Mi Han

Although Yinping is not a big city, due to the lack of national power in the past, the city defense was not repaired in time.

However, in the few years after the Battle of Hanzhong, Wei Yan, the governor of Hanzhong, still spent a lot of effort to renovate Yinping's city defenses.

In Wei Yan's impression, after many renovations, Yinping's city defenses are definitely not as good as Nanzheng's, but they are also much stronger than Qiaotou's fortresses.

At least the Yinping city wall is more than three feet high.

If Yin Ping didn't have the conditions to stick to it, Mi Yang wouldn't let Ma Chao stick to it.

But a few years later, when he stood under Yinping City again, Wei Yan was shocked by the completely unfamiliar scene before him.

Outside the Yinping city gate, there are several earth hills higher than the city wall, and blood-stained arrows are densely stuck on the earth hills.

It can be seen from this scene that Guo Huai, like Cao Zhen, adopted the strategy of attacking the city with earth and mountains.

It's just that compared to Mi Yang's vigilance, Ma Chao chose to resist forcefully in the face of the siege strategy.

The color of the earth is yellow, but in Wei Yan's eyes at this moment, those several earth mountains seem to have red streaks all over the body of the earth mountains.

Wei Yan knew that it was the result of using the blood of countless Wei soldiers as dye.

This is true for the earthy mountains that served as the Wei army's offensive base, let alone the Yinping city wall used to guard it?
From Wei Yan's gaze, one could see that the Yinping City Wall, which stood upright on the ground, was no longer strong.

Countless arrow marks and knife marks fell on the city wall, making the Yinping city wall, which had only been repaired for a few years, like an old man dying, silently telling Wei Yan the fact that he was about to die.

However, compared to the earth mountain that seems to be wrapped in red stripes, the Nanzheng city wall facing the Wei army, in Wei Yan's eyes, is like wearing a bright red wedding dress, with almost no trace of blue.

This proves that in the previous battle of guarding Yinping, both the Han and Wei armies suffered great casualties.

But Wei Yan's gaze didn't stay on the city wall for long, because a hole in the city wall attracted Wei Yan's attention.

It seems that under the fierce offensive of the Wei army, they successfully opened the gap in the city wall.

For the Wei army with some siege weapons, as long as they are willing to spend their lives, it is not a difficult task.

But the city wall of Yinping still has the flag of the Han army flying.

This shows that with the efforts of Ma Chao, after Guo Huai opened the gap in the city wall, he did not capture Yinping through this gap.

As for how Ma Chao did this?
Wei Yan looked through the city wall from the entrance of the cave, and saw part of the scene in the city.

What caught Wei Yan's eyes was a camp built with the surrounding residential buildings as the basic site.

In front of that camp, countless corpses of the two armies were piled up.

Even because the corpses of the two armies piled up too much, the pile of corpses had turned into a mountain of corpses, which was almost as high as the city wall.

The scenes that fell into my eyes proved how fiercely Ma Chao led the Han army and the Wei army in the past days.

It also shows what price Ma Chao paid to keep Yinping to this day for Mi Yang.

In an instant, Wei Yan's gaze towards Yinping City became solemn.

He is not only respecting Ma Chao, but also respecting those comrades who sacrificed their lives for the great man.

When Wei Yan was observing Yinping, Ma Dai, who got the news one step ahead, also came to Wei Yan from the city at this time.

There were many wounds on Ma Dai's body, and some important wounds on his body were healed, but for those wounds that did not affect his movement, Ma Dai simply wrapped them up with some rags.

On the one hand, before the Wei army retreated, there would be fierce battles in Yinping from time to time, and Ma Dai didn't have enough time to treat the wounds on his body one by one.

On the other hand, Yinping was surrounded by the Wei army for more than half a year. During such a long time, many military resources in the city have long been insufficient, especially trauma medicine.

After seeing Wei Yan, Ma Dai had tears in his eyes.

The reinforcements are finally here!

Those who have not participated in the Yinping city defense battle do not know what kind of life he and Ma Chao had in the past.

Not only do we have to maintain high-intensity fighting during the day, but we also have to patrol the city defense from time to time at night, for fear that the Wei army will sneak attack at night.

After half a year of arduous defense of the city, he finally waited for Mi Yang's reinforcements.

This feeling can no longer be described as joy, it can only be said to be the afterlife!
But Ma Dai's first words when he saw Wei Yan were not complaints.

He just bowed to Wei Yan and said:
"Please tell Uncle Mu that Yinping has been guarded!"

After hearing Ma Dai say these words with tears in his eyes, Wei Yan's emotions were greatly affected.

He admired the Ma brothers more and more in his heart.

It was rare for Wei Yan to take the initiative to help someone get up.

After helping Ma Dai to get up, Wei Yan wanted to say something to comfort Ma Dai, but looking at the bloody corpse mountain inside and outside Yinping City, the stupid Wei Yan couldn't say such words.

He chose to directly give Ma Dai the promise he most wanted to hear.

"Yan will definitely report what he saw today to Uncle Mu."

"When the imperial court asks for credit for everyone in the future, Yanyi will definitely fight for it."

Wei Yan's promise sounds at first glance, but others may not understand the deep meaning of Wei Yan's words.

But after Ma Dai heard Wei Yan's promise, a happy smile appeared on his face.

The present Han Dynasty has just been established, and many capable ministers are still in various important departments of the imperial court, making the affairs of the imperial court run smoothly.

Under such circumstances, normally no one would dare to cover up the achievements made by the Ma brothers.

But what if it wasn't someone who wanted to cover up the achievements of the Ma brothers, but what if the entire imperial court wanted to do so?
Some things cannot be judged right or wrong from the perspective of fairness alone.

Since the Ma brothers did the outrageous thing that day, it means that they will face serious consequences for the rest of their lives.

This is what Ma Dai worries about.

He is not someone who is greedy for credit, but he wants the world to know that he has been working hard to atone for the past.

Ma Dai knew that Ma Chao thought so too.

To achieve this, someone must speak out for him and Ma Chao.

Wei Yan may not be enough for this weight, but Mi Yang behind him definitely has it.

And Wei Yan is Mi Yang's confidant, Wei Yan promised today that it is possible to influence Mi Yang.

This is enough.

After Ma Dai showed joy, Wei Yan noticed something unusual, and asked, "Where's General Hussar?"

Wei Yan is currently the general of Zhenbei. Although he has a lower position than Ma Chao, Wei Yan is the general sent by Mi Yang to rescue Yinping. In reason, Ma Chao should come out of the city to see Wei Yan.

Especially in recent years, Ma Chao is like a frightened bird, and he will not allow himself to be negligent in this regard.

unless.

Wei Yan looked at Ma Dai with inquiring eyes, and after hearing Wei Yan's inquiry, Ma Dai showed grief on his face, he could no longer hold back the tears in his eyes, and cried to Wei Yan:
"Hussar, General Hussar is seriously injured and has been bedridden for several days!"

Wei Yan's expression was shocked by Ma Dai's words!
He made a decision almost subconsciously.

Wei Yan quickly summoned a personal guard, and said to him: "Rush back to Yangping Pass as quickly as possible, and let the general come to Yinping as soon as possible."

The personal guard heard the urgency in Wei Yan's tone from his tone, so he immediately turned around and returned to Yangping Pass after receiving the order.

Seeing the back of the guard leaving, Wei Yan sighed heavily.

A few days later, Mi Yang led his troops to the outside of Yinping City.

After arriving outside Yinping City, seeing Mi Yang who was like a hell on earth, he couldn't help taking a deep breath in his heart.

There are many fierce and cruel city defense battles in the history books, but the records in the history books are always brief, so how can it have a greater impact than what I saw with my own eyes?

Mi Yang didn't stay outside the city, he walked directly along the corpse mountains on both sides towards Yinping City.

In the past few days, due to the retreat of the Wei army, Ma Dai has been commanding the soldiers who can still move, cleaning up the corpses inside and outside Yinping City.

Otherwise, if Mi Yang enters the city today, he may only be able to enter by stepping over the corpses everywhere.

Yinping City is not big, and under Ma Dai's leadership, Mi Yang soon came outside Ma Chao's room.

Along the way, Ma Dai carefully reported to Mi Yang about the process of defending the city.

Under Ma Dai's report, Mi Yang learned that not only Ma Chao was seriously injured, but also his confidant general Zhang Yi was also injured.

Even though Zhang Yi is young, his recovery ability is much better than Ma Chao's, but at this time he can only linger on the sick bed, unable to get up and come to see Mi Yang.

After hearing that Zhang Ni was seriously injured, although Mi Yang expressed his concern in a timely manner, he did not choose to visit Zhang Ni first as Ma Dai expected—Mi Yang went straight to Ma Chao along the way. Come to the dormitory.

Mi Yang's choice moved Ma Dai deeply.

After all, compared to the notorious Ma Chao, Zhang Ni is Mi Yang's confidant general, and one of the representatives of emerging generals who has attracted the attention of the court.

After standing outside Ma Chao's room door, Mi Yang asked Ma Dai to retreat first, and he chose to step into Ma Chao's house alone.

After stepping into the house, Mi Yang immediately smelled a strong smell of medicine in his nose.

And the dim light in the house also made Mi Yang a little uncomfortable for a while.

After Mi Yang got used to the light in the house, he saw Ma Chao lying on the couch.

Mi Yang stepped forward to the couch quickly, at such a close distance, Mi Yang saw Ma Chao's figure and face.

In Mi Yang's impression, Ma Chao's stature is like a bear and his face is like a crown of jade, he is a very handsome man in the world.

But Ma Chao, who is lying on the couch now, doesn't have half the look of the past.

With a thin body and a haggard face, it is really difficult to connect with the Jin Machao in the impression.

And as his eyes turned, Mi Yang also saw that Ma Chao's chest was wrapped in a large piece of blood-stained white cloth.

This was Ma Chao's worst injury.

How did Ma Chao get injured?
It was received to stop the Wei army that was pouring into the city in an endless stream.

Thinking of this, Mi Yang's eyes showed unbearable color.

After careful calculation, Ma Chao has been defending Yinping for more than half a year.

And even if the defenders at the bridgehead were transferred to Yinping, Ma Chao's soldiers and horses were no more than [-] at most.

But how many Wei troops led by Guo Huai?

The number of main soldiers is about [-], but if the auxiliary soldiers and the Qiangdi soldiers who joined later are added, the total force that Guo Huai can use to attack the city is about ten times the force in Ma Chao's hands.

With such a large gap in numbers, Ma Chao insisted on helping Mi Yang defend Yinping for half a year when his own city was not strong enough. This was undoubtedly a very successful defense of the city.

And keeping Yinping is of extremely important strategic significance to the entire Liangzhou battle.

Perhaps due to some famous defensive battles in history, many people subconsciously think that defending the city is very easy.

But history books cherish pen and ink. Those cases of city defense will be recorded in history books because they are rare, not because they are common.

Besides, for the defenders in those battles, if they had a choice, which one of them would want to fight this kind of battle?

Everything is a last resort, just like Ma Chao in this world.

And in the same way, because of this amazing Yinping defense battle, Ma Chao will definitely continue to outline a strong stroke in the history books of this world in the future, attracting the admiration of countless people in future generations.

After hearing a sound in front of the couch, Ma Chao woke up from a half-asleep state, and then he saw Mi Yang standing in front of the couch.

For a moment, Mi Yang and Ma Chao's eyes met.

After looking at each other for a few moments, Ma Chao first said with a smile:

"General, it's a pleasure to see you again.

Chao is also very fortunate to keep Yinping for the general. "

Since the passage was opened, Ma Chao also knew that Mi Yang was worshiped by Liu Bei as the General Xing.

And Ma Chao's two words made Mi Yang recall the conversation between him and Ma Chao when he asked Ma Chao to defend Yin.

"How long will it take?
After I die. "

Judging from the current situation, neither Mi Yang nor Ma Chao broke their promises.

This answer actually only happened a year ago, but too many things happened in this year.

After the dust settled on many things today, Mi Yang and Ma Chao felt a sense of embarrassment when they thought of this exchange.

The feeling of regret in his heart made Mi Yang look at Ma Chao softer.

Mi Yang was a person who had read history books in his previous life. The Ma Chao he knew before was not the beautiful Ma Chao who was beautified by Luo Guanzhong to avenge his father.

It was the murderer who killed his father, brother, and hundreds of clansmen.

Under this fact, Mi Yang really has no way to have any good feelings for Ma Chao.

In other words, in the entire Jihan court, from Liu Bei to the small officials, who would have a good impression of Ma Chao?
Even when Mi Yang asked Ma Chao to guard Yinping, to be honest, it was essentially a matter of taking what he needed.

But Mi Yang is not a pedantic person. After all, Ma Chao has made great contributions to him this time. From this aspect, Mi Yang will not be stingy in showing Ma Chao his kindness.

Sitting beside Ma Chao's couch, Mi Yang said gratefully:
"Without Hussar Generals, Liangzhou is in danger."

Mi Yang spoke the truth.

If it weren't for Ma Chao's steadfast defense of Yinping, Guo Huai's army would never have been dragged under the city of Yinping for so long.

And if Yinping falls into Guo Huai's hands, even if Guo Huai won't sneak into Yinping, as long as Guo Huai leads an army to arrive outside the Jiange, he can join forces with Cao Hong's two armies to completely block the passage outside the Jiange.

In that case, even if Mi Yang came up with a strategy to surprise Dingjun Mountain, it would be useless.

From this point of view, Ma Chao not only saved Liangzhou, but also indirectly saved the big man.

After listening to Mi Yang's praise, Ma Chao asked Mi Yang something unexpected:

"Then today, can I be considered a real Han Chen?"

Ma Chao's question was caught off guard but pierced into it, making Mi Yang ponder for a long time.

This sentence is not easy to answer.

Or the answer is very sensitive.