When Ju Su brought his troops to Shiquan City the next day, he realized why Zhang Mancheng had no intention of attacking. With such a strong city, there was no need to rush out to attack the enemy. It would be easier to wait for the enemy to hit him.

Ju Su looked at this narrow ramp and the curved city walls that could attack on both sides. Can such a place really be captured?

Ju Su observed for a long time and racked his brains, there was no good idea. Perhaps the only thing he could use was to capture the mountain on the north side of the city wall first, but that mountain... was very steep!

As he looked at it, Ju Su felt a little dizzy. He really didn't know how to fight such a battle.

Attack! You can’t go back without doing anything when you come!

Ju Su ordered the troops to move forward along the mountain on the east side, and started fortifications on the mountain. He decided to dig the slope as flat as possible. Even if the attack will cause a larger drop when siege, at least it can push the long-range troops up, otherwise there would be no possibility of capturing the city.

Seeing that Cao's army was just digging soil but not attacking Zhang Mancheng, he was not in a hurry. He knew what Ju Su wanted to do, but even so, how many long-range troops could he push up? Or, did he feel that he did not have long-range troops in the city?

On the surface, Ju Su dug the soil for two days honestly, but secretly, Ju Su penetrated more troops into the mountains and wanted to take down the hill on the north side. However, Zhang Mancheng was prepared for it. The Yellow Turban Army in the mountains was not at all inferior. Ju Su could not do so, so he had to continue digging the soil. He actually doubled the originally narrow road, but it was not much wider. Compared with the city wall, it was still a very narrow front.

Of course, Ju Su was not only digging the soil, but also doing something else.

"General, scouts' reward, the number of people in Juju camp seemed to have increased, and the scope of the camp also expanded. Cao's army often went to the surrounding mountains to cut trees and then transported them back to the camp. I wonder what they were doing?"

Zhang Mancheng thought about it but couldn't figure it out: "Who knows what they are going to do? Maybe they want to make siege equipment. High-quality updates"

"Maybe, but General. What kind of equipment can be used for this terrain?"

"I don't know, you'll know when they get it out."

"At that time, it will be burned with a fire."

"Maybe they will wait for the rainy day to attack!"

"It's possible. If that's the case, how should we deal with it?"

"You can use a catapult to smash it. How else can you deal with it?"

"By the way, General. Cao's army piled up wood in the camp. If we could carry out a night attack, we would ensure that a fire would clean them!"

Zhang Mancheng's eyes flashed, but he seemed to remember something again, and shook his head and said, "Do you think Ju Su is stupid?"

"This...is not stupid!"

"He has no experience?"

"Won't!"

"So why do you think Ju Shu was so careless and stuffed the camp with flammable materials waiting for us to burn?"

"Is this... a trap?"

Zhang Mancheng nodded: "It is very likely that Ju Su can't do anything to us now. He is trying every means to lure us to attack. Only when we go out will he have a chance to win, or the camp is indeed full of wood. It can even burn us with a fire, but when we think we have a great victory and pursue the victory, their ambush comes."

"In this case, will the increase in troops in their camp be an illusion, and in fact they are reducing troops?"

"Haha, you can order the scouts to check and see if there are any secret camps around. The military advisor said, "If we don't want to defeat Cao Cao, what can we do if we defeat Cao Cao? Can we still occupy the Xicheng?" So we have no need to attack. Our goal is not to seek victory, but to be undefeated, and to use the pressure of the undefeated and Cao's army to ask for benefits from Liu Bei and Sima Fang. I only now realize that the military advisor is really far-sighted, and seems to have seen the evolution of this war long ago."

"So that's it! Awesome. Thinking about it this way, wouldn't all Ju Shu's tricks be useless!"

"It's true. If we don't seek victory, what can Ju Zu do to me!"

If Ju Su heard this, he would definitely be so angry that he vomited blood! It turned out that Zhang Manchester City had no intention of winning this battle. Facing such an unprofitable guy, no matter how capable Ju Su has, he would never be able to trick Zhang Manchester City out. If Zhang Manchester City doesn't come out, Ju Su would have no way to win. High-quality updates

In fact, those tricks in the camp were indeed Ju Su’s trap. On the surface, he added troops to the camp, but in fact he reduced the soldiers. These transferred soldiers built a very hidden camp in the back.

He was waiting for Zhang Manchester City to come out and burn his camp, then pretended to retreat, lure Zhang Manchester City out to chase, and then launched an ambush to defeat Zhang Manchester City in one fell swoop, and then took advantage of the opportunity to attack Shiquan City.

But Zhang Manchester City didn't seem to have found any possibility of burning camps. Ju Shu wanted to run into the city himself to tell Zhang Manchester City, come and burn my camp, I promise to make you successful!

Seeing that Zhang Mancheng was indifferent, Ju Su came up with other tricks, using cut wood downstream to build a raft, and then pretended to go upstream while at night. However, when the raft entered the range of long-range weapons in Shiquan City, the catapult on the city was a volley, and the shooting boundary had been calibrated long ago, and even at night, the river surface was accurately covered.

The broken raft rushed down with the water, and immediately rushed Ju Su's troops into chaos. Ju Su had to retreat, losing a lot of troops in vain, but they still didn't even step out of the city gate.

In the following days, Ju Su used all kinds of methods. Anyway, Zhang Mancheng made up his mind to not leave the city, and Ju Su had to choose to attack in the end.

After choosing a rainy day, Ju Su pushed the equipment he built and started another attack. The focus of these equipment was to defend against the enemy's catapults. The heavy giant wood supported the spire and covered with raw cowhide. It looked like moving houses. The huge rocks flew high from the city and then hit the siege equipment. However, the effect did not seem to be good. The small house trembled and then continued to push forward!

Soon these siege equipment advanced to the end of the road dug by Ju Su, and then the equipment was connected into a string. The soldiers could rush through the connected small houses to a place not far from the city wall, use shield formations to form a defensive position, and shoot against the defenders on the city. Then they put the ladder on a very steep slope, and after rushing up, they built a ladder to prepare for siege.

Seeing a large number of Cao troops gathered together, a gong suddenly sounded from the city, and then a large piece of paper talisman floated from the sky, followed by a black oil tank.

The paper talisman that exploded broke through Cao's shield formation, and then the oil tank and torch fireball fell down together. Although it was raining in the sky, a large amount of tinder oil was still ignited. Taking advantage of the rush to put out the fire, the defenders on the city shot down arrows that were denser than raindrops. Cao's army suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat.

Under the unremitting attack of the catapult, the small houses were defeated one by one, and Ju Su's offensive had to be terminated after losing more than a thousand soldiers.

After all his efforts, Ju Su's best achievement was to push the front within a hundred steps below the city. During this process, Ju Su lost tens of thousands of soldiers, and the casualties of the opponent may be less than three digits. The battle was too difficult. The impact of the terrain on the war had reached an unimaginable point. Thinking of the numerous terrains on the way to march westward, Cao Cao had the urge to give up.

"This battle cannot be fought. I didn't expect that Shu Road was difficult, but it was difficult to be like this!"

Cao Cao's sigh contained the intention of reversing his mind, and Xi Zhicai keenly felt it.

"Master, is it because he is determined to retreat and is not going to continue attacking Shiquan?"

"I have said before that if Shiquan and Nancheng cannot be taken down in one fell swoop, it will be difficult to take down head-on. If these two cities cannot be taken down, Hanzhong will only be out of reach!"

"Lord, I suggest that Ju Su beating him to see his subordinates. The lord thinks that his subordinates just want to try to see if they can be defeated?"

"Oh? Could it be that Zhicai has other ideas?"

"That's right, my subordinates think that this Shiquan must be fought. Even if I can't fight, I might as well fight slowly. Looking at Zhang Mancheng's way of dealing with it, he made up his mind not to win but to be undefeated. As long as our army is not greedy for merit, there should not be much loss. Ju Su's losses in the early stage are mainly because he is not familiar with the enemy and the terrain."

"It's really good, but why do we have to fight Shiquan?"

Xi Zhicai pointed to the map on one side and said, "Please look at the importance of Hanzhong, no need to mention the subordinates, so it is only a matter of time before we capture Shiquan. Then, at this opportunity, we will first repair the road to Shiquan and the fortress that attacks Shiquan."

"This...opportunity? What does Zhi mean?"

"It means that Liu Bei will not come to harass him. Liu Bei will definitely be happy to see us attack Shiquan, so he will not come to harass Xicheng. In this way, Ju Zu is idle in the city. It is better to take the opportunity to do the preparations for attacking Shiquan as much as possible. If Ju Zu finds a better offensive method during this period, or the Yellow Turban Army cannot resist and reveal its head, maybe we can still get a bargain."

Cao Cao thought about it carefully and found that this was the case. Xi Zhicai's idea was indeed very interesting.

"This makes sense. It's also idle. It's not bad to be able to build roads and train troops. But you need to know Ju Su and let him control his losses and investment as much as possible."

"Just that's right, I believe Mr. Gong can understand the cleverness."

So Ju Su was helpless in Shiquan, but he refused to retreat. Instead, he attacked Shiquan on a routine basis every day. At the same time, Ju Su was also developing a road along the mountain road on the east side behind him, and he was building a road to the west of Shiquan. Similarly, he was also building a road towards the west city. This attitude made Zhang Mancheng very helpless. The two of them just hit you and me, as if they were wasting time.
Chapter completed!