The attack started at the south gate of Jincheng County.
Ma Su wanted to use this attack to test the power of the trebuchet and the strength of the city.
There were only a dozen trebuchets put into the attack. Under the control of more than a thousand soldiers, they were quickly dragged to the front line, loaded with temporarily found large rocks, adjusted their angles, aimed at the city gate, charged up, and launched.
It didn't go well at the beginning. The Shu soldiers fired ten large rocks at the city gate at once, but none of them hit the city gate. Instead, they hit the city wall with craters.
The Wei soldiers on the city watched all this in silence without making any response. The catapult was located a full three hundred steps away, well beyond the range of bows and arrows.
They have never experienced such a battle and don't know how to deal with it at this moment.
But when they saw that the Shu army had added ten more catapults, a soldier hurried down the tower to report to Guo Huai.
After a heart-wrenching "squeak" sound.
Twenty huge stones flew into the air and flew towards the city gate together.
Boom, boom, boom!
Boom——
Although most of the stones were missed, a boulder as big as a millstone still hit the city gate.
The walls near the city gate immediately trembled, and dust flew down.
The city gate collapsed.
No, strictly speaking, the two huge city gates did not collapse, but were smashed through and smashed. The two halves of the city gate were still crookedly connected to the city wall, and a huge door hole appeared in the middle.
But the Shu soldiers did not take advantage of the situation.
Instead, as Ma Su raised his arms high, all the trebuchets and ballistae were launched together. The sky was filled with crossbow arrows and stones, almost covering the sky, and they pounced on the Wei soldiers on the tower like locusts flying across the sky.
Swish swish——
Bang bang bang——
In an instant, hundreds of soldiers who were hit or shot did not have time to let out miserable groans, and fell from the towers one after another, or were smashed into pulp.
When the volley of arrows and stones was over, the Shu army still did not choose to rush into the city, but loaded up its trebuchets and ballistae again.
Then there was another round of mixed and indiscriminate volleys.
This time, due to the adjusted angle, the damage to the Wei army was even greater. Some Wei soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the first round of shooting hid behind the parapet, trying to avoid this round of bombardment.
However, he was hit by huge rocks and walls, and he lay down on the ground wailing.
Another round of bombing attack only lasted for less than half an hour. More than half of the soldiers posted on the tower of the Wei army had been killed or injured, and more than a thousand people were lost. The other soldiers no longer dared to stay on the tower and retreated in embarrassment.
In contrast, the Shu army suffered only one casualty. This Shu soldier accidentally broke his leg while carrying stones.
Ma Su had expected this result. Siege warfare with equipment was always accompanied by human errors and work-related injuries. He ordered the soldiers to carry the wounded down for treatment, and was about to raise his arms again.
Zhang Xiu wondered at the side: "General, the city has been destroyed, why do you still need to shoot?"
Why not rush in and kill them all?
Ma Su smiled slightly and looked at Zhao Yun, who was thoughtful.
Dai Ling hesitated and said: "General, are you imitating the stories of the past to strengthen the Qin Dynasty, killing people and killing people?"
"good!"
"In the past, when Qin unified the six kingdoms, every time it reached a city, it would first use a formation of ten thousand crossbows to fire several rounds of arrows to destroy the courage of the soldiers defending the city, and then attack the city. Therefore, wherever it went, it was invincible.
"
"Today, I will imitate the story of Qiang Qin."
Ma Su glanced at Dai Ling approvingly and raised his arms: "Launch! Launch!"
The rain of stones mixed with the rain of arrows smashed into the city with a devastating momentum.
The city was in a mess.
Countless residential buildings have collapsed, and as far as the eye can see there are ruins and broken walls.
But there were no casualties among the people.
This is because after the great migration and decades of war, there were not many people left in the city, and they all fled far away before the Shu army launched the bombing, gathering in an open space in the middle of the city.
So apart from being a little frightened, they were in a good situation at the moment.
The situation of the retreating Wei army was even more embarrassing.
Even though they knew that the Shu army was just a tentative attack, the fact that more than a thousand people were killed in just a few rounds of bombardment still frightened them.
"grown ups!"
Inside the city gate, all the surviving Wei soldiers looked eagerly at the hurriedly arriving prefect Guo Huai, casting helpless and panicked glances.
Guo Huai held a gun in his left hand and a piece of cloth in his right hand. He turned around and looked around, but what he saw was trembling soldiers, broken city gates, and dense rain of stones and arrows flying over his head.
Guo Huai sighed, wrapped the white silk around the head of the gun, made it look like a flag, held it and walked out of the city gate full of holes, waving the white flag, shouted to Ma Su at the top of his lungs:
"Stop fighting, stop fighting, surrender!"
"Surrender!"
…
"General, Guo Huai left the city and surrendered!" Zhang Xiu said excitedly.
Ma Su waved his hand and stopped the belemnite bombardment. He did not show any complacency about this victory. He calmly ordered: "Dai Ling, Zhang Xiu, each of you lead 3,000 people to take over the four gates."
"Old General Zhao, surrender with me."
"No!" Everyone accepted the order.
The Shu army moved very quickly, and in less than an hour, they completely took control of the situation in Jincheng.
Guo Huai, the defeated general, lowered his head and followed Ma Su, shamefully bearing the offensive looks from the soldiers of the Shu army.
The entire siege lasted only two hours and ended with a complete victory for the Shu army.
Even after the first hour of the war, the Wei army was defeated, completely defeated.
However, Ma Di still insisted on completing all four rounds of bombing. He did not stop until Guo Huai left the city and surrendered.
The method of forcibly sieging a city, which requires taking human lives, has never been an option for him.
Conquering the enemy without fighting is his ultimate pursuit.
Because it was a siege and offensive battle, the news that Jincheng was captured in two hours did not spread.
The army rested in Jincheng for the night.
The next day, Ma Di ordered Zhang Xiu to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to stay in Jincheng, and personally led the army to kill Wuwei.
His reputation has always been his ability to fight with great force and speed.
…
In Wuwei City, the Governor's Mansion, Xu Miao was sitting in his study, frowning.
I can't explain why, but the uneasiness in my heart is getting stronger and stronger.
Three days ago, after learning that Ma Su had sent troops from the Qiang region to besiege Jincheng, he immediately sent someone to ask Sima Yi who was stationed in Tianshui County for help. At the same time, he sent someone to contact You Fang, the leader of the Wuwei You family, and asked the latter to come to help him.
Blocking the horse and guarding the power of the martial arts.
But three days passed, and neither Sima Yi nor You Fang responded.
Even though he knew that the distance from Wuwei to Tianshui was quite long and that it would take five days for Kuai Ma to make the round trip, Xu Miao was still anxious.
This morning, his eyelids were twitching extremely fiercely, and he had an absurd idea inexplicably: Ma Su had already captured Jincheng, and the army would soon reach Wuwei.
How can this be?!
Xu Miao shook his head anxiously, getting rid of this unreliable idea.
As we all know, cavalry is not good at attacking cities.
Therefore, even if Ma Di had 50,000 or 60,000 cavalry, it would not be possible to conquer Jincheng overnight.
Xu Miao's estimate was that it would take at least half a month for the Shu army to break through Jincheng, and then it would take another two days to reach Wuwei. By then, he must have arranged all countermeasures.
By then, Ma Su will surely fall into the quagmire of siege warfare.
While he was thinking about it, he saw a guard running in in a panic, with messy steps and a frightened expression. As soon as he entered the study, he shouted: "Big... something bad is going to happen!"
Xu Miao frowned: "Why are you so panicked?"
"The city, the golden city is broken!"
Xu Miao said "Ah" and stood up to help the case. His expression lost control for a moment, then he quickly calmed down and looked at the soldiers with an unkind look, his tone full of dissatisfaction.
"The fall of Jincheng was already anticipated by me, why are you panicking!"
The soldier stammered: "Shu... the Shu army has arrived thirty miles west of Wuwei City!"
Came so fast!
Xu Miao took a breath of cold air, took half a step back, and sat back. The expression on his face began to change rapidly, switching back and forth between fear, surprise, and anger. After a while, the corner of his mouth twitched, and he reluctantly said: "Passage
I order you to close the city gates immediately and prepare to face the enemy!"
The soldier ran out quickly.
The news that the Shu army was about to attack the city spread like wildfire, and soon everyone knew about it.
After hearing the news, the various battalion headquarters followed Guo Huai, and a large group of people hurried to the city to observe the military situation.
But I saw the dust filling the sky to the west, quickly spreading towards Wuwei City, and at the same time, the thunderous sound of horse hooves gradually became clear and audible from far to near.
"Defeated, our army will be defeated." Xu Miao sighed, his tone particularly pessimistic.
