The progress of the Jin army was rapid, and in just two days after taking Yang County, the Jin army conquered Xiangling in the southeast of Pingyang, forming a two-way encirclement of Pingyang City. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Soon, the Jin army began to force their way across the Fenshui River and launched an attack on the city of Pingyang.

Wen Yang didn't put the defense of Pingyang in his eyes at all, although the Shu army has been making frequent moves in the past few days, giving up some surrounding counties, and mobilizing the garrisons of these counties into Pingyang City, but this does not seem to be of any use, under the absolute superiority of the tens of thousands of troops of the Jin army, these thousands of men and horses seem very small.

What's more, Wen Yang has a good understanding of the military system of the Shu army, and the top-class soldiers will be selected to be sent to the field corps, and the armies that serve as the garrison tasks of each city are actually second-class soldiers, and there is a big gap with the field corps in terms of the quality of the soldiers, the level of training and combat, and the configuration of equipment.

In the face of such a garrison army with only six or seven thousand people, Wen Yang really has no reason to pay attention to them, Wen Yang's eyes have been staring at the direction of Jinyang, the field army sent by Liu Yin, that is the real enemy of the Jin army.

However, due to the relationship of the road, the current progress of the Shu army is not too fast, according to the news just obtained, the Shu army set off from Weize Pass, the fastest vanguard tiger cavalry army arrived at Yuci, they took Jinyang Wenyang without any doubt, but Jinyang and Pingyang are still separated by five or six hundred miles, even if the Shu army comes quickly, it will take several days, such a period of time, enough for the Jin army to calmly take Pingyang City.

When the main force of the Shu army arrived in Pingyang, it was very important for the Jin army to take Pingyang City, only by taking Pingyang City, the Jin army had the capital to fight with the main force of the Shu army, otherwise the internal and external difficulties, there was no way out, that was a terrible thing.

Therefore, Wen Yang did not care about the military strength, and continued to march with high intensity, and came from Shangdang County to Pingyang County as quickly as possible, which was to try to use the method of blitzkrieg to tear open a gap in the defense line of the Shu army, and cut off the supply line of the Shu army, as long as the Jin army could gain a firm foothold in Pingyang, then the Shu army would fall into a desperate situation of food shortage.

The defenders of Pingyang County all retreated to Pingyang City, and the Jin army forced to cross the Fenshui without any interception, which made the Jin army's actions appear to be smooth.

The Fenshui flows through Pingyang, which is much wider and more abundant than when it flows through Jinyang, but for the well-prepared Jin army, this is obviously not a difficult task, without the Shu army's resistance, the Shu army quickly completed the crossing of the river and began to attack Pingyang City.

Although Jiang Yuan had the intention to fight the Jin army for a half, but given that the Jin army's strength was too strong, Jiang Yuan didn't want to take the risk, even if the risk didn't seem too high.

But Jiang Yuan knows that the Fenshui source has a long history, and if the Shu army wants to prevent the Jin army crossing the river, even if it falls out of the city, I am afraid it will be difficult to block the offensive of the Jin army. First, Fenshui is not the Yellow River, but the Yangtze River is wide and has big rivers, and secondly, Fenshui is very long, there are many ferries, and the Shu army has limited strength, so it cannot be distributed to each ferry at all, and if one of these points is broken through by the Jin army, the defense line of the Shu army will be quickly lost.

Instead of being passive in river defense, Jiang Yuan simply adopted the plan of abandoning the Fenshui defense line and concentrating all his efforts to defend Pingyang City, in his opinion, although conservative, it was a foolproof strategy.

The Shu army has completed all the mobilization, the soldiers and horses of the counties have been concentrated in Pingyang City, a total of 7,000 men and horses, the Shu army in Pingyang City is strong, actively preparing for war, in order to cope with the offensive of the Jin army.

Taishou Yang Ding and Captain Jiang Yuan both personally landed at the head of Pingyang County, in order to boost morale, Captain Jiang Yuan appeared on the city, there was no surprise, after all, Jiang Yuan is the commander of the Pingyang garrison, and the entire city defense operation is to be commanded by him, and he appeared on the first line of the city, so it is naturally not surprising.

However, Taishou Yang Ding is a civilian official, and this does not seem to be a place for him to perform official duties, and the official robe in that body looks very eye-catching in a pile of military uniforms and armor. However, the simultaneous appearance of Yang Ding and Jiang Yuan can still arouse the morale of the Shu army.

The composition of the Pingyang garrison is relatively complex, some are from Yizhou, they are all from the field army, but when they are older, they will retire from the field army and join the second-line troops; There are those from Liangzhou, Yongzhou, this part is the main force of the garrison, accounting for the vast majority of the garrison, the most outstanding of them are transferred to the first-line legions, and the rest are enriched into the defense forces of the counties; There are also some soldiers recruited from the local area, after the Shu army entered the state, it also recruited a lot of strong men from the local area, in order to strengthen the garrison of the counties, after all, there are so many counties in Jizhou, all rely on the dispatch of the Yongliang region, there is still a certain difficulty.

Although the composition of the Shu army is complex, it does not seem to affect the combat effectiveness of the Shu army, among the Pingyang garrison, there are a large number of Yizhou soldiers, they have rich combat experience, and serve as low-level officials in each team of each Qu Getun, supporting the backbone of the entire army.

After the Jin army crossed the Fenshui, they did not make any adjustments to the formation, and could not wait to launch an attack on Pingyang.

When the Jin army came from afar, it had to go over mountains and mountains, and it had to trek through mountains and rivers, and this road was a rapid march that doubled the road, so the large equipment for attacking the city was not complete, and it could only rely on the siege weapons such as cloud ladders. However, this obviously will not shake Wenyang's confidence in taking Pingyang City, this time the western expedition and annexation of the state, Wenyang led a total of 80,000 troops, except for 20,000 people who stayed in Shangdang, all 60,000 troops were transferred to Pingyang.

Wen Yang thought that if all 60,000 people came to besiege Pingyang, it would be a bit of a fuss, so he divided his troops into two routes, one sent Qi Hong to lead 30,000 people to stay in Yang County to prevent the reinforcement of the Shu army to Pingyang, and he led an army of 30,000 to Pingyang.

Despite the repeated division of troops, the Jin army still maintained an absolute advantage over the defenders of Pingyang, and these Jin troops were all first-class troops in combat power, which was by no means comparable to any garrison.

As soon as the attack began, the Jin army showed their quite strong side, and launched an offensive in a whole way, looking down from the head of Pingyang City, the mountains were all over the field, showing a white sea, the waves were turbulent, and the white waves were rolling, which was the offensive of the Jin army like a tide.

Carrying ladders and bows and arrows, they were rushing towards Pingyang City with the momentum of a tsunami, as if they wanted to drown Pingyang City in this white wave.