"I didn't expect that the people of the Western Regions also have artillery."

Pang De sat on the ground casually, wiped the blood on his face, and then looked at the city wall that was cracked, but the artillery of the Western Regions could not penetrate the city wall of Yumen Pass.

In order to effectively stop Yang Zhao, Taiping Dao also sent their artillery to the people of the Western Regions.

Matthew said: "But the artillery of the Western Regions is much weaker than ours. ”

The first battle between the two sides was the shelling of each other's artillery.

Yang Zhao's artillery had a longer range and greater power, and after using it with mortars, after destroying several artillery pieces in the Western Regions, the people of the Western Regions began to surge over with the advantage of more people and storm the city tower.

The role of artillery and mortars is long-range strikes.

As long as they can rush over the melee and storm the city tower, the advantage will be lost, Ma Chao They can only ignite the explosives and throw them under the city tower, but there are too many enemies, and the effect is not great, and they can still set up a ladder to impact the city tower.

In the battle just now, I almost lost it.

"When will the lord's support come?"

Ma Dai said tiredly: "If there is no more support, we will not be able to hold on for long. ”

Ma Chao said confidently: "The lord will definitely come, but from Luoyang to Yumen Pass, the road is far away, not so fast, as long as we hold on for a few more days, we will definitely be able to wait." ”

Pang De spread out the map, looked at the surrounding situation, and said: "We are in the north of the Beishan Mountain Range, and in the south is the Qilian Mountain, if the Western Regions Alliance wants to enter the Western Regions, it can only hit the Yumen Pass, unless they can break through the terrain of the North Mountain, it will be difficult!" As long as you hold the Yumen Pass, occupy a favorable advantage, and have the convenience of firearms, even in the face of hundreds of thousands of people, it will be no problem to hold on for more than a month. ”

According to the topography analysis, it does.

They are closed at the Yumen, with their backs to Liangzhou, and supplies can be sent in a steady stream, as long as there are enough weapons and terrain advantages, they can hold on for a long time.

Ma Chao said: "Arrange for 2,000 people to go north and garrison near Beishan, there are several valleys over there, maybe they will be discovered by the people of the Western Regions, and they have to be guarded, how about you go to Deshan?" ”

Deshan is the expression of Ma Dai.

"No problem!"

Ma Dai nodded.

"Except for the soldiers on duty, all the rest go to rest and maintain enough physical strength to meet the next strong attack." Ma Chao said again.

The soldiers went down to rest, but no one dared to relax.

After Ma Dai took away 2,000 people, it did not have much impact on the guards.

It's business as usual!

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Outside the Jade Gate.

The camp of the Western Regions Alliance, which stretched for several miles, was intercepted in the west of Yumen Pass, standing between Qilian Mountain and Beishan, and the connected camp was like a big city.

Gui Xu sighed: "Ma Chao, I have heard of it a long time ago, and it is said that he is still the descendant of General Fubo Ma Yuan. At that time, General Fubo broke Longqiang in the west, marched to Jiaozhi in the south, and attacked Wuhuan in the north, Ma Chao used 50,000 people to hold the Yumen Pass, resisting the attack of our 400,000 people, and had the demeanor of General Fubo back then! ”

Although Ma Yuan did not reach the Western Regions, his exploits in the northwest had spread throughout the Western Regions many years ago.

"We have 400,000 people, and we can't take a single Yumen Pass, and it is not good for us to fight for a long time, and it is even more unfavorable for us to wait for Yang Zhao to come to help." Gesso said.

"Zhang Tianshi, what should I do now?" Gui Xumi's gaze fell on Zhang Min next to him.

Zhang Min stood beside the Yuanmen, looked at the Yumen Pass standing in front of him, and said lightly: "Yang Zhao didn't come to the Yumen Pass so soon, on the Qiang side, I had already arranged it." After Yang Zhao entered Liangzhou, they would raise troops and drag Yang Zhao for a period of time, if they couldn't beat Yumen Pass for the time being, in fact, we could still bypass Yumen Pass. ”

Soge said respectfully, "Please ask the Heavenly Master for guidance." ”

Zhang Min pointed to the north of Beishan, and said: "To the north of Yiwu, there are several valleys, which can go deep into Dunhuang, and our people from Tianping Dao, after the Yumen Pass was blocked, enter and exit Liangzhou, it is from through those valleys, you arrange people to investigate, if it is feasible, march from Beishan and enter it." ”

"Really?"

They both rejoiced at the same time.

This is a great opportunity to break into Liangzhou.

In fact, even if they are allowed to enter Liangzhou, it will not have a great effect.

Because Yang Zhao will definitely support Liangzhou.

The Qiang people could only delay Yang Zhao for a while, and when he freed his hands, even if more Western Regions Alliance troops entered Liangzhou, they would not be Yang Zhao's opponents.

Zhang Min and Zhang Ning did this, just delaying the progress of Yang Zhao's westward advance.

In addition to delaying with the Western Regions, Zhang Ning also had a second method, which was to bury a chess piece inside the Han Dynasty and burn a fire for Yang Zhao's rear, and when the matter in the Western Regions was over, the fire would be able to burn.

Thorge: They move fast.

The soldiers sent to Beishan to investigate, and it didn't take long for them to come back.

However, the results were not optimistic, and they found that the Han army had stationed a group of soldiers near those valleys, the exact number was unknown, and they were afraid of being discovered, so they did not dare to investigate too deeply.

"How?"

Thorge asked.

"I think you can fight!"

Gui Xu Mi said solemnly: "Ma Chao's main force, placed in Yumen Pass, the people on the other side of Beishan are destined not to be too many, General Zuo!" ”

"The minister is here!"

General Wusun Zuo is difficult to come forward.

Gui Xu Mi said again: "You lead 50,000 troops, take the valley on the other side of Beishan, kill that group of Han troops, and then kill to the rear of Yumen Pass." ”

Nanqi received the order, and directly ordered troops to set off, and rushed to the Beishan Valley in the northeast.

When Nanqi came to the entrance of the valley, Suo Ge and the others gave the order to launch an attack on Yumen Pass again, attract Ma Chao's firepower, and create conditions for Nanqi to enter Liangzhou.

Knock knock knock......

The sound of war drums echoed through the pass.

The soldiers on the pass, seeing that the enemy had launched another strong attack, also hurriedly sounded the war drums to warn.

Ma Chao and the others listened to the sound of the drum and quickly walked up to the city tower.

Seeing that the enemy was coming again, he hurriedly shouted: "Spread out the defense, artillery and mortars are ready!" ”

Rumble......

The sound of artillery fire echoed inside and outside the pass.

Ma Chao ordered the cannonballs to be fired, and the people of the Western Regions Coalition Army also sent the cannonballs, but more importantly, the cannonballs on Ma Chao's side bombarded the Western Regions, after all, the range was longer and more powerful.

Those mortars, constantly adjusting the angle, hit the artillery of the Western Regions from a long distance, breaking it.

Below the city tower, countless soldiers from the Western Regions rushed towards the pass, their ladders leaning against the city walls and began to climb continuously.

"Dynamite!"

Ma Chao shouted.

The amount of explosives, they were absolutely sufficient, and they dropped them one by one, and the sound of explosions echoed endlessly.

But despite this, the soldiers of the Western Regions Alliance Army have not given up, they are not afraid to climb and attack to death, and they are not afraid to kill them, there are a lot of them, which causes a lot of pressure on Ma Chao and them.

Even if a batch was blown up, it was still easy for someone to climb up as there were many of them, and the soldiers raised their spears and kept poking down the ladder.