The last three kingdoms

Chapter 103 Bloody Battle

Yang'an Pass is connected to Qinling Mountains in the north, Daba Mountain in the south, Yinping in the west, and Han Mian in the east. It is the only way for Western Shu to enter Hanzhong. Yang'an Pass is Yangping Pass).

Such a throat is naturally the primary target of Zhong Hui's attack on Shu. Before sending troops, Zhong Hui repeatedly studied the geographical advantages of Hanzhong and the defense of the Shu army. Without the key to open the gates of Bashu and Yang'an Pass, the entire plan to conquer Shu may be aborted, and the entire army may even be wiped out.Therefore, after Zhong Hui entered Hanzhong, he surrounded but did not fight the two important passes of Lecheng in Seoul, and all the main forces rushed to Yang'an Pass day and night, trying to conquer this dangerous pass at all costs.

Zhong Hui knew very well that the 5 defenders at Yang'an Pass alone were not enough to pose a threat to the [-] Wei army. With reinforcements from Anguan, Zhong Hui sent troops to Hanzhong, and at the same time he ordered Deng Ai to send troops to Di Dao to besiege Tazhong.It is almost impossible to expect Deng Ai's [-] troops to eat Jiang Wei, and Zhong Hui does not have this luxury. As long as Deng Ai can successfully catch Jiang Wei, it is enough.

For an extra layer of insurance, at the same time that Deng Ai sent troops, Zhong Hui ordered Zhugexu, the governor of Yongzhou, to lead [-] troops to snatch the bridgehead of Yinping and cut off Jiang Weidong's route back to Yanganguan.

However, Yang'an Pass is connected to Hanshou in the south. Although Zhong Hui is sure to prevent Jiang Wei's main force from returning eastward, he cannot stop the reinforcements from Chengdu. Pass, by then, Yang'an Pass must be difficult to conquer.

However, what is more beneficial to Zhonghui is that Chengdu and Yang'an Pass are thousands of miles away, and there has been a saying since ancient times that the Shu Road is difficult to reach the blue sky. It takes at least ten days to send a message from Yang'an Pass to Chengdu. Zhong Hui had to seize the limited time of more than ten days to conquer Yang'an Pass in one go and open up the road to the west to Bashu.

As a vanguard, Xu Yi led his troops to the city of Yang'an Pass. He neither camped nor observed the enemy's situation, but directly sent his troops to attack Yang'an Pass. There is already camp in Guancheng, why bother to set up camp outside the city.Xu Yi ordered all the troops to attack the city together, and after the city was broken, they buried pots and cooked rice, slaughtered pigs and sheep, and rewarded the three armies.

Wei Jun set off from Guanzhong and drove forward without encountering any threatening resistance from the Shu Army along the way. The head of the city of Xiangyang Anguan rushed over.

Without large-scale siege equipment, Wei Bing carried crude ladders and rushed towards Yang'an Pass frantically relying on crowd tactics.

What greeted them was a dense rain of arrows on the city, and the sharp arrows shot through Wei Bing's body without hesitation. As they ran forward, soldiers of the Wei Army kept falling down, but the casualties seemed to be unstoppable. The high morale of the Wei army, braved the rain of arrows, and the Wei soldiers attacked the trench under the city of Yang'an Pass.

This is a deep ditch. In front of the ditch, the horses and antlers used to defend against the enemy cavalry are densely covered. If they want to rush to the city, the Wei army must destroy the antlers of the horses and fill the ditch.For the skilled Wei army, this did not seem to be a problem. Engineers with big axes and saws had already started to work, clearing the horses and antlers in front of the trench. More Wei soldiers carried sandbags on their shoulders and threw them into the deep trench.

But the location of the trench is the best range for bows and arrows. At this time, the rain of arrows on the city became more dense, pouring down like a shower. Pillow photo book.

Not to be outdone, the Wei army immediately mobilized a large number of bed crossbows and archers to suppress and shoot at the head of Yang'an Pass. The two sides launched a bow and arrow battle at a long distance. Blinding the sun, going up and down the city, there were constant screams of death, but the density of arrows never decreased, and both sides spared no effort to compete for the right to suppress bows and arrows.

In the offensive and defensive battle of a city, the attacking side must pay a higher price than the defending side, especially when there is a lack of large siege equipment, this gap is even more obvious.After paying a great price of casualties and filling up the trenches with sandbags, stones and soldiers' bodies, the Wei army finally attacked the city of Yang'an Pass.

But the real bloody battle has just begun.

Numerous ladders were erected, Wei Bing began to step on the ladders, struggling to climb away to the top of the city.In addition to bows and arrows, the rolling wood and rocks also began to exert their power. Those thick rolling logs almost required the joint efforts of several soldiers to lift them up. They were lifted high above their heads and rolled down roaringly. A single rolling log could almost sweep several ladders. The Wei soldiers on the road are unstoppable wherever they pass.The heavy stone ring is extremely domineering. When it hit the top of Wei Bing's head, his brains would burst and his flesh would be bloody. The bamboo and wooden ladder could not bear the weight of the stone ring. It broke, and the strings of Wei soldiers on the ladder were immediately thrown down.

There are also boiling water and boiling oil that are showing great power. If you pour them all over your head, there will definitely be horrific screams from below.

Fu Qian's expression was solemn, and he commanded the battle calmly. Although the arrows shot by Wei Bing flew past his ears, Fu Qian still sternly rejected the Chinese officer's suggestion to let him retreat for a while. At the critical moment, he, as the general, absolutely has no possibility of retreating half a step. He is there, morale is there, and the brave wins when we meet on a narrow road.

Under the supervision of Fu Qian, the Shu army was united as one, the soldiers at the forefront fell down, and the soldiers in the reserve immediately pushed up. Looking up from the bottom of the city, it seems that there has never been a single person missing from the top of Yang'an Pass. Every soldier sticks to his post and never backs down.

The corpses piled up higher and higher, but this could not stop the strength of the Wei army's attack. Under Xu Yi's supervision, the Wei army's offensive was like a tide, and the waves were higher and higher. On this blood-soaked land, death has already It is numb, no one is afraid, and no one backs up, stepping on the corpse, in addition to attacking or attacking.

But the defense of Yang'an Pass is as solid as a rock. No matter how crazy the Wei army is, this city wall is their insurmountable hurdle. In the setting sun, countless ladders were burned by fire. Blood, fire, and sunset are all eyes full of nothing but red. other colors.

(End of this chapter)