In the camp of the Han army.

Deng Ai sat on the handsome case and asked a deputy general below, "How many casualties are our army?" ”

The adjutant general arched his hand and said: "Our army has more than 600 killed and 200 wounded, of which more than 50 are unable to fight. ”

Deng Ai continued to ask, "What are the casualties of the Wei army?" ”

The adjutant general replied: "After the Wei army retreated, they took the corpses of their companions with them, and judging by their size, they should be around two thousand people. Among them, 1,000 were casualties caused by forcibly filling the muddy roads at the beginning, and the remaining 1,000 were casualties from the attacking camp. ”

As soon as the adjutant general finished speaking, the atmosphere in the tent suddenly froze.

The Han army suffered more than 600 casualties, and the Wei army suffered 1,000 casualties when attacking.

The casualty ratio of the enemy and us was as high as five to three, and the Han army suffered six hundred casualties, or with Lin Yuan's help everywhere, if there was no Lin Yuan's help, I was afraid that the casualty ratio would reach one to one.

In other words, the defense of the camp, the Han army could not take advantage of it in the slightest.

There were 600 casualties a day, and in ten days, it was 6,000, and more than half of the soldiers and horses were lost at that time. And it's going to be a month!

The reason for such casualties is mainly related to the terrain, although the Han army is in the camp, but the camp is too wide, there is a 500-meter-long fence, the two armies fight across the fence, shoot at each other, the Han army can not take any advantage at all.

Deng Ai was not nervous, looked at Wang Ping and asked, "How is the return cannon built?" ”

When the generals heard this, their eyes lit up, and their solemn mood was soothed and relaxed, but they forgot that when Deng Ai first arrived, he asked five hundred soldiers to cut down trees to build a return cannon, and now that more than ten days have passed, it should be almost finished, right?

Wang Ping replied: "Now fifty return cannons have been built, and they can be put into use tomorrow, but they are built in a hurry, and the power is not as good as the carefully built ones, but they can also shoot two hundred steps and throw a hundred catties of boulders." ”

"Enough!" Deng Ai nodded with satisfaction and said: "This is already good, let the soldiers set up a return cannon in the camp tonight, adjust the firing range, and tomorrow Zhang He will attack, and our pressure will be greatly reduced."

There are archers of our army on both sides of the mountain, and when the Wei army marches, in order to avoid the archers on the main road, they all walk close to the mountain roads on both sides, and they can aim the return guns at both sides of the mountain road to bombard. ”

"No!" Wang Ping gave his hand to receive the order: "The general guards the camp hard during the day, rest early, and the last general will lead the troops to set up the return artillery." ”

Deng Ai nodded: "Okay, this matter will bother General Wang." ”

In the early morning of the second day, the Wei army again launched an attack on the Han army camp.

This time, the Wei army came with more than 20,000 people, and Zhang He only brought half of the soldiers and horses, but he planned to attack day and night.

On the mountains on both sides, the archers of the Han army kept shooting arrows at the road below, and the Wei army walked close to the foot of the mountain, because the mountain has a slope, the soldiers can shoot the people on the wide road on the mountain, but it is difficult to shoot the enemy at the foot of the mountain.

The Wei soldiers bent down one by one and marched with their heads bowed, and when they reached the gate of the Han army camp, the Han army on the hillside did not dare to shoot them, because shooting in the direction of the camp would accidentally injure their own soldiers and horses.

Suddenly, there was a dull rumbling sound in the sky, as if it were thunder.

"Why is it still thundering!"

"What's wrong with this thunder, why is this god still farting?"

"It's not thunder, look at the sky!"

"It's not a stone bullet, get out of the way!"

"Ahh

In the sky, a hundred-pound boulder was the first to fall, and after falling into the pile of people, it smashed the three Wei soldiers into pulp.

Then the stones rained down, and some of the boulders fell on the hillside, rolling down the hillside like a rolling stone from the mountain, rolling down and falling in the midst of the crowd.

The boulder fell at the foot of the mountain on both sides of the road and fell into the Wei army, and the Wei army was suddenly in chaos, not knowing what to do, and even some soldiers ran backwards.

Zhang He led the army behind, with a spear in his hand to block the fleeing soldiers, and roared angrily: "Rush for me, just rush over, don't retreat!" ”

Zhang He knew that the return cannon had a firing range, just like the Han archers on the mountain, they could only shoot at the middle of the road, but not on both sides, and they did not dare to shoot in the direction of the camp.

The same is true of the return artillery, because the return gun is not easy to control its firing range, so it is generally safe within 50 meters of the entrance of the camp, and if you want to be accurate, it is possible to shoot the camp, and then you will not need the enemy to attack, and you will destroy your own camp.

Therefore, within 50 meters of the camp is a safe area, and the stone shells of the return cannon cannot be attacked, or the return cannon can be shot, but it is easy not to shoot, if the wall of the camp is accidentally broken, then the joke will be big.

The Wei army also had a return cannon, which was the experience summed up by Zhang He, and under Zhang He's order, the Wei army rushed to the Han army's camp with stone bullets.

And what greeted the Wei army was naturally the arrows of the Han army that covered the sky and the sun.

Outside the Han army camp, the Wei army was crowded within 50 meters, and in the face of the Han army's arrows, the Wei army ran in a hurry and was shot squarely, with many casualties.

During the attack yesterday, the Wei army brigade hid at the foot of the mountains on both sides, attacking in batches, and would not rush to the front of the Han army camp, because in this way it would become a live target for the Han army.

And now, in order to avoid the return artillery, the foot of the mountain can no longer hide, and the Wei army has come to the front of the Han army camp, and they still can't escape the fate of the live target.

Zhang He commanded the soldiers and shouted: "The shield soldier is in front, don't mess up, don't mess up!" ”

The Wei army's shields were actually very sufficient, as long as the team was not chaotic and the shield soldiers were in front, the Han army's bows and arrows could not hurt them.

It's just that they were scared by the return artillery and came to the outside of the Han army camp to mess up, so they were shot and killed by the Han army.

Deng Ai and Lin Yuan looked at the Wei army in chaos inside the camp, Lin Yuan said impatiently: "The Wei army is in chaos, if you attack at this time, you will definitely win a big victory!" ”

Deng Ai smiled bitterly: "I want to attack more than anyone else, but Sima Yi is in the rear, if we go out of the camp, Sima Yi will definitely support, I have the heavy responsibility of defending the camp, and I can't do the slightest move that may lose the camp." ”

"Hmm!" Lin Yuan nodded, and did not insist on going out of the camp to fight: "This time, the Wei army has suffered at least two thousand casualties, and there is a bombardment of return artillery at the foot of the mountain on both sides.

The Wei army could only stay in the narrow space outside the camp, and even with the cover of shields, casualties were inevitable. In this way, it will be much easier for us to hold the camp. ”

Soon Zhang He stabilized the formation and ordered: "Give me an attack, only by launching a fierce attack, the offensive of the Shu army can be slowed down!" ”

Under the orders of Zhang He, the Wei army once again launched an attack on the Han army camp.

Sure enough, as the offensive unfolded, a large number of archers in the rear camp of the Han army came to the front to defend, and the remaining archers also mainly shot at the Wei soldiers who attacked fiercely, and the offensive of the Wei soldiers who had not yet attacked outside the camp was slowed down a lot.