Cao Shen said: "Wang Can has been fighting in the south and north for so many years, and he has mostly carried out strong attacks on the frontal battlefield. I have never seen Wang Can fight any outstanding battles like this in defense of the city. I am afraid that this layout is just for the purpose of defending the city.
It's just to block the attack of siege engines."
Yingbu said: "It's hard to say. He only has half a day to dig these eighteen trenches. Judging from the current situation of our army, it only takes one day to fill them up against the rain of arrows. By the time
At that time, we will dispatch ten arrow towers to attack simultaneously from the southeast, and Wang Can will be defeated."
At this time, another general in the camp, Peng Yue, said: "Wouldn't this delay one more day? Why not tonight, I will lead my fine cavalry to kill all the soldiers digging trenches, and see who of them dares to leave the city tomorrow."
Yingbu pondered for a while and said: "This is feasible, but Peng Yue, I will only give you five hundred cavalry. As you know, we don't have many cavalry in the army now."
Peng Yue laughed loudly and said: "Haha, Marshal, don't worry, I will definitely be able to help you take the lead."
This time Liu Bang's army went out, Peng Yue was the vanguard, Marshal Yingbu, and many other young generals. However, these people held important positions in the early years of the Han Dynasty and commanded tens of thousands of troops across China, so although Liu Bang only
The army seems to have only fifteen thousand people, but the generals are powerful enough to command an army of more than one hundred thousand people, as long as they are given enough territory.
The north wind blew and night fell, but Wang Can was still standing on the gate tower of the south city gate.
Beside him, Guo Jia was wearing a coat and warming a pot of strong wine.
Guo Jia said: "Your Majesty, please go to bed first. Dian Wei is enough to guard the city."
Wang Can said: "Dian Wei, it's okay for you to let him fight, and don't bore him to death by letting him do things like defending the city. Anyway, you have time now, so you can let him knock a few more stones. Don't worry about it tomorrow."
It didn’t take long before the catapult stone was gone.”
After a pause, Wang Can said: "Besides, I'm thinking that Yingbu will definitely send someone to attack tonight."
Guo Jia said: "I didn't expect that Your Majesty thought the same as I did."
Wang Can said: "Why, do you think so too?"
"Yes, and Yingbu will definitely attack the city in the first half of the night."
Wang Can asked: "Why is this? We didn't sleep half the night, and he was quite blatant in attacking the city like this."
While adjusting the fire in the stove, Guo Jia said: "First, Tianshui City has a wall after all. Liu Bang's army came from Hanzhong and has at most a thousand cavalry. He would not be stupid enough to use precious cavalry to attack the city. Second,
The trenches we used to block Yingbu's attack from the east were basically formed in the first half of the night. If the cavalry came later in the night, people would hide in the already formed trenches and form formations with spears. Even if the Hanzhong cavalry wanted to attack, they would be unable to do anything."
Wang Can said: "That's true, well, fighting with smart people requires a lot of brainpower. When did the various princes become so passive when fighting against them?"
Guo Jia handed Wang Can a glass of wine and said, "Your Majesty, we didn't bring 2,000 men and 4,000 newly recruited subordinates to fight against more than 10,000 elite soldiers who had been trained for a year."
Wang Can smiled and said nothing. When he picked up the wine glass, he found that the wine in the glass had inadvertently rippled.
Wang Can looked up and saw a group of cavalry suddenly rushing out of a forest two miles away. The dust they threw up was thick with smoke under the moonlight.
Wang Can stood up, held a Fangtian painted halberd in his hand, and carried a special ox-horn bow on his back.
Wang Can said: "Give Cao Chun an order to have his men intercept the path of the cavalry."
After saying this, Wang Can put his fingers in his mouth and made a whistle sound. Then Wang Can took a big leap and fell from the south city gate.
Immediately afterwards, the south city gate was opened, and a gray war horse rushed out.
After returning to the Kingdom of Shu, Wang Can's previous sweat horse was injured and could not be ridden, so Wang Can changed to another war horse named Linqiu. Although it was not as fast as the previous horse, it was better because of its endurance.
, and is very strong. The Fang Tian Hua Ji in Wang Can's hand weighs nearly two hundred kilograms. Adding Wang Can's weight and various armors, it weighs nearly five hundred kilograms. However, Linqiu can easily withstand these.
Already.
Peng Yue led five hundred horses and rushed towards the infantry digging trenches outside Tianshui City, with a murderous look in his eyes.
When they were 400 steps closer to Wang Lie and others, Peng Yue's cavalry raised their bows and fired arrows.
A hail of arrows fell, and many of the soldiers hiding in the ditch were hit by arrows and lay on the ground, wailing in pain.
Wang Lie held a spear in his hand but had no choice. In order to dig trenches, the soldiers came out of the city lightly. Except for some spears, they had no other defensive weapons, not even a shield. Some people had to temporarily carry wooden boards to resist. If
It would have been better if Peng Yue's troops arrived later. By then, Wang Lie and his men would have dug the trench deep enough, and they would no longer have to worry about the rain of arrows from the cavalry.
Wang Lie cursed secretly and said: "You put your head down for me! Keep your body close to the trench!"
At this time, Peng Yue noticed that a cavalryman rushed out from the south.
Peng Yue was stunned after just one glance. He was indeed a person.
One person wants to attack a cavalry of 500 people. What is this guy thinking?
So Peng Yue waved his sword in his hand, and twenty men quickly separated from the cavalry and rushed towards Wang Can, who was riding alone.
Facing the aggressive twenty people, Wang Can shouted: "Well done!"
Then he picked up his bow and shot an arrow.
The next moment, there was only a crisp sound of "thud!", and one person in the cavalry team of twenty was hit by an arrow and hit the ground.
The captain of the cavalry shouted secretly: "What a fast arrow!"
Then the remaining nineteen people drew their bows and arrows and shot at Wang Can.
These nineteen people cooperated very well. They did not shoot all the arrows at the same time, but six people in a team shot the arrows in batches. In this way, Wang Can could only be busy waving to block the flying arrows.
Come.
Soon the two sides were no more than fifty steps apart.
This is a short distance.
The cavalry and others also drew back their bows, raised their spears, and shouted in unison: "Kill!"
Wang Can lowered his head slightly, hiding his face in the moonlight. At the same time, he dragged Fang Tian backwards and rushed towards the cavalry.
The moment the two sides came into contact, Wang Can suddenly raised his head, and a monstrous murderous intent poured out as unscrupulously as the Milky Way in Tianshui.
Wang Can faced the five people who were charging and slashed across them with a halberd.
The overbearing and unparalleled halberd slashed through. Except for the captain of the cavalry school in the middle, the rest of the people had their breastplates cracked and flew backwards with blood spurting out.
When Wang Can passed by the small cavalry school, Wang Can couldn't help but look at him one more time. To be able to block such a murderous blow from him, this small cavalry school was at least stronger than Pan Feng and Mu Shun.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Can held his halberd across his chest to block the subsequent cavalry attack. Then he swung his halberd and cut off the front legs of one of the cavalry horses, and the unlucky guy plunged into the ground.
Broke his neck.
After the first confrontation between the two sides, they both reined in their horses and turned back when they were fifty steps apart, and the primary school officer began to look at Wang Can with serious eyes.
In just one confrontation, twenty people faced off against one person, but seven of his side died, while the other side remained unscathed, which frightened the cavalrymen beside the small colonel.
One of them approached the principal and said: "Captain Huo, why don't we ask General Peng to send two more teams over? This person seems to be very difficult to deal with."
The colonel said in a deep voice: "We are the elite cavalry of the Hanzhong Army. If we can't kill this man, we will be laughed at by others when we reach the military camp. This man is extraordinary in martial arts. He must be Wang Can's general. Kill him."
General Peng will definitely reward you generously."
To a certain extent, gold and military exploits tempted the Hanzhong cavalry to suppress their fear of Wang Can. They all took a deep breath and began to regroup.
At this time, the principal of the primary school waved his gun and rushed towards Wang Can.
The others spread out and double-teamed Wang Can from both wings.
Xiao Xiao and Wang Can fought again. This time Xiao Xiao held the spear in his hands and trembled uncontrollably.
The Fang Tian Painted Halberd in Wang Can's hand weighed two hundred kilograms. Wang Can held the halberd and smashed it down with both hands. It was at least a thousand kilograms strong. Even if the small school could bear it, the war horse under his crotch probably wouldn't be able to withstand it for much longer.
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However, when Wang Can turned his horse around and prepared to fight the small school again, he found that the cavalrymen coming up all around took out a pair of crossbows.
The crossbow was very small, less than two feet at its widest point. It had a large receiver and a unique loading trigger.
Wang Can immediately recognized that it was Zhuge Liannu!
In the era of cold weapons, Zhuge Liannu thought of this as an ordinary weapon. Although this kind of weapon has a short range, it can still maintain stable accuracy and high lethality within a range of twenty meters.
But now this thing should not be called Zhuge Liannu. After all, Zhuge Liang was killed by Wang Can. Now it should be called Hanzhong Nu or something else. Wang Can didn't expect that Liu Bang's capable people and strangers could still do so.
Here comes a thing.
I saw twelve men on horseback standing ten meters away from Wang Can, constantly pulling the triggers in their hands and firing crossbow arrows.
Suddenly, a hail of crossbow arrows hit Wang Can one after another, making a clanging sound.
Wang Can's armor is made of special ores that contain spiritual energy. Ordinary weapons cannot break through the armor's defense unless light siege equipment such as crossbows are used for a frontal strike. (To be continued)
