When Xue Ting retreated to the first line of defense with 40,000 Bashu troops, the whole person was in a state of frustration.

Xue Ting sat in the camp tent, looked at the Bashu generals under his command, took a long breath, and sighed: "The combat strength of this Tang army has far surpassed that of the first army, and it is worthy of the Wuwei army led by the Tang King himself."

A Bashu general said hatefully: "This is also the terrain of the Baochuan Road, if on the plain, everyone sets up a formation and comes to fight with real swords and guns, I don't believe that this Tang army can still be so difficult to fight."

Another Bashu general said angrily: "What's the use of saying this, our army has lost the lead in this battle, and there are less than 40,000 people left in the 50,000 army.

Xue Ting looked at the noisy tent, everyone argued for a long time, and they didn't come up with a good plan, he was irritable, he could only wave his hand and drive everyone out of his tent.

When the Bashu army was at a loss, Wang Rong did not rest, and after cleaning up the battlefield a little, he drove straight into the Wuwei army and went south to the first line of defense of the Bashu army.

Yuan Tiangang looked at the Bashu military camp in front of him, laughed and said, "Your Majesty, this Bashu army's camp is so simple, please take my Teng Xiangwei as the forerunner, and the sledgehammer guarantees that you will be able to break through the Bashu military camp in one fell swoop."

Wang Rong looked at Yuan Tiangang, who was full of fighting spirit, and said, "The camp of the Bashu army is mainly wood, and it is located in a place with lush vegetation, so use a trebuchet to throw the stone grease over to me."

Throughout the ages, the most commonly used methods of battlefield warfare were fire and flooding.

The six countries are all together, and they are invincible all the way. In just half a year, it was almost wiped out. Tian Dan guarded Jimo, first changed the Yan King with a counter-plot, and then tied torches and sharp knives to the horns of more than 1,000 cows at night, tied oiled reeds to the tail and lit them with fire, and used 5,000 death squads to follow the cattle to rush and kill, break the Yan army, and rebuild the Qi country.

In the battle of Guandu in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao fought against the strong with the weak, attacked the west with the sound of the east, attacked the Wuchao, burned Yuan Shao's grain and grass land, and finally defeated the strong enemy and unified the north.

However, the complacent Cao Cao obviously forgot that he could set fire to others, and he could also be set on fire by others. In the first battle of Chibi, Cao's army was not accustomed to water warfare, and the warship was linked with iron cables, and Huang Gai surrendered, Zhou Yu destroyed Cao's naval division with a fireboat, defeated Cao Cao, and the trend of the three kingdoms in the world appeared.

Now, Wang Rong wants to take advantage of the fact that the fresh weapon of the stone fat bullet has not yet been restrained by the Bashu army, and use it more and win a few more battles.

Yuan Tiangang replied: "Understood, rest assured, the king is not such a reckless person with a sledgehammer, so he will set fire to these turtle sons."

The soldiers quickly removed the parts of the trebuchets from the carts transporting the siege equipment and began to assemble them, and two hours later, ten trebuchets were erected five hundred paces in front of the Bashu camp.

Thirty bed crossbows were assembled together, their sharp crossbow blades glowing in the sunlight.

"Put!"

As the flag fell, the trebuchet began to operate.

"Click! - Bang!"

"Squeak! - Hum!"

Ten black shadows flew up, swept across the sky, and rushed towards the Bashu camp. They were followed by thirty lit flaming ballistas.

The wall of the Bashu camp was ignited in an instant, emitting black smoke and an unpleasant smell.

"Report! ——」

At this time, Xue Ting was sitting in his seat, lying on several cases and studying how to resist the Tang army.

At this moment, a scout rushed into the camp, and Xue Ting raised his head to look at the other party's expression, and knew that something bad had happened.

"What's the matter? The Tang army has attacked?"

The scout listened to Xue Ting's words, his expression was stunned, and he said admiringly: "The general is really clever, the Tang army is already attacking the first line of defense, but they just set fire to it, and they didn't see a single soldier attacking the city."

Xue Ting slammed his fist on the map and said angrily, "It's too much to deceive people! How can there be such a war, and there is no martial virtue at all."

The scout lowered his head and replied, "What the general said is that this Tang army is too despicable.

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No matter how angry Xue Ting was, it didn't help. The three Bashu military camps in the first line of defense have been burned by the Tang army. Seeing that the situation was not good, the guard generals had no choice but to order their troops to retreat to the second line of defense.

However, the second line of defense and the first direction were an encounter, and they couldn't withstand the attack of the stone fat bomb at all, and the fire was pervasive, not only hot, but also choking, and some Bashu soldiers were directly choked and fainted.

The Tang army swaggered into the Bashu military camp, Teng Xiangwei extinguished the flames with soil, and Wu Xiangwei went out to pursue the fleeing Bashu army soldiers.

When Xue Ting received the soldiers who had returned from the first two lines of defense, he was shocked to find that the army in his hand was not even 35,000, and he had lost 4,000 men in just two lines of defense.

Since the start of the war, in just seven days, the 50,000 army in Xue Ting's hands has lost nearly one-third, which is really difficult for him to accept. Z.br>

Xue Ting stood on top of the wall, looking at the towering Tang Army trebuchet and the Tang Army bed crossbows lined up in three columns, and gave a gloomy order: "The whole army retreats!" We will withdraw to the Stone Gate and Baozhong."

Wang Rong was in the temporary camp at this time, looking at the map while studying the next battle situation. It is now April 20 of the first year of the Tang Dynasty, and the war is going so smoothly that it is indeed beyond his expectations.

Wang Rong's fingers fell on Shimen and Baozhong, both of which were located at the southern exit of Baochuan Road, and Baozhong was fifty miles southeast of Shimen. Although Shimen is said to be a city, it is not like a normal county seat, but a military city, specially built to defend the slope. The city is surrounded by eighteen miles, the city is divided into inner and outer cities, the city wall is five meters high, the east and west are rectangular, there are four city gates, in addition to two water gates.

The city is not big, and the walls are not high, but the location is too important. What's even more troublesome is that if the Tang army crosses the Shimen and attacks Baozhong directly, it is easy to be attacked by the Bashu army in Shimen City.

But if it is attacked, it is impossible for the stone fat bomb to have the same effect as the Sanjiao City and the Bashu wooden camp. In the end, you have to take your life to pile it up.

Wang Rong thought about it, and before he could come up with a better way, he saw Wang Xu enter the camp tent and saluted to him: "Your Majesty, Xue Ting has retreated with the army, and it seems that he should go to Shimen and Baozhong."

Wang Rong sighed and said, "It's a pity, this Xue Ting was scared by us, and he didn't dare to guard the camp at all. If he can hold on to us for a few days, maybe we can defeat him directly, and under the pursuit of the army, we may be able to take the stone gate down."

Wang Xu said bluntly: "Your Majesty, since Xue Ting has taken the initiative to withdraw his troops, we can send Xiao cavalry and hussars to pursue it."

Wang Wei shook his head and said, "It's too late, since Xue Ting dares to let our scouts find out that he is retreating, it means that he has thought of a foolproof plan and set up a trap to block us in the camp, so that Wu Xiangwei and Teng Xiangwei can enter the Bashu camp, and after eliminating all dangers, we will enter the camp again."

Wang Xu nodded in response, "Wow!"