Shu Chen

Chapter 511
"Book of the Later Han Dynasty Five": "Beidi County, six cities, Yiju has iron."

When the Sun Li Department, which led more than [-] Huaisi elites in Yongxian County, passed the news of Zheng Pu's troops going south and stationed in Sixian County to Beiyuan West Siege, Sima Yi, the governor of Yongliang, breathed a sigh of relief.

Because Wang Sheng, who was in Qi County, also wrote a book to inform the Han army that Yiju County had been abandoned.

However, the iron mines in Yiju have been reoccupied by the adherents of the Northland and the Qianghu tribe, so the trade with Wei State has been terminated again.

The combination of the two matters also means that the Han army has reached an agreement with those survivors, with the conditions of surrendering the ownership of Yiju County and iron mines and withdrawing from Beidi County, so that the survivors will no longer be enemies of the Han army, so Zheng Pu can feel at ease Lead the army south.

That is to say, Wei Guo was calculated by these adherents, and was "fake the power of the tiger".

By opening up trade between the two sides, the false appearance of being attached to Wei was made, forcing the Han army to compromise.

But Sima Yi was not ashamed by the teasing.

People in high positions only care about the results when looking at things, not the process.

He knew that after this incident, one thing is certain: the Han army did not recover the adherents of the Northland, and it is impossible to have the opportunity to harass Zuo Fengyi from Beiluoshui.

So, enough!
However, for the sake of prudence, he still asked Feng Yi's prefect Chen Ben to continue to bribe the survivors and tribes of Shangjun and Beidi counties with money to serve as the eyes and ears of Wei;

Just let them come back to take a break in rotation.

Before the war started, it would be good for the soldiers to be less tired and recharge their batteries.

Yes, he could vaguely guess that the Han army would not launch an attack on Chen Cangcheng within this year.

There is no one who is not cautious in all battles related to the fate of the country.Just like the battle of Changping between Qin and Zhao in the past, it took three years, but the time for the real decisive victory was only five months.

He knew that the main force of the Han army had been delayed, but he was waiting for everything to be over.

For example, hoarding enough food and fodder for an army of [-] to fight continuously for a year, such as repairing weapons and building siege equipment, etc.

And he also knows that this "everything is over" won't be too long.

This year is already the second year that the Han army entered the pass and occupied the land!

Based on the successive transfers from the Guanzhong military station, Bashu and Longyou, the Han army will launch a decisive battle after the autumn harvest next year at the latest.

Moreover, the frequent actions of the Han army now also show this from the side.

Yes, although the two sides of the Han and Wei dynasties confronted each other in Guanzhong, although no large-scale war broke out, small frictions continued.

For example, in the north of Chencang City, Wei Yanbu, who was camped along the Lishui River Valley, has sent several soldiers and horses across to the opposite bank to show off their power every ten days since they went south, clamoring for battle.

Only one school or a thousand soldiers crossed the river each time. They did not carry siege equipment or bows and crossbows.

The gauntlet is very short, often just one sentence.

For example, "Chen Bing, thousands of people are here now, and they want to meet with the men of Yongliang to hunt for water, and they look forward to it."

For example, "It is often heard that Luoyang's Chinese army is invincible and almost undefeated. Now we have sent [-] troops to cross the river, and we want to attack [-] of your troops. Do you dare to fight?"

There is also "the army is not armed, you should say that! Tens of thousands of troops, there is no bloody man who dares to fight! If you don't turn your back and disarm your armor, and surrender with courtesy, lest our army break through your army stronghold in the future, Capture them all!" and other insulting words.

It's just that, whether the Han army invites to fight according to the etiquette, or provokes and insults, the Wei army will turn a blind eye and listen to it.

"War is useless."

This is what Sima Yi said when faced with an occasional general who came to ask for a fight without resentment and humiliation.

In the end, he was provoked a lot and felt that he was really noisy, so he sent many crossbowmen out to shoot and force the Han army back.

However, Wei Jun's Yongliang troops and Luoyang Zhongjun didn't feel that there was anything wrong with his move.

Their courage to fight has long been lost.

To be precise, it was beaten.

However, the prime minister who besieged Chen Cangcheng with soldiers did not act provocatively.

But it made Sima Yi even more worried.

But he said that the [-] Chinese army under the personal supervision of the prime minister was divided into three tribal battalions.

One is to lead the Wanhu infantry with Jiang Weibie, and fall on the south bank of the Weishui River, facing Chencangcheng across the water.

It was intended to protect the grain and fodder transported from Dasan Pass, and prevent the possibility of Wei Guo sending light soldiers to attack the grain road; it also cut off the connection between Wei Guo Beiyuan and Chencang.Due to the fact that Chencang City is located at the confluence of the Jianshui River and the Weishui River, the Han army could not completely trap Chencang City to death, so they had to set up crossbows at the mouth of the Weishui River and guard day and night to prevent the Wei State from sneaking a small boat at night. The boats transported grain, fodder and supplies into Chencang City.

The other part is led by Guan Xing.

About [-] infantry fell towards the west gate of Chencang, and defended with Wei Yan's troops at the north gate.

The remaining 5000 people were naturally supervised by the prime minister and the governor of Guanzhong, Xiang Chong.

They camped at the eastern foot of Longshan Mountain, and their duties were not only to protect the military households to open up acres of fields, but also to forge siege equipment.

For example, the Wei army guarding Chencang, when they climbed to the top of the city every day on duty, they could not only see the trapped ditches dug by the Han army outside the city, the defensive earth hills erected, but also the behemoth towering five miles away.

Such as well rails, siege vehicles, ladders, and modified Thunderbolt vehicles.

The thunderbolt chariot was captured in the previous battle, and it has become the source of anxiety for the Wei army today: the thunderbolt chariot that fell into the hands of the Han army has been modified, and the range of the flying stone has increased by about a hundred steps!
I don't know whether it was out of show off or intimidation, the Han army deliberately pulled it outside the city to experiment under Wei Jun's nose.

Don't underestimate the increased distance of a hundred steps.

Because of the extra distance, it was impossible for Wei Jun's thunderbolt chariot behind the city wall to fight a tooth for a tooth.

If you want to destroy it, you can only rely on the bed crossbow placed on the top of the city to make a contribution.

But the small and majestic Chencang City, how many crossbows can there be on the top of the city?

The soldiers guarding the city of Chencang in the state of Wei looked at the countless siege equipment laid out by the Han army in the distance, and felt that there were very few bed crossbows.Perhaps, before the Han army pushed the ladders and siege vehicles under the city wall, these bed crossbows had already been smashed by the densely thrown stones.

However, they did not panic and their morale collapsed.

The tens of thousands of soldiers following Guo Huai in this city were all determined to die.

Or in other words, before they entered Chencang City to hold their guard, Wei State Luoyang Temple and Yongliang Governor Sima Yi used various measures to buy their lives and the lives of their families behind them.

People are in the city, and the city is destroyed and people are dead, which is their only choice.

In this way, they naturally no longer fear death.

The deceased is like a husband who does not want to leave day or night.

Time passed in the tacit confrontation between Han and Wei, and before you knew it, it was already the first month of spring in the fourth year of Shaowu in the Han Dynasty (AD 241).

Zheng Pu, who had been stationed in Qian County, rode his horse and came slowly south.

The prime minister wrote a letter to discuss the battle that is about to start this year.

(End of this chapter)