At this time, the sun was already hanging in the west. Guo Jia looked at the bloody setting sun and said, "Your Majesty, it seems that abandoning the city is indeed the best option at the moment, but Your Majesty probably doesn't want to withdraw."
Wang Can said: "That's natural. I came here to regain the lost ground. I just took Tianshui City and you let me run away. If Liu Bang gets a firm foothold in Xiliang in the future, the battle will be real."
It’s hard to beat.”
Guo Jia said: "But now it is impossible to implement the Central Strategy to fight out of the city. If Yingbu is really as good at using troops as His Majesty said, how could he not prevent us from attacking the camp at night?"
Wang Can said: "Since the short-term situation has become a foregone conclusion, let's defend first. The longer we defend, the greater the turnaround will be."
After saying this, Wang Can began to inspect the city tower. The two thousand soldiers and horses Wang Can brought have all been deployed on the city wall about one foot wide, and some old places are being repaired.
Wang Can is indeed very dissatisfied with the Tianshui City wall. Many places are only two feet high, and some places don't even have city railings. People with strong martial arts can climb it with bare hands.
Outside the city wall, the eastern king of Tianshui City was leading a team of troops to dig trenches.
One of the lieutenants said: "General Wang, why did the king of Shu ask us to dig so many trenches when he had nothing to do? There are no horses in Hanzhong."
Wang Lie took a sip of water and said, "Stop talking nonsense. Just dig as fast as you can. I must dig eighteen trenches before dawn."
While Wang Lie was directing his men to do things, he looked curiously to the south. He saw a few soldiers there, and they were placing a few stones at intervals of a certain distance. They were placed five times in total, but Wang Lie couldn't see it.
understood.
Wang Lie thought to himself: Maybe this is the Sili people's habit of fighting in order to get good luck.
Wang Can followed Guo Jia to the south wall of Tianshui City.
There are mountains to the west of Tianshui City, and some wheat fields and several canals for water diversion to the north. Only the east and south have flat terrain, which can allow large-scale deployment of troops.
The southern city wall is nearly a mile long and is the most vulnerable place to attack.
Wang Can said: "Fengxiao, we only have one pair of crossbows, so you have to be careful when using them."
Guo Jia said: "Your Majesty, please rest assured that I will use it properly. In addition, the two sets of catapults produced by General Dian Wei are almost ready, but they are a bit crude and cannot be compared with the ones we usually use.
At most we can hit about 200 meters."
Wang Can had people lay out piles of stones every fifty meters outside the city for positioning. Five rows of them were placed 250 meters apart.
Wang Can took the city defense map into his arms and said: "Something is better than nothing. Guo Jia, please help me look at it first and let them speed up. The sooner those platforms are made, the better!"
When the lantern came out and Wang Can returned to the courtyard, Yu Ji told him that Jiang Wei was awake.
Wang Can walked into Jiang Wei's ward.
Seeing Wang Can today, Jiang Wei said: "I heard my family members tell me what happened after I fell into coma today. No matter how they said it, I still want to thank you for saving my life."
Wang Can said: "Don't be in a hurry to thank me. It won't be too late to thank me after this battle is over."
"What's going on outside now?"
"Two thousand of my troops have already entered the city to reinforce the city's defenses. Tomorrow Liu Bang's general Yingbu will lead an army of more than 10,000 to attack the city."
Hearing Yingbu's name, Jiang Wei's eyes flashed with worry.
"Is it really Yingbu? Rumor has it that this man is not inferior to Han Xin in terms of military skills, and he has killed as many people as Han Xin."
Wang Can said: "It seems that you have read a lot of military books."
Jiang Wei said: "He is the founding hero of the Han Dynasty. He ranks among the top three generals of Liu Bang. How could I not know this? Moreover, this man has never lost when he fights with more and less. Now you lead your army into the city rashly."
You have simply become a turtle in a urn! Without my orders, do you think you can really command the troops and horses of Tianshui City?"
After a pause, Jiang Wei said: "If I were you, I would have your two thousand troops and horses on standby. When the fierce battle between the Han army and Tianshui City is about to begin, you can then rush out from behind and kill him without even a chance to kill him."
Wang Can said: "It's too late, Liu Bang's people recognized me, and in order to control the army in Tianshui City, I told everyone in Tianshui City, including cats and dogs, that Tianshui City is now under the control of our Kingdom of Shu.
, your troops and horses have also been integrated into my command. As for whether your three thousand people will listen to me, it is actually very simple. As long as you continue to pretend to be unconscious, I can mobilize your army."
After what happened at the school ground, the soldiers and horses in Tianshui City were more likely attracted by the attack on the city lord and the hatred of Liu Bang for humiliating the people in the city. They were commanded by Wang Can. As long as Jiang Wei pretended not to be awake, Wang Can wanted to control these soldiers and horses.
Of course there is no problem.
After listening to Wang Can's words, Jiang Wei pondered for a while and said: "Anyway, I won't be of much use on the battlefield now. If you can do it, just go ahead and do it. I will make my retainers completely obey your orders. After all, they
All my family members are with my wife."
Mentioning Wang Yi, Wang Can said curiously: "As for you and Wang Yi getting married, have you married or not? Now that the world has changed, even though I am thirty, I will not grow old, right? I am just curious.
Why do you fall in love with her? After all, we are ten years apart. Could it be that... you have an Oedipus complex..."
"..." Before Jiang Wei finished listening to Wang Can's words, he began to clench his fists and look around to find where he had put his iron gun.
Sensing Jiang Wei's murderous intention, Wang Can continued: "Okay, you should rest. We will talk about this later. I will go and help you defend the city first. I will tell you about it after I finish guarding."
How did I catch up with my little wives?"
After saying that, Wang Can patted his butt and slipped out.
After a while, Jiang Wei took a deep breath and said to himself: "This man is really strange. He is obviously the king of a country, but he doesn't even have a bodyguard with him. He obviously doesn't exude a trace of majesty. Looking at him
I just want to look at him as an ordinary young man, but at the same time he has a faint urge to surrender in his heart. He is truly a terrifying person."
Jiang Wei has not been practicing martial arts for a long time. The main reason is that he is very talented and does not have a good master to teach him. In fact, the reason why Jiang Wei has a feeling of surrender in his heart is mainly because the difference in martial arts realm between him and Wang Can is already there.
Very big.
In the woods thirty miles south of Tianshui City, a huge camp was standing in the woods.
Yingbu, the hero who helped Liu Bang expand his territory hundreds of years ago, had a habit of setting up camp wherever he went.
All possible routes for troops and horses to travel are listed.
In this way, every valley and river on the battlefield is under his control.
At this time, Yingbu was adding several grooves to the open space in the east of Tianshui City on the sand table.
Yingbu was wearing a black battle armor with the colors of the Qin army back then, and his weather-beaten face showed an inexplicable and frightening majesty.
He looked at the sand table and said: "There are nearly eighteen trenches. He has sent elite troops to investigate our situation before." (To be continued)