The last three kingdoms

Chapter 978 Stick to Pingyang

The progress of the Jin army was rapid. Only two days after taking Yang County, the Jin army captured Xiangling in the southeast of Pingyang, forming a double-team attack on Pingyang City.Soon, the Jin army began to forcibly cross the Fenshui River and launched an attack on Pingyang City.

Wen Yang didn't pay much attention to Pingyang's defense at all. Although the Shu army has made frequent moves in the past few days, abandoning some surrounding counties and mobilizing the garrison troops of these counties to Pingyang City, it seems It's useless. Under the absolute superiority of the Jin army's tens of thousands of troops, these thousands of troops seem very small.

What's more, Wenyang is quite familiar with the military system of the Shu army. The top-ranking soldiers will be selected and sent to the field regiments. The troops responsible for the defense tasks of various cities are actually second-class soldiers. , The level of training and combat, as well as the configuration of equipment, are far behind those of the field army.

Facing such a garrison army with only 7000 or [-] strong troops, Wenyang really has no reason to pay attention to them. Wenyang's gaze has been fixed on the direction of Jinyang. The field army sent by Liu Yin is the Jinyang army. The real enemy of the army.

However, due to the distance, the current progress of the Shu army is not too fast. According to the news just received, the Shu army set off from Weizeguan, and the fastest vanguard tiger cavalry army arrived at Yuci. Yang didn't doubt it at all, but Jinyang and Pingyang were still five or six hundred miles away. No matter how fast the Shu army came, it would take several days. Such a period of time was enough for the Jin army to take Pingyang city calmly.

When the main force of the Shu army arrived in Pingyang, it was very important for the Jin army to win Pingyang City. That's what sucks.

That's why Wenyang didn't care about military strength, and continued to march with high intensity. He moved from Shangdang County to Pingyang County as quickly as possible. Cut off abruptly, as long as the Jin army can gain a firm foothold in Pingyang, then the Shu army will fall into the desperate situation of food shortage.

All the defenders of Pingyang County retreated into Pingyang City, and the Jin army's forced crossing of Fenshui was not intercepted, which made the Jin army's actions appear to be smooth.

Fenshui flows through Pingyang, which is much wider and more abundant than when it flows through Jinyang. However, for the well-prepared Jin army, this is obviously not a difficult task. Without the blocking of the Shu army, the Shu army quickly passed After crossing the river, they began to attack Pingyang City.

Although Jiang Yuan had the intention to attack the Jin army halfway across, but considering the strength of the Jin army was too strong, Jiang Yuan didn't want to take the risk, even if the risk didn't seem too high.

But Jiang Yuan knew that the Fen River had a long history. If the Shu army wanted to guard against the Jin army crossing the river, even if they rushed out of the city, it would be difficult to stop the Jin army's offensive.On the one hand, Fenshui is not as dangerous as the Yellow River, but on the other side of the Yangtze River, there are large rivers and rivers. Secondly, Fenshui is very long, with many ferries, and the Shu army has limited strength, so it is impossible to allocate them to each ferry. And if one of these points is taken by Jin If the army breaks through, the defense line of the Shu army will quickly fall.

Instead of passively defending the river, Jiang Yuan decided to abandon the Fenshui defense line and concentrate all his efforts on defending Pingyang City. In his opinion, although conservative, it was a surefire strategy.

The Shu army has completed all the mobilization, and the soldiers and horses from all counties have gathered in Pingyang City, a total of 7000 people.

The prefect Yang Ding and the captain Jiang Yuan both personally went to the top of the city in Pingyang County to boost morale. It was not surprising that the captain Jiang Yuan appeared on the top of the city. After all, Jiang Yuan was a member of the Pingyang garrison. Commander, he is in charge of the entire city defense operation, so it is not surprising that he appears on the front line of the city.

However, the prefect Yang Ding is a civil servant, and this does not seem to be the place for him to perform his official duties. His official robes are very eye-catching among the piles of military uniforms.However, the appearance of Yang Ding and Jiang Yuan at the same time can still stimulate the morale of the Shu army.

The composition of the Pingyang garrison is relatively complicated. Some are from Yizhou. They are all from the field army. The state, this part is the main force of the garrison, occupying the vast majority of the garrison, the most outstanding of them were transferred to the front-line army, and the rest were enriched into the defense forces of the counties. Come; some soldiers were recruited from the local area. After the Shu army entered Bingzhou, they also recruited a lot of strong men from the local area to strengthen the defense forces of the counties. After all, there are so many counties in Bingzhou and Jizhou. There are still some difficulties in dispatching in the Yongliang area.

Although the composition of the Shu army is complex, it does not seem to affect the combat effectiveness of the Shu army. Among the garrison troops in Pingyang, there are a large number of backbone Yizhou soldiers. The backbone of the entire army.

After the Jin army crossed Fenshui, they couldn't wait to start attacking Pingyang without making any formation adjustments.

When the Jin army came from far away, they had to cross mountains and trudge through mountains and rivers, and this road was a rapid march, so the large-scale siege equipment was not brought with them, and they could only rely on siege weapons such as ladders.However, this obviously will not shake Wen Yang's confidence in taking Pingyang City. Wen Yang led a total of 2 troops in the western expedition to Bingzhou. Except for the [-] people who stayed behind at Shangdang, all [-] troops were transferred to Pingyang.

Wenyang thought that if all 6 people came to besiege Pingyang, it would be a big deal, so he divided his troops into two groups. One sent Qi Hong to stay in Yang County with 3 people to guard against the reinforcements from the Shu army to Pingyang, and he led the army to attack Pingyang. Leading an army of [-], they pointed directly at Pingyang.

Despite the repeated division of troops, the Jin army still maintains an absolute advantage over the Pingyang defenders, and these Jin troops are all first-class troops, and they are by no means comparable to any defense.

At the very beginning of the attack, the Jin army showed their strong side and launched an offensive throughout the whole series. Looking down from the top of Pingyang City, the mountains and plains were full of mountains and plains, showing a white ocean with rough waves and rolling white waves. The offensive of the army like a tide.

Carrying ladders, carrying bows and arrows, they are rushing towards Pingyang City with the momentum of mountains and tsunami, as if they want to submerge Pingyang City in this white wave.

(End of this chapter)