Chapter 1759 desperately breaking through
After receiving the news of the arrival of reinforcements, Zhou Tai was very excited. In order to wait for reinforcements, he was so eager to wait for the moon. He finally waited for reinforcements.
After experiencing a fire, Chen Cangcheng burned almost all the things he could burn. The lack of food and grass, the sluggish morale and the large number of casualties made Zhou Tai already worried. If the Wei army came to attack at this time, Chen Cangcheng might have been lost long ago.
Zhou Tai didn't know why the Wei army did not come to attack the city for the time being, but it does not mean forever. The Wei army was determined to win Chen Cang, so the Wei army would launch an attack sooner or later. Zhou Tai was clear about this and there was no need to have any illusions. The only thing that could solve Chen Cang's predicament was only reinforcements.
But now Zhoutai is trapped in Chencang City, and all the news is only out but not in. This seems to be deliberately done by the Wei army. They seem to be opening the Internet to the messenger who left Chencang, but they intercepted the messenger who went from Longxi to Chencang without exception. In other words, Zhoutai can report the situation of Chencang to Simalun, but he cannot hear any reply. This makes Zhoutai, who is stuck in Chencang, a blind man and a deaf man, and cannot obtain accurate information at all.
The lack of news from Longxi really made Zhou Tai very anxious. Relying on Chen Cang's defenders was no longer enough to defend Chen Cang. Zhou Tai's only hope was the reinforcements in Longxi.
However, the good news finally came back. After receiving a letter from Zhoutai, Jiang Wei and Sima Lun all brought up soldiers from Longxi and came to Chen Cang to carry out rescue.
In order to break through the blockade of the Wei army, this news was spread to Chen Cang, which took great effort.
After hearing this news, it was like seeing a trace of dawn in the darkness. Zhou Tai finally felt relieved and breathed a long sigh of relief. Chen Cang was saved!
So Zhoutai ordered that all the defenders of Chen Cang gather together to make preparations for breaking through. Even if reinforcements arrive, Chen Cang can't hold on. After all, a fire burned out almost all the supplies in Chen Cang City. Not only was there a shortage of food, but there was no clothes to keep warm. In this cold winter season, the cold wind was blowing, this kind of life was really hard to bear.
Zhou Tai finally waited for reinforcements, but he was anxious to leave Chen Cang and leave this ghost place.
But bad news also followed one after another. The rescue team of the Shu army reached Heishuwon and encountered a blockade from the Wei army. Now the two sides are in a fierce battle. Judging from the current situation, the situation is not optimistic.
Zhou Tai's good mood suddenly fell to the bottom again. Perhaps he only understood why the Wei army could easily take Chen Cang but never fought. Obviously, they regarded Chen Cang as a bait, while the reinforcements in Longxi were big fishes that took the bait. Cao Liang clearly put a long line to catch big fish. Not only did he want to take Chen Cang, but he also wanted to wipe out the 100,000 Shu troops in Longxi.
Cao Liang's appetite is not because Zhou Tai could not have thought of it before, but because he dared not think about it. It should be impossible to eat more than 100,000 Shu troops at one time.
But after the Battle of Hei Shuiwon started, Zhou Tai suddenly realized that maybe Cao Liang really had this appetite. Zhou Tai thought about it very much. It seemed that Cao Liang's ambition was really beyond his imagination, and the battle situation in Chen Cang suddenly became arduous again.
Shutai had the intention to take advantage of this opportunity to break through and go to Kurosuwarasuke Simalun with his strength, but looking at the strict formation of the Wei army outside the city, Shutai could only give up this plan.
Even though the main force of the Wei army had gone to Hei Shuiyuan, there were at least two infantry battalions outside Chen Cang City. With the fatigue of Chen Cang's defenders, it was very difficult to break through the Wei army's defense line. After thinking for a long time, Zhou Tai finally gave up his plan to break through.
Perhaps the Shu army can win the Battle of Hei Shuiwon? With this hope, Zhoutai can only hold on and continue to wait.
But the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. The news of the defeat of the Shu army in Heisuyuan came, and Zhoutai was like falling into an ice cellar and his face was ashes. This time he was completely desperate.
At this moment, a sentry flew to report that another battle occurred on the loess slope north of Chencang City. It seemed that another reinforcement from the Shu army had arrived.
Zhou Tai, who had already fallen into the abyss, seemed to see another life-saving straw, so he quickly climbed up to the top of the city to watch.
Heisuyuan and Chen Cang are nearly fifty miles apart, so the situation there is no way to see the battle there. Standing on the top of Chen Cang’s city, the loess slope is different. It is less than twenty miles away from Chen Cang. Standing on Chen Cang City, climbing up and looking into the distance, the situation on the other side of the loess slope is vaguely visible.
The emergence of this reinforcement seemed to inject another dose of cardiotropic agent into Zhoutai. It was Jiang Wei and Sima Lun who were considerate and concluded that the Wei army would be ambushed, so they adopted the strategy of "striking east and attacking west", and the main force attacked Heisuyuan, and another army was sent to fight from Huangtupo. This time, how did the Wei army resist?
Zhoutai decided not to wait anymore, and the reinforcements from Huangtupo were his last hope. Instead of waiting for death, it would be better to fight a bloody road and join the Shu army in Huangtupo, so that he might have a chance to escape from death.
Chen Cang's defenders were actually ready to break through. With the order from Zhoutai, Sima's army rushed out of the city one after another.
The Sima army's breakthrough seemed to be very smooth. Although there were many Wei troops besieging the city, they had to besieged the city from all sides, so there were not many soldiers on the defense line in the north of the city. Perhaps the main force of the Wei army would be concentrated in the west direction of the city. This undoubtedly brought great benefits to the Sima army's breakthrough. They broke through the Wei army's defense line and rushed towards the direction of the loess slope.
In fact, the relaxed defense of the Wei army was specially arranged by Cao Liang. It was not that the Wei army could not defend against Chen Cang's defenders, but that there was no need to fight with them. Sima army was in a desperate situation and lived to die. Once they broke through, they would definitely have been motivated and were in full swing. If the Wei army had all their strength to stop it, the two sides would inevitably have a fierce battle.
If the Sima army fails to break through, it will still retreat to Chen Cang City, which will not help solve Chen Cang's battle.
He made a special opening to release Sima Jun. In this way, Sima Jun completely gave up Chen Cang, and Wei Jun could take Chen Cang down.
As for the Sima army who escaped from Chen Cang, Cao Liang was not worried that they would escape at all. Without the solid walls of Chen Cang City, these Sima army were like native chickens and tiles. Whether it was the Wei cavalry or the Wei infantry, they could easily deal with them, leaving them with no way to heaven and no way to enter the ground.
Chapter completed!