Vol 2 Chapter 489: War clouds

Yixian.
The war has ceased, and the enlisted engineers are rapidly re-planning the city defense. Chen Dao is not eager to continue the offensive. That Xu Huang was not an easy generation. He was able to defeat it the day before yesterday. Among the flying troops, there are the best climbing arms, and unexpectedly, they have established great merits, but in the same way, facing Xu Huang and other generals, the second time may not be able to succeed.
What's more, the mission of this trip is to attract Cao Jun's main force as much as possible. He has now taken down the county and has a foothold. What he has to do now is not to continue to advance, but to prepare for the city. , To attract more Cao Jun to come, and at the same time to gain time for Huang Zhong to capture Chen Cang.
Chen Cang, Yongxian, Ma Zun and other places were negotiated by Huang Zhong according to the agreement he had previously with Huang Zhong. The two soldiers and horses went out of Sichuan one after another. If Cao Jun was unmoved, they would immediately join forces, 50,000 troops. Coupled with excellent equipment, it is enough to form a threat. If Wei Jun ignores them, Chen Dao will continue to attack martial arts after it is completely stabilized here. Once the martial arts are defeated, they can threaten Changan.
Because there was no need to worry about logistics, the consensus reached within Dahan was to step by step and put Guanzhong and Xiliang into the bag step by step.
Of course, this kind of upright tactics is not entirely possible, but it takes time to make a conspiracy. Liu Yi ’s side has not moved, and Guan Zhong Cao Jun ’s strength will not come out before he is fully mobilized.
"General, the engineers have repaired the city walls, and set up another hundred arrow towers, and dug trenches outside the city." Wu Ban quickly walked to Chen Da and bowed.
Nowadays, every branch of the Han Army has dedicated engineers. These early disciples of Liu Yi acted as they were built very fast and could quickly provide the main force with all the conditions other than frontal combat. This is really the first engineer. The ability to show the second time on the battlefield is indeed amazing. The walled town of Wuzhangyuan, the big camp outside of Xi County, and the stone-throwing machine built during the siege, even if there is no intrusion of the unjust flying army, Chen Dao I am also confident that if Cao Jun does not send reinforcements, he will drive Nao Huang out of Xi County within half a month.
The generals of Shuzhong have not been in a war for ten years, and they have been training soldiers and horses. With this shot, the fighting power that broke out made Chen Dao a little surprised.
Liu Yi's strategy of letting the children of meritorious soldiers enter the Academy has formed a strong centripetal force in the Han Army. Of course, this is not the only one. Over the past ten years, the Han Dynasty has not treated the soldiers very well, but it is also good, especially The emergence of rail cars has made Dahan have great convenience in the transportation of materials, and also saved a lot of resources and labor, so that Dahan can recruit more soldiers and improve the treatment of soldiers.
In short, in the entire Han army, the upper generals are nothing, but the soldiers at the bottom are all thinking of killing the enemy and making contributions to the future generations. At least they have to study. This emotional contagion is amazing. Now the Han army is full of hungry wolves, waiting to kill the enemy for merit.
"Let the soldiers rest forever and be on standby at all times! Zhang Yi led three thousand people to Wuzhangyuan, in case Wei Jun cut off my food path." Chen Dao nodded, and then, it was up to Cao Jun to move.
"Hello!" Wu Ban promised and walked away.
Chen thought about it and asked people to inform Huang Zhong to send troops. Cao Jun did n’t know if he had been cheated, but now that Xi County has been captured, Cao Jun will definitely come soon. If Huang Zhong keeps hiding, he ’s here The pressure will be great.
Cao Jun, even if they are two horses, is not fooled. It is impossible for them to leave their 50,000 soldiers and horses here. Jiaxian is only two hundred miles away from Chang'an.
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"General, why did you come here in person?" Xu Huang looked at Cao Zhen, a little surprised and a little ashamed.
"General Gongming doesn't have to be this way, victory or defeat is a common matter among military strategists. Moreover, the generals have few soldiers, and this matter can't be blamed for the general!" Cao Zhen holds Xu Huang who wants to bow down. Xu Huang is older than him and is also a veteran who follows Cao Cao. Bit high, but dare not neglect this veteran.
Xu Huang said with a sigh: "The general does not know, but Chen Dao's reputation is not obvious, but the strength of the army is quite powerful, the Han army soldier armor ... The general should also know, this time there is no accident. , I am afraid that the end will not stay too long. "
Cao Zhen also sighed when he heard the words. The armament of the Han army is indeed the strongest among the three kingdoms. With the armament donated by the Han army, Soochow has not suffered a loss from the battle with Cao Jun in recent years, not to mention the Han army? Cao Zhen didn't believe that Liu Bei gave Sun Quan the best equipment of his own, and Liu Bei wasn't that big-hearted.
"Really there are soldiers and horses climbing the city by hand?" Cao Zhen asked with some surprise after asking about the situation in the army.
"This is not the case with freehand!" Xu Huang shook his head and said: "The end will see that those people have steel claws attached to their hands. The city wall of Xi County is piled up by rammed earth. Then the steel claws can penetrate the earth wall to climb. Up above, but those people are indeed quite brave. "
Thinking of the strange soldier, Xu Huang was uncomfortable for a while. He was also a famous general at that time, even if he had never been against Guan Yu, but now he was defeated by an unknown pawn, which made him very uncomfortable.
Cao Zhen was relieved, but at least knew that the other person was human.
"The Han army, that is, the bow and arrow, is superior to our army. How powerful can close combat be?" Cao Zhen laughed.
"The generals should not be underestimated. These people have amazing strengths. They are armed with swords and axes. They are seriously injured, and they can often fight against three or five sergeants." Xu Huang shook his head with a wry smile. What exactly did Shuzhong do? How to train such a horse?
Cao Zhen heard the words, and his expression gradually regained his strength, capable of fighting against three or five soldiers of the Wei army.
"Such soldiers, then Chen should not have many men." Cao Zhen asked.
"This will not be known at the end, but there are a lot of them. There were more than a thousand soldiers and horses that raided that day." Xu Huang shook his head, he didn't think the other side had fewer people.
"More than a thousand?" Cao Zhen felt a little angry and had a toothache.
This kind of more than a thousand elite is not only able to kill three or five thousand people on the battlefield. If it can be so, Cao Zhen is willing to take three or five thousand people to fight off the other thousand elite. The real use of elite is surprise, which is unpredictable. Surprise attacks, food cuts, and raid camps often cause more than a thousand people to cause damage to tens of thousands of people, and you may not be able to destroy others.
For example, Xu Huang this time, Chen to the 30,000 army siege of Xi County is all right, after taking over a thousand elite and easily opened the city gate, causing Xu Huangbing to flee to martial arts.
"General, have you heard of Chen to this person?" Xu Huang asked suddenly.
"I know." Cao Zhen nodded and said, "The general has forgotten. When Liu Bei had not yet entered Jingzhou, there was an elite man beside him, a small number of people, hundreds of people, but quite powerful. Several times, Liu Bei was suppressed. He was defeated. This man is good at military training, and Wu Yi is not under that level. He just followed Liu Bei all the time. His reputation is not obvious, but it is not an unknown person. "
"No wonder his elders are so elite." Xu Huang suddenly realized that Chen Dao and him were of the same generation, so I felt a lot better in my heart.
After all, losing to an unknown soldier and losing to Guan Zhang at the level of generals are two concepts. This time, I am considered to be careless. If I knew that the other party had such skills, I would not lose so badly.
"Now Xian County has been captured, and the martial arts have only 8,000 troops. If the other party attacks, it may be difficult to defend. Will the generals send another group of people to me?" Xu Huang looked at Cao Zhendao.
"This time I brought 7,000 soldiers to General!" Cao Zhen said with some sighs: "The Han army has only Chen Dao and another team at the moment. The main force has not yet appeared. Guan Zhong's soldiers and horses are scattered. It is difficult to dispatch urgently, and only these can be given to the general. The general only needs to defend the martial arts. Since Liu Bei is in trouble, it will appear sooner than the main force! "
Xu Huang nodded and added up to 15,000 people ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Shoucheng was enough, but it was just a little bit stifled.
"General, Liu Bei is coming so aggressively, Guan Zhongbing and Ma Duo are defending the enemy, it is difficult to adjust too much, and they should ask the court for help as soon as possible."
"I have sent people to Yecheng for help, but the reinforcements are coming, and it will take one month to say less!" Cao Zhen nodded. This issue has been discussed before.
For a month, Cao Zhen still had confidence in keeping Zhongzhong.
Cao Zhen came over this time and asked Xu Huang personally about the facts of the Han army. Now that he has got the answer, he will no longer stay and return to Chang'an to start dispatching troops.
On the Changan side, the Han Army has already seen enemies on the road it can take, but in Cao Zhen's view, these should not be the main force of Hanzhong. Now the other party can go is to go out of the Yangping Pass to enter Tianshui and settle down.
Guan Yu will definitely send troops to respond, but there is Cao Xiu in Luoyang to guard. Cao Zhen is not too worried. On Xiliang's side, Zhang Peng has only 20,000 soldiers and horses. Cao Zhen is going to first transfer Zhang Pian to 10,000, and then look at the trend of the Han army.
Du Xi has gone to lobby the Qiang, and the lobbyists to Nanzhong have also set off. Just hold on for a few more days, and there will be echoes from the Qiang people, and then the troops will be much more abundant.
Now Zhang Zhang is supported, and Xu Huang is given another 7,000 soldiers. The Chang'an garrison has only more than 10,000 left. Cao Zhen now dare not act rashly, and can only watch the changes.
It's uncomfortable to think about it, when Liu Bei was hiding in Tibet by Cao Cao. Except when he was in Xuzhou, Liu Bei's soldiers and horses didn't even pass by. When began, Liu Bei was able to press Cao Jun to fight against his troops. Anymore? This gave Cao Zhen an unreal feeling. If there is a chance, even if he can't counterattack into Shuzhong, he must let Liu Bei eat a big loss and lose his soldiers. Otherwise, if he goes on like this, he can hold it once, but It may not be able to hold twice or three times!