The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 259 Defense of Mei County ([-])
Sima Wang sent troops, of course, now his command is close to 15 troops, it is impossible to squeeze all of them together.For this battle, his troops are arranged as follows:

On the north bank of the Weihe River, about [-] miles away from the north gate of Mei County, Sima Wang personally led the [-] Luoyang Chinese Army (mainly recruits) to sit in town.This is the base camp of the Chang'an Corps.

Five miles west of Mei County and Anguo City, [-] Di soldiers led by Li Mu, Li Te and his son set up camp across the banks of the Wei River.Sima Wang didn't have too many expectations for the combat effectiveness of the troops along the way.But generally speaking, among the various alien races, the Di people are relatively trustworthy, and they sent more soldiers this time.So Sima Wang asked Li Mu and his son to guard one side alone. Their main task was not to attack the city, but to close Guan Yi's information transmission channel.

To the north of the Wei River and five miles east of Mei County, there is an army of [-] led by Xun Kai and Li Fu, which is the main force for this siege.Its composition is mainly based on the former Guanzhong Corps and Bingzhou reinforcements.The main target of the attack is of course Mei County where Guan Yi is located.

As for Anguo City on the south bank of the Wei River, Sima Wang arranged for Yuan Qing to lead an army of [-] to besiege it.This is not the main attack point of this battle yet.

After that, the [-] cavalry from the Bald Department were still deployed on the south bank of the Weihe River, and their task was to cut off the grain road between Hanzhong and Anguo City.

Ju'an led [-] cavalry, and together with the [-] cavalry of the Southern Huns, they were the mobile troops for this battle.The main task at this stage is first to ensure the smooth flow of grain roads, and secondly to wander around the battlefield, completely making Guan Yi lose contact with the outside world.

There are also more than [-] people, led by Sima Yong and Du Yu, who sit in Chang'an.The work of organizing civilian husbands to transport food, transfer and treat wounded soldiers was all done by this army-Du Yu may be the most powerful military strategist in the Western Jin Dynasty in terms of history.But at least for now, his military talent has not been discovered: the big neck disease has restricted his body, and in this era when the world has not completely eroded, generals still have to ride horses in battle.Du Yu, who was unable to ride a horse, was not recognized by Sima Wang and others at least at this time.

The above troops, except Sima Yongdu's advance detachment, all set off on January 25, and then arrived at their corresponding positions on January [-].Completed the encirclement of the second city of Mei County.

If we say that Sima Wang was quite complacent when he saw the unprecedented grandeur of his army when he dispatched troops.Then when he arrived at the base of the two cities of Mei County and Anguo, and walked around the walls of the two cities, the pride in his heart quickly disappeared.

This is Mei County?Are we in the wrong place?Even Chang'an doesn't have such a high city wall!
I know that Guan Zifeng has something that can quickly build a wall. The country Jinzuo tried his best to find out, but he only knows that this thing is called cement.After mixing with water, it can be shaped freely and dries quickly, and the hardness is extremely high after drying.But you, Guan Zifeng, are too scary, right?There seems to be an unlimited supply of such good things from you.In addition to hardening the walls of the two cities, all kinds of strange-shaped concrete piles were spread all over the distance of three hundred steps from the city walls. As a result, it was very difficult for the army's siege troops to advance.

Having no other choice, Sima Wang had no choice but to order the armies to suspend the siege, and spend more time building various siege equipment.At the same time, soldiers were sent to clean up the cement piles outside the two cities.

This time defending the city, Guan Da Sima's laziness broke out again.At the current stage, he had no intention of going to the city at all, and handed over all the defense of Mei County to Shi Huozai, the commander of the army.

In this era, due to the extremely difficult dissemination of knowledge, many people's path to success is based on their family background.Unfortunately, the Huo family's specialty is defending the city.

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On the first day of February, Sima Wang's entire army was in place.In the afternoon of the same day, Xun Kai sent a small army of more than [-] people to the east gate of Mei County to deal with the cement piles outside the city gate.

A small number of officers of the Jin army were released by Guan Yi after they surrendered in the Yanganguan battle.So it's not the first time these officers have seen concrete piles, and they know how to deal with these guys.

"Report to Huo Changshi, the enemy army is excavating along the foundation of the barrier wall we built outside the east gate."

"Hey, these Jin thieves have learned to be good. Well, let them dig, and let me know when they advance to 250 steps away from the city wall."

"Here!"

So, under Huo Zai's order, the Shu Han army on the top of the city quietly watched the Jin army below the city digging the foundation of the wall, and then smashed the entire cement pile with difficulty, moved it away, and then filled the big hole dug. superior.

There is no doubt that this is a very labor-intensive project.Throughout the afternoon of the first day of February, Xun Kai's vanguard only cleared a small part of the outermost cement piles.

The next day, Xun Kaijia sent 2000 people.On the one hand, there is an increase in manpower, and on the other hand, the soldiers' brick-moving skills are gradually proficient.Therefore, the progress of the project has been significantly accelerated.But Huo Zai still didn't say anything.

On the third day, the fastest-moving unit of the Jin army entered the range of 250 steps in front of the city wall.

Following Guan Yi's example, after shaking his neck comfortably for a while, Huo Zai asked the soldiers beside him, "Are the trebuchets ready?"

"Returning to Changshi, the ten catapults on the entire east wall and the fifty catapults below the city wall are all ready."

"Good, then send an order that each trebuchet unit adjust the throwing distance to 270 steps east of the city wall, and fire three rounds!"

"Here! Huo Changshi has an order. 270 steps, salvo!"

"Obey! Dong No. [-] trebuchet, ready!"

"East 35 and East NO.50 are ready!"

"No. [-], East Wall, ready!"

"It's all there, launch!"

With the sound of "launch", countless bangs resounded from top to bottom of the city wall.The heavy hammers of sixty trebuchets fell violently, and the ammunition bag on the other side of the counterweight rod was forcibly thrown into the air.Due to the strong inertia, the stone bullets in the bullet bag were quickly thrown out.

Below the city, a soldier of the Jin army was beating hard concrete piles with a sledgehammer.In the great winter, he had already shed his heavy battle robe and armor.The lean upper body is completely exposed in the cold winter air of the Guanzhong Plain.Even so, there were beads of sweat on his forehead.

Wiping off the sweat vigorously, he flicked his right hand, just as he was about to hold the sledgehammer again and start working.He vaguely heard whistling sounds in the air.He raised his head in doubt, and when he wanted to find the source of the sound, he suddenly felt that the originally bright sky turned black.

Then, he felt the ground shake heavily, and for some unknown reason, a layer of sticky, very warm liquid suddenly appeared on his bare upper body.Afterwards, a huge black shadow bounced high from the ground, and quickly flew forward...

After a while, he saw a ball of red and white meat sauce in his sight.Inside the meat sauce, there are some iron and cloth things mixed in from time to time.this is?
Soon, he finally came back to his senses.Isn't the position of this ball of meat sauce the same as the position of the comrade-in-arms who supported him just now to facilitate the work of his sledgehammer?

So what was that huge black shadow just now?
Before he could think too much, a Jin army soldier who reacted faster than him had already started howling at the top of his lungs: "Enemy attack! Catapult!"

The soldier finally came to his senses at this time, and his body didn't need his brain to issue orders at all, and immediately began to run towards the east instinctively—although he still couldn't figure out why the enemy's trebuchet could hit so far , but there is no doubt that at this time, you must be as far away from the opponent's city wall as possible!

Just after running a few steps, he heard the cruelest voice in his life: "Reload! Get ready for the second salvo!"

Although more power surged out of his body again, his speed increased again.But how can a person's feet compare with stone bullets going straight in the air?Soon, he heard that terrifying whistling sound in the sky again.Then, the earth trembled again.

This time, he saw with his own eyes that a fellow robe who was seven or eight steps away from him was crushed from the back by a jumping stone bullet. Then he rolled along his back.On the whole land, there is a pool of vertically elongated meat sauce.

Before Huo had launched the third round of strikes, the entire Jin army had collapsed.

Seeing that the Jin army under the city had all collapsed and was no longer in a dense formation like before, Huo Zai waved his hands in dismay: "Send an order to stop the third round of shooting."

(End of this chapter)