Mi Han

In May of the fourth year of Zhangwu in the Han Dynasty, Liangzhou, Nanzheng.

As the governing seat of Liangzhou, Nanzheng City has a very advantageous geographical location.

Nanzheng is located at the confluence of Baoshui and Hanshui, and is the waterway transportation hub of Hanzhong County.

In addition, Baoshui and Hanshui gathered outside Nanzheng City, which led to a vast alluvial plain outside Nanzheng City, which provided excellent conditions for the development of production in Nanzheng.

However, the various geographical advantages in the past brought danger to Nanzheng City at this moment.

The existence of the vast alluvial plain brought good development conditions for Nanzheng, but also made Nanzheng face an objective dilemma.

At a glance, Nanzheng is surrounded by thousands of miles of plains, which means that there is no danger outside Nanzheng.

In the past, this disadvantage would not cause too much trouble, but when Nanzheng was besieged by more than [-] Wei troops, this disadvantage would be infinitely magnified invisibly.

Cao Zhen can be hailed as a famous general by the world, then he naturally has something special.

The reason why Cao Zhen dared to send a large army to besiege the city on three sides without any scruples was that outside the city of Nanzheng, the Han army had neither fortresses nor mountains to hide troops from?
This represents that Cao Zhen has no worries.

Military strategists in today's siege, except for extremely special circumstances, usually adopt the tactic of encircling the three and missing one. This is to leave a way out for the defenders in the city, so that they will not be ruined.

After Cao Zhen combined the special geographical factors outside Nanzheng City, he specially selected the gap on the side that Wei Jun let go, and chose the south side.

The reason why Cao Zhen chose to let go of the south side was not because he was worried that the Han army reinforcements would suddenly appear on the south side and make him suffer from the enemy.

He did this because the south of Nanzheng City is where Baoshui and Han River meet, and it is also the most important source of water for Nanzheng City.

Cao really had the intention of fighting a protracted war. He knew that the Han army's fighting will must be very tenacious at the beginning, but as time went by, the supplies of the Han army in Nanzheng City would inevitably be in short supply.

Especially the source of water!
Once the water source of the Han army in the city is short, Mi Yang will send troops out of the city to fetch water no matter what.

And he deliberately did not send heavy troops to besiege the south of Nanzheng City, because he wanted to use the water source as a bait to lure the Han army out of the city gate and then encircle and wipe them out.

For this reason, Cao Zhen specially prepared an elite cavalry force ready for attack.

In the vast plains, as long as the Han army in the city dared to go out to supply water, then this killer move hidden by Cao Zhen would deal a fatal blow to the Han army.

Of course, this was Cao Zhen's secret move. Now that the Han army in Nanzheng City is not exhausted, naturally this ultimate move will not come in handy.

But now Cao Zhen's top priority is to do everything possible to let the Han army reach the end of the mountain as soon as possible.

At noon, after all preparations were made, Cao Zhen decisively gave the order to attack.

When Wei Jun's horn sounded, Mi Yang, who hadn't slept peacefully for a while, immediately stepped onto the city wall.

Standing on the city wall, Mi Yang looked down condescendingly, and a joint camp of the Wei Army that stretched for more than ten miles appeared in his sight.

Seeing this scene, Mi Yang couldn't help sighing in his heart, it must be the big business of the Wei family!

But before Mi Yang could sigh, Wei Jun's siege action caught his attention.

In the past, Wei Jun also launched an attack on Nanzheng City.

After all, even if the Wei army was not fully prepared at that time, Cao Zhen had to prove his attitude with actions in time-General Cao is a high-ranking official, but it does not mean that he has no political opponents in the court.

It was only because Wei Jun's preparations were insufficient that those few attacks did not pose much threat to Nanzheng City.

But Mi Yang knew that today was different.

Under Mi Yang's watchful eyes, he soon noticed that when the Wei army's horn sounded, groups of Wei army archers holding bows and crossbows began to come out of the Wei army's camp.

Thousands of archers from the Wei army, the place they went to was the several earth mountains that the Wei army had spent countless manpower and material resources during this period of time.

The several earth hills are arranged in an orderly manner not far from Nanzheng City.

Nanzheng City, as the seat of Hanzhong, is of course surrounded and protected by a moat.

But the moat of Nanzheng City is incomparable with that outside the city of Public Security.

The moat outside the Public Security City was supervised by Zhuge Liang who gathered all the forces in Jingzhou back then, but Nanzheng City did not have the same treatment as the Public Security City.

Even after taking Hanzhong, the Han army fought almost year after year, and Yizhou couldn't spare any extra national power to expand the moat outside Nanzheng City.

The protective effect of the moat on the city is naturally great, but this effect is directly proportional to the size of the moat.

Given the small scale of the moat outside Nanzheng City, as long as Wei Jun is willing to spend manpower and material resources, it is not difficult for Wei Jun, who has an absolute superiority in numbers, to fill the moat outside Nanzheng City.

In the past, Wei Jun was mainly doing this.

Now the foundations of the several feet-high earth hills are built on top of the filled moat.

This is Cao Zhen's demonstration against Mi Yang.

The loss of the moat is bad news for Nanzheng City, but Mi Yang will not be too worried about it.

After all, one cannot demand that the big man's cities are all as fortified as the Public Security Bureau, nor can he be demanded that every opponent he encounters is as easy to deal with as Sun Quan.

What really worried Mi Yang was the several earth hills rising from the ground.

The height of those earth mountains is higher than the city wall of Nanzheng City, and it is not difficult to guess the purpose of Cao Zhen's construction of these earth mountains.

What Cao Zhen wanted was to use the earth mountain as a springboard so that the archers of the Wei army could shoot arrows into the city from a high position.

Mi Yang's guess is not wrong.

When thousands of Wei army archers climbed the earth mountain under the cover of shield bearers, they all raised their bows and arrows and aimed towards the city.

It seemed that as long as there was an order, the thousands of shining arrows would turn into a rain of arrows and shoot towards the city.

For the defenders, apart from the advantage of having a fortified city as their base, the biggest advantage of the defenders is their condescension.

But now, under Cao Zhen's actions, it is obvious that the defense of the city has disappeared.

Because of this, when the thousands of arrows of the Wei army were aimed at the city, the faces of the Han army on the city wall could not help but change.

When the Han army's morale was slightly turbulent, several buildings and oars slowly appeared in front of several earth mountains under the advancement of the Wei army.

Loulu is a tall building, but it is different from ordinary tall buildings.

There is usually a watchtower on the top of the tower, which allows the general or soldiers to hide in it and observe the enemy's situation in the city by looking out.

In the siege, the Loulou is usually used in conjunction with the earth hill.

The soldiers on the oars scouted and reported the specific movements of the enemy in the city, and the archers on the earth hills fired arrows according to their instructions.

Since Loulu can hide the general's figure, of course Cao Zhen will come to Loulu, thinking to see Mi Yang's panic-stricken expression for a while, so as to relieve his anger a little bit.

Cao Zhen is very confident in his way of attacking the city, and this confidence is not groundless.

Thinking back to the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao used the same method of siege to beat them to pieces.

Now that times have changed, it is time for the Han army to taste this kind of suffering.

In the condescending situation, Cao Zhen, who was in the watchtower, quickly saw the young man in Mingguang armor.

After seeing Mi Yang's figure, Cao Zhenxin was filled with endless resentment. At this moment, he no longer felt any sympathy for Mi Yang, but only had a strong desire to kill him and then quickly.

Soon under Cao Zhen's order, Cao Zhen, who was in the watchtower, ordered people to wave the command flag after observing the enemy's situation.

The towers were higher than the earth hills, and when the flags on the towers danced in unison, thousands of Wei army archers on the earth hills no longer hesitated. sharp arrow.

Following the sound of thousands of sharp piercing sounds, thousands of sharp arrows turned into streamers and shot towards the city wall of Nanzheng City.

Mi Yang had been on guard for a long time. When he saw the flag of the Wei army waving, he ordered the Han army on the city wall to raise their shields to protect their bodies.

Due to the excessive speed of the thousands of arrows, thousands of arrows from the Wei army had already arrived on the city wall almost at the moment when the Han army just raised the shield in their hands.

After a while, there were dense and countless harsh iron clashing sounds on the city wall.

That was the sound of thousands of arrows from the Wei army hitting the shield.

Mi Yang's order was not untimely, but Wei Jun's preparations were too sufficient.

Not long after the first rain of arrows arrived, the second rain of arrows enough to cover the sky struck again.

Under the non-stop intensive arrow rain attack by the Wei army, and there are always gaps between the shields, some Han troops still cried out in pain because of the arrows.

And as time goes by, these cries of pain are becoming more and more numerous.

Mi Yang, who was hiding under the shield, seemed distraught when he heard the cries of pain.

Those who can be sent to defend the city at this time are all his elite.

If it was a head-on confrontation, it would be fine if the elite lost their lives.

But now no one in the Wei army was injured, but soldiers from our own side kept falling. If we don't find a way to change the situation quickly, the loss of Nanzheng City will only enter the countdown.

But the solution is not so easy to think about.

In terms of good shooting, the Liangzhou Army, which started from the Jingzhou Army, is not inferior to any army in the world.

But no matter how good at shooting, the Liangzhou army must have a chance to shoot arrows.

The large number of enemy troops, coupled with the advantage of attacking from a high level, made Mi Yang how to organize the archers on the city wall to counterattack for a while.

Not only did Mi Yang hear the constant cries of pain from the Han army on the city wall, but even Cao Zhen heard the sound of the wind.

Compared to Mi Yang's anxiety, Cao Zhen felt that the pain from the Han army made his spirit extremely excited.

It's not easy. It has been several months since we led troops into Hanzhong.

But in the past few months, as long as he played against Mi Yang, he must suffer.

Now is finally the time for him to feel proud.

Under the excitement of the mind, Cao Zhen immediately changed his tactics.

Under Cao Zhen's order, the attack of Wei Jun's arrow rain from the earth mountain suddenly stopped.

After Mi Yang realized this, he just relaxed in his heart, but before he could relax for a long time, Ding Feng's exclamation beside him instantly attracted his attention.

Mi Yang followed Ding Feng's gaze and looked out from the gap between the shields.

At this moment, thousands of rockets suddenly appeared in the sky, and the direction of those thousands of rockets was not on the city wall, but inside the city wall.

After seeing this scene, Mi Yang instantly understood Cao Zhen's intentions.

Soon after thousands of rockets fell into the residential area behind the city wall, the rockets quickly ignited the residential areas near the city wall.

And due to the hot weather, the fire caused by the rocket is spreading rapidly among the houses.

Cao really wanted to cause panic among the people in the city by burning down the houses!

Cao Zhen's method was effective, and soon Mi Yang on the city wall heard the cries and cries from the people in the city.

After the bursts of shouting and crying fell into Mi Yang's ears, it aroused Mi Yang's fury.

If you can't shoot me, you shoot my people, it's really shameless!
But Mi Yang was trapped under the shield, and he couldn't get up and go to the city to stabilize the situation.

The reason why Cao Zhen asked Wei Jun to release fire arrows into the city was to lure Mi Yang to appear from under the shield formation.

To guard the city is to guard the hearts of the people.

Cao Zhen had heard of Mi Yang's famous saying for a long time.

And if Mi Yang suddenly appeared from the shield formation, there would always be no shortage of sharpshooters among the more than [-] Wei troops.

Even Cao Zhen is one of the good archers in the Wei army who can penetrate Yang with a hundred steps!

Cao Zhen had already set his bow and arrow in the watchtower, waiting for Mi Yang to appear from the shield formation.

But Cao Zhen waited and waited, Wei Jun's action of releasing fire arrows has been going on, but Mi Yang never appeared from the shield formation.

Just when Cao Zhen was getting impatient, he noticed that the fire in the city was gradually being extinguished, and the shouting and crying of the people in the city was gradually stopping.

At this moment, Cao Zhen knew why Mi Yang never showed up.

Hearing that Fazheng's son, Fa Miao, is now Mi Yang Biejia, a descendant of a famous family, it may not be difficult for him to calm the situation in the city to a certain extent.

After realizing this, Cao Zhen knew that he might not be able to win the battle today.

In addition, before he knew it, the sky had gradually become dark, so Cao Zhen gave the order to retreat.

When retreating, Cao Zhen had a smile on his face.

Although today has not achieved much results, judging from today's situation, Yuan Shao's siege methods back then were miraculously effective.

As long as he can continue to use this method of siege, how long can the Han army in the city last?
After realizing that the Wei army was gradually retreating, Mi Yang also walked down the city wall under Ding Feng's guard.

After walking down the city wall, Mi Yang saw a mess under the city wall.

A large number of residential buildings were burned down, and the roads were full of fallen black wood, and it was the homeless people who were reluctant to leave around the black wood.

Although the people had stopped crying under Fa Miao's comfort, the tears on their faces were still there, and the helplessness and sadness in their eyes were clearly captured by Mi Yang.

Leaving aside the battle damage of the Han army on the city wall, just seeing this scene made Mi Yang realize how much damage today's battle has caused to the hearts of the people in the city.

Today, Mi Yang can be regarded as realizing that Cao Cao was helpless back then.

After appeasing the next commoner, Fa Miao walked to Mi Yang's side. He wanted to ask about the situation on the city wall, but seeing Mi Yang's expression, he wisely chose not to speak.

Seeing the mess all over the floor, and looking at the frustrated subordinates around, Mi Yang said indignantly:
"Cao Zhen loves to build high-rise buildings. Tomorrow, those high-rise buildings will be alone and become ashes!"

Hearing what Mi Yang said, Fa Miao, Ding Feng and others cheered up.

Back then, Cao Jun used the thunderbolt chariot to break Yuan Jun's offensive. Could it be that Mi Yang also secretly prepared the thunderbolt chariot?
What Fa Miao and others don't know is that they probably don't have a thunderbolt car, but fortunately, they have a master who is a time traveler.