Liu Yin led the army to bypass Nan'an County and directly advanced to the territory of Tianshui County, but Liu Yin did not put the main target of the attack on Tianshui County to govern Ji County, but only ordered Zhang Le's Yang'an Battalion to go to besiege Ji County, with a main force of 20,000 horses, and directly took Shangqi.

Shangtai is a big city second only to Ji County in Tianshui County, bordering Weishui in the north, Longshan in the east, and Qishan in the south. When Zhuge Liang first went out of Qishan, the three counties of Tianshui, Nan'an and Anding were all lost, but only Guo Huai, the assassin of Yongzhou, held on to the lonely city of Shangqi and waited for help, and finally Cao Wei's reinforcements conquered Jieting and recovered the three counties of Longxi. It can be seen that the terrain of Shangtai is dangerous, and the city defense is strong, which is the most hard bone to gnaw.

Liu Yin's march this time, just chose this hardest bone, because this bone is with meat, in the Tianshui granary, at least 200,000 hu, and now the Shu army is counting on these grains and grass to fill the military supplies to survive this long and cold winter.

However, the situation is more favorable to Liu Yin, Tianshui County has a total of only 3,000 people, Taishou Wang Qi led 2,000 men and horses to guard Ji County, and Shangtai only has less than 1,000 defenders, which are guarded by Yang Bao, the captain of Tianshui.

With an absolute superiority of 20,000 men against 1,000 men, twenty to one, no one would doubt the outcome of this battle, even if Shangtai City was dangerous and strong, it would be impossible to resist in the face of such a disparity in strength.

"Who is this Yang Leopard?" Liu Yin asked Lian Hongdao, "Is it difficult to persuade him to surrender." ”

Lian Hong shook his head and said: "The general doesn't know, this Yang Bao is the grandson of Yang Fu of the former Shaofu, and he has the style of his grandfather. Yang Leopard is straight, I'm afraid it is not easy to surrender. "Zhan Hong has been in Longxi for a long time, and he still has a certain understanding of the character of the officials in the counties of Longyou, that belongs to the greedy for life and fear of death, and the one who belongs to the one who would rather bend than bend, and Zhan Hong has a number in his heart. This Yang Leopard obviously belongs to the latter.

Liu Yin has no impression of Yang Bao, but he is deeply impressed by Yang Fu, Yang Fu can be called a moral model set by Cao Cao, when Ma Chao entered Jicheng, he killed Taishou Weikang, Yang Fu was determined to avenge Weikang, and he was connected with the internal response, forcing Ma Chao, who was crisscrossing Xiliang, to die in Hanzhong. Yang Fu was also rewarded by Cao Cao for this. The battle of Longxi was the bloodiest war, Ma Chao's wife and children were all slaughtered, and Yang Fu's clan brothers were also killed and wounded, Yang Fu's aunt Jiang Xu's mother was eighty-two years old at the time. was also killed by Ma Chao, and the situation was tragic. Unspeakable.

Since Yang Bao is the grandson of Yang Fu, if he really wants to inherit some of Yang Fu's character, it may be difficult to recruit him, and he said the same thing, Liu Yin also dispelled the idea of persuading him to surrender, and ordered the four battalions of Tiger Cavalry, Tiger Bu, Wudang, and White Emperor not to surround the four gates of Shangqi. The determination is to attack hard and take the top as quickly as possible.

The Shu army is coming to the city, and the panic brought to the soldiers and civilians of Shangqi is more than a little bit, looking down from the city of Shangqi, the Shu army is all over the mountains. Mighty and imposing. The soldiers and civilians of Shangtai were panicked and had no intention of resisting, and many suggested that Yang Bao abandon the city and leave to avoid the enemy's edge.

Yang Bao roared angrily and said, "As ministers of the country, I would rather die than be greedy for life and afraid of death!" So he put on his armor and ascended to the top of the tower, and ordered all the armies to defend the city, and to prepare more bows and crossbows and arrows to roll wood and stones to resist it.

The Northern Expedition of the Shu Army, walking in the snow-capped mountains and meadows, lightly armed and simple, even lost all the baggage, not to mention any large-scale siege equipment, did not take the road at all, after arriving in Longxi, just took local materials, built some simple siege ladders, and put into the siege of Shangqi.

Shangqi City has been repaired many times, the city wall is strong, the garrison is sufficient, the only weakness is the lack of troops to defend the city, if Yang Bao is given three or four times more troops, it is not difficult to defend the city at all. Back then, Guo Huai relied on thousands of people to resist Zhuge Liang's tens of thousands of troops, Zhuge Liang was a genius, but he never won Shangqi in his life.

But now the morale of the Shu army is booming, any army after tempering and tempering, there will be a kind of reborn change, that ancient no one can cross the snow mountains and grasslands conquered at the feet of the Shu army, this unprecedented feat has greatly enhanced the fighting spirit of the Shu army, the current Shu army, has long been the same as the previous Shu army.

The White Emperor Battalion led by Zhuge Shang was responsible for attacking the south gate of Shangqi, and Zhuge Shang, who had just turned twenty years old, was the blood and energy, and after receiving the order, he immediately led the White Emperor Battalion to attack the south gate of Shangqi. Zhuge Shang took the lead and rushed to the front, and under his inspiration, the soldiers of the White Emperor Battalion all used their lives, all of them scrambled to be the first, and launched a fierce attack on the towering Shangqi city wall.

Yang Bao personally supervised the battle at the south gate and commanded the Wei army defending the city to resist desperately.

All of a sudden, the city rained down with arrows. Zhuge Shang pulled a shield, fearlessly climbed a ladder, and personally acted as a death squad to attack the city. It's just a moment, Zhuge Shang's shield is already densely covered with feather arrows, and on his shoulder, he also suffered an arrow, fortunately his armor is good enough, and that arrow penetrates the armor, only hurting a little skin.

Zhuge Shang shouted loudly, and the more than 4,000 soldiers of the White Emperor Battalion rushed towards the city wall like a tide, like a swarm of locusts, launching round after round of fierce attacks on Shangqi City.

Not only the south gate, but also the east, west and north gates of Shangtai City were fiercely attacked by the Shu army at the same time.

The siege war is a test of the strength of the offensive and defensive sides, and this is a real contest, with almost no tricks to play, and in the face of absolute strength, any strategy and tactics look very pale. Liu Yin wanted to use this crowd tactic to drag down the Wei army's defense line with continuous attacks.

The thinnest part of the city defense of Shangtai is the lack of combat soldiers, just imagine, on the four city walls evenly distributed by about a thousand defenders, the guard strength of the first city wall is only two hundred and fifty people, with the development of the battle process, the casualties of the Wei army are getting bigger and bigger, the less available troops to defend the city, counting on one or two hundred people to be able to defend a city wall, it sounds like just a joke.

The Shu army was on the offensive and the Wei army was stubbornly defending, and the two sides were caught in a fierce battle, but as time went on, the victory seemed to favor the Shu army, which had an absolute advantage in numbers. (To be continued.) )