Shu Chen

Chapter 116
Spring March, early ten days.

General Cao Zhen of Wei led the follow-up [-] troops to Jieting.

As soon as he let the generals drop into the camp and bury the pot to make food, he personally inspected the wounded battalion of the advancing army.

Regardless of the filth all over the camp, he walked slowly in it.

Or hold the hands of the disabled soldiers and comfort them softly, or push the food with their own hands with the pastry and clear water, or tear off their own clothes to bandage the wounds.

Occasionally, some soldiers saw pus in their wounds, so they leaned over and wiped it, and even sucked it out with their mouths.

Cao Zhen has been in a high position and pampered him for many years, and his body is no longer the burly and majestic when he was riding a tiger and leopard in his early years, but has become very bulky.The couch that the wounded soldier was lying on was quite low, so it was inconvenient for him to stand up and bow his head, making his behavior quite funny.

However, the wounded in the camp, as well as the people in the crowd, saw this without anyone laughing.

But they all burst into tears and couldn't help themselves.

It also made the soldiers whose morale was low due to the heavy casualties, and everyone had a look of determination on their faces.

Those who were seriously injured and unable to stand up, and those who were unable to fight again due to injuries to their limbs, cried and mourned, saying: "I hate that my body is disabled, and I can't report the general's sympathy!"

Those who were slightly wounded covered their wounds with clothes or shields, stood up in pain, and claimed that they could still fight again!
After patrolling the camp for more than an hour, the morale of the Wei army was wiped out.Along the path that Cao Zhen walked, everyone screamed for a deadly battle, vying to be the first to bow their heads to the Tao, begging to be included in the first camp.

It's really eye-catching.

That is to say, the military spirit can be fought!
The next day, Cao Zhen came out with a large army and assault equipment.

When we got to the place where the Shu army blocked the way, we knew why Zhuge Liang, the Prime Minister of Shu, didn't take advantage of the collapse of the morale of the jaws to pursue him, and why he added so much ups and downs to the war during the five or six days when he came to help.

The camp of the Shu army is no longer in the "concave" shape similar to the crane wing formation during the battle with Zhang He.

Instead, the open space in front of the camp was completely hollowed out to form a trench with a width of more than two feet, comparable to a moat.

Afterwards, based on WISCO trucks, a high base of soil was accumulated, layered with stone and wood, and the mountain road was cut across.

The outer wall is more than two feet high, with large cowhide sculls and giant shields in the mouth, fixed with mortise and tenon joints, and connected horizontally with "swallow tail" wedge nails.

From a distance, it seems to be inlaid with layers of huge fish scales.

Such a construction method allows the cowhide scull shield to have the effect of unloading force. Whether it is the crossbow bolts of the bed crossbow or the stones of the thunderbolt chariot, it is difficult to penetrate or break the wall when it hits it.

And on the top of the wall, many crenels are reserved, and a huge ballista can be faintly hidden behind it.

This should be what Zhang He claimed. It is a new type of giant crossbow that can fire ten crossbow arrows in an instant, making no survivors within fifty steps.

The protruding part of the crenel is covered with half-hidden barbed wire in the wall to prevent ants from climbing, which is vaguely similar to the unique "horse wall" function of the dangerous pass.

Moreover, this camp did not even reserve an exit!

Let Cao Zhen look at it carefully, and bitterness appeared in his heart.

Zhuge Liang, the Prime Minister of Nishu, built the camp as if it were a pass!

Moreover, I am well versed in what Sun Tzu said, "Soldiers have no constant momentum, and water has no permanent shape."

Originally, after receiving Zhang He's report, he brought many thunderbolt chariots and rhubarb crossbows, and he pondered over how to break through the strange "concave" formation on the way.

But I didn't want to, only to realize that my efforts were wasted when I got ready.

Thunderbolt chariots and rhubarb crossbows really have little effect on this kind of "pass" camp.

Moreover, the geographical advantage that the Shu army relies on can completely make up for its own military superiority.

Therefore, the outcome of the battle here may not be known within a month, nor can a breakthrough be made.

Alas, I hope that the war on other roads can make progress.

Cao Zhen, who has been through war for a long time, has a faint realization in his heart.

He also called the subordinates by his side and asked him to quietly send an order to let a general lead three thousand troops from the rear to rush to the Weishui River Valley again to support General Wang Shuang.

Naturally, Ben also came here with a desperate fight, so he would not hesitate to disturb himself.

After the soldiers lined up, Cao's army began to beat drums to drive troops to attack.The method is nothing more than the simplest and most effective, a strong attack regardless of casualties.

In other words, the fortifications built by Prime Minister Zhuge Liang left Cao Zhen with only a strong attack.

Therefore, Longguan Dao Jieting once again ushered in a crazy feast of flesh and blood.

Tianshui County, Shangyu County.

Guo Huai, who had survived the siege of the Shu army for five days, stood with his sword on the ground, supporting his body.

The body is as tall and straight as pines and cypresses.

The worry between the eyebrows is like a ravine.

It has been three days since he drew his sword and fought hand to hand!
Relying on the advantages of a large number of people and large siege equipment such as ladders, catapults, and well rails, the Shu army can kill the top of the city every time they attack the city.

In Shangbei, where the supplies for the defense of the city were exhausted, the protection that the city wall could give the soldiers was very little.

Even if all the young and strong men in the city were conscripted to go up the city wall to help in the battle, there are only about two thousand soldiers left under his command who can fight with swords, and almost everyone is injured.

If he couldn't destroy the Shu army's well rails, ladders, etc., he might not be able to hold on for another ten days.

After all, people are not grass and trees, and he can't fight until one soldier dies.

Although he has served in Longyou for many years, he has won the hearts of soldiers, and everyone is willing to fight side by side.

However, the daily battle losses and the long-awaited reinforcements filled the hearts of all soldiers with depression.

It was a depression with no expectations and a predictable ending.

Like a boulder growing in the heart, it is getting bigger and heavier every moment, and eventually the soldiers can't bear it, crushing the last sliver of thoughts of fighting to the death.

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Having accumulated enough disappointment, the soldiers no longer wanted to resist.

Will turn numb, let death come, or be captured and other results.

This is called a lonely city that does not keep it!

However, Guo Huai had no intention of surrendering.

When Cao Pi served as a general of the five senses, he was designated as a thief Cao, and he was a minister of the hidden residence of the first emperor of Wei.

I would rather die in battle and be sent to Chengdu by the Shu army. Since then, I will be decapitated in a different place and my soul will not return to my hometown, and I will not let Wei be humiliated just to survive!

Therefore, even though he had vaguely foreseen the ending, he did not give up the hope of sticking to the road of reinforcements.

In particular, he still has the opportunity to try to delay the Shu army from breaking through the city.

The Shu army besieged the city according to the tactics of "encircling three ques and one".

There was not a single soldier at the north gate of Shangyu City.

However, it was a way to lure the soldiers to embark on a road of no return to death.

More than twenty li to the north of Shangbi is the Weishui River.

Without thinking too much, Guo Huai could guess that the Shu army had cleared all the boats in Weishui long ago.

Without a boat, he led his army to the Weishui River, and could only go east along the water's edge to break through the Weishui River valley.In the end, it was nothing more than being intercepted by the Shu army, and they were all killed in the wild.

What he wanted was to leave the city at night to see if he could burn down the siege equipment of the Shu army!

If the siege equipment of the Shu army can be burned down, the city can hold on for another ten days, or even more.

And because there was no Shu army attacking the north gate, he didn't let the soldiers block it with rocks.

However, what he can think of, the generals of the Shu army will not be negligent, and they will inevitably guard the siege equipment with heavy troops.

Therefore, he personally led that night, and three hundred men who dared to die came out from the north gate, set up more torches, and pretended to break out of the encirclement.

In order to attract the Shu army to pursue.

And his trilogy governor, who also led [-] people who dared to die, was on the wall of the east gate.

After the Shu army learned about the breakout and led the army to the north gate to pursue it, they tied ropes to the crenel, hung down the city wall, stole into the Shu army camp and burned the siege equipment.

Take the effect of sounding east and hitting west.

However, it's a pity.

The Han army that besieged Shangyu City was Wu Yi, Gao Xiang and Chen Shi.

As for the Wu squad, he had already gone to the Weishui River Valley to deploy defenses.

Therefore, Wu Yi and the others didn't care whether he broke through the siege, but after hearing the news, they immediately urged the soldiers to seize the city with the sound of drums and thunder!

After all, after seizing the city, even if Guo Huai ran to the Weishui River, he would have nowhere to hide.

Fortunately, Guo Huai was pretending to be a gesture, not to abandon the city and leave.

That's why he didn't go far out of the city.

Seeing that the Shu army didn't come to chase him, but took the opportunity to seize the city, he hurried back to fight with handsome soldiers.

There was an unexpected attack and defense by both sides, and it was a night battle, which lasted only half an hour, and the Shu army stopped and went back.

Guo Huai, who was almost self-defeating, breathed a sigh of relief.

It is tonight, doomed to toss and turn without sleep.

In the face of absolute superiority, he seems to have no choice but to wait for the city to be destroyed and the martyrdom to come.

However, he did not expect that the city would fall apart earlier than expected.

The next day, the Shu army did not come to attack the city in the bright rays of the rising sun as in the past.

It was at Chenshi that several groups of soldiers of the Han army slowly led some Li Shu from the head of Guizhou to the city gate.

Li Shu is right!
There were hundreds of people in ragged clothes, none of them were young and strong, they were all old and weak women and children.

It also made Guo Huai, who had already stopped on the top of the city, be puzzled.

There is no shortage of precedents in all dynasties to drive the people of Li and common people to clear roadblocks, fill in ditches to attack the city, and consume the arrows and lumber of the defenders in the city.

Today, the world has been in turmoil for decades, and it is common for all parties to conquer each other and fight each other.

Even Emperor Wu had it when he conquered in his early years.

However, Ni Shu was established by Liu Bei, and his reputation in the world is due to benevolence and righteousness, and he has never driven Li Shu to attack the city.

Moreover, the defensive supplies in the city have long been exhausted, so why did you drive Li Shu here?

Hundreds of Li Shu with hungry faces, how can they benefit evil in siege?

Right on the top of the city of Shangyu, all the soldiers of the Wei army were surprised, these Li Shus went up to a hundred paces, and each of them let out their voices.

"Son, come back to plow the fields at this time, if you don't plow in spring, there will be no winter grain this year."

"Old man, my baby has been sick recently, vomiting and diarrhea, I can't do anything to fix it! If you don't come back, my baby won't know what to do, and my mother and I won't be able to live anymore."

"Father, mother has fainted many times, and she left on the couch with a message from the child, saying that she wanted to see you for the last time."

"Brother Zhong, the eldest brother has already died in battle. If you die in battle again, how will you be an orphan and widow?"

The hoarseness of the old, the crispness of the young, and the high-pitched voice of a woman are all different.

As the words tell, the parents are short, and they are not the same.

However, the tears of sorrow and the sorrow that rushed to the face were all as desolate as Zigui crying blood, without exception.

It also made Cao Jun's soldiers on the city wall burst into tears.

Trying hard to wipe away the tears, widen your eyes, prick up your ears, follow the sound and look for your family members, and answer sadly across the hundred steps of soil outside the city that has been stained black by blood.

Some soldiers who have never found their family members, women and children who have never been answered, slowly have sad eyes, and finally fall to the ground with their heads in their hands, crying bitterly.

The screams were like knives, and the sound broke people's hearts.

Also, the wind in March this year is especially cold.

Guo Huai, who was standing by the crenel on the top of the city, raised his head to the sky when he saw this, slowly closed his extremely lonely eyes, and sighed.

Most of his soldiers are recruited locally.

But now, besieged on all sides!
In the siege of Gaixia in the past, the Chu army heard at night that they were besieged on all sides, and none of the soldiers had the heart to fight, and their sorrow dispersed.Let Xiang Ji, the overlord of Western Chu who had the bravery and great reputation of a thousand men, have no choice but to kill himself in Wujiang.

He himself is only a governor of Yongzhou, how can he reverse the situation?
Ugh.
Unexpectedly, the time of death came so quickly.

Enlightened, Guo Huai opened his eyes, waved his hands to stop his movements, not to stop those soldiers who were screaming in mourning.

When the old, weak, women and children outside the city call out, it is doomed that our soldiers will be confused, and issuing orders will not help.

In particular, they have vowed to defend the city for more than a month.

You can't lose to Wei, so why be harsh?
But at this moment, the groups of Shu troops outside the city announced in unison.

Said: "The Wei army in the city listens to the truth. Before tomorrow, those who abandon their weapons and leave the city will not return home with death! If they resist stubbornly and break through the city, they will be punished! And punish their family members and become military slaves for generations! If you dare to burn the palace in the city , luggage, and the same crime!"

As soon as he said this, he drove away the old and weak women and children outside the city.

It just made those women and children cry, look back frequently, and shouted loudly for their family members to surrender.

On the city wall, there is naturally a lot of sadness.

Those soldiers whose families were in Longyou came to Guo Huai's place, kowtowed to the ground again and again, begging Guo Huai to have kind thoughts, so that their families would not be reduced to military slaves.

In other words, no one in the city is willing to fight anymore.

Guo Huai has always had the reputation of pity soldiers.

Therefore, he sighed with emotion, and helped up those soldiers who were lying on the ground one by one, and declared that they would be let out of the city before the Shu army attacked the city tomorrow.

Afterwards, amidst tears of gratitude, the soldiers slowly walked back to their own official office in a lonely way.

At this point, there is no way to recover.

He was the governor of Yongzhou, so he died in the official office to repay the country's kindness.

Behind him, more than a hundred songs with enlightened hearts also walked silently and slowly.

Guo Huai was born in a rich family in Bingzhou.

His father was the prefect of Yanmen, and his great-grandfather was Da Si Nong.

Therefore, with his family status, family resources, and his current official position, he can easily recruit and raise hundreds of plays from the countryside.

Moreover, since ancient times in the land of Yanzhao, there has never been a shortage of generous people who went to death.

There are more than a hundred remaining parts, even if it is the last one who fights, he will live and die with him.

But the governor of Buqu, whose temples were already grey, stood still, silently staring at the soldiers on the city wall, showing an expression similar to that of a desperate man.

After a while, he rushed to catch up.

Standing side by side with Guo Huai, he poked his head over and whispered, "Your Majesty, I've found Li Shu's common clothes for you, and replace the military clothes with me."

"Ok?"

Hearing this, Guo Huai suddenly stopped and turned his head in surprise.

When the director of the song showed his usual smile, his eyes were slightly wet.

With his wisdom, he still didn't understand that Buqudu wanted him to pretend to be the head of Guizhou, use the golden cicada to escape from the shell and go to the Weishui River Valley to escape to Guanzhong.

As for him being the chief general, the Shu army must search for him when they break through the city
The director of his first song wants Li Daitao to be stiff!
"Lang Jun, please don't hesitate."

Seeing that Guo Huai remained silent for a long time, the director of the song urged again, "Whether you go or not, I will die here. If you don't want to be my husband, let's try and see if we can get back. Let me It's like under the Nine Netherworld, not thinking about the worries of the family's wife and children's livelihood."

"Of course!"

Hearing the sound of the rest of the songs, they all bowed and worshiped, "Please prepare quickly, sir, don't let me wait for my death."

"Wait."

Guo Huai, who was so moved, couldn't do what he said.

In the end, he nodded lightly, letting his tears flow down his cheeks, which wet the skirt of his armor.

It was night, and Cao's army in Shangyu City all descended from the north gate.

There was a general in fish-scale armor, leading more than a hundred soldiers in solid armor, hiding behind the surrendering soldiers.

When the Han army surrounded and surrendered, they suddenly ran wildly and rushed towards the Weishui River.

Seeing this, the Han army chased after him.

After chasing, trapping, no one descends.

He and Zhan were all killed on the banks of the Wei River, but it was discovered that the general was not Guo Huai, the governor of Wei Yongzhou.

No one knows when they come back and ask the prisoners.

Search the city, but also to no avail.

(End of this chapter)