Three Kingdoms: Prosper Han from the beginning of brushing favorability

Chapter 320 Blood Vengeance

Ma Chao and the Wudu governor named Yang Fu were extremely jealous when they met as enemies.

Ten years ago, after Ma Chao was defeated in Weinan, he fled to the frontier barbarians in an attempt to make a comeback. While Cao Cao was pursuing them all the way, there was a rebellion in Hejian, and he had to lead his troops back east.

The army withdrew in a hurry, and no careful arrangements were made for the counties in Longshang.

Then Ma Chao led the Qiang and Hu leaders from various tribes to attack the counties in Longshang. All the counties were frightened by Ma Chao's reputation and responded one after another. Only Yicheng, where Yang Fu was located, held firm.

From the first month to the eighth month, reinforcements did not arrive.

He sent people to venture out of the city to ask for help, but was intercepted and killed by Ma Chao. At that time, Wei Kang, the governor of Liangzhou, and the prefect of Tianshui considered surrendering to Ma Chao.

Yang Fu painfully persuaded him and was willing to live or die with Yicheng, but in the end Shangguan decided to open the city and beg for surrender.

As a result, after Ma Chao entered the city, he directly killed the governor Wei Kang and the prefect. Yang Fu and more than ten of his colleagues pretended to surrender, but in fact they secretly sought opportunities to take revenge.

Later, he took the opportunity to bury his dead wife and left Ma Chao. At that time, Yang Fu had a cousin named Jiang Xu.

He grew up in Jiang Xu's family. After telling the story, he made an appointment with Jiang Xu and a group of fellow villagers to start an army.

After Ma Chao heard that Yang Fu had raised troops in Lucheng, he was furious and sent troops.

However, this was actually just a plan by Yang Fu, Jiang Xu and others to divert the tiger away from the mountain. They made an appointment with their colleagues in Yicheng at the same time. After Ma Chao sent his troops out of the city, they immediately closed the city gate from the rear.

Then he killed Ma Chao's wife and children who were still in the city!

Ma Chao, who had lost Yicheng, his wife and children, was devastated, but his rationality prevented him from fighting against Yicheng. Instead, he led his troops to Jiang Xu's home base of Licheng.

Jiang Xuzheng and Yang Fu were guarding Lucheng. Ma Chao spread the word that he was going to Hanzhong, but secretly disguised himself and went straight to Licheng.

As expected, the Licheng defenders fell into the trap and were unsuspectingly robbed by Ma Chao.

Ma Chao caught Jiang Xu's mother. Jiang's mother was also a fierce person and cursed Ma Chao.

In a rage, Ma Chao killed Jiang Xu's mother and brothers, and burned down Licheng, and then went to join Zhang Lu...

Yang Fu regarded Jiang Mu as his own mother, so how could he not be jealous when he saw his enemy?

Not to mention Ma Chao, his wife and children were directly killed by his rivals. When he saw Yang Fu today, the anger he had suppressed for many years immediately burned!

"Prepare to attack the city! I swear to kill this animal today! Anyone who beheads this animal will receive a reward of two hundred catties!" Ma Chao ordered sternly.

After receiving the order, the troops under his command immediately formed a formation, and at the same time, the rear troops began to carry some things covered with cloth from the baggage truck...

Yang Fu on the tower did not show weakness, drew his sword and shouted loudly: "Gentlemen, like these cruel men who have no king or father and collude with foreign tribes, we will have no way out if we settle down!
"Follow me and defend this city until the rear reinforcements arrive. These thousands of thieves will definitely be able to break through the city! Fire arrows!"

The morale of the surrounding soldiers was boosted, and they immediately fired arrows downwards. Of course, such arrows, which were mostly used as a deterrent, could not cause any harm to the Han army that had not yet begun to attack the city.

There are only 500 defenders in Xiaben, but as the most important city in Wudu, Xiaben's city defense is much better than that of Hechi County.

With five hundred defenders, there is still enough food and grass in the city, and there is also water. As long as the army and the people are united...

"Hahahaha...Yang Fu! Do you think this is the entire strength of my Han army?" Ma Chao sneered disdainfully, "So that you, a sinister man like you, know that our 30 Han army has already marched to Qishan!
"I'm afraid that in a short time, the Qishan Fort will be captured by our army! Where can you get reinforcements? If you don't want to die, why don't you open the city and surrender!
"Whoever takes the head of Yang Fu's dog with me, the general, will receive the same bounty of two hundred catties, and a three-level promotion! My great Han Hussars General will do what he says!"

All the Han soldiers in formation laughed together.

"Hahahaha, yes, yes, why don't you surrender quickly!"

"Don't waste your efforts, you don't have any reinforcements, haha."

Yang Fu sneered: "Hmph, don't listen to their nonsense! We only need to guard for ten days, and reinforcements will arrive. At that time, Ma Chao will be defeated and beheaded, and he will shoot an arrow!"

Although he said this, his heart had already sunk to the bottom.

He naturally didn't believe Ma Chao's 30 troops. Liu Bei would never be able to gather 30 troops unless he used all the strength of Jing Yi and Hanzhong.

But the confidence contained in the ridicule of those Han soldiers cannot be faked.Thinking about it, even if the Han army did not have 30 soldiers and horses, it is probably true that the main force of the army has blocked the rescue route of Xiabian.

I'm afraid... I'm afraid it's really an isolated city at this time.

Do not!
Guo Huai, the governor of Yongzhou, should be inspecting Tianshui County now. Guo Shijun is very resourceful and proficient in the art of war.

Qishan Fort is different from this place. It is the defensive key point in the western part of the Wei Dynasty. Not only is it well-equipped with soldiers and food, but the beacons are also guarded everywhere. When the smoke comes out, Guo Shijun will know that something has changed in Qishan!
If we keep defending, there is still hope that reinforcements will come.

I think that when Yang Fu was in Yicheng, he would rather die than surrender. Now he has a sworn hatred with Ma Chao, and he thinks he has hope of breaking the situation, so he is even less likely to surrender.

A large number of arrows, crossbows, and stocks of wood and stones were gradually carried to the top of the city by the strong civilians in the city under the organization of the defenders. As soon as Ma Chao gave the order to attack the city, he would be taught a big lesson.

Even though Shimoben's city defense is not as good as before, it's not just a few thousand... huh?

what is that?
Yang Fu put up a pergola with his hands and looked towards the rear of the Han army. Some soldiers were putting together some strange wooden objects, but he didn't know what they were.

Come to think of it, maybe they are making a siege ladder?However, it looks much smaller.

While Yang Fu was wondering why Ma Chao's soldiers hadn't attacked the city yet, several equipment that was much smaller than the ladder had been assembled.

"Is that... a crossbow?" Yang Fu muttered doubtfully as the repeating crossbow mounted on the car was pushed closer and closer.

In his knowledge, the closest thing to this thing was the crossbow, but it looked different.

These pushed-up crossbows are much wider than ordinary items and have a strange shape.

These crossbow carts stopped at a place far beyond the range of the infantry crossbows of the defenders on the city. The defenders at the top of the city were allowed to draw their bows and set up their crossbows. The defenders of Shimonoseki, who were preparing to harass them with their crossbows, waited in solitude.

And in order to make Zhang Sanye and Zhao Yun's troops who were pretending to attack the key point more confusing, Liu Chan and others equipped their troops with many thunder cannons.

The rest will be used to attack the hard core of Qishan Fort, not to mention that the thunder cannon is large and exquisitely made, and is relatively difficult to assemble and use.

There is no equipment for Ma Chao's troops, but...

The Han army was on the top of the city, with Yang Fu's surprised eyes loading the crossbow with spear-like crossbow arrows.

"Three more, more to come? Four?! Five..." Yang Fu's eyes grew bigger and bigger, and the muttering in his mouth almost never stopped.

In the end, he was almost numb. The Han army installed ten crossbow bolts on that strange crossbow... What the hell is this? !

Seeing that all the crossbows were in place, Ma Chao raised his lance, and then pointed at the lower city in front of him: "Ready - release!"

Boom!

The eight consecutive crossbows roared in unison, and immediately eighty thick crossbow arrows shot out of the air, flying towards Shimoben Castle with great momentum!

Just when the Shimoben defenders were overwhelmed by the momentum of these repeated crossbows, they discovered that in this round of crossbow shots, few of them were accurate at all, and all of them hit the Shimoben city wall!

"Haha, I thought it was something special. The accuracy of this crossbow is so bad, you might as well just chop it up and set it on fire!"

Although Yang Fu was laughing, he was still under great pressure. After all, no matter how inaccurate this thing was, the terrifying power of being able to partially sink the arrow into the city wall was there...

However, he soon realized that he might have gone astray somewhere.

"Attack! Whoever takes Yang Fu's head first will receive a reward of [-] catties, and will be given to Meiji!"

Following Ma Chao's order, the war drums beat.

A group of soldiers still wearing Wei army uniforms, in Yang Fu's surprised eyes, actually rushed straight towards the city wall that was shot by crossbow bolts...

The key is that they haven't brought a ladder yet.

(End of this chapter)