Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 2364 Who's who's nightmare

Leaving aside the various shocks caused by Li's involvement in Sichuan and Shuzhong, and whether the courage to resign and throw his sleeves was given by Mrs. Liang, let's just say that before the cold winter, Zhang Ze in Hanzhong is like a man at a gambling table. The gambler who lost all his cash was red-eyed, wondering whether to bet his own arms and legs, or the wives and children around him.

   Don't expect gamblers to be humane when they are red-eyed, and naturally you can't expect Zhang Ze to surrender voluntarily. Others surrendered, at most they were coerced accomplices, which could relieve some of the guilt, but Zhang knew that since he was dead anyway, why couldn't he fight again?

  Yangpingguan surrendered.

Under the attack of the Vulcan stone cannon, he could only pick up soap over and over again, and the feeling of being pushed down and humiliated made the soldiers of the Zhang family in Yangpingguan miserable. That little bit of expectation was completely shattered, coupled with the so-called reinforcements that Zhang Ze said, three days after three days, and then three more days, I never saw it, but after the news of the tightly sealed Shangyong's fall spread, Zhang at Yangping Pass The soldiers of the family are almost completely desperate...

  Thus, nearly ten days earlier than the original plan, Zhang Liao approached Nanzheng all the way, launched a campaign to recover Nanzheng, and at the same time sent soldiers to contact Wei Yan's troops.

  Zhang Liao's plan is still to besiege the city and fight for aid.

Although this strategy is old-fashioned, it has been proven time and time again in China, or the military history of the world, that it is really easy to use and effective, and even if they know the pitfalls, there are still people who keep jumping down …

Under Nanzheng City, a part of Zhang Liao cavalry roared back and forth, occupying the main points of the battlefield, and every day some Zhang's soldiers came to Nanzheng City to shout, persuade them to surrender, or abuse Zhang Ze, or call relatives and friends in the city. Seeing that the morale of the defenders in Nanzheng City collapsed a little bit.

  Hanzhong North Camp Zhang came to help, and then was hit by Zhang Liao, and the **** collapsed...

   When the marching infantry had no time to line up, they were attacked by the cavalry, which was a disaster. Especially with a first-class military general like Zhang Liao, elite cavalry can fight ordinary infantry, even without soap, it is just as smooth.

  In fact, strictly speaking, less than 15% of the people were directly killed or injured in the battle, but Zhang's defeated army was directly finished, and less than 100% of them fled back. A large part of Zhang's soldiers ran away during the escape process, threw away their armor and weapons, and went into the ravine as deserters.

But Beidaying didn't know about this situation, or even if they knew, there was nothing they could do, so after rescuing Nanzheng once, they never dared to send reinforcements again. After hesitating and delaying for a few days, That's when Wei Yan smiled and came to check the water meter.

   Immediately afterwards, the Nanshan military stronghold was breached again. Zhang Liao, Wei Yan, and Zhu Ling surrounded each other and gathered under the city of Nanzheng. The Zhang family, who had a sense of luck on the top of the city, fell into despair.

Zhang Liao and Wei Yan made arrangements for Nanzheng's offensive plan. After all, if Zhang really resisted, he would probably enter the stage of street fighting. After breaking through the city wall, if the battle group was chaotic due to the order of entry into the city, then the efficiency would not be high in street fighting. , or lead to heavy casualties among the people, even if it is victorious, it will not look good.

  It is mainly because it is not good-looking to hang in the martial arts hall.

Therefore, Wei Yan and Zhang Liao will naturally seize the time to discuss with each other and try to make the most complete and comprehensive plan. Zhu Ling also knows this, and is very wise not to point fingers in front of Zhang Liao and Wei Yan, which is annoying, so he borrowed In order to avoid the name of the Vulcan Stone Cannon, he also took on the task of patrolling and guarding the periphery.

  In the engineering camp, a lot of siege equipment has been manufactured, the most of which is the car.

  轒辒车 is the basic form. It can be regarded as a tank chassis. It can be converted into a crash vehicle, a ditch filling vehicle, or a long pole to transform into a falcon vehicle according to needs.

  The second is Yunchongche.

   Then there is the most eye-catching catapult, "Vulcan Stone Cannon".

  The increase of these devices day by day made Nanzheng feel a real sense of pressure, even breathing was not so smooth, and he was panicked.

  Some technical soldiers, holding wooden tablets full of important points in their hands, inspected equipment everywhere, instructed craftsmen to place equipment, and regulated the placement of dangerous items...

These soldiers have mastered the basic characters, and have also learned some basic manpower adjustment and item arrangement in this way. Then these soldiers will reach the standard of local inspection after several times of meritorious service. He will choose to leave the army and go to the local area, and officially become a small official under the hussars to manage the local area.

  Some other soldiers are leading Zhang's soldiers to dig soil and pack around the surrounding area, as a preparation for filling the moat gully.

  『The movements should be quicker! If you can't finish today's amount of soil, everyone's food will be halved! The soldier in charge yelled loudly, "My general is merciful. It's good fortune for you not to ask you **** to go up and fill the ditch with meat!" If that one cheats and plays tricks, let him be the first to fill in the moat when the city is attacked! 』

  『Act fast! Hurry up! 』

  Several soldiers were watching and shouting, when they suddenly saw a catapult from the engineering battalion...

  『Yo, what is this for? 』

  『Are you going to attack the city? 』

  『It’s not like, this is probably a range test? 』

Sure enough, after the catapult was unfolded and fixed, three stone bombs were thrown, and one flew in from the Nanzheng city wall. It was unknown what was knocked down, but there was a horrified shout in the city. Then the second bomb hit the city wall, creating a pothole, and the blue bricks and mud powder fell down one after another. The third bomb successfully landed on the gate tower of the city wall, hitting it from the wall of the gate tower. It went in and created a huge hole.

The gate tower shook, and the tiles on the roof crackled and fell down a lot like rain, making the guards of the Zhang family on the city wall pale, staring at the hollow of the gate tower, as if everyone's heart had also been smashed. Like a hole.

   The catapult does not directly kill much, but it does a lot of psychological damage to soldiers...

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  Nanzheng City.

  Besieged outside the city, the city is naturally under martial law.

   Li Cong stood on the wall of his yard, looking at the street in the distance.

  Twenty or so soldiers of the Zhang family were dragging some strong men captured from the houses in the city towards the city wall. Some crying women and children followed behind the strong men, and were stopped by these soldiers, kicked down, and finally lay on the ground weeping...

   Li Cong withdrew his head from the wall, his face rather ugly.

  As the saying goes, rabbits don’t eat grass beside their nests.

   So what does it mean when a rabbit starts eating the grass beside the kennel, or even the grass inside the kennel?

  『Ms. Zhang is going crazy...』 Li Cong murmured.

  Li Yuan seemed to emerge from the shadows, and seemed to be in the shadows all the time. "No, I'm already crazy. 』

   Li Cong glanced at Li Yuan, but remained silent.

  『I’ve seen this kind of person a lot…』 Li Yuan said with a sneer, 『Anyway, he’s dead anyway, why don’t you drag a few more backs? I bet this idiot surnamed Zhang has also killed many people in the Inner Palace in the past two days... Am I right? 』

   Li Cong glanced at Li Yuan and nodded slightly.

Under the huge pressure, it is natural to be upset, and then the surrounding servants and maids and so on, the water spilled on the ground, the left foot entered the door first, a hair fell down by the ear, and the head was lowered slowly. It's getting low...

   Not to mention those who dare to talk back, or are disobedient servants, one of them will die.

  Anyway, why not kill someone?

  In the past few days, it is said that the number of corpses thrown out of the Zhang Mansion is more than the sum of the previous three years!

   Among them, there was even the Mei Ji who was said to be Zhang Ze’s favorite before...

  Perhaps before Zhang Ze killed Meiji, there was a high probability of flashing in his mind, such as why he couldn’t keep it for others to take advantage of, or why you dare to show embarrassment before I completely fell down, etc.?

  What Zhang Ze thinks, of course Li Cong doesn't know. If Li Cong knows, Zhang's up and down is indeed over.

  『Brother, haven’t you made up your mind yet? Li Yuan said with a sneer, "Think about it again...but it will be too late..." Li Yuan said the word "late" very strongly, I don't know whether it is "late" or "finished".

  Li Yuan had persuaded Li Cong before. Although Li Cong did not report to Zhang, he did not express that he would obey Li Yuan's arrangement and take any measures.

  Li Cong took a deep breath, cupped his hands and said, "Brother, but the city is currently under martial law, and there are soldiers guarding everywhere. Even if the younger brother is willing to follow, he doesn't have many weapons in his hands... so what should I do..."

  『What is so difficult? Hehe, Laminfu today...tomorrow I will be here with you guys...you can be aboveboard...hahaha..." Li Yuan said with a smile, "The opportunity is in front of you now..."

  Li Cong was taken aback.

"As soon as the gate of the city is opened..." Li Yuan's voice was low but full of temptation, "It's a great achievement... Think about how many fertile lands, properties, and Zhuangzi the Zhang family has around Nanzheng... Haha , when the time comes...even if the younger brother looks down on these dumb things, why don't you think about your own family? Children and grandchildren also have to eat...」

At this moment, from the front yard, a confidant of Li Cong hurriedly came, and said with a panicked face: "My lord, the Zhang family sent someone to say that we should send thirty men to help defend the city." ! 』

  Li Yuan clapped his hands and smiled.

   Li Cong's eyes froze slightly.

  …(▽)/…

  When Zhang Liao and others launched an offensive against Nanzheng...

  Smoke and dust billowed above the city, blurring the vision.

The smell of blood is mixed with the smell of earth, the sour smell from the rupture of internal organs and the smell of burnt rotten eggs, like stinky tofu, stinky mandarin fish and stinky herring, plus a rotten and smelly fish that has been worn for more than a month The smell of smelly socks with green hair mixed together.

  Zhang Sheng grabbed a piece of half-burnt intestines that jumped out of nowhere and stuck to his face, and threw it aside...

There were screams and screams everywhere, and some soldiers of the Zhang family, who were obviously mentally broken during the attack, staggered and stumbled on the city wall like walking corpses, screaming in despair, and then walked and walked. He fell to the bottom of the city, or was knocked down by arrows or gravel.

The   team led Zhang Sheng to drag a wounded man, and slowly moved on the masonry-shattered city wall. He didn't dare to stand up, and he didn't know when the arrows and crossbows would be thrown out of the fireworks, or it would be safer under the battlements.

  Even these battlements have been battered under the attack of catapults...

   There were bursts of screams in the air again, Zhang Sheng screamed and shrank his body into a ball.

After a while, he heard the city wall below him moaning in pain. The whole city wall seemed to be shaking violently. The stone erupted in all directions like a fountain, and hit Zhang Sheng's helmet, like the **** of death knocking on the door with his fingers.

After the initial kerosene bombs were exhausted, Zhang Liao and others changed to stone bombs. Although there was no such terrifying burning effect, the destructive power of stone bombs was not much inferior to that of kerosene bombs. In less than two days of torture, Nanzheng changed from an autumn fragrance to a flower.

Zhang Sheng's heart was about to jump out. He curled up as much as he could, and finally waited for the stone bullets to stop before continuing to drag the wounded. He only wanted to go to the city tower and leave the terrifying city wall through the city ladder. . He only wanted to escape, but he was also afraid of being killed by the supervising team, so if he brought a wounded person, it could be regarded as an excuse.

   Not far away, there are some corpses or stumps, some are soldiers, and some are civilian husbands. Some corpses were still fresh, and when Zhang Sheng dragged the wounded past, they even trembled twice, as if they wanted to walk with Zhang Sheng, or drag Zhang Sheng to the kingdom of death.

  Zhang Sheng carefully walked around these corpses, and then carefully passed the place where the battlements collapsed. This place has been smashed and the adobe is exposed, maybe one or two more hits, and this place will have a big collapse...

  The city tower has been completely burned down, leaving only half of the black and gray wreckage, and some black smoke lingers in it. Zhang Sheng managed to move to the back of the dilapidated city building, took a breath, and heard some shouting from the city staircase, and then someone cautiously appeared like a groundhog.

"superior! Come on! ”The supervisor team on the city ladder road shouted almost crazily, “If you don’t get to me, I will kill you now!” 』

  Someone from the supervisory team saw Zhang Sheng and said, "You! Hi! what are you doing here 』

  Zhang Sheng quickly pulled the wounded man to his side, "I...he was injured, I want to send him down..."

  『…』 The supervisor team was stunned for a moment, and then cursed, "I'll send you to paralysis! You open your eyes and see for yourself! What kind of injury is there, half dead, and what a fart! 』

Zhang Sheng suddenly turned his head, and then saw the "wounded" he dragged over with all his might. He didn't know when only half of his body was left, and the other half went to nowhere. Intestines, to know the whereabouts of the other half.

   Seeing Zhang Sheng in a daze, the supervisory team wanted to step forward to beat him, but was stopped by another one, "Forget it, let him stay here for a while..."

   This is a completely asymmetric war mode.

  To defend the city means to be beaten passively, which almost overturned Nanzheng's cognition.

   While the two supervisory teams were still arguing, there was another screaming sound in the air. Zhang Sheng subconsciously screamed and curled up together, holding his head tightly and curled up under the wreckage of the tower.

The soldiers of the two supervising teams didn't know whether they couldn't react for a while, or it was the first time they climbed to the top of the city and faced such a situation, they didn't do anything to dodge. There was a muffled sound of flesh and blood, and half of a soldier of the supervisory team was taken away!

Another soldier of the Supervising Team was spattered all over his face by hot blood, his round eyes almost bursting out were filled with unspeakable fear, and the next moment he let out a heart-piercing cry , seemed to be going forward, but accidentally tripped over a corpse, and fell head and foot into the city!

  The soldiers and civilians who were being forced to the city wall by the supervisory team, when they saw this situation, they all yelled and turned around and ran away!

"go back! 』

  『Go up! 』

  『It’s impolite to go any further! 』

  『Puff…』

   The chaotic flow of people clashed with the supervisor team.

  Blood is flowing on the city's head, and it is also flowing in the city.

  『…』Zhang Sheng hugged his head, curled up under the wreckage of the tower, muttering to himself, not knowing what he was talking about.

   There were a few more loud noises, and immediately it hit that weak spot. A large part of the city wall collapsed, and thick dust rose into the air, completely submerging that section of the city wall.

  『They just want us to die! Go die! 』

  『Why didn’t they die? ! 』

  『Death to them! We quit! quit! 』

  『We don’t want to die! don't want to die! 』

  The conflict between the captured civilian husband and the soldiers of Zhang's supervisory team became more and more intense.

   No one wants to die, and no one wants to die in vain, worthless, torn apart like a piece of meat, scattered in all directions, dead without a whole body!

  Zhang Sheng panted heavily, leaning against the charred black bricks, he only felt that his hands and feet were numb, and he kept shaking.

He heard Zhang's supervisor team shouting, trying to gather soldiers directly under Zhang's like Zhang Sheng, and he also saw that there seemed to be some abnormalities in the city, and it seemed that there was some confusion. Logically speaking, his surname was also Zhang, you should do your best for Zhang, you should stand up for Zhang...

  But this time, Zhang Sheng leaned on him blankly, not wanting to move.

The hussars outside the city showed Zhang Sheng an irresistible power to everyone in the city. No matter how brave and powerful a warrior is, there is no match for the power. In front of the stone bombs and kerosene bombs, they are as vulnerable as meat on a chopping board, without the ability to resist.

  More chaotic voices sounded from the left of the city gate.

  『Don’t let them rush over! 』

  『Stop them, don't let them open the city gate! 』

  『Traitor! You are traitors...ah...」

  『City gate! city…"

  There seemed to be some voices coming from outside the city. It seemed that the hussars had noticed something was wrong with the city gate and were about to attack.

I don't know why, Zhang Sheng suddenly grinned and let out a silly laugh. His laughter was mixed with the chaotic shouts, and he felt relieved when he smiled. He stared blankly at the sky, thinking Let this nightmare end, let it end quickly...

  (end of this chapter)