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Chapter 150 Battle of Tianshui
April 14, the [-]th year of Jianxing.

The Liangzhou and Wei armies of the three armies launched an encirclement of Tianshui and Hebei counties.

The endless army spread out on the flat ground, with swords and swords like forests, and huge crowds of people.

The wanton hustle and bustle of the Wei army swept everything like a mountain torrent and a tsunami.

At first, the two sides launched a contest of long-range weapons. The dense rain of arrows formed one black torrent after another, attacking each other.

With every impact, a group of people would fall to the ground with arrows.

The screams came one after another.

This is just a prelude.

Cao Shuang's order was sent from Xiangwu City to Ji County that day: attack the city at all costs!
He himself left three thousand soldiers and horses in Xiangwu City, and led the rest of the main force to quickly advance towards Ji County.

Cao Shuang had already planned that if the Han army in Xiangwucheng went out to fight, the 3000 troops could hold them back for a while and buy time for the scouts to gather information.

You can arrange an ambush to lay siege to the Han army and provide reinforcements.

Cao Shuang believed that the key to this battle was Ji County.

As long as Ji County is captured, the main force of the Han army will be completely lost, and the remaining counties will inevitably turn back.

On April 21, Cao Shuang himself commanded [-] troops and arrived outside the city of Ji County.

The Battle of Tianshui between Han and Wei broke out.

The total strength of the Wei army was nearly [-], with all the best from Liangzhou. The leader was Cao Shuang, Cao Wei's future powerful minister.

The total strength of the Han army in Tianshui is 1, and the leader is Wei Yan, the No. [-] general of Ji Han.

On the day Cao Shuang arrived, he issued an order to build two hundred trebuchets and two hundred ladders within three days.

A large number of logistics teams were mobilized. They took axes and tools and began to cut wood and build siege equipment.

Many soldiers also began to collect stones.

If there are not enough stones, use wood instead.

For a time, there was dust in the distance.

Obviously, Cao Shuang wanted to speed up the war process to avoid changes over time.

In this war, Wei Yan, who had always been radical, issued an order to hold on to the city and mobilized a large number of engineering battalions to upgrade the defense of Ji County.

Reinforcements were made in many aspects such as turrets, arrow towers, and wooden frames on the city head.

They also gathered the population outside the city a few days in advance and mobilized all of them into available resources for this war.

Early in the morning on the 22nd, the Wei army began to shout and curse outside the city.

What started as thousands of shouts grew louder and louder after noon, with more people joining in.

In the afternoon, the military camps stretching for more than ten miles emitted shouts.

The sound seemed to shatter the white clouds in the sky.

The people in Ji County were terrified.

"Captain!" Gao Xiang said hurriedly, "The general is willing to lead three thousand elites out to teach the Wei thieves a lesson!"

Wei Yan, who has always been arrogant, sneered: "You think I don't want to fight. The Prime Minister has ordered you to continue to hold on. Now is not the time!"

"But if this continues, the morale in the city may be damaged. In the morning, there were already people in the city panicking and wanting to surrender!"

Wei Yan glanced at Gao Xiang coldly and said firmly: "Whoever dares to surrender lightly again will be killed without mercy!"

Then he walked up to the top of the city and said loudly: "Everyone is ready, we defeated the Wei thief the year before last, we defeated the Wei thief last year, and we can defeat the Wei thief this year!"

Everyone looked solemn.

Early in the morning on April 24, the Wei army's ladders, trebuchets, and nest carts were all completed.

Two hundred trebuchets, two hundred ladders and one hundred nest carts were neatly placed outside the city.

Just after breakfast, a rallying horn sounded over the Wei army camp.

A large number of Wei soldiers came out of the camp. They picked up their weapons, talked to each other, and under the guidance of their commanders, began to assemble into their own military formations.This time, Cao Shuang mobilized a total of [-] troops and divided them into [-] military formations.

Each military formation is ten meters apart, and the military formation is stretched horizontally for a full four miles.

This is almost the same length as the western city wall of Ji County.

In other words, this time the Wei army attacked the entire city wall.

This tactic is to use the numerical advantage to stretch the front and break through the gap.

In the morning, the Wei army launched an attack.

Two hundred trebuchets and ladders began to move forward, looking like rows of huge monsters, as well as nest cars.

The sound of war drums in the Wei army camp was as dense as a sudden rain, shattering all fears and flushing everything out of the soldiers' brains.

All that's left is killing!
When they were a hundred meters away, two hundred trebuchets started operating, and a large number of stones and wood rose from the ground and fell towards the city head.

Some hit the city wall, leaving shallow pits, and some hit the city head, hitting the shields in the hands of the Han soldiers, knocking the soldiers down, and the wood continued to roll forward.

After several waves of large amounts of stones and wood, Wei Jun's ladders and chariots began to move forward.

"Everyone is ready!"

The commanders around shouted loudly.

The soldiers looked nervously down through the gaps next to their shields, and the shouts became more and more loud, like a rolling wave.

The wind carries the smell of iron.

They knew that a fight was coming.

The crossbow archer at the front of the Han army quickly loaded the arrow.

"Fire the crossbow!"

Following the commander's order, a dense rain of arrows rushed out from the battlements at the top of the city, like a horizontal black waterfall, quickly impacting the Wei army forwards who were pushing forward layer by layer.

The arrow rain intensively impacted on the ladders, chariots, and the shields and armor of the Wei soldiers, making "ding-ding-ding" and "ding-ding-ding" sounds.

Those dense and sharp arrows penetrated every hole, even passed through the gaps in the iron armor, nailed into the flesh and blood of the Wei soldiers, and penetrated into the bones.

One after another, Wei soldiers fell to the ground.

They shouted with all their strength, their minds went blank, there was no emotion of panic, only the instinctive fighting of animals was left.

When a large number of ladders and chariots approached, rocks fell like rain on the top of the Han army's city.

"Everyone, hold on!" Gao Xiang shouted loudly from the top of the city, and his voice was drowned in the shouts of killing that filled the sky.

"Captain! The Wei army attacked the city wall in front of me!"

"I know!" Wei Yan put on his armor and led his guards towards the city wall quickly.

The armored Han troops behind the city gate were waiting in full formation, and a large number of Han troops rushed to both sides from behind the city wall. They arrived at the stairs leading down from the city tower.

If the Wei army climbed up the tower, they would have to go down. This would be the main battlefield.

After the Han army was fully prepared, the Wei army had arrived at the bottom of the tower.

At this time, Cao Shuang issued the second order.

The second batch of follow-up troops began to follow, and there were also 1 people.

The subsequent soldiers and horses almost no longer have to face the blows of the Han army's long-range weapons, because at this time the main theme of the battlefield has become the confrontation between the Han and Wei sides on the city walls.

A large number of Wei troops began to climb up the ladder.

Looking from a distance, it looks like a dense swarm of ants clinging to the city wall, a large area of ​​darkness.

The Wei army that faced the Han army head-on had a fierce confrontation with the Han army on the ladder.

It was much easier for the Wei army to attack the two sides of the city tower. They attacked the weak areas of the Han army, and there were even some places where no one was defending.

(End of this chapter)