It is already afternoon at this moment, and it will take some time to put the sandbags, about half a day. In other words, if you put sandbags now, you should probably be able to finish it before sunset.

Therefore, the Han army had to attack at night, otherwise the Wei army would definitely have mobilized men to remove the sandbags at night.

Although it was inconvenient to fight at night, Liu Chan still chose to put sandbags now.

Because even if you choose to put sandbags tomorrow morning and attack in the afternoon, you won't be able to take Wancheng in an afternoon, and you will still fight at night at that time, so Liu Chan will not waste time, and it is better to take Wancheng early.

The soldiers began to put sandbags, which were neither big nor small, and one bag could hold about fifty or sixty pounds of sand, which was about the same as a bag of rice in later generations, and it was placed in a circular hole that filled the stones.

Since the attack was about to be made at night, the attacking soldiers were of course foot soldiers, so Liu Chan ordered all the foot soldiers outside the east gate to go back to rest, and the south gate and the west gate also transferred 10,000 soldiers, let them rest well, and at night, they used these 40,000 soldiers and horses to attack.

However, it was not possible to guard it without soldiers and horses outside the east gate, so Liu Chan asked Zhang Bao to lead his troops and cavalry to come and guard it.

Sandbags filled with sand were projected into the sky and landed on the rolling stones in the chasm.

Liu Chan was very cunning, the chasm was nearly twenty meters wide, but he only asked Deng Ai to put sandbags on the six zhang close to him, and the two zhang near Wancheng did not throw sandbags.

When the Han army attacks the city, the Wei army will definitely climb up to block it, and with the distance of the two zhang bumps and bumps and full of rolling stones, it will add a lot of trouble to the Wei army. When the time comes, the Wei army stumbles over, and the Han army will naturally be able to gain an advantage in the battle.

When the Han army was dropping sandbags, the Wei army was not idle.

As early as when he figured out the true intentions of the Han army, Hu Zhen began to rethink the method of defending the city.

Originally, under the city wall, there were rammed earth slag broken and fallen from the city wall, these rammed earth slag was uneven, Hu Zhen had two choices, the first was to dig in the city, and use these rammed earth slag to make an inclined plane, and then the soldiers could climb up directly along this slope to fight the Han army.

The second choice was naturally to get rid of these rammed earth slags and choose to climb up with a ladder to fight the Han army.

There are pros and cons to these two methods, although it is simple for the Wei army to climb up, but there are many Han soldiers, there will always be a time when they can't hold it, and when the Han army kills the generals, they can naturally kill directly to the city along this slope.

The latter cleared the rammed earth and climbed it up with a ladder to fight the Han army, which would definitely be troublesome, and the speed of climbing the ladder was certainly not as fast as walking directly. However, when the Han army is killed, they will find a way to get down the two-zhang high city wall here, and the Wei army can also use this to attack the Han army and defend for a short time.

Because when the Han army went down the ladder, it had no ability to resist.

After thinking about it for a while, Hu Zhi decided to let people clear the rammed earth slag accumulated under the city and use a ladder to climb up to fight the Han army. Hu Zhen thought very clearly: We need to use ladders to defend the city, and you must also use ladders to attack the city, this is the same! At that time, even if the Han army occupies the gap that has been filled up by virtue of the large number of people, it will have to find a way to come down. At that time, we can use this to deal with the Han army fiercely.

By the time the Wei army knew that the rammed earth slag had been dropped, the Han army was also putting sandbags at the moment.

Hearing another voice, but it was a little different from before, Niu Jin went up to take a look.

After getting out of the city, Niu Jin shouted: "His grandmother's, the Shu army is really cunning, they are now starting to put sandbags again, and they only put sandbags at a distance of six zhang close to them, but we have not put them at a distance of more than two zhang."

When the time comes, they will step on sandbags as if they were walking on the ground, and we will step on stones as if they were walking on thin ice. ”

Hu Zhen heard this, and also climbed up to take a look, there was a distance of two zhang near them, and the Han army did not put sandbags, explaining that rolling stones, unevenness, normal walking must be careful to prevent stumbling and falling, if it is a battle? How disadvantageous would it be?

Hu Zhen got off the city wall and ordered: "Quickly order people to prepare sandbags and level the ground." ”

"General, it's too late, there aren't many sandbags in the city, and our people are ......" Niu Jin sighed, pointed to the Wei army resting against the city wall and said: "The Shu army is only afraid that it will attack in the evening, if you go to get sandbags, the soldiers will not be able to rest." ”

Now the weather is hot, it is July, the Wei army clears the rammed earth, busy for a day, the Han army 60,000 attack, at this time the Wei army should have a good rest, if not rested well, how to deal with the Han army?

It's just that the uneven ground on this side has to be leveled, and if it is not leveled, it will not be able to fight at all.

Hu Zhen thought for a while and said: "Let the soldiers have a good rest, mobilize the people, let them fill sandbags, it will definitely not be able to level them in an afternoon, and fill in those big potholes first." ”

"No!" Niu Jin arched his hand and went to gather people to do something.

The time soon came to sunset.

Deng Ai got off the arrow tower, and many trebuchets also stopped working.

Deng Ai said to Liu Chan: "Your Majesty, it's almost leveled, and there is still a surplus of sandbags." ”

Liu Chan nodded, looked at the sandbags left behind him, and suddenly had an idea, and said: "You can let the soldiers go to the city like sandbags and build the city ladders, so it is easier to go to the city than to climb the ladder." ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Deng Ai's eyes lit up, and with a wave of his hand, he arranged for the soldiers to carry out Liu Chan's orders.

There are still a lot of sandbags left, but Wancheng is a kilometer long, and it is obviously impossible to pile up a kilometer-long staircase. Because the Han army could only use sandbags to pile up a ladder about a length of about zhang at intervals, and when the sandbags were used up, almost 20 or so steps were piled up, distributed throughout the kilometer-long city line, supplemented by ladders to climb, and the speed of climbing the city would definitely be much faster than simply climbing ladders.

For example, the Wei army can come up with a hundred soldiers in a minute, but the Han army can come up with two hundred soldiers in a minute, two hundred against one hundred, and they will definitely win.

The number of soldiers and horses is an advantage, the speed of the city is an advantage, and the ground of the battle is an advantage.

At this moment, the sky is ready to darken, but the temperature has also begun to drop, 40,000 soldiers and horses went back to rest at noon, rested for an afternoon, after eating, brightly lit torches, in the cool breeze to kill Wancheng.