In Hanzhong, which is extremely tricky in Gong Du's eyes, it seems to be a little insignificant to Wen Zhao. One sentence can be solved, even if this sentence comes from Wen Zhao's mouth, Gong Du feels very incredible.

As if seeing the doubts in Gong Du's heart, Wen Zhao smiled slightly and said: "Pass the order, banners will be erected around the camp, and drums and shouts will be played day and night in the village, whether Hanzhong can be captured depends on tomorrow." ”

Although Gong Du had doubts, he still obeyed Wen Zhao's orders and sent someone to arrange the corresponding matters.

However, it was said that Zhang Wei summoned the civil and military forces in Yangping Guanzhong after the deliberations were completed. He led his subordinates to the top of the city wall, and began to strengthen the city wall in full swing.

In fact, during this period of time, the city defense of Yangping Pass has been strengthened a lot, and now there is nothing to prepare for. Zhang Lu was busy for a long time, and most of his actions were in vain.

Yan Pu saw that Zhang Wei had lost his sense of proportion, and immediately stepped forward to persuade: "Now that Yangping Pass is solid, even if Chen Wenzhao personally leads the troops over, as long as the generals are not afraid and the soldiers serve their orders, the generals don't need to worry too much. ”

Zhang Wei heard Yan Pu's words, and only then did he relax a little.

Yan Pu continued to admonish: "The soldiers of Guanzhong have come from afar, and now they are tired troops, and I am sure that they will not attack the city at night. However, there are many thieves, and if they attack the city in the future, they will definitely do it day and night. ”

"If this is the case, in case the generals and soldiers are tired, the soldiers and horses in the city should be divided into several teams, so that they can maintain their vigorous energy at all times."

The reason why Yangping Pass is a natural danger that cannot be opened by a husband and a wife is because this pass is built on the mountain, and it only needs to defend one city gate, and there is no need to divide troops to guard four gates.

In this way, only a small number of troops are needed to defend the checkpoint in Yangping Pass, and there is no worry that the soldiers in the pass will attack the city from all sides, resulting in a shortage of troops in the city.

Now there are more than 30,000 soldiers and horses in the city, even if they are divided into three teams to take turns to defend the city, it is not a big problem.

Not only that, the terrain in front of Yangping Pass is still very narrow, and there is no way for the army to spread out here, and the strength advantage of the Guanzhong soldiers is completely useless.

If Chen Xu wanted to forcibly attack the city, he could only let the soldiers attack Yangping Pass day and night. If you want to occupy the city, you must either exhaust the forces in the city, or completely collapse the entire wall of Yangping Pass.

None of the above is easy to do.

Of course, the soldiers in the Guanzhong can also use the siege equipment such as ladders, well railings, and rushing cars to capture Yangping Pass.

However, the terrain of Yangping Pass is extremely steep, and the city wall is also very tall, and it is not very easy to rush the car and the well railing. The size of the ladder is too large, and I am afraid that a narrow wall simply cannot have several ladders side by side.

It must be known that the ancient siege equipment ladder is not the ladder seen on TV in later generations, which can be easily overturned by the soldiers on the city wall.

If you really attack the city with those simple ladders, you are completely looking for death, and it is irresponsible for the lives of the soldiers, and it is a bit of a fool's dream to use this kind of ladder to climb the city wall.

The ladder used for siege is a right-angled triangular prism if it is erected. Normally, the ladder can be regarded as a huge steep slope, a three-dimensional siege machine.

There are many wheels under the ladder depending on the size of the ladder, and you only need to push the ladder to reach the bottom of the city wall during the siege.

During the siege, a huge ladder was attached to the city wall, and the two sides at right angles were attached to the wall on one side, and the day was next to the ground.

As long as the wheels are braked with the brakes, it is difficult to knock down the ladder, no matter how much the soldiers on the wall push it.

Moreover, the width of the ladder is very wide, so several people can climb it together at one time. Like those extremely large ladders, even a dozen people can climb up at once.

In this way, the soldiers cooperated with each other and were able to attack the walls more easily.

However, the ladder is made of wood after all, and if the defenders on the city wall attack it with fire, it can easily burn it clean. The ladder is not cheap to make, but it is very easy to damage in battle.

Unless the defenders of the city do not know how to defend the city at all, and want to use the ladder to attack the city wall, they can only slowly consume the fire oil in it, or attack the city by surprise.

It can be said that in ancient wars, as long as the defenders of the city were prepared and had a steady stream of materials to defend the city, it was absolutely very difficult to forcibly attack the city.

What's more, the city wall of Yangpingguan is high and thick, and the city wall is still very narrow, which will increase the difficulty of attacking the city.

In fact, not only Yangping Pass, but also important checkpoints in general.

In addition to being difficult to defend, the levels are often set in an important location that must be passed if the enemy wants to attack this position.

That's why those levels were so important in ancient times.

Yangping Pass is just such a level, and due to the topography here, it is even more steep than other levels. Yan Pu believed that as long as he could be cautious, it would not be difficult to keep the soldiers outside the city.

Zhang Wei heard Yan Pu's suggestion, so he ordered good people to guard the city on the city wall, but he took some people back to the city wall to rest.

Early the next morning, the sound of war drums outside Yangping Pass resounded in the sky. Zhang Wei didn't dare to slack off, and after he finished putting on the wall, he led the soldiers to wait on the city wall.

"So, what's that?"

Suddenly, a soldier with good eyesight saw a behemoth in the distance, and immediately couldn't help but cry out.

Zhang Wei looked at it intently, and when he saw the whole picture of the big guy clearly, he said a little incredulously: "This, is this a cloud ladder?" ”

Yan Pu shook his head and said, "The ladder is not so short, nor is it so big, it doesn't look like it." ”

The behemoth slowly moved forward, and finally came to the outside of the city wall, and it was only at this point that the people on the city wall saw the whole picture of this thing.

Wen Zhao led the troops to follow this behemoth, and when he reached the edge of the range of the bow and arrow on the city wall, he shouted: "Ladder up!" ”

As soon as Wen Zhao's words fell, a soldier ran to the bottom of this behemoth, pulled some ropes, and changed the appearance of this thing through some pulleys.

"This, this is really a ladder."

When the soldiers on the city wall heard Wen Zhao's voice, they couldn't help but scream. They had all seen the ladder, but they had never seen such a huge ladder.

This ladder is the same height as the wall of Yangping Pass, but it is thirty meters wide, and it is shocking just to look at.

That's right, this behemoth is the super cloud ladder that Xu Huang let people build during this time. Even though Wen Zhao was full of confidence in capturing Hanzhong, he had to take precautions.

If you really can't capture Yangping Pass peacefully, this special version of the super cloud ladder will be a sharp weapon for the soldiers in Guanzhong to attack the city.