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Chapter 629 The Battle of Hanzhong

When the King of Youxian saw these catapults, he felt a little confused and couldn't help but ask Ailang: "King Qin, what are these?" Ailang smiled and said, "This is a catapult." The King of Youxian was even more inexplicable. He asked himself that he was knowledgeable, but he had never seen a catapult like this. Looking at the catapults, he felt that it was really tall and amazing, but was that kind of catapult really a catapult?

The catapult troops quickly prepared the preparations before shooting. The leader rushed to Ailang and clasped his fists and said, "King Qin, the catapult troops are ready for attack. Please tell the King of Qin!" "Let's start." The general Yingnuo quickly ran back to the middle of the catapult troops, raised his right hand and shouted loudly: "All stone cannons obey orders! Start bombardment!" When the officers and soldiers who were already ready heard this order, they immediately pulled the starting rope!

Then there was only a huge tremor sound, and at the same time, more than two hundred catapults suddenly threw the long and large arms high, throwing countless huge rocks into the sky! A shocking howling sound came from the sky, and countless huge rocks fell straight towards the city wall of Jiguan! The scene was like a meteor shower covering the sky and the sun, and the scene was extremely thrilling! The Right Xianwang and everyone on the city gate were all shocked when they saw this scene!

In a blink of an eye, a huge rock like a meteor shower fell down and hit the city wall, and hit the city wall. The barbarian soldiers only felt that the earth was shaking in an instant! With a loud bang, a huge rock just hit the city gate tower, and the originally towering city gate tower collapsed! Almost at the same time, another huge rock hit the crowd on the top of the city, and suddenly a thrilling flesh and blood! The barbarian soldiers were shocked and stunned. Looking at the terrible scene in front of them, they thought that the end of the world was coming!

After a round of bombardment, there were layers of corpses on the top of the city, and the blood dyed the entire city into a terrible sauce. Although there were not many huge rocks falling on the top of the city, the damage caused to the barbarian army was very terrible! The city gate tower had collapsed into a piece of wreckage, and the entire city seemed to have just experienced a terrible catastrophe!

Ke Bi came back to his senses and hurriedly ordered the army to retreat from the city to hide. The barbarians hid under the corner and waited tremblingly for the terrible scene just now to come again. However, what they expected was that the Qin army did not continue to bombard? However, the barbarian officers and soldiers did not feel relieved because of this, but instead felt even more panic and anxious. As the saying goes, waiting for the extreme punishment is more terrifying than suffering the extreme punishment, which is about the state of the barbarians' mental state at this moment.

Just as the barbarians were waiting for the terrifying mirror to arrive again, many figures suddenly appeared on the top of the city. The barbarians suddenly saw that the Qin army had already climbed to the top of the city! It turned out that the Qin army took advantage of the opponents' escape to the top of the city and used a ladder to climb to the top of the city!

Ke Bi Neng was shocked and shouted loudly: "Hurry up! Go up the city wall and defeat them!" Some Xianbei people immediately took action. At this moment, Bu Dugen hurriedly rushed to Ke Bi Neng and said anxiously: "No, King, the Wu Wan people have escaped without permission!" Ke Bi Neng was shocked and hurriedly looked north. Sure enough, he saw the Wu Wan army running north in a hurry. Ke Bi Neng was shocked and angry, and he wanted to cut off all the Wu Wan people! Bu Dugen said anxiously: "King, the Wu Wan people have fled, and our army is in chaos and has low morale. You can't defend here anymore. Let's go!" At this time, a huge sound of killing came from outside, and at the same time, the loud noise of the car rushing to the city gate was also heard one after another, which was thrilling! Ke Bi Neng couldn't help but become afraid and urgently ordered the troops to retreat quickly.

The barbarian troops fled from Ji Pass in panic, while the Qin army rushed into Ji Pass like a tide. Ailang occupied Ji Pass in one fell swoop and originally wanted to continue pursuing him, but at Chen Gong's suggestion, Ailang gave up this idea and the army stopped at Ji Pass.

A few days later, Ailang left Zhao Yun to guard Ji Pass, and he led his main force south across the Yellow River and then westward into Hangu Pass. The troops approached the city of Hangu Pass to launch a fierce attack. The army guarding Hangu Pass was only 5,000 troops, and was shaking under the fierce attack of the Qin army.

It is said that the 200,000 army led by Liu Bei has been besieging Hanzhong for a long time, but the battle situation is stalemate, and he paid a considerable price but never made any progress. Not long ago, Ma Chao unexpectedly led his army to attack but caught him off guard, and the losses were quite large. Fortunately, Ma Chao did not burn the food and grass, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable!

That night, Liu Bei was discussing a plan to attack the city with Zhuge Liang. At this moment, a personal soldier led a dusty officer to suddenly rush into the hall. When the officer saw Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, he immediately bowed: "Lord, military advisor, something is wrong! Lu Bu defeated the barbarian coalition in Luoyang, and is now leading a large army to attack Hangu Pass. Hangu Pass is in danger!" Everyone present changed their faces when they heard this. Liu Bei shouted in disbelief: "How is this possible? The 300,000 barbarian army was defeated!?"

Zhuge Liang frowned and said, "It seems that we have underestimated Lu Bu's ability!" Then he clasped his fists at Liu Bei and said, "Lord, it is difficult for Hanzhong to break through, and Hangu Pass is only 5,000 soldiers and horses. He will definitely not be able to defend against Lu Bu's fierce attack! If Hangu Pass is lost, Guanzhong will be in danger. We should immediately rush to Guanzhong for Hangu Pass!"

Liu Bei looked very unwilling and frowned and asked, "Did Hanzhong give up like this?" Zhuge Liang said, "As far as the current situation is concerned, it is really difficult to take Hanzhong!" Then he moved his heart and said, "Maybe we can do this?" Then he said his plan. Liu Bei's eyes lit up and he praised, "A clever plan! A clever plan!"

Speaking of which, after receiving the news that Lu Bu was attacking Hangu Pass in Luoyang, Ma Chao was excited and waited for Liu Bei's army to retreat, so he took the opportunity to attack and severely hurt them!

At dusk that day, Ma Chao was talking to his younger brothers and sisters in the hall. A scout suddenly ran in and reported excitedly: "Report to General, the enemy troops outside the city have retreated!" Ma Chao and others immediately showed joy. Ma Chao stood up suddenly and said to everyone: "Go! Look!" A group of people immediately left the capital and came to the city gate tower. Looking outside the city, they saw that Liu Bei's army was retreating under the reflection of the sunset. They were divided into two parts, with only tens of thousands of people retreating rapidly towards the Jiameng Pass in the south; while the other part was obviously the main force, which was retreating to the north, and the speed was much slower. It seemed that the main force was planning to retreat into Guanzhong from the direction of Baoxie Road.

Ma Chao became excited and said, "It's time to attack!" Then the brothers and sisters under his opponent shouted, "Go and assemble the army immediately. After it gets dark, we will immediately leave the city to pursue Liu Bei's main army!" Everyone agreed excitedly. Then Ma Yunlu asked, "Brother, do you want to notify Lord Xu Shu?" Ma Chao waved his hand and said, "No need! Besides, Xu Yuanzhi has worked hard these days, so let him sleep well! When he wakes up, our great achievements have been accomplished!" Everyone couldn't help but show joy.

After it was completely dark, Ma Chao and his younger siblings led 80,000 elite infantry cavalry out of the city, and under the cover of night, heading north to pursue Liu Bei's main force. Wei Yan was left by Ma Chao to guard the city.

Wei Yan came to Xu Shu's residence. An eunuch happened to come out of Xu Shu's bedroom. When he saw Wei Yan, he immediately bowed and said, "General!" Wei Yan looked inside and asked, "Have the military teacher woke up?" "I just woke up and was having a midnight snack." Wei Yan said, "You go and do your business, I can just go in by myself." The eunuch responded and went down.

Wei Yan strode into Xu Shu's bedroom. Seeing Xu Shu sitting at the desk while looking at the sheepskin map while having a midnight snack, he smiled and walked up to hold his fist and said, "Military Advisor!" Xu Shu's official position was actually Ai Langfeng's general manager of Jingxiang, but people like Wei Yan are still used to calling him military advisors.

Xu Shu raised his head, saw Wei Yan, and smiled and said, "It's Wen Chang!" Then he frowned and asked, "Is something wrong?" Wei Yan walked to Xu Shu, sat down on a punzi, and said, "What's wrong! The lord's big victory completely opened up the situation, and Liu Bei had retreated in a hurry!"

Xu Shu thought and nodded, muttering to himself: "Now that the barbarian coalition has collapsed, Liu Bei's flanks are exposed, and there is no other way to go except to withdraw immediately!" Then he looked up and asked: "Where is General Ma Chao? Liu Bei retreated, do he have any ideas?" Wei Yan said: "General Ma Chao ordered me to defend the city, and he led a group of brothers and sisters and 80,000 elite troops out of the city to chase Liu Bei's main force! I guess he has caught up with him at this moment!..."

Xu Shu suddenly showed a look of shock and shouted, "No! Ma Chao pursued him rashly, I'm afraid he would encounter an unexpected accident!" Wei Yan was stunned and said, "No! The lord broke through the barbarian army and was attacking Hangu Pass. Liu Bei's army should have known this. At this moment, he retreated north in a hurry, his morale was low and his morale was in chaos. Although General Ma Chao only led an army of 80,000, with the elite of our army, he would definitely defeat Liu Bei's army in one fell swoop!..."

Xu Shu stood up and frowned and said, "If it were just Liu Bei, I would think so! But there is Zhuge Liang in his army! This man is extremely intelligent. Didn't he expect our army to pursue him? I am only worried that he would take the opportunity to set up a trap and lead you into the trap!" Wei Yan was startled and couldn't help asking, "Then, what should we do?"

At about this, Ma Chao led his army to chase near Jigu. At this time, the night was dark, and everything between the sky and the earth was quiet, and there was not even a single chirping of birds and beasts, which was so quiet that it was frightening.
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