi Yang's hand, and then, under the gaze of tens of thousands of people, threw the torch burning with open flames into the tunnel.

And with Liu Bei's movements, more than ten Han generals standing at the entrance of the tunnel also threw the torches in their hands into the tunnel.

Due to the structure of the tunnel, the torches thrown by Liu Bei and the Han generals are bound to not be able to enter the tunnel too far.

But a few feet away is enough.

Because more than ten tunnel entrances are covered with stone grease.

The stone grease lying quietly inside the tunnel is as black as the dirt when it is not exposed to open flames.

But when they encountered the open flames, a shocking change soon took place in every tunnel.

The ferocious fire instantly rose inside the tunnel, and under the guidance of a large number of flammable materials, the boiling fire instantly turned into an unstoppable fire dragon and rushed towards the inside of the tunnel.

It didn't take long for the fiery dragon, which seemed to be able to devour everything, enveloped the entire tunnel.

The swift flames could even burst out of the tunnel, causing all the generals to retreat in unison.

Under the scorching fire, the many wooden pillars that originally supported the tunnel were becoming brittle at an extremely fast speed.

When the wooden pillars inside the tunnel were burned to the ground, dozens of catapults outside Chang'an City never stopped attacking.

The fierce attack of the catapults was not enough to smash the western wall of Chang'an directly out of the big hole.

However, the western city wall of Chang'an has been attacked by a large number of catapults for more than half a month, and many places on it have long been cracked.

Especially the few walls that have only been strengthened in recent years.

It is not easy to destroy the Chang'an city wall that is more than ten miles long.

But what if you pick on the weak points of the city wall for more than ten miles, and attack them day and night?

And if that's not enough, what if the foundation that supports the walls of Chang'an collapses?

What Cao Zhang didn't know was that as he laughed, the foundation under the city wall where he was located was supported by wooden pillars.

And those wooden pillars, which are now scorched by the flames, have long been more and more crumbling.

Finally, after a crisp sound that others could not hear, a wooden pillar could no longer withstand the scorching heat of the fierce fire and turned directly into flying ashes.

And when the first pillar was burned, soon a second and a third pillar appeared.

And this situation is spreading at a speed that is unimaginable to ordinary people.

Soon after, Cao Zhang, who was standing on the city wall, abruptly stopped laughing.

Because he found an anomaly.

He noticed that the walls that had been fortified seemed to tremble.

But how is this possible?

Cao Zhang thought it was an illusion at first, but as time went on, this illusion became stronger and stronger.

Importantly, not only Cao Zhang had this illusion, but also the Wei army now standing on the city wall had a similar feeling.

And at this time, the Han army under the city wall, they also saw a spectacular scene that they had never seen in their lives.

The ground that was originally flat somehow became undulating.

It was as if there were more than a dozen dragons rolling underground.

The reason for this is that some of the wooden pillars have fallen, but there are still some wooden pillars that are holding up.

The ground will naturally collapse without the support of wooden columns, and the ground that is still supported by wooden pillars can barely remain flat.

But that scene was going to fade away.

As more and more wooden pillars were burned, more and more ground collapsed, and this collapse struck at an alarming speed towards the beneath the walls of Chang'an.

When the ground supporting the Chang'an city wall was also engulfed in an unstoppable state of collapse, a scene that shocked tens of thousands of Han troops appeared.

Huge cracks appeared on the majestic Chang'an city wall, which were visible to the naked eye.

And with the rapid spread of those huge cracks, the walls in some places could no longer support them, and collapsed in an instant.

As the so-called embankment of a thousand miles, it collapsed in the anthill.

When one part of the wall begins to crumble, this tendency to collapse will soon spread to the other walls.

So in the incredible eyes of tens of thousands of Han soldiers, the Chang'an city wall, which was originally indestructible in their hearts, and the Chang'an city wall, which was originally insurmountable in their hearts, were rapidly collapsing violently in an irreversible situation.

It was a miracle!

When the city walls collapsed, the Wei army, who was originally standing on the city walls, was terrified and wanted to flee to the city.

It's just that they want to run away now, but it's too late.

Thousands of Wei soldiers were like sinners who had been degraded by the gods, and they continued to fall from the sky into the flames below.

The wails and shouts of the Wei army continued to reach the ears of tens of thousands of Han soldiers.

It was in stark contrast to their rampant laughter.

And the bodies of many Wei soldiers were constantly rolling in the blazing flames below, or being crushed by the falling boulders.

The collapse of the city walls in many places caused smoke and dust in the sky, and there were bursts of earth-shaking sounds.

The sound of earth-shattering sound rushed to the sky, directly encompassing the entire Chang'an City.

The people of Chang'an, who heard this terrifying sound, thought that there had been a rolling of the earth dragon, and ran out of the houses in fright, and then they looked towards the place where the sound was made.

Hundreds of thousands of Chang'an people can see, in the dust, a touch of bright color gradually appears.

It was a red Han military flag!

And Mi Yang, who was outside the city wall, took the lead in bowing to Liu Bei, who was still in shock, before everyone could react:

"Congratulations to Your Majesty, recovering Chang'an with your own hands!"

Your Majesty, Uncle, Teacher.

Do you like this gift for children?

A similar siege method has been used by Gao Huan in history.

The city he captured with this method is called Yecheng~

(End of chapter)