At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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It's easy to repel the first time, but it may not be so after that. Maybe Wei Jun will become stronger and sharper, and his resistance will become more and more difficult.

For this reason, Wu Yi sent people back many times to urge armaments and rations, especially arrows, rolling logs and stones and other defensive equipment. He believed that these things would be necessary for a protracted war in the future.

Of course, Wu Yi also had other worries.

Shu Han is not like Guo Wei, Guo Wei has sufficient strategic depth and a population base far exceeding that of Shu, organizing a large battle of 10 people will not hurt the bones.

Even if the war drags on for a long time, it doesn't matter if the peasants can't cultivate the land, and the spring plowing in two areas is delayed. He still has the vast Central Plains and Guanzhong areas that can provide food to the war zone.

But the Shu Han is different. The population and territory are not at the same level. Guo Wei can launch a war of 10 people without delaying the spring plowing, but the Shu Han can't afford it.

An army of 10 people and a logistics force of more than 10 people directly bound about 20 men to the battlefield. For the Shu Han regime, which controls a population of only about 100 million, it is almost exhausted.

Both the elderly and women will be forced to go to the fields to cultivate after the beginning of spring, and there will inevitably be problems with grain production, and the treasury in central Shu does not have much storage.

The previous battles of Liangzhou and Hanzhong consumed more than half of the savings, and the battle of Nanzhong consumed a lot. Now there is no food in the treasury in many places in central Shu, which is very dangerous.

Once the war is delayed and the food in the middle of Shu cannot be replenished in large quantities, famine is likely to occur. Once famine occurs and the morale of the army is unstable, it will be defeated by the Wei army immediately, and the defense line will be torn apart.

Therefore, this war cannot last longer than half a year, and the Wei army must be repelled within half a year, otherwise the Shu Han will starve himself to death.

Even so, Hwang Kwon proposed a super general mobilization strategy.

That is to say, once the front line is in an emergency, whether it is Jiange, Micangshan, or Yufu, any place is in an emergency, Liu Zhang will activate the super general mobilization and pull all the men to the battlefield.

No matter who you are, as long as you are a man, as long as you can fight, no matter what occupation you are in, no matter what age you are, you will be given a weapon, and all of them will be recruited. Now more than [-] civilians who are engaged in logistics will also be recruited to fight. They must definitely fight to the end.

Then who will do the logistics?

Liu Zhang asked Huang Quan this way.

Huang Quan simply said that young and strong women should be used to transport food. Women are also human beings, so they have to use them as a last resort.

Wu Yi was deeply worried about this, and was really afraid that the day would come when this super mobilization would come.

Wu Yi didn't know if Wei Jun's strategic grain reserve was at the level of half a year, but judging from the news brought back by the Shuzhong caravan who went to the Central Plains to do business, the situation might not be optimistic.

Under the rule of Guo Wei, the people in various places were quite rich. Even the Lishu in the countryside did not see any food on their faces. There were many children in the countryside with white hair hanging down and playing with each other. This reflected the confidence that the abundant grain production brought to the Lishu at the bottom.

Only when the social economy is stable, the grain output is stable, and the political environment is stable, can the people have the confidence to have more children, and this also confirms from the side that the Guo Wei regime has sufficient confidence to launch a war.

Wu Yi was very worried, worried that the logistics of the Wei army would not be brought down in half a year, but the Shu Han would be brought down.

This is the gap in national strength, the gap in crushing levels, if you can't win, you will surely perish.

But is it really possible to win?

Wu Yi didn't know.

As far as I can see, the Wei army was very cautious and did not launch a strong attack blindly. Even the previous tentative attack was fully armored. Small.

From this point of view, the Shu army could not really inflict serious damage to the Wei army, nor could it really repel the Wei army.

That's the big problem.

Wu Yi knew very well that if he couldn't really inflict great damage on the Wei army, he couldn't repel them, but he had to go out of the city to fight...

Wu Yi had experienced the fighting power of the Wei army, and he still remembered how he suffered a disastrous defeat when he faced Guo Peng face-to-face.

He remembered how the Shu army was completely defeated by the Wei army's attack. He knew very well that the Shu army was not as good as the Wei army in terms of combat effectiveness in field battles.

Now Wei Jun is cautious and cautious, obviously making long-term plans. He doesn't even know what it will be like when Wei Jun comes to attack next time.

Facing such a situation, Wu Yi, who was sitting in the dangerous pass of Jiange Pavilion, was frowning.

But before he was worried for long, Wei Jun made a comeback.

This time, as Wu Yi was worried about, Wei Jun had evolved. Instead of rushing forward directly with the big shield, he used a trebuchet to launch a super long-distance strike.

At least it was a blow from a distance that the bows and arrows of the Shu army could not reach.

The content of the attack was also unheard of by the Shu army.

Huge boulders flew in the sky, crossed a beautiful arc, and fell fiercely inside and outside the Guancheng, bringing a huge blow to the inside and outside of the Guancheng, and a huge blow to the morale of the Shu army.

Not to mention, there is another weapon, a weapon that makes a terrible thunderous sound that resounds through the sky.

This kind of weapon exploded around the soldiers of the Shu Army like a thunderbolt. Not only was the sound loud, but the violent air flow was also wrapped in terrible hidden weapons, such as iron sand and gravel, which scared most of the soldiers in the entire Guancheng stupidly in an instant.

Even if the continuous sound of thunder explosions did not directly kill them, it also deafened the ears of the soldiers of the Shu army. The flying gravel and iron sand caused serious abrasions to the soldiers of the Shu army, or injuries to the eyes and mouth. It can turn a person into a cripple in an instant.

The airflow generated by the explosion could also blow the soldiers of the Shu Army from the tower in a relatively small space, and fell down the tower, dead and motionless.

Compared with it, the more terrifying impact is that the sudden and violent explosion is too loud, not to the extent of being startled, but to scare people crazy or even to death.

Just that one explosion scared people to death.

One of Wu Yi's personal generals and several personal soldiers were frightened to death like this.

Chapter 830 .840 Key Mr. Huang Quan

The people on the tower were pretty good, after all, the place was small and there weren't many people, but the reserve team behind the tower was also affected, so there were more people, and the spread was wider.

A thunderbolt exploded, and a large number of soldiers collapsed in fright, and the desperate scumbags ran away, causing serious panic and confusion, and the army was in a mess in an instant.

Wu Yi was on the top of the city tower at the time, and his head went blank when the explosion sounded, and then he was protected by a group of personal soldiers. He was not injured, but there was a roar in his ears, and he couldn't hear anything for a while. .

Zhentianlei unexpectedly brought unexpected results, and Wei Jun's top management suddenly realized that this new type of Zhentianlei was much louder than before in terms of sound and power, and it was different from the past.

"The sound is much louder than before. I feel that the power of the explosion is different from before."

Guan Yu covered his ears and rubbed them in surprise, then looked at the commanders around him.

Everyone is the same as Guan Yu. They never expected that the improved Zhentianlei would be so powerful. It was obvious that it did not have such power during the Battle of Guanzhong.

Then the people from the Gunpowder Department of the Ministry of Industry are really amazing.

They all sighed.

But soon, Guan Yu reacted.

Isn't this a great opportunity to attack? !

"Cao Xiu! Zhang Yun! Immediately regroup and attack!!!"

Guan Yu yelled, and immediately ordered that when the people on the tower did not react, they swarmed up and broke through the gate. As long as the Jiange was breached, there would be almost no dangerous terrain to hold on to the south until the Great Plains, and the Shu Han would perish!

Cao Xiu and Zhang Xi also reacted immediately, and immediately rectified their troops and horses and put them into battle. The army moved forward quickly, divided into several attacking teams and began to attack.

And it wasn't until this time that the surviving Shu Han army on the tower came back to their senses.

Some soldiers stood up and glanced around in confusion, and then noticed the shouts of killing outside the city, and realized that the Wei army had begun to attack, and the situation was critical.

Some people were so frightened that they rolled down the tower without surviving.

Some people reflexively want to resist but cannot find knives, guns and crossbows.

Some people are still confused, digging their ears and knocking on their ears, as if they can't hear the sound, they are in a hurry.

Wu Yi pushed away the wounded or dead soldiers, stood up with the support of a few surviving soldiers, and observed that the Wei army was attacking, so he yelled to fight back reflexively.

Although there is still a roaring sound in the ears, Wei Wei can also hear some roaring voices and shouts of killing.

There are not many Shu Han soldiers on the tower who can take up weapons and fight back.

Anyway, the Wei army had already put up the ladders, and they were beginning to attach themselves to the city. On the city, only the soldiers of the Shu Han stabbed down in panic with their spears.

But at this time, the crossbowmen of the Wei army also rushed to the bottom of the city and began to shoot at the city, killing many of these dazed resisters, and successfully covered a group of soldiers of the Wei army to climb the city wall, and rushed directly to the tower and the Shu Han The soldiers fought.

In an instant, the city tower became very dangerous. Wu Yi roared and swung a knife into the battle, leading a few surviving personal guards to resist desperately, but more than 20 people from the Wei army had rushed up, and they were about to open a passage for the latecomers.

When the situation was critical, Huang Quan suddenly led people to kill on the city tower, instantly reversing the balance of combat power on the city wall.

Wu Yi's ears still couldn't hear clearly, but he still saw a large group of Shu soldiers rushing up the city wall to fight the Wei soldiers in a bloody battle. Only Huang Quan could do this at this time.

When Wei Jun used Zhen Tianlei to attack Jiange, Huang Quan no longer closed the front line of the city, but rectified the reserve army in the rear, ready to go to the city to support Wu Yi at any time, but there was a violent explosion, and Huang Quan was as scared as everyone around him Big jump.

However, Huang Quan quickly reacted. After realizing the impact of the loud noise on the front line, he immediately led a group of soldiers around him to encourage a group of soldiers to rush forward with him, towards Guancheng.

Huang Quan took the lead in charging against the flow of fleeing soldiers, bravely rushed to the tower, and finally rushed to the pass city at the critical moment, blocking the Wei army's attack on the city.

At this critical moment, Huang Quan became a key figure. He took the lead and led the troops to fight. He relied on the superiority in numbers to push back the Wei army who had failed to gain a foothold. More than 20 soldiers of the Wei army spilled blood on the city and failed. breakthrough.

If they failed to gain a firm foothold, it would be difficult for the follow-up troops to continue. Many soldiers of the Wei army were shot to death on the ladder, or were stabbed to death by spears, or were hit by stones to death. The losses were quite tragic.

Guan Yu and Xun You, who were watching from the rear, felt extremely sorry for this scene. Seeing that the soldiers of the Wei army struggled to climb the city and failed to win, and the soldiers of the Shu Han rushed up the city wall one after another to resist desperately, they soon realized that the assault failed.

"General Guan, withdraw your troops, if this continues, it will only increase casualties."

Xun You shook his head again and again: "The offensive surface is too narrow, and the space left for our army is too small. A strong attack will not break the situation, but it will only increase casualties. Now we must retreat."

Guan Yu stomped his feet fiercely, wanting to hold on a little longer.

"Continue to persevere, maybe we can still break through! Send another team to try right away! If there is any difficulty in attacking the city, you will retreat directly. Only by persevering to the end can you win. If you break through the Jiange in one fell swoop, you may be able to directly force the people of Shu to surrender!"

"Impossible, General Guan, the Shu people have already reacted, they have begun to reinforce, and we cannot quickly reinforce!"

Xun You looked anxious and shook his head again and again: "The offensive area is too narrow, which is extremely unfavorable to our attack. If the Shu people can't react at once, there is no point in increasing the number of troops anyway. It will only continue to increase casualties. Destroy morale!"

"Wouldn't withdrawing troops now damage morale? Our army is an army that must win every battle! It's not an army that is defeated!"

Guan Yu shouted angrily.

"Is it possible to decide the outcome of a battle involving tens of thousands of people in one battle? If you know you can't fight, you should retreat! At this time, the retreat will not cause too much loss to explain to His Majesty! How much Your Majesty cares about the lives of soldiers , General Guan knows better than me!"

Xun You confronted each other tit for tat and never backed down.

As soon as Guo Peng was mentioned, Guan Yu's expression froze, he hesitated for a moment, closed his eyes, and said with an extremely tangled expression: "Withdraw the troops."

Guan Yu nodded in desperation, and gave the order to retreat, without further entanglement, which would only increase the casualties.

So Wei Jun called for gold to withdraw his troops, ended the assault, and returned in defeat.

The Shu army kept the Jiange Pass at the critical moment, did not let the Jiange be broken through, and successfully withstood the extremely threatening siege of the Wei army this time.

After the army withdrew and returned to camp, Guan Yu and Xun You held a military meeting again to summarize the failure of this assault.

The number of people lost in this battle was much higher than before, 120 people alone, and more than [-] people were injured.

The problem is nothing more than what Xun You pointed out. The offensive channel is too narrow to give full play to the advantages of the Wei army. On the contrary, it is very beneficial to the defense of the Shu Han army.

Thunderbolt is effective, but its damage is limited.

And Fazheng brought up a very important factor.

"The time we waited to attack with Zhentianlei was too short, and it did not cause enough chaos for the Shu people. This allowed the follow-up army of the Shu people to quickly support. This time, our army was too eager. If people create enough deterrence, maybe the result will be very different.”

Fazheng put forward such a view, which was supported by Xun You.

"That's right, we didn't hold back as soon as we found out that the thunderbolt had an effect, and immediately marched in. At that time, the people of Shu hadn't collapsed yet. This is because I was too impatient and rushed forward. Next time, we must be patient. Wait for the best time to come, and then attack, be sure to go all at once, without delay."

Guan Yu nodded solemnly.

"You are right. This time we must be cautious and patient. We must not repeat the same mistakes, and we must not rush forward. We must seize the right time and go down! Send me an order, and use thunder, stones, and There are fierce fire oil tanks, and they bombard Jiange Guancheng fiercely!"

Chapter 831 840 Burning the city in one day

The annoyed Guan Yu issued a new order to bombard Jiangeguan City with new weapons for a long time and viciously.

He decided to continue to cause explosions and long-distance strikes, so as to exert continuous pressure on the Shu people, not to give the Shu people time to rest and regroup, and tortured them until they were dying, and then sent troops to attack the city.

We can't continue to cause unnecessary casualties to the army. If we continue to suffer casualties, even if we win, it will be a miserable victory.

As Xun You said, Guan Yu knew exactly how much Guo Peng cared about the lives of his soldiers.

Since the time of Colonel Hu Karasuma, Guo Peng has recruited a large number of military doctors, never abandons any wounded soldier, spends a lot of money on medicinal herbs, and tries his best to save their lives after each battle, so all armies are willing to do their best for them. Guo Peng tried his best, and he fought bravely to be the first on the battlefield.

Part of the reason why he decided to fight for Guo Peng at all costs was that he was moved by Guo Peng's actions to value the lives of soldiers, and he has followed him ever since.

One of the traditions of the Wei Army is to never abandon wounded soldiers, and to uphold the concept that one veteran returning from injury is better than ten recruits, so the proportion of Wei Army veterans is very high, and the combat power has always been high.

Guan Yu naturally would not violate this tradition.

And so the massive trebuchet strikes began.

Throwing stones, thunderstorms, and throwing them into Guancheng in unison brought a huge shock to the Shu army who were still licking their wounds and holding a summary meeting in Guancheng. They thought that the Wei army was about to start attacking again.