Chang'an City.

Wei Yan stood at the top of the city wall and stroked a huge stone thrower on the city wall.

When Ma Chao captured Chang'an, Cao Cao later defeated Ma Chao, but was worried that Ma Chao would attack Chang'an again, so he specially set up a lot of city-defying equipment in Chang'an. When Xiahou ran away, he did not have time to take away these city-defying weapons. Now these city-defying equipment have fallen into Wei Yan's hands.

Bales of sharp arrows were moved to the city wall, and half a millstone-sized stone was piled up at the base of the wall, and Wei Yan showed a satisfied smile on his face. Xiahou Wei escaped, leaving not only countless arrows in Chang'an City, but also sufficient wood-rolling stones. There were also a lot of food and grass in Chang'an City. For Wei Yan, Xiahou Wei left a big gift. These logistics and supplies items were all seized by himself, but they had to be counted as military achievements after the war. When he thought of the military achievements, Wei Yan's mouth slightly raised.

The two generals walked over from a distance. Wei Yan turned around and saw that the two were the two deputy generals under his command, Feng Xi and Zhang Nan.

Feng Xi and Zhang Nan were both generals from Jingzhou. They were originally Huang Zhong's deputy generals. When Liu Bei entered Shu, he ordered Wei Yan and Huang Zhong as vanguards. At that time, Feng Xi and Zhang Nan followed Huang Zhong. Now Liu Bei's northern expedition was worried that Wei Yan would not have enough staff to leave Ziwu Valley, so he transferred Feng Xi and Zhang Nan to Wei Yan.

Feng Xi came to Wei Yan near and reported: "Return to the general, as the general expected, Cao Zhen's army did return to the army, and now it is less than twenty miles away from Chang'an City."

"City gates are closed?"

"The last general has issued an order to close the city gate." Zhang Nan said.

Wei Yan nodded: "If what I expected is not bad, we only need to hold on for three days, and Your Majesty's army will arrive. Cao Zhen will inevitably retreat to Tongguan. Unfortunately, we are short of manpower now and there is still a little shortage of guarding Chang'an. If I have 10,000 people in my hands, I only need to send 3,000 people to ambush near Tongguan. When Cao Zhen's army retreats there, Cao Zhen will definitely be able to remove his skin!"

Speaking of this, Wei Yan shook his head with a little regret, and then said, "I order the soldiers to rest quickly, there will be a hard battle next!"

"Rest?" Feng Xi and Zhang Nan looked at Wei Yan in confusion, and then asked, "General, Cao Zhen is less than twenty miles away from Chang'an. He can reach Chang'an City in more than an hour. How can he rest now?"

"Don't worry, Cao Zhenming would never have launched an attack a long time ago. First, when Cao Zhen heard that Chang'an was lost, he would have come day and night. When he arrived at Chang'an City, the soldiers were already exhausted and unable to fight again, so Cao Zhen would definitely order his soldiers to rest for half a day before siege the city; second, Cao Zhen was originally leading troops to guard Yongzhou, so it was impossible for the army to carry siege weapons. The walls of Chang'an City were tall and strong, and there were no siege equipment. How could Cao Zhen attack Chang'an City? So you can let the brothers take a break first and save their physical strength. When Cao Zhen attacked the city, it would definitely be day and night. That was the real test for us!"

After hearing Wei Yan's words, Feng Xi and Zhang Nan suddenly realized and immediately arranged for the soldiers to start resting.

Cao Zhen’s army.

"Governor, Chang'an City is fifteen miles ahead!"

Cao Zhen nodded, and then said, "Hurry up and camp in Chang'an City. It's noon now. Let's take a rest for half a day today and then attack the city tomorrow morning!"

"Governor-General!" Sima Yi walked over immediately and stopped him, "Governor-General must not camp and rest. When he arrives in Chang'an City, he should attack the city immediately."

"Zhongda, I know you are anxious to take back Chang'an. But look, we rushed to Chang'an day and night, and the soldiers were exhausted. If they directly attacked the city, it would be difficult to succeed. Moreover, the city walls of Chang'an City were tall, and we did not bring ladders to crash cars, so we happened to make ladders to crash cars overnight while the soldiers were resting, and we could directly attack the city early tomorrow morning." Cao Zhen explained.

"Governor, I know what you said. Wei Yan has passed through the battlefield for a long time and is more intelligent than others, so he will definitely think of this. Wei Yan believes that we will rest first after we arrive in Chang'an, so we will relax our defense in Chang'an City. We can take advantage of this and raid the city of Chang'an. As for the ladder crash, there is no need to prepare for it. You only need to pick up dozens of long ladders and be able to climb the city wall." Sima Yi said.

Cao Zhen nodded after hearing this, then frowned and thought, and began to weigh the pros and cons.

Seeing Cao Zhen still hesitating, Sima Yi continued to persuade: "Governor, the road to Ziwu Valley is difficult to move, which is not conducive to the army's walking. Wei Yan came from Ziwu Valley and brought no more than 5,000 troops, and we have 100,000 people. As long as we can climb the city tower, even if three people are exchanged for him alone, it is worth it. Chang'an City is related to this victory and defeat. If Chang'an City is there, we can still defend Chang'an. If Chang'an is there, then Yongzhou will not be lost. But if Chang'an is lost, we can only withdraw from Tongguan and give up Yongzhou."

When Cao Zhen heard the four words "Give up Yongzhou", a cold light appeared in his eyes. It was obvious that he was so excited by Sima Yi's sentence. Thinking about Wei Yan's courage to take risks and led thousands of people to attack Chang'an. Why didn't he dare to take risks to retake Chang'an? Thinking of this, Cao Zhen shook his teeth and said, "Okay, just as Zhongda said."

On the city, the commander Ma Zhong was staring at the Cao army camp in the distance.

This Ma Zhong is not the Ma Zhong, who kidnapped A Dou at the Eastern Wu. Ma Zhong, who is now standing on the wall of Chang'an, is a real general in Shu.

Ma Zhong, whose courtesy name was Dexin, was from Bazhong. He was a scholar-official and was once called a filial and honest official. Liu Bei made a Northern Expedition, and the Brazilian prefect Yan Zhi recruited five thousand Bazhong's children to help the war. Because Wei Yan was going to leave Ziwu Valley to raid Chang'an, Liu Bei selected some people who were proficient in mountain combat from the five thousand Bazhong's children to be sent to Wei Yan's army, and Ma Zhong happened to be selected. So Ma Zhong became a small captain under Wei Yan's command.

Ma Zhong looked at Cao's camp from afar and saw that the crowd was filled with people and dust, which seemed very chaotic. From time to time, several scouts came to Chang'an City, investigated and turned back.

Ma Zhong frowned, and the Cao army camp in front of him seemed a little weird.

Ma Zhong knew that Cao Zhen had been through the battlefield for a long time and was one of the top generals in Cao's camps. He should not have been so chaotic even if he set up a camp for 100,000 people.

"The situation is something wrong. Cao Zhen shouldn't have just such a skill. A hundred thousand people can command this way. How can this be worthy of the reputation of the general of the Cao army!" Ma Zhong murmured to himself.

Suddenly, Ma Zhong found that the dust in Cao's camp was concentrated near Chang'an City, as if a large group of people were gathering in the direction of Chang'an City. This did not seem to be a camp at all, but rather a gathering before the war.

Cao Zhen had 100,000 people. After setting up camp, the entire camp was continuous for several miles. Ma Zhong stood on a high place and looked into the distance and saw everything within a radius of several miles. Although Cao Zhen’s camp was far away from Chang'an City, Ma Zhong could not see it clearly, but Ma Zhong could still tell where there was more dust and less dust in this camp that covers a few miles.

"No, Cao's army is probably going to attack the city!" Ma Zhong's mind flashed, and then he hurriedly said to the school beside him: "Go and tell the general immediately that Cao's army is going to attack the city!"

At this time, Wei Yan was lying on the couch, his eyes closed, and he was sleeping soundly.

"General! Wake up!" Zhang Nan's voice came from outside. Wei Yan climbed up in a conditioned reflex, woke up and asked, "What happened?"

"General, the patrolling guards on the city wall will report that Cao's army is going to attack the city." Zhang Nan said.

"Why did they come so quickly? Don't they rest?" Wei Yan suddenly sat up from the ground, took the armor and put it on his body, and said in his mouth: "Follow me immediately to mobilize the people and go up to the city wall to defend the city!"

The sound of the gathering horn sounded, and the Shu troops who had already rested woke up from their dreams and began to dangle.

Wei Yan had already arrived at the military camp in person and urged the soldiers to gather as soon as possible.

At this moment, the sound of war drums and shouts of killing came from outside Chang'an.

"No, Cao's army has really attacked the city." Wei Yan looked at the soldiers under his command rushing out of the camp, but only a few and a half of them came out.

"Zhang Nan and Feng Xi!" Wei Yan shouted.

"The last one is here!" Zhang Nan and Feng Xi ran over immediately.

"You gather troops very quickly to support the city wall. I will go to the city wall first to resist for a while!"

Dozens of large cars rushed towards the Chang'an City moat. It is winter now, and the water volume of the moat is relatively small. Several cars of sand and stone were thrown into the moat. Not long after, a road that can be passed by people was floating in the moat.

"Shoot me the arrow!" Ma Zhong shouted in the city, and at the same time he bent his bow and arrows, hitting the Cao army who was rushing in front. The soldiers behind Ma Zhong also shot the bows and arrows under the city. The sharp arrows flew into the crowd of people charging under the city, and almost every arrow could hit the enemy.

However, the number of Shu troops on the city was too small, and most of the Shu troops were resting, so the bows and arrows of the Shu army could not pose too much threat to the Cao army. For the total number of Cao army's 100,000 people, the number of people shot down was nothing at all.

"Get it on!" Wang Shuang shouted loudly, and dozens of temporarily formed long ladders leaned against the city wall. Then the soldiers crawled up the city along the ladder with their knives in their mouths.

Seeing that Cao's army began to climb the city wall, Ma Zhong gritted his teeth. If there weren't too few people on the city wall now, it wouldn't be enough to control the city guarding equipment on the city, how could these Cao's army get close to the city wall so easily? Now that Cao's army is approaching the city wall, we should first solve the enemy under the city and try our best to stop Cao's army from letting them climb the city tower.

"Take the rolling wood!" Ma Zhong ordered that the Shu army, which was not many in the city, did not care about firing arrows, threw down the bows and arrows in their hands, and then lifted the rolling wood and threw it down the city. Since the ladders of the Shu army were all temporarily built, when the rolling wood was smashed, the ladder that was hit was immediately broken into two sections. The Cao army, who was climbing above, fell down and smashed into the crowd below.

Unfortunately, there are still too few Shu troops on the city, which is not enough to completely stop the Cao army who is climbing the city wall. Finally, a Cao army climbed the city wall.

At this moment, the continuous Shu army had already supported the city wall.

Ma Zhong pulled out his weapons and rushed towards the Cao army who had just climbed the city tower. Then he took a knife and killed the Cao army who had just climbed the city tower, but the continuous Cao army still kept climbing up.

Ma Zhong secretly looked back and found that reinforcements had already begun to rush up. Ma Zhong was shocked by Ma Zhong's heart. It seemed that his early reporting Wei Yan had a very obvious effect. Now the Shu army has completely reacted.

The most fear of being stunned on the battlefield was that at the moment when Ma Zhong turned around, a big man rushed over.

"Wang Shuang is here, come here!" The big man shouted loudly and rushed towards Ma Zhong. Ma Zhong hurriedly turned around when he heard the sound. At this time, Wang Shuang had already rushed down Ma Zhong, and the knife had already slashed at Ma Zhong. Ma Zhong hurriedly raised his sword to block it. Although he blocked Wang Shuang's attack, he had already taken action.

Wang Shuang was very powerful, and after several consecutive stabs, Ma Zhong felt that he was irresistible. Under Wang Shuang's attack, Ma Zhong kept retreating.

Suddenly, Ma Zhong accidentally stepped on a corpse behind. Ma Zhong's body suddenly lost balance, and then sat down on the ground. Wang Shuang would not miss this good opportunity. Wang Shuang held the knife in his hands and slashed at Ma Zhong.

"My life is over!" Ma Zhong was so scared that he closed his eyes, and then he heard a "sweeping" sound reaching Ma Zhong's ears.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Shuang's voice came to Ma Zhong's ears: "Who is here to report your name and name. Wang Shuang will not kill the nameless person under his hands!"

"Hmph, Wei Yan, a certain Yiyang family!" Another business came, and Ma Zhong opened his eyes in surprise and found that Wei Yan was already in front.

Under the city, Cao was truly commanding his soldiers to attack Chang'an.

At this time, Cao Zhen admired Sima Yi very much. As Sima Yi expected, the Shu army was not prepared to attack the city immediately, leaving only a few soldiers on the city wall, so under Cao Zhen's command, Cao's army quickly climbed up the city wall.

Everything was followed by Cao Zhen's plan. Next, we first stabilized the real position of the city wall, and then fought to capture the city gate. As soon as the city gate opened, a hundred thousand troops under our command flocked in and the Chang'an City was recaptured.

Sima Yi looked at the soldiers fighting fiercely on the city wall of Chang'an City in the distance, but his brows became tighter and tighter. After a while, Sima Yi said, "Governor, the response speed of the Shu army is much faster than we expected. Under normal circumstances, General Wang Shuang should now stabilize the position on the city wall, but now General Wang Shuang has not taken down the city wall yet.

Cao Zhen nodded and shouted loudly: "Immediately beat the drum three times to help morale."

The sound of the drums of Cao's army came, urging the Cao army to attack as soon as possible. However, when Wang Shuang heard the drum sound on the city wall, he could only be anxious. At this time, Wang Shuang was already in a tough battle.

The characteristics of Wang Shuang are one of the most powerful people, and the other is that they can use hidden weapons such as meteor hammers. When it comes to martial arts, Wang Shuang has not been guided by famous teachers, so Wang Shuang can only be considered middle-aged and superior in terms of moves. It is okay to deal with ordinary generals, but Wang Shuang is not good at dealing with first-class generals who rely on skillful tricks to fight the enemy.

Wei Yan did not suffer any loss in strength against Wang Shuang, but Wei Yan was much stronger than Wang Shuang in moves, so Wang Shuang suffered losses everywhere against Wei Yan and was restrained everywhere. Although it was difficult to lose in a short period of time, he was already at a disadvantage.

"General, let's help you!" Feng Xi's voice came, and then Feng Xi and Zhang Nan pulled out weapons at the same time and rushed towards Wang Shuang.

Wang Shuang was not Wei Yan's opponent. Now, with Feng Xi and Zhang Nan, Wang Shuang's pressure increased greatly. Wang Shuang had to lean on the city wall to try to keep facing the enemy head-on and prevent anyone from sneak attacking behind him.

The Shu army continued to support it, and the city wall was narrow, and both sides were close contact, and the battle was extremely tragic.

However, after Cao's army arrived in Chang'an, they did not rest, but immediately attacked the city. Therefore, Cao's army was no longer physically strong. At this time, Cao's army was only able to attack the city with a sharp energy. As time went by, Cao's army gradually disappeared, and Cao's army felt exhausted.

"Crack!" A crisp sound appeared, and was quickly drowned by the soldiers' shouts of killing. No one noticed the sound.

The next moment, a long ladder mounted on the city suddenly broke, and the soldiers climbing the wall on it fell down immediately.

When Cao Zhen saw this scene in the distance, he frowned. He had not just rolled the wood and fell on the ladder. Why did the long ladder break by itself? After a while, the second ladder suddenly broke.

"Hey..." Sima Yi sighed, and then said, "Governor, this long ladder was temporarily built, so it is not strong. It is normal for a sudden break of one or two."

Cao Zhen nodded, but a hint of uneasiness arose in his heart.

On the city wall, Wang Shuang was already trying his best, and his moves were made with the same destruction. Wei Yan and others naturally would not exchange their lives with Wang Shuang, so in a short period of time, Wei Yan could not kill Wang Shuang.

"Feng Xi, Zhang Nan, I'm leaving this Wang Shuang to me. You can go to support other places and attack those long ladders first!" Wei Yan shouted at Feng Xi and Zhang Nan.

Wei Yan was still very sober at this time. Wei Yan had noticed that the long ladders that Cao's army had attacked the city were made temporarily, which was far less sturdy than ordinary ladders, and there were not many. As long as these long ladders could be broken, Cao's army would not be able to climb the city wall.

Zhang Nan and Feng Xi immediately followed Wei Yan's orders and instead attacked the long ladders carrying the city.

As time goes by, the shortcomings of Cao's army's lack of physical strength finally emerged. In this narrow space on the city wall, the advantage of Cao's army's number could not be exerted. In the battle of the same number of people, Cao's army was at a disadvantage because of its lack of physical strength, and the balance of victory gradually tilted towards the Shu army.

"Governor, you can't fight anymore, let's retreat!" Sima Yi sighed and said to Cao Zhen.

"Want for a while, maybe you will be able to get off soon." Cao Zhen said gritting his teeth.

"Governor, the soldiers are already tired, and they will be exhausted if they continue to fight. It is difficult to make achievements! Moreover, these long ladders in the city are made temporarily, and are far less powerful than cloud ladders, and are difficult to support long-term combat. Once these long ladders are gone, it will be difficult for our brothers in the city to get off."

As Sima Yi finished speaking, a long ladder broke open in great coordination.

Seeing this scene, Cao Zhen could only accept the reality helplessly. Cao Zhen shook his teeth hatefully and said, "Ming Jin to withdraw his troops!"
To be continued...