At dawn, Cao's army had already pushed the siege equipment he had quickly made to the front of the formation, and then followed the Danshui official road to attack Wuguan Pass.

The old Han generals in the early years had withered, and in the new generation, no one was born with talent, nor was anyone who was already experienced and learned without a teacher when they were at home before the chaos in the Three Kingdoms.

This is naturally the case with Cao Ren.

When he was young, he just liked bows and horses, and there was no old man on the bridge throwing his shoes at him, so all his military experience was accumulated bit by bit in actual combat.

Therefore, when attacking Wuguan Pass, Cao Ren's attitude was a bit ambiguous.

Normally, hard-hitting passes is not a clever choice. After all, the defenders have a good territorial position and are blocked in the mountain road. The next step is a siege battle, either killing the opponent or exhausting himself. There are not many combat skills. It can even be said that it has no connection with the general's personal command ability, but other factors are larger, such as the terrain of both sides, the number of troops, the reserves of grain and grass, weather changes, etc.

These mixed factors may even affect the entire battle situation more than Cao Ren’s personal ability...

Cao Ren will defend the city, and of course he will also attack the city.

If Cao Ren is given sufficient troops, it is only a matter of time to capture Wu Pass.

But the problem is time.

If the time goes on too long, then attacking Wu Pass will lose its meaning.

Cao Ren sent Niu Jin to go around, circumnavigate and sneak into the mountains, which was undoubtedly a dangerous move, but the purpose was to reduce the amount of time spent on Wuguan.

Otherwise, even if Cao Ren conquered Wuguan here, but Cao Cao defeated Tongguan, what's the point of his success? Or if he delayed it for too long, the reinforcements from Guanzhong arrived, and then he would continue to attack Shangxian, Shangluo, Zhiguan, Lantian, etc. Even if he was covered in iron, how many nails could he make?

Therefore, even though he knew that this strategy was risky, Cao Ren had to try it.

The point is time.

『Swoosh!』

『Bang!』

A stone bullet hit the ranks of civilians pushing siege equipment in the mountain road, crushing an unlucky guy like a pool of meat paste, like meatballs falling on the ground and then being stomped hard, bright red flesh and blood splattered...

『Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh…』

The civilians panicked.

The man next to the unlucky ghost was splattered with flesh and blood on his face, covering the flesh and blood and screaming.

The Cao army soldiers who were supervising the battle in the back formation shot with an arrow and immediately shot the screaming civilian to death on the spot.

"Don't scream, don't delay! Keep moving forward!"

Cao's army gradually calmed down and continued.

In fact, everyone knows that if you step on this mountain road, you will be threatened with death. You are psychologically prepared, but after all, the man died too tragically before...

But as time goes by, I gradually become numb.

The number of stone bombs hit from above Wuguan, especially the flanks of the stone casting positions on the Wuguan Mountain Peak, has gradually increased. Whether it is Cao's soldiers or civilians, they almost stepped on the plasma and wood chips and pushed forward.

One stone bullet after another fell down.

Of course, most of the accurate heads of the catapults were not very good. Some even crossed the heads of the queue and fell high into the mountains; some hit the stone wall with a loud bang, and then the gravel fell down like hail.

But the number of dead people and broken equipment gradually increased.

The number of casualties is increasing continuously.

Cao Ren's face was still as calm as water.

"General, it's a loss to fight like this..." Cao Zhen sighed.

"What else?" Cao Ren said, his tone calm, "This defender has a good territory and has set up stone cannons again. Could it be that the defender cannons cannons be eliminated? Just wait until our military stone cannons are installed, and they will be smashed."

Cao Zhen was stunned for a moment.

Cao Ren did not mention casualties at all. It seemed that those who died now were not human lives, but just the average value on the books.

What Shandong places like most is the average. No matter what is in the court, I like to give a vague overview and never clearly express what the average is an average method. For example, although there are many casualties and injuries at present, isn’t it a fraction of the entire army?

But who can know that the vast majority of people who died were from the lowest-level Jingxiang?

If the lowest-level folks are drawn out to count separately, the data presented must be very amazing...

But once it's average, it doesn't matter to everyone.

"This is a stupid battle, there is no trick..." Cao Ren looked at Wuguan in the distance, "I can only see if Captain Niu can pull out some gaps... People come! Send orders and attack the city with all their strength! Those who are timid and retreat will be killed!"

"The general has an order! Siege the city with all his strength, and those who retreat will be killed!!"

『Kill…』

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...

Cao's army stood up under the Wuguan Pass with a stone bullet, and then began to counterattack on the Wuguan Pass.

"boom!!"

A stone bullet hit the battlements of Wuguan, and gravel and broken bricks flew around.

Cao's army also set up a catapult cart, under the cover of the mountain road's earth slope, attacked the Wuguan city wall from behind the earth slope. Anyway, the city wall is so big, just a rough direction and position, and the accurate head seems to be better than the Wuguan city's catapult cart...

On the top of the city, Liao Hua shouted loudly, "Shot the arrow!"

The arrows roared down like rain.

Then the counterattack of Cao's army's archers also quickly shot back.

However, the mountain road before Wu Pass was only a little wide. Although it could pass through cars and horses, it was still too embarrassing and narrow to set up the array. The archers of Cao's army could not set up a huge array, and could only do a sporadic one on one side and one on the other side to counterattack, so there were not many arrows on the pass.

Stones, arrows, flesh and chips.

Liao Hua scanned the battlefield and calmly arranged the soldiers.

Instead of letting all the defenders go up to the city wall in one breath, he carefully used the resources at hand.

Like Cao Ren, Liao Hua was not born in a family of military generals. All his military experience comes from the martial arts lecture hall. He was naturally a little nervous, but more excited. It was not because he was bloodthirsty, but because he felt that he had studied martial arts lecture halls for so many years, and now he had an excellent place to practice.

The battle in Jingzhou before was just a small test, but now it is a big scene!

Observe the enemy's movements, speculate on the intentions of the enemy generals, and then target, defend, counterattack, or avoid...

At the same time, you need to pay attention to the situation of soldiers and soldiers on your side, whether they are allocated, motivated, or strict orders. All of this was not expressed in detail in the report of the martial arts lecture hall. The specific regulations can only be flexibly used based on the knowledge you have learned.

Compared to Cao Ren, Liao Hua is naturally a beginner, but Liao Hua has been learning for many years, and now it is time to put what he has learned into practice. He is like a young tiger with a thorny hair, and he can't wait to taste the flesh and blood.

There are murderous intentions everywhere in Wuguan.

...

...

In Shang County.

News of fierce battles in Wuguan also reached Shang County, and people's hearts became a little volatile for a while.

So, in the dark night in Shangxian County, there is a hidden chicken killing...

In many cases, people are in a disorderly state, just like monkeys. There are two ways to make monkeys obedient. One is to shoot the monkeys out of the head, and the other is to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys. Although both methods are used by people, most of the time, people like to use the second method, that is, kill the chicken to scare the monkeys.

Why did the monkey make a mistake but wanted to kill the chicken?

It's like a big man clearly has so many corrupt officials, but he caught a minion and killed him...

From the perspective of economic costs and benefits, the benefits of "monkey" disobedient are far higher than the benefits of his choice of obedience. If you want to change the behavioral pattern of "monkey" over, it will cost a very high cost.

Relatively speaking, the "chicken" is generally in the middle and lower level and it is not difficult to kill, so it is often the case that the monkey cannot be caught, but a chicken is caught to kill.

So the question is, will monkeys really be afraid if they kill the chicken?

Did the chicken that was killed really make a mistake and should be killed just for the sake of killing?

When the monkey is watching him kill the chicken, who will guarantee that the monkey does not learn his lesson, but learns to kill the chicken?

Jiang Gan originally wanted to kill the chicken.

He thought that the chicken was the head of Shang County.

But Jiang Gan never expected that he himself turned into a chicken.

Jiang Gan lowered his head and looked at the arrows on his chest. The blood flowing in the air dyed his clothes red. Under the lights, it was not bright red, but instead appeared black. The expression on his face was a little confused and confused, as if he was thinking about why he ended up like this, or was wondering why the blood he shed looked black?

Before the conflict broke out, everything seemed normal and calm.

The smell of blood was not passed so far.

The screams were also isolated from Shang County by the mountain roads and mountains.

Jiang Gan's subordinates also penetrated among the civilians stranded in Shang County and began to incite...

Everything seemed to be going well and was going according to the plan.

but……

When did the changes start to occur?

Jiang Gan suddenly understood something, but it was too late.

Yes, from the time when people incited people, changes may have begun to occur.
To be continued...