At the beginning of the day, outside the Pingcheng Gate and the Ancheng Gate of Chang'an Nancheng, the Cao army and the Han army were engaged in a fierce competition.

With long-range bombardment by catapults, the Han army was able to build a moat over the moat, and then approached the edge of the city through the cloud tower, where the crossbowmen would shoot arrows to cover the infantry below to climb the city wall.

However, in that case, in order to prevent accidentally injuring their teammates and knocking down their siege troops, the catapults in the rear will choose to cease fire and the infantry will charge up with ladders.

So taking advantage of the time of the catapult ceasefire, the Wei army will immediately organize a defense, this four-kilometer-long section of the city wall, densely erected thousands of ladders, the crossbowmen on the cloud tower in the rear shoot arrows into the city, and the crossbowmen in the city will shoot back.

Then the foot soldiers on the city wall will be thrown down with rolling stones, sasswood, lime and even hot oil, and the Han soldiers who were smashed down fell from a height of seven or eight meters, and there was even a four-meter-high moat below, like a tree covered with snow was kicked, and a large number of Han soldiers fell down, and the casualties were extremely tragic.

The Han army behind was still in a steady stream, like ants against the enemy's bows, crossbows, rolling stones, sasswood, lime and other defensive equipment, flowing across the moat, and then bravely climbed up, hoping to kill the city wall and take the city down.

It's a pity that the Wei army was well defended and occupied the convenience of defending the city. What's even more uncomfortable is that the eight-meter-high wall of Chang'an City makes the process of climbing the city miserable for the soldiers, resulting in serious losses and losses.

Shen Chen, who was in the distance, looked at all this, his face was serious and very solemn.

The casualties caused by such a siege method to the soldiers were very large, but he could not help it. His troops are not much different from the number of people in the city, even if Chang'an City leaks on all sides, it is difficult for him to attack Chang'an through superior forces, so he can only choose to attack by force to create an opportunity for the troops to sneak attack.

So sometimes casualties are inevitable.

However, the strong siege of the city soon had an effect, as the Wei army raised the black banner in the distance, the Cao army in the southeast Anchengmen area was immediately transferred to the east city, resulting in some mistakes in the defense there, and it was almost attacked by the Han army.

Now the main force of the Wei army is completely entangled by the Han army, and they can't gather too many manpower to defend other places, so they can only rely on cavalry or nearby foot soldiers to take the rescue method of extinguishing the fire on the spot.

Ma Dai and their surprise attack in Dongcheng would cause the Wei army close to Dongcheng to be transferred and form a defensive gap, which naturally helped the frontal Han army to create opportunities.

It's just that the Wei army on the city wall also reacted quickly, and quickly transferred manpower from the west to immediately fill the gap and drive the Han army off the city wall.

Seeing that the time passed minute by minute, and if it continued like this, today would be useless again, and the casualties would be heavy and ashes would go back, but at this time, horses galloped in the distance and reported to Shen Chenyu: "Report, General Wu and General Shan have entered the city, please send someone to help from the gate of Zhangcheng." ”

Shen Chen's spirits perked up, and he immediately shouted: "Quick, the cavalry will give me to go over immediately!" ”

"Yui!"

The herald hurriedly went to deliver the military order.

At the same time, above the city in the distance, Zhong Xuan's position was on Taichang Street behind the Ancheng Gate.

Because the city wall in front of him was the key target of catapults, it was almost impossible for him to defend on the city wall, so he built a high platform of nearly 20 meters in the city, about 30 steps away from the city wall, and stood on the platform to watch.

This height and distance is absolutely safe and can overlook every corner of the city wall, the only problem is that Zhong Xuan is old, he is seventy-six years old this year, and his eyes are not very good.

Therefore, he needed the help of several generals Fei Yao, Yang Ke and others to watch what was happening in the city, so as not to make any mistakes.

coincided with Shen Chenmeng's attack on the city, and the Wei army's main attention was on the south of the city, and then Ma Dai launched an attack in the east of the city, and they were quickly attracted by the movement in the east of the city, and some ignored the situation in the east of the city.

By the time Wu Tao and them were found on the side of Zhangchengmen, they were already climbing the city, and then passing the news to Zhong Xuan's side, Wu Tao and they had already captured the city gate and opened the city gate, and now they were waiting for the cavalry sent by Shen Chen to quickly rush over, and they should join forces with each other to raid the southern city from inside the city and win in one fell swoop.

At this time, Yang Ke noticed that there were cavalry in the northeast with red flags rushing towards him, and he was immediately shocked: "Tai Lieutenant, Dongcheng has also been raided. ”

Zhong Xuan's face was silent and said, "You personally lead the team to go." ”

"Yes."

Yang Ke hurriedly climbed down the high platform and hurriedly ran to the east of the city with the rear supervision team.

The Overseer team is Zhong Xuan's last bit of manpower.

Although he was the defender of the city, the catapults outside the city bombed every day, and the casualties were also not small.

So when the enemy attacked, he had to give it his all every time.

Soon at the end of the day and the beginning of the day, Zhong Xuan gave an order, and the two thousand overseers who were supervising the battle behind the Ancheng Gate immediately set out to reinforce the Zhangcheng Gate.

The two city gates were three or four kilometers apart, Yang Ke roared, and the soldiers of the Wei army rushed in line from Taichang Street to the direction of Baihu Street in the northwest.

At this time, Wu Tao had completely seized the gate of Zhangcheng Gate, and it was much better to enter the city, although there were still many city gates in the inner city, but the difficulty was far less than that of the outer city.

More importantly, the White Tiger Gate leading to the Inner City Palace was also occupied by Wu Tao, and he sent people to arrange 500 people on the left and right sides of the city wall to prevent the enemy from raiding their rear from the city wall, and then placed people on White Tiger Street and the White Tiger Gate to be responsible for the enemy behind him.

In this way, the entire city wall above the Zhangcheng Gate, to the White Tiger Street behind, and then to the White Tiger Gate leading to the inner city, are now firmly controlled by the Han army, and once Shen Chen's cavalry arrives, they can directly pass through the two palace gates and kill the enemy's base camp Weiyang Palace.

It's just that although Shen Chen sent a large group of cavalry to help, they still have to cross the water and the moat, so the speed is not as fast as the solemn supervision team in the city, and at this moment the supervision team has rushed to the street in front of the White Tiger Gate.

"Crossbowmen ready!"

Wu Tao shouted.

All the soldiers pulled out their serial crossbows.

Yang Ke was shocked when he saw that even the White Tiger Gate had been snatched at this time, and immediately ordered an attack.

In the afternoon, the sun hung in the sky near the west, and the scorching sun shone on the earth, giving people an uneasy heat and dullness.

The White Tiger Gate is not an easy position to defend and difficult to attack, but Wu Tao and the others must seize the White Tiger Gate before the reinforcements from the rear arrive, otherwise the White Tiger Gate is closed, and they can only go north to make a big circle from the Zhicheng Gate.

The first to attack were the Wei army's central army, which was lined up in neat formations, with shields in front and sharp spears sticking out from the rear, and then rushed directly towards the Han formation.

"Projectile!"

Wu Tao shouted without hesitation.

The soldiers in the front row immediately raised the position of their crossbows, pulled the trigger, and countless crossbow arrows suddenly slashed an arc in the air, and then shot towards the Wei army below.

Immediately after that, there was almost no need for Wu Tao to give an order, and the soldiers all pinned their crossbows to their waists and took out their ring head knives.

The distance between the Han army and the Wei army was more than fifty or sixty meters, which was the limit attack distance of the crossbows, and most of the crossbows were shot on the shields with clanging sounds, but there were still some unlucky eggs who were killed by the crossbow arrows thrown out.

Under normal circumstances, if they wait for the enemy to be within fifty meters, they will definitely kill more people, except for the soldiers in the front row who have shields, most of the Wei army only have a leather armor at most, and it is impossible to defend against crossbows at close range.

However, the enemy has already run wildly, and if you let the opponent get close and then fight, your formation will be unstable, and the gains outweigh the losses.

"Kill!"

With this thunderous roar, the Wei army soon collided with the Han army like a tide.

Wu Tao and Shan Yi rushed to the front, and the Wei army heard a series of dense bowstring crossbow arms trembling in front and back, and dozens of arrows and crossbows smashed their heads and faces.

Yang Ke raised his head and took a look, and found that the Han army actually used cloud ladders to build a row of wall heads on the palace walls left and right of the White Tiger Gate to attack, and dozens of crossbowmen were shooting arrows upwind.

At the gate of the White Tiger Gate below, the Han army set up a circular defensive formation, occupying the city gate to the death, and did not allow the Wei army to attack at all.

Immediately after the two sides met, both sides shouted and shouted in their mouths to cover up, arrows and knives and spears poked, and in the blink of an eye, both the enemy and us fell to the ground, but the Wei army obviously fell to the ground, because they not only had to fight head-on, but the back row also had the risk of being shot by arrows.

Seeing this scene, Yang Ke knew that if he wanted to take the White Tiger Gate, he would have to dispose of the crossbowmen on the palace wall, so he immediately shouted, and the Wei troops on the left and right wings immediately went around in the direction of the palace wall.

The outer city wall is eight meters high, but the palace wall in the city is much shorter, only about three meters high, and the soldiers are about one meter seven and the soldiers are holding spears or halberds of more than one meter eight, which is enough to poke down the crossbowmen above.

At this time, the layout of the White Tiger Gate and the Zhangcheng Gate was not very favorable for the Han army, because the city wall above the Zhangcheng Gate had to be guarded, and the Wei army had already organized hundreds of people to come over and want to take the city gate back.

The palace road on the left and right sides of the Zhangcheng Gate and the White Tiger Gate also have to be guarded, less than two kilometers to the south is Taichang Street, which is also the position where the Wei army is currently resisting the main force of the Han army outside the city, and the endless Wei army foot soldiers are approaching this side, resulting in the White Tiger Gate only about 500 people to defend.

Jiang Wei and Deng Ai are in charge of the palace roads on the left and right, in order to take care of their junior brothers, Wu Tao and Shan Yi are guarding the most difficult White Tiger Gate, Wu Dang and Deng Ai are guarding the city wall above the Zhangcheng Gate, Huo Yang is responsible for the direction of Taichang Street in the south, and Jiang Wei is in charge of North Street.

The north street is now empty, you can see the head at a glance, probably there is no enemy to attack, Jiang Wei then climbed the palace wall with a cloud ladder to watch the situation in the direction of Baihumen, he saw that the five hundred Han army was very difficult to defend in the face of the two thousand Wei army.

At first, the Wei army crashed headlong and was scattered by the crossbows, and then Wu Tao and Shan Yi seized the opportunity to lead the soldiers to charge, cutting down dozens of them, and the Wei army suffered many casualties.

But then Yang Ke let the Wei army on the left and right flanks raid the palace wall, and the crossbowmen above were repulsed, and without the suppression of the bow and crossbow, the numerical disadvantage of the Han army was quickly reflected.

The two sides are locked in a bitter battle.

In the chaos, there were shouts of killing in front and back, and there were swords and guns on the left and right, and the Wei army rushed into the Han army's formation like a tide, so that the circular formation defense line was already shrinking backwards.

Although the Wei army is greater in casualties, but after all, this is the territory of the Wei army, and there are hundreds of nearly a thousand Wei troops rushing over to the south city wall and palace road, and the reinforcements in the rear are still in a steady stream.

Jiang Wei's position was a little farther away, but he was quickly discovered by several Wei soldiers, who rushed towards him with shouts, and several halberd spears poked at him with their heads covered in their faces, unless Jiang Wei had eight hands, he couldn't resist at all.

He had to jump off the ladder like the crossbowmen, and then several captains next to him came over and said, "Marquis, what should we do now?" ”

"Bring the ladder and follow me!"

Jiang Wei pointed to the road in front of him without hesitation and said: "This road is straight for several miles, it is impossible for the enemy to attack from this side from such a long way, it is useless for us to stay here, it is better to climb over and go around to their rear to sneak attack." ”

One of the captains said, "But the general ordered us to stay here, and if the enemy really attacked from our line of defense, resulting in a rout on the flanks, then ......"

"Hmm......"

Jiang Wei hesitated for a moment.

This is a problem that battlefield generals often have to face.

I had an area that needed to be defended, and I couldn't leave easily, but in the midst of the chaos, I suddenly found a fighter.

This fighter may turn the whole situation around, and if we choose to turn a blind eye, the situation will fall into a stalemate, and even gradually turn against our side, and eventually cause the whole situation to fail.

However, if we choose to seize this fighter, it means that we will abandon our own defense area and violate military orders, and once the enemy passes through our defense area, it will become a situation in which defeat is only possible.

So it's a dilemma.

Most generals often choose to turn a blind eye, even if they know that this fighter is likely to let their side win directly, but they also uphold the concept that if they don't do it, they will not make mistakes, and stick to their own work.

Only a very small number of people will choose to fight, just like according to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's original plan, he planned to let Huo Qubing send troops from Dingxiang to pursue the Xiongnu Shan Yu. As a result, Huo Qubing captured the Xiongnu captives, and after learning that Shan Yu had fled eastward, he immediately changed direction and pursued Shan Yu.

Sometimes it's more about improvisation than conventionality on the battlefield.

After a brief hesitation, Jiang Wei made up his mind and turned his head to look at the city head on the left, only to see Deng Ai also standing at the head of the city looking at him.

The two of them seemed to have a heart, looking at each other and smiling, Deng Ai then gestured to him, signaling him to rest assured, he would help him watch the direction of the straight city gate, don't worry.

Jiang Wei then bowed to Deng Ai, and then said without hesitation: "Obey the order, if there is a situation, I will bear it." ”

"Yui!"

Several captains no longer hesitated and immediately responded.

Soon his men of about 300 soldiers were assembled and hurried north with ladders.

By this time, the war had reached a fever pitch.

More and more Wei troops were coming from the rear, and the pressure on their defense of 3,000 men was already very high.

Especially in the direction of the White Tiger Gate, Yang Ke kept scolding the soldiers to attack, and Wu Tao Shan Yi's defensive front was shrinking backwards, and it was already close to the direction of the city gate.

And in this chaos, no one noticed that Jiang Wei had already led the soldiers to the north palace wall at this time.