Chapter 493 The Wei army attacks the city and the Han army is frustrated
Author: Soy Sauce Mixed History
In May of the fourth year of Emperor Zhangwu of the Han Dynasty, Liangzhou, Nanzheng.
As the administrative seat of Liangzhou, Nanzheng City has a very advantageous geographical location.
Nanzheng is located at the intersection of Bao River and Han River, and is the waterway transportation hub of Hanzhong County.
In addition, the Bao River and the Han River converge outside Nanzheng City, resulting in a vast alluvial plain outside Nanzheng City, which provides excellent conditions for the development of production in Nanzheng.
But the various advantages of geography in the past brought danger to Nanzheng City at that moment.
The existence of vast alluvial plains not only brings good development conditions to Nanzheng, but also makes Nanzheng face an objective dilemma.
At a glance, Nanzheng is surrounded by plains thousands of miles away, which means there is no danger to defend outside Nanzheng City.
In the past, this shortcoming would not cause much trouble, but when Nanzheng was besieged by more than 100,000 Wei troops, the shortcoming would be infinitely magnified invisibly.
Cao Zhen can be hailed as a famous general by the world, so naturally he has something special about him.
The reason why Cao Zhen dared to send a large army to besiege the city on three sides unscrupulously was because the Han army had neither a fortress nor a mountain to hide its troops outside Nanzheng City.
That means Cao Zhen has no worries.
At that time, military strategists generally adopted the strategy of besieging a city, except under very special circumstances. This would leave a way for the defenders outside the city to survive, so that they would not be ruined.
After Cao Zhen combined the special geographical factors outside Nanzheng City, he specifically chose the gap on the south side for the Wei army to release.
The reason why Cao Zhen chose to let go of the south was not because he was worried that Han reinforcements would suddenly appear in the south, leaving him vulnerable to enemies from both sides.
He did this because the south of Nanzheng City is the intersection of Bao River and Han River, and it is also the location of Nanzheng City's most important water source.
Cao Zhenfu had the intention of fighting a protracted war. He knew that the Han army's will to fight would be very tenacious at the beginning, but as time went by, the Han army's supplies outside Nanzheng City would inevitably be in short supply.
Especially the water source!
Once the Han army outside the city ran out of water, Mi Yang would send troops out of the city to fetch water no matter what.
And he specifically did not send heavy troops to besiege the south side of Nanzheng City. Did he want to use the water source as bait to lure the Han army out of the city gate and then encircle and annihilate it?
For this reason, Cao Zhen specially prepared an elite cavalry team that was ready for action.
In the vast plains, if the Han army outside the city dares to go out to supply water, then Cao Zhen's hidden killing move will give the Han army a fatal blow.
Of course, that was Cao Zhen's secretly planned back-up move. Now that the Han army outside Nanzheng City was very far from being exhausted, naturally that ultimate move would not be used.
And now Cao Zhen's top priority is whether he will use all his strength to get the Han army to the point of exhaustion as soon as possible.
At noon, after all preparations were made, Cao Zhen decisively gave the order to attack.
When the horns of the Wei army sounded, Mi Yang, who had not slept peacefully for that period of time, immediately walked towards the city wall.
Mi Yang, who was standing on the city wall, looked eastward from a high position, and a joint camp of Wei troops stretching for more than ten miles appeared in his sight.
Seeing that scene, Mi Yang couldn't help but sigh in her heart, it's great that the Wei family has such a great cause!
But before Mi Yang could sigh, the Wei army's siege operation caught his attention.
In the past few months, the Wei army also launched an attack on Nanzheng City.
After all, even if the Wei army was not fully prepared at that time, Cao Zhen had to prove his attitude with actions in time - whether General Cao held a high position of power, it did not mean that he had no political enemies in the court.
Could it be that because the Wei army was not fully prepared, those several attacks did not pose much of a threat to Nanzheng City.
But Mi Yang knew that Mingyue was different.
As Mi Yang watched, he soon noticed that after the Wei army's horn sounded, batches of Wei soldiers holding crossbows began to walk out of the Wei army's camp.
Thousands of Wei army's bows and arrows went to the place where the Wei army spent countless manpower and material resources to build up several mountains of earth during that period.
Those several earthen mountains are arranged in an orderly manner not far outside Nanzheng City.
As the administrative seat of Hanzhong, Nanzheng City was naturally surrounded by a moat for protection.
But the moat in Nanzheng City is incomparable to the one outside the Public Security City.
The moat outside the Public Security City was built by Zhuge Liang with all the strength of Jingzhou, but Nanzheng City did not have the same treatment as the Public Security City.
Even after conquering Hanzhong in the East, the Han army fought almost continuously for many years, and Yizhou could not spare any excess national power to expand the moat outside Nanzheng City.
The protective effect of a moat on a city is naturally great, but that effect is directly proportional to the size of the moat.
Since the moat outside Nanzheng City is not large in scale, if the Wei army is willing to spend manpower and material resources, it will not be difficult to fill up the moat outside Nanzheng City with the Wei army having an absolute numerical advantage.
In the past months and months, what Wei Junzong was doing was not the same thing.
Now, the foundations of several mountains of earth several feet high are built on the filled-in moat.
Is this a demonstration by Cao Zhen and Mi Yang?
The loss of the moat was bad news for Nanzheng City, but Mi Yang would not be too worried about it.
After all, you can't ask for the Han Dynasty's cities to be as fortified as the Public Security Bureau, nor can you ask for every wrong leg he encounters to be as easy to deal with as Sun Quan.
What really worries Mi Yang is the several mountains of earth rising from the ground.
The height of those earth mountains is higher than the city wall of Nanzheng City, and it is not difficult to guess Cao Zhen's purpose of building those earth mountains.
Cao Zhen wanted to use the earth mountain as a springboard so that the Wei army's bow legs could be high enough to shoot arrows outside the city.
Mi Yang's guess was correct.
When thousands of Wei soldiers ascended the mountain with their bow and arrow legs under the cover of their shield legs, they all raised their bows and arrows and aimed toward the outside of the city.
It seems that just by asking for orders, thousands of shining arrows will turn into a shower of arrows and shoot towards the outside of the city.
For the defenders of the city compared to the attackers, apart from the advantage of relying on a fortified city, the biggest advantage is that they are high in Lindong.
After Cao Zhen's actions, it was obvious that those who guarded the city had disappeared.
Because of this, when the Wei army's thousands of arrows were aimed at the outside of the city, the faces of the Han army at the city wall couldn't help but change.
When the morale of the Han army was slightly turbulent, several towers and oars slowly appeared in front of several earth mountains to the east of the Wei army's push.
Lou Lu is a high-rise building, but it is different from ordinary high-rise buildings.
There is usually a watchtower on the top of the oar, which allows the general or soldiers to hide in it and observe the enemy's situation outside the city through lookout.
When attacking a city, the oars are usually used in conjunction with earth mountains.
The soldiers in Louluzai scouted and reported the specific movements of the enemy troops in the city, and the shooters in Tushanzai fired arrows according to their instructions.
Since the oar can hide the general's figure, then of course Cao Zhen will come to the oar, hoping to see Mi Yang's angry expression for a while, so as to relieve the evil spirit in his heart.
Cao Zhen was very confident in his method of siege, and his confidence was not groundless.
I wonder if Yuan Shao used the same siege method during the Battle of Guandu to defeat them without asking for anything.
Now that times have changed, it is time for the Han army to experience that kind of suffering.
Cao Zhen, who was sitting high in the east of Lindong and outside the watchtower, soon saw the young man wearing Mingguang armor.
After seeing Mi Yang's figure, Cao Zhen felt endless anger surging in his heart. At that moment, he realized that Mi Yang no longer had any sympathy for each other, and instead had a strong desire to kill him and be quick.
Soon after Cao Zhen's order, Cao Zhen, who was in the watchtower, ordered people to wave the command flag after observing the enemy's situation.
The towering oars were higher than the Tushan. When the flags of several towering oars were dancing in unison, the thousands of Wei army bows and arrows on the several tushans no longer hesitated. They shot towards the east city wall, which they had been preparing for a long time.
sharp arrow.
As thousands of sharp piercing sounds rang out, thousands of sharp arrows that turned into streamers of light quickly shot towards the city wall of Nanzheng City.
Mi Yang was on guard for a long time. When he saw the flags of Wei troops waving, he ordered the Han troops on the city wall to raise their shields to protect their bodies.
Due to the speed of thousands of arrows, thousands of Wei army arrows had already reached the city wall at almost the moment the Han army raised their shields.
A moment later, the city wall resounded with countless harsh clashes of iron tools.
Isn't that the sound of thousands of Wei army arrows hitting the shield?
Mi Yang's order to the East was not untimely, but the preparations for the Wei army were too complete.
Not long after the first rain of arrows arrived, the second rain of arrows, which was enough to cover the sky, struck again.
In the east of the Wei army's non-stop intensive arrow rain attacks, there were always gaps between the shields, so some Han soldiers probably cried out in pain because they were hit by arrows.
And as time goes by, those cries of pain are becoming more and more frequent.
Mi Yang, who was hiding in the east of the shield, seemed extremely anxious when he heard the cries of pain.
But at that time, none of the people sent to guard the city were his elite.
If it weren't for a direct confrontation, it would be fine if the elites lost their lives.
But now no one in the Wei army has been harmed, but soldiers on our side continue to fall. If we don't find a way to change the situation quickly, the loss of Nanzheng City will enter the countdown.
But the solution is not that good.
In terms of good shooting, the Liangzhou Army that escaped from the Jingzhou Army was not inferior to the Renhe Huihui Army of the time.
But no matter how good at shooting, I still hope that the Liangzhou army will have a chance to shoot arrows.
The enemy had a large number of troops, and they had the advantage of attacking the east from a high position. Mi Yang had to figure out how to organize the bow and arrow legs in front of the city wall for a counterattack.
Not only Mi Yang heard the constant cries of pain from the Han army on the city wall, but also Cao Zhen followed the wind.
Compared to Mi Yang who was anxious, Cao Zhen felt that the cries of pain from the Han army made him particularly excited.
It's not easy. It took several months to lead the troops into Hanzhong.
But in those few months, if he and Mi Yang missed each other, he would definitely suffer a loss.
Now it's finally time for him to feel proud.
In the excitement of his mind, Cao Zhen immediately changed his tactics.
To the east of Cao Zhen's command, the Wei army's arrow rain attack from Tushanzai suddenly stopped.
After Mi Yang noticed this, he felt relieved, but before he could relax for a long time, Ding Feng's exclamation next to him instantly attracted his attention.
Mi Yang followed Ding Feng's gaze and looked out at the gap in the shield.
At that moment, thousands of rockets suddenly appeared in the sky, and the direction of the thousands of rockets was either within the city wall or outside the city wall.
After seeing that scene, Mi Yang instantly understood Cao Zhen's intentions.
Soon after thousands of rockets landed in the residential area behind the city wall, the rockets quickly ignited the residential areas near the city wall.
And due to the hot and dry weather, the fires caused by rockets are spreading rapidly among the houses.
Cao Zhenfou wanted to arouse people's anger outside the city by burning down the houses!
Whether Cao Zhen's method was effective, Mi Yang soon heard the screams and cries from the people outside the city wall.
After the bursts of shouts and cries fell into Mi Yang's ears, Mi Yang became furious.
If you can't shoot him, shoot the people. Isn't it shameless!
But Mi Yang was trapped in the east of the shield formation and had no way to get up and go outside the city to stabilize the situation.
The reason why Cao Zhen asked the Wei army to release fire arrows outside the city was to lure Mi Yang to appear from the east of the shield formation.
Defend the city, and those who defend it will lose the hearts of the people.
Did Cao Zhen have heard of Mi Yang's famous saying?
And if Mi Yang suddenly emerges from the shield formation, then among the more than 100,000 Wei troops, there will be no shortage of sharpshooters.
Even Cao Zhen was one of the good archers in the Wei army who could pierce a Yang with a hundred steps!
Cao Zhen had already set up his bow and arrows in the watchtower, waiting for Mi Yang to emerge from the shield formation.
But Cao Zhen waited and waited. The Wei army's action of releasing fire arrows was going on, but Mi Yang never appeared from the shield formation.
Just when Cao Zhen was getting impatient, he noticed that the fire outside the city was gradually being extinguished, and the shouts and cries of the people outside the city were gradually stopping.
At that moment, Cao Zhen knew that Mi Yang had appeared for He Hui Daihui.
Hearing that Fazheng's son Fa Miao is now Mi Yang's farewell, he comes from a well-known family and is calming down the situation outside the city to a certain extent. It may not be difficult for him.
After realizing that, Cao Zhen knew that Mingyue might not be able to win the battle.
In addition, before he knew it, the sky was gradually getting dark, so Cao Zhen gave the order to retreat eastward.
When he left, Cao Zhen had a smile on his face.
Although Mingyue has not achieved much results yet, judging from Mingyue's situation, Yuan Shao's siege tactics back then were miraculous.
Just ask him to continue to use that method of siege. How long can the Han army outside the city persist?
After noticing that the Wei army was gradually retreating, Mi Yang also walked east of Ding Feng's escort on the east city wall.
After walking along the east city wall, Mi Yang saw a mess to the east of the city wall.
A large number of houses were burned down, and there were fallen black timbers everywhere on the road, and the people surrounding the black timbers who refused to leave were homeless people.
Although the people had stopped crying after Fa Miao comforted them, the tears on their faces were still there, and the helplessness and sadness in their eyes were clearly captured by Mi Yang.
Putting aside the Han army's battle damage on the city wall, just seeing that scene made Mi Yang realize how much damage Mingyue's battle had caused to people outside the city.
Mingyue Mi Yang finally realized how helpless Cao Cao was back then.
After appeasing a commoner in Dong, Fa Miao walked to Mi Yang. He originally wanted to ask about the situation of the city wall, but seeing Mi Yang's face, he wisely chose not to speak.
Looking at the mess on the ground, and then at the somewhat depressed Shu Dong around him, Mi Yang said angrily:
"Cao Zhen raised the tall buildings ruthlessly, and Mingyue Gu smashed those tall buildings into powder!"
After hearing what Mi Yang said, Fa Miao, Ding Feng and others cheered up.
Did Cao Jun use the Thunderbolt Chariot to defeat Yuan Jun's offensive? Could it be that Mi Yang also secretly prepared the Thunderbolt Chariot?
Fa Miao and others don't know, they probably don't have the Thunderbolt Car, but fortunately, they have a master who is a time traveler.
This chapter has been completed!