For Chen Cangcheng's strategy, Wei Yan was prepared in his heart.

Wei Yan knew very well how many difficulties he was facing, knew that he had to seize time to attack, and at the same time knew that he could only rely on the numerical advantage to face such a fortified city, so the attack at the beginning was very ferocious, and he somewhat did not care about his own casualties.

Even, Wei Yan also let his Chinese guards take the lead, trying to boost the morale of the army with the bravery of the Chinese guards, and strive to climb the city wall in one go.

Therefore, at the beginning of Wei Yan's attack, the battle for the city wall was extremely fierce.

The Han army did not have large-scale siege equipment, so it could only rely on hooks and ladders to hook the city wall and climb up, fighting for a blood, Bo was a fierce and fearless of death, and Wei Yan's Chinese army guards took the lead, which suppressed the Wei army's defense a little from the beginning, and the city wall was in an emergency.

On the Wei army's side, the morale of the army is not at the same level at all.

Last night, the chief general said that he was going to retreat, and the soldiers were ready to retreat into the pass, but the Shu army came to attack at noon the next day. The army was not prepared to hold on to Chencang at all, and the morale of the army could not be raised at all.

Everyone wants to run, who has the heart to fight with you here.

In addition, until now, Xiahou Nan has not distributed all the ordnance to each soldier, and some of the soldiers are not any armor and armor Xiahou Nan Even if he wants to replenish, he does not have so many ordnance, after all, there is still a shortage of a thousand sets of ordnance.

In this way, whether it is morale or combat effectiveness, the two sides are not at the same level at all, and Chen Cangcheng is facing a precarious situation on the first day of being attacked.

And all these scenes, presented in front of Xiahou Nan, are a situation in which the Shu army is like a fierce tiger, and the Wei army is barely supporting. In fact, if it weren't for Zhuge Qian leading hundreds of soldiers from his headquarters to support back and forth on the city wall and kill the Shu army, maybe Wei Yan's first attack would have already attacked the city wall.

Xiahou Mao was really a little stunned.

Strictly speaking, this is the first time that Xiahou Nan has officially experienced the battle formation.

Don't look at how many flattering opinions he expressed when Xiahou Nan sat down and talked about it before, and how he bragged about how he dealt with the battle formation, it was useless.

Only when he really went to the battlefield, faced with bloody battles, and the back-and-forth battles on the city wall, Xiahou Nan, a soldier on both sides who lacked arms and legs at every turn, found that his mind was blank now, he couldn't say anything, couldn't think of anything, and didn't even have the courage to move his legs.

Some people, facing the fear in their hearts, can rely on their perseverance and belief to break it and overcome it, such people, as long as they grow up, often become a generation of famous generals.

Some people, in the face of their inner fears, although they can't be defeated, can rely on instinct to act, and try to adapt themselves to the battlefield Such a person, although it is impossible to become a famous general, but after the acquired efforts, it is still possible to become a general who charges into battle.

There are also some people, in the face of their inner fear, they choose to escape from Xiahou Nan is such a person.

Xiahou Nan was afraid, really scared.

He found that war is really not a child's play, and the life of a soldier is not a string of numbers that he spits out casually, and the direction of war and the battle for the battlefield are not things that can be decided by a pat on the head.

The most important thing is that Xiahou Nan found that once Chen Cangcheng was lost, he was very likely to die here.

That's not going to work!

What kind of person is I, Xiahou Nan, the Great Wei clan, born noble, how can I die on a dangerous battlefield like a soldier?!

Looking back and thinking about it, in Yecheng, I have brocade clothes and delicacies, surrounded by beautiful women, countless money and treasures to enjoy, and countless "young talents" accompanying me. Why waste your good years in this place of Chencang?!

Thinking of this, Xiahou Nan didn't want to stay on this bloody battlefield anymore, he just wanted to go, leave Chencang, or even leave Chang'an, he just wanted to go back to Yecheng.

What a damn battlefield, to hell with it!

Therefore, when Zhuge Qian spent a lot of effort and kept responding back and forth, he finally barely held Chencang City at the cost of more than 200 casualties. Xiahou Nan has made a very resolute decision in his heart.

After nightfall, Wei Yan was a little unwilling to temporarily collect his troops and return to the camp, and Zhuge Qian was also a little relieved.

But this tone is only today, and the real test is tomorrow.

Tomorrow, if the Shu army is still attacking the city at this intensity, and the Wei army is still looking like this half-dead, this Chencang City will really not be able to hold it for a few days.

We must take this opportunity to re-persuade Xiahou Nan to let him stay and hold on, so that there can be hope of holding Chen Cang.

Only when Xiahou Nan is willing to stay and hold on, and expresses enough firm beliefs, can he really boost the morale of the Wei army and let the soldiers fight with peace of mind, instead of always thinking about when they can retreat into Guanzhong. With such a mentality, it would be hellish if you could keep Chen Cang.

However, this time, Zhuge Qian didn't even see Xiahou Nan's face, and was directly blocked out of Xiahou Nan's mansion by Xiahou Nan's personal guards.

No matter how Zhuge Qian asked to see him, Xiahou Nan always had only one answer - no.

And not long after, a new military order came out from Xiahou Nan's mansion - the whole army was reorganized overnight, and before dawn, evacuated Chencang City.

Now Zhuge Qian is really desperate for this kind of military order, and it is impossible for anyone to hold Chen Cang anymore.

Everyone wants to evacuate quickly, from generals to non-commissioned officers, no one will fight to the death, and there is no way to talk about holding on.

Even after Zhuge Qian returned to his mansion in the city, he was in a trance for a while and thought of the letter from the bigwig of the same clan that he had kept.

Maybe it's time to think about it for yourself.

This is really not Zhuge pious or unauthentic, it is true, the master of his own family will be a little too much to support the stage.

I only held on for half a day and thought about abandoning the city and leaving, which is at best to say, it is to retreat to the pass, at least it is difficult to hear, it is to abandon the city and run away.

Yes, Zhuge Qian was dispatched by Cao Zhen to come to Chen Cangdao to assist Xiahou Nan, theoretically speaking, Zhuge Qian should not have any strange thoughts.

Although Xiahou Nan couldn't help him up, Cao Zhen was kind to him.

But. Zhuge Qian took refuge in Cao Zhen, and his own purpose was not to serve Wei with an iron heart.

In these years, when people take refuge in one force, the first thing they think of is to seal their wives and sons, glorify the lintel, and strengthen their families. Only a very small number of people will think of serving the country and asking for their lives.

After all, until the Ming and Qing dynasties, scholars paid attention to "family and country", and "family" was ranked in front of "country".

Yue Wumu's four words of "serving the country with loyalty" are easy to say, but there are still not many people who can really do it.

Zhuge Qian belongs to the "layman" of this era, he took refuge in the Great Wei and took refuge in Cao Zhen's sect, the purpose was just to glorify the Zhuge clan where he was located.

The Zhuge clan has been inherited for nearly 1,000 years and has many branches.

Zhuge Feng's branch Zhuge Clan, because more than 200 years ago, Zhuge Feng was the lieutenant of the Division, plus now Zhuge Jin is a general in Eastern Wu, the right capital is protected, Zhuge Liang is in the Ji Han Dynasty, in charge of government affairs, it can be said that it has been revived.

But Zhuge Qian, the Zhuge clan, is still lonely and unknown so far. Even if Cao Zhen hadn't seen Zhuge Qian's surname, he wouldn't necessarily have met Zhuge Qian.

Therefore, Zhuge Qian's desire to glorify his own Zhuge clan is the most urgent.

But once Xiahou Nan guards Chen Cang for half a day and abandons the city and flees, he will definitely be held accountable by the upper echelons of Cao Wei and spurned by the world.

Similarly, Zhuge Qian, as the deputy general of Chen Cangcheng, will inevitably be implicated in this way, unless he, Zhuge Qian, has the ability to turn the tide, and can lead the remnants of the army to defend Chen Cang after Xiahou Nan abandoned the city and fled.

But obviously, Zhuge Qian thought that he did not have this ability, and the final result would inevitably be to withdraw to Guanzhong with Xiahou Nan.

At that time, Xiahou Nan would receive a few reprimands at most because of his status, but he Zhuge Qian did not have such treatment.

If it is light, it will be despised and spurned by the world, and it will lose the promotion channel, and it can only be mixed at the bottom of the army, and if it is heavier, it will be held accountable and beheaded.

Personal life and death, Zhuge Qian really doesn't really value it, but the Zhuge clan, which has affected his branch, has lost room for promotion in Cao Wei, which is the last thing Zhuge Qian wants to see.

Xiahou Nan can retreat, but Zhuge Qian has no way out.

But Zhuge Qian was not able to keep Chen Cang's grasp, so naturally there was no opportunity to seek development for the Zhuge clan he was in.

If you have three points today, you are not the only one who is Cao Wei.

Once the Great Han can capture Guanzhong and occupy Chang'an in this Northern Expedition, then Liu Bei's Great Han is not impossible to prosper again. It's really hard to say where the world will belong in the future.

Since there is no chance to get ahead on Cao Wei's side, then if you change your family and are on the Han side, maybe you will have a chance to get ahead? !

Besides, on the Han side, there is also a person of the same clan who holds power, which is not much easier than working Cao Wei's side?!

The more Zhuge Qian thought about it, the more he felt that instead of following Xiahou Nan back to Guanzhong and being unknown from then on, it was better to be ruthless and turn against the water and sincerity in these years, and it was not necessarily infamous for Zhuge Qian, Zhuge Qian could say that he was a Han family in his heart, and he didn't want to serve the usurper thief.

Well, now that there is a reason, and the name is there, what are you hesitating about, if you hesitate again, Xiahou Nan will run away tomorrow.

Zhuge Qian also made his own decision, immediately repaired a letter, sent his henchmen and guards, and went out over the wall overnight to contact Wei Yan stationed outside the city

Speaking of Zhuge Jin's "great general, right capital protection", it is actually very funny.

The official system of Soochow is slightly different from everyone's traditional cognition. Although Zhuge Jin is a general, above him, there is also a "great general, left capital protection" Lu Xun, which is not the same thing as the generals of the Han Dynasty and Cao Wei, but is more similar to the period from the later Northern and Southern Dynasties to the early Sui and Tang dynasties, when the court was full of generals and Shangzhu countries, which was more like an honorary title than real power.

It can be said that Zhuge Jin's general is a "general" with no gold content.

(End of chapter)