If you keep it for a long time, you will lose it. This sentence has been considered a true saying throughout the past and present.

No matter what solid fortresses are broken from the inside, from the perspective of the war itself alone, if one side only wants to defend and not attack, it is equivalent to handing over the initiative to the opponent. How to fight? When to fight? These are all decided by the opponent.

Although the defending party will take advantage of the city and take advantage of the land, everything has its advantages and disadvantages. Psychologically, the guardian side will bear greater pressure.

Zhang Ren is also a famous general in Shu. He has been familiar with military tactics since he was a child and naturally understands this truth. Therefore, although he built a solid city, he did not completely give up the attack. In the past few days, he had seven points defended and three points attacked. Both sides had similar forces, but they were not willing to lose too much. They were looking for loopholes in the opponent to defeat the opponent at the lowest cost.

This is probably a common problem for powerful military generals.

Zhang He would send people to curse the enemy every day, and occasionally launch a tentative attack. After Zhang Ren repels the opponent, he would ruthlessly ridicule. The war changed from verbal war to small-scale fights and then scold them again. Both sides were trying their best to anger the opponent and make the opponent lose their minds. However, whether Zhang Ren or Zhang He, they were all rational generals. They would never move troops because of anger without seeing the rabbit or showing off their eagles.

The so-called military tactics are actually often tricks, and it depends on who can deceive the other party. Two old foxes are playing tricks here. To be honest, it is wonderful, but for the soldiers on both sides, they are quite boring, with various operations. In the end, only a few dozen or hundreds of people actually entered the war, let alone death or injury. It doesn’t feel like the feeling of two armies of 30,000 hordes? Those who don’t know think they were quarreling in groups.

This situation lasted until the fifth day, and Zhang He finally stopped just provoking trouble. Early in the morning, under the command of Zhang He, the Wei army began to line up outside the Han army camp.

Is it finally coming?

Standing on the arrow tower, looking at the Wei army's military formation from afar. On the not-so-wide road, Cao's military formation took a long time, and at first glance, there was no end.

In frontal battles, the defenders obviously have the advantage. The gap in the blocking and range of the village walls makes it easier to see the enemy's formation from a high point, especially when the forces of both sides are similar. If this wooden wall is used well, it will bring about a gap that thousands of people may not be able to close.

Amid the rumbling drums, the Wei army first moved the siege equipment. After the continuous improvement of Cao's thunder chariot became extremely huge, slowly pushing on the battlefield, like a giant beast slowly approaching here.

Zhang Ren frowned. There were also catapults of this size among the Han army, but not many. Under normal circumstances, catapults that could eject stones from hundreds of steps were enough to deal with many battlefields. Such a giant catapult, with the help of the leverage principle mentioned by Liu Yi and the mechanical stake, can project two hundred steps away. Although there are, they have never been used. Liu Yi's battle in Nanzhong was useless. In Liu Yi's words, it was just a sample, just let everyone know how to do it.

Some people don’t quite understand why the other party took this giant siege equipment here for use, and it feels like a knife cutting mosquitoes.

Still advancing?

Looking at the catapult that had obviously included the entire camp in the range, Zhang Ren was a little stunned. Is this distance trying to directly cross the city wall to attack the inside? What is the significance?

"Prepare for the catapult!" No matter what, since the other party sent this thing to his own range, Zhang Ren would not be polite. Five catapults, which were about half the height of the other party, were pushed behind the wooden wall. An engineer equalized the catapult's wheels so that the catapult would not retreat because of the launch of the stone.

The catapult has a low accuracy head, even if it has accurate attributes. It is so scary that it is scary. It is impossible to hit the catapult when you can't see the other person through the wooden wall. However, the catapult itself is not created for accurate strikes.

When the catapults of both sides began to exert force, Zhang Ren stared at the other party's stone bullet that was about the same distance as his catapult, and fell towards the village wall.

"Bang~"

Wood chips flew, and several soldiers who were not standing firmly planted directly from the wooden wall. The relatively solid wooden wall was directly blasted out.

Didn’t you say you could take two hundred steps?

Zhang Ren was somewhat surprised and suspicious as the opponent's throwing car began to slowly add bullets. The opponent's rocks were also very large and their power was also terrifying. The range was a bit touching. At the same time, the Wei army began to rush towards the direction of the city. Zhang Ren did not care about the range of the opponent's throwing car and ordered the archers to start shooting arrows.

The cold clusters of arrows flew across the void, and fell down with the roar of death, shooting through the wooden shield. Some directly penetrated the body of Cao's army, while others were stuck on the wooden shield. The advantage of equipment was the most perfect manifestation at this moment. The clusters of arrows of Cao's army usually could not penetrate the wooden shield of Han army. Even if they were not bounced open, they could only barely pierce on it. The clusters of arrows of Han army could directly shoot the opponent's wooden shield through.

It is very terrifying when it is reflected in casualties. Before the enemy was taken over, the casualties of Cao's army had begun to increase continuously, while the Han army had almost no. This is not the most exquisite equipment in Tiangongfang. That kind of equipment is generally given to elite equipment among the army. Under Zhang Ren's command, there are only one hundred sets of such equipment.

The tragic war and the excellent weapons of the Han army were obviously beyond Zhang He's expectations. Although he was originally a good fight, facing a general like Zhang Ren, even if he was too careless, it would be difficult to deceive him.

Fortunately, the terrain here is not spacious, and the losses are still within the affordable range. The second stone bullet was filled and fired again, and it hit the wooden wall hard. This time, due to the last proofreading, it accurately hit the soldiers on the wooden wall. Two Han soldiers who could not dodge were directly smashed into meat mud. The violent vibration caused more than a dozen Han soldiers to fall directly from the somewhat crowded wooden wall. They were quickly pounced on by the Wei army that followed, and started a fierce battle under the wooden wall.

The Han army was well-equipped, but facing countless Wei troops who were swarming in, after killing several Wei troops one after another, they were soon flooded by the crowd. The temporarily made wooden ladder hooked the wooden wall with barbs. Someone rushed into the gap that was bombarded by the catapult cart, but was killed by the Han army inside the wall. The two sides fought fiercely near the gap.

Arrow towers everywhere also began to shoot clusters of arrows at the Wei army. The shortcomings of narrow terrain also restricted the Han army, especially the wooden walls that were valued did not play much role and were blasted open by the opponent's catapult. The gap was constantly widened under the fighting of soldiers on both sides.

"Shoot the arrow!" Zhang Ren waved his arm, and the archers who had already formed a formation in the back row raised the longbow in their hands and shot clusters of arrows into the sky. The rain of arrows formed a cloud of death, covering the Wei army. The clusters of arrows shot down made the originally fierce fighting sound obviously weaker for a moment.

"Push the catapult car forward... ten steps!" Zhang He estimated the distance and said in a deep voice: "Replace with gravel and eject!"

At ten steps, the Han army shot three rounds of arrows. On the road in front of the city, the Wei soldiers could no longer find a place without bodies.

"Huh~"

With the harsh Weng Ming of the catapult cart, the gravel fell overwhelmingly. The archer behind was hit by a falling from the sky without any preparation. The fist-sized momentum fell from the sky. If it fell on the head, it was enough to break the head. Zhang He's move was indeed ruthless, especially in such a narrow area, which had greater lethality.

Zhang Ren was not showing weakness. After the five catapults were replaced with gravel, the lethality brought by him was also like the end of the world.

"Ming Jin!" Zhang He fired two more stone bullets. Looking at the fierce battle between the two sides, his heart was bleeding. In the end, the Wei army obviously could not fight against the Han army. If he continued to kill, the Wei army would definitely not be able to hold on.

According to the previous plan, Zhang He acted as if he was rushing to withdraw his troops, but he did not collect his supplies and ran back in a hurry. Although the Han army had the upper hand, the Wei army had not yet appeared. The sudden withdrawal of troops made Zhang Ren suspicious.

Zhang Ren went up to the high platform and saw that the Wei army seemed to be walking in a hurry. Thinking that Zhang Fei had written to take a letter to Longguan and raid Zhang He's army from the rear. Zhang Ren's heart moved, and he didn't care too much and shouted sternly: "Gather the troops and chase the Wei army!"

Even if he guessed wrongly, judging from the current battle between the two armies, Zhang Ren felt that his troops could also defeat Zhang He if they paid a certain price. If he missed the opportunity to escape, he would be more than worth the loss if he missed the opportunity to wipe out the entire army.

At that moment, Zhang Ren ordered his troops to break out of the camp and chased Zhang He's army reluctantly.

But just turned a corner and saw that Zhang He's army had re-formed the formation in a wide area. Seeing this, Zhang Ren thought something was wrong. Before he could react, he saw a shocking shout of killing sound suddenly sounded at the top of the mountainside. Countless stones and rolling wood fell from the sky. The Han army, who was moving quickly, was killed by the stone falling from the sky and the wooden blocks. Zhang Ren felt a trembling heart, and the retreat was cut off. Only hundreds of personal guards were surrounded by Zhang He.

"Zhang Ren, you have been trapped and you won't surrender soon!" Zhang He came to the front of the formation, looked at Zhang Ren who was besieged and laughed.

Zhang Ren looked at Zhang He without answering, but slowly raised the spear in his hand and said, "Form a formation!"
Chapter completed!