Wang Chang ordered the whole army to attack, and the pressure came to Wei Yan's side.

Tongguan was already facing the dilemma of being attacked from both sides, and the troops were not enough at all, but they were just holding back and forth.

Yesterday was a little better, due to the breakthrough attack launched by Zhang Xi and others, the siege of the Wei army in front of Tongguan was hastily completed, which did not bring a lot of pressure to Wei Yan, and allowed Wei Yan to take a breath a little.

But this breath is also relative to the past, in fact, Wei Yan is still facing a lot of pressure.

The attack of the Wei army in front of Tongguan was over, but the Wei army behind Tongguan was not idle.

The 10,000 Cao Wei Central Forbidden Army led by Xiahou Shang continued to attack the city behind Tongguan.

What's even worse is that the armament of Tongguan is set up externally and not internally, and the number of defensive facilities behind Tongguan is very small, not to mention, the wall is more than a zhang shorter than the front wall.

Although in terms of height, the wall behind Tongguan is also similar to the height of strong cities like Wancheng and Xiangyang City, but the problem is that behind Tongguan, it is not like the front of Tongguan, there are no large trees within thirty miles.

When Wang Chang ordered the cutting down of trees thirty miles in front of Tongguan, he never thought that the enemy would come from the direction of Luoyang.

Now it's okay, Xiahou Shang can divide his troops to attack Tongguan, and keep sending people to cut down trees to build siege equipment, no matter how many siege equipment is damaged, Xiahou Shang can also replenish it in time.

This has caused the fact that the defensive pressure behind Tongguan is greater than the defensive pressure on the front of Tongguan.

For this reason, Wei Yan also concentrated his main forces on the side behind the wall to deal with Xiahou Shang's attack, and Wei Yan only arranged less than 500 guards for the frontal Wei army's attack.

Yesterday, I barely survived a day, but today, the five hundred defenders who seemed to be on the front couldn't withstand the strong attack of the Wei army in front of Tongguan.

The city wall was lost several times, allowing the Wei soldiers to climb up.

Some of them were driven down by the guards of the city, but on two occasions, if Wei Yan hadn't noticed it in time, he rushed to support with his own guards and killed the Wei army, and if it wasn't good, the Wei army would have really set up a landing point on the city wall.

Once a large number of Wei troops are allowed to climb the wall, then the next battle will not have to go on at all.

Wei Yan knew very well what kind of soldiers he was bringing - Liangzhou cavalry, and they were not even traditional infantry.

And what kind of virtue Liangzhou people are, the world knows, they have never had a tradition of fighting to the death.

You can't expect the people of Liangzhou to still defend Tongguan even though they were overwhelmingly superior and lost the battle for the city wall.

Therefore, Wei Yan must find a way to solve the current predicament.

In this regard, Wei Yan only thought about it for a while, and immediately found that there were really not many options he could choose now.

Xiahou Shang's attack on the back must leave enough troops to defend against it, otherwise, with Xiahou Shang's strength and the threat level of siege equipment, the enemy army can attack immediately if he relaxes a little.

And the attack of Cao Zhen's army on the front, although it seems to be fierce, has a fatal weakness, their siege equipment cannot be replenished in time, destroying one and one less.

Therefore, Wei Yan only thought about it for a while, and formed a simple combat idea in his mind - what he brought was cavalry.

Wei Yan immediately ordered to gather 300 people, including his own personal guards, to return to his old job, and rush out of the main gate of Tongguan with the speed advantage of cavalry, to burn the siege equipment of Cao Zhen's army in front.

This is actually very risky, after all, there are 20,000 Wei soldiers gathered outside the main gate of Tongguan to attack the city, and Wei Yan only takes 300 cavalry out, which is an adventure in itself.

And to take the initiative to attack, it is necessary to open the city gate, once the city gate is opened, there is an opportunity to be seized by the enemy, and the possibility of breaking into the main gate in one fell swoop is the number of Han defenders in Tongguan now, once the main gate is captured, it means that Tongguan is lost.

So. In fact, this is a battle plan that is extremely risky.

Can. Wei Yan is Wei Yan in the end, he has never lacked the courage to take risks, and Wei Yan is not purely reckless to formulate such a battle plan.

Wei Yan's reliance lies in the fact that everyone knows that the current Tongguan garrison is insufficient, and it is enough to hold the city. Who would have thought that Wei Yan would dare to divide his troops and take the initiative to attack in such a dangerous situation?!

Wei Yan just wanted to fight such an "unexpected".

And when Wei Yan opened the main gate with these three hundred cavalry and took the initiative to attack to burn the siege equipment of Wang Chang's department, Wang Chang really didn't expect it at all.

Yesterday's battle was so chaotic, and when he hurriedly returned to the army to rescue Cao Zhen, the defenders of Tongguan were motionless, why did they suddenly take the initiative to attack today? !

Because he didn't think that the defenders of Tongguan would take the initiative to attack, Wang Chang hoarded a large number of troops to attack in the direction of the wall on the front flanks in terms of troop arrangement, and really did not arrange many troops to defend the main gate.

Therefore, after Wei Yan's cavalry left the pass, they were able to quickly divide their troops to attack on both flanks, go straight to the siege equipment, pour fish oil, ignite fires, and retreat, all in one go, without delay.

When Wang Chang finally reacted and wanted to put the remaining 3,000 reserves into the main gate to seize the main gate, at this time, Wei Yan had already begun to withdraw his troops and retreated in the direction of the main gate, relying on his extremely excellent battlefield insight and judgment.

When Wang Chang's reserve army arrived at the main gate of Tongguan battlefield, Wei Yan had already led his troops into the pass, closed the city gate again, and went up to the city tower to defend it.

Wang Chang was so angry that he almost jumped to his feet.

It's just a little bit, because of his poor defense, he missed the best opportunity to directly seize Tongguan.

As for Wei Yan, he was actually not very satisfied.

The time out of the city was too short, and Wei Yan couldn't burn too many siege equipment at all, so he could only choose some large siege equipment, such as ladders and the like, as targets.

Although all three ladders on the battlefield were ignited, in order to grab time, Wei Yan couldn't stop at all and wait for the ladders to completely catch fire before retreating, so he could only retreat all the way and finally only burned one ladder, but two more ladders were extinguished by the Wei army who rushed to them not long after the fire.

It's still going to work.

Although this did destroy the offensive rhythm of the Wei army, it did not burn too many siege equipment, and Wei Yan was not very satisfied with such results.

But no matter how dissatisfied you are, you can only do this.

This tactic can only be carried out once. But if Wei Yan dares to use it for the second time, Wang Chang will unceremoniously seize the main gate of Tongguan, and will not give Wei Yan a second chance to withdraw.

Again, Wei Yan didn't have time to care about Wang Chang's attack now.

Because 300 people were temporarily dispatched out of the city to fight, the number of defenders behind Tongguan was weakened. The Wei army commanded by Xiahou Shang finally climbed the city wall with the help of siege equipment, and had already occupied a place for hand-to-hand combat.

If it weren't for Wei Yan's timely return to the army, and the three hundred people he brought out didn't have much damage, all of them came back, and the loopholes were plugged in time, maybe Tongguan would still be lost at this time.

But even so, after half a day of defending the city, the Tongguan defenders led by Wei Yan suffered nearly 300 casualties again. It was the largest casualty in half a day since the city was defended in the past few days.

Today's Tongguan defenders have only about 1,000 people left. It's on the verge of collapse.

During a break in the attack, Wei Yan rested against the wall, and at this time, his personal guards secretly approached and gave Wei Yan a suggestion - if you really can't hold it, the general should take everyone to break through together!!

Really, Wei Yanhao didn't want to run away with a knife to kill this personal guard who had followed him for many years, you guys actually wanted to escape?!

Besides, at this time, if his own personal guard makes such a suggestion to himself, if it is passed out, the army's spirit will not be dispersed?!

was already relying on a breath of air, and the situation of being sandwiched by the enemy was hard to hold on to the defense. If this gas is dispersed, this Tongguan will still be a fart.

That is, he has been fighting on the city wall for the past few days, and even a tough guy like Wei Yan is a little weak, otherwise this personal guard would not have been able to wait for the opportunity to say the second sentence.

And the reason why the guards suggested this to Wei Yan is because the guards who came to Tongguan with Wei Yan have gone from fifty at the beginning to seventeen now.

The guards were not afraid of death, their duty was only to protect Wei Yan's safety, and from the first day they followed Wei Yan to the battlefield, they were ready to fight to the death.

The reason why the guards suggested this was to tell Wei Yan that with the current number of guards, not to mention those Liangzhou people in the army, it was to protect Wei Yan's safety, and I am afraid that they would not be able to do it.

The people of Liangzhou have not been very peaceful since ancient times, they are brave and ruthless, and they are also there when they surrender directly when the situation is not good. The current battle situation is so critical, and the defenders have been reduced by two-thirds, in this case, whether the people of Liangzhou can be trusted, let alone the personal guards, Wei Yan himself can't say for sure.

Therefore, the suggestion of the guards is to take advantage of the fact that the military spirit is still there, so it is better to take advantage of the situation to give the people of Liangzhou a way out.

It is impossible to surrender this group of Liangzhou people, and it is also "Han and thief are not separate", since they are eating the military rations of the Han Dynasty, this bottom line must still be there.

But a breakthrough can be considered.

If Wei Yan gives the order to break through, this group of Liangzhou people will definitely not have any different intentions, and they will definitely follow Wei Yan to fight the last one. It's better than dying on the wall of Tongguan.

Another one, these Liangzhou people are all from cavalry, and the war horses when they raided Tongguan were all in the pass, and not far from the front is where their own reinforcements are. If you want to break through and join Zhang Xi, Zhao Yun and others, there is still a great opportunity.

As for General Tongguan Wei, counting today, it has been ten days since he held out, which is not short.

This is the real reason why the guards spoke to Wei Yan.

And Wei Yan, after listening to the explanation of the guards, nodded, got up directly, and ordered - all the war horses in the pass were slaughtered.

I want to run, but there is no door!

Lao Tzu cut off the retreat of you bastards!!

(End of chapter)