The defeat in the first battle was not only the actual loss, but also had a great impact on the psychology of the Jin army, and it was obvious that such a setback seriously affected the morale of the Jin army, so that when the Jin army collected its troops and returned to the camp, they all looked sad and depressed.

The camp of the Jin army is set up in the east of the forbidden water, the Yanghu army is rigorous, the camp is naturally set up in an orderly manner, and the water does not leak, if the Shu army has the courage to steal the camp and rob the village, there is no return to the custody.

Of course, Yang Hu is just on guard, he knows very well that an opponent at the level of Fu Yan is impossible to do such a strange and dangerous thing, if it is replaced by a young and vigorous general, it may be possible.

Military Sima Xu Yin said to Yanghu with a little worry: "Today's first battle was lost, the catapult was destroyed, and it is not easy to take the Tongguan where the garrison is completely good, I don't know what the governor has planned?" ”

Yanghu said confidently: "Even if there is no catapult, it is not a problem to take Tongguan, now in the hands of Fu Yan, there are only 15,000 people, according to intelligence, Liu Yin's main army went west to Liangzhou, and it will not be able to return in a short time, and the reinforcements of Chang'an have been sent to Wuguan and Pubanjin respectively, and Tongguan can no longer get reinforcements from the direction of Chang'an, Fu Yi wants to block my 100,000 army with 15,000 people, but it is a mantis arm as a car, and he can't do anything. Tomorrow, the army will be ordered to cross the river to attack, and Tongguan must be taken. ”

"It's just that our army's morale is low because of the defeat, so what should we do?" Xu Yin said.

Yang Hu smiled indifferently and said: "Although the temporary defeat will affect the morale of the army, but this is okay, with the development of the war situation, it will naturally come and go, as long as you can seize the upper hand tomorrow, this morale will definitely rise back." ”

The next day, when the sky was just dawning, the Jin army had already erected several pontoon bridges on the forbidden water, and several large armies rushed through and converged towards the city of Tongguan.

After a night's rest, the Jin army has come out of the shadow of yesterday's defeat, with such a huge team, the Jin army naturally does not need to be arrogant, as long as it can give full play to the advantages of the Jin army's strength, the capture of Tongguan will be just around the corner.

The Jin army invested several times the number of troops yesterday, the road to the east of Tongguan was completely blocked, and looking down from the city head of Tongguan, the mountains were crowded with people's heads, like locusts gathering ants, densely packed, and could not see the edge at a glance.

Fu Tong saw that the left and right armies were afraid, and couldn't help but smile, it is true that the Jin army is a lot of soldiers, but Tongguan is not an ordinary city, an ordinary city, the Jin army can completely rely on the advantage of troops to besiege the city on all sides, so that the defenders will be in an absolute disadvantage, but Tongguan is different, the north and south sides are steep mountains, only one valley road can be passed, the Jin army can only attack in the east, the narrow terrain and terrain will also make the Jin army's strength advantage is greatly limited, can not give full play, Judging from Tongguan City, although the Jin army is as numerous as ant locusts, there are not too many people who can really enter the siege battle at the same time.

And such a dense formation of the Jin army provided a stage for long-range attack weapons such as catapults and crossbow vehicles to play a role. Seeing that the Jin army had entered the firing range, Fu Yi immediately ordered catapults and crossbow carts to attack.

The medium-sized catapult can fire two kinds of stone projectiles of 30 catties and 15 catties, the range of 30 catties of stone bullets can reach 120 to 150 steps, and the maximum range of 15 catties of light stone bullets can reach 250 to 280 steps, so when Fu He ordered the attack, the trebuchets of the Shu army took the lead in using light stone bullets to strike at the Jin army within 300 steps.

The stone bullet the size of a human head was thrown out, drawing arcs in the air, and smashed down towards the Jin army's position.

There seems to be no good way to protect the stone bullet to attack the Jin army, the only protective equipment is the shield, but the shield is in front of the stone bullet, the performance is extremely poor, the lightest fifteen-pound stone bullet, can also easily smash the shield, so if you hit the stone bullet hard, the only one who suffers is the Jin army, the most effective way is to dodge, because the stone bullet has a large weight, the flight speed in the air must be longer than the arrow, according to the air trajectory of the stone bullet can be roughly judged the landing point of the stone bullet, As long as you can dodge, you won't be in danger of your life.

But at this moment, the dense formation of the Jin army seems to be a bit tragic, although it can be judged that the landing point of the stone bullet, but many Jin troops are crowded in one place, it is very difficult to escape from this landing point, not to mention that there is more than one stone bullet on the top of the head, so each stone bullet falls, it will inevitably be accompanied by a terrible scream, one or more Jin soldiers suffer for it, once hit by the stone bullet, either dead or injured.

However, using catapults to hit the infantry, it seems that there is a feeling of cannon hitting mosquitoes, although every shot must be hit, but for such a huge Jin army, the casualties of so many people are just scratching the boots, and it cannot have any effect of delaying the Jin army's attack.

The Jin army pushed the rushing carts, siege vehicles, and ladders, and rushed towards the city walls of Tongguan like a tide.

After entering the range of the bow and arrow, the crossbowmen of the Shu army unceremoniously opened their bows and released their arrows.

At this time, even if the shield of the Jin army played a role, no matter how strong the arrow was, it could not shoot through the shield. However, the dense rain of arrows can always find loopholes in the gaps in the shields, and the Jin soldiers who are killed by bows and arrows are twice as many as those who are killed by catapults.

The multiple blows did not discourage the Jin army, but the death of the robe Ze further stimulated their fighting spirit, and the eyes of the Jin army shot a cold light of hatred, and they accelerated the pace of attack, wearing shields or hiding behind siege vehicles, and rushed towards the city wall desperately.

The ladder was erected, and countless Jin troops began to climb, struggling to rush towards the city.

The archers of the Jin army under the city also began to arrive at the designated position, counterattacking the city, the rain of arrows on both sides seemed to have reached a high and tidal level, and countless arrows were intertwined and collided in the air, and it seemed that even the sky was darkening a few minutes.

The method adopted by Yanghu is actually no different from the Du pre of Wuguan, limited by the terrain, more and larger siege equipment can not be used, the Jin army wants to break the city, in fact, there is no choice, can only rely on the numerical advantage, the mode of launching a sea of people attack, from the front to seek a breakthrough.

Although this method of attack is relatively simple, it is the most practical method, and only this method can make it possible for the Jin army to pass through the city. Simple means rough, it means greater casualties, but at this moment, Yanghu has no other choice but to gamble. (To be continued.) )