At this time, Peng Yue's cavalry had broken through Cao Chun's temporary defense line and headed back to the camp.
Cao Chun also divided his troops into two groups, one to pursue Peng Yue and the other to support Wang Can.
After listening to Wang Can's words, Huo Qubing was obviously deep in thought. Wang Can also pulled a war horse and gave it to Huo Qubing, saying: "If you want to leave, leave quickly. I can easily change my mind."
Huo Qubing took a deep breath, raised his head and said, "Okay, I will convey this message to General Ying for you."
After saying this, Huo Qubing left on horseback.
Wang Can also waved his hand to stop the supporting cavalry from shooting Huo Qubing with arrows.
Late at night, Cao Chun also led his troops back to Tianshui City.
At this time, Wang Can had returned to the Wang family's residence and was looking at the casualty report compiled by Guo Jia.
In this raid, Peng Yue suffered 110 casualties, leaving behind more than 30 horses.
On Wang Can's side, the casualties were mainly on Wang Lie's side. Of the 800 soldiers responsible for digging trenches, 280 people died. The casualties of nearly 300 people. If Dian Wei hadn't felt it, the number would not have been updated.
many.
Wang Lie, who was sitting at the bottom, also looked very gloomy.
At this time, Jiang Wei also had people carry him out to discuss military matters.
In the hall, besides Wang Can, Guo Jia, Cao Chun, Dian Wei, and Jiang Wei, there were two close followers of Jiang Wei.
Wang Can said: "This time I was attacked by the enemy. My fault was mainly due to my negligence. I did not take into account the enemy's attack tomorrow. I actually launched a night attack tonight, causing General Wang to suffer such a heavy loss. I feel deeply guilty."
Wang Lie didn't mean to blame Wang Can much. After all, Dian Wei helped to rescue him. At this time, Dian Wei was covered with gauze. Those were the scars left by twenty arrows, but they were all skin injuries, basically.
We can start fighting tomorrow.
Wang Can said: "Yingbu will attack the city tomorrow. Let's all take a rest early. Cao Chun has sent out the necessary reconnaissance cavalry and all your men have entered the city."
After everyone else left, Wang Can, Guo Jia and Jiang Wei stayed.
Jiang Wei said: "Did you have a fight with Huo Qubing?"
The Han Dynasty had countless strong generals for three hundred years, but there was only one champion, and that was Huo Qubing. This legendary figure two hundred years ago, his status in the hearts of Jiang Wei and others is naturally self-evident.
Wang Can nodded and said: "It was a fight, but this time Huo Qubing looks about eighteen or nineteen years old, and his martial arts skills are not at their peak yet."
Logically speaking, Huo Qubing reached his peak when he was around twenty-two years old, and Maodun Shanyu was resurrected when he was in his early thirties.
Although he didn't know what the rules were, Wang Can didn't intend to think about it further.
Wang Can continued: "Although he was not at his peak, I only had the chance to kill him when I fought him for eighty rounds, but I spared his life and asked him to send a message to Yingbu.
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Jiang Wei's eyes showed excitement and said: "Then I have to thank you for letting him go. When I get the chance, I will definitely have a good fight with him."
Guo Jia said: "Do you want to separate the relationship between Yingbu and Liu Bang?"
Wang Can said: "Not only him, but also Peng Yue, Zhang Liang and others, as long as I have the opportunity, I will go back and do it. After they were resurrected, they were very powerful and occupied a large territory. But there is one thing, we are still better than others."
They have an advantage."
After a pause, Wang Can said: "That is, they all died earlier than us."
Many things in ancient times were all made up of jokes.
But now, after those jokes were resurrected, their background and what they had done secretly became known to more people.
When the rising sun rose in the east, after a restless night, Liu Bang's army finally appeared to the south of Tianshui City.
At the front of the line was a military formation composed of eight thousand axemen, shield soldiers, spearmen, and crossbowmen. They stood firm one mile away from the south wall of Tianshui City. The military formation continued to two miles away.
In the willow forest outside.
In the willow forest, you can clearly see twelve huge siege engines about three feet high.
Each machine is operated by at least 300 people.
There was no place to raise horses in Hanzhong. Yingbu's only 800 cavalry had lost more than 100 people last night, which really made him feel distressed.
Peng Yue stood next to Yingbu and asked: "Marshal, do we want to call for a formation?"
Yingbu shook his head and said: "No, we all probably know Wang Can's strength last night. There are not many people in the army who can defeat him. It's better to attack directly, before the sun reaches our head.
Let’s test their strength once and for all.”
Peng Yue nodded, then turned around and ordered the messengers to prepare for the attack.
Yingbu led 18,000 people out of Qishan half a month ago. The road to Qishan was dangerous. Along the way, 800 people died just by falling off the cliff. Many people were injured while moving equipment and could no longer walk.
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Huang Tian paid off. After Yingbu finally walked out of Qishan with 15,000 people, he encountered Tianshui City with only 2,000 main troops, and King Can of Shu was also in the city.
When receiving this information from Cao Shen, Yingbu's first reaction was that the other party must have run away at this time. After all, he is the king of a country. Who would come to such a remote place as Xiliang to cause danger? Not even Han Gaozu himself did it
Get over this.
But last night, Colonel Huo Qubing actually said that he had fought with Wang Can, which Yingbu found unbelievable. If he hadn't considered that he had already attacked at night, the opponent must be on guard, and Yingbu would have planned to lead his army to attack the city directly.
However, after careful consideration, Yingbu decided to play it safe. After all, Yingbu's spies had already been posted everywhere outside Tianshui City. If someone came out of Tianshui City, he would not know about it.
Soon the horn of attack was sounded, and all kinds of catapults and nest vehicles were transported to the front line. In the more than a year after his resurrection, Liu Bang's subordinate Zhang Liang made all kinds of siege equipment.
In order to improve, after all, Hanzhong wanted to attack the Sili area, and there were many natural and dangerous passes. In order not to cause too many casualties, Zhang Liang began to vigorously develop various siege equipment and organize spies to conduct detailed operations.
Lurking in the cities of various forces.
This move was supported by Liu Bang. Later, Zhang Liang also used siege equipment to capture Zitong City and captured Chengdu without any bloodshed. Currently, Zhang Liang is in Jiangzhou, preparing to pacify the central and southern Sichuan.
The commander who originally attacked Zitong City was Yingbu.
Therefore, he is naturally very comfortable in using these improved siege equipment.
When the siege equipment was transported to the front line, the soldiers began to skillfully load ammunition, and the soldiers on the huge nest car were also twisting the turntable to load the catapult.
"It seems that they even installed catapults on their nest vehicles. After all, there are at least thirty catapults."
Wang Can, who was hiding behind the city wall, was watching the operations of the Hanzhong Army while talking to Dian Wei beside him.
Dian Wei kept sharpening the blade of his short halberd and said: "What's the matter? They always run out of slings. I don't believe it. They really want to kill us with slings."
Smashed to death."
"I'm just worried about whether the city wall will collapse."
Wang Lie said: "Your Majesty, you can rest assured that when Tianshui City was built, the descendants of the Moh family were invited to build the city." (To be continued)
