Shi Zong led the camp to the bottom of Lecheng City and found that the gate of Lecheng was closed, and the Shu army was ready to fight on the city. It seemed that the Shu army was ready to fight.

The city walls of Lecheng are much higher than ordinary cities. They are all built with neat bricks and stones, renovated and towering. Just from the momentum, you can see that this is a strong city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

At this moment, above the city of Lecheng, there were densely packed with soldiers from the Shu army, with swords and guns flashing with cold light. Under the background of the sunset, it looked very gloomy and terrifying.

It was not ambushed by the Shu army along the way. Obviously, the Shu army had no intention of leaving the city at all, and was just preparing to defend Lecheng to the death.

Shizun arrived at the city of Lecheng, but he did not rush to launch an attack. Instead, the cavalry circled around the city and observed the situation in Lecheng.

Lecheng's defense is obviously stronger than imagined, or it seems more vivid and intuitive at this moment. Not only is it the towering city wall, but the trenches outside the city are also quite deep. From a distance, it is pitch black and seems to have a bottomless feeling.

On both sides of the trench, there were horse-rejected horses and deer antlers, densely packed, like a wilderness jungle, making people's scalp numb.

Shizan looked around the city and found that the two north and south gates of Lecheng were completely built with stones, leaving only the city gates in the east and west directions, with suspension bridges hanging high, the city gates closed tightly, and the defense was very tight.

City gates are often the weakest place in a city. The more city gates, the more difficult it is to defend. Like Chang'an and Luoyang, there is more than a dozen city gates. Unless there is absolutely a large number of troops, there is no way to defend.

It is said that big cities are defenseless, and only small cities will be less difficult to defend.

Looking at the appearance of Lecheng now, the four city gates blocked two, leaving only two city gates for entry and exit. Such a city is no different from a pass. Ordinary passes are also divided into two city gates, one front and one back.

In Lecheng, the Shu army seemed to build a fortress-shaped city, which should be nailed to the land of Hanzhong like a nail.

Such cities are often the hardest to fight.

Now the first person to arrive at the camp was the light-armed troops, and they were not even prepared for the ladder to attack the city. Shizun's main purpose was to lure the Shu army out of the city and look for opportunities to annihilate the enemy outside the city. However, it was obvious that Wang She had not put a trap, and Shizun's plan to lure the enemy was not successful.

As for siege immediately, it was not within Shizun's consideration. He ordered the soldiers of the camp to line up outside the city for a while. He personally surveyed the surroundings of Lecheng. Soon the sun set in the west and the sky was dusk. Shizun returned to the formation and ordered the camp to set up camp on the east and west sides of Lecheng, and vaguely surrounded Lecheng.

There are only two city gates in Lecheng, and the corresponding Wei army only needs to camp outside the east and west city gates, so that Lecheng can be surrounded.

At the same time, Shizang also ordered many checkpoints and secret sentries around to prevent the Shu army from sending messengers out of the city secretly to inform Nanzheng and Seoul.

What Shizun first needs to do is to cut off the connection between Lecheng and Nanzheng Seoul, and first isolate and isolate the enemies of Lecheng.

Of course, it is difficult to completely close the connection between Lecheng and Nanzheng and Seoul. The news that the Wei army surrounded Lecheng at this moment must have been spread to Nanzheng and Seoul. Whether Yan Yu from Nanzheng would send reinforcements is still unclear, and Shizun can only cut off the connection between them to the greatest extent, making it difficult for them to convey messages, so that they can easily break them.

At the same time, Shi Zhuan carefully checked the defense status of Lecheng. It has to be said that this is indeed a tough and hard bone. Lecheng's defense is extremely perfect. If the camp forced the battle, it will definitely suffer.

Moreover, the trap camp is still facing the problem of insufficient attack power. Due to the difficulties of Ziwu Valley, the fifty catapult car carried by Shi Zhuan has not yet left Ziwu Valley. Judging from the current situation, it will take at least three to four more time to get the catapult car in place.

Moreover, even if the catapult cart arrives, it is still a bunch of loose parts and must be assembled again. Assembling the catapult cart is not easy. It cannot be assembled in several days.

Even if the stone casting car was assembled, it was just an empty frame. Due to transportation issues, the trap camp had no chance to carry more stone bullets. Shizun could only bring some stone bullets, so he asked them to pick up materials locally after they arrived in Hanzhong and chisel some stone bullets.

This undoubtedly increases the difficulty of using a catapult. If you have a stone bolt, you will face many difficulties. First of all, the choice of stone material. The stone bolts used in the catapult are usually harder. It is best to use a stone like granite bluestone. If it is weathered fossil or sandstone, it cannot be carved into shape.

Therefore, they did not know the stones in Hanzhong area, and only after arriving in Lecheng would they go around to investigate and search. Only by finding suitable stones could they mine them.

Moreover, the distance cannot be too far, otherwise, even if it is chiseled out, transportation will be a big problem.

Also, the number of stone bullets must not be too small, otherwise, there will be no more than a few shots, and the successor will be weak, and the beginning and ending will be weak.

Although the camp arrived at the city of Lecheng, it did not have the ability to attack the city at all. Shizun did not intend to force the attack to attack the city. It was the stupidest behavior to do it even though he knew it was impossible.

Therefore, the best strategy is currently the best strategy.

Of course, Shi Zong sieges but does not attack, but does not mean that he has nothing to do. You should know that the biggest magic weapon for the Wei army to siege the city is to siege the points and attack the reinforcements. First, solve the problem of enemy reinforcements, and finally consider how to attack the city.

Especially now, the camp has only 15,000 troops, and with the other 3,000 garrison troops equipped, the total number is no more than 20,000.

If these 18,000 people were used to attack the city, it would be a little insufficient. If a part of the troops were distributed to attack the aid, even if Shizan had the ability to fight on both sides, it would be unsustainable.

Now that there is no hope of siege, Shi Zong simply transferred the main force out, leaving only 8,000 people to guard the camp under the city of Lecheng, setting up more camp tents and flags, making the momentum of Lecheng's defenders dare not have the idea of ​​leaving the city.

Shi Zong personally led 10,000 main force. At the middle of the night, he secretly left the camp outside Lecheng City and headed towards Nanzheng. He traveled about twenty miles westward and ambushed in a place called Yelangyu. Regardless of whether the Shu army would reinforce, the fight for reinforcements was indispensable.
Chapter completed!