The Three Kingdoms are invincible

Cai Mao looked at Wancheng in front of him and fell into a dilemma.Siege or retreat, this is a difficult choice.

"Military division, what should we do now?" Liu Bei was also beating his heart. The current situation is not in line with what he expected, and he doesn't know what to do?

"It's hard to ride a tiger." Facing Liu Bei's question, Zhuge Liang only gave four words.

It's hard to get off a tiger, yes, no matter how severe the situation is, I have no room to retreat now.

Cao Cao was attacked from both sides, which was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for him. If he missed this opportunity to attack Cao Cao, he would never be able to stand on his own without Liu Biao.

Sun Jian and Cao Cao fought in Hefei, and without the threat of Cao Cao and Sun Jian, Liu Biao had no worries for the time being, and he had no use for him.Liu Bei could foresee that if he returned to Jingzhou with Cai Mao, he would be "imprisoned" by Liu Biao immediately, and there would be no future for him.

Only by taking Wancheng can I take the first step towards the world, otherwise, I will still have nothing!

Cai Mao must be persuaded to attack the city, Liu Bei thought so.

However, for a while, Liu Bei couldn't think of any good excuses. After all, Wancheng was heavily defended, and it was too difficult for Cai Mao to attack the city regardless of the cost.

Zhuge Liang saw Liu Bei's difficulty, shook his feather fan lightly, rode his horse and walked slowly to Cai Mao's side, and whispered a few words to him.

After Cai Mao listened to Zhuge Liang's words, his eyes suddenly became sharp.

"The whole army is attacking the city!" Cai Mao's tone was firm, and he loudly conveyed the order to attack.

"Military Master, how did you convince him?" After Zhuge Liang came back, Liu Bei was very curious about how he persuaded Cai Mao to attack the city, so he asked.

"Hehe, there are many gentry clans in Jingzhou, headed by Cai and Kuai clans, and their interests are intricate and complicated. It is not difficult to persuade Cai Mao's heart if we only need to instigate them." Zhuge Liang smiled slightly.

Hearing this, Liu Bei nodded slightly, as if realizing something.

————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— However, when the reinforcements arrived outside Chang'an City, they couldn't enter the city.

Ma Teng's army was 20, but Zhong Yao was also quite good at defending the city. Ma Teng attacked the city for several days. Although he caused a lot of casualties in the city, he did not make much progress.

So in a rage, Ma Teng surrounded the four gates of Chang'an by virtue of his absolute superiority in numbers, and vowed to wash the city of Chang'an with blood on the day the city was broken.

Ma Teng's 20 troops were divided into four gates, and there were nearly 5 soldiers and horses outside each gate.The reinforcements brought by Xia Houyuan were only [-] in total. It was too difficult to break through the siege of the Liangzhou army and enter the city.

Under Jia Xu's suggestion, Xia Houyuan was not in a hurry to enter Chang'an City, but stationed his [-] troops on a high ground outside Chang'an City, observing the movement of Chang'an City in the distance.

Jia Xu's reinforcements were stationed in the northeast of Chang'an. Whenever the Xiliang army attacked the north gate or east gate of Chang'an, Xia Houyuan would send troops to harass the rear in time, so that he could not concentrate on attacking the city.

And Zhong Yao in Chang'an City also learned that the reinforcements had arrived outside the city. With the reinforcements in place, the siege pressure faced by the east gate and north gate was greatly reduced.So Zhong Yao withdrew half of the guards from the east and north gates to support the west and south gates.

In this way, the protection of the west gate and the south gate has been strengthened, and the difficulty for the Liangzhou army to break through the city has increased a lot.Although the number of defenders at the east gate and north gate has decreased, there are constant harassment from enemy reinforcements outside the city, making it impossible to concentrate on attacking the city, and it is impossible to take the city for a while.

The 20 troops were dragged outside the city of Chang'an in this way.

Ma Teng was very unhappy with this result.He originally planned to take down Chang'an City with great force, and then threaten Xu Chang to attack the Cao thief's foundation.But I never thought that Zhong Yao was quite capable. His army of 20 attacked the city so fiercely that he still failed to capture Chang'an after a long attack.After Cao Cao's reinforcements arrived, it made the siege more difficult.

Ma Teng couldn't wait any longer, he got the news that both Sun Jian and Liu Biao had launched an offensive against Cao Cao.If he dragged on like this, even if he could capture Chang'an City in the end, I'm afraid Xuchang would have changed hands long ago.Ma Teng tried his best and even pulled all the Qiang people in Liangzhou into the battlefield. He wanted to be the first prince to enter Xuchang City. He must not allow others to enter Xuchang before him.

Liangzhou is rich in horses. Although the cavalry can't play much role in the siege battle, Ma Teng still brought a full [-] cavalry for this trip.

Ma Teng decided to let the ten thousand cavalry destroy Cao Cao's reinforcements.

Although Cao Cao's reinforcements amounted to as many as [-], the combat effectiveness of the two-week iron cavalry was known as the best in the world. In addition, cavalry was used against infantry in field battles. Ma Teng was confident that the [-] cavalry would be enough to wipe out Cao Cao's [-] reinforcements.

As long as all the [-] reinforcements are wiped out, Ma Teng believes that the defenders in Chang'an City alone will not last long.

On Xiahouyuan's side, Jia Xu reckoned that Ma Teng's siege had been fruitless for many days, and his patience must have been exhausted, so he decided to deal with his support army.

It is impossible for Ma Teng to violate the border without bringing cavalry. Cavalry is useless in siege battles, but once he decides to attack reinforcements, he will definitely send cavalry.

Now that he had guessed what Ma Teng might do, Jia Xu naturally had already thought about how to deal with it.

Hmph, is it possible that only you, Ma Teng, have cavalry, and our army has none?A sneer appeared on Jia Xu's face.

Anyone who is familiar with Jia Xu knows that when he smiles like this, it must mean that someone is going to be unlucky.